The Yem - OciatiC Watchman.
B E.t.a FIFO A
IL- 11
rIUDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17,1868
'unpatriotic Action of Congress
Cengrees Signalized its re-assembling
after the holidays by new attacks upon
the great principle-of civil government,
as repreeepted by the Constitution and
Paws enacted in obedience to the spirit
and meaning of that instrument. The
resolution offered by )le. Eldridge, „of
Wisoonein, thanking General Hancock
for his wise, patriotic, and timely recog
nition of the just rights of the citizens.
Ind the great principles of oonstitution
al liberty, and Itrr hits prompt determina
tion to restore and maintain the supre
macy of civil law within the boundaries
tof his command, erTirilai;iiificin the table
;by a etrtot party vote. All the Radicals
voted against restoring well -liberty to
the people of Hie South, They all cost
their ballots in favor of continuing a
military despotism in a portion of this
ashen Tri which peace reigns, the people
yield a ready obedience io ',lli the de
mends Of civil authorkt tea r courts of
lbw aro open for the adjudication of
eate.i, and all the machinery of civil
government is in full operittion The
gallon of the lindleal party upon this
queetion proves that they are oppiiletf to
re-nation of the S , ales un the basis of
the Conettintion, and in favor of the
North governing the Soutirby the bayo
net. Heiteral haycock, in his ruck
mat ion, announced the doutritie that the
civil law should reign supreme in his
military division ; that the military
should act only when the cdvil power
was insufficient to enforce !be lairs toil
protect lite, liberty, and property This ,
platten', is repudiated by the Radical
party. They declare (but litti solitary
shall be supreme ut time of peace, and
by et) doing change our norm of govern
meat from a COttriilut tonal republic to o
military despotism. This is the mean
ing of Radical acti o n In retuning to en
dorsi. the position - of Geveriii Hancock.
and applaud him fur upholding them•il
power. and not triimpliutt it under fool
by the iron bee! of military authority
001 cuntnntwill , :butt refusing to
entl,o - se and applaud the course of (ten-.
en 1 11,.ii , ock Congress took 11 wide
— Pep in I I opposhedirection.and adopt
ed x rev 1 o,i censuring the Presi ieni
for rents Stanton and Sheridan, iii,il
thatt4%ing I, suet for btu cow -e iii
Loilisisns I thoverlietit places the
unitotriolte of Congress iti
light below ,i • • nation Sheridan
while in CULIIIII/111Ii fu Latiivana, used elf
his power. 118 commander to prevent the
people from organizing a Stale govern
men. in harmony with lie wishes Of a
. siejorily of the white men 01 1110 Stale
•11r rased !ha bayonet ati,or Ibe ballot
bon. ottiotfoler of tile courts. acid the
--CutuilUtlttunt of the United Staten- lie
remov.d all civil eflicere who refused to
act so the mere tools 4,1 his will, 1111,1 CH
comfaged the negroes its BUS of lowlegint
nees by forlitog 1011T1 . 111 ut dr:110110
military power ui 1111 hr direction Such
wan the C011r•IP pursued by Sheroisti its
Lout-Wier. mod for Ilium meting lie re
erlll9 Ibe thanks of a liailie.lriingress,
while the i'res.dent is censured for his
rem. , irt.
Bur ihe l'reeident and General Han
eocl.,OCCllpy CODIOIIIIIII,OIIIIO. national and
pa,rtittic grounds on hue 1 1 11OVII0D, Mid
the country irr In .1.1415.13 them. Congreem
DO longer repreaenits a majority cr 'Gm
people That body in a mere faction
ruled by a few embitioue and denigning
1)011111.14DM The course adopted by
Gen,rnl Hancock meets the approval of
all true 1:111011 men, whit.' fhe unpairbit
ie !obey adopted by the Itailteale io 'Le
Nati sa l Leg ieLit tire 11OM011.1raie.s Mare
roily the dangerous cliaraciere or their
design, upon onr republican form of
government —.ly.
Vallandigham's Escape from Canada--
His Own Story
In a regent speech at Hamilton. Val
lantligliam indulged in the following
rem intPcYilee
rejoice to nay that it was on thin very
spot I made toy first appearance freight
from Canada Sone of you ever knew
bow I got here Hot an we are now irt
unipbant it t. not much of a secret go
keep any longei. I don't know but what
we might have &nether war; that some
of no might be arrested, and that I might
be again •uhjeeted to that ordeal
don i want the enemy to know my tricks,
because I passed through fifty spies paid
$o per day out of your money for watch
ing me I remember one at Windsor, a
stalwart fellow about nix feet four in
Chem high, and proportionately broad ut
the nhoulders—enormous in NI renglii -a
fellow who ought to be net to maul ratio
all hie lite,ta voice,' Liketold Loneoln, - 1
wan paid So per day by the government
--tbat in, by Abraham Lincoln, lie wit
the government in shone dam- paid out
of your pockets for welching me, and all
he could report was, that I break
(anted, dined and clopped, and perhaps
want to bed There were fifty with him
of the same nor( I don't think I can
tell exactly how I got here, but I can
tell you one thing. I Calae mighty near
being arresieJ I. voice. 'now lieu.
