The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-08-01
From the New York World.

"Ihe question at issue between
the President and Congress has
passed beyond the domain of argu-
ment; as much 50 as a lawsuit has
when the court of final resort de-
cides against the plaintiff: It's true,
that, in questions of this kind. the
people, not Congress, is the court
of last resort: but before the people
can redress the wrong, the recon
struction acts will have done all the
mischief Of which they are capable.
Before they can be repealed, the
States will have been reOrganized and
re-admitted, when these acts expire
of themselves. Nothing therefore
could be more illjudged and abor-
tive than an agitation for their re-
peal; nor could any thing tend more
to prolong the ascendancy of the
Republican party.
eff the object Of these acts were
the perpetual exclusion of the South
ern States, All agitation for their re-
peal ought to be forthwith com
menced, and kept up with sleepless
vigor until it accomplished it's OBJ
ject.s But nothing could be more
idle than repeal of these laws after
the States are readmitted. They
Ewill then be no longer inforce; there
will be nothing to repeal. If the
Southern whites do not have the
practical good sense and the adapt
ability to circumstances to register,
to act together, and to control the
new organizations, the negroes and
the few Southern Republicans will
form such State constitutions as they
please, which Congress will sanction
and guarantee. In one of these
ways or the other, the States will be
re-admitted, and pass from under
the yoke of military domination.
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"This Congress surely will not re-
peal or relax the Reconstruction
Acts. The first regular session of
it's successor will be in December,
1869, more than two years hence
Even then these odious acts could
not be repealed, not even if their OPP
ponents should, meanwhile, carry
every State. The reason is that the
Senators hold for six years and, al
though one third of them go out at
the end of every two, four years is
the shortest period in which a ma
jority of that body can be changed.
If we were certain of carrying all
the elections, four years would
elapse before we could repeal these
laws; but if, as is more probable, we
shall carry some elections and lose
some, it may be six years before we
gain a majority of both Houses of
Congress.
"To inscribe Repeal on our ban
ners and make in our battle cry, is,
therefore, what no sound POLITICAL
will advise in existing circumstan-
ces. Before six years, before four
years, probably before two years,
in all likelihood before one, the ex-
ctltded States will be back in the
Union-if not on white basis, then
aa A- black one. Ink moment that
takes PLACE, these laws fall of them
selves,and there is no reason why we
should fight four or six years Sc
'ries of campaigns for the sake of
gibbeting their dead bones.
by refusing to except a situation
which can not be changed while
change would be of any advantage,
the southern whites would surrender
their States to negro rule, and
strengthen their enemies in the North
who would be incensed by this una
vailiug and apparent aimless obsti-
macy. The present state of things
being not merely bad, but abomin-
able. it is absured to prolong it as if