New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-20


I'VE know IL is not So" The waves Of human progress
arc fast advancing, and God us to-day corner.
stone upon which 20 the machine VI reconstruction
The black--as viii enable Us TO keep on 10 the south
CentuIycapa literature school enteyPfise-can assist
9 ana molI out some OF the loving material, at
zens The sooner you get that negro element as the
achieved. had the ether day under my roof the
representatives Of five Scotch capitalists who carried half
million of pounds to Western Tennessee to plantations
there, and To the Cumberland Mines 10 purchase them
They had nearly completed their purchase when travel
ing and half miles in one direction and 5wo miles
IN another the ground they had passed they found
many attempts had taken place to murder Union men
attempts little thought Of AZ to even uninvestigaed
Two DAYS their visit covered but after what they had
seen they butOned their pockets and went homo with
their pounds. What is the use of sentiment What is
the use OF metaphysical What is the OF the
thin and unsubstanal preiudces OF race, this useless
tax about the negro. We are Yankees Americans men
OF brains and enterprise men who when one thing fails
turn TO another uen never at fault never checkmaed
always able TO achieve our purpose some how or other
here we stand III position such as many nation has
been in before Shall repeat their example among
ourselves IGr h0Oler purpose, rising 10 me never OF
more intellectual comprehension shall these Ameu-
learned enough from war OF five long years.
No matter what they may think of him. President
eudons and the Couplings the Edmondses and the other
Conservative Republicans OF today There hut two
from the present difficulty but by upholding
the negro, and, the other still repeats the
The President Of the United States after five Years Of
en et OF aon nRdeF the PToydeace of Cod to
drag out idea from their civil maChnery-the
President Of the United States sends us paper dated
December, 1867 which apparently he must have picked
up from some drawer which Mr. Buchanan or Franklin
nation calls the craftsmanship OF the country and tells
us that this is white mans Government that the negro
IS 20 be protected ana treated very generously every
thing is 10 be kindly arranged for mm; and then with
emphatic proptiety WITH wonderful CONSISTENCY II IS
1t is the Andrew That swung around the circle, that
adds so appropriately to this advice that
bound 20 be very careful Of his morals Laugher And
that is the flag under which sails man VINO under
takes 20 postpone by any measures OF concaton by any
policy of tmidy, the graphing with the whole Of this
question today lie leads Congress Congress has sham
outside II has an apparent adhesion to negro outrage
in reconstruction policy that Is very apparent, for
when the which undertook 10 settle the question
Congress I'm the Senate Chamber 10 equally di
vded IA TO II. and on one Senator saying Well II yon
shall move it in the Senate Chamber one man changed
his vote Is TO - the close, tiny majority by which
us TO distinguish it from the Presidents; otherwise
thcv are mixed i'm an uncomfortable muddlc. Only
- IS that in that maryelOusy large minority
of 49, were included all the Senators whose-amost al
the Senators, Zone or two eNcepted-names rise to
yOu when you speak Of the statesman Of the Republican
pary-thc leaders OF the Republican party Put into tho
While House q whose bias is the other way, man
whose preudiccs associations craviate against tins
final, immediate, and utter settlement OF the question,
antly marshaled behind this plan, but ready at any
moment 90 surrender IL INTO what they consider wiser
and more ayailahepocy Congress mas spent TWO long
years the nvOwed object Of oheckmatng the President
ers Of President The NNXIXth and NLth have spent
every hour Of their Official lives when nave
TO Put ON tic statute books laws which would
take nom the President the usual power Oh lIsuet
They have patiently, Systematically been NJ Work pud
ing mp machine which impedes the President lmlGIes
him from al power such as the Constitution eHdOWs MN
with, on the ground that the individual who holds the
office could not be trusted WIN us poMel5 anu Wiz we
said 60 them why, instead OF thus worrying your NcuW