Vii r] An officer i
tit.. .114 .1411 i. on my
shoulder and said I wits his prisoner.
Said he, "I believe I must arrest you "
Said I, '•What for ?" Said be, I believe
you nro a smuggler." It wins down on
the Detroit Itiver: where I hint been
waiting and watching over the bolder.
"Sir," said I, "you are mitunken
Presence of mind was everything (lieu,
yon know
Arrested as a smuggler. I would Mae
been arrested as C. L. Vallandigbatmand
I might hope been sent to Dort Warren
at lest, ►ppt'presenoe of mind saved toe.
aBir, yorit are mistaken; there is my
pocket book and pipers " Of enures I
bad divetsted myself of everythiny out
of. the way. I offered him anything
for inspection Ile looked at them, and
then at me steadily 111 th r eye, rind I
looked at—iirm to the AMY' way 8%0
be, "You look like 'aip hones men "
.'sir," said I very prorreptly. ••I am so
honest man," Said he. ••Sir. I beg your
iiimrdon ; I did nut [neon any offense."
°Chemed, Sir," said I I then told him
I was unoertaiu shout the toad, and I
wished he would show me therm d , lie
did • it. I howr.t very oolitily, htvi we'll
an sad turned op in Hamilton, right on
this rpm
The Radical Legacy to Posterity
is_ • _
One of the "grand moral id ea" news
papers complains that Dentecrats charge
• all the busmesseehfusion and m i ser y
•ut Iv, directly due to the bleak
man." Ity au Want. The prevailing
"confusion and ainiery" are known' , be
the direct repvilta of ,Radical
malignity avett onpidit s y.' The nenraea,
when they came out hf,elavevy, **el ae
clay in the hands of the potter. The
Radical leaders chose to make them poJ
lit i cal tools with which to control par
lee, instead of teaching them to work,,
to obey the laws and bow to become good
citizens The negroee, therefore. are
not as much to blame fur following their
etude, base wed law lees instincts as those
white men who, having the negroes'
confidence and wielding unlimited pow
er over them, failed or refused t employ
that authority anti influence, for good,
either to the "black man" or the white
people
The world does now, and posterity
will hereatter. execrate the conduct of
the Radical demagogues, who
have not only stubbornly stood in the
way of a restoration of the Union, but
have used the poor, ignorant hlackq as
an 'engine of evil to the country find to
the negroe• themselves. doubt it re
quired a large amount of virtuous Belt
dental—more, indeed, tl.an the Radical
leadership possessed—to resist the temp
tat ton offered it. the neAro element as
piece of powerful mautlinery
Rut weatuess or non resistance to temp
tailor] affords no extenuation tor the use
of that element, evert hid it been rib
',loved for the good of the country, in
stood of—as has b , en the vast;—for the
temp vary benefit of a small faction o.
demagogue.
The careful observer will note the fact
that the leaders of the Radical party Jo
not dare to tulip out the future of the
country under the so-called policy o! the
p a rty They talk and act only tor the
present--their own present benefit
Their plants. their ••policies," their leg
islation, are a more series of e-xpedientm
for the continuniten of certain persons
in office With recklessness unparallell
;t1 they lire Sllllllllderillg the piiblie mon
ey, piling million atter million upon the
public debt. and hiking no provision for
its-ultimate liquidation. At the same
isms, they ate constantly devising new
schemes of in: %lion to wrest money from
the people, regardless of the het thiit
ecery industrial interest of tlio'country
is tun deplorntile state of elagninion ;
that thousands of willing workmen in
the North are begging in vain for work.
or that rah°ns iii white people and tie
proem ate boirlering on Kiarvoolon in the
winch are 11041 weartng the shack
let of -Radical —reconstruction."
