, 1866-12-10

From Our Oxn CosErsooudeut.l
WnHHarof. Deeembers s, 1865.
Congress Is already Voted bore by the
s'ght-secrs Of the city, though It Is but three
days In ils session. There was great crowd
in attendance On Monday; but oday
scarcely three hundred pef1ons, all told,
Terc In the Eallaries. let it would be
wrong to argue from these facta that no
interest is felt in its work,
The proceedings Of Monday and Tuesd1y
were Of unmistakablc significance. They
showed, first Of Iii. that there haa bccu an
election since the adjournment in Jnly-A
contest ofremarkabte yigor and easncstneas,
in which the moral and Intellectual fosce Of
PARTIES, not less than the power Of numbers,
WAS msEched- For campaign In which only
questions Of bank and tariff and boundary
were at issue, could never have bo1nu such
fruit Of bills and resolves as appears in the
Glo6e Of yesterday and to-day. Congressmen
arc very human, after all; and I have SOFIA
timea thought that a Record Is the chief and
Of many men who get into the lower house.
Doubtless, therefore, something Of this
mass Of twentS- long colamna
may be counted As chatf-msy be looked
upon As m entry upon the credit side ef
the books kept with the dear people Of Inv
district" let when this il granted there
utill remains what may well make Ms, the
plain people, very proud Of our Government
not Of the administration, bat Of our dem.
ocratlc republicanism. For we are the eov-
eFeiEns md these Congressman ara ouly our
scrEants- Because Ee fought this ju.t-closcd
battle on Issues Of principle rather than on
questions Of policy, they begin their winters
work with words and acts that must give
thought to European students OF political
economy. It Was the voice Of the peopla
that has been caught into the pages Of the
Glodt. Consider what halttug IN inefH-
cfcnt Phrases and mouthfngs numbered them
In june and July 80 doing, you cannot fail
to note that there has been an electloneertpe
campaign Of unc1ampled moral ea1uestness.
The men who make Congressman and Presi-
dents have declared that they yet hold, and
mean sttcnuously to exercise, the power Of
unniaking them. They have further declsy-
cd that this late four-ycars' WAT was no po-
lltical tournament, but, rather, stxnK-
gle Of profoundest moment to the very
souls OF men and women. And tho real
language of these forty bills and sets
Of resolutions Is that neither
AA%GA0NA+k AAA NoAEA S19 1L4f441 AlL&N1 AWAY tue
victory sealed at Appomatox Court Housc,
in April, 1865. It is,' therefore, because the
proceedings Of Monday aud Tuesday were Of
such plain and solemn import, that mere
plcasutc-scckcss have so soon grown tired Of
Congress. Later In the session will come
eloquence and wEangltng-just now there is
no room for anything but the unadornedand
direct nttcrance Of Fhat the people think
and believe.
Reading the reports of these 3rst three
days, one can't help seeing what Radica1lsm
lies behind the tremendous mAiorities Of
Aassachusetts,andS Sew York STATE, and Ohio
and nliaots, and Iowa, and Michigan. "Your
folks seem to hare done nothing since lection
but draw up bills and resolutions" said an
Opposition representative to me this after
noon. ''Thcy appear to hare done eome-
thing IN that Iine,'' answered; 'show does
the work strike s5ous" "You have grown
$50 Radical that If We take the ground you
occupied geocrallS last season, the two
"partics will not be further apazt than they
then wese." 1t waa sober Democratic
Judgment Of our progress In three OF four
months,
individuals always move faster than
masses and therefore 1t will doubtless he
found, before the end Of the session is
reached. that Congress, a. body, il not
prepared to advance to the ground taken in
Il majority Of these two.score bills nud &C.
solves. yet some thines arc cer,ain. 1--WE
are going to draw the Pteaident's teeth, any
how" said an 1ndian1an senteutiously, when
I asked him, in careless way, what Con
gress would do this winter. OF 20
much he and his friends may at
least be suse-by the end Of Feb
ruary he will ind himself
1noet c1eres1y "cs1boed, caoinnca,
and confined" Just how this will be done
it is too carly to predict but If there is any
thing ccrtalu, 1t is that Andrew johnson will
hare much less power next March than he
has got now. There Ia, Of course, some sore
ncss In the Congressional heart because he
has slaughtered 20 many Of the innoccpss In
the persons Of postmastcrs and revenue off,
GERS but over and abovc this Is most
profound conviction that he IL
guilty Of gross violations Of the spirit of the
law aud the Constitution in other matters as
well ~ In respect to his manner Of using the
public patronage. When such men as Gov
ernor Boutwell, and Representative Morrill,
and Judge Harris, and Judge Spaldlng, and
Governor Aorchead, and Iowa Wilson, and
our OWL Washburne, and John Sherman, nd
init the necessity Of ! fnrmal lnqul into the
Prcs1drnt's conduct since last Juno, 1t Is eyi-
dent that the situation Is full of grave
import
II Abraham lincoln Was, as I think, right
II called the Teachable President, Andrew
johnson may Justly be called the Unteach-
/ able President. The elections seem not to
have been heard Of IN the office Of the II WhItc
House. The annual message Is moderate in
language, and supp1fcatoEy In tone, but its
essenee and substance arc just Is anti Re-
| publican as the vetoes Of last spring aud the
| speech Of last summer. The substance Il
| Mr. Johuson's-the tone is Mr.. stanbe1ry's,
| and alr. Bnowning's, and Ar. Stewards,
mainly Nj. stanhery's. The President
appears wholly obltrious Of the fact
that his odioua treason-pctting polic5
has been condemned BY aesly hall
million majority: and he "swinss round
the circlt" Of his Southern sophis.r1e.
In the usual manner. The Attorne5
General has heard of the elections, and
knows that somebody has said something
about an Impeachment Of the Executive
hence .he BODY 50 hteiy 'lo1pgtng On th.
verge Of the Government" Is hsni'-;on,
ePos7a Of as 'the eSSngre., !" and hcuc
such an excess Of piety 1t the beginning An,
At the end; such 4 cooing word for harmon,
between the coordinate branches Of th
Government, such ! mi1k-and. .watcry epiri
where erst wss Euch angry and ma9iciou,
defamation. IsK4E1.