tribution of arms, and the resumption of peace- W. T. SHERMAN, General, Commanding C. S. A. in N. C. The following official dispatch to the Associated Press gives the particulars of its disapproval, and the supposed reasons therefor: It is reported that this proceeding of General Sherman was disapproved for the following, among other, reasons: 1. It was an exercise of authority not vested in General Sherman, and on its face shows that both he and Johnston knew that General Sherman had no authority to enter into any such arrangement. 2. It was a practical acknowledgment of the rebel government. 3. It undertook to re-establish the rebel State' governments that had been overthrown at the sacrifice of many thousand loyal lives and immense treasure, and placed the arms and munitions of war in the hands of the rebels at their WASHINGTON, April 22-Yesterday evening a respective capitals, which might be used as soon bearer of despatches arrived from General Sher- as the armies of the United States were disAn agreement for a suspension of hos-banded, and used to conquer and subdue the tilities, and a memorandum of what is called a loyal States. basis for peace, had been entered into on the 4. By the restoration of rebel authority in 18th inst, by General Sherman with the rebel their respective States they would be enabled General Johnston, the rebel General Breckin to re-establish slavery. ridge being present at the conference. man. A Cabinet meeting was held at 8 o'clock in the evening, at which the action of General Sherman was disapproved by the President, the Secretary of War, by General Grant, and by every member of the Cabinet. General Sherman was ordered to resume hostilities immediately, and he was directed that the instructions given by the late President, in the following telegram, which was penned by Mr. Lincoln himself, at the Capitol, on the night of the 3d of March, were approved by President Andrew Johnson, and were reiterated to govern the action of military commanders. On the night of the 3d of March, while President Lincoln and his Cabinet were at the Capitol, a telegram from General Grant was brought to the Secretary of War, informing him that General Lee had requested an interview or conference to make an arrangement for terms of peace. The letter of General Lee was published in a message of Davis to the rebel Congress. 5. It might furnish a ground of responsibility by the Federal Government to pay the rebel debt, and certainly subjects the loyal citizens of rebel States to debt contracted by rebels in the State. 6. It would put in dispute the existence of loyal State governments, and the new State of West Virginia, which had been recognized by every department of the United States Govern ment. 7. It practically abolished the confiscation laws, and relieved the rebels, of every degree, and penalties for their crimes. who had slaughtered our people, from all pains 8. It gave terms that had been deliberately, Lincoln, and better terms than the rebels had repeatedly, and solemnly rejected by President ever asked in their most prosperous condition. 9. It formed no basis of true and lasting peace, but relieved the rebels from the pressure of our victories, and left them in condition to renew their efforts to overthrow the United States Government and subdue the loyal States whenever their strength was recruited and any Opportunity should offer. General Grant's Orders. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, January 12, 1866. General Grant's telegram was submitted to Mr. Lincoln, who, after pondering a few minutes, took up his pen and wrote with his own hand the following reply, which he submitted to the Secretary of State and Secretary of War. It was then dated, addressed, and signed by the Secre- [General Orders, No. 3.] tary of War, and telegraphed to General Grant: WASHINGTON, March 3, 1866, 12 P. M.-Lieutenant General Grant: The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime, you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. After the Cabinet meeting last night, General Grant started for North Carolina to direct operations against Johnston's army. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. TO PROTECT PERSONS AGAINST IMPROPER CIVIL Military division and department commanders, whose commands embrace or are composed of any of the late rebellious States, and who have not already done so, will at once issue and enforce orders protecting from prosecution or suits in the State, or municipal courts of such State, all officers and soldiers of the armies of the United States, and all persons thereto attached, or in anywise thereto belonging, subject to military authority, charged with offences for acts done in their military capacity, or pursuant to orders from proper military authority; and to protect from suit or prosecution all loyal citizens, or persons charged with offences done Resolved, That the thanks of the Democracy of Pennsy!Tania be tendered to the Hon. Charles R. Buckalew and Hon. Edgar Cowan, for their patriotic support of the President's restoration policy: and that such thanks are due to all the democratic members of Congress for their advocacy of the restoration policy of President Johnson. Union Convention of Pennsylvania, March 7. 