The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-09-01
The Congressional Nominations.
= From the N. r. Euenin0 Post, Repub.

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We hear from the West that the Republican
congressional Conventions are nominating, for
| tne most part candidates who favor the imme-
t, diate admission to Congress of members from all
states, subject to the constitutional decision OF
each House. We hope that the Republican nomi-
mating conventions in this and other Eastern
States will do the same. At one time we thought
this OF but little Importance, because we believed
that the present Congress, as soon as it reassem-
bled in December, would dismiss the Joint Com
mittee on Reconstruction, and admit to their seat
all claimants who could take the established
oaths We have found reason to believe since
then, however, that the yindictive and obstinate
men who have gained the control Of the Repub-
ed to carry out their designs at all hazards, and
that they will refuse to admit the States.
They have ruled so drspotically in this Congress
that they may have the influence to rule
that body during the y remainder Of its
existence; and therefore the question: wheth
er or no the Southern States, lately in re-
bellon shall be represented in Congress, is forced
upon the people. On tia, question We believe the
majority Of the Northern people do not hold with
Messrs. Stevens and Sumner They are tired OF
less, and which, after eight months, has recon-
structed nothing. They want something done,
and they are conscious that Congress has not
done but only obstructed everything. They be-
lieve that Congress has supreme authority in the
matter under the Oonstitution and they would,
we believe, have supported Congress, had 1t last
December, as soon as it met, condemned the
whole reconstruction acts of the President, and
| proceeded to regular and constitutional reor-
ganization of Government in the Southern States
| provided this had been speedy But 1t ia now too
late. But Congress chose to do nothing of the
kind. It has, as Gov. Morton and other recog-
nized Republican leaders declare, accepted the
Presidents acts OF reconstruction; it does not
mean as these gentlemen tell US, and as
the action of Congress proves. to disturb
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to do something more; aud that something
is so arranged that it virtually puts off the
reconstruction, and continues the present dis
torganized state Of tho country Indefinitely. Now,
this; we only say that It is not good policy; that it
Injuries the country; that it keeps open and in
flames old wounds; that it perpetuates mischiev-
GUS strife; that it strengthens prejudices and
hatreds on both sides that it affords great oppor
tunties for wicked and ambitious men to raise
false issues in our politics; and, finally, that it
continues the country In what il actually state
| OF war and revolution, q condition in which,
whether the Executive observes the laws or not,
whether it respects the Constitution vioatesit,
judgment alone There is no safety-nothing but
the most terrible danger-to the country in such
q state OF things. Daily this danger increases
We are threatened now with the gravest misfor-
tunes that can happen to country. Congress
leaves us in revolutionary state: how far OF is
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day, in America by the mere good sense and for.
bearance Of citizens; but how long will this endureS
Is polite or wise to strain everything in this way7
Our only safety esin the quickest possible return
| to strict constitutional forms, There may be
risks In that, as eome we'll l-nleaning men assert,
but the risks we are now running are infinitely
greater. Under the Constitution, with oil parss
Of our complex government working with regn-
by the safe course OF argument aud discussion.
We cannot gain it in any other way securely. We
cannot establish the Millennium by military gene
rs order; We Ca. cannot put Of upon the General
We cannot achieve, in Mississippi, by bayonet, q
reform OF public opinion which was effected in
Massachusetts, and New York and Ohio, only
| by long, patient and persistent argument.
We have the right of free disoussion-let
it be used. The men who with Congress, propose
to keep the States out and thus keep the country
disorder, decline to use or exercise this right
They assert that it would be edangerous-and thus
they make 1t dangerous, perhaps. Let them try
it; they will find it safe enough. And that is the
rough, persistent continued, rrepressible discus.
sion. Every Southern State should be ''stumped"
this fall and winter by the ablest Republican
| speakers and lecturers; q grand National Mass
Convention Of Republicans should be held in q
Southern city as soon as possible; leading South
while leading Northern men speak all over the
South. So long as the Republican party refuses
to begin this work. so long does it subject itself to
be stigmatized as q sectional party. So long as
it depends on Congress-, or on the military arm,
and not on the force Of argument, 30 long will it
go toward ruin. z===
The people Of this country want things done;
they wanted the war "put through" to use a
popular phrase, and they quietly brushed away
Mcclellan and Buel, and ull the other mere OBJ
structionists who, whatever their merits, had not
the one merit Of getting ahead. So they want
constitutional government restored; they want to
see the country safely back under the old safe
guards aud forms, with all the machinery work.
ing, and they will brush aside all mere obstruc- |
tionists. They do not care whether a scheme of
reconstruction is ingenious or the reyerse-,Whst
they demand is something that viii WORK, ana
work at once. McClellan's plans were correct
and full Of science, no doubt, but they did not
beat the enemy, therefore he was displaced
Grants plan, West Pointers used to tell us, had
very little merit; but Grant did the work, and he
is rightfuly General. We hope the Republicans
everywhere will put in nomination good men, |
lovers Of lawful liberty; and we hope that for
Congress they will nominate only men who see
the Importance, first of all, Of admitting all the
States to representation, aud thus bringing the
country back under the safeguards OF the Consti-
tuition, and rescuing it from it's present reYolu- |
tionary condition.
DEATH OF GOVERNOR J. NJ MoREFEAD.-The
telegraph announces that Governor Mo1ehead
died at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va, on the
28tll instant He was one Of the most rem arkabEe
men OF the State, and connected with the
great works OF internal improvement now COM
pleted, has probably left greater impression
upon the history OF North Carolina than any of
her sons who have preceded him
he was born on the 4th July, 1898, in Rocking
h an, County and graduated in 1917 at the TTni