The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
UNsEATINc SENA TOR STOCKTON.

UNSEAIING SIENAIOf O1OCh1O ON.
The action of the Senate of the United
States, so-called, in unseating Mr.. ROBERT
STOCKTON, Senator from New Jersey, which
has been announced to us by telegraph, af-
fords another reason, in addition to the many
We already had, for the question our phrase
suggests, of the right of that body OF the Of
fee it assumes to exercise. 1t is but in name
the Senate. The President has declared that
the Senators from the South are entitled to
their seats, and that it is not, therefore, the
Senate without them. The Radical majority
in that body have themselves declared that
the States Of the South could not seeede; that
they have never left the Union therefore,
and of consequence, that their Senators are
members of that body, which is not compe-
tent to act without them. 1t is fact that
the Senator'S from ten States, acknowledged
members of the Union,-it were treason to
say that they were ever out of it,-stand
ready to enter that body, portion of which
has closed the doors upon them; and if in this
there was not enough to declare them fac
ton, in wicked and perverse infringement upon
the Constitution of their country, they them
selves afford the further evidence. They speak
and act as faction; there has not been one
senatorial tone from the Radical majority in
that body-no single word, not inspired by
sense of party interest, and in reputation of
the Union. There is no single act of conspi-
rators who seize upon the citadels of their
country, that does not find its parallel in the
conduct of that majority,-its warrant in the
sentiments they utter,-and in this act Of e1-
cluding Mr.. STOCKTON for the reason only that
be is not of their party, is a proclamation to
the world that their character is not only
real, butt avowed; that party power is the OBJ
ject and condition Of their senatorial Office
that they have no aim beyond, and that every
means is honorable that tends to that object.
That this is the moral Of their recentact, can
hardly be disputed They acted in this mat
ter under the sanction of their oaths. That
evidence, which was sufficient to convince the
members OF the Democratic party and u por-
ton of the moderate Republicans, that Mr.
STOCKTON was entitled to his seat, left the
ultra-radicals under the political conviction
that he was not. 1t were simple to suppose
that this was mora than political conviction
that they thought MIR. STOCKTON was unified
for his seat for any other reason than that he
was not of their party. 1t does not matter what
were the facts in the case. The concurrence
of all the Radicals in one opinion in reference
to fact, about which so many doubted, was
not an accident-itwas not the just impression
of the case before them. 1t were simple to
SUPPOSE that they were not drawn to that con-
currence by s.nse of party interest, and
that they have not declared, and that they did
not declare, that it is not their purpose to act
as the Senate of the country.
1t is too late, perhaps, to excite the interest
of our readers by evidences of the indisposi-
ton of the Senate Or Congress to act as the
legislature of the country. They have so
constantly exhibited the party character, and
our readers are already so familiar with the
facts to be presented in support of this as
sumption, that it were ordinarily q waste
of time to dwell upon them. But in this act