The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-01 00:00:00

ESDAY EVENING, J ULY 1, 1868.

stored with a vast amount of indigested learn-
ing, with a heart all tender and overflowing,
with a meekness which saturates the ill-
constructed and muddy sentences, which
convey the yearning of his imagination rather
than the conclusions of right reason—with a
large following, an ascetic habit, and a high
position—he exhibits at once many most a
miable qualities of the man, together with all
the weaknesses and inconsequences of the
religion into which he had the great misfortune
to be born. He: must know well enough that
Protestantism is religion, not as by Christ
established, but as by Parliament established.
He must be aware that the very principles
on which he justifies himself in creating a sect
in the midst of his own Church, are not to be
confined in their application to himself alone.
He must be aware that if he has liberty to
judge of doctrine and discipline, and come
to his own conclusions ; so have all others an
equal right. The same claim he makes to
interpret the Lord's Supper, Baptism and other
essentials of religion according to his mind;
that same claim other men must be allowed by
him in coming to their conclusions. Still, he
complains with true Protestant inconsistency,
and with his known goodness of heart that
" every sacred truth is questioned, even to
the being of the God who made us, or of our
own eternal existence." Of course it is—and
so it will be. And according to your principles
so it must be. Again, "Better," he says,
" disestablish, not the Irish only, but the
English Church, better undergo the loss of
all things temporal, than that a Minister shoild
have power to treat our clergy as civil servants,
and to threaten them with the loss, not of
their temporalities (these would, I trust, be
made up), but of their spiritual offices too, if
they should do any act to disown one who has
been lawfully deposed from his office of a
bishop, and has been excommunicated as a
heretical denier of G'od's truth, one of those
grievous wolves of whom St. Paul spoke, who
spare not the flock of Christ. As well be under
Nero or Claudius at once. They could but
banish or burn Christians for not denying
Christ. This Minister has not denied that he
threatened with loss of a spiritual office those
who would recognise any other bishop than
one who has denied Christ." Here the good-
ness, piety, moral rectitude of the man come
out, and display all the more glaringly the in-
consistency of his position. What business has
Dr. Pusey to call any man a heretic ? Is he
infallibly directed in all saving truth ? Has
he a greater certainty of what God's law is,
according to his principles, than that Minister
—that representative of the head of Dr. Pusey's
Church, whom he speaks of with such severity?
We might consistently compare a Government
which trod on our spiritual leaders to that
of Nero and Claudius ; we might even say
that those pagan monsters were preferable.
But Dr. Pusey is powerless. The very prin-
ciple on which he lives out of the Church,
and contradicts her, gives his enemies a right
to take a different view from his view, and
contradict him. In a word, Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. Disraeli, and Dr. Pusey, the three most
conspicuous men in England just at present—
perhaps the most gifted, each in his own sphere
—are far from being a strength to the reli-
gion of the land. They manifest its weakness.
The growth of its follies, inconsistencies and
fallacies in their large minds, assumes a pro-
portion which must make a deep impression
on all thinking men, and lead them to the con-
clusion, if not, with foreigners, that English
Protestantism is a farce, at all events that it
is England's weakness.—Westminster Gazette.

THE PRESIDENT'S LAST VETO.

(Frcm the Anglo American 2 Imes.)

When the mail left New York on the 13th inst.
the people were speculating on the PRESIDENT'S action
regarding the Bill admitting Arkansas to representa-
tion in Congress. It was generally thought that AN-
DREW JOHNSON would allow the ten days to lapse,
so that the act might become law without any exer-
cise of his authority, his silence being a sufficient
proof that he dissented, though he might not desire to
waste time and to stir up bad feelings by a uselass
opposition. But Impeachment must have wrought
a strange change in ANDREW JOHNSON'S stubborn
nature if he bated an inch of his power to thwart,
and those who knew him best were prepared for
the telegram from Washington, dated 'Time 20,
announcing that the bill had been vetoed. Of course
it was at once passed over the veto in the Repre-
sentatives by 110 votes against 31, and in the Senate
on June 22 by the necessary majority. Therefore
it is now law, and runs as follows :
"Whereas, the people of Arkansas, in pursuance of en
Act entitled "An Act for the more efficient government
of the Rebel States, passed March 2, 18G7, and the Acts
supplementary thereto, have framed and adopted a Con-
stitution of State Government which is Republican in
form, and the Legislature of said State has duly ratified the
amendment to the Constitution of the United States pro-
posed by the 39th Congress and known as Article 14 ;
therefore—Bo it. enacted by the &nate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, that the State of Arkansas
is entitled and admitted to representation in Congress
as one of the States of the Union upon the fol-
lowing fundamental condition ;—That the Constitution of
Arkansas shall never be so amended or changed as to
deprive any citizen or class of citizens in the United States
of the right tc vote, who are entitled to vote by the Con-
stitution herein recognized, except as a punishment for
such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof
they shall have been duly convicted under laws equally
applicable to all the inhabitants of said State, provided
that any alteration in said Constitution, prospective in its
effect, may be made in regard to the time and place of
residence of voters."

