The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-03

sent to the North Carolina STANDARD and
Newbetn Republican for publication, with
the request that other republican papers
copy. REUBEN PERRY, C1m'n. d
a IA, naa, ATKINSON, Secretaries.
The action of Congress will doubtless be-
new law of reconstruction, SO clearly and
infinitely establishing the powers Of the five
district commanders as to admit Of no eva
sion of the conditions of registration, the
qualifications of electors, and the rules and
restrictions applicable in each Of the States
concerned to its State convention, cOnstitu-
ton and Legislature, and to its elections of
Senators and Representatives to Congress. 1t
may be safely assumed that under this de-
claratory act more rigid enforcement of
the general terms to the excluded States laid
down at the last session will be exacted than
would have been required had the Presi-
dent, in his execution of these laws, leaned
more to their "true intent and meaning"
and less to his exploded polich. Had he
desired the special intervention of Congress
to rectify the irregularities and harmonize
the action of the five district commanders he
could not have adopted more effective
measure to secure his object than in the
course he has pursued but wiser expedi-
ent would have been u simple proclamation
Recommending the presence of a quorum in
each house on the Sd of July.
1t is evident, however, that his purpose
has been rather to embarrass, delay and de-
feat the reconstruction programme of Con-
gress, than to assist in bringing it to sue
cessful ISSUE With the failure of the APP
peals to the Supreme Court of Sharkey,
Walker, Jenkins and company. general
spirit of acquiescence in the opinions of such
men General Lee, Hampton and Lonstreet,
and general disposition to fulfill the con-
ditions of Congress, Immediately followed,
from Virginia to Texas But when it be-
came apparent, after the Southern mission of
Senator Wilson and the confiscation hints of
Thaddeus Stevens, and from the movements
of the Freedmen's Bureau officials, and from
the proceedings of the military district COM
manders and their subordinates, that the
Southern blacks en- naasse, and portion Of
the Southern whites, were rallying to the
Republican party, and would probably car
ry two or three of the ten States concerned,
it would seem that President johnson took
the alarm. But in undertaking to defeat
the radicals with their own weapons he has
been again playing into their hands. The
Attorney Generals remarkable rigmarole on
registration, though incomprehensible to
the Southern anti-radical elements, was still
encouraging, and his more extended opinion
on the laws of reconstruction would, per-
haps, have brought every man to the regis
tration Office who breads the ultimatum of
Stevens, but for the Immediate warning of q
July session of Congress. From that mo-
ment, as we learn from careful observers on
the ground, those Southern opposition ele-
ments so far gave up the fight that it is be-
lieyed, as matters stand to-day, they have
turned over to the Republican Union leagues
of the South every State from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande. Happears that these
leagues, encouraged by Congress, the War
9 Department and the military authorities
South, and supported by the Freedmen's
Bureau, form already comprehensive, COM
pact and powerful party organization,
while the Southern opposition, without lea
Q ders or means, all moneyless and all adrift,
are utterly hopeless of any effective resis-
lance. lall,} .lsiisi,l s,54 81
Is this condition of things likely to he
changed by the approaching July session of
J Congress By no means. Onthe contrary,
the vantage ground thus gained by the re-
publican party will be strengthened at all
points in a new reconstruction bill; and this
will probably be the exclusive business of
this extraordinary session The confsca-
j ton scheme of g Old Thad Stevens" the
still more revolutionary agrarian notions of
sold Ben Wade" the preposterous womens
rights theories of Mrs. Elizabeth Gladly Stan
: ton, and the financial reforms of moonshine
and green cheese preached in the prairies by
George Francis Train, will all have to be
3 postponed, at least till the cooler season of
next December Nor do we apprehend the
impeachment of President johnson. He
is too useful to the radicals to be removed.
He has been the making of them, and when
3 they show any signs of decentralization he is
Il sure to commit some fGur pas that harmo-
nizes them, He may expect to be badgered
and frightened considerably wit the impeach-
( mcnt prosecution, but it will only be -four.
ished as flaming sword over his head to
keep him within the control of Congress
The solution of this conflict will most likely
be the reconstruction of the ten outside
States under the banner of the Republican
party, the complete Abandonment of Presi
g dent johnson BY the South, as disastrous
failure from first to last the extinction Of
the last chickering's of those old Southern
State rights fallacies which have broker
down his administration, and struggle in
/ the Republican National Convention Of 1885
between the followers Of Chase, sustained BY
the national banks, and the supporters o
Grant, backed by the army, which will bring
to the severest trial the cohesive power o
the public plunder.n AS to the restoration
of all or any of the States Of the five militia
ny districts in season to give them a voice il
the next Presidential contest, the chance
| are now against them and for this, if dis
posed to be thankful their thanks are espe
cially due to Mr.. johnson and his learne'
Attorney General-M Y. Herald.
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