[449] or true construction of this simple and general grant of power to the President, not to suffer it to interfere with those specific powers of Congress which are more safely deposited in the legislative department, and that the powers thus assumed by the President do not belong to him, but to Congress.It has been in violation of this principle that so much harm has been done to the South—that the Executive Power at Washington has been so severe in its repression as to carry a blight all through the South, both to the White man and the Black man. This, of course, has been attended with executive favoritism, by which, under a regime since known as Carpetbagism, robberies to the extent of many millions have been committed,—fortunes untold extorted from the helpless,—and insults, injuries, and wrongs without number inflicted upon a prostrate and ruined people.
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