Year: 1866

fesses so much faith? Why not initiate a
quality that he SO much admiress


The Utter Defeat Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


of Tennessee.


The vote in the House Of Representatives
yesterday for the admission Of the State
Of Tennessee showed an overwhelming ma
jority Of one hundred and twenty-five yeas to
twelve nays, the leader Of the radicals, Thad
Stevens, having been compelled to vote In
favor Of the resolution, after using all his
influence to resist it The admission Of Repre-
sentatives from Tennessee to Congress upon
the ground that the State Legislature adopted
the constitutional smendment-as Governor
Brownlow announced in his vulgar and offen-
sive despatch to Mr.. Stanton-would leave
the door open for all the Southern States to
regain their position in Congress, and thereby
place in the Union, for there Ii nothing to
prevent them from adopting the amendment,
just as the Legislature Of Tennessee has DONE
But at the same time, while the other Southern
States will most probably follow the example
of Tennessee, which was as much rebel State as
any Of them, it does not follow that the North
ern States will adopt the constitutional amend
ment-indeed 1t is pretty certain that they
will not-so that 1t may not become an amend
ment to the constitution after all, failing to re-
ceive the necessary vote of the Legislatures.


Thus it is clear that the radicals in the
House of Representatives have been caught in
their own trap. While they have been laboring
for the past seven months or more to oppose
the Presidents policy by keeping the Southern
States out of the Union, they have virtually
endorsed Mr.. Johnson's views by voting for
the admission of Tennessee, and have written
themselves down blockheads by that fact. They
have unwittingly surrendered every point for
which they have been contending. For instance:
this radical majority in Congress, with Thad
Stevens at their head, did not heretofore recog-
nize the Legislatures of the States formerly in
rebellion as legalzed bodies; but no soon r
does the Legislature of the late rebellous
State Of Tennessee adopt the pet constitutional
amendment than the House, by an overwhelm-
ing majority, at once not only acknowledges
the legality Of its acts, but is willing
that the Representatives Of that State should
take their seats in Congress; from which
facts we argue that the radical party is
dead and gone-that it died Of fright at
its own rash and evil deeds II raised
up monster which, like that Of Frankenstein,
appalled, the constructor. There remains
nothing now for the other Southern States,
in order to obtain q represen alton of loyal
men on tho floor Of Congress, but to get
their Legislatures to pass. the constitutional
amendment, which has been made the test
of admission in the House by the decisive vote
of one hundred and twenty-five to twelve, and
which amendment these States have really
accepted long ago, although the radical ma
jority In Congress did not choose to recognize
the fact because 1t did not suit their purposes


Step by step, for some time past, the radical
faction has been stultifyin9 itself and abandon
ing the ground upon which 1t set Its foot with
such naughty defiance to executive authority
and public censure. While opposing the
policy Of the President and abusing him in un-
seemly language It has virtually endorsed all
his views, proving thereby that while tho pres
ent Congress has all the desire to be intensely
vicious It is only exceedingly foolish after all.
The last evidence that the radicals have been
outwitted by their own blind Vaccinations Is
furnished by the result Of the Tennessee ques-
ton, which leaves the door open for oil the
other Southern States to come into the Union,
and gives q fair chance Of reconstruction,
which was the very thing Thad Stevens and his
radical cohorts have been working so assidu-
ously to prevent The country will undoubt-
edly rejoice greatly at the event, which prom
ises to end the revolutionary career Of this
dangerous faction.