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VII. f ' !! mil .1 I ml) IT i ev tfft J -rstsl nsrt1 s i i ' f M i e 0 4 rrl ! -.cp- BtntntI iinsincss (fatfcs.' ATTORNEYS. -O. B. BIWtTT. 1. W. JTEWJIA. IIEWETT fe NEWMAN, ATTORNEY V COUNSELORS AT LAW, Office, No. "0, McPherson Block, np stairs. FRENCH, W. T. aOMKRS. FREX CII A KOC.ERS, ATTORNEYS & COIXXELORS AT UW. Office In Cotirt House Building. Will clve diligent attention to any Iftil biwlneea nlru.ntdtolhirciire. 4-t f J JOB A. PILIXJN. ITTOnSKT . COl'KIELUR AT LAW sad General Land Afsent, Xecumneh, Johnnon County, Nvhmnka. " " J. N. REYNOLDS, 1TTORKET . COUNSELOR AT LA1V, Office No. 90, Reynolds Hotel. THOMAS A BROADY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY, OFFirE Plstrlct Court Room. vrx. ir. Mclennan, ATTORNEV AND COUNSELOR, AT IJIW, Nebraska Llty, Nebraska. B. E. FEUKINS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSKLOR AT IAY, Tecumseh, Joliason Otunty, Neb. " " N'YK A Hl-'MrHREY, aTTOaNKVS Jk tOl'NSELORS AT LAW, . Pawnee City, Iawnee Co., Neb. N. K. OUIOOS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND LAND AGENT, Beatrice, Oaire County, Nebraska, piitsicians. ilVimbeulin. m.1. yiiysiciaiv and surgeon to neb. EYE ANI KAK IXKlltMAKV. Offk a S XalD-sL OrricK Hocrs 7 a.m. to r.n. II. C THURMAN, PHYSICIAN ANO Sl'UOEO.1. Ofllce-No. 85 Mln Street, Office hours from 7 to 11 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. H. I MATHEWS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Ofn-e In City Irue Store, Maln-st. - C. F. STEWART, M. D., JKYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Dfflce In D. IL Lewis A Co.'s Drug Store. Office hours from 7t a. m and 1 to 1 and 6' to T p. m. LAND AGENTS. ii. v. HU(Jiir.s, KEAL ESTATE AGENT Al NOTARY PUBLIC. OfZ9 Ter Ilannaferd A lie Fall's Furniture store. WM. IL, HOOVER, KEAL ESTATE &. TAX PAYING AGENT. OfCce In District Court IUwwju Will rWe prompt attontirm to the saie of Real Ea- Umu Payment of Taxes throughout the .N.iusiit Xaaa DuirlcL JONAH HACKER, 'LAID AND TAX PAYING AGENT. t Office srith Probate Judge. TT1U attend to tfie Payment of Taies forXon llesident 1 jind wnen In emalia (Vuaty. tOrrm pDilne solicited. NOTARIES. jls. C. McNAUGHTONr VOTARY PCBLIC A CONVEYANCER, OHlce In J. I Camon's Bank. l K EBUKillT. .NOTARY PllILIC -CON VEYANCER, No. 72 Main -St., second lloor. A rent for the Kqitllnbie and American Tontine JJfe Insurance Compac left. DRUGSTORES. McCRKEUY A MICK. ELL. DEALKUS IN ftUXGS, STATIONERY,. Fall assortment Urugs, J'aints, Rooks, Stationer', k.,oo nana, ana win ai a iioh.smm or reuui. I). II. LEWIS t CO., nvccKmnn to hsllahaV ext. DEALERS IN DRI sVS, X KWK INKS A-. No. 41 Main-st. GRAIN DEALERS. EVAN WORTHING, JTORW ARDING AND -COMMISSION MERCHANT, Acd dealer in all kinds of Ciraln and Country 3re4uce, Brewnvllle, Nebnuxka. CJEO. ti. START & BRO., DEALERS IN GRAIN, PRODUCE, Ac A spin all, Nebraska. The highest market price paid for anything the farmer can raise. We will uy tat sell everything feaown la the market. MERCHANDISE. McPHERsON A TITTTLE, DEALERS I. GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ko. 68, MoPberson lilork. F. E. JOHNSON A CO. 'EALERS INGENERAL MEKCUANJJISE No. 72 Maln-t.. McPherson Block, WM. T. DEN. SEALER IN GENERAL MP.RCIIAXDISE, Vrwrdla: JtC-amniisslon Mrrrkamt, So. 82 Msin-ft., Brownville, TomTlanters. Plows. Stows, Fwtiltniv. r..-al-ssys en band. H igitest market price paK for Hides, felts. Furs, aa Country Produce. HARDWARE. ' 811 ELLEN BERG ER BRO'S., DEALERIIX HARDWARE, STOVES. No. 74 Main-st. - -Ktosres. TTard ware, Carper"s Tool s, Riaotsmf.h Furnishings, Ac, constantly oa liand JOHN C, DEUSER, DEALER IN STOVES, TINWARE, Ae. No. 79 Main-st. SADDLERY. ' JOJLN W, MIDDLETOX, HARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Et. No. M Main-st. ' Whips and Lashes of every description, and Plsv arlngiialr, katon hand. Cash paid for Hides. J. II. BATJER, UARXEIa, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Etc y. t Mala-st. MenClng done to order. Satisfaction guaranteed. CONFECTIONERIES. . ISRAEL a NACE, CITT BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. No, 11 Main -at., opposite City Drug Store. , Pies, Cakes. Fresh Bread, Ctmfeotkwery, Light and fancy Groceries, constantly on hand. ' , WILLIAM BOSS ELL, CONFECTIONERY AND TOY STORE, No, 40 Olain-sC Fresh Bread, Cakes, Uystera. Frulta, ec.on hand. J. P. DEUSER, DEALER IN CONFECTIONERIES, Ac No. 44 Main-st. . irusic. MRS. J. M. GRAHAM. TEACHER OP" MUSIC. ' Rooms, Main-st, bet. 4th and 5th, Lsons given on the Piano, Organ, Melodeon. Outiar and Vocalisation. Having had eight years ' eipertenoeas teacher of Music to New Yorkiscua Bdent of giving satisfaction. BOUNTY CLADI AGENTS. ED. P. SMITH, U. 8. WAR CLAIM AGENT, Wasiangton City, D. C trill attend to the prosecution of claims before the Jeoartment In person, for Additional Bounty, Back fa? and Pensions, and all claims accruing against las Sovernnient during the late war. - SALOONS. JOSF.ril HUDDARD A CO.. . PEACE AND QUIET SALOON. No. 47 Main-. The best Wines and IJquors kept on hand. R. C BERGER, ALII AMUR A BILLIARD SALOON, No. 48. Whltner's Block. The best Wines and Lhracws constantly on hand tutval business arbs. HOTEES. STAR HOTEL. STEVENSON & CROSS, PROPRIETORS. FrOnt-st, between Main and Atlantic This Jlonft hn just been rPmodpled, Inside an4 out. Ktaire Offlce for all points West. Omnibuses to all trains. REYNOLDS HOUSE. . NATHAN K. GRFEN.ritOFRIETOR, 88 & 90 Main Street, flrowrif llli Bet accommodations In the city. Netr House, newly furnished. In the heart of business part oi city. Livery stable convenient. 