Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-26
The New York Herald Opposes the
President.

This saga cous sheet in discerning the signs of the
times, continues its comments on the political situs-
ton. 1t sees no hope for the President, and urges
him to abandon policy upon which the people
have set the seal of their condemnation. We have
made the following gieanings from the editorial
| columns of the Herald for the 18th inst
| 1--WE thus find, from the leanings of the Maine
election that the true for the Southern States
and the administration, is laid down in the const-
| tutional amendment Of Congress In other words
we convinced from the significant result of the
Maine election that this amendment will carry all
the Northern States yet to come and that against
the solid North any further resistance from the adj
mlnlstration or the excluded Southern States will
be waste of time foolish and suicidal to ali con-
cerned."
ave would therefore urge upon President john
son the statesmanlike policy of truce with Con-
gress, active cooperation with the fixed and pre-
dominate public opinion of the North, in behalf
of the immediate restoration of the South on the
basis of this constitutional amendment"
at is compromise which the President ought
to have adopted in cooperation with Congress and
which he ought now to adopt at all events because
his conflict with Congress- if persisted in, will be
most emphatically decided against him. It cannot
be otherwise The inevitable result is as clear to
the searcber for the true situation of things the
light of the sun through the breaking clouds"
1.-THE policy and the duty Of President johnson,
therefore, clear as mathematical demonstra-
ton, and equally clear is the policy of the still
cluded Southern States. We have earnestly adyo
Gated the Presidents policy; but, after the verdict
OF the jury, the argument is at an end. The ex-
ample of Tennessee in the ratification of the amend
ment Is now the only alternative for the other
Southern States. Tennessee, in ratfying the amend
ment, opened the door to the admission of her
members into both houses of Congress. She by
that simple act is reconstructed and restored Ger
tain individuals of her people who violated their
oaths 10 support the Federal Constitution in going
over to the rebellion are disabled from holding any
Federal office hereafter, until absolved by two
thirds vote Of each house of Congress but by that
vote they be renstated even in Congress ITSELF
if duly elected by their people"
"This amendment is going through. There is no
other settlement for the South. The Governors of
the Southern States, ought therefore, to call heir
Legislatures together at once to ratfy this amend
ment, SO that with the meeting of Congress in De-
cember they may be all restored to both houses"
Considering the position occupied by the Herald
until very lately the above extracts are very signif
icant. They show how trifing support has been
accorded to the Presidents policy, and how COM
pete is the conviction even of the copperheads that
it can never win. On the other hand, the Southern
States can see that they have been leaning on
broken reed-and that in fomenting strife, in butch
ering loyslists at Memphis and at New Orleans, as
VOL as in their audacity in attempting to dictate
their own terms of reconstruction, they have been
sowing the wind, and are reaping the whirlwind.