The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-04-20
From the Euening Transcript.
A Radical Threat,

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One of the ablest writer's tor the North.
ern Press, is George Wilkes, and his ac
cess to the interior circles of the extrem-
lists, affords him the opportunity of know
lug their temper and purposes In the
number of the Spirit Of the Times Of to-
day, after enumerating the several acts of
the President in opposition to the domi-
napt party, and charging him with having
deserted his colors, he adds
"Mr. johnson having thus politically
changed front, it must not be supposed he
will remain idle at the head Of his new
army. On the contrary, it must be ex-
pected that he will advance in his cam
paigu, at the first favorable opportunity ;
and we suppose that opportunity will
come when Congress shall have adjourn
ed, and when Texas shall have elected
Representatives under her new coustitu-
ton.
"lt is supposed that the President will
avail himself of the latter event to official
ly proclaim that peace is restored through
out the land and that following it up,
he will then formally summon the Rep.
resentatives and Senators of all the States
to meet at Washington in extra session.
The present majority of the two houses,
which will then be in minority, will of
course dispute the right of the Represen.
tatives and Senators of the eleven uuad-
mitted States to meet with them in coun-
Gil whereupon, it is expected, that the
President will recognize the new MAORI,
ty as the true Congress of the United
States, and assign to them the official
chambers of the Capitol.
"The then minority, deprived Of Presi-
dent, deprived too of their stationary for
ums and even of Presidential recognition,
will perforce be driven to convene apart,
in some unofficial place. Assuming
nevertheless, still to DO the true and only
Congress, and as such, to have majority
enough, within itself, to be independent
of the Presidential veto or approval, it
will 60 on with its legislation, and en-
deavor to establish its authority under
the auspices of tho Supreme Court
Here will be two separate, distinct, and
rival governments in operation not d.
vided between the sections, as was pro-
jected by the overthrown rebellion, but
angrily confronting one another, within
the narrow circle of the Capitol.
"That such state of things must neces
sarily result in war, no reasonable man
can doubt !; aud that such war would
discharge its fury solely within the North,
is obvious from the materials of which the
opposing sides would be composed. The
South would be unit for a Northern
march, to sustain the programme which
promises to resign the country to its
hands, while the north, casting off all BUSH
ness and personal concerns would address
itself en- naaSSe to arms.
X X X
awe have no hesitation in saying that
we believe the President (apart FROM his
design to promote his own re.election) is
actuated by sincere aud patriotic motives
in the course which he has taken but
we do not think that in his present tenn.
per, he has reflected fully on the dreadful
consequences which headlong pursuit OF
his present contest against Congress may
precipitate.
"Life itself, and all the great events of
life, are but series of compromises and
no President will be justified by posterity
for promoting bloody contest among
the people, because unwilling to concede
any part of his opinions to large MAORI
ty of their lawful misunderstanding
ly not by the posterity of this country,
where the principle of the majority has a
universal sanction.
awe hope, therefore, that President
johnson may find some way to reasonably
assimilate his policy with that of the
present. majority of Congress ; some way
by which the rights of the South may be
amply guaranteed and the wishes of the
moderate North conceded to. And we
hope that this adjustment may be early.
"But If no adjustment shall be made,
and the President ignoring Congress, shall
press on the issue aohich we hare fore.
shadoaoed, zoe give him aoarn'ng that the
mnshets ,ohich now hang in honored ease N
every household north ofthe Potomac, mag
soon be hurriedy mslsny, and murmu'
pass throughout the land which may breah
into the roar of battle before this gear ha'
closed"
We beg our readers to understand thai
these are not the rawlings of crazy fauat
ic, but the deliberate utterances of ;
representative man. 1t only shows that
the Radicals are ready to resort to any
means, to war and revolution if necessary
to maintain their political power, anc
that not even the verdict of the people
against them will induce them to foregt
their clutch upon office. We look upor
the country as being in greater peril thar
ever, and the source from which we have
to appreheud danger is from Northern re
bellon, more formidable than that which
for four years convulsed the nation.
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