Speech of Hon. W. P Fessenden, of Maine
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. W. P Fessenden, of Maine: On the Resolution Relating to the Admission of Senators and Representatives From the Confederate State; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 23, 1866 The Senate having under consideration the resolution relating to the admission of Senators and Representatives from the confederate States - Mr. Fessenden said: Mr. President: I have already, in what I stated on Wednesday and this morning in the preliminary discussion, sufficiently indicated to the Senate my opinion of the importance of the resolution before the body; but as it has just been laid upon our tables in printed form I ask that it be read before I proceed. The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: Resolved by the House of Representatives, (the Senate concurring.) That in order to close agitation upon a question which seems likely to disturb the action of the Government, as well as to quiet the uncertainty which is agitating the minds of the people of the eleven States which have been declared to be in insurrection, no Senator or Representative shall be admitted into either branch of Congress from any of said States until Congress shall have declared such State entitled to such representation. Mr. Fessenden. It was averred by the Senator from Ohio that we had previously acted upon resolutions similar in their character. I am not aware that we have. The resolution, it will be perceived, is nothing more nor less than a legislative assertion by both Houses of Congress that they will not proceed to act upon the credentials of members from any of the States which lately constituted the so-called confederate States until they have previously passed a law applicable to the condition of the States themselves. This, if 3-ou will allow me to say so, is in exact accordance with what Congress has indicated as its intention heretofore. It was indicated in the last Congress, and it was indicated in a resolution which came directly from the Committee on the Judiciary, of which the honorable Senator from Maryland [Mr. Johnson] was a member, and, as I am informed, with his concurrence, not as applicable to all the States, but as applicable to one of the States. It is before me in a few words, and I will read it. At the close of the report that was made to the Senate on the 18th of February to accompany joint resolution S. No.117, on the subject of the credentials of members claiming seats from Louisiana, the last paragraph, which I will read, is: "The persons in possession of the local authorities of Louisiana having rebelled against the authority of the United States, and her inhabitants having been declared to be in a state of insurrection in pursuance of a law passed by the two Houses of Congress, your committee deem it improper for this body to admit to seats Senators from Louisiana, till by some joint action of both Houses there shall be some recognition of an existing State government, acting in harmony with the Government of the United States and recognizing its authority." Mr. Johnson. Is that the report of the 18th of February, 1865? Mr. Fessenden. Yes, sir. Now, there is the principle laid down in so many words, and agreed to, as I understand, specifically by the honorable Senator from Maryland, whose authority we all acknowledge, that inasmuch as the State of Louisiana had been declared to be in a state of rebellion, and intercourse with it had been suspended by a law of Congress, therefore Congress could not properly admit members from that State, except in pursuance of a law of Congress providing for her peculiar condition I do not pretend to repeat the exact language. When that resolution was introduced into Congress, did it occasion any discussion upon that principle or the propriety of its application? Was there any o
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