The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-04


clans term state Of suspended ANNA
ton.
But the Argus writer falls into a mon
strous contradiction, aud inconsis
tsncy which upsets and demOlishes his
whole argument lie confuies his own
main proposition; he argues so very in
geuiously that be argues himself clear out
Of court, as sophists often do. After as
SCI ting that Governor johnson has no
more authority than JEFF Davis or any
other officer of the rebel government,
and telling the people that they are un-
der no obligation whatever TO obey the
officer appointed as the agent of the Fed
eral Administration 10 restore civil au
thority to the State, in the default of
her regular officers, be adds
positively deny that there is any
power in either the Federal or State con-
stitutions 10 authorize or tolerate any
such resolution OF measure, and IL is of
no more validity and force than the Con-
federate Constitution. | may be asked,
then, what would l do or have the country
do. The question is a fair one and easy
of solution in this, that, as have said on
the first Thursday in August the people
shall oDea and h3d an election far Governor,
etc. u does not sag anybody shall vote; Il is
a voluntary thing aOiH tie qualified voteys,
and all U0te ,0ho please, and if tgo-thirds,
one half, one-iourth, one tenth, of the
people On eyeA one huHdrH Of the people gote,
all The same-T us at Tie time, place, and
IN tie manner prescribed by the constitution,
all isioeH
Ga the FIRST Thursday of last Augut
a portion of the people of Middle Ten
nessee voted for Ed. Cooper of Shelby
Vile, for Governor, and gave him several
hundred votes. Now insist that he is
the Governor elect, de facio, according to
the constitution Of tte Stateof Tennessee.
This constitutional lawyer" has no
doubt in his own mind that by the terms
of our State constitution the people
zone hu,ldreih pant Of henl"-i. e. about
about 1,400 voters, have the right and
the power TO elect their Governor, in the
present distracted condition of TeDnes-
see, without any Intervention by the
Federal Government, and that this cleo
ton would be perfectly valid Well, the
Governor being elected by zone handretl
part of the voters, or by about foprte'r
Uoters to each co'mty what is the me-
thing 70 be done. Read the very mex
sentence, and see how little confidence
this quibbler has in his own answer to
a question, which he says is so "easy o.
solution"
Let him 60 TO the seat of government
as prescribed by the constitution, anC
qualify, and if there is not quorum Of
the legislature elected, (and some have
been elected,) lie thin issue his proclama
ten and elect from time TO time till sucl
time as elections can be held, and quo
rum be returned to the seat of govern.
ment: then proceed to the business o
legislation. 1lis makes tie whole thin
Ualid, and giUes constitutional .foundatio,
10 stand on.
Alb, indeed low can "legisla
ton make the whole thing valid, whel
we were assured the whole thing wa
peri city valid from tho beginning
And why need the people wait until
Governor elected By 400 W tee, all cas-
in one county, shall call upon them &
elect a Legislature? Have not the PEG
pie as good 4 right to elect the Legisla
ture at the same time they elected th
Governor? This constitutional sickle
is in deep water; he does not have a
intelligent or an Ineligible idea of wha
he is talking about; a misfortune by n
means rare in the State Rights school @
politicians
The Argus correspondent continues
| insist that the Mayor Of the city o
Memphis has as much power to issue hi
proclamation for such a purpose unde
our constitution as the Pp.iIent, an
how can Gov. johnson have more powe
than the power that made him
To which we reply, that there is n
clause in the Federal Constitution whicl
says that tie Mayor Of a city shall g4arante
10 tie State IN aohicb lie Hves yepllJlica
form Of gOreynmeat, nor do we believe tina
the constitution of Tennessee contain
any such nonsense; but the Federal con
stitution does positively say that Tn
United States SHALL The President i
the Chief Executive officer of the Unite
States, and Governor johnson is the au
thorized agent of the United States
This writer, of "high official position,
dwells with evident pleasure on his as
sertion that JEFF, Davis has as much au
thority and right to be the agent of th
people of the United States as Governo
johnson. Speaking Of the President
power to see that republican government
receives no detriment in Tennessee h
, says;
II we "guess" be ought to have tina
power, then let us "guess" that some on
I else ought to have il, or that JEFF. DAvi,
has it, or Governor johnson for the con
stitution is silent as TO the authority o
both or either Of the gentlemen. 10
years old friends) is as much in violation
OF the Constitution for Gov. johnson [,
I assume such power as for the Mayor o
the city of Memphis, or even jeff Da
Wis.
Yes, so Yallandigham, or Jesse L