The national Republican., 1866-11-16
THE ADMuNIsTRATION POLICY
Is TO PREVAIL IF THE UNION
OF THESE STATES Is SAVED.


OF THESE STATES IS SAVED.
There are some political results as prede-
terminable, except as to time, as any mathe-
matical problem. The early restoration of
the organism Of these States belongs to this
category. The restoration must be eifec ted
soon, or the passions and prejudices engen-
dered by the war will render the difficulty
incurable. We desire just now, after the
elections and before Congress meets, to lay
down this proposition as strongly as types
and ink can make it: The policy Of The Ad-
miniSration ,cW prevail if the onion of
these States is sared No matter IL the peo-
pie in their madness do reject the Lords own
prayer Of forgiveness upon the condition
that we forgive others no matter If they do
ask that President JOHNSON and Secretary
SEWARD be crucifed, and that BARRABAs be
released, no matter if they do insist that the
whole Christian system is lie, and that the
Jewish law of retaliation is the only course
to be pursued towards the late rebels, it is as
certain as that the sun shines that no politi-
cal party can live long by it, and that no in
dividual can afford to die by it. No matter
if they malign and traduce The PRESIDENT
and Secretary SEWARD, caricature them in
prints and call them by coarse and opprobri-
Gus names, the stern, solid truth remains,
that their policy is the only one whereby the
country can be saved
DO the radicals want their doctrine to pre-
vail in respect to the Fenians? OF course
not They do not want the Jewish law of an
eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth to ap-
ply to them. Do they want it to apply to
any Of the numerous array Of persons who
committed crimes against our Government
by peculating the public moneys during the
war? or course not. Do they want God
Almighty to administer it to themselves when
they die? OF course not. Do they want the
rule applied to anybody except the rebels ?
Of course not. Then is it not apparent that
their rule is not one of general application ?
To all sensible people it must be, And we
are hopeful enough to think that this idea
will get through the heads of the radicals in
Congress yet.
But it is said that the political party which
prevails with the people are invested with the
right to have their own way in the Govern
ment. This was the idea which drenched the
streets OF Paris with blood, and which has
created anarchy whenever and wherever it
has prevailsapa single hour. The will of the
majority, like liberty itself, must be subordi
mated to some sensible law in order to pre-
serve any form ofgovernment known amongst
men. Here it must be subordinate to the
Federal Constitution. If it is not, it is rev
olutionary and destructive Of civil libert,
itself. Hence this idea must be abandone,
altogether, or the Government will 90 t
pieces.
But it is said, in this connection, that Tn
PRESIDENT undertook to resist Congress an
should therefore be mpeached and cast ou
of Office. WE'LL what could be made out 9
that? Possibly, if it could be effected By
two-third vote, it might disencumber Con
gress of his occasional vetoes of their meas
ures, but how would it tend to reunite tn
UnionG In no way whatever. So that
what Congress may the question still remain
that SO long as loyal Senators and Repr
sentatives are kept out of Congress th
wounds Of the nation will be kept open an
bleeding. Perpetual bleeding will SO e.
haust the strength Of the nation as either I
bring Congress to its senses and cause it I
adopt The Presidents policy or leave ii
nation no alternative but political dealt
One result or the other must occur. Havin
done what he has to save the nations lf
The PRESIDENT is now free from respons
bility for any disaster which may happen I
it. He can now look complacently on an
await the course Of events The radtca
hare The po,oer and With at a most fearf
responsibility. They are indebted to IL
treachery of the Democratic party, in IL
late elections, which attempted to appr
pirate the thunder of the National Unic
Convention at Philadelphia and contr
the entire administration, for that power al
responsibility.
If Congress yields in the future to t
lead OF such men as THApDEUs STEVENS
will not be long before it will call upon Il
rocks to fall upon it to hide it from Il
retribution of the ages If fitpauses and CO
siders, as we hope it will, it must sooner
later discover that the issue it has made wi
The President is entirely wrong and mu
be abandoned
In either event it must be seen that II
PRESIDENTS policy of to-day is founded upc
the Constitution, the law of God, and Il
principles of human justice as administers
by the most enlightened Governments
'lrEtanlnTn nd Il, loI;
viction that from this day forward to the ell
of his term of Office this fact will be mo
and more apparent. If the nation, in Il
providence Of God, is to be saved from d
struction the darkest hour Of President J OH
SONS administration has passed by.
THE METEORIC EXHIBITION.
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