Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-04-26
Tone of Southern Press.
Especial to the Cincinnati Gazette,l
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Tone Of Southern Press.
Especial to the Cincinnati GazetteJ
re WASHINGTON, April Is.
+ The Richmond Examiner of yes
terday. in discussing the Civil Rights
bill, calls upon the Southern people
to pray that the cholera may decide
the question between our adversaries
and ourselves. The Whig urges
President Johnston 20 call together
Congress composed OF members
from all the States of the Union, as
well those of the South as those of
the North: and that, if the Radical
members should refuse to attend.
that he shall recognize the Northern
Conservative members and the South
ern members as the lawful Congress
to sit in the Capitol and to legislate
for the country. The Whig does
not see how this programme could
be accomplished peacefully, and sup
poses that the radical, sectional Con-
gress, as it terms it, would continue
its session, appeal to the people and
proceed to muster an army, If the
United States army should not side
with it. In that case, the Wing be.
lieves the President would be pre-
pared to meet force with force.
The Enquirer, discoursing on the
same subject, says; 1t is evident,
indeed, that violent collision be-
tween Congress and the President is
inevitable, and is imminent, if the
true spirit and intent of the Consti-
tuition shall remain despised and its
forms abused for the usurpation of
power. In this issue the President
has thus far been in the right, and
has thus far evinced all the modera-
ton. Congress has been wholly in
the wrong, and has displayed cor
responding violence. That the pub
lie peace is yet unbroken is due to
the President. 1t depends on Con
gress whether it can be permanently
maintained, for we take it for granted
that the President will not yield him
self an unresisting victim to reyolu-
donary violence whatever garb it
may wear, or allow the Constitution,
to defend which the sword has been
given him, TO be overturned and des-
'troyod. A Congressional coup d'etGf
can be met by a Presidential coup
d'etat
The Charleston Is. c. News says:
one obvious step to the more firm
establishment of the Presidents Gov
ernment would be in the call of a
Congress to be composed of men,
bers of the Southern States and such
members of the present Congress as
are ready to sustain his policy. In
such Congress there would be as
large Senate and nearly as large
House, while with such body to
sustain him, he can even more Justly
represent the Government and throw
the Radicals who shall accept the
Issue into the defensive attitude of
an adversary faction.
JEFF. DAVIS RELEASE DEMANDED.
The Richmond Times in an edito-
rial urging the release of JEFF. Davis.
says the time has arrived and the
public sentiment of christendom de-
mands that the President shall crown
the noble policy of pacifcation by
the pardon of JEFF. Davis, who is i'm
INJURED in fortress without warrant
of committal from a civil tribunal of
competent Jurisdiction. Among the
various reasons given by the Times
why this humane and kind hearted /
statesmen should be turned loose to |
insult the relatives of those whom he
assisted in numbering and starving,
are the following: ain his course
toward the mass of those who sup
ported the Southern Confederacy the
President has been slngularly mag |
nanimous and wisely lenient. Nine
tenths of those who for four years
with unparalleled gallantry upheld
the Confederacy, have long since
been unconditicnally pardoned.-
The Cabinet officers who counseled
the President of the Confederacy;
the Congressman who enacted those
stringent conscript and imprison-
ment laws which keptu our armies,
and many distinguished Generals Of
the Confederate armies, have either
been formally pardoned, or been re-
leased upon parole, and no one
dreams that they will ever be mo-
Tested in person or estate. The mil
itary bastiles of the country, with
one exception, have long since been
thrown open, and the distinguished
officers who were con-
fined in them have been restored to
their friends and families"