The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-03
"RecOnstl uctiOn."
From the ~. Y. World.

bTOW LH6 Ns L. HOTtU
"1he Tribune. the other day, In its Washing
ton correspondence, announces as fixed fact,
THAT the Clerk Will not call the names of the
Representatives from the States of Georgia and
Loplslsn ma on the assembling OF the next Con-
grtss'
far as Georgia is concerned, and that the obi ject
To be effected Is the retention OF q full two
thirds majority in The new House. are matters
which do not admit of doubt. The intimation
to which we refer was not confined to the TIT
bit,.e's columns; and its publication was evil
resolution of the Reconstruction Committee in
favor OF the expulsion OF the present Georgia
members. The pretext for that proceeding, aS
well as for the omission OF the other names
from the roll OF the new Congress, was of
course the alleged violation by the local Legis-
lsiure OF the conditions of restoration IN Y.
Times.
This paragraph is noteworthy in itself, but
more noteworthy for what it suggests. In
itself it furnishes new proof Of the distrust
and hostility with which General Grant is re-
garded by the radicals. They mean to make
his veto of as little account as President John
sons, and by the same method, namely, the
exclusion OF sufficient number of Representa-
tives to leave them full two-thirds' majority
for every bill which they wish to pass.
Manacled, like President Johnson, with the
Tenure-0f Office act, and shorn, like him, Of the
veto power, President Grant will figure as
captive chief in the triumphal procession
of the radicals. What boots II that ne can
write message saying that he dislikes bill,
when his veto can result in nothing but the
mere formality Of new voter The two
main pillars of the Presidents authority are
the veto power and the power of removal
from office; the one giving him check upon
the passage Of bad laws, the other enabling
him to execute good ones. The Executive,
instead of being the coequal and independent
department OF the government which the
Constitu liOn makes it, with power of self
aoaipet laUialatiUA aph hvoa Mt
is merely the ministerial vassal of Congress.
The proposed exclusion of Georgia and
Louisiana from the organization of the new
House has satirieal suggestiveness in con-
nection with the vaunted success Of "recon-
stIuction." II is now going on year since
| the Chicago Convention put in the forefront
| of its platform a eongratulatory boast that
| the great edlfce OF reconstruction was COM
| plete. Its candidate is about to enter upon
| his Presidency with five OF the ten States
| uprepresented. Those five chaotic States
| contain two-thiTds or three fourths of the
population and wealth OF the South. Recon-
| stfueton is an e6ifce in ruins, or rather it is
a heap OF rubbish which was never built up
into shape. If the most vaporipg and gas
| conading stump-orator in the Republican
party had been elected President instead OF
| General Grant, he would probably shrink
from the Jidicule of repeating In hisinaugural
the Dragging congratulations Of the Chicago
platform over the triumphant and completed
achieve ment of reconstruction.
The dream Of the Chicago platform is some
what like that famous dream OF King Nebu-
chadne z2ar's, which he forgot in the morning,
and then was about TO Gu. all the soOthsayers
in pieces because they could not interpret it.
The magnificent image in that dream was
dashed 10 pieces and scattered like ohaf,
| because the feet ON which 1t stood were made
of oommiDgled iron AID clay, and crumbled
as soon as they were struck. Negro suffrage
| is the clay in the great radical image, and
| even in those States where the image seems
to stand, the first collision will shatter 1t.
| That 1t can never be self-sustaining ia
confessed by Congress in passing the
new constitutional amendment intended to
put IT under the protection OF the Federal Gov.
ernment and uphold It by the whole force OF
the national authority. They have violated
! one of their chief declarations at Chicago as a
means OF propping mp the tottering edldce Of
negro reconstruction,. for whose perfection
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