Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. d. c. March %. 1866.

WASHINGTON, ID. G. March %, 1866.
The breach between the President and the domi-
nant Party i'll Congress is continually widening
His veto of the civil rights bill, which upon its
passage received almost the entire Republican vote
of both houses, has given cause of alarm to
the friends of the Union, and has caused ii fresh
inspiration of hope to its enemies of al phases
throughout the entire Country. 1t is ID be ex-
pected that the democratic party who supported
Mcclellan for the presidency upon the Chicago
platform which declared the failure, will now
as they see that the country is about to be robbed
of all the moral results of the triumph OF the
Union by the treachery of an accidental Pres
ident, rejoice over the prospect, and became clam
er0us Johnson men, notwithstanding their virulent
abuse of him while he manfully sustained the I'm
ion cause as Governor of Tennessee. This course
is consistent for them, and is i'll perfect keeping
with the action of the party since the war be-
gan 1t is not surprising either that every exguer-
lila chief and every rebel of lesser note should be
found now singing praises to Andrew Johnson.
Opposition to the friends of the half million union
dead who gave their lives that the country might
live to the millions of loyal Union soldiers who
have survived the shockofthe rebellion and return
ed to their homes thousands of them manned for
life to the entire loyalmasses who stood around
President Lincoln during his entire administration
and aided in carrying the Country safely through
the storm of war, is now the bond of union by
which every phase of hatred against what they
please TO designate ''radicalism is to be united
in favoroi President Johnson.
The President announced early, and reiterates 1t
almost daily that mo will be considered my
friend unless he supports my policy OF rec onstruc-
ton, therefore it follows that the returned I'm
ion" soldiers the friends of the Union dead whose
bones lie bleaching upon thousand battle fields
and the great Union party generally, do not profess
to support the peculiar policy of the President Tor
restoring the rebel states to the Uniou and the
democratic party and the eX-rebels do profess to
support it, they his friends and he their friends
believe their is a fair statement of the case GER
tainly this appears to be the condition of affairs at
present and looking at them from this stand point.
! | am led to believe the contest must be fought
out politically upon this line and therefore every
man may as well prepare to take his place as his
convictions of right and duty seem to dictate
might perhaps have more respect for President
Johnson and think him less usmper, when he
dictates to Congress that my policy and none
other must be supported, were he not exercising
the Presidential prerogative by mere accident
/ 1t is IA fact worthy of note that the President Is
not supported in his policy by the Union men
elected to Congress from the State of Tennessee.
/ Messrs MAYNARD, Stokes Leftwitch and the real
Union men of the South who have never at amy
time been rebels, are now opposed to the Presi-
dent 1t seems strange that he should commit SC
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every accidental President.
From present indications there is little doubt
that the Civil Rights bill will be passed by Con
stitutional majority Notwithstanding the veto.
The case of Stockton claiminga seat as senator
from the State of New Jersey which decided
bv the Senate on Tuesday last, adversely to his
claim, has excited much interest here for the pas
week The Legislative Convention of New Jersey
which gave to Mr. Stockton the certificate of elec
ton by which he claimed his right to seat, was
composed of eighty one members, and standing
rule based upon provision Of the State Constitu
ton, Heretofore that it should require majority
of all the votes east TO elect quorum being pres
ent This convention foreseeing that it would bt
unable to elect in accordance with that rule, an
nulled it. and proceeded to elect and declare Mr.
CIStltNif hill'A C IA'''t oillS ANNSi'St
plurality over any candidate he having but for
ty ont Of the eighty-one votes cast. The who'll
question of Mr. Stockton's right to n seat, turned
upon the Consttutionality of the action ofthe Con
vention in annulng the majority rule and al
though there was Il difference Of opoinion anon:
lawyers in the Senate upon this point, the Senat
decided adversely to Mr.. Stockton's claim and h
goes out.
This afternoon both houses Of Congress have ad
iouned to attend to the funeral obsequies Of Hon
Solomon Foot, United States Senator, from Yer
mont. who died at his residence here, yesterda,
morning at eight o'clock. The Country no
mourns the loss OF five members of the 3Sth Con
gress who have died since the adjournment 4th 0
March, 1865, and all of whom voted for the Consti
tutional Amendment abolishing Slavery through
out the nation viz: Hon. Jacob Collamer and Hon
Solomon Foote OF Vermont, of the Senate, and Hon
James T. Hale of Pa. Hon. Henry Winter Davis O
Maryland, and Hon. Orlando Kellogg of New Yorl
of the House. have followed the lamented Lincoll
to their last resting place, leaving behind them
like him, record which will live forever in Ameri
can History.
Who that heard the eloquent eulogy of Mr.. Foo
upon the death of his late Colleague, Mr.. Collamer
delivered in the United States Senate ON the 14t
of December last, thought that he would folloy