The New Orleans crescent., 1868-07-23
CIVIL WAR OR RADICAL SUPREMACY.

While the radical editors are bringing
against the Democrats groundless charges Of
revolutionary designs, the radical congress
men are intent on forcing upon the country
the issue OF civil war or the continuance OF
radical misrule. One of the most audacious
pieces of their legislation to this end, is the
JOINT resolution regarding the electoral college
which has been carried over the Presidents
veto, and the text of which is appended:
Resoiced. That none Of the States whose inhab.
l,bnis were lately In rebellion shall be entitled 70
representation In the electoral college for the
choice or president and vice president of the
ohned States; nor shall any electoral votes be
received or counted from any OF such States an.
less at The time prescribed by law for the choice
OF electors, the people OF such States pursuant to
the acts OF Congress In that behalf, shall have
since lhe AN day OF March, 1867. adopted Con.
suluuoh oi STATE government under which State
government shall have been organized and shall
De 10 operation nor unless such election of elee
tors thall have been held under the authority of
tuth constitution aud government, and sneh State
hhhll have also become entitled 10 representation
IN Congress pursuant 10 the acts 0f Congress in
That behalfi IrOUided. That nothing herein con.
ialned shall he construed % apply 10 any State
ihat Was represented Ia Congress on the lth Of
March, 1867
Nothing Lut the final proyiso saves New
foik, Pennsylvania, on any other Northern
State nom being subjected 10 the above rule.
30 that il would be at the discretion Of the
radical president of the Senate whether he
should receive their electoral votes and Law
them before Congress, aud at the discretion
OF Congress, If they were laid before il,
whether they should be counted.
We have heretofore remarked that should
the radicals in Congress avail themselves of
this resolution 10 defeat the voice of the ma
Jonty in favor of the Democratic candidate
by rejecting a part or the whole of the
Southern votes, it would be for the people.
and especially for the people of the North.
to passively ratify this crowning act of usur
patton, or to appeal in season to the only
effective means of giving force to their legiti-
mately expressed will and rescuing their i'm
periled liberties. The New York World and
other Democratic papers of the North do not
hesitate to predict that, in such case, the
latter alternative would be adopted The
World says, for example:
1t is notin the power of Congress- 10 prevent tho
democratic party from ascertaining, in Novem |
per, Whether It Is majority. The votes which |
lhey refuse to recognize officially they cannot ure.
Vent us from counting unoffcially No political |
,Wlndlng can prevent our knowing, by the mid |
lie OF November, whether the pre- ponderance of
PHYSICAL strength is on our side or on their aide
Il they are In majority, we shall submit like
good citizens, and swallow our chsgrin as best
We may. But if we fairly carry the election and
IRE eneated out OF our victory by a dishonest
counting OF the votes, We shall fad some other
say 10 make the demonstrated superiority of our
numbers recognized.