New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-09
con.p,rasor. and TRAITORS.

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From the Richmond Examiner
When some weeks ago the President denounced
the radical leaders as conspirators and traitors
many deemed his words too harsh for the OCCASION
Events have now justified his clsrges. ans ~ II
ipnlson of Mr. Stockton from the Senate, 70 De iot
lowed in few days by Mr.. BrooKss expulsion
from the House. is an open step towards fevol.-
ton. The men who have not scrnpled. IN acniev'
ing their object 70 Violate NE y drire ausres
4 man from their seats, have placed themselves out
a sde the laws. The deliberate attempt to carry
out tits PLAN In defiance of the Constitution, is in
y reality treason the men who are engaged In this
dssir1 are conspirators. 1t does not lessen, hut
rather aggravate their guilt that they themselves
4 hold exalted office under the government which
j they are conspiring to overthrow.
We are reaping now the fruits of that systematic
disregard of written law which, under the plea oi
the pabc safely, came with the Republican party
into power. Ina government like ours no usurpa-
ton of authority, no successful violation of char
tered right can ever pass away without result in
the future, X In time Of war these men claimed
and usedthe privilege Of violating the Constitution
that they might save the nation. Now, in. peace,
they have dared to violate it that they may save
Their party. The sacredness of the law has been
tempered with till it has ceased to inspire respect.
Abuses have grown into precedents. 1t is evident
now to all that in their war upon the President,
the radical leaders are prepared and ready to use
all and every means to Perpetuate their own
under the yoke Of an illegal authority. !.
The expedient chosen by them now is one as
simple as it is e6lcacious. Tosoverrde the Pres-
DENTAL veto, impeach the President, or change at
VIII the terms Of the Constitution, demands ma
Jerity ct two. thirds. But to eApel a member from
either branch may be done by q simple majority.
The radicals have majority, hut not two.lhirds.
It is then, their object to expel member after
memter Of those opposed to the radical policy.
until by the repetition Of this process the radical
majority grows to be two-thirds Of what Is left.
This, then, is the plan worked out by their can
eases, and now put into successful operati ton. ME-
Yoorhees was expelled some months ago MIR.
Stockton on Tuesday last. No congressman can
purchase the rightto contnuein the place assigned
him by his people, save, like Stewart, of Nevada
BY selling himself to the radical Junto. The cir
cumstances Of the Stockton case demonstrate that
the radical ma jorty reCoiis from no indecency In
carrying through its treason. ii
Messrs. Stockton and Wright represented the
Democratic State OF New Jersey. Mr.. Wright
Nv IS Ill, confined for weeksto his room and unable,
as was well known, to return to Washington.
Upon some utterly frivolous pretext, MIR. Stock
toms right to his seat was assaed and the ques-
zion referred TO a cOinmitteef The committee
themselves were Republicans, but the case made
out By Mt. Stocktons friends was 50, clear. and
seif-evident, that for very shame they were COM
PEELED to report almost unanimously that the seat
was justly his. IA The report was submitted to the
Senate and its acceptance made openly party
question. the result was doubtful. Some Sena-
tors held back from perpetrating an open and IN
famous wrong. And now fraud was introduced to
carry out the Illegally. I'M Ss jsg
4 Mr. Morrill, had paired off with his sick friend
Mr.. Wright. Mr. Wright could not appear to cast
his vote and with perfidy almost exceeding be-
lief, Mr. Morrill, cast aside his promise and voted
when his name was called, for the expulsion oil |
Mr.. Stockton. This give a majority OF one. 1t |
was the trick Of a hlaekleg. but it succeeded |
Mr.. Stockton was expelled, and Mr.. Morrill, the /
hero Of the occasion II is not likely that his con
science troubled him in his triumph. If it did it
must have pleased him to know that Charles sum /
ner applauded what he did and stood ready to /
grant him absolution for his broken promise tits
said to be the first time the Federal Senate was
ever disgraced by such fraud. It seems to us to
have been greater Dissertation than the scene
when Sumner himself was groanng and s1uirm-
ing under a gentlemans cane.
No member of the Senate was better entitled TO
his scat than Mr. Stockton. Not one is safe gaipst
he frauds which have unseated him. Every sus-
thus gained By the radicals makes easier for
hem to gain future successes. The policy of ex.
Yelling political opponents becomes 50 much the
asler by each that 10 expelled. A few more ex.
rcses Of this illegal privilege will place the Pres
dent and the country at their mercy. This policy II
means revolution. The power achieved by it is Il
Onrt Constitution provides numerous Ii
afeguards against Executive encroachments, but
was blind to the peril of an usurping Congress-
The President and the people must learn from
history how, to INC e. this unexpected danger,
There must be somewhere d powerto protect The Il
,eople's liberties against the peoples betrayers II
y i not IN the Constitution, il must be sought
outside,