Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-31
E65- Everything North is working

Ed- Everything North is working
we'll. Conservative principles are gain.
ing ground. Even the New York Her.
aid has not changed to the opposition
for three whole weeks. The chances are
that it will support johnson and
Grant for three more, and then apol-
ogise for both How Bennett goes
depends on how the wind blows.
He now congratulates the country
that the executive power is to the
rescue against the negro cloud which
hangs on the horizon and the National
suicide the Radicals essay to commit.
That the great majority of Northern
people are determined that the country
shall not come finally under the black
cloud, and the control of ignorance and
mendacity, is growing daily more and
more evident In proof we quote from
the Herald another straw:
Andrew johnson attempted at first to
seize the three branches of government
and embody their forces in himself. He
failed. Congress has lately tried TO do
the same. They, too, have failed. All
this shows the strength of our Govern
ment and the terrible strain to which il
may be subjected without breaking. 1t
is useless for Congress to hope that by
any enactment they can usurp all
power. Their efforts to break the exec
utve branch by splitting it into frag-
ments is in every sense illegal, and to be
deplored by every man who seeks the
general good instead of political victory.
| The desire, moreover, to force to the
surface vast negro clement-untrained,
uneducated, untitled to control them
selves, much less legislate for those who
have just set them free-is the maddest
phase of revolution which is urged on
with partisan violence which foreets,
in its present success, that it must finally
bring a reaction which will be terrible
to both white and black. The former
will dry up his sympathies for race
which is forced so rapidly upwards that
sympathy now turns to disgust The
latter, taught that it is his color that
gives him merit, will sink to the level
from which, in common with ignorance
of any color, he must slowly march up.
wards. Here he too will be filed with
disgust; disgust for the white who in
Aated him; disgust that he has tasted
at spring he must leave and afterwards
reach by long years of toll; disgust that,
after all that has been told him, brain is
the measure of the man. The Radical
party in forcing this black element into
such prominence, appear only to elevate
it the higher that the reaction may drop
it the lower.
Mr.. Johnson now holds in his hands
the forces that can resolve this problem
of reconstruction. II he will only rise
to the demands of the occasion he may
restore himself to the confidence of the
| North His letter to Gen. Grant is full
of executive power and determination
that it shall not be wrested from him.
The whole common sense of the country
sustains his effort to keep his pose de-
spite the desire Of Congress to overturn
him. Let them impeach him. He may
challenge it and win. Let him overturn
the clashing elements in his own Cabi
net; the country will applaud. Let
him drive back the black cloud that
threatens both North and South be will
receive all aid President Lincoln
issued an emancipation proclamation
for the blacks; let Andrew Johnson
issue, by universal amnesty, an emanci.
patton for the white portion of the popu-
lation Of the United States.