The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-19

HE KsDoRsEs 1T.
Mr.. DooLrrrLE has drawn letter from Mr..
Sew ARD endorsing the Bread-and Butter Con-
ven6on. This endorsement Mr.. SEWARD is
not 10th to give. But - everybody would
have been surprised had WILLIAM H. not fa-
vored the little scheme Of ANDY, RANDALL 4
Co. and a. the Republican party have ~
thoroughly surrendered up Mr.. SEWARD as
they have the President to Butternut keeping,
the Prime Minister'S manifesto is brtem
lfhlnsen, and is powerless to effect anything
either way. 1t will not give any additional
prestige to the RANDALL Butternut "My Poll.
cy" movement ; it will not affect the integrity
nor damage the prospects of the Republican
party, of which, though prominently connect
ed With it, Mr. SswARD has, during all these
four years, been In no sense Z leader.
1t is serious o1ence on the part of the
Union majority ii Congress, according TO
ASDREx JOHNSON and Mr.. SEWARD that they
should attempt to impose conditions upon the
late insurgeut States. That our Congress-
men are Union destructionists, is clear to the
political bushwhacking logic of Andy and
William e.. and yet it is noticeable that
gentlemen impose condition. Mr.. SEWARD
favofs the Philadelphia Convention for the
reward of rebels, because the Union is not
restored, and Congress with whom the whole
matter rests, will not restore it.
"That restoration will be complete when
loyal men are admitted as representatives Of
the loyal people of the eleven states so long
urepfesented in Congress"
So says Mr.. SEWARD, and he is the mouth
piece Of Mr.. JOHNSON. If the latter were not
faithless, oily CANNON Egyptianized "Mo-
ses, : that might be very radical policy that
he and William II. have fallen upon. It's
notorious that all along it has been almost
solely the negroes that have composed the
"loyal people the eleven States so long un-
represented in Congress" and a. the "My
Policy proposition as stated BY Mr.. SEWARD
is that s1oyal men, be admitted as Southern
representatives, and nothing said about color.
Who knows but this is radical flank move
ment being made on the Butternuts by vii
liam 81. and Andy, a.kind of strategy learned
by them in their recent association with the
6re-in-thsrear Democracy; and that they
propose TO out-Herod Herod, to out-radica
the radicals, by throwing into the Natioua
Congress delegation Of ssloyal men, blacl
as the ace Of spades, but representatives ne
vertheless Of The ''ioyal people Of the elevel
States 90 long unrepresented in Congress I
The Democracy had best have care of thi
Moses" there is no telling what extraor
binary thing he may do.
But, pray You, William e., special plesde
for successful treason, whose fault is il tina
these States have been SO long unreprssente'
in Congress7 There were four years ths
those seats were vacant-who was response
BILE for it, Were not those States represent
ed during all that time IN another Congress
the object Of whose labors was to destroy tn
Federal Government And now If MI
JOHNSON has a right to impose conditions o
the South if he has right to insist that 10y
al men be sent as representatives has nc
Congress, which, according to Mr.. SEWARD
possesses the power exclusively right 3
impose the condition that disloyal men be no
sent?
The Congressional and Johnsonian mod
of reconstruction then, embrace conditions
be imposed on the South; Why should Nj
JOHNSON denounce the representatives of tn
people in Congress for assuming q power il
reorganization Of the government which Mr.
JOHNSON also claims?
"My Policy" Is revolutionary and danger
Gus. In this letter Mr.. SEWARD expressivel
says that this matter. of the restoration Of tn
unity of the country rests exclusively witl
Congress. Does the President in
tend to 60 out Of his constitutions
sphere, to trample upon popular rights, an,
inaugurase revolutionary regime BY his au
tocratc assumption Of prerogstives vested ii
another branch Of the federal administration
1t is charged against Congress that it's obiec
u to prevent restoration of the Union
This is the sheerest folly. Alter that fou
years Of strife wherein the rebels we're total
overthrow and their purpose to destroy III
government frustrated, shall ~ nov t.,L !.
though they had succeeded South c.-o,;..
Alabama, all the Southern s,.... =. !.
the Union. They did not 90 out; thew o..
not 60 out. If the control of federal repr,
sanitation and the exclusion Of delegates b
destructive of the Union then the President
policy % just Is effective . preventive Of un;o
q the policy of Congress. Hs propo,.s !
admit only loyal men; Alexander q. 81
phsns's the best specimen of loyalty that u
ultra rebel States have elected and be. a
Vice President Of the Southern CoDf.ds,.c,
The South vii no, elect loyal men: v;ll -
elect men vhs can take the Con,,,..;o,s
oath Their bitterest rebel, rece;vs m. =,
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proposes to keep these IN ont I.,,. :
prsvesting Ne ssssensea u Tie Uu;o,, .
pscpeoo not y sstsas ths uasasrby n.A,.
f. pa1s sfths eevasis Nv q the iaea. =,
thus ptsss1tshg strifs y 1t oaes di.pos;se !
he subject; but h would scala L b. mai;n
Il . personal nattw vhieA shsll cons m \.
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