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peace and good order within their limits, true as matter of fact? It is not denied that the States in question each of them an actual government, with a powers, executive, judicial and legislative, properly belong to a free State. They are ized like the other States of the and, like them they make, administer execute the laws which concern their domes fairs. An existing [[italics]] de facto [[/italics]] government, ex ing such functions as these, is itself the law State upon all matters within its jurisdiction pronounce the supreme law-making power established State illegal, is to say that law is unlawful. The provisions which the e governments made for the preservation of order, the su sion of crime, and the redress of private in are in substance and principle the same as which prevail in the Northern States and in civilized countries. They certainly have ceeded in preventing the commission of all nor has this been accomplished aywhere world. There, as well as elsewhere, of sometimes escape for want of vigorous p tion, and occasionally, perhaps, by the ciency of courts or the prejudice of jurors undoubtedly true that these evils have bec increased and aggravated, North and Sou the demoralizing influences of civil war, the rancorous passions which the contest gendered. But that these people are main local governments for themselves which ha defeat the object of all government and their own lives and property insecure, is utterly improbable, and the averment of to that effect is not supported by any which has come to my knowledge. All th mation I have on the subject convines the asses of the Southern people and the control their public acts, while they diverse opinions on questions of Federal are completely united in the effort to reo their society on the basis of peace, and to their mutual prosperity as rapidly and pletely as their circumstances will permit The bill, however, would seem to show face that the establishment of peace and go is not its real object. The firth section that the preceding sections shall cease to in any State where certain events shall ha pened. These events are, first, the sele delegates to a State convention by an ele which negrees shall be allowed to vote. the formation of a State consititution State Constitution of a provision which will the right of voting at all elections to negro