, 1866-08-17
The Cabinet and Congress.

Some fippant newspaper writers are frequent
y in the habit Of denOuneing the President and
| his Cabinet-the National Administration-As
treRcherous and treAsonable, because they do
not agree with the majority in Congress on some
points of national policy. These same Hippant
critics, who so glibly endeavor to blR4a char,
acter with word, or stab a reputation with a
| pen, claim that the sum and substance on all
| patriotism, as well as political virtue and wis.
dom, are embodied in Congress- Is it not
strange that the Congress thus lauded does not
appear to agree with the estimation in which its
laudators hold the PRESIDENT Congress evil
IDENTIFY has faith not only in the patriotism but
In the wisdom of the Administration. Not long
since, by its passage of the Freedman's Beaureau
bill, it conferred upon the President power to
| appoint or remove great number of officers, at
bis discretion. If Congress had doubted his ca
pacity or patriotism, would it thus have trusted
him Assuredly not. Further, the Senate has
confirmed all the appointments recently made
by the President, most if not all, OF whotn are
undoubtedly supporters of his policy. Would
the Senate have acted thus had it really be-
lieved the President to be treacherous, or his
policy dangerous to the interests Of the nation
If the President and his Cabinet are what the
Robespierrean Press would have US believe they
are, it cannot be claimed by the defamers of the
Administration that Congress is any better than
johnson and his legal advisers, for Congress has
in many ways Increased the power of the Ad-
ministration, either for good or evil, while the
Senate has permitted him to do he thought
bestin filling many important Offices with his
friends. The truth is, there is no more treachery
or treason in the Administration than there is
in Congress. The former differs from the latter
upon a question Of National policy, and though
the difference may be radical and wholly irrec-
oncilable, the opinions entertained on either
side are such as may be entertained by patriotic
and well-meaning men, however much we may
doubt the wisdom of those entertained by at
least one party to the dispute. We have yet to
learn that an expression of opinion, or the be-
lief in particular line. of policy to be pursued,
is in time of | eace, in Republican Govern
ment, treason, or treachery to any power or Or
ganization. As we have before had occasion to
remark, there has been altogether too much
bandying of epithets in relation to the breach
between the President and Congress. When
men resort to epithets to advance the cause they
advocate, it is pretty sure sign that they lack
reason. Netbera Republican nor any other
form of government can be maintained by ap,
pealing to the passions and preiudices of man
kind these furnish no bases for lSEs, no secu-
rity for person, no protection for property. On
the contrary, when encouraged and inflamed,
they destroy all law, all security, all protection
In the issue between the President and Con-
gress, now to be tried before the people, the
good judgment, sense ofright, reason and patr-
otism of the latter must be appealed to, If we
desire a verdict which shall not prove absolute |
ly ruinous to the best interests Of the Nation
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