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THF FIFTEENTH ARTICLE. Senator Morton's Amendment The Senatorial Debate.
From the Congressional Globe. The resident ft tempore-. If there be no further morning business the bill (11. 11. No. 405) authoriting the submission of the Constitutions of Virginia, Mississippi an J Texas to a vote of the people, and au
thorizing the election of State officers pro-
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er see this bill fail than to pass without distrust which ought not to rest upon it. , will be adopted. I believe it is right and this amendment attached to it. I would The purpose of this bill, as to Virginia 1 proper that this provision should be made rather see the whole matter go over until : at least, is simply to put her tn statu 1 applicable to all the Slates. I think at the next session of Congress. I will speak quo; to put Virginia where she would j this time it is invidious and unjust to say frankly here on the sulject. I knew what have been had the Government of the ' to the people of the Southern States that the expectation of the opposing party is. United States been able and willing to ! thev shall not be extended to other States They know the prejudice that has existed execute on our part the terms of the ! of the Union. And it is desirable that in the estern States in regard to negro ! proposed contract. On that we can stand; 1 the question should be settled. It is a suffrage, and I know that the Democratic but I submit to the honorable Senator ' question which agitates and distuibs the party desire to keep this question open as from Indiana and to the Senate that we public mind, it is a question which has an element of political success in the elec- can not stand either upon the fcffimation led to revolutionary steps in nome of the tions of 1870 and 1872. Look at what 'that wp had I itftJr ilovlf tliia Itill ft li t-i Srsifpft ft i-a si-oi ra hit fVtr (Ko ivoo r a m n A
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YIARLY.
0 coin re a, ebaagaabta qartr1y........"..ty SO Tbraa-auartera ,f aotaaia SO P Ona-balf of a oolonm. .. j a a Ona-qaartar f a eolaara jp a Oaa-i-tti f Minna 1 j f of TrMatMtaJrarttaaaMBta aaaald ia all be paid far la adTanev. Ualaat a particular tHa a ayaoited waan aaadd ia, adrti-taaata will published aatil ardarad Mt aa aharraa aoawrdiaalj .
j there is no right to say that this is a rev- j mission, plotting to disturb the peace, and,
olutionary measure. How do the people I pei haps, to incite revolution. In ronelu
of Indiana think about it, pray? Every sion the speaker urged the disfranchised ! ,-,r man who resigned has been returned to ' masses to rease making incendiary speech- ' his seat in that Legislature. In almost j es, to abstain from murder and assassina-!
every district those tn tavor of the Ofteen-! tion, and assured them that they would th amendment did not even dare to run a 1 very speedily be given the right of the candidate. In one district they did; and j ballot; but so lore as they indulged in acts
that was a district which had been chang- 1 of lawlessness and were prolific of threats. ' 1 I. . I . 1 - . 1 . , . . 1 . . . . - -4
eu auer tne election or tne senator ny , they never could get what they desired.
Novpr lw cruel to a damfe fniiwab rraember 'ha' ii lia no i'0r to tell how mack it auf-
e!j i ala-ay s the best policy.
striking off, I believe, a Democratic coun
ty and putting on a Pcpublican county, and the district was largely Republican at the late Presidential election. What was the result in that district? A most
He said he would be a breakwater in the
path of Johnson, and would expose his dark and damning record - to the public gaze. The speech was about three hours
and a half in length. - lie made no refer-
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Tided by the said Constitutions, and mem-s "J8 'cn place tn the State of Indiana. not to adopt the amendment he proposes,-! welfare of the whole country, for the white
bers of Congress, is before the ienate as ; iemoirauc party in me ctate ot in- or, even it we had tune fully to discuss lt, people as well as the black, that the quesin Committee of the Whole, and will be i iana, for the pvrpose of preventing the if it did not involve the danger of losing ! tion should be settled; aud now we have
reaJ. ! JjCg,slaure winch has a large majority 01 the measure, the proposition that we ought an opportunity to say to the people emmtnent man w.ts set up bv the Repub- euce to the cubernatorial canvass, but ac
The bill was read. "epuoncans in Dotn nouses, from ratify- now to retreat from our own position aud of the unreconstructed States, '-Go on; or lican party against the resigning Senator cused Johnson of plotting in connection Mr. Morton. I offer the following as j ,ng ,Iie amendment and to keep it as an to attempt to impose upon the State ot ! gatiize your State governments; recc.gnixe ! a man of character, of talents, a ma u j with the election of Supreme Court Judges, an additional section to the bill: j open question, broke up the Legislature Virginia a new condition when it is not this constitutional amendment which we ; remarkable foi his power on the stump, w hich tal es place next month. ' J. it further maetc-tL That before ! "J every man of them resign ing. That her fault, but oar fault, if it be fault at propose; acree that it shall be a Part of ! as 1 am told an elector for President. li .
the States of irgmia, Mississippi and 1 legislature was cauea together agsia all, that she Las not complied with the : the Constitution, and cume here on the I think, at the hist electiou in Indiana. Texas shall be admitted to representation i yesterday, and I am advised that the very ' terms and condition heretofore proposed first Monday of next December with your j What was the result in that district, now in Congress, their several Legislatures j moment the amendment is presented the ' to her. I Senators and Representatives and take j largely Republican? Why, sir, that man which may be hereafter lawfully organized, Democratic members will again resign, j Mr Williams. I Jo mt propose to tax the 1 your place in the Union lean see no j was beaten some four, fire or six hu ndred shall ratifv the fifteenth article which has I They made the calculation that without : anr.rre of th Senate wiih anvihitig like a ' serious objection to this, aud I hope it wilH votes. I think, then, it may be well asbeen proposed by Congress to the several j 'be votes of Virginia, of Texas, and of speech, and I should, perhaps, ha been will- ue adopted. I samcd here that the people of the State
States as an atnendtteEt to the Constitu- 1 Mississippi the amendment can not bc "'g to lei uns 0111 pass uunoui any an.ei.a- Mr. Trumbull. Mr. President, I shall ! of Indiana are not in lavor of the fifteenth
Violet.
