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[From the Patriot Si Union.]
THE "BUCKSHOT- WAR.
ThmUieiiK Stevens. Thirty Tears Ago. and
Sen.
\
It is known to our readers that Thad
deus Stevens is the recognized leader of
the Republican party in the Iloa-e of
Representatives of the "Rump" Con
gress. But, in view of the length ol'
time which lias elapsed, it may not be
so generally known that this same man
was the acknowledged leader of anoth
er "Rump" House many year- ago;
and, tiierefore, we propose to refresh
their memories by a brief recital of a
few of the most prominent incidents
connected with the last named memo
rable body. We desire to do this with
a view of Showing that his whole pub
lic life has been characterized by a total
disregard of the popular will, as well
as of individual rights.
His first public act, which gave him
any notoriety, was the inqumdorial
committee he had "organized in the
House of Representatives at the State
Capital in of which he was chair
man. The oi ject of this inquisition was
to extort from men connected with the
institution of Masonry, an exposition
of their principles, including the si*>
t"i;kts of the order, which it was alleg
ed they had SWORN to preserve inviolate.
To this end many of the most promi
nent statesmen of the Commonwealth
were dragged before this Star Chamber
and held in "durance vile" for weeks,
and compelh d-to every indignity that
malice could invent. Had they been
the. vertex! criminals, they could not
have been subjected to greater igno
miny.
Among those who were thu *out raged
may be mentioned the lamented Cov
entors Wolf and Shank, and the ]lon.
George M. Dallas— nor did even the sa
cred desk (scape the per- cution of this
fanatical anti-mason. The Rev. 3lr.
.Sprolls, an eminent divine of the Pres
iyterian church, wa- dragged by an of
ficer of tit" II >use before the "modi rn
Jnggernaut," as heappi >priatelystyled
the Committee, and put under the tor
ture, with a view of compelling him to
livulge underoath what he knew about
.iiis ancient and n -;?( • able institution.
Gut he, following the example of the
listinguisiied state-men we have nam
ed, spurned the miserable tyrant, who
would thus have him violate his honor.
These men were only released from t e
re.-x by the united votes of the Demo
cratic members, with a few of the op
position. Thus ended this diabo' ■>>'
(tnti-nitis'tnic Steven.*' iaaitixi' - on.
We next find this man, Thaddeits
Stevens, in l-ds, at the head of a wick
ed conspiracy to overthrow civil gov
ernment in our peaceful old Common
wealth, by ignoring the clearly exprc-s
--ed will of the people at the ballot-box;
and but for the indomitable courage of
the Democratic members of the Legis
lature. the hellish plot would have
cceded. and "the election treated as
though it had never been held."
There were two Senators and eight
members of the House, who iiad been
fairly elected by a majority of some -ev
en or eight thousand, whom this "bold,
had man" attempted to exclude from
their seats, and .-uI:i> ute in their stead
a sot of men, who, ir wis notoriously
known, had been r. jected by tie people
.y an overwhelming majority. Tib
oelngan important chapter in the his
tory of the man whose acts we are crit
ieising, our readers will bear with us if
we go a little more into detail.
At the period last referred to, ISIS,
the county of Philadelphia elected two
Senators and eight mem er- nf the
House, separately from the city, and
thecounty was divided into seventeen
election districts, ten of which were
Democratic and seven opposition.
When the return judges met it was
ascertained that the Democratic ticket
wa- elected, whereupon the seven op
position return judges teeeded, and set
u > a little convention of their own;
that is, they made out a certificate, set
ting forth that the Whig members had
received the number of votes set oppo
site their names in the districts repre
sented by these seven judges, excluding
altogether the ten districts represented
by the Democratic judges, which com
prised much the largest proportion of
the votes of the county.
This minority patter was forwarded to
Herri-burg, as was also the certificate
signed by them ajorUy, and at the meet
ing of the Legislature the former was
the only one presented in either House
bv the.Secretary of the Com monwealth.