45-Sm AMERICAN HOUSE. L. D. ROBISON, PROPRIETOR. Front-st., bet. Main and Water. A jrood Feed and Livery Stable in connection with the House. BOOTS AND SHOES. A. ROBINSON, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, . No. 68 Maifi-st. Has constantly on hand a (rood assortment of t.ent s, IHdies, Misses' sna tTilldreii s Boots and Shoes. Custom work done with neatness and dis patch. Repairing done on short notice. JUSTICES. A. W. MORGAN. PROBATE JUDGE AND JUSTICE OP THE PEACE. Office In Court House Building. STATIONERY. A. D. MARSH, PIONEER BOOK AND NEWS DEALER, City Book Store, No. 50 Main-st. BRIDGE BUILDING. C. W. WHEELER, BRIDGE BUILDER A. CONTRACTOR. Brownville, Nebraska. Sole aent for R. W. Smith's Patent Truss Brldire. The strongest aikd best wooden bridge now in use. TAILORING.. CHRIS. IIAUBOLDT, MERCHANT TAILOR, No. 62 Main-st. Has on band a splendid stock of Goods, and will make them up In tike latest styles, on short notice and reasonable terms. BLACKSMITHS. J. W. & J. C. GIBSON, BLACKSMITHS A HORSE SHOERS. Flrst-sU, bet. Main and Atlantic, All work done to order and satisfaction (niarnnteed. CIgrar Making by Machinory. The American Cigar Machine Com pany recently gave a practical exhibi tion of the machines patented by them : for the manufacture of cigars. These machines bid fair to work a revolution in cigar making, not only because of the reduced cost of production, but also on account of the fact that cigars ! so made can be sold for ten dollars a thousand less than cigars made by hand. The company has thirty ma chines in operation, driven by a small caloric engine. The machines are simple, and can be worked by chil dren. 1 he wrappers are hrst cut from the pure leaf by :i machine. A hun dred leaves are placed in a pile, held in place by clamp, when four knives; in the shape of an oblong square de scend and cut out the wrappers. The cigar-making machines consist of re volving rollers, covered by a cap. The "filleru" having been wrapped up in the rough by hand, are placed within the machine, and in a few seconds the cigar is sufficiently rolled and fash ioned at one end to receive the wrap per, which is fed into the machine, the operator having previously gum med the ends. The cigar is then taken out, neuth' and expeditiously made. All that remains to be done is to trim one end. A girl can produce 2,000 cigars a day by these machines, and can easily earn from ten to fifteen dollars per week. a a Snnllght A Necessity. Sun baths cost nothing, and nre the most re freshing life-giving bath9 that one can take, whether sick or well. Every housekeeper knows the neces sity of giving her woolens the benefit of the sun, from time to time, and especially after a long rainy season, or a long absence of the sun. Manv will think of the injury their clothes are liable to, from dampness, who will never reliect that an occasional exposure of their own bodies to the sunlight is equals necessary to their own health. The sun-baths cost nothing, ami that is a misfortune, for people are still deluded with the idea that those things only can be good or useful which cost money. Let it not be fergwtten threeof (iod's most bene ficent gifts to man three things the most necessary to good health sun light, fresh ir and water, are free to sli ; you can huve them in abundance, without mcmey and without price, if vou If you would enjoy good neaHh, then sec to it that you are sup plied with pure air to breathe all the time; that you bathe for an hour or so in the sunlight; and that you auench your thirst with no other uid than wlcT.Jfrttrnal of Health. Covering the lungs. One of the most important things to be consider ed in the dress is the careful covering of th clx?st and Iwick. Exposing the lungs by inadequate shielding of these portions of the bodv from the cold is too generally practiced, especially by the ladies. To cover the chest is not enough. There should be a thick cov ering between the shoulders. Iu his lecture in New York on "How to Escape Hell," Oliver Dyer remarked that "a man goes to hell simply because he belongs there. In the eternal world they always have the right man in the right place. This business of going to heaven or hell is purely a philosophical matter, and there are no rewards r penalties in the case, but only logical se quences They have secured anew anesthetic in France, to supersede chloriform and Its various substitutes." It is a chem ical compound, and is called "choral." It is not inhaled, but swallowed, when it produces a perfect insensibility without any dangerous accompania ments. This is, in surgical practice, a discovery of the utmost importance. A three-year old gentleman the other day startled his father, who came into the parlor, which was filled with company, just after having had a very gray moustache dyed intensely black, by asking him what he had done with his old whiskers, and where he got his new ones. Mr. G. was a most inveterate puns ter. Lying very ill of the cholera, his nurse proposed to prepare a young, tender chicken. "Hadn't you better take an old hen ?" said he in a low whisper, he was not able to speak aloud, "for she would be more ant to lay on my stomach." G. fell back exhausted and the nurse fainted. . ADMISSION OF VIRGINIA. SPEECH OF nON. JOHN M. THAYER, OF NEBRASKA, la the Se&ate of tie U, R., Jaatary 17 gad 13. The rVnftte havlne onder consideration the bill (II. R. No. TtUj to adroit the State of Virginia to representation in the Congress of the Unltod blates Mr. THAYER said : Mr. President.: It Is difficult for me to believe that the Senator from Nevada who has charge of this bill Mr. Stewart is anxious to bring it to a vote. He has on several occasions entreated the Senate to pass it, and then when we were about to vote on important amendments pending he has interposed a speech, and when we were coming to a vote, according to agreement, then again he has sub stituted the House bill and interposed another speech. By doing that he Is drawing a speech from me which I should not have made. The very tenor of the remarks of the Senator from Nevada evinced to my mind the extreme distrust which he entertains of the State of Virginia after this bill shall pass, if that is to be the decision of Congress. He want? the finishing stroke put upon the rat ification of the fifteenth amendment within a week. Why have he and other Senators urged the Governor of Nebraska, who happens to be sitting in the Chamber, to convene the Legis lature of that State within ten days from to-day in order that she may ratify it? Why this urgent haste? Because they fear, and almost, I would say, believe that Virginia will attempt to undo the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, that Virginia may trample under foot the laws of Congress which have been passed for the protection of the loyal people of Virginia.