SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
EPITORUL 0PIM0N8 OF TD MUDHtfll ODRKALS
CPOI CPRBKNT TOPIC OOMPII.KD KTBBT
DAT rOH TBB KVENI.NO TKLKOEAPH.
Whither Onr Prlion System la Tending.
from the Ar. 1'. IndeiendnU.
Any earliest thinker who has carefully
looked over the "Report on Prisons and Re
formatories in the United States and Cauada,"
made to tie Legiolature of this State, in Janu
ary last, by Drs. Wiues an-1 Dwight, and
recently published iu a volume of 150 pages,
must have found abundant material for
thought.
In a matter so vital as prison reform we do
well to take note, from time to time, of our
advanoe, and to inquire in what direction lies
future progress. In the volume above men
tioned, while there is much to encourage,
there is more to call forth renewed exertion.
More enlightened id?as, a better system thau
any yet to bo found- among us, are impera
tively needed. We are iu a transition state
from the cruel, the repressive, the deterrent,
to tbe humane, the hope-inspiring, the reform
atory. The Hindoo code says, "Punishment is the
Inspirer of terror; with a black aspect and red
eye it terrifies the guilty." We are beginning
to doubt whether the criminal is best reformed
ly the red eye and the black aspect. Six
Northern States only still employ the lash as
a reclaiming agency Connecticut, Kentucky,
Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, sometimes Ver
mont. Canada lags behind in this; her war
dens still believe in the cat. They probably
never heard a remark made by a convict to hia
chaplain, who was urging him to a better
Spirit: "Sir," said the man, "six years ago I
was flogged in this prison; I have the marks
of the lash still on my body; when these
marks wear out I shall forget and forgive it."
Punishments by the crucitix, bucking, shav
ing the head, the ball and chain, and other
remnants of barbarism, still linger among us;
but day by day they diminish, fall into disre
pute, and are discarded.
Another terrible abuse is working itself
out, scarcely to be found, indeed, as a reoog
nized principle, except iu Philadelphia. We
mean the separate or solitary system, strictly
carried out .and continued for years. Our
neighbors in New Jersey tried it effectually
twenty years ago. Dr. Coleman, the prison
physician at Trenton, reported that it "is most
ellectual to drive the convict mad or to reduce
hiuito imbecility," and the Legislature abo
lished it. The experience of Rhode Island
was similar. Dr. Cleaveland, warden of her
State prison, describes the system as "a slow,
corroding process, carrying its subjects to the
derangement or destruction both of body and
mind;" and he avers that "of the forty
prisoners committed while the strictly soli
tary system was in operation, ten, or one
fourth of the whole number, manifested de
cided symptoms ot derangement." it was
speedily abandoned.
Besides this correction of old abuses, posi
tive progress in the right direction has been
made. In nine States, including our own, the
commutation system has been introduced; the
prisoners, being allowed to earn, by their good
conduct, diminution of their term of service
usually about one-sixth; but in our State, In
some cases, as high as one-fourth. In some
States, also, the convict has a comparatively
Short day's wrk, and is credited for extra
labor in the Ohio State prison to the amount
of one-fifth of his earnings when he does a full
day's work. Again, as it is found by expe
rience that four-fifths or more of all convicts,
When committed, are without trades, it is
f radually becoming the practice to teach these,
u the Wisconsin State Prison every convict
Laving as much as two years and a half to
Serve is taught a full trade.
Better still, the schoolmaster is gradually
penetrating into our prisons. The first law
ever enacted in the United States for prison
instruction was passed by the Kentucky Legis
lature in 1829. It provided for four hours'
instruction to convicts on Sundays. In 1852
instruction for prisoners was provided for in
our own State; but the salary was so small
only $1 50 a year as to afford but one hour's
instruction daily. Canada has
attention to this matter than we.
given more
inus much has been done in the right
direction. The reign of terror in our prison
administration is passing away. Christian
principles are superseding the oli idea of the
laws of vengeance. And the practical result
Is satisfactory. Under the cruelly coercive
system which prevailed in this State tweuty
tve or thirty years ago, when one prisoner
died under the lash, and another committed
suicide to escape flogging, the average number
Of recommitments was thirty per cent. Under
the present mild administration of our State
prisons, in which corporal punishment is
abolished Jy law, and crucifying, bucking,
and the like are forbidden the number of
recommitments has been reduced to about ten
per cent.
