Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-29

Castallan Springs, so lar as heard from,
polls 80 votes, all for Barry.
The polls are open in but few precincts.
We believe Barry has carried the county.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
senate.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Mr. Ed
munds from the Committee of Conference
on the bill to convey into the Treasury the
proceeds of captured and abandoned
property, presented the report which was
agreed to.
Mr.. Edmunds offered the following reso-
luton which was adopted
Resolved, That the President of the
United States be requested to communicate
to the Senate, whether he has established.
or ordered the establishment of any new
| department since the lst of August, 1867,
and il so, what department or departments,
and under what statute and other authority.
Mr.. Davis offered resolution inquiring
Of the Secretary of the Treasury what
amount of United States bonds is out
standing, of each class, the rate of in
terest, and what each class was worth in
bNAG a. hhN tAiiC ahNy WNiC
Mr.. Sherman suggested il to be impossi-
bic to give that information at a moments
notice.
The resolution was laid over
On motion Of Mr.. Sherman the Senate
took up the report of the Committee on
Conference, on the bill to relieve certain
manufacturers from internal tag, which
was disagreed TO by a vote of23 too.
The Chairman appointed as new Com
mittee on Conference, Messrs. Sherman,
Howard, and Morton.
Mr.. Trumbull called up the bill to re-
lieve the political disabilities of Roderick
K. Butler, of Tennessee.
Mr.. Buckalew took the floor in oppo-
sition, but yielded to motion to adjourn,
and the Senate adjourned to Monday, at i
o'clock.
House of Representatives.
The House considered the bill admitting
Alabama Representatives in Congress.
Mr.. Ashley, of Ohio offered substitute.
Mr.. Kerr of Indiana, opposed the bill.
Mr.. Kerr declared if the State of Ala.
bama was admitted into the Union under
the law, and with the shackes which
the last section imposed upon her, she
could never stand up in the family of the
republic and say she was an equal sister
She would come with the brand of degra-
datiOn upon her, and they were told this
was to be government republican in form.
1t was government which the people of
Alabama despised, which they loathed and
which they rejected in every way left to
them by military despotism, in which TO
express their feelings. He then criticised
various portions of the bill.
Mr.. Paine spoke in advocacy of the
bill, replying to some objections made by
Mr.. Kerr. He thought it favored white
Rebels in allowing them political power at
all. 1t would have been right and inst, if
it had been deemed expedient, to withhold
absolutely from them all political power :;
and he could see no propriety in charging
Congress with injustice because they said to
these Rebels they should not exercise po-
litical power, and because they would not
strip that power from those men who we're
loyal duringthe war, and to whom Congress
was in honor bound to extend and perDet-
nate that right
Mr.. FarnswOrth moved for a recess from
4:30 to o'clock, but the motion was reject
ed by a large majority.
Mr.. Eldridge then spoke in opposition
to the bill. He declared Alabama was a
State in the Union, unless history for
the last five years were a lie; unless the
war for the suppression of the rebellion
was monstrous crime; unless every man
who fought in the war on either side was a
conscientious traitor. The bill he said could
bejustified by no man Hotfilled with internal
hatred to our form of government, and not
DESTROYS of its overthrow. 1t must and
could end in blood no man in his senses
could expect anything else; the white race
had never in the history of the world been
subject to the black race; the madness or
folly of Congress could never compel the
white man to submit to its arbitrary domi-
nation or government; time would GER
tainly come when PRIDE and race, and
blood, would not brook the dominion of
inferior men, when the white people OF
that State, conscious of the great wrong
inflicted on them, and conscious of their
God given strength and their right to be
free, would rise and drive into the sea the
African ruler placed over them by Con-
gress.
MIR. Williams, of Pennsylvania, stated
that he should vote against the bill. He
did not deem it essential or wise 10 compel
the people of Alabama to enjoy the privi-
leges of the Union and share in its govern
ment against their will. If there were
any considerable number of white men in
the South who had any sense of regret
for what they had done, beyond the feeling
of remorse which swayed the heart OF
Satan and his peers, and because their en-
terprise had failed, he had not seen any
evidence of it. He did not believe in com
polling these incorrigible delinquents into
an association in power with people whom
they hated, and government that they
had slriven TO overthrow.
Mr.. Bingham spoke in advocacy of the
bill, putting in, the axiom that if you
can't get all you wish, you should get all
you can. He thought sufficient restrictions
had been imposed on the people of Ala
bama, therefore, he was opposed to the
third section. 1t was authorized neither
by the laws nor the Constitution. 1t was
the right of the people to alter or amend
their Constitution, subject only TO the Con-
stitution Of the United States, and they
could not be deprived of that right. The
American system would be total failure
if the people oonld not be trusted with
that right; there was no colorado excuse
for attempting to engraft such provision
on the statute book. | can't shut my eyes
to the great fact, that this government was
built by white men, upon ideas that were
peculiar to the race, that the predominating
element is still the same, and there is no
reason TO expect that in the long future
it will ever put on any other complexion.
In saying this, / would not be understood
to disparage the political rights Of any
race that fate or fortune has cast upon our
shores, whether il be the docile African, or
any other or more turbulent one that comes
by ship loads with its old world ideas and
anti-republican instincts in Church and
State, to fill the ranks and feed the wasting
reserves of the so-called American Demo
crazy.
We have them both to deal with az we
have had to deal with Spaniards and
Frenchmen, and now have to deal with the
Mexicans and Indians We must do the
best we can to assimulate these heterogene-
Gus elements by educating them into the
live order Of a Just appreciation of the
rights of men. But nobody, ! suppose,
would think Of constructing durable Re
publican State from either Of these mate