The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-10-18
RANDOLPH'S RECORD.
Wds he Loyal to the Federal
or Confederate GOUerm-
.naept During the
Ware?
His VOtes an the Harris Leg
isL0ture.

District, was a 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
we're suspended and Senate Bill No.
SO. to grant power to the Banks in
he State Of Tennessee to remove
heir location. if they apprehended
LANCER from an invading army and
Tor 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 it 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-
seering in like service for and dur
lug the war, shall be entitled to a
bounty of fifty dollars"
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.. Cars amendment:
8 Be 1t Farther 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-R Ran
dolph voting AYE!"
On the 18th March, 1862:
Mr.. Garner moved to suspend
the rules to take up House Bill No.
290, to grant bounties to volunteers
for he 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
and passed its third reading"
Randolph voted AYE!
He first voted to pay boun-
ties to soldiers who will enlist
to fight against the Federal
government; then he votes to
levy a special tax upon the
people of the State to pay the
bounties, and as a further in
ducement to the poor men of
the State to join the Confeder-
ate Army, he voted to support
their families at the public ex-
pense while they were fighting
for the rebellion /!
This is, indeed, a loyal re
cord. But it is loyal to the
Southern Confederacy and not
to the Union, and that is where
the joke comes in
Randolph's zeal for the
Southern cause carried him still
further, and he. next wanted
the State to pay for horses on
which to mount the Rebel cav
airy.
On the 18th March, 1852:
Mr.. Jones moved to suspend the
rules to take up House Bill No. 1875,
10 pay for cavalry horses furnished
he soldiers in certain cases, which
motion prevailed"
Randolph voting "AYE!"
An amendment was offered
70 the bill in the following
words:
BE 1t Further Enacted. That all
lorses impressed from citizens loyal
% this State and the nfederate
States. into the service, shall lie emit