Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-12-23
The Presidents Special Message
to the Senate.


Sometimes with misgivipg oftener with
hopefulness we have waited for tho hour
when Andrew Johnson would confront and
battle the disunion intrigues of the Radicals
with the emphatic exercise Of his adthor.
ity as President Of the United Stntos. Our
appeals to him have been frequent and
earnest to stand by the Constitution and
the laws, and to vindicate our Republican
institutions against the troachery and
fanaticism of the faction that have been
striving to sustain their waning power by
encouraging the elements of intersectional
discord We could not believe that Mr..
Johnson himself Southerner, Democrat,
a man of the people citizen who owed
bis disenthralmcnt from poverty and OBJ
scurity, the ennobling influences ofrcpubli.
csnlsm, would connive with fana,ical con-
spirators that were aiming 10 legslate
away the attributes Of our political sys-
TEN.
AT last the hopo is realized The
promise is fulfilled. The Executive voice
proclaims to the Radical intriguers, thus
far shall ye go and no further. Perhaps
it was polite on the part of Mr. johnson
to permit the Congressional disunionists
to 90 as lar as they did, that their plans
might be revealed, their madness made ap-
parent, and the full measure OF the guilt
OF their revolutionary purpose exhibited to
the popular prehension. And when We
have asked, in view of tn, boldness and
desperation Of the demagoguls who were
seeking the very life of republcanism,
"when check the copspiraoy!" perhaps his
was the deeper wisdom that answered
"Let it bud,
Ripcn, faunt i the day, and bu st to FRUIT
The Dead Seas fruit Of ashes
Ashes that will scatter to the winds"
We publish to day special message Of
the President to the Senate in which he
distinctly repudates the doctrine of hold.
ing The South in territorial suhjoction S
conquered provinces, ,and throws the weigh
Of his Executive influence in favor of the
immediate political rehabilitation of the
Southern States. If the incendiary dis
union speech of Mr.. Stevens on Monday
have precipitated this action on the part
of Mr.. johnson, it is jus. retribution upon
the party that have obeyed the evil coun>
sells of the Pennsylvania demagogues' -
Out Of his own mouth has come condem.
nation, and the fabric of anarchy and dis
union that he pictured 10 overturned by
the breath of his own frenzy. The hours
Of tho supremacy Of the extremities in
Congress are numbered, and over tho dc. |
liberations Of the Select Committee Of Fif- |
teen will preside the spirit of the Execu-
tive policy, whose controlling influence
they cannot overcome, if they have the te-
merity to combat it,
The conduct of General Grant in urging
on the President policy of immediate
reconstruction, commend5 him to the graf
iiude and admiration Of the people. He
has helped to achieve q victory in the
benefcence of whose results be will find |
the record Of purer fame than that which
attaches to his military career. Now, in
deed, is he 6gh ting the battle for the
Union, and the laural that he vii win in
that conflict he can wear in the South, as
in ihe North, with the assurance, every
where, of-the tribute Of popular respect.
Now that Mr.. Johnson has declared
open war against the Radical programme,
We hope that he will push hostiities with
all the energy and decision of his charac,
ter. He will have 10 encounter bitter
and active opposition. No effort will be
spared to thwart annoy and weaken his
Administration. Mr.. Summers prompt
and yindicttVe attack when the message
was read in the Senate exhibits the nature
of the atagorsm that he must confront ,and
is the prelude of the gathering storm
Popular continent will support the Presi-
dent, and all the more earnestly if he
meets the issue undinchingy and approves
himself equal 10 the emergency. The
Radicals have had just rope enough to
hang themselves with, and Mr.. Stevens
has ajusted the moose himself aud kicked
away the prop. A brief struggle, spasm
or SO, the convusion of the dying agony,
and Radioalism will have ceased to exist
to disturb the harmonieS of republican
ism. ReQuiescat in pace.
Death of Gov. CorWin.
Thomas Corwin, Ex. minister TO Mexico,