New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-27

al niggcrs over twcuty-One, and under the
State Justice of South Carolina, for instance,
we can imagine how easy it would be to prove
"vagrancyn And to fill the place OF the dis
gustod niggers who might run away, the
Coo,ie trade would offer splendid inducements.
A bill 10 facilitate emigration from China
could certainly pass, and be approved by the
President. How could he refuse? The Moses
of the African would become the Joshua OF
the Monaghan.
Well. this is Il fancy picture, II would be
n chaptcr of history. but for Congress. We
will not say that the President would willingly
enter upon this policy, or that Mr.. Raymond
would approve it. Mr.. johnson is al obstinate
man-Mr RAYMOND is not. The instinct OF
one is TO meet public questions very much as
the celebrated bull met the locomotive, while
the instinct Of the other is to follow whoever
may be President Office hath pleasant and
attractive SAVIOR, and the President, in his
logged, purblind, unreasoning way, would have
had himself and the whole country in the
trouble we have pictured, but for the courage
and zeal of Congress.
Now we come back TO the catechiSm of or
cotcmpolary: Iimes-"What crisis in our
national affairs demands resort TO rene
"dics so extreme and desperate as
theseY Tribune-We do not consider
these remedies extreme and des-
perate," but we hold that until the Southern
States are reconstructed, and the loyal men
are enabled to protect themselves, Congress
should use every power, ordinary and eXtIaor-
binary, to complete the work. Times" In what
"Quarter does any such imperative necessity
for extreme measures exst?' IrbHne-ln
the White House There is President who
has kept Reconstruction back; who has encour-
aged the spirit of rebelliOn; who has wantonly
broken faith with Congress and the people;
who has striven to provoke war of races, by
demanding the freedmen to Rebel Courts for
"iustice;" who has vetoed every measure of re-
union, and when passed over his veto,
failed TO carry il out; who hOnors men
whose only claim to honor is their completely
with the Rebellion. Congress has tried
for three years to get Mr.. Johnson To execute
the Reconstruction Law. He has refused TO do
it by placing its execution in the hands of
such men rs Hancock and by removing the
Generals who did execute the law. President
johnson has made these extreme measures
necessary. TimeS-"The Rebellion is over"
IFORNc-NOl Wlluc kHt Hpilt VI iIDt4+'''i
stands ready the moment Congress rises to take
the negro by the throat. Times" The Gov
"ernment is safe" T,ijmc-Not while we
have President johnson and his friends daily
threatening us with another civil war Times
"No armed hostility threatens it with over
throw Iiibunc-That remains to be seen.
Times-"No public peril oycrhangs tie nation
T,iJanc-Yes, yes; the peril of bad men in
Office of the creatures OF prejudice ana Slavery
in the South, OF threatened civil war IN The
North, of defeated treason struggling FOR mas
terry, and the greater peril of men who should
know better, falling by the waysdc, and throw
Ing away their arms, and giving AL and COM
fort to the enemy.
The Issue j. Justice and Freedom. If the
President were TO do his duty. al would be-
well, the States would quietly grayitate
into their placcs-vc should have union, peace.
and prosperity, charitY and kindness. lie
choose. to stand in thc way, and 10 all the
enemy 10y the influence OF his great Office.
Orr trouble is not that we have TO reconstruct
the South, but also to reconstruct tie Fresi-
don't