• Narrow-m.ntirel block Meade" those
leaders byre been milled by one who
ought ty'lhnnw them well ; but they lire
not ity.Aill or stupid a-s to be oblivions
to the distress prevailing all Armind
them or it be ignorant of its rause
list her
_let them ghouls or
vampires They know that the dm
politic nonisins succulent juices enough
to satisfy their appetites, and, when as
totted, they will not eve what may be
come of the emaciated public carcass
i tchens, one lit the foreunnict of them, is
tottering to the grave, leaving neither
Ichich nor child. What cares he for pos
terity - for us cult or its happiness''
Siimer. another advanced leader, is
well on in yeartt. and soon he will quite
thin seer t of notion, lefty tog no contri
to the living ranks of pusiertty
Can th:e men naturnfly enteiinin any
poheitude the welfare of the 'after
iteneraiton. a n'hofte vetne not ft drop or
hp. I hen Woo', . 1 11 n o i i rre e e"
Three are t• • sort of men (I) who lead
the l tdical trirty, shape it,
and direct tin movements. Failing to
fulfill a manly part theniselven, is iy too
much to ch•tuge them with a deaign to
degrade. di bane and destroy the man .
hood fruits of those to whom Nature has
been more beneficent • Let thin be as it
may. certain I: in that the —policy' they
Lane inaugurated and are punhing to
fructification ••outside the Constitution"
ill tending. beyond p peradventure, to
one of two insues--usdional degradation
or national deatructlbia—• Either tbe
white and black raeca most intermingle
under their ignoble mclieme t of equality,
or a war of races. in honitlity to that
scheme. will entitle In either cane the
revolt!, will be deplorable, tiresome the
worst .111111111 es of the brute and the vat•
age will be brought into action —Patriot
,j Union
A Horrible Fraud
Could the story be grilien of thegigan-•
tic frauds perpetrated during the war.
the people would be amen herald
measure The 'din?e of curt lion taint
ed alimasi every; 'publ a tierc,iou, and
thieves abounded more lan honest men
Here In the last horrible revelation
'I he 8 , Louis correspondent of the
('motioned Enqulrer pays
• There is no telling the ways th • st
mi n, greedy for gale. will not avail
it, iii•elves of to ailehnee their fortuneet.
eepecially during and since the war, as
me' hive been found willing and atix•
ions to sell soul and conscience for s lit
tle filly lucre A few days since an in- •
indent occurred which very forcibly il
'lustrates thie friehman wee em
ployed to dig up and remove some of
the bodies of Unlot. soldiers in the
Wesleyan Cemetery of this city. In
lifting the coffins' he thought they seem
ed unusually hollow in their sound. and
opening some of them (mind that nu
bodies hail ever beet placed in Jaen at
nothing but planks or square blocky
of wood. Tile myetery to the bonnet
Ililbernion woe great, but when it wee
told him thai the Union soldiers were
' buried by contract, the undertaker re
ceiving so couch per coffin, and that
,the
bodies could be sold at handsome profit
to come medical college, the doubt wee
at once removed, and the avenue to
large fortune immediately disclosed.
'Cho. wan only one of the ways that the
war made men rich —Er
GRAN? AND BTANTQN.—Theire Jo . die
jointer in the plernent rebotonn bet wean
'General Grant and the late Secretary
of War Stanton. There appears to he 4
question of veracity between thew,—
One says he did, and the other says he
didn't. It all grows out of General
Grant taking Stanton's place in the War
Office. The supposition is venturedet
if Congress were to institute an in's. -
tigntion into the hortnetp either. Gra t
or Stanton would be injured by it Vey/
likely.
Nappy New_Yqiir to the Pop.
If welted odr Way, every poor mum In
the world would be happy tn.-day—lda
home would be one of happiness; his
family happy and contented—the °nun
try wuu d be st rest, and we °Dula all
eojoy the holidays. ..
But we bilire out °di NIAy just yet.
home will My "OM* GOD for, that!"
Let ue see.
The tax collector goes from house to
110min..taking trom the poor men htol poor
women ono, times every penny of their
siviege. Ito leaves them a receipt show
ing they have paid taxes—he wishes them
a Happy New Yeir and goes on ,orob
he next.
lho bondholder rides to his carriage
to a hank, opening tits tin box. cuts Irvin
his nontaxable bonds,.d.gawd his iitierest
in gold, wishes the Banker a "floppy
New Year;' steps gouttly into higoat
rine, meets the tax collector and. s'ys
“Ilappy New Year," rides home, counts
his gold,orders a bottle of wine, goes to
sleep while eomedady's Motors are rune
tog the keys of a ..outtquered" piano and
says it is well.
happy New Year to the bondholder
who jingtes hits gold!
Happy , New Year to the poor man who
look• at his present—the tax receipt!
•It is all in the family." ••d nation
al debt its national blessing " no owe
it among uureelr'ee f"
ter—bat tuo ,paor Hen pays the riot
um. n.aeoes: Duly Lhhi ettiereuee—
nothing more
The people of the ln,Juth and IVe94 the
poor people everywhere must pay texes.
