The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-23

wa have placed in power to follow our
desires, like true statesmen, and restore it,
subject to the alterations which we alone have
made by the sword. When any Congress re-
fuses this it becomes unrepublican and dicta-
torial, forcing, as it were, its own desires int
the foreground and bssing laws upon them,
instead of simply shaping our wishes into legal
form. 1t is only in monarchical countries that
the people are supposed not to know what they
want or what is best for them. If Congress
torgets this then have we taken the fist step
towards frmer Capitalization. To preserve
our liberties we must sweep aside the dross
that has accumulated in Washington. The
men there must fall or recognize Immediately
as first principle that no man can lead the
people.
With the same good sense which has enabled
us to march on in our national greatness,
ignoring for period our fundamental law, we
now feel that the moment has arrived for
complete restoration of that law, both South
and North. If there still exist brains so weak
that they think that the former feudal prin-
ciples Of the South can trample upon and bar
the mightiest progress in the worlds history
they are scarcely worthy of living to enjoy
the product of electricity and steam We
are beginning to be narrow and protective in
our governmental policy, and consequently
retrograde. Does the North wish to drag the
ruins of eleven States after it as it marches
onward? 1t is scarcely good sense when
those States are now willing and able to march
themselves, and consequently help instead Of
retard us. To become powerful again they
must have period of rest and progress Is
any one so mad as to think they will go back
to look for support to the Old instead of giving
entrance to the mighty New now knocking at
their doors? The great ultimate object of our
struggle should be to make the nation homo
geneous. Who can say that there are two
ways Of doing it--one for the North and one
for the South? Last year ten of the Southern
States gave less than thirty three millions of
revenue to the national support. This does
not indicate prosperity, either local or national,
and is scarcely a third of what they should
yield when free from political disturbances.
There is but one way to mend all this-let
them alone and give them chance to 60 to
work. AS there is but enc direction for them
to move in they will take it, and we shall be
astonshed to see how rapidly they will fall in
with us and help develop the wonderful riches
of the Western World
But what is the first step towards all this?
II uyitl, n,Ircaluac than with ham,
1t is in the hands of Congress-a Congress
which must now remember that the people
have elected them and demand that the
mandates of the people be obeyed. The nation
has endured the war, its corruptions and the
natural oscillations which are the results Of
war. Our common sense has carried us safely
through where our Congress would have
wrecked us. Now we require the restoration
of our fundamental code of laws, for the time
has passed when national safety required it to
be held in allegiance. To-day we have but one
branch of government-our Congress. The
Executive is . nullity; the Supreme Court
bows to power II cannot face: Let Congress
now evolve the powers which the fia.!0n forced
it to absorb; give back to the Executive
branch its full authority commence by a re-
vocation of the Tenure Of Office bill; show
confidence in one Of the first principles of our
gogernment-the division Of it into three sepa-
rate branches. The people wish this, and
their wish is significant of action if it be re-
fused. The danger is past. The nation dur
ing that danger set the constitution aside, for
il was a code of peace. War was thus filed
with energy. Peace has now returned to us.
II requires not the concentration of war,
Therefore we, the people, ask for that which
is best suited TO 1.-THE constitution, South and
North.