Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 12, Brookville, Franklin County, 19 March 1869 — Page 1

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PUBLISHED KVERT FRIDAY BT . II. BINGHAM, Proprietor. Office in the National Bank Building, (Jhinl fory.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2 59 PER YEAH, ik abtasci. 43,00 " " IF XOT PAID IK ADVAKCIC. "o postage on papers delivered within this County. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Its Real Character Exhibited. The Fifteenth Constitution! Amendment, which passed both branches of Congress and been submitted to the States for ratification or rejection, seems to be imperfectly understood by many who are discussing it. We therefore print the following comments by Republican Senators upon the report as finally agreed to in Committee of Conference and adopted. The final tote in the Senate, it is proper ; to say here, was yeas, 39; nays, 13; absent, 14; as follows: Yeas Messrs. Anthony, Catlell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Conness, xCfagin, Drake, Ferry, Fessenden, Frelinghuyssn, Harlan, Harris, Howard, Howe, Kellogg, McDonald, Morgan, Morrill of Maine,! Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Os-j born, Patterson of New Hampshire, Ram- ! sey, Rice, Robertson, Sherman, Stewart, j Thayer. Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade. Warner. Welch, WiUey, Williams and Wilson 39. j Xays Messrs. Bayard. Ruekalew, Da- i vis. Dixon, Dooliitle, Fowler, Hendricks, j McCreery, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Fool, Tickers and Whyte 13. Absent Messrs. Abbott, Cameron, Cor-: belt, Edmunds, Grimes, Henderson, Pom- j eroy, Ross, Saulsbury. Sawyer. Spencer, Spraguc, Sumner and Yates 14. j If those who voted for the amendment! under protest had voted against it, it would i have failed. As it was, the affirmative j vote. wLiie it was two-thirds of the Sena- j tors present, was not two-thirds of the j whole Senate, but it was ruled that two j thirds of the Senators prt$cnl complied; with the constitutional provision. j Mr. Fowler, of Tenn I do not intend to trespass on the time oftho Senate,! hut I wish to say one woid. 1 hsve al-j ready stated my views on this subject generally; hut the amendment, as it is now presented, entirely ignores the great prin- j viple of human rights. There is nothing i protective in this nn.ei.dnicn t except in re- j gird to color, rj.ee, or prexions condition ! t slavery. The principle of the lec!ar-Btii-n of Independence is entirely ignored. ; It is not an amendment that gives man- j I i vii suffrage at all. That part of the Hiljeef I do not wish to pay anything : shout; I have already expressed my views. The light of suffrage is a greater right i than the right of holding office, for this leason: the principle laid down in the ' l'tclaiation of Independence is that gov-' t'tt.n. ei:ts derive their just powers from the r.-nsent of t liar governed. Of course the I'th! to hold ftice must he nn infeiior T l.Ii! to that td voting, because it is pot fij p.M-d that men who h:vc the right to i sent to the Government are snin; to consent to a governiiieut which would debur tl.m from the tight to hold t friee. .Wain. I think the Constitution as it stand at present would guaranty to each citizen of ! tie United Slates the right to hold i ti'ee if he were elected. I do mt douht on that point myself. A proportion is made here to incorporate this priu ij-ie in the (.'onstitution, :,nd an amend n.!it has been made to it which take out '' j-nt.riple from this amendment, thus ' ( ;nu a eoiitrin-iioti up tn the Cotstituwhich denies the right of the eiii.en h d 1 t iii -e. Now. if this amendment i ti;aor to the Constitution as it M.ind it ni l deny to tlue citizens bpeciiied in the a in end n ent the tight to hold ofli.-e. That ! the clear and ine itahle construction of it. I hat of e iirt il.-t'-jta tto i..l to which the citizens holds under the ConMitution as it alds at the present time, j Mr. Morrii.I.. of Yt r would much 1 rt-fer some different amendment from' ''is nnd jet I am not prepared to say that 'io dues not g as far as would be likely ' roe aeceptalde to a majority of the je j.!e. 1 tni-t. theref. ,that", without turti er consumption of time, considering the vast amount of business th it is yet re- : liiau.jng to he done, those of us who are in fnvor of accepting the best that we can oitfein will proceed to vote. ' -Mr. Anthony, of R. .In voting for, it. I vote merely to present it to the States tor their constitutional action, to ask the jud-ixcnt of the States upon it, and I by '0 tnuans therehy surrender my right of judjioient upon its ratification when the j discussion shall come up in the State with j hore high commission I am honored in h'.s Chamber. I . Mr. Wauxkr, of Alabama.- Mr. Fresdent. I desire to say only one word. 1 j want respectfully but earnestly to enter "'V humble protest asainst the character' this amendment. While I shall preb- j al v vote tor it in the shape it is. I shall u rather in deference to the judgment! t Hderand wiser men than myself in ac- ! eoruance with my own deliberate judg,n"t. I do not feel that it is worth our; ri:e to change the organic law of the country, to amend it for the protection of Single clas nnlocQ .1 . . 1