- The Lecistature of Nebraska I can say, and I do by authority, will be convened during the month of Feb ruary, and that she will ratify the fif teenth amendment is beyond a doubt ; for there is but one Democratic State Senator in the Senate and but four Democratic members in the House. That is the way we make Republican States in the West. I need hardly recall the attention of the Senate to the fact that Nebraska applied here for admission, and that conditions were imposed upon her to the effect that there should be univer sal suffrage in the State of Nebraska. We did not regard it as a degradation upon that State, but accepted the con dition in good faith. I do not propose to vote for the admission of Virginia upon the naked bill of the House of Representatives after having submit ted to the imposition of conditions upon the State of Nebraska. How is it that the Congress of the United States, after three years more of pro gress, can now propose to- admit this State without conditions or guaran tees? Mother of States, was she! One of the mothers of secession and treason; for the abominable monster of treason required more than one mother. She with her record red with human blood, is now to pas3 through Congress without a condition and without a guarantee. Why is this? I have heard the question asked repeatedly during ihe progress of this debate, why is it that condi tions were required or a loyal people when assuming the obligations of statehood and which arc not required of a State which swung from her moorings in the Union, joined the southern confederacy, raided armies, and fought through four years to de stroy the Union ? This bill has been pushed forward with most extraordinary energy most extraordinary determination, and with most unprecedented haste. Vir ginia has been eight years out of the Union. Where is the extreme neces sity for the haste which has been manifested in pressing forward this bill ? Not a day nor an hour could be given for investigation, for examina tion into the allegations which were made here by citizens of Virginia over their own signatures. I know not who they are nor what they are ; but the memorial came in a form which entitled it to respect and considera tion. Not an hour could be given, and they, professing to be the loyal people of Virginia, were met in the Senate of the United States with con tumely, denunciatiai, and abuse from Republican Senators. I know not what illusion may have come upon honorable Senators; whether they are at fault or whether I am at fault and those who vote with me; whether I am laboring under a delusion or are thev : but I do say that these scenes are most extraordinary. .We have heard denunciations in this Chamber from Senators which have created a feeling of surprise. We had been ac customed to hear such denunciations during the last three years from Sen ators of an opposite political faith ou this floor; but during the progress of this debate those Senators have been silent; others have done their work; others have fought their battle. Now, Mr. President, let me call your attention to another fact. More than one. two, three, four, or half a dozen, or a dozen Senators who favor the passage of the bill for the admis sion of Virginia have frankly confess ed that they do it with extreme reluc tance and extreme distrust. Thc3 frankly admit that they fear the con sequences; that they fear Congress will within a twelvemonth be called upon to take action in regard to Virgi nia for the violation of the conditions of her admission or the violation of the fifteenth amendment. Seeingthe danger, they rush madly . on ; seeing the blunder, they make haste to re peat it. A vessel strikes upon a sun ken rock and sinks beneath the waves; the master of another in full view Suls on all steam, crowds all sail' and rives his ship upon the same sunken rock and sinks beneath the waves. Where is the prudence, the common judgment, which would influence Senators in the ordinary affairs of life, that, confessing the danger, this bill is thus pushed torward through the two Houses of Congress? Where is the statesmanship of this policy? I read in the public prints that on the annoucement of the vote in the other House on the passage of the bill admitting Virginia it was recieved with rapturous applause. It recalled to ray mind the fact that on the pas sage of the ordinance of secession there was one shout of joy that went up through all Virginia at the sever ance of her relations with the Union. The measure may meet with the same applause In this Chamber if it is to go through; but I call to mind the fact that there are thousands and thous ands of men and women in Virginia whose hearts to-day are full of the gravest apprehensions at the gloomy prospect that is before them. There are tnnusands and hundreds of thous ands of people in th State of Virgi nia, every sentiment of whose soul has beat iu unison with love for their country since that ordinance of seces sion passed until this hour, who dread the passage in Its present form of the bill to restore Virginia to the Union ; and yet their appeal In this Chambef is met with ridicule snd derisiom I question no Senator's motives I concede to everv one the same sincer ity of purpose, the same honesty of intention wnieii uiauii lur iiijrscn, but I must be permitted to say that after the experience of the past eight years, after the experience of the past three years in the work of reconstruc tion, I have been amazed at what has transpired in Congress during the last week, and I am amazed at the exceeding hot haste with which Sen ators have attempted to crowd this measure through Congress. There is another feature of this de bate to which I desire to call atten tion and which has been exceedingly interesting to me. I have remarked that a portion of the members of this body, those who belong to the op posite political faith, have remained entirely silent. I could not but no tice the satisfaction which seemed to settle upon their countenances as this debate progressed. They seem to be as serene and composed as a summer's morning ; or, to be still more poetic, as calm and unruffled as the waters of a moon-lit lake. There has been nothing except an incidental allusion to the record of the Democratic party to call forth the impetuous eloquence of my honorable friend from Delaware, Mr. Saulsbury; nothing to invite constitutional dissertations from" my honorable friend from Kentuky. Mr. Davis; nothing to invite a speech from any Democratic Senator till to day. I wish to call attention to the fact, within the remembrance of very Senator, that from the day when the first reconstruction bill passed Con gress down to the 1st day of