Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-27

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against the President-and to strengthen
the leaders of fanaticism, in their base war
fare upon the liberties and rights of the
American people, we give the following
specimen, from paper printed in Boston
and misscalled the Right Wdy:
Possibilities AND PRoBABILITIEs-In
view Of the fact that President johnson is
no mean antagonist in the present conflict
with Congress, the country should consider
what he can do if disposed to execute his
plans regardless of consequences to himself
or the nation.
If this new party obtains popularity, he
may bide his time until the fall elections
change the political complexion of Congress;
but, if the Republicans remain intact, if the
people come fairly and squarely up to the
work. and support their Congress, or if Mr..
johnson anticipates such result, he must
take another course What is that? REvo-
LUTIoE!! How?
He has himself already indicated by
charging those who oppose his policy as
having inaugurated another rebellion.
What more convenient pretext can he have
than that of declaring, mo State has ever
been out of the Union. Eleven States are
not represented in Congress. Who prevents
this representation do not. Who does ?
You, gentlemen of the Senate, and you,
gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
/ am for the Union. You are against it.
Therefore you are disunionists. Being dis
unionists, you are rebels; and and rebellion
must be put dOwR By force If necessary
But suppose Congress stands firm. Then
in Presidential language they are rebels, and
as such must be dispersed. If local police
viii not do it, Federal bayonets can. The
President is commander-in-chief of the army
and navy. If General Grant disobeys or
ders, General Lee can be pardoned and put
TO service.
Mr.. johnson says he will not swerve from
the course marked out. He means what he
says. Has Mr.. johnson an army with
which to enforce his wishes? There are to-
day 100000 returned Confederate soldiers in
the South. What have Mr.. Johnson's Gov
ernors been doing all this time? Have they
not been guilty of putting these soldiers, as
Estate militia" into training for a new con-
fict if one should arise. Are they not
aroused? Has not the removal of the trade
restrictions with the "former insurrectionary
States" furnished the people of the South
with enough munitions to last them until
they could come farther? Have the rebels
any less to begin war with than in '6l?
All over the South, the people hate the
Union as much as euer; and their leaders re-
peatedly declare in private their intention
again to control the Government and they
wW do IL unless the slumbering North
awakens from its fatal Sleep In the Ian
guage of Confederate officer since theclose
of the war to an officer on the staff of one of
our Western Generals, ave (the South al
ways have run this Government; and what's
more, we always mean to-"
Another danger threatens. How easy it
is for Mr. johnson, through his willy Secre-
tary of State, to give secret comfort to the
Fenians, exacting from their leaders
pledge that they will help himin his efforts
to restore the Union. What more would
the Fenians desire than to have Mr.. Seward
so disregard neutrality obligations, that
England would, in honor bound, feel obliged
to declare war against the United States
And Mr.. Seward more than any other Off
cial knows that a foreign war would place
the North at the mercy of the South. Has
Mr. Seward the will to do this? He will
need watching more now than ever. h..-
Months may elapse before the storm
bursts; but if it does, the North will be, not
merely between two fires, but surrounded by
fires Confederate army in the South, a
Fenian army of $4,000 to 100000 on the
North, with an English war confronting it,
and the secret enmity of the French usurper
seeking to destroy our nationality.
Still another danger. The Secretary of
the Treasury is in full accord with the
President What is he doing? Is he pro-
viding for the future by trying to induce
Congress to pass his foreign loan bill, so that
before hostilities actually begin he may be
supplied with the "sinews of war;" Why
does he not give honest reports to the coun-
try? Why does he state that he has on
hand in the treasury one hundred and six
teen millions of dollars in gold and curren-
cy, and forget TO speak of the one hundred
and seventy millions of dollars additional
in the national banks and public deposito-
ries subject to his call 3? How easily the
President, through Mr.. McCulloch, can
control the purse of the nation until all is
ready for the last desperate movement to-
ward despotism
Look at the powers of the President. VIII
he fail to use them in furtherance of his
plans? Not if he is what he now appears
to be. With bold, bad, mad ambitious
President, with one who takes Andrew Jack
son for his model without his patriotism,
what cannot be done?
Still another danger. How easy it WILDE
for the President to wait; permit Congress to
dissolve or adjourn; let its members gener-
ally go home, but hold secret understand
ing with those who uphold his policy, re-
questing them to remain near Washington;
then, by constitutional provision, call Con-
gress together in extra session to consider
the state of the country. OF course the
Southern members are on hand. The cop
perheads are there. The Republicans who
like office more than country are there. With
the quorum thus obtained, and before the
Northern and Western Republican members
can assemble, the work is done, and Mr..
Johnson "is master of the situation"
To sum up, What are the dangers that con-
front the nation?
A PRESIDENT doggedly perverse, boldly
defiant, ambition-inspired, deliberately, OBJ
stinately determined to execute his individ-
ual will.
A CONGRESS divided within itself, and
debating what 10 do, while the President
and his Southern satellites are doing and hare
done.
A CABINET strongly spell bound under
the power of the evil genius of the Lincoln
who by few strokes of his
pen can plunge the country into a foreign
war, if needed to ruin the country. The
controlled by an officer in full po-
litical fellowship with the President. The
Secretary of the Navy "gone over" The
Secretary of War where he cannot be identi-
fed. The Secretary of the Interior and the
Attorney General outvOted.
Official patronage all ready to buy up
towards and knaves. The people of the
North apparently Indifferent. The whites
Of the South as rebellious as ever, and the
blacks disarmed, and struggling for the priv
ilege of bare life.
This is but view of the probable dangers
Of the future, not counting upon the threat
ened coup dctat of the present. But is there