The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-19
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Congress should assemble in July and address
itself again to Reconstruction. We must make
this bill so plain than even stanbery may un-
sident cannot escape It's execution .-TTi6nHe.
The cloven hoof is at last completely barred.
The purpose of the radicals to prevent the
people of the Southern States from particpat-
ing in the next Presidential election because
they are not certain of radical maiOrties there,
even with the negro vote, is now as good as
avowed. 1t could not be made more manifest
to any keen observer of our current politics,
not even by proclamation. During the last
fortnight there has been a steady preparation
of the public mind for the event which is now
demanded openly by the Republican journals
"a session of Congress on the 4th of July, to
alter the Reconstruction acts of the Thirty
ninth and Fortieth Congresses, and adapt them
better to the accomplishment of their aterna-
tive purposes-the protracted exclusion of the
Southern States, or the constraining them to
organize decisive and trustworthy Repubi-
can majorities."
In one aspect this was not the worst that
might have been expected. We had feared
that the radicals would agree to have no July
session, but on the assembling of Congress
next December would find or feign some
excuse to reject the Southern Constitutions,
and thus throw their admission over till the
session of December, 1868, after the Presiden-
tial election. 1t was for this reason that we
have so persisteDtly demanded the radicals to
make now any objections they have to make
to the process of reorganization as at present
going on. Topermit it to go ON when it was
not to be accepted at last, would have been to
deliberately and publicly fool the Southern
people and to heap contumely upon injustice.
This policy was too brazen- faced to succeed.
The country, which longs for reunion, what
ever politicians may desire and plot, could not
have been blinded to the open and outrageous
injustice of such proceeding.
The radicals have therefore determined to
call July session, and to make an excuse for
revising and altering the "terms of Recon-
struction, - as they call them, out of the OPT
Mons of AttOrney-General Stanbery, which they
do and will allege 'cut the heart out of the
Military bill"
The Tribune, Herald, and Times in chorus
allege that the Military bill made absolute
despots of the military commanders, that such
was the intention of Congress, and that the
provisional civil governments recognized in
that bill exist by their authority and survive
at their mercy. The Tribune, scouting the
decision of Chief Justice Chase Qts candidate
for the Presidency till Mr.. Greeley's ambitious
hopes had been arOused), the decision in the
Mississippi case, which imposes directly upon
the PRESIDENT the entlre responsibility lor Ihe
conduct of those military commanders, his
subordinates, has even denounced the Presi-
dent for diseharging that responsibility accord
ing to his own sense of duty, and the Attor-
ney-General for fulfilling his function as the
legal adviser of the Executive, in enlightening
that sense of duty-just as il, for uniformity's
sake alone, some Interpretation were not in
dspensable and as If anybody but the Execu-
tive had the responsibility of Interpretation
and execution.
That those journals misrepresent the Mill
tary act is so conolusively proved in Mr. Stan
bery's last opinion that not one of them Will
dare pretend TO find in the act itself grounds
for their theory of the powers and duties OF
the military commanders. That they falsify
and belittle the duty Of the President to exer-
else that law of Congress, is so oonclusively
shown in the decision of Chief Justice Chase,
that not one of them win dare put that deci-