Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-06-30
The Victory Of Congress and Its Results.

The Committee of Reconstruction has accom-
plished its work, and gloriously outlived the at
tempted disgrace and contumely of hard names
and corrupt motives. The epithets which have
been so pentfully hurled against it by the Presi-
dent and his parasites have sunk harmless before
its successful and thoroughly triumphant vindi-
cation of both branches of Congress. The
Central Directory devised the plan of recon
struction which comes before the country in the
form of constitutional amendments, which only
await the sanction of three fourths of the States
TO make the States north and south of Mason
and Dixon's line for once harmonious Union.
We should be shanelessly deserving the radicals,
who comprise u" majority in Congress, did we
not award to them the full measure of credit due
for this wise and salutary measure. The men
who passed the Civil Rights bill over the Presi-
dents veto are the originators, the trainers and
the executors of the constitutional amendments.
and they possessed the power to pass the resolu-
tons by which they are submitted to the States
independent of the aid which came to them in
time to create, and for the object of creating,
the impression among unthinking people that
the President, through his friends, Raymond,
Smith and others, had induced Congress to
yield its position to that assumed by himself
This silly claim is, indeed, set up by certain
johnson men hereabouts who are only too glad to
find an opening through which to sneak back
into the Union party Let them come back by
all means and if they have none better than
very poor and very false excuse, let it be re-
ceived - and no questions asked" We should
be glad to chronicle his return to the party to
which he owes his election, if President John
son to repent of his political sins and come
back, asking to be forgiven, and promising, even
with the impaired value of his oft-giyen and oft
broken assurances, better behavior for the fu-
ture. But of this fact the self-styleh Union men
who FASTENED to identify themselves with the
Presidents party may rest assured. Recon-
v1ntaI a.
an entirely different plan from @ my policy -
not quite radical right, but something much
nearer to it than anything tolerated or encour
aged by Andrew Johnson or William II. Seward,
is to be secured when the Congressional plan is
carried out by the States; and Congress will
not cease its labors until it has enacted some
such law for the protection of the freedmen as
was vetoed by the President. We are free to adj
nit that there have been concessions made in
the plan which received the final sanction of the
majority ia Congress. But those concessions
were not made neither to the President nor to
any one more of his advisers or supporters
TIE earnest Unionists of the Senate got together
end excluding from their deliberations unfit by
reason of their participation m, and brazen de-
Tense Of, the Presidents apostacy, Dooittle and
Cowan, agreed upon the amendments which
were made to the proposition as it came from
the House of Representatives, so passed it and
so returned it to that House, where Il was final
~ passed by the requisite l"O-lulru Notc. mus
it was passed IN the Senate in spite of Doolittle,
Cowan & Co.; and, making virtue of neces-
sity, Raymond and his fellow apologsts for the
President went with the irresistible majority in
the House. Old Thad. Stevens, in a speech
which will add increased luster to the great
brightness Of his fame expressed the sorrowful
sentiment of those more devout friends of the
nearest approach to perfection possible to be OBJ
tanned il tuman Governments, Gnd, rs in duty
bound to his party and patriot accepting
the best that could be obtained for his suffering
country, bowed to the will of the ma ority OF
those with whom he had been working in OPP
position to the disastrous policy of the President
and voted aye upon the passage of that moment
Gus resolution. We glad if the Presidents
friends in Nevada are willing to accept the con-
stitutional amendments as a common platform
upon which all good Union men may consistent
ly stand-but we cannot permit the passage of
those amendments by Congress to be claimed as
IN Administration victory withouv putting in
our denial of the truth of that assumption
Carson Appeal.