U The Detiiiicratic .Watchmant' InikMAWO 14101111 MORNING, MARCH 13, ,1868. ~~ I U~ i t u~~l Y l ~ 1~l i'l•i~ Oran sad. dna . of repudiation, bankrdaeyoind.gplAeSla ruln„ w:ben land &woes ddd `old ° l:Millilitre dressed in the Itateplingle banner bare Don -1• use life aid groperty in our opprees " t rying to preserve Ottr notillhe,tanding (liege un knelled &Rader e'and we do hones tly endeiv<kto - ptiy *lir debts to the beet et arse iility, . Eheine , thnes we are a lit 1/et 0141[„ht Ap,. sill .064 calm, are 'fill ing to ay Interest as well as princtml. We frankly , adinowledge rerniesneths in ihnote 'with the Turf, 4410rookrerm,-ise.NetnY4l4/... --.lltabet, .441644 Asa never-, 1 That paper sought an exchange with Us wed ire 'WordliMy arelipcnided to the doltishly: *li'Mere fliwOeftwe surprised • 664116143 0 hhhl knrik , si Aar Novect - tier evaipliggi ~4peonsat is etseption-is taken ton' . incident 'fornielied by Col. Os borne, Of the late O. 'regiment, ef' the eipiarc by aolins• lilies near fileinipbetdlKOWit,-Ka.. of a detanballtut ketlitunsl etildiers• The incident was strictly true and can be easily authen tlitited,'ltiti that too Without ''reflecting upon thebonrage of Wit daptured • patty. Mira otitis to not asi ignorant of war NI a BouLlsern Prat: historian, he would have known that defeated and _demoral ized men can he chased and taken by doh-tenth their numbers We like, seen arid our own eyes a squad of bail a doses rigged.fellows bring in half a re giment of prisoners And, doubtless, the rano thintwits Often Witnessed by the•other aide We saw with' our own eyes two men of the Italie ilogpment, (there was but one in those Jays) pursuing several thousand Mexicans from Chapul tepeo to- the Omits de Belen.—They were fully a mite inadtninoeetthe Amer ican army, and might readily base been killed or gut off. But the pane-struck Mexicans were intent only upon flight. If oar critic bad had Soy experience in WS?, on any knowledge inhuman nature, lie would have known that such an Wel dent as that related by Cul. U. ant by no means unusual. It brnot the poWer of the captors which is rested, but the power of . whieft they constitute a part. Thus, to use a loath-some illustration, is there not many a County in tbe South at the-nob and beck of some little foice of the Freedmen's Burekit• Does the whole eounty fear the contemptible our? Not at all.—Cut, defeated and subjuga ted, the people submit to theta- canine ruler as the type and repre.entatice of their sonquerore In like manner, the pacts yielding to theft lady eapf,ois at shepiserdatown did not fear them 0 11 course but they feared the countrymen of those ladies, who trod just defeated them. 'All this is clearly set forth, in the aneddote,and we hardly know wheth• er to ascribe disingeauousnesv or stupid• ily to the critic of the Turf. Flrld and Farm Ile thinks that it is lime to stop the braggadocio about "one Southern ship ping six cowardly Yankees ' So think we. hinny hundreds yet bve who knew of the strenuons efforts we made, the first year of the war, to uodeoeive our o.B°o in regard to the prowess of their antagonists. In a speech delivered to the troops on the Peninsula (which wi t , copied in the Richmond Urpaicb and other paperet we warned them that they, would have brave men to fight,aud men tioned by mime. some we knew, such men as Stone, Clitz, Phelps, Itomforll BEIM, tier". - Ito `1 , 4171. - we have no menu t to blush for our war record We fought more than six to one. and 'generally in ficted heavier blows than we received Although the loyal North had the aid of more than half a inillion of fighting men from our own borders, and from Foreign shores, we would have triumphed, but for some capital blunders Ilad the fire-eaters, who could each "whip half a dozen cowardly Yenkees," gone Into the army, we might have planted our flag upon Boston Common But some of them became fighting editors and were constantly cursing West Point °Mears for instructing their men to cover themselves with earth-works —"The bare bosoms of freemen should alone be exposed to the mizoiles of the bated Yin tees." Se wrote tbese - brave men in their editoral sanctums Others got into the Nitre and Mining Bureau, and dealt...in old bones and offal during the war All of them, with rare exceptions, got Int, departments where pined& was plenty, and bullets wore scares Had this vast army joined us, of men breathing, out thre*etniug and slaughter against the "bated Yankee," we could have tramped all over the itiyal North, and might have even dragged out, from his ooneealment in seine dark celler,the critic of Field and Farm. Our antic hes lived,boyrever,not merely to show