To attempt a detailed statement of all
that occurred during that memorable
struggle between those wliodeterndne 1
:tt every hazard, to maintain the invio
lability of the ballot-box, and those
who wickedlyassailed it, would require
more time and space than we can now
appropriate. But, suffice it to say that,
upon the motion of Mr. Stevens, the
opposition members of the House went
through the/omof electing a Speaker,
and before the Clerk of the House had
i called over the names of the members,
to ascertain who was present, the tellers
appointed by Mr. Stevens announced
that Thos. S. Cunningham was duly
• elected Speaker.
>;one, of course, but the opposition
members participated in thi> revolu
tionary movement, and they number* <1
but fifty-one, inditing the eight spuri
ousmen from Philadelphia,whoseclaiin
| to seats was based mlely on a paper sign
| ed by seven out of seventeen return
Judges, and which did not even
the common forms of an election return,
which carried upon its face the most
unmistakable impress of fraud.
Whilethis "Rump" House was going !
through the mockery of electing other ;
officers, appointing committees, Ac.,
the Democratic members having an
swered to their names, proceeded to the
election of William Hopkins. Thus i
was presented the extraordinary spec
tacle of hrtt Speakers occupying the
chair at the same time; no, not exactly
the chair, for Mr. Hopkins occupied it, :
while Cunningham Mood on the plat-j
form on his right.
On the night of the day on which j
those proceedings occurred, quite an i
exciting scene occurred in the Senate.;
In this body the same attempt was i
made, and for a time was successful, of i
forcing into seats two men as Senators ;
who had been rejected by the people, j
and while Mr. Brown, one of the duly ;
elected Senators, was making an effort ;
to be heard in vindication of the ma-j
jvsty of the ballot-box, some indigna
tion was exhibited on the part of those
pn .nt whose rights had been trampled
upon, and Stevens A Co., finding them-!
selves foiled in their treoxon, and fear
ing that a righteous retribution migh!
la v.-ited upon them, like trembling
traitors, made good their escape out at
a back window of the Senate chamfer.
This "Ilump" House met for some |
days in a room at Wilson's Hotel, and
afterward- in the supreme court room, i
and the regular House met in the Hall
of the House.
it is due to three of the members of
the "Cunningham House" to say that
they never met with that body, after
the first day, but havingdiscoveredthe
infamy of the conspiracy, like honest
men went into the "Hopkins House,"
a- it was called, in contradistinction
from the "Cunningham House," and
took the oath of office. This left the
"Runipers" with but forty-eight mem
hers, including the eight xpurioax men
from Philadelphia, who had been, as
has been shown, rejected by a decided
majority of the people. Those three |
won—Messrs. Butler and Sturdevant, i
Luzerne county, and Montelius, of Un
ion county. The latter iestificd before
the committee of invi -ligation that tie
told Mr. Stevens that hi- conscience
would not permit him to sanction these
"corrupt proceedings." "Conscience,•
indeed, said Mr. Steven-, "throw con-1
- -it-nee to the devil, and stand by your
party." The two House-stood as fol-j
lows:
HOPKINS HOUSE.
Regular Democrats without dispute 48
With Philadelphia di.souted 56
CUNNINGHAM TWt SE.
Regular Anti-Ma 01:?. without dispute, 43 j
With Philadelphia disputed. 51
To aid in t!ii> infamoiK xchemc of sub
verting the government, Stevens indu
ced Governor Ritner, who, though per
haps honest, wa- it very weak man, to
call out the military, and some twelve
or fourteen hundred volunteers, with ;
all the pi#np of war, with "buck xhof
and bud" were quartered at Harris-j
burg for weeks, at an expense to the j
people of perhap- a hundred thousand |
dollars, for the purpo-( of intimida
ting the Democracy. But it failed,
law and order were maintained, and
the integrity of the - u!iot-box preserv
ed, very much to the discomfort of the
conspirators.
is it any wonder tin n, that a man
wi:h mch antecedents should now be!
found at tin head of a. band of con
spirator- against the life of the nation,
setting at naught the unanimous pro
test of the white population of the .