This is the bright side; but there is the
reverse of the shield. The report we are con
sidering declares, as the result of observations
recently extended by them throughout thir
teen Northern States, that "they are con
fined to avow the opinion that there is not
ablate Prison in America iu which the refor
mation of the prisoners is the one supreme
object of the discipline." But until this i
made the one object, we have reached but the
tUreshoU of prison reform.
subjected by its rulers to terrible oppression
Las recently Lad established for the govern
ment of such of its convicts as were sentenced for
SfflT a sy8tem of Prison discipline
land now llVilieW-0rld- We l00k i-
of nl M"? Sir Walter Crofton, a
man of Christian temper, energy Derseve
rance, and rare administrative Ability ws
appointed chairman of the directors o ' priTou
discipline in Ireland. He found the prisons
of that country in a deplorable condition ?he
prisoners morally and physically prostrate!
?lilape D0. e0n' M incitements to
good conduct. In thirteen years he has
eflected among Irish convicts an industrial
notewS rr1VLloh i one of the mosi
noteworthy events of our time. He started
with the great prmoiple that a prison should
be a place not of requital for sin, but of refer
matlon. lie soucht not in i...
3 M i0, i,D,Vlte' J encoQrBe by hop. of
rewa,d and of liberation. H appealed to the
higher and nobler, inatead of tile baser and
more oowardly elements in ..
and eminently successful was the enlightened
appeal. He carried out. to an extent nra
before attempted, the principle of classifica
tion; and he arranged a system of testa
whereby to measure the moral amendment of
the prisoners. It 18 one of the greatest defects
of our prison management that this last has
been overlooked.
He has three distinct stages, or changes of
prison, each demanding its own separate
locality, buildings, arrangements, la the
first the solitary system id adopted, in modi
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fied form and for a limited time; the idea
being that, for a time, at first, the discipline
should be strict, even rigid; but that the con
vict, by good conduct, should earn gradual
alleviation. The term of this confinement to
separate cells is eight months, but exemplary
deportment reduces it to six. The prisoners
eat and work alone; but they attend publio
worship twice a day, and school for one hour
each day, and take exercise daily, all in
association, though conversation at this
stage is not permitted. The first thing
taught in School is a lesson on the
"Irish Convict System." It is explained
to the convict that the future is, in a
measure, in his own hands: that in half ft
year lie may pass to another prisou, where he
win liuu.r in company witn his fellows; where
h will receive payment for extra work, and a
fixed gratuity tor steady conduct; where a
system of "marks" which are issued to the
most deserving will gradually raise him, if his
behavior is good, to the "exemplary class,"
whence, after fourteen months' service, he
may be transferred to what is called the "in
termediate prison." Here he is at compara
tive liberty, confined by no walls, trusted to
go beyond prison bounds, allowed to work
without an overseer; in short, treated almost
as a laborer or mechanic in civil life. One of
these intermediate prisons is a serie3 of work
shops for those who have learned trades; tiie
other is a farm, where the halt'-l reed convicts
reclaim and till the ground, shattering rocks,
laying underdrains, etc.
What has been the result? That the num
ber of Irish convicts of this class has dimin
ished, in 13 years, from 1(i:?7 tn arm
nearly in the proportion of 4 to 10. Another
item is equally suggestive. The demand for
convicts who' by their good conduct have
reached and passed through the "intermediate
prison" is beyond the supply ; many applica
tions on the books remaining unfilled- Em
ployers actually prefer them as servants aud
laborers to the average of those they find in
society.
Is there not, in all this, most valuable mate
rial for thought f Ought it not to engage the
earnest attention of our legislators, and of
those who elect them ? Prison discipline is a
subject hardly second in importance to that of
public education ; with which, in truth, it is
intimately connected.
Tle Duty of the Republican Party Ad
vance the VVikole Llue.
From the iV. Y. Tribune.
