New-York tribune., 1868-05-28
SHALL CONGRESS ADJouRyi

1t is urged that it will take two months mt
least to scrutinize, digest, perfect and pass the
new Internal Revenue act Unto which all ex
listing acts are proposed to be consolidateO
that this will protract the session till some
time in August, whereas the elections to the
next Congress will commence in September
and those of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
follow early in October; wherefore (and for
other reasons stated it is deemed advisable
that the indispensable business of the session be
hurried through. the Internal Revenue bill be
laid over, and the two Houses adjourn without
day, at furthest by the 1st of July.
We dissent from this view of the matter
because
l. The Whisky-thieves are delighted with it.
They are now robbing the Treasury of not
less than 81, 100000 iper week-mOney that is
sadly needed just where it righteOusy belongs.
The confederated thieves are fat and saucy
the Treasury is gaunt and needy. If the
thieves would pay fifty cents per gallon OF the
two dollars that they ought to pay, we might
bear to see them get few months swing;
but they are only paying ten cents per gallon,
or one-twentieth of the Governments honest
due, and their immeasurable Tapacity must be
thwarted We beg Congress not to fix day
of adjournment till they have provided eff
GENTLY for the collection of the Whisky and
Tobacco taxes.
III. The Southern States are just ready to
have their Reconstruction perfected. 1t is not
the fault of their loyal people that they have
not been ready before. There has been too
much delay in calling Conventions and IN sub
mittng Constitutions; but six States are now
knocking at the doors of Congress, where
Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas will soon
follow them. We want to see the very last
State admitted, her self-gOyernment perfected,
Military rule superseded and the Freedmens
Bureau withdrawn, before Congress adjourns.
We shall thus have drawn every fang of the
Copperhead, and reduced him to the harmless
recreation of Kissing. He won't make many
Electoral votes out of that.
The People are told that the Freedmen's
Bureau costs immense sums-that the negroes
are maintained in idleness on Government ra-
tions-that there is no prospect of restoration
of the South to self-government under Repub-
lican ule-that the carpet baggers" are living
in clover at the public expense-that there is
no hope of a return to the reign of law, peace,
and prosperity, until the Democrats are re-.
stored to power, &c, &c. Restore the States,
abolish Military rule, withdraw the Freedmen's
Bureau, and all the guns of the SeymOurs,
Brookses, and Clay Deans will be spiked or
their cartridges rendered harmless. We expect
to beat them anyhow; but there is no use in
exposing ourselves to hard fight when we
might have an easy one if we chose.
OF course it is incOnvenient for Members TO
remain in Washington all Summer; but they
are paid by the year-nOt ungenerously and
it is their simple duty TO remain in session so
long as the public interest and safety shall re-
ouire. In our judgment the need is palpable,
imperative Virginia and Mississippi 1--WE hope
Texas also want to record their votes for
GRANT and CoLFAX; shall they be denied the
opportunity because Congress must remain in
session q month longer to secure it The
question answers itself.
The War is over. The Republic is fully til
umphant. True Democracy has grapped with
its debased, impudent counterfeit and borne 1t
TO the earth. We demand that the result of
the struggle shall be attested and sealed in our
approaching Presidential Election. Let us for
once have q nOn-sectiOnal cOntest-One wherein
Vermont and South Carolina, Massachusetts
and Georgia, shall be one in principle and in
preference We plead for no adjournment un-
til the circle of the Union is once more un-
broken and complete.