They pay six hundred Jitilltons of dot
tars elleil your so interest Money to bond
tnderi Abe bondholder pay no tales
he accurnulateoana slicks up all the
Foot Fro!, le ehrtt
Thu poor pe - ople cannot buy goods of
all kinds no of yore, fur their tutee are
ea great f ., 0 the nulls and machinery of
the cant atop naming —thuutiands of
poor pi op C. 'half pay ernptnyeeg are
throwu out of emplo)went, or trade to
work halt itine—the price of the initial-
Wt.:meet] ankles to increnned for the
capital enipltied lu 11.0 will and ma
chinery nitiot p y ju.l no much dividend,
the cost ot, Atte at Ltelcs to inerefoted and
tire pour pittple suite' tar then nappy
New teat. _
ttle railroads having less frcieht
it Corry—ltee business to tio, discharge
hall heir employees, reduce the wages ami
reL oil.: toe I eitutintiig force of their
employees awl thus give them a Har r y
ere I ear /Or the pout
F'srwers, compelled - to pay taxes, pati
na , e tie their store bills. The country
itiercitituts ea'llittit pity the city dealer
The coy il t ;a It r •ells ill) more good.i, ex
cept fog cash which is hot to be had ,
this abuts off the machtnery everywhere
and thotpattels of poor people are loft to
lives oai.h,,w, God only ktiflive.
he Luther and Inborn tails to pay—
the country merchant is ruined—the
city merchant is iumed—he canna, pay
the mantstacturer 'that he .owee
the 114.41/11 retain r is cramped A nd is
C. EIJI itll.o to' ehul Pimp and wait for
Getter tinter,' .1 Happy New Year for
the Poor '
And it is well!
"he cure C(1111,1 with the '
the tiirnalii which levels oiler', piiri
fir: nip air for (hone who come to re
The Ile( ulilican legialation has thrown
the entire machinery of free govern
meat off its balance, the new theory Wan
a to lure—the people cannot and will
not stand 11110 enormous taxation and
diseriutiontiou agitated industry—The
equal szation ibis vapor first asktd for
hap been rrluseil by Congress—and the
wave Of Repudiation is now coining to
r.. 1114 the misers sod •ulluree front the
confers awl body of wounded Liberty,
and bring relief to the people !
The crack or doom im nut more cer
lain than Repudiation
The people will tug at their puree
strlngn :set a little arlttle,-buf already
true and hundreds of thousande pf ditto
ago sick, and — eltutortatr ttrr
non The ofieneive stench an aneered
at by —loyal bondholdin robbers of the
deed' is making them sick unto finan
cial death.
The people have been boujni fur the
robbers to 4 lettitler at tiller - lettuce, but,
ti.ank God, from the great plains of the
11e.t—from the eloper of the Pacific—
the bloal ntatned mends of the Atlantic'
--frump the hulk, homes and itearthatouea
of tho --deluded and betrayed people
comes the relief which alone will for
ever cure the remedy.
It is coni.ng. bondholdero!
Se tissue beArll the moaning of the
ace as the restlette waters were gather
ing in waves—ye knew the sea wee there
even beiore we felt its waters, and
by the same token de we know of the
tut ore
Aud then brothers everywhere there
will be
A Happy New Year /or the Poor.—La
Croese Dtmocr at
No Step Backward•
Mr Colfax, the speaker 'of a.Repub-
Been Nouse of Representatives of a
"Rump" Cougiess, has said, in • re
ceutly pulilielted lei tor,that the "Radical,
will take km wen backwards." We sue
glad to hear this from so high an au
thority iti the •• Radical" camp But
does Mr Colfax honestly mean what he
says We ask the question, because
Mr. Forney asserted precieely the saute
thing io n three column leader Su hie pa•
per—the 1 ress—just after the late Penn- .
sylmais election. Forney ;hail since
come out for Gram for the Presidency.
Does Colfax use language in the same
loose way '! The.' Itadioul'," if we under
stand them, are for negro suffrage and
equality, in ell Brie great and broad
land—North and South, East and West
—and that is the grew.' and fundamental
article of their political faith as a party.
Does Mr 1;1116/./ mean that when he
'Jays that hie p,u iy will take no step
busitwarde '"lne people ihotilillrof be
eoeuied h..* mid nen:fillet by equisooa
.ll.lll 111 Mind 140 1 hey have sadly been
In the las, ,Vvit 3 rare Ali public men,
ail p •11,10 i ill. eh .014 h e held 10 the
series literal sense 01 tutu. detituratsous.