When General Sheridan rode from Win
chester to the front on the day of his
memorable victory, he found Liis line formed.
It had suilered defeat. Tin. id counsels urged
that it should fall back in (jood order, and in
trench. Its great captain advanced the whole
line, and won the most brilliant victory of the
war.
This is our advice to the Republican party.
Advance the whole line. California is re
garded as the beginning of a new revolution.
The people are said to be weary of tha Repub
lican party, forgetting that the Republican
party has been thwarted, betrayed, and em
barrassed by Mr. Johnson ever since he took
the Presidency. It was our pride and duty to
reconstruct the Union and end the war.
We 6hould have done this hail the President
given us the least sympathy had he not been
a traitor and a hypocrite. His reconstruction
meant a surrender into the hands of the men
who had created the Rebellion. The country
protested. He has met its protests by insidi
ous and malignant enmity, by paudering to
the worst class of politicians and adventurers,
by driving from office houe3t men who dilfered
from him, and appointing dishonest men who
pretended to sustain him. Reconstruction has
been weary, t-dious, up-hill work. We have
had every obstacle the Executive against us,
the Judiciary doubtful, a sullen, vindictive
sentiment in the South encouraged by the Pre
sident's Copperhead dalliance. As it is now,
we may consider the work ended unless the
cunning of Mr. Black or some other of
the President's advisers may find a new ob
jection, or unless these bad men in their des
peration should attempt to seize upon the
machinery of government, and hurl Congress
from power. To reconstruct the South with
the President's aid would have been a difficult
and delicate labor. To reconstruct it in the
face of his enmity is one of the most hazardous
impossibilities ever imposed upon a people.
So with the tariff and the finances. Here are
two subjects demanding the gravest attention.
We have a revenue system based upon the
artificial and extreme necessities of war.
A healthy management would have aided us
in reducing the debt. But how have the
finances been managed ? What has Mr.
Johnson done towards executing the financial
laws of Congress ? Take the internal revenue
system. We believe that the President has
wasted millions upon millions of dollars in the
collection of revenue. For political reasons he
removed last summer a majority of the best
assessors and collectors, and appointed men
without character or record. Mr. McCulloch
protested, but the Philadelphia Convention
was necessary money and position were
needed adventurers were crammed into plaoe
adventurers who feared rejection by the
Senate, and must needs feed ravenously on the
Treasury. What do we now see t In whisky
alone $150,000,000 of taxes are lost to the
Treasury every year 1 The whisky Interest
created and permitted by Andrew Johnson's
wanton neglect of duty daily takes nearly
half a million of dollars from the Treasury.
Yet this man talks of executing the laws !
Execute the laws 1 Here is a law of revenue,
so badly executed that but one-sixth of the
whole amount is collected. It is plain to all
men that he has fostered a gigantic system of
fraud, systematized, far-reaching, and wide
spread. Veknd no punishment, no earnest
ellort to stop it. Even the World, which has
the impertinence to call Mr. Johnson's Cabinet
"Republican," says that his "administration
must justify itself before the country or be
overwhelmed in disgrace." We say disgrace
has come. The President either could execute
this law or he could not. If helpless, he
should Lave asked Congress for more power.
Unfortunately, it has never occurred to him
that he had anything to do but to write pro
clamations and denounce the "radicals." A
President whose favorite amusements consist
In "swinging around the circle," "putting his
foot down," and danaing along "the war
path," can scarcely be expeoted to devote him
self to saving $150, 000,000 a year.
And so the money goes, and fraud reigns,
and we have the special friends of his Excel
lency running from one office-holder to
another, levying taxes, assessments, and con
tributions to sustain the party and print the
Jo in Power. Now that
jonnson and Black
niieiy worse. Well
nave combined, it is Inn-
may the leading Demo
The Republican plrtr In dwFace-
Btruction.nd finance. 7 k Hwa ' rtn"
been defied; others W ,me of them tave
gently. Yet the part toZl? ngU"
attempt is made to Saw? us befZ ft and
not only responsible tooll tZ,
but God help nsl for tlm infamies of the
President. This is the 'Revolution' that
awaits ns. This is the returning tide that is
te sweep ns out of existence, and give the
country over to the unchecked control of the
worst men who ever aimed at powor. Unless
we temporize, and act warily, and oease to le
"radical" unless we abandon our principles
we are to be defeated. - We do not believe it.
