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

Reconstruction Acts, how long con the action
of their appointoos 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 a sheriff, appointed in d manner not
ided by law, to serve a writ? Can such
sheriff attempt to make q levy without commit
ting q 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.
Gould Congress throw any protection around
the conduct. of a trespasser ? We think not,
and that point has already been decided in
one Of the Northwestern States, if we are not
mistaken.
We confess chat wescan see nothing but con-
fusion and trouble in the Acts Of Congress, and
in tho doings of the Military Commanders.
They will succeed in provoking years of liti-
CATION and oftrouble, but thank God, they have
also been the means Of doing good. Their wild,
reckless, despotic course, has aroused tho
North to q 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: .Therc are
still some persons in the Republican camp
whose hearts are with the advsgse host, and
who, we trust, will now be tempted to let their
bodies follow. At all events, through what
ever trials OF its constanoy, its consistency,
the great party of which they would fain bear
the bag so long as there may bs,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 tannot lesve it's ranks too
soon. sSoldiersl 7 said Garibaldi to- the for.
~ -. hno..x 3, ON o..
y%f privation, hardship, hunasSe4a,,' ! one'
death-wiHy you follow me p Such is the spiira.
In which humanity and Justice claim their vo
~taries such are tho appeals, suoh the. crises
which separate the gold from the dross.'
THGSLow WEED, certainly the ablest politioa
manager that The Republican party eyer had, il
speaking Of the recent election, says: can
here let us glance hastily at the past. Befor,
and during the rebellion, every Republican
statesman and journal (the Tribune excepted
maintained that States could not get out of tn,
Union. 1t cost half q million of lives and thre,
thousand millions Of dollars to establish ths
doctrine. But when it was established, III,
same Republican leaders and journals, in stul
tification of all they had professed, insisted
that States@Were out Of the Union. Union rep
reBentatives from some of those States wer,
refused seats in Congress. They are yet on
Of the Union. 1t was intended, first, to keep ter
States out of the Union until a Radical Presi
dent could be.elected in 1868. But the ,s.mud
IDLE" between Congress and the President oc
oasioned the Military Reconstruction Act
under which they expect to bring those State,
back under negro supremacy. And this as pro
cisely the Qaestion on which, after full arqu,nent
OHIO has rendered a vsrdict suhsch ends Chic
Justice CHAsE's aspirations for the Presidency
and terminates BEN. WADE's Senatorial career p
Thepeople are awakening, and it is to be hoped
that soon the supremacy of the law will asser,
its power, when the network of tyranny which
has been woven around the South, will be
destroyed, and all violations of the law viii
not only be condemned by the people, but also,
punished by the law whose majesty has been
offended. ...