New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-07
TENNESSEE AND THE PRESIDENT.

In en article few Gays ago III reference to the
war which the radicals have declared against We
PRESIDENT, and the probability that, unless checked
in some way, it would eliminate in TIE impeach-
ment of the President, if not his Opposition from
office, we expressed the opinion that it remained
with the people of the North lrainy at their next
elections to check the revolutionary designs OF the
radical leaders in Congress, the Southern people
being comparatively Powerless, without repre-
sentation in Congress, or any authority in any
branch of the govesnme nj, except SO far as the
Executive, in defending the Constitution, was de-
Tending the South and North alike.
But there was moral support, we added, which
the South could give to the President which would
encourage him, animate the true men of the North
and perhaps serve to check, in some degree the
ferocious assaults Of the Presidents enemies. The
obligation to afford such support seems to have
been first recognized by the Presidents own State
Tennessee. Of the States excluded from Con
gressonal representation Tennessee is the first te
give authoritative expression to the voice of the
people. to indorse the policy of the President ant
to demand that the true principles of the Consti
tuition shall not be entirely overthrow by the radi
cal Jacobins, who control both houses of Congress
AhC ICY uFou WuiCH tHc ITSSlueuG Qe11VereQ 1nf
speech in which he accepted the issue forced upor
him by his enemies, and hurled defiance al
their heads-the I'D of February-was the day
upon which the people Of Tennessee held State
mass convention at Nashville, and gave expression
to their opinions in language not to be misun-
derstood. The principles announced are, in
effect, those of the President himself. They
boldly meet the practical issues of the day, and
pronounce what we doubt not is the opinion of q
large majority of the people of Tennessee.
Without publishing the resolutions in full, the
following synopsis of them will suffice to explain
the position of the Tennessee people, except that
small band, insignificant in numbers but overflow.
ing with venom, who sustain the usurpations of
Brownlow. The principles announced are:
l. The integrity of the Union in the whole and
all its parts.
g. That the States declared in instruction by
reason of the war; did not cease to be States, and
are therefore integral parts of the United States
s. That as such States, the citizens thereof, 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 bylaw. and that Congress cannot legally
exclude them. Congress has a right, each house
acting for ITSELF under the Constitution to decide
lpon the election and qualification of its members.
1 4. That the people of the respective States have
he right to regulate their own domestic affairs as
ong as they act consistently with the Constitution
ence opposition to any attempt on the part of
congress to force negro suffrage upon the Southern
tates. believing that such policy is calculated to
Fiden rather than to heal the breach between the
forth and South, and to inure rather than benefit
he negro.
5. Opposition to any interference at this time
nth the Constitution of the United States it being
nwise craftsmanship to endeavor to change the
law of the land in the midst of high
excitement, and not naagadninaous to do so, when
he people Of eleven Of the States, upon whom the
mendments are to operate, have no representa-
We will in Congress.
ebt.
z. The freedom of all the inhabitants of the land,
I'D their protection, by law, in the enjoyment of
fe, liberty and property.
8. Approving most heartily, and indorsing most |
lily, the policy Of President johnson in the
ADMINISTRATION of the government, and especially
s recent message yetoing the bill amendatory to |
ie act Establishing the freedmen's bureau.
Such is the position of the people Of Tennessee
he expression of opposition to radical policy by |
Their States which, like Tennessee, are not allowed
presentation in Congress, will serve to confirm |
ie President in his purposes, but especially will
encourage the National Democrats of the North
, make vigorous fight, and we trust success
1 one, against the revolutionary party at the
sxt elections.
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