2. That the most imperative duty of the present is to gather the legitimate fruits of the war, in order that our Constitution may come out of the rebellion purified, our against the rebel forces, directly or indirectly, during the existence of the rebellion; and all persons, their agents and employés, charged with the occupancy of abandoned lands or plantations, or the possession or custody of any kind of property whatever, who occupied, used, possessed, or controlled the same pursuant to the order of the President, or any of the civil or military departments of the Government, and to protect them from any penalties or damages that may have been or may be pronounced or adjudged in said courts in any of such cases; secession and in the treasonable machinations of the conand also protecting colored persons from prose-spirators, and would be an insult to every soldier who took cutions in any of said States charged with of- up arms to save the country. fences for which white persons are not prosecuted or punished in the same manner and degree. By command of Lieutenant General Grant: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. SUPPRESSION OF DISLOYAL NEWSPAPERS. HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 1866. You will please send to these headquarters as soon as practicable, and from time to time thereafter, such copies of newspapers published in your department as contain sentiments of disloyalty and hostility to the Government in any of its branches, and state whether such paper is habitual in its utterance of such sentiments. The persistent publication of articles calculated to keep up a hostility of feeling between the people of different sections of the country cannot be tolerated. This information is called for with a view to their suppression, which will be done from these headquarters only. By order of Lieutenant General Grant: T. S. BOWERS, institutions strengthened, and our national life prolonged. 3. That failure in these grave duties would be scarcely less criminal than would have been an acquiescence in and fearless courage with which Andrew Johnson resisted 4. That filled with admiration at the patriotic devotion and denounced the efforts of the rebels to overthrow the National Government, Pennsylvania rejoiced to express her entire confidence in his character and principles, and appreciation of his noble conduct, by bestowing her suffrage upon him for the second position in honor and dignity in the country. His bold and outspoken denunciation of the crime of treason, his firm demands for the punishment of the guilty offenders, and his expressions of thorough sympathy with the friends of the Union, secured for him the warmest attachment of her people, who, remembering his great services and sacrifices, while traitors and their sympathizers firmly by the side, and to repose upon the support, of the alike denounced his patriotic action, appeal to him to stand loyal masses, whose votes formed the foundation of his promotion, and who pledge to him their unswerving support in all ineasures by which treason shall be stigmatized, loyalty recognized, and the freedom, stability, and unity of the Na tional Union restored. 5. That the work of restoring the late insurrectionary States to their proper relatious to the Union necessarily devolves upon the law-making power, and that until such action shall be taken no State lately in insurrection is entitled to representation in either branch of Congress; that, as preliminary to such action, it is the right of Congress to States, to inquire respecting their loyalty, and to prescribe investigate for itself the condition of the legislation of those the terms of restoration, and that to deny this necessary constitutional power is to deny and imperil one of the dearest rights belonging to our representative form of government, and that we cordially approve of the action of the Union representatives in Congress from Pennsylvania on this subject. Assistant Adjutant General. Democratic Convention of Penn., March 5, 1866. The Democracy of Pennsylvania, in Convention met, recognizing a crisis in the affairs of the Republic, and esteeming the immediate restoration of the Union paramount to all other issues, do resolve: 1. That the States, whereof the people were lately in rebellion, are integral parts of the Union and are entitled to representation in Congress by men duly elected who bear true faith to the Constitution and laws, and in order to vindicate the maxim that taxation without representation is tyranny, such representatives should be forthwith ad mitted. 2. That the faith of the Republic is pledged to the payment of the national debt, and Congress should pass all laws necessary for that purpose. 3. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of the United States, (including the amendment prohibiting slavery), and under its provisions will accord to those emancipated all their rights of person and property. 4. That each State has the exclusive right to regulate the qualifications of its own electors. 5. That the white race alone is entitled to the control of the Government of the Republic, and we are unwilling to grant the negroes the right to vote. 6. That the bold enunciation of the principles of the Constitution and the policy of restoration contained in the recent annual message and Freedmen's Bureau veto message of President Johnson entitle him to the confidence and support of all who respect the Constitution and love their country. 7. That the nation owes to the brave men of our armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for their heroic services in defence of the Constitution and the Union; and that while we cherish with a tender affection the memories of the fallen, we pledge to their widows and orphans the nation's care and protection. 