' ' ' " n itarfc c 'IUieVllIl 11. IS XVCpUOUC & CISSS UllSlOC.aiV, U C 'at one class completely and entirely. I pending not upon intelligence, upon'which

s . . 31 " -Mississippi or 1 ex- : constitution .nf:: .i. . . . . , "'iinii n.ese exact words l-'t-'h e now propose to put into the Conti'uMon of the United States she would ""t oe admitted by this Senate. After example of Georgia I do not believe ltt this Senate and this Congress would Wfp from one of these States a eonstiuon containing these identical words on fe subject of snffiasie and the 'rights of "e colored people. I believe that this I position is a narrow and illogical one, one that is unworthy of the grand opP'Ttunity that is presenfed to us. In my 'J-1 humble judgment. I believe it is the u'J ot the hour to put into the Consti-h-n i prand "flirmative proposition nieh shall protect every citizen of this Jpubli" in .the enjoyment of politicals lwcr. Not only do I blicve that it is

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right and just, and the duty of the hour and the opportunity, but I believe it is the wisest thine we can now do. I believe as a party measure the strongest proposition that could co before the country would be one to protect all classes of men, ii - . i, l Arn. nn white as well as black, in the exercise of the rights which all citizens legitimately should carry with them. Mr. Fowler, of Tennessee see Jlr. President, I buppose this report will be connurmil in- tint I rrAtiin it will reo ut re a two thiros vote to carrv it. I simply wish to say before the vcte is taken that my niteriti id inn' ot lVi ro-onosi tion as It hOW stands, is that it decides by au amendtn. .,. (Vn-litnt;,.n llial tl, PntlStl. tution does not guaranty to all citizens of the United States the right to hold office. 1 understand it to be simply the assertion ot that principle, winch has been main tained in a number of the States, and that it sanctions and sanctifies the action of the Georgia Legislature which baa kept out two Senators from this body during the present session, aud that we arrive at this principle through the action of a gambling committee, which, after the Seuate and House of Representatives had adopt. ed a more liberal and much better pnnciaa a a a a I pie, shuffled the cards over again aud gave us a new deal that will satisfy a certain ; number of irpnilnnpn. The effect of it is of gentlemen. The effect of it is to exclude de from office a large number of tens of the Southern States mere-! atify a prejudice that exists in cer- j the citizens Iv to t;rati tain nf the Xortbern States who wish to heap heavy burdens upon the shoulders of other men that they will not touch with their own fingers. 1 he President i-o ttmiwe The qnes-' tion is on concurring in the report ot the committee; and on this quesiiou the y as and nays must be caiied. The questioii being taken by yeas and n.iys, resulted yeas, 39; nays, 13. Mr. Ed.munts, of Vermont

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pels us to withdraw from the States of this C it 10 n who have hitherto exercised it eu- . tire power over the political question of the right of suffrage and the right to hold office? Is it not that iu many of these Slates there are larae classes of citizens

who are practically ostracised from the tice, and we had twenty-five State Legis- j office, aud the other class saying that he Government, and who therefore reside in turcs in the hands of our friends, and take j had the right to vote and htdd office, a commuuiiy that, while it has the shed-j 'he responsibility of submitting to the : They elected quite a number of black men ow and pri. tense of republicanism, has ; legislatures a propqsitiou to amend the j to the Legislature. The black men in none of its reality? Most certa i nly it is; 1 Constitution , so as to secure to the colored : t liei r magnanimity and generosity for and therefore you intend to interpose the citizens of this country the right to vote j there never was a people so magnanimous, nation's will, found in the assent of three- j """J he voted for. Rut day after day, so generous, so forbeari ug, and so goodfourihs of the States to compel a real re week after week, month after mouth pass- : hearted toward those who have been their puhlicatiism and real democracy in these . d away without action. j enemies as the black men oi'this country

States; and what ere the steps on this re-' port that you propose to take to uo it? You propose to take the very steps I repeat what 1 said a moment ago on that sniject you propose to take the very steps that all history has demonstrated to be deadly to a lepublic. To be sure the instances are not frequent, for few jeoples have been so wanting in intelligence and a knowledge of the philosophy of a republican government as ever to iostitute a distinction between the right id' a citizen to participate, if he is to participate in the government at all. entirely; and if you give him the right to have a voice in the govet nment, that voice cannot have any live expresMon unless it enables him to choose from among his fellow citizens the man who him suits for his representative, instead of confining him as this amendment docs, to a chosen aristocratic class, saying to a citizen of a free republic, "You have rights of manhood, vou have rights of eq'.ialitx, but you shall rxercise those ti ihts in choosing some one of us to rule over you ins'ead of some one of your fellow citizen whom you preler There is no instance with edge of history for the last a my ktiowltive hundred years in any country wlieie the people have anv rights at all of political where there has been attempted th action meth - od that is proposed in this amendment of excluding the mass of the com m unity from exercising the powers of government in the way of being voted for and represcutating their fellow citizens it. stead of merely having the boon that the plebeians iu Rome had to vote for the aristocratic magistrate selected from among the partisans. .Now, sir, do we wish to set up a patrician class in these Southern States? Do we wish to try an experiment that has overthrown the most civilized of ancient Governments? It would seem that we did by this amendment. It would seem as if in our eairet ness to do something with the Constitution we had foro..,tt.n n;rol. ivvnv i i . i . j that it was of any consequence to know what were to do and to w hat end. Why, sir, we nave an illustration oeiore our eyes that has been pressing itself upon our attention for months on this very subject. Y'ou have in this nation at this day, in one of the very States upon whom this Constitution is to operate, an illustration of the result will come to by adopting an amendment of this kind an amendment which, containing half of an inseparable,' indivisible, and united truth, is in reaHty; and that St?te is Georgia. You will find, if you let the thing run on, that the example of Georgia will be imitated in all; the other States, and vou will have set up . . . in this Republic a class aristocracy, desome philosophers say distinction may be made I do not go into it depending not upon faith or creed, upon which some enthusiasts suppose distinction may be made, but depending upon the mere accident of the complexion ol' a human being. whom you say, as far as you go, is entitled to equal rights and privileges as a citirens of the country. V.n. n.. ..... J .1 K (..Tam an tn. ; telligent public? Wiliit be successful with an intelligentpublic? Are you not making progress backward as fast as vou can in the race of life bv rroposina a "proposition - - of thst kind? Are you not giving to the people the mere husk and shell of the feast of political equality to which you invited them, reserving the substance and justice to yourself? 'lUC U tUI,Vll. i . J , . , , .. ; It is repugnant, Mr. President, to all . my uotious of a free Government, it is

