The New York Express,
alluring to the report of a contemplated movement among the
Border States Congressmen, published in the New York
Times, says:
‘
There is some, much truth in this, we are inclined to believe, judging by what we hear from
Washington.
The Border States men in Congress and the Conservatives of the
North are in utter grief, and almost in despair — because not only of the shameless prostration of the accidental powers of this Government now in the hands of the Radicals and Jobbers in Congress, but because measures are in contemplation by these Radicals, which, in their judgment, are as utterly subversive to the
Constitution as Secession itself.
The
Wilsons, the Sumners, the Wades seem to have absolute control in Congress, despite the
Republican Brownings, the Cowans, and the Doolittle, while the
President himself, as if under some fatal play, since he has taken the
Democratic Mr. Stanton into his Cabinet, fails to exert the conservative influence we had from him for some weeks before
Stanton became his counsellor, if not controller,
The step contemplated, or talked of, is in no revolutionary, violent spirit-- but in the spirit of profound grief, and deep sorrow — the spirit of mourning over events which cannot now be checked or controlled, as the people cannot be reached in time, through the slowly- moving forms of our constitutional Government.
Millions of taxation, millions of appropriations are asked for, and demanded, for seemingly, utterly unconstitutional purposes.
The idea is, that they who ask for them ought to vote all alone for the means to carry them out. We think, as in hinted in the letter to the
Times, that the border States men are willing to confide in the
President; but of the Wilsons,
Sumners, Wades, all conservatives have a horror.
The President means right, or seems to mean right, which cannot be said of the many ambitions men about him; desirous of steering into his shoes; while, it must be confessed, the
President lacks ability or courage to execute his own good intents or will, L he only had the spirits and self-reliance of the
Democratic and drew
Jackson, or the
Whig Henry Clay, he would govern a be governed, as he now is too often.
’