don't you strange him. why Instead OF Ike me cal per
petualy p9guug your eaptIte' uo !Wl o,. n ~,
of they said tho public wont bear ~ Ncaic gong 10
IL Won't he necessary To iupcach him But In that policy
IN pursuing 1t, they have forfeited all the support
sympathy OF the nation. to-day the Congress stands
with al tho evil done that impeachment IN
They have taken with this affected claim ~ super
Or craftsmanship and tried IT, II has not answered Us
opposite would have done More than that, that moment
tie President looking at these statutes passed over IN
the nation 10 rample them under i. loot 70 DEFY Con-
es aud ding us laws ~ IT'S face to take me very man
Tenure bin was pas,ed-Edward stanton aWlmscl,
ana p1t nlin 9ut 81 pitoe Oonb' IL, NV . ,id go m
a. nv IN either Hons, 10 yiudcatc tls Ciyl Onice
hill Why when the English Parliament met in the days
Ave minucs fbe act which Charles had undertaken 10
violate II listened nothing; 10 neither adjourned nor
asked for message 10 neither appointed committees OF
DID any other Of the usual routne OF the House Of Com
the law passed last session. and II thls senhte ha
meant anything-h Andrew johnson hah nor cowed
them beneath his heels the first voice heard m mat sen
becn' Where il Edwin NJ stanton TIE Clv Tenure
bin Applause And Grant II the idol General lin-
shauid nave dung it In his face and said I'VE do not
acknowledge YOU the Secretary Of War there Is but
his name is stanton and no paper coming from the
War Department without his signature should a' been
ling respect for Gen under foot and fear ~ the
President under the other the senate lad galped WIN
the White House. should have sailed our OF tlls am
Gully Gully on No. ne o IL heard until he day before yes
torday to rebukc tins defiant and otcntatious attempt OF
Tho President 10 bak Congress of s most avouto pur
pose Well then 1t had another equally absurd notion,
"a. Ina
Unt.t against tho President and you could have done
anything vi,h him. II Congress had said 10 the nation
a. parfv as tie ereat Republican dominant force In the
nation there j. but one path oI OF lhl' uleully II ~
through negro suffrage from the lakes down To the guf
# would have oated into your satutebook IN Ohio and
IN Connecticut and other states but thty tore IN
pecencal; they sent rag 10 be dipped INTO e ocal art
Of Connecticut aud another into the poisoned ptudces
Of Ohio and Of course II was defeated Ana ts Us what
they call statcsmanshp Ihls Is Conglens-.
which has not the courage even 10 vndcatc It's own
dignity laughter, which having listened 10 ne ssase
which might have been written durlUE Wy hHH.i9
troubles hears in the kue OF It's own strength ad the
glory OF the President, ana votes NOT 20 lmpJacn MN
Why, II there Is any logic ~ Two geals, ~ ~ A. ~ y IT,
ference Of the long action Of q months II j. mpeA'
ment when Congress went up 70 that DOOR ana ulHel
square around II wrote ioo on ts "Mn
Tie President his last message relating 10 stanton re
shin 81 fbe SITUATION because II anything they said had
been believed, II any action tObDluS nun VI ~
Constitutional RSSsF ant 5 and % When A'd they
norcd the result they denied the Jog, log'ee, o SD@
his task. It has nothing to cay that WIN hoiu "a''
moment against the argument o Hn1 ,V ii Con-
gress Is nothing but the name on the meeting i"ue u
fells which way the wind blows 10 is ruled by dozen
men whose names, even, nobody kuows-twenty OF thl
mass that Wriggle away NJ there NOBODY KNOWS now
and who when they go ont. out 10 Ike rocket no
body knows where; these are the men that holding lue
balance power undertake to drag the erne OF Ih9s
noble names that trying TO leave bright record Tor
their children 10 look back 10, down into TINS kt.
mel Congress Is nothing. II III were hhylhlnE
even the leaders OF the Republican party were any
thing IL is not that miserable blundcrer OF Tue
White House upon whose head we should visit any OF M
faults of tho present situation. don't think 80 mule 81
nv fcllOw.cOuutrymen as to believe that mere lhIt
rate corner politician Of bcnighed Tennessee could
checkmate tie American people IL is not that; IL
because IN the great struggle Of g. which resulted 10
the present Administration the Republican party was
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