hie Ignorance of military mat ters, but also his utter vent of taste in posirp. to one sweeping sentence, lie prOnomPees tbe poems in the November " umber to - be .trash." That number contained three peanut. which poets of repitatioa have pronounce& to ha rare 'laps, viz: “Soonet.,'L "Little 14104a,'' &Rd "The Devil's Delight." To our poi Lain knowledge, thelest has been copiedby ibe k papers in' tireet# States, beginning with Nqw York city, and ending in clifornite. f'ntatiee, of the Louisville loproa/.. who ought be as goot>l -Judie, of paltry as the critic 41 thit___Tistl. ,Folf_onli Farm, copied it writ IL aanewome tribute to its Meaty sudlosebri. .01X 'skits bast kindly veinntscrid a pie*, of *doles: to the FoLitor of thls klagaslao..a•i the,aatele frisedly spirit, we ironld jtOlonieet a gliee or av'fop to the Editor onto ?Orr Pie& d4 d Finn ; Try toget a critic to "do tip , ourNter aryesetfine, who hoe • UAW ensei avocet., and • vent dela 4520 rice. th ey it t. IA eat of e Po 'f titAn , up a ellly fender, fig ISOM* , which be don't understand, may Injnire yowl -110 7 vailiebk• r oporniAsti we Love. --411tratsit ,aost busks/g d floor soldiers their lival.bY ralnalac te a=• diens, "sound mss for skeleton). , He is new costing Life country witllinue of detail daily by the affertird the "'Sump tt► keep him in Oise whore ba Is •at wanted ,m 4 to vbiah he has so digit. The President end Congress The, eteople of' thia country are now pall upgri to fautelda , gere as perilous as ti.tutwvfills, beset tits eoloniee-previeus to icsaparetion from the Mother Conn-. try.' hen , aioitf ) d termitied to iad 4 uV; re erenee to,e,he atile d the Brit: .10 ut A t bi protect pe o n oalontes. *At ea ulettslo tie vi Pennsylvania, and New York.with North. Carolina, in imploring the men who goy, erned it to stand by the old land markg: ; l to grant the colonies their.' guaranteed 1 rights, liberties and Franchises, anti thus prevent an open rupture between those usurping authority owl Om called upon to obey But all these prayers, peti tions, and femostneances torewneinvallac ble. Those bolding power hastened to efgotifie it ,iu en illegat & Ayroprtical and despotlo manner, and the retruli was ciestlict and the triumph of right after to tong - anti bloody _ _ _ - The action of Congress in destroying Stiles, refitting the piople representa tion, arrogating to themselves power not granted by the Constitution, attacking the Supreme Count , and finally making open *sr upon the President, is as high handed and indefensible outrage upon the people of this land as that which canoed the war for the lisevolution.— What right have the representatives of a portion of the Sates to' say that the others shall be aliens to all the benefits of a republican farm of Government! Where is the authority for Congress to pass laws. and at the same time pro nounce upon their , consfitutlonality In what part of the constitution is it writ ten that thrf Negiestive tirsact of the government shall o•ertilindow both the Brecutirc and the Judicial? Who' gave Congress the power to place spies iu the Cabidet of the President, end when the Chief Magistrate of the nation claims the hitherto unchallenged right of re moving them, to Inaugurate proceedings for the purpose of removing the head of the nation, and placing n tool of the dominant. party In his place ° All these things have been done, and far greater outrages are threatened, and hence the danger that menaces the lasi at this I line, and calls Upon the friend's of n republi Gan form of government to aroicse n od prepare for action. If our fatherlt in Revolui iULaiy tiinee ralilyd in import of their iieh Ls Lind Ilioee defehdeil them,t he swine course must be adopted by their descendants this day, if they would save the nation, from anarchy and civil war The Presi dent has certain constitutional duties imposed on - him lie is the representa tive of the people fie is bound by his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution, and see all,lows passed in obedience to that instrument faithfully) executed, . fly so doing, the Chief Magis trate of the nation beifolnse the guardian of the seared - rights of American free- I Men, the prop and pillar of civil liberty i radical Congress is now attacking the citadel of the people's rights. They not. only declare for impeachment, but for suspension, pending the trial This let ter course is a re•olutionary proceeding, as bold rind flagrant as the coup (I' eta! by which Nepolean changed the government of France frost a republic to a military despotism If the party in power can suspend the President previous to his trial by the Senate to the manner