If Colfax, utter the assertion he has
made and'whiolt we hive just
Means that (lettere' Grant is to fa•or of
tegro suffrage nod egoism) , and all the
measures - who:lt thitig•rees tiaa taken' to
subject tea Suttee orithe Allston to ne
gro rote. and Mist hi, alnil Hs' party ere
(or Grout 11111 the Rsllicnl Repubittaii
Candidate 'or the Presldetioy. teen we
will understand him. But Grant is not
a itadical (Republican, lie has been
earefull enough not to define ezatitViiii
political views, but be has been suffi
ciently exi Wit in the little Le has said
and written . to satisfy us that - he Is not
with Sumner, Stevens, Wade and Colfax.
lie is• not fool enough to believe, anti
not knaVe enough to effect to believe,
oar an igaoraul negro, just relieved
from slavery, is fit to ha the equal, oiv
illy and pollute/illy. Mush less social*,
of a white Nernst' by , birth and educa
tion, lie i(retrfit:. and we b e li e ve h e
in favor of political equality of all men
who are subject sand tributary to the
same political government. lot wt
Lope that he boa too touch political ea
gae!ty,. as well as personal self respect
and pride of race, It nil clear-eyed patri
otism and sound philanthropy, to wish
to raise the negro in the scale of IS nein!
and civil life fester than he Is morally
and intellectually lifted up to tho stan
'd'ard to which d in_pluruisaiL-to exalt 1 ;
of an) man, or any 1
race of men, artificially, above their
natural or real :talus ru Koeitety, in
equally unjust to them and to those with
whom it is sought to equalise them
The practical ettect itt nut the elevation
of the inferior. but the degradation of
the superior Man or race Civilization
iv the result of education, and civil so
ciety or cove'rnmeid tit it popular kind,
can never be built firmly except on a
certain degree of genet al intelligence
and ;torsi virtue. The horn in the
bait not reached 111 e irritfortn of
the white race or this anuotry in thryte
respects Ile photilil nut , thrrefore, be
clothed with equal, social'and you stool
rights Human equality is a very plaus
ible and facitinting (locrine, and it led
France into n fearful revalnUon in 1798
Let us ovoid the seine mistake lit try.
leg to effect the equality of all Nlen,
its level hi1W10,124, riot dowuwardes -San
dary Ifrreury
"Loilty" must be Made Odious!
"Treas.:6i must be made odious," mild
l'restdeut Jolitisou, aud he weal to wurs
at 01101 to niske it odious. Ile set 111111-
Se If 1/111111 he ronstitution,and proclaim
ed those traitors who warred upon it !
But It came to he a question, upon
1131161CA“iii.- —WII4; Were trattors. Those
xlllO 111ld. locked 01117 ltit/tlllllllllll - 11 tor trea
son and traitois, got anti seises arous
ed, awl Ategau to • '6lllOll a rely large
mice " They had but to lonic An their
utirr re to Mid 1110 traitors to whoni the
!'resident alluded 01 course they tie
c. 1111• 11i111g11111fit , 11111 the l'iesit.eisoutid,
111.14 e are r.• I. nr+ 101151 Yr tr upon or at
tetupt to ride over the Cousticutions of
he,peoplis
Thin was a blow at "Loy illy," and
the h (MM . ) ul the past two years ii am
ple proof that ••1011t)" is treason, 1110
that a is destined to stink MI the 11US
eels of treemeh—ol all who love their
ouuutry mid us 1141111111101111, sad who
revere the memory of the loundern of
the Democratic system a: Government.
01011• he made od
ious, if we would have althited coun
try'
'Lutily" must be made odious, if we
woold k t crlm,4nd Opt:1E5810W
• LOlll roust be made odloos,if we
would cdieck mousirous legullatiou and
stupeydous robbery
must be made odious, if we
would sure the 1101100 from baokruptsy
and the people from austchy
“Luttly" must be made udioue,tf we
would avoid a war of races and spertuti
heat retlitnry despotism'
"I.o,ity'' must be malt oilioulti,lf we
wiculd - base the Coustitutiou fuf toe law
of the laud and the white man for ate
lioveinor!
••Loalty" must be made odious, if
Taxation ie made equal, sod the pour
luau relieved of the payment of the rich
msob luxes
'•Loitty ' moist be initde odrous,and
luir monopolies anti combinations brio
kenor the poor WWI would have tbe 4110-
eavaried of the sold ,at prises within his
abtluy to purcbaie !
”Loi.ty" must be Wade odious, it
'toil' 'him, and murderers ■re punisb
ed !
An 4 becouung odious.
tbauks to Uud, Andrew Johnson (wnli
all bis faults). ►nd the Peoplci—Senn
nel on (he Border.
Tho (lead Belong to the Living
- We are often taken to . task (or what
Nome Republicans call "disrespect of the
dead." They say it is not right to al
lude to Abraham Lincoln, the knave and
ty quit, 111 language designed is reflect
upon the "sacred rent of the dead, and
all that rort of thing
This is all very Sind in the admirers
of the detunct monster, whe wrought PO
much misery for his countrymen , but
why, we ask•theee pious and very'rever
rot wen, did not Lincoln, the monster,
respect the lining and dead himself
while he lived !
