The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-02
The CiviI W.ar Taik. .

late letter to the N. Y. Times, there (
TO be found in Confederate Democrat,
papers good deal Of twaddie abonI
hefsfeyolution dply ilfustratee
with "capsk and soaring points
The N. Y..TFibune rulhlesslJ crushe,
this sensatiot., After referring to the
fact that this 1Eeneratloh has had al
the war it wants Il a has all. the take.
it can well bear and as many .cripplas
widows and orphans >asSA fcper
ly cared for; that the People wan
Peace and will command il, that Is,
President and Congress baye different
views as to the public interestssas they
have q right to SO .ong as each Keeps
within the bounds oflaw, and that eact
is responsible to the people alone, and
will be tried by ballots and not bullets
the Tribune says:
President Johnson. like his lament.
ed predecessor has repeatedly, explic.
lily. admitted the Constitutional au
thority of Congress, especially over the
whole subject of admitting Senators
and Representatives. No one who
pretends to regard the Federal Con.
stitution can deny il.
But suppose state Of things which
might give the President opportunity
to decide between rival bodies, each
claiming to be the Congress of The
United States. Suppose Il minority Oh
the members indisputably entitled tC
seals should consort with nearly all
those chosen from the States lately in
revolt thus making a quorum and Or
ganizing, and suppose the President
should recognize and by force uphold
thiSbody to the exclusion Of the true
Congress, what then?
We answer. The case is not sup.
posabe. The Senate of the United
States is continuing body-its organ
ization and its officers remain unit
changed by its express and duly re
corded vote. Any new claimant of I:
seat whether from subsisling or &
new State, must submit his credentials
to the scrutiny and judgment of tht
Senate as it is, and must abide its de
cision. No Senate can be formed By
violence and riot and no House 81
formed can obtain recognition from
the true Senate. So the scheme o.
pitch polling the Rebels into Congress
must be given up. They will have to
come in at least as civilly as they went
out.
Tile Times talk of resistance to such
plot as revolutionary can deceive nc
one. If Congress should attempt tC
expel the President from office, other
wise than by impeachment its actor
would be revolutionary. and would be
promptly put down. So, fthe Pres
ideEt shall attempt TO oust Congress
or recognize D bogus body as the trat
Congress, be will meet g similas and
swift discontinue. ..r
The Times apprehension that Con
gress may Invoke an insurrection Of
the people to sustain them in that po
sition" is exactly of piece with th'
Rebel reviling of Lincoln as u usurper
and as "waging an unproVoked wa
against the people who had neve
wronged him. Millions were deceiv
cd by this once; they will not be 81
easily deceived again.
Let it be clearly understood that thu
People of the United States will have
no more Civil War, and that whose
ever shall incite one will very surely
and promptly come to grief. If h'
should attempt to raise stop thief
cry against those who stood by tn
Constitution and laws, his failure viii
be none the less complete, but snly tn
more ignominious.