, 1866-05-12
CAN T11E PlkIsSlDENT RkNCOGNIxt.
4 DHSLOYAL CONGRESS-,

CAN THE Plkxs>lDENT RECOGNIZE
4 D3SL0YAL CONGRESS-. =:
"a contingency was recently suggested BY
Garrett Davis In the Senate, which seems 10
have taken some hold Of the popular fears.
Mr.. Davis stated that II ut the next as.em-
bling Of Congress the rebel aud Copperhrad
senators would combine, the President vonld
:hsvette; power to: recognize them as the
Senate, and in the sams manner he could
recognize thc rebel and Coppcrhcad Represent
atises as the House. Gen. Butler, In his speech
seforc the Pennsylvania Legislature. thus
states It:
adjoutn), and twenty-two Senatots who csmc fron5
tns eleven eeeeded sates, combine with thosc H.
who iasor thcir admission, md when inesc thirty.
seven n,en get together, thus making Il majority In
tic Senate, The President recognizes thst majority
Il they ali hsre equal nshtsl Re says every SEM.
tor fom seeded Stale has as much night 10 his
Senator's from Pcnnsylsan,a socm 10 agree With him.
bscsnke they are willing 70 aet Win lin. II he
pEesIdent j. right. b hat plan, there i majority
who hare been elected from the North become thus
what be describes them 70 be, nc1c fattlon. Then
nom the South, and they join wih eome fen
Nepret entativea from Penn:ylyania. and ioInine
Wtln, other Northern Democrats who believe the
hepssEcnt*nvcs who favor their admission. they
make majority tn the lower House OF Concrees
which The President also recognizes a. the reht!u
HooFe. when thls is done, have Nc not got Pres-
dent and Seuate and Congress. without count
ing single loyal man tarplause and lauchter]-I
suse nj Tho votes as low.
ought to votes Would this Be Congress accord
iEC 10 ali the forme Of the Constitution Would
1of+
be but following ont ,be exacf logic Of his we'll
considered. oiTepeacd ard reiterated declarations!
@ a &c re- fss sy on goSg 70 ,ass you
al ta7eoy Qf &oyGtsfM."
A similar dangerous contingency, but some
what more remote, Is thus stated by the Au-
burn 4drt79iseJ, which claims, VIC believe, 10
speak for Mr.. Seward. VIC couple them TO-
gcthcr in order to give one answer to the
| questions they involve:
VII Ia reasonably certain that the Southern peo-
| pie consider themselves within the Union and In
PIsctfcas relations to the Government, which enti+
IT, sssm 10 representation In Congress and in po.
"ltla reasonably certain that they will send del
ecaies lhe next rational nom,us1tnr conrrntlon.
oscr thai they wiil choo.e electors Of Pse.Ideot
5na nsS 70 es.s
SottheIu democrats. together, arc enough TO elect
. President MD F5ee-iTesfdent. and they are not
formidauie character. With johnson ior President
hi thai time. In cnnauaud Of The military force,
csrnot be reasonably expec'cd that tho candidates
elected will, or can he kept ont of Office.
We ale !rrc to fnS that VIC CHINO, contemplate
such CONTINGENCY without the deepest concern.
own observation End experience os poIitieal cam
psi:ne ~ b,eo Jears. we us Obliged to conclude
tha. such an experiment viii result in trouble.
srd eeupi1y: We iersenIs hope hat Il such S p co..
lsl,a ncy Hay be avoided"
| Should either Of these contingencies occur,
tie loyal members OF Congress could take
either one OF two courscs. They could sit
supinely still and allow the Government of
| the United States to be rcyolutionized in the
| manner proposed, Just Us they could three
years ago have allowed Mcclellan TO recor-
nize the Richmond Congress and the Wash
! ingtou Copperheada as the Government, and
to turn out Lincoln and Congress, instead Of
recognizing the President and Congress
elected by tho loyal people. We say
it is supposable case that Congress might
do This, but We have no fear that they would.
We believe they would very snmmarily i'm
| peach President johnson III the loyal House
| IL trnitor, try him before the loyal Senate,
| and having removed him from Office md
| placed the President Of the senate-or, in
case Of his inability to act, the Speaker OF tho
nouse-in the Presidential chair, they would
proceed with the administration of the Gov
ctnmcnt. If johnson and the rebel Congress
"A body with not loyal man In it-should
attempt to resist the authority of
the President and Congress Of
the loyal people, ench wonla call
in their respective sections 10 come to their
support. Every State Government which
! sustained Lincoln in Ills war for tho Union
would sustain the loyal President and Com
I gress; so that it would soon become simple
renewal Of the rebellion by the seccssionists
ofthe South, with Andrew johnson as their
President, instead Of Jctf. Davis. It would
probably last about two weeks. A great
many Northern Democrats would promise to
go into 1t, and talk very f1riously till the
drum tapped, and then would back down, rs
they did from defending secession after hav-
ing roted for the Kentucky resolutions
for. half century. Every State Gov
ernmcnt In the loyal States being In
the haut:s of the Republican party,
sny division of The North would be impossi.
tle. Those who seek to entrap the Presl-
cent into such pit of danger and infamy,
over cstimate his gulllbi1.sy. President
johnson, no doubt, Is and always was at
heart, Southern partisan and an anti-Re-
publican demasogue. but If he had had any
fancy for rebellion, he could have tried it On
under better auspices in 1851.
Tho Constitution clothes Cougress with the
power 10 unmake The President; but We can
conceive of no contingency in which II would
he vcrE dangerous, except 10 himself, should
| he attempt to unmnke Congress,