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A. 3. Ci.ERRITSON, Publistteir.i
.ID3rlrl33ll' el •rwit.u.
From dawn to dusk you might have
beard the clang of Merrick *asters' ham
mer on the , anvil of liammersly. Oftep
l on g after the dusk of the winter's day,
h a ve I watched the golden sparks as they
g e s• away into outer darkness, .thro' the
wide open door, like so many long im-
I ntoned spirits,jiist set free after years
e f bottling up. And ever and always;
while work
.was doing under the sloping
root; I could hear a sort of anvil chorus,
e ither whistled or swag by the rich voice
of Merrick Masters.
If it had only so happened that some
musical. enthusiast had come across Mer
rick Masters in his 'boyllooa, as such a
one is said to have met Jenny Lind, sing
iv by the wayside, there need have been
uo anvil work for him, and instead of toil
laz for pence and shillings, fortunes might
have been showered upon him and critics
miAt have talked about his eliestnotes,'
and beautiful members t f upper tendons
have flung bouquets at him, and even
penned him love letters on the sly, as
they are fund of doing too well, to no
matter whom ,
at the opera.
No musical enthusiast., however, cams
to Hammersly, and it is doubtful if any
body suspected Merrick of being a musi
cal genius, unless, indeed, it was the old
parson, who had requested him to make
one of the church choir, where he bellow
ed as gloriously as any basso prolundo
w ho ever shook the walls of the Acade
my of Music, and apologized for it to the
owner of the shrill soprano, (rather
cracked) yeclept Miss Squtggs.
He didn't mean to go a drownding
Indies' voices, but when he got a going
couldn't help getting too loud. It was
the fault, he reckoned, of the black•inith-
rng.
The deep snow was whiteon the ground
me December eve, and the golden sparks
r:isbed from the clanging anvil faster
than ever, and the song to which the
Strokes kept time were louder and clear
er, when somebody leading. a horse stop[
at the forge door and looked through
woh an eye that wok in the picturesque
zetme at a glance.
"By, Jove, it. like some of those old
Dutch' piettire., - muttered a voice under
s golden rnouctache. " I'd paint it if I
was an artist."
Then in a louder trine.
"liallo, young fellow, .my horse has
;ast a shoe, and I want it looked to im
me,Lat,•lr."
Tne "young fellow" dropped his ham
tn,r and strode toward the door, and in
another moment horse and master stood
twocaili the forge roof. Then as Merrick
Nesters bent down to look at the foot of
:'le splendid animal, the rider, as splendid
a porsinage in his way, sauntered to the
tire and stood ba:king in its genial
warna , h, and shaking off the feathery
itkes that clung to his shoulders. A
h2,h!diaired, blue-eyed exquisite, as great.
a contrast to the brown liercires of the
forge as can well be imagined, thotorh in
his way Merrick was very handsome.
Just as the blacitstnith's whistle began
to play about the hoof he was shoeing,
and while the stranger was standing with
:as back toward the fire, admiring the
;it;lit and shadow on the wall, steps came
tripping through the snow, and a girl
with a shawl over her head came dancing
ia from the shadow.
"Tea will be cold, Merrick," she said,
"and your mother says"—
There she stopped, covered with con
fusion at the sight of a stranger—one too
who stood looking at her as unconcerned
ly as he might at a picture.
Certainly she was well worth looking
at, a pure brunette, with large brown
eyes and cheeks like a rose, with la.hes
long, curling like a child's, and a buxom
form where not an angle was visible.
It , was only a moment that she stood
with her red shawl slipping from her
black hair, in the full g'ow of the firelight
—the next moment she was gone, and the
stranger turned to the blacksmith.
" A pretty girl that., your sister ?"
" o, I'm glad to say," replied the
blacksmith.
" Glad ? Why ?"
" Because she's something better than
a sister to me," replied Merrick. "We
are to be married in May."
Then oat rung the whistle again shrill
and clear, and the stranger asked no more
questions. He paid Merrick'for his work,
and rode away a few moments afterward,
and for all the blacksmith knew or cared
they had seen the last of each other.
