The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-25
CHI a r L e ST O N.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY as. 1866
THE CONSTITUTIONS FARCE IN TEN
NESSEE

When the citizens of FREQ State adopt or
rntify q Constitution or Unconstitutional
Amendment" for rule and governanc CO to
themselves and their posterity, it is generally
supposed that such action is purely voluntary
ON their part. A free Constitution, adop ted
by members of the Legislature, brought to the
Capitol, and held in their seats by Sergeants-
alarms, is novelty in this or any other
country.
Our readers have already been inform ed
of the trouble Governor BRowNLow had
with his refractory House of Representatives; !;
how he called on the valiant THOMAS for
aid, and how the latter in turn telegraph ed
to MIR. STANTON for instructions. The poor
members of the Tennessee Legislaturc-that
is, those of them ON whom the Radicals
bestoow the Copperhead appslative, were not
secure anywhere. They were hunted up and
down through the State, dragged out of their
beds at night, placed on the cars, and hurried
off to Nashville. Legislative honors Ger.
tainly had bren conferred upon them for th cir
sins. The Radical papers mako sport of
these unlucky wights, as will he seen from
on article on our outside, entitled "a Tonnes
see Short Method"
But all at once comes the telegram from
Parson BRowNLow, that Tennessee has
adopted the Amendment, and immed;atelv
the whole Black Republican tribe, from one
end Of the camp to the other, set up a shout
of triumph and praise. 10 triumphe! hosan-
ma the lost is found, the prodigaI is re-
turned! None of them are over solioitous to
know by what maneuvring quorum was
procured, or how they managed to get Con-
stitutional majority to vote for the amend
ment. The less said about oil this the
better.
Tennessee is q State now! once again in
the glorious Union! and what has she done
in the last few days to merit this privilege,
denied her for over eight months9 Wherein
has she been more honorable than her
sisters,-we who are still standing out in the
cold? But we beg pardon. The question is
not properly framed. We should have said,
what deed of irfamy has of late distinguished
her, to give her this preference An answer
will be found in the record of the late ses-
sion of the Legislature that ratified this
Amendment.
We hold not Tennessee responsible for such
base villainy-such bitter satire on the
cause of civil liberty and free instituti ons
Her true sons those of her children for
of Columbus, Corinth, Murfrees boro, Chloka-
mauga, Kennesaw, Chattahoochie and At
lanta; or ore at home now, MAIN ed for life
perhaps, and prosecuted by the cruel, blood
thirsty minions of BRowNLow. They are oil
disfranohised. The State is in the hands of
the loyal. o. the original loyal,-who
were loyal all through the war.
And who are these men who deserted their
State in her hour of need-and what were
their motives? Cowardly fear impelled
some to hold out against the Confe derncy !;
others took the "Linooin" side, to crafty the
promptings of private malice, and yet others
concluded that this is the side that will pay
best in the end. Very many of these origi-
nal Union men sat ON the fence, till they felt
it safe to show their hands. Many of them
i0 onos"oo'' "n, .or D season, served the
oohio" "-oraoy, and then turned their backs
upon her, like the late Provisional Governor
of North Carolina, Mr.. HOLDEN, who, we are
glad to see, is likely to be rejected by the
Senate for tho consulship of San Salvador
because of his having been q rebel.
The scum Of the land, the offsoourngs oi
civilization, now compose the State A fl
Governor for them is BRowNLow. TO wha
a pass have things come, when the shaping
of the destinies of soverei gn State of near
ly million of inhabitants, have fallen int,
| such hands, Stokes and MAYNARD, wht
may now 60 up by the front stairs, in th'
capital at Washington, did not scruple to re
sort to any and every means, the most un
scrupulous not excepted. But with all tn,
dirty work these prospective Congressmel
were willing to do, and actually did do, fo
their Radical masters,-they never couie
, have succeeded in bringing their State up, o
8 rather down, to the mark of requisite in
? fanny, without the potent aid of that most con
9 summate and dirty blAokgunrd, Parso,
BRowNLow,-the Governor of Tonnesseo
:. save the mark Of this individual we do NO
= like to discourse, feeling that TO do so wer