Speech of Hon. Henry R. Low
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Henry R. Low: On the Right of Congress to Determine the Qualification of Its Members and to Determine When the Public Safety Will Permit the Admissions of Representatives From the States Lately in Rebellion, and the Present Condition of National Affairs, in Senate, Mar We find in eleven States there is practically no government. We find that those States have passed through the terrific trials of a civil war initiated by their people. This war has destroyed what were their existing political institutions and changed their relations to the Union. It has left them in a condition in which it becomes the duty of the Executive and Congress, acting under the plain provisions of the Constitution, to guarantee to their people Republican forms of Government; in other words, in a condition which demands that they shall be brought back to the relationships that were severed by the war. No matter how you may talk about one side issue and another, this is the real and vital matter upon which the Nation is now called to pass. Now coming down to the practical question we find that there are two great and opposing principles antagonistic to each other upon which parties must divide. One or the other must triumph, and as a necessary consequence, one or the other must surrender its views, or be defeated in the effort to maintain them. It is important, therefore, that we look over the subject very carefully, and decide deliberately which is right and which wrong. What is sought to be obtained is this: One party aims to put the Government of these States into the hands of loyal men; of men who were faithful during the war; of men who can be trusted now to carry out the great principles of the Constitution. The other course will have the effect if it shall be established, to put this great Government into the hands of traitors; of men who conspired to its overthrow; of men who are even now unreconciled to it. Disguise the disagreeable fact as we may, this is the policy toward which we are tending, if the views of the Democracy are adopted. This policy that is attempted to be adopted here - the policy that has the sympathy of a very large class of persons at the North - that would bring the Rebels back into power - is that of pretended conciliation - of the immediate admission of the rebel representatives to Congress. That policy says to Congress, You should no longer close your doors against these men who are knocking at them and seeking admission. It assumes that the States which have been engaged in revolt are not only in the Union, but are in all their full, practical relations to the Government, as if the Rebellion had never existed, and are, therefore, competent to exercise every right that the loyal States are qualified to enjoy, prescribing only one condition. That condition is, present ostensible loyalty. And this loyalty is demanded, not of the people of the State, but of the individual. If the representative himself is loyal, we must recognize him, and Congress must admit him to a seat, and to the exercise of his powers as a member, without reference to anything else - without proceeding to inquire what is the character of the constituency he claims the right to represent. This is one plan. The other policy which is being urged, is an adoption of that wise, just and discriminating course which Congress, in the legitimate discharge of its duties, has marked out. This policy requires that the condition of the communities which are made up of the people or inhabitants of the State shall first be inquired into that Congress shall determine whether such State or community is entitled to representation; and that until that determination is arrived at, no individual senator or representative shall be admitted into either House. This is the issue. There is no middle ground. One of these roads we must take and follow to its l
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