The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-13

DuS ~ INC AhNIe5a WEllltl lOE anu slBLtu
by the radicals.
It sets out in yainly trying to hold up
President Johnson in favor Of a franchise
law, by the oath be required of voters in
time Of t0ar, and whilst he was Military
Governor Of Tennessee. Gov. johnson only
required the voter to swear friendship and
loyalty to the Constitution Of the United
States and the State Of Tennessee-hersafter
He required nothing Of the psst-no retro
spectre oath, such as is embraced in the bill
the minority so stubbornIy resisted. After
being President, in his North Carolina Pro-
cI4mation, be fully stands on The same
ground Of his Union friends IN Tennessee
10 allow all 70 vote who would swear ale
glance to the United States. What higher
test did any Government ever require2 So
Andrew johnson is clearly against the rad
zeal members, and no one knows it better
than they do. Two-thirds CT the men who
voted in February, 1865, for the amended
Constitution, and in March, 1865, for Gov
ernor and members of the Legislature,
voted under this prospective oath Of Andrea
Johnson, and had been more or less impli-
Gated in the rebellion, or symPathized for
the Coniederacy.
The oath Of allegiance was the test, and
TO leave the pledge out, they were 20 more
Union men than their sons and neighbors
in the Confederate army at that time, many
Of whom had been gotten into the service by
these voters. These voters were honest men,
aud wanted peace, union and prosperity
to bury the past and live for the future.
At the meeting Of the Legislature in April,
1865, the Lunatic Asylum and P~enitentiary
were in good condition, being kept up main
Iy by the State taxes, collected by Governor
johnson from NaSAOiIlc and Memphis, the
centres Of Middle and West Tennessee wealth.
The State bonds, to place the railroad com
panies on their legs again, was authorized
at the fall session Of 1865, and was voted for
BY all the resigniug members.
The money in the Treasury in April,
1863, was nearly all derived from Middle
and West Tennessee, from Nashville and
Memphis, as Comptroller Fowler's reports
show. This money paid the Legislature,
etc. There was 10 cone million Of dollars
appropriated out of the revenue bill for
! Common Schools IL was voted on a con-
tiugeucy which every sensible member knew
asrer gould happen.
The Bank of Tennessee has been put in
liquidation by this radical majority, to ben
| eft the debtor as against the crcditoro Of the
Bank, and to a reputation Of its notes in
payInea. Of taxes. For this breach Of faith
the radicals viii have to answer before the
people. The P~euitentiary ought to be, and
is, if well managed, s~elf-supportiDg, and
the minority never were willing to put it on
any other footing. 1t ought to pay ex-
peuses.
Appropriations for the Luuatic Asylum
and the Blind School at Knoxville, have
been made by act Of 1865, ior the pres
eat year.
Provision for the payment Of the interest
on the public debt is now the law, and We
already have a large revenue law by which
to meet all liabilities. Hence all these
charges IN The address signed by the radi-
cas-, SO called, falls harmlessly to the
ground. II they know anything they do
/ kCow the truth Of the above statements but
/ it is not convenient Tor them to confess it
until the March election is over.
In June, 1863, they passed a franchise
bill. Having tried it, they discover they
cannot be elected under it, as they thought.
Now they seek 10 take Glgay the elective
franchise, from citizens On whom they have
conferred it, which, being crP0st JacE0, can
not be done, constjtutionaIly. It is a vested
! right in these voters, and cannot be taken
from them, except by Judicial, and not by
Legislature process. These are stubborn facts.
The State credit will be maintained by
issuing no more bonds. The stopping Of
the leg slativo wheels no more affects the
price OF State bonds than an adjournment
Of tho General Assembly SINE die.
When the people are told Of the 81, 500, 900
/ State pension bill bonds TO be sold, and
money derived thereirom placed in the
hands of a person appointed by the Cover
nor,-which will be passed by the Radicals
the SI0O,O 900 bonds to purchase an execu-
tive mansion, and the millions to be voted
away TO wild railroad and oiling interests,
which bonds are to be thrown on the
market-people of reflection will ssk, odd
not the minority Of resiguiug members do
right to prevent a depreciation in the price
of the bonds already issued-bonds TO be
paid by the State only, in the event Of fail
uro boy the railroad companies-which viii
never happen, as they viii meet every de-
maud. Not 30 with the 81 1905 900 Pension
State Bond Bill, Of AmeI a Co. The State
has 10 90 pay, absolutely, without any coudj-
t.ous, and to pay the yearly interest Of $780,
600. The payment of the interest on these
bonds, and The bonds themselves, at matu-
rty, have TO be paid by the people of Mid
aIo and West Tennessee, mainly; whilst
East Tennessee gets the money, mainly, |
money paid by the sweat and toll of the
-5ts.ranohtssd white men, and the labor Of
the free cal5rcd men OF Middle and West
/ Tennessee.
Under our Constitution free persons Of
color arc not allowed 70 vote, and are there
] fore gyrmutCi from rayIugs poll tax, and /
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their own ueighbars aad kiudred-and COM
nal fBsm f., nav taxes. etc.
Al .,u--,- -,o,-. D., ,, n, !
majority of the me, 81, voting. are Ms much
or more guilty. chan their own race they
revenge, Oh temporal az m5resl
Every member has a right TO resign when
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