He washed his hands and went into the
great kitchen, where at the tea table sat
his mother and the girl who summoned
him—an orphan who 40_ lived with the
•e
old woman for years,ver since she was
a child in fact; and had
he
into his
heart somehow, before he knew it. The
old woman was quite displeased when she
found it out, for Effie was only " the
help," and the blatikatuiflet4 Widow and
the blacksmith's mother felt proud to say
that " none of our people ever hired out"
" But for all that there ara people in
this village who look down on us because
I shoe their horses and mend their wa
gons."
" More fools they to take on airs," said
the old woman.
"So say I," eaid Merrick, "and w 4
Would be ae:bad•ae they to look doin.on
Effie. for 4 itiashing - our dishes. Slie‘l3"4li:
good as you, and a detil better than ;m@,
rieh or poor."
- And tilerrick . Masters had hie walk and
the whole place knew they were engaged
in a fortnight.
Now when he went into tea the first
question both asked hint was ahaut hid
customer
"Effie says hevt=the handsomest man
she ever saw," sityit the'old wolfish.
"So hti•is," said Merrick, not one whit
jealous, "but, who' be` is I don't know. --L
He came , and 'went, and had his horse
shod, distil all i-koow, and he asked me
who- you were, , Effie." •
" And I had ,his dreadful old aprorooti
ton," said Effie. , -
"He didn't notice that I guess," said
Merrick. •
Why not."
Merrick
"Oh, do. tell me?"
" Well, he asked whe the pretty girl
was."
Effie hid her face in her apron, and
Mrs. Masters turned her head. •She nev
er quite admitted Effie's beauty.
" What notions to put in the girl's
head," she thought ; and it watt a pity,
for Effie was vain enough alretidy. A
greater pity too, because when - ever a
horseman galloped up to the forge there
after, she ran out, under some pretext,
hoping it was the handsome gentleman
who had asked " who that pretty girl
was." Not that she meant any harm,but
to be called a pretty girl by such a man
was something glorious.
• She saw hitm•at Inst.; and there was a
look, a smile and a bow, and after that,
somehow they -kept meeting.
Still no harm in it at all, only Effie did
not mention the fact to Merrick or to his
mother ;"and Effie learned that be was a
Mr. Noreland, stopping at. the great hd
tel tu the village, and guessed that he was
rich and t:ushionable.
Often she saw him riding with elegant
ly dressed ladies and gentlemen, but he
always seemed the most elegant of all to
her;
and by and by she fell •to contrast
ing Merrick with him, and wishing that
Heaven had made him like Mr. Nore- .
land. •
From that she went on to wish that
she was a lady herself, and that somebo
dy else was in her place, and to feel above
the forge and the cottage kitchen and the
blacksmith, and his mother, who had
thought her below her son because she
wa. the " help." -- -
One day Mr. Noreand found her shea',
ding tears in a quiet little spot where
they were in the habit of meeting by ac
cident, and would have the reason.
" It's nothing—only I'm tired," said
Effie. ' •
Mr. Noreland drew close to her.
"Tired," said he, "no wonder; you
are too good for that sort of thing ; too I
good to - work in a kitchen and wear cot
ton gowns—and too good to be a black- I
smith's wife. It's no use in denying it— .
you know you are."
"Oh, hush," said Effie, " Merrick is the
hest man in the world, I'm sure I'm not
tired of Merrick."
"Oh, of course-Dot," said Noreland,
" and we can't help tkur.feelings," and he
sighed.
Then he whispered a good, deal that
Effie could not understand entirely, but
she knew it was, very fine and sentimen
t:J:l, as he quoted poetry and made great
eyes at her. Out ofa hovel, the girl was
Kure no one ever was so charming, and
she went home with the Arm conviction
that if she chose she might jilt the black
, smith's son, and marry the fine young
gentleman.
From teeling sure she Eould, she began
to wonder whether Merrick cared much
about her, and to feel - sure•that N - oreland
loved her better than his life—and a sharp
word from Mrs. Masters finished it.
Something had gone to waste 'in the
storeroom, and the 'old lady tbssed and
fumed about it as she always did.