January, 1870, whenever a measure came up touching reconstruction in the south ern States this Chamber.has run with the denunciations of , Democratic Senators against the usurpations and violations of the Constitution which the Republican were perpetrating. They have argued from first to last that no State was ever out of the Union when she had once been in ; and in every Democratic convention, from the national convention down to a county convention, in all the States it has been set forth that no State was out of the Union. What do we see to-day ? This same Democratic party voting a State into the Union which has never been out. My honorable friends from Kentucky, from Dele ware, from California, and from Ohio, and others are now all committed to the admission of a State Into the Union which according to their own declarations from year to .year has never been out of the Union. Mr. President,' the world moves. The Democratic party have come up to the doctrine of reconstruction and have indorsed it. They are now committed to the provisions of our reconstruction laws, for they are voting unitedly in favor of the aum ssion ot Virginia. 1 congratulate them Mr. SAULSliUKY. Will the Sen ator allow me to ask him a question ? Mr. TIIAYKK. Yes sir. Mr. SAULSBURY. Does the Sen- antor understand the bill now before the body as admitting Virginia into the Union or simply declaring that Virginia is entitled to representation in Congress; Mr. THAYFR. Has she been en titled to it before? Mr. SAULSBURY. I asked you a question. - h.ww a "St -W-V -W ... A .1 Mr. A 11 A l I'jii. x unaerstanu very well the purport of the bill which is now under discussion. It is restoring Virginia to representation In the Union. Now, I ask my friend from Delaware if she has never been de prived of it? Mr. SAULSBURY. Never at any time that she chose to avail herself of it. Mr. THAYER. The honorable Senator admits the correctness of my position. He is now voting a State to be entitled to representation of which she lias been deprived. Mr. SAULSBURY. No ; I say she never has been deprived unless she chose voluntarily to deny herself the privilege; she ahvavs had the right. Mr. THAYER. The Senator from Deleware, then, claims that Virginia has been entitled to representation from the time she seceded until now; that she was entitled to vote for presi dential electors in 18C4, according to his own reasoning, though waging a flagrant war against the Government. He must take one conclusion or the other. If he is now voting her to be entitled to representation, then she has been deprived of it: if he is now voting'her back into the Union, then she has been out of the Union. The honorable Senator from Dela ware Mr. Saulsbcry thought pro per to present a vindication, as did also the honorable Senator from Cali fornia, Mr. Casserly, of the record of the Democratic party. I have heard before during this session simi lar references to the Democratic party. I have noticed the taunt thrown out before to-day duilng this session that the Republican party were responsi ble for the debt which accrued in the suppression of the rebellion. Sena tors may yet come to claim that the Democratic party was the party which suppressed the rebellion, and that the Republican party was the party which inaugurated treason. It is said that history repeats itself. According to what fs transpiring to-day it would seem as if history was reversing itself. Sir, let me call attention and I shall occupy but a few moments of the time of the Senate on this point to the record of the Democatic party. Let me ask the honorable Senator from Deleware what party had pos session of the Government for thirty years prior to the inauguration of the rebellion? It was the Democratic party. That party had directed and shaped the policy of the couutry, and was in possession of the Government when the war commenced. It had possession of the executive, legisla tive, and judicial departments of the Government. It was under the poli cy of the Democratic party that the wnr commenced. It was by the teachings and the doetrines of the Democratic party that the South were taught to rebel. It was the Demo cratic party which broke faith with the nationin repealing the Missouri compromise which had been a sacred compact for thirty years between slavery and freedom. That great compact, which consecrated forever to human freedom all the territory north of the line of 3G 30, the Democratic party violated or set aside at the de mand of the slave-masters of the South in order to force slavery on the free soil of Kansas. Such is the record of history. It was by a series of aggressions and outrages on the part of the Dem ocratic party that the Republican party was called into being, founded on the great principle that all the ter ritory of the United States was free and that slavery Iras only a sectional institution. It was by the teachings and by the doetri nes that were pro claimed by the leaders of the Demo cratic party that war came. What Republican ever raised his hand against the flag of his country ? What Republican who voted for Mr. Lin coln ever aided in planning treason and rebellion? Whodidit but the leaders of the Democratic party in this Chamber and in the other Hall, who sat in their seats making laws for the United States during the day and then met in secret conclave all through the winter of 1SG0-61 hatch ing treason? Tell ir.c not that the Republican party brought on the war and are responsible, for the national debt. Sir, when the war came, had the Democratic party of the North been true to the Government, it would not have -lasted six months. Having taught the South to rebel, as the northern Democracy did, by telling the : South : that they of the North would stand by them and sustain them, when the war went on it was the aid and encouragement given by the northern Democracy to the South that prolonged the war year after year. ; I make not this accusation against all the Democratic party. That there were loyal men in it I gladly admit; but I speak of it as an organization. It was disloyal from the begiunig to the end of the war. When that convention met in the city of Chicago and declared the war a failure, and demanded a cessation of hostilities in order that peace might be made with the rebels in arms, that resolution was equal to an addition of one hundred thousand men, fresh re cruits, to