Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1867-01-08

! WASHINGTON NEWS.
WARRINGTON, January G-The Grand Lodg
Of Virginia recognizes the Union Lodge of Alex
andria, heretofore working under dispensatio1
from the Grand Lodge of the District Of Columbia
and heretofore held TO be caudsstine.
! Thad. Stevens leaves tomorrow night for liar
rsburg to be present at the senatorial election th
result Of which is considered doubtful.
The Texan members of Congress will publish il
to-inorrow's Inteiligencer, five columns Of an nd
dress to the people of the United Statea, setting
forth the condition of Texan affairs, the loyalty o.
its population and the reasons for her admission.
Notwithstanding tho action of the Caucus last
night many Republicans urge the presentation OF
Ashley's resolution and its pressure to vote to-
morrow.
Prominent Southern Union men, who returned
| tonight from tour of inspection through Tennes
see, Georgia and the Caroinas, represent that the
| sntipathy to the amendment is almost universal
and there is general disposition to abandon poll
tics and not oven send Senators or Representatives
ment Of material prosperity.
| A petition to the President in behalf Of Edwin
Spanglor, at the Dry Torugas Zone of the assassin
conspirators sets forth that the evidence agains,
him before the military commission was feeble
and contradictory, and many witnesses were de-
tered from tcstfyng in his behalf from the prevail
ing terror.
the hearty approval of the Cabinet, except Secre-
tary Stanton who believes that the bill is corsti-
| tutional.
| ADDRESS OF THE TEXANS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Tho address of the Toxan
Congressional delegation to the American people,
sketches the formation Of the Republic OF Texas
and its incorporation into the Union says that Its
subsequent secession WINS due to conflicting inter
pretations of the Constituton-one class affirming
| That the General Government was the creation OF
the States which could withdraw from tho Govern
ment when it was no longer acceptable; the Other
declaring its formation the act OF tho people OF the
United ststcs, from whicl, no section could wltn-
| draw. 1t is claimed that the weaker party sought
to withdraw from tho Union, not 10 prevent the
Northern States from retaining their government
over themselves with thoir own construction, bu,
10 ensure its preservation as to the Southern States
as they understood it. In tho warlikc struggle
which ensl,ed the South was overcome, and thu
address gives history the Presidents efforts at re.
construction, and says that the laws OF tho United
States are being executed within its limits without
hndrance or resistance from the people tho State
authorities.
! The Federal army is on our frontier for tho pro-
lection of tho Federal posts tho judiciary arc por.
forming their functions; tho United States mails
are being carried all over tho State tho navy is
protecting our commerce; the officers OF customs
and internal revenue nrc doing their duty, and the
people paying duties and taxes rs in other States
| What moro could be said Of the people Of Now
York and Ohio, except that they have their Scna-
tors and Representatives in Congress 10 speak for
and represent the rights interests and necessities
of their States, &C. The reasons for exclusion arc
to DO gathered from the debates and measures p,
posed in Congress and the public discussions else
| whero rather than specific legislative action.
The injustice of this course is apparent. 1t
leaves tho people of Texas in the dark as TO what
il really asked OF them. The adoption OF tho pro-
posed Constitutional amendment il pronounced by
some to be sufficient to insure reGdmssion, though
this is contruvcred by many in leading positions.
We are told that, though Texas may submit 10 the
Constitutional Amendment, she will never become
party to her own humiliation. If tho exclusion
be justified on the ground that il sauthorized by
the clause respecting each House judging of tho
qualifications of its members, Congressional ma
ority might override tho will of the people ola State
To the intimation that Texas ia diseyal, it is re-
! piled that that assumption establishes tho prccc-
dent that Congressional majority might charge
the reLellious temper OF the people of State as
reason for perpctuating injustice. As it is, thu
voice Of Texas is not heard in her own defence and
again, no greater wrong can be dono n community
thar to Judge its character by isolated expressions
or acts. Such statements come not from the Presi-
dent, the Generalin Chief, the authorized agent.
of tho government, but from small discontinued
faction and searching enquiry to the true state
of affairs ia solicited. The people are claimed to be
loyal to the government and intensely anxious that
sectional strife should cease.
| WASHINGTON, January IA message from thC
President in answer to call from the House fol
the correspondence relative to the joint occupancy
| of tho Island Of San Juan and Washington Terri
tory, says it is not deemed admissible mt the pre-.
sent juncture Of affairs to communicate The corre-
spendence. This correspondence covers the fifty
| four-forty or heht-cpoch.