8. That we urge upon Congress the duty of equalizing the bounties of our soldiers and sailors. The following was also adopted: 6. That no man who has voluntarily engaged in the late rebellion, or has held office under the rebel organization, should be allowed to sit in the Congress of the Union, and that the law known as the test oath should not be repealed, but should be enforced against all claimants for seats in Congress. 7. That the national faith is sacredly pledged to the payment of the national debt incurred in the war to save the country and to suppress rebellion, and that the people will not suffer this faith to be violated or impaired; but all debts incurred to support the rebellion were unlawful, void, and of no obligation, and shall never be assumed by the United States, nor shall any State be permitted to pay any evidences of so vile and wicked engagements. 15. That in this crisis of public affairs, full of grateful recollections of his marvellous and memorable services on the field of battle, we turn to the example of unfaltering and uncompromising loyalty of Lieutenant General Grant with a confidence not less significant and unshaken, because at no period of our great struggle has his proud name been associated with a doubtful patriotism, or used for sinister purposes by the enemies of our common country. 17. That the Hon. Edgar Cowan, Senator from Pennsylvania, by his course in the Senate of the United States, has disappointed the hopes and forfeited the confidence of those to whom he owes his place, and that he is hereby most earnestly requested to resign. The following resolution was offered as a substitute for the fourth resolution, but after some discussion was withdrawn: That, relying on the well-tried loyalty and devotion of Andrew Johnson to the cause of the Union in the dark days of treason and rebellion, and remembering his patriotic conduct, services, and sufferings, which in times past endeared his name to the Union party; and now reposing full confidence in his ability, integrity, and patriotism, we express the hope and confidence that the policy of his Ad ministration will be so shaped and conducted as to save the nation from the perils which still surround it. The fourth resolution was then adopted-yeas 100, nays 21. General Grant's Order for the Protection of Cit- the citizen must be left to the States alone, and under such Department, district, ard post commanders in the States lately in rebellion are hereby directed to arrest all persons who have been or may hereafter be charged with the com mission of crimes and offences against officers, agents, citizens, and inhabitants of the United States, irrespective of color, in cases where the civil authorities have failed, neglected, or are unable to arrest and bring such parties to trial, and to detain them in military confinement until such time as a proper judicial tribunal may be ready and willing to try them. A strict and prompt enforcement of this order is required. Unconditional Union Convention of Maryland, June 6, 1866. Resolved, That the registered loyal voters of Maryland will listen to no propositions to repeal or modify the registry law, which was enacted in conformity with the provisions of the constitution, and must remain in full force until such time as the registered voters of the State shall decree that the organic law shall be changed. 2. That the loyal people of the State are "the legitimate guardians and depositaries of its power," and that the disloyal have no just right to complain of the hardships of a law which they have themselves deliberately provoked." 3. That it is the opinion of this convention, that if disloyal persons should be registered, it will be the duty of judges of election to administer the oath prescribed by the constitution to all whose loyalty may be challenged, and, in the language of the constitution, to "carefully exclude from voting" all that are disqualified. 4. That we cordially endorse the reconstruction policy of Congress, which excludes the leaders of the rebellion from all offices of profit or trust under the National Government, and places the basis of representation on the only just and honest principle, and that a white man in Virginia or South Carolina should have just as much representative power, and no more, than a white man in Pennsylvania or Ohio. 5. That the question of negro suffrage is not an issue in the State of Maryland, but is raised by the enemies of the Union party for the purpose of dividing and distracting it, and by this means to ultimately enable rebels to vote. 6. That we are pledged to the maintenance of the present constitution of Maryland, which expressly and emphatically prohibits both rebel suffrage and negro suffrage, and we are equally determined to uphold the registry law, which disfranchises rebels and excludes negroes from voting, and have no desire or intention of rescinding or abolishing either the constitution or the registry law. 7. That we warn the Union men of Maryland "that no Union man, high or low, should court the favor of traitors, as they can never win it-from the first they have held him as their enemy, and to the last they will be his; and that they should eschew petty rivalries, frivolous jealousies, and self-seeking cabals; so shall they save themselves falling one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle." The