District of Columbia, as well a- those
of the .Southern State-?
THK IKESII>KVr.K OitAX OA Htl'.STHi
txvm.ic.
The National President !
Johnson'- personal organ, thus speaks
of the Democratie nominee for Govern- ;
or:
We have already published the reso
lutions ol" the Democratic State Con
vention of Pennsylvania, and we now
append thespeeeh of its nominee, Hon.,
Ilk-ter Clymer, of lierks county. The
resolutions and the speeeh of Mr. Clv
mer meet present issues precisely and '
alone, and they are all that could be de
sired by such Republicans as support
President Johnson's policy, by the Con-!
scrvatives and oid Whig-, and by the
large class of people who have never
been politicians by trade, and who are ;
sustaining the President for the express
purpose of restoring harmony among
men, and with that the business pros-j
perity of the country. We-ee no rea
son why such as these in Pennsylvania i
should not support Mr. Clymer, of .
whom the New York Tribune itself j
thus speaks:
Wedo not often find a chance to praise i
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, j
but we never leave one unimproved; j
and we are now enabled to gratify our '
natural inclination with a good con- j
science. Their nomination of Hiester j
Clymer for Governor Is one that it was !
eminently lit that they should make, j
For, in the first place, he is a good citi-;
/.en, of very fair abilities, and reputable !
character. Next, ho lives in Berks
county, which ha- go lerolly given large
| Democratic majorities, and has repeat
' edly tried to have a Governor, but lias
; not succeeded; and it i- Hut just to give
her another chance. Then, he was a
Whig of other days; and it is hut fair
that the party which has furnished to
; the present Democracy of Pennsylva
nia so large a share of its brains should
occasionally have the post of honor;
and it shows a proper 1 iberality in the
'•birthright members" to record it.
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 30. 1866
HOT. ROBERT J- WALKER.
This distinguished politician -ent an
eloquent letter to themeetingin Wash- i
ington on the tHd of February. Mr.
Walker is an old and sagacious states
man, and his opinions are entitled to
respectful consideration. He has been
a member of both branches of Con
gress, and was Secretary of the Trcas- j
ury during the administration of Col. j
Polk. At the commencement of the I
civil war, Walker was sent to Europe
by Mr. Lincoln as apolitical and finan- ;
cial agent, and on his return liecontri j
buled a series of articles to the press in ;
favor of emancipation in Maryland,
for commercial, agricultural and finan- ;
cial reasons. A letter from so loyal a 5
person should be read by all honest j
Republicans.
Letter from Hon. Robert J. Walker.
Philadelphia, ) j
February 1860. \ \
To the Editorx of the In'dlTgencer :
Detained from the great Union mee
ting by circumstances beyond my con
trol, 1 must address it telegraphically-, j
and not as I did after the fall of Sumter !
President Johnson's veto opens the i
new campaign in favor of the Union.
It arrests the overthrow of the States ;
ahd the concentration of all power in |
one consolidated military despoti-m.
It prevents the expulsion of eleven |
States from the Union, and the erec
tion of eleven Irelands within itslim- j
it-, to be controlled and oppressed by j
military power. It prevents the quar
tering of a large standing army and
hosts of officials in the South, with an ;
enormous increase of our debt, to be
followed surely by oppressive taxation, j
or dishonoring and disgraceful repudi-1
ation. It prevents the defeat of the
plans of the Secretary of the Treasury,
for the funding and reduction of the
public debt, and a safe and gradual re
turn of specie payments. Repudiation
is disgrace and ruin, and the probabie J
extinction of republican institution-1
throughout the world. The result of
large standing armies and oppressive
taxation, caused by the policy of the j
President's opponents, would produce
an earthquake convulsion. It would '
quadruple the excise and income tax,
blight every field, becalm every ves-:
sel, break every bank and railroad, and
ruin every factory in the country. It t
dissolves the Union, destroys the Con
stitution, and erects a military despot- !
ism on its ruins. It would postpone,
porhapsindefinitely, the transfer of the
command of the commerce and ex-1
changes of the world from Europe to
America. European de-pots would
exult, whilst th© fried- at' fret-loir, in j
the old world, and especially in Ireland
and Germany, would weep tears of
blood.
