The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-26
Are Well Danger Of q New Revo-
luton.

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The New York Times Of the 10Th reneats
it's note of warning Ofan impending reyolu-
ton. In reply to an article in the Pitts,
burg Chr0nicle it gives some plausible
reasons for its fearings on that subject.
Quoting the law of Congress approved by
the President in 1862, now upoli the sta
| tute-books, whichprovides " that from and
after the Sd day of March, 1868, the number
OF members Of the House of Representa-
lives OF the Congress OF the United States
shall be two hundred and forty-one; and
the eight additional members shall be as
signed one in each to Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa. Minnesota, Yer
mont, and Rhode Islrnd."
The Times argues that if the Southern
States and districts in the Northern States
tsympathizing with them, sufficient in
numbers to constitute such legal quorum,
should elect Representatives to the House,
while the radical Northerners, who do not
Delleye III the right of the Southern States
to representation, should send their Repre-
sentatives, claiming that they constituted
the House OF Representatives iii Congress,
then the President would be called upon,
as the Chief Executive of the nation, to
recognize one OF these bodies as the lawful
one. lie must send his message to one or
the other must sign bills passed by one or
the other, etc The Senate would doubt
less take a position antagonistic to the
President in such q case The Times adds
in this connection:
:" Here certainly is danger Of collision
Of authority We have foresesn 1t. and
have warned the country Of it. The radi-
| Gals have foreseen it, and have been pre-
pairing for it. They have not conceded
their purpose, in such an event, to appeal
to force, and rouse the country to another
conflict of arms. It was withidirect refer
ence to such contingency that Gen. B. +.
Butler was last winter made commander
in-chief of the militia of Massachusetts. It
was fol- the purpose of preparing for this
that bill was brought into Congress last
winter calling on all the Northern States
to reorganize, discipline and arm their
militia, and proposing to take from the
President the control Of the arms and
munitions of war belonging to the United
States, aud to distribute them among the
Governors ofthe Northern States Radical
members said openly on the floor of Con-
grese that they intended to be ready for
such a conflict of authority when it should
arise-that the negroes of the South should
be prepared and armed forit also; and that
the President and his Cabinet, and every
body in Congress who stoodby him should
be driven headlong into the Potomac.
And 1t was a foresight Of this contingency,
and desperate desire to attach the Com
handing General OF. the Armies Of the
United States to theirschende, that prompt
ed Thaddeus Stevens in Congress, and
their organs through the country, to nomi-
nate Gen Grant SO ostentatiously for the
Presidency, and to invent and circulate SO
industrioisly inventions and rumors of his
hostility to the views and policy of Presi-
dent johnson. Their vaccinations failed.
Gen. Grant maintained, and still maintains,
hispersonal Independence. Heis reserved,
by those singular and unmatched personal
qualities which hold him aloof from all
| factious or seditious schemes, for the
supreme hour of trial which may await
our beloved Republic" 4.