"Them as has nothing is idlers the
most wasteful," said she," you'd sorter re
member that you're to be married to a
man that has something to manage and to
take care of. There's Peggy Grey, nev
er lets a bit spoil, and darns and patches,
and makes and mends year in and year
out. —But she's got-$3OOO-in the--bank,be
sides what will come to her when tlje•old
man dies ; an d she want took in on char
ity.: wislt Merrick bad, took a fancy to
"SiCy gelid by, a e do so
said Noridamd when the girl had told biro
her new trouble.
" Ab, but I have no other friends, and
no other home to go to," sighed Effie.
" You have," said Noreland,
.‘.‘ a friend
who will never cease to love you, and a
home spell as you .:41.eservv. Share my
home and my life,
Then :be put his arms _around her and
kissed her, and called her loving' names,
and she, prOnllBoina that,-be asked of
her.
She was to meet him, on Monday eve
ning at a miiliuer's shop in the village,
an 4 there they were to take a carriage
and'go to meet thelrain. , .The first, prat.
tipbje moment they -,sv,ere to be married,
and.after that, their bliss , was to have no
I end. • r.
" And" j 4 ,19y blackamittr4rAmeered
,Naretiatt,' 'tam byre •Pieggy,: .rtta
MOTI`ROSE, r.,NOY, 'l3,
kno,W; no you need not ,fret about time
Effie."
For ell- that, Effie's conscience .seinte
her when... Merrick was kinder/than banal;
end so full of joy,es the time was•now
near at hand when she was-to be his wife,
tnt they sat together on the porch on that
Sunday; and when Monday came she
broke wore china and made more blurt.
dors generally than had ever been laid td
her charge in years before. Jabs. Masters
thought that the girl quite knew how
mad poet Effie really was.
Tea was en the table and Mrs. Masters
busy with some dish she prided - herself
upon, and the , sound of Merrick's whistle
grew,louder•every instant as •he tripped
homeward from the forge, when she
slipped up to her room, and-putting on
her things, slipped down the back stair
way, and away toward the village.
If Mrs. Masters missed her, she knew
' that she would be only too glad to have
her son to herself for a little while, and
there .was uo probability of Merrick's fol
lowing her.
But it was bard to choke the tears
down,as she plodded through the long
green—for the snow had gone long ago,
and it was summer now—and she only
made herself brave by the thought that
Noreland would die if she did not. keep
her promise.
" I couldn't break his heart," she said
to herself, " even if I could bear to marry
another."
She reached the milliner's shop at last, Johnsoti. - ' The Radleal
, press has filled
and went to talk to one of the girls. The the air with rumors that the President'
plan was that when Noreland was ready intends to abandon the Constitution bee
he was to show himself at the door for a cause a majority of Congress has abed,
moment, and she was to go out to meet dotted it. This letter is the voice 9f one
him and say " good bye" just as if she of his most trusted advisers, assuring the
was going home. country of the firni and immutable put-
Effie sat with one eye on the glass door pose of the President, as " the executive
which opened from the work room to the head of the nation, to maintain and pre , .
shop, while she tried to chat wareless ; in I serve the Constitution as it is."
a few moments she saw a man enter from WASULNGTON. D.
,C. Oct. 13, '66.
the street—not Noreeind, but of all the
Colonel V.
people in the world, Merrick Masters.— H. Benneson and Major H. V.
Sullivan, Quincy, illinoi.s.
Her first thought was that he had follow
el. her, but ie an instant, she saw, that he GENTLEMEN :—lt would give me great
had business of his own. lie spoke some I pleasure to comply with yieur request, and
words to the mistress of the shop, and visit Illielfie to meet my old friends and
she brought a bandbox. neighbors, and talk to them face to face
Of course the bonnet was a sueprise for upon the great questions now before the
her, and it smote her to the heart to re- eemetry.. But it is not practicab i e for me
member that she should be miles away be- to do so.: My public duties forbid it.
fore her birth-day dawned. Poor At er - Our'geovetnment is worth preserving:
rick! would be feel badly, and it was ern- No people were ever blessed witlr one
el of hero better worth it.. But it ia not certain eve
As she thought thus, the door opened will save it. There are now-two tenden
again, letting Merrick out with two bun- thee 41 public jlEfairs4 both of which are.
