Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
The Adjournment of Congress.

- hhO A~1DVeaA nh III O aha VII SVA9 CSSe That body at Washington which
 from past traditions more than any thing else, we give the name of Con- gross, has taken recess until the 21st of September. It has now been in al. most continuous session since the 4tll of March, 1867. In it's perpetual sit tings, in it's bold grasp for the supreme power, in it's mutilated Rump, in its attempt to subvert the Constitution and to destroy the Executive and Ju- dicial branches of the Government, il strongly resembles the famous sLong Parliament" of England, which at last was so ignominiously dispersed by Cromwell. In the usual course of Con- gressional experience, it wouldshave taken a recess to the first Monday o1 December, but such an adjournment was supposed to be opposed to the in terests of the party. It must reassem- ble to watch the President of the Re public, to see that he does not exercise the great powers of hls office ill an in dependent manner, for the benefit oi the people. The phantom of impeach- ment is to be kept constantly before his eyes, and he is to be threatened with removal from office unless he yields a timid and slavish behest to the exorbitant demands of the Radicals. Since the failure of the impeachment by one vote, no less than fourteen car pet -baggers of the South, the scum of Northern Republicans, have been ad- mitted into the United States Senate, and with this increase Impeachment Is regarded as certain if move is made | in that direction. The assemblage of Congress in September is nothing less than threat to the executive. It is the rod in tcrrorem over his head. It has no other public feature whatever. There is no business requiring its meeting before shc usual time in De- cember. It is only for the vilest party purposes that this intermediate ad- journment was carricd.. This Congress has been interruptions in its ur&tpa- tions, and corrupt beyond all modern precedent. The tyranny of its meas ures toward the South has been only equalled by the rigorous dcspctism of the Car of Russia over Poland. With this exception, there has been nothing like it in our times. All of it's meas ures have been calculated, if not de- signed, to keep alive the flames of ani- mostly between the North and the South, and to render any common CO., operation by them in the same Union in the future impossible.
 The main idea of its policy has been to exalt the negro of the South,.to ren- der him all powerful, and to place the whites of that section beneath his feet. It has been completely mortgaged to the monetary interest, and has only studied how the privileged few could be benefited by increased exactions upon the laboring class. It has made a record most hateful to every pure pa triot. The Congressional folios illus trating it's session, are little less than Q history of it's misdeeds and its crimes. As long as time shall last, it will have an evil reputation for everything that is base and dishonorable. From its organization it has been in standing conspiracy against the Constitution and Government. If any of its leading measures have been constitutional, have preserved the least semblance oi legality, the fact yet remains to be pointed out. This Congress has been an assembly which has been illustrated by no commanding, and hardly by any respectable talent. It can lay claim to no public or private virtue. Stealing and robbery of the public have gone on right under it's eye, doubtless with its connivance. The hour that shall wit ness its final dispersion, ought to be commemorated with public jubilee. It is a relief to be rid of it even for a season. The country will draw a longer and freer breath on that account. It is something that for seven weeks this political volcano is to cease. its fie- " cruptions, and that the people are to have comparative quiet and repose. This repose, it is true, will be mingled with keen feelings of apprehension as to what mischief it will perform upon it's reassemblage in September. If the country is not plunged in the end into civil war, into irretrievable confusion and anarchy, it will be owing no thanks to this execrable assembly, one of the worst that is to be met with in all history.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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