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The Southern States admitted to be still in the Union by Thaddeus Stevens himself. Monday, the 17th, and Tuesday, the 18th of December, were remarkable days in the history of this country. On the former of these days, Thaddeus Stevens, on the question of referring the President's Message, delivered himself of all the venom Thaddeus Stevens, on the question of referring the President's Message, delivered himself of all the venom which has been accumulating since the memorable day on which his iron mills were burned. It is to be hoped he felt better after the operation, and the probability is that he did, for on the very next day he made a tacit confession that the view he had taken of the situation the day before had been wrong, and that the States of th these States were States, could not have settled their status more decidedly than the action — or rather the failure to act on that occasion — by Congress did. Mr. Stevens had not a word to throw to a dog. His radical comrades were perfectly mum. The action of the five Southern States, deciding the question, was received as fair a
the great republic once more. He considered that the duty laid with this Congress to devise means to restore it and to enact such laws as to prevent a future recurrence of the rebellion. He differed with the gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Stevens,) who reckoned these States as territories, according to his version of the Constitution. That gentleman had opened the ball and invited the discussion, and differing with him in views, as set forth, he (Mr. Raymond) would express his own upos recently in rebellion were never out of the Union, notwithstanding their ordinances of secession, which Congress declared null and void, and by which declaration it had admitted that those States had never left the Union. The gentleman (Mr. Stevens) contends in his speech that those States were out of the Union; he denominates them "dead States," to be subjected by Congress to territorial rule, as having forfeited their rights for four years, becoming, in fact, a separate power and gover
written a letter, in which he says that he considers it to be his duty, under the law, to have the undivided profits of a bank taxed as deposits. What Forney Thinks. "I repeat that, looking at the President's restoration policy as enunciated in his two letters to the Governors of Georgia and Alabama in the light of the facts just stated, I believe and predict it will prove to be a permanent and a peaceful adjustment. "It is not in the nature of things that the proposition of Mr. Stevens, to hold these States in a territorial condition 'for some years,' or until certain amendments of the National Constitution have been consummated, can be made a party test, not to speak of the necessity of maintaining, under such a plan, a military organization, with all its incredible expenditures; no party could be held together in the free States, in the face of the incessant turbulence, dissatisfaction and bitterness that must spread all over the Union as a consequence of so chaotic a