BT KKt I.IK A. MA KIT.
I think the it.ilicalions
1 1- , 1 j .. r ; ia, ieen pr.iposeu, l mine li win oe uapiw . . , . . . ' I . . , . . Indiana they regard, therefore, as r .... ,iV ......;...... ' i ins a few words on this proposition. I I all point that wav: and if so. are thev to
adiabie to rut that amendment upon i u,e rivotal O'ate upon wtnen the ratihca- j trjeJ a, H1)T ra!e R, to heihpr or not the believe the bill as it came from the House i be coerced by the Congress of the Uni-
s bill, and for this reason: Congress, af- j ,on r' the amendment is to turn; but if it ; meaure can be carried through Congress wiih of Representatives, with a very few amend- ted Slates into its adoption? For, as I s-iid
d? .! i
ri the late rebel States, and proposed t0 l 'be Constitution without the vote of ' it, that it will he retarded as a breach of j Senate iu ten miuutts. 1 know of ho-
tion of the CniteJ S:a'es. "f.lica unless it receives the vote of In- i "iZTl h. . I detiUn ,,,e Sena,e buf el'ort tin:e bJ "7' "endment.
Air nimmii 1 nil mil 1 1 1 11 k ii n-nniti 1
te th.
ter verv great deliberation, passed several nall be vanned by these three unrecon-1 tht? amen'iment. j ments to make its meani ng more clea r by ! before, when yoa coeiee Virginia, when
bills on Hie suijeci oi me reconsiruction ;-" -vo ncu .mc a i i nm inj'iu" 3 . . ,e,v ,g ewme aaioiguiies, wouiu passineiou coerce niissisippi, wuen vmu coerce
iexas to auopt this amendment, you co
erce Indiana as well yon override Indi-: ana instead of leaving to each State the j free and untrammoled choice to adopt or j
to nject this proposed amendment yu by forte make it a part of the Constitution
now j body that is disposed to make war upon
am-1 it to be pressed, it is my view and I say it is . it with treat deference to the Senator from
. 1 .
them certain conditions, on compliance : tnuiana, ana inc revolutionary measure ot ; good laitti towara me ciaies not with ahich they were to be restored to ' ,bat uas been adopted in the State of In- j reconstructed to incorporate such an their former relations with the Union and i tlian will not be successful after all. i endment into this bill, but I think
this is the imposition ot a new condition, j Now, sir, if we shall make the ratifica- ,0 i n ,he day to ,alk about P004 i Indiaua that it defeats the bill. Per
When is this to stop? Is Congress at each tion of the fifteenth article a condition of ,n tcference to these States. I re-j haps that is all that is necessary forme fcion to impose anew condition when the reconstruction of these States jut as : wember when some of the States in the to say, but 1 do wish to call the attention the States have gone on to take action un- we did the ratification of the fourteenth South has proceeded in conformity with ; 0f the Scuate to one consideration.
wr ii.c as vuvitss eimeitu tiieiu; auu-ie, iu oiaies m.i rrejn u once, .. -. inisisnoi a question itiat concerns ! up even mis mucrr time upon u.i.s ques-
'i he Mates aie acting as they have done in they will ratify it without a moment's de- made their constitutions ana suoiunieu yirgilia) Mississippi, and Texas alone; it ! tion. The able Senators from Illinoisand
them to congress, in at tne nonoraoie oen. js a queslion t1!lt collcerns svery State in Mew York, it does seem to me, have made ator from New lark was one of the Sen- i ,i Union l1Ptlier thi nrnnm,l mntl. anneals to the ii.i.ritv of ihi. Spnatw fl.t
by t. onuress; tnat some lunaamentat con
r . a r
ot the V inted fcta.es.
Perhaps I owe tin apology for taking
,r-i:ii and Mississippi and Texas, all of lay, and then it will become a part of the
hili have held conventions in pursuance , Constitution; the question will be taken .t lie reconduction acts; all ef vhith 'out of cur politics forever, u:d the Demo-
lave foitiieei co i
titution; all if which ciatic revolution in Indiana will have
I; plucked a meek riolet, T ( l ce in my hair; AfiiX when amid the thiniog braid It softly nestlrd there, 11 e reid I wax a royal flower, And whispered that to j eyea Quite put to fbauie the brightest gleam Of southern cutiitner'a .kies. lie ;d,"a penny for your thoughts," As teate bcil iiitned mj night, lh"U 1"' kul RgHin,a though at A ret 11c bmt not M-en aright, Jut quii k'y c'u.-pcjl uio to his heart Ami xid. "pert, I forpct: K.ithrr ihHD be a mvul lioMtT, Vuu'J be a violetl" " Ye e j" ati8Tt rni I, is nn roj lipi He lovir g kisses pressed, To be g--nt!e vinlet, (Hie in u a t, be tiuly bleg.cel!" "And will you b mt violet?" I well knew l t ha meant, And drinking kiiei from his lip-, My heart it wss content.
those constitutions icady now to be Mailed; otherwise this question will be
suhitiliud to the people; and in case they j kept upon during the elections of 1S70
and lbi'2. Jhcrelore, 1 repeat. I would Mather see this bill fail and the whose . matter go over until the next session of Congress than to have, it pass without this j
Sir it 14 iinlil in ii.aIF '
Mr. Conklinsr.
are r.itthed by the pt op.e by a popular v;e, .it;d they comply with the other cop. :::; n p-escithed in the acts under whivh il.i- action is taken, Congress has given its sole in n plcdce ttut those States sluili leeMttied to ie-ioration to their former i'---i!i.ti in the Union. Xow the Senator
iruas Itoiiatta proposes to make an aeidi-jand it is iTvast ltnpcrtance to the party to ; out bis error, ti.oiil rni tiirement that thev shall ratifv ' which 1 claitn to be ion at. If the s eoplo r f i Mr. Williams.
aiv i!i.r fotistitu'iotial amcneiment iu.t I the Southern States tn cnx.ite m arc not i oir. t-euikiing.
