Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
TIE RINK INJUSTICE OF CONGRESS-
TOWARD TENNESSEE


TOWARD TENNESSEE.
If there had been no other great example |
OF crying injustice perpetrated by the radicals |
in Congress under the lead of two or three |
impracticables, than the arbitrary exclusion |
from the halls of the National Capitol of the
loyal representatives of tennessee that alone,
as a specimen of short sighted and foolish |
tyranny, giving the keynote as it has to all
that has been done since, was enough to have
made discreet loyalists lose faith in them, as
utterly untitled by their narrow views to deal
with the complications of the hour The men |
thus ungraciously and without the color of |
law or wisdom shut out, were those VINO of all |
Others chad borne the burden and heat of the |
day." had encountered personal perils and |
braved revolutionary excuses, as scarcely any
other similar body of men, of the same mum.
bers, had done IN the whole land; and who, |
clngng to the ark of the Constitution, and
exercising perfectly noble faith in the final
justice of government and people, justly ex-
pected that when the conflict was ended, their
services to the Union would be honorably &C.
knowledged, and they be permitted to speak
for the State which they had done so much to
redeem from the folly of secession, and all
the woes which followed in its train.
But when they made their appearance at
the Capitol, these men who should have been
received with reclamation, with outStretched
hands, found that wonderful change had
begun. The very men who, when the Govern.
ment was in peril, looked all over the South
to find and applaud any example of devotion
to the Union, no longer needed their aid, par
ticularly. The fact that there was such a
thing as Unionism in the South on which to
base appeals against Wholesale sectionalism
was not, at last, essential; and become mas
tiers of the situation by the confidence of the
people IN their patriotism, they were tempted
to play game for continued power, begun in
the interests of q restored nationality and of
peace. AScertaining that the new Federal
Executive was a man Of his own convictions
and purposes, ii became needful to hunt up
something TO hold him in check: and what
more obvious to little minds to contracted
partizanship, than to shut out his own State
from the national councils and in doing so. to |
get up some pretext by which his own people |
might be made TO blame him for the exclusion |
from the halls of Congress of their immediate |
representatives.
These astute managers ''reckoned without |
their host" With some men, all this might
have answered; but Andrew johnson was not
the one to compromise the interests of the |
whole, by concessions to a moiety. He
sternly and rightfully resisted the miserable
attempt at coercion, leaving the radical leaders
IN their angry disappointment to acknowledge
that they kept Tennessee out to spite him.
Now, in view of facts so patent to the nation
and to the world; in view of the papabe
wrong done the nation in its progress towards
restoration, it is the duty of the people to re-
buke selfish partizanship so glaring, wrong
doing so fragrant. These men have not trusted
the President, from the very first; and when
they attempt to ride over him, to browoeat
him, to punish great commonwealth because
in doing so they think to wound him, the
whole nation should frown upon conduct so
inexcusable, and appeal to the case of Ten
nessee as to the climax of injustice and I'M
policy.
And suppose now that they were to admit
tennessee at the eleventh hour, after all this
prevarication, and double dealing, and display
of httleness! Is it IN human nature to sup.
pose that they have made cordial associates, |
friends of the true men whose position and |
services as loyalists have been so tardily and
ungraciously acknowledged? Have they not,
with foolishness unparalleled, done what
they could to drive them into the ranks of the
opposition, to make of them determined CD.
ponents? The folly is unparalleled, we re-
peat; and when Congress has adjourned, and
the hot diatribes of the Pennsylvania Thersites
have died away and been forgotten, the wiser
men amongst them will fully appreciate the
lack OF wisdom, and lack of independence,
which has permitted them to defer to the bit
fer utterances they should have condemned.
The policy of reconstruction should have
been simple-perfectly direct. Loyalty was
what should have been fostered throughout the
country, North and South. But what is the
wisdom of that management which when I'M
doubted loyalty presents itself as exempliied
by the perils and self denials of men who have
canvassed their districts with pistols a. their
heads and knives at their threats, who have
massed as it were the patriotism of their State.
yet when duly returned by loyal votes are
driven back by comfortable gentlemen in pos
session, who all their lives have found show.
ing OF patriotism both pleasant and proftablel
The country will yet reckon with them for this.
And hnally-what is the spectacle just now
presented? Let these sharp managers take
Que note OF the fact, that the country has long
ago become impatient of conduct such as we
have indicated; and let them once scatter to
their homes; let them once lose the power to
meet in daily and nightly caucus in order to
whip IN the FESTIVE, to pacify the alarmed, and
their power to WELD their forces-scarcely
now hanging together-is gone We have
shown, hitherto that their follies are telling
upon their strength The Nation assails Sum.
ner; and Harper's Weekly Thad. Stevens;
whilst numerous influential prints, hitherto
devoted to the Washington close corporation. |
are manifesting their disgust at the DELAYS and
the follies enacted by it.
Meanwhile, the President will pursue the
course he has marked out for him.
self; and the people will sustain him. They
see the injustice of the treatment toward Ten.
nessee; they penetrate the littleness of the
motives which have governed those who for
SO long period have postponed that peace
the nation fought for, and should have enjoyed
ere this. Given the noblest opportunities
ever bestowed upon men-upon Legislative
body-to benefit great people, they have not
been equal to the task; and when the time
comes for the people to pronounce upon their
course, the latter will send men to the National
Capital who better understand the policy of
giving to US restored Union.
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