vote upon the adoption of each resolution was unanimous, with the exception of the sixth resolution, upon which a division was called, and the result showed 54 yeas to 14 nays. The resolutions were then read as a whole, and adopted unanimously as the utterance of the Convention. Convention of Southern Unionists. TO THE LOYAL UNIONISTS OF THE SOUTH: The great issue is upon us! The majority in Congress, and its supporters, firmly declare that "the rights of the citizen enumerated in the Constitution, and established by the supreme law, must be maintained inviolate." Rebols &.ad rebel sympathizers assert that "the rights of| regulations as the respective States choose voluntarily to prescribe." We have seen this doctrine of State sovereignty_carried out in its practical results until all authority in Congress was denied, the Union temporarily destroyed, the constitu tional rights of the citizen of the South nearly annihilated, and the land desolated by civil war. The time has come when the restructure of Southern State government must be laid on constitutional principles, or the despotism, grown up under an atrocious leadership, be permitted to remain. We know of no other plan than that Congress, under its constitutional powers, shall now exercise its authority to establish the principle whereby protection is made coextensive with citizenship. We maintain that no State, either by its organic law or legislation can make transgression on the rights of the citizen legitimate. We demand and ask you to concur in demanding protection to every citizen of the great Republic on the basis of equality before the law; and further, that no State government should be recognized as legitimate under the Constitution in so far as it does not by its organic law make impartial protection full and complete. Under the doctrine of "State sovereignty," with rebels in the foreground, controlling Southern legislatures, and embittered by disappointment in their schemes to destroy the Union, there will be no safety for the loyal element of the South. Our reliance for protection is now on Congress, and the great Union party that has stood and is standing by our nationality, by the constitutional rights of the citizen, and by the beneficent principles of the government. For the purpose of bringing the loyal Unionists of the South into conjunctive action with the true friends of republican government in the North, we invite you to send delegates in goodly numbers from all the Southern States, including Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, to meet at Independence Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, on the first Monday of September next. It is proposed that we should meet at that time to recommend measures for the establishment of such government in the South as accords with and protects the rights of all citizens. We trust this call will be responded to by numerous delegations of such as represent the true loyalty of the South. That kind of government which gives full protection to all rights of the citizen, such as our fathers intended, we claim as our birthright. Either the lovers of constitutional liberty must rule the nation or rebels and their sympathizers be permitted to misrule it. Shall loyalty or disloyalty have the keeping of the destinies of the nation? Let the responses to this call which is now in circulation for signatures, and is being numerously signed, answer. Notice is given that gentlemen at a distance can have their names attached to it by sending a request by letter directed to D. W. Bingham, Esq., of Washington, D. C. Tennessee................W. B. STOKES, Texas.........................................A. J. HAMILTON, GEO. W. PASCHAL, Georgia............... G. W. ASHBURN, Missouri Virginia....... HENRY G. COLE. North Carolina........BYRON LAFLIN, WASHINGTON, July 4, 1866. DANIEL R. GOODLJE. J. H. LARCOMBE XIII.-Interesting Figures chiefly from the Census of 1860, bearing on Representation. •Nevada admitted since, with one Representative-making whole number, at present. 242 Including Asiatics. I Estimated. West Virginia created since, with three Representatives-leaving Virginia 8, instead of 11 allowed in 1860 Votes in the U. S. House of Representatives on the Various Tariffs. Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of Tariff of 1824. 1828. 1832. 1842. 1846. 1857. 1861. 1864. Tariff Bill of 1866.* Yeas. 0 323811 9 013001 10394T 740000 340100 306002 10 103832 650420 044241 23 15 24 17 17 4 043 SOUTHERN STATES. Virginia........... Georgia Florida......... Alabama..... Mississippi... Louisiana fexas............ 44 10 60 15 57 11 52 53 16 10 15 1 5 8 232108 23 6 19 1 11 3 3 000 211 8818 000 13 3 996 4 168 421 000 11 0 1 30200010 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Grand Total........... 88 54 107 102 105 94132 65 104 103 114 95 122 72 105 64 Statement of the Public Debt of the United States on the 1st of June, 1866. *July 12-In SENATE, postponed till December next-yeas 23, nays 17, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Brown, Davis, Doolittle, Foster, Grimes, Guthrie, Harris, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, Kirkwood, Lane, Morgan, Nesmith, Norton, Pomeroy, Riddle, Sauls bury, Sumner, Trumbull, Willey, Williams, Wilson-23. NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Cowan, Cragin, Edmunds, Fessenden, Howard, Howe, Poland, Ram sey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Van Winkle, Wade-17. |