The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-20


From he Tribune.
Our country has peen convulsed and dc.
vastated by q great civil war; 1t is now to be
re established on the iounoations OF peace and
law, Grave differences preceded accompanied,
and survive our armed 8 rite. These are to be
adjusted by votes not by charges and bullets.
On this point the public mind is made up. we
have had bloodsned and raDine enough. We
have as many crpples, widows, and orphans a.
can be properly cared for. O1c public debt and
taxes are all that we can bear. The people want
peace, and will command it. Whoever attempts
revolutionary violence will incur defeat as
sigma! as ana faI more speedy than that oil the
COD1ederates -
The PtesIdent and Congress have widely differ
ing plans OF restoration OnOrreconstructlon. or These
differences reflect those existing among the
people. They have legal right TO dltier. 50
long as each shall keep W thin the forms OF Jaw,
there Is nothing to excite alarm III their anta'
gon,sm.
The Executive has rights ia the premises
which the Legislative power can neither lgnOre
ner invade. Tue Preoitent may misuse hts dts
crehon, vet be responsible tor h erfor to the
people alone. So Cougre S may act uuwisely,
even per' ersely, without all Idlrg the Pres
any prcteAt lor Execu i've lnterlerc nee. To the
Courts and 70 the people ther connon master.
must all differences be referred ior ultimate
decision.
President johnson, like bis lamented prede.
Constitutional authority OF Congress, espe-
cially over the whole subject OF admitting Sena'
tors and Representatives. No one who protends
to regard the Federal C0nstitut on can deny it.
But supposs STATE OF THINGS which might
give the President oppol tunity to decide
between rival bodies, edcI, claiming to be the
Congress OF the United States. Suppose
minority OF the members indspulably entitled
to seats should consort with nearly all those
chosen from the States lately IN revolt, Chus
making quorum and organizing, ana suppose
the President should recognize and by force
uphold this body to the exclusion OF the true
Congress, what then?
We ans wer, the case is not supposable. The
Senate OF the United States is continuing body
its organization and It's officers remain until
changed b. its express and duly recorded vote.
Any new claimant ot sea, whether from
subsistng or new State, must submit his Gre
dentials 10 the scrut ny and iuogmen5 of the
Senate as 1t is, and must abide Its decision. No
Senate can be formed by violence and riot; and
no House so formed can obtain recog ALTON trOm
the true Senate. SO the scheme OF pltch-p )hug
the Rebels into Congress must be given up.
They will have to come in at least as civIlly as
theY went out.
The Times talk of resistance to such plot
as revolutionary can deceive no one. ID Con-
gress should attempt to expel the President
from Office, otherwise than by Impeachm mt, Its
action would be revolutionary, and would BE-
promptly put down. So, It the President shalt
attempt to oust Congress, or recognize bogus
body as the true Congress, he will meet with
similar ana swift discontinue.
The I9mes' apprehension that Congress may
''invoke an instruction of the people to sus-
tain them I'd that posiuon" is exactly OF piece
with the Rebel revliing OF Lincoln as q usurper,
and as "waging an unprovoKed war against
people who had never wronged him." MIL
lions were deceived by this once; they will not
be go easily deceived again.
Let 1t be clearly understood that the people
of the Unue1 states viii have no more civil
war, and that whosoever shall inclte one will
very surely and promptly come to kriei. If he
should attempt to raise stop thietl" CRY
against those who stood by the Constitution and
laws, his failure will be none the less complete
but only the more ignomnlous.