Unnoticed Heroism.
ators who declared that it was necessary ; Mni-nfi,llpllf si19ll b n r ,rr .r H,. t'.wwii. .,..,.ht to ton, I, il.. l.-Jn. nf ,,,,, ,,. ! 1 1 e 1 ,e-u' ,,,jt never n,lds record
that those constitutiens should be changed ' ,utlon of Uie Unitcd $ wha ! mhe , wi(hi ;( , (k) not )at a j on ear.h ,s very often grander than that
j . j a n't . i i i j i ii i j . I which iias tirofivcu naaies ior an nine.
dition should be attached to those cousti- i to X0xs,rM U eiinpiy rowe't to propose ! think as they do; but when I listened to ! J ,e i1? l',k ,ela,ef an ll't,dt;",. tutions by Congress and accepted by He amendatetttS. and when iWresa has ex- i their detail of how this Concress i ''ich ba,j ened two weeks ago on ,an
entitled to : ...-. J. : . " ,v ii.i i ... .1 i- .i . w i. -i . Jinsiiisn sieamer. ir.ai cxnioits me courage
Statps before thev should tie eutitieel to ,... I .l,. . : .v .v. .. I l.,.l,l i.i il,. .,.!. v U .1....
... ivwuu uiai iJuiili ii 13 f (tHi iHt "It lift an 1'n.v. iv uiw i'i:imiic v'l ina i.'iuin timt i, r'l.i resume their former practical relations to the ,awvers 'Fav. u ,ug ,ti ht w,fatso;ver i if ,b0y did this thii.g and that if they did i "n of simp e truth as brighily h ITnirtit .. .i., ... s... . .. i.i-.,: jii.iV.- i .1. .'.1. .. as they were ever exhibited in die ti.fler-
..... ...... . . i to cocree me ciates 11
amendment. rir. u is ricnt
H ere is no breach of faith involved, j quite mistaken about that. It is of vast importance to the eounit v, ! dulge me for a uiomcut, I
besr to point
ei.eu.ed advisable at the time the rec.M. s t;.c:iv!i acts wore patsed. Suppose the t;.:e' to on and comply with thai requisi1. t . ii.en tl cy are to be toid when they I ;iu- dot.e that :md come here at a suLsco. i t M srion f Congress, "lou must do s- teething else?' It sevii.s to me there should be an end to this, at.d I thii.k there is no practical I I itnt;ii.ce in it. Let n.e say to the Senat 1 ttMtn In. iiana that I have not the lot (..es;i ti as to the adoption ef iho Ji;n.i.;i. e- i-stiiuiional iimcuumeiit bv the.c
v. ti
ill;
to put this
fcti.ctie.n cut in;
Certainly. I was not ot;e of those,
the ,' though that is not important, who mivo-
tVnisiitntion ol the Ctited Spates it will cated that policy, but speaking lor. tnosc be proof that they are not accepting their I wbo did advocate it, all the way through Miite Constitutions in sroi.d faith, and that their proposition was that under the rc-
they aie rclvinsr upon subsciuentl v construction sets those States
u iiii nil i t v their Mato ( nistii iiti.m K.. 1 adopted their Constitutions, these (. onsti
10 strike colored suffrage from t. em. j tutions camo to iis for consideration, f-r Inevct v poiutof view this an, endment i approval. Neither Virginia nor any oth-
is rtuht, proper, ana necessary: and 1 trust er fctate merely oy aaopting a v.onstueuion ... . i .i. ...
that no member ot the Senate who is a was entitled, as
fiteiid to the fifteenth article will refuse
,wy i.onoraoio menu is ; The States are entitled to their free aud
It be Will ill- ' iinhifl.nil 1 II ii ir T-iii n t tinnt. ll:i rtrntrtcilitii
; j v.... v.. .V ..( V,.. ...V. J I V.-. 11. n
that Congress is autboned to submit. The power of Congress is at an end when it has made the proposition. Rut now the Senator from Indiana proposes that Congress shall not only propose an amendment to tho Constitution, but that Congress shall coerce three Stutes into the .ulotitiiiii oi'that amendment, not for thru:-
haVltlST ciilv-W nlft-ia but Itir iivprn Sl!l. in tlwi
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Union; that they shall force that Constitutional Amendment, net simply upon Virginia, Mississippi, and Tests, but up on Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois us well, whatever may be the opinion of the three last named S ales.
into action on them, j this thing and that thing, nd tho other
I Os
wfitn thev shall irc-inix under tit
to vote to put it ou his bill. Mr. Coiikling. I bad hoped that this
amendment uiht be vested on without
r. t. i.sti ueiioti aets. Who doubts that ore 1 debate, and certainly I will not contribute - tl eii tiisi nets will be to do that? I think ; to prolong the debate new. I wish, howtl.t ie is no leasoii ib'e doubt that such ever to answer one suggestion with vvbith Wi Uid be the case. - Hat upon principal it ihe honorable Senator from Indiana be-
as it seems to me. to teuuire it in ins anei concludes his remarks, and
that is, that no breach of faith would be involved in impoitisr now a now fundamental condition or condition precedent to be complied with before these Stales
Let me present to
tho Senate only for a moment the case of Virginia. Has Virginia refused to coir
i
When ou coerce Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas to put this article in the Constitution of the United States, to vote for it ks a part of the Constitution of the
i United States, you tio not coerce them
lou coerce Ohio, yon coerce In-
thing, they should be restored to all their I
rights, and then thought that here was an j
attempt to add another condition precedent, aiiel that if this were to prevail there would be no end to the conditions precedent, it did seem to ne that every Senator ought to feel that this amendment shoulel not prevail. I hope that the amendment will not be adopted.
