The Portland daily press., 1868-07-25

We have from time TO time protested with
such yicor as is becoming when one speaks of
Conpressmen, against the proposed adjourn
ment of Congress. The events of the last
week have at length impressed that body with
a seLse of the danger the county would incur
If the loyal legislature should leave a law-treak-
ing President to manipulate the reorganized
forces OF the rebellion without restraint, and it
is now decided that instead of an adjournment
there is to be only recess.
Ihere has not been a time since the armies
OF the Confederacy disbanded in the spring OF
1866 when the attitude of the South was so
threatening and defiant as now. The New
York Convention has had precisely the effect
upon the Rebels that the guas of Beauregard
had in 1861 1t has brought all the old pro-
slavery leaders from their hiding places. Their
prominence in the Democratic councils is in
direct ratio 10 wickednesS of which they were
guilty during the war. Pollard anticipated
the Convention little by supplementing his
" Lost Cause" with the Lost Cause Regain
ed" Immediately after the convention, Wise
said that secession was not dead; Vance Of
North Carolina said that the Southern cause
would triumph in the election of Seymour and
Blair; Admiral Semmes began to talk of allie
glance TO the Union with a proviso; Wade
Hampton put on the old plantation manners
and assumed toward the North the dicta-
torial manner of the old slave-driver; The
southern press began to outdo itself and even
Blair in its revolutionary utterances.
He is indeed Hind 70 the signihcance OF ac-
tual events who does not see something more
than the forebodings Of alarmists in the appre-
bension that a revolutionary attempt will be
made TO overthrow the State governments
which johnson, Blair and the Democratic
platform declare to be illegitimate and OF nc
validity whatever. The purpose to secure
what they call s. fair election" by permitting
the choice by the whites alone of electors o.
President and Vice President, and compelling
he recognition OF the votes of such electors
is as iieeiy openly and defantly avowed as
the purpose to secede was in 1860. The Presi-
dent certainly means 10 cooperate with them
The insolent and contemptuous tone of his
messages betokened the dangerous state o
icling, the abrupt restraining of which has
.naes7sfopped him lust short of the
| halIer.
| Now if there is one thing in the world tina
| Is certain, it is that the American people a0il
not permit democracy in the South and the le
Ultimate governments in which it is embodied
to be overthrown. To prevent that terrible
disaster Congress has wisely concluded no
to adjourn. In case a State government
is attacked by the revolutionists, ii is entitled
to protection by the national troops, the legis
lature or the executive making requisitioI
upon the President for the necessary force
The legislature of Louisiana, if telegraphic re
ports are true, has already found itself com
| PEELED to take this course.
| But suppose the President in pursuance o
the ideas that caused him to speak in his mes
sages of the new State authorities with con
| tempt should refuse to furnish troops on thei
demand, how could Congress- remedy the diff
Guilty? In no possible way but by impeachins
and removing from Office the recreant who's,
| conduct alone has occasioned this second edi
ton of the rebellion, and placing at the heat
of affairs man who will respect his oath tt
| support the constitution.