Johnson i- walking in the footsteps ;
of Jackson and Lincoln,and re-echoing
their sentiments, "The Union shall be |
preserved." The prolonged govern- '
ment of eleven States as conquered |
provinces, enforcing taxation without 1
representation, would permanently al
ienate the South from the North. It'
might drive them to madness anddes-,
pair, and renew the civil war when our
credit and resources were exhausted, j
We have emancipated, through a great
constitutional amendment, carried only j
by Johnson's policy, four millions of
negroes. Let us not attempt to,enslave
eight millions of our erring white;
brethren of the South: they will all;
welcome death before such a fate as j
this. [ have fought all my life against i
-ecc--ion and disunion in the South,!
and 1 renew the contest against it in j
the North. Congress has noconstitu-J
tional power to dissolve the Union;!
and to condemn eleven States to terri-;
tonal pupilage, is a dissolution of the
Union. I cannot act with Northerner
Southern di-unionists. Johnson's pol
icy alone can practically restore the i
Union.
It has already crushed the heresy of
>ecess jon at the South, and it alone lias
secured a constitutional majority for
abolition of slavery. If the heresy of;
seces.-ion is crushed at the South, and;
emancipation secured, the crowning i
glory rests upon the le ad of Andrew
Johnson. Slavery and secession, our j
only discordant elements, being thus
extirpated, the Johnson policy will go
on conquering and to conquer—not by
the sword, but by wisdom and magna- j
nimity. It will subdue at the South !
their pas-ions and prejudices. It will
touch their hearts and conquer their af-i
feet ions. We shall hear no more of,
exceptional and individual acts of in- 1
subordination, for we shall have a Un
ion of interest and affection—a Union |
of States with States, and not with con- !
qtiered provinces. We shall have the
Union and representation of all the
States, as ordained by the Constitution.
We shall have a cordial, fraternal, an
ever'expanding and perpetual Union.
Men of the South," from Virginia to
Texas, close up the ranks, and fight j
harder to pet into the Union than you j
ever did to pet out of it. You fought 1
us under the secession flag with unsur-:
passed co u rageand endurance to getout
of the Union. Come, now,our erring, j
but still touch loved brethren of the |
South, and re-assemble with us again j
at the political family altar at Wash-;
ington ; come with loyal hearts, under;
the flag of our sires, and to the music •
of the Union, and we will give you a J
cordial welcome. Come,and the recor
ding angel will blot out in reconciling
tears, the memory of hu man follies and
frailties. The people 011 whom John
son has always relied are with him,
and will welcome back a 11 loyal Union
ists to seats in both Housi's of Congress.
(n:\Eßll, GEARY.
He Borrow* a >le*.*tse.
The person whom the anti-Johnson
Republicans of Pennsylvania nomina
ted the other day for Governor was for
merly the Territorial Governor of Kan
sas. His name is John W. Geary.—
Doubtless he can write his own name;
perhaps he can spell it correctly; but it
is certain he cannot write his own mes
sages. ' When he was in Kansas, he
stole them. Were he to be elected Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, of which hap
pily there issntall probability, he would
have to steal them again. Pennsylva
nia really deserves a Governor capable
of writing his own messages. The com
mon school system of that State ought
not to culminate in such gubernatorial
imbecility.