If we did, it would only make duty clearer.
The Republican party is the party of "progress,
and it must advance. The organization must
be perfected. Our principles must be asserted
with more vehemence. The lines of demarca
tion must be drawn, and the only password
for tbe present must be the overthrow of
Johnson's administration. It darkens the
country like an eclipse. It is full of shame
and falsehood and cunning. Here is a Presi
dent whose history men will hesitate to teach
their children, and around whom swarm
greedy, unprincipled adventurers. Ho has
done nothing but war; nothing but produce
unrest, fever, anxiety. The atmosphere that
surrounds him and his Cabinet is so dense
and foggy with corruption, intrigue, insin
cerity, and madness, that men walk in terror.
This being so, we must prepare for the fall
elections. The guns of the Democracy over
the California elections are as harmless as the
blank cartridges with which they are loaded.
If we only do what is wise aud intrepid, we
need not tear. But we must have a thorough
reorganization. Let all minor issues fall. All
who are timid or time-serving should be
allowed to go to the rear. We want no
compromise coalitions, no "People's party
movement," no temporary political make
shifts. Better be fairly and squarely defeated
on the principle of universal freedom aud uni
versal suffrage than gain a victory that will
leave one man, no matter what color, without
every political right. Honorable defeat is a
hnndiedfold more precious than dishonorable
victory. We have to meet the cries of
"nigger supremacy" and "America for
the white men," and other degrading
appeals to popular prejudice. Well, we
heard these cries in 1856, under Fremont,
and in 1MJ0 and 1804, under Lincoln. Then
we had the sword over us, and our enemies
menaced us with conquest and massacre. We
triumphed, and they made good their threats.
The sword of resistance has been broken, aud
our enemies content themselves with vulgar
and passionate clamors. After having tried
to carry Johuson through two elections, they
insist that he belongs to us, and that we must
carry him. Johnson is as much a Republican
as Arnold was a patriot alter his treason. We
never heard of Washington proposing to give
up the war bec ause Arnold was in the British
army. The Johnson party Philadelphia Con
vention aud all is only so much carrion lyiug
in a ditch. The Democratic party is our foe.
It Summons US to .I nuw Htrimerlu an J i
its lines we hear the exultant cries of prepara
tion. Let ns spend the few remaining weeks
in organization. Let us above all things sur
render no principlemake no concession.
Then our triumph will be righteous as well as
sublime.
The Movement tor Impartial Suffrage In
the Konler Elates.
Prom the Y. lynxes.
The Republican State Convention of Mary
land, at its meeting in May, issued a call
for a Border State Impartial Suffrage Conven
tion, which met yesterday. The call wa3 ad
dressed to Republicans in Maryland, Delaware,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mis
souri, and the object of the meeting is to urge
Congress to abolish all legal distinctions on
account of color, and to give the suffrage of
the Sumner-Wilson Bill at the earliest pos
sible moment. In connection with this pro
posed appeal to Congress will be presented
the results of the investigations by Congres
sional Committees regarding Maryland and
Kentucky. Within a few weeks a sub-Committee
of the Judiciary Committee meet3 in
Baltimore to inquire into the Constitution and
form of government of Maryland. About the
same time another sub-Committee meets at
Louisville, Kentucky, to inquire into the con
tested elections from that State. The reports
of these Committees, aided by a stronc appeal
from the Baltimore Convention, are relied upon
to strengthen the movement for forcing
universal suffrage upon the whole country
by act of Congress.
