The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-21 00:00:00

THE SUNS LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1866.

TO WEST-END DINERS.-
"THE WELLINGTO3,"
• ST. JAMES'S-STREET, PICCADILLY.
LADIES' SALOON DINING ROOM on the First Floor
The SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS are now Or.r:N.
Terms—Twelve Months..£l Its. 6d.
Six Months—. I ls. Od.
Apply, D. CAMERON, 49, Wit. Jame3-street.

IVER. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
33 and UP LC THE AIR, an entirely /sew EntertAn-
ment, EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa stalls, es.; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.;
amphitheatre, 18.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

l; IL ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S New
TX. Entertainment, MRS. BROWN AT 1103 IE AND
AB ItO % ERY KNIN (i at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Afternoon at Three. Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly.
Tickets at the Box—office; Mr. Mitchell's; and all music-
sellers.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS,
ST. JAMES'S HALL.
EVERY EVENING at Eight. WEDNESDAYS and
SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The original and veri-
tably legimate CHRISTY MINSTRELS. First Season in
London these five years. The only company in existence
which possesses a legal claim to the title, from the fact of its
being the only one which retains all the marked specialities
and distinguished favourites who originally gained the re-
putation of the company first in the United States, and sub-
sequently in this country, in 1857. No other company as-
suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single in-
dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the
original troupe. The Christys (after an absence of five years)
return to London with their band strengthened and im-
proved in every respect. their entertainment being unani-
mously pronounced b f the metropolitan press to be the most
sparkling in London.
Prices of Admission—New and luxurious fauteuils, ss. ;
as. ' • area. 2s. ; gallery, is. ; juveniles, under twelve.
half pribe to stalls and area only. Fauteuils and stalls may
be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
street; or at Hr. Austin's, 23, Piccadilly. - Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

T " X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (LimitecP,
IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by ADOLPHE ADAM,
having- been enthusiastically received, will be pELLO, berformed,
together with IL TROVATORE and MASANIy
the whole of the talented Operatic Company EVERY
EVENING in addition to the other novelties of the estab-
-I,6bn:tent, including the cerebrated HUNGARIANS in their
new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr, RANDALL,
and Messrs. PERSIVANI and D'RHONDE.
Admission—Area, tid ; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8.

iurADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
111_ BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.
Open during the first three days in Easter week from 10
a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, Is. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI.
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

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A price current free. Sugars at market prices.
PHILLIPS and CO. send all goods Carriage Free within
eight miles of No. 8, King William-street 40s. worth Car-
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DISDERI, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST to
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PORTUGAL ; to the IMPERIAL ACADEMY of MUSIC;
PHOTOGRAPHER of the PALACE of the UNIVERSAL
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in which each house of Congress is authorised "to
compel the attendance of absent members ;" but,
even conceding that we have waged war in the
character of a colossal sergeant-at-arms, we should,
by another clause of the Constitution, be bound to
compel their attendance as members, only to-punish
their absence as traitors.
Still, even if we should admit, against vll the
facts and logic of the case, that the rebel com-
munities have never been out of the Union as
States, it is plain that the conduct of the execu-
tive has not, until recently, conformed to
that theory. He violated it constantly in
the processes of his scheme of reconstruction, only
to make it reappear as mandatory in the results.
All the steps he took in creating State Governments
were necessarily subversive of universally recognised
State rights. The Secessionists had done their
work so completely, as regards their respective lo-
calities, that there was left no possible organic con-
nection between the old States and any new ones
which might be organised under the lead of the
Federal Government. The only persons who could
properly call State conventions were disqualified,
by treason, for the office, and might have been
hanged as traitors while occupied in preserving un-
broken the unity of their State life. In other words,
the only persons competent to act constitutionally
were the persons constitutionally incompetent to
act,—a gigantic practical bull and absurdity, which
met Mr. Johnson as the first logical consequence
of his fundamental maxim. He accordingly was
forced to go to work as if no principle hampered
him. He assumed, at the start, the most radical
and important of all State rights ; that is, from a
mixed population of black and white freemen he
selected a certain number, whose distinguishing
mark was colour ; and these persons were, after they
had taken an extra-constitutional oath, constituted
by him the people of each of the seceded States. A
provisional governor, nominated by himself, directed
this people, constituted such by himself, to elect
delegates to a convention which was to pass ordi-
nances dictated by himself. In this, he may have
simply accepted the condition of things ; he
may have done the best with the materials he had
to work with ; still he plainly did not deal with
South Carolina, Mississippi, and the rest, as if they
were States that " had never been out of the
Union," and entitled to any of the rights enjoyed
by Pennsylvania or New York. But the hybrid
States, which are thus purely his own creations,
he now presents, in a veto message, to the Senate
of the United States as the equals of the States
it represents ; informs that body that he is con-
stitutionally the President of the States he has
made, as well as the President of the States which
have not enjoyed the advantage of his formative
hand ; and unmistakably hints that Congress, un-
less it admits the representatives of the States he
has reconstructed, is not a complete and competent

