The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-11

The principal event o. the week in Con-
gress has been the presentation OF Mr.. Bout
wells report on the condition Of Mississippi.
The recommendations of the committee are
that the following measures may become
necessary aud possible In an exisency ;
protection OF the rights OF citizens In the re-
spectve States. This. we may be permitted to
say, we suspected before. Second. that States
in anarchy" or wherein the affairs are con-
trolled by bodies of armed men, should be do
nied representation In Congress. Now, every body
knows that eAch branch OF Congress Is the Judge
OF the returns and qualifications OF its own
members anu that III all human probability, so
long As the Democrats have control OF the
House. they will admit Mississippi COngressmen
OF tneir own party, while the Senate, so long as
IL l. Hepu bican. Will try to keep them out and
that there Is no provision In the Constitution or
laws for Congress hs whole denying repre-
vice the committee gives is that the constitu-
tional guarantee OF a repu 'iican form Of gov
ernment viii require the United States. II
these disorders continue and milder neasures
prove Intellectual, TO remand the State to u
teTrtori 4 condition." and, Through a system
OF public education and kindred means OF i'm
proyemept, change the ideas Of the Inhabitants,
aud reconstruct the Government on repuoli-
can basis"
We confess that we md It dircult TO speak
with moderation OF recommendations at once
As wicked and imbecile as these. On the LIST OF
January, 1874. the entire Government OF Missis.
sippi was Republican, with Anes at its head,
and II Is now nearly two years since the Nicks-
burg riot took place. In that cass Ames APP
piled for. and Grant gave him, troops. aud Con-
gressonal committee investigated the subject.
aud reported that thev were both justified in
what they did. After this there WAS an interval
OF profound quiet, but before the NOvembe
elections OF last year attempt WIS maze to
get more troops, TO which the President refused
to yield. The result was that the state, us
everybody expected, went Democratic; aud
now the President, who last year. after all tho
previous riots, thought troops were not neede d.
sits down and writes letter Ton July 70, before
the appearance Of this report TO Gov. Chamber
lain, counding to him that Mississippi 10 gov
erned to-day by officials chosen through fraud
aud violence, such rs would scarcely be ac-
credited to sayages, much less to a civilized
aud Christian people" IL he knows this now,
he must have apprehended II then, and his
refusal to interfere must be characterized as AL
savagss, much less to the President OF civil
lied and Christian people" Aud now comes
this second Congressional report, and declares
that the State is in condition OF anarchy III h as
been, judged by all external signs, In a copdi-
tion oi profound peace ever slnce). ana that we
may have to make II a Territory and begin re-
construction NJ the point IL mad reached In 1893.
In otner words we have Mr.. Boutwell, assuring
us now, on the eve of an exciting Presidential
election, that state which Gen. Grant last
year treated as being in the same condition as
massachusetts, or New York, Is, and has for a
long time BEEN in condition OF anarchy and
we nave the extraordinarily impudent proposal
that after the experiment Of reconstruction b As,
according TO MIR. Boutwell,, completely failed,
after ten years trial, ana the State 10 In the
condition Of Mexico through the incom potency
OF himself and his party In pacifying II, we shall
now Unjust him and his party with the task OF
doing IL all over again.