The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-26

forward and lend their assistance.
An Extra session of Congress.
II seems to be certain that a quorum
of the members OF the two Houses will
meet at Washington this day week, th'
sd OF July, and that an organization
for business will be effected. The Inn
mediate matter in hand will be the
framing and adoption of a supplemen-
tary act with view Of abrogating the
recent instructions of the Attorney
General In regard to the reconstruction
laws, and thus prevent the evils com
planned OF by Generals Sheridan, Sick
les, and Pope, as growing out OF those
instructions. We regard 1t rs cir
cumstnnce to be deprecated that Con-
gress feels itself compelled to meet, or
rather that there exists seeming ne
cessity for such a meeting. We are
tempted to endure all the evils likely
to grow out of the Attorney Generals
manifestoes, rather than have the Con-
gressionaI Globe open out on us this
hot weather with its forty columns per
day OF dreary debates.
Ifit were possible for the members to
meet and attend to the ostensible BUSH
ness that calls them together, with any
thing like dispatch, and then adjourn,
we should regard their assemblnge
with complacency, II not with absolute
satisfaction. But when once Congress
meets, be 1t in July or December, Pan
dora's box must needs be opened, and
out comes questions of currency and
the thousand and one issues that have
annoyed, and that continue to distract
the mind OF the country in regard to
business matters. or course the i'm
parchment question will come up, for
Gen. Benjamin Butler will be there.
And OF course the tariff question will
also loom up as portentously and
uselessly rs ever, for Simon Cameron
will be there. Sprague will like
wise be on hand with his prints
Jenckes with his wood-screws, some
body else with his wool, another mem
Der with the Mississippi a nd Lake
Michigan canal project, still some otheI
body with new railroad to the Pacific
and, worse than all, that Unsuitable cor
morant, the great and inevitable lobby
will be there with its whisky schemes
and general plundering projects. AL
this, and more, re-assemblnge o
Congress means. Therefore we say tina
we deprecate 1T, and this too, while &C
knowledging its seeming necessity ow
ing to the perverse and malign ingenu
{,tn, - ,ha Attoraay Ga,araI ,yhc
seems to have imagined that his puny
arm can stay or hinder the full scope
and operation of the reconstruction
plan adopted with such great unanimi.
ty by Congress.
The South have yet to learn that 1t ii
useless to attempt to evade or escape
the full operation of that plan, and also
that It matters not what Mr.. johnson
or any of his Cabinet may attempt or
their behalf in the way of defeating OF
lessening the efficacy OF that plan. II
will ultimately prevail, and unless
Virginia and Louisiana, and all the
balance OF the rebel States, submit
themselves to It in good faith aud or
Sanize under It with purpose to re.
gard its true intent and spirit, they
may rs we'll abandon any hopes of be-
ing restored to political power. It Is
strange AFTER the letter of such man
as Gen. LonGstreet, warning his late
confederates OF the futility of their idle
dreams and expectations, that
there should still be those who consider
1t possible to place Congress at cross
purposes with some influence that
shall be potent enough to nullify its
enactments. All such lingering Illus
ions and delusicns at the South are to
be regretted, because, in the first place,
they will, like the Dead Sea apples,
turn to ashes In their hands when the
hour of trial comes, and because, in the
next place, they only hinder that con-
summation so devoutly wished for by
alltrue friends of the country; return
of all the States to their places in the
Union and in Congress, and the conse,
quent peace and prosperity that mus
ensue to the whole country.
The Southern newspapers are largely
responsible for working up the minds
oftheir people TO belief that under the
instructions and interpretations of the
Attorney General the plan of Congress
could be substantially avoided. They
have sought to thoroughly neutralize
or emssculate the Registration oath in
the estimation of their readers, and to
make as many OF them as possible be
lieve that they could take 1t, and thai
even If they did take 1t falsely, that
there was no provision in 1t for ihquir.
ing into the qualifications of persons
ofering to vote. They have sought tc
impress upon them that actual particl
patton in the rebellion, or the aotua,
commission OF a felony, does no
amount to Acknowledgement, and tina
only conviction of these crimes by !
Court can work disability. Under
one pretence and another, and BY
the skilfnl manipulation of the
Attorney Generals latitudinous doc
uments, they have sought to efectu.
aliy undermine and invalidate the acts
of Congress in the estimation of their
people. and TO such an extent have they
succeeded that Generals Sheridan,
siekles and Pope. have found thatthere
-, a,t,,.1 DANCER of a successful re-