Arizona miner., 1866-04-11
TIE PRESENT POLITICAL CONTRo- YEBSY LONG SINCE DECIDED BY
 TIE PEOPLE


 The rapdity with which events have fol- lowed each other in this country during the last five ycars--events of such great and startling magnitude as tO enchain the atten- ton of the whole civilized worlds the only explanation which can be offered for the sim gular obiiviOusness which prevails, in certain quarters on the subject of the unfortunate controversy which has sprung up between Congress and the Executive, in relation to the proper method of reconstruction. 1t has been treated generally as new matter of the greatest importance, and involving no less catastrophe than defection on the part of our present Chief Magistrate towards the party by which he was placed in power; yet the question really at issue is as old as the second nomination of Mir. Lincoln, and has al- ready been decided against the Radicals by vast majority of the Interchangeable, delib- erately, and with full and complete knowl- edge of all the facts and their probable con sequences.
 The Radicals tried to defeat the nomination of Mr. Lincoln at the Baltimore convention because he would not subscribe io their theo- ", that by rebellion the southern States were reduced to the condition of Territories. We will have but little difficulty in establishing
 
 construction bill based upon the Territorial idea. President Lincoln refused to sign it and issued a proclamation setting forth his reasons. Before us lies the protest issued by B. F. Wade, chairman of the Senate commit tee, and Henry Winter Davis, chairman of the committee of the House of Representa- tiyes, on the rebellioas States, and addfessed to the "supporters of the government" This nsf fha off Ita1f convention, and its object was to defeat the nomination of Mir. lincoln. In all that has recently been said about President Johnson, we have nothing but a rehash of these stale fulminations, even to the assertion that the bill vetoed had previously been submitted for his consideration! The Radicals do not man. fest much originality in their onslaughts. But what was the result of the protest A few weeks after it's issuance President Lincoln was almost unanimously nominated by the representatives of the Union party at Balti- more. More than that In that very body the identical question was brought up. Thad. Stevens--the same Thad who now stands so prominently before the conntry- objected to the nomination of Andrew John son, because he did not hail from State in the Union, but Territory, that is to say Tennessee The idea was secuted by the convention. Andrew Johnson was nOunina- ted for the oe-Presidency, and both he and Abraham Lincoln were triumphantly elected
 The veto of the Freedman's Bureau Bill was the logical result of the position of the President that none of the rebel States have been out of the Union. The question at the bottom of the controversy is as tO whether the rebel states are now States or Territories and that question has already been decided by the American people in a most emphatic and unmistakable manner. The election of Mir. Lincoln, right upon the heels of the Rad ical protest, and of Mir. Johnson, notwith- standing the dead set made upon him by Thad. Stevens, because, as tine latter alleged, he came not from a State but a Territory, was solemn declaration on their part that the Ordinances of Secession were null and yoid and that no State has ever been. or ever can get out of this Union so iong as patriots retain full possession of their faculties It follows from these facts not only that the controversy which is now going on between Congress and the Executive Is not new, but that 1t has already been decided against Con- | gress by the tribunal of last resort--the peo- l pie. The same Radicals who assailed Mir. l Lincoln are now assailing Mir Johnson, and | Tor precisely the same reasons, though rushing popular verdict has been returned | 'gainst them.-Aha CaiifogRia.