We print below in parallel columns
extracts from Governor Geary's inau
gural address of 1857, and the inaugural
address of (Governor Henry J. Gardner,
delivered to the Massachusetts Legisla
ture two vears before, in 1855:
EXTRACT FROM GOVER-i EXTRACT FROM COVER- i
NOR HEXRV J. CARD- NOR JOHN' V\. GEARY'S j
SBR'S INAI'GCRAL All- IXACGCRAL ADDRESS, j
DRESS DELIVERED TO DELIVERED TO THE
THE LEGISLATI'RE OF TERRITORIAL LEGISLA- ]
KASSACIiI'SETTS, JAN.I TI RE OF KANSAS, JAN.
9, 1855. 12, 1857.
Gctlrmeii of tite Sen- Gentlemen of the Terri
ate and House of Rep- torial legislature of
reseiitatives: Kansas:
Tbat gracious Being in The all-wise and be
wbose bands are alike nefieent Being who con- !
the destinies of individ- tro's alike ihe destinies
uals and of nations, has of individualsand of un
permitted us to assemble tions, has permitted you
this day intrusted with tocnnvene this day. char
gra.e responsibilities'gcd with grave responsi
aud duties. * * biiities. * # *
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1 know no safer index in For ofii ial action. I
official action than a con- know no better rule than
seieniious conviction of a conscientious cnnvic
duty, none more fluctua- tionof duty, none more !
ting than the attempt to variable than the vain '
satisfy ten pornry cap-attempt to conciliate j
rice. Prii.cip'es are en- temporary prejudice.— i
uurin jr. and it disregard- Principles and justi-e
ed, -ooncr or later the are eternal; and if tam
verdictof condemnation nered with, sooner or la
will be recorded against ter the sure and indig
those who are t ilse to nan' verdict of popular
tbeir requirements. Let condemnation against
us then be true to our those who are untrue to
country and our duty their .endings will be :
Lei the success of prin- tendered. Let us not be
ciplc, not of party, be,false to our country, our
ourdesite—the benefit of duty, and our cor.stitu- .
the State, not of a fte- euts. The triumph of t
tion, our aim.— M-i.ua- truth and principle, not
ckusetts Sruati l>oru- of partisan and se fish
Matt *\o. '4, for 1855. object's, should be our :
steady purpose—the gen- i
eral welfare, and not the
interest of a few, our sole
'aim— Kansas Jonrii'il
of Councils for 1857, j
prge 21.
There i much more of ihe same sort j
of bare-Saeed literary thieving. Per
haps robbery would be the litter term,
for the theft is accompanied with vio
lence. Geary not only stole the Mas
sachusetts Governor's appropriate sen
tiuients and correct English, but twists
thetn into Geary grammar and dreary
twn-e —not (jUlte destroytngtheidentity !
of the passage, however.
Geary begins bis theft by paying two j
compliments to the Deity in place of
tiie one which he steals. "Gracious 15e
ing" becomes "the all-wise and benefi
cent Being." With this change we find
no fault, for it may signify that the
man who now soiicits Pennsylvania's
suffrages has the germs of a conscience
in him, and, like the Hottentot and the !
Thug, whose religions are also of a very j
rudimentary sort, thought it possible j
'iu the act of sin to propitiate its re
warder by ampler ascriptions to his j
awful name. But the next disfigure
ment which Geary practices upon this
stolen property is villainous. Gover- j
nor Gardner's Yankees were permitted i
to "assemble," "intrusted" with grave ;
responsibilities. Geary must needs!
"convene" his legislators "charged." i
And so iie goes on, buttering his stolen i
substantives with superlative adjec-j
tives, in the hope that the loaf will 1 e j
swallowed ere it is known to bestolin.