point led out by the Constitution, they can say I who shell till his place for the next four years without even the forms e( an lelection This is a fict that should 'startle the people when they remember in what it steady manner 'he Radicals' ha•e s pressed on in the road toward den pot ISM for the past six year. flow will white American freemen at thle dap meet tip_ dangers which menace their country, their rights and their lib erties' In some quarters meetings are being held to protest against the action of Congress and pronounce in savor of the Constitution and the rights of the President ander that instrument Thus is Just and pr - oper These are solemn, serious times, and men must act with a full knowledge of the dangers by which they are. surrounded The patriots of 1776 faced dangers to establish this go•- trutnent, and if it is to be preserved a like course muse be pursued at this time Freemen must now choose between civil law, peace, prorperity, and happiness as represented by the action of the Presi dent in upholding the Ccustit‘ttion, and anarchy, military despotism and the total destruction of civil iberty and constitu tional right, as set forth in the revolu tionary proceedings of Congress Amer ican freemen, read the doings of the Rump Congress of Monday last and ak• choice of the path you will follow —Philo. Age Lon HARD !hews—tine of the glorious ohm of the Tribune editors lettetb the peoploritnow that he was to war, alit that he is still ready to fight —rebels" wherever found. He Reyes '•We would inform Prank that we bad a severe attack of rheumatism more than a year ago, and that our physician inform ed ue that the fouodation of its attack way canned by• exposure during the three years we served our Country and fought Franke "rebel" friends. We forgive all ill-natured dingo at us.knowing that you bear us malice on account of our having taking part to wiping out your i'rebel' Mods, we shouldered our tutisket and aided in putting down the rebellion, and we Whaa enlisted in Lite ranks of the Great Republican Party, and will fi ght all . ..rebels," wherever found. We wish this Tasks!, and elephatleally under stood., Lot Cps's Joseph, you bail better sot blow too much aboob your fightiog eld," as you mtifit •Thust"' the bubble reputsttlittlott vainly Imagine you Ow jay. illet serer hyped et say of }one dasin sieeda. ist the Witt', hub we did bead that yon had peculiar tray, 0,1 "bumming round" *tore !bee was no dewier rand- as yow Conte bask with yids snare node asekinited hew 0114 it kolowible you ayes pop to kbaitle I 110110040 10 UM 1/1141500/11/101 • 404 atilider Ow 1.401 e •4 thst i lilhop & eat• art.*. orgapiaed tliti• Ai 0 the rebeldeurell VitalePie Impeachment, be 4111 noll`be &Malted ; nertityll. _effarinted4 h e nix( rotidl e nuf-0•4 1 41 1 telt by poptitir eniatton. t Make that neither den: Giant tor Chi f 'esti& Chloe ; sea afford- to hermblid cony lotted. No* ;lo* the Radicals Plunder the State. ,—. .. Under the head of 4 l.oaks alt'`e k V tail," the io lla r r4n i r . g reap - ndertn operation 0 tit; ditenl dare of ig nide, s Ott f the d g d l w u u n b b e i b-u" 11 t i lt a lb l u e l ly n en d o , hi db 00 lion li tel uw at t mpt ', It 111 fa ; i i 0, lin stopping a leak in one ege t; nattier will speedily break out gown* era else, 'so that the drain will not likelyffie stop ped until there is li changeto a purer. political and moral atmosphere The writer 1101: •-' :I " ~.., i l' "it i In my yesterday's letter I referred to the subject of ..ncirenoliinenh- and Re foto.," . which is beginning (ii attrgoi eomb altentiort here I also stated, in a former letter; that a resolutiOn was adopted directing the Clerk to inform the house as to the number of "ollioers" now employed, which resolution was of err. "ffy - Ittr. Mullin (i)ere. ).d-I'h' .. • phis, and adopted by the Demoerate with the aid of a sufficient number of Repub licans to constitute a majority.' When the clerk came to -make up fhe list, it wee eildent treat ft would be pronounced simply outrageous by ninety-nine hun dredths of the tgapayera of the State I did all in wy power to_ bsocrtain, in advance of the Clerk's statement, how many there are, but could only succeed to getting the number- employed Ito 'posters and folders," and this figure is truly startling, there being now no lees than thirty-eight able-bolted men on the list, wito:at last year's Jule of compensation (about ifiSoo average,) will amount to ever Assn/ skomessrod thsilars, fur doing the work of folding, wrapping and putting up about 1, 4 /00 copies 0.1 public documents daily. I know that mi./midi/1e e artiei will be glad to do all this work by contract fot , :,001 1 and yet :/".1 0 , 000 is taken out ot the Treasury for this petty ttem nionu. Last year the sum required to pay these casters and folders WAS t .:. .2 1 ),6 11(1 (See Auditor fien• eral'n i(tiport, page 112 ) The nnionnt paid thew officers of the Senate, last erasion, including pas,,e , , wee 5:52.