The condition of the States participating in
the Baltimore Convention is not satisfactory
to either political party. Republicans are as
much dissatisfied with Kentucky and Mary
land as Democrats are with Tennessee. Though
North and South have settled down to peace,
and though the name "Slave States" has dis
appeared from our maps, the border States
still retain most of the peculiarities which
distinguished them before and during the
war. They are still debatable ground over
which contending principles wage fiercest
war. On the one side are men like Governor
Brownlow, who seem never to weary in the
work of denouncing Rebels. On the other
side are Kentucky and Maryland politicians,
who are no less bitter and venomous in their
attacks upon the so-called radicals. The
Democratio journals of these two States may
be taken as fair exponents of the sentiments
of 'he class they address, and they are
urgingPresident Johnson to disperse Congress,
if it attempts to impeach or remove him, at
the point of the bayonet. Kentucky Demo
cratic journals talk of "an army with banners
and not a little squad of radical Congressmen"
being needed in case of a disturbance or seri
ous outbreak iu that State. Maryland Demo
crats promise to raise "a millien of meu,
strong-minded men," who will, in case Cou
gress undertakes to overthrow their new State
Constitution, "rally to its rescue with a will
that will make such rotten traitors and tyrants
as t-tevens, Butler, Suhenck, Sumner & Co.
quake and fear." The men who indulge in
this style of inflammatory language evidently
need to be reconstructed in some way. Their
belligerent tone is not in harmony with the
moderate and peaceful style common in North
ern and Southern journals.
But the warlike tone of Border State poli
ticians and journals is only an indication of
the social and political diseases which exist in
that seciiou of the country. A few oays ago
we called attention to some of these as ex
hibited in the State of Maryland. The black
laws of that S ate are too well known to be
concealed; aud their injustice is too gross to
be explained away or apologized for. The
Baltimore Hun, in reply to the statement of
facts on this subject given in these columns,
is compelled to admit in detail the correct
ness of the statements which it attacks iu
mass. It is a plain, undeniable truth that the
black laws of Maryland are worse than the
black laws of South Carolina. The appren
tice and vagrant laws of both Maryland
and Kentucky are more oppressive than
similar laws in Mississippi and Alabama.
In short, the Border States can and
do pursue with safety a policy of op
pression towards the colored race which would
be dangerous in the Gulf States, ln the latter
the negroes have enjoyed for a considerable
time past the right of public meeting and of
free speech. But in Maryland these rights
were denied in one instance to the negroes
within the past two months. These oircntn
stKncee, and many others of the same kind
which might be mentioned, go to prove that
hie and property and the equal rights of all
men before the law are less secure in the
Border States than in any portion of the coun
try lately in rebellion. The responsibility
resting at present upon the Border States
appears to be greater than ever before. For
1 7i fuap2d the Promise policy
I. ,t 1 th8 Stat'8 t08etbHr du8 the
ong anti-slavery agitation. But there is no
longer any need for compromise on that ques-
i nM i 6 rVVlave Btats. u there
should be no Border States.
It only remains for the latter to recognize
their new position, and to close the war be
ween North and South by their action upon
the sulhnge question. They may, if they
choose, decide whether the individual States
or the Republic shall hold the ballot-box.
J.ut if they would accomplish this task they
must cease striving to reconcile freedom aud
slavery; they must abandon all legislation
based on color; they must recognize the
equality of all men before the law, and they
must make the intelligence and the virtue of
the citizen the only test of his right to vote.
For, though Congress may well shrink from
legislation affirming the title to interfere with
the franchise in States which have not forfeited
their rights by rebellion, the time is probably
not distant when the object aimed at by the
( onveution of to-day will be attained by an
amendment of the Federal Constitution. That
seems necessary to perfect the work of the war.
Senators Wade and Wilson on tha
Stump.
From the A. 1'. Herald.
We have given the speech of Senator Wade
at Cleveland, Ohio, aud that of Senator Wil
son, delivered at Worcester, Massachusetts
These speeches are to be accounted for much
as Senator Wade accounted for his presence at
Cleveland. He was there, not because he had
something to say, but because he was in the
bill, and was sent by the committee. So we
print the speeches, not because they are bril
liant, able, eloquent, or original for they are
neither of these but because they are part of
ine political programme, and because there
may be a certain amount of instruc
tiou for the people, if not in the ideas
upon which a party lives, yet in the very fact
that it is without ideas. We may present
tnese two pieces oi party narangue as satis
factonly showing two things first, that the
KepubJican party, in using up the mtrcrer. has
used up its whole capital and has not a single
iue 10 present io me people or none tnat it
dare present ; and, second, upon how small a
capital oi original tnought men may be the
great leaders of a great party, and stand so
high in party appreiation as to be named, not
Bueermgiy, as rrewaenuai candidates. Mr,
Wade made two points. One of these is that
the national debt is "a mere bagatelle." If
the national debt is a "bagatelle," men may
ask the Senator what it is that makes that
burden of taxes that he some time ago deplored
a itcijuiuj eu ueaviiy upon me people mat
he thought a new division of property
iuigm ue necessary io lighten it.' Mr.