legislative body for the whole Union—is, in plain
words, a Rump. The President, to be sure, qualifies
his suggestion by asking for the admission only of
loyal men, who can take the oaths. But is it not
plain that Congress, if it admits Senators and Re-
presentatives, admits the States from which they
come? The Constitution says that " the Senate of
the United States shall be composed of two Senators
from each State ;" that " the House of Represen-
tatives shall be composed of members chosen every
year by the people of the several States." Now let
us suppose that some of the South Carolina mem-
bers are admitted on the President's plan, and that
others are rejected. What is the result? Is not
South Carolina in the Union ? Can a fraction of
the State be in, and another fraction out, by the
terms of the United States Constitution ? Are not
the " loyal men" in for their term of office simply,
and the State in permanently? The proposition
to let in what are called loyal men, and then
afterwards to debate the terms on which the
States which sent them shall be admitted,
might be seriously discussed in a Fenian
Congress, but it would prove too much for the
gravity of an American assembly. The Presi-
dent thinks Congress is bound to admit " loyal
men ;" but in conceding this claim, would not
the great legislative bodies of the nation practi-
cally confess that they had no right or power to
exact guarantees, no business whatever with " re-
construction?" It is the office of the President, it
seems, to reconstruct States ; the duty of Congress
is confined to accepting, placidly, the results of his
work. Such is the only logical inference from Mr.
Johnson's last position. And thus a man, who
was intended by the people who voted for him to
have no other connection with reconstruction than
what a casting vote in the Senate might possibly
give him, has taken the whole vast subject into his
exclusive control. Was there ever acted on the
stage of history such a travesty of constitutional
government ?
The loyal States, indeed, come out of the war
separated from the disloyal, not by such thin par-
titions as the President so cavalierly breaks through,
but by a great sea of blood. It is across that we
must survey their rights and duties; it is with that in
view we must settle the terms of their readmission.
It is idle to apply to 1866 the word-twisting of
1860. The rebel communities which began the war
are not the same communities which were recog-
nised as States in the Union before the war occurred.
No sophistry that perplexes the brain of the people
can prevent this fact being felt in their hearts. The
proposition that States can plunge into rebellion,
and, after waging against the Government a war
which is put down only at the expense of enormous
sacrifices of treasure and blood, can, when defeated,
return of right to form a part of the government
they have laboured to subvert, is a proposition so
repugnant to common sense that its acceptance by
the people would send them down a step in the
zoological scale. Have we been fighting in order
to compel the South to resume its reluctant
role of governing us ? Are we to be told that
the States which have sent mourning into
every loyal family in the land, and which
have loaded every loyal labourer's back with
a new and unexampled burden of taxation,
have the same right to seats in the Senate and the
House of Representatives which New York and
Illinois can claim? The question is not whether
the victorious party shall exercise magnanimity and
mercy, whether it shall attempt to heal wounds
rather than open them afresh, but whether its legal
Representatives, constituting, as it was supposed,
the legislative department of the United States
Government, shall have anything to do with the
matter at all. The President seems to think they
have not; and finding that Congress, by immense
majorities, declined to abdicate its functions, he
and his partisans appealed to such legislative assem-
blies •as could be extemporised for the occasion.
Congress did not fairly represent the people of the
whole Union ; and Mr. Johnson accordingly un-
folded his measures to a body which, in his opinion,
we must suppose did, namely a Copperhead mob
which gathered under his windows at Washington.
The Secretary of State addressed a meeting in New
York, assembled in a ball, which is the very symbol
of mutation. Some collectors and postmasters have,
we believe, been kind enough to take upon them-
selves the trouble of calling similar legislative
assemblies in their respective cities ; and Keo-
kuk, it is well known, has won deserved cele-
brity for the rapidity with which its gathering of
publicists passed the President's plan. Still more
important, perhaps, is the unanimity with which the
" James Page Library Company," of Philadelphia,
fulfilled its duty of legislating for the whole Re-
public. This mode of taking the opinion of the
people, if merely considered as an innocent amuse-
ment of great officials, may be harmless; but po-
litical farces, played by actors who do not seem to
take their own jokes, sometimes lead to serious
consequences ; and the effect upon the South of
suggesting that the Congress of the United States
not only misrepresents its constituents, but excludes