p. 53 | More Trouble Brewing

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1866

More Trouble Brewing.

FROM the following statements written by an occasional correspondent of the N. Y. Independent, it would appear that such a thing as "an insurrection and another war" in this nation is an event not altogether impossible, in the minds of those who stand at the head of public affairs. The country is evidently not yet where it can see to the bottom of its difficulties. The writer says:—

"THE LONG RECESS"

of Congress at this time is to be seriously regretted. Restoration of civil government in the seceded States is regarded by the President as a matter of immediate importance, and if the legislative branch of the Government has any rules to lay down for this restoration, it would seem proper that it speak without delay. But after a week or two of preparation to grapple with this question, Congress adjourns for the "holidays," with an apparent indifference to the whole subject, which excites considerable unfavorable comment.

"Advantage has been taken of this adjournment, by the President and Mr. Seward, to execute

"A FLANK MOVEMENT."

against the radical hosts. For they have withdrawn the provisional governors from four of the rebel States, and recognized the governors elect. I say 'they' advisedly, for it is well understood here that this action is as much Mr. Seward's as the march to the sea was Gen. Sherman's.

Mr. Seward has committed himself to this policy unreservedly. To a certain member of Congress, he said that if Congress persisted in its course, the President could withdraw the troops from the South, and then if an insurrection and another war came, on Congress would lie the fearful responsibility! Succeeding this remarkable threat, came the counting of the provisionally-organized States among those that 'ratified' the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery. And now we have the recognition of South Carolina with its 'code,' and Mississippi with its rebel brigadier-general governor.

If not usurpation—which many senators and representatives boldly declare it—this action is discourtesy to a Congress which has under consideration the status of the States in question, and it is calculated to create trouble between Congress and the President.'