The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-14

Reconstruction Acts, how long eau the action
of their appointees be binding: Certainly no
longer than the military power shall last, and
God forbid that such power should last long.
Would any one knowing anything of law,
advise sheriff, appointed in a manner not
provided by law, to serve writ Can such
sheriff attempt to make levy without commit
ting trespass can he make title to any pro-
perty at all, can he make an arrest Of any kind
which will not subject him to an action imme-
diately after the removal of military power
Could Congress throw any protection around
| the conduct..of trespasser We think not,
and that point has already been decided in
one of the Northwestern States, if we are not
mistaken.
We confess that we..can see nothing but con-
fusion and trouble in the Acts of Congress, and
in the dOings of the Military Commanders.
They will succeed in provoking years of liti-
I CATION and oftrouble, but thank God, they have
also been the means of doing good. Their wild,
| reckless, 'despotic course, has aroused the
North to true sense of the danger to con-
stitutional liberty on the continent. Passion,
by its excess, has awakened reason, and the
Republic will probably be saved through the
vile over-reaching ambition of Radical leaders.
The New York Tribune begins to scent danger
to the party in power, and says: "There are
still some persons in the Republican camp
whose hearts are with the adverse host, and
who, we trust, will now be tempted to let their
bodies follow. AT all events, through what
ever trials of its constancy, its consistency,
the great party of which they would fain bear
the bag SO long as there may be anything likely
to 60 into it, will move right on to the arduous
but inevitable achievement of Equal Rights for
all citizens; and those who are not ready to
suffer in that cause cannot leaye its ranks too
soon. Soldiers y said Garibaldi to the for
lorn hope Of Italian liberty in 1849, offer
you privaton, hardship, hunger, wounds,
aeath-wil you follow me?' Such is the spirit
! in which humanity and justice claim their vo-
taries /, such are the appeals, such The crises,
which separate the gold from the dross. "
THURLow WEED, certainly the ablest political
manager that the Republican party ever had, in
speaking of the recent election. says "And
here let us glance hastily al the past. Before
and during the rebellion, every Republican
statesman and journal (the TfiIne excepted)
| maintained that States could not get out of the
Union II cost half million of lives and three
| Itbo nj mill of IN ooh
doctrineA But when it was established, the
| same Republican leaders and journals, in stnl.
J ti6caton of all they had professed, insisted
that States were out of the Union. Union rep
refused seats in Congress. They are yet out
of the Union. 1t was intended, first, to keep len
} States out of the Union until Radical Presi-
dent could be elected in 1868. But the "mud-
die" between Congress and the President oc'
casioned the Military Reconstruction Act
l under which they expect to bring those States
. back Under negro supremacy. Andnis is pre-
cisely the question on ,ohich, after .fW argument
, OHIO has rendered psrdict which ends Chiej
Justice CHAsE's ASPIRATIONS for Me Presidency,
and terminates BEN. WADE's Senatorial career %
ThepeOple are awakening, and 10 be hoped
J that soon the supremacy of the law will assert
its power, when the network of tyranny which
, has been woven around the South, will be
destroyed, and all violations of the law will
not only be condemned by the people, but also,
punished by the law whose majesty has been
offended.