The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-06-17
Shall Congress Adjourn9

The New ork Tribune, OF recent aase, unuef shio
caption, says:
1t is urged that it will take two months at least to
scrutnise digest perfect and pass the new Internal
Revenue Onto which all existing acts are proposea
to be consodated that this will protract the session
till some time in August whereas the elections TO the
next Congress will commence in September ahd .oe
of PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio, aud Indiana follow early III
October wherefore (and for other reasons sated II y
deemed advisable that the Indispensable business OF
the session be hurried through the Internal Revenue
bill be laid over, and the two Houses adjourn without
day. at furthesI by the first of July.
We dissent from this view of the matter-because
l. Tile Whisky thieves delighted with It, IheV
rohbng the treasury OF not less than looo-
900 per week-money that is sadly needed just where
it righteously belongs The confederaed thieves are
fat and saucy; the treasury is gauut and needy. 1t
the thieves would pay fifty per gallon OF the two
dollars that they ought to pay might bear to see
them get few months swing; but they are only pay
ing cents per gallon, twentieth OF the Gov
ernnens honest due and their Unreasonable rap city
must be thwarted. We beg Congress not to Tx "A day
of tljnurnment till they have provided efficiently for
the collection of the whisky and tobacco taxes.
H. The Southern States are just ready TO have their
reconstruction perfected 1t is not the fault OF their
loval people that they have not been ready before
There has been too much delay in calling conventions
and in submitting constitutions but six States are
now knocking at the doors of Congress, where ylr-
gina Mississippi and Texas will soon follow them we
want TO see the very last State admitted her self gov
eminent perfected military rule superseded and the
freedmen's bureau Withdrawn, before Congress ad-
ionrns We shall thus have drawn every lang OF the
comprehend and reduced him the harmless recrea.
ton of kissing. He won't make many electoral votes
out of that. 5== -.--= So
The people are told that the reedmens bureau costs
immense sums-that the negroes are maintained in
ideness on Government rations = that there Is no
prospect of restoration of the South to segovern
ment under Republican rue-that the " carpet.bng-
gers are living in clover the public expenSe-tliat
there is no hope of the reign OF law, peace
and prosperity until the Democrats restored to
pow err &C., &c. Restore the States, abolish military
rule Withdraw the reedmens bureau, and all the guns
of the Seymours Brookses and Clay Deans viii be
spiked or their cartridges rendered harmless. We ex
pect to beat them anyhow but there is no use in ex
posing ourselves to hard fight when migh have
all easy if We chose. s. z=-= =.-.-=
Or course it is announcement for members to remain
in Washington all summer; but they are paid by the
yeHr-not ungrnerousy and it Is their simple duty
to remain in session long the public interest AID
safety shall require In our gment the need is pal
pable, nperative Virginia and Mississippi 1--WE hop"
Texas aso) record their for Grant aud
Cntax shall they be denied the opportunity because
Congress must remain in session mouth longer to
cure it? The question answers itself,
The var is over. The republic IS fully triumphant.
True Democracy has grappled with its debased iHpu
dent counterfeit, aud borne it to the earth. We de-
mand that the result of the Struggle shall be attesed
and sealed in our approaching Presidential election
Let for once have non-sectional conest-ont
wherein Vermont and South Carolina Massachusetts
and Georgia, shall he in principle and in prefer
eIsce. v plead for Adjournment until the circle
OF the Union is nnbroken and complete.