New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-26
WHAT WILL YOU IaAyEf

cry of No Party, and to Kill oil Republicans
toward whom they feel a personal luminosity,
are wont to place their hands upon their
hearts, and to declare that they are for the
Constitution and the Laws-the Inference de.
sired being that other men are not. Thus,
the Hon. Joel Parker's party in Massachusetts
Issued a long document, the other day, in
which they thanked God that they were not
like other men, but that they were for /" the
Constitution and the Laws" as if the men now
in Office in Massachusetts, whom il is proposed
to Turn out of Office, were opposed to the e.
rorcemcnt of the laws and the perpetuation
and yindcation of the Constitution This may
be patriotic, but it is not particularly polite.
IL is the kind of talk which may now be heard
even in these regions aud we shall hear deal
Of il, withou. being much frightened, before the
election is over. Where were all those veneer
able aud inlallible doctors when their services
would have been of some importsncel Snug
at home in their easy-chairs, only emerging
now and then, to tell us that we must " con-
cede," and then, rs il looked like rain, going
] L'llf ibi lltAl uIlVitba' anu h'f's ''Ahihb
back again. Conces ion concession was
all their cry theS;' we suspect that il is their
whole stock in trade now But CONCESSION
aud " the Constitution aud the Laws" hardly
belong 70 the same dish, about those times.
They make an ola q little too strong for COM
mon stomacls. Nothing can be " conceded
u Rebels with arms IN their hands. They
must be killed, they must be imprisoned, they
must be impoverished, and, if 1t be necessary,
lhey must be hung Ike other felons. But say
tue Newhgbts il must be done according to
/ tie Constitution and the Laws-by which they
mean. although they do not dare TO say so
plainly: You mustn't touch the negroes; you
must have nothing 10 DO with Emancipation
schemes; you must, IN assuaelng this tuiault,
remember the poor, poor Rebels
Tie Republican Party means to be faithful
20 the Constitution, and no man, high or low,
can say that Il does not. unless no indulge.
b Insell in fabrication and SANDER Of better
men than lac H. Al that the most earnest
/ Republican asks for, is ~ enforcement Of the
/ Constitution and the Laws. All that the most
radical Northern politician asks for Is an on
/ iorcement of the Constitution and the Laws.
/ All that The TRIBUNE, villled and abused AS
/ it has been, asas Tor is OIL enforcement of the
Consultation and the Laws. Talk about the
Constitution Open It, and read
"Trcason against the United States shall
consist only in levying war against them. or
| in adhering 70 their enemies. giving them aid
and comfort"
"The Congress, shall have power 70 declare
| the punishment ol Treason
Now. it being admitted that tie Rebels are
| traitors, and unreasonable ones into the bar
gain. the Republican party instead Of peppering
them with blrdshot, has adopted the policy OF
letting lily at them the biggest balls in the Con-
s,itutionai arsenal. Til. didnt suit Judge b.
r. Thomas of Massachusetts, in Congress,
when the Confscation bill was pending. He
made Il speech against H. but 1t is passed, ard
30 has he-into political oblivion lie il to BE-
ono Of the Chiefs Of the Newhghts in Ma.'a-
chusct,s. and he heads their pronunciamen,o-
but that will not save him. These delicate
men are bard 10 satisfy, and demand impossi-
bic reishes, to give hilp to their aded MP
petites. They must have something more Co.
stitutional than the Constitution Itself. Those
~ho stand by the good old instrument in is
naked simplicity, and ara not pundis in The
Curtisian school Of mysterious AMI transcen.
dental Interpretation. are no better than they
should be, aud, in fact, sheer Secessionsts in
III. Il, It.
jrcted, 10 attempts 70 discover in the plain old
document philosophical profundity OF which
its authors never dreamed, ADD in proof Of the
existence Of which it /, necessary to write
three thick folio volumes II seems TO US to
DC remarkably simple IN its provisions. The
considerations leading TO the adoption of these
provisions may have required tho calculations
Of The Ftdcaiist; but casuistry IL as much
thrown away upon the article dcliuing and pro
'idiDg for the punishment Of Treason as II
would be upon tao Commandment. Thou
shalt not steal -
For our own pnrs, a. We are members Of
tho Republican party we ask nothing better
for it than that it may be fairly Judged BY its
MUMMY !" tho 'ohstHut'on' IL mas both
obliged to submit patiently to great deal Of
loose assertion; and attempts nnumcrable have
been made to bring it to bar for the oisenses
Of individuals; but II charge of in6dety to the .
Constitution and the Laws cannot for mo.
ment be sustained against it by tho record .
1t received the Government from the unclean
hands Of treacherons predecessors. with rifled
treasury. with pIundered nrsenas. with Il de.
moraIized civil service. and with tho slime of
Mr.. Buchanap's imbecility saturatng every
L. - IL