The Democratic Watchman. Jii-ELL.VFON - TE, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 21,11868. Jokes Hickman Proposes to Amend uf_St Oate Constitution-The Salary of LOgliletors to be Reduosd—The Wort White to be Stricken Out— IllitoSpooch on These Questions. Tholspeolal. order in the lower House of the Legislature, on Wednesday, was JohnToktipta:s joint resolutions pro poling this following amendments to the Statetronetitution: Be i; 4PellOked, ilk, That the following amendineßts beyroposed to the constitution of the Commonwealth, In accordance with the provisions of the .enth article thereof. ,1,-The eighteenth section of the first ar ticle of the coostitution shall be eo amender} as to read as &Cows The Sispetere and Representatives 'shall receive a compensation for their *arrives to aseertaisied by law and paid out of the treeturg ,of - the - fontiskinweeltb, but In no tow dual thesmid clompensatioa 'mewed one thofteei iiioners . * year to each 14enator and Repreli during their respective terms of, Ole lft, Wisitrit_witbArteeu 'mew psi toile j:inta ri to and returning from each regal Ii u i session, to be computed by the usually travailed route between their places of redden*. end the capital of the State.— They shall in all elms, except treason, felony and breach, or surety of the pec i ce, be privi leged from &nem diuring their tendanee at the session of their respective l owls, and in going to, and returning Iron, the same, and fur any speech or debate in either House they shdi not be questioned in any other place. 1 Theirst section of the third 'Melo of the sosssSitaSion shall be so amended as to read as follows: In elections by the citwerts, every freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having re shied l t this &ate one year and in the elec tion district where he offers to rota, ten days impiddlate peeeestinsg nett 'electirra, having paid übtate or county tax within two years, assessed at le fat ten daywbefore the election; and able to read this constitution, shall en- Joy the rights of an elector; but a citizen of the Vatted eitatee who has previously been o qualified voter of this fate and removed therefrom and returned, and who shall have retitled in the election distsiet iintLysaid tax es as aforesaid, shall ea entitled to retains!! residing in the State-six month. 1 roust/ed., That freemen cittlens of the United States, between the age. of twenty-one and twenty. two years, Saving resided in the State one yeac and In the election district ton day as aforesaid, Shall he entitled to vote although they shall not have paid taxes. • Mr. Hicknicn, baring the floor, said, in regard to the' first amendment., that formerly legislators were. satisfied., with flee hundred - collars llut legislators bad gone on increasing their sit/fries un til they had.at last proposed to pocket 51,500. He wantecl some uniformity.— i If the amount- *ere fixed Abe Eternal union there would be no change in the "value" of ..ahrvieus" here during one winter. He bad originally inserted STOO in his resolutions, Iht the gentle man from Potter (Mr. Mann) had moved to insert $l,OOO The members should .be saved from themselves. He appealed to the "reformers" who had come here at the opening of the session brimfull of economy He presented the following statistics. 'Maine has a Legislative ses sion- averaging seventy-five days, and is members receive $l6O for the whole session; in Massachusetts the members receive SO per <lay ; in New Hampshire, with a session averaging thirty days, they receive $2,60 per day : to Rhode Island, St per day; in ecnueorient. $4OO for the whole - session , in Vermont. with a session ging fifty days, ;;, ,, 1 per clay, in New York. with a I)C5SItla averaging one hundred days, $3 per day, and in no case obeli a member's salary exceed $3OO for any 56881011, except it be an eaten one; in New Jersey, with a session ring ninety days, $3 per day for the first forty days, after which $1 per dart in Delaware. with *session averaging sixty days, per day , in Maryland, with a session averaging six ty days, $4 per day; in Kentucky. with a session averaging sixty dayse4 per day ; in Ohio, with a session iseting from one hundred to one hundred and twenty due. S 3 per day for actual atteudauce , in Michigan, with a session of forty to seventy days, $3 pet day under the ex isting Constitution, and $4 per day ac cording to the new CLltaLitallo{l about to be submitted to the people; to Indians, with a session of sixty -one days, five dollars per day; in Illinois, with a 'session averaging" sixty days, two dollars per gay for folly days; in !thesauri, with a session averaging ninety days, five dollars per day, in WiSCOI3B.U, with a session of nicety days. three dollars and fifty cents per day, in lowa. with a session averaging eighty daye, three dollars per day ; in Minnesota. with a session of Prow sixty to ninety days, five dollars per day; in Tennessee, with a sessioh of from one hundred to one hun dred and forty days, four dollars per dayT in West Virginia. with a session of forty-five days, three dollars per day , n Oregon, with a session of forty days, bre° dollars per day Hermit'', with a session of from thirty to fifty day., three dollars per day; and in Kansas, with sessions greatly varying in length, four dollars per day. In Pennsylvania the legislature was supposed to sit for one hundred days. but he actual sittings were for but sixty days. Ever) Thurs day, or Friday, members went to thfir homes, and did not return until Monday or Tuesday. Por each of these days. gentlemen. reoeishd a o fraetion over twelve dollars, three or four times what is paid for the lAA stilled toil, Our predecessors had voted themselves sev enteen deters per day, and they &staid-. ly proposed in committee to vote them selves a daily pay of twenty-six dollars. Was It at all astonishing that a general oritery shoabl have been raised about the sstrasediona7 pay, of . mentbers of the Pemdrylvania Legislatisrlif -He then brolahed,with great 00a40111E the seeonii branch of the resolutions. It was a haunted subject Cato which he Was about to enter. tsar Cgustitntion Wk s "nog, Indust, inhuman, sad the wont of it wee that ell own, in both parties, know It: The word "whits," the speaker said, was inserted by the vote of Democrats whose best friend was a negro, in whose ants be dloo7 . lerW years this word'ima 41.granti' ebb Constitution of Pens ( eanta . TheltePliolloans should .do their duty and leave the Demoetsts to doss they please ; we were not reopen- Vlible for their faults. lie would itave gentlerian - sustain • living prinoiple, rather than a .dead ,degma - ; the truth Whet than • Its ; loyalty rather. than 'ream*. There was a stain ..upon the name of tte good old Coldidouweaditi an. It should be eslidillited, We ltioliduti . to perform.' , rue',..begia :mid Go. would aid us.' !Costume had,b(intnilite., the Republi "AO,. ...41k 14 3)0 1 , 0 /.; Every act for the mkenmeUmetiOrr of lh Rebel States visa grounded upon the ph- Mica! equality of ocilor, black and white and the South was compelled to accept those measures, or remain unrepresented in the Government. We had accepted the situation. Deferring to Johnson and Butlert,he said they were nearly alike - one was a Peter Funk,the others qtiselt. lip would keep away as far as possible 1101111Rttk -- - Thi - fiftiznettierchwrizsinfttre• General did not suit his tastes. It was a•: pis- thaels,Swo men wore so-nidely separated. They ought to co-habit. In the overwhelming light of the nine teenth century, ought the negro to vote? This was the all-absoreing. question. It could not well be doliged. Should the po)ls be open to the blacks in Virginia and other Babel States 7 Lit Republi cans be cautions In their reply, or they might plicitheauselves in an unpleasant position before the people.• We said ,to the citizens of Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans and Mobile, you must allow the negro to express his choice in all matters of government. Did we mean whet we said 7 Was there no demagogneism about it. No selfishness? No meanest' ? Were we in favor of placing the negro on a perfect equalit with the white man in Philadelphia, in P 1 t t 11*Ifts 414. U., id i El g. in Lancaster, and in-Harrisburg 7 Aye, you boggle ! The principle curried into operation in Rich mond. be thought.. would not be out of place in Philadelphia. Christianity never changed planes. It was immuta ble, unchangeable. So as any moral principle And as we had professed to be guided byjmizniifla.