The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-10-04

civil rightsl Is it because be resepts
the idea that breakers Of oaths, like him
self, should be disqualified from having
another opportunity offorswearng them
selvesI ,lsit because he considers that
white Rebel freeman of South Caroiua
has a natural right to exercisedouble the
political power of a white loyal freeman
Of Massachusetts, He must return an
affirmative answer to all these questions
in order to make it out that his State
will be degraded and hufiiliated by rat
flying the amendment; and the necessity
Of the measure is. therefore proved BY
the motives known to prompt the at
tacks of its yiEfers. .,a a.g,.. .r..., .r.a.
The insolence of Mr.. Orr is not mere
ly individual but representative, 1t is
the result of Mr.. Johpson's attempt ''to
produce harmony between the two sec
tons" by betraying the section to which
he owed his election. Had it not been
for his trcacheEy, there would have been
little difficulty in settling the terms of
peace, so as to avoid all causes for future
war; but from the time he quarreled
with Congress, he has been the great
stirrer-up of disaffection at the South,
and the virtual leader of the Southern
reaction party, Every man at the South
who was prominent in the Rebellion,
every man at the North who was prom
inent IN aiding the Rebellion, is now
openly or eovertly his partisan, and by
fawning on him earns the right to de-
fame the representatives. Of the people
by whom the Rebellion was put down.
Among traitors and Copperheads the
fear of punishment has been succeeded
by the hope Of revenge elaiion is on
faces which The, downfall Of Richmond
overcast; and return to the old times,
when a united South ruled the country
by means of a divided North, is conf
deutly expected by the whole crew of
political bulIies and political sycophants
whose profit is in the abasementof the
nation 1t is even said that, if the ma
jority of the "Rump" Congress cannot
be overcome by fair means, it will be by
foul and there are noisy partisans Of
the President who assert that he has in
him Cromwellian capacity for dealing
withlegisative assemblies whose notions
OF public good clash with his own. In
short, we are promised, on the assem-
bling Of the next Congress, coupe etat.
Garret Davis, Of Kentucky, was, we
believe, the first to announce this exec
utive remedy for the radical" disease
of the state, and it has since been often
prescribed by Democratic politicians as
a sovereign panacea. General McCIer-
nand, indeed, proposed Il scheme, sim
pier even than that of executive recOg-
nition, by which the Southern Senators
and Representatives might effect lodg-
ment in Congress. They should, ac-
cording to him, have gone to Washing
ton, entered the halls Of legislation, and
proceeded TO occupy their seats, "peac-
ably tthcy could, forcibIy fthey must"i
but the record Of General McClernand
as military man, was not such as to
give to his advice on q question Of car
rying positions by assault a high degree
OF authority, and, there being some nat
ural hesitation in following his counsel,
the golden opportunity was lost. Mr.
Montgomery Blair, who processes his
Willingness to act with any men, "Reb-
els or any one else" to put down the
radicals, is never weary of talking to
conservative conventions Of ''two Pres
idents and two Congresses" There can
be no doubt that the project of coup d
etdt has become dangerously familiar to
the "conservative' mind, and that the
eminent legal gentlemen of the North
who are publishing opinions affirming
the, right of the excluded Southern rep
resenatives to their seats are playing
into the hands of tho desperate gang of
unscrupulous politicians who are deter
mined to have the right established by
force. 1t is computed that the gain, in
the approaching elections, oftwenty-tive
districts now represented by the Union
Republican party, in the next Congress,
a majority OF the House of Representa-
tives, should the Southern delegations
be counted; and tits proposed that the
johnson members legally entitled to
seats should combine with the Southern
pretenders to seats, organize as the
House Of Representatives OF the United
States, and apply to the President for
recognition, Shonld the President COM
ply, he would be impcached by an un-
recognized House before an "incom-
pIeto" Senate, and, if covicted, would
deny the validity of the proceeding:
The result would be civil war, in which
the name of the Federal government
would be on the side of the revolutions
lists. Snch is the programme which is
freely discussed by the psYtisans Of the
President, considered to be high in his
favor aud the scheme, 1t is contended, +,
is the logical result OF the position he
has assumed as to the rights Of the ex-
cludcd States to representation. 1t is
certain that the present Congress is as
much the Congress of the United States
as he is the President of the United
States hut it is well known that he con-
siders himself to represent the whole
country while he thinks that Congress
only represents portion of it, and he
has in his power just that combination
of qualities, and is placed in just those