"Principles are enduring," was the ■
'phrase at the Hub; but Geary strains
over the sentence and finally proclaims !
that"principlesandjusticeareeternal." i
We will not quarrel with Geary over ;
this transmogrification, though it is a
rule of truth well as of rhetoric not :
to stretch the language beyond the;
breadth of the fact. Justice probably j
is eternal, but Geary must see that in i
the present instance it has been only !
nine years in coming around; and as j
for principles, which, he says, are eter
nal too, it is quite enough for him to
prove that the stock which lie had in j
Kansas in the winter of '57 will last |
him to the fall of 'fid, to satisfy honest
Penusyivanians whom to cast their!
votes l'or. — New York World.
WHAT IT.WSVI.VAVIA I'AVSTO SI P
POST TIIE -V Eli HO BIIKEAT.
General Howard, who has charge of
the Negro Bureau, asks for an appro
priation of $11,50'),000 for the coming
year to support that institution. The
expenses of the whole government did
not cost much, if any, more than this
before the war of P i-. What amount
do our readers suppose that Pennsylva
nia pays to clothe, feed, and educate
negroes? We will tell you. In 180")
this State paid a little more than one
eighth of the entire internal revenue
t of the country, and will pay about the
! same proportion for lsijd. This gives
Pennsylvania's share of expenses of
! the Negro Bureau, about $1,500,000.
What think you, tax-payers of Penn
j sylvania, of paying a million and a half
of dollars annually to support negroes?
: How long are you willing to be thus
i taxed? Rememberthat Geary is a Bu-
I reau man.— DoyleMown Democrat.
A Government to be free, must bead
ministered by FKEE MEN ; not by fanat
ics, knaves, or madmen, but by men di
vested of every narrow party prejudice.
IF you want your hens to more than
pay their keeping, feed them well, and
keep broken oyster shells and bones al-
VOL. 61.™ WHOLE No. 5.341.
AMOS KEXDALI..
Below will be found a letter from Mr.
KENDALL, in answer to an invitation
to attend the great political meeting in
Washington City on the birth-day of |
the father of his country. Mr. KEN
DALL was the personal and political
friend of the Hero of New Orleans;
opposed nullification in 1832, and was
equally opposed to secession and rebel
lion in 1860 and 1861. The veteran pol
itician. who once supported ANDREW
JACKSON HOW sustains ANDREW JOHN
SON:
KENDALL GREEN, Feb. 21,1866.
HON. CHARLES MASON:
DEAR SIR: Your note of the 19th in
stant came to hand yesterday. While
the state of my health will not allow
me to participate in the contemplated
proceedings of to-morrow, 1 heartily
approve of their object. I see no pros
pect of the permanent restoration o:
peace and prosperity to our country,
or even of the preservation of our fed
eral system of government otherwise
tiian by a firm support of the President.
It is sad to see how like a Hock of un
thinkingsheep a majority of the House
of Representatives follow a leader whose
avowed political principle is to " throw
coiiscioiee to the devil." Every member
Of Congress is sworn to support the
■ on-iitution; that Constitution entitles
every State in the Union to representa
tion in Congress, yet at the dictation of
one had man a majority of the House
of Representatives vote that eleven
States hall have no Representatives in
Congress. Thus conscience and Consti
tution are botli "thrown to the devil."
States cannot be rebels. Tltcy have no
"necks to be hanged." Persons only
can be rebels, and the laws provide lot
their punishment.
But the revolutionists in Congress, not
content with punishing persons for i( -
hellion,undertake topunish States, thu
confounding the innocent with the
guilty. Members of the House of Rep
resentatives do not represent States, but
do represent the people in well-defined
districts. Loyal districts have sent loy
al members and have claimed their
right to representation. Why should
they not be received? Ought loyal men
i ia one district to be punished because
other districts have been dis oyal 01
have elected disloyal Representatives';
If disloyalty be the real ground of ex
elusion, why not admit the (oyal and
exclude only the disloyal?