the rebel lines, and a cor responding draft was made upon the industry and the bone and the 6inew, and the life of the North to carry on the struggle thus made the more des perate by the aid thus given to the rebels by their allies of the North. The soldier of the Union never went into battle without feeling conscious that he was fighting two armies, . the rebels in the front and the northern Democracy in the rear. Sir, it is not pleasant to review these facts of history. I should not have done it but for the dcclaiations made by the honorable Senators from Dela ware and California that we have brought upon the country the war, and that we created this immense debt. Sir, it was a Democratic rebel lion' and this is a Democratic debt, the legitimate offspring of Democratic rule and Democratic teaching, and as such history will Write down as the facts, in my judgment, because they cannot be denied. Now, in reference to the bill before the Senate let me remark that I am not prepared to vote for the admis sion of Virginia with her present sur roundings and in her present condi tion because I have not confidence that she will be true to the amend ments of the Constitution of the Uni ted States which she has ratified, and because I am compelled to believe by concurrent testimony that there will not be protection for the 103'al people of Virginia. Therefore I prefer if I err to err on the safe side, to hold her back until we have sufficient guaran tees guarantees which shall not be patchwork, which shall not be like heaps of sand, to be blown to the winds. I want those guarantees un der which ail the people of Virginia, Democrats and Republicans, white and black, who obey the laws shall enjoy the equal protection of the laws. When I am satisfied that such condi tion of things exists in Virginia then I am ready to vote for her admission, but not until then. The honorable Senator from Neva da, Mr. Nye, who has always been so true to the cause of reconstruction and to the cause of freedom, made some remarks the other day which fell upon my ears causing sincere regret on my part. I regretted to find the shaft of his severe sarcasm turned against those who thought it proper to send here a respectful remonstrance against the admission of Virginia. I regretted to hear hm say that Virgin ia, oppressed Virginia, long-suffering Virginia, her very locks wet with the dews of the night Mr. STEWART. I never could have said any pretty things of that sort. Laughter. Mr. THAYER. I am aware of that. My friend from Nevada is not so poet ical as his colleague. He must not imagiue that he gives utterance to all the pretty things that come from the State of Nevada. Laughter. He Mr. Nye described with af fecting pathos the hardships inflicted upon this long-suffering, patiently waiting State of Viginia! She has waited till her very locks arc wet with the dews of the night! Sir, let me say to that honorable Senator, whose impulses and whose intentions are just that there are peo ple in Virginia to-day who are tired of waiting, waiting, waiting for that protection-whieh this great Govern ment of the United States has vouch safed to every citizen who respects its authorities and obeys its commands. They have waited in vain, and they wait to-day for those guarantees and for those assurances of equal protec tion, which he and I enjoy ; and In my opinion if this bill passes they will wait in vain, and you will see hundreds and thousands of them leav ing Virginia, as I have seen some within the the last three months, and seeking homes in Indianaand Illinois and seeking that protection of the law which they cannot find in Virginia. The Senator from Nevada also re marked that he was tired of this wo k of reconstruction. I am not tired of the work of reconstruction, but I am tired of being beaten in the work of reconstruction by those who could not beat us in the field. Sir, we have struggled with the iebellion from the very day that Andrew John son betrayed his party and his coun try ; we have been struggling with the rebellion in trying to carry out reconstruction during the host three years, and were struggling with it to day, in some of the late insurgent States: Senators have told us that we must not judge Virginia by Georgia or Tennessee. I say it is proper and reasonable to judge of irginia by what has taken place in Georgia ami Tennessee. It is proper for us to avail ourselves of all the lights of experi ence, of all the facts in all the lately insurgent States which bear upon the question. If Georgia has trampled fourteenth amendment under foot, it is but reasonable to infer that the same elements may accomplish the same results in other States. Mr. President, I embarked in this work of reconstruction with the de termination to make it permanent. It was the the declared will of the American people, speaking at the ballot; box and through Congres, that the reconstruction laws should be ex ecuted for the salvation of the nation and for the guarantee of equal right", and the malntainance of the peace throughout the revolted States. For one I propose not to yield until the battle is fully fought and the victory fully won. For one I propose to fight It out on this line if it takes us all summer and all winter, and each suc ceeding summer and winter till the Union is fully triumphant, and the rebellion completely conquerred. Mr. THAYER here yielded to a motion to adjourn. r : 1 : i , . Tuesday Jsonary IS, 1S70. The.Senate having under consideration the same subject Mr. THAYER. Mr. President, I shall not occupy much of the time of the Senate this morning; in fact I had nearly concluded theremarks I in tended to make yesterday, when my friend from Minnesota, Mr. Ram sey, desired me to yield the floor for a motion to adjourn. The hour being so late, and recollecting that Senator had with great uniformity, voted againstall motions to adjourn, I felt boundto oblige him. Laugh ter. On Friday an understanding was entered into by which it was agreed that a Senate judiciary bill for the ad mission of Virginia should be reached yesterday at four o'clock. All assen ted to that arrangement, and suppos ed from the extrrordina ry haste with which the bill was being pressed, and the zeal that had been manifested by its friends, and the anxiety they have shown for an early vote, that we should have reached "it yesterday. To our surprise, however, a