The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-15


the action Of Congress. The details requisite to
carry out this menace have been successfully per-
formed in the, sinaihtude Of acts: now under con
sideration, which gives the appointing power in
the dispensatlon Of Federal patronage into the
hands Of the Chief Jnstice; in demanding the
names Of all the appointees Of the Executive made
curing the recess OF Congress-, and even provid-
ing, under suggestion Of 4had Stevens, that such
appolntees not confirmed by the Senate shonld he
declared ineligible to Office for the period Of one
year following such rejection In consistent com
formlty. also, with their asseyeration on the
stump, the Radicals in the lower house have made
prompt haste to 80 hedge the status Of the South
with enactments pointing to indefinite exclusion
from the Federal Congress, that no amount Of con-
scrvative intervention, while that eementof North
er politics remains in the minority IN CONGRESS-.
can mitigate the sentence. Precisely as was aereed
N caucus, the majority have severally put before
ernments over the boundaries Of the ten unrecog-
n1zed States; to exclude from the electoral COLLEGE
OF 1868 all representation from States not at the
and providing that the clerk Of their hnsbbS honerabs
BODY may not, in preparing for the>organization
OF the House. place any State upon the roll of
sion Of Congress receive that privilege.
Altogether, then it would seem that there could
be Little more toevolye from the Radical programme
likely that the measures indicated viii pass pass with
comparative promptitude, and that, from that
point on to the expiration of the Thirty Con-
gress both Houses s. VII themselves with
site in carrying out the intent of instituting terri
torial governments in the South through the me-
alum OF Just such memorials as was yesterday re-
ferred to the Committee on Reconstruction. and
which pleads, on the faith Of score or two Of re-
creants IN Louisiana, that impeachment may be att
tempted Against the Executive; that the machi-
merry OF the State Government may be DESTROYED
and the beneacent attributes Of territorial rule may
be substituted The nine sister States OF Iouis-
lana may ind IN the usurpation to be attempted in
%a %n~so ,l~A
Congress would uete to them. The initiation Of
the movement 1a made in Louisiana for the reason
that she has the misfortune to give asylum to q
faction SO flexible in morals and dyed in corruption,
that the tools for the work almost thrust into
the hands Of the Congressional conspirators
It will be remembered that, week after week, last
House sat almost daily under the ban Of secresy
IN the ostensibls purpose Of determining what de-
g gree = Of completely yefierson Davis had With the
standing every member Of that Committee still has
his lips sealed to silence in reference to the de-
tails OF thus inquiaition end though the record Of
Chairman Of the COMMITTEES, I know, to certain
ty, that the evidence taken before that Committee
Of perjury, no less surely than the perpetration Of
that high crime is now lying at the doors Of the
Snseau 5as4 g. Military Justice Of which Judge Ad
Conover, the perjured instrument In: the hands.
;tirst Of the Bureau and then with the Com,
!nittee now lies In the local jaA under three
indictments, ns and the Judiciary COMMITTEES,
that direction, vii, but too willingly appropriate
cid in reinstitutng the inquest 81 last session,
sidon from surratt himself Hunted to the end 81
Garth; lodged in monastic dungeons: prasned al
the watch. Of the Papal soldiery; again Zee BY
e. &c aet Sf .rsnsoendsns enc peril and dn
not man Dc OF sfarm to ahut out the horrid vision
OF q death that has haunted him for eighteen