Aod shall impartial history consent to
rvfmain silent' while Abraham Lincoln,
crawls into hie grave, and hides from Ito
verdict
Shall we as journalists and historians
—cbroniclere of the acts of governors
and rulers—permit Abraham Lincoln,
knave nod despot. to mewl from the
,4auttist of the living and hide from the
verdict which. Lin acts in life merit ? If
this in right, why short(' the monsters
of earth who preceded Lincoln, be torn
from their graves audtade examples of
for the benefit of mankind? Why should
men speak disrespectfully of Benedict
Arnold 1 Ile is dead Why allude to
the tyrants who have rated and ruined
in other lands—the Robeepierres, and
Dausons, awl Moroi, of Fr . yee ; the
Henrys, and Cromlechs, and roatittHe
queens of England !, Are they not dead?
Why heap odium upon the unmarked
grave of Jun Wilkes Booth Be ie
dead—(in a horn !)
Why shall we use an examples the
lives of other rpm*" cud oppressors,
anti per iui'
. Lincoln to escape ?—that
demon /wave: whole brief rule wrought
rime maorning, and deetilation, and
and blight in his country than any
Filter of earth iii modem times?
We claim that Lincoln'. life sod sot.
are the property of the people—that he
cannot skulk talc- his bloody grave
through the kindness of the We Mr.
itooth,lo hide from reepousibility to 1111112
kind foi•those sots:for whiole he ,dled
iolerp, but enerited death. -
• Tole is our apology for dragging the
timid monster from big gory grave. And
we claim it as a right and, duty.,-..Er,
Party Dhrlntegration.
Does any one want es'idenoe of the
disintegration 'of theAttit.parly!" as
the N• Tribune ad. Fab re
cently a numerojui boenever a great
body pllitithelly, let hint" :talk a 'while
calmly with intelligent Republican's who
are ester patty hacks or Waxy fanatics.
Boob en inquirer will be likely to *seer
lint what it it that in thinning the ranks
of the so lately triumphant - party, and
swelling the number', in favor of the
Democratic principles opposed to the
Radical polioy.
The truth is, that the great body of
the Republicans who vociferated man•
fully for the union and peaoe,until With
in, a few months; *ere persuaded by
the Radical leaders to imagine that the
policy inaugurated by then, lighta of
other days, would produce that happy
result, Thossjsatlers, wicked and uu
sortrolltinsTis they are, werp o n i ot so ig
norant; they knew .perfectlif *ell that
anything but peace ore proper Union
would ensue from their base machtna
tions. They only hoped and . expected
to secure the su motley of the Ouvern
ment in their o baud% The people
even of their ow rty cannot possibly
slitit their eyes 10 the ftot that.dinunion
is the intritifile elect of the Radical
policy. And Republican people are no
more anxious tor that than are the demo
cratic people. Thus the present issue ill
not an much among the people, as it is
between the 1/COl,lO en masse and the
Radical leaders of the late republican
party.
When Republicans chattier it nu iu
cull to be ranged along 'nth It..dtettle,
it weans votuething tt, month," ugh
there were few republican's who thus re
garded the Radicals. The tootle is now
tietWeeta theme bold tiehaict too I
leaders ono the people to genet Alta
why 7 The answer in plan,, iteenume
the people now perceive that .Isese auda
cious leader. Dever tuteutled uny good
to the t eople, tool that the people, dote
lint trust theut shy Ihuger Tli Ittlitt
eoce of the great at." , leo of Ratio:3'olmm,
zite•etts, 6u tuner, W ilvou i Wade, lie.,
uo longer tutus. It is gone ne•er to
return. When the Anterteau people
once become thorough disgusted by
with detuttgoguem untie close to which
•
these men helong,time can deter ehonge
it
Permanent Influence over lbw hearts
and minds ut a people who are bo•Li
tr
telligent cud honorable, can uul j be ex
trotted by• men who are ilieni4elve,
litiaterible. 11.14 bra...lune il.e American
people are both intelligent Wig" b011i)lis
that we are wile. li• say tug" that
every public 111 , 11 i *Po has dt.parted
from the honorable c,tirse tut his treat
ment of our white bre hero of tb-e South,
must recet•e, sootier tt- icier, the con
tleautattuu„ Sepudlnll4.ll . atm Oilier cur
see of an outraged peop le North as well
as South A little whrle, only a little
*bile longer, 134T1 those in power and
who .are trampling on human rights
and Milking a terrible larettof F,elf-grr
eminent among men, be antlered by our
peor le to go an in their u .hallowed
course. A few like Wllsou, stud Amin
ley, and the great allegutor, Covotle,
may coutinue to blare public opinion in
order to keep up their own courage
lint it won't do. Each one of three
will, in turn, prove himself a con ant::
the very first time he is lair:) , lested•
We ate safe in asserting thin, simply
because every t;trant is of necessity a
coward The people tear not ouch men ;
they only dread the misrule, and suf
fering, and heavy taxaiion wilitdi their
coutiy/s bring, The Radical party 14 a
dissolving view —Pittsburg Post
PnisrstilSo roll bicresr —The New
Hampshire election will take place in
March neat, and that IL will be produc
t,tve of extraordinary results is evident
(runt the present lugubrious tone of the
!radical press The organ. of •• grand
moral idea" seem unannuously desirous
of creating the iinpreesion that their
party there in divided and broken 'into
laci.ons enti-ely upon man and local
questionn, and that there extent, all the
while, a perfect unanimity of aentim•ni
upon the national Mime of -reconsiroo
lion ' This is mere stuff . The people
of . that State, like those of all other
Northern States, have felt and as still
feeling the disasterous 'nth:tenet, of par
tisan negro-State reconstruction in the
South, and, whatever nuty be said of lo
cal CRILISCS or issues,-reconstruction'' is
the big maul thatio knocking the Itadi
eel party everywh.re to pieces. The
leaders of Radicalism are well aware of
this fact, hence their efforts to inieinter
prat to Advance the action of the people
against a measure upon which entirely
hangs the perpetuity of their party.