icy
ings that won a martyr's crown. There is something i nexpresibly touching in .the steadfastness of honesty of the poor, casfi ff child who could not lie, who did not know how to lie, even to save his life, and accepted death, as he thought, without a remonstrance, as the penalty of his sublime and instructive ignorance. Such an incident is belter thau a sermon:
A lirtli r.-ti't.pil hoe aopd nina vpi-h
lam perfectly frank to say fhat wb ; was di!ieovcrisd on tllg rour,h day 0, ,ie my view ol the Constitution I cannot vote ; 011(ward vy.lsre from Liverpool to New for this bill, but I am not hereto make S y, .k nd C!llied before the first mate, any war upon it. I repeat what I said j wu,8e du,.. it was to deal ith euch ca,CS-
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before, that if this amendment is voted down then, with a few amendments to remove obscurities in the bill, I believe it enn pass the Senate in ten minutes' time Mr. President pvo tempore. The queslion is on the amendment of the Senator front Indiana.
..cut ef
tit. vein;
thtse tropic, ho
utuier our acts to do those t ti the completion of tvl.L-b
pro-
is wren
aO.;i,co. H i mil oslllir a new condition
it is breaking: tatt li on the part of the
the United States with
have been pruceed.no:
very things can be represented.
we have told
'l e.ii. ' You sh .il he rest-. red to vour rc-
u.:i..t wiili ti e I i.i. n." N
I --e- i.i i ii-j'O.e a new
H v si, i.i ,m th
J kt .-t;t
i ..evssttv hu tins-; I tt.it, k. it is bad p. licv; forib as she has been permitted, with every j
.. .... ...si-; i:j o ,t u in pe very likeiv o .--.ii a jt,,u.uted debate, and may peri . u ;! ai Ogisiatioti unless v e pro-vii-the se.-siou t evotid to toorrow. I am
vttv t.iat the Senate from Indiana should furnished by the United States he was un
-- ior. m tr.-.s a me nd me nf, and I hope
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requirement, that
teir assent to another pio-
loiiai a'lioiitlinotit. I see no
:i matter ot course, to
me in: but the Constitution, in the Ian-
i LUiec td the reconstruclion acts was to be
j submitted to Congress tor its aprrovaf, ; and certain Senators hold that that approval might be a qualified ajproval, as
in the case ol lieoicta, based upon tne
' condition that a certain portion of it should '. n. m... .,' .... : .. ...... I alone.
no aiinii r l i 11-11 iioi'K rim iiitiiiiu a n .. ...
. T v diana, vou cocice Illinois, vou coeiee ev such n-iestion as this; nor was I one ol i t, . i . . . ,' , i- . i cry State whose people aie unwilling; to those in favor of adopting the policy to . ', .... j V i . - i i- i I .11 t I adopt the ati.e ndmciit. II I understood which the Senator refers, which 1 think is , , , . , , r ... . . ,. . ..iii. .i I the honorable Senator from Indiana, it is so distinguishable from this. i .. r . ' .. ' m t i t .i t . : for the express purpose of overriding the
f """ 1 Uill of the people., the pivotal State as he "a Make., in saving that the Senator from I l Sh
New York insisted before the Senate that j l)eJcoerccJ ioto , atloltiotl ofthe miend-! 0H Warner, Williams, Wilson, and Yates ' .t .i.-l-ti rvi-ir o.i rl l otix-tlilltlon of . . . r i O.l
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Mr. Drake and Mr. Jfoiton called ft.r 'he Vtfts and nays, and I hey w-re ordfi ftl; and being taken, resul ed teas 30, tias 20; as follow f. Yeas Messrs. Abbott, Drownlow, Ijuckingham, Carpenter, Chandler, Cole, Drake, Harris, Howard, McDonald, Morrill, Morton, Nye, Osborn, Pool, Pratt,
Ramsey, Rice, Robertson, Ross, Sohurz,
ertnan, Stewart, Sumner, 1 buyer, 1 ip
l-Ut Does ircinia stand mure? Is she ! ,V ",l """ ';- ' seems so to mc.
in contempt or in default in n-ard to the I y."ru"1. wc "0.wc;1 l'" l"" Mr. Morton. ,ecousf.ueion laws? On the contrary, ! ?r t""n Xn ,he IcJeral U.n,.on' hc 1 me to explait.?
K.i (..kt.-I II OIO T- n O C-TaVa-- TVI'ilCl CI il n in I II 1 I i ...
Will the Senator allow
eo.iqoviHg as v irguiia
has
done,
condition, having done every act set he-
Constitution which interfered with the
rights of certain citizens of his State who
If
Mr. Thurman. Certainly.
