Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-24
pRo-MILITARY PARTY.

The opinion of the Attorney General
has set the whole Jacobih party to boiling
and Kissing. A meeting Of Congress IN
July is demanded Congress will meet
and teach the finalityites that the recon
struction measure was not fnality, and
that, do as the South will, she is not TO
have peace. The President, detesting the
measure, was still bound to enforce 1T
In his veto messages he dissected it, and
showed that it established military
desnotism over ten States. Congress
denied the business Of the construction
denounced it as false, and passed the
bills over the veto. Upon careful IN
vestigation the legal mind of Mr.. STAN
berry discovers that, in terms, they are
not so arbitrary as the President thought
them to be. This construction has mad
dened the Jacobins, and they now find it
to be their policy to admit thatthe Presl'
dents Interpretation was correct, and
when they denounced it at the time as
false, they themselves uttered what they
knew to be false. They knew that if they
admitted the justice of the views con-
tanned in the veto message majority OF
two.thirds could not be obtained to vote
for the measure. 1t would have failed.
To secure its passage, they denounced
the veto as a tissue of falsehoods.
Such is the character of the Jacobin
party. Congress must reassemble and
amend the reconstruction bills = so
amend them that the black vote shall
overwhelm the white. This is to be abb
solute. From the letter of the law IT is
ascertained that too many white votes
can be cast, This will not do. The
negroes must be placed in the ascend
ant. and step to the command OF
the loyal masters who viii be placed
over them. Gen. Sickles has taken the
role of ~. N" and has attempted to
remove the pressure . by rendering
his resignation. We hope it will be
promptly accepted. The Cincinnati
Commercial, Radical sheet, makes the
confession that " the purpose Of Congress
was clearly to give power to the mill
tary commanders to do whatever might
be necessary to prove 10 the South that
the President was not master Of the
situation-that the policy Of the people
of the North, who had carried on and
fought out the war, should DO carried
out in spite of the President This was
denied IN the debate on the bill. Stan
bery's opinion, it was found, would leave
the President master of the situation"
That he mus. not be. That prostituted
sheet the New York Herald, says
"Congress must meet in July. 1t must
meet with the resolute viii to carry on
the movement, now greater and more
necessary than ever, Of impeaehiug and
removing Andrew johnson from the ex-
ecutive chair. If it does not do this, then
the war will have been in vain" We are
inclined to the view Of the National
Intelligeneer, that it is clearly the
purpose of the cabal to venture
upon the formation Of a promih.
tary party, pledged to spoil, plumber
and prescription, as the systematic
instrumentalities Of power, to be inau
gurated. through successive declaratory
resolutions Of Congress, purporting t.
interpret past legislation-a judicial, no
a legislative funciion-and to be ex'
ercised. as il has always been in Mexico
under the national motto, " God an'
Liberty" They hope to establish them
selves and Generals Sehofeld, Sheridan
Pope. Ord, Siekles and Howard, and al
the subordinate commanders IN th'
Southern States Gncluding those Of th'
Free3mens Bureau, and the majority o
the persons military and civil, in The ser
vice in the SOUTH, such a sympathy, bl
Gradual but eventful degrees, as ma,
mite. through disobedience, the ara O
.be soldier with the intrigue Of the par
s.sn for ihe esfoblisimeHf q a prof.
sionai foderal gOTerHmeat