New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-08

or foe would not nave declared us nOffOr ana disgust
Haynau's butcberes, the assassination Of Abraham
Lincoln, the Memphis riots, and the massacre at New
Orleans, are things which do not admit of apology.
It was to be expected Of course that the organs Of
the Government would be ready to incriminate Con-
gress for the awful and bloody blunder Of the Pres
Dental instructions TO the rioting power at New
Orleans. Congress and the slaughtered Unionists
We're after ALL the consprators, and the Rebels and
the negrohaters were for once loyalIstsl What is
loyaltyl Should we admit that Gen. Sheridan was
correct in saying that tho leaders Of tho Convention
were political agtators and revolutionary men, and
ought to have been arrested We hayo still his own
word for il that their cruel butchery was without ex
ouse, and that the prime-mover Of all the horrible
work. was bad man" Nothing more Is wanted TO
set at rest all Judgment as to the nature Of the not IT.
SELF but Tie Times of this city, and The Inegsneer OF
Washington-both intimately related to the Govern
ment-contiuue the absurd and infamous work OF
Slandering the dead.
Gen Sheridan to the contrary Notwithstanding, the
legality Of the New-0reanS Convention was and Is
mooted question among the people and their auhori
ties-one to be determined by the Courts or Congress
of the United States, and not by the Rebel Mayor Of
and original assembling ofthe Convention under mill
tary order, declares that il was legal; and morally
no higher authority has spoken. The State Govern
ment OF Virginia was erected By the same military
authority and the Convention OF Alexandria met and
re.net in 1868 and 1854 and finally amended and re-
modelled the Constitution which now governs the
whole Stale But Whatever be the truth as to the
question Of legality land the Convention seems to
have a burden of official proof on its side in
the testimony Of Gen. Banks and of Gov WeliS) We
hold that the President might as consistently reopen
Rebel instruction through the South, as have pro-
NOTED the undoing Of his own work by means OF the
subyeye telegram addressed to the organizers Of the
riot in New.Oglean,. Ho will find that from Virginia
to Texas Southern judges ready to dispute the le
gaiy Of such enforced Conventions and Legislatures
as have amended their State Constitutions BY direc
ton of the President himself lie may find that his
own power in the premises TO convene and legitima-
tie the late nsurgcnt States, without the concur
renee OF Congress, was than mooted question.
We hope he will yet understand that bis blunder N
tumbling down State Of his own recognition along
with tho Governor elected By its people, was, after
all the worst offence which he could commit against
his own theory Of government. He, indeed, the
President Of the United States was the only overt re-
voutonist aud that too, b. his own sef-conyiction,
in the event, OF tie dreadful day in New0rleans. He
il wa, who depOscd o Governor. and dKecuy and
rudcly neneTel in the affairs Of what he is pleased
TO term "a sovereign State" The loyalsts, with
the supreme power Of She State theg side, accom-
plshed no overthrow but were, thanks to the policy
Of the President, bloodily oyerthrown.
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their opinion that the very Government under which
Mayor Monroe acted out the rot was itself Illegal.
If we believed The press Of New Orleans Gov. Wells
administering Constitution written downat the bay
e..pon has right to public recognition than
the Lou.slui Convention According to Chei.Justicc
RuiIin OF North Carolina, the Convention and the
new Constitution Of that State alike illegimatei
President Tohnson was a despot, and Gov Holden his
u,uring agent Take the Rebel voice for it, and Gov.
Pierpoihe of Virginia, Cos. Holden Of North Caro-
lima. and Gov. Wells Of Louisiana, had no
more right to ruio than the ConTer.'5Ss Of those
States had 10 make laws. But Rebel ~ a1 Rebels are
willing 10 Ike the Presdens word ftr thfr law and
40 "aceert tho situation IN the cheerful belief that
tho Government is doing all for them that it can.
They have ceased 10 inquire wha. ia legitimate, ex
cept when loyal men demand equal rights, at least,
with The rcccants and miscreants Of the land; and
they have ,cruple according 20 their own showing,
TO use Illegal weapons ID The interest Of di'loyaly TO
e1terminatc an Illegal Convention in the intereSts
of freedom. Well We have yet TO be in.
formed that honest aad loyal men have less right to
meet and declare their Siews than pcrured and
peatant Rebels have to vote Is loyalty to be re-
wardel only By the bullet, while treason is honored by
q. 4 c,ft. &c th,
own plan Of Reconstruction; and history will hold
him to il, that he actually undid his own work,
trampled on his own theory and contessedly
went out Of bis own way ! to put his
foot, A. it happened on tho dead bodies Of
the men whose worst crime in the eyes Of their enc
mics wa8 loyalty and devotion to the flag eoempo.
nry with hi own. Ii he had right to nufy the
government of Louisiana, and make its worst Rebel
the arbiter Of is most important crisis, he has also
right TO overturn every Constitution from Virginia TO
Texas, notwithstanding his own thousand times as
seyerated conviction that States arc sacred. He has
shown his mslris alike Of the Law of the land, of IL.
w-making power and Of the doctrine which
no iel up for himself lie uterlered 10 make sure Of
the fate Of the New.0reans Convention. long before
any Court Of high authority, or the legislative aud
judicial branches of the Government, were appealed
TO for decision 1t is not time for the President and
his organs to accuse Congress- after he has condemned
himself He cannot escape the odium and the conse.
Quences Of bis bad act Let US take hope at last from
Dosties grave, Monroe's crime and the Presidents
blunlcr.
CANADA AND CONFEDERATION.
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