Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-12-21

The Northern Press on the Organiza-
tion OF the present d. 8. Congress-
3 The New York Nsws, Of Tuesday, says:
Yesterday witnessed the Inauguration oi
what we fear will be the saddest. the mosi
disgrsceful period in.the history of our pa.
tioDal legislation. The story of the strong
brother plotting to steal away the weak
brothers share of the common heritage has
long been the theme of rpsnances; it has
DOW become political reality. The open
ing, proceedings of Congress intimate too
clearly that it is the purpose ofthe Radicals
to withhold from the South the right of
Congressional representation. If that pur-
pose should be carried into effect, as It sure:
II will, unless the Executive shall interpose,
the country will be ruled by faction whose
simple volition will become the law Of the
land and the very highest and most essen
tial principle Of Repnblicanism will have
been ignored at the centre Of Federal au-
thority.
The Herald thus comments -,
The opening proceedings Of the two
Houses Of this Congress. foreshadow the
practical redactionsof the excluded South.
ern States 10 the status Of Territories con-
quered from foreign enemy and still in a
state of revolt. Coercion There is moth.
leg here but coercion. The Radical lead.
ers of this Congress seem to be enraged at
the conoiliatory experiments Of restoration
adopted by President johnson, and which,
in preparing the minds of the Southern
people for the great changs which has come
upon them, have. been attended with such
wonderful success His: patient and patri:
otic labors in view of the. earliest possible
restoration of the South to law and order,
industry, prosperity nd+political harmony
with the North, excite, apparently, no con.
sideration. among the majority in either
House of Congress. 49,
The Tribune simply remarks: 7..55
Both Houses of Congress we're properly.
constituted yesterday for the transaction Of
business, the Senate conVening under the:
officers hitherto chosen, and the House re-
eleotiDg the Hon. Schuyler Colfax Speaker
by decisive vote of l39 for him to 35 for
James ,Brooks,of this city. e : ,s5ass.>s.s,s
The World says Sos
A Congressional majority have decided
that the avowed were not the real objects
of the war; that the States, which went ont
from us States peopled by free and equal
citizeus of lawful Union, come back to us
an American Poland, an American Ireland,
to be ruled BY the caprioious will of aeci-
dental msjorities, to be held BY the strong.
arm, to be coeroed and moulded, both go
cialiy and politically, into such form and
pressure as the theories of Republican pol
iticians and the passions Of Radical mul-
titude shall suggest. We do not say that
this decision, threatens US with renewal of
the terrible scenes of bloodshed and des-s
truotion which have so long wearied and
shocked the civilization of Ghristendom.-s
The power Of the! Southern States for war
is broken. They are prostrate at our feet,
to be dealt with as their conquerors shall
decide. = Is -. ;.sss-4-.g..f =
:. The New York Erpress of Monday eve-.
ming, in speaking Of Senator Wilson's bilb
says:
As President johnson has uosmore Con-.
stitutional power than Senator Wilson to
enforce such an act of Congress, he probaa-i
bly, will not attempt it. But since the time
when Charles the Fifth and Phillip the
Second undertook to walk over the States
of the Netherlands, nobody has since at.