Mr. Morton. Not to override the will
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. .....it 11 Ul lilt: iitrt't'it: vi iiiutcilia, tmt I tl loriimc linn-.. t-.i 1 .-vit'iJi in nh'inn rariii I CP. . . . c T . .
progress, , , ,. . . T , " , ,. , 'a revolutionary movement in Indiana, by
Hy a repoit from ibe omi-.;" ""11'1' "''"""'P," ; 1 "Jvl V i which the Legislature has been broken up
mandinsr tjeneral that tor lack of money." . , - , . . r ,
' .evv i ots upon tuai question. i uu neu
fore her. sho is arrested
here. How?
in li
or
a be to ho.d that lection, without which
Repiesentativcs front the State of Virginia
(. .is m n pass as a separate meas-j could not take their seats in the two UlV. I Houses. Is it true to her, as the bonora- . I orton. 1 regard ibis amendment ble Senator allirms, that her recreance, ct tue utmost importance. I shall cer-j her obstinacy, her noncompliance, has cli i 11 w',-'',raw it- i ,,,e Senate Melt her properly and fairly liable to the ,'Oses to vote it down it can do so. Nor ; imposition of new and unthcught of conuo i j oroeive the force of the argument Mlitions? Not at ail. nZV": Ur lrc"c!1 '" These Xbe Carotina?, Alabama, Louisiana, and o,ri," l'l ti''tCepM co",dUio-: other States t. which I mi-ht refer, were Tlt'v b r "V w, l,ound? fortunate enough without any more merit Late a o,7,Tl .r,hln lut in this respect than Virginia to be per....iV, m I?' m h0S,!h,y UP; 1 us Vme ntitted to vote upon question of ratify-
t tir ri..V, 7 "e on,?re,a-. 11 ls j intr the proposed constitution, and follow- ,
f Si r fit K.i l... .1.
- fvi i ml ti t-r mn rv tn ti nil nikt . . . . .
in ihr i i J 7 1 r. resentation and restoration to those Mates
---..w. . MtlC 13 lltl 1-1111 III lit
regard this amendment a? any violation of of good faith with these States. Nothing has yet been perfected as to the States named in it, everything is at this time unsettled; aiul I insist that so long as Concress claims jurisdiction over these States, as it now does by means of Ibis legislation, it is right to legislate as in its judgment the best interests of the whole country may require. If in our judgment the
! security of the colored people in the South
! requires that ibis amendment should be
to prevent that Legislature from ratifying
the amendment, as it otherwise wou.d have done. Mr. Thurman, Well, sir, I do not think the explanation of the gentleman relieves the difficulty. If the people of Indiana are in favor of ratifying the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, why is the Senator from Indiana afraid to trust
Nays Messrs. Anthony, IJ.iyard, Boreman, Casserly, Conkling, Dav is, Kdiuunds, Fen ton, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler, McCreYry, Norton, Patterson, Sawyer, Spra-
tiue, Stockton, Thurman, Trumbull, aud. Wiley 20. Absent Messrs. Cameron, Cattell, Cor ; bett, Cragin, Gilbert. -Grimes, Hamilton, Hamlin, Harlan, Howe, Kellogg, Pome-; ..... v 1 . 1 ... t S..wttt Si tiii t im v . ii .1 rt.t-oi-e
I'll t'lllCUUI It LOIU. tl'llllll UU flv-nviO;. , , " ' ! he confessed the
1. So the amendment was aureed to.
W hen que'stiouctl as to the object of bis
being stowed away, and who brought him on board, the boy, who bad a beautiful, sunny face, and eyes that locked like the very miirors of truth, replied that his stepfather did it, because he could not affoid to keep him, nor to pay Lis passage ut to Halifax, where he had an nunt who was wel! i lr snd to whose house he was going. The mate d'd not believe the story, in spite ofthe winning face and truthful accents of the boy. lie had seen too much of stow aways to be easily de
, ceived by them, he said; and it was his ! firm conviction that the hov had been
brought on board and provided wilh loud by the sailors. The little fellow was very roughly bandied in consiquence. Pjy by day lie was questioned and request io ned, but always with the same result. He did not know a sailor on board, and his fath er alone had secreted him aud given him the food which he ate.
"At last the mate, wenried by the boV persistence in the same story, and perhaps little anxious to inculpate the sailors, seized hiiu one day by the collar and drag ging him to the fore, told him that unless
ttuth iu ten minutes
from that time ho would hang him on the yard arm. He then made him sit down under it ou the deck. All around him were the passengers and sailors of the midday wutch, and iu front of hiiu stood the inexorable mate, with his chronemeter in his hand, and the other otlieers of the uliiti l-i I.i'-. ,!. ft .I-.-- lli.i finnil ct.b
c:iii.. ui.. .-..ivt i n. o iiiv. ii i v. . v fii'i',
ing necessarily upon that have come rep- j a,nond,ont a ,)art 0f the Constitution of
resentation and restoration to tluse Mates , rnited Stitt s before thr-T become en-
e In consequence of her calamity alone, with j ,itI , j ,0 representation in Congress. We i .i..r...i. i .1,1.. I. .1... . . . .. ...
