El Ebt ITEIMAW- inapritam7its; D. THE AISIEASTY PEoCLareistnour. . .. • . If the Stake which' cs'rticipeted In the rebelliciiiiad been reorganized at pre scribed bribe, laws; it their respective delegations .had bean re-admitted "to seats in the two Houses of Congress; and if their several population; in.word. and deed;' were exhibiting - 6 restored loyalty; a Proclamation. of Amnesty, broad as that fumed by the President on Saturday last, would have been rewired with unmixed attlafsetiOn by the Vest body of the inhabitants of all sectioniof the country. .Hey, an untrerealAMMlS ty would not have mead essooeptabls. The dent has not only confronted and elied . the will of the nation, es es prefaed In the' taws, but his exercised a vast authority, his right to which is challenged, and is at best doubtful. ldocithis Amnesty he has questionably p almed,'• is not the.musurmation troll of a restored Union. but a ~means to fresh agitation; which may postpone that event. - . , If. It was conceded on all luMds that . the powers of Amnesty and Pardon are .Jcienticei, and belong to - the President, 'he would hill be 'open to the Imputation of grossly misusing or abusing the trust 1 confided to him, in what he has done- i If ho' an can legally proclaim Amnesty.' now, he could haen pm/aimed It the day after Antietam or Gettysburg, 'and In terms' including all tha °Marrs and men of laut'atirmy. The abuse of pew- - er in en Amnesty issued Martini now, is 'imply comparative. -: ... . Alit early as lean Congress assumid control over the whole matter of Amine. ty, by peering a law authorising the President tuptoclaim it, but Axing the oteaditionh.' Last Winter a bill was pass ed to repeal this law; which bill- was neither approved • nor vetoed by .the President, but became a law by not being returned to the Houle le 'Which It origi nated within ten daps after its passage. The Connotational power granted to the President is to "grant reprieves and pardons." The President and his advt. sers hold dud Amnesty is one form or Pardon... Congress holds Gull Amnesty L a greater power than Pardon; ' : hence not included in It, and can be oxen:lead only by the "sovereign power,"„ which Is not the President, but the ivies' Cate lives of the Blates-and the people, - . The President's: Proclamation, even if he had en undisputed right to Issue it, would be a flagrant dististfof power. It is not in the interest of loyalty; nor de - 7 signed to promote concord: . The inten tion of It waifn a bold and questionable way to frustrate the Congressional plan of reconstruction, by prematurely rester -Mg moat of the active and infleential men among the rebels to tke political rights end privileges they forfeited on. der the operation of the laws. The ef fect will be to let the rebels sit nuesstrra: biy in judgment In their cm' cases; to , exert a degree of potentiality in deter mining whether the Congressional plan of resbitrallon, shall f stand or be wept awry': It puts them on theisme footing as the men who fought the battles of the country, even while the questionsgrow ing out of the war are. stillpanding. It is a direct deltoids to Congress and to the loyal constituencies represented . . Theileasident may be Zursty..paision ate ind unstable; but there ale about him, and in his confidence, inspiring him with their ideas, and shaping him to their ends, •a number of men of supe rior caper:lV:era rialtnie.:.-These.men believe that all the government did in putting down the rebellion was done in virtue of authority found outside the Constitution twilit the -tationalmner ' genby: If they Make any distil . meths between the loyal and, disloyal, it is to exculpate the rebels and heap unstinted smile* do those - who combatted them. Their most ardent wish is to lisnlstr from power the men who sued the govern ment, and to install the - inders of the rebellion In the nested seats. Having the; President under] their influence, they mean, while despising him, tomake the most out of him they can. ' So far Congress has shown much less tut, energy, decision and courage than these men. When the Scams should have noted, they were content to con sume weeks and months in talk to no suhstantial sad. Many of the leaders thereof permitted themselves to be doped hit° half =Mauves or no meas urer, at all, appearing not to comprehend the forces with which they were deal ing, *if the malignant drift .the Itasca tin was lirmariing to Public affairs. What was euy for Congress to do be fore, Is more difficult now; but we trust thst enlightened by experience the per iod for faltering hie goisa prisstastw., Whatever dialinte - there they be as to the possession by Nsrozion 111, of the inbelectual qualities .usential to high stateamanshfp, nobody &labia his hav ing, in s large degree, the lesser endow ments which constitute tke natural &tit of a Politician., Self:confident, unscrup ulous; akinfuliathe , oonciasiment of Ids opinion's's& parpnees, magi, to,acispt himself to all aintingenciet; and adroit' in making the best that can pciesibly be made u matters stand, he is always, a central. figure In European , politi c.; object of interest, if not of solicitude. Bellied in the negotiations ,with 80-31A8C1C 31A8C1C which preceded the campaign of Pmeabsagainst Aaotda , end constrained to accept, with aneppearance of placid ity, accomplished facie most unpalatable to himself aid Prance, he has ever duce been contriving how to prevent dui far dor end complete- Indication of Ger many, which would be so mu dis ' trona to hie dynasty as well as to the istedomixonce . of France in the affair's of In Mance:at Interview with Passim' aseristliety.two hatched a nice swinge. moat, which had only . the one iroinven. Bence that it would not work u content • plated. Thia ems to group the South .. Ginn= Stites around Austria. There wit to . nivelty la this conception. It wee IncorPorited low* OrPf-ao o which terminated the ressent,Gormanic war. Wheukit was first brought for ward, Francs accepted it because It held a word of promise to the Ur - eccoident withlts daises. Austria welcomed it because she saw in it a lope—the bare possibility' of an accomplishment 'par daily favorable to her hereditart prate:L. dons.. Prude onstured becinsepesco bad Isioculle at'usoellawi uonditicis for r°44duE what 14 woe 11 Y- battle, sad because, as she 'mounted the strength bf the popular eentimeatde mending national consolidation, it wee -apparent the project could never be lie dee/WU a Mitt]. The interview between the Preach and Amain Emperors' seats thrill of aaaletrthrouihoul .aurilfe-' The first limuunion seemed to be thuthe print,. -and people of t4eSoith-German Steno could wit' Teed' the. deltiiiiinido n of these twolnen.. The event' has Proved otherwiee. ' Evan tie!' interposition of Prance' in the antra Of.43o7nair was promptly regarded as an offense; sad bum nolo of the States have ratified the fresh attempt to dividend distract Moreover, Giese eenuusto be abundant reasons Ow believing that a large major itrof the people of Austria, while feel ing a ileitis', suaclunenttothe reigning family and a strong