The American Presbyterian. (Philadelphia) 1856-1869, April 05, 1866, Image 8

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    Al Ftu s Of Offit.
Tal E EXECUTIVE
- The Veto of the Civil Rights Bill is
mainly no the old States Rights ground. It
says:—" Hitherto every subject embraced in
the enumeration of rights contained in this
bill has been considered as exclusively be
longing to the States ; they all relate to the
internal policy and economy of the respective
States.. They are matters which in each
State concern the domestic condition of its
people; varying in each according to its own
peculiar eireunistances and the safety and
well-being et its own citizens."
It also objects that, while eleven States
are unreprrsentecl, it is a grave matter to
snake our entire colored population "citi
zens." It asks—overlooking apparently
the fact that the right of suffrage is not confer
red by the bill--" Can it be reasonably sup
posed that they possess the requisite qualifi
cations to entitle them to, all the privileges
and immunities of citizens of the United
States?"
A most sin!rular argument against the bill
is, that it " prepl)ses a discriminaiion against
large numbers or iet..lligent, worthy and pa
triotic threi.:ners, and it, favor of the negro,
to whom, after long years of bondage, the
avenues to freedom and intelligence have just
now been suddenly opened. He must of ne
cessity, from his previous unfortunate condi
tion of servitude, be less informed as to the
nature and character of our institutions than
he who, coming from abroad,has to some ex
tent, at least, familiarizdd himself with the
principles of a Government to which he vol
untarily entrusts life, liberty, and the pur
suit of happiness. Yet it is now proposed,
by a, single legislative enactment, to confer
the rights of citizens upon all persons of Af
frican descent born within the extended lim
its of the • United States, while persons of
foreign birth, who make our land their home,
must undergo a probation of five years, and
can only then become citizens upon proof
that they are ot: good moral character, at
tached to the principles of the Constitution
of the United States, and well disposed to
:the good order and happiness of the same."
We cannot but regard this as an appeal to
the lowest prejudices of the Irish Catholic
mob.
Secretary Welles, in a letter to Senator
Grimes, pleads earnestly for some legislation
to ameliorate the condition of seamen in the
navy. He recommends the establishment of
a home for their declining years, or aallow
ance of retired pay after twenty years ser-'
vice. He would have school ships established
lit the principal seaports, where they may be
taught the rudiments of `art English educa
tion and the duties of a sailor, and frotn
which, according to profieiency, they may be
promoted into the Naval Academy, become
warrant officers, potty officers, &c. ; and thus
break down the prejudice now existing to the
effect that no sailor can become an officer,
which robs the Government of much service
otherwise valuable, and drive good men into
the merchant service.
During the Last Year of the War, the
profits of the Post-office Department were
$860,000. The first three months of service
in the South caused a deficiency of over
$20,000, which goes on increasing as mail
facilities are being extended.—The Presi
dent has issued an order prohibiting the ne-
Arroes of Richtnond from publicly celebrating
-opulent of his — Toner
the capture of Booth, Harold, and Atzerodt,
amountieF to over $200,000, were paid March
30th.--The trial of ex-rebel Quartermaster
Duncan, of Andersonville notoriety began at
savannah on the 26th ult.—The President
received a telegram from Hartfort, at eleven
o'clock on Monday night, saying, "We have
carried English, but the Republicans have
carried the rest of their ticket and the Legis
lature."
CONGRESS.
Renate,—March 27.—The Army Appro
priation bill was reported with amendments,
and ordered to be printed. Mr. Doolittle
introduced a substitute for e the Civil Rights
bill, which was referred. The case of Mr.
'Stockton was taken up, and the resolution or
Mr. Clark, declaring that he is not entitled to
this seat, wks finally adopted—yeas 22, nays
21. Motions to postpone and reconsider
, were defeated. The President's message,
vetoing the Civil Rights bill, was read.
Without action, the Senate adjourned.
March 28.—After the reading of the jour
nal, the death of Senator Foote was an
.nouncd, whereupon the Senate adjourhed.
March 29:—The Secretary was directed to
furnish to the Governor of New Jersey a copy
of the resolution in reference to Senator
Stockton. The death of Senator Foot was
announced by his colleague, and the Senate
adjourned to attend the obsequies.
April 2.—Mr. Wilson introduced his bill
for the equalization of the bounties. Mr.
Fessenden introduced the House Loan Bill
without amendment. The bill to reorganize
the Judiciary was considered.
House.—March 27.—A resolution was
adopted looking to the taxing of National
ibank stocks in places where the owner has a
legal residence. The Reconstruction. Com
mittee's report, including Gen. Lee's testi
mony, was received. The Naval A.*. propria
lion bill was reported, with the Senate
-amendments, and was postponed. The Bank
rupt bill was then considered.
