The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-07-26

flg}tblSiilS OI ltS own InemueFS.
The call for a Convention issued BY
itthis same political organization, says:
Each House of Congress is made by
the Constitution the sole Judge of the
election returus and qualifications of it's
members, but the exclusion Of loyal
Senators and Representatives prhprrly
bslesen. and qualified under the Constitu.
| ton aid laws, is unjust and revolutiona.
ry."
The late Circular is silent upon the
snhjecr, so, taking the position of The
National Union Club 10 be defined by
the language of its published declara.
tions, one finds that position to be in ia
vor of the admission only Of such Con.
OCCASIONAL Representatives as can stand
The test Of "loyai" Now this, it il
evident, is not what we are after, 80 let
us turn to our OF er sources of lnfnrma.
uon. En- The Knoxville Commercial, u
pap,r which vigorously supports the
Convention, we find that, there is KEEP,
standing, some matter, entitled "The
Presidents Policy" from which we ex.
trac; the following:
THE Representatives Of tie States
should be loyal men. willing to abide by
and be devoted to the Union and the
Constitution of the States!
>"All responsible POSITIONS and places
ought to he coufued distinctly and clear.
n To men who are Enthusiastically and
umquestiona6ly loyul." Presidents Re
ply to the Virginia Commit5s.,. y
II hold it my dntyto recoNaend the
admission Of every State to lis share in
public legislation when it presents itself
in the persons IF Representatives whose
loyalty cannot be questioned under any
er,sting constitutional or legal test."--
Presidents Veto MessagA .33sJi, 4. d.
Secretary Stewards position, as set
forth IN his Tammany letter, of the
second Of July last is as follows:
ut is said in excuse Of the denial of
representation, that the States and their
chosen representatives still continue to
be seditions and disloyal. l ask, is
Tennessee disloyal7 Is Arkansas sedi.
tions2 Are the Senators and Repre-.
senIatlves Of those States dlsloyal? I
desire. in this respect, that each OF the
two Houses o: Congress will apply the
constitutional test, with all the improve.
ments of legislation upon it, and thus
admit those States and Representatives
who are loyal, and reject only those
against whom the crime of disloyalty
shall be established"
On the eleventh of this month this
same very eminent person addressed
letter to Hon. j. r. Doolittle, chairman
of the National Executive Committee,
approving the proposed Philadelphia
Convention and then going on to say:
After more than five years of disloca.
iion by civil war regard restoration
of the unity Of the country as its most
immediate, rs well as its most vital in.
terest That restoration will be complete
when toyat men are admitted as repre-.
senratives Of the loyal people ofthe
eleven States 20 long unrepresented in
Congress Nothing but this can com.
ple'eit. Nothing more remains TO be
done, and notiilng more is necessary.
Snperadded to lhIs information, there
is here suhjoined the language Ex-senator
Hendr,cksih late occasion in the Sen
ate Mr.. Hendricks being, as will be re-.
membered. one Of tho Conservative
Senator's who approved the call for the
Philadelphia Convention. The con.
gressiohal Test Oath is the subject of
debate:
Mr.. Hendricks, lin response TO Mr..
Tmmbull, Radically
ut may sulL the Senator's purpose
on the hu'tings., but it will hardly suit
his purpose, here to say that I, or any
who nrs With me in opinion, are now
advocating the admission TO seats in tI,ia
body or Ihe House Of Representatives "a
of person directly CONNECTED witt. the
rebellion The Senator knows very we'll
that tlIeI now stands upon the statute
book OF he United States and upon the
rules Of he Senate, a, provision requiring