The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-02
PASSAGE OF THE CENTENNIAL
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of Representatives, Tuesday the
25th inst, by vote of 146 yeas to
$50 nays. MIR. Young. OF the Men,
phis district, was the only member
from Tennessee voting for the ap-
preparation. The Southern States.
including Missouri, gave SO votes
for and So against the appropria-
alton. The following is a compila-
ton of the vote on the bill by States:
Alabama voted for and against;
Arkansas, 4 yeas. nay; California,
3 yeas, 1 nay Connecticut, yeas,
nay Florida. 2 yeas: Georgia. 1
yea, nays; Illinois, 4 yeas, IA nays;
Indiana, 2 yeas. 9 nays; Iowa, 6
yeas, nays; Kansas. yea, nay
Kentucky. yea, nays Louisiana,
yeas Maryland. 5 yeas, 8 nays
Massachusetts. IL yeas; Michigan.
3 yeas, nays Minnesota, yeas;
Missouri, 2 yeas, IL nays; Missis-
sippi, 8 yeas, 1 nay; Nebraska, /
yea; Nevada, 1 yea. New Hamp-
shire. 2 yeas, nay New Jersey, 5
yeas New York, "a yeas, s nays !;
North Carolina, yeas, nays; Ohio,
| 8 yeas, 9 naye; Oregon, l yea;
Pennsylvania, 20 yeas, 5 nays !;
Rhode Island. yeas; South Caro-
lima. 5 yeas; Tennessee, yea, s
nays; Texas, 4 yeas, 2 nays; Yer.
mont, yeas, 2 nays; Virginia, 2
yeas, 8 nays; West Virginia, 5 nays !;
Wisconsin, 5 yeas, 4 nays.
With all due respect to those mem
bers Of Congress who voted against
the Centennial appropriation, from
conscientious scruples or otherwise,
it appears to us highly fitting that,
during the Centennial year, every
section of our common country
should come together. to rejoice over
a restored Union, and TO mourn that
for time they were engaged in a
fratricidal strife. And they should
come together on an equal footing |;
the South should not feel it is Un-
ION on the sufferance of the North,
and the North should not arrOgate
to itself the title of Union preserver.
Both have loved the Union. and both,
in their own way, have endeavored
to destroy it, and who shall decide
which loves it most to-day. Let not
the North misjudge the South, or
the South misjudge the North. Each
has sinned against the other, and
each should exercise charity. The
civil war was not necessarily a crime.
but, if a crime, by and through it
the North accomplished an object
near its heart-the abolition of sla-
very-for which it had striven long,
and could not accomplish in any 9TH
er way, therefore, it should be thank
full and the South should also be
thankful to the North for Kidding it
of an incubus upon its energies and
progressive spirit, which bound it in
commercial vassalage. at least, to the
more prosperous North. The ire
pressible conflict between free and
slave labor was bound to come, and
it could not have come in a better
time. The posterity of those who
fought will be grateful for the cata-
clysm-grateful to one side as well
as to the other The storm was gi-
gantic. terrible and costly, but it has
cleared the air-has ended the ire
pressible conflict, and. with slavery
extinct, there is now no longer any
legitimate cause for quarrel between
the sections; nothing can now be
gained by elimination and recrimi-
nation then, why should not all of
us live in peace, and bow in humble
submission to the DEGREES of an over
ruling Providence. We are no seer
Or prophet we pretend not to read
the future, but the past is an open
book to all, and, to our mind, the
benefcent design of Providence was
never more visible in the affairs of
men than in our civil war. The SEN
timent Of the North went out in one
direction, and the sentiment of the
South went out in an opposite direc-
ton, both being swayed by the at
traction of Gods providence. We
may discuss the question to the end
of time, and the South will never
cease to believe the North had no
right to assail slavery, and the North
will always believe the South had
no right to 60 outside the Union to
protect slavery. Then let the dis
cussion now cease as to who was
most to blame. Each side alike en-
dured the pain of the conflict; pro-
portionately they must pay its price,
and for centuries to come this COM
mon country will reap the benefits to
flow from it. Together each section
should mourn the necessity Of the
confict-together they should re-
joice at its results, and mutu ally for
give each other. if forgiveness isfd due.
The small majority for the bill in
the House is not matter for much
national pride; yet we hope and
trust the appropriation will pass the
Senate gracefully and thus end the
discussion in Congress.
g~ In bis new book on Fort Sum.