The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-21

order tranquility, and civil authority" will be
read with profound sinterest, throughout the
length and breadth Of the LAND: Texas the last
state that remained unTestoIed N is ciyu iunc-
tions, and which has been the lone star IN TINS
respect for some time, Is now restored 70 ner
rights and privileges in the Union with all the
other States, The work is now complete as tar
as Executive authority goes and the oonuluon
of the States Is concerned.
The proclamation OF the President has the
| effect of law, and all are bound TO respect
| II as such As the Executive power OF tne
| republic. he is the proper authority 70 J9uge OF
| the condition of the country. IL Is the duty OF
| Congress itself to accept and act upon MS
official declaration. sU
| We have been anticipating such q proclama-
| ton as this, knowing that civil authority
| had been restored to all the other Southern
| States except Texas, and being assured that
| Texas would soon be in condition to enjoy
| the same privilege; but now the official de-
claration is made that all are restored, every
patriotic citizen must feel highly gratifed.
Radical agitators have been telling the people
that the war is not over, and that the South
was still In o state of insurTection; but the Pre-
sident solemnly proelaims that the said insur-
rection is at an end, and that peace. order,
tranquility and civil authority now exist in and
throughout the whole OF the United States of
The President in this important document
recapitulates the several acts of Congress and
OF the Executive to suppress the insurrection
and TO restore civil authority, and he shows
entertained the thought that the States could
be destroyed or their rights abridged whenever
the insurrection should be put down. We now
see how wisely and carefully Mr.. johnson has
acted in reorganiZing the Southern states, and
in bringing peace and order out OF the terrible
chaos in which the Rebellion left the country.
The people may well rejoice at the glorious end
we have at last reached, aud honor the man who
has conducted US to that end through most
extraordinary difficulties. .. 80. "A. !.
All that remains to be done now Is the resto-
ration of the Southern States 10 representation
in Congress. To exclude them from this is a
violation of the Constitution, and Congress, in
excluding them, is guilty of dangerous usur-
patton. Each house is the judge of the qualf-
cations of the individuals claiming seats; that is
to Judge whether they have been properly elected
and whether there is aiiy constitutional objection
to them personally. But this power only applies
to the individual repTes sentative, was never be-
fore appliedin any other way, and the founders
of the Government certainly never contemplated
sentatlon. The joint action of the two houses
in refusing to admit the States to be represented
in Congress is clearly unconstitutional and
revolutionary. The States in which rebellion
existed we're represented in part during actual
hostilties, and, could elections have been fairly
held in portions of those States, they would
have been represented throughout the war. The
exclusion OF them from Coneress when the war
ceased was an atterthought OF radical politicians
for political ends. We have good reason to
believe, however, looking at the signs of the
times, that the radicals will not be able to keep
the Southern representatives from Congress
much longer. Public opinion will demand
their admission. With this proclamation of the
President the people will require an immediate
and full restoration of the South IN Congress,
as in all the other rights now accorded to them
as citizens of the United States. ....g. .