The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-08-02
TENNESSEE.

year ago-a certain CLASS eiFtJ DeinS al
lowed to vote---and embraced many
members who did not reside or receive
any votes in the counties they presumed
to represent. The whole number OF
members in the lower House was eighty
four; but fifteen of them, being consid.
cred refractory, were expelled by the
others, and some vacancies existing not
filed, the number left was but fifty six,
exactly two-thirds of full House,
When the Rump Congress had passed
the late amendment 10 the Constitution
it was thought desirable that Tennessee
should be the first TO ratify it, as it was
not likely they would ever get as obso-
quious Legislature again; so pargoa
Brownlow, who acts as Governor there,
issued his proclamation for the Legisla-
ture to meet for the purpo G. Some of
the members, however, were opposed to
it and refused to attend when they
determined to send the sergeant at arms
after them to collect them. In this
way they gathered fifty four in the
House, who were willing to act. Two
more were wanting and they had hard
work to catch them. Capt Williams,
of East Tennessee, was finally brought
by white man and negro from his
home, two hundred miles to Nashville,
and taken under custody, with Mr. Mar.
tin, another recusant, 10 a committee
room Of the House. Still refusing to
act, or to vote, tho House concluded to
consider there was quorum now pres
ent, and majority Of tho alleged quo.
ram OBJ to I'D proceeded 10 ratiiy the
amendment--thc Senate having prcyi-
ously passed IT, Before this, Capt.
Williams had suede a writ Of fIabeas
Corpus before Judge Frasier, who dis
charged him from the custody of the
officers of the House, but not until they
had got the amendment passed.
We should have stated, that Brown
low first applied to Gen Thomas for tho
use of the military 10 compel the atten-
dance Of members, which President
johnson promptly stopped As soon as
the vote was taken Brownlow sent his
blackguard dispatch 10 the Senate Of
the United States aud since then, both
Houses Of Congress have agreed to adj.
NIT Tennessee into the Union The
Representatives from Tennessee have
since taken the oath aud been admitted
10 their seats Sooue Rebel State. with
the consent Of Congress, has got into
the Union. We fear, at that rate, it
will be a long time before the Union is
restored, unless the Radical majority is
soon wiped cut Of Congress
We quote the following from the
Nat IaicHyeaecr, il regard to the Pres.
ident's late Message on this subject:
As was predicted in the iahHiyencr
yesterday, President johnson has sore.
" disappointed tho Rcvolutionists in
Congress by promptly signing the joint
resolution for the restoration Of Tonnes.
sec TO cher former propcr practical re.
lations to the Union In returning
this resolution with his signature he
has accompanied it with a message Of
explanation which conveys the scycr-
est rcbukc yet administered 70 Congress
for its triGine with subjects Of vital i'm.
portancc 10 the country This message
exhibits in a strong and clear light the
absurdity Of resortiu2 10 preamble
and joint resolution 70 effect what could
much moro easily have been done hy
simple motion in each House Of Con.
grcss He reminds these Congrcs-iou.
al triRery that, Notwithstanding al their
eight months dcliberation, Tennessee,
aud al the other Southern States, we're
actually restored, by Executive pro.
cccdiugs, to "iormcr proper practical
relations 10 the Union, when this res.
sion of Congress commenced. and noth-
ing remained 10 be done to complete the
restoration Of union aud harmony
throughout the Republic except the
admission into Congress Of the Senators
aud Representatives OF the States lately
in rebellion With scathiug bfeviiy he
points out the ridiculous Inconsistency
Of Congress, in refusing to admit these
Senators and Representatives until their
States have been restored TO the Union
"by the consent Of the aw.making pow.
cr," while, at the same time, these law
makers treated these identical States as
sufficiently restored, without that con
sent, to exercise the highest functions
of State in the Union, by participa-
ting in the amendment Of the Federal
Constitution. The message is a humil-
iating exposition Of the Congressional
in congruities, Inconsistencies, and ridi-
culou,ly vain prctensions aud unauthori-
zed assumptions. Waving, however,
all these matters, aud emphatically
his dissent with the dogmas
and false premises Of the silly preamble
and resolution, Mr. johnson, earnestly
desiring to remove every cause Of fur
Their delay in the admission of these
Representatives, has affixed his sigma
ture to the resolution.
In signing the resolution with this
the President has complete
ly outaanked the Disunion faction in
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