The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-01-04
SOMETHING OF THE POLITICAL
SITUATION,

state of affairs, they who have to do with i,
become, in a degree, reticent and dull OF
speech. We reckon war would wear itself
out in time and produce no ultimate decisive
result were it to lack variety of incident
Unvarying routine is sore deeayer of inte-
rest and enthusiasm. As of warfare, SO of
politics. The deadlock between Congress
and the President has come to be a tedious ly
old story. Everybody knows it by heart; and
everybody is heartily tired of it. Yet, as the
live issue of the times, it fills up all the pres
ent political field. The President is in state
of siege and the Congress is fixed within the
investing trenches. Such is 1.-THE situation
The thing to be determined at the next Pres
idential election is whether the siege is to
be raised and the President relieved and vim
dictated; or are the expected support and sue
cor to arrive in aid of the besiegers. What
ever difference of opinion there may be
among loyal men with regard to the details OF
matters and things involved in the existing
controversy, certain it is that Congress is
everywhere recognized as contending for the
loyal cause while Mr.. Johnson is quite as
generally recognized as using all his power
and influence for the other side-the rebel
side, of the case. As much now as ever the
cause of Unionism, pure and simple, and
the opposing interest Of Calhounism divide
the people of the Republic. The general
favor with which the one grand idea of Union
ism, apart from all distractions, is re garded,
causes, more than anything else, the extend
ed, almost spontaneous, movement in behalf
of Grants nomination.
In the meantime, although the strife for
the mastery between Congress and the Presi-
dent has ceased to attract the deep interest
that it did, presenting no novelties and reveal
ing no new excitements, it is matter of
quite as much concern, is quite as vital in
its bearings upon the public veal as it was
when Johnson shocked the country by discov- |
ering the incipient signs Of my policy"
which the States Of the South are to be re- !
habilitated. The war was fought to keep
them from separating themselves from the
Union and assuming to themselves independ-
eut and Confederate powers. They were, at
last. prevented from forming for themselves
a distinct and unfriendly nationality it is
now proposed, upon the part of Congress,
that they shall undergo certain preparatory
process Of publication before being again
clothed with the attributes of States within
aud of the Union. The unruly urchins have
bsea prevented from running away; and it
is now proposed to render 4 second attempt
an impossibility before admitting
them 70 equal fellowship with the more steady
and peaceably inclined members of the fami-
Iy. No considerable number of the vic.ors
propose to harm them for their wrong doing.
is all that is asked for. The
whose cause johnson represents,
insist that South Carolina has as complete
right to full participation in the government t
IF Massachusetts,. The President has forti-
led himself behind redoubt which he has
FAMED ''The Constitution; and the Con-
,ress has intrenched itself round about it +
lud cut off his supplies. And SO the matter
taads. a
Having begun with this view of the case, |
ss do not propose to prove that we are, lost d
n tie jungle of subject which we cannot ..
-avel through to the place for which we {,
tsr,ed, going round and round in circle, h
Ike bewidered traveller in the woods We
,erely intend to insist upon our deduction Il
nat prevailing, continued spirit of Union l.
IN and patriotic instinct direct the people to e
ie preference which they have shown for .
General Grant. This, akin to the lofty sense a
hich, forgetful of parties and political
-angle, caused the grea. North to rise as
ne man to put down the Rebellion, now in II
lists upon renewal of the main question of u
Inionism against Secession. and demands n
ne settlement Of the question in a manner :.
once definite, conclusive and simple. This. II
,ough movement which is "political " in II
,e largest and most comprehensive sense of 5,
,s term, shuts out Of sight and consideration q,
ia minor matters which are simply side is az
.es compared to the weighty question to
;iich has the first place in the public mind - -
ad the next Presidential election, with h.
rant for the Union candidate, bids fair to 70
-esert the picture of the American peo-