The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-01-22
JOHN 4. nlnRnnE.l.

This gentleman, Representative from the
10th Congressional District, appears anx-
iovs to have his name enrolled high in the
scroll of infamy. He has long been jealous
Of the position held by that old sop Of
Satan, Thad Stevens, amCng his associates,
and is making desperate efforts to supplant
him. He is the author of the new amend
ment to the reconstruction laws now
pending in Congress, which are the most
infamous of the many infamous measures
proposed by the present infamous frsgmen.
terry Rump, which is the most infamous
body ever assembled in the world The fol-
lowing is the opinion Of one of the leading
Radical Journals Of the nation of the pro-
posed measures:
From the New York Evening Post (Repub-
lcan,) January IS.
A TRAp ron A GENERAL-The new
smeniments to the Reconstruction acts
which have been so often amended before,
prapose to rut aside the Supreme Court as
an interpreter Of the laws, and the Presi-
dent rs the executor of them, in order that
Congress may absorb into itselfall the func.
tions Of government. 1t has heretofore
sviucei such superior wisdom, in the restO-
ration Of the late insnrgenf States, ana in
the management of iinarce and taxation,
that It thinks no hing less than universal
power lis dae.
While it proposes to forbid the judiciary
TO pronounce an opinion on certain subjects
il il 10 declares the number of votes in
bench by which aTy opinion is to be held as
valid Two-thiids Of the judges-not a
majority Of them-must c0ncur in pro-
ncuncing upon the constitutional merits of
any law, that is, two-thirds this month, but
as Congress regulates the matter, it may be
three fourths next month, and the month
after unanimity. In other words, the de-
ciou3 Of the highest judicial tribunal viii be
made 10 take their complexion from tile
polite, of the legislative department.
BY the organic law, the Pr sident Of the
United States is made the Conmandrrin-
Chief Of the army and uavy OF the United
States but thai is an aniiquattd law, and
congress proposes to set 1t a ide by law
of its own sovereign will'-as the im~
neachment re0ort would say-conIerring
the power upon our principal General. As
soldier Of great distinction and merit he
is ordered to begin with an act Of insurbor.
di0ation towards his chief, whose authority
he is to disregard, and assume the character
ri military diclatar in at least ten OF the
States Of the Union.
Al the other military commanders are to
re superseded, and General Grant is hence.
forth to carry on not only the military, but
the civil government in that unhappy res
gion. He is to remove all the existing
officers. civil or military, that hapTons to
stand in his way, put others in their place,
and then execute what further commands
the Supreme Parliament may have in store
to test his fidelity and the patience Of the
Dation.
1t is not enough that reconstruction is
going on as rapidly as the nature of the
cnmbroUs oal complicated process admits.
Gen. Made and others are doing their hard
duties as well as they can, the Cnnv ntionS
are in session; the Constitutions are inCuOa-
ted; the people are getting ready to ratify or
reject. as they are equired to do; in short,
the plan Of Congress in having fair trial,
and one would think there WAS no necessity
tor futher change.
No so The cunning and selfish politicians
who are lying in wait for the tavorte of the
people and their natural enemy, Gen. Grant,
that they uay catch him, and put MIN in Il
trap. 'lney argue that i. he refuses to
make himself ihe oliria instrument Of the
extreme measures now con emplated, he
may be accused OF setting up his own no
tiOns Of the Constitution, or OF propriety
against the law making power. A pretty
General is h. who dares to erect his indivl
dual crest agnnSt the assembled wisdom Of
the nation! On the other hand, il he con.
sents to accept the unpleasant position, he
will incur ail the 0dium CT all the odius laws
that Congress has passed or may pass, aud
SC become both South and North, a; hate
iul to the popular sympathy as he is now
agreeable 1t is sliltully contrived affair
worthy Of the Ingenuity of the most in
cenions Yankee, but it is not cunning en-
nagh for the mighty prey for which it's set
General Grant has too nucn good sense tc
trust his head in it blindly, or to be eoaxeG
into it by the apparent filttery.