The truth is. the idea of rebel Slato
is a tiction, invented by factionists to
prevent all representation from tin
Sooth, loyal or disloyal, lest per<ban
they should be driven from power. I;
a mutilated Congress, with only two
! thirds of the constitutional members,
j they may be able to maintain their ma
jority—a result very doubtful in a full
; Congress. If this be not the motive,
1 ° 7
j why do they not admit loyal meniber
! from the South, excluding only those
| who by their conduct have rendered
| themselves unfit to be members of a
| loyal Congress? By such means all dif
: Acuities would beremovedand harmony
preserved between all the Departments
| of the Government.
Power, politicalpourr , is the object
of the radical leaders. For political
power they would have let the South
i era States "depart in peace," and thus
perpetuated slavery. Thwarted in that
by the patriotism of the people, Demo
crats as well as Republicans, they per-
I verted the war for the Union to a war
j against slavery. For poircr they would
i now, by undisguised usurpation, force
n 'gro sitifrage on the States in the hope
i of availing themselves of negro aid in
governing the white population. F< r
j power they now maintain that the
| Federal Union was destroyed by the
successful use of the means adopted
t > preserve it! In this struggle for po-
I litieal power, no principle is too absurd
to be adopted. We may well bid an
eternal adieu to our Federal Republic,
unless the President be sustained and
these unscrupulous revolutionists de
prived of tlu-power to do mischief.— ;
When I began, I intended to write only
a few lines; but the alarming state of
the country presenting itself more and
more vividly as I wrote, has led me on
from paragraph to paragraph and from
page to page.
Yours, truly, AMOS KENDALL.
CAN YL SWALLOW IT?
We believe there are a good many
well meaning men in this State, who
have heretofore voted the Republican
ticket under the honest impression that
they were voting to maintain and sup
port the Union—They had no idea that
they were voting to place the negro on
an equality with themselves. If they
were called upon to-morrow to vote on
the question of negro sutfrage they
would vote against it. These men are
deceived and cheat< d. It can no longer
be denied that the Republican party
is a negro equality party! It is the de
termination of the leaders that Sambo
shall vote, that lie shall sit in the jury
box ancl hold office and enjoy all the
privileges of the white race! White
men, let us make ready to meet them
at the vital point, and reward them for
their treachery and their infamy when
the next election comes!
—News from Montana says the Black -
feet Indians are retaliating for some of
their tribe who were kiiied by whites
uist fall. The Governor has called out
live hundred volunteers, to rendezvous
at Fort Benton.
—A destructive fire occurred at Buf
falo on Friday evening, destroying the
New York Central Raiiroad depot. The
loss is estimated at over a miiiion dol-
Til E PIXYSYIVAJiIA KKSOI.ITIOAS
A* SEES HKSTEKA SPtt
-lA4I.ES.
The Republican Convention of Penn- -
sylvania has so boldly thrown down
the gauntlet at the feet of the PHsi
dent; it has so defiantly breasted his
policy, "stemming it with heart of con
troversy," that the Radicals as well as
the Democratic press, in all parts of
the country, are fain to acknowledge
that Stevens, Forney <fc Co., have pit
ted themselves against the President.
No intelligent man can, without re
nouncing all candor, pretend that the
Republicans could succeed in Pennsyl
vania without humiliating the Presi
dent. Here is a specimen of what the
Radical Chicago Tribune has to say on
the occasion:
Pennsylvania lias always kcch es
teemed a moderate, sober-minded, ar.d
cautious State in political action, and
always gft en to supporting the acting
President, where the same was possi
ble. Three months ago the Republi
cans of Pennsylvania were tolerably
hearty in their support of Johnson.
