The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-28

iuCuUllS VI WHICH, elo COuuCIy Will Ie
long time recovering.
1t would bo q superfous work to
review, in, detail, the Legislation of
this rump Congress, and our readers
would scarcely thank us for doing SO,
as they have been kept pretty well
posted. In every branch of legisla-
ton they have not hesitated to violate
the Constitution they had sworn to
support; they have overridden almost
every article Of that instrument, and
have rejoiced! and .Egloried in their
r"rfidy and shame, they have disre-
garded the admpnitions and remon-
strances of the patriotic Chief Magis-
trate of the Union, and the halls Of
Congress daily rang and were dis
graced with the most foul-mouthed
deaunciations and abuse of that dis
tinguished head of the Government;
they have destroyed the equality of
the States of the Union by taxing the
people of eleven of them, while de-
nylng them representation; they
have levied various taxes on the peo-
pie and wasted and squandered the
immense revenue derived therefrom
for their own political ends and party
hatred; they have defantly set at
naught the opinions of the ablest
jurists and wisest statesmen of the
country; they have trampled on the
rightsof the people N almost every
Act they have passed, and. on this.
the day of their adjournment, they
leave their country groaning and
bleeding from their unjust and ty-
rannical legislation, and in worse
condition than she was when she
emerged from four years civil war.
These items only give portion of
the heads of the record of infamy
which these men leave behind them.
Were we to go into detail of the
amount of wrong and injustice in
flicted on the whole country, and
place it on permanent record, the
readers of the succeeding century
would not believe that such q cata-
logue of offences against the Consti-
tuition of their country, and against
the laws of humanity, virtue and
honesty, could be the written record
OF the acts Of protesting Christian
legislators in the century just preced-
ing theirs. They would look in vain
for a precedent or parallel in any
country, and would blush for the re-
creancy of their immediate ancestors
from the glorious principles of the
founders of the Government of 1776.
The accusation we bring against
these men is true to the letter; they
are revolutionists in the worst sense
of that word, for they war against
the Constitution and laws, and, by
atroclous enactments, have sought to
establish fearful despotism--a des-
potism of party-upon the ruins Of
the republic. They have been thus
far, in some measure, thwarted by the
iirn1ness and unswerving patriotism
of one man-Andrew johnson, and.
whatever of evil they have left un-
done in the hideous chronicle of their
legislation, is mainly attributable to
his indomitablc and unfiinching cou-
rage set against their mad and de-
structiye schemes.
Whilst we are thankful then. to-
day, that these men have ceased their
nefarious labors, even for short
time, let us solemnly resolve, by all
means In our power, to sustain the
President of the United States in his
efforts to restore the ancient land
marks of the Government of the fa-
theirs of the revolution. The recess
OF this cabal is q most important sea-
son tor the great work in hand.
While we of the South have done our
share up to Shis time, so far as we
are personally interested as actors.
yet there is still much work to do in