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repugnant. I know, to all the notions of , the people whom I represent as entering ! into the very framework and heart of any Uovernment that professes to be or can duly be called a republican one. And ; .l.KACnl.AK :. 1 . 1" . 1 1 11 where is the necessity for taking this half step, as some gentlemen argue it, of getting all you can if you eatinot get the: rest? Is it to be found, so far as we have I Jet ueara in any argument ot ttie tntrinetc propriety ot the thing.' ot at all. iNo Senator has raised his voice to defeud the riht of aiy State to say while you give j a man the right to vote you shall not per- j mit him to be voted for. I do not kuow ut we bear it yet, though nobody ' What is the reason. : "a! Hearil U SO I3T then? Some vague fear, 1 suppose, fills ' the mind of some trembling con vert to liberty that his people will not be satisfied j to uue tue negro the riht to run asainst ' themselves for some office, but they are ; wiuiug to confer upon him the boon of voting for them. 1 do not believe in that. . sir. As I havesaid, I believe it to be ruin- ! ous to the Government if it is carried oat. I believe it to bean outrage upon the good ! sense and the pat not urn of the country,-; aiiu so ociieving tuougu i ao not wisn , W i V tl Iti A Id ftr.il t c .v.i.w-iko if- ; -"iv "ti"f F1"1"3 " political friends think it best to pass , " have feit bound to say so. j ... j. : i .i 31 r. Wilson, ot Massachusetts Mr. Jlr. l 1LSOX. ot Massachusetts M r. President, for nearly the thirty-three years I have at all times and on all occasions, j by word atfd by vote, done what I could j against slavery and everything relating to ; it and connected with it. 1 have asked ; always for what was right, and taken on ! occasions what I could get. I have acted upon the idea that one step taken : in the right direction made the next step easier to be lateen. 1 suppose, sir, 1 must act upon that idea now; and I do so with j more sincere regret than ever, and with some degree of mortification. In the j early part of this session, before the month j that the majority in Congress would seize the great occasion which was presented,! wheti the hearts, minds and souls of the people, after having passed through n ; great struggle, were deeply imbued with j the love ot liberty and ttie sense ot jus- j 1 hen, sir, came the proposition, I think a very lame and halting one, proving that colored men should have the right to hold i office. The Senate amended that propo- i sition by a comprehensive amendment, an' amendment that covered more than the1 black man, for it covered the white man and prohibited distinctions on account of ; nativity, property, education, or creed sir. ! 1 have uo doubt that if that amendment could have reached the iisoi:e it would

have been the strongest amendment ever,ing said about it the fair inference is that

submitted to the American people. (Jutside of a low localities in .New Kogland and on the Pacific coast there could have been no resistance lo it. In the great central States and in the West, and cs-! pecially in the West, there is no square, mile on which men could have stood and I and made opposition to it. Sir, it would have swept away any formation ti.al dared to stand against it; but it was rejected in the other" House; it was met by one opposition from quarters from which I did not, I coufess, expect in Congress and out ol congress. it received, I a . j 1. 11 think, very narrow criticisms, inspired ; more bv notions and theories than a sense i

of absolute right and justice. If the j cau not be overcome; but many of the black man in this country is made equal , States have done it, and silence will not with the white man and I hope he soon w i.l be 1 overthrow what the v have done. I be--Im.an.by the blessing f Uod, while I to ,j however, that'ifthe black men have hope on aud to work on to make every white man ; , - , . eq-sa! to every other white man. 1 believe in ! 'he right to Vote, they and their lricnds IU equality among citizen, equality in the broadest; the Struggle of the future will achieve the

and mere comprehensive democratic sense. No man shonld have rig'its depending oa t!ie acci dents of life. YV n c.il t"ia imnil-int ff .Tliti'?arv Com:u'ttee; nllowing cstiiens without distinction or race, or color, or prev ious co.ikiit iu a iu tic itim i . t:.: . . .. . j to be voted tor. that a tr.cn die en t was returned to the Houeof Rei'resentatives with an amendmere orieinnlly adopted by the Senate, with the : execpti,., of the word .Vducation.-- r.Ktcr the , lead it the senator trom Nevada we rsterrea the; matter to a Committee of Conference, and row i the Committee of Conference brinx this fro- j position, which the original rcrrt ,f tbo ien.te , Committee on the Judiciary, w:th the rigUt to hold office stricken out. Seuate proposition and House proposition both gve the right to hold ofJ . 1 T " . " , : 7 u .... .v. . i .. .. fia W h t tl.irs t h l.nntertineh t oiiuntttee strike ' hy does the Uouterencb Co mini tree striae U U I a IrU VlMOUUtlCC'I IU o W U l. w x. . . I he Senator from ermont tells us that , we arc ia favor of giving the l ight to vote, ! but will not cive the right to hold office,

