North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-09-05

| I'LL tH0 resi- NY tHc OlTeCIOTy. (UIODe 4.
When again, on the 18th of December
Mr.. Raymond presented the credentials OF
the Tennessee members, Mr.. Stevens waiv-
ed him to the committee which he had too
fatally helped to erect Said Mr.. Stevens:
'The State of Tennessee is not known to
this House nor to Congress" BY vot
of 1872 Republicans to 35, Tennessee was
committed to the Morgue for some 8 m 'nths
before her friends recognized her as the
old familiar State of jackson and John
| son.
On the 18th of December, 1866, Mr.,
Guthrie made an attempt to bring in the
Louisiana Senators but it was folded by
Mr.. Grimes. On the i4th Mr.. Wilson, in
the House, offered a resolution, sending all
the papers he could into the grave dug by
the caucus for the States. A Republican
member, Mr.. Davis, with great simplicity,
inquired whether it was in order to pass a
resolution like that for the Committee OF
Fifteen, in conflict with the Constitution.
Laughter. This naivete produced an
outburst of Radical laughter and it SEEM
ed by the vote that followed that it was
considered in order to abolish the Consti-
tuition. The directory were sustained
| l07 to So. Again, on the 18th, Clay
Smith presented loyal soldier, with his
credentials from Arkansas, for admission
He found himself quickly, with his friend,
in "the cold obstruction of the grove" and
earth piled upon him until his utterance
was choked, by the previous question:
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After three days, to wit, OH the 2lst of
December, the hand of resurrection seemed
to be at work scraping away the inhospita-
bic earth. (Laughter.) Clay Smith reach
es from the sepulchre, with skinny fingers,
shakes the "great seal of the State of Ar
kansas" page ll6] on the face of the
House, and "begs the poor boon for his
friend Col. Johnson, member elect, of be-
ing recognized as gentleman, Qaughter,) J
and claimant by sitting on the floor !"
Even this grace was denied him, and Clay
became again, with his friend, of the earth,
earthly. This recognition of genuity un-
der such plausible introduction was with
held! Nothing discomfitted, the member
from Kentucky attempts to withdraw Ten
nessee from the directory and send her to
the more sprightly committee on Elections
Up ll6; j but shovel full of gravel from
the infexible Sexton, Thaddeus Stevens,
settled the spasmodic effort He, subsid-
ing until the 18th ofFebruary, 1866, (page
8l2, when he again makes post-mortem
attempt; but seventy-eight Radicals, with
an energy which would have made an i'm
preston upon a cornfeld, or a canal, united
their shpvels, and raised mound over his
perturbed spirit. Qaughter.) Singular
spectacel Dead and not dead alive, and
vet not alive; entomed. yet ever restless
What absurdities! Consider. On the
18th of 'tay, 1862, Vest Virginia was ad.
mitted, in pursuance of a clause of the
Constitution, which required that the Leg
islature of the State of Virginia should give
its consent; yet when Virginia comes to
be represented, she is not State! An
drew johnson, proclaimed Vice President,
from the State of Tennessee, by Vice Pres
idenf Hamlin. on the 18th of February.
1866. when President, 10 J! is from no
State in the Union! BY the law of 1862,
all these dead States are taxed as States by
a direct tax By the decision of the United
States Courts, first, in the case of the Cir
cassion from Florida; and secondly. in
Harvey against Tyler, from Virginia, by
Justice Miller, these States were held to
be vital in every part. By the sneeches
and proclamations of President Lincoln.
by his appointment to federal offices in
these States, the fallacy Of their death by
suicide Is secuted. Surely these iackals
wish to consider their prey dead, that they
may fatten on them, to whet and gorge
their appetite for power and plunder.--
[Cheers. Dead for representation, but
alive for taxes Cheers Dead for
President, but alive for Vice! Alive
for dividing old Virginia, but dead when
Virginia is link in the Gordon of the
UEion! Alive to walk outside the Cap
itoi, but dead when they ask to be admit
ted to its equal honors So it goes on to
the end of the session. But at last radical
ism grew anxious an exposition ofthese
incongruities, The people are not salts
fed Even some Republicans grew anx-
ious, l find Mr.. Davis of New York in
Producing bill making it an offense to Gre
ate Jacobin clubs to control Congress. (47D
On the 18th of December, 1865, Mr.. Ste
vens propounded in speech his PROPOSE
tion for the government of the conquered
provinces, as he styled them. (74.j Con-
gress, he held, was sovereign, and it was
time she should assert something of the
dignity of a Roman Senate" [ Laughter.
Denying that this was white mans gov
ernment, as political blasphemy, he pre-
ferred that the slaves should have been
left in bondage, rather than free without
suffrage. "A white mans government"
he exclaimed, sis as atrocious as the infa.
nous sentiments that damned the late
Chief Justice to everlasting fame. ifnot to
everlasting fire, This exposition seemed
a poor excuse for exclu ling States re-
deemed from secession by blood. ,. .,
On the 18th of December. 1865, this