(,71 Altholigh,of lqi; 1 ; the e.ipi tot eXICII*' , ITI so I° , l'lll 11) , and everything 111 and about the :.'i•nrile Clianit.i.r newly (uin.isheil, plaited Mid repo:rid, lee lind the 1,, , , yei/r there I! .5/ psi), 1 I tutu/ tore, in iteri,ll and Bihar lot /1,-lii il :-Lcii. me Chamber., the mini of '.:2.010 7, - ... I;eorge Bergner's stationary bill,' for the S ena te, hino,lll4lS I 0 :P.:..;:/...!.! 17, being at the role of a little oirer.ii dollar is day far each Senitior, although the law allows each member 5.'25 for etationtrcy hiring the session . But the llouse account is the interest ing one B . l\ly-fuer Ilionsaint, three hundred and ninety -i dollars and ' eighty-cents, ,111 -:'l ,, --0, i were paid to the nursers of the House, during the ses sion of 1t1r,7 The postage hilt amounted to S111,46:1 40. The contingent ex peuses of the House, including 1.:1 .1 .1 paid to Gem ge Bergner fur stationery, Pardon's Digett, Re , ametinta to $23,680 Go Among other items of interest is one of $782 10 pant A. W. Itenetliet for ear vices as "assistant fireman," and 1 hare good authority for saying that Mr It did not serve in the capacity of -assist ant fireman," or in any other way, for a single day - that no one knew of any such an "aesintatit fireman" sit .4 W betted id, until his name was certified as: such and paid by the State Treasurer upon the certificate Among 0/el:meters ' and folders is Win I'. Smul!, who re 1 cei•ed a salary of nearly $.BOO for doing —nobody knows what Ile certainly did not servo in the folding room at all The items tit painting the Senate cham ber and the ball of the Ilefise, one coat of paint, and the whole job not more I than t wo week's werk4eteitaksoot these- or' four peinttra, amounts to two thousand , three hundred auil five dollars ($2,3 0 4 ) I For this num, the cost of painting the wood work of the two chambers, one coat, which is very large, a large and comfortable brick dwelling houso.can be erected And it is a singular coinci dence, that there is only ti•e doll.trs dif ference between Mr Crutkehanit's bill for painting the Wall of the House, and that of Messrs Fleming ,1. Brown for ,paint og• the Senate chamber -the for mer being $1,150, 81/Ii that of the latter $1,151/ Mr Bergner appears to be particularly favored Aooordiug to the Report of the Auditor General, his honest share of I public patronage, for stationery, print mg Record "on account," (it is note worthy that menrly ell biB lag figureeare "on account...) amounts to the snug sum of 5d6,215 li7 This thee not in clude stationery furnished the Executive Departments'. The public buildmge and grounds are also an item of very great financial 1111 parlance, as no less than $3:1,281 Kr are ••put,through" just to keep them—from running abay—or In criler I am informed that a resolution is to be offered to have the folding and wrap plug done by contract, and *hat the same shall not, cost more than eight thousand dollars which would he aon ring of funinty-two thousand dollars, 111.1 it now costa the State at the rate of thirty thousand dollars for the session, in the House alone Such a resolution if of fered, will compel professing reformers on both aides of the !Louse to show their hands. -- , —Nearly everybody about Washing• tin, provided be is a radical, is about as much President of the United States as Mr Johnson seems to be. Grant 'le the President In form, and the radical party is president in fact. Some of the North. ern democratic papers contend ,lbat Mr. Johnson oonimitted an error in not- or dering Gen. Grant under a some titan ago. .end say the omustry would berg east fined bitq J 4 the statism. _Rut talking is cheap sad, easy, sod some times northern edrtofd try Which sotong them Gan talk the largest and loudest without oaring to ° know how swab truth (hers is In whotAkey akt.-,-Goliegon • • —mAto soh the petiole' getting tired o&t,poynts Ws's, to keep Radical fiptamiquils Jn oc tosjuldSgoitoa fn td tdf •~li o; Itistloß,naplo dome pibtio4ol heir %moors* Aliitey ate ;MY garovitaOst iA $20.000,0064 eolith --4 1 , to *prow oußto =prow*, is A• South and to dogtrot theigoTommen, —Tti - o tax oe psOoporto to tifitolgo countries is by dolloea. Radical Pow wow I %--1 radtein po . w-wow woe held in At_ Hill of the House of Represents 1, ea r lylis cul on last -Friday sigh ti— Cos. Pie of John Minor Botts, and :1;is I lli e a l he over ler uni sa u, ag 0 re str 11 . Oho dl I an a ytt g e, . s ill 4 'f tin du to e r a t ag mid ve, Slating again i bis long since promulged iilsit,"-that if igtiorance is not bites, it certainly is "loyalty," which we take to mean "loyalty to Radicalism," in which we agree lierfectly with our Governor, 10/011441.711.141110411cerifilterligle the main titiv of Radicalisni at this time.