Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-17
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pos pnly e4tfallctl by It's audacitys1 q IOheerEl
5For 1t WAS but a few days after this, that
Senator from Mlchigaw While Iii debate %.
'24l declared That a~the &c Stats we're con
quered Ommrmities-eommnhi in
which the right00f self-gOyernmen does
not exist" (GkObsl4.t He demanded that
there should be adeclaratiOn by the Execu-
tive that bostilities had ceased, before he
would recognize them as States, BlItwien
that proclamation was made on the ID of
isApril last, he still held that these States
IoWere in, pEayinGial bondage, The war. it,
seems, lHad not iielted ali 'fetters ahd thBt
stars were not all on the flag.
When this unprecedented legislatiOnA
came bef0re etheiSenats 0n-the ,l2th ofsDe-a
eembeH, 1861 Senators COwan and DOolittleD
| prptested against this veto, by1oBe braneha
OF Congress, through tiis.eommittee of ft-
| teen, upon theacti0n of the other in refer
ence to the admission Of members. But
lheir protests we're 4pheedfdsl That qem-l Z.
.mittee locked the doOrsof Congress In the
itace 9t5aPpFpaehpg 3Statess mot OneeoVr0
twice, but cOtitit1dlIy through the fifgest
| part OF the year past. This the record II i,
produce will sli0w.l When Mississippi ap-
| peared with the credentials of Senators AL
corn and Shafkey theHwere laid on the ta-9a y,
bic, preparatory to being swallowed like n
all the rest by the Directory. (lIobe, ~ 4
When again, on the 12th of December, Mr., g
Raymond presented the Credentials of the ~
Tennessee members, Mr.. Stevens waved n
him 20 the COMMITTEES which he had too fa---D
tally helped to erect. Said Mr.. Stevens:
"Ihe STATE OF Tennessee is MT known TO
this, House onor TO Congress- Byla voter
OF l32. Repu biicansd 10 3d., Tennessee was ,,,
committed to -Morgue for some eight y
months before her friends recognized her "a
as the old familiar State OF Jackson and Z
johnson. ..,J .Z,ag.7T W o4D. -,
On the 18th of December, 1865, Mr.. Guth7,rI
re made an attempt to bring in the Louis
lana Senator'S; but it was foiled by Mr.
Grimes. On the 14th, Mr.. Wilson, ia the
House, offered q resolution, sending all the, N
papers he coudiint0 the grave dug by the
caucus for the States. a, A,Republican mem-,r
Der, Mr.. Davis, with great simplicity in
qlired whether it was in order to pass a.
resolution like that from the committee of
Fifteen, in conflict with tile Constitution. u
lIaughterl This Rui1ete produced an out IA
burst OF Radical laughter; and it seemed
by the vote, that followed, that it was
considered in order 10 abolish the Consti-7 q
tuition. The Directory were sustained--ir1
lO1 to 5G:J Again. on the 18th, Clay Smith ~
presented a loyal soldier, with bis cTeden- =
gtials from Arkansas, for admission. He -
found himself quickly, with his friend, In u
1.-THE cold obstruction of the grave" and ,
earth piled upon him until his utteranee IN
was choked, by the previous question: IN
(GlObs, GS) f.r I'D, ,,..-.,,...-, % -
. After three days, to wit on the 2lst of De-
,cember the hand OF resurrection seemed to
be at work, scraping away the inhosptable
earth. lliaughler,l Clay Smith reaches
from the sepulchrr, with skmny fingers,
shakes ther'grrat seal of the State of AR
kansas" "(page ll6) iD the face of the .nhuse,lu
and "begs the poor boon for bis friend,
Colonel Johnson, member elect, of being
recognized as "A gentleman laughterl1- 10
and a claimant by sitting on the loor!'
Even this grace was denied him, and Clay
became again with his friend of the earth, y
earthly. THIS recognition of gentiity un-
der such plausible introduction was with
oheld! Nothing discOmllttcd, the member
from Kentucky attempts to withdraw Ten 70
inessee from the directory and send her to
the more sprightly committee on Elections
! (page Il6)i but a shovel full of gravel
iroin tile inheXible sexton, Thaddens Ste n
vens, settled this spasmo6ic effort. He snb-a.E
sided, until the, 18th OF February, 1866
(page SD, when he again makes a post
= moftem attempt; but seventy eight Radi-lHT
Gals, with AN energy which would have,ys
made an impression upon corn-teld, or a.
scanal, united their shOvels, and raised a
mound his perturbBd spirit. TLadgh-ltj
teri Singular spectacle L. Dead and not yd
dead alive and yet not alive; entOmbed,
yet ever restless! What absufdities!1 Coal
siderl On the 18th of May, 1862, West Yir-7Ot
gtnia was admitted, in pursuance of q y
'lclause OF the Constitution, which required
that the Legislature Of the State Of Vir-a
ginia should give its consent; yet when ua
n Virginia comes to be represented sheis not sf
a STATE! Andrew Johnson, proclaimed
II Vice President, from the State of Tehhes-
see, bygVice President Hamlin, on the 18th d
of February, 1861 when President, lol is al
from no State in the Union! BY the law
jof 1862 all these dead States are taxed as
!, States bya direct taxi BY the decision Of
the United States Courts, first, in the case 7
OF the Circassian, from Florida: and second -
in Harvey VS.. Tyler, from Virginia, ,sibyl
Justice Miller, these States were held to be,di
vital in every part. BY the speeches and
iproclamatiOns OF President Lincoln, by
his appointment TO federal offices In these
States, the fallacy. of their death by suicide "
is SECUTED. Surely these jackals sOish to r.,
consider their prey dead, that they NAV
fatten on them, to whet and gorge thefr .
appetite forpower AND .plunderl [9heers,I
Dead for rlepresentatiOns but alive Tor taxes! h,
I. [Cheers.I Dead ,fol a President, bnt alive e
for Vfcel Alive for dividing Old Vir-sT
ginia, but dead when Virginia is a link in SD
the Gordon Of the Union ALIVE to walk
outside the Capitol, but dead when they
ask to be admitted toits equal honofs! So =
it goes on TO the end of the session. ButatK
last Radicalism grew anxious about an ex1.rb
position OF these incongruties. The peO-
pie are not satisfied. Even some Republic
cansgrew anxiohssi find Mr.. Davis, lofob
New York, introducing q bill making it.aire
control Congress. (f71.Jo On the 18th ofsh
December 1885, Mr.. Stevens propounded in
a speech his proposition for the goyern-,rt
ment Of the conquered provinces, as he ~,
styled them" (74.00 Congress, he held, was
sovereign, and it was time SHE sshould asi5lq
,sert sepethipgDe Of the dignity of a. Roman
SENATE Lng LLanlghteT Denying that this