North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-12-19
What are They--states or territories

gress. 1t says that Constitutional Con-
gress requires the representation of all the
States. That is so, and all the States will
be represented. There are ten Territories
in the region of the gulf that will not be
represented, simply because they put so
much faith in Andy and the Democracy
that they have hot ocen readmitted into
the Union Cincinnati TimeS."
If the Southern States are nothing but
Territories. will the Times explain few
facts?
l. Why were the members from Loui-
siana, one of the alleged Territories, ad-
mitted by the house Of Representatives to
seats in that body, where they acted and
voted in 1864 and 1865? One Of these
members. Mr. Hahn, has been since cho-
sen a United States Senator, and is now
applying for admission into Congress. Is
he not as much entitled to sit in the Senate
in 1866, after the war is over. and after
Louisiana submits in the Federal Govern
ment, as he was in 1864 to sit in the House
when the war was progressing and the
people were resisting the United States
laws b? Was the State in the Union in
1864 ard out in 1866?
2, Why was Andrew Johnson permit
ted to sit as Senator from Tennessee for
two years after the State, according to the
Times theory, had ceased to exist and be-
came territory! Are territories ever
represented in the United States Senate !?
IL Ill
ceased to be State and took the position
of Territory
3. Why were members of Congress
from Virginia admitted to their seats dur
ing the war if the Old Dominion was
then Territory?
+. Why did Congress, in 1862 ..nd 1888,
pass an aPportlonment lac;, assigning to
the seeded States heir quota of members
OF Congress, aLu why did Mr. Lincoln, as
PRESIDENT, approve of such an enactment,
if, ir their judgment, these States were
Territories? Was the Radical President
then mistaken in their view of the relations
of the South to the Union? If SO, when
did they get new light?
D. The Judges of the United States Su-
preme Court never held their Courts IN the
Ierritorles-they do not form part of
their circuits-yet it is proposed by the
Chief Justice ere long TO try JEFF Davis IN
Virginia, thus showing that it can not he
Territory in bis opinion. Furthermore,
the Court has held cases on appeal from
the Southern States Courts, thus recog-
nizing their Statehood in the most official
manner.
6. If the Southern States had ceased to
exist As such States, why did the BaIti-
more Republican Convention that nomlna-
ted Lincoln and Johnson for President and
Vlce-rrcsi lent, admit d lcgates from them
to act and vote with the other States on
the floor? Ifthe Southern States are good
eHoHg'r states 10 nrtp nominate , R~p,,b
lican President and Vice President in their
conventions. oHght the Congressional nora
lnees-of such conventions to exclude them
from their dcleg cations?
T. Docs the Times recollcct the celebra-
ted Crittenden Resolution, passed by Con-
gress in Jnly, 1861, which recognized the
existence Of the Southern S'a,e, as men,
bers of the Union IN the strongest and
most emphatic language! This resolution
was voted for by all the Republican mem
bers of Congress. In voting for it did
they vote lie, or Were they mistaken
8. If a State, by It's own motion, can cut
asunder the tie which binds it to the I'm
ion and cease to be State, must it not be
upon the doctrine that State, has a right
to secede? Does the Times hold to this
doctrine!
8. If portion of the people of Ohio
should, acting through the machinery of
State Government. resist and defy the ed
eral authority in our limits for one week,
would that remand Us to the condition Of
Territory and deprive Us Of representation
in Congress Ifone weeks successful re-
sistance would no, would a month or
year do so? Is it question of time, and
if so, what time?
We should like to hear the learned ex
FOUNDER of the Times on these points that
we have suggested, at his earliest cGnven-
ience.- Cincinnati Eaq"irer,