Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-12

| FROM the National lntelilgcnccr.l
We have no disposition to make a needless
issue with Congress, but there are salient
points i'm the national case which cannot
escape discussion, and on which the country
will naturally demand light and explana-
| ton.
For example, it may well be asked: On
what principles are the members returned TO
| Congress from Tennessee deprived Of their
seats? We make this marked allusion to
| Tennessee not invidiousiy to other States
since, in our regard in all constitutional as
| poets the members returned from the South
| stand togcther-but we instance Tennessee
! because her case seems to convict even Con-
| gressional radicalism of remarkable incon-
sistency.
1t will be remembered that that there was
an attempt in the Republican party, when
assembled in convention in Baltimore, TO
treat the State of Tennessee as out of the
Union, notwithstanding Tennessee was rep
resented in the convention by Hon. Horace
MAYNARD and others; and as if TO signify the
Republican admiration Of Tennessee, An
drew johnson was nominated by that con-
vention. What weight his name gave to the
ticket was especially signified at that time
nv the prominent friends of the Secretary of
State, and all the world knows the labOrs
and their results of Andrew johnson, both
as Provisional Governor of Tennessee and
as an orator in behalf of the success of the
Lincoln ticket.
Me,srs. Fowler and Patterson are returned
rs Senators from Tennessee. The former
was Comptroller of the State under Andrew
johnson as Military Governor. This should
vouch for has LOYALTY even before the tri-
bunal of ultra "loyal" party. Hon. Mr..
Patterson was an exile from East Tennessee
for nearly two years, because of his devotion
10 the Union. Hon. Horace MAYNARD, n re-
turned member 10 the House from Tennes-
see, was an original Union man, who was in
Congress ia thc midst of the war; he was a
prominent member the Baltimore Repub- |
lican Convention, and during the Lincoln |
canvass he was travelling orator in New |
York and Indiana and elsewhere, in behalf |
Of the republican nominations. Colonel |
Hawkins another returned member from |
the same State, was a Union military officer |
in the service and he also travelled and |
spoke during the last presidential canvass |
i'm behalf Of Lincoln and johnson. And we /
might instance the others in the Tennessee
delegation much in the same way.
Now, is il not a little remarkable 1--WE will
leave law and patriotism out of the question:
AnalSNtil IIffg lililItilAN NhbhAN tsAihNt ANAA-
nessce, the home OF the President and re-
presented, even for an instant from the
Capitol2
We, however, repeat emphatically what
we said at the outset, that no moral, legal, or
reason exists 10 sustain the
Clerk of the House in his course, whereby
he has omitted 20 enroll the Southern States,
nor does any legul reason sustain the House
in shutting It's doors against any duly return
od member; hut the case of Tennessee is al
most as remarkable rs was that of the tabled
Saturn. who devourcd his own children
To what complexion has the nation come
at last il after all, the logic Of the late war
is 10 be interpreted afterth fashion Of party
radicalism2 Shall war, maintained and
carried 90 a successful issue in behalf of the
URioR, be made TO result by a party in the
triumph Of secession ? Here is the issue in
a nutshell between the President and the
Radicals Far better is it to settle this issue
in Congress than before the great tribunal of
the people.