motion was interposed to lay that bill aside, and substitute the House bill, and the spectacle was presented of my friend from Nevada, representing the Judi ciary Committee and having this bill in charge, throwing aside his own off spring? and adopting that of another. I can inform him that this child of his adoption is launched upon a stormy sea, and has the prospect of a roueh passage. Why the bill of the Senate Which has been under discussion for a week, and for a vote on which a time had been agreed upon, should be thus summarily thrust aside, I can only divine. An amendment had been made to it which, in the judgement of some who are anxious to have some security from Virginia, might accom plish the purpose which they had in view. But, sir, that is trampled uhder foot, for fear it might prevail, and the bill of the House, naked and simple, is pressed upon the Senate. I would sugest to those who are anxious thus to bring Virginia back without condi tions and without guarantees to cast that bill aside and to introduce anoth er which shall declare that whereas the Congress of the United States has been guilty of oppression and of wrong and of outrage upon Virginia, the grand old mother of States, and of Presidents, the noble Old Dominion. the school wherein were taught for so many long years the sacred doctrines of the sublime resolutions of 17(J3. and beneath Whose soil sleep the bones of so many of our heroic dead who per ished in saving the Government which Virginia was attempting to destroy, therefore we invite her to favor us with the light of her restored wisdom and to send up her Senators and Rep resentatives, promising that they shall be admitted at once, and to the chief est places in both Houses of Congress, anil declare to her that we express our heartfelt regret for the treatment she has received at our hands ! In that way you will reach more directly the end to which, it seems to me, you are now tending by the legislation which is pressed upon Congress. Sir, less than twenty daj's ago Con gress enacted a law remanding Geor gia to her former provisional condition. Why? Because the members of the Legislature of Georgia had refused to take the oath prescribed by the recon struction laws, and because a portion of the members of the Legislature were disqualified from holding office under the third section of the four teenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and further be cause a portion of the members lagally elected were ousted anil their places filled by those illegally elected. To day you are forcing Virginia into the Unioi , and j'ou refuse to prescribe the same conditions to her that you pre scribed to Georgia. Why is this dif farence? Does Virginia present her self with a purer record than Georgia ? If Georgia had her Andersonville, Virginia had her Belle Islenhd Libby. If the voice of oppressed loyal people Georgia came up to the Halls of Con gress demanding that protection which you have guaranteed to all who obey the law, the same voice has come up from the plains, the vallej-s, and the mountains of Virginia, de manding the interposition of Federal power to give to her loyal people that same protection of Government and of law. With one hand we remanded Georgia to military power, for violat ed conditions ; with the other you re-1 store Virginia without conditions! Honorable gentlemen may have an explanation, but of its wisdom the fu ture will determine. It will be recollected that in the act that was passed declaring certain of the lately insurgent States restored to the Union, certain conditions were prescribed. I refer io the act of June 25, 1808, wherein it is expressly declar ed as follows: 'That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, CJf rgla, Louisiana, Ahilrfinin. and Florida shall le entitled and admitted to r-prescntaf ion In Cmnrre :w rt State in the Union when tho Legislature of Haht State shall have duly ratified the amendment of the Constitution of the United States pro posed by the Thirty-Ninth CongreKH end known a article fourteen, upon the follow ing fundamental conditions: That the con stitution of neither of the aald Slate shall never he so amended or change! as todeprlve any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of tlieriuht to vote In said State, Who are entitled to vote by the const ituloin there of herein recognized, except as a punishment lor crime,' Ac. The Congress of the United States expressly declared thatthe Ligislature of those Statesshould ratify at.d agree and pledge their sacred honor to that fundamental condition, that the rigiit of suffrage should never be abridged taken away from any portion of their citizens who were entitled to a vote; except for crime. Why, I ask the Senator from Nevada and those who are acting with him, do j-ou refuse now, two years later, to apply the same condition and require the-same pledge from Virginia? What has she lone to entitle her to this immunity? What will be the inference to be drawn by Virginia on the refusal of Congress to require this same pledge? it must inevitably be that she may do With impunity that whichvou requir ed Georgia to pledge herseli she would not do, hecam'e you do not require the same pledge from. Virginia; and, judging from the past we have abun dant reason for not believing that she will make nse of the privilege that we thus give to her. Now, Mr. President, let me refer to the statement which has been repeat edly made in this Chamber, that we have committed ourselves to the recep tion of Virgi nia back into the Union by our previous legislation. That sta ;ement or charge has been iterated and reiterated again, and again, and yet not a Senator has pointed to one sin gle line in these acts of reconstruc tion, which committed us to the ad mh sion or the restoration of Virginia when she might appiy. Section six, of the act of March 2, 18G7, provides: "That until the people of the said rebel State shall be by law admitted to represen tation to the Consressol the" United stated, any evil government which may exist there in snail be deemed provisional only, and In all respect subject to the paramount author ity of the United States at any time to abol ish, modify, control or supersede the same." The act of April 10, 1SG9 has this fur'her provision on this subject in reference to Virginia, Mississippi and Te::as : "And hr it further enacted. That the whole