Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-10
n THE CoNsrITUTTOx TO BE OVER
THROWN

The trainers Of the United States Consti-
tuition endeayored to organize such govern
ment as that its several and separate depart
ments-Executive, Legislative and Judicial
should not encroach upon, or usurp, the
functions appropriately belonging to each
other. Among its provisions were defni-
tons Of the proper sphere and duties Of
each. Among others, the Executive, rep
resented by the President, was charged with
the management Of the armies of the
Union, as commander-in-chief of the mil
itary arm of the government Under
this provision, Andrew johnson is now
the chief director and manager Of all the
armies Of the United States, with power to
order or withdraw forces to or from any par
ticular locality This power of the Presi-
dent has never been questioned by anybody
anywhere, in peace or war, since the founda-
ton Of the government, until the day be-
fore yesterday, when a member of the House
Of Representatives in Congress from the
State of Pennsylvania, Williams by name,
introduced a resolution into that body, as
serting, as the sense of the House, that the
troops should not be withdrawn from the
late seeded States, until both Houses of
Congress shall have ascertained and declared
their presence there no longer necessary"
Our dispatches published yesterday state
tIos t1s. rogo1,,f,o,, ,rog ojo,foJ without
hesitation or debate, by "a against 81.
II will thus be seen that, not content with
exercising doubtful powers, the House
branch of Congress, by the most decided
majority, is determined to usurp the entire
administration of the government, defying
and ignoring the President the Judiciary
and the people. This body of "so-called"
representatives thus express their purpose
and determination to be no longer guided
and controlled by the constitution; but to
set up a new government, suitable alone to
their views. We beg leave to ask, if these
Radical fanatics intend to subvert the we'll
ordered and clearly defined government
established by a common ancestry, and SUBJ
stitute in its stead a mobocracy, whose head
and front, and body and soul is the Congress,
without even consulting the wishes of the
thirty millions of people composing the
Union? If such be the case and the effort
is successful, let the world bid long and
final farewell to republican institutions.
A question arises, whether the President
will .amely and quietly submit to this emas-
culation of his own exclusive powers and
suffer a revolution and subversion of the
government without manly effort to pre-
serve it? And there is another question,
whether the people themselves, will agree
that corrupt and mad coterie at Washing
ton, shall assume without authority, and in
defiance of every essential principle of free
popular government TO erect new power,
which shall be amenable alone to their own
behests? We feel confident that Andrew
johnson will not submit tamely TO these
usurpations; and are sure that he viii lose
no opportunity to rebuke and defeat the
schemes of these disunion anarchists
Neither do we believe that the people, North
or South, are ready to bow the suppliant
knee to the new raised despotism Of Con-
gress.