, 1865-03-02
TEAM &ES8EE.


Tbc ,ast oct Of Gov. johnson, before leav-
Inn NASHVILLE for Washington. to assume the
auiies Of The Vice Presidency, was to issu:
his nroclsmatiou declaring Tennessee q free
stota In accordance with the act Of the re-
cent state Convention, aud the vote OF the
people ratifyipg IT, on the 22d ult. The
amendments, which were voted upon and
adoDttd. gre virtually as follows:
Section provides that slavery and in7ol-
unta7v saryitude, except as punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convjctcd. aro hereby forever abolished and
nrohfbitcd throughout the State.
Section . provides that the Legislature shall
make no law recognizing tho right Of property
in man.
Section 81, in the old Constitution, which
nroyia+s that the Legislature ahall have no
apower to cmanclpate Slaves without the
.sconsent Of the owners" is repealed.
The 1declaratlon Of Independence" dis
solving the relations between the State Of
Tenuessee and the United States, passed In
1861, is declared null and Told.
The league entered into between Tennessee
and the Confederate States Is declared an act
Of treason and uaurpation, md therefore null
and void.
The statute ofljmitat'ons is suspended from
the 9Th day of May, 1861, until such time
hereafter as the Legislature may prescribe,
and in actions Of tort which have been, Or
may be hereafter brought, the court shall
have power to proceed to Judgment without
personal service Of process, until the Legis-
lature may choose to change the law.
The military league with the Confederate
States is aDlared an act of TREASON and usur-
patton, and null aud void.
All laws passed by the Legislature Of Ten.
nessee after May &, 1851, and all debts Great.
ed or contracted In the name Of the State by
the Legislature, are declared unconstitutional
and void.
The Governor and Legislature, under the
new constitution, will be elected On Saturday
next, the 4th inst, and will meet at Nash
vile, to be inaugurated, on Monday, the 1st
day Of April, to continue In office until 1867.
In closing bis proclamation, Cor. johnson
Gays:
eec On the happy result Of the election, aud the
! opening prospects Vi specify and permanent re-
organlzs ton Of the atate government. For near
eudss ths mol Complicated and pespie1inr. sad a
have earnestly lsbored to restore tie State to ita
former proud pontton In tho Union. Ny con,
stonf Effort has been to save it-n0t to destroy It;
fnterrosed obstacles which had to be oycrcome by
military power The taak was painfnl bat the du.
y has been performed, and tho reeu1t has passed
into history. Time, am happy to eaS, has great
II ca1ned the passions Of the people. md expert.
ence restored them to reason. The folly Of de-
stroytng their government r.: and % s9sftnslng thell
1ftfcal 1esdefe needs no longer to be told to the
| laboslng russaes. The wasted estates-ruined and
s:one-prostrato business-insecurity Of property,
and eren life ITSELF everywhere proclaim 1t IN Ian.
Euaec not to he Inlsunderttuod.
put al je not lost. Anew era dawas upon the
guided by reason. }aw, order, And reverence
The reign Of brue-force and personal violence hi.
passed away forever. By their own solemn act,
at the bsalot box, the shackles have been for
| sarcs in the State. The uutust distinctions fn
eocfety, fostered BY arrogant nrtttocracy baled
upon human bondage, hare been oyetthrown
| and our whole social system reconstructed on the
Labor shall now receive its mefited reward, aud
! honesty. energy, and enterprise their Just appre
cintlou- Capital heretotore hm1d and dlstrustfu]
Or fsucee.s may now confdentlJ seek rcmnnera
Public schools and colleges begin anew thei,
| work p{ instruction. upon btoadet anh moro en-.
! during basis. The foundations Of society, nudel
The change IN the Constitution, are tn harmony
National Union; md II the people are true Il
themselses-tEue to the State-and loJsl to the
Federal Go!ernmsnt, they will rapidly oyer:omt
power and grandeur NOT heretofore cren antlclp1
ted. Many OF lts vast resources liz undiscovered
and 1t requires Intelligent enterprise aud fee.
labor alone, to develop them, and ctothe the Stat
with richness aud beauty. surpassed by uoae O.
I her Bffteek.