New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-17

The editor of The ". T. Times has been ex-
clusively favored with an avalanche of letters
from all parts of the country whereof the burden
is approval and commentator of his course in
Congress and elsewhere relative to Reconstruc-
ton. lie is one of the 6 or out Of 140 Repre-
sentatives in Congress elected On Lincoln and
Johnson tickets who oppose the large majority
Of both Houses and uphold what is called "the
Presidents policy" and these 6 or 8 dssenters
are in accord-so his correspondents assure him
with the prevailing sentiment of the Union
party Here are few specimens Of their views:
NEW YORK Jan. IL.
Stand by the President with all the strength
of your position and character Your constituency Is
greatly conservative. DO not compromise yourself in
any way with the dawning element Of fanaiicsm now
so rampant In Congress.
have read with thankful delight your speech re-
construction. it is full Of good sense and patriotic
and will be bonored when men OF one idea like Thad
Stevens regretted like tho cholera, not as good
things lost. but evil ones-regretted because they
you, and all the statesmen from Marshall down 10
Chase The only excuse i have for Mr..
Stevens and his followers is that he and they are non
compos ments and this very alteration Of mind must
and will lead 10 their destruction.
Ngw-YoRK, Feb. D.
Ihope may be allowed to say that personally.
one opinion from all meet II the people could have
al opportunity Of expressing their opinion. Mr. Stevens
wonld be nowhere"
- There are several columns like the above,
but these are enough. They constran us to say
that the Editor of The Times is not deceived
but deceiving. He knOus that the sentiment Of
the Union party is not such as he represents it.
For here are the Legislatures Of many, perhaps
most, of the loyal States in session; beside
which, there have recently been held State
Conventions of the Union party in Connecticut
Indiana, and Pennsylvania. These Legislatures,
these Conventions, are authentic expOsitors of
Union sentiment. Which one of them-barely
one-has spoken of "Thad. Stevens" his fol-
lowers and his views, in the spirit Of these let.
tersl Which one Of them has declared that, so
far as they differ, the President Is right and
Congress wrongl We challenge the production
Of barely one
But more: We have in this City Union
Central Committee, largely composed of Fed
eral OfIice-hOlders, and whereof decided ma
jority was chosen by that type Of "conserva-
tive" Unionism whereof The Times is the re-
cognized organ. If it could be counted on to
indrse "the Presidents policy" it would have
been assembled to do this long ago. Why is it
not assembled Why does it not indorse
The facts suggest the answer.
The worst Of The Times's manifesto is its OBJ
vious tendency to widen the breach between
the President and Congress. 1t assumes that
Congress is to be overriden and broken down.
1t does not suggest nor invite Cancellation. 1t
does not treat the matter in difference as one
susceptible of accommodation and adjustment.
Its tenoris belligerent rampant, reckless. True,
it does net quito accord with The Daily Ners
and other Rebel oracles in demanding tho pro.