The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-31
CHAR j Z TON
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 81, 1856
WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATES

WHAT Constitutes A STATES
We shall not answer the question in Sir W IL
r1.4 jones' sublime ard thrilling lines. Thcy
would be out of place at this day and in this coun-
try. We only propose making some observations
and i,stituting q few comparisons, suggested W
the events passing around u.s. Beioie Sne WIZ No
raonc chit we had some idea CT what were the neces-
sary prerequisites to Territory becoming q o1a'e
of tbis Union. Now We must confess our ignorance
on all these points; nay, we do not even Know 1ne
nnmber OF States that at present comprise thls
Union. whether twenty-sx, thrty-slx, or thirts-
eight. II tbs sDistricts" lately known as the she-
bo1 States are counted there thirtyslx, we DC
Eove. in al; and if Nebraska and Colorado are
made States, in spite of themselves and over INC
prea;dcnrs. veto, We shall have thfrty-eight. And
If 40. the Presidents prediction, contained IN nus
recent veto message, will doubtless Do lunnea'
and we shall soon hear Of the States OF ldaho'
Nevada, Dacotah, Washington, Arlzona' etc., ete.'
for the ssconsent OF the governed" appears to DO
no longer n consideration with our ia"-nakers Ut
| washington. Given the rnerest Radical foothold
in State or Territory, the fantest hope OF olect-
mo two Radical Senators and q ditto Representa-
tive. and the Territory at once becomes a state,
whether q majority Of the population Of said Ter
rtory desire it or not II the snation" must have
Territories why let the estates lately in rebelon
OCCUPY that position, at least until they are coll
yerted from the error Of their ways, and shall nave
entirely abjured their late and present political
| horesy.
! But let us see how this process of regeneration
| =. 1,o Uory
fairly in operation. Fortunately we are not VIII
out an example. The State OF Tennessee affords
! most lan.entable illustration. We all remember
her history during the war. There, alone OF all
the States of our late Confederacy, tho reVoluton
j assumed the form of civil war. The population
| OF East Tennessee was hostile to the Southern
cause, and the bittereet feelings, in many cases
/ the most malignant hatred, were engendered be-
tween former friends and neighbors. With the end
of the war, there was, unfortunately, not M end
to strife. There is to-day no safety in East len
nessee for an e1-Confederato. He has not the
shadow of chance to obtain justice at the courts
| of the country. This assertion is based upon the
| testimony of an impartial witness. A few weeks
ago We republished in TIE NEWS along letter from
the Knoxville correspondence Of the N. !. Isnaes,
i giving Iue luuesb p11 1tlSeaseAo " VIZ 0oAAs- y
affairs in East Tennessee
! We deeply regret that this should be,the caso,
but cannot be surprised at it. With BRowNL6W
for Governor, one Of the most violent, malignant
and unscrupulous political fanatics the world has
ever known,-four- -ffths IT the people disfran-
chised and Radical emissarics continually at work
20 keep up and fonent this strife, and Radical SUBJ
sidios sent there to defrs5 the expenses OF such
| aeitston,-the result cannot be otherwise. Yet
Tennessee is held up to us by our Northern breth-
ren as the model of Southern Republicanism, the
pattern we must all follow.
How the constitutional Amendment was passed
last summer by the Legislature Of Tennessee, our
readers all doubtless remember. s.Brigadier-Gea-
oral" BRowN1ow is quite competent, and certainly
not too squeamish, to pick him Legislature OF
the s'rsht sort" and enforcs the presence Of OBJ
streperous members, in order to have quorura.
The Radical leaders need but tell him what is
wanted at any time, and he will find the ways and
means to accomplish it, BRowNLow will be for
midable rival to B. F. BUTLER at the next Prosi-
Dental election.
It was this same Legislature that voted and
recently presented medal to Gen. THOMAS for his
gallant defence OF Nashville The newspapers tell
us that tho day it was presented was Observed ms
great Jubilee in the loyal city Of Nashville. BY
parity of reasoning lis fair to infer that when We
shall be estate our Legislature will vote medals
to Gen. GILMORE for procuring those lSwamp]
angels Visits for Charleston though they were
neither few nor far between,-aAd to Gen. SaER-
MAN for his gallant defence OF our capitol. But
We hope the name Of South Carolina will DO botttd
out before that day arrives. We shall prefer to
read Of South Carolina il her glorious past and lot
the new Radical miscegenatod Legislature have
some other namo for the reconstructed State
But let us look q littlo moro closely into the
modus operamdi Of this political regeneration.
9ow is it DONE Meetings arc held in out OF the
way places, in the dead hours of nght-a strict
watch kept at the door to admit none but the in
itiated. Four or five whites and twenty-five or
thirty colored freedm,n compose the assembly.
Of TIC whites present, not oie, probably, will bo
found to be to tho manor born. They are stran-
gers all-come here for the purposes of private
gain. We deny them not the rights Of citizenship,
nor equal rights OF any kind; but we must think it
preposterous for a few strangers, ignorant Of the
wants or wishes of our people, and cortainly not
IN sympathy with any part of them, to presume to
to 100000 of their fellow citizens, tho real people
Of the State, what their iaws ETC., shall be. We
know not what is the legal deanitioi OF conspi-
racy; but, to our unlearned mind, this procedure
looks precisely like plot, or what we understand
by the term conspiracy. petition is drawn up
it may be by a colored lawyer, or it may be by a
white missionary--the petition is numcrously
signed ind sent to Washington. Mr.. SUMNER rises |
in the Senate, and presents tho petition of numc I
respectable and highly influential citizens OF
South Carolina, asking that Congress establish |
Republican form Of government in that State. He /
will then pull forth several letters out of his left
side coat pocket, which he has just received from
republican friends residing in Charleston, which t
corroborate every statement set forth in The petit
ton, ETC., etc.
We should like to know how much money has
been sent here for this political converting pur-
pose. Itseems to be taken for granted at the
North that Radical votes cannot be had without
money. The following, in regard to Tennessee,
is from recent editorial article in the New Turk
Eueatng Post,-one of tho most moderate If
Radical papers and our readers will see from sls
extract that neither our f,ars suspicious lor s4er
tions, are groundless:
Tennessee is for away from us. Orr people arc
not familiar with all the Details OF tho struggle for
political ascendency which has Lcen going on
there. But it is necessary that wo should take q
lively interest in it. Money is needed there, for
the, support Of the loyal press, which arc vigor-
ously and ably conducted; our ablest and most
effective public speakers should 60 down there to
address the people; Northern journals and docy-
ments should be sent down there to all who will
read in short, it is the duty as it is the interest
Of the Republican party, to mako Tennessee, dur
ing this winter, spring and summer, the intelec-
tual battle-ground on which, with voice and pen.
ne may assert and maintain the ideas which must
prevail over the greatest part of this country be-
fore we can have real peace, and which are there
the direct issues in tie political canvass. In Ten
nessee we lave an opportunity to assert republi-
can principles before the Southern people by our
ablest speakers and writer's. We trust tho ener-
gies of the Republican organization viii be- turned
In TINT direction, and tina. between now and next