The Clerk read as follows: “Mr. Enyiliza. Mr. Speaker. on this day. at this hour. in this place. agre t issue is on trial. fraught With the interests, not on y of the prespnt.but of the fixture: and if I. in the decision of this issue. have acted a part, however unimportant. I shall hereafter look back to this day.to this hour and to this place. with feelingsof no little gratification. itifo Wnhtaotinis vit the gunedsr teiown orheusseonntetdh?e Isto icsalalepi rGopovoernor of Tennessee. to address he people of Pennsylvamalrom the Senate chamber oft is State: I have various reasonsfor opposing this proposition. In the 1stglacc, I herebe r ly proclaim that he not at this our and never has con. by the Constistution or under the laws. the Governor of the State of Tennessee, exceptwhen years ago hewas elected to that olfieeby the people. I say. in that his appointment by the POTUS to that position was a usurpation of power on the part of the President, and that there is no warrant an or the Constitution. no authority in the laws for is appomtmentand that every act which he has as saunmd eildletgoapl earpfo promintbmye Vnitrthuaesobfeheins i pundeeornosgtaittuiotine onful the rights of a sovereign State, and in flat violation of the Constitution of the U.S.:I say. sir. furthermore. that no such position as military governor of a State is known to the Urinati tntiop of the U.S.: that there is nothing in that instrument whichputhorizes the POTUS to appoint. a military governor of any State; and that to make such an appomtment was to createthe State of Tennesseea military province and that his appointment.was madeto carry out an subservethe purposesof the present Administration. cwohniedhiti oinsto reduceall the Statesof this Urion to the garchy or odtemspeorteisdmep. eTnhdaetncisiemsoyfapeoos inti osno.lsiaotcfdarolai s concernsthis pretended Governor of Tennessee. AndrewJohnson hasnot been forgettrsflhd is not new. the Governor of that State: an I Will never recognize him assuch by voting for this resolution. “But. sip without regard to any question of his oflieial DOSIUOHt, ake AndrewJohnson nsau individual. assumingthat he is rightfully clothed with the robes of otheeand may constitutionally exercisethe duties ofttiat high positioneven then. I s a to you. LinSpsakc r, that never y my vote will allowa man to come into these ha Is and from this place speak to the peopleof this great State in support of what I know to be illegal. unconstitutional and styirr, annical actsof the Federal Government. I know. that AndrewJohnson has one as far as the far thest and is ready to go still urther. to destroy.to uproot. to upturn every principle upon which this t and goodGovernment of ours wasfounded. I gnaw that he has bent with suppliiint knee before O throne of power; I knowthat for pelf or some other consideration. he has succumbed to every measurepresentedto him forapproval orrlisapproval; and I know that in speechesdelivered in the capitals of other States he has enunciated doctrines which. if adopted by the peopleof the great North, would besubversiveof individual freedomandpersonal right. Sir. by no vote of inine can nny person hplding such views nddreu the peopleof Pennsylvania in this chamber. Never, sir. never. so long as I have a right to forbid him."