. The literary digest. f LOUIS E. MCCOMAS (REPUBLICAN),<iF ). 1.) Thuw. NaBhvUIe, Tenn. THOMAS B. TURLEY (DEMOCRAT), OF TENNESSEE. TV^O NEW UNITED STATES SENATORS. Vol. XYI., No. 8] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 215 ernments and the nation as a whole. Each Senator, therefore,occupies a dual position, and if it were possible for the interest ofone State to be antagonistic to that of the whole, to which is hisloyalty first due It is a question of infinite importance, andworthy of careful study. But we hold that it has been settled beyond all pQssibility ofdoubt that even if the South w
. The literary digest. f LOUIS E. MCCOMAS (REPUBLICAN),<iF ). 1.) Thuw. NaBhvUIe, Tenn. THOMAS B. TURLEY (DEMOCRAT), OF TENNESSEE. TV^O NEW UNITED STATES SENATORS. Vol. XYI., No. 8] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 215 ernments and the nation as a whole. Each Senator, therefore,occupies a dual position, and if it were possible for the interest ofone State to be antagonistic to that of the whole, to which is hisloyalty first due It is a question of infinite importance, andworthy of careful study. But we hold that it has been settled beyond all pQssibility ofdoubt that even if the South were right in i860, which we believe,the new doctrine has been accepted and is now the law of theconscience as well as of the land. When Robert E. Lee decided that his primary allegiance wasdue to his State, in i860, we hold that he decided wisely and well,and that his self-devotion was justified by the law as it thenstood. Were Robert E. Lee required to make the same decision now,we believe he would decide differently,
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