March 28.—A bill was passed postponing
proceedings for the collection of the income
tax for two months, to afford opportunity for
a modification of the tax. The Bankrupt
bill was taken up and rejected by a vote of 59
yeas, to 73 nays. It was moved to reconsider,
and a motion to postpone for one week was
then agreed to. A communication was re
ceived from the Secretary of the Treasury,
recommending aid to the Dismal .Swamp
-<-Canal. The Indian bill was considered and
.tabled. A resolution was adopted, looking
Ito the giving to disabled soldiers or their re
p_reSentadves of the title of lands under the
Homestead Act, without the delay of mu-
Fancy.:
March 29.—1 n the House, resolutions ap
propriate to the death of Mr. Foot were
adopted, and a ft er attending the obsequies,
the - House adjourned.
April 2.—A gill was introduced and refer
red to declare and protect all the privileges
Arai immunities of citizens of the United
litotes in the several States. The Committee
-on Military Affairs was stirred up on the
_matter of an equalization of bounties. A
resolution on protecting our fishermen in
"'British waters was referred. A resolution
-expressing the most entire confidence in the
Tjtriotism and ability of the President of the
nited States and in his desire to restore the
Union on the basis &a, &c., was taken up
And Mr. Raymond exhausted what remained
of the txtorning•hour in a vain advocacy of
the in easu ream id demonstrations of contempt.
The .Military Committee not being ready to
report the Army Bill, as fixed for that day, a
multitude of miscellaneous bills and resolu
tions was offered including one on the whole
sale mustering out of colored troops, but no
business was done.
THE STATES.
Connecticut. —At the State eleotion
Monday, General Hasirley was elected Gov
ernor by a majority of rather less than,looo;
the State Senate stands 14 Republicans to 7
Democrats, House about 50 Republican ma
New Jersey.—No Senator in place of Mr.
Stockton has, at this writi9g, been "elected.
Mr. Scovel, President of the State Senate,
once believed to be a radical, having the cast
ing vote, has reinsed to go into joint conven
tion for the purpose.
Wisconsin.—The Assembly, with but one
dissenting voice, has passed a resolution in
structing Wisconsin's representatives in Con
gress, to vote for the Civil Rights bill over
the veto.
Tennessee.—Mr. Lewis, "Conservative ; "
has been elected to the Senate from the Nash
ville District, by a majority of 1800.—The
Nashville Press says that a man named Har
per, the head of a gang of desperadoes, has
notified the Union men of Sumner County
that, as the troops are to he withdrawn, they
must go with them.
California.—The Senate has passed reso
lutions endorsing Congress, by a vote of 36
to 2L
Louisiana.—A. steamer left New - Orleans
for Liverpool on Saturday, with 2000 bales of
cotton.
Arkansas,—.A. Tennessean, formerly a
wealthy slave and land- owner, now a,resident
of Arkansas, has notified Gen. Fiske of his
intention to build school-.houses on his large
plantations for the colored people, and re
quests to be. supplied with teachers by the
Freedmen's Bureau.
THE CITY.
Professional Bail.—A case of proposed
professional bail was interrupted by Judge
Cadwallader, of this city. It was offered by
a Mr. Gore for $lO,OOO, in behalf of an alleged
counterfeiter. Mr. Gore admitted going bail
for as many as fifty persons, but denied re
ceiving pay except in a few cases. Pending
the inquirl, he withdrew his offer.—An
injunction has been granted to some ungra
cious busybodies to prevent the Mayor from
carrying out a contract for cleaning the
streets. Informalities in the terms and con
ditions of the contractgave them the verdict.
Cannot the Board of Health step in and see
to its prompt fulfillment? We observe that
State Legislature is taking the necessary
action in the premises.
Financial.—The public debt Anril Ist, de
ducting $122,000,000 in the Treasury, was
$2,705,646 516 01. This is six millions two
hundred ti►ousand less than on the Ist of
March. t this rate the debt will vanish in
thirty years.
FOREIGN.
Great Britain.—U. S. 5-20's, March 22,
France.—A. very bold demand for greater
freedom, and an unqualified assault on the
Emperor's policy has been made in the Uorps
Legislatif.
' Austria has sent a hundred thousand men
to the Bohemian frontier, and a war with_
Prussia, who wish to annex the Duchies or
Sleswig and Holstein, seems imminent. The
funds all over Europe are depressed.
Russia.—The Czar has recalled his Am
bassador from Rome.
Paraguay and Brazil.—On the , 3lst of
January, the Paraguayans, 3000 strong,
crossed the Plate River, surprised the Bra
zilians, captured a large quantity of timber
the latter had been collecting fortreastworks,
thro.witinto the river, and crossed in good
Paraguayan loss ii - unkeloW-0. 0 0...tneu, and the
ens have so strongly fortified their side-ortue
river that the Brazilians have given up all
hopes of forcing a direct crossing, and hope,
by the aid of their fleet in the river below, to
make a flank movement.
Cholera.—The cholera is said' to have
made its appearance in several districts in
Germany.
Piracy in the China seas has so increased
as to almost pis an end to commerce.
MISCELLANEO'US
Tire Reconstruction Committee have
been examining the arch traitor, Gen. Lee.
