The Placer herald., 1867-01-26
What are They-..States or Territories.

"Congress will meet next Monday. The
Enquirer apologies for calling it Congress
1t says that Constitutional Congress requirl
ers the representation Of all the States.
That is So and all the States will be represen.
ted. There are ten territories in the region
Of The gulf that will not be represented sim,
ply because they put so much faith in Andy
and the Democracy that they have not been
readmitted into the Union.- Cincinnati
Times"
If the Southern States are nothing but
Territories, will The Times explain few facts
/. Why were the members from Louisiana
one Of the alleged Territories, admitted by
the House Of Represen,a ,atives to seats in that
body, where they acted and voted in 1864
and 1865. One Of these members, Mr.. Hahn,
has been since chosen United States Senator!
and is now applying for admission into Com
gress. Is he not so much entitled to sit in
the Senate in 1866, after the war is over and
after Louisiana submits to the Federal Cow
ernmeut, as he was in 1864 to sit in the
House, when the war WAS progressing and
the people were resisting the United States
laws? Was the state 10 the Union in 1854
and out in 1866?
g. Why was Andrew johnson permitted TO
sit as Senator from Tennessee for two years
after the State, according to the Times the.
ory, had ceased to exist and became a terri
tory? Are Territorys ever represented in the
United States Senate! Will the Times tell
US when Tennessee ceased to be a State and
took the position of Territory
g. Why were members Of Congress from
Virginia admitted to their seats during the
war if the "old Dvminion' was then Terri,
tory?
f. Why did Congress- in 1862 and 1868,
pass An appo,tionnent law, assigning to the
seeded States their quota of members of
Congress, and why did Mr.. Lincoln, as Pres'
ident, approve of such an enactment, it, in
their judgement, these States were Territories
Was the Radical President then mistaken,
in their view Of the relation Of the South
to the Union? If So when did they get new
Iigh,9
S. The Judges of the United States Supreme
Courts never hold their Courts in the Terri,
tories-they do not form part OF of their
circuits-yet it is proposed to try jeff. Davis
in Virginia, thus showing that it can not be
Territory in bis opinion. Furthermore the
Court has held cases on appeal from the
Southern States Courts, thus recognizing their
Statehood in the most official manner.
g. If the Southern States had ceased to ex'
ist as such States, why did the Baltimore Re-
publican Convention that nominated Lincoln
and Johnson for president and Vice president
admit delegates from them to act and vote
with other States on the floor? If the South
ern States are good enough States to help
Republican President and Vice president
in their conventions ought the Congressional
nominees of such conventions to exclude
hem from their delegations?
7. Does the Times recoIlect the celebra-
ted Crittenden Resolution, passed by Con-
gress in July, 1851, which recognized the
existence of the Southern States as members
of the Union in the strongest and most EN-.
phatc languagel This resolution was voted
ior by all the Republican members Of Con-
gress. In voting for it did they vote lie.
or were they mistaken
8. lfa State, by its own motion, can cut
:sunder the tie which binds it to the Union
and cease 10 be State, must it not be upon
the doctrine that State, has a right to
secede? Does the Times hold to this doc.
trine?
8. II a portion of the people Of Ohio
should, acting through the machinery Of
State Government, resist and defy the Fed
eral authority in our limits for one week,
would that remand us TO the condition OF
Territory and deprive US Of representation 10