The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-20

The New York Herald on Congress.
The New York Herald is an able SIM
| porter of President Johnson's restoration
policy, and pours broadsidas into be
ranks OF the radicals, in almost eyery
number. After referring to the radical
programme of Thaddeus Stevens, bv
which all papers and questions relating
to the representation OF Southern States
should be referred to a Joint committee
with leave to report at any time by bill OF
otherwise, the Herald says:
First, 1t excludes from Congress for an
indefinite time every member elected to
either house from Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Ala
| bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. Ar
kansas and 1enneSsee-eleven States
they are to stay out. all Of them, until
this joint committee Of fifteen shall have
hnIshed lis investigation, agreed upon
Its plan and made its report. and thence
unul that report shall have been adoDted
and shaped into law Of Congress. That
tins business, if entered into under the
leading OF Stevens, will occupy the two
houses ior the next SIX months, or more,
lAASAO 10 EClN ISdSOu 10 D6lleVS.
Furthermore, to make their course of
action decisive, no member from any of
| these excluded States elected to either
house Is TO be admitted while this ioint
committee Is engaged in Matching its rad
IcsI eggs OF reconstruction and all ma
pers relating TO the election of members
from the excluded States are to be hand
ed over to this committee, and withou,
debate. All the work done in the way
OF reconstruction under the auspices OF
PRESIDENT johnson goes for nothing ex-
cept as tie work OF raw apprentices be-
glnnlDg to learn their trade Eleven
States OF the Union, disorganized, heIr
less and exhausted by the war. are any
lously awaiting their restoration to estab
lish law and order, so that confidence
and industry may be revived within their
borders, and yet not only are the doors
OF Congress to be shut ia their faces hut
they are to be put IN the exclusive keen
ing OF joint committee Of fifteen. for
consideration, and with a carte blanche in
regard TO time. Ii this is to be the oana
OF the republican party, let them look
we'll to the ground on which they stand
We hold that the late rebellious States
having laid down their arms and sub.
mltted to the sovereign authority of the
Union, shonId be readmitted into Cons
gress without unnecessary delay. The
general government Is imperfect without
them, ana their restoration should take
the precedence over all other business.
Inc members elect presenting themselves
from the Southern States, if not admit
ted by the Clerk, should be admitted bv
the House, subject to an investigation If
their qualifications, as in other question.
able cases. The sweeping action of tho
republican caucus evidently rests unon
the fundamental error that the States di
rectly concerned are out of the Union
ana subject to Congress as Territories. and |
not as States; as Territories conouered |
from fore1gn enemy, not as States in the |
Union all the time, but just released from |
an lnsurrection.
what Is contemplated by this nro-
gramme OF the radical Thaddeus Stevens
lie has declared himself, without reserve
m favor OF the enforcement Of a system
of contlscations in the South as sweenino
IS those of William, the Norman froee
oooter. His plea is, that such copfsca,
ions are needed to pay off the national
1ebt. We cannot doubt, however. that
he experiment would be followed NV
political anarchy, financial confusion and
Z pudlatIon. With the merciless inclna-
ions OF Mr.. Stevens upon this subject.
adlcal abolition fanatic as he is. we NAV
,uess that the bill OF his committee Of
lfteen Tor the reconstruction of the late
lave States will be so stringent and ex
citing IN regard to their emancinated {
'lacks as to delay through all this Con, '
ress OF two years the work of reconstruc-
ION proposed. Thus, from the contin> {
ance OF the present unsettled condition c
Il the South, the country and the Treas. c
ry, from the continued prostration Of /
outhern industry, will lose hundreds OF ) /
llllions IN substantial wealth which might I
@ gained. 8
President Johnson's policy looks 70 the $
evelopment of the vast Commercial re. il
'urces OF the South, for the purpose of b
'caI harmony, law and order, and for the b
rengthenlng of the national Treasury. r
ne policy of the republican caucus leads
the continued prostration of Southern
ldustry, law and order, with the inev. f
aole consequences OF heavy losses in p
outhern products, and increased burdens |
pom the Northern States. Finally this T
nperlous Congressional caucus menaces b
le Executive with a revolutionary svs. a.
m OF reconstruction, against which he d
ay protest, and thus carry tho issna [
etore the North in the elections of next o
IL Tor the next Congress. Such an issne
guloed py wise eounsels, the House OF n
representatives., In its proceedings to dav lot
III AVOID; but We confess that Tbaddens A.
eVens seems TO hold the majority in | n
IS grasp. I he whole case is involved ii -
lis caucus resolution, i,