Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-03
ANOTHER REBUKE TO THE
SOUTH.

Since the late elections in the Northern
States, the President has evinced an I'M
mistakable disposition to proceed more
slowly and cautiously in removing the re-
s,raints that have been imposed upon the
rebellious districts. He has suspended
the granting of pardons 10 prominent ex-
rebels; he has repeatedly advised the re-
claimed States to adopt measures indica-
tive Of loyalty he has instructed at least
W Of his Provisional Governors to con-
tinue in office, notwithstanding the cleo
ton Of civil Governors to supplant them
he has declared that the troops will be
withdrawn from the Southern States only
when such a measure is likely to be COM
ps,ible with expediency and safety and
las, Of all. he has excepted the said States
from the provisions Of his proclamation
for restoring the ha5sGS corpus. The action
Of the President upon the latter subject is
significant at this time. In commenting,
a few days ago, upon the action Of Judge
Busted, Of Alabama, who attempted TO
enforce the hGbeas cOrpws despite the op-
position Of the military, We remarked that
the question thus raised would oblige the
President TO decide whom he would sus-
tain. The issue thus made in Alabama
doubtless led to the proclamation just
issued by the President, in which he in,
forms the Southern States that the mill.
,ary is still the "higher law in the
South. II is well that the question has
thus been explicitly stated. Since the
closing of the war there has no, been
an official word uttered by the President
relative to the habeas corpus, and some
doubt has been manifested as TO the posi-
ton held by the Government with regard
to 1t. I, is true that the Secretary of War
has utterly disregarded it, even in respect
TO the Northern States; but as the Con-
%s,itution permits the suspension OF the
wri, only during the tendency OF insur-
rec,ion or rebellion, the continued disre-
gard Of its power in the North, by the
War Department. has been generally look
ed upon as ex,ra-constitutional. The
proclamation Of the President upon this
subject, while it relieves the North of an
obnoxious and doubtfnlly legal restriction,
isa very plain notice to the Southern
States that their conduct has not been
altogether satisfactory, and that the Gov
eminent sees the necessity Of being less
precipita,e in cutting them losse from the
anchor Of Federal authority. II IA the
greatest back-set that the ex-rebels have
met with IN their rapid and pleasant style
OF rehabilitation. II warns them that they
are still amenable to military authority, |
and that the powers OF their civil officers
are only nominal. 1t is severe, and We,
deserved. II the late rebels had no, made
their hatred Of the Union so conspicuous.
If they had not exhibited so much of the
old leaven" in their new position. they
might have avoided the indefinite con,inu-
ance OF ma tial law in their midst, which
the Presidents proclamation really entails
1, is a bitter pill. but the patient needs il
A DgYAuLrING MARsHAL.-J. C. Potter.
late Marshal Of San Jose, has been obliged to
resign his office, owing to the discovery OF
deflcations on his part, amounting IN the