Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-04
| THE "IREEPRESSIBLE CONFLICT
AT THE NORTH---SPTRIT OF THE
PRESS
The Cincinnati Commercial thus presents
the temper and spirit Of the Northern press
at this time:

at this time:
The Chicago Tribune called upon the Radicals
to proceed instantly TO hedge the President with
uniriendly legislation, and tie him up SO that he
can stir the ship but one way. Some of the Radi
cal country papers have made cutlery that the
President must be impeached. The Chicago Times
does not hesitate to declare that " il is the solemn
duty Of the President to command the arrest of
Thaddeus Stevens, Wendell Phillips, Charles
Sumner. and their confederatcs in Congress and
all over the country, fer the crime of treason,
There is no other way, says the Tines, in which
the Northern rebellion can be Quelled. The Times
goes on to say:
And if the rump Congress shall not speedily
abandon its sedtious, revolutionary and lawless
practiceS-ift shall persist in excluding the Rep
resentatives of eleven States from their rightfpl
seats and in exercising the powers Of the Congress
of the United Stateswe do not hesitate to declare
that it will become the solemn duty of Pres
dent JOHNSON to constitute himself the from
well Of the time and dissolve the rump by military
power.
And here the Chicago Republican, edited
by late Assistant Secretary of War cries
that the Times takes up with the enthusi-
asm of the pi. the half-concealed spirit of
President Johnson's indecent and incendiary
harangue of Thursday, and urges him to
rush on to deeds of violence, treason and
blood" And after quoting the Times it
says
Thus prompt is the Chicago TInes to second
the latent indications of the President harangue
and to shout. loud, openly and fercely what he
has only dared to intimate and suggest. Very
we'll them We urge these traitors to proceed
with their new conspiracyi Let them attempt
the past Of Cromwell If they have the courage.
They vii find that the people of the United States
have not fought through one civil war 10 suffer
their country and their Government TO be de-
stroyed by either old or new agents Of the South
ern rebellion. The nation is in no mood TO be
trihed with, and that these fomenfers of new
conflict wilHfnd. II they presume to take another
step in their guilty project.
There is much Of this matter IN our exchanges;
and il Is but the expression OF a madness that
would bring US int civil war utterly ruinous 70
US. Suppose Congress should follow the intern
perate cannsels iavished upon H. and make bitter
war upon the President, disabling and exasperaf-
ing him to the utmost. and even undertake MS i'm
peaehmeuts and suppose the President should re-
spond in the same spirit. REGARDING the Congress
as n '.Rump Congress. and refuse to recognize Il
in an eIpergency As the Constitutional Congress \
eleven States being unreprcsented. suppose. for
instance. the President should veto an important
bill that would be passed over his veto by two
thirds vote Of the members OF both houses. and
the President then refused 10 execute the law,
claiming that in the absence Of state delegations
two-thirds of Congress must mean tworthirds Of
the whole Congress. including the delegations
from all the States That the most serious ana
critical complications might eusue. mast be plain
20 the naked eyes of the common people. IL Is
important then that this controversy shall not so
on with aceeierating velocity and fury from point
10 peint Of danger.