proeedInss In any of said States Khali not be deemed final or oerntc mi a Complete res toration thereof until their action respective ly s!iall be approved by Congress," Can language be any plainer than that? I challenge my frind from Ne vada, or any other Senator who has made this statement to show one line or c ne word in these acts which bind us to the unconditional restoration of Virginia. On the contrary the sec tion which I have just read expressly admits and places it in the power of Cot gress to review and revise the ac tion of Virginia, and we are not in any particular committed to receive her on her application. So much for the violated pledges and violated faith. But, sir, in admitting Virginia to day there is a violated pledge and there is violated faith. We have solemnly promised to the faithful people of Virginia that they shall have the equal pro action of the law and the blessings of jrood government. I appeal to ev ery Republican Senator in this pres ence to-day if he is sure he is making thai pledge good to that oppressed people? No sir the declarations of too many of those who avow themselves in favor of the passage of the bill show what universal distrust there Is in regard to this legislation ; and yet we are ordered to put it right through without let or hinderance. We are urgsd to turn the true people of Vir gin '.a over to the rule of those who still love treason and hate the Union. Mr. President, you and I and all others holding positions of honor and trus t under the authority tend Govern ment of the United States are requir ed to subscribe to a certain oath, some times called the iron-clad oath, the oath of of 1862. The legislature of Virginia met in a provisional capacity. Cot Id its members be required to take an oath less binding and less restric tive than we? They met as members of the Legislature of Virginia under the authority of laws of Congress as a pro visional body. How can they es capa that oath which Is required of all wiohold office under the authority of the Government of the United States? Thtre ss a statutory authority for the position which I am presenting, for the concluding portion of section six. of the act of March 2, 1807, and act to pro fide for the more efficient govern merit of the rebel States, is as follows : "And no person shall be eligible to any of fice under s such provisional governments who would be disqualified from holding offlce under the provisions of the third section of said Constitutional Amendment. If that oath is not applied to the members of the Virginia Legislature, how, pray, are you to ascertain wheth er they are disqualified under the third section of the fourteenth amend ment? Sir.it was the spirit and in tent, expressed and implied, running all through the reconstruction enact ments, that the oath should be requl red, which would purge the Legisla ture of those who are disqualified. How does Congress know whether there are or are not members in that Legislature who are disqualified by the provision to which I have referred ? Did Congress intend to perpetrate the farce of passing a constitutional amendment which should disqualify certain persons for reasons therein set forth, and yet permit those same pers ons to Itecome members of the very Legislatures which were to ratify or reje 3t that constitutional amendment? Did you intend to perpetrate that in consistency? Did you intend to place it in the power of those who had been warring upon the Govern ment and would be under the pro posed amendment to have the pow er to reject that very amendment whi:h Congress and the country had declared to be necessary to guard against future rebellion and as a guar antee for future peace? The very statement of the case shows the incon sistency of the course. Sir, it was but but just and right, at least, that thev should be required to take the same oath which all others are required to tane wno enter upon onlc sand honor and trust under the Government of the Uni .ed States. Mr. President, if any measures havi ever received the sanction and approval of the American people the reconstruction measures have receiv ed that sanction and approval. They wer? submitted to the people in the canvass of 1808, and after agcan vass un surr assed for exhaustlessness for ar gument and thoroughnes of discus sion the measures did receive the sanction and approval of the Ameri people; and if there i.s one principal running through these measures which received their sanction more than another it was that one which guarantees to all the people of the Unian who are law-obedient and law abiding equality ofUjustice, equality of law ; it is one which recognizes cit izenship in those once enslaved and and guarantees to them the natron's protection. And if there Is one course whi:h they would approve above an- othcr on the part of their national legislators it is that one Which those shall follow out to the end who are determined to see the provisions of the reconstruction laws finally trium phant in all the States of the South. e have gone through struggles in the Reld, and struggles in the civil departments of the Government, we are sf niggling to-day with the rebell ion, not in the field but in another form, and the question is not yet set tled which is triumphant. I propose to follow out the Course which I have indicated and vote against the admis sion of Virginia, because we have not, in my judgement, the proper guaran tees for the present and for the future security. . Dj you ask whence comes the pow er to secure these guarantees? I ans ver the power is inherent in the Government itself to preserve its ex istence, to maintain its authority, to execute its provisions. If not express ed it is there is self-evident, is self existing. It is the God.given right of self preservation which is in all Gov ernments. The power exists within this Government to preserve itelf; if nit expressed it is implied. It is there. The right to exist Implies the power to preserve. The end to be at tained implies the right to do that which Is necessary fo attain ft. It ia lawful to execute all the proTisfocs ef the Constitution to save Govern raenl ; it lthe sovereignty of government, and if it is not set forth in statutory ?r constitutional form. It cxiU Ij this higher ground, that there is pOTver within the Government to secure lL own self protection and eelf-perpetu-tion, which is