I am going" to vote for this proposition i L want to see everybody's rights absolutely without taking any resposibility for it. I secured; and theu let us sit dowu here and am not responsible for this half-way propo- 1 see to it that the constitutions and laws are sition. 1 simply take it at this late hour enforced, that men practically have their as the best I can get after having strog- j rights, and go to work and build up this gled for the right to vote and the" right "to 1 natiou and make.it what it ought to behold office. i ,he foremost nation of the world. That is

Mr. L'pMl SPS I ask my friend bow our wort. juut. nere we nave passeu tnroug u he'knows that ibis is the best ho can get?! ten years of struggle; we have had to gathHe can never get anything better if" he ' er every triumph of human rights step bydoes not try. " i steP a iitt!e at a tilllc but, by the blessing Mr. Pom EROY I hope the Senator will I of God, the final fruition will come some nti with me to disagree to this report and time, and we will work on for that eud.

ask for a futther conference. I propose i a S IV 1UI a lUHUCI ivuiv.n.uii.. to move, as soon ag I can get the tior ; that the Senate disagree to this report and ; .i. p..- u f.irthor Miifrpn( ! Mr. Wilson If there is an opportunity to ask the right to hold office I will do it; 1 take the risk, fur I am determined to take what I can get if I can not get all I demand. The Senator from ermont, however, ought to see that his argument can be used with effect against us in States in IlinlUirlillir lll n 1W t T A V I e n t . if it be PUt in the form be desires. The Senators and j members of Congress and newspaper cor - . i respondents and newspapers ought to see , it. In the State of Connecticut the first

great battle is to be lougnt. ana ngni in - v r- ....... siohtof that people are thousands of I uether. 1 go upon the principle of taking t democratic sentiment; it is the estab.ishnCtumlineil citizens tint can not vote tin- I half a loaf wheu I cat. not get a whole ment of a republican principle that most leasthev hold Si:U worth real estate. ; one; but nevertheless, I v.aut to say that :, ot us recognize; and when we come to

iUlitt Will IhC ClUiiil'-a vi "' "'vw-"' i . , i uTKu i 1 hey wilt say a they have done, 1 In i ; wi.-. .ai fi-.- An.im .vu nf t ir nn9sure av; If the amendonly a negro question.

ment was as broad as the Senate originally passed it. 1 should like to see the man on

the soil of Connecticut who could stand up and fight the proposition. If he did be would fight against the rights not only I . T ii . t ..i .. of the black man, but the rights of thousands of adopted citizens in a neighboring State. Could the Catholic fighti against a constitutional provision that Secured to nieti ol his faith, the right to hold otace id spite ol the Coustituiiou of New iiauipshire? fow, for one, if this amendment goes to the people in this form. I protest against my inference that I am not in favor- of colored citizens holding office, not in favor of protecting adopted citizens, not in favor of protection men in their eaual riffhts on account of religious belief, property or educational qualifications, and I mean, by the biessinor of liod. bv soeech aud act to work for the enjoy meut of the aUo.ute right of citizens in the States to votend hold office without regard to race, color, previous condition of servitude, nativity, properly or religious faith. 'puere ia one ,bir, t remember and I want Senators to think of this, and if there ;s chance m appoint a new committee inir hetfpr i n iira tp.' hv a - a and wet something better, as indicated bv -

a member of this last committee I want!27 them o remember that in the Constitu- t!le

. V l V atioual Con vention of Georgia Mr. Ackertioiial ( 'on vet. tinn r.F t Ipnr.v!. Air inter. man, one of the ablest meu of that State, a la wyei- of eminence and high character, proposed that the Constitution should provide uot onlv for the black mm't mtiha but for the black mao's holding office. A few timid, conservative, baiting, short sighted Republicans were afraid to meet the people of Georgia on a plain, square and direct issue, aud they got together, consulted, hold consultations over it, got scared and went into the Convention; and all the men in that Convention, with the exception of twelve, includ-insr black men. backed square down. Mr Knn;Mis Tl,w t,irrl,t l..t all they could get, I suppose. Mr. H ilson. They did not try to get more. They went to the people of the State, talked with a forked tongue, one class of politiciaus saying that the negro had the right to vote but no rMit to hold allowed unrepentant and unforgiven

traitors to sit in the Legislature with them. ! rejected by the Senate by every vote that aud the moment those men got the power! " oeen taken; but they huve done it. they hurled the black men out of the ! enale nas ljeen hacked down from Legislature. There are no Senators sitting!' ,ts vote, a"d has been now brought here from Georgia on account of that act- , t4 r?t proposition sent to the Senate ion, and we huve passed months and we y ''e Uusedo not see the remedy. j lr- President, I thiiik this action on lo not tell me, sir, that the right to i the l,art ,'" ,he Committee of Conference vote carries with it the tight to hold office. was unwise. It does mi such tKiim I K th.ri i noil,- Mr. Co.NKLlNO Allow me to ask the

