The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-23
POLITICAL.
THE PEOPLE CALLED UPON TO CHECK THE PRO-
aRRss OF THE CONGRESSIONAL REVOLT
TIoN1sTs-wEAK-KNEED RADICALS
WHIPPED N-THE CASE OF
SENATOR SHERMAN.

SENATOR SHERMAN.
The Washington correspondent Of the Bal
timore Gazette writes under date of January
19th
Unless the American people have utterly lost
all regard for their constitutional rights and all
love Of liberty they must finally resist the en-
croachments now in the process Of consummasS
ton by few leaders who control Congress. The
Executive power 80 far as it's exercise by con-
stitutional agencies is concerned, has been an
initiated. lhe regular army is at the disposal
of secretary and commander. thrust into
power without even rretence OF legal author
ity-a mere soldier-and hardly thst-ls TO be
and the judicial branch Of the government
is to be swept away. have heard from seve-
raj sources to-day that some Senators have e1-
pressed hesitancy in going the lengths required
by their party. They tremble when called
upon to lay violent hands upon the Supreme
Court. But I have no faith whatever that their
sense Of duty or regard for their oaths will
weigh o feather when counterpoised by their
interests and ambition. Not one OF the infa-
nous acts having tendency to subvert the
government but was disapproved by q sufh-
cient number in either House OF Congress to
defeat it. But they were all passed by strict
party votes. So it will be again. Such is the In.
GVlIaDle
Reconstruction bill came before the Senate l
heard Senator Sherman declare that he would
never consent, when enfranchising the ne
eroes, to deprive single white man OF vote,
and yet the very next day, upon filmsy e1-
cuse, he voted TO disfranohise fifty thousand.
Robespierre would gladly have put an end tn
the work Of the guillotine long before his own
head fell into the basket, but it was utterly out
of his power. It was beyond his courage. The
private room of Judge Bingham has been
crowded all day with weakened Republicans,
begging him to accept this or that amend.
ment, ard not to rush the party upon political
annihilation. The author Of the new bill,
answered, sternly, NO." as after consulta-
tion among the faithful it was determined to
vote down all amendments and pass the bill ss
1t came from the committee The conspira.
tors however, are by no means sanguine OF
success In the Senate, and yet the country need
not "look to the Senate" after the vote OF that
body on the resolution restoring Edwin ID.
Stanton to the War Department.
THE MARoa OF REVOLUTION.
That the revolutionists in Congress intend
to take no step backward, but to keep moving
on the downward path they have chosen, until
there is no longer even the semblanos of an
obstacle in any other department Of the gov
ernment to the unlimited power Of the 'na-
tional assembly," is ominously foreshadowed
in q late threatening article of the New York
Tribune, the spirit Of which will appear in the
following extracts:
"If Andrew Johnson means to defy this
tenure-of-ofice law, and make war upon the
country, let him do it if he dare, and take the
consequences Edwin N. Stanton is Secretary
of War, and he CON only be removed by the
operation of law.
"Iet Stanton resign, say some, and thus
tide over this trouble We beg MIR. Stanton
not to resign. II VIC are to have contest
ter, the sooner it comes tue better. We have
had mao enough OF pA'ish00' % rather than I'M MI see
the Congress of America tamely concede one
element OF Justice, or surrender one man to
tie tyranny OF the rebel power, or permit the
President to put anger; upon Mr.. Stanton or
General Grant, wo would accept any pohtlcal
fate. This Congress cannot recede.
s'Therefore we admonish the President and
his midnight back-stairb counselors, like Black
and Blair, to be cautious !. The next card that
Congress mny play is impeachment. 1t ls for
Mr.. Johuson to say whcthor it shall be played
or not"
TIE PRESIDENT AND STANTON.
The Washington correspondent lJanuary 1s)
of the Baltimore Sun says:
There ia o. decided lull in the excitement
TINT has prevailed here for the past week, and
to-day wo have neither startling fact nor
Sensational rumor to record. 1t is well UNDER
stood by those conversant nth the purposes
of the administration, that none OF the ex'
travagant things and questionable orders men
tioned in dispatches sent hence were ever
contemplated or under consideration by the
President and that they had existence only in
the brains OF the writers OF the sensational
teleerams which disturbed the citizens and
commercial communities of the Northern cities
during the week just closed. There ID reason
to expect that MI. Stanton may resign in few
DAYS. General Grant was again with him to-
right. aud unqualif1edly expressed his opinion
That MIR. Stanton should resign, and General
Sherman Yesterday earnestly advised the same
conrse. Meantime MIR. Stanton is reduced to
he merest clerkship in the War Department..
O President will not permit any order to be
&, { from that department except IN strlct
accordance with law, which, Delng llteraly I0l-
lowed, will prevent any order issuing from the
Secretary of War as heretofore and compel
everything Of that character to be issued by
direction OF the President. General Grant will
only recognize orders from the President.
VIEW OF THE NEW RECONSTRUCTION
BILL.
The New York Poet, Republican, referring to
the new reconstruct IN bill pending in Con-
gress, remarks:
Jealous, unhesitating, reckless partisans sup
port the new bill as they would support any
thing that their party might proclaim, but We
have vet to hear the approval OF 1t by single
moderate person, Republican or Democrat:
They say the attempt to strip the President OF
powers 'svested" in him by the constitution,
and confer them upon another officer, is clear
ly revolutionary. Even il it were not, 1t IL novel
and dangerous, and should only be done with
tbe greatest caution and dehberation. NO
emergency exists to compel or justify 1t. Mr.
Johnson has done nothing Objectionable since
Congress met, except The dismissal OF General
Pope, whom he has replaced by General Meade,
who is Just as decided and energetic as General
Pope: and the conventions arc held without
molestation.
II ia useless for General Garfield to argue
that the President is 1.-The subordinate OF
CONGRESS-" He is not; ne is the coordinate OF
Coneress; the integrity of his junction ls just
as necessary as that OF Congress, and to de-
stroy this relation of equilibrium is to destroy
the peculiar feature Of our policy which mas
oiven il strength and success. The vast ma
iority Of the people have been taught for nall
GENTRY to look upon this division or power as
we state them, and it would take them long
while to unlearn doctrine which they identity
with the stability of the nation. 1t Is older
than the republican supremacy, and will out
last it if the opposite doctrine be insisted on.
CONGRESS AND THE MoRMoNs.
The Washington Express says:
The Committee on Elections will soon have