to the Government. as the right ot self-defense to the indi vidual. England has no written con stitution, but she hasantrong Govern ment. The principle lies at the foun dation of all government, the right to preserve it3 own existence, and in the absence of it all governments must fail. It is the common law of govern ment. That government'which can not sustain itelf is a failure... That government which cannot protect tho rights of its citizens is a mockery. ' If the State fails to do this, then tha United States must enable her to do it, or compel her if it Is a voluntary fail ure, for the United States are sover If the failure results from want of potrer eign and the State but a canstitupat part. In the absence of this principal of the Government the Union ni!l$. , But we are not left to inferential grants of powers. Section eight of the first article of the Constiiution of the United States declares that , The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and prtrn for carrying Into execution the foregoing powers, and all other ixiwers vest-d by tiiU Constitution In the Government of the Unit ed States, or any Deportment oncer there of. The foregoing powers and all other powers vested in the Government must be execute.!, in order toforraa ' more perfect union in Virginia; in order to establish justice In Virginia; in order to insure domestic tranquility in Virginia; in order to providrfor the common defense In Virginia in order to promote the general welfare in Virginia; In order to secure tho blessings of liberty to the people of Virginia, and to the posterity forex er. If Virginia has not secured theso objects for her people then the powers necessary to secure them must be ex ecuted? and Congress mu8t be jnako the law requisite for their execution. The day of State rights dogmas ha come to an end. There i3 a national Government, a central Government, to which States must yield the su premacy. I claim for the Government the exercise of this power in the caj of a State which has not rebelled, 5 How much strongerand more substan tial is the claim for its exercise la the case of a State which has severed it -relations with the Union and destroy ed all civil government. - But there Is further authority in tho Constitution for this intervention, this interposition of Federal power. Section four, article four, declares that The United States shall guarantee to eve Statein this Lnlou a Republican form of Government." . There can be no dispute on'thU proposition, namely, that Congress U the power to execute this trust, this guarantee, and it is equally clear. that Congress must determine the mode manner of its execution, what is to be done, how is it to be done, and when is it to be done? It may be done br legislation, and It may be by refusing representation. It id, of course, JefV to Congress to determine what is a Republican form of Government; that being determined its duty is binding to see that such a government Is enforced in all the States. Under thi3 constitutional trust the obligation rests upon Congress to make sure tryit that sucn a government is established in Virginia. A failure to accompli! this result is a failure of war for the Union. We are charged with high 3 and responsible trusts; we must seo that they are faithfully executed. No clamor for Immediate admCision should shut our eves to the danger of such admission. It was the command of the American p -ople that the re construction laws should be completef lv and effectually executed, tosecora the rights and liberties of all the citi zens of the Republic. Let reconstruc tion be radical, sure, eomnlpte and perpetual ; then the war for the Unioa win indeed oe triumphant. Mr. President I harbor no litteracwi toward the people of Virginia or the people of the South who were In tho rebellion. lam actuated by ho vin dictive feeline toward them, r nnlr ask for equal laws, equal justice and equal proiection. we have shown, the people of the South that we were ready to take them bv the hand whon they met us with a corresponding spirit; when they eeinced a disposi tion to csrry out the reconstruction acts, and sustain them In rrrwvl faith we would receive them with generous nearts and rorget the past. But until I see that spirit in the neorjle of Vlr. ginia I shall withholemv vote fnr her admission. Danzer From Eatl n nta .ro1?raf men advise that salt should bo taken With IlUta. PSrwinllv trhon salon t night. One time, says a writer, while enjoying a visit from an Englishman, hickory nuts were served in the eve ning, when my English friend called for salt, stating that he knew a case of a woman eating heartily of nuts iu the evenini?. who wns tafrpn Tlnionfi 1 ill. The celebrated Dr. Abernethy was Hfui ior, out it was alter he had become too fond of his cup,, and ho was not in a condition to go, He mat tered "Salt, salt," of which no notice was taken. Next morning he .went to this place, ami she was a corpse. He said that had they given her salt it Would have rplfp would allow him to make' an ex amination he would convince theau - un opening the stomach the nuU ' Were fonriii In miiaa lla in.iniri4 o3 salt on thi. nnr! Iriimor'ofolt- if tt . solved. Journal fo Jleaftfi. ' 0 A gentleman was one day open in a box of dry good. His little son ' - vh.i siauuing near, ana as his father took the packages from the box, htv laid some of them upon the arm of, the boy. A little friend and play. mate of the merchant's son wa-i , standing by looking on. As package after package was laid upon the ana' . : of the boy, his little friend began to j fear his load was becoming too heavy e and said: , , "Johnny, dont you think ycuN-ft ' ' got as much as you can carry V "Never mind," dear little Johnnv answered in a sweet, hsypy tone",, 'father knows how much, I eau carry,1 Brave, trusting littUfihvv! He did not grow restless or Impatient o under the burden,, heavy though if doubtless seemed. There was no) danger, he felt, that his fa her would, lay a load on him too heavy for hiw His father knew his strength," ' or 5 rather the weakness of that l;tU- urtn." and would not overtailc If. IJorethan miL his father loved ljim, and thprtXore could noo ujiriii mill. It U suiih a spirit of lovlrjg trust In blm thatl God tWlrea ail his children t possess. H' says: 'txeept ye be converted, and beomuiy as little children, ye shall not enter the King dom of I leaven." -
