Congress, which has pretty nearly struck down the President, has
been compelled, as we anticipated, to level a blow at the Supreme Court. An appeal came up from a Circuit Court which involved the validity of all the Reconstruction Laws, and it was understood that they would be declared unconstitutional. The nation, not being disposed to allow seven old lawyers to constitute themselves a supreme legislature, therefore passed a law forbidding the Court to entertain appeals from either the Circuit Courts or the National Courts, that is, forbidding it to meddle in politics at all. Of course the President vetoed the Bill, and of course, there- fore, it will be passed over his head. Every power, therefore, has yielded to the Representatives except the Senate, and it will be curious to watch if that body will keep itself in accord with the people, or will compel them to strike it down also. If it also gives way, little will be left of the American Constitution except its fundamental principle, that the will of the nation is supreme over all within it, the only principle worth keeping.
