The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-12-15
The RADICAL CONGRESS.


!. ceedings of Congress, as reported in the dis
patches Of the week, must be convinced tina
!. the insanity of Radicalism reigns supreme il
i both branches of that body. Even in tht
r Senate, to which the people used to look fo
3 grave deliberation, profound wisdom, anC
3 high craftsmanship, the base and malignant
: passions of the day seem to have deepes
root, and are developed with most obduratt
proscriptiveness. The whole land groans
and sweats under the most oppressive bur-
dens-enormous taxes, a stupendous public
debit and vital disorders in the great bod
politic; yet it is not to relieve the country, OF
to ameliorate the condition of the toiling and
suffering millions, that the Senate proceeds
bat the recognized Radical leader in that
body, Sumner of Massachusetts, totally dis
regarding the most urgent interests of the
people, and ignoring the traditional and COM
stitntionaI rights of citizens, hastens to his
chronic agitation of the negro question, and
bis first motion in this Congress is to procure
the elective franchise for negroes in the Dis
trict of Columbia. This action he follows By
other efforts about equally divided between
the elevation and glori6cation of the Eegro,
the persecution and debasement of the South,
and the overthrow of the President. He
lately declared that none but loyal" papers
ought to be allowed anywhere in the land, .
and yet be had always, prior to the nstalla-
ton of his own party to power, vehemently
clamored for the widest license to the press
in every portion of the Union. So, now,
while he processes to battle for /" impartial
and universal suffrage" and I" absolute equal
ity before the laws for all, without distinc-
ton Of race or color, we find in the class of
bills be presents for the action of Congress
he seeks actually to invest only the negro and
Northern born whites to the full measure of
these rights and privileges, and to prescribe
nearly all the whites of the South, and the
whole foreign born, naturalized population
from the enjoyment of them. AID the Rad
ical Senate almost implicitly follows the lead
or slayishly obeys the. dictation of Sumner.
The proceedings in the House also clearly
manifest the spirit and intention of the Radi-
Gals in that body. The demoniac Thad.
Stevens, the Devilshoof of the fanatics, rules
the roast, and nearly every measure SO far
preached bears the impress of his diabolically
malignant nature. The steps toward the i'm
parchment of the President; the disregard OF
the Constitution in the mad eagerness to d.
vest the President of all power to appoint or
remove Federal officials, and to absolutely
and forever con6scate and declare forfeited
,he lands of the people of the South and to
.educe the Southern States to territorial con-
lition, with the actual citizens Invested of
he right of suffrage and of all the rights and
privileges appertaining to freemen therein,
While all these rights and privileges are per-
nitted to negroes and emigrant wbites,-
'lalnly reveal the destroying hand of extreme ,
which is hnrrying on the country
o anarchy, chaos and another terrible war.
We call the attention Of the conservative :
men of that party, who have cast their lot t
n this remote region, to deliberate upon the
elton Of the Radical Congressional caucus, t
wherein the members proceeded so speedily S
oward the appointment of special commit I
ees to investigate the killing of some negroes
nd white Radicals in the New Orleans Con. u
ention riot of last summer and also to look I p
nto the pardoning of some persons in South
)arolina who had been sentenced to death for a
illing three Federal soldiers from Maine.
)nring the past year-and for many years
be same facts are true--hundreds of whites,
len, women and children, have been slangh- Il
cred in the vast regions west of the Missis-
ippi, while on their way to or from this o.
cast, or in their new prairie or mountain :,
ONES, and vast amounts Of property have :
cen stolen or destroyed, all by the savages
tho infest these distant regions. Congress ii
as been appealed to in past years to adopt II
measures for the protection of our people, and
ne punishment of the mnrderous Indians. 70
o this day Congress has not only not taken "
ny action in the matter, but turned deaf
ar to the appeals. The present Congress is al
OF ignorant of these facts. Yet, while it
avs no heed to the numerous massacres by
indians of white men, women and children,
n the plains and in these far-western terri
prizes, its Radical members rush to the work 9;
vhich promises them an opportunity to shed &
lore Southern blood by means of military or al
Teedmen's Bureau mock trials, to further Ia
uttheir hatred of the Southern people, and a
freak their cruel vengeance on the helpless !,