The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-11-01
RANDOLPH'S RECORD.
WIas he Loyal to the FederaJ
or Confederate GOuern-
ne11t During the
Wur?
His TOtes IN the Harris Leg
isEdtaGre.

It is a well known fact that
James III. Randolph, now a |
candidate for Congress in this
District, was member Of the
Rebel Legislature Of 1862,
but the record which he made |
for himself during its sessions
is not so well known among the
people, and since he prides
himself so specially upon his /
loyalty to the Union cause dur
ing the war, urges that as his
sole claim upon the country for
his election, it is well this finn
sy pretense should be exposed
and that it should be under
stood how little reality there is
IN his professed devotion to the
government in its hour Of trial.
The following extracts from the
House Journal, of 1862,
speak volumes on that subject:
SATURDAY, Feb. Is, 1862
On motion Of Mr.. House, the rules
were suspended and Senate Bill No.
SO, to grant power to the Banks in
the State Of Tennessee to remove
their location. if they apprehended
danger from an invading army and
for other purposes, was taken up and
passed on its Sd reading
Randolph recorded for it!
From this he goes to still more
active support of the rebellion.
On the 18th of March, 1862, |
to a bill then pending, Mr.. Carr
offered this amendment:
'Be 1t Further Enacted, That all
heads of families or married men |
who may volunteer or enlist in the |
service of the Confederate States
for and during the war, shall be en-
titled to a bounty of one hundred |
dollars; and all single men volun-
teering in like service, for and dur
ing the war, shall be entitled to
bounty of fifty dollars"
g Mr.. Ragland moved to lay the
amendment on the table which fail
ed. Yeas, 20. Nays, 30.'
Randolph voted NO, refusing
to help kill the amendment,
and placed himself on the re-
cord in favor of paying the
bounties
Mr.. Kennedy then offered
the following amendment to
Mr.. Carr's amendment:
g Be 1t Further Enacted, That to
provide the means 20 pay the boun-
ties provided for in this act that
there be and is hereby levied tax
Of twenty cents on each hundred dol
less worth of property now subject
to taxation"
Which was adopted-Ran-
dolph voting "AYEn'
On the 18th March, 1862:
"Mr. Garner moved to suspend
the rules to take up House Bill No.
290, to grant bounties to volunteers Z
for the war;
Randolph voted in the af-
frmative!
On the same day:
House Bill, 249, for the relief Of :
the families of INDECENT soldiers was
taken up on motion of McClelland 6
and passed its third reading"
Randolph voted AYE! t
He first voted to pay boun- !
ties to soldiers who will enlist g
to fight against the Federal b
government; then he votes to b
evy a special tax upon the {
people of the State to pay the " "
counties, and as a further in a. =,
lucement to the poor men of ii
he State to join the Confeder-
tie Army, he voted to support :;
heir families at the public ex- =
,ense while they were fighting
or the rebellion d
This is, indeed, loyal re- Il
ord. But it is loyal to the Sc s..
southern Confederacy and not
o the Union, and that is where m
he joke comes in!
Randolph's zeal for the al
,outheTn cause carried him still
and he next wanted !
be State to pay for horses on -
7hich to mount the Rebel cav I'll
Try. dt
On the 18th March, 1862: 70
i" Mr.. Jones moved to suspend the
lies to take up House Bill No. 1876,
, pay for cavalry horses furnished
le soldiers in certain cases. which &c
otion prevailed =
RandolDb VOTING, g AvEfD dI