The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-26
tennessee RESTORED 70 the Upion,

Tennessee Restored to the Union,
i The Senateof the United States on Satur.
day last, passed the following:
q g WHEREAS, In the year 1851 /. the Clover,
ment of the State of Tennessee was se;za5
upod and taken possession of by persons ~
hostility to the United States, and the IN ~
habitants of said State, in pursuance of On
act of Congress, we're declared to be in .
state OF insurrection against the United
States; and
/ WHEREAS, Said State Government No.
only be restored to its former political re, In
4 tons in the Union by the consent of the Ia,.
making power of the United States; and
WHEREAS. The people of the said Stat
did, on the 22d day of February, 1855. bv .
large vote, adopt and ratify a Constitut;o,
and Government whereby Slavery was ahoi
ished, and the ordinances and laws of S.
cession and debts contracted under the SAM
were declared null and void; and no
/ WHEREAS, A State Government has hoo,
organized under said Constitution, wbioh
has ratified the amendment to the Const;ty,
ton of the United States abolishing Slaverv
and also the amendment proposed bv H.
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and has done other
acts proclaiming and denoting loyalty: tbere-
fore, be it
Resolved, By the Senate and House of Ron
resentatives of the United States in ConorepSo
| assembled, InaI the state OF Tennessee 10
hereby restored to her former proper practical
relation to the Union, and is again entitled
to be represented by Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress"
Mr.. Sumner and Brown voted nav becor,o
the blacks of Tennessee are not allowed to
vote, and Messrs. McDougal1 and Buckalew
objected to the preamble, not the resolve
The New York Tribune, noticing this resut
says:
There is no member of either House and
no party any where, averse to the restoration
of Tennessee, or of any other State lately in
arms against the Union. There exist orave
differences with regard to the terms Wherein
such restoration should be effected: there
are none who wish it postponed or evaded.
and they who assert the contrary are willfnl
| calumniators.
Equally false is the assertion that Conoress
has exacted Negro Suffrage of Tennessee
Only four Senators supported such exactions
and the vote in the House was nearly in pro
portion. We have no doubt that great ma
jority of the Republicans in either House ar
IDENTIFY desire that all the loyal people ofthe
South shall be enfranchised, irrespective of
color; but they have not exacted any thing
thls-g any State ref uses to let its Blacks cote
then 1T shall not count them as a basis otren1e
! oO'"o~OeN''' LIZ NtACi WOINS IL YOU regard
and treat negroes as beasts, you shall not
count them against US as men" We deeplv
regret that Congress did not feel justified in
gong further, and demanding that eperv
right accorded By any State to any of her late
fte6els shall be secured also to her Loafnl S,a6ab
to'ats aoathoW eeceptaon 1t seems to us that
proposition couched substantially in these
words must have commanded the assent of
| nearly every heartily loyal man, whatever his
preludlces or his color. But we have chosen
at this session to walk behind Congress rath-
er than attempt to lead it.
The heaviest vote ever polled in Tennessee
ION Secession, in 1861 was 152, 143; her vote
| for Representatives in Congress last year was
81, 1888. Considering how fearful have been
| her losses on both sides in the late Civil War
it is probable that fully half of her White
Male Adults voted for members of this Con-
gress. So much for the assertion that thew
represent but I" one in fifty of the population
of the State"
The telegraphic dispatches of Tuesday
state that on Monday the House of Repre-
sentatives concurred in the above from the
Senate; and the members from Tennessee
have no doubt by this time been sworn in
1t is stated that the President will sign the
joint resolution, but will protest against SEN
ulHS IL W Hill, dS lie mas nOCnlng TO do with
the admission of members of Congress.
The members from Tennessee are as fol-
lows: Senators, David T. Patterson, j. S.
Fowler: Representatives, NJ G. Taylor,
Horace Maynard, W. B. Stokes, Edward
Cooper. W. B. Campbell, s. NJ Arnall, ]. r.
Hawkins, J. W. Leftwitch. All these gentle
men can take the oath. They are what the
President would call loyal men, "s.nn.istake-
bly, devoted " to the Union.
Well, Tennessee has been admitted with
out negro suffrage, and the other States will
be admitted also, if they win do as Tennes-
see has done. Will North-C Can DINA follow
her example? Not unless the people will
rise in their majesty and require their ser
wants to do it. Those in power in this State
would stay out of the Union indefinitely
before they would return to it on the loyal
basis laid down by Tennessee.
THE New ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Washington correspondent of the New York
Times saws: