they are engaged In the performanre ofl a lawful duly it . will surely be an Intl nits relief to be assured cot by a deol- sion of this Court* The people ought' tb know it, too, so that they may ,!earn to submit quietly to evils which cannot be cured. Then if they .do not enjoy the blessings of 4 11berty-- they will at .least have the repose of dexpotian,Whieb is perhaps the next beet thing - But if it should be finally heldhat these cow missions are.lll3l wing and' void, it is i t horrid cruelty not to O y so at once.— Would my learned bro her,for anjf toere political consideration. encourage pub i i eft a 8 to mph on in headlong igno rant!e at the Halt of being . branded as criminals in the future It you debide hereafter that their sets are no protec tion to tbani_aujust the charges of kid napping. robbery, anti murder. how will they feel los lard thoae who prevented a .., decision in time to once them from (ho' 4 sl dkuitykeed_ta_luer- hltt . rtripj". $491.7JLtha1.1.-- 1 -- ------- mil -..-' The Democratic WatQhman. BELLEFONTE, P. ?MOM MORNING, FEB. 7. 1868. ONO 'States Supreme'Court, —Case Sf 001. W. H. kl'Oardle---Argu seestsof Judge Black und Senator Trumbull. 114siittscroN,Jan. 17.—1 n the Supreme Court of the Uniteir &Ceti, itirTho case of MoCardle, this morning, after the krkwadotton of some cutter business, Mr. the counsel of MoCardle, called the attention of the Court to his mot jOr• his this wise. to fix .an early day for the argUnSeal.. lie said that Senator Trum ball, who'had some objections, had been waiting to make them, atd he (Mr 01Bli said be knew no reason why 'tie cause should be advanced, and au early day assigned for the bearing of it The railer bad been brought before a mili tary commiseion for trial; but the ha &us corpus had auspeoded the proceed is& and be was now out on bail. No harm could come to him or any one by letting the cause stand without a decis ion for • year or two.—Mr. Trumbull took up the written reasons filed w th the motieu and answered teem seivorally. lie said this was not, properly speaking a •orimikt4lonse; it was a habeas corpus The other two reasons, inetesd of being grounds to sustain ihe motion, were strong against it. They a:lego 'bat the Oohed Stales are interested in tbe goes tidn;atod that it cane - erns the rights and liberties of every American cotzen this shows that it is a political ease, and the Court should not vollintiri , y take upon itself responsibilities of that Mr Trumbull did not expect or - desire the Court to shrink from its duty, but be believed that it-eboutidanot go aside from its regular course to seek occasions for deciding quest), ne like this. . . . Judge Black replied. He deuied ,that this wee a political case. It was purely judiotal. '•lt has come," said he, “in the faros of ir-legal-pppetal-frosis-alm-Gie Cult Court for the Dieirtot of Mississippi and it comes hero with technical regu lasity represent_ an body bpi.-my client, and ask for the vindication of no rights users. hie." Tbb Attorney-Gen erel mikes no opposition. If Mr Trumbull comes in to take up the case for a politleal party, I submit that he is out of his proper piece, for the Senator should know that in the courts of the country we practice law not politics. A g'ance.at the record will eltiow you • that the relator was accused of a criminal of ferise,erreeted without tiny judicial war- Tan', held for a long time in close custody and then brought before what they may call a Military Commission, organized to convictlitm Ile could-not fo his domfb, for if they could try him they could bang him. His friends gut a writ of bibs's corpus lie was brought be fore the Circuit Omit-, anti wait remand ed, but the Judge, manifestly ;n doubt. facilitated the appeal in a way which showed his own desire to have it decid d by the court of last resort. Yet you are told that this is not a criminal case. Mr. Trumbull—laid not say so; I said the habeas corpus-was not a crico anal proceeding Mr. Black—Certainly it is not, but the nature of the case does not depend on the form of the writ, neither is a writ of err, r a mimics' proceeding, but • wilt of error 1 ke habeas corpus may bring a criminal cause into this Court Judge Black continued, we ask that you hear the Case now. It is not at the foot of the list By the statute law of the land, by the immemorial custom of the Court, and by your own written rules made so lately as last year, it stands at the bead of the docket, and Clam. your immediate attention As a crime nal co•e, the act of Congress says you shall hear it in preference to ethers that are pending, but the preference always was conceded to such eases No crimi nal csmee'was ever allowed to be staved off or put by on the ground that civil Causes. whether older or later, should be beard 64 vi. Such has been the univer sal pram ice of this Court for more than three quarters of • century It is the practice everywhere else In all the Courts , . State and Federal, the rule is to give criminal oases the preference Your adminietration of entente,/ justice cannot afford to watt if the accused party is guilty, and the proceeding swust him is legal, the highest inter este of society require that he should be punished without delay If he is law lessly prosecuted by a tribunal that ILA no jurisdiction, or if he is suffering from the false judgment of a Court which has authority to try blip, he Must be taimed• isdely'relieved. Relief postponed Is pot relief at all In no case cam any euGri premit the sword of public vengeance to be doubtfully 'expended over the tread of a citizen for an indefinite time. But there is another reason which would induce you to take this case up immed iately even if it were at the foot of the docket. In the exercise of your peat power. you do not merely decide cases, you lay down rules for the eondutt of others who may find themselves to Irks condition You never give soaked judtg meat. You accompany it with the res. sons, eo that all men may know how far Grapy are within the principles you sanc tion You are the great teachers of the people In regard to those things which concern their temporal salvation. and in proportion atryou preform that duty, er ill, in that proportion are you fit or unfit for the high places which you fill. *re is a msbjtot on which your lessopel are most especially need ed. This is set the only Military COUl missies that bag been set up. In all that large region of country trots-the Potomac' to the Gulf of Meeloci, Military Commissions have become as much the fashion that they have almost entirely -eupersedm) a .or a and jet fee. Thej in *Call matuser of panishmeette. Three men are now held by them under sen tence of death. and !tundras are lan guishing tender their orders In various. kinds of imprisopment. Every officer who Is or may be engaged in carrying out these proceedings is deeply liter- 1 meted to knowing, as soon as possible,— bow the I tw regards him. from the President yid the General to the army dews to the lowest Jack Knish he their worries, it is to the loot degree toper . last that they should know when they boa a sac whither their set Is pada. abio hosioito or (clowns murder. If of To ac- Mini - nit:to upon their heads for ttvo or three years more,, there will not be rain enough to the sweet heavens to %Ili* them white again This question, n 9, doubt seems a very clear one to Mr, Trumbull, and he oan doubtless make it as clear to the Court as it is to him. We suppose it at bast possiblo that he may be mistaken. We know that the Consti tution makes a court and jury the exclu sive Judges of guilt or innocence itZ every criminal case, and we know, also that the Constitution wax in full force about one year - ago, for title copit then Said so in very plain and unmilitakable language But Mr. Trumbull and other jurists sup pose themselves to have discovered an act of Congress passed Milli the dreision referred to by which' the Constitution is repeal 4 or, at least, they have learned that the American people have in some way lost the right of trial by Jury. , Now the presumption Is a strong one to be seen that Mr Trumbull is right and 1 am wrong If tie comes with his act of Congress, and .1 oppose him with the Constitution, and the principles of public liberty, the whin will he against me spi I • he cannot say that the point is ab solutely free from doubt, when he re members that the Attorney General, who • • • Imail_of_the pro fessition, and deserves to stand there, ix against hint taro rwlo. The question cannot he clear in his favor, SS hen the' conviction of Is lawyer nice Mr. titanbery is clear the other w ay If it M. doubtful. and that is all 1 ask you now to concede, is inhuman to leave it unsettled when the mute in 'before you in w hick all doubts can be resolved. I repeat t h at this is a Judicial question merely Irby the sug gestion that it is connected with politics, it is tumid to say that . you may be as sailed end slandered for your decision by partizans, I admit it freely. That may he true in NS case as ii has hcitt m many others, I cannot promise you ex emption from a fate Which the hest men in the world have stifeied when they performed their public duties honestly. That Is the rough brake that virtue must go through But if the statue laws, the xuleiti - Jutdr.lsnitatil. Pi:lattice of this Court are not to be violated, the cause before you will be heard without, more delay than whit may be necessary for its proper preparation. Judge Sharkeytepoke briefly on the same pure, enforcing what had been maid by hie oelleague, and stating the condi tion of thing's in Mitiminsippi am an addi tional relation for an early driaion. Mr Hughes thought there was ho rea son in the circtimittanees of the cone it self for taking it up soon, and the Court ought not to consider the extraneous facts which had been mentioned. The speech of Judge Black and the profound sensation manifested were to themselves enough to show that the subject was one which could not be handled without pro ducing excitement At all events, he hoped that full time would be allowed for counsel to consider their argument It ought-nat to be hurried. In the osairse of the debattlor ney-Generall Stanbery defined hia ppm lion. lie said that a cane had been laid before the President in which a military commission had menteuced a person to death The question had been propound. ed to him by the Premideut whether that condemnation and sentence were legal Ile had, in accordance with his convic tions, answered that they were illegal and •oid, and had advised the President not to approvethem TIII9 being his opinion, he could not, of course, take the nth nide of the question Therefore he had declined to argue it here. lee had left it to be argued by ttrbse who believed in the doctrine. Ile had given notice to Gen. Grant, in consequence df which other counsel had been employed A lIIANDONB THEM —The New York Beresid h►a supported has the reconeruc Hon policy of Congress, and the Rath cal party until the hope for its doing anything for the 'salvation of the Union has passed After alluding to the fact that history has justified the statement that the tendency of republican institu tions is towards• absolute monarchy; at cm "Are we in the United Staten about :o furnish anothiirexample The eventc of the hour certainly point in that di rection. The Radical Republicans, onee the hope of the oonoiry, are no longer patriotic. The love of the "party, it is now manifest, lice szainguiahed the love of country. Come what may of the country, the Radicals must rule—such is their policy. Like a certain illu•tri ens personage, they think it better to reign in bell than servo In heaven ' An archy for a diitator--that I the future they are preparing for the eountry." -- Mongrel ermine are Carping con linually about the President obstructing reconstruction." Ribber the Presi dent. nor any one else has ever put • straw in the way of that infamous revo lutinnary mes6tire—more's the pity.— Theezenble is 4 ie earpetesseke sod nigs of the mongrel conventions—wits their eight, ten, or twenty dollars a day—are in ne berry to finish up their work." Pope, Plummer, Wilson, and others, tried to hurry them up, but the darks hue' foebd Radical enpreeisoy so pleasaat and profitable, that, like the Rump Rade they desire to make their supremo, perpetual. The Radical leaders would gladly get rid elf their mongrel agencies. If they keen—how, and the country would gladly lista of both.—Poiriot # "Mom Green-baok pay, or denial of the War Debt. • Every man who ha reduced to scien tific form the correct data of ,the debt contracted by the late war.,,nnderstilnds that the cooly qtyestion practical, is be tween paying off the Bonds in the same depreciated currency in which they were contracted, and promised to be paid; and 'the denying of them, alto 'tether. Of the two ways, we think 'it would be most for the interests of hu man liberty, hereafter, to demy-tizat we ever contracted this war debt. -••• The Government" is but the " at t orney, with special power," of the cimmuntlas per fead—the organized people of all the States in common A majority of those States bad no right to 'disposses, ar co' erce a minority of them.. The war wte alt snit' ,•oleart 'Mime). It in • dinla e ebt—that of the Con-. federates, defending their States, accor ding to our traditions of self govern ment—and that of the Federal', seek ing to "wipe out all those State lines," lad reconstruct one Nation on the ruins if the several independent States. The longer purse lay in the hands of the Federal,. So, those hited many more soldiers than the Confederate States. Rather than fight it emote kiwit zerland, and ?ortugnl, and the Low Countries of Belgium and Holland did —and, thus, by persistent sacrifices, es. (oblige% their right to govern themselves —the Southern States forced their gal lant defenders to throw themselves on the mercy of their opponents 'Till the world ends, all well instructed lovers of Republican liberty will weep for the men who-died, and who valiantly fought, for the Riyht of Local Self-Government in the Southern States. When the turbid wa ters of present events shall have settled into the calm and even stream of hist° ry,it will be recognized that there wee a power of mean, sordid, and slavish feeling, among the monied men of the Southern States, or they would never have haorded their cotton and their o• her resources, as they did, and starved the army that was defending them into dis tilfrOlOn and submiesinn-after such grand exhibitiona of_ detail= and_ of_ heroism_ en the part of the dead and living cham piens of free local self government, in ihe Southern Staled but, we do not, therefore. hold the South more guilty than the .gorth, for having precipitated the late collision tit unequal forces. Or the two, the Nor It ern factionists were the agsrentiorm They fired the “first gun" Tne emissa ries of New England •'fired the first gun" in Kansas. with the Sharpe's rifle. supplied front Puritan. conventicles On S)utbern soil, the "first gun" was fired by the hand under that ezectable old tltreti- brit itbd ilaiitTeCir, John fleo4n • at klarper's Ferry. Therefore, in ;vitt, we ree no reason why the impo•erisht•d people of the Southern States shall be required to pocket the utter loss bf the Confederate debt, and luckier people, in the North ern' Stales . . who invested in bonds to sus tain a war clearly unconstitutional and unlawful, shall be paid anything for their ;art in the vulgar rumpus I Our exact meaning, we are going ig express, here. We wish it understood that we put it now, on record : We are willing, for major considera tions, to consider the result of the lasi battle, an a decree of the highest court We are willing to take the ground as coined by Mr Pendleton, and Judge Thurman. of Ohio, that the debt, unlaw fully incurred, by -the Government"— ale attorney of the people, organized to tar diffe*ent States, shall be pod—in the 1 1 form and manner promised. We have auod many reasons for consenting to this The poor States of the Church, in to Italy, have always awed on the prin ciple of paying the debts, even of the most corrupt usurpations The en chequer of Pius IX , is, this day, em barransed, by his conecientiouri purpose of paying tiff the obligations incurred lin the enme of Rome by the infamous Matzintan horde. in 1848, We know the cases are not parallel To make them so, the Confederate. as well as the Feder al debt, to our late unhappy war, would need to be accepted No Southern states 11111,41 has asked for this It is not our part to advocate what is not claimed. But, when we ace pt Mr Pendleton'e compromise—so just o ond generous-01 paying oti the Bondhblders in .Me same currency in which they paid for their bonds, anti in which payment was prom Iced—we here say, distinctly, that while we will faithfully carry out this compro mise—generous to the tiondboldere, ii acted on—ti it be not accepted, we will thee turn ail our nitlumice, sod see most pelmet orgumenle—eure to be accepts , by a distreesed people, for denying that the people owe one cent on thin war debt! - Pitmans Joarnal Zielolllolll., ETII —The phrase eo lored people," .ornet Ines used in the Democrat ic prelim Inv+ no iheaning in it. Wsjire alt •'colored people." COUCIIPIAIIII, Mongo han etc . aY Well NO African. We. Csuoasiams, are blondes hruneits,eto.etc, etc All ...colored people," some light, as ihe Ashcans. sours dark as the Spew' ards with Moorish blood s tri his veins Negroes ame no more colored people" than we whites are But a "negr.," is a negro and nail hang hut a negro and a ne gro men differs more from a white man than a white.inan from a white woman The negro bite not any hair on his head --only wool; no brain, no head, nor mouth nor ohm like a white man's ; no shoulders, lege nor feet, nor heels, nor shins, like white men's—and in other parts his anatomy, not lit for newspaper disoussien.be Miters in all respects from a white man. rhos, the negro is a ne gro—but ever respectfully to be sr oken of as a negro—admirable in hitiShere of life fer which God made life', 'io be !be 'onset of the white man, hitt odious sod accursed, when, as in the South, he rides over the white man as hie master. —N, Y. Evening Eiger's. , Bosouotuss —Wbo would not be a bondholder? Ye farmers, sell your farms and buy bonds, and event your • gold. Bell all the faetories,etad turn into bonds all property, and live apes the intents. He works and toile by eight and day,— throtfgh rain or shine, to raise interest for some nabob who lives at ease on his toll. Make •haste and buy bonds, sod Ho in shade.—Speolator. —Joshua Baker has been appointed Gosernor of Lonislans.Nise B. P.'Plan dere, resigned. 1 Grant As He Was and As Hi) Is Wheb Lee surrendered f‘e shattered remnant of his forces the rejoicing throughout the entire North was gener- al •nd'hesrtfelt. The masses were try iy glad that tiny tierce strife which had made such • heavy and constant drain upon the blond and treasure of the na tion was seer. The return of peace and the immediate restoration of that Union. for the preservation of which such greet Sacrifices had been made; was confident ty expected. The exultant joy of the po t Mane was uninterrupted, mime by the discordant curses of to few extreme Radicals who, infest in the glad hour of our triumph, were heard denouncing General Grant for according generous terms to the vanqu'shed. But the mas ses fully approved what he had dune. cud Ahribam Lincoln gave to his ante the fullest official sanction. When An drew Johnson exhibited an impulsiie vindictiveness:after the motion of tus predecessor, he was opposed and res trained by General Grant. That action wan noble and heroic' Aftor Mr. John son bad changed his views, so that they accorded w:tb those of Mr. Linaom and General Grant, the President and be con tinued to labor for the restoration of the Union with perfect barmpny of senti ment. A tour through the South: taken for the express purpose of observation. convinced Grant that those who had Keen leadersin the rebellion were acting in perfectly god faith, and that the work of reconstrftlion oa the - plan originoted by Mr. Lincoln and adopted by Mr. John .nn, woe proceeding molt prosperously. When 'stet tor an opinion be freely ex pressed um Clews in favor of the policy of the President. 'nod in opposition to that of the Radicals in Congress That tieneral Grant was honest 'in these hie eariier seta no one can dnuht lie had no temptation then which could bale induced him to dinguine or conceal the truth Ileunqueitiosisbl: acted and +Ate (rani sincere convictions • 'What a change has mince come over him ! Tempted by the enuring prize of Presideottal nomination, he has sub• mioted to be made the toot of a gang of disreputable-Radical pantie:lane who are zit tog to hazard the best - interests of the nation for the sake of the spoils. of office Too weak to decline the coveted prize, he leeks the sagacity to see that be throws away all ' , bailee of m•curing it the moment he allows himself to he placed upon a Radical platform Ills wonderful reticence ham not been a shield to him Ile no sooner fully consented to allow bibutolf to be used by the Radicals than he was involved by them in a lahy Huth of dirty political trickery from which he did not coma forth without the love of honor. lie was not only com pelled to abandon the views be had to long honestly held, but be was forced into a corner from which he escaped on ly by deceit and what looks much like downright lying The revulsion in popular feeling is wonderful. The man whom all men ren peefed but • short time ago hoe fallen nett' low in popular estimation There cent conduct of Gen Grant cannot be defended. No man who is Prepared to • tomato what is truly honorable can strip feeling that be has acted the diere potable part of a political trickster The reputat,ton which ho won ae a vol dire has been sadly tarniihed„ar.,o, if he should be the candidate cf the Radicals, he cannot expect to be treated with any greater consideration by him opponents than Chase or Wade would be Ile will trey the votes of those who approve of the platform on which he stands, and not one niore The Democracy do not fear him They feel perfectly confident that he can be beaten, and they will have the advantage of having him pretty well used up before the campaign in formally opened All that is needed to secure our rue Doss is the exercise of proper:Oagacity is selecting contlidates. The coming battle is to be fought upon the living is sues of the present y ear, and we should take care that nothing be done by uc to enable our enemies to divert the mode the people from the great queotione which are stirring tilos popular mind to its profoundest depths Our candidate• should be men whose personal and polit teal record cannot be assailed. We mufti strip ourselves of every impediment in the coming race. If we do co. our cue cells is absolutely sure —Lancaster In telltatncer TUN BUM ..... )1.1.1f.MA . ANDIDATI.-11 is understood that the bondholders of the country, led by Joy Cooke and A 1' Stewart, will make a strong effort to hat• the Mongrel convention at Chicago mamma. General Grant for the Presi dency , and it is said that (front has written to Stewart. saying that be would accept the nomination. Whether Otis is true or not, the people should un derstand that whoever is nominated bi the influence of the bond holders will br fatal col to their interests • There is s distinct and, important iesue between the people and the bend holders The people desire the payment of the notion al debt a greenbacks, and the taxation o f all property alike ; while the bond holders 111(11 only want the . debt paid in gi44, knit insist upon exempting a vs. , smouut of the capital of the country from taxation Upon this issue. among others, the people must. enter the con test,' and via ; for their defeat would ruin the eountry, by producing a finan cial revulsion beside whioh.the panic of 1537 wits as nothin g Let the people everywhere investigate t hese mealy', aad make up their mind. to support the men who will pliedg• hemselves is favor of paying the bend holders is greeoltacks. whmh are as good for those who roll in wealth as for those who "earn their bread by the sweat of their brows "—Es. Eienstor Doolittle opened Ills greet speech spinet the pending Reconstruc tion hill in these words: " Kr. President, there is more in. volved in this measure than in say other all others, perhaps. I see in it a complete over threw of tho constitution in fin times of the Union. I see le it a practical dissolution of the [Won. I see a republic. In Wm at least, still re mainieg north of the Potomac. I ace as empire rising South of it. I see in it the realisation of the' • 'ldea. dream of Calhoun—a dual Esecetive-.-a Presi dent to caseute the laws is the repub lio of the Noslth ; a military dictator,— independent of the President, to make as well es execute laws la the negro em- , pire of the South. Congress end the Supreme Courti It is hardly worth while to dispute with Continue, its now coostitnted, any claim of power that it may set op. ?Wan pitched by desperation to attain deeps rate ends by deoperateMelea, are opt to be reasoned with. Their plosions, and not their understandings, lead and con trol thern;and`pissioci is loscoessible to orpiments which address either the in ielligenee or Oonsoienoe of mankind. It le; therefore, notat all surprising the• the bill to wipe out the territorial boon d u lea ot ten Southern Stotts and °tinsel biota them into one province under the despotic rule of a single dictator, war carried in the House of Representatives by ati riveiwybelming Radical majority ; and there is too much reason to fear that the Soya e will concur in a measure'that Win effect, not reoonstructive of State governments, but destritoiiie - of the Sicies themselves, territorially pe well `as civilly. But *veil that is not so an daciious as the proposition to take away, practically, from the Supreme Null., its right to decide, when regularly brought before it, quentione as to the conothn tionility of an act of Congress. Where does Congress find its authority to do any snob thing? Not in the• National Constitution ; for while the Constitution allows Congress to declare the quorum ot the Court. it gives Congress no power to declare what number of that quorum shall have the power of deoision. The power to determine bow many Judges on the bench may sit In the trial of baulles and transact the judicialbusinesa of the Court, is very distinct from a power to determine what majority of that quorum titian have a conclusive judicial voice in the adjudication of all cases within he legitimate jnrisdiction, when properly presented for ns decision. The Conan .ration soya that majority or each Houle of Congress shall constitute a quorum to do business," hut a hare ma jority of that quorum is allowed, save in a few 'specifically 'excepted tufses,"to pre vail in all divisions of the Senate and the use Congress cannot alter that law of its own organization and action; mucb lees can it alter the law which has alwa s irevailett. in the practice of our. American Courts. State and Federal, that a bare majority of a quorum of the for mer shall be decisive and final. except where an appeal hes to a higher tribu nal But there is no biger tribunal than, the Supreme Court of ihe United Stsites. end from the judgement of a bare ma jority of its judgetthere is no appeal _munt - lie noted that if the claim of Congress to declare that two thirds of a quorum of the Supreme Court shall be necessary to decide any game lion of law within its jurisdiction, a claim to require a unanimous concur rettrueret? the-ennrt in icy judgment may be asserted by Congress with equal rem ion and, authority The logic of the cage leads inevitably to this remulc namely, that Congress may practically minify the Court by maktng its decisiona depend on an impossible condition Eor at) practical purposes and on grounds equallyispreasoneble, Ciingressanitells we weltassume at once, • without circumlo cution and duplimiy, to legislate the Su preme Court of - Tire Nation ont of exis tence In demanding that six judges in eight. ill. the whole eight. shall concur in order to declare the uncourtitution silty of an act of Congress, that body is only imitating the fool who once at tempted to make two watches go exactly alike. Human minds are incapable ot such unanimity to their ratiocination a d •conclusionn, and it is but fair to presume that a legislature, whitri would impose such a rule of absolute, or near ly absolute accordance. upon a judicial tribunal. in all ernes in•olviig the le gftlity of its own acts in seerei ly con noious that ) its acts are unlawfuland must be condemned if brought ti the test of a free, independent, and bonnet —Sunday Mercury Note It It tow fart worthy of careful note anti retnembrance that all the civilta ns spoken of by the Detnocrsoy for their Pre.iden tel nomination were conspicuous for ihrir oppoortion to the Government du ring the rebellion and their !sympathy with the traitors. No other kind of a avillien is once dreamed of as their can didate —Omaha kiputitren {Yell, that'll pretty cool..coming from the source at does What constituted ..the government" in those days. Mr. Republican Etpeoially do we ask ihie goo-Lion of you ••truly foil" men who clamored so. loudly for proscription— swore th it. Lincoln was "file govern, moot," sad wanted every men bung who "prated of the Constitution f" What we,. the government then What is the government now ynu miserable Lincoln-poop, you know not of what you write There is not in the rankcol the Democratic par ty to-day a man whether of high or low degree, wbo is a true Demeorat, that ever we., or is now, opposed to the Con SI iIUI il)U111 'government the United States. The lion. gentleman, whole name, in all human probability, will be pre .ented by the Demooratie party as their candidate for the Presidency. will be one who hos been true to the constitutional governotint of the fathers—an honest man—a:gentleman of the highest moral worth, and a democrat No buffoon, thief. or human butcher Who will be the Radical candidate 1 - • A PROPOIIIIIOI4 —Since it appears that there are numbers of men now living in thu Nor( bees free States who are In favor of a mongrel government, composed of negroes and whices,•and sinoe it is obvi ous from all the recent elections that the free people of the North do not them selves intend to try the experiment, it le now propored that all those who are in favor of that tort of government, should at once pradeed to the Southern States and join in the experiment there. It is probably either a better or a worse kind of government _than 'our p t white system la . the North. If it is worse, then we of the North, watching the ope ration in the South, lan take warning anti refuse ever to adopt it among fur selves. But if it is better, then when these mircegenationiste have proved it ro in the South, we °an safely adopt It in the north. Congress is strong, but the free people of the North are strong er; so we think that thisyroposition had better be noted upon as irdlooted. Who will oidoott The Judges Rebuke Geery's oMolat Intp.rthsencle. Governor Geary, in his late message, had the impfidenze to call to ioodunt the Judges of the Cour(of Quarter tiessieni of PhiladelPhis, because they had in some instance, seen fit to reconsider and modify sentences attar the 'expiration tf the term at which they had been int. posed. The Judges reel so indignant at this internreddling, by Geary, with what 41 not totem hlut, that the matter Was considered on Thetraday, the lfith, with a full bench, the Grand Jury being p ro . sent. Judge Allison deli vered a lengthy and able opinion on the inabjegij n. which he alluded to the Governor interned. dling with the Judioiary iu rather severe ter?. We insert the following pers. niche of their opinion, viz: , That which we exCept to, is the ra s p. nor in which the Governor has sought to iutermeddle with a corrdinate depart ment of the government Of the State, which hoe the highest authority for the exercise of its powers, and tot the per. formulae of its duties which client' by the will of the people, as embodied to the Coustithtion of the State. ' The Gov ernor of Pennsylvania can claim m i) superior antbority for his wogs. as the bead oflbeEtemitive power of the Com monwealth over that by which ns Judges hold their office, and by whi. h they 'preterit& 'lndult, a