New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-23
TRNNEasRK RRATORED.

TRNNEssRB RESTORED.
| The Senate OF the United States, alter long ana
earnest discussion passed Saturday the following:
Whereas In the year sj tho Government OF the State a
Tennessee 'eed and taken possession o. b rs"ns
state pursuance Of an act Of Congress were declared 70
be 10 state Of insnrecton against the United states ana
U1uGa Said State Government can only be restored u us
former political relations In the Union by the consent oil the
| law masing power OF the United States; and
The people Of the said state did on The sad day OF
February lr65 BY large popular vote adopt and ratip
and and 4 and debts contracted
uader the dcr red hull and yoidi and
said Consultation which has ratified tho amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States aboshing Slavery and ao
the amendment proposed by the Thirty ninh CONGRESS and
has done other acts rocaimins and denotng loyalty thefe
R;orsd by House of Representative. Of the
United States Congress assembled that the State Of Ten
tons to te Union and again entitled be represented by
Senators aud Representatives In CongreAs
Though four votes two Democratic, two Republic
| can) were cast in the negative, none of them ndi-
Gated opposition to the measure Messrs. Sumner and
Brown voted Nay, simply because the Blacks OF Ten
nessee were not allowed to vote; Messrs. Buckalew
and McDougal object to the preamble, not the resolve
There Is no member Of either House, and no party
any where averse 10 the restoration of Tennessee, or
of any other State lately in arms against tho Union.
There exist grave differences with regard to the terms
whereon such restoration should be eected there
none who wish il postponed aided; and they who
assert the contrary are willful cs!umniators.
As there is no doubt that tho merely verbal differ
ence between the two Houses will be reconciled to-
day. and the Senators and Representatives Oh Tennes'
see sworn in before tomorrow night, those who nave
been most camorous for her instant, uncondltionni
restoration, already begin to back water One OF our
City Democratic journals tn. Sunday Mersy) already
says:
THE delegates thus TO be admitted elected under the
g If The ouuation Of the State The Radical scheme Of
reorganization is to cnanchse The negroes and exclude 'e
proposed that oneenth Il the population should organ new
state governments aud rule the other nineenas. Ihu,
few Federal officials could get together form government
elect themselves Offices and and yrannHs over the
acual inhaban. they saw M Then OF 10 Congro
but strictly loyal men and new Tste o. ~ e %
compared which Naples under King Bomba. aud Poland
treaty Of Vienna were lands OF liberty aud their
people pros porous aud contened'
The heaviest vote ever polled in Tennessee ION
Secession, in 1867 l52li3; her vote. for Repre-
sentaves in Congress last year was 81 753. Consd-
erng how fearful have been her losses on both sides
in the late Civil War; it is probable that fully half Of
her White Male Adults voted for members OF this
Congress. So much for the assertion that they repre-
sent but one in fifty of the population Of the State"
The imputation on Mr.. Lincoln is equally inbound
ed What he proposed was that any State which had
been in rebellion might be reorganned and restored
TO her old position whenever her loyal citizens, being
not less than one.tenth Of her entire population,
should see fit TO do So II would Of course suit the
Democratic party better TO have her organized by the
di,loyal but they spurned the idea Of restoration,
and utterly refused 10 vote for representatives in
Congress, being already satisfactorily represented in
Mr. jeff. Dayis's. Mr.. Lncoln's plan may have been
faulty; but, if go IL because he was in too great
hurry for restoration. He devised and promulgated
that plan in the very crisis Of the War; when 1t would
have been alike unsafe and futile to invite the Rebels
10 vote at any other than a Confederate election.
Equally false is the assertion that Congress has
exacted Negro Suffrage Of Tennessee. Only four
Senators supported such exaction; and the vote in
the House was nearly In proportion. We have no
doubt that great majority of the Republicans in
either House ardeny desire that all the loyal people
of the South shall be enfranchised irrespective Of
color; but they have not exacted any thing but this
If any State refuses 10 let its Blacks rOte, then It shall
not count them as basis Of approximation. In other
words: "If you regard and treat negroes as beasts
you shall not count them against us as men," We
deeply regret that Congress did not feel justified in
going further and demanding that ecery right accorded
by any State to any Of her late Rebels shall DC secured
also to her loyal inhabitants oithom exception. 1t
seems to us that a proposition couchod sub
stantially in these words must have commanded the
assent Of nearly every heartily loyal man, whatever
his prejudces or his color. But we have chosen at
this session to walk behind Congress rather than ut
tempt to lead it.
We have not seen fit 10 hurry, and worry. and grum
BILE, because more rapid progress was not made in
the work Of Reconstruction; but we are right glad
that decided progress has at last been made and We
shall hail with satisfaction the full restoration of Ten
nessee terms which every other State lately In re-
volt may accept II she will any shall choose per-
sistently TO stay out, she can blame only herself
In the letter of our Panama correspondent which