Wade's other point wa3 that he did not know
whether he was a white man or not. And
these two points apparently constitute the
political capital the new ideas upon which
the Republican party in the West goes into
the campaign. It remains to be seen whether
an ethnological doubt and a financial falsity
b vayiiui iui a puuucui campaign, air.
Wilson's speech also exhibits his party as
bankrupt in principle and purpose. He ram
bles over its achievements and tries to stir ud
me aying emners py a rush at Johnson
That will not do. Johnson is too far cone to
serve as a good cause for any real enthusiasm
m even the youngest political hunters. If
Republicans can give the people no better
reasons than these leaders give for the life of
men- party, it must go, and all the States must
join Maine and California; for the existenoe of
the white man is certainly one grand political
fact, and needs assertion.
fleet of the Ammeatjr Proclamation.
Vow the N. Y. Times.
The assertions of the President's Washing
ton organ concerning the Amnesty Proclama
tion and its effect on the country read more
like hyperbole than sober opinion. It is diffi
cult to believe that the National Intellitjeiicer
intended to be serious when it published a
statement so gross in its exaggerations and so
obviously untrue as that which follows:
"The politloul effect of tlie Amnesty Procla
ma 1 1 on Is already known and felt to be highly
luvoiable to the speedy restoration of the Union
ouatlrm and lusting hasis. In the Smuaerii
btulew It will be balled as an evidence that the
day Is pasHi d Jor the lulllctlnu upon their people
of vindictive peualtleii, in the form of confisca
tion, proKcrlpuou, disfranchisement, or banish
ment. Amnesty will also give cuutlcience to
the great niusn of the people of this country in
their busluess affairs. The time for hesitation
and ilistniHt will have passed when ttie reha
bilitation of the excluded States shall have been
e fleeted.
"The proclamation certainly removes one
great Impediment to the early and cordial
restoration of the Union, by oouuteraotiug mo
radical outcry anainNt, Rebels. All who uucopt
tbe amnesty bind themselves to the Union.
"The great majority of thepeopleof the North
wlllsuHiuiu this proclamation. A larue por
tion of the moreseunlble and pntrlotio Keoub
licaiis have been iu luvor or hucu a measure for
Home lime. Air. Greeley sustains it, as we no
tloe. as he was obliged to do, for the sake of his
own cnuusellina.
"At the first blush Wall street was agitated by
the tear tliat the proclamation would afford the
radicals another pretext for impeaohment ot
the President, aud tend to increase the agita
tion which the radicals hope to create at the
next session of Congress. Gold rose oue or two
per cent, on ttut account, but it has begun to
recede."
Every point here presented is either untrue
as a matter of fact, or is so distorted in form
as to be essentially false in spirit.
Nowhere is the proclamation "felt to be
highly favorable" to the early restoration of
the Union on the only basis that can atl'ord a
guarantee of permanence. Many of the Demo
cratic journals of the North applaud it as aa
indication of the President's purpose to push
forward his anti-Congressional policy, and in
the same spirit it will doubtless be regarded
by the malcontent press of the Soutu. In
both quarters the expectation is that the pro
clamation will serve to postpone the settle
ment of the question to prolong tha contest
now going on, with the hope that in the
interim some series of partisan accidents will
occur to defeat the measures of the Republican
party. The more candid of our Democratio
contemporaries rebuke this expectation as a
delusion and a snare, confessing, in the, lan
guage of the World, that the proclamation
"will aflord no relief to persons deprived of
the elective franchise," aud deprecating reli
ance upon it as a means of breaking down the
restraints imposed by the law. The checks
provided for the work of reconstruction will
remain in full force as eompletely as though
liinckley had not forged his mimic thuuder.