"I he St-nai -.r .1 i i it ' ' - . . . V.-..-...1., s iiave required these Mates to provide in
tliat s.,1 ' J "Z T uu,,u. " la,e WI 1 lr' 's nor ncrc. -vna now. f,u,r 8,at0 Constitutions for the extension
rani "e nueenm havins; over and over again, here and mi.,r ,frr.,.i. in tlm eolored
Stckes Replies to Johnson. Nashville, Apiil 17. Representative Stoke spoke at the Court House to about 2 5U!J persons, the
them ou the question? Why does he wi.-li . rodter portion beinc colored. He was
the question passed upon bv a Legislature ! -...;, .i nil.iiv.i..ni ....) ni,i.biu.l..t (said our inforn;ant, that he had ever lie
that was elected upon no such issues, that throughout, lie said that he bad not j beid. to see the p ale. proud, sorrowf ul face elected upon the "Chicago platform, which I Come 'to insult any one. or to injure any l that noble boy his head erect, Lis
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incorporated into the Constitution t,r the t ueoiareu ,nai lo everJ ,0Jal ,a,eana ne one s feelings. He had come simply to 3 yrigut u rougu ... tc, it..:. : i i....... .i... ..: T ..I..;.. 1 will not deny that Indiana is a loyal State I vimli.-iirt tlm mitv if Cnfirrpss nnnn that sulfu.-ed them. hen eight iniiiufes
l uiipu cuuj, c iijic inc os;m, i 111.1111 , - . ... I - t ... -. j , tain, to say to tluise States that thev shall j belonged the rig lit to decide for Uselt j which foul aspersions had beeu cast by
accede to this proposition by making; this;
The Aurora Borealis. Tba receul display of Northern lights was seen all over tho country. The telegraph companies Lad id auiple trpply of
natural electricity fo all their purposes. The following is a description of the sight as Been in New York City: t There -was a t ery remarkable display of the Aurora Borealis last evening. Afc dusk a bank of light was seen in the nortfii and brightened rapidly aa night came ou. Soon after 7 o'clock it extended around nearly half of the visible horison, and began to throw up streamers. At half-past seven the whole northern sky, from east to west, was illuminated with moving waves of light darting upward, and soon after large masses of trembling brilliancy appeared in different parts of the heavens. The most splendid of these was near the xeoith, where it remained, connected by the streamers with the still light near the
j iioiiion, and rauiatiug pale, uusieady ut- ' dulations in every direction. This part j of the display ws grandest just before j eight o'clock, wlitu the hemisphere of flickering fires whi- complete, except that j the sircaineis in the -southern third of the i sky did not icadi more than halfway from j the zei. itli to the horizon. At ihe same i tiiiio (two minutes before cig,h). a brilliant Lut ineguLr e croc a was formed of a I number ol jtigeii masses, a little north of jibe, .Miiih and vivid fl ishcs of variout
celrllg were seen tu tbe north and east. The whole body of quiet light in the north was then of a pule emerald; the streamers were generally tinged with rose; but in laige parts of them, an undertone of deep crimson seemed to shine through from some waving iuids, as of a euitaiu, behind them. All this time (he moon was shining clearly, and (he sp't-udor ofthe aurora was doubtless grratly diminished by it. 'Ihe cot out lasted hut a short time, and after it melud away the brightness of tho whole faded soon. But during all the evening there visjie litqueut, though more thai usually iruguiai a. .pi a ranees of masses of
light, which before the moon set were
generally of a rosy tint, but after that lime, a little atie-r ten, generally of white light. Ai ha f past lt, when ihe moon no longer interfered wilh it, the aurora seemed to give almost as much light aa at its culmitiation; and it was near mid night when it finally f..dcd away. Iu Philadelphia the uuroral display commenced fchoitly after dark aud continued until long after 12 o'clock. It varied from former ones in this respect, that it greatest bi iliiuney wss obsuivublc at the eastern and wcaUru extremities of the horiz.n. A cousider-ble portion of tbe time tic whcle northern half ofthe bero-
ist here was most brilliantly illuminated. Streaks i f red, blue, green and white lights phot up in rapid succession from the horizon to the zenith, and at times the effect might be compared to streams of spray thrown from in it mi. era ble fire engines, and lingtd with d'Ue-icnt colors. The heuveiis ul d ll'o.ent j eriods during tbe night fii! iiuiw icd ith the rays of light that shut loiili in all direciiois, and broad btlts of while light, stretched directly over htud from one exitemity of. the eky to the othrr. A c ure -p in.! .-iit w.iting from Milroy, sns: 'Last night, nlout tight o'clock, two bright lights, one fsotn tbe east and the otlicr Irotii tho west, shot the heavens i.oui ihey met, iciumi. ing about twenty minutes, timing v.hie-h time very red streaks dirtcd up from east to west. The lights separated in the center, aud gradually disappe-reJ in the east and west, trie one in ibe east being the brightest, and the oi e in tbe west being very red. At tbe same time a bright light was observed iu the north; a lew light clouds were ia tbe we-; do clouds to be seen in the east.'
that not only voted against negro sulfiage
but that adopted its present t. onsliiution,
people of the ov which negroes are even prohibited from g in requiring: iigratinK teT the State, by ninety-one
part of, "Hmsanu major tes bo- 1 People of India
ritv. Now, I say, if
the fit-
ler-nr.l ; .. " .
to c is own statement
"IIP ll.Mll.l--
Rut L
nee
sear v. the ho nor shin Senator dgol-ircw
Some of the recotistrntrd Ml... ld trmibl r-llllAI- ninlrt.i nti.t lvii.
