The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-17
The New York Observer Sustains
the President.

4 4hS LNSN ODSCEtCE
the President.
! We copy the following able and pa
triotic article from the New York Oh
server, the organ Of the Presbyterian
Church, and one of the ablest and mos
influential papers in the Union. These
words of soberness and truth, coming
from such q source, will have their ef
feet among religious people, and will
have much to do in turning the pop.
; ular tide in favor Of President John.
son. The Observer says:
1t is high time that the Union men
of the whole country made their scnti-
ments known, in a voice Of thunder, at
the doors Of the National Legislature.
With patriotic and intelligent Pres
ident, called to his high place by the
voice Of God and the people the coun-
try is in danger Of having its will de-
feated by the notion Of Congress. 1t is
the right ofthose of us who were uncon-
ditional Union men from the begin
ming, and who have never given place
for an instant to the heresy Of disunion,
should ASSERT the rights that we as Il
majority ofAmercan people, have I'M
der the Constitution, which has now
been established by the sword, as once
more the law of the whole land.
Andrew Johnson was nominated and
elected to the Vice presidency, whence,
in the Providence Of God he has been
elevated to the Presidency, from the
State Of Tennessee. If it was and is
out Of the Union, he was not citizen
Of the United States. Tennessee has,
under all the forms known to our laws,
reasserted her own rights to an equal
standing in the Union with her sister
States, and has sent to her Congress
and ours true and tried Union men,
who like the President, have been true
to the old flag through the long and
bloody war. Those men have right
to go into the Hall of the house of
Representatives, present their creden-
tials, and demand their seats. They
are as fairly entitled to their place as
Andrew Johnson is to his So the
President says and so we say. Mr..
Speaker Collax may as justly be locked
out by the door keeper as Mr.. Repre-
sentative Hawkins who has fought
gallantly on the field of battle for the
right that is now denied him. That
he, and such as he, are refused admis-
sion, is defiance of the Constitution
and laws; a notification by the House
of the law Of the land; Il resistance of
the will Of the people as expressed by
the election Of Mr.. johnson, and by the
ratification olthe Constitution.
This is ahigh ground, but it is tcna.
Bile. 1t does not invade the right of
the House to judge ofthe qualifications
Of its own members. 1t may tender
the loyal oath to each Tennessee del
cgatc, and he must stand or fall by it.
Bat Tennessee has as good a right to-
day to be heard on the floor Of that
House as Massachusetts or New York.
lishc has not sent true Union men,
she can send Others when these now
waiting are found wanting. But she
has the rights, and this awful war has
Dcen all in vain if, in the morning Of
,cace, we are to have the rights of the
)eople tramplcd in the dust by the men '
whom we have 'scnt to rebuild the
shattered walls of our glorious repub- y
ic.
The question, and the only question,
$ the integrity of the Union. Has it
,een dissolved Was secession an
accomplished fact? II not, then the
states are there, and the restored Con-
titution is their protection and the
,ond of our Union. We whose watch
word in all phases Of politics, and all {
disaster and desponding hours Of the '
var, has been, 1.-THE Constitution as it t
5 and the Union as it was will not
bandon that watchword now that peace :,
nd order reign from the st. Lawrence Il
o the Gulf. Y