jit does, but if (here is a provision in aj State constitution otherwise silence does' ' not annull or overthrow that constitutional i j or legal declaration. No man in the world has the right to hold au office. The peo- ; pie have a right to vote, and they have the right to put terms aud conditions lo the office that they make. I Mr. ebster s;iid,in the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts, in 1S20, that uo man had the- right to hold office, but the people had a right to define and make the terms and coudilious upon which offices should be held. I do not believe in any body's right to make conditions founded on race or terms and co'or that j rest. Therefore 1 am willing now to give them the right to vote if I can not get for t ihtim tli rivHr til Iio -t.t 4r T will ta je that if 1 . I . . W . V . , V I V .v.. A. ..... can not get any more. The , . . , ... , "UVJf " ..v. . the question, as I had hoped we should be aD!e to do within the next few months, f , fa j fe . , . h b j . . . .. square jvroposltlou to the people of this country before the 1st daV of January we sha have a Constitutional amend" . . uieut adopted which Will cover the who.e ground, and the greit Struggle will be i.. i 1 ..! i c . ciosea, uuu c.oseo. lorever. l want to see tne rights ot tne secured; for 1 want to see this negro negro question out ot t lie polities ot the country. If I can not get all I will take a part. .Now, if there is a chance ior a new conterenee committee, l am ior it, u not, i am for adopting this report. I can not take the responsibility of defeating this amend meut that secures suffrage it it does not secure the right to hold office to citixens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Mr. Morton, of Ind. I shall probably vote fortius report made by tba Committee of Couference. because I think I cau not do any better, for the reason that the time within which to act is so short, lime is! . . IT. I . . 1 .1 . t. . . .....It... iniorwni , x " -" ia rclerred.to another committee ot con-I it itch v uji-j "--r '-' " a - . whea a who e one or almost a whole one : no e Q , 'has been offered to us, aud has been re-

jecte$ fey the Conmittee of Conference. I was somewhat surprised that this com - mittee should report to ns a proposition that has been rejected by every vote of! the Senate from the time we first com- j i .- -. rv ! . : tueoced voting upon it. j.nis propusiiiua has been rejected by every Vote from first to last; and yet the Senate is now required to slunk through and to cut this pretty ugure by the -Jouimittce ot Lonterenco. r r , - . I .1 l ue nrsr proposition seoi ever oy tne House ot Representatives was in substance that which the" Committee of Conference! have agreed upon, that the right to vote should not be denied by the United Slates, or by any State, on accouut of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. We reiecied that, and we sent to the House of Representatives in lieu of it proposition declaring that there should be no discriminations in any State siaoti" the citizens of the United States in t ha exercise ot the eK etive franchise or in the exercise of the efeetive fra right to hold office in any State on ac count of race, color, uativitv. education. t race, tr ereed ' 9 J ' 1 The House of Representatives rejected th at and sent us back substantially their first proposition. We took a vote upon t I i .. .n.lnAB-j-i;-mtAj4tiaa.-kij-i -! 1 t n ' ",aK "c 'j-" j ' ' a UTIAI O V iT t 1 II I I IllOllCCI On I II I Tjn n a . ii i- ri"i. j a A v v l a I j avaaa u lob ucci vu u k U'3 e second time it hud been done in sub- ' 1 ' Stance. e tlca. sent oaeS to trie House j 'he followti "lherig j ,a,et' t0 j the following proposition:' ht of citizens of the L uiteU vote and hold cflice shall not 00 denied or abridged by the United i ,a,es or a nJ State on account of race, ! color, or previous con dition of servitude. 1 lie House retusea to receive that in part, but sent it back with the following alterations: "Strike out the words "United States" and insert after the word 'color' the words 'nativity, property or creed.' The House had come exactly to our first i proposition whil e had sent to them. ! with the single exception of the word "education," and the Ilouse has agreed i Wllu us IU1IJ r on ,lle proposition inn. uie : r'u.t 10 vote or ,0 hold office shall not be j (ienet hy any State on account of race, ! co'r, or previous condition of servitude. I lar lue ,wo nouses were agreeu, so iar ! they had concurred, and the points upon which they uisagreed were simply the insertion of the words "the United States." They had agreed upon every thing else,

mi nan ut; u u i v iuiuci mai. cuum ; me late unrepentant rebels against that v-u,itlu'1"1- - liV llbu u pii-scing auj properly be submitted to the Comuuttee of party are true. Now, I do not'know that (lUi,!'fi'-'a,'ns except buch a" are expressly Conference. They had no right to go be- j I shai ,i0t vote for tll;s report rather than ! nentioned in the article ia plainly, by a hind and consider that iu regard to which j to lose any and all propositions on this i 'rres's,lb,e 'rnlJ''t,a,'on given to the Cobthe two Houses had agreed and to uiik kBi,ei.. hut I L:.vo .k, ; p.i, cress of the United States. Are Senators

for us a new proposition that bad been honorable Senator a question'.' ilr. ..MORTON les, sir.