We can only guess the reasons given by the PRE-
SIDENT for vetoing the first Bill presented to
him after Impeachment. Doubtless he-will strongly
deny the right of Congress to impose conditions
of representation upon States other than those
recognized by the Constitution, and this he will
greatly enlarge upon. This merely opens up the
old question, and back we go to the position of the
rebellious States when the war ended in their sub-
jugation. It is a fearful defect in a ruler when he
cannot discern the difference between words and
things. The PRESIDENT has his policy : it has the
misfortune of being impracticable; what its merits
are may be an interesting question for the future
historian, but useless for those who have to act at
once to waste time in discussing. But ANDREW
JOHNSON cannot see this; and that his consistency
may be maintained, the old battle is renewed im-
mediately after the late desperate close. The veto
in the Arkansas Bill will of course be followed by
the veto of the " Omnibus Reconstruction Bill,"
which was passed on the 10th inst. in the Senate
by 31 to 5, and is now before the PRESIDENT. The
Act includes Alabama, although Senator TRUMBULL
moved to strike that State out, the Constitution
having failed for want of the required number of
the registered votes for its ratification, but he was
defeated by a majority of eight. The same condi-
tion is imposed on North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and Alabama, as on
Arkansas, with the addition for Georgia, that the
provision against enforcing contracts made before
the year 1865 be struck out. It is also enacted
that the PRESIDENT shall, within tea days after
these States have complied with the terms of
the measure, notify this to CongresS. It is
doubtful if the Senate will pass the " Omnibus"
Bill over the PRESIDENT'S veto in view of the
fact that it includes a State which, according to the
provisions of the Reconstruction Acts passed by
Congress, failed to ratify the Constitution. The
best evidence is also before the Chamber that public
feeling in Alabama is averse to the Constitution.
General MEADE arrived at Washington on the 10th
June, and as Alabama is in his military district, he
took upon himself to protest against forcing the Con-
stitution on the people. If the " Omnibus" Bill be
passed over the PRESIDENT'S veto, a question of
great interest will arise—What will be Mr. JoHN-
SON'S action in reference to the part expressly dele-
gated to him by the Act ? Will he report to Con-
gress, as directed? If so, he recognizes its legality,
which, in all probability, his veto will strenuously
deny ; if not, there will be another infringement
of law, and, consequently, a case for Impeachment.
Indeed, some assert that the dilemma has been
carefully prepared for the PRESIDENT, and Congress
is like the angry bull with head down and
eyes glaring, threatening poor ANDY, who takes
a singular delight, in flaunting a red rag
before the enraged bitite. Mr. JOHNSON has dex-
terously escaped the effects of the last charge, and
in the " Omnibus" Bill it may be that the horns
are being lowered for another. But it may be'that
the Senate, in which TRUMBULL'S amendment to
exclude Alabama was only rejected by a majority
of 8, will not pass the bill over the veto (always
supposing that it must be vetoed) by the two-thirds
majority. From all that we can gather the policy
of Congress is working well in the South. Such is
the testimony of independent travellers ; and
from Florida, the " Italy of the Union, " where
many last winter sought a climate, un-
usually genial, the general report coincides with
that of Mrs. BEECiIER STOWE, who says " the
Southern people are. no more inclined to re-
sist the laws, or to foster the spirit of rebellion,
than Vermont is." :The plantlrs are beginning to
discover that they will rule under any circumstances,
as their influence over the blacks cannot be de-
stroyed, and certainly not by the riff-raff which
finds its way from the North. In South Carolina
the late local election showed that thousands of
negroes have voted the Conservative ticket, having
swun g round from the Radical platform, to which
they had at first been enticed. We therefore
regret the PRESIDENT'S continued opposition
to a policy which on the whole is working favour-
ably in the interests of the South, and it is the more
culpable, as Mr. JOHNSON confines himself to de-
nouncing the Congressional policy without substi-
tuting anything in its place. We want to see the
Civil Governments restored, to see the Southern
Senators and Representatives in their seats in the
Capitol at Washington ; and this is the object of
the bill which the PRESIDENT has vetoed in the case
of Arkansas, and will surely veto in the case of the
other States. He stigmatizes Congress as an illegal
body in so far as it does not represent all the States,
yet he rejects and counteracts every effort of Con-
gress to bring in the representatives from the South.
He denoun ces;mili tary govern men tin the States lately
in rebellion, yet he refuses his sanction to the mea-
sures by which Congress would sweep away the
military rule and restore the States to the Civil
Constitutions framed and adopted by their own
inhabitants. Mr. JOHNSON cannot urge with truth
objectionable conditions as the reason for his oppo-
sition. Putting all the vile party cries aside, Con-
gress has but one end, which it is the PPESIDENT'S
duty to forward—the security of Negro Emanci-
pation. And if ANDREW JOHNSON would but show
how best to attain it, instead of denouncing Con-
gress, be would more usefully employ his time, of
which surely enough has already been sacrificed, as
well as that of the Legislature by him, all of whom
are paid servants of the nation.

Our article was finished before the telegram dated
Washington, June 25, was received. As every-
body anticipated, the " Omnibus " Reconstruction
Bill was vetoed by President JonNsoN, but the
serious part of the affair is that the Senate by 30
votes against 8 has passed it over the veto, and the
Representatives by 105 against 30. If it really be
the intention to drive Mr. JOHNSON into another
infringement of the law, upon which to ground a
charge of impeachment, the Legislature is iu the
right path ; bat neither the Executive nor Legisla-
tive branches at Washington will benefit in public
-estimation while thus engaged in playing at Go-
vernment, not the harmless farce enacted by chil-
dren, inasmuch as it may be productive of infinite
mischief but of little good.

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