The New York herald., 1864-08-06

II is impossible to pass IN silence this proclamation
without negectng that duty and, having taken
we are not disposed TO fail in The other duv or
asserting the rights OF Congress. ~
Te President did not sign the bill sto guarantee to
certain states whose governments have been usurped
republican form OF government passed by the support
a his administration in both Houses o Congress-
mature deberaton. - aW e3xN
The bill did therefore become law and It is there.
fore nothing E*
The proclamation s neither 40 approval nor veto OF
the bill 1t is therefore, document unknown 70 the
and constitution of tho United States N1t
So far as contains apology for not signing the b
erDment. -
law it is a grave Executive usurpation.
II is fitting necessary = enable the friends
Of the administration to appreciate the apology and the
usurpation be spread before them.
The proclamation says:-@ An%Nee
Thersas the said k was presented to the President
the adjournment Of session. and was not
signed by him Nl
II that be accurate stu this bill presented with
Other bills that werc signed.
Within that hour the time for the siss de adjournment
and the eas, iumation Of sdesro for more time by the
President to consider this bill would have secured q
further postponement. Nlf
Yet the committee sent to ascertain II tho President
had any further comm,n cAton for the House OF Repre-
senaives reported that he had nonc and the friends of
the bill, who had anxiously waited upon him to
tain its fate had already been Informed that the Pres
deut had resolved not to sign il.
The time Of presentation therefore, had nothing to do
The BIN had been discussed and considered for more
than month in the House Of Representatives, which It
passed the 4th Of May il reported the Senate
the 9th of May without material amendment, and
the senate absolutely as came from the House
Ignorance OF its contents Is out OF the question
Indeed, at his request. draft OF bill, substantially
points objected TO by the proclamation. had been laid
before him for his consideration in the winter or
lsG2-63 ME
There therefore, reason to suprose the provisions
or the bill took the President by surprise
I'm be " m va n bei HON In
have been well known that this method OF preventing
The biz h KEN becoming % w Wv without me constitutional
the bill passed the Senate.
We Informed BY gentleman entitled to entire
fdence that before the 2od OF June in New Orleans
was stated by member OF General Banks staff n the
presence Of other gentlemen in Official position. that
Senator Ioote had written letter TO the department
that the House Reconstruction bill would be STAYED off in
the Senate TO period too late in the session to require
Lincoln would retain the bill il necessary, and thereby
to get the bill considered n the Senate, quite in
cordance with that plan and the fate Of the bill was accu
ratev predicted by letters received from New Orleans
Had the pr1clamaon stopped opp there M II would hi have
Executive perversionof the constitution
Blu: it goes III ther. The President says
And whereas the said bill contains among other things
practical Iea,ioa in The nnon which plan
nov thonght fs to lay before the people for their con-
forms The result to be declared by whom With
wha effect when ascertaned9
Is y to be lay by the approval OF the people without
Win the President, on his opinion Of the popular
approval, execute It as law?
or is this merely device TO avoid the serious respon
slby o. teeatiag law on which 30 many loyal hearts
But TIE assigned for not approving the bin
are full OF ominous significance.
The President proceeds
Now therefore, Abraham Lincoln, President or the
and MI o knnU that
while am in December last, when by prociama
e. aS
any single plan OF restoration
Tha, to say the President is resolved that the people
shall not by law take securities from the rebel states
against renewal OF the rebeion before restoring their
His wisdom and prudence are to be our sufficient,
guarantees.
He further Gays
State eonstut sorcrnnenis already adopted and
Installed in Arkan as ami Louisiana sha be aside and
cit have up Tie same as to further effort.
Ina. i 70 say the President persists in recoznizug
these shadows OF governments Arkansas and Louisiana
which Congress formally declared should be rccog
nzed whose REPRESENTATIVES, and Senators repeled
declared formally should have no electoral vote for
President and Vice President.
live a day without his support They mere oil.
gachies imp sed the people by military orders under
shas soldiers and camp followers were the chief actors
assisted by handful Of resident citizens urged on
sident -as @tt' 80 a1N
In neither Louisiana Arkansas ibefore Banks de.
feat did the United States control half The territory or
half the population In Louisiana Geo. Banks precsma.
ton canddly declared, The Fundamental Law Of the
state is marital law. FHrt
TN thst Foundation Of freedom he erected what the
President calls tne free constitution and OF
Iouisisua.'' NK aflrF
But Of this State. whose fundamental law was martial
law only sixteen parishes out OF iory-eight parishes
were held by the United States and in i've Of the
The eleven parishes we Substantially held had 2sa,lss
inhabitants the residue OF the state held by us,
575,61T.
At the farce called an election the officers Of General
Banks returned that $40 ballots cast out whether
any by whom the people the United States have no
legal assurance but IL is probable that were cast
by sodcre employees o. the uniled states military or
al aud 900 ballots represent the State o. Touisians
Such the free constitution and government OF 1ouisi
failure OF military expedition deprived US OF like
the swamps OF Florida. aud before the Presidential
election Ike ones may be organized in every rebel State
The President, by preventing this bill from becoming
law holds The electoral votes OF the rebel states the
dictston OF hts personal ambition.
these votes turn the balance in his favor Is TO be
supposed that hs competitor, defeated by such means
II the rebel majority assert their supremacy in those
States and send votes ubch elect enemy Of the gov.
crnment, VIII we not repel his claims:
rated by the votes Of rebel states '''s' '1'ss''
uthe proper constitutional authority )" formally declared
that there are no State the rebel States
ploploeu ior tusT erection al proper time.
both the senate and tho Hose or rcec
cd the Senator's aud Representatives. chosen under the
authority OF wha the President calls the free ronstt,
tion and government or ArkansaA
The Presidents proclamation holds FOR naushtr this
Court and strides besdlong toward the anarchy his rro
clamaton OF tie Sth OF December inauguretcd.
II electors for President be allowed 10 be chosen IN
either OF thoye states sinister light WI bc cast on the
motives which induced TIE President 10 tehcld for
naught" the wof Congress rather than ia government
in Louis ana and Arkansas.
That judgment OF Congress. which the President denes
the exercise OF authority exclusively vested 10
Congress by the constitution 10 determine wha, Is the
tablished government 10 state, and IN its own nature
andby tho highest judicial authority binding all other
departments or the government. .tttA Il
The Supreme Court has formally declared that under
the fourth section OF the fourth article OF tho consttu
top requiring the United States 10 guarantee 10 every
State republican form OF govefuhient srt rests with
Congress 10 decide what government 10 the established
enc in a state:v and twhen Senators and Represcn.
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