The national Republican., 1866-08-02

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THURSDAY MoRNINe:.::..::AUau 3, 1865.
Tan RBPUBIlcAH OUT oF TOWN..
Pssssas lssving Ne city for The country, during
the summer months, can have the RnrusLroAz
mailed fssuiafIy 70 their sddress y leaving their
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THE COUP y ETAT BUGDEAR.
q II seems 70 us very singular that while The
PRESIDENT Is cndeavoring to preserve some
Of the reserved rights Of the several States
as against the radicals, who are claiming for
the Federal Government authority to over
slaugh them altogether, that the same men
should be insvucting the newspaper CORE
spondents in their interest to write to their
respective papers that The PRESIDENT con.
templates making . coup d. etat similar to
that made by LOUIS NAPoIEcx. Upon one
day Senator WILSON or some other Senator
or Representative alleges that THE PRKsr-
DKSr has gone over to the copperheads,
thereby meaning that he adheres to the State
rights theory, which they say was the color
Of the recent rebellion and upon the next
the same men, or their echoes, allege that he
contemplates the turning out Of the present
Congress and the erection Of q French Corps
Legislatif in its stead. As these surmises
are directly antagonistic in their character,
it would seem that those who indulge them
might have sufficient sense to adopt one line
Of them or the other, and thus give to them
selves the semblance, at least, of plausibility,
II not Of consistency. ln0. .-. g.
Surely The PRksrDnr's views ought not
to be mysteries to any Of his countrymen.
Although he opposed the pretended right Of
secession from the outset with al the force
Of his intellect, position and influence, he has
just as openly and vigorously maintained
that such political franchises as suffrage be-
longed to the family Of rights reserved, and
that they should be regulated by the States,
respectively, just as they were before the
war He has never yielded to the extrava.
giant idea that the Union Of the States was
broken up, as such men as THAppRUs SrE-
VEINS contended, but that when the confed-
erate armies capitulated every State was in
its place under the Constitution as O con.
stituent member Of the Union, and to be
treated accordingly in all the executive, ju-
dicinl or legislative action which might be
requisite to revive its proper practical rela-
tions with all the rest.
IfCongress had not undertaken to intro
duce Nnew and antagonistic theory on this
subject, there would not have been any con.
siderable difference between that body and
The President. All other differences be-
tween the two departments which have oc
CURED have been the resulting consequences
of this. They are logically traceable to the
same source.
This brings us to say that if Congress hat
not been tempted in an evil moment by tha
arch-seducer, THADDEUs STEVENS, to veel
away from the landmarks Of the Constitu
ton, the differences which have occupied S,
large a share Of the public attention woul,
not have occurred. This is as obvious as 9
sunbeam to minds unbiased by prejudice
and unobscured by the fog which artful men
have thrown on the subject The president
has not changed, nor aggressed upon Con,
gress. He stands to-day just where he stood
when he came to the executive chair, and
precisely where LINCOLN would have stood
had he lived. He stands immovably upon
the rock Of the Constitution, embarrassed
with no doubts as to its meaning, with nc
misgivings as to his Interpretation of it, and
with no concern respecting what may be the
ultimate verdict Of the people when they
come to understand the gist of the contro.
versy. He stands upon that rock very SC.
curely and complacently now, not only be.
cause he is supported by the soundest states.
men in the country, but also because Con.
gress itself, under the pressure Of public
opinion, has been obliged to recede from its
position, to return from its wanderings, and
by the admission of the representatives from
Tennessee to admit, in substance and effect
that he has been right.
The principle which TIE President would
not surrender having been once more vndi
Gated, it seems to be our bounden duty tc
remind our readers again of what most o.
them ought to be fully satisfied, that the
great mischiefmaker in all this trouble il
THADDEus STEVENS, Of Pennsylvania. Others
have been implicated, but had it not been
for the Arch-Seducer himself none of thi.
difficulty would have occurred. STEVENS
started out in LIYcoLN's administration with
the heresy that the Union was actually dis.
solved by the rebellion. As early as the
winter Of 1868 he denounced Secretary Sew.
ARDS foreign correspondence whenever he
instructed Mr.. ADAMS and other ministers
not to admit that it was dissolved as "a pal
pable lie." In 1864 he denounced the nom
ination of ANDREW JOHNSON, of Tennessee
at Baltimore for Vice President as the nom
ination Of an alien enemy-as foreigner
With dogged obstinacy which is without q
parallel he has persisted up to the present
hour that THE PRESIDENT is no President al
all, but merely man at the other end o.
the avenue BY the dnt of subtlety and the
power Of his position as chairman Of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means he succeeded ii
captivating one member of Congress afte