, 1866-01-19
TENNESSEE.
A Startling Statement Of the Con-
ditiOn Of Affairs.
WEIGHTY APPEAL FOE PR0TEC.
TION.
An 1nterestink and Impoftant Doeu.
mont.

;,-At a meeting Of the Union Central CON-
nittec, and the German Union Central Com
mittee Of tho State Of Tennessee, aud Of
Union members Of the Legislature, on tho
9th OF January, 1865, the following memorials
we're read and considered, and unanimously
approved and adopted.
A, LovKn1Ng, Chairman pro ttn1.
Edward Maynard, Chairman.
From the NsAh1iIle PIcfs and Tines.
MEMORIAL 70 THa COMMITTEE ON RECON
sTRucTIoH.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, jan Q. 1866.
To the Hon Honorable Congressional COMMITTEES
On Reconstruction:
The undersigned, constituting large ma
ioEity OF the State Central Committee Of the
Union party OF Tennessee, being all who
could be present, beg leave to eommnnieate
to you their Views of the present political
and social condition Of their State, aud their
antIcipatious as to future results from that
condition.
The vast powers conferred upon you, 10
,vita11y affecting ourselves and our postertty,
We feel to be sufficient warfant for this lib-
eriy on our part. -...<-.
STRENGTH or THE UNION PARTY IN TEN
NEssEE.
Our statistics show that In the spring of
1861, about 70, GEO Of tho voters Of Tennessee
their country In spite Of the tornado Of trea-
son TINT swept the State and carried u into
the vortex Of rebellion. They constituted
lesa than one.third of the voting population
of the State, and far less Of its wealth and
political influence. Surrounded on all sldes
by rebel population; suffering every conceiy-
able outrage In person and property; hanged
on the galloWs; shot by IN infuEfated SOL
diery cast into many prisons; mercilesly
conscripted; and hunted like Wild beasts and
murdered IN our places OF coucealment; our
numbers have been reduced but the survivors
Of US have Kept the VOWS made upon the altar
twenty y-ave thousand Of our numbers leaving
their homes ind iamilics to be pil1ased and
abused travelling through mount4ins or
swamps By night, and hiding in thickcta by
day to evade u pursuing and murdcrous cne-
bounty Or other Inducements, enrolled them
selves as Eniou soldiers. They have return
cd to thcir homcs from gallant and bloody
service, to find, in many instances, THAR
houses IN ashes, thar property gone. and
their families abused. insulted aud outraged
And it must bc added, that In mnny instances
these victorious heroes Of the national causc
nEe not permittcd-to to remain at their homes
in pence, or It permitted, they are crippled in.
business and politically and socially out
PROFESSIONS -oF-1o1ALTE BY K2-REnz1s.
The deaigns Of the great secession majority
OF Tennessee may have been changed By the
events Of the war, and 50 may have been their
opinions Of their own strength and of the
strength Of The Government, but unless your
memorialists7 greatly misunderstand them,
their sentiments, sympathies and passions re-
main unchanged. They welcome pence be-
cause they arc disabled from making war;
they submit because they can no longer re.
sist they accept results they cannot reject,
and profess loyalty because they have halter
round their necks. They recognize the abo-
1tion Of slayery because they sec it before
them q iact; but they say it waa accom-
plished by gross violations Of the Consultation
that the aeero Is free only Iii fact, bat not In
Inv or Of right
msToRr OF THE PRESENT STATE GOVERNMENT
Less than year ago the Provisional Coy
eznor. representing the military power Of tho
President, and recognizing the right ;of the
loyal people to govern the State, set on foot
civil government, founded upon the hasls Of
the loyal population-hist tayorite policy. The
plan of q popular convention and . submis~
sion to popular yote Of the loyal people WIS
adopted, and the former Constitution and
laws were restored without the Institution Of
slavery. Whether We regard 1t As our former