s'fS Would UOt hvi rilifi.,.! il. .... ..:.. ...... I . i ... i 5 M
'eentl "i - .-..-. v. .i.c mill - irate tots uicnsuic tii;iu uiai wesuoeiia 1101 iinide it they had not been required add to it a new siursrestion, a new con-
Th " as eondiuoti of representation, dition, of which we never thought, at e,eo St,., l .1 . . . .. .. . '
!w. i . . stoou out; tney have which we have never hinted in the case of
'-" uSll .i lo our tln i . : i ... . i-ii.i . i
- v Iuu v, iveoiisiruciion any Mate wnicn nas oeen restored, nor in
amendment has become i the case of tbe reinaininsr States to which
these terms were tendered, anel which Virginia was prevented by our act from enjoying an opportunity of accepting. ,,. ct.- no fi-ii.t.,1 .if tliA Kl'linlli
II - - 1 ....,..- . v'ii,f-ii,n.- . 111V11V. -.'l nil. U1.1V1- 111 i . "-""V1 ,l e-v wiU PvU u,,'v,-'":Sal amendment, as a friend of restoration, as
, .-.- ... u.iir ute l e.nstuutions, aud friend of its completion, 1 earnestly
ana are in favor of the
it? Ihe
lere is no taith tn
j . i
..enaifa or prouii-es to be taken back
these States n ill
rtielc anvh in J . j ..... ...- v.. v. v. os...., ,!( su tli ace to tne color
"on llui lie mi.ln i -..--v..... , t..c io. ...a vt ui'.ie- ist.,.-.sii..., r.i j0tii; and we add nothing m reqnti
b our Mini.. . ii,;. "i .... "'J"v"v ; outstite-.t up'" j;i"iu eute e ei , ,Ilon, fo ns,roe thst this shall be a
.!, . c vii eue oiii, ii can not nistitiod in the ree'onstruction Policy oh.i,. f ti t.,:..i
P V r 11k It " lICVV'i''t-ttV'ltV'lilCV'l'l-i'i--V'i""v.-.-'Oi - . i A .k..- J . . 11 ,s Bot imposing upon Congress, because it did that andoc.lv that! .i.,.,;i i,,r.KI,i . ! tecnth amendment they can be trusted to
snvttuniithat will .. di.Tr.-.iii- i ... ..r.i... -.i.;.i. :... ...i .. i v"" " V . " . 1 ' s .,.bi,,t i, r il.A in tavna. of
rrace shall extend to all the States than Sator speaks ot a revolutionary moveto sav that it shall extend to certain par-1 I"J'- . .v, sir, it is not tho tienlar States; and if I understand the firist llie ,ha, 1 n" "or,, ' Jg'ture
leelinsr of the peonle of the South, thev ,lave testgned in oraer 10 prevent ne Pas-
. a 1 desiie that this should be put into the .. . li IT . . I t..ii. I
! v. ousiitutioti oi ine L'linea crates, anei
aa:ii a rotl-.r
ry, and
eitl.r.
1. I II 1 . . . ... 11 , I. 3 1 .
cast bv Iluu e'U, tne uia.e ioiu iiiui ne nuu uui
who should eniov the rriviletre of suffrtiire I v ...lr..- i.,i..,o..n Lie cio0..l..w r IC ! two minutes to live, and advised him to
- f r .lUUIl n w iFiiiicviir, iii c -.v.iivi' wi janvawithin it? It was upon that solemn pledge j a,i tbis place, lie showed that ' speak the truth and save his life; but he of your party that you got a Republican ! Congress had never transcended the bounds teplied with the utmost simplicity and majority in the State of Indiana, a State j 0f the Constitution in passing acts over j sincerity, by asking tho mate it he might
the veto. Ihey have exercised no power P1'1-"' not granted by that instrument. He ae- j The mate said nothing, but nodded his cused Johnson of having been the cause I 'bead, and tut tied as pale as a ghost, aud nf all lb troubles in Tennessee: nf li.iv! shook with trembling like a reed with the
Maxims for Young Men. Never be idle; if your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to ibe cultivation of y our miiid. Always speak she truth. Keep good company or uone. Make tew promises. ' Live up lo your engagements. K-:ep your own sccieis if you hare any.When you speak to a person look bim in the f-cc. tiood company aud good conversation aie the very sinews of viitue. (Inod character is above all things else. Yeiu had better be poisoned iu your blood than in your principles.
our character cannot be essentially
ino stirred up bad feeling at ti.st by giv- f wind. And there, ail eyes turned on him, injured except by your own acts
iils: Rio-vnloiv instructions to call on the j '" brave and noble Utile reiiow,inis poor United States for troops. Ho took , waif whom society owned hot, and whose
Johnson's statement that he freed the ue-
lt has been proposed
to the several X i -i t . . - it i
'"ll-eiitri.-Lt in ;...'f
- - v t
by an
We ha
ave already requited these States
made applicable to every State of this Union, and not alone trade applicable to tia l-.oni I.i nf llui in 1 1. .11-ii Sif-iti.
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Now, 1 regard this more as an invitation ! ""-v ewi:nsM..u..i n v...v. ....i j ot tacts, lie wouia not marge ;it.eiy t. il,.v i,....'i.!o to toloi.t il.U ,i,tiiutio.i-i from being passed. Did anybody con- j w i t li insanity .but he wouid say that be
al amendment that in any other light; for
If any one speaks evil of toil,, let your
life be no virtuous that uuug will believe, him. Drii.k no intoxieaiing liquors-.. ' "' Kter .ive, ti.l-.l u tliuc eiccii.td. Wltbfni
claim freedom to the slaves, Johnson bad : ed audibly the foru s I rayer, and praycu your income. . : sent to Washington and prevailed upon ' 'be dear Lord Jesus to take him to Ilea- W hcu y ou retii e to bed ibrnk over what.
take ; ie president to except Tennessee: and he ! ven 1 you. have done during the day.
remember I r n.li-ow Johnson 1 onlv declared them! Our i nfiH ma til adds that there then oc- ; Never speak lightly of religion.
