Des Arc citizen., 1866-04-21

more toward consolidating the South than by any single act of his Presidential ca recr. Let him do this, and he will be more popular than any President since the days of Washington And, by the way, the desire of popularity is no ignoble am bition in ruler, and Mr Johnson may strive for popularity without lessening his character, or lowering the dignity of his office. .-[ Metropolitan Record.
 THE CIVIL RIGHTS BELL PASSED BY
 THE SENATE OYER THE PRESl-
 DENTS VETO. x
 From the Metropolitan Record
 The Senate ofthe United States, Or we should say portion of the United States Senate has passed the unconstitutional measure falsely called "the Civil Rights Bill. over the veto of the President, and the Radicals are everywhere jubilant. So far as they have .the power they have manifested determination to level every defense raised by the Constitution about the liberty of the people Solemn com pacts, legal guarantees, States rights, all arc set at naught, and the traitorous purs pose is openly avoWed to deprive nine or ten. millions of Americans of tho rights of citizenship. The hope was entertained that after the clear and able exposition. of | the bill by tho President, it would as in the case of the other infamous Radical production now defunct, never De resusci- l tated; but the Congressional traitors have, it seems, deternained to court their fate, and 1t may be like that of the French Jac- obins, to whom they bear remarkable re- semblance. It wi,s, at one time feared 1 that they would avoid conflict with the President, but all apprehcnsions on that score have been set at rest, and the line of demarkation is too distinctly marked, too sharply drawn, to permit of a coalition hereafter. Tn the mean time it is well to consider, now thatthe law has been passed, l how is 1t to be carried into operation. ~
 1. The law must be sustained by the State Courts before it can be carried into effect. 't 2. The Presidents proclamation resto- ring civil law throughout the country, and re-establishing the Constitution as the SUI prelne law of tho land, renders this bit
 nngatory and void, and it cannot now be I applied to the South any moro than to the North, East or West Aa
 3. As the President has in his veto message declared the law unconstitutional
 he himself would be acting in violation oi the Constitution were he to. execute the l provisions of the bill. ' IF
 4. Congress being simply the Legisla- tive Department of the Government can
 not execute its own laws, and mustdepend
 exclusively upon the Executive, sustained I by tho Judiciary.
 4 5. It was admitted by Senator TruiM
 bull that the bill authorized the arrest ol I a State judge who should pronounce : judgment in conflict with it's provisions
 and a ministerial officer who should exc
 cute processes based upon such judg
 ment. We have no idea that arrests made
 under such circumstances would be tolera
 ted by the judges of the United States I Courts. And now that the writ of Habcas ! Corpus has been restored, suppose that : Estate judge should discharge from the
 custody of the officers and agents of tho
 Freedmen's Bureau. persons believed by {, him to have been uniawfully arrested anC to bo illegally restrained of their liberty
 where would be the remedy? ',
 6. Y Again, suppose q civil suit is insh
 tuted against q negro by q citizen of { State which does not place . negro on ar equal position with white man in al respects, The bill provides that the ne gro shall have ssthe right to remove sucl F cause for trial' to the United States Court Who will enforce his assumed right Under the Constitution of the United States, the jurisdiction of the State Court }, I in such . case would be unquestionable and the State Courts would certainly no } relinquish 1t The Court would disregard Ithe provisions of this bill and proceed witt the case, and there is no power to proven Tl it. The Judgment might De appealed, bu } she highest Court of this State would b Fl the last resort The same would talk place in case of the endictlncnt of a negr 9 for an offence against a State, or a prose cution instituted by State against one c f its own officers for refusing to execute on : of its own laws. The Jurisdiction of tn < State Courts would be maintained by then f and could not legally be interfered witt e The days of arbitrary resistance to the Ju s dietary of the country have passed. A t any rate, the President will not resort s3 extraordinary means to enforce measure < which he has declared to be unconstist n tional, unjus and impoitie.
 : All things considered, it is likely tha
 the Radicals will have very little caus 0 for rejoicing. It is said they will impeac r the President. Let them; but it is tai s, to presume that the legally constitute T executive will not remain idle, and tha }, he will not permit our liberties to be flu " ther irnperiled by the eonspiFators who ar e now plotting their overthrow Mr John U .,s, bas ko,,,, Tor, lar,rt. ha hos olia,va