The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-13

suffer the South to 90 on repisteriue and
organizing under that act thus interpreted.
and then refuse to admit the Southern States
into the Union, and their members to Con
gress, because of objections to the Attorney
Generals Interpretation. For the Southern
people have really no choice. The law of
g Congress is enforced among them bv the
Executive, acting under the direction of his
constitutional adviser. II reaches them in no
other shape. They cannot choose between the
military despotism act construed agreeably to
the feelings of the Executive who vetoed t.
and the same act construed agreeably 10 the
wishes of the body which passed il over his
veto. Therefore, whether by careless legisla-
tion the act permits of the Interpretation made
by Attorney General Stanbery, or whether his
Interpretation has strained it out of harmony
with the intent of its trainers equally an i'm
perative obligation rests upon those trainers
not to make the very obedience of the long
suffering South ground for prolonging their
exclusion from the Union. They, at any rate.
should not suffer for organizing in the only
manner in which they can organize they
should not be permitted to go ON in good faith
and expectancy till the December session,
then to be rebuhed again for complying, in the
only way they possibly could comply, with
the hard requirements Of Congress-. II obiec-
tions are to be made the merest good faith re-
quires them to be made now, so that the JuIv
session for which Congress provided may rec
tlfy its own omissions, or correct the Attorney
Generals Interpretation, and Reconstruction
proceed without further delay in time for the
December session.
The Tribune, which at first was inclined to
indorse Mr.. Stanbery's opinion, or at least to
let it pass unchallenged has now revised its
judgment, and issued a pronunciamiento TO
which neither Senator Wade, nor Representa-
tive Stevens, nor its lately belabored Union
League Club, can take the least exception.
The Tribune informs tba pracidant NTH tlo
most dictatorial air, what its party will permit
him to do and what it will not permit him to
do. 1t informs him that he must not only
swallow the military enactment but must
swallow it humbly and with the most radical
sauce. 1t informs him plumply that Mr..
| Stanbery's condiments will not be permitted
| by 'the country" Gts favorite phrase for the
rabid radicals) to make the nauseous dose a
whit less palatable to himself whit less re-
| pulsive to the South. Every disgusting ap-
! pearance, every stinking odor, every vomit-
provoking taste must be preserved clear and
undisguised, or else, it informs the Chief
| Magistrate, a summer session will be called
? impeachment go on, and rage and hate again
! rouse tempests in our political sky.
Now President Johnson has sworn to uphold
] and obey the Constitution of the United States,
and to faithfully execute their laws as he reads
them in the statute-book; but hereafter file
| of the Tribune will be as necessary to him as
! Little & Browns edition of the Statutes at
| Large" for it is also ordained that in exc
| cutting the laws of the land he must not merely
| look to their faithful execution, and by re-
| movals and appointments insure their faithful
| execution, it is also ordained and proclaimed
| at Spruce street that he cannot remove Gene
| rails (though they should openly scout and
violate the law they are sent to execute) "who
have the confidence of the country, nor appoint
| men in whom it has no CONFIDENCE Doubt
| the President its bulletin of men in whom the
| country has and has not confidence, and
| permit him to make his selection from its list.
| Thus far it has named only Sickles and
| Sheridan. Set them be removed, it says and
ga summer session is inevitable.'' If General
| Graut has any order to General Sheridan let it
| be $50 in -
That we may do no injustice to the Tribune,
we quote herewith the most important part of
its significant pTonunciGmientO:-
1--WE know the President must be sorely
! 10 oppose measure which he assaiied so vim
| dtctively last winter. That Is well understood.
The country appreciates the fidelity with which
| he performs his most unwecome work. But he
| must perform it, His administration will not
| be permitted to interfere with reconstruction
| by removing the Generals who have the conh-
| whom 1t has no confidence. Let the President
| but attempt this, let him oppose his executive
! prerogative TO the operations of the Military
| bill, and in day this era of good feeling will
cloud will cover The heavens with blackness.
The country is intensely earnest on this subject
| Let Sheridan or Sickles, for instance, be re
| moved, and a summer session of Congress will
| be INEVITABLE. With q summer session the Pre-
| sidents functions will most assuredly be so
| limited that IL will not be in his power ever
| after TO remove any General commanding. All
| the bitterness that prevailed last year will be
! renewed, hundred questions will suffer, and
| the work of national pac6cation be stopped
merely that the President and Congress may
can have but one result, for the people feel with
| Congress, and will sustain it."
| Nor is President Johnson alone threatened
| after this autocratic fashion. General Grant,
too, the especial bette noir of the radicals, whom
the Times, by-the-by, yesterday declared with
undisturbed placidity that it expected to see
nominated by the National Convention of the
| Republican party-General Grant, too, is in
| formed in the same autocratic tone that the
magnanimity of AppOmatOx Court House will
| be entirely out Of place in his future conduct
| towards the South; that he, too, must kneel
| and cringe to this radical despotism. Says
| the Tribune to him.
1T is also rumored that General Grant has
| expressed anxiety In regard TO Sheridan, and
| while he will not recommend his removal, he
| still feels that he might be reprimanded. We
| are happy TO welcome any expression of Gene
| raj Grant that seems to indicate an opinion on
! any national question, but we believe this
| rumor to be untrue. General Grant Will
| hardly care TO interfere with hls renowned sub
| ordinate. At a critical portion of the war, he
| found IL necessary to give Sheridan but one
| order, GO In IL he has any order to give let
him repeat that"
We do not interpret these edicts as Mr..
Greeley's abandonment of his own ambition
for the Presidency, and hisD resignation in
behalf Of General Sheridan, upon whom a
larger and larger proportion of the radical