The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-14
TIE OMNIBUS BILL.

that, inasmueh as it passed by strict party
vote, presidential veto will be useless; and
this statement is probably correct. Neverthe-
less, it is impossible to see how the President
can avoid including this bill in the list of
| those to which he has refused his assent. He
cannot approve it without an inconsistency so
| gross as to amount to a confession of error in
the long contest which he has Yaged with
the Republican party. He cannot sign it
without receding from every position that he
has taken and he is not a man to recede
| from his positions, or to surrender his con-
victions. Even if he had sympathized with
| the main features of the radical reconstruc-
ton policy, the Alabama amendment would
constitute a sufficient justification for veto
OF this bill. That amendment was strenu-
ously opposed by some of the most deter
mined Republicans in Congress, and it will
afford the President a method of escape from
the charge of obdurate and unreasoning hos
tility to Congress, which his opponents have
so persistently preferred against him.
Yet, 1t may be assumed that, even in spite
Of veto, the bill viii pass, and that, within
few weeks the six named States, with the
possible exception of Georgia, will be restored
to the Union on the radical plan. That is to
say, they will be dragged back under partisan
auspices, with Constitutions practically die
tated at Washington, and shaped to the re-
quirements of the Republican party. Thus
far the plan which was conceived two years
ago, and which has been adhered to with so
much pertinacity appears to be successful.
The Southern States, except, perhaps Texas,
will be permitted, or commanded to vote at
the presidential election in November in Or
der that their votes may be cast for Grant
1t is not by any means certain that they will
vote for the Republican candidate, but it is
easy to see why the Republicans are willing
indeed anxious, to run this risk 1t is their
final, their only chance of success. New
York and New Jersey are absolutely lost to
them. Last autumn New York, on the
largest vote ever polled in the State, gave
Democratic majority of $4,000, and
New Jersey a Democratic majority of
130OO Not the most sanguine radical
imagines that these two States can
be reclaimed and these two States
southern
States now admitted cast forty votes; a !
few more than enough to offset the assured
loss of New York and New Jersey, provided |
they all vote for Grant. We think that. with |
the exception of South Carolina and Florida.
they will all vote 3ainst Grant; but of this |
the radicals will never be convinced until
after the election shall have demonstrated the
futillty OF their schemes and their calcula-
tons. At all events they are compelled to
take this risk; because they know that they
are already beaten in the so-called loyal
States. Grants nomination has had no effect
on the public mind otherwise than to involve
him in the odium of the tyrannical party
with which he is associated. His name is the
talisman with which the radicals thought to
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to the eye OF the public. The Oregon cleo
ton following directly after the Chicago Con.
vention shows that there is no magic in If To
lure men from their opinions or to overcome
their repugnance to radicalism. That cleo
ton is the verdict of State on the issues be-
tween the parties, and is verdict which. if
not conclusive, is at least profoundly sirni6-
can't of the result
In its effects on affairs in this State, the
omnibus bill has direct interest for us, be-
cause it is the elimination of the series of
measures by which we have been worried dur.
ng the last twelve months and because it
promises to put an end to the conflict which
vas threatened between the military power
md the hasty expectants of Office under the
lew Constitution. kilograms received yes
erday from Washington by Gen Buchanan
how that the district commander is sustained
n his ruling as to the installation of the State
Ulcers and the assembling of the Legislature: I
nd, hence, Mr.. Packard's proclamation NAV {
e considered entirely null The bill will not j
robably become law for the next ten DAVIS. c
I'D the meeting OF the legislature will. there t
IRE, lie postponed beyond the time fixed by f
le conventional committee. 1t is certain a
owever, that the privilege granted by the. 4
It VIII be used as soon as possible, and we a
ay anticipate another proclamation, notify \
6 to the members the permission accorded S
them by Congress to assemble for the mr.
use Of ratify ing the fourteenth amendment o
tier that the radicals anticipate plain sailing, o
It, IN spite of all their precautions thew il
ay find themselves drifted upon anunknown II
asst. b.
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