Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-11-16
A revolutionary call was issued thro' the

"A IcVWut1UudIy CaA1 WIS ioouSu Iiiio tuc
Washington Chronicle, on Saturday last, for
the Loyal Leaguers to meet in Washington on
December 1st proximo. The object is sup
posed to be the permanent organization Of .
force to be subject to the orders of Congress
and perhaps intended to do more than intim-
idate the President. The s'Washington
Union" Of the 10th, thus speaks Of this mat
ter.
We perceive from the Chronicle that For
ney, true to his instincts is attempting to
inAame the public mind by calling upon the
Loyal Leaguers, as they are termed, to Or
ganize themselves and come to Washington
for the purpose of protecting and aindicatamg
the power Of Congress over the constitutional
rights Of the President, which is nothing
more nor less than revolution, which must
be met with decision and irmness. If For
ney & Co. are determined to persist in the
course they have marked out, it is the boun
den duty Of the friends Of the President to
accept the issue thus presented, and prepare
themselves for the struggle.
I IF the time has arrived when the legisla-
tive department Of the Government is to alb
sorb the coordinate branches, the time has
also arrived when it should be resisted at the
point Of the bayonet. We are in favor of
the constitutional rights Of every department
Of the Government, which can only be main
tanned by each acting within the prescribed
limits of the Constitution When Congress
shall transcend these limits for the purpose
of absorbing the powers Of the President, it
is revolutionary, and he is justified in calling
to his aid the whole military power of the
country, which would be responded to from
North to South, East to West; and, when
this formidable array of fighting material
shall present themselves in vindication Of the
Constitution, this grand army Of Loyal Lea
q,ers," as they style themselves, whose log
atty consists in plundering the public treasu
ry, skulking from the army when their ser
vices were needed, and now exciting the
country to revolution, will never present
themselves in battle array. The war will be
fer the Constitution for plumber; for
the independence Of the three coordinate
branches Of the Government, and against
either one. absorbing the functions Of the
other. -
+ If the programme presented by Forney &
Co. is the true and legitimate ground upon
which the Radical Congress intend to plant
itself, we say to the friends Of the President
let us accept the ISSUE and at once organize
for the struggle Let our friends in every
hamlet and village organize themselves at
once, and be ready for the conflict. Let their
watchwords be the Constitution the indie
pendence Of the President in the execution of
his constitutional rights and an united
country upon terms Of equality and justice
and present themselves also in Washington,
where these Loyal Leaguers may have a fair
opportunity Of looking upon the material
with whom they will have to zocA horns, if
they attempt to absorb the constitutional
powers of this Government The impeach-
ment of the President is a sane. qua non for
war, and the friends Of the President accept
the issue.