These signs are eueouragitig to the
o
(rue frtend a be country and il,l Mut
tering hosts dustrioun laboring men
They do not, I s
Is true, prefigure a cer
tain victory for the Deinucrasic Or con
*entails' party, but they Abort condo
lively the demoralized condition out the
Radical party : the, terror which has
seised the mind*• of its leadership, and
bow blight is the effort needed to crush '
its abominable dogma forever at the hal
lot-box If all true, Constituticlual '
Union men will bul Milts in a general
warfare upon the negro•reconftruction
propagandists in New Ilantpshire in
Match, Nev.'" het following will not
leave 'a
vet . f "grand morel ideals"
to obstruct . restoration of the Union
upon a Constitutional enlightened and
Christianized battik—Patriot ft Union
Ta■ NORTnwns7nlin Dattooariot.-11
in • molter of earnest congratulation to
the Democrats of the Eant end South
that their friends in the Weslend North
weet are 'arousing themselves fbr the
greet work before them, and that they
are rodioelly 001. In full fellowship,
breve, sad hopeful In Michigan the
reaetion stainst the negro "prowess"
of the leaders is overwhelming,
and must revolt int he defeat of the ne
gro-suffrage constuution - the corning
spring by fifteen to twenty thousand.
This state of affairs bee been greatly
contributed to by the bravery, epithetic'
seal of the opposition to Monsiellem.
So to the adjoining aisles Black lie
plublieenism Is "aying its dos's death;
with the eget:wattage of Its Isle dslud t pd
followers beeped upon it.
Democrat. ere brave and hopeful ev
erywhere, end will triumph We fall, If
they hare I bole SildreelnellltOtit Juites
,mati ' to rally , upon ti* Praddenl—,one
for whom they, o* work with spirit aad
seal l—Er,
131Inerti' Clevnt's Priva te
,;
' Clatters' (habilis a Very. diever n.
his way ; bet he is neither the greaik.,
soldier nor thie greatest( statennian the
world ever saw. Even hie _lettere are
poor speohnens of. the epistolary art
It linitAppg been known that 'be minuet
speak ; it will henatomb be allowed
that be eatinot-writer- lie has been re•
puled wise for eying nothing. It nip
pkty ho phonid now ho found out to be
foolish fin being lees prudent iii the use
of his pen. Last week the' public were
permitteddti rend, in type, his famous
secret eornmunlontion to the Preeident
remonstrating against the removal of
triton and Sheridan and Sickies.
teas' said about its literary merit th e
better for the author. 48 Jo the politi
cal wisdom displayed in the advice vof
utiteered and the vaticinat inns of pope_
tar indignation which the Gen. thought
would follow the notion ho deprecated,
the recent elections in Cennecticut,Ohi o ,
California, Now Josey, Pennmylvnaia,
and Mee Siete'', furnish a sufficient
comment Stool, Sheridan, and Sick
lee, were remove not withstanding th e
counsel of Grant, and all three of !lie
great dismisseu went roaming over the
country making clap-trap titoechea for
the radicols jinn before the late, eleoto
rat contests in thin. and other States
But the pcopic everywhere falsified the
predictions of Mr. Grant, since Limy
net only submitted to, hut apparently
approved by their ballots, the notion of
the Preaulent and put to a flat and
crumbing protest against the recountruc•
(ion policy of Congreett. But the most
remarkable' Not in ctinneetiuns with
ibis private lever of Oran! to the tires
'dent, in 1.14 subsequent acceptance of
the place from which Stanton was ilia
mined in spite et tlintit's veto. Did he
not, in that act, publicly acquieoce in
what he had, btu a little while before:
privately piotested against its nowise,
unjust, and impolitic? flow will the
world reconcile this controdirtory con
duet To our mind, it argues not only
di,ingentieus but a weak and incou
sistent clittiacter • Is such a man fit to
be Preeldem ? Not einctiy
"MY MARYALAND."
