The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-26

Our President has undertaken the champ.
;opship II ne f1een tA1Sbs = ldssssnined
to concoct some plot by which he can WELD
the army and sAa power of the Government
20 back him up. In New Orleans he stood
by the rebel Mayor and police in their mas
sacre of ,kAD kiss1ia& spdisnprsatAe Gov
ernor of the State. In the case at Baltimore
he stands b tksryssl Eupstlni.g esysne |
against the Union Mayor and police, in the
plot to annul the registry law, and admit
rebels to- control the elections And resume
power IN Mafyland. " y-kA lEl.
There is no help for it n present, for the
plot has been thoroughly concocted by'Gov>
ernor SwASx and President JoHxsox, and
the entire power OF the Governments, STATE
and Nasional il in their hands. Their OBJ
ject is, through the exercise OF tyranuical
power, TO excite AZ insurrection, in Maryland
and to implicate as many Republicans -
possible in the matter, that they may Aavs
the better excuse for masaacreing them, and
for the exercise Of military power.
The President 10 asxious 70 hold power
and exercise it unrestricted BY Congress, and
If he can manage 70 ges up . civil war in
MARYLAND and declare martial Ian, he may
arres. or assassihaee The members Of Con-
gress on their way to Washington with im>
punity.
Under such a state Of affairs sound policy
demands that the Republicans Of Maryland
should submit to the tyranny of the hour,
r. - ~
President seeks for inauguratng military
and irresponsible despotism. A majority Of
the Cabinet, majority Of the Copperheads.
and all the rebels, prefer military despctism
and the utter subversion Of the Constitution
and the entire overthrow Of our free institu>
lions. TO the continuance Of Republican con.
troll ofthe Government through the authority
of Congress, and in accordance With the will
Of the people declared under the Constitution
and laws BY the ballot boz. And knowing
that the President, backed BY his Copper.
rebel party, is delighted xith the occasion
presented in Maryland, for seising, BY mill.
tary force, the avenues to- Washington and
holding Congress at his mercy.
There is little hope now left that the issues
which ought to have been decided by the
war, but which President JOHNSON kept open
and still holds undecided for his own ambis
tious ends, viii ever be peacefully settled.
But it is important that no blunders be COM
mitted by the loyal Union men in Baltimore
or elsewhere. to give the President an ex>
cuse for calling the army to his back, and il>
augursting q military despotism under the
forms of law and with pretence of uphold
Jog the Constitution. The necessities Of the
Presidents situation, in conformity to his
oft repeated declarations against Congress,
indicates that be hts determined to assume
autocratic authority, and he viii do 1t ere
long with or without oceaaion or excuse.
Hence, the impolicy Of local resistance 20
the State and National Executives, who have
conspired together to make an occasion and
create an excuse for calling the Regular army
to re-inaugurate the rebels in power in the
State Of Maryland.
The power of the President, backed as lie
will be. is for the time being absolute, and he
and JEFF. DAVIS and all their followers would
delight to dance with joy and triumph in the
blood Of all the Union men Of Baltimore, and
they will do i,unless the Union men prudent>
ly submit, for the present, to the despotism
that they have not power to resist, and await
the meeting Of Congress for partial remedy
for their wrongs.
Let not our readers imagine tina, we over
estimate the peril of the situation, or mistake
the character and purpose of President JOIN
son. Every movement of the President
shows that he is in entire sympathy with the
rebels, and bitterly hostile to the Republi-
caus He has proclaimed publicly and often
that the present Congress is an unconstitu-
tional body, without authority to legislate,
and he has declared that he will thwart their
efforts to perform their functions, and ha.
even given his partisans reason to be-
heye that he would clean them out Of tbs
Capitol at the point of the bayonet. Bat b,
IS IN dilemma, for if he denies the power o
and everything is in state Of chaos. II, OF
the other hand, President JOHNSON reeog
nlzes the Constitutional authority Of Cou
gress, and matters are permitted to 60 on q
usual, be must swallow his intemporata de
nuncations Of it as "a body hanging on tn
verge of the Government and without Con
stitutonal authority thelav making pcwe
Of said Government. This would be huuil
iating position for ASngEw JOHNSON, and b
would no doubt gladly escape it by peecipits
ting civil war upon the country 10 adyans
the assembling OF Congress, while ever
thing Is in bis own hands. And il ia inst tL
dilemma and this anxiety to get oct Of /,
that accounts for the conspiracy and consaI
tatious between President JoassSs and GO
ernor SwAss, in reference to the rxg.ora.sa
Of the rebels to pozer and place 10 the STA,
Of Maryland By fraud, OF military force,
need be.
THE RALTIM0RE TRoS nLR.
The immediate occasion Of de eo< &c. IL