The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-08-22

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The STEADY and uleomtrl niafng opposil
ton which IL President OFF, Unl)sd States
has offered . The lltn- Repuh1icaa party has
up TO the psssent been crowned m extra
ordinary saccees. Standing al1n6st alone,
be has been enabledsto hold n check the
angry passions Of Congress the large ms
jority Of whose members were his political
has nesstiyed or ignored acts Of legislstion
the direct objects Of which were TO undo the
treat work OF reconstruction in which he was
engaged. Now, perhaps, for the first time,
Congress d beginning 70 recognise the sound
ness Of Q policy which regarded the interests
Of northerners and southerners, Of Republi
cans and Democrats, q identical, and which
denied the expediency Of employing punish
ment e means OF cancellation. But a.
though, partly from the ,softening Influences
Of time, and partly from growing conyic-
ton that policy Of oppression was radically
wrong, the ultra Republican party have to
some extent modified their views, there can
be little doubt that, pending the existence
Of the present Congress, Mr.. johnson will be
able TO do little more than simply prevent
his parliament doing much mischief.
In no instance was the true bent Of the
Presidents policy more clearly shown than
when he vetoed . bill the object Of which was
TO create into . new State . considerable
though thinly inhabited tract Of territory in
the fsr West, which takes the name Of Colo.
RADIO from the principal river by which II il
watered. The Republican party in both
Houses has been sufficiently powerful up to
the present to insist on the exclusion Of the
Representatives Of the Southern States, and
purposes, the people Of those States have no
moro share in the direction Of the affairs Of
the Union than the inhabitants Of the British
isles. To some extent from Democratic
tendency, but chiefly from profound con-
viction that the present abnormal state Of
things cannot be permitted to continue with.
out extreme danger TO the republic, Mr.. John.
son has, single-handed, strfven during the
past twelve months TO secure for the South
ern population their due share in the govern
ment Of the country, and he has courage
ously awaited himself OF every means in his
power Of protecting them from the tyranny
Of their vindictive conquerors. On three dill.
ferent occasions he has, in the course of
few months, vetoed bills which embodied d.
rect and unconcealed attacks on the rights
and liberties Of the population Of the South
ern States, and, although in one instance the
Houses Of Congress, by q majority Of two
thirds Of their respective members, overruled
the Presidents veto, Mr.. johnson has been
enabled, without any Infringement Of the
Constitution, to deprive that law Of its mis-
chievous effects. sQN. garrs,t.
have already referred the creation Of q new
State would simply have had the effect OF
strengthening still more the Republican
party in Congress, and Mr.. johnson refused
Ills assent to the bill on the very Ineligible
ground that the claims Of new territory TO
Be represented in the Union should not be
entertained whilst those Of some Of its old
est States continued to be ignored. Mr..
johnson was Of opinion that the population
Of Colorado was not sufficiently numerous
| TO necessitate the recoenition Of that Terri
tory "a an independent State, but in no
| event did he think that Colorado should be
entitled 70 share In the Naturalization of the
| Union whilst States like Virginia. Louisisna
and the Osrolinas were denied that privilege.
II now appears that TO some extent. at
least, Congress Il prepared to adopt the
views Of the President. Within the mast
week resolution has been agreed to by
both Houses readmittins Tsnusssse into the
Union. Temessee seeded IN NAV, 1861,
together with Virginia and Arkansss, and,
being Q border State, furnished, as the public
will recollect, the scene Of many Of the op-
| erstions in the civil war. But Tennessee was
not entirely Southern in its proclivities /; and
when the war was at It's height Mr.. Lin
coin seized the opportunity Of dividing its
territory and comforting on the western por-
ton the rank and privileges Of an independ.
emit State. Since the close Of the war the
formerly rebellious State has manifested, by
every possible concession, its desire TO be
admitted once more into the league from
which Il was at one time so ANXIOUS to sepa-
rate itself. BY former acts it's local Legisla-
ture abjured the doctrine that secession was
lawful, and repudiated ali liability for the
debt which was contracted to supply the
State with the means Of securing its indie.
pendence.
Furthermore, It accented without reserve
the constitutional amendment abolishinp
slavery in all the States Of the Union. Hay.
| ing thus furnished every possible proof of
i a. l.