Our uelghbot lug Coutruouvreelila seem!
to eneounier anon) dllhtµlilee mid an
struottops to 1 1 / 1 3 win k al the t
(lull 01 the Liiloll rcculdlug 11l 11/e Rad-
ICiil plan .1 law weeks ago her hegie
law] e, tiding 111 Its 11.11tioultied ctpuetty
all the realeeeniair(e of a vuvarcign
,ntate • elected an Inc suitor,
Mr Fraueis Thinfian, to till ihe vacua I
uticanioneil by the expirat.ton u l tire term
01 JUldi CMS% cl . 31r Th owes ',swept
iy appeaied ht lhe beginning e( the
prest.lll. and !!resulted tits ore
thane's. Dui lee clam, to 1316 seat has
bec•tt testeted Icy the Radicals, uu the
g.ruuud ••oienyaliy,' all/1 ea tar tl ey
neve been nue:, 84111 to Keep log him
• nut in the cold.' they, a.lage that he
le au tiurecouetrueied and uurepeuiout
Übe', his nylitpalfilen hay iug her u - er ith
the ihuuth In her straggle lir tudepeu
deuce , and thai, woreuver, he had a 800
111 lice Colitedt rale niy.
Pour Maryland iti thus tie
ptived oh, halt ul her represent - I:mud
11l Ilia liigtert branch 01.11 e Nail/A/at
Legislaitire ter txereising her own ja Ig
ineut la the choice ut her legate ; the it
neither in ihe Lew 1 , our 0111 ul it , hut,
Ilke Nlohuuireto CUII/11, In suepeuded be
tween Ilea%eh and forth. lu Wind
threClloll ebe will how gravitate It IF
hard to tell , Ili IaCI, II In u tjUeellutl 0'
lithe Inerely iVheit It la TeCallecitd,
however, that Maryland wan a member
of the (Jul Thirieen—and hence a vete
ran to ihe runal ul CoUtilliutiou•l tree
dew—we need uo leer but that she will
depuri line/tell, 10 thin erlele, in censer!
oitee Willi her auteeeilenin arid her 'Hun
iriuus liniturf—Sunduy Mercury
Tits l'imitias —1 few days ago the
Pear, of tlns t ity, laid hr fore tin read
ern an • appalliag record," designed to
prone that the majority of the white
population in the South was composed
of cut !broom and bandits, while on the
contrary the Ita.lical brethren lining in
that infiliettil region were all gentle, af
fectionate find lamb like in their habits
and diaprouttons. The compiler of the
record," however, seemed blest with
convenient memory, for be forgot to
MCIIIIOII the brutal ilBll , lllii Which was in -
Meted upon J E Ilayes, Erg , editor of
the Naranuoh Reptridran, by Navel - al
white Uniontevv, an well as the pubve
quent belligerent iletnonetrat ion iliat wns
made npon the enure gentleman by a col
ored brother who it a memba•r.of the Ai
linty. Convention In the htoollll act of
hi, morel drama, the editor dilated with
great power 11[111,1 the wicleilneev of the
of Dixie. and •gate forgot to
refer to the cased of illicit distilling
herepbbouto which are to he found daily
ut ihr local nolonyna of at least one of
his “tyro newspapers, both daily " What
• oonaolation a moat he to fe e l, with
the Pharisee of old, that we are not like
other wee!—Air
A tiri.stioto Racoun.—An exchange
posts the political hook. of the year and
shows a glorious work for the Democra
cy Of the (leerily States in which elec
tions have beet] held in the year past the
Demoorats have carried ten. They car
vied but three last year. In theme twenty
States they hare • popular majority of
nearly 100,000. and have made the on
precedenled gain of nearly 300,006
votes A change of 16 000 votes will.
next year give in the Drnionristir seven
of the ten Stites which the Radicals
have carried ibis year. The ten States
which have gone DemopratiO this Pan
cast /16 electoral vote' The ten Rad
oal Swett have 77 electoral votes. If we
tale from the list of Radical State,
Ohio, which was carried foe the Radical
candidate for Governor by a mall ,ma
jority of illegal negro votes which may
tis thrown 'out by the LegialstureAhe
Mesterei vote in the twenty 13tatie
stand Deniacratia 167 ; Retcliettli6.
'Dbe Cincinnati Enquir,e states
positively that Jahn Sherman, the Chair
man of the Senate Finance Committee,
.le a• partner in the shOtidy banking house
of Jay, Cooke at Co Thii feet furniehes
a_ very easy esplanetioti of ,Sherman'e
report on the financtee and the potioy of
the Senate looking to the perpetuation
of the national debt, slut the servitude
or the pele.
EMI
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