The Placer herald., 1866-06-02
Congress and the Preside Mt.

The news from Washington shows the
breach between the President and the Rad-
Gals in Congress to be widening as the ses-
sion progresses. If reconciliation was at
any time deemed practicable, that time has
passed, aud each have announced a deter.
mnation to take no step backward Recent.
ly Mr.. Seward, made speech at his home,
in Auburn, New York, in support and de-
fence Of the policy of the President. About
the same time, Secretary Stanton (whose
position heretofore has not been we'll known)
appeared before Washington audience, and
delivered a written speech, in Which he
stated, be bad been convinced by irrefragabe
arguments ofthe correctness Of the Presidents
policy. From this we ascertain the Cabinet
to he unit on the side of the President,
with the exception Of Mr.. Harlan, Secretary
Of the Interior.
On the other hand, the large majority Of
Congress, elected by the so called Union
party, are arrayed in hostility against the
President, aud the leaders continue TO be
fierce and bitter in their denunciations; and
in conjunction with their associates are devisl
ing every method to embarrass the Admins
istration, and deprive the President of power
and patronage. These, however, are their
least Objectionable schemes. They design
greater wrong. and one alarming to friends
of civil liberty, in the proposed amendments
to the Constitution, now pending in Con.
gress. They have already passed the House
and are now before the Senate-and in or
der TO carry out the theory of Thad. Stevens,
that only threefourths Of the States now
represented in Congress, are necessary to
adopt amendments TO the Constitution, they
propose 10 admit Colorado, so that nineteen
States may be certainly secured far the pro
posed amendments. The bill for the ad
mission of Colorado was vetoed, and it was
at first said that sufficient votes could not be
obtained in the Senate TO override the veto;
but the Radical Senators have since caucus
sed on the subject and now the telegraph
reports thirtyrfour Senators secured for the
admission Of Colorado. This accomplished
it is proposed to pass the amendments, call
upon the Governors of the non seceedino
States to submit them to their Legislatures
at special session, and if adopted by nineteen
States to declare them as part and parcel of
the Constitution, and binding upon all the
States although the Southern States are ex.
cluded from any action upon them. This is
the Radical revolutionary programme, and
to its consummation the leaders are contrib
uting all their talents and energy. President
Johnson, by all his acts and declarations is
pledged against the scheme, and will never
consent to such an infamous usurpation of
the rights Of the people and the States.
That he is a stumbling block to the Radi.
Gals 10 the pursuance Of their vicious course,
they constantly feel, and through Stevens,
within the past week, they have threatened
impeachment. But Johnson has heretofore
strongly intimated, that be understood the
Constitutional rights Of the Executive, and
how TO maintain them. He may yet be
compelled TO enforce with strong arm these
rights, as we'll as the rights of the States
under the Constitution. against the revolu-
tonists in the present Rump Congress.