The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-28


The Presidents declaration to the New
Hampshire delegation that the recognition OF
the policy enunciated in the Philadelphia
platform will be required ofthose who receive
ONCE or patronage from the Government,
shows clearly that corruption, bribery and
trsachery are the:principles Of Jon Esos pol
icy, and are openly proclaimed. This test
Is not to be confined to new applicants, but il
extended to hose now holding Office, and il
to be inaugurated at once as the rule of the
administration. "Moses'' having come into
power through the hands Of AN assassin, now
shamelessly offers the Government offices to
those who will desert and assist him in be-
traying the Union cause. The full intent
aud scope Of this conspiracy will not be made
known until the assembling of the tortieth
Congress, unless unexpected events should
reveal it sooner. But it is already strongly
limited at in the speeches of few reckless
and revolutionary demagogues and by various
newspapsrs, both North and South, IS will
be seen from the Richmond Whig of the 23d
instant
"If the body which 'assumss' to be Con.
gress, but is only q Congress of part Of the
States ever assemblies again in its fractional
and sectional character, its first step will pro
badly be to impeach the President. Those
who know thing or two think that the Pre>
sidentisl obstacle will not give that body .
chance to prefer an impeachment. 1t is in
his power to refuse to recognize it as the re-
guiar and constitutional Congress, and to pre-
vent it from re-assembling. 1t has been but
u short time since he expressed his opinion
very decidedly, in regard to irregular bodies
claiming Legislative powers Few, we pre-
sumo, have forgotten the language contained
in his telegram to the Lieuienant- overnor
of louisiana in regard TO the so-called
convention of that State. In that telegram
he said, You will call on Gen. Sheridan, or
whoever may be in command, for a sufficient
force to sustain the civil Authorities in sup
trcssing all illegal or uniarfai assem- blies who
,ssurp assume to ererclse any po,rkr or au>
thority without having first obtained the con>
sent of the people of the State. Hthere D
TO be convention, let it be composed Of dele
gates chosen from the people of the vhole
State. His telegram concluded in these
striking and memorable words: iUsuRpA-
Ion WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. The ldws and
Constitution must be sustained, and thsreby
peace and order
The case Of the illegal Louisiana Conven--
ton wa In some respects parallel with that of
the Congress 1t represented but part of and
not the rhols State, As the latter represents
part and not the whole Of the State OF the
Union. 1t was 'Supprsssed by order of the
President - a asuTpation. Why should the
President hesitate to do towards "a illegal
Congress What be did not hesitate V do 70.
= ards an illesA State Convention His con.
siituhonal duty did not particularly require
him to sse thai asch perish in LounianA should
% Represented in State Convention, but
his oath Of ONCE does not require him to
preserve, protect and defend the Cous,itu>
ton ofthe United States, which coutem pls,e.
no other Congress than one composed OF re-
Pressutativss from GHfA States Of the Union
In the case of Louisiana he established pre-
cedent of which the factionists in the so,call.
this precedent which he may follow %, but
it was, in fact. direct blow at Congressional
and sectionshsm, under whose
auspices and ut whose iustiHation the Louisi,
an Convention movement and the bloody
New Orleans riot we're gotten up. The Rad.
,ais in Congress are ~ much responsible for
hose movements a. they are for the exclu.
'lon of the Southern States, the Freedmen
Bureau bill and the Civil Rights bill. Il was
he machinery they selected to fustrate the
fresldents policy and secure the ratification
u the institutional amendment and the e..
Adjustment of negro suffrage and negro
equality. twas as much law to the niser
ible Radical instruments in Louisiana Is if il
lad been enacted into law by the Congress.
We have good reason to hope thai the
will no more tolerate susurpation'
n Washington than in Louisiana-the susurpa.
ion of a part of Congress than of part of
a Convention y