— instruclion OT The itiaiii&sis the great enemy of itadi644lfispo 'an thif liiirelori seam( to sipprechtd Wand Watilles Iltddt lungivitts4 education, Judge Hives who wits beiden for the 'flodientioli in Al: heniarle by, a-negre, ilten,teek the stand and maile, a fier ce . invective against the whim Southern lenders and denounced the members of the great. Oatiserisitive klatismeeting held in Ilicidotid lately, and the conservatives generally of the Slate, as “deattuctlves" and warned his heiirers hgninst.lhetn.' On the subject of repudiation of individual defile he ealf gral elided *lnc convention -that it had placed via fiat Against it in tictu „ and sle dded lermv. He upheld education and defended the University, (he hay a son in-law a profc'e.tor in that Institution) and favored a property and educational ,ivalthontion fur :ultimo V be 14.4 fur rt fultn a pet iml. Ur MIN' then proceeded to '“Iiilli" over lleilitTered with the (love-n. 1.- on the sublect of ednoittidn and wanted on of ticimir itystem or ,puirlio schools lie war particularly tierce again:A thoi o 'w h 0 hail 1 . 1 ,, r writteti„ epolteit, preached or prayed for the aticce, of the eon triter acy and wanted all Buotrdoirauctilsed, 'laud if torte was out a clear majority fur the ii,i,1. 5 Otto, iu,.. disiraimbtse oilier cis-rites Ile wanteir ottoro money, less hood- and a reduction r.f m i ss fn TIT . leant Trustable amount Ile advised the uolored men nut tat aspire to odic() tin ?niter words, the hallo liir the filnek, the spoils tar she while Unilical. ) want, d ret iiilintien engrafted ill the Ico.ft , tlt.ott The gist of It iit nit us is !cmitaitit:il to iii reply to a ti ot slum 118 ; 1 1 , , 1 1 2 . 1116' . I b11:11 11. , '' 111 1, 1 11 Nil, not I 11, I lit. 1.1, 111 iitill!ifi, atilt tit titre , •iThey l eetildn'i stl irif , it, tiot tiii.y Must wail Illtild Ilte iniernai neri, , ,critot was• defeat -1 ed, and ill , Ileptililicnit patty 'firmly es ! dahltithed before they 'went to malt tog ,inalitient ions " ''' Genetal Wickham, (late llrtg Urn li. S. A ,) could not to present. but wrote a letter, 111 which he expressed his earn est iris' , tore the Repuhlican parry !firmly planted in Virginia Their bearers were evidently edified iby the eentrat iety of o l itotoos advanced ,on .. every stiltjeet exoept ilia spoils.— ' This avowedly and by taco conifent i• Ith • •ii f t •• l' 4 I and the I prop( r 3 it iv I' A 'a if to, 'great plank in the Stailicul platform Many wonder that I:tves and Dolt's and Wickham, have allied themselves' with the party denominated ny the Gitv ernor (4) in his speech a, the "menu white man's party ' It is no wonder - I ilatred to Democracy and the Ronatitu i tom has placed ilient along stile of Ilan nitwit and Ilayr e, Allen and Hodges nail Stevens smith Vred Dotirlas The fore :shadowed trituroph of Democracy will, I sink these gentry into merited oblivion 'llll.l fifty years hotiee I heirpost erity will not acknowledge ilestitint from them _I -Justice will lie done, though the hens ens fall "—Staunton 11iti. 1 Vesitimatot. Registration the Great Duty of the White Man. We- vinseserly-lorpsvklaak Rag Ist I anon ' will, for soul" weeks weenie, occupy the attention of the people tit Richmond Filet gy. r twist:ice and cuil4ei vat ive or ganication will secvre the white men of the metropolis of Virginia from another outrage like that which fraudulent leg istratiun inflicted upon us at the Octu her elections The census which era, recently token in One of the wards of this city rect. de No rif some six hundred instances tit fraudulent negro regiali atm', oil no one d., , uhts that fraud" equallArnountrou., were perpelia fed in all th e oilier wards The moment the Radicals are oompelled by the •igi lxnce of the Consirvatives to become even moderately honest, their boasted majorities will disappear The census. however, which established tlko existence. of Radical rascality to an enormous ex tent in Richmond, also demonstrated a degree tit apathy upon the part of the whites, which must n tw br t,rcreotan In spite of the appeals of the peva and of the eloquent extiortattone of able and popular geotleoloo, more th four han dled white men to a single ward failed to register. • The Inhere of the Conseivati4e pariy in Richmond were great and praise wor thy in October last, but we were then deficient Ih the machinery neoessery for petfecting a thorough organization of the opponents of Negro Domination thtr condition is a better one now, and ev.