•wel sgon lil_ treat all menus alike, in - "II places. Ile bad felt deeply the unpardonable injustice of exoluding from.the franchise native horn citizens. The negro was a natural man. born to immortality. Ile, too, was made in the image of (sod. lie was not • brute, nor destitute of reavon lied not a negro eyes, hands, arms, yen see. affections, passions ."Was with nor fed with the same food, hurt ' with the ratneveapon. killed with the- same die ' eases, warmed with the same sun, as the white man was 7 If you prick him, ,do you no; hurt him' If you nettle him, does he not feel it' If yen wrong him, shall be not revenge himeelf 7 , Let us beg that cur sins may be covered up. The negro was neither blind, nor deaf, pert' inaetlalbfr. ' lie heard our expres rions of 'ingratitude or-unthatikfultiess. flow much ratter he should hear and feel in love than in hate ! Take heed ! the mildeatpreatdre may t ycome furious. We must soknowieilgs.thp forge _al hu man nature Sortie import Ant principle of action tILIQUid be decided upon, ea which the Republican party could stand united. The National honor must be - vindicated First we had the abolition of slavery. The second stage of progress had yet to come 7 There was rip living man—not even Wade, or Chase, or Col fax, or Sbeeman„ or Grant, who could be elected President by the Republican party to 1 sGs as they now presented themselves before the people. Titif (the people) did not understand us. Why should they, when we did not un derstand ourselves. Were we ics- have a candidate fur the negro, or against the negro 7 Alt ! whist dodging there was ! What little disposition.' to face princi ple ! It was a nice thing to carry elec• lions, but were we for the negro or against the negro • Gentlemen might smile Stetting would not do in 'Octo ber. The question was, were we for the negro or against hurt Dui we intend to cheat ' There Were many men dis posed to cheat-to take up a candidate whore position on the only question in volved in this grand controversy should not be known to the people They wish to make us like' seed sown on stony ground, and having no earth, to grow up and wither away. We were chaotic as a party, and an early agreement was in dispensable for success It was mean in the country to trample upon the -., hearts and brains of those who saved the codntry. lie wns not prudent , many might think him rash But amid the timidity of tune servers, he heard a still small voice promising the accom plishment of the grand, sublime work before us What can be done? What Shall we do? To stop the outrages of the Rumps in Congress is a question that greatly agi tales the minds of all true patriots at this moment. The lips of patriots quiv er, and their blood boils as they hater °roue pillar-after another of the temple of liberty, which the fathers-of the Re volutions built up, torn down by the wicked, sacrilegious bands of the Rumps at Washington Almost the first enqpiry of every true patriot that cones to oar office, or that we meet on the street l is, What must be done to check their wick ed machinations! We answer, "lie lleyonet and die reps-are the only Sover eign remedies." The time for speaking and writting has passed. the usurped are impervious to all hut leaden and hempen arguments. T i he' people have too long been sleeping at their posts The Capstone is tumbling from thi tem ple of liberty, and the thunders of its crash have not sufficiently aroused them. Time is precious, and every hour preg nant with moonatous events. Lotus have public mutants in every town, village and neigkberhood• Form coat mittles—usiorceitsibetions to feed and 'quip the citizens Delano—at all palate meetings and es ell public occasions denounce the traitors, and make short work of the soosidrels'en fast as bands can be laid eh them, The Rumps have made a terrible grasp at the threat of public and Iddivldual freedom, and they must be hurled back by extreme mess ures.—Arykui. , • —The Mississippi tanisui want the Romp to order Gen , Gillem to "coUset {be tax. aathorksed by them, so that tit inay All their pockets. —The Meats California tailete watt Qen. C. la abolish Lim Maim.. Cowie. Pk* all of the Racilaal broad tkay are Afraid of emote. ThEiliolltkal floioseope. The look of affalrartt_Waili4ngl , ailk44l eery gloom for the Peraoe.Of the trieditey. lifip cannot share in the 1$ a i • - Mend by4otivo partAllitalv . lord= ',Vo bteestse. are eistbsentiirAves •7.7.„,. c." le that ' •: tly PlOs e asett,h4eollitt beffe t " yeo On +A , OM.. IVO %peril of the Vatted States Arrideic. .pedir lend formally disobeying Ms, Cosanktn4- 0/tiej—the Presideni. We have the spectacle - of that Commander-in-Chief fulminating long political letters at his subateillsoe of giving•hint. per emptory oiders, arid putting him in ar rest if ha did not obey tkova. We hid the Spectacle of an incomplete, and a • .', . distisiiiNvergrese; *V once-wheedling and seeking to control and direct the no tion ofiltio-kienersl of the Armies—wtio has, already, shown himself capable of disobeying orders lawfully given him. Changettauchrie these, iu our organic form of government, may work less or more rapidly ; but they work sorely._ When the ancient Republic of Rome fell, it fell at the feet of • its Generale. The Consuls- held the position of our Presidents. The Senate, and Knighte, and people, Were, In a strong tea, the exemplars of one Congress. Imbecile Couple, land.corripts Sellable, }LAOIS, and people, demanded the „General's . , now for one bide, now for the other. At length, when the thing had heoome chronie, and the man, and the ancient morels, dad dittappeared•—mores natio*, eingur,—Rome craved its Generals to take amrrmand, and +e, preiserve 7 order. - -The Roman word , for Generel of the Armies was Iniperator. Ootavins Ciosar, Vespa slat, and the rest, did not take any oth er title it was as /nyierater, or Generals, th t each wielded absolute power over the luxurj , ruined remains of the stern old Republic. As Generals, or Impera tares, they did what they pleased, and this was obsequiously recorded by the Senate, Knights, - -and - purple - . — **Quod placuit Principi, &0., ran that shameful surrender of power by the Roman peo ple, in the Vespasian Act: •'What our chief commander' wills, shall be esteemed as ratified by us as law—because the ' .linipire ry so azteuded that the Senate, Knights lind people cannot.kuuw what is hest to he done at all these regions." And the distant Provinces were glad of the change, sod helped it on brownie It was easier lii satiate one military ty rant, than to appease the passions 91' a whole demoralyzed and corrupt Roman Congress. Just so, we find it, tow. in the_ Southern Slates. Conquered and trampled on, they preftir Military rule, and wisely, to any reconstruction by a debauched and lawless Congress. This is the natural hem of affairs with us. We do not think that Grant has either the capacitjt or titer disposition to make himself Absoluta and permanent Monarch over Hien...States But. if Hie 'hiwiess sets of -ibis bogus congress are much longer submitted to, there will be makings and uninakinge of Generals. _Grant, aria is utterly stupid in* . poliiins, has been betrayal" into losing his true po eition—if be bad the talent to aehlev. permanent and absolute command. His game ought to,. baye been to play off. Congress Against President. and Presi dent against Congress—he, all the while, holding the winningoard, But Stanton, and the Radicals, have fooled him. lie has lost his control of theantagonist for cos. by obeying' Congress, against the President. Were be Meyer, heconid get back again to the controlling position, by some piece of stage-iutrose obedient, to the orders of his coinmandorAn-.Ghlef. Two things are in theway First, Pres ident Johnson has, through ill advice, hurled offensive political arguments at soldier Grata; in place of transmitting to him formal and peremtory order,. In the next place, President Andrew John son has not the courage- , --neither physi cal nor moral—to pit, Grant's obedience to peremptory orders, to the test, If he did so, we believe Grant would obv bite! First, froin the old inbred habit of obeying orders of his Commander Next, friends more cunning than him self would put him up to it, by way of emancepagitia him from his present. slip pery position as the loot of a lawless and desperate Congress. This bogus Congress does not trust Grant. -If it only succeeds, as it has done pretty thoroughly, in destroying the vulgar fame anti popularity he has enjoyed, not a month would pare till a '•mawral" Committee of the Senate, com posed, perhaps. of Sewall Sprague, Chandler, and Yates, would be appoin• ted to investigate the personal habits of Gen. Grant, and to cite a hundred or more witnesses to the hot that this -great arbiter of our political fate" has been seen on the streets of Washington in the last stages of semi-andlulatore d runkenness. The moment that Grant has his bold on what is called "public opinion" des troyed, and that be yielthrto obeying the unlawful dictation of this bogus Congress, that inoment his doom is seal ed. lie will be kicked out of sight, and Stanton, or Butler, or come other snob hero, will be putin Lis place. as "Gen eral of the Armies." Grant is preparing this for himself Its his gross and -infa mous—for unaoldie;ly does not begiog to express It.--4disobeduinett to ihePresidentl and his idle, and lawless, list in to Congresi, for Executive orders. But, what are we to do 1.. Are we to put our bands incur coat -pockets. and look on, while the last elements of our liberties are tleetroyedf For shame! Does our American lineage, then entail on us a fated degeneraoy from yhe cour age shown, In other days, and now, by our European co-relittives ? • Be net' of our %scepters if buried Amerioith soil to give us st.right to speak. By the been of Or grandfathersothd of a great; grandfitther that rest, In the 'c'arth of Pentuvivanis, `end by aft the pOlitleal traditions, we have received, throstih them, we Swear this thing ought net to be! We ought to have enough of 'out? &guild of eiltaaerilise to, say it shell met be! Trust not l'revident Addis* Senn. sort 1. lle immure you, he Is a talking politicise—a' *lady dstFi. could have prevented oiti#' tentan T , glentents, )lit4tstethe es os*itelly as he is Ignorant!' ati ,ekt i tted ' ify thil Poimitutlen—that tin truer hltik Of the People WO wish ' lnthit most potent pc** of thp ' isties Into Whisk out 10124 divided; Whiten We of interpreting Constitithaid will look into cbat somewhat Inooniktent document—the United States Censtitu tan,...-wili se, in it, that, of the three die . •Itnnetidlentrovided for—Executive, %Waive and Judutial—the far gutsi er preponderance - ha . ..been conceded to the Sieenti Learned inn liolsts have thiltrierningt t red ' ii. - I 114 ed State" Gots ' en Ito f as i wan it flovelitun i Ill i t' e ahs , na Mull:ter,. rl . Jay eft el , I - the, Willed la bell Ma, the '' 4 ident has far more right to summon the aid of the District itlarehel, or of the Military, if needed, to put in their legit imate places the duly elected Congress men of the Southern States, ,than Con gr.futhas to_ nteddlajtWeny a Amon tie e funetioni, as it' Idetr, , Ons,' -, pga is a feet I Greeley'" Tribe** Intattreeirpiously quoting the decision °t h in', ygnierauid 43irerif-Juntletr Tehneyrigi• elheirpiaten of the Supreme Court, in i e case of the "Derr rebellion," in ithothadind. The Tribune quotes It as deciding that the Judiciary must always follow the Politi calpower. •If the Tribuwahavread that decission of the Supreme Court, and• id able to underlined ebrreet legal argu ment, it ought to have said• that the de cision came fr-r shot of that, bat ran in this wise: "There are some duties imi posed on the Federal Government, which were not fully explainbd as to how they were to be performed. The securing of a'"ltepublieedi form of givernelent. to -. oh State," is among' them. The duty, supposes some ono to see it accomplish ed. Tlut, this decision of the Supreme Court, so greatly landed by the Tribune, goes on to say that there in no power in the United States Government to whion , ilaiiree-properly 41engses-ao-tkie . afire. Had we the volume at hand, we would quote Chief Justice Taney's words, to giving _the opinion of the Court. lint we are certain of its pur- ' port The deolsion, quoted by the Tri !rune as en nutbority beyond dispose, so it may be considered, says that it is the prerogative of the President of the Uni ted States, amcag conflicting claimants to State existence. to recognize one, or the other. This recognition, by the Fx confirm of contested State Governments, is binding on Congress, according to the ' I Supreme Court decision, cited by the Tribune as conclusive . But, whet is the use of writ's); or of talking .! We have a President elected I by ,tlto Illack Republicans. Lie seems worthy of them Ile has the Constitu tional right, that Ccogresii oaunot take away, of displacing all United States Offittiolls, and supplying their places with others. President Andrew Johnson. like an ass, starving between two stacks of hay, because he has not free will to choose one or the'Other, is no objeet for Democratic respect The only other resort we have is to the people ! Rise in your power, free men of America ! Say to your oppress ors that you will not submit to theirlyr army! This has, brig, been the style of •ur kinametudLover Nampa. whenever they had half our opportunities. We are freemen born. We have arms in our "minds We must be' ready tl) fight. or the intrigues ot, our political enemies will make slaves of us, and of our dear. ohildren. Let us meet them with a laugh ing countenance—determined on recover ed rights, or on a bloody settlement with those that would enslave us I—/V. Y Freeman's Journal. The Presidency We must again caution our Democrat ic friends against the mistake of over confidence. The results of last year's election■ were grand, and extremely gratifying in revealing a dealers-action of public sentiment. But , thiaLwactioo did not progress far enough totisure the success of the Democracy in 1808 We 06 by no means ••out of the woods." And we have moreover before us the comparatively recent warning of the Democratic successes of `lllll2,Yollowed by the severe reverses of 1803 The Radicals will secure the electoral rotes of the ten slave States,—we call them so, becanse their cittiens are en slaved,—through the agency of 'the cm groee and the bayonet. They hold Ten nessee, Missouri and West Virginia by the disfranchisement of a majdrity of their people The Radical majorities in Maine, .Vermont, himachusetts, Rhode Wand, - Michigan, lowa and Rin ses, are so immenne as to preclude any reasonable hope of a changp, in them The Democracy nal. therefore, require the electoral rotes of nearly all the re maining States to elect their candidate. It is almost certain that Oen. Grant Will be the bandidate of the itepublicans, upon a radical platform He will com mand the support of both wings of their party, and will draw materially upon the floating yule of the country. The slew tity with which both factions of the par. ty flocked to tile standard of Grant in an example to be recommended to the Dem ocracy, as the Lord commended the con duct of the unjust steward We therefore entreat our Democratic friends to direct their most disinterested efforts to the choice of unexceptionable and popular candidates for President anti Vice 'President It is desirable that these should be positively popular, but it is esientua that they should be free from objection. As we have al ready said, our candidates thust'pot car ry weight. in the race. It is not enough that they should be thorough Demo crats, they must likewise be Democrats who can be sleeted: The Eighth Con gressional district of Ohio, it which the Democracy hate lost 500notee since Oa Leber, utters Ito warning in this connec tion. It is • sad response to the pro ceedings of the recent Democratic Con rentlft of that State. A vlsgls Tingefaience and we hats daps. 4'11882 the Demiersoy„oarrLed Qiike by shout tutu thousand, • This en couraged them to nomtaate bfr. Vallan dlgham fee Governor In 1588. They went on to . tho wor t dry of ideation Stith this utmost essafideuis of Asimur; mid were beaten , by, sonojorli A y of ono hun dred thousesul.—Laneaster laielligencer. .. t .1 , ... I - 41W Min' NATI I PliW °f gti 4 beau grossly peril:outing in li A lei oftlson--laptive him of. M3 prOwllft sad impthoshiglilmoowtor olowsionleil • orjeot , osMoo. , 11, ... •(, NI ~ 1 ~.„g••••,'• Prooo 1 , 1 1411491 . 4u -0044 thut!lOtowdo 11,_40 0, • Foully would or, could. Whit i lobititor li wriStig liigit, Mid Vii•ObOte fo bileflo oolubmw*blio. . Alabama to be ReConstruoted at ouiy • Rate. , • Thiinte ifpotitife manilla - iiiiiltriz O lion orAlabami, seefici Mkt too smell to secure its , - dint the r • ... . , ttod lav h ri h e req uires a .• ''.. s . . ' ,:' . 4 11 I Iregli Voters. I''' ' .. ' r of. Tot .eael. oonside -31'-: t. ot, till* requibNiiimit. bet to; w ..•. : . g tgo tiO for log was ex . i. - : ... i . v'e 111kyii4 It. w generally ' suppaist that the mill' 'inthorities down there would have taken care that the Constitution was carried and mem bers of Congress elected,-on'scr declared it, votes or no votes ' But the process has been too closely watched and pub lished to admit the icespetrition of the' requisite frauds,. such SS prevailed Mir ing. the registration In all the &sten for . -purpose of- siseillitih* emeptornota- This has returned to p lague tits inven tors by emelling tim registered, raajoriry and increasing the difficulty of making up the vote. —But await belaading then hiadramme. Congress, who Garen() more about theiE own laws thin they dO about the Cop - siliutton.'show a dispeitition to dittpense 1 ,• with all such trifling lawleaaneu arid I I vacs for the taint/salon. o 4 Alabama at once with its Mongrel Consatutliin, Blue of ttie negre elected members frbm thit State. Thus the frultiormenrpation are eliodt to lie - rialleid.loimadtately, and the people will be called upon to.deoide whether they will ratify, such y ea mockery of free institutions, and ' reek nice a State where intelligence has been put under foot and heathenism platted in control by the sword, as the Alababia • Irituert-ille- nompeet-44-4Jakiear - - originally formed ' The New York Times (Rep.)' takes de cided ground against this new revolu tionary purpose of Congrass„, and says, *•we have got on so long with ten States eioluded Trom the Union that we are ln farm. of keeping them out until they re turn with the consent of their own peo- Alm Any special enactment vesting the pqwer.of governing li} the hands of as ignorant, Lnitii . ined mliforilj would" be despotism as gross as* military dieta !airship, Withimt its advantages. If the South must be ruled despotically yet longer, let the despotism be pure and `ample For that purpose the sword fs best. When Congress is prepared to substitute genuine resonstruction for soldierly sway,we shal hail the advance, whether it take the form of "special en actments" or not. 'l9ll then, let the Re construction Law now on the stsaute book run its course. Its reidita will be instructive, though they may not glqrify its authors.—Er. Mr. James R. Doolitho, Jr At the recent very conservative meet ing at Cooper Institute, New T'orh, the young gentleman whose name heads this article read a letter from his father and made* eer7•aeet little speech, the en tire_text'of which we find in that itald oTd Whig sheet, the Noticed Intelligeneer. The .Ison'of his father' denounced in severe and fitting terms, the radical rompers and their infamous treason. Of them he said : •'it is impossible for them to,Aurn "back. Of themselves they must lead "ue to revolution They cannot change t•Like the besotted drunkard, they will "drink the cup which their folly has “prepared for them. No salvation 131113 "come to the country—no peace, no "prosperity, no respect for law, until •'they have been beaten in the elections 'and thrust forn power " Had Mr. James It Doolittle, Jr , step pod here, -then would Mr. James It. Doolittle, -Jr., been wine , but Mr James It. Dooliule, Jr nothine of the kind, but forwith proceeded to serve a notice on the Democratic party, re straining the nomination of Hun George 11. Pendleton, and offering Sherman, Hancock sad Johnson a 9 available 'Dem ocratic candidates for Presidential hon or!. Now. while we have no particular objection to a part of the ticket propos ed, and while we will acord a hearty support to whoever ate Democratic Na tional Convention puts in nomination, nevertheless, we advise Mr. James H. Doolittle, Jr., to "attend totals kuitLint and permit the Democratto party to "regulate its own domestic concerns," in the way it likes the best. The talk about loosiur "twenty-five thousand conservative voteti in the State of New York," in case of e, straight out Demo crat being nominated, is all bosh. There Is not helf,,tbat number of "comment live" votes in the whole emantey.'and Mr, James It. Doolittle, Jr., koowir IL The Democratic party took the conser vative bait in IRGG and was beaten in every Northers..4tate Nei year It fought the battle within its own- orient sellout, and viotory everywhere perched upon its harmers. Titat lessoti is not forgotten. One dose is sufficient We guess the Democratic party don't want any more of that kind of medioine.— No. thank ybu, not any more '.—Clinton Democrat. Where will all this have an end? From the olosing remarks of a spiech delivered at a Democratic meeting in Mansfield on Istkorday evening last, by Andrew Stevenson, a young and rising wearbtrofthe-legal profession in that city, we extract the following :• From over the tomb of the brave sol dier in the• valley of the South ; from the slok bed of the orphan, wale pray er goes up frost the hill-side of the North ;`from the wall of the. widow, whose tours, lilts 1k rainotheartu, have fallen on the "just and on the unjust," I hear the solemn inspirations go up like a think cloud before the throne of 14 Almighty, "Whim will all this have an and I" And beading with peatful ear and Aoial.se breath, (here mimes tarps.' the Oetan,lof oentories, earl Aelotoue idmon itfolffrom the Leib@ of deptitted B.Wliub" lioa, at wid kayo all tad v i tal brre and gm: peopl, forget In the wrote. of . e put.; alai i kiwi the -hand Of gittPilliti °tor ' An sited or a obligtog ootudryddlid,lll/"Oltang 1 140: itiV*ltion4l,4 Colt? ~ • , _, fool i the pnt)itilt ,74 - tils cottage ski *Ain/ no 000telto 'the 'tread at dieltaiiipithoiror..and wtiostiut "didcries 411.04411, NO ISlgreigi4 Pl ll 4 BOO CP?.wi itra fott l a i ß! , iltto'Ciod of Peso*, Whit inotopt'y of WOlNation ind ib. in Vibe itevolotiode , Willi • thrill lie ediett'ot a =OW nation, and when emong the' prludeet aspitations of man shall Da itifdlishist liiiie for the flag of the &moblliiilhoMitesititheteliletterenee Key the institationuover whiok' it tri 4mphantly ifavesoind I the' Constitution It has proteoted.