Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-15

charge him. then vote for law providing
F, certain degrees of punishment for the crime
| of theft, and the law passes, I" Oh says
Mr.. Walton, you have damned yourself
The question in Mr.. Stockton's case was
not q question of politics at ali. don't
claim to be much Of lawyer, but l thought
in my simplicity that Mr.. Stockton was le.
eally elected, whether he was . good sound
Republican or real Copperhead,-bu 1t
seems he is thorough out and out Copper
head of the very worst stripe voted &C
cording to my ideas of what the LdD was
bu, it seems Mr. Walton is better lawyer
than an
VoIcr. Mr.. Poland please explain
his course in regard to the admission OF Mr.
Patterson of Tennessee? .=- =
Mr.. POLAND. Thank you, gentlemen.
Tennessee having duly ratified the constltu'
| tional amendment stood in a position to rep
| resent herself in CONGRESS. 1t was objected
| to the admission of Mr.. Patterson that he
could not take the - Iron clad OATH, This
oath is that a man must swear that be has not
| accepted or held any Office under any author,
| ity hostile to the authority OF the Uniteo
States. At the time the war broke out MT
Patterson was Circuit Judge in Eastern
Tennessee. The State of Tennessee seeded
sometime in 1861 and the election of Mr..
The Eastern part of the Sta to insisted that
Tennessee was not out of the Union, that she
sill belonged 10 the Union. When the time
for election for Judge came round they IN
sisted that Mr. Patterson should run. lie
did run, and ran against a Rebel. ana was
elected by a great ma ority-- AT that time we
had an army right on the borders OF East Ten
nessee They believed they would not come
under rebel rule at all, and Judge Patterson
was elected Oh that ground. The rebel troops
came They overdowed Eastern Tennessee
and inflicted eli sorts OF crueities and lndig-
mites upon the people. Arrests were made
upon the most frivolous charges and with no
semblance of authority. The arrests were all
illegal. Judge Patterson supposed when he
was elected that his commission would he sent
him by the q. S. Government, but instead,
the reb j troops having gained possession,
commission was sent nun by the rebel govern
ment with peremptory orders to take the oath
to the Confederate government ms oath Is
about the same as ours save the words " Con
feder tie Government " are substituted for
~. s. Government" lie was prevailed up
on to take that oath-though he did 1t under
protest, and when taking II said -" owe
no allegiance to the ConfeIeracy DEFY the
Confederaey" lie Away assisted the Union
people and the Union troops. He assisted
which surrounded them.
When the case OF Mr.. Patterson came be-
fore the committee, which stood i've RepuolI-
cans and TWO Democrats, we all agteed that
he had been a loyal aud true friend OF the
Union during the whole war ! Judge Irum-
bull said 1t would not do TO exclude that man
from the halls of Congress. We passed
vote to excuse him from taking the oath and
sent resolution TO shls effect ~ ttc House.
But they would not tamper nth the oath
He did not regard himself as having ever
yielded 10 the authority Of any Government
hosti e to The United States. lie took the
oath, and a majority OF the Repubic lean Sena-
tors voted with me IL the admission OF Judge
Patterson to a seat in the United States Sen
ate Is there any thing further L can do Tor
you?
Have you ever franked any document OF
Senator CJwans
Mr.. POLAND There's d pretty good joke
attached 10 that matter. | viii exp!aIu to
YOU. At the house where | boarded IN " ash
ington there also boarded one De- Buriagn,
who was a great radical, and who laid IN d
very large stock of Mr.. Summers speeches.
Aud | may here just as we'll say that ii any
of We members want oar speeches. printed, Or
desire the speeches of others, We have 10 pay
Tor them out oi our inIiviuual pockets. We
don get them Tor nothlng-by any means.
To continue. This DR.. BufleI IA, axe good
many others, when he saw upon winch sidl
the ioayes aud fishes were t. be distributed,
became l. johnson man. Having no further
use Tor Mr.. Summers speeches h gave them
10 me, and | was Fcry thankful Tor them.
had them dune up and synt over 10 my room
gave the clerk my book, Ia winch a good mau }
names were reg Istered very likely sOodIy
number of yours who are here present and
told him 10 send them oui. The CLERK alter
wards told me that he occasionally cam'
/ across 4 Dooiitte spesc an -ns them-w hIci
was nothing strange, As DR. Burleigh had IL
/ ken to that ktuG vt literature, ana had III
! doubtedIy goi IN, TWO kinds mixed-so Il any
Of my friends have received Doohtle's q
! Cowsns speeches, ,hIs accounts ior II
/ Laughter Any more questions gentlemen
4 Three cheers Were gwen icE Mr.. Po.and, anI
1 he retired
! The Convention then resolved Itself int
! County Generations, n AeeOrd@rce with III
motion of General Phelps, AMI proceed d tC
ballot Tor q candidate Ii. the several counties
he President again called The ConYenuo-
! TO order AZ i . clock t. listen 10 the report
OF the respective County Conventions.
A white headed parrot IN the crowd, " hos
name we could not learn, SAID =
| Nix PRESIDENT. | wish 10 enter my pro
| test TX Ainst the actlou oi " iuuham County
The nominations were made of one corne
where 1, for Que, could not near ~AA, aas ~
ing on at all.
HON J. L. BUTLER OF wINDHAA COUNTY.
Il Mr.. President. Windham County met j
accordance with the ID>tluc IONS OF this tJu
ventIon ana Proceeded 10 vote according t
said Instructions The votc Va. put square
ly, and If airy one desired to dissent b ia
the opportunity. We dId not near i dlseonj
ing VOICE lie voice OF Wiudaam Count
WAS unanimous Tor lion. Luke Z. Poland
i (Cheers)
HON. JAMES BELL OF CALEDONIA CJUNTY-
MIR. PRESIDENT. The vote of Caledoni
County Is unanimous fJr Hoo. Luke Z. p
land.
COL. MEAD OF ORANGE COUNTY.
Mr.. PRESIDENT. Orange County vote
unanimously for Hon. Luxe Z. Polnnd.
EXIT. GOV. CONVERSE OF WINDSOR COUNTY.
: MR. PRESIDENT. The first choice of w inc
sor County was Gcn. p. L. Washouru bu
as the other three counties in the second dix
trlct have so voted, L am Instructed to sa
that Windsor County yields With good grac
and unanimously presents the maine of Hol
Luke P. Poland.
1t was theu moved that the nomination
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