The inquiry at one point, turned upon Lee's
knowledge of the barbarities practiced upon
Union soldiers in rebel prisons.. Those Who
choose, may believe his deniali, which, how
ever, are not so absolute as altogether to clear
him of responsibility upon his own statement.
Here is the examination :
Question. Had you any knowledge, while
you were in command at Richmond, of the
cruelties practiced toward the Union prison
ers at Libby Prison and Belle Isle? Answer.
I never knew that any cruelty was practiced,
and I have no reason to believe that it was
practiced,. I can believe, and had reason to
believe,
that privations may have been expe
rienced among the prisdners, because [ know
that provisions and shelter could not be pro
vided them.
Question. Were you not aware that those
prisoners were dying from cold and starva
tion? Answer. I was not; I never had any
control over prisoners, except those that
were captured• on the field of battle ; it was
entirely in the hands of the War Department.
I never knew who commanded at Anderson
vile until'l saw by the papers, after the ces
sation of hostilities, that Captain Wirz had
been arrested on that account; nor do I
know now whoicommanded at Salisbury ; at
the very beginning of the war I know that
there were sufferings of prisoners on both
sides, but as far J could I did everything in
my:power to relieve them, and urged the es
tablishment of the cartel which was estab
lished.
COLORED PERSONS 1N THE PASSEN
GER CARS.
[Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper has,sent the
following,communication to one of our dilly
journals.]
I seldom avail myself of the .privilege of
calling attention to private wrongs through
public channels; but the subject upon which
wish to
,speak -is one of importance, not
only to myself, but the class with whom I
am identified by complexion and race. Yes
terday, coming into the city from Phomix
ville, I attempted to get a passage on a street
car which I found outside the depot, but in
stead of being permitted to take my seat in
the cars, I was sent to the platform to ride
with driver. I .replied that I had ridden in
the cars in Louisville, and. asked, "Are you
more heathenish here than there?" and one
replied, "We are not heathenish;" bat the
conductor, or at least, I suppose it was the
conductor, said it was against the rule to let
colored persons ride in the ears. Can it be
possible that Philadelphia virtually says to
the wives, widows, daughters, mothers, and
sisters of those men who helped to turn the
tide of battle in your favor, that they must
either stand upon the platform or plod their
way through all weathers rather than have
the privilege of entering the cars?—a privi
lege freely accorded to ,us in other cities.
My business calls me from city to city, and
from Louisville to pbilad el ph i a no conductor
asks me either to ride on the platform or
wend my way through the raip, as I did yes
terday.
Has that religion which shrinks . from
running the cars on Sunday, no protest to
offer against that cowardly custom which thus.
tramples on the-weak and treads down the
feeble, a class whose feebleness should be
'HIE AM ERI cAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, • APRIL 5, 1866
• their weakness an ensign of protection ?To
To
me this feature of your civilization is peculiar
ly painful. To-day an orphan child demands
my care and training. Judge then of the
feelings of a mother, when the bitter lessons
of' the republic shall be read to my innocent
child. How can I tell her of the brjrtal
instincts in society that so dwarf the souls of
powerful corporations that for no crime. or
even fault of hers she must be treated as a
social outcast?—that no valor redeems her
race, no elevation of character, nor individual
developement, nor social advancement, wipes' , .
out in the eyes of the controlling element of
this city, the ban that clings to her race and
brands the brow of her people? That
although slavery has been abolished, Phila
delphia still clings to the prejudices it creat- ,
ed. and although there are no more slave-
- holders to please, she loves- the old habits of
cringing deeds and servile sentiments, too
well to adapt herself to the new era which
has dawned at last upon our once slavery
cursed but now newly redeemed country.
Nor is the colored pv.rson the only party
wronged by these hateful proscriptions. As
no man can attempt to degrade his fellow-man
without debas tig himself, so you cannot teach
your young men to act meanly towards the
weakest members of the community without
spreadin g demoralization into the ranks of
society: . The conductor who is taught to
force the maimed and crippled colored soldier
either to stand upon the platform, or to plod
his way through the storm and darkness, fails
to degrade that loyal man, but sinks his own
manhood and lays a burning shame at the
threshold of every Christian church, and at
the door of every loyal man in this city who
is not willing to brand the deed as a disgrace
ful wrong and an ungrateful outrage.
'FRANCES E. W. HARPER.
SreKNEss is an affliction that waits on us
all. None are exempt, and there are none
but need relief from its attacks\ Whoever
can furnish this becomes our benefactor. A
conviction prevails that Dr. Ayer does it.
Disorders of the blood have been healed by
his Sarsaparilla, and affections of the lungs
by his Cherry Pectoral, too frequently and
too distinctly to be disputed. His Ague Cure
is said, by those who use it, to never fail.
Reader, if you must have medical aid, take
the best of medicine. Poor remedies are
dear, as good-are cheap, at any price you have
to pay for them.--Charleston Courier.
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LIFE OF JOUN BRAINERD
By Rev. Thomas Brainerd, D.D.
486 PP. 1310
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