Admitting, then, that all will be well "when
the rehabilitation of the excluded States shall
have been effected," the fact remains that the
proclamation in no way hastens the process of
restoration. On the contrary, it promises to
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Lowest Cash Prices.
REEVE L.
fO.
l2tbstulm
hinder restoration by encouraging the South
ern oppositionists to renewed efforts against
the law, and to a persistent disregard of its re
quirements in respect to the terms prescribed
for readmission to the Union. The probability
is that portions of the South will invest it with
an authority it does not possess and a scope
which it cannot justly claim, and that, labor
ing under this misconception, they will foreet
.ui.v mo uiuuiara uoiuiuu Ob vo me tawiuiness
and sufficiency of the State organizations, and
the eligibility of State officers and of the Sena
tors and Representatives sent to Washington
belongs exdusivfilv tn C.nnaraaa Tr.. 41 '
mischief which the proclamation is calculated
tu juiura upu mu coum, ana ine delay which
. 2a K 1 ... 1 1 1 . -
" o occasion in me worK of recon
Struction.
Moreover, "the great majority of the people
vi mc iiunii cuuuemu me proclamation as
an inexcusable act of defiance to Congress
and an audacious attempt to nullify its laws!
Of the Republican iournals on. nn.l in
has uttered a syllable which can be tortured
into an approval of the document. We refer
to the Tribune, which accompanies the words
loneu. upou uy me lmcuiyencer ior its claim to
Mr. Greeley's support with comments hostile
to the pretensions of Mr. Johnson. Excepting
ml. T1-.- t.i: .L.i - . -. .
uiiijr mo j. i tuunr,, wo ueueve mat noi a single
organ of Republican opinion can be cited a3
hflvilifr Aven infurotttinllir onttCAv l.ia
o j wjtv.Du uia auuuu.
The party, in truth, is a unit against it, not
"nu.m uiiiumoio iu v or vinuicuve penalties in
any shape not because they are disposed to
V, C..(l. V.-nl.l . . .
wcav uiu uuum uaiBUljr or UugeuerOUSiy OUl
because they hold that the sovereign power,
j tihuo ui nuibuaiuiin may ue proclaimed,
being vested in the people, may be exercised
1 his feelinc has nnt luun elml-an I.
o vjr 111a
lAnnrerl ett'nrta nf tha Prucl.lont onA v.i .
- .viluv iuiu ma afuxu-
gists to Justify his assumption of power in
iru i auiuonijr, uy appeals io me teenm-
conferred by the Constitution. The country
. , , . . "o vunoi iu uaruuu
icuro uium upuu vummuu sense man upon
professional hair-splitting, and the common
sense interpretation of the constitutional
power 10 renin penalties imposed on indivi
duals is adverse to the pretended rieht to Be.
cree a general pardon. Aside from special
nleadincs or ouotatinna frnm flu. '..,;.;:..
J 4 V. bUUIUUCt.
the country remembers that in 1862, as now,
Congress affirmed its entire control over the
whole subject nf amnwatv. TVia 1
tl J WIUQI llUil J
Congress of its exclusive jurisdiction over the
r- ii 1 . i . i,i Sa n in. 4 1 l ... ....
"""F"! vi uie poucy wnicn "the
Licai ma univ oi ine Tnn a nt ta tvi.m
have uneauivocallv unheld.
io say, men, that amnesty, invoking legal
Usurpation on the nnrt nt tlia Po0;,i.i i.
- i X ' wv . ACOLlAUUb WUU
proclaims it, will "give confidence to the ereat
imt.a r.f Virt ; i . V
mo jicupo iu iueir uusiness anairs,
is simnlv absurd. Thera pun Via nn ,i(i
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without harmony in the Government; and
here is a case in which tlm KvanntiTro o.
