The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-01-10
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
In the passage by Congress Of bin by two
thirds majority over Presidential veto, the EI-
ecutiye power is constitutionally annihilated on
that subject, and the President has no longer q
right for any rcasOn, to interpose IN obstacle 70
the administration Of the law.-Gor. BoutlpeIl,
True words as ever were spoken; and Andrew
johnson ought to BE- made to understand them.
What business is 1t Of his, to use an ordinary
phrase, whether the reconstruction acts are as
he believes right or wrong, Congress has by an
overwhelming vote, his objections to the contrary
Notwithstanding, decided them to be right, con-
stitutiOnal and just, and his duty Is to execute
them, right or wrong, until the Supreme Court
passes its Judgment upon them.
A Washington special states that the House on
Tuesday was flooded with resolutions. One Of
fercd by Governor Boutwell, instructing the Re
construction Committee to inquire into the eI-
pediency Of reporting bill placing all Of the
Districts Of the South under the command Of
Gen. Grant in one entire district, and giving him
all the powers that District Commanders have
now. was passed. The Democrats attempted to
thank Gen. Hancock for his course as command
or Of the 9th Military District, but the resolution
was laid on the table by nearly party vote.
The House also passed. resolution thanking
Gen. Sheridan for his course at New Orleans,
thanking Gen. Grant for his letter To the Presi-
dent on Stanton, and censurins A. johnson as
the acting President for removing the above Off
GERS. The resolution was offered by washburne
Of Illinois.
vallandigham's prospects for the Senate are
fast fading, in fact, and mot to put too fine q
point upon it," they are demnition gloomy
dissolving views. you know. This state Of things
reveses the old theory, Of the care the devil tax
es Of his own.
The rebels of the CarOlinas regard the substi-
tuition Of Candy for sickles as jump from the
frying pan into the fire. Hancock they cali q
patriot
The following is an extract published in the
Sacramento Bee, taken ffom letter written
Sept %, from Washington, by John 8. Nixon
Of Covington, Ky, to his brother, DIR. A. ID.
Nixon Of Sacramento:
"This Is the fourth time have been in WASH
ington since the middle u last November, and
the time before this remained about month.
have but few acquaintance here except strict
ly business ones. The only family l regularly
visit Is that of Gen. Grant. II Is q most delight
full place TO visit, and have been there 80 much
I feel very much at home. The General Is every
way one Of the very best mon have ever known.
You can depend upon il, he Is in full sympathy
with the great Republican party. lie has told
me since have been here this time that he ap-
proves OF every thing that Congress has done,
but that they did not 20 far enough in taking
the work Of reconstruction entirely into their
own hands"
Senator Wilson has two column article in
this weeks Independent, in which he takes
strong ground in favor Of Gen. Grant for the
next President. He says that "if the Republic
cans inacxibly adhere to the policy Of equal JUS
tice to all. and wisely legislate on the national
debt. the currency, taxation, and expenditures,
il will be in their power to give Grant three
million of vOtcs-the votes Of thirty and posi-
bly, thirty-two States, and House Of Reprcsen-
tati,es with one hundred majority.
In the life Of Gen. Grant, the first volume Of
which is published, Colonel Badean says; "Born
on the 9th Of April, 1922, at Point Pleasant.
in Ohio, Hiram Ulysses Grant entered the Mill
tary Academy at West Point in his seventeenth
year, where he received through the error Of the
Congrrssmen who nominated him, the name Of
Ulysses s. Grant. The new cadet in vain tried
to get his baptismal initials restored, but the
ominous u. s. could not be shaken Of, a. II
there was an irrcycrsible destiny about even 30
small q matter Us this"
The New York Frccdmen's Journal says that
80, 900 Democrats in that State win vote for
Grant in preference to Mcclellan. Evidently
this copperhcad Journal docs Tot appreciate
little Mac.
Several Democratic MEMBERS have expressed
:. H.. 7 Ip,rmo,a,. Lott. .,.,, A.. ph;,,-
delphia Convention, in 'Shich is stated that
,nn pr,.;,on, .,iI h. an 40, wan, ,hs Demo
N ..-.-,,,,.,,, =, ~. C.....,,., a., 4.
ron,e, tho pemocra, marty as disloy.l Two
w..,.rr n,mocr,ts have determined N call
,non the President and ask him for nm expl.ns-
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