The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-06-14
JUNE If. 1866,
CONGRESS AND THE COUNTRY
A Glimpse of Returning Reason.

The merely negative or dog IN the
manger policy, which has characterized
the attitude of Congress, in this six
months of stale. dat and unproiitab bic
wrangling. in common parlance, Is about
played out" Passion and prejudice
have ruled the hour, and the people have
. been carried along on the top wave of
the radical flood tide, but the ebb and
flow succeed each other hy an inevitable
law. and the receding tide is leaving
some old hulks and copper bottomed
craft high and dry on tie beach. The
evident determination of the House to
emancipate itself from its self-imposed
serfdom to Thad. Stevens is a cheerful
indication. On Saturday week the i'm
perious autocrat varied the monotony OF
his raid upon the Executive by TRADE
against the esteemed Secretary of the
! Treasury, and in blind fury proposed to
override all law and precedent by robh
ing the Secretary OF powers expressly
! conferred The House rehellea and
Thaddeus was oyerruled. Mr.. McCul
! loch came off with flying colors on Mon
day. Thaddeus failed by twenty seven
majority. Another and no less signif
, cant indication of returning reason, Is
/ furnished in the following article which
we find in the Chicago Republican of
: Monday, until recently an orthodox
radical paper Only few weeks since
this paper, in common with the 1had
Rad. press, maintained that any refec
tons upon the assembled wisdom at the
other end OF the avenue, was little short
of high treason, and that Thad Stevens
could do no wrong. Hear II now:
CONGRESS AND THE COUNTRY.
Our Washington special announce that
the Union Senators will meet to day.
when final programme will be adopted,
that will pas by the middle of the week
We trust this report will prove true
The country Is tired with waiting upon
the slow and erratic movements of Con
gress Thus far there has been nothing
done in the way Of Il settlement of the
great questions of the day.
One trouble in the way is this: We
hare too many great men IN Congress,
and each one of these feels himself en-
trely competent to cure all our national
ills by constitutional treatment; and the
only thing that prevents the Federal
. Constitution from being transformed
into a volumnious statute book is the
inability of those legislators to agree
upon each others propositions. The
Constitution Of the State of Louisiana
fixed the compensation TO Be paid to
policemen in the city of New Orleans
II our Washington representatives could
only carry out, in the aggregate, the
plans Of the several members, we might
look for something quite as appropriate
to be proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
We are seriously apprchensive that
the al iournment of the present Congress
will leave the country III 4 worse con
dition than it was at its meeting. No
plan of restoration has vet been acted
upon hy either house that will effect the
desired object of restoring, in all its
former completeness, the integrity of
the Union: and unless the Union party
Shall unite upon some simple and l.racti-
cal measure for the accomplishment of
this end. its days of power are number
cd In our present distracted condition,
Illinois NAV he regarded as doubtful
State. and without the adoption of some
harmonious plan Of reconstruction by
the Republican party IN Congress, upon
which we can make n fair and open fight,
the State will be carried against us in
the coming elections
neS6 are bldill StdtCiIttit9- bhb tucE
are true. and it is time that our friends
understoo it'd
We fully agree, for once, with our
esteemed cotepr orary of the Garden
City Congress has failed, and ought to
make an assignment. 1t is II bigger
failure and more disastrous than the
Merchants National, and politically
speaking will pay less on the dollar
After six months ofinterminable wrangl
ING and the ventilation Of all the pot
house slang in the Congressional voca-
bnlarv, and the exhibition of any am
ONT Of dirty linen in the regular Satur-
day Wash day of the House, they have
backed square down from all their alb
surd propositions touching the doctrine
OF dead states and conquered pro
vinces Negro suffrage, after all the
fine periods and Sophomore declama
ton Of the extremists, has been turned
over to the States where it properly
belongs. and Congress so nearly approxi-
mates to the policy of the President.
that nothing remains TO menace the
harmony of the great Union party but
the implacable hate of President plott-
ers, scheming for the succession, and
determined, # they can, to crush out
Andy Johnson.