Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-17


men who now keep them outS Was Tennes-
see destroyed? Her name was called more
than half the period of the war, and repre-
sentatises answered FROM both ends Of the
Capitol. Could it, then, be asserted that
Tennessee was portion of a foreign govern
ment, and the President himself natural
lied foreigner Frederick the Great said,
| IF wanted to ruinm my government / would
make il ever to the philosophers; for philos-
| ephers contradict themselves." And they
had abundant evidence, too, that those who
claimed to be representatives from Virginia
were admitted during the war, but were not
excluded "a, - .f.,s.Is ~.
Mr., Deming asked the gentleman .whethr
er he thought the right Of representation
must comnenee at Antietam or Gettysburg.
Mr., Voorhees, said he would answer by re
| peating sentence he had already uttered,
namely: That peace and obedience are the
only guarantee for the future which any
Government can require, and when peace
reIgns he held the people cannot be gov
erned without representation. The, present
is more peaceful than the past; ard vet Con-
gress ignores its record of the last four years
as if it were blotted out Besides what he
had mentioned, he said the principle that
the Union was unbroken was declared in eli
the party platforms. .sA..ses ir.,l,i'e',
The time to which Nh. Voorhees, was re-
stricted by the rules having expired, -.
On, motion of Mr.. Smith, the House
unanimously granted an extension. -
Mr., Voorhees,, in. continuation Of, his
speech, endorsed the views of the President
on the tariff question. Taxes must be inn
posed equally, All history shows that class
legislation has destroyed the public liberty.
The President having sprung from the loins
Of the people, they viii hail him as their
friend for he has not lost his love nor care
for the dignity. Of labor. On the leading
measures of restoration an, interesting chap
ter has been written. He submitted it to
another test on which it had been. assailed
by those who profess to be the only friends
Of the Administration. They were engaged
in making it appear that the President has
done nothing The gentleman from Penn
sylyania Mr.. Stevens1 pronounced it i'm
practicable and untenable, while an AFRO
CANT Senator [SumnerI pronounced the
whole thing fraud. Members, too, had
crowded into the presence of the President,
saying his plan does not promise to give
success, and therefore must be recognized as
a failure, Then the majority ask him to set
tone side, and not open his lips while they
smash to pieces his plan and knock to the
earth his almost completed structure. 1t is
their mission to destroy, not to build
up !, to strew the broken fragments.
Under the 4 peaceful policy Of the
President we can celebrate victories not less
renowned than war. State after State is con-
stantly assisted BY the President to return to
take their places, and they are welcomed by
the President Let Congress initiate his ex-
ample and inaugurate the new year as a
season of universal JOY. May the two sec
tions meet as friends and the future of the
American Union will be hailed with the
love and praise of all its citizens. The above,
were some of. the points which were elab-
Grated BY the honorable gentleman, who,
after taking his seat, was warmly congratu-
lated by his friends. a. aTErN sa. u 9iai
Mr.. Bingham, (rep.) of Ohio, expressed
his surprise at thespeech of the gentleman.
from Indiana. When the rebellion was rife
the President had no support from
the gentleman and his /. friends. He
had not forgotten that the gentleman
was accustomed in his place to join
in the cry 9. You cannot sustain the Govern
ment by arms" When the war was rocking
both heinispheres and when the land
was filled with Lamentations land death,
the gentleman was with his party among
the conspirators at Chicago, who IN convention
declared that the war for the Union was a
failure He would have, remained silent
but for the fact that the gentleman would
indoctrinate the House and the country with
the same fell spirit which inaugurated the
rebellion. The gentlemans argument could
not be mistaken it was carefully prepared
aud considered. The gentleman's position
was the same as assumed first and last by
every man who entered into the conspiracy,
and if maintained must lead to the destruc-
ton of the Constitution. 1t was simply,
"Onee State. always State" with all the
rights of a State, with full and equal reprer
sentation and local legislation. Wherein
did this differ from what was maintained at
the commencement Of the great struggle
which happily had ended so well? And no
thanks to the gentleman or his party, but
thanks only to God and the grand heroic
armies of the Union, who stood as wall Of
fire in defence of the country. Disguise as
he may, it was the position assumed here,
and at the other end of the Capitol by the
conspirators who struck at our flag and lib
critics. The position was that the people of
the United States under the Constitution
had not the lawful right to coerce seeding
States. This embraced all the gentleman's
argument You. could coerce neither by
arms nor by law !; that they might make
war on the Union, seize the forts and custom
houses and arms and munitions and hunt to
death true Union men. That was the posi-
ton then as now. He asserted to-day, and
challenged contradiction, that when they
became a nationality by the more perfect
union which sprungout Of the adoption ofthe
Constitution, they declared themselves armed
with all the power necessary to maintain
their nationality and the supremacy of the
law against all clamors whether from seced-
ing States or the conspirators and their allies
beyond the waters-for Great Britain and
France we're particeps criminus. He support
ed the right by virtue of the Constitution to
exercise all power to suppress internal in
surrection and foreign invasion. 81 Vs
Mr.. Voorhees, Mr.. Bingham yielding the
| floor said he expected to be scolded for what
| he had declared. The American Union be-
ing one Of States once formed, he did not
know of any power in the State or Federal
Government TO destroy the States, If that
signifed "once a State always a State" the
gentleman was right. Ii hard epithets APP
plcu 10 MIN tlcy diSo dppltcu W TIE Il resi-
dent, for the President declared that the true
theory was that all the pretended acts of Sc
cession were from the beginning null and
void; that the States attempting TO secede
had their vitality impaired, but not extin-
guished, and their functions were suspended,
not destroyed. But gentlemen said all the
States which had passed ordinances of Sc
cession were dead. Who killed those States2
Who dealt the blow? Did Jefferson Davis
kill them, or the eleven confederated States?
Where is the destroying angel? lie held
that there was no element of destruction in
them. As in the beginning, SO now, they
are living States in the American Onion
He repeated he had asserted the position of
the President, and every assault upon him
was an assault upon the President fsq 4
Mr.. Bingham resumed and said the gen.
tleman from Indiana had notified the House
and the country that tie President held the
principle 'once State always State" But
the President had asserted no such thing, nor
did the President assume that the rebel
States, having surrendered to the victorious
iegions Of the Union, are entitled to repre-
sentation without let or hiHdrance. Would
the gentleman undertake. to say by the
merest platitude that IL FIVE thousand men
in South Carolina chance to be represented
in a convention for the purpose Of coming
back into the Union, the residue of the UNI
repenting rebels have right TO be represent
ed as State? q a II nF
Mr.. Voorhees replied, the easiest and most
absurd argument was to suppose an absurd