Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-19

u LUAl N' I
There Are some things so self-eyieent az 10
rsanife no continuation. We ale positively
certain thai President johnson agrees with rs
- baljeving the uncoustitutlonaiity or tue 4
reeonFfruclion act, % be one OF these. Why. !
men. does he not do away with the whole
concern9 As the chief magistrate OF the ma
lion. sworn 20 preserve the integrity of the 4
constitution. It Is his solemn duty TO do ik, IT,
within the bounds Of possibility. And is ,
tho maintenance Of the constitution, f.
Instance, We ask, within the b uuds -oi
blityf He Fees a shameful usur tais
sailed BY the legislative deps q posi-
governfaent over the states Pation in
which certain generals Of al leht OF the
- ~ = ~ n-exen9 me army exeretes
army, from pDt. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES e Of
We know mat. : stop 20 the NvbnIa + Inc
feiul-e a degree ~ re1scifeorO stsneas
Tie rsdfaafSh. ~ would be pecss-Au osse7 ged
tnat so bold 4 nasses and IL Is got - DItNt
sS A.aneef from radical ~ meet with armeS
~ would scarcely , -orsand rebels. But
~ Owe let IA the 9e doubtful. There Is
the government Of hearts OF the peopIe for
president IN HH o. our fathers 10 sustain the
uon. We kavs -ort to reinstate the consiitn-
-uh VIII DO ntile hopethat President John
fHoclAlnP+ so Jacksontan q thing: but one
a1ttS 9 ion recognizing the constitutional
aAF the states OF the south would he worth
b he opinions and rules tbst ever bave
zen or ever VIII be written.
How little probability there is Of the
President attempting to exercise his
lawful prerogatiye, and to vindicate the
Constitution, may be judged OF by an
article in a late number of that seIf-im-
portant and inflated journal, the New
York Tribune, on reconstruction, the
moving cause OF which was the rumor
Of the contemplated removal Of General
Sheridan from his vice-royalty. The
President appointed him to command
his unfortunate district, and is answer
able to nobody if he exercises his consti-
tutionaT power as commander in chief.
and sends him somewhere else.
The Tribune seems Of late to consider
Itself commissioned to advise everybody,
and play dictator W. public opinion.
Some Of its Performances in this lire
are grotesque and ludicrous enough.
After a long rigmarole, through which
one impatiently wades, we reach the
pitch and point of the article, in the
following naughty and hectoring passage.
with which it concludes:
We know the pres dent must he s9relv
tempted 10 use whatever power he may pos.
sess 70 oppose a measure which he assaiIed 80
NluutclVely last winter. That is well under
stood. The country appreciates the fidelity
Win Whlch he performs his most uuwelcome
WORK BH ne mus; perform e. His admlnistra-
ton viii not be permitted 20 interfere with re-
construction by removing the generals who
nave the confidence of the e9uutFv. aud
appointing men IN whom it las no confidence.
~ tle president Dat attempt this-iet him op-
pose hts executive prerogative TO the one 4
lions of Toe military bill, and in a day this
era Of good feeling viii become "a season OF rava
ana naIe-InlS niue cloud Will cover Thn hauEy.
ems with ~blRckneSS The country is intensely
earnest on this subject. Let Sheridan or Sick
les, for instance, be removed, and a summer
session Of congress wil be inevitable.
One cannot but ask, when revolution
is thus openly threatened, whether the
Tribune is really in favour of any Con-
stitutional Government at all? The
insolence of its Language and Of the
whole tone Of the article, towards the
President, surprises ne one. It Is safe
and popular to insult the fallen. But it
certainly deserves consideration that a
journal which used, when it was a Wing
organ, to lay claim to a good deal of the
d~ecency, and which at least imagines
hat ii directs the opinion Of the great
body of the Radical party of the North
a journal which pretends to be par excel
lence moral, and in love with liberty,
should dare to threaten the President Of
the United States with deprivation of lis
constitutional powers and prerogatives,
and even with violent removal from
Office, if he should dare to relieve Gene
raj SHERIDAN and assign him to other
duty, for which he is much more fit. 1t
.pronounces the infamous reconstruction
acts "a wise and temperate measure; !"
and oraculsrly announces that "every-
thing is doing we'll" Is the Tribune
honest in saying so? Does it think it
was 1ceH in General SCHoFIELD to inter-
to prevent the execution of a judicial
decree for the sale Of the property Of w.
d. WALLACE? Everything doing
indeed when everything is
going as fast as it can to the devil, and a
sabre and a pair Of jack-boots have be-
the emblems of American liberty.