! wniu niiugaiQa
an authority of which Congress claims to be
4 1 I Ai bllu tlADHaliDAM T 1 . C 1
mo dw.o yyiaavaavi. iiioifuu oi narmony, we
have an ancrv and nnrilmia nnntlint B,.ni.i
provoked by Mr. Johnson, with no chance of
jniioucui, ouisumjjo jor uimseu or ior the
South. The consenuenen in tint in:lnct.n ,j
commerce suffer severely from Mr. Johnson's
1 w umw 1MUUOVI V Hill.
course; a rapid rise in gold indicates the ap
prehensions to which it gives rise; and busi
ness men of all parties agree in condemning
- j " vuuo jeo
pardize the prosperity and peace of the
country.
Tha Funny Fanlana.
From the N. Y. Herald.
Why should we sigh for a Punch or a Judu.
or a professedly comio paper with any name
whatever, when in the regular routine of our
daily reports we can find such funny reading
as me account ot the saying3 and doings of
those humorous lads, the Fenians, iu the Con
gress of the Irish republic, now safely making
laws, not on the hills of Tipperary, or even In
'iooiney's wood, but in Cleveland, Ohio ? It
bist not be a 1ok at. nil fliia Vunton
gress at Cleveland, with a green-coated sentry
ot ita Atrra anil liiQAiiacini n . 1
uionioomg a icg mar auuuai
. ' 11 Til . i ....
luetBoge uuiu i lesiueut Itoueris; OUl If not,
then we must admit that Pat, who laughs so
happily at all that is serious, is the only man
on earth who can be preposterously serious over
the exquisitely laughable. There was not only
a message irouime i -resident, but one also from
li Su,rtnrv nf War ' nrnnnii
" j " - ' j f.vuuiujj .u uigajua
an Irish army on the temperance basis; said
army to pay its own expenses and the ex
penses of the war. "The soldiers of the army
oi me xnsn repuuuo are io ue sober ana dis
creet men" as if the Congress did not know
that when all the Fenians get sober the came
win ue up i juia oecreiary will be, evidently,
a gi eater blunderer than Stanton was, and the
wa,M UU UliX VUt ail UUUO
unless tbere is an Irish republican Teuure of
tbe republic is within the saving power of
Baupcwe. iiu mo ineuud oi xreeuom, now-
UVfr. til 11 ft f r)1nfnta 4liat t Vta ra.nii antfxn
Troy chambermaids has not crushed the infant
republic. It will be remembered that these
chambermaids, insensible to the sufferings of
meir uuuve uouutry, ueciarea that they would
contribute no morn mnnav till tl.A n
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what had been done with the money pre
viously given a ridiculous requirement, that
would expose to the world all the great plans
vi iud iroucis.
Notwithstanding this secession of the finan
cial magnates of the republic, the war against
Greut Britain will go ou just the same. Money
AND BEST STOCK OF
RYE WHIG KICO
NOW TOSSESSED BY
ANN IS & 00..
SOUTH ITtOHT STREET,
KNIGHT & SON,
S07 CIIESSIIJT NTBEET,
(Below the Qlrard House).
will be raised, and we are even told how
every soldier will be assessed ten cents. Nona
of this money will be spent in "trappings" or
"flags," but in arms and ammunition the
whole of each soldier's ton cents being strictly
devoted to furnishing said soldier with one
musket, one bayonet, one cartridge-box, and
forty rounds of
it for green cloth or gold braid. With suoh a
i"t uiapumuon sucn an eye to reality ha
uioi rmououuircua ii is clear mat the days
Of British nower mav 1
r " - j v, uuuiivi u y ttlA
Persons eonvpTsnnt wttli f Vm ntA...i
i - - .i.w uv in at liuniiuus.
We are glad to chronicle a noble piece of self
sacrifice on the part of the Fenian President.
ue was reelected 1'resident, but declined to
accent the nosition nnloaa tha c
, " wvug&ooo TTlU.ill
raise half A millinn Hnllqra fan fV o, n
w-d v mo aunot VUU
CTGSS COUlfl Tint rin it Tt r1aAeA ltPif ,
quarter of a million, however, upon learning
which the patriot nobly consented to oome
down in his Drioe. and
the last cent was gone. With such a spirit
among the leaders, who can despair of tha
Irish republic ?
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