New-York tribune., 1867-03-22
"poor, nigh-related guest,
That may not rudely be dismissed,
Yet hath outstayed his welcome while,
And fnlls the ieat without the smile."

cook the butler, the servants in the hall.
There is no pleasing them. If we treat them
kindly, we are putting on airs-if with common
courtesy, we carry high head-H we give
them too much to eat, do we think they are
beggars-if not enough, We want charity. They
will be uneasy and scOld. This is the temper
/ of the Uneasy Member of the Republican party.
| EVERYTHING goes wrong with him. He is not
| satisfied Indeed ne has not been satisfied
since he got his nose into Tammany Hall last
Autumn, and was with difficulty prevented
from painting himself red and wearing
feathers, and talking about "mOons' and
"brothers" The President don't do right
Congress is all wrong-the Constitution is sham
even "The Veteran Observer" is optimistic.
We remember that during last Summer our
Uneasy Member made the most appalling din
with his gong Such a noise had not been
heard this side of China. He had discovered a
conspiracy; Gen. Paine of Wisconsin was the
hero of it, and we were going to the bad. The
Radicals were plotting to rise and arm arh
kill everybody, and if the country did not rally
to the rescue he would not be responsible.
The danger was imminent, and we had Con-
vention in Philadelphia with resolutions and
an address threatening astonishing disasters If
we did not rally. Then the President went
over the country and delivered g. series of the
most eloquent and felicitous addresses ever
made by public man (if we except the noted
and ingenious vender of razor-strops), aud
awakened the country, and the country
answered, and Congress assembled.
Since Congress assembled. our Uneasy Mem
Der has been petulant, but not noisy He has
srenouncedn the purposes" of the Philadel-
pha Convention, very much. we presume, as
| Gen. Lee renounced rebellion at Appomattox
Court House or as Liverpool Dick and Light
! fingered Jimmy renounce their spoons and
watches when in the hands of the police. But
not the IDEAS by any means. Our Uneasy
| Member will not renounce his ideas IL Is
one thing to recover the spoons, and to put
man in Jail for taking them; but spoons are
| spoons aud ideas ideas, aud the future Is
another matter Our Uneasy Member liked tho
"ideas" of that Convention. IL was "thc most
"dignified, intelligent, and patriotic political
Convention" he had ever seen assembled ;
and such Convention for ideas-real splendid
ideas-ideas that should have been adopted Our
readers will admit this when they remember
that our Uneasy Member himself composed the
address; and that when he speaks of the sub
Unity of its ideas, he makes gentle but una
vodable reference to his own merits. We do
not quarrel with him on this subject. We have
always admired his ideas To be sure, we are
sometimes bothered about understanding them,
and we occasionally lament the absence of con-
sistency but when man gives us IDEAS we
should be content and not expect everything.
We thus understand the meaning of our I'M
easy Members present frctfulness by remem-
bering last Summer. He has an " idea that
Congress has been doing badly The Constitu-
ton il dead, and the many copies of that much
delivered document were vany circulated by
President johnson. Congress has been smash
'ug everything, and in the wreck lies all that
remains OF our previous Constitution. All the
laws passed since Emancipation have been 80
many stabs in it. "Will THE TRIBUNE" asks
our Uneasy Member, " seriously contend that
"'the Civil Rights act and nearly every act of
"'Congress denounced as usurping and revolu-
"' tionary, were absolutely required' to prevent
the existence of Sldrery in the United States
"WOud Slavery have been rcGstablished by
the admission of Senators and Members of
Congress from the Southern States2 Was
: "the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
absolutely required in order TO prevent the
reestablishment of Slavery Could not its
existence have been precludcd without
putting the Southern States under absolute
military authority, depriving them of every
right of self government, reducing them to
" the condition of subjugated provinces, and
forcing them outside the pale and protection
" of the Constitution of the United States2'
This reads like a series of cOnundrums
and our first impression was to give
them up. But we presume they are
ideas" and as such shall be answered
We do believe that legislation by Congress in
reference to the rebelous States was absolutely
required. 1t might have been done earlier; it
might have been different in details; but its
spirit is right and it was necessary to pre-
vent the existence of Slavery in the United
States The immediate admission of the
Senators and Members of Congress from the
Southern States, under the existing circum-
stances would have been improper, because
those members did not represent the loyal ma
joritics of the South, but in most cases the
rebelliOus minOritics. SO long as President
Johnson not only permits, but defends the
massacre of loyal men in New-0rleans, and
takes no steps to punish the assassins, who now
walk unharmed, the habeas corpus is an out
rage, for the spirit of Slavery sits on the South
ern bench. Military authority i'll the South is
necessary, because these same rebelli0us minor
itics have 80 controlled the Southern common
weaths that loyal millions DISTINGUISHED,
loyal men are murdered by lawscreened assas-
sins, and the spirit of Slavery is triumphant,
aggressive, and lawless. If that spirit and its
representatives are beyond the pale of the
Constitution of the United States" which we