Which bigot% to it • * * x 3 It was, therefore, as unseetul as it was unwise; because it is a usurpation of authority far the Governor, In his message to the legislature. to arraign the Judges of this Court for the preform anise of their judicial acts, as though be was either authorized so to do or com petent to forma correct legal judgment upon the question of the power of this Court to riconsider a enlistees, lifter the expiration of the term at wl lib it was isoposed—both of which propusitione we deny. . - causr of complaint in the foot that the foyer nor has misstated the case ae he knew it to exist, in that he omitted all mention of that which was most material; that ttpoli which the whole question hinges, oitul without which, it is not pretended, nor bas it ever been claimed, that the power,to reduce a sentence after term could be ezir-dised, That which the Governor does not state, although fully whined of Its existence, is the fact Mat is every case in whikh sentence was recon sidered, a rule to snow eaUse was entered a t the terns, and that the question being left open ant undetermined, was corlad over, to be finally disposed of at a sub. eequeut day.. The Supreme Court of the United at•s will soon have occasion to give a •imilaf rebuke to the Rump Congress, for ititertVonr wi.k the judiciary. No Work. From all parts of the - Country we hear that work is being suepend•d, or that wages are being reined This is as we expect it would be The great cry of enterprise was but a blind to en able the athentuters to carry through their speaulatione. and t to reckless use of our credit has brought us into a dept whto t is almost crushing in its weight. Promises to pay are not money, and un scrupulous ',cherries to make rroney, and are not bonuses, no matter how much show and bustle are moue. And we art hut at the beginning of the trying road we moat go over. During the period of infltoisn everything went on swintingly, , we had as easy and as merry a time as the wildest spendthrift. But the day has come when our debt must be paid, and to no that, ever to keep the intereel (Imo, we must dotty ournelves part of the condoms of life For many of the barest neaesetties will be bard to get.— ith no work, or with little to do, and that badly paid,how can the laboring w a buy meat, enffee„tea, sugar and butter at pr,ces dotibled when compared w h those before the war I He most do without these things which be has looked upon rs necessary to him The causes of this condition of aifatra are_ plain , they are the violation, of the well 'deflated poll oies of the Democratic party, to which we must return These consist of a wine and strict economy of the public treasury —4 certain and valuable currency, and the simple,' admininttation of the gov ernment coneistent with its safety.- We moat return to specie payment, riclnne the expenses' of the government. let the Southern people control themselves at d their system of lal or, that they may bear their burden of the public expense, and use our labor in the channel where it will yield a reliable revenue We must like the government out of the hands of the trading politicians, and business from the control of the speoulators Ituzerne Unmn WHAT WM ANN TAXILD FOR.—We halite been taxed half a million of dollar., with in the last sear, to build school tiouses for the negroes in the South. 'We have been taxed two millions one hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars to organise the negroes Otthe South into loyal leagues and get them to tilt, polls to vote for revolutionary conventions in the South. We have been taxi's.' eight hundred thousand dollars to pay the expellees of nogroee to ride about the south on the different tailroaded We have been taxed to pay one million five hundred thou*and dollen) for food for negroea and. Bureau agents in the South. We have been taxed twenty-five thous and dollars to pay school teachers for teaching negro children in the South. These are afew among the many thinp we have been taxed for under the Radi cal reconetruction policein the South. When forty-two - millions more are ad ded as the millltary expenses attendant upon that policy, the people may begin to understand why they are crowded for money, and why taxes are oppressive.— Detroit F-ee Press. ' A verdici was rendered spinal Gen. lames B. Steedman, of Ohio, In the United 4Citits Court at Knoxville, Tennessee, • few day, ago. for • 'cool $25,000, for the false imprisonment .01 . Imo T. Twigham, and for the foroit'le seizure of property during the war while Gen. Steedman i was In command of Chat tanooga.
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