The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-31

Did Congress direct the PrsGdent to destroy
it? No. but it did direct him, in the, most
solemn form, to prosecute the VAR 10 pre-
serve Georgia, as .. State in the Onion, with
all its .itlignity, equality and rights uninn-
paired q and that when that object was &C
complished the warought to cease. Tothat
end Congress clothed the President with
greater military power than any nation has
developed in modern times And all this
tremendous power of the President is con-
ferred by law of Congress. Nothing, in my
judgement, can be more certain than that
Congress has by law expressly delegated to
the President the power to do all he has done
in those States or it has imposed upon him
duties which necessarily involved or implied
all the pewersh he has exercised.
BY the act of July %, 1861, the President
was authorized to accept five hundred thou
sand volunteers for the purpose of suppress
ing insurrection, provided that the services
of the volunteers shall be for such time as the
President may direct, not exceeding three
years, nor less than six months, and they shall
be disbanded at the end of the war" Dis
banded by whom2 By the President. When
disbanded? At the end Of the war. Z. q -.
Congress by this and other acts authorizes
the President to put into t]iefield nearly two
million soldiers to put down this rebellion;
to use every means on SEA and on land known
to civilized warfare to put an end to the
war; Congress expressly directs him to dis
band the volunteers at the end of The war,
and by act of July 80, 1861, to reduce the
standing army to twenty-five thousand with
in one year aft er the end of the existing in
surrection ard rebellion q Z
But what shall constitute the end of the
war Congress, by resolution of July "a,
unanimously declared the end to be when the
supremacy of the Constitution is re-establish-
ed, and the Union is preserved with the
rights, equality, and dignity of every State
unimpaired. Congress also declares that the
reduction of the standing army shall take
place within zone year after the constitution
al authority of the Government of the Uni
ted States shall be re-established, and Or
ganized resistance to such authority shall no
longer exist"-thati is, one year after the end
of the war. 1t is not, as the Senator from
Massachusetts and mycolleague seem to sup
pose, to end when those eleven States shall
be reduced from their position of States in
the Union, with their dignity, equality, and
rights unimpaired," to the condition of Ter
ritories which are mere dependencies, with
no dignity, no equality, no rights under the
Constitution, except to be governed by the
absolute will ola Congress in which they have
no representation, or to be held by the des-
potism of the sword. The end of the war
was to he tile suppression of the rebellion and
the maintenance of the Union, under the
| Constitution, unbroken.
| But who is to Judge when the constitution
| al authority OF the Government is re-estab-
! lished9 Who is to Judge when the organic
ed resistance to such authority has ceased p
Upon whom rests the responsibility of decid-
| ing these questions Congress expressly says
| the President shall direct; that he shall
disband them at the end Of the war; and Ire
| duce the regular army one year after the con-
stitutional authority shall be re-established
] and organized resistance no longer exists.
| The President alone is made the Judge of
the time when tlieinsurrection is suppressed
andwhen the army shall be withdrawn 1t
is no power and no responsibility assumed
by him in derogation of law. 1t is expressly
imposed upon him by Congress as duty
Congress by law authorized and required the
President,
| First, to raise the army.
| Second, to suppress the instruction, and
re-establish the supremacy ofthe Constitution.
| Third, to preserve the Union of the States
| with, the rights in the Union unimpaired.
| Fourth, to judge and determine when those
ends are attained.
/ /, Fifth, after those ends shall be attained, to
diSband the army. and return the soldiers
once more to the pursuits of peace.
~ sn4lti toH lssI, bot ohiy empowered
Ply tg rfesi y, 10 perform two-
lols 10 MAKE war amer MS en el.1 is
tstserei ~ olhef Motos ~ llahe peace
te iGSt g fraW ah1 Mi WY .,, te SWORD Tue
sec9no, aver masking peace, 70 return II to1ts
seaRnaiq l!.H IN =; II ..rt.+s t,F,
Ing Hfs5 81 these great GU Gaties, nameiy,
uf'."ihs t1e SWolI anu Wl WIG, II, festes,
manly upon tresiaent hlhc9ln me second,
nil.nels, maHng pqace ana then sn ts1ll
t9eswo5d res Is mainly upon ms successor
ns'7tl iof.qiate!y iof nm ans anu 1oi
we Milpe hfoPie, NJ. Llnc CON nag ALREADY
ei'eft up2n i.H eEea! VOTE 81 reeo I,5s, &c
ter Ptsse hag como NO porrow ms own owl
asd ana,a i a.tt ne, 9,jat ,laa come
e9,aY - s,.s iIl.il tllai o.ner grea'
Why aPo: mn py 'ne laws 81 0oh
gSsg aintly, - disoaiu ms immense army
anS sq tneni aone il wqlu, 70 restore pre-,
~ petce Y : Union q states ana PEG
Phpaef me g, Hors!it n1 Win tnelr rights
lPalren' an9., AFTER that great WORK ri the
GIG ana opJeet OF al our struggles and sacri
e4ees was Zone t. SHEATH H. the e1 nations sword
Mha!le De el lyed, ~ Lincoln performed these
dntles and performed IN them we'll It is true
tasfe were some mistakes m ,f the beginning