The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-19
The President and Congress.
From the Tribune.

From The Tribune
The editor of the New York Times has been
exclusively favored with an avalanche of letters
from all parts OF the coun ry, whereof the burden
is approval and commentator OF his course in
Congress and elsewhere relative to Ieoonstruc-
ten. He is one OF the Or out of the 40 Re-
representatives. in Congress elected on Lincoln
and johnson tickets who oppose the large ma
iority of boLh Houses and uphold what is called
"the Presidents policy" and these or dissen-
ters are IN accord-so his correspondents assure
hiM- with the prevailing sentiment OF the Union
party Here are few specimens OF their
Visws:-
NEW YORK January 49,
Stand by the President, with all the strength
OF your position and character. Your constituency
is greatly conservative. DO not compromise your
self in any way with the dawning element of fanati-
0'm now 50 rampant in CS9STeSs SHT ynnv r0,ru,rr,
have read with thankful delight your speech on
wisdom. thank ySu for 1t. You are clearly right
and Will be hoAored when men OF one idea like Thad
SteVens are regletted like the cholera, not as good
things lost but evil ones-regrOttOd because they
ever happened Persevers. You have Webster with
you, ana all the statesmen from Marshall down to
Ihase. me only excuse have for Mr..
Stevens and his followers Is, that be and they are
non. .compos mentiS and this very liberation Of mind
mus and will lead to their destruction
New YORK, February 8.
hope may be allowed TO say that personally
have admired your course IN Congress and hear but
one opA on from all i meet. Ii the peop.e could
have an opportunity Of expressing their opinion, Mr..
Stevens would be nowhere"
There are several columns like the above,
| bul these are enough. They constrain us to say
| that the editor OF the Times Is not deceived but
| 6eceiving. He knOlCS that the sentiment of the
Union party is not such as he represents 1t. For
| here are the Legislatures of many, perhaps most
of the loyal States in session. besides which
| tkere have recently been held State Conventions
! OF the Union party in Connecticut, Indiana, and
Pennsylvania. These Legislatures, these Con-
ara HON in tnrC CDFI IT.fn
! tlment. Which one of them-barely one-has
spoken Of 'Phad. Stevens his folio Wers and his
views, in the spirit OF these letters? Which one
OF them has declared that, so far as they differ,
the President is right and Congress wrong? We
| challenge the production OF barely 0nei
But more:--we have in this city Union Gen.
tral Committee, largely composed of Federal
! offcs-holders, and whereof q decided majority
was chosen by that type OF conservative
Unienism whereof the Times is the recognized
organ. If 1t could be counted ON to 1hdorse 'the
| Pr sdeRts policy" it would have been Assem-
bled to do so long ago. Why is it not assem-
bled? Why does It not indorse? The facts sug-
Kest the answer
The worst Of the Times manifesto is Its OBJ
visus tendency to widen the breach between
the President and Congress. 1t assumes that
Congress is to be overridden Snd broken down.
1t dsOs net suggest nor invite oonchation. 1t
does not treat the matter in difference one
susceptible OF accommodation and adjustment.
Its tenor B bSlligerent, rampant, reckless.
True, II coes not quite accord with the Daily
Nears and other Rebel oracles in demanding the
prescription OF all Federal ofieeholders who
dissent from the Presidents policy" but it
goes quite as far as the World in treating the
majority OF Congress as practical If not inten-
tonal diSuniOnists, and 80 deserving OF the
strongest reprobatIon.
This is not the spirit in which our grave re-
sponsibllites are to he met. 1t certainly will
net aid Ms to discharge them. We mold that
there is no necessary incompatibility between
the Presidents essential position and objects and
those OF Congress. The President wants the
States lately in revolt restored to full partici
patton in the national councils; Congress wants
their freedmen fully protected and their rights
as free citizens recognized and established. The
Pretident thinks that loyal men should bear
sway in the States lately in revolt; Congress
adds-'without distinction Of color" WhV can
not these differing views be harmonzedl We
insist that they can-they may be. Only lei
the South admit her blacks to all the rights o
free manhood thereuron let the North agree Il
perfect universal amnesty, and oblivion fol
all aets done under color OF secession ana
we shall once more be a united people, will
our States thoroughly restored, and the UnioI
reconstructed. Why is not such an adiustmen
practicable?