The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-09
Grue Nortberner.
Paw Paw, MIcmoAs, JUNE 0, 1875,
From the Chicago Times, Of May "a, 1876.
The C0nfedsrates "Direcftng'' Tktags

port OF congressional proceedings, Of
fered resolution directing the president
to inform the house whether he has re.
ceived any official information in regard
to violence and danger menacing Amer.
lean citizens in the Ottoman empire,
and whether any steps have been taken
for the protection of such American cit
liens residing in the Ottoman empire"
This resolution was adopted.
1t is interesting to see house of rep.
resentatives, controlled by such men as
Virginia Tucker and Georgia Hill, vic.
lAting usage as old as the government
of the United States by directing the
president to transmit information OF this
kind These men who went out of the
union, or tried to 90 out of it hugglng
the constitution to their breasts, and
who have come back into the union do.
ing the same thing, ought to know that
the president is not the servant OF the
house, and cannot be " directed" to fur.
nish information respecting matters per.
tanning to the executive branch of the
government. These sticklers for strict
construction have always maintained
that the executive was coordinate
branch of the government, and could not
in any way be held answerable to the
legislative branch except by impeach-
ment. Had such resolution as that
introduced by Tucker, and adopted by
the confederate house, been introduced
during the reign of King Buchanan, all
the fuckers, and Hills, and Davises,
and Toombses of Dixie would have de-
nounced it as an attempt to destroy that
beloved instrument, the constitution,
and to invade the sacred rights of the
executive. But the confederate mind
views the constitution in one way when
democrat is president, and in a very
different way when a republican is presi-
dent. A democratic president is co.
ordinate branch of the government, to
be treated with all due respect. A re-
publican president is mere servant of
the house, to be ordered hither and yon
at pleasure. So the confederate house
has declared by the vote on fuckers
resolution.
And the confederate house declared
the same thing by its vote on Mr.. Ran.
dalls resolution commanding Secretary
Bristow to deliver over all documents
pertaining to the whiskey frauds, with.
out reference to the public interests. A
republican member wished to introduce
the usual clause, 6" if not incompatible
with the public interests" upon which
the democrats always insisted when they
were in power but Mr.. Randall would
not admit it, and the confederate major.
i.y passed the resolution coD1nlandiag
an official in the executive coordinate
branch of the government to do thing
which might be extremely prejudicial to
the public interests. President Grant
read the confederates one lesson when
they impudently asked him why he alb
sented himself from Washington during
the summer months, and he may read
them another in response 70 their latest
demand upon him. 1t will also be in
order for Mr.. Bristow to give the con-
federates to understand that they are
not his master.
The Times is not now speaking of /
things as they ought to be, but of things
as they are, and as the confederate
crowd have always insisted that they
ought to be. A responsible executive,
subject to question by the popular
branch of the legislature, would be
good thing, no doubt, under suitable re-
striction But that is what does not ex-
list, and the confederates belle their own
professions when they assume that ex
ecntive responsibility exists under the
They do not belle their
own record, it is true, for they have no.
toriously done their best to destroy the
constitution by destroying the union,
but they belle their professions in the
mos; barefaced way. If they want the
right to catechise, if they want respon-
sible executive, their proper course, and
tbe only course at all consistent with
their professions, is to propose an amend.
nent to the constitution. This they do
not do, and presumably for the reason
hat they fear some of their own crowd
may one day be called to account. Had
heir dear friend Andy johnson been
like British prime minis
Ter, or a Swiss president, his mischievous
career in the white house would have
been cut short in hurry. But the
constitution provides for no such &C.
and the confedcrates, as
he especial and self.constituted con.
ervators of that instrument, should be
he FIRST to recognize this truth.
A very noticeable thing in connection
With Mr.. fuckers resolution is the
leep solicitude of the confederatcs for
he well.being of American citizens
abroad. These constitution-huggers are
profoundly concerned about violence
md danger menacing American citizens
u the Ottoman empire" and BoOriogoo-
Cha, but perfectly unconcerned about
violence and danger to American citi.
,ens at home. An American citizen is {
seized and hung on the public square in
Clinton, Louisiana, because he is a re-
nnhlican. No confederate concerns him I