Maryland free press., 1866-12-27
what are they-states or Territories

Congress will NEE next Monday. The "En-
quirer" apologies for calling it Congress. II
says that a Constitutional Congress requires the
representation of all the States. That is so, and
all the States will be represented. There are ten
territories in the region of the gulf that will not
be represented, simply because they put SO much
faith in Andy and the Democracy that they have
not been rcadmitted into the Union. - C.ncinna.
If the Southern States are nothing bu
Territories, will the "rimes' explain a few
facts?
!. Why were the m embers from Louisiana,
one of the alleged Territories, admitted by the
House of Representatives to seats in that body,
where they acted and voted in 1854 and 1858?
One of these members, Mr.. Hahn, has been since
chosen United States Senator, and is now ap-
plying for admission into Congress Is he not
as much entitled to sit in the Senate in 1866, af
Ter the war is over, AMI after Louisiana submits
to the Federal Government, as he was in !sG5 TO
sit in the House. when the war was pr . grcssin
and the people were resisting the United States
laws? Was the State in the Union in 1861 and
out in 1866?
8. Why was Andrew johnson permitted TO sill
as a Senator CIom Tennessee for two Eyears after
the State, according to the TINES theory, bad
ceased to exist and became a territory2 Are
Territories ever represented in the Uuited States
Senate? Will the Times tell us when Tennessee
ceased to be State and took the position of a
Territory? %. ... ......
.. Why were members of Congress from Vir-
ginia admitted to their seats during the war if
the "oid Dominion" was then Territory?
A. Why did Congress, in 1862 and 1863, pass
an apportonmcnt law, assigning to the seeded
States their quota Of members of Congress, and
why did Mr. Lincoln as President, approve of
such an enactment, if in their Judgment, these
States were Territories? Was the radical Pres-
dert then mistaken in their view of the relations
of the South to the Union? Ifso, when did they
get new light?
8. The Judges of the United States Supreme
Court never hold their Courts in the Territories
they do not form part OF their circuits-yet
it is proposed by the Chief Justice ere long to try
JEFF Davis in Virginia, this showing that it can
not be Territory in his opinion. Furthermore
the Court har held cases on appeal fron the
Southern States Courts, thus recognizing their
Statehood the most official manner.
G. If the Southern States had ceased to exist
rs such States, why did The Baltimore Rrpubli-
can Convention that nominated Lincoln and
johnson for President and Vice President, ad-
nit delegates from them 10 act and vote with the
other States on the floor? Ifthe Southern Sta tes
are good enough States TO help nominate Re-
publican President aud Vicc-presidcnt IN their
convention ought the Congressional noaiuess
of such conventions to exclude them from their
delegations?
T. Does the Times recollect the celebrated
Crittendcn Resolution, passed by Congress in
July, 1861, which recognized the existence ofthe
Southern States rs members of the Union in the
strongest and most emphatic language? This
esoution was voted for by all the Republican
members of Congress. In voting for it did they
vote lie, or where they mistaken?
8. ia State, by its own motion, can cut asun-
der the tie which binds it to the Union and cease
to be State, has right to secede? Does the
Times hold to this doctrine?.
y. IL poruoh Oh tue people OF Ohlo should,
acting through the machinery of a State Gov
crnment resist and defy the Federal authority
in our limits for one week. would that remand
us to the condition of u Territory and deprive us
of representation in Congress? If one week sue,
cessful resistance would not, would month OF
year do so? Is it, question of time, and if SO
what time?
s.We should like to hear the learned expounder
of the Times on these points that we have sug.
ESq.