••; white was will do hie duty in Oil tin.' struggle to redeem our capital from the dishonor of electing indicted incendia ries and truculent black apes to oflice.— Unless the city is rescued from the pollution of such representation as we now have we may soon expect to see just SIMI men lllllng all the onions or the oily, asifhonieutt and Lindsey. Black may ors, common councilmen, aldermen, tax picheresq and policemen will by aloof.' if die white lieu of nichmontj Tailed to regiifbr. Perpetual dieflitimbliement will follow suet- criminal disregard of the meet important, duty of okinewahip. Id every white man. in.Bielnond. who is entitled to register, will do)°, the rag ged rabbleitif the eoup-kettles will be routed, Rill ludietel'ittoeudiaries wN ' dud 0.001106 to-a large-sad Strong lad in Obis oily snuck more easy than I. the capitol But if theyfisil,ll do their duty the reign of the ne gro may cronlin re until brought to a riolint end by an estragthi, robbadausdiaantLed peoPle.- 4 4 glater, to the laci math, and .wo are wife ; for the number Pt tonnresl4o4 whites is growlng lees and, tent and *bite Wed in Virginia agir_teinig more and more united.—Richmond Mr* , --7-81pott Stanton took up hie boil* fig end lodglng in (be War Moe, the photo. lOW been the nightly scene Of drunken sad treasonable tree/. •.._ "The I Liw- Breakers In Council." i ---- & - awsA4l: A committee of tied _0...„,__ _I ob by,pktting in judgement upon t .." 4 ..e of bribing a me. , - ~,,,,,. of Itrepresentatives, , r - .I P• . Aft p t 111 r l a r t 6 K , a .ioi n - " Ii • a ro trying r o eat the laws . he ...eon ',anti Seward l rno to . of the .ifferrof the u i n.p ty. eyianlimtartito "higher law doctrine,"Wftioh his since controlled the action of that party.— This Pimply meant that the will of the anti-slavery party was henceforth to override the constitution and laws bf the United States, and it is the boast of the Radical party that public sentiment at the North never tolerated the enforce ;mat It the fugitive Cave lilt, vnar re epleetsd the decisiMi of lbllt Serreme Cour t in the "llred Scott case." "'CRWel.' 4 lYllsofi,lll - 116, Miefhisili; Frith ner and Belford then boldly liroolaimed in 11.0 Senate that to trample upon en Ana:lolls law wed fhb first duty of the Altd.thethead and front of . these Me publitsin outlaws.Wati the present, Cltief Justice, who is to play so opnepicimus a part In the impeachment tif the 'Prtiel dent, Having as &member of. the Seri ate, advocated the "higher law" , view% of the Republican pArty, he. substequeat ly, when Governor of Ohio, opposed the enforcement of all laws of Cotfgrese of which he di., not approve. Re' Wes as base and flagrant a -traitor" as tsar lived, if deliberate nullification and open resistance of the law constituted the crime of treason, Ile was known to have persecuted with great bitterness those thin judges who deemed it their 'duty to respect the laws of Cougrege.— Xml it is tho guilty conscience of (Wei man which has made him shrink front the trial of ex-President Nita because his ottenees would then be exposed.-- Yet . it is tins violator of the. team of Congress, and men like Wilson, .9uniner and their higher law ;associates who are soon In try the President 'And should President Johnson be f•emoved from of floe, Wad,. who bee again and again glo ried ire the violation of law, and who has. =Alai hit Senate - resound vuth his ! laudations ~t• a “higher law than the Constitution," I's to stagger into the 'White !louse And the Itadioai law breakers alto have swept away the con stitutions nl len litalem, ov I tiey crown the Mantel 13w".Ltµce,lkos front (kin, will about. hewn with the drunk en detnagogue from Tennessee," Rebellion in Maryland Maryland—one of *ha' bravest, among the free and brave sovereignt teteof truer tea ha become justly indignant Sonte days since, after au unnecessary delay of several monthe, lion, Phrllip Thomas, who wan legally elected by the Ireerdnentre of NI aey taint to a-afresaid. that gallant Itille.Strite itt the so-called . .`Leautu of the United State.r, was denied th e privilege of enking his neat among the super loyal thae•ea and pimps of that wing of hell number two. Tim miserable excuse prca why Mr Thomas should not have him "seat, was the fat that he had given lam non one bemired dollar., and the non had subae quently gone through the liaise to the SUlltheru army' Ilut the real cause bee nothing to do with hitt. lied Mr Thom an hittinelf been emitter ed with the ;lout bern army, and identified with Sau9iern in , etests during the war, writ tivietters of Sonihein sympathy, and afterward+ presented himself at the door of the !irate...lt-natal dOfignl.o he 111111/1 , 1 have beon received with open arum by lite lanai 104 therein. (yids cane of Srohe,t, of Tennessue) rt. master Iseult, Mr Ti1,11111450/OIIIIC S , not with anything he has Item elofore done The netiom iit the Senate 1149 1111 . 11 U 4ed the juiit intlignatton or the Maryland legislature, and the people of that noble Slate If it does it. duty, an we. hope and believe e will, it will unanimously elect Mr Thomas, and eeed him again to the door bf the Senate fur admission If he 15 again refused, the legislature will be bound to call 111.1111 C Ite V eV. y Jolurnon,.artil ire member-1i df the HOLM, and then reltintito permit the collection of any taxes by Untied States ofticiale Among tiro rt4lits gnat ab t led a State by the constitution, in the right of rep reeentation in Congress Maryland in a , overeigety, equal with Masechusettn, for all purposes of renrenentation and taxation. ' If Maryland cannot have her represen tanner in CongresQ, Maryland will nut eubsnit to the invasions of the lax-Rath erer it treason or rebellion if you please, it pi right, and the bounden duly of freemen of a free State: Softie cheek must he place I upon the 11%111 rttionil of a mob, and it may a, well commence In Maryland as elsewhere, fur Maryland will not Miami alone when the crisis arrives Too much 11/14 already been submitted to—n spade may ignite the mine.—/et Grow Demo. N, lii. I:struusisirr.--lion. John Meknes°, a member of our Steve Legiel.ture, hag written a letter to the Ilan. M Scovel, a politician of the 11lok meth via, of thinking. lie says be has "great Leers for the future," because. the 'llepuhlican party will not !eke " e pooi tion Which Clod clearly Intends they should occupy." Mr. Hickman, howev er, mast be isharitable for theith wise hive no such oleo: revelations of the Divine purpose. an rally manouvers as he and Senator Wilson. "But such a consider ation," o 3111 plaoentli adds kir. Hickman, usboultiosot move either you or me if we are clear sighted enondllit to Atilienel_er our duties , we should do them." He adds, that be "cares little what com plaining men, illy made Up parties; or s rolling world may think of , ntel o Meet of 1111, 0//ktmot hej.e.t. Blzely indifferent to tits roWpgripsrld, inipeolisil i g if in pat* Ito and legislating for 4 it. And it dectisiation "1 have' s efficient labor ea hard wheal p ar elobi &Usual= to sap •W. 41sosagiste," masseuse only say that ordinary, mortal*. do, w.t, have thoughts so enthralling ae to give thetabwelm.,derwit elsemstonsfeeePirl son Isiah other paiple'e-saMithe i,es (kW guestiois otegillegpahlith Mr. Madtmais is settling in the gpsuitsylvani a Legisla ture. / • - Boutooriale way will lose hy the latemous °aurae of Ate Radicals In Congress. But that Radical party will suffer from lt h every day of 1(1 oriseroble orlateasie. t , Abbey,. •`- The peplum in Ainbetaa are counsel. og ckume.ond-tteloneaneng the whites, but tieolate_lhat allitaugh they .sannot preveat .4he - .llrw goetstwasent, *ki t h bee' pet been defeated, fr• ee golp g into °penile!, they will never admit, by word or de , d, 'that it is a legal governernment. de not see wh a t lower position they could take. Thy is, 1111 - 0114,cart be done aqd no" reatioxutlEtei,outalder Gan expect anything less.- Viral thOwtere thought ful republican paperpief the North, de blare that the Constitution was fairly de feated-rad thaa-Ooegtese eitenet-justly force it open the people. The Now York Times admits that the Alabamians, omitting to vole, and thus defeating the new constitution, exerobied an undoubt ed rlgat ; that the vote watt not on the question of refining to the trpicip, but on the adoption of an organic law to control the conduct, define the aights and prescribe the duties of oitigena ; that it is a fundamental principle of all free ir"eroineUtli that no auch,..constitution shall be imposed on any people without their own oritreat; -tleatlOemitetmaot by Congreos declaring the Constitution (ivied would rest on a falsehood, end be an act of bid.falth toivaida the people, that due preamble of Ali. llingbam'a hill, which chargea that acomh,ination of cal -1 zens was formed to defeat the Constitution is "a libel And a wrong;" and that the "unexpected overthrow of party salmi lotions does not justify Mr. Bingha:.l and Mr. Sherman, in branding the white citizens, of Alabama an traitors heolune they took Corigtretin at its word and man ifested their rippositiofi by staying itw3y from the rolls " forrtble tong In force a Coi etittilicin upon II Shiite under such CITCIIIII stances. and wu Lope tlist the emigre,- stoned determination to do this tiling will combine with other matters to oounur the Northern people diet they lire p , danger of being subjected to the Pat, sort of tiebrotp.ni Lerner'', it 1.1 quip certain, as it *cents in us, lint receni radical action in the Sonth w,l his much effect in .tionfrelling Northern judgmetnt concerning !tie ' , relit.; it Washington, that is to say, in 'wring the cbticlusion that the President rrpr , sewn justice and freedom and that his opponents are the champion,' of Ow yot•tte.