The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-07-26
The Re-AdmiSSiOn of Tennessee.

I The Re-AdmiSSiOn of Tennessee.
The following is the 'joint resolution dc
claring Tennessee again entitled to Senator
and Representatives in Congress: "
WHEREAS, The State of Tennessee has
in good faith, ratified the article of amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, proposed by the Thirty-ninth Con
gress TO the Legislatures of the severa
States, and has also shown to the satisfac
ton OF Congress, by a proper spirit of ODE.
fdience in the body of her people, her return
to her due allegiance to the Government
laws, and authority of the United States
therefore,
ReS0JOed, By the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of
[ America, in Congress assembled, that the
State of Tennessee is hereby restored to her
, former proper, practical relations to the IN
ion, and again declared to be represented
by Senators and Representatives in Con
gress duly elected and qualified, upon their
taking the oaths of office required by exist
ling laws.
We cannot doubt that the Senate will
pass this joint resolution, and so now we
welcome back to the corner of the fac
another of the stars that madly plunged
from its place. and floundered for time in
the vortex Of secession.
We like the wording of the resolution
restored to her former proper, practical
relations to the Union" 1t expresses the
status Of the seeded States about as it lies
in the minds of sensible people, and exactly
as it lay in the mind of our late sensible
President, whose phraseology, by the way.
ia IN l,, oh, b,,
while the joint resolution fixes the status
of the seeded States, it also reafIirms the
conviction Of all straight headed and loyal
hearted men, that the legislative branch Of
the Government has exclusive jurisdiction
over the ''re-admission," no less than the
admission, of States This action will fur
nlsh an example and serve as a precedent.
1t will also help to clear up foggy ques-
ton and give some light to dark minds
Tennessee was ''out of the Union" to all
practical" intents and purposes, and yet
not out of the Union in the TERRITORIAL
sense. There let the matter rest
The vote on the resolution was signi6
cant. The leader of the House voted for
it, and so did most of the radical followers,
including one of the foremost and ablest of
them, MIR. Bingham, ofOhio. This estab- |
fishes the position of the dominant party in
Congress, and in the country, and reaffirms
the new constitutional amendment as the
platform of both for the fall campaign So |
let it be. The Issues before US are simplifed /
and compacted.
The twelve Republicans who voted against
the joint resolution are entitled to respect.
They acted according to their convictions,
and doing so acted nobly They may live
to see their policy prevail in the admission
Of new States. if not in the re-admission of
old ones. In the mean while, it is their and
our duty to make the most OF what we have
acquired and fight out the battle on the
line which the majority has laid down, hop
ping and planning for such an alteration in
that line in the future as shall make it con-
form still more nearly to the principles Of
justice and the rights Of race.
On with the battle Republicans, stand
by your colors, and let no such igniS fatU0s
as the Philadelphia political commissariat
beguile you from your allegiance to the par
ty that has been deprived Of its chosen and
beloved President by a creature which, if |
now alive would be second only to VaIan-
digham, 'Brick'' Pomeroy and Ben. Wood
i'll endorsing the Democratic" movement
of the 18th of August
On Saturday the Senate rejected the pre-
amble part Of the Houses joint resolution
for the admission of the Tennessee delega-
ton, substituting in its stead, the following:
WHEREAS, In the year of 1861, the Gov
eminent of the State of Tennessee was seiz-
ed upon and taken. possession Of by persons
in hostility to the United States, and the in
habitants of said states in pursuance of an
act of Congress- were declared to be in a
state of insurrection against the United
States; ard,
WHEREAS, Said State Government can on
Iy be restored to its former political relations
in the Union by the consent of the law-ma-
king powerof the United States; and,
WHEREAS, The people of the said State
did, on the 22d of FEBRUARY, 1866, by large
popular vote, adopt and ratify Constitu-
ton and government republican in form and
not inconsistent with the Constitution and |
laws of the United States whereby slavery
is abolished and the ordinance and laws Of
secession, and debts contracted under the
same whereby the same were declared void; |
and,
WHEREAS, The State Government has rat |
flied the amendment to the Constitution of
the Unite States abolishing slavery, and also
the amendment proposed by the Thirty
ninth Congress-: and
WHEREAS, The body of the people of Ten
nessee have, by proper spirit of obedience,
shown to the satisfaction of the Congress of
the United States therefore, be it
The same resolution that passed the house
then follows. We presume that the Senate's
preamble will be promptly concurred in by
the House.-Cbjc0go Journal
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