The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-23
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MONDAY MORNING. JULY 90. 1866.
BREAKERS AHEAD.

| hnrms). GCneral OHERMAN, In O late speech
to the students of Yale College, said war
was approaching in this country to which
anything in the past was mere child's play.
Others have lately given utteranoes of simi.
lar or kindred import, enough to put US on
our guard. But we were still in the dark:
MIR. RAYMOND, however, of the New York
Times, presents us with the full programme.
In his letter, July Is, he says
"You may have noticed the passage in tho
House, o few days since, of resolution offer
ed by General PAINE, of Wisconsin, calling
on the States to organize, discipline and equip
their militia, and directing that two-thirds of
the arms, ordnance and ammunition now un.
der custody of the General Government be
distributed among the States es-the distribution
among the loyal States to take place imme-
diately, and that among the States lately in
rebellion to be postponed until further or.
ders. The resolution came up from the Com
mittee On Military Affairs, and was pushed
to vote, without debate or delay, under the
| previous question. 1t attracted no little at
tention in Congress as it has in the country :;
and the public will doubtless receive with
incredulity the assurance that it was intend
ed by those who secured Its passage as the
first step toward preparations for another civil
,car.
"Most of the leading and rejecting Rad-
calls in Congress take this view of the politi-
cal future IF the fall elections result in the
choice of Northern Democrats enough to con-
stitute, when added to the members from the
Southern States, majority of the House,
they assume that this majority, thus consti-
tuted, will claim to be the Congress, md will
act accordingly, and that they will be recog-
nized by the President as the body to which
he will send his message, and whose sessions
he will, if the necessity should arise, protect
by military force. They assert, ON the other
hand, that the Union members from the loyal
States-if they constitute majority from
those States-will claim to be the only legal
Congress, and will, if necessary, invoke an
insurrection of the people to maintain them
In that position. They do not in the least
conceal their purpose, in the even. of such
collision, to appeal to force, and to drive the
rival Congress-, with the President and his
Cabinet and supporters, into the Potomac to
use the language of one of the ablest and
most sincere of their number. If YOU will
recall the remarks of Mr.. BOUTWELL,, Of
Massachusetts, in the last weeks first caucus,
you will see this movement clearly fore.
shadowed-indeed avowed He declared bis
belief that an issue of force was rapidly ap-
preaching, and that we must be prepared to
meet It. He acts, and all who Cooperate
with him in these measures profess to act,
under the apprehension that the President
intends to resort to force-that he means to
disperse the present Congress on its reassem-
bling in December if it refuses to admit the
Southern members; and Mr.. FARNswoRrH
ascribes to Mr.. SEWARD the declaration that
this Congress should never reassemble unless
the Southern members were admitted-n
support of this belief. I need scarcely saw
that MIR. SEWARD never made any remark of
the kind, nor that the project ascriped to the
President is purely On invention, or at best
the crazy dream of political nightmare.
But in either case it serves the same purpose
1t covers, and is held to justify, the determi-
nation to arouse the North, and prepare for
resort to force upon the assembling of the
Fortieth Congress in extra or in regular ses.
sion; and this determination is avowed. And
the resolution to which I have referred. for
an organization of the militia and distribu.
tion Of arms in the Northern States, is the
initial step to its execution"
Such war would not be sectional, as was
the first, but would be o ciuh war in the
fullest and direst sense of tho word. It would
pervade every State, county, town, family,
and household throughout the "loyal" States
1t would empHatically be house divided
against itself Not loyalists against rebels,
nor Republicans against Democrats, but
Radicals against those of every name, creed
or party who venture to oppose their selfish
and ruinous schemes.
We in the Sonth are much less Interested
in this approaching crisis than our friends al
the North. Not that we mean that it is ofno
interest to US, or of no political Importance,
for the contrary is known to be our view. We
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