New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-30
CONGRESS md ITS CRITICS.

TIE Cincinnati C0mmercidt-a sort oil RepuD-
lican jOurnal-says:
"Vast as the power vested IN Congress IT, It may pass
away between tie rising and setting Of the sun FROM the
party that yields It, breath unmake as breath
has made H. and there no power Ia Congress to 1 upon
the country the policy Of any party Congress Is
0icing much attention 10 The South The battle ground
OF tho next Presidential campaign is IN the North, aud
Congress abandoning 1t for all uDenabe position IN the
south. . .,-..,. A., ..o.-,,,,. .,,r.n.oco
OF rresponsiby. This always belongs to tho opposi
ton aud tends to produce changes and overthrow ad
patty OF the President, and 1t Is believed OF majority
Of the supreme Court Now when !, e1hsdsren 9aI
gress has IN commanding twothnd. vote III pom
the Of the States dsordered by rebellion
1t becomes pretty evident we should say that the En2
icqns of Congress should take The 6est care Of theT seg
~ the Northern States"
Comments by the Tribune.
1t is quite possible that it would be con
yenient for the Republicans to ignore the South
altogether till after the next President shall
have been chOsen-just as We might last year
have saved United States Senator in Ohio
| by pOstpOning the question OF Equal Rights to
some future day. The simple fact, however
that tho thing can't be done fOrecloses specula-
ton regarding it, The Southern States must
be reconstructed. They must be restored to
self -gOyernment and to representation in Con-
gress. No party can or should stand which
resists and seeks to postpone this consumma-
ton. 1t is, if not indispensable, at least ex-
tremely desirable, that every State should par
ticipate in the choice Of our next President,
and be represented in the next and Of pos
sible) in the present Congress.
Bat how are the dead raised up? and with
" what body do they come ~ is tho vital ques-
ton. Never was one more mOmentous sub
mitted to popular consideration. Shall the
Whites only of the ten States yet unrecOn-
structed participate i'll the work of reorganz-
ing them2 Then those States will all come
back to Congress represented by men who pro-
fOundly believe that the Rebellion was justi
fed, and its suppression triumph OF Force
over Right. Then the work of erecting new
counties in tie several Southern States and
naming them StOnewall, Cleburne, Stuart. Nor
gan, Van Dorm, &C., after the heroes and mar
tyrs of the late COnfederacy, will he resumed
where the Johnson Legislatures were compelled
TO suspend it by the Congressional policy of
Reconstruction. Then the Fourth-of-July will
cease 10 be honored at tho South, and the ami
versary of Bull Run be generally celebrated in
| its stead. Then the Rebel Debt will have to be
assumed and paid or the Union Debt will be
disowned and repudiated. If it be requisite
that the Supreme Court should pronounce the
latter invalid, we presume five Judges can be
| found so to rule it,
Congress must stand by the loyal majority
| in the South. Should ii fail to do so, every
| State but Tennessee south Of the Potomac and
| the Ohio with Maryland and Delaware on this
side, will be q unit for Reconstruction Oh a
White basis which will bring the Rebel ele-
ment into overwhelming ascendancy, as we
now see it in Maryland and Kentucky, where
no man stands much chance for office who had
not at least son in the Rebel army. To fall
ter now-to look away from the South, and
seem intent on securing majorites in the
North-is to insure the unchecked ascendancy
Of our implacable foes throughout the South,
and thereby their preponderance in the Union.
Congress cannot recede without ruin. II
must not falter. 1t stands in the Thermopyla
of the universe, where its frmness or weak
ness determines the fate Of unborn millions
Should it cover before the cohorts of Caste
and Privilege, ours must become land OF
mobiles and vassals evermore. Let Congress
recoil, and the Yankee school-ma'ams will be
driven out of the South within three years
and the teaching of negroes to read made
legal crime, os it was not quite seven years ago
Let Congress recede, and Yankee" will bt
hunted from the South within three years a