Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-02

which impute sentiments and purposes OF
disloyalty to the Constitution and Union to
the great body OF the people of Tennessee,
and also for the purpose of prOelaiming the
readiness of the people of Tennessee to
stand by and sustain President johnson in
his efforts to carry out the restoration poll
icy, do hereby adopt the foregoing pre-
amble, and announce their resolution to
sustain him In the policy by him indicated.
The principles of that policy, simple but
complete, are: .f- ..... ....rt -,
!. The integrity of the Union in the whole
and in all its parts. .I.#.rt.. ..
2. That the States declared In insurrec-
tion and rebellion by reason of the war did
not cease to be States, and are therefore in
tegral parts of the United States. ......
3. That, as such States, the citizens there
of who, by the laws of each, are entitled to
the elective franchise, have right to elect
Representatives to Congress according to
the ratio of representation as fixed by law ;
and that Congress cannot legally exclude
them because they claim to be Representa-
tives of State lately in rebellion. Con-
gress has right, each House acting for it
self, under the Constitution, TO decide upon
the election and qualification of its mem
bers. a.. r. ..- .r .........
A. That the people Of the respective
States have the right to regulate their own
domestic affairs, as long as they act con-
sistently with the Constitution; hence his
opposition to any attempt on the part of
Congress to force negro suffrage upon the
Southern States, correctly believing that
such policy Is calculated to widen rather
than to heal the breach between the North
and South, and to injure rather than bene-
fit the negro, '-.... ....., inns, .f.--lI
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time with the Constitution OF the United
States, ii being unwise craftsmanship to
endeavOr to change the fundamental law of
the land in the midst of high excitement,
and not magnanimOus to do so when the
people of eleven of the States upon whom
the amendments are to operate have no rep
rcsentatiye in the Congress OF the nation.
G. The guarantee of the payment of the
public debt incurred for the maintenance
of the Government. ..
Z. The freedom of all the inhabitants Of
the land, and their protection, by law, in
the enjOymnnt of life, liberty and property.
We further resolve that the present ad-
mnistration of the Government of this
State, though informal in its origin, was
established under circumstances which JUS
titled its creation, aud which, in the inter-
est OF peace and order, is still entitled to
recognition and support; but 1t Is due 10
| truth to say, that to receive that cordial
support which good citizens desire to yield
to Government, its measures should be tenn
perate, tolerant, and healing in their char
acter-just to all and vindictive toward
none; earnestly striving for an early re-
sumption, both as it regards the State and
its people, Of their proper and normal rela.
tions with the Federal Government, ant
such restoration of law and order as will
relieve the people of the presence Of tlC
military authorities, and of disquietude.
That we approve most heartily and in
dorse most iully the policy of President
johnson in the administration of the Gov
ernment, and especially his recent message
vetoing the bill amendatory to the ac
establishing the Freedmen's Bureau.
Speeches were made by Hons. Jordat
Stokes, w. B. Stokes, Gen. Cooper and Hon
Neill S. Brown. Letters were read iron
Hon. Edmund Cooper, Cave johnson ant
| Gen. Frank Cheatham. .,.....' ..