North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-09-05
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TUNKHANNOCK PA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1866. n.re4

IcSiucuL COuuTucu Tcu. OTduL State-
ment, that representation would result in
harmonious restoration. This was not
palatable to Congress and the Committee
of Fifteen went to work to obtain counter
testimony from the Covodes, Schurzes and
other morbid people whose impressions
were colored by their politics, and whose
politics were regulated by their pockets
and spite. Mr.. Sumner denounced the
message as whitewashing affair, and on
the goth dragged from bis repertoire all
the accumulations of months written him
by the bureau-crats, cotton stealers and
other agents, who were disg usted with the
Southern people for desiring to oe friend
ly to the Union. Mr.. Sumner pretended
not to speak in sanger vindictiveness, or
harshness oh, no; but "solemnly and
carefully. that peace and reconciliation
should prevail p Thus do words mock
deeds. Mr.. Stevens pretended to no such
Joseph Surface sentiments, when on the
same day in the House (p. 1907 he intro.
duced his bill to wreak out of the DESC
lated South double pensions for soldiers
and pay for damages done to his iron
torges and property of other Northern
loyalists. His was 10 sweet Christian ap-
peal. Laughter. 1t proposed to take
only five hundred millions of what was
left of the South, for the above purposes.
and the remnant left to desolated beartbs
and homes he proposed to apply to the
national debt of the conqueror! In op-
posing the confiscation bills in Congress I
showed that the property of Ireland had
changed under the vengeance of English
confiScation eleven times; but this was
through several hundred years of oppres-
sion. MIR. Stevens proposed yokes of iron,
where Cromwell only proposed yokes of
wood he never brought his proposition
to vote; but | believe that had be en-
forced it by his satanic rhetoric, he might
have obtained in that House majority of
human tigers on the yeas and nays. Aft
er these exhibitions, do not be surprised to
find other sections at work digging other
graves for others Of the Southern States.
On the llth of January, 1866, (Globe,
1882 South Carolina was buried; on the
18th (233) Arkansas On the next day.
Florida, (Sl2;) soon after North Carolina
(66l J on the 7th of February (7l4) Al
ALBANIA, with few more shovelfulls of
dirt thrown in on the 18th 5000 another
effort on Arkansas on the 26th of
February Q,O25,) on motion by Senator
Lane OF Kansas few days after, North
Carolina was doubly buried (1,O83) in
that cemetery for all-the Committee of
Fifteen. On the 4th of June the State
of Mississippi was entombed (2,249) in
the same sweet spo:, and on the 1st of
March 1,l3D Louisiana also, in the per-
son of Senator Boyce.
Meanwhile the directory, which "carried
at its girdle the keys ofthe Union," began
to be cajoled by some Tennessee patriots
of the Brownlow pattern, eager for admis-
sion. On the 9th of March (1.lsO) Mr..
Bingham reported bill declaring Tennes.
see State! on equal footing with other
States !! on condition, however, that her
people would never do certain things which
the fifteen inmaculates thought bad There
was an explosion on this, and the bill was
shelved. 1t lay upon the shelf sleeping,
sweetly embalmed in the frankincense Of
Republican sympathy, until the Goth, when
Mr.. Raymond asked Mr.. Bingham gently,
when he proposed to lead her in, as be
would like to be there to see. He receiv-
ed for reply: Next week, if it was tho
pleasure of the House." On the next day
a member offered to insert little gunpow-
der under the committee U,553) to blow
them open on Tennessee; but that stern
statesman, the Hon. s. NJ. Ashley, poured
on water" and the fuse failed, Laugh
ter.l
Another attempt was made to discharge
the committee (2,1lo,) but the discharge
did not "go off" The speaker ruled the
resolution out of order, and Tennessee still
renamed in the crypt of the Capitol MIR.
Ross of Illinois, on the 26th May, attempt
ed to lit Mr. Maynard in by main force,
but what was that IMAM of Ross" to fif-
teen men! He, too, failed, and the lifeless
skeleton again dropped into its sepulcher,
( (Laughter,) (2,s59)
1t was not until the 10th of July that the
joint resolution admitting Tennessee came
before the House. 1t NO sooner appeared,
lack-luster and shadowy, than Mr.. Ste.
vens endeavored to table it for dissection.
He only got thirty-one 7otes against ninety.
two, but soon after he increased his strength
to forty nine, when NJ. Bingham who still
had charge of it, reported fresh resolu-
ton, superfuous and void as a resolu.
tion and with a lie as its preamble
The preamble recited that :Tennes-
see had ratified the constitutional amend
mcnt of this session, and the resolution
pretended to restore her to those relations,
which she had never forfeited, by a void
secession ordinance. Yet the House voted
the preamble, 81 to 4s e 97e,) in spite of
the truthful men of the House. The reso-
luton was passed with the preamble (s.990)
and the Senate afterwards modifying both
$4,000, Tennessee, by the action of both
houses, became, by some wonderful Rsdi-
cal magic, State, and members elected
more than year before were graciously