Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-09-15

Democratic politicians as q sovereign paua.
cea. Gen. McClernand, indeed, proposed a
scheme, simpler even than that of Executive
recognition, by which the Southern Senators
and Representatives. might effect lodgmcn,
IN Congress- They Should, according to
him, have gone to, Washington, entered the
halls oflegislation,i ,iand proceeded to occupy
their seats, ''peaeeably if they could, forcibly
II they must !" but the record of Gen. Nc
7 Clernand, as a military man, was not such
3 as to give to bis advice on aquestion OF
carrying positions by assault a high degree
OF authority, and, there being some natural
hesitation III following his counsel, the
golden opportunity was lost. DR. Mont
gomery Blair, who processes his willingness
to act with any men, "rebel or any one else "
to put down the Radicals, is never weary of
talking to conservative conventions of 1.-TWO
Presidents and two W Congresses. There
can be no doubt that the project of COUP
D'ETAT has become dangerously familiar to
the conservative" mind, and that the emf
nent legal gentlemen Of the North who are
publishing opinions affirming the right of
the. excluded Southern representatives to
their seats, are playing into the hands
OF the desperate gang of INSCRIPTIONS
politicians who are determined to have the
right established by force. 1t is computed
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OF twenty five districts now represented by
Union Republicans, will give the johnson
party, in the next Congress, majority Of
the House of Representative, should the
southern delegations be counted |; and it is
proposed that the johnson members legally
entitled to seats should combine with the
southern pretenders to seats, organize as the
llouse of Representatives of the United
States, and apply to the President for recog.
milton. Should the President comply, lie
would he lmpeached by an unrecognized
House before an incomplete" Senate, and.
ii convicted, would deny the validity of the
proceeding. The result would be civil war;
In which the name of the Federal Govern
ment would be on the side of the revolu-
tionists. Such is the Programme which is
freely discussed by partisans of the Presi-
dent, considered to be high in his favor;
and tie scheme, it IS contended, is the
logical result of the position he has assumed
as to the rights of the excluded States to
representation. 1t is certain that the present
Congress is as much the Congress of the
United States rs he is President of the
United States; but it is we'll known that he
considers himself to represent the whole
country, while he thinks that Congress only
represents portion of it and he has in his
character just that combination of qualities,
ard is placed in just those anomalous cir
crmstances. which lead men to the commits
sion OF great political crimes. The mere
hint of the possibility of his attempting
coup detat is received by some republicans
with look of incredulous surprise; yet
what has his administration been to such
persons but succession of surprises
But whatever view may be taken of the
Presidents designs, there can be no doubt
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the country depend on the success of the
Union Republicans in the approaching cleo
tions. The loyal nation must see to it that
the Fortieth Congress shall be as competent
to override Executive vetoes as the Thirty
ninth, and. be equally removed from the
peril OF being expelled for one more in har-
mony with Executive ideas. The same car
nestness, energy, patriutisnrand intelligence
which gave success to the war, must now be
exerted to reap its fruits an6 prevent its re-
currence The only danger is that in some
representative districts the people may be
swindled by plausibilties and respectable
ties for when, in political contests, any vii
lainy is contemplated, there are always found
| some eminently respectable men, with fixed
capital of certain eminently conservative
phrases, innocen.ly ready to furnish the
wolves of politics with abundant supplies of
more than usually active at the present :ime
aud the gravity of their speech is as edi-
flying as its emptiness. Immersed in words,
and with no clear perception of things, they
mistake conspiracy for conservatism. Their
pet horror is the term "radical;" :" their ideal
of heroic patriotism, the spectacle of
o great nation which allows itself to be ru-
ined with decorum, and dies rather than
commit the slightest breach of constitutional
etiquette. THIS insensibiity to facts and
blindness to the tendency of events, they
call wisdom and moderation. Behind these
political dummies are the real forces of the
johnson party, men of iasolent spirit reso-
lutte WILL embttered temper and unscrupu-
lous purpose, who clearly know what they
are after, and will hesitate atno "informali.
ty" in the attempt to obtain it. To give
these persons political power will be to sur
render the results of the war, by placing the
Government practically in the hands of those
I against whom the war was waged. No
smooth words about "the equality of the
States" "the necessity of conciliation," "the
wickedness of sectional conflicts" will alter
the fact that, in refusing to support Con-
gress, the people would set a reward on
treachery and place u bounty on treason
"The South" says a Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, in
a letter favoring the Philadelphia Conyen-
ton, sought to save the Constitution out of
the Union She fidled Let her now bring
her diminished and shattered, but united
and earnest counsels and energies to save
the Constitution in the Union.p The sort
of Constitution the South sought to save
by warning against the Government is the
Constitution which she now proposes to save
by administering it! Is this the tone of
pardoned aud penitent treasona Is this the
spirit to build up q itNational Union party2"
No; but it is the tone and spirit now fash
ionable in the defeated rebel States. and will
not be changed until the autumn elections
shall have proved that they have Us little to
expect from the next Congress as from the
present, and that they must give securities
for their future conduct before they can be
relieved from the penalties incurred by
their past. $50 sNvt E,Q.
Twenty thousand Fepians, had a picnic
at Harlem, near Chicago, last week. They
| were addressed by Governor Oglesby, Hon.
Schuler Coifax, and General logan. 4'io
A single estabIishAeat in Waterbury,
Connecticut, luses fifteen hundred tons of
copper annually in the manufacture of pins,
hooks and eyes, and other, similar articles.
Two remarkable shdhen deaths occurred
at Niagara Falls, on Tuesday. A very cor
pulant colored man named Hoines died