tiles in his hand, and two ladies in from fraught with danger. One is to a cen
the hotel, whom she had often seen riding tralizetion of power in the general gov
with Noreland. They asked for ribbons, ernment ; the other, an absorption by the
and went on with their talk while exam. legislatite• department of many of the
ining them. , powers and prerogatives of the executive
" Who was that person standing be- and the judiciary.
fore the. door ?" The safety of . a free government is in
" Oh, Noreland." keeping the power near the people. This
" I thought tee how oddly he b e . was well understood by the statesmen
hayed. He didn't seem to want, us to see who formed the original thirteen States,
him." . and united them and their people in one
" Perhaps he didn't, ho has his secrets, Federal government. They gave to the
r expect. One of them is that flirtation general government only such powers as
with the blacksmith's girl." were necessary for the welfare of the
" Shocking ! Some one ought to write I whole people of the United States, reser
to Mrs. Norelaud." I ving all other powers to .the States ree
" Poor thing she is used to it. You spectively and to their people. And in
know she's quite middle aged and plain, framing State Constitutions and laws,
and he merried her for her money. lie's they placed as fnuch power as was cora
been at his pranks ever since. Actually, patible Veitb the general welfare of the
nay dear, he ran away with a girl last State in the government of counties,
summer. The brother tried to shoot him township', and lesser municipalities. - To
and she drowned herself. It was a shock- guard still further against abuse, or too
lug scrape. If I .had such a husband as great concentration of power, they die-
Noreland, I'd have a divorce." tributed the functions of government,
"So would I. I hope it wont come to State and Federal, in separate bodies of
that with the blacksmith's girl, she's a magistracy. The natural' tendency of
very pretty creature.' power is to strengthen its hande, and en
" Mrs. Print, I'll takeluur yards of the large its sphere of action; and if the Fed
blue." eral government absorb 'great pow-
The ribbon was out off, and the ladies era heretofore reserved to the States, or
took :their departure. if one department usurp important fence
Effie sat thunderstruck. They bad been tions of the others the structure of our
talking of Norelaud. He was married al. complex system Will be radically changed
ready, and so could nevtr mean to marry and our free government will descend into;
her.. What did he mean when. And as despotism.
she asked herself the question, the truth The legislative ismuob the strongest of
flashed over her mind, and she saw the the departments—and the most aggres
pit of shame and dishonor at her feet. I sive, because its members are responsible
Love her ! oh no, no, thought Effie.— I to no power but the will of the dominant
It is hate, not love, or he would not wish party for ants of usurpation. It is the on
to wrong me so. Then as she shrank ly department from the encroachments of
from the memory pf his false words and which any serious danger to our institn•
falser smiles, the honest face of the black. tions is to he apprehended: It, has hero
smith ruse before her, and in truth and tofore exercised more influence than is
tenderness it grew plain to her, and she compatible with safety and entire freedom
was saved. over both the executive and the judiciary.
She left the girl with whom she had It has sometimes impressed a pernicious'
been chatting, abruptly and ran out, of the influence upon judicial action, and where
store. All she prayed was not to meet it has failed to .4ccomplish 'that in advance
Noreland, and fear lent wings to her feet. of judgments, has subsequently overruled
She turned her face toward the forge, and and annulled them. And, without at ali
had reached the crossroad when a wagon impugning the motives of legislators, I
stood across her path--Derrick's wagon may venture to say that if .the present
—and lie was hard by chatting to a far. Congress were not restrained by positive
suer over a gate. She heard his voice, and emphatic provisions of the Constitu
and saw the dusky outline of his form, ' time they would greatly abridge, if they
but she dared 'not speak to him yet. She did not ultogether annihilate, the power
clambered up into the wagon and hidof appointment to and removal from off
,
there crying softly. The bandbox he had , flee, now confided to the Executive., and
been to get was there on the seat and she • the salutary restraint which he holds over
kissed it, as she crouched behind it, think ' legislation through the veto power. The
ing of his kindness. is a danger always present when the ex
-
Then peeping out she saw some ono , ecutive and the' legislative departments
sauntering up the road to the milliner's.' are in antagonised, and it is certain in
It was Noreland; but the sight only mtide•, times of high teeny excitement teetnenie
her 'Ellitiddee. - : fest itself, no matter what party may, be
' Ten minutes•after Merrick , was driving° in power.. -Safetyeis , to be found only in
on again, sisdellened es little nbisei behind ' holding emelt department firmly and , olose ,
hi r i ) . 'lie gareeesudden start.. lyewithinitis orbit. .
