The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-11-29

peace al ter the close OF the war, and IN.
der the Presidents plan of restoration,
has been again greatly agitated, add, IN
happily, the men most interested 10 re
establishing order, the men ofin.elligence,
men Of property, men who, by their posi-
lion in society, had influence over the ig-
nOrant and unreasoniDg masses, are placed
under the ban of the Union and thus rem
dered Werless-and all is left in the
hands of disorderly multitude, except
in SO far as they are restrained by military
force. There never can be permanent
reconstruction, until the intelligence OF
those States is released from political bon
dsge. When the ban is removed they
may soon regain their influence and rem
der efficient aid in the restoration of order
aud domestic quiet and psaee-and there
is no danger of their again exciting or
cOuntenancing secession the terrible
cslamiIies which it has brought upon them
will be an enduring mopitien against il,
and nothing but actual aud persistent CD.
preston will again drive them to revolt.
By retracing their steps, which have
been obviously taken in wrong direc
tion-by an honest effort 10 restore the
Union, without regard to pa.ty supremacy
by following, promptly and cheerfully,
the late Indications OF the public will, the
Republican party may deserve aud assure
the continuance of political power; and
:hey eau secure it by no other means.
DeDuDciation can now avail nothing.
Our republican institutions are endanger-
ed-lhe people Wish them prsserved-and
elimination of an Executive, stripped of
all power to do good or evil. does not
tend TO restore or preserve them. 1t is
idle TO denCUnce the President rs a usurp-
er. because he refused TO sanction a series
of bills giving him Unconstitutional pow
er, and stripping him of power which the
Constitution gives him. Partisan press
es may join in a crusade against him; The
people will not, but rather look to his acte
aud the acts Of Congress, and weigh Lhem
against each other. The pubic mind is
prepared for calm comparison, the tenn
per in which each Was conceived, and
The effects that each has produced, and is
producing, on the country, its prosperity
and peace. Very little can now be gained
by calling hard names and the accumu-
lation of harsh and reproachful epithels.
Copperhead is now understood TO be a
fash term, and to mean one who Is not S
Radical, who thinks the Constitution still
worth restoring and preserving, and of
more binding efficacy than the most SOL
emu Radical platform. The bitterest and
most vehement curses against those who
refuse conformity, are now without effect.
Our Vice President, Mr.. Wade, tried
them to abe utmost 10 some of the souLh-
cru counties in Ohio. In GalIia, these,
with his exposition of Radical policy,
brought down the Republican majority
from .1O7 to IS, and in Washington
from 6O7 to 80, with Ike result in Sci.
OTTO, Meigs aud Athens counties. Had be
cauvassed the State with like effect, the
Democracy would have carried it by a
majority OF thirty thousand.
His earnest efforts, however, were not
entirely lost. The publication in Galig
nana's Messenger of choice extracts from
his speeches has given US most distinct
i've reputation in Europe for that species
of oralory. At home every effort of gen
iHs seems to have lost its effect-eyen q
sneer does not avail now in the place oil
argument-GeDeral Schenck tried it ia
answer to Mr.. S;anbery's official opinion
on the Reconstruction Act, and his coun-
ty, which had given twenty majority for
the Republican ticket 10 1866, lbereupon
gave $50 for the Democracy. No one
should carp at Genera! Schenck because
Of his failure. The opinion was a com
pact, carefully considered Law paper, alb
sOlulely unassailable by argument, so
General Schenck must either let it pass
unanswered or work off his Wit, even
though not Attic. to stand in the place of
argument against it. Mr. Wade, of
course, could do no more than dam 1t,
and the Attorney general with it. Gen
ersl But or might impeach the President
for calling for it. it were, indeed, more
than absurd-it were criminal even,-to
fancy that such an act, framed in the tenn
per in which that was conceived and fran
ed, admitted Of construction; indeed it was
proved at last that none but the law Civ
ers who framed could construe it.
But the impeachment Of the President
has been, and perhaps is still. the Alpha
and Omega Of the extreme Radical faction
and the crimes for which he is TO be GUS
ted are numerous, if not fragrant.
will briefly consider them at the same
time expressing a hope that the House
will not initiate an impeachment, which
unbiased opinion will construe a mere act
of party malignity, or The prosecution Of
a purpose to get full possession of the
Executive power. If it be touched, The
crime should be definite and the proof
clear, otherwise some men may. like the
mad King Lear, propose to change sides,
"handy dandy" and ask. (Which is the
justice and which is the thief" It will
hardly be believed that he employed an
assassin TO murder himself.
The FIRST and most complained of is an
act of party MISUNDERSTANDING as rep
resented. but not thigh crime" within
the meaning of the Constitution. This 10
be ineligible, requires brief intrOduct-
DRY statement.
At the time the people of Tennesses
passed their ordinance OF secession, An
drew johnson, a Senator in Congress
from that State, refused to join in the re-
belIion, aud used all the means in bic
power to couuleract and defeat it. This
excited bitter indignation against him,
and he was insultei and abused and. 81
last, driven to exile; his anger was thereby
reused to ths highest pitch, and IN antic-
ipaIiou of a Union triumph. he threatened
The most sig6aI vengeance against his per.
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