The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-22

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hepublieAa ayaxt which hiad5 him
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st.tessfords: IAN thoss Who are aspirents
-@~s IN the Convention md irS slect6d,
u T pardoned upon yops recoWnendation
Unite snbmiadon Of their nanes BY tele-
When on Tho l7th of October Lao
grapasd Provisional Govegnor John
the b. Georgia, through the State Depart
tn. Asrs elected 70 the Ooassn1oain order
.rdons may be issued - and whom sim>
one dsrs were sent % aoeAer Provisional
nors in order thAts unpardoned rebels
i'd been excepted from the general ans
PGi such as rebel gcnerAlB and persona
= de- lad left the Congress Of the United
Fairs and sns.sod = ~ Eeoeinoa. nlsse
in the work oil reconstruction, which he had
promised should be confded to loyal hands
alone. He violated his pledges when he is
sued pardon to the ex rebel General Huns
phreys, that be might become Governor Of
Mississippi; TO the ex-rebel Congressman
Orr, that he might become Governor of South
Carolina; aud he has done it in = thousand
Gets by which be has placed the work of res.
toraton in the hands of traitors, instead Of
aoyal men, ~ he had promised. He violated
his promise that traitors should be punished,
IN failing 70 punish one; he violated his
promise that they should be ssimpoverished,
by restoring 70 them the property they had
abandoned, and which had been seized BY
the Government
He usurped authority aud violated the law
whom he appointed collectors and assessors Of
internal revenue postmasters aud other OH
GERS in the rebelIious States, who could not,
and did not, take the oath of Office which the
law requires, and then called upon Con-
gress 10 repeal the law which he had disse.
gHrded.
If. as is alleged by Mr.. johnson on the 22d
of June last, in his message to Congress in
Amendment, all the rsbeliious States ex
cent Texas had '.been entirely restored to all
their functions a. States in conformity with
the organic law OF the land then he has
been guilty of usurpaiion and despotisrn 10
setting aside the acts of snch States by mill
tary power, and especially in this order ~
sued through General Grant on the 9th Of
July last:
General Orders, No. A.
HEADQuARrERs OF rHE Army,
ADJuTAHT GESkRAL's OFFICE,
WAsHfnarox, July 8, 1856.
Department, district and post commanders
in the States lately in rebellion are hereby
directed TO arrest all persons who have been
or may hereafter be charged With the com>
mission OF crimes and ofenses against OFF,
GERS. agents, citizens and Inhabitants Of the
United StAtes. irrespective Of color, 10 cases
where the civil authorities have failed. neg
lected, or are unable to arrest and bring such
parties to trial. and to detain them in miitas
~ confinement until such time ~ q propefl
judicial tribunal shall be ready and willing to
try them.
A strict and prompt enforcement Of this
order is required.
BY command Of Lieutenant General Grant. |
E. d. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
JoHYsoS's usuRPArIoSA
What right haa the President to command
the military in thsir discrstion to determine |
when offenses have been committed, when the
civil authorities fail to bring parties to trial,
or to confine alleged offenders in military
prisons, in State which is restored to all its
functiens7 Either the rebellious States are
not 'sentirely restored TO oil their functions, 4
az the President alleges, OF be 10 guilty OF
usurpation in exercising military control over
them, and he may take either horn OF the dir |
lemma he pleases Mr.. johnson was guilty
Of like usurpation in continuing the anthorl-i
ty of his Provisional Governors, after the
States were, as he says, completely restored
to oil their functions, which he did in Missis- |
sippi by ordering Governor Sharksy To s'con>
tinne his functions as Provisional Governor
until further notice. notwithstanding oil the
State officers, with the rebel General Ham,
phreys at their head, had been, a. Provision |
al Governor Sharkey said, duly qualified. |
Was mortal man ever more Inconsistent and
contradictory with himself than Andrew
johnson? But his greatest act Of usurpation
is in arr eating to himself the control Of thsi
work of reconstruction, and undertaking to
force into Congress the Representatives |, ON
the rebel States.
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