Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-03-06
APpnEHESsIoNs AND wARNrNes.

AE-f-htNzla l.E1AVNS AAag AAaAANSHs
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
The majority In Congress are proceed
ing upon the presumption that all the
people who took sides with the Thirty
ninth Congress against the President are
bound up, body and soul, IN their caucus
decreesss They aremistaken. IL was not
the policy OF the President SO much as
the exceeding iDdiseretion OF the con-
duct and 1tteraBees Of Andrew johnson
that in 1856 was disapproved by the peo-
pie In eieetiDg the FoTtietb Congress. .
And now new issues are coming up and
overshadowing the things Of yesterday.
The elections In 1867 ahOwed that appeals
20 the war spirit merely. were losing their
efficacy. There is a political eh&Os. Tue
people are not awed by the nasty decis-
ions OF scared and passionate partisans
in caucus assembled. The want Of wis
dom in the Republican party mansge-
ment has already revived the Demo-
cratic party, and it looms up formidable
in its prestige and its discipline. The
majority Of the people would prefer not
to trust it with power again. But Con-
eress is cutting down that msj5rity.
Doubtless it would be an evil of great
magnitude to place the Administration
In Democratic hands. Let Congress take
care that the people are not given ample
reason to make e choice of evils, for the
popular intelligence is not always equal
to choosing the least.
The Commercial sees dangers ahead,
even ia the triumphant success Of the
beastly measures Of Teeonstruetion. 1t
says:
If the majority in Congress could for
get that there will be Presidential elec-
ton next fall, they would improve the
chances of the Republican candidate. 1t
Is evident that the disorgAniZed States Of
the South cannot be reconstructed so as
to take part In the election. Congress
should not attempt to force reeOnstruc-
ton with the view Of obtaining Southern
electoral votes There will be three
votes lost In the North where there will
be one gained in the South, by the pro-
cess. Whatever danger there may be IN
entering upon the next Presid Atisl elee-
ton without the States that were Of the
Southern ConfederAcy, must be encouB-
tered. lis too late to get them in, in
good shape. Therefore count them Out,
and plan the campaign wits them
counted out. Then IL is devoutiy to be
wished that the election may be decided
ICY bA4u lLE HVoaAbAANs VI NoAeASNCA1 ~ IL
the Northern States, for disputed Pres
idential succession would mean, cot a
sectional war such as we have had, but
civil war and we should be Mexican
lied.
The desperate measures to which the
Jaeobin leaders have now resorted, of
tampering with the Supreme Court, and
requiring the concurrence Of six Judges
out Of eight to decide case for one party
to the suit, while FIVE can decide it ia
favour Of the other, could not but create
alarm ia the minds of all men who love
Constitutional liberty, and know that
this cannot exist without an independent
Judiciary.
Tue better class OF the Republican
presses in the North are alarmed at this
new stride Of Jacobinism, aud are pFOphe-
cying disaster to result from it. The
New York Evening Post, a sober and in
fiuentiaI journal, and consistently Re-
publican from the beginning, says:
When the Congress, therefore, endeav-
ors to subject the Supreme Court 10 its
control, by regulating the rule OF its de-
cision, and for no other end apparently
than the secret purpose of meeting par
ticulsr party issue, we are startled by
the straDgeness Of the event. 1t seems
little short of . sscriligious audacity.
Bot when the change they seek to intro
duCs is one of the gTavest nature, affect
ing essentially the character OF future
decisions, and likely to lead to gross in
-, ya1,
bound to cry out in our loudest voice,
Halt! In the time of the elder Adams
q change was made with a greater color
Of law, but with a similar party object,
by putting an additional number of
judges" midnight judges" they were
ealied-upon the bench; but the inGig-
nant Repu ubljcanism Of that day speedily
swept away the innovation with greater
color of law, we say, because Congress
has the uDdoubted right to multiply
judges when the pressure Of business re-
quires il. But Congress has no right to
impose rule Of judicial decision-lesst
of all for party ends.
To insist upon q two-thiFd vote, when
the judgment is uufavorable to Con-
gressionaI act, while q majority is au-
thorized to approve Congressional act,
is 10 resolve in so many words, that q
party who profits by that act may come
before the court on setter grounds than
the party who questions it, or tries to
set ID aside as unconstitutional Suffers
are no longer equals in the presence Of
justice; the msjority Of judges is no
longer the court, but 3 superior number
and the same right which enables Con-
gress TO dictate decision by two thirds,
woHld enable it to dictate Unanimity,
which, in practice, would amount to a
complete notification Of the Constitu-
tional ability Of the tribunal,
In another article it says;
In former times We should have ap-
pealed with confidence to the Senate,
representing the integrity of the States,
to interfere against this rash, impolitie
and dangerous kind of legislation; per-
haps we May do so still and il so, we
should beseech it, with all the earnest
ness we can summon, 10 consider well
these schemes, eonfesseily needless, and
which are pushed through for party ends
and with party zeal They are not, we
assure il, acceptable 20 the country; they
will certainly cost the Republicans their
sscendaucy; and they will put General
Grant in position from which, with all
his popularity, his good sense, his mode
ration, and his irmness, he will find it
hard 10 extrieate himself with honor.
The new York Commercial, another
Republican journal, with equal elearness
of vision, sees what is coming:
The bill wiping out what vestige Of
civil authority remained to the Southern
States, and cresting q supreme military
dictatorship, will accomplish two objects,
viz inaugurste negro supremacy at the
South, and overthrow Radical suprem-
acy IN the North. II this be the only
way OF relieving the country from pc
litical seOurge, let US submit to it pa
tiantiy. Indeed, the Scriptures teach
that EVIL is pesmitled that good may