" 19baes:thif, retie esried. ' , If the proposed an3eudinebtsr of the
-4i-Onlrmew-Effreel , saidirvaice. - =Thee
e4e crept up to pir. , sir
:}loyOnd - yptt eome141:0 tOlttv4o-
" I saw the wagon on the road and got
in," she said. "Oh 4errick, rine° friffht
die& It's so ionesenie iattik and
wretched there. I'm so . glad we are go
ing hack to the , fOrtre." -
So she was. He never knew how glad,
for the, gover, Ohltini.Ocant bg, C9Ol
years after, when they had been married
for years, add the strong love that eoines
with married lift.; hn4 grown' betweed
them, she used to stmt from-her sleep,
sometitner„,in terror and oiling .to blip
sobbing, " ;leek God, ) back again at
the forge."
The Constitutional Amendments . .
The Issues Betwern the President and Con-
LETTER FROM SECRETARY BROWNING.
The National intelligencer of yesterday
publishes the following letter from the
lion. 0. a Browning, addressed .to
committee at Quincy, Illinois, in reply Lo
an invitation to address his friends mid
neighbors on the political issues of the
day. It is a calm and powerful argument
against the constitutional amendment,
and a triumphant vindication of the res
toration, policy of Presidents Lincoln
,and
COnStiVatioDlßVlAOritedi ntiVtiftrd enot*-
otis rem'erlrevill be claimed thdreteraiged
by Congress as warrantedby such ttanend
nsentfl, and the whole - stinambre of our
govermieriv #1 perhaps igraduall3r, but
yet surelli i i revolutionized. And' Ho
with thp dibiarn if the proposed emends
manta •beradoptedy tlley, 'may, nod' aeitain•
ly 'will; be used ' , substantially to atinihr.
bite the , State
• The , first - section of the:. Tiropcsadd artif
ole oontairs4 umoug others; the ,followiog
provision
tinr ebali-any State deprive any-per;
son of life, liberty, et—propeny withont I
dim praises of levi.rit • •
Why insert such it provision intbe Fed ,
era), Cornititution !It already Contains
the following No person shall be de
prived of lifediherty, or property, with
out due process of- law.? • -This is identi
cally the same, exceptthat ittis a restraint
upon the powersnf • the: generui govern
ment alone, and has-no reference dr '
cation,LoState , gOverninentai And most
of the State Constitutiona, I believe all of
them, contaih A 'similar proviiion, as a lim
itation upon the powers of the States re.
spectively. Now, when; in the Federal
COMititilliON there is this guaranty against
arbitrary and..oporessive• invasions of the
rights of: citizen. by Federal-authority,
and a similar Ignai.4tnty in the State Con
stitutions against like oppressive action
by the State governments, why insert, in
the Federal Constitution, anew provision
which has no reference to the powers of
the general government, and imposes no
restraints upon it, but, is simply a repeti
tion of a limitation upon the powers'of
State governments Which is already pres
ent in State Constitutions P The object
and purpose are manifest. It is to sub.
ordinate -the State judiciaries in all things,
to Federal supervision and control—to
annihilate, the independence and /toyer
eiget y ,of 'State judiciaries in the adminis
tration of, State laws, and- the authority
and control of the States over matters of
purely domestic and.local concern. ...If the
State judiciaries are subordinated, all the
departments of the State governments
will be equally subordinated, for .aliState
laws, let them relate to what department
of government they may, or to what do
mestic or local interest, will be equally
open to criticism, interpretatian, and ad
judication by the Federal tribunals,
whose judgments end decrees- will be au
_.propoc:ir.l-..:: will override -the declaims of
the Siate:courte, and leave them utterly.
