Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-02-28
The Vsto-Its Assumptions
S ngular Speech Cf the PIesi-

i
dent.
We said last week that to the mel c
.ct Of rctoing the Freednen's Bureau
Bill there was no objection, but to the
arguments appended thereto reflect
ing upon Congress for not admitting
the rebel States into full communion
with the government, in fact denying
IN" right OF Congress to act as Judges,
few will assent. Senator Trumbuil.
man honored for his noblencss, ir his
'"ten"e OF the bill. clearly showed that
the President was wrong in his con-
>tructjOn OF some Of its clauses, and
that 50 far a its provisions were to De
applicable, the President himself was
JUICE, and therefore could not only
restrict the number Of officers but also
govern the expenditures
The passage by the House Of the
Joiut resolution declaring that the prin-
c;ple adopted ,s'tIon oJj~cttya year
ago in reference to Louisiana should
he applied to the other rebel States.
was a consequence Of the Presidents
declaration in his veto message. and
Well would it have been bad he suffer
el this difference of opinion, for such
1t was, to rest here. But copperhead
ISM, aiied by a few political weather
cocks like Montgomery Blair, Rcvcrdy
johnson, &c. hoped they at last had
found an entering wedge 10 create a
teud between the Administration and
Congress. A meeting was accordingly
called at Washington on Thursday last.
acwhich some friends OF The President
made fools Of themselves by associa-
ting politically with the scum Of Val
landigham's bootblacks. S. s. Cox Of
Ohio, a noted copperhoad whom the
soldiers came near mobbing. was the
FIRST speaker, Que Of Brigham Young's
subjects the second, then Blair, Hen
dricks, Merrick. Rogers Of New Jer-
sey came next, and SO shamefuly and
indecently assailed President Lncolu's
administration that when Gen Clark
"t Indiana was called out. he refused
20 speak from a stand that bad been
used to slanier Abraham Lincoln =
Rogers was appropriately followed bv
Boyet and Strouse of this State. This
lhcohgruous mass, composed ofretut n
"i rebels, rebel sympathizers, copper
heads, and sundry Office hunters, passed
resolutions in effect DEMANDING the
admission TO Congress of the rebels
elected 10 those offices. Having duly
prepared themselves, they then moved
to the grounds of the Presidential
mansion, where the President of the
United States, we are pained TO say
delivered an ilI-tempcred harangne
attacking by name Thaddeus Stevens
and Nr. Sumner, whom he comparc1l
with Davis, Siidcll, and Toombs, and
charging them with melting his assas-
sinltion. Previous to this. the Com
mittee on Reconstruction, composed of
the ablest men in Congress, and by in
uendo the large majority of members
who adopted the reports of this com
mittee, were thus assailed:
"We find that by an irresponsible central directory
neary all the powers of government are assumed
wItnout even consulting the legislative Executive
departments of the Government Yes. and by a res
oluton reported 10y a committee upon whom all III e
legislative power of the Government Mt has been con
ferrai, that great principle in the Constitution which
autAgTZ"s and empowers each branch OF the Iegisa-
i've u~paTtfnent-the Senate aud House of Rspresen-
taii'"sto p" the judges OF the election and quaifica-
uoh OF lt~ o"h members, has been virtually taken
away from these departments OF government and
conferred upon commttee. who must port be fore
they a"tinder the Constitution. and allow MEM
b-Ts duly elected 20 take their seats"
So far as McssrS Stevens and Sum-
ner are concerned, they will probably
pass by the charge unheeded, for al
though singular and radical in their