Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-25
MORE OF WIsENER'S RECORD.

MORE OF WISENER,S RECORD.
On the 9th of April, 1851, on motion of
Dir. Wisener, the House of Representa-
tives event into Committee of the
Whole, (Mr. Wisener in the chair for
the purpose of perfectng" House bill to
raise, organize and equip provisional
force. [See House Journal, page 90. ]
This was after Mr.. Lincoln had called out
seventy-fve thousand troops, but before
the State had formally allied itself to the
Confederate States.
On the 21st Of June, he voted for
House bill TO amend the act to raise, or
ganize and equip provisional force, (see
House Journal, page 1857 which, among
other things, authorized the Governor ''to
accept into the service companies of
rangers not connected with any battalion"
and to "accept service upon such terms,
conditions, and for such length OF time
as the Governor may prescribe"
On the 25th of June, while the House
had under consideration the bill to amend
the militia laws of the State, Mr.. Wisener
offered an amendment 10 that bill pro-
viding 'that the compensation of non
commissioned officers and privates hereto
fore received or hereafter to be received
into the volunteer service during the
present war, shall be increased nine dol
lars per month; and that, should the
militia be called TO actual service, the
non-commissioned officers and privates
thereof, shall have the same pay as pro-
vided for volunteers. See House Jour
nal, page ISL. And on the 29th of June,
Senate bill "to regulate the manner of
paying the officers and soldiers in the
provisional army of Tennessee" was
taken up in the House, and although Mr.
Wisener was absent, his interest in be
half of the Confederate soldiers had
suffered no abatement, as is shown by the
House Journal, from which we quote as
follows:
''The Speaker, in the name of Mr..
Wisener, offered the following amend
ment:
''Be it further enacted, That the pay
of non commissioned officers and priEates
in the volunteer service of the State shall.
hereafter be in specie, or its equivalent;
and the same in regard to the militia
when called out into actual service.
[See House Journal, page 1S6.
On the Sd of May, Mr. Greene Offered
a resolution declaring ''that in the opin-
ion of this body (the Legislature,) it
unwise and improper for the Southern
people or forces TO make an attack upon
the City of Washington, or upon any por-
ton of the North; and that the forces of
this State and of the South should only
be employed IN repelling invasion of the
South" This resolution was taken
up on the 18th of May, and killed by be-
ing laid upon the table, but Mr.. Wisener
voted against laying upon the table. TSee
House Journal, page 66.
House resolution instructng the Bank
of Tennessee, ''as q war measure, " ''to is
sue circulation to the Nashville and North
western Railroad Company, to the amount
of bonds of the State of Tennessee now
held by said company, and which may
hereafter be issued to said company"
the object being to enable the company
to complete its road at the earliest practi-
cable moment to the Mississippi river, was
adopted by UiUG UOce vote, on the Sth
of May, and ordered to be transmitted to
the Senate. Subsequently motion was
made to reconsider the vote ordering the
transmission to the Senate, which motion
was laid upon the table, but Mr.. Wisener
voted against laying upon the table, and
against thus delaying the transmission to
the Senate. TSee House journal, page 90. I
On the goth of June, Mr.. Wisener voted
for the bill ''to submit to the popular vote
an ordinance for the adoption or rejection
of the permanent Constitution of the Con-
federate States" See House Journal,
page 155.
Does not this record show that Mr..
Wisener had made up his mind to go with
his State when it assumed the attitude
of revolution" as he declared in his
speech in the House of Representatives on
the 18th of June, 1861? We think we
have shown very clearly from the record
that Mr.. Wisener is marvellously proper
man to be put forward to stigmatize the