The'Vederal judiciary has jurisdiction
of all questions arising under the Constli
tuition and laws of the United States; and
by virtue of this oew provision, if adopt
ed, every matter of judicial investigation,
eivil or criminal, however insignificant,
may be drawn into the vortex of the Fed
eral judiciary. In a controversy between
two neighbors about the ownership of a
pig, the unsuccessful party may allege
that the State tribunals have deprived. him
'of his property without due process of
law, and take the case before the Federal
tribunals for revision. So if a man be in
dicted for larceny, or other crime, con
victed, and sentenced, ,upon allegation of
deprivation pf liberty without due process
of law, be may bring the case before the
Federal tribunals for revision and rever
' sal. So, too, if a murderer be arrested,
tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hung
he may, claim the protection of the new
constitutional provision—allege that a
State is about to deprive him of life with
out due process of law and arrest all fur
ther proceedings until the Federal goy
,
eminent shall have inquired whether a
State has a right to punish its own citi
zens for an infraction of its own laws, and
have granted permission to the State tri
bnnals to proceed.
Under such a system the liberties of the
people could not long be maintained. As
already remarked, free governments can
be preserved only by keeping the power
tear the people, to be exercised through
local agencies. I,lncler this new system
State and local authority would not at,
once disappear, For some time they
would contest jurisdiction with the Fed
eral government; but the inevitable and
constantly increasing ,tendency would for
the control of domestic affairs to steal
away from the people, the States, and lo
cal municipal bodies, and centralize and
concentrate in the hands of the 'Federal
government; and as party conflicts inten
sified, and party viutories alternated, the
power would be more and more inexora
bly
used by the dominant party to punish,
its enemies, reward its friends, and
strengthen them, and perpetuate its hold,
upon the power and patronage of the gov
ernment.
Be assured, if thin new provision is in
grafted in the Constitution, it will in time
change the entire structure and texture of
(Kir government, and sweep away all the
guarantees of safety devised •and provided
by our patriotic sires of the Revolution.
i
It s impessible to maintain our wise and
happy i goverpment without pre
styerovfinik,ethseAd4,epepdenca.end .sovereign-,I
and constittitton4wi it i f o li b n er t siL heir
T aß e p y rop a r ro ntt o e f l
pritnar anU gital Kinpbrtance. The Stetea,
T4Y'ettist and.n'erfOrm.their fa4Ptinnti
without ,t hn.trni?l) the ;t:O 4 FO
Vu i g" PO AI inert-sio
ervmut ff.ntis., ilt , St*,
4,pa 04.12)44 be' lor
IVOlitiNT" XX,111,. NtrMl3raft . 4 s .. "
- • • • • • ;,"s
"pal in digtday 7 t4inal •in • righterl46l
to power—equal in the control* , .. ildli*ata
and nneonditional, of all thinga•pei'taibing
tb their internal and. local policy =dint.
tercets:
• Another 149 w Which the ,Foponad
amendment :aims at- the ,gotrenrhtent
yid& .our tethers ,loOnded,
change of; the basis of reptesentaticie.
This would be of • very • pernicious effect;
Aggregate pojiulation i is the true tesivi
representation. No Li:tatter:how • the eliso.
tive franchise be disposed offivrhetheriez•
ercisedlly few or many, all &Cies of,the
cOmnidnity are: represented.. , The inter.
eats of all clacses of people in the staid
community are so interwoven • . and Gong
mingled that they Cannot , be separated,
and whoever wields the representative
power must do it for the. good Or in of
Mir—Perhaps not precisely in the seined&
gree, hilt he .cannot-use it so as largely, to
benefit one class without to some tenni
benefitting all, or to injure and oppress , .
one class without, to a greatei or less ex
tent, ,injuring, and oppressing all. ..