—Ge/rerion t Texas) -New', --We are among those who nt.itcli ted nothing but tell from the men 0, power at Washington Enemies a 9 the, always have been of our eystem of fier ernment, a tiorernment or .consent N eqoal States, they are determined to hold on to power at all Iboard.. Their career for the last 'seven years justifies this tonviulion, and nothing but evil rettults will continue to follow their bad and wicked rule. They rode iolo power rn the first place on the, wave of sectionai hatred and animosity. By tli,e smut evil meitos fbey hit - ve conlintfed and seek to continue in power They also endeavor to make,,thetr doubtful luau secure by means moetwielted and aboin inable. In fact, we need only refer t,, their infamous schemes changed nitimet deity to snit the ever varying thrum statuses constantly arising in the ten Stiles of the South. The object is lo st cure the political power in those titaieo on the tyrant's principle that might makes right. [faring political pswer and determined to bold on, all politica! obstacles must be removed. Ileuce the impeachment of President .1 °Lima The right, the justice, or the legality o( this proceeding has nothing to do with it Ile is au —obstacle" or suppoed to be, to the consummation of Cher disholi cal schemes to the complete esialt],•l, went oT their power As usual, to men hurry tog on in a career of crime, there is no stop with them — A stop, a Ouse -would - be fatal - The public 'mind must be Irept euglge.,l upon new events - new scheinev time must..be given fur reflect ictL.for a slimming up and reckoning All tht., as we soy. would ho fatal to the men in power. We trust, boweier that the great pow er of the people will soon overthrow their Thad. Stevens tyrants. Their destruc live and ruinous rule is now so apparent that no sane man can fail to see at, and All honest men must acknowledge it --A sigtbsible writer remarks, very pertineLtly, that the •negro has a con aciousness that the radicals claim for biin more then he is justly entitled and alike why, if the freedmen are treat ed so badly at the South, they do not go to the North. The instinct of the color et/ man is lie unerring a guide in point ing out the road to imppineve, if wohltt hie reach, as that of the bee In search 01 honey. The notable fact that the De grees cling to the South, to spite of the Northern iprofeasions of love for them, cannot be explained away by difference to climate or by the kindred ties °entice tong that with us. They stay here be cause they know they are treated better here than they would be treated at the North --Galveston News. Tit ii:Fxsuga Nogni. 7 -Thetzoitement to the North the past weak has Inc] great. From every conceivable. quarter President Johnson his reeleved word of encouragement PJ stand firm in de fence of oonstitutional liberty. Many have armed and enrolled themselves and offered their services to the President and to Cobgresa—bat does anybody think it means fight t Bosh It means nothing of the sort. We have some ggionledp of the fighting propensities of thitie ninkeen, /iind we feel sure that digthidg blut a oieentinnt assurance of s Vkisaiitni sappli of grisenbaeks will in duos them to engage'thing that meek' of villainous guitliter.„ Ter RIMAT*IIIO .'"Tx•sar.s.—Tbe Jaco bins now baye but two Amine left In idieir-,platform.. The one is negro so- PPlajOy enil the ogler is despotism. It they . think they Can keep control' of the annly and prevent white men from voting sod let secroes sluff tbe belle boxes for dail to ,r es they tare itrfr doing in 1.14:820.. th ey MOW spooled for • time ,2 . ; the can overthrow Ile Presidential oflloh - and UN &prole! Coirt and 'make 11.14111"86,7', 'they - think Mit would do as volll don't 100 k so obtefflll for the Maisel' et Wasblogtva Jutt now, they 444* day or 4ire Owe. Berms Elonitopi have preisited • large Rout, Iloe t u r is t futidral; if the Prealtlentls brought to
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