Mr. ConkI-ING Shall we understand j Senators as expressed in debate how that )pa n'"J hasten and rush it through this him to afirm that the managers on the ; that proposition is denied; and 'l put it to 1 body, and under the strain of the previpart of the Senate in a conference have no ! the individual cor science'of each Seutoi i OU3 question in the House, obtain the right, using his expression, to agree to ! on fl,.or whether he is uot wantni" iu ' concurrence oftho House of Representaany item in a bill which the Senate has perfect clearness about that fact Ve j "vcs' Pre'J'' here and now that it will previously rejected? i know, certainly, that the gentlemen of the i ,,ot rcecive tho 'atitication of the LegislaMr. Morton No, sir; I did not make; Iemociatie party on this fluor da oc en- ' me ot v"e ' th States of the United that assertion, but the assertion I do make tertaiu thb view v hnlior that it,ro ' States, and your work will al! be vain snd

is that in so far as the two Houses of Congress have concurred a Committee of Conference has no right to take back that concurrence and give them a new proposition. Mr. Stewart We have not done it. Mr. Morton They have done it exactly. Tiie two Houses of Conress had concurred thus far, that uo State shall deny the right to vote or to hold office on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. So far they had fully concurred; they had come together; but they bad disagreed only upon inserting the words "nativity, property, creed,'' and striking out "the United States," and it was that disagreement that th s committee bad a right to consider, and that only. Of course the committed intended no such thing; but it was hardly respectful to the Senate to report here a proposition that had been rejected by every vote of the Senate and to disregard that upon which ; the two Houses had agreed. i 1 may be compelled to take tlm propo sition just as it is, because at this late' j hour of the session, it I do not take it, I ! I may not get any thing; but I must say that J i I dislike very much to be forced by a com j i mittee of conference to take a proposition t , mat nas u.eu so uunormiy rejecteu ny tnis oouy. Mr. President, as the proposition came to us from the Ilouse. with the exception of the single word "education," it was just what we sent to the Ilouse some weeks or ten djvs ago. The House had sutistau- : liaiiy come to our uround, and when they I i. i .v i i got there we deserted from our ground. 't , i i i There may have been reasons for that de sertion, but they have uot been assigned. There are some other elements connected with the suffrage question besides that ot color, and it was proper for us to say in the Constitution, when we came to amend it upon this subject, that the light to vote should not bj denied to any citilen of the United States on account of his nativity. It is a great democratic principle that we recogntzi in our hearts; and when we came to auiend the Constitution it was proper to put it in. Sir, it would appeal strongly to the hearts of a large part of the population of this country, and was proper as a safeguard against any future Know Nothing excitements or movements. -I hen, there was that other word "prop- , ll,.t .1 Ii I t.. ....... , should not be denied on account of a want " v , . - is proper lo put that principle n. il apv v Gnri,ur.nt th ,t pea's to a suoug lepublicao sentiment thatlia

j is rife throughout the whole nation. I And it was ptoper to say, to another

; essential republican principle, that the

right to vote and to hold office ahould iiotiUiv: ifthey j-bow a uuunimity of opinio be denied on account of religious faith or ' upon it; but when we se hat there l

' I . . . : . I - tictu. u wu urn iccvjiiiuc mai as Being a true ana sound jrincipler What was the objection to putting that in? We had agreed to it; the ilouse had ageed to it, and yet the committee report to us a . . T . ? ?. t - t piupuMiiun rejeeiing it. oir, as a ouesj tion of public sentiment aud favor the proposition as it came back to i sub j stauiially from the Ilouse the last time would he far stronger before the people j than the simple one of confining it to color or race, and then we are liable to ! this charge which will tot be made and tfe force wiig ; thpy yote ior white mo,, but the efiUcs must l i "o mi aiuiuni. vt e can aaj, ol c.ar;e ! wa au uo1 U'--,Q tl-at; but they will coma back ' i ta Seuate. and afur it had con.urr-a in bj boift- llt.usrs, thai the words "to hold fitftce' : .T10'1 ut in, whj uid you tnte them out.' uid you to make? u hat answer Ihiyh - As I ftaiti beltirp. m nnoitinn rm rA7roi T w ; ' 1 'ake what I can gu: and aven be thnnKiul for that, u. 1s,lr' lo have ,e .l'W'" length and liou h:.d aubtaiitia:ly agreed to it'geemi tome to be ai.re thn we bargained for when we a(ipoinieu uie tonlerenco CominUtee, and I never i.ositio .,f th: Kir.t t.,a cf,r.L. r Mr. SwvKK,of Siouih Carolina llr. Treiideat. : I suj.j o.-e ra.ber than vote final sjjainst this - ; uuieudmcnt: I sha 1 Tjie for eoncunenced in the renort of the Con.n.itue of Conference. C T.'Z dcic u i. T!u aislu.c ly to j,lc srfora fee a tors tne vi. w t th-o civse vnicta occur to tbu.-e who represent the receMly reconstructed States. We have two years betn subject to the charge in thoe StE tcs that the Keubiican paity of the NorlLcrn states put the negro on one platform in the loyal States, and upon another platform in the lately dUioyal States. We have been conytnntlv caiied upon to renel this charge of a want of iupartiality in the treatment toward the negro in the vrl sections of the country. We hve been cacstitntly aserting tl.at this cnuld uot nronerlv he laid t the f.et i the Kational Keiubtitai party, bat tlottit was on account of ue few weak kneed Renu blicii ns, men w ho did nut daro to ttand u; fo to.u right in the full Republican taith and doetriue in lie several States, and that wherever the question wss fairly submitted to the National Republican arty , it would be decided iu fcor et'the tq'ia I puf i lion of the negro with the r? T.Ji r ( 111 -1 .1 I w 1 1 . . r Ihn I : . Nuw, Mr. de.-ident, we are asked to accept an amendment of the Constitution which oleaus t'uiitv tn the fhsnrri n-R rp 1 nkB.t i t..i- t i ... the in that the National Republican party, j as represented in Congress, ack now led.-el j that, the charges which have been raade'bv States which have been recently reconstructed, the Legislature, strongly Republican as they are! will hesitate before thev adopt this amendment. I believe there ouite as mueh ribk of its being lost in a number of those States as'theri, is in its

