Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-12
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, n. c., APRIL 7, 1866.
Adjournment of Congress.

Adjournment of Congress.
If the Senate will approve the resolution already
passed by the House of Representatives, for ar
adjournment of Congress in May, it would meet
the endorsement of the country. The present
members of Congress were elected at time OF
great excitement when the success of the Fedora
arms and the depression and exhaustion of the
Confederacy gave promise of speedy termina
ton of the war The issues then were so entirely
different from what they now, that the present
members should go home and mingle with their
constituents and discover how little they appre-
ciate the real state of feeling in the country
The public heart yearns for peace After four
years of bloody strife and year OF political ag1
ation the people desire peace in its largest
They need repose from the distractions of party
Vaccinations much as they did from the ex-
haustive struggles in the field. The government
having successfully reestabished the authority OF
the Constitution IL as, over the whole country,
the people wish to see return OF national
justice and fraternalunty ratherthan Constitution
al amendments feredand passed at heexpense OF
justice, reason and truth, and from which out
RACES the sacred chart of National rights is only
saved by the interposing efforts of the President
It is true that much of great Importance yet
remains to be done by Congress. The great work
Of reconstruction and reconciliation, which need
ed only the crowning act by Congress OF recelv-
ing the members elect from those States, which
have returned to the common allegiance, so well
and so complete had the Executive performed his
labOrs to have placed the great seal of the Union
upon the peace which has really existed since the
surrender OF the Confederate armies. But the ma
iOrity have clearly demonstrated that they intend
to do nothing towards reconstruction or reconcll-
iation, but on the contrary to do their utmost to
impede the Presidents wise and magnanimous
policy for accomplishing both.
The war ended and slavery abolished, party
which has fed and grown strong upon the excite
ment Of these issues determined to furnish po-
iticaI food OF some character-fanatc1sm cannot
exist without agitation and many shallow Drained
demagogues are now filling seats III Congress, and
controlling the destinies of great country, Who
cannot be returned without concoCting mischief,
under cover of which their own want of sympathy
with the true interests of the people hid. Con-
gress furnishes d cheap and ready supply of ma
terial for political agitation by which parties
built, national unity hindered and commercial
prosperity retarded. So long then Congress
remains IN session, we despair of seeing the cause
ofreconstruction advanced. An appeal to the con-
servative element of the North-instructlons by
them given at the ballot box, is only hope. The
Northern people, during the last six months, have
well considered the real issues presented and indie
pendent of the terrible and authentic lettersd daily
ceived by Senator Sumner; Notwithstanding anony
nous newspaper correspondents from every part of
South mlsrepresentlng our people; and contrary
to the wish of certain politicians and papers in
our midst that, by lnsinuatlons and inuendoes, at
tempt to return US to Provisional Government
for personal motives, by concealng the truth and
by false statements we believe, that the North
ern mind has grasped the real condition Of affairs,
and will endorse fully and without reserve the de-
caraton of the President in his late proclamation,
. That the people of the Southern States have
given satisfactory evidence that they acquiese in
the sovereign and important resolution that each
State ought to remain and constitute an integral
part OF the United States''
We hope then so soon as Congress shall have pro
yded the ways and means to meetthe current expen-
ses of the Government and enroll the engrossed
bill for restoring to the country circulating medi-
UNI adjusted to the specie standard, it will adjourn,
preferring to leave the great issue between the
President and the Radicals to the decision of a
generous people, than to the tender mercies of
men who have already sacrificed the rights of per-
sons and the honor of Congress in order to add
few votes to their relentless majority.