Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-10

It's pity, and a wonder, too then
that the "veto'' was not tried. Certain
~ &c was from no lack of familiarit,
with the exercise thereof that its exer
else was waived in this instance. Coult
it have been waived from the utter use
lessness of its exercise? Only on tn
ground of its futility can we account 70
its being withheld. 1t would hav'
helped to test the extraordinary ques
ton which the President raises, to-wit
If Joint resolution be necessary for tn
admission of Tennessee delegation
should not every delegation meet TIN
same requirement ut the threshold o
Congress? This is q child's question
for it seems childish for the person wht
puts IL to affect ignorance of the fact
which makes the warp and wool Of the
Joint resolution, viz: a rcbellious State
coerced into allegiance to tho Union
has different status from State which
has always maintained its allegiance
What that difference is has been thu
subject of much controversy, and by
this Joint resolution it has been FIXED
after all the views upon the subject have
been thoroughly ventilated. And the
country will endorse this settlement o.
the vexed question, and we cannot re-
sist the conclusion that obstinacy alone
prevents the President from acquiescinl
in it. Nay, it must be either perversity
of an unmitigated sort, Or stolidity ofar
unexampled description, which pre-
vents the President from seeing it. He
not only does not acquiesce in it, bu
lets on to be ignorantof it's existence.
"If, rs is also declared in the preamble. said
State Gpyarnmpnt can only he restored to iii
former political relations in the Union by The
consent of the law making power Of the Unit et
joint resolution which at this late day has re
ceived the sanction OF Congress, should have
been passed, approved. and placed ON the stat
tuition was submitted to the Legislature o
Tennessee for ratification. The inference Ii
Congress the people OF a State may be toe
disloyal to be entitled to representation, they
may nevertheless, during the suspension o
have an equally potent voice with other and
loyal States i'll a proposition to amend the
Constitution upon which so essentially de-
pend the stability. prosperity, and very exist
This sort of reasoning may impose up.
OH those who do no reasoning them
selves, but it will be treated with the
indignation it deserves by those who
are accustomed to the use of their un.
derstandings. The answer to it lies in
that to which it proposes to be an an.
swer-the joint resolution which de-
clares distinctly and emphatically:
First, that Tennessee IL not Terrific
ry, and,
Second, that it "is State :"
Third, that it is State out Of practi.
cal relations with the other States
Fourth, that it is, and always hal
been, in practical relations with, or un.
der the Jurisdiction Of Congress there
fore ..-~
Fifth, that Congress has the right and
the power to impose what conditions II
may choose upon the said State Of Ten
nessec, in order to her re-admission tt
full and proper practical relations with
the Union, and the re-admission Of hel
representatives to the halls of legisla
ton.
This is the statement Of the status o
the estate" of Tennessee adopted by
Congress, and upon this theory Con
gress acted In the restoration of til,
".Sldte" of Tennessee, when the adop
ton of the two amendments, etc., wer,
required at her hands. These PROPOSE
tons and their logical sequences are
plain, we think, to plain people, how
ever they may be befoggcd by the l
ld-if-I-dare-veto-it message.
And it is exceeding cool, we aver, il
the President to feign surprise at the re
quirement, on the part of Congress, o
lie adnntion Of constitutional amend
ment No. by Tennessee, after the per
tinacity with which he insisted upol
South Carolina sanctioning constitu
tional amendment No. 1.
But the aRinaus of this extraordinary
Observation-Disclosures sort o
message is to be found in that para
graph thereof wherein the President dc.
clarcs that he has restored and recogniz
ed the eleven erring sisters" and tina
Congress declines to recognize his re
cognition. Notwithstanding all tn,
''steps lac had takcn," Congress added
few of its own. Nearly eight month
have elapsed since" his "steps were ia
ken !" nevertheless " it is no,c declares
in the joint resolution submitted TO
"my approval, that the State of Tcnnes
see is heroby restored to her forme
practical relations to the Union, ant
Is again entitled to be represented b,
" Senators and Representatives in Con
"gress.n
That is, whereas, I "a. j. wasn't al
lowed to reconstruct and readmit the re
that l get mad about it. And mad h
gets, but he doesn't veto. Nothing
palmer, however, than that he woul'
have vetoed the joint resolution If h
had not shrunk from the gale of ridicul
with which his veto would have beel
greeted at the other end of the avenue
and the cheers that would have greete'
its death and burial at the hands of tn
Republicans in Congress, and the "pre
vious question:" No more feeble an
unnecessary document than the messag
In hand, has emanated from the Whit
House, since the Lecompton message G
James Buchanan.