The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-10
From the New York Herald.)
The President md the Radidnls.-
The Issue before the Country.

lnc frcSlNcnU 0nu Vnc 1thuiOuls.--
The Issue before the Country.
The late unanswerable veto message
Of President Johnson &c clearly defined
his fixed policy of Southern restoration,
and his late emphatic speech against
Thaddeus Stevens and that school of
radicals, draws so distinctly the line of
division between them and the admin
istration, that the rank and file Of the
Republican party must take one side or
the other. The double dealing game
which has thus far been so successfully
played before the people by the Repub-
lican leaders, of noisy professions Of
adhesion to President Johnson, while
employing all their strength to coerce
him into submission, or "to do with
out him" by the independent power of
n two-thirds majority in each house Of
Congress, is Il game which in the first
trial in the Senate has failed, and failed
so signally that there is the end Of it.
But the question still remains to be
settled whether the Southern restora-
ton policy of Andrew johnson or that
Of Thaddeus Stephens shall prevail.
From present appearances, there is
nothing to indicate a coming compro-
mise. The majority Of each branch Of
Congress, though stunned by the veto
and the supplemental speech from the
White House, still maintain u compact
and belligerent front-still hold fast to
the fanatic Stevens and his Committee
on Reconstruction~-and have dcfiantly
declared for the indelinate exclusion of
the excluded Southern States, in vicwof
the necessity oftheir recognition upon
the basis Of negro suffrage, or the c
clnsion of the black race from the basis
Of Federal representation. In palmer
terms, the issue joined between the
President and Congress is simply this
The President contends that loyal Rep
r~cscntatives from the Southern States
reconstructed on his conditions are now
entitled to admission into Congress.
The Radical majority ofcach House say
no, and are resolved, ifpossible, to keep
those States out of Congress and our
national politics until after the next
Presidential election.
This is the issue--whether the
Southern States, complying with the
satisfactory conditions laid down by
President johnson, shall be restored to
Congress, law and order, industry and
trade as fast as possible, or shall be kept
back, under u mixed commission of
military and civil laws and officers, and
mdor the pressure of distrust, stagna-
ton, bankruptcy and Generalization,
till after the next Presidential election
Of 1868. The President protests
against the policy Of Congress Con
grcss rcpudiatcs thcpolicy ofthc Presi-
dent, and consequently there must be
IN appeal to the people. 1t is under
stood that, pursuant to n late Congress
sional caucus Of the Republicans, they
have appointed a committee in view of
this years Northern State elections,
and especially those of next autumn,
from New York to California. The
contest before the people, therefore,
will soon be formally opened. The adj
vantagcs and the probabilities Of this
present contest between Andrew John
son and Thaddcus Stevens are all in IA
vor ofthe administration in al appeal
to the people.