The Van Buren press., 1866-09-14

ting that the companies or corporations
claiming the benefit Of this act in behalf
OF said branches. have rcorsanizcd their
boards OF directors in lawful manner,
and after such re- organization, that they
/ have respectively rcscindcd all acts, res
olutions or other proceedings transicr
ring the lands, rights oil privileges OF
such corporations or companies, to any
conventions State or authority, recoeniz-
ing, or acting in concert with, or under
| the authority of the late so-callcd Con
fcdcratc States of America
Approved July 2S, 1866.
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT AND
ANoTREx CHiL WAR That the hot head
cd Radicals are looking to another civil
war, and are deliberately plotting meas
urcs to bring it on, is fact which is daily
leaking out through the mouths of their
co adjutors 1t is 4 leading part Of the
plan to impcach the President at the next
session of Congress, in the expectation
that he will resist being put out of office
by such Il Rump, and that in this manner
the conflict will he precipitatcd. Senator
Wilson has declared it as his opinion that
." tie President coaid be impeochea aert
wiRter, unless change took place this
fall Gcrrit Smith has recently publish
cd letter, in which, with characteristic
frankncss and caldor, he expresses his
opinion that another civil war is probably
necessary, and is close upon us. We
make the following extract
"Thc war will break ont again, il suffrage
is withheld from the black man. IL WILL in
that ease, break out in revenge upon thc loyal
whites of lhe South IN persecution OF the
blacks of the South. aud, but too probably. on
a much broader, ii not, indeed, on national
scale.
''lu all probability our nation will learn no
more OF Righteousness until she shall have
drittcd Oh 10 another breaking up In all
I probability She must reach another bloody
catastrophe before her sunkcn soul shall feel
another upward impulse.
/ In closing this letter let me say that |
would not underate the present Congress In
the main II l. composed of men who are nei-
thcr ignorant Of the right nor indiiiercntto oit.
! Inhappily they were not sufficiently rcsolute
to follow up their convictions and insist ON
| harvesting the fruits of our dear bought vic
tory. Alas that Congress has but too prob
ably, left it Impossible for these fruits ever to
be harvested Alas that its mistakes have,
but too probably, rendered vain all this cypen
| diturc OF blood and treasure The nation must
! pass through another season of sorrow ere IL
I shall reach its season of joy. Seed must be
I again sewn in tears and blood ere this nation
/ shall rcapits harvest of salvation
NEGRO suffrage, at whatever cost,
is the legend which the Radicals are eve
rywhcrc inscribing upon their party ban
ncrs Speaker Colfax, in his late speech
at Chicago, stated it to be the determine
ton of the Republican party that the
South shall be kept ont until they adopt
the pending constitutional amendment !,
and Senator Trumbull in his speech ut
the same meeting, said, without attemp.
| ting to mince the matter. that negro suii-
rage is the aim and substance of the
( amendment The chief obstacle in their
way is not the Constitution--ior which
/ they care nothing--but President John
son whom they msan to impeach, and get
out of the way, by peaceable means If
they can, but by force if they find it nee
essary That reverend old bruiser and
blackguard, Parson Brownlow, has lately
sounded the tocsin Of new civil war in
speech at knoxville The following is
from Knoxville telegram to the Chica
go7rXbune:
Gov. Bmwnlow spoke here. to-day. lie said
the rebellion, headed by Andrew johnson,
would share the same fate as that headed by
Jctf. Davis. lfattcmpted. million ofswold'
would leap from their scabi'arls and millions
of bayonets surround the Capitol. aud sweep
the us,irpcr and traitor from the Executive
Mansion.
The Rochester Democrat also grows
blood thirsty, and in recent issue, cries
havoc ~ follows
IL by NOT advantage in position. the
opposition insists in holding out, then 1t must
| hc reduced to Il trial Of strength, and the wea-
kcr power must 90 tn the wall at last. We
have no fears of the result, but regret the
waste Of life and treasure, the humiliation IN
the eyes of foreign nations and the impdi-
ments to the country's progress IN power ami
] prosperity which the exercise OF Il little COM
mon sense on the part Of the minority might
prevent
Thus, while patriotic citizens of the
North and South are assembling at Phi
ladclphia for the rc establishment OF
peace, prosperity and good will, these f'l-
rioms and malignant Radicals--ihcsc
bloodhounds of civil war--arc slipping
from The collar put on them by the Con
stitution, and opening n full cry upon the
President and the Union --Ne@ York
, World.
Ts' Mr.. Bowen tried to hold on TO his
Brookly yn collcctorship hy pleading that
he is not responsible for the editorials OF
the New York Independent, but Til,
President would not listen to that plea
Some years ago man was prosecuted il
this city for keeping vicious dog-and
he put in the plea that "the animal be
longcd to his wife, and had been taugh
not TO mind him.' and asked imploringlv
What can do z" What can you do 2
sternly responded old Justice IT,, xii