The Portland daily press., 1865-12-22
our obalIent servant, sz.so-.au.z-ge
Q. S. GIANT, Lieut. General.
8 HINT at Military Despotisnn.

ent; in ii re-; OF war none so peaceful. When
rebels and traitors were put under arrest they
invei5hei against usurpation; when martha
law was proclaimed in time of war they were
great apostles of the civil power, and its SUI
premacy over the military. The argus be-
longs to this school; not only copperheaded
but copper all over. ~ CD D" '-'.-
Now this consistent sheet, which few years
siuce was for dividing the Nation and divid-
lag the public property, and which insisted
that force could not preserve the Union or
prevent its crurnbling, now that peace has
come and rebellion has been overthrown, come
out in advocacy Of nilitary Influence" to COM
pal the radical-the legislative department q
the Government-to favor or to submit to the
Pre- dents "pmpoces" and plans! Yes, thi
nnccu ate sheet links that President John
son may override and set aside the constitu-
tional functions OF Congress, and hints that he
may cal upon Gen. Grant to help him do
this! % y ae'Si. 90 istiR "ii ,l4a ,'~
Lest we should be accused OF rnisreprenta-
ton we will give its own words. In a leader
headed "The President stands firm" it says:
The course of the Pre- ident is watched with
anxious solicitude. The party which elected
HIM has overwhelming majorities. in botli
Houses of Congress and the majorities have
heretofore been controlled BY the radicals who
are openly and determinedly opposed to the
restoration policy of the President 1t wal
foreseen that these mischief makers would
Commence operations to thwart the President
as soon as Congress assembled. They
intended to fix the non admission of the
Southern members for the session. - =
Other plans will doubtless be adopted, but the
Pre-ident needs not the radical vancouver
ings. He pursues the even tenor of his course
as il mo radicals were plotting against him. =
he President asks, 1.-THE Provisional Gov
ernor Of Georgia, "Why can't you elecs a
Senator" Did that mean that the Pre- iden.
had gioep up The PURPOSE OF HAVING
SENA TORS rADMTTIED?8 Tsi8d % sbaA
Not much. That does not look as though
the Pre- ilent had in the least abandoned the
policy which the radicals are assailing or aba
ted one title OF his determination to carry I.
on. @ r.l .1AfEe 9FaE hsidW Do ysHaI e
Here we have it declared that the Presidents
purpose i; to admit the rebel senators from
the rebel States to their seats, whether the Sem
ate wills it or not, and having thus defined the
"puFpose" and policy. of the President, this
copperhead sheet further declares that the
Southern people shave done wonderfully well
thus far" and that they manifest DISPOSE
ton to sustain the President to the utmost in
their power" and then, having defined the
pApose of the President to be the admission OF
the rebel Senators, it adds: a'. 9noia ,l-tIl
We have no doubt they will do so, and that
the Pre- ident, aided By he great siJauencecf
General Grdat, will successfully carry for
wafd tine just aaG patriotic PURPOSE with
which he set cut and in which he has made q
progress that is really WONDERFUL under the
circumstances. iId 1ictil1 yaii slil vi l'iiO
This is enough to show that such copper
heads as the argus are not only ready to have
the constitutional powers of the American
Con ress set aside, but would have the infu
ence of General Grant Invoked in this work
The. "inauence" of General Grant is the in
fuenee Of Jorce-of military force, he being
the embodiment and representative Of tina
force. The same kind Of papers at one time
intinated that the influence Of Gen. McCel.
an, when he was at the head of the army Of
the Potomac, should be invoked to save the
country from the power of Abraham Lincoln
and That lie should take the control Of the
Government Into his own hands, for the bene-
fit OF Jefs. Davis, the Southern rebels and the
Northern Coppefheads generally.
No man knows better how to appreciate
such coan.e els than Andrew johnson. 1t was
the same spirit represented by the argus,
and the same kind of Democrats, that offered
reward for his head in Tennessee, that made
him refugee, that he has since hanged in
tae persons Of Wirz and the assassins of Presi-
DENT Lincoln, and that Boston Corbett shot in
the person of j. Wilkes Booth. The rebel
spirit Is not dead even, in Maine. .'.H a,,
The Congressional Reports.
A resolution Of inquiry has been introduc-
ed in the q. S. Senate, loolungt to the securing
gilmore accurate reports of that body for pull
LEGATION. The complaint is that the reports of
the Associated Press give no correct idea of
what takes place in the halls of Congress-
The complaint Is both grievous and inexcuz-
able. Nj. Fessenden said that he did not
know that he ever had the honor of having
anything he said correctly reported In the
debate upon reconstruction the other day, he
was made TO say that he was opposed to doing
anything in support of the administration,
because the Senate was part of the admin
istrasion! And on another occasion so much
excitement was created among his own con-
stituents, by the bitter attacks ola distinguish
ed lecturer upon him or opposing the proper
payment of colored soldiers, that he was oblg-
ed to republish his remarks upon the matter,
in full, as they appeared in the Globe, to cor
rect the mischief done by the Associated
Press, from which the lecturer had gathered
his statements. g4aa 81 laas5 i1e s..fr y
Mr.. Doolistle stated another instance of the
inaecuracy OF the reports, when, during the
discussion of the question of abolishing slav-
cry in tle District of Columbia, the report was
CIRCULATED that he opposed emancipation
which report notwithstanding the subsequent
correction is still current. As was said dur
ing the remarks upon this resolution, the eli
feet of this gross inaccuracy may be of no con-
sequence comparatively upon Senators, but
upon the country the effect is of great conse-
quence, and it is due to the public, If not to
the Senators themselves, that accurate reports
ofeach days proceedings should be published.
No one is di'poSe1 to charge the Associated
Press with purposely disappearing the re-
mark ofmembers Of Congress, but the evil is
none the les annoying or mischievious be
cau5e Internationally committed. It seems
to u, the Associated Press should be smart
enough to engage competent person to
make fair and faithful abstract of the con-
sressional proceedings to be transmitted by
telegraph. Mr.. Anthony of r. l., a practical
printer, and chairman oil the Committee on
printing, we think, has suggested that the
Senate pay the expense of having a brief ant
correct abstract prepared and telegraphed t.
the press on the close of each days session.