Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-12

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'fBe it resolved by the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Tennessee, That our
Senators in Congress be, and they are
hereby instructed to vote against the con-
firmation of any man to Office who en-
dorsed an infamous libel upon the South,
known as the Helper Book, and that the
Governor is hereby requested TO forward
copy of this resolution 10 each of our
Senators in Congress.
''Be it further resolved, That the peO-
pie of Tennessee receive the report of the
appointment of William Ii. Seward 10 a
position in the Cabinet of the incoming
administration as further evidence of hos
tllity to the institutions of the South; and
If the policy he has advocated in all his
speeches upon the subject of domestic
slavery shall be attempted to be inaugu-
rated with said administration, the South
has but little hope of a settlement of ex-
listing difficulties between her and the
North.
"Be il further enacted, That Tennessee
is looking with much anxiety to the policy
that may be intimsted in the speech to be
delivered in the Senate of the United
States this day; and if he Seward shall
reiterate the doctrine of his Rochester
harrangue, Tennessee will take due no.
tice thereof and govern herself accord
ingly."
There was the defiant outgiving of the
Fire-eater.
BUTLER ON THE OFFERING BY NEW YORK
OF TROOPS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERN
MENT-THK SOUTH AT ANY HAZARD AND
TO TIE LAST EXTREMITY.
A few days after Butler had presented
the above resolutions, which left no
grounds TO doubt where he stood, the fol-
lowing resolutions were offered, and they
received the support of Mr.. Butler:
''Resolyed, That this General Assem-
bly, has heard with profound regret of the
resolutions recently adopted by the Legis-
lature of the Stste of New York, tender
ing men and money to the President of
the United States, to be used in cOercing
the sovereign States of the South into
obedience to the Federal Government.
Resolved, That this General Assembly
receives the action of the Legislature of
New York, as an indication of the pur-
pose upon the part of the people of that
Safe to further cOmplicate existing diff
culties, by forcing the people of the
South to the extremity of submission or
resistance; and SO regarding it, the Gov
ernOr of the State of Tennessee is hereby
requested to inform the Executive of the
State of New York, that it is the opinion
of this General Assembly, that whenever
the authorities of that State shall send
armed forces TO the South for the purpose
indicated in said resolutions, the people
of Tennessee, uniting with their brethren
of the South, will as one man, resist such
Invasion of the soil of the South at any
hazard and to the last extremity"
Remember that Mr.. Roderick Random
Butler supported these resolutions.
BUTLER FOR sEvERING THE STATES.
On the 21st of January, 1861, series
of resolutions, proposing a convention of
all the then slave-holding States to sug-
gest amendments 10 the Federal Constitu-
ton on a basis of final settlement of the
questions then agitating the country, were
pr posed and adopted, Mr.. Butler voting
for them. One of the resolutions, which
was alternative in its character, reads as
Resolved, That should plan of adj
justment satisfactory TO the South not be
8cccded to by the requisite number of
States to perfect amendments to the Con-
of the United States, it is the
opinion OF :his General Assembly that the
slave holding States should adopt for
themselves the Constitution of the United
States, with such amendments as may be
satisfactory to the slaYe-hOlding States,
and that they should invite into union
with them all States of the North which
are willing to abide such amended Consti-
.ution, and frame a government, seUering
Ut once all connections NTH States
refusing such reasonable guarantees
Tor our future safety; such renewed
conditions of Federal union being first
submitted for ratification to conventions
IF all the States respectively"
BUTLER TAKES THE CONFEDERATE OATH.
We pass over the April session, OS61,)
with The remark that he was there also;
and however he may have voted in the
;ecr,t sessions of that interesting period,
{ is fact that he returned in October TO
he ''Rebel Legislature" of 1862. On
akiDg his seat, he took the following
oath, upon the EvaDgelists, without sim
&c word of objection or remonstrance:
81 do solemnly swear that l will sup
,Ort the Constitution of this State and
If the Confederate States Of america.
md do further solemnly swear that, as
member of the Legislature, l will, in
ii appointments, vote without favor,
Partially, or prejudice, and
hat I 1OjU not propose or assent to
1ly JiH, cote, or resolution, Uhich
hall appear to me injurious to the
'eOl1LC, or consent to any act or thing
whatever, that shall have tendency TO
essen or ahridge their rights and privil-
gcs as declared by the Constitution of
his State"
Bear in mind that the taking of this
ath was a voluntary act.
UTLER WANTED THE BRIDGE BURNERS Pun
IsHED.
After the railroad bridges had been
urned in East Tennessee by the Union
IS of that section, the subject was
rought up in the House of Representa-
YES, and from report of the proceed
gs of that body on the 18th of Novem-
er, 1861, we copy as follows:
'NIr. Butler denounced the act in the
rOngest terms, and sincerely hoped that
&c perpetrators, be they who they may,
ill be arrested and severely punished.
e stated that he had always opposed the
PRODUCTION of Lincoln troops into East
ennessee, and when consulted upon the
biect, he had advised against it, and he
,lievcd a very large majority of his con-
ituents were opposed TO such STEP"
This is very emphatic language, and
# no doubt as TO where Mr. Butler
God. He desired to have the men who
skcd their lives to burn these bridges,
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