The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-24

lore tue COMMITTEES has had time 10 SIT. The |
pleasant face OF the Speaker must have
blushed with shame, We think, when he
was compelled to listen, for 81 hour OF two,
10 this painful evidence Of the bsdrets Of /
mis- selection.
Stevens is one Of those legislators who
thinks that everything an be doue by a law
of Congress; that Improbable industry eau |
be made profitable BY il TIA, gold can be
established ct Fixed price by it that ne
grOes, Of whom he says that "the internal :
laws Of slavery have prevented them from
acquiring sn education or from understand |
ing the commouest laws Of contract, or for
Insnasing the ordinary business Of life"
may nevertheless be made most intelligent /
voters By Jaw OF Congress; that reeresni,
rebellious, Perverss and ignoble eommuui-
ties can Be turned into the most obedisnt, |
loyal and liberal Of communities By il IN |
short, that water can be msde to run up hill, |
and all the ordinary laws Of nstur reversed |
by the simple set Of declaring it 50 by reso-
luton.
This statesman, who receives 8 eertsin re-
sPect because Of his age, not his wisdom,
made speech yesterday on reconstruction,
in which he urged that the beat way Of re-
storing harmony was 10 keep the 5 uthern
States in hot water for an indefinite number
Of years. They have no sttaehmeut 10 rs
now, aud 10 order 10 produce that attaeh-
ment we ought 10 treat them as We should
an alien enemy. They sre wrong IN their
political opinions, and 10 set them right We
should not bring them under the free dis
cussion and democratic influences Of our
system, but leave them 10 themselves to fes-
ter into greater bitterness aad greater error.
Those States have been deyasted by war
their people have been most dreadfully
punished and humiliated; their industries
are destroyed, their governments broken
down, their society completely uPturned :
and WIS; they now desire most in the world
is peace, order, friendly relations, and the
protection Of their country. They acknewl-
edge their error, they repent their follies,
they submit to the conditions proposed by
the President aud by the Republicans, and
/ they saT.plicats TO be received in the former
family. No, SAYS Mr.. Stevens, they have
their preiudiees yet, they have convictions
Of their own, they do not see things pre-
/ cisely in the light that We do in the Ale
| ghany mountains, and, therefore, they shall
remain where they are No free industries
for them, no local government Of their own
choice, 10 participation in The general gov
eminent, until they have purged themselves
Of their hereditary opinions. aud accepted
the opinions We shall prescribe. Il is not
enough to submit to the laws, they mu t
also submit to our whims.
Mr.. Stevens does net propose that the
Southern States shall use Pennsylvania iron
exclusively, nor adopt the Massachusetts,
school system, nor the Mine law, neither
does he say that every msu there shall be-
long 10 the Prosbyterisn Churchill good
things in their waY-bef0re their rigkt Of
representation shall be acknowledged, but
his reasoning amounts 10 thai. He $ Just
IS mach authority for imposing these tests
as there is Tor the tests be proposes, or for
others often proposed in Congress. What is
better than universal education, what more
needed By & nation than high religious
principle. sud is NOS temperance . cardinal
virtue, and why not insist upon it that nc
southern state shalleome into the Union until
svery man, "without distinction Of color, '
shall hsye been to school, shall haYe signed
the pledge, shall have Joined the church
+ They are traitors, and ought 10 be educated
iato better notions; they are given 10 whis
Ks, and ought 10 be reformed; they curse nd
swear aud eight. and msltreHt the poo'
blacks. aud ought to 81 to the benignani
precepts Of the Gospel, They are conquered
provinces; we have right to exsrt Of then
what conditions We ple1se, as guarantees o
he future; and Whist better guarantees could
We have than . general culture, abstinenC'
from intoxicating drinks aud n religious
change Of heart
stevens has right TO rpor! his vagaFisi
ia the House; but Is be has been honored
By the Republicans With 8 position On the
65mmittees, which cogfer a sort Of leader
ship, he has no right To ssssil thier Presi.
dent or 10 try te break thsm up IS party
Al the very n'ment be yss declaring 10
the House that the Southern States ar,
aliens. or 81 best territories. Mr.. Seward VA
teiegraphing 10 the world thar thoe 5 ale,
had participated in the highest function o.
national being. They had Just confirmed
the amendment. which chsnges the "rgani.
] l. o.. H.br
and the Republican party, ibnse States az,
espable Of a sovereign act, the hghesi
I and m st important that eau be performed
that Of forming the very Constitution Of
our political existence, while according to
Mir. Stevens they DO not even belong 10 the
Union, no more than Ireland does, or the
island Of Hawaii. Mr.. Stevens ought L
reconcile his differences with US, or IS an
honest man abandon the organisation he
only pretenis 10 sustsin.
But, not content with hitting our Repub-
licsn Executive in the face, be aouts the
sensts aud House IS well. Last " inter- the
. Republican members Of those bodies, with
singular unAnimity, declared their policy
~ 60 the RECOMMENDATION OF the states
in Che bill presented BY Mr.. Wade in ths
senate. and Mr.. Davis, in the House, ioi
creating provisional governments. Thai
% bnl proceeded on the principle that ''a'
/ soon - the military resistance had been
= suppressed. and the people bad returned q
D their obedience to he Consultation, p they
- were all right, sad night slsli msnbers o.
: Congress. ETC. Mr. Lincoln Did PCT sign
4 the bill, bat he approved is principle Tea
20 tures. and accordingly proclaimed 10 tbs
b worll, ''that wherever 10 spy 0i the sietsl
E ei Arkansas, Texas, iouisisua, Mississippi
Tennessee, Alabsma,. George, Virginia
> Florida, South Carolina spl North Carroll
1 IA. The persons taking the oath IF allie
b gisucs ."shall rc-sstsblish a state govern
% msut thai shall De tcpgbll'sn, and IN no.
wise ooHtraysnisg said oath, sasb govern
70 ment shall he recognized IS ths true goy
> eminent Of the state. sud BE- entitled 10 the
. benefits Of the constitutional proFisisn
. which declares that the United States shall
. guaranty 10 every state in the Union re-
ruhlcau form Of government" In pursu-
] hNNN % ttN FNii'A we &httsi@Al re uoiicA 2
/ Cogvrntion as Baltimore admitted delesaics,
0 with fuH power to vote. from Tennessee.
Louis.aus as Arkagsas sud nominated a
. candidate Cor the Vice PresiieRgy from one
b 81 those very states. ID Mr.. s eyeus' visEs
r eFe right sEs whole BepubliCsR parry =
wrong. and What i more. President John
. son 's al si,en euoiay, with no mere title 10
his place than Narimiliaa has ID Mcxico,
; sad not half mach a. the o'Nsbsney has
] 60 be King Of ireland.
The electors % Washington voiced. on
Thursday. 90 the question OF giving negroes
IA lie District % Columbia the right of
sufDss The resut vas, seyeuty-hys "
favor sna about 1909 sesiust the measure