The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-24
THE coNprc2oN OF THE COUNTRY.

I Liberal government in tlis country was on ltE
trial in 1861, and Notwithstanding the utmost
efforts Of its friends to defend, to rescue and te
save it, it foil in the severe ordeal Ciyil Liberty
and elc-Government wcro found failure They
were weighed in the balances and found wanting.
| Liberty died amid tho shouts and insane shrieke
OF her worshippers. T!is is entirely in accord
ance with the predictions of the great founders
and tramors Of our Government, and al tho true
statesmen who have since adorned the pages Of
American history. Yet the boast, OF all others most
common in the Northern publications Of the past
two years, is that the United States, after under
going long and gigantic struggle for selfpreser-
walton and territorial integrity, has como forth
| triumphant bidding defiance to TRAITORS" within
| and foes without. 1t word is said of the sub
version Of ALL the moro mention OF which once
sweIed the heart of every American with pride.
II you as much as namo the Constitution OF our
Fathers" you arc laughed at.
FosrE1, in bold metaphor, spoke Of the reck-
less who crushed the worm that nevor dies. It is
so with the men who now constitute the rulors OF
this country. Appeal to them by al that is sacred;
let the President in his several veto messages show
them, in unanswerable arguments that tho Con-
stituton, tho organic law Of the land devised
slowly carefully after years OF deliberation By the
first minds and best men Of that or any other age,-
is diametrically opposed in letter MS in spirit, to
all their acts, to their very ideas Of liberty OF
legislation; his arguments are not called in ques-
ton. Noone takes the pains to refute them. They
are laughed at; they are thrown by with deriaion.
Appeal to the DID, the venerable the sacred they
hat Ia
fall on deaf ears.
minority Of the Judges Of the Supreme Court
still recognize their obligations. They remember
that their tribunal WAS instituted for high and
noble purpose; that their sphere is it should be,
high above the pestiferous atmosphere Of faction
and party wrangling. The Supreme Court decides
that several Of the Acts Of Congress, passed with
in the last few years, are unconstitutional lat va
rance with the fundamental principles OF tho Gov
ernmcnt. One would think that such decision
should Cause Congress, and the tunnultuous mil
lions at it's back to pause, and to consider that if
these rise old men, whose lives have been spont in
tho st.uy OF the writings of our constitutional e1
Founders, and who alone OF al the officers OF the
Government enjoy position that should be secure
from the'induence Of the madness Of the hour
il they deem it their solemn duty to throw thom-
selves into the breach between Congress and tho
Constitution, there must be danger. But, no!
Congress, the creature Of q day, the indiscrimin-
ate agglommeration OF school-boy smartness of the
coarse bully Of the stump The fierce old partisan,
and the sordid and unprincipled speculator,-is
wiser than a whole bonch Of SoLoNE. They heed
nothing save their own blind, unbridled passions,
ers. They care not for tho Constitution nor for
the Government nor the people; not for honor,
consistency, or character, snd most assuredly not
for the never-to-be-forgotten negro None Of these
things move them. Tho preservation of the Radi-
cal party, a continuance Of power, is the only mo-
tive to be looked for in all their t'oughts words,
or actions.
The President is nm obstacle in their way-he
must bo removed. The Supreme Court proves m
additional hindrance-it mnst be recognized
Dignity, consideration, sclf-respect, propriety,
common decency, all have long since boon e1-
polled the Capitol. A higher law governs their
conduct, viz: Their own selfish and ril,dictire
passions. When the ''irrepressible conflict" was
by WM. II. SEWARD, he little dreamed
that he would fell one of its first victims. An
DREW JOHNSON WAS deemed a good Republican a
few years ago, or he would not have been elected
Of the United States by n Black
Republican Electoral College. SEWARD and JOHN
SON stand now whero they stood then. They havo
not retrograded, but the impetus Of the party has
been onward. Thoy reused the sleeping dragon,
md now they arc ready to ty in terror from before
him. They conjurcl up tho evil spirit, but they
cannot lay him. Sober, thinking men, mindful OF
consequences, thcy stand appalled, at their own
work. And they arc doing what they can-at-
'enptlng to stem the flood that threatens, in
mighty inundation, to overwhelm the land, and
oury everything in its sweeping course. Tis vain,
lilo lion is unchained and vii! tear or doyour
comos across his path.
revolutions neyor 60 backwards, is an express
non quoted at least once every trenty-four hours
n the editorial columns OF the New York Herald
mo that fiendish shoet-bu. yesterday the friead
u SEWARD and JOHNSON, of CowAs and Doo11r-rLE,
-the advocate OF a mild and statesmanliko course
i reconstruction of the Southern statcs,-nou
'loats IN the ldos Of the mischief it has made, and