The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-01

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| The Senate Of the United States Of. Satur-
day last, passed the following oss +
9WHEREAs, In the year 1851, the Govern
ment of the State of Tennessee was seized
upon and taken possession of by persons in
hostility to the United States, and the in
habitants of said State, in pursuance of an
act of Congress, were declared to be in B
state of ihsurrection against the United
States; and
+ WHEREAS, Said State Government can
only be restored to its former political rela-
lions in the Union by the consent of the law
making power of the United States; and
WHEREAS, The people of the said State
did, on the 22d day of February, 1865, by q
large vote, adopt and ratify Constitution
and Government whereby Slavery was abol-
ished, and the ordinances and laws of Sc
cession and debts contracted under the same
were declared null and void; and
WHEREAS, A State Government has been
organized under said Constitution, which
has ratified the amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States abolishing Slavery,
and also the amendment proposed by the
Thirty Ninth Congress, and has done other
! acts proclaiming and denoting loyalty; there
fore, be it
Resoloed, By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives Of the United States in Congress
assembled, that the State of Tennessee is
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 nay, because
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the blacks of Tennessee are not allowed to
vote, and Messrs. McDougall and Buckalew
objected to the preamble, not the resolve.
The New York Tribune, noticing this result,
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 grave
differences with regard to the terms whereon
such restoration should be effected; there
are none who wish it postponed or evaded:
and they who assert the contrary are willful
calumniators
Equally false is the assertion that Congress
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 agreat 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
this-I any State refuses to let its Blacks cote,
then 1t shall not count them as basis of repre-
sentation. In other words: g If you regard
and treat negroes as beasts, you shall not
count them against US as men" We deeply
regret that Congress did not feel justified in
| going further, and demanding that eoery
| right accorded By any State to any Of her late
Rebels shall be secured also to her loyal inha5i-
tants without exception. 1t seems to US that a
| proposition couched substantially in these
words must have commanded the assent of
nearly every heartily loyal man, whatever his
| prejudices 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
| 61,783 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 they
represent but " 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
ding it to him, as he has nothing to do with
the admission of members of Congress
The members from Tennessee are as fol-
lows: Senators, David T. Patterson, ]. s.
Fowler. Representatives, N. G. Taylor,
Horace Maynard, W. B. Stokes, Edward
Cooper. W. B. Campbell, s. M. ArnaIl, J. R.
Hawkins, ]. W. Leftwitch. All these gentle
men can take the oath. They are what the
President would call loyal men, "unmistake-
big devoted to the Union.
Well, Tennessee has been admitted with
out negro suffrage, and the other States will
be admitted also, if they will do as Tennes-
see has done. Will North Carolina follow
her example2 Not unless the people will
rise in their majesty and require their ser.
wants to do it. Those in powerin this State
would stay out of the. Union indefinitely
before they would return to it on the loyal
basis laid down by Tennessee.
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