The national Republican., 1866-07-30

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s.P. HANsCoM, EDITOR,
MONDAY MoRNrNa;..;;:;;,:;; 80, 1855.
C0N0REss HAS ADJOURNED, BUT
TME GOVERNMENT CONTINUES.
The Thirty-ninth Congress has adjourned
its first session, for which we render thanks.
The country Is no longer in danger. Let the
people rejoice-sll the people Of oil the
thirtysix States Of this glorious Union T!
History will make this record, that no de-
liberate body Of men ever assembled on
earth with better opportunities for the &C.
complishment Of good than this Congress
has possessed, land thrown away.) nor one
which exhibited less capacity to grapple with
and to master the great questions Of the day.
On the 5th day Of December last-eight
months ago-when the Thirty-ninth Congress
assembled rumor would have it that The
President would demand the admission Of
the Senators and Representatives Of the late
ly rebellious States 10 their seats. The two
bodies effected their organization and re-
ceived The PRESIDENTS message, which was
remarkable for its clearness Of statement and
force Of diction, but not more SO than it was
guarded against infringing upon the constitu-
, tional rights and privileges Of each branch Of
the national legislature to be the judge Of
the election and qualification Of its own
members THE PRESIDENT neither assumed
or demanded anything beyond The clearly
defined limits Of his Office. Rumor, with her
lying tongues, was silenced for time. But
after eight months Of debate, consisting
chiefly Of scolding, vituperation, and bitter
and unjust allegations Of all sorts, wholesale
and retail, against The PRESIDENT, declara-
tory that eleven States of the Union should
not have representation until negro suffrage
scas recognized in each and all Of The late
rebellious States, to the amazement Of the
public, during the closing hours Of the ses-
sion, q rTght-dbout: face toas ordered, and the
very principle for which The President had
been SO long contending, being subjected
meanwhile to the vilest congressional abuse
from diminutive kGERsoLL, Of Illinois, down
to THAD. STEVENS, and yet lower down to
that senatorial whitewasher" CHAs SUMNER,
was acknowledged, and Tennessee was ad-
mitted as loyal State, and her Senators and
Representatives, upon taking the required
oath, were admitted to their seats. Thus
Congress, at the eleventh hour, yields to
The Presidents policy in favor Of the right
OF the late rebellious States to representation
in Congress.
Nearly one year ago The President made
earnest efforts to procure the trial Of JEFFER-
SON DAVIS. In order to remove many legal
objections that seemed to stand in the way,
TIE PRESIDENT, after advising with some of
the ablest constitutional and criminal lawyers
in the land on the subject conferred, verbally
and in writing with the Chief Justice Of the
certain whether he would hold court in his
circuit and try the arbitrator. The Chief
Justice refused to hold court behind federal
bayonets, and suggested the reference of the
whole subject to Congress. There being no
other alternative, The PRESIDENT followed the
suggestion of the Chief Justice, and laid the
whole subject before the two Houses in De-
cember last After wrangling, misrepresent-
ing facts, clustering, speechifying and Will
flying the Executive Department Of the Gov
ernment for eight months, Congress resolved
on the last day Of the session TO do
1aothing-leaving JEFFERSON DAVIS a State
prisoner without trial, and The president
without power to arraign him before the
highest tribunal in the land, where he should
properly be tried, and the Chief Justice still
indisposed to hold court
During the last eight months Congress has
asserted that it would never adjourn until
the negro was guaranteed the right of un-
qualified suffrage in the several States and
an the District of Columbia The PREsI-
DENT was in favor Of leaving the settlement
of the suffrage question to the people of the
several States themselves, and favored quail
ifed suffrage for The colored men Of he Dis
trict Of Columbia. Congress, led by the col
ored mans friends THAD. STEVENS and
CHAs. SUMNER-adj journed, leaving suffrage
in the States to the people by cote IN the
Senate Of "a TO A and refusing to grant even
qualified suffrage to the patriotic and edu-
bia Thus Congress yielded to TnE PREsI-
DENTS policy with reference to suffrage in
the States, but had neither the capacity,
manly courage, nor craftsmanship to rise to
the humanitarian policy of THE President
with reference to suffrage in the District !!
Thus the radicals Of the Thirty-Ninth Con-
gress leaves the poor African out in the cold
After eight months OF toll Congress
brought forth an electioneering document
and called it "Plan Of Reconstruction.
It was divided into sections" like town lots.
THAD. STEVENS said he would not give the
snap Of his finger for the entire plan without
the third" section. A single Senatorial eau
Gus knocked the "thrd" section into oblivion
and the rest was considered "good enough to
go to the people on" "neyer mind whether
it is incorporated into the Constitution or
not" That was the spirit Of the caucus,
THAD. STEVENS, with that sanity econciliation
which has always characterized his Christian
,ou.oo concIudad M he was lepislatinU for