—_r, s tl. 1, %Then therstorm elingefirittoal d ee: setiutlon shill hive Oiled away, and wblih-the sultof.fritental Affection shall hare softened thememoriee of contending strife, when man, proud man. in assign teg his psi on with 'his fellow-man, shall not c to be wiser than hi e si iii , Creator, the shall ills smiling bene floenen look down upon a people h!ppi, prosperous and free, From a scale of megnenimit t y given to one erected ..a little lower than the an gels'," let tus look 4lnirrilk.inhartable kindness - upon the errors of mil fellow man. Let_ ua oherlah with greatful renew. lion the memory of the heroic dead: let ri - alleviate flit- tormitivafttre belptoie living• and as a mighty band of broth ere let -un?io forth to meet the grave re eponeibil tieo Whiult devolve upon - tu, lot us 'resolve to. • , ctot—adt in the living present, Heart within and God o'er head."' The Number of Electoral Votes In the Union. A correspondent ask ue to publish % list It the electoral votes now peened by the States, al they are cast in the election of n President and floe Presi dent of the United States. Here it U. Californ la Connectisut Delaware .1 Indania 1. Kentucky II Maryland 7 Missouri Nevada ...... '; New Jersey 7 New York ...—.... ............ ..... . Ohio • Pennsylvania. e_ Oregon I :1 West Virginia --- . New Hatopshire Total These States pre most likely—all of them—to go Demogystic The Repub licans have the beet 'haulm in the fol lowing States : lowa Kansas Maine Nebraska (doubtful) Massachusetts . 12 Michigan Wisconsin (doubtful) Rhode Islands.... ; Vermont 5 Minnesota (doutikki) - 4 EEO The Southern Staffs which Ire now calle4 districts," in Radical pristine, have the following electoral voice: Arkansas..:....., Flordia ....... Ceorgi a...... .... Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina . Tennessee Texas... Virginia The total number of electoral votes in the Union is, therefore, 816. If the &Wham States oil vote, it will require ICA votes to elect. If they do not vote, 286 will be the whole - number east, of which 119 constitutes s majority. Our readers may find it of interest to out out the table and preserve _ it.—Cincuutoo Rnqu trer. Extreme• Meet A nation cannot. conquer Re territory It may suppress a rebellion upon its own territory, but the tertstort remains unchanged in its nations) status during the rebellion, and is not changed until' the rebellion hoe proven successful, and the tailor of the Government to establish its supremacy has become an admitted and accomplished foot. The Southern States were once part of the territory of the 'United States. They did not cease to be so, and beeome econqnered territory by an unsuccessful rebellion,for the rebellion was unqucceso fu I. That they are regarded as conquered territory by the ~Radical Congress, is mantfest from it, legislation, and is not denied The question then prissenta when and,,,itow did Om gem to be part of the territory of the United States' Not, certainly, when they pass from a colonial or territory condition into Slates in (or Wf)ithe Union. There a only ono act or time by and at which they could have ceased (territorially) to be a part of the United States, and that is the act ~. (• or acts) of secession. It is impossible to refere it to ahything else.. for this is the only occurrence which had any re ference to a se aaaaa oe of the Stateslate ly in rebellion from the United States. A war, then, for the Union and against Remission, has resulted in establishing the political right of a State to secede, and makes the question Wasson it and thy,. Government simply one of might between contending nations. If the State is able to maintain its position, it becomes lawfully,an independent nation. If it fails, it becomes conguerld lerriory. This is a polities! theory which is em braced now by Radicalism, to answer present- selfis,b ends, but whiob may serve as a- daemons precedent hi the future.—When traced to its sonrcse,it de monstrates tbat this )1 • Civernment not os-oboioe, but of foroe, not ained tutional law, but of despoils power. Se extremes meet.—( Va) Bassissal. • k --r—Tan Radicals to the Rump Sen ate hive.jpst, spent nearly, two whole days in NU speech-making over the ease of • young and °ousels El la t o wench who, with a dusk.; beau, was eubjeoted to the ewtreme herdship of being compelled to ride in • railroad ear set spatt for the peopliof her color. The Seism over this outrage was furious indeed, sod nothing milli ‘be done until Illsotue Was finally dial,,Ossd of by being rotor"' to an appliiiiUtooonineißbe. It seems that 'this tan otilered dneteel is empAyed in soma capacity about the Bonita Member. What how th4los auk we die apt know, Ito Flntida tantettars affil +MOM and *axial la•bLltsnMe. Oar breach has desisted that the tainaberit Of the other breach d death. I 73 I 9
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