V . ' r . . i 1 . c 1 1 I... t l i. . i. . . u
;je riuri u ou wuuiu.
gro in Tennessee, to show that when Lin
coln had announced bis intention to pro
own stepfather could not care for hiiu-
there he knelt with clasped hands and
eyes upraised to Heaven, while he repeat-
might
sage ot a measure, tfiat they
an opreal to the people. I
right well in my own State when every j tiee when they were so in fact. He went ' cut red a scene as of 1 eutecost. Sol! Make no basic to b
htg member ol the Ohio LiCgislature re- ; through Johnson's Knoxviile speech, and ! broae from strong, hard hearts, tue prosper. signed to prevent what they considered an ! showed how unreliable were its statements mate sprang forward to toe buy and clasp j Suia1.! and sledy g-ii.nsgive competency
it'i L .i 1 . accept that in good hope that no process involv ing the force and under the proclamations which ha;
; vtio'i t i e 1 ons,Uu,ums w 1at b- at least it ' notb'n.g more of this proposi- might issue the Legislatures of those ' a minoiity to p ti iv. !" !oy e t0 putting it into tion will be restored to as a means of pro-' States should assemble, they would un - i act which Ihey
Ntti.i . u . ,lie United States? moting that amendment. If it can be ' deistand that it would be necessary to to the will of
i iTi;..- . r " 'bey shall object to carried at all it must be carried before ' adopt this constitutional a mendmcnt. and : It is a lawful
Vno.r.! lnto ,he Constitution of the the honest sense, the enliirhtcaed iudsr- when Consrress assembled on the first Mo n-Mo sit in their
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- - iit't, n
ed him to his bosom, and kissed him and
blessed him, and told him how sincerely he now believed bis story, and how glad he was that he had been bTave em. Ugh to face death and be witling to s-icnlioe bis life for the truth of his own word.
demn them? No, sir; nobody condemned ; 'believed that if Johnson would rotire to
'- . . i . i i r .i : . ...
if the President should provide for hold- i ,"eu' ur ,,IU resigning .. tue nl9 honiC , t.reenU'jld, the gnawings ot insr these elections in those several States, question directly before the people. ? I.i conscience would give bim no peace.
1 here are times when it is the duty of ; atul he would soon die. lie accused John-
re vent tbe passage ot an son ot having betrayed every party and, r" . firmly believe is contrary ! every body who had ever trus.ed him; as! Words for the Boys to Remember.
the people of their State, having been an inebriate and most protaoe j liberty is the right .to nu wnaiuver you
mode. They are not bound man. He said he had exceeded his au- i wisti, without luieriering wun ma rigis
seats and hold otlice and see I thority under the Constitution in iuipris- of others.
will be because thev do ment of the American iieoide- and as t-ir .biv of t,.-t Domher tbpv would be here : nassed over their heads an act which thev I on in a eititens of Nashville in the State; Save your money, and you will Uod it
? ... .. . ! .. . . . 1 . r .... .. . J . . . - . i .11: .1 .1 II. 1 tl .PA. nH nn. nl ilia in.ul ndfill rrumld.
Senators and members know or have goou reason to oeueve uiai i nsoti, anu in a.-es--.iiiS ejiccim ii uu ii Con.rres and there ' a larse tuaiority ofthe people of their ! others, while military tlovei nor. Johuaou Nr ve trouble k, jour ; tWr or n-.other
State t'onsiiioi;.... . ...I 1 -..i.i i.- .i....... i ..., i v... ..i ; .. ' .1. ..,.r Ki.i. -A.,l,i ii,an.n T ,raiit it a niPaa- was oral in-' about the Constitution, and! lake care ot your peurie ana taejr wih
, - ii i 11 1 1 1 1 HI V 11 li 1 V 1. 1. V V 1 vi ! V ,111.1111 VI 1' 1 1 1 " 11 1111 VI w HI' Villi 11,111--, 11 1 1 1 ' II I 11 li I II II VI ii.il. ..vi. i. v....... - p. -- . I . ' n-i-i In Ki. ... . 1 1 u tiiLr.,. ,.,....r.i.. .. i. . .. .. . . . ... .f . . .I . i i . :.. .k.. 1 I... I...A .l....l...t ..kln rJn grow lo be dollars. ...
i - . ",c" Ul l,,e rtgnt oi sui i reaching oetween man ana man, ana re-; that they had not adopted this amendment ure 10 oe resorieu 10 ouiy t? a ie-. .c. .m -v..i, ... - tv..i iieioiera.ice ia the cause of nearly all the lie-i v. .'"!lHrUl,t ,,-at we have thislcrcant looking to the idi&hted faith of a or that they had not done something else i sort; it is an extreme measure; but no man i Nashville, "show me a man that prate truubie j,, IHe wotii be.e of siron, drink
Ui;.vta' 'r ' 1 11 wi" not h"c over J great -hiovcrnmeut, aud m far as it is which a majority of Congress might thiuk ! is bovnd to hold ofiice. If he sees fit, j abooi the Constitution, and I will show j qh pooieu boy, if he be i. (iuattious, htn-!
associated with anything lime that, in po i they ought to d therefore, to resign nis orace m wiuer 10 you a uanoi nounicv. .uc piT.ii .i.,,Hi amiwum, mj ti.;u i- utnua. uuii-j
ulJ rath- far it is coutamiuatcd by a stigma aud a 1 hope, therefore, that the auicuJiucut allow the people to pass upou a question beware ol Johnson, lie was ou a daik ois in the laud.
will, tranquility ul ihe mind.
Never gambic. Avoid temptation, though fear that you may ueit wiihsiand it. turn your money be-fore you spend ti. Never run iu debt unless you see a way
l lo get out again. t j Never borrow if you. can possibly avoid, it.
lie j ti -it before you are geHerom.
t.riMiief 11 ln od r'lX in their fetate ' as it i n.u(j "u, !,:ii and are relying upou re- with I
S 'lt ! I
j Any ft-fdriig 'ha' taVtf a man away Y j home id a iiaitur to rlia liuorchuiiL
bis
-( v, , "" l,-ai it win not hi S.j r ,0.r Ule ,ie-t Four years. ur as 1 am concerned, I wo.
A icmi tre pla--ed at finding faults, you are-di-r.dt -bd t a-n Jinf perlpetiona.
Why U my heat whan in paia Hka a aoTaraigOvf ICurue? It U a king (cauig.)
Why "'.'ok lika a Wibwr?i 'u iit-. )
If dr(ie BAia