The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-21
The Usurpntions of Conarcss-Tonc of
the Republican Prcss.

Many of the Republican newspapers OF the
North, so far as heard from, continue to depre-
cate the course which Congress has taken
within the last few days:
(From the New York Commercial Advertiser
Congress is deliberately at work destroying
the executive and Judicial arms Of tho govern
ment The executive authority was wiped out
by the last Congress. The present Congress
strikes at the Judiciary. Wren the bill to
strangle the Supreme Court which was rushed
through the Hou,c, passes i'll the Senate, it
will encounter veto, and then, by o two-thirds
vote, bo assed over the head Of the President.
[From the Providence (R. II Journal.]
We have had quite enough of this kind OF
legislation already in the quarrel between Con-
gress and the President, and we shall regret
exceedingly to see it repeated in any possible
collision between Congress and the Supreme
Court. Let nothing, We say, be attempted in
Congress, in relation to the Supreme Court,
that shall, in the least degree. bear the charac-
ter of hasty or passionate legislation.
from the New York Evening Postl
The President is just as much the President
as Congress is Congress, or the Supreme Court
is tho Supreme Court. BY virtue of
his office the President is male Commander
in-chief cf the army and navy OF the United
States;" in that capacity he is the head OF tn :
military arm of the executive, as he is already
in his capacity as President lead of the civil
arm. All military officers, as we'll as oil civil
officers, engaged in the execution Of the laws,
are subordinate to him; be appoints them,
commissions them, and gives them orders; and
It twould bo mutiny in any sub ordinate to refuse
obedience to his orders once clearly promul-
gated.
From the buffalo Commercial Advertser.l
Mr.. Stanton is clearly at fault in seeking to
force himself upon the President as q member
of his cabinet 1t is an indeicate piece of bu-
siness, to say the least OF il. The potent,
Iault, III our opinion, for insisting that Mr..
Stanton shall remain. We hope that the
whole subject will be speedily disposed Of by
the resignation of the Secretary.
from the Albany Evening Journal.l
those Republicans who have thought that
fidelity to party required them to defend the
congressional schemes OF reconstruction as q
whole and in all its parts, tint3 it shard sled
ding" about this time. They hardly know
where they are or what they shall be called to
swear by next. TO make everything sure and
cover all possibilities, they might well modify
their confession Of political faith, and put it
in q comprehensive form something like this:
1--WE are for the congressional plan of recon-
struction as it was as it is, md az it shall be-,
world witt. out end"
From the Springfield Republican >-'
The first section of tho new II construction
bill declares that the State governments of the
excluded States s'shall not be recognized rs val
id either by The executive or judicial power
OF the United States" The court has several
important suits before it hinging upon this
question of the validity OF the Southern State
governments. This act torbids the Judges
from deciding til ose governments valid, even
if they are unanimous IN that opinion. The
parties on one side of the suits pending will
rejoice at this extraordinary legislation in
their favor but what becomes of justice and
equity. or what is the use OF keeping mp the
show of Supreme Court, which is directed
by majority vote Of Congress what decisions
1t may or may not make?