Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-05

! After seven or eight months OF oul
ldictator's experimenting, Congress at
length was necessarily together. Nc
longer could he reign alone and su-
!preme; and now was his time, II he
had any spark of modcsty, or patriot
ism, or true democracy in him, to lay
all his experimenting and his "policy,"
all the relations and wants of the coun-
try, at the feet of Congress, the SUI
tpreme authority of the nation, for its
Judgement ard final adjustment
Did he do it? Did lie, as the mere Ex-
ecutive, say, to the Legislative branch,
you legislate, and will execute what
you enact, while the judiciary must
Judge If all is constitutionally done?
Did he act with any such right view OF
his place? No! he undertook to die
tate all the legislation, and to enforce
his "my policy" at all hazards, and by
his "veto" to break down ali that Con-
gress most unanimously did; and then
ut length, to crown all his contempti-
bic usurpation, he on the 22d of Feb.
I
June) to abuse and Willy, in a most
false and indecent manner, the august
Congress of the United States, the SUI
preme Constitutional power of the land,
calling them traitors fit to be hung, be-
, cause they were not sufficiently pliable
to him, the new dictator. And now he
has even proceeded to stump the coun-
try, with rowdy harangue, for the over
turning of the vilified Congress that
stands in his way to power. Fellow
citizens, did you ever hear of audacity,
of intiecency. of demagoguery, of inn
peacliable villiany Like this? .ri .... f.
He has insulted, not only Congress,
but you and mo, and all the people,
who appointed that Congress, and sent
them there to act for us, and to enact
laws for him simply to execute. He
has, in the littl eness as well as baseness
Of his soul, forgotten the respect due
from one department of the Govern
ment to another, and stepped down in
to tho dirty pool of pot house black
guard, to delile not only himself, but
the dignity of our, whole government,
and the honor of our great Republic
thus insultcd and disgraced. When
did YOU ever before hear one word of
disrcspect from Chief Magistrate to-
ward the legislative department, how
ever much differing with him? Did
Lincoln ever thus speak -insultingly of
Congress! Did Washington? Did
any other Presidents? Shall it be per-
United in our Executive Officer to go
about the land vilifying those whom
we have chosen to govern him as much
as ourselves? When the fierce Handy
Andy came down frem his chair OF
state, to shout to the mob that the SEN
ators and Representatives OF the Re-
public are traitors who ought to be
hung, and must lie driven out of power,
he committed n breach of privilege, ho
was guilty of an Improbable offence
and if he is not impeached for it, and
dcposed from the office he has SO abus-
ed, it will not be because he does not
richly deserve the punishment. We
use strong language CONCERNING An
drew the First and his lordiy conduct;
but has he not taught us SO to do:
When the President has no more re-
spect for Congress than falsely to call
them traitors, and to invoke on them
the violence of the mol, can there be
expected in return much respect for
the President, or much effort to cover
his sins? #s
All this outrageous usurpation, john
son sanctities and salves over to some,
by the dealing out of Government pat
ronage, to satisfy the hungry cravings
Ct the baser sort, and bride them thus
to favor the sale of their country and
its liberties, for mess of johnson pot
tage. To the rest of us, as if we had
no sense to see the truth, he pretcnds
(as usurpers generally pretend) that it
is he that is fighting for the country's
right, against usurpations OF Congress-:
He knows, rs we all know, that this is
all sham and pretcnse, wherewith
to cloak his sinister designs. Here he
has been domineering over all the
Southern country, appointing its Gov
ernors, debating its legislation, pre-
scribing the terms for its reconstruc-
ton, doing everything by the one-man.
power; and now he turns round, and
alb uses Congress, the rightful power,
for prescribing conditions, that is for
doing constitutionally what he has
been trying unconstitutionally to do
Is not his pretended accusation worse
than cheat? He cries out for State
Rights; yet in contravention of all
State Rights, intelfercs for the slaugh-.
ter of the New Orleans loyal Conven-
tionl Are not all his pretenecs mere
bosh? Every condition imposed by
Congress in the Constitutional Amend
ment is right and necessary, and he
himself has first or last incknowlcdgcd
every principle there. Yet he calls
Congress traitors forSinaposing only
these fair, these mercirul terms on the
South,-tcrms sanctioned by himself!
Such CANNON, to covar,lp aud justify
his indecent usurpations, can deceive
no shrewd American citizen.
We are going to appeal from Philip
the drunk to Philip the sober. The
sneaking coppcrhead party that oppos-
ed the war, and abused Lincoln, and
cursed our brave soldiers, and voted the
war failure, are not going to be install
ed in power, in place of the noble pat
riotic, loyal, Republican Union party,
that raised the army, and put down re-
bellion, and saved the country. No
matter what new names copper! cad
ism takes, or what new shapes it as
S mes, that of Possum, Kangaroo, or
Conservative,-it may 'steal the livery
of heaven to serve the devil in" call
Ing itself Union. (oh shame) and get.
ting itself swallowed by Judas John.
sOnism 1T is no go. The snakes head