New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-21
CONGRESS.

The adjourned meeting of the first session of
tbe XIth Congress commences to-day at Wash
incton, and will end on Saturday, November
80. On Monday, December @ the regular SEES
sion will commence, and the Message of the
President and Reports of the heads of Depart
menfs will be sent in. The object of the special
,JuIy session, and of the present session, was to
watch the President, and prevent that inter
ference with the operation of the reconstruc-
ton laws, and with the mode i'll which Con-
cress should reassemble, which was threatened
by some of his more reckless advisers. 1t was
q compromise between that portion of Congress
who thought it unsafe to adjourn at all during
the Summer and those who were willing to
leave the President wholly unrestrained There
has been no authorized expectation that action
would be urged on the impeachment ques-
ton by any considerable number of
members of Congress, either at the
present or the regular session, unless the Pres
ident in the interim should have added new
causes of complaint to those previously exist
ing. Although the President has given COM
bined illustrations of his misguided temper in
the removal Of Sheridan, the suspension of
Secretary Stanton, the removal and mastering
out Of Sickles and kindred acts, yet these acts
however contrary to good policy they may be,
involve none of those charges of violation OF
law and usurpation of authority which formed
the burden of the charges on which the de-
mand for impeachment was based. Now that
the reconstruction laws are being peacefully
obeyed. and there is fair prospect that under
them quite number of the Southern states
will. during the coming Winter, form consti-
tutions based on equal rights for all, and elect
thoroughly loyal State officers and Senators
and REPRESENTATIVES to Congress, the Republi-
can party in Congress may congratulate
themselves upon their substantial triumph
over the President and his policy
neither of which can hereafter be of sufficient
importance to deserve martyrdom, or even
anathemas. The Republican party at the late
elections would have had a much lighter load
to carry If the enfranchisement of the freedmen
at the South had not been accompanied by the
extensive disfranchiscmcntb the late Rebels.
The cry of the Democrats at the last election
was not so much that we had given suffrage to
the blacks as that we had taken it from the
whites. If Congress had enacted " Universal
amnesty and Impartial Suffrage no such
charge could have been made, and the Repub-
lean party could not have been beaten in
single Northern State We trust Congress will
remove all stigma of prescription from The Re-
publican party as soon rs possible, and make
our reconstruction policy FOR the South broad
enough for Confedcyatcs to stand upon II they
will.
The questions which opDress the country and
demand the prompt action Of Congress are
those pertaining 70 the protection of our
National industry, the development Of our ma
terial resources the cure of the terrible evils
attending the collection OF our Internal Rcye-
nue., especially on liquors, the adjustment OF
taxation upon the basis Of the most pcacct
equality consistent with good faith and
National economy. and, generally, the rcctiica-
ton Of our financial policy. While the nostUms
prescribed by some Of the political quacks Of
both parties on these questions would Kill
where they seek 90 cure, yet 80 much attention
has been directed to them. and so much dark
ness and profound and div, !su,d misiniorma-
ton have been shed upon them, that it
behoovcs Congress at least to take them mp
and discuss them earnestly, and if they can do
the patient no good, at least let US know the
fact and the reason why.