Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-10-15
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following article to- which We call
the parfieuiar attention Of the peo-
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fiftn Songresssiu1isai DistTiet.
"Ihe President OF the Uufted
States, to whom the constitution en-
trusts the faithful execution OIL tue
laws, has been engaged during the
las three years la severe contest
with Congress over the question OF
Southern reconstruction. his time
has been fully oNupleA IN opposing
the Congressional Tloi 80
ing that ons l{Rp
for kzz8 MAixzl9tll .! ! i. 49,
States wsaachs ifke 70
has led him on wifh IT, deceptive
glitter further and further into the
swamp OF political destruction. Inc
Radical leaders have meantime
shrewediy availed themselves OF
this unseemly struggle 10 secure the
enactment Of laws which have grad
ually changed the character OF our
system of government as defined IN
the constitution, and stripped from
the President all power over execu'
tive appointments and removals,
from his own Cabinet advisers down
to the postmaster at the four corners
of q country town. Working upon
the pride and fears OF their more
moderate associates, and under the
plea that such legislation Was neces-
sary to insure the enforcement OF
republican laws, they have succeed
ed in raising bulWark around their
own part sans In office and have
kent them for three years IuxuFia-
ting In the spoils. The struggle over
reconstruction Is now over. The
| Congressional policy has prevailed
desnite the opposition of the Presi-
dent. Wisely or unWisely, eonsti-
tutionaiiy or unconstitutionally, the
negroes of the South have been in
| vested wi n the franchise, and all
but three ot the ex-rebel States have
resumed their proper position in the
| Union, are again invested with the
| precious mantle of sovereignty, and
claim equal rights and privileges
with the loyal states under the
! bond Of confederation. Neither the
/ President nor Congress possesses
now the lawful power to exercise
any more authority over Georgia
or Alabama than over Pennsylvania
or New York.
/ DEMONSTRATION being thus finally
disposed of, In what position does
the late-coutest between the Presl-
| dent and Congress le4svethe belliger-
/ emf forces? Under the operation Of
the Tenure Of Office law the radicals
who filed the greater part or the
Offices when the strasgis o.'saa Ha@;ss-
ed, remain in possession OF tle m
! ternal Revenue department., the
Post Offices, custom HOUSES aiiu
whisky rings, While the noliiiaatioh
of General Grant and the near ap-
prOach Of Johnson's retirement carry
over to tie republican SIDE the iew
aifice holders who Tor seiflStl efi!i7itie- u
rations have hitherto pre5endSh 10
espouse the cause OF the President
Thus FAR, then, ihe raoiGais ?, "a :
iriumphed. They have won the vic
/ tory ON reconstruction they nave
! won in the retention Of the sp0ils.-
On the other hand, Andrew John
son. having got through hghung
over reconstruction, looks around
/ him and finds every public depart
| naent filed with men whose pecnla-
/ tions and frauds have nearly bank
rupted the nation. He sees the gov
eminent nf which he Is the nominal
head and for the faithful admins
/ tration of which he is held response
/ bic. stripped of hundreds Of millions
I ~ dollars nv nlunderers as desperate
a. any hnrgIar or hinhwayman who
ayer - ~ rohhe1 tbe alter OF q church OF
i.nnct.ad ont n travellers brains for
tLa vaJne of his wallet. Imbued
nis,saif sHu tIr viii, the strietest probity-
nr,,hablv the only truly honest mar
f. nnhlie life in Washington to-d3S
1 tha President finds himself stand
;ng in the midst of a pool OF the
s,,stt.st cnrruption that ever blacken
,l1Afss ~ a. charailer NJ a nation from ths
earIv days of Rome down to the
present age.
taThis "a the existing position o
| affairs and il Is evident from recen
oceurrerees that Andrew johnson
has been taking observations, ant
Nth his inborn love of a fight ant
his iufIonltabIe pluck. has resolved
t0 renew the struggle with the Rad
: ical faction and recover the grouns
! he has lost. He declares war agains
? the whisky rings and their accom-
niiees i'm the revenue department
He knows that he takes upon him
salf q task as Hereuiean as nev
rebellion; but in his past tremen
. dous rondicts with Congress he ha
: nroved himself equal TO the emeI
: geney. Finding that he can q