New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-30
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THE PRESIDENT AND THE RADICALS


THE PRESIDENT AND THE RADICALS
What will be the issue OF the oiheteho'e w
tween the President and Congress II IS impossioie
Ia fell ne present, We take some courage, now
aver from the fact thas in the case OF former
vetoes the action of the executive has,
i, ,ear,v avery case, been subsequently sustained
n ma neoDe, The sober second thought is rarely
,rocpg. All will agree that when any measure of
,ouhtful constitutionality is proposed it is better
III the President to act on the safe side and veto
|. The Constitution should be held sacred, The
lest and most salutary measure that could be de-
Used ought to be vetoed by the President as
,romptly as the most iniquisous and dangerous
ne, provided there is even SAVIOR of unconstitu-
ionaiity about it. 5as
General Jackson's vetoes and Mr.. Tyler's vetoes
rere approved by the people at the succeeding
Presidential elections. That Mr.. Johnson's vetoes
Till be sustained in like manner-providad the
,eople of all the States are allowed to vote-wet
eel very sure. Our condition now is however,
very different from the condition of the country
ID any previous period of its history. Eleven
States are kept ont Of Congress-, Nearly hun
dred Senators and Representatives are forcibiy
excluded klEkfI SHdtSs tS soy SN1sb n
because if any one of them were to take his seat
and offer TO vote, he would undoubtedly 90 Iorci-
bly, elected by the sergeant alarms. But .lis y
not all. AS the " situation = is at present. the
Southern States can have no voice ID the eieetlon
Of the next President They are competent 70
confirm constitutional amendment, Dut u hot en-
titled to seats in Congress- or to De consloefeo a
restored to the Union, they Will not De permtteu,
Of course to cast their votes at the next Presiden
tial election This is on the assumption that Con-
rress maintains its present attitude until 1868, and
the wear Of the next election finds the South, as
now. excluded from the pale of the Union.
4 case may occur IN that election which would
proye interesting, and, indeed, might be fraught
with danger It might happen that the Demo
cratic candidate received votes enough in the
North. which, added to the excluded votes of the
Southern States, would be majority of the cleo
toral college. How would the question be settled
The radicals would claim that their candidate was
elected, or if not elected in the college, that the
choice must be made by the House of Represen-
tatiyes. The Democrats would claim their candi-
date as chosen, since the majority-on the sup
position that the Union was not dissolved-had
in his favor. We might possibly have
Presidents and sort of realization at last Of
Mr. Calhoun tayorite idea Of q dual executive.
But no one can possibly wish to see such state
Of affairs. No one desires to see a test Of this
sort made. There would be an uneasy fear thai
violence would be rescrted TO, and that we would
repeat the history Of republication in Mexico
which, resting upon hayonets, and having no sta;
biIity, has been at last wholly supplanted by i'm
3perialism. 3ssf 9ass54s 2tHsSf4 ~
Mr.. Edward Bates, who was Attorney General
under Lincoln, has written letter giving it as his
opinion that the freedmen's bureau bill was a
measure which was not gotten up, as it professed
to be- in the interest Of the freedmen, but that il
was movement revolutionary in its character,
looking to the permanent establishment of an
army throughout the Southern States, and the
making OF our government semi-military in its
character, enforcing its laws by the sword rather
than by the civil courts. Defeated in that by the
Presidents veto, the radicals then concocted the
''ciyil rights bl-a bill which, at one dash
made citizens of negroes, and put them upon q
better footing than foreigners. This revolutionary
movement has been arrested by another veto
But Congress may yet pass it over the President
After that, the question may be carried into tht
Supreme Court, whether laws can be consderet
binding upon States that are forcibly excludes
from the Union, and whose Representatives
though anxious to assist in the making Of laws, ar
denied the right to do SO. Thus, complications Q
all sorts may arise The factonsness Of radicaljsn
may block the wheels of government altogether
The public credit will suffarthe rights Of all vii
be ID state Of uncertainty above ALL the Repub
Ifcan system of government may receive a shock
from which it will take "a long time to recover
all boy,
cerely hope it may not. But 1t is not beyond
the possibilities Of the future, unless radicalish,
abates its pretentions consents to listen to reason
and con be indneed to pay some respect to the
Constitution at least however much it may be. con
sidered that Southern @rebels" have forfeited all
their rights.
y We need not say that it is the duty Of every
friend Of the Constitution, North. and South, to
stand BY the President in the fierce fight which
the radicals are making upon him. We of the
excluded States are not permitted to sustain him
by our votes in Congress but we can give him al
our sympathy, and we can send him words d
cheer and encouragement. The fight for him, as
We have said before, must be made by his friends
id the North, who have the privilege Of represen
tation, and q right to enter the electoral college
II willbe strangeif the Union, saved from dissolu
tion by force of arms, should be permitted to- &
to pieces BY those who fought il the field to pre-
serve II. And upon the result Of the next popula
elections ID the Northern States hinges, III ou
opinion, the whole question Of the Constitution
and the Union unless indeed We are no longer 7
have q government Of the people, but O. govern
sment Of bayonets, with privileged classes on I'll
one hand and prescribed classes on the other, an
all the old forms Of liberty destroyed. IA .s4 sgg
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The eoroner and the Case or tho late Sfr
3asss#aa III #sa58 Ns #8 Gruher.s9assa Ets3 8,{5
M In the Star Of yesterday a. card is published
signed BY Coroner eiser and the jurors of inques
lin the case of the late Mr.. John f. Gruber, fror
which the following is an extract:
The Governor offered no obstruction whatever
the prosecution of the inquest, nor did the corone
assfid inquiry at the suggestion Of authority bu
made thorough and comp lete inv tigaton Of tn
case, as he was in duty bound. vi f
Among the Jurors signing this card Is Mr
Charles o.. DAWN The atatenentpublish in th
GREsosEr on the 18th inst, and republished by i
in an editorial yesterday, was made upon tn
| authorityof Mr.. DAWN, who; unsolicited, came Il
this office and related the facts therein set forth
manifesting much indignation OF the course he re
presented the coroner to have pursued. Ths