If they did not fully subscribe to his
peculiar views, as then avowed and un
derstood, they treated him with for
bearance, charity, and toleration. But
his treacherous veto, his copperhead
speech, and his dictatorial assumptions,
have disgustedand chagrined the patriot
ic men of the "old Keystoneand in
their State convention, on Thursday, at
Ilarrisburg, they nominated a Radical
soldier for Governor. They declared in
their platform that the work of recon
struction belongs to Congress —not to the
Executive. They praised their fellow
citizen, Secretary Stanton, who is a
bold Radical, and they wound up with
a resolve requesting Senator Cowan to re
sign his seat in the Senate. Cowan was
elected by the Republicans, but, like
Doolittle, has betrayed the cause of
freedom and become a blatant suppor
ter of the Johnson scheme of recon
struction, and, like Doolittle, votes and
acts with the copperheads on all party
measures. The resolution requesting
him, in the name of 300,000 Republi
can voters of Pennsylvania, to resign
his seat in the Senate, is an admonition
to "Jloses P." Johnson that he too had
better resign, unless he is willing to carry
out, in good faith, the sentiments oj the
great Union party le ho elect(d him. The
loyal masses are not in the humor lobe
bamboozled or betrayed, or to have the
fruits of their great victory over trea
son and rebellion donated back to the
conquered parricides."
President Johnson, of course, under
stands the bearing of the Pennsylva
nia resolutions; he cannot but see that
they array the Republican party of
that State in determined hostility to
him and his policy. It is for him to
decide whether he will give the mora)
aid of his great position to a body of
men who follow the lead, and submit
to the dictation, of Stevens and For
ney—two factious demagogues whom
lie had publicly denounced, and who
daily defy him in strains of vitupera
livederision. The reasonable presump
tion is, that the President is not quite
that miracle of unresisting meekness.
AS OtiEUl S ( OMI'AEISOX.
Senator Wade has always made ugly
comparisons relative to whiteand black
troops. This man Wade says: "Exper
ience bad shown that colored troops
were as pood as white, and it was: noted
fact that while the white rep la writs, a
longthe frontiers wereleir.gnducidby
desertion, there were no desertions from
colored regiments."
This is a dose for men who fought
four and five years to restore the coun
try to its original high j osition, ar.d if
they can swallow this, with other naus
eous pills emanating from the same par
ty, we will be compelled to believe the
truth of their sayings. At llarrisburg
and other places the 'boys in blue' have
been settling with those who make such
assertions at the election polls.
LOGICAL PARALLELS.— The Belle
fonte Press [shoddy] lately made a com
parison between I'. Gray Meek, of the
I'atefimcin, and a negro, as follows:
"The same sun pours its warm rays
upon the humble negro as it does upon
Meek; the same clouds sprinkle the
gentle rains over the garden of the ne
gro as—trrer that of Meek; the same
springs yield for the negro the spark
ling beverage of God's creation as they
do for Meek; the same air God gave
Meek to breathe He also gave the black
man; the same grain that grows for
Meek, God also directed to grow for
the African; all, everything, has the
Creator, the Father of Meek as well as
of the African, placed in this world for
the enjoyment of Meek as well as of
the African. Where, then, is the dis
tinction?"
Meek thereupon "went in" and used
up the Press man in the following hap
py and logical style:
"What a stunner! The same sun
pours its warm rays upon the lazy Ass
that does upon the editor of the J'ress :
the same clouds sprinkle the gentle rain
over the back of the Ass that does over
the head of Hutchinson; the little
springs yield for the Ass the sparkling
beverage of God's creation that they
do for llutchinson; the same air God
gave Hutchinson to breathe he also
gave the Ass; the grain that grows for
Hutchinson God also directs to grow
for the Ass; the same sleep that secures
rest for Hutchinson secures it also for
the Ass. Where, then, is the distinc
tion? Hutchinson eats, drinks, sleeps,
breathes, walks, runs, gets tired, rests,
and so does the Ass. He has ears, eyes,
nose, mouth, body, legs and feet; so
has the Ass. He is stupid, greedy,
long-eared and homely; so is the Ass
Where, then, is the difference? Only
in this; he is an Ass that gets round
on two legs, while a majority of Unit
breed get round on four. We leave it
to our readers to judge if the logic in
j one case is not as conclusive as in the