There,are always, even in thie , eennirYt;
where the right of suffrage wh o s widr.
ly extended, large numbers do net:
vote st.allAwhose interests, nevertheless,
are cared for, and whose nowhere, bell*
computed in the apportionment of repro
notation, widen the foundations of , the
representative assemblies.; • Stich aro .411
persons under twenty one years of spi v
females of all ages, and uenaturralised for. ;
signers. ; ,Why are they pot peradtted . to,
vote? And not Wog permitted, ,why,
are they cetieted in fixing the retied rep-,
re,sentation ? They are not allowed to
voteyheeause they aro not supposed to
be sufficiently inatructea in political econ
omy and governmental Weirs to be en
trusted with the elective franchise. Mier
are computed in -fixing the.' ratio, bemuse ,
they are part of the same eommeuitY,With;
those who do vote, , having interestaine.
common with them.; and their, Intjurniegi..
ought to be felt lu shaping the laws•bill
which their rights of life, 'Werth, Anil ;
property are to be determined...! And lilts
though _they xio pot vote,-.their infineecsit:
is felt and , t heir., interests are •eared for,
precisely, becayee they are counted inlfia-.
ing the relative weight of the cornmeal- :
ties to which they belong in . thelegielit l
tire assernfilies, although , thetry'oines are
not directly' heard in determining , who
shill represent. them.. ,,
It it not true, is is ernistontlY )':l
alleged
o p-4 , AL.; .: tutee sitimng_tfi - of Om
,tat, 4
s 4 hiii'h *ere iri rebellion will be iner.n
by the results of the War if they fire.iiiifi
allowed representation' in
,tlie, 3 ,llitrotitill
Cou'n'cils. ' he 'preeent: ratio of repriliek,
tatitrn is'adjosted by the census of fallllli
add cannot' be changed until afte,t,the
census of 1870. Till that tinie,,,there•
fore, the relative strength of the eeteial,
'States of our country omt, remain pre = ,
cisely OS it was under the census on: no,
After the census of 1870 the,p6oitive end;
relative strength of the Sioutheti. - Statel
in Congress and the Electoral' College.
Will both be diminished, eyen if the'li - on
voting black population .he included in the basis. In 18 . 60- 2 three' fifths ; of, all the
black population oillie 'Southere - ,§iiitea•
was counted. The census of 160iilIf
show the whole of the non voting lilielt.
population to he lest than the e
thre fiftliii
~
of 1860.
Nor is it true that a vote in the South
will outweigh a vote in the North, If the
non voting negro population be istande4
in the butts of representation. • 'lf the tfri;t:
posed amendment be adopted, all thenc4
voting black population of the South' '
be excluded, while all thit.noii voting; iin-,
naturalized foreign popOlitiOo 'o,' illei
North Will be , counted. The great "OW_
ponderance of unn.sturtiliie,d,onil, *
cop
quently non voting Toreignera,,ie in litiori
there and Northwestern Statee. ''hey
and their families number hitaredd of
thousands, perhapti milliont, and' yet th#.
, are all counted in fixing the ratio,Cf iv-,
resentation. This it right. I do.nol;6lt
jeot to it. They are a part ot„theon*'
munity. They help "to Make ' tip' the
strength and produetive Wealth:4e the
State, and ougbf to be competed iiitit
ing its political Over But if it is right
to count - non voting population , in Onii
l
State it is equally right to count .t. in,
.. 4
it
! ot h er. And if counted in one and tint'
' the' other, it gives the one an ridionte .
over the other incompatible with t e
equality of the States, and of' danger°,
and revolutionary tendency. Whlle ,il!'
unnaturalized, non voting population!' t
one section of the country Willi loali
on:
stoutly . increasing the non voting., 'Oa
population of the other seetion; hy 'OW
otit causes, not now necesiarlip tOriatil
tinned, will Ihte as coat - anti deareiiing.'
It would baletter for 'all parties niacin
terests, and far more hoteffil for theliiim,
petnity of our goieraMete, if something
like an equilibrium of , strength between,
the different telitions 'of thit ttainitry*Od'
be maintained.
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The gd section of the proposed ,ameftidi'
ment disfranchises the great niajorliftif
the educated Men of the &stet Which Ii ill 6
been in rebellion, excludes them frotwent
p_artiolpation in the affairs of thiStittil iMd
Federal governments. The'' etitire-einnf 4
trol of the gotreitinient of those' i
j atmteit
will be placed in the t hands le n- mit
minority of 'the men Mir allittaliftege or
B oob control; and 'theyias ivied=
Dot of tbwasogr inteagfttlind'
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