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.
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beau grossly peril:outing in li A
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oftlson--laptive him of. M3 prOwllft
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~.„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.
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