leing lost in an equal number of .Northern I 'nitration of the laws of tbo United States, if you put into the proposition the ' 5t.,.e!,:T. right to hold office. ir- cnn conceive f,f no alteration of You may say, and Senators on thl floor i tt)c Constitution which would be more do say, that the right to vote involves thc'"d'mM iu tUe eyC8 of ,h" r'"0!vU ' right to hold office. 1 say the discussion ! ,-"e'1 State than the one which is now on this floor, and the nrivate opinio.,, ..f: before us: and tell you, sir, although

are many lieoubiican Senators on the floor I ...... j who do not entertain this view. At a n y ra ate, it will go before the country that a .ropositiou to hold office has been suggest- ' i' ! eu to form part of this amendment, and i ...... z. . . i iii .i i . ...at it nas ueeu uenocraieiy voted down. If it means nothing why vote it down? If the right to vote carries with it the right ' to hold ofiice, I asked y ou if to day i n ' Georgia the light to hold offi.-e is reco-'- '. nized by the Republican party. I ho'd, .Mr. President that if we are to run a risk in this matter of losino- thi i i.i , amendment because tliprn an snm Stalpa

I - , -M i i i region.- ot the Sow which w ill not adopt the proposition to i ... t i 1, .1- - - , . f ', - . i piil-lion is so nt'.s ho d .lb-u, it is better to run the risk in!' - , .. , , " .i.i .- r .i i p: ied ot the nht t the direction of the right. believer it t ' . . . thev miv he tutfl

uva.j .o .....ansa n. h .inner m mis so.., isi us run ii ior me rignt ami not the for the w ronc; and I appeal again ti i cotiS'.'ieuce of every Senator on this I floor on the Republican sid of the House ; whether he does not believe tint the liht i be ongs to every citizen of the United I Slates ,w ca,,y a o. anu 10 no.u (Mlliit ir . . .......... . j . i. i i ir in i it belongs to any other man? Is not thai the i round woik of the action of the Republican pruty in the past. And have we uot preached tbat doctrine among ourseles.' Have we not preached it to the ieo .t And now wheu we coma to propose I a constitutional amendment shall we ha :atia stop short o wnai we believe is nghi j t aud w hat, eveiy one of us has -been preach j ! ing? 1 submit there is more danger of i losing this proposition, of losing the con- ! c ...!, . ., i ... .. , i : ... , , ... : count it we have it half right toau if we I, unii(i'ii,i hi t iu ninciijiljcill UH ll it c ' t.a.c .l uo..y ..g..i. Now, the right to vote, as it feem to! me, w ill inevitably be given to the colored i men in the various otates bv I do not t iike to use the term the inexorable logic! of events in the next five yenrs. It can j not be refused. It will come as a matter! of course iu the Slates. If, therefore, the I proposition to amend the Constitution is' confined simply to the right to vote, itis: a matter of uot so much consequence a t has been attached to it. Rut if, on t he i other hand, the Republican party desire to put fairly aud squarely before the nation the platform upon which they have professed to stand in the past, the platform upon which we claimed in the South that they did stand upon, true to their professions and their principle they will make a constitutional amendment which is right, and submit it to the people; and if the people vote it down let us wait until the public sentiment gets up to the tight point. This is the view which we take of it in" the Southern States. I do not wish to put j my individual opinion 1 presume there no Senator from the lately reconstruct-'

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TRASSIT. 1 Dee qvere. (10 )li,,)on Hiserti.U.." It! , 1 . 1 1 jne quart, two inFertioas. ... square, three insertions.. .. A!" enbaeqae.t insertions, iwruwi, ; YEARLY. I One eoTomn, cbeogcabfo jrt.ffj... ,...f?l ffj 1 . N M - tnree-iaartFs a oolumn une-bair of ihnnM ; Ooe-eijath of olumm TrDit t rrtaemwu rtwrJ i alt eaaes to ; Pa for ia adraaee. - .,-... ' "" UaUn a particular Urn 1 snerifieJ vbea banned in, advertirmnti will be pabllsaed aatil erdered oat and eharxed aocaardingi.- " : Sit p(l State -who would desire to put k'tf opinion ugainst tUe opinion of tW mha ' men on this floor and defeat this anetkd i - i . ; s m ision !Ctc-r tnnae tttn WboAave bfcti tried i: the p-ry ud la ihe publivj cMijeil fi "ttiy (ax I sitbmit we m-y le itht. h i n.tV for this preposition, if I vote to concur in this rtpmt of the Committee of Conference, I do it with great reluctance, I do it with great hesitation, aud 1 do it because I am ad' vij'ed that we mut have something, and that this is the best we can get. Mr. IIou-AftD, of Michigan Ms. Fresident, I was remarking that this propose! amendment to the Constitution will operate as a repeal, as au annulment of that clause cf the sisfh article of the present Constitution which declares that "no religious test shall ever be required as & qualification to my office or public trial under the United States." The arliel which is proposed to us declares that no I 1 tlei shuil pass law aud that the i U nited States shall pass no law which j ball abridge or deny the rixht f voting 1 holding cffiee to any citizen of theUnited Slates on account of race, color, or previous COudltlOU of slavery. The tinplication is perfectly 11 resistible in the mind of every instructed lawyer wfc j had any practice at the bar that, with the i- , i "Pt'"" prcv.OU. eOU. j " ul "iwiuut, cu iut y, uhim k-iic may lu.pose w Iiatcver qua.ihcatioos Conlress may see St to impose, both upon the, voter and the holder of office in the St . and in the United States, and that by ao act of Congress we may here, sitting in our seats, prescribe a rule whih shall exelude in the Stales from the Tight of VO'lino- and hol.linrr nmft pppv Tnrnn wrbrt i i i i r 1 1- j "0t hs 0i Pwf'WUlar rIlg!0Ua CMed, every person who shall not be of a certain age, every person who shall not have becu born in some particular locality. Rut, sir, the great objection to it is that it gives to Congress absolute authority, by this legal implication,, to say that no- ! J'.0 but nembe of dome particular re bgious sect shall have the right to hold office in the State and in the Government of the United States. Do not doubt it, sir; look at it with the eye of a lawyer, of a person accustomed to explain aud interr"ret statutes, and yon can eoaie to no other PreParta to disregard tne old u.nioiuon icou'inei1 the Constitution in reference I to "''S'ou tests? Ari lhc)' prepared to isl,ve to Congress authority to say what j Tons shall and what shall not hold cflice '" ,he rious Territories and in the di . . l - . l : . : 1 1 . . . XJ,," "'" UP" I oti the Republican parly represented ia I o""5 'he odium of giving to Congress j I er "hih our fathers wero careful to f!X ,Uvle ,rofu ""g the Towers ol I. wugre' ! N' J'"". lr n,,l tn ti0 ,a!cs s 1 ' " ir' wc 1 am not in uch hot haste to Constitution of the United tomiiiit an act of this kiud. go fr enough when we say frt man. North and South, "jou the black shall hue the utiic right to vote as ia " ' ..... A by t he. ,w hilt; . juia u''XbuMb uo uungcr tout i V . . tflMt C1,n. (, , j rf .. rfrom IT. tf'BM .t so 'li fT h! o nl : lie iif. of the tmllol I h'll ona atr. and iIih. a very nhurt nr.c, 'n hi joi mti.t f ;n" rijrht to hold othc. : Mi.d 1 look dixhi i a c-r-au, thai it ih-hiHcl. p .puia iom.t th S .'h or of l he N th r aieta'ed to h comtiiion of vou.ii it iio-y ait-aOowt-u m ihia (f to rtki( aie in the nt,uii-iit ol !a and ihe ttju , of nr.fi llt s ,hpr ,,. ,c essaoly, as an irrei8 lulc con iirire, oe n I-iwrd ihe priil-gv of holi'n-j u5c, if they ire fi fri' it in n'her rfi ecta. Hut my grrat ol jwi-tion tn lhi, Mr. Pre" .li-iit. is iha' it ruiin iLe piowaLare tbrouah lb p j ciJ Cvotituiiou, fcd takes cut of it one of i' ; n.i-t precious and valuable eafeeuards. I rei ter to the piohibilion which 1 liara already rlt,j wen 'vr S r. I would not part with that great it for human liberty, rrlitrioua freedom, j consideration that could be addreaatd ( w, r'cle which it now oHered, iuiMiamf-u Bi auif udment to the Contlituiwu. ... . does reoeal and set p. aide thai most sacred ana in. aloatW.. iiroviHion. I hope, Mr. Pretideut. lbH, ml5l;aile,, ..nondrrent to the Uontti.uli K.i( l4)cejve ,bnt treatiut Ll"-1 !y deservea by this body. j The oldest revolver The Ear) . 4. . "Fambo, where'i your wabtcrS "tione out." Ha; be left off drinking yatl", "t'h yes, ha ! ve off two, tuiae tia.s diaraor-. inl" If you want to &t Bora than one hundred pet cents ior a dollar invent ia a bottle cf perioinery. Why ii a wainteoted room like a reprieve? It save hanging. A Western debatiag society f to take ap aba ctuettion 'Where does a fire go when it goes eat?. "Wky'do women fpend so mwk tieie aad icoa--ey on dress?" arked a geBtlaiaan of a belle. "Te. worry ether women," was the tiathfal reply. Why it a man ia a fever like a burning candle? He is light-beaded. , , ' Why i. a mailman like two men? He U on kimseif. . . it i eeiy V.'ky is a flower out of sea: oc like an old coal?