The Democratic Watchman. BY P. ORAY NEER Terms, $2 per Annum, in Advance BELLEFONTZ, PA Friday Morning, MarCh 12,1869 9: The Inaugural By this time all the renders of the Warcniiiarr have seen the long expec ted and much talked of inaugural of President GRANT. On Saturday morn ing lest we issued an extra containing the document, and distributed it s to all our country subscriber& Ta say that the address comes up to public expectation, would be asserting something for which we would be laughed at. To say thlt . it gives evi-. deuce of the be of its reputed ate •thor, would be to say that intelligence and discrimination abide no longer in the brains of the American people. To say -that it is the production of a man who understands the whole theory of republican government, would be to belittle the great-dead of the past, who made it a life study to correctly expound the principles on which a gov ernment by the people might be made to have a lasting existence. • We have read the 'speech, or the address, or the message, or whatever we may choose to calf it, carefully. We pronounce it exceedingly common. place--a composition, in fact, that any schoolboy might indite without much study. It is a mass, not of glittering, but of muddy generalities. It lays down no Fiinciple as the guiding star of the new administration, but speaks, in an incoherent way, of the Hockey Mountains as the "strong box" of the nation, and of the Paei6c Railroad as the 'hey" by which we are now en. deavoring to open the lid which covers the wealth hidden under those mighty boulders. On only one thing do Ave find the new President explicit. Ile believes in negro suffrage, and recommends the adophors of the 15th amendment. Ile takes 'ground against the interests of the white race, and desires to FCC the ignorant, sooty negro on en equality with the Caucasite\t. Starting out with this pheney in a btain never remarka ble for the perspicuity of its ideas, "Preendent-General" kiRANT will find flat he is not travelling .in the same boat with the people, but that that flag cowers a craft manned by the fullest crew that ever attempted to sail the political sea. IC he brings his Nese& safe into part with a nigger at the helm, he will do more than the country now expects and prove himself a much better ciexigator than Le gets credit for. Chi the matter of the national dept, the Yresidant intimates that it most be paid in gold. Where the gold is to come from, however, he neglects to state, as also to specify the time when the &lit should be paid. ale talks a great deal about redeeming the credit of the Government, as though the coo slant rule of thieving radicalism for the last eight years had left it ail credit to redeem With cone .ctlier feature of the ad dress we are pa:Ocularly struck. That the egiatietisal self.confidenee with which be acters.upon the duties of his great office, and fie sublime impudence .with which he accepts its higi, re sponstbilitiee many of his greatest predeoeseors, he manifests vaet. coufidencc is his own capabihty, be traying none admit shrinking modesty which is in itself evidence of greatness ormiod. lie says : respouslittaloo of he positlon I 10.14 Art acmpt thelet watAvut fear Not so epake Waseca Gros, Attnes, JZFEGRSON, M ADUON, and Monroe:. All -those great statesmen accepted the presidential °Mee with distrust of their Own ability ; yet we know they were much abler and greater Inca than the present incumbett. 'But GRAN? takes held of the orlioe in a Lombastiv style, intended, no donlit, to itnpres the country with a vast iden of the in fallible poster that now holds the helm of the ship of State ; yet we fear it is only the 1r ain-glorious footnoting, of the pigmy who attempts to take upon his puny shouldese, withotit an efilart, the mighty weight that even the giants of limiter days wee not more than able to support. fitict»s the issLugural as it strikes us, Of course, the friends of the Pm. ident pronounce it everything that could 'be desired, yet It is nothing more than a nehlash of Reaheal newspaper articles of ifiie last six 'months, cooked upend rieasowed tosuit tim occasion on which it was delivered, Itmonly merit. as far as we oan see, is its basvity, and for this we are disposed tocowirmend It was certainly A shprity not to inflict more of the same stuff on tbs'ortsling saowy—The weather "LiAsorie liouss,". for Ararch is upon our table. This int' monthly Mag azine devoted to "history, biography, prose, poetry, "it, romance, reality and *yield intrmation." The number before us contains a sketch' of Hon. Jowl Scorr,auir new senator, and ie otherwise filled with entertaining and useful reading. price 25 cents per number or two dollars a ykr. Pub. fished by O'Dwirea & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. PETERSON'S MniCAL MONTULY for March has come to hand. A valuable contribution to the musical literature of the day, and a pleasant companion es pecially for the ladies. The present number COTltainp. some 24 -pages of choice new music, and variety enough to suit the most fastidious. Tlie first musical selection are the lines of E, A. WAauss, beginning: I'm left nll Mane In my Norm*, No mother to soothe me to omit, with niusio, by J. S. Cox, Published by J. L. PETERS, Box 5429, New York. -Gen. SLIERMAN is now the "Gen e* or the armies." Ile was appointed to tht grade of (leneritl by GRANT and confirmed by the Senate. SHERIDAN has been advanced to the Lieutenant Generalcy. —GUI. SHERIDAN has been sent by GRANT back to Louisiana to oppress and maltreat the much abused people of that State, as be did wbcn he was there before. This looks very much RS if GRANT Witilted peace (1)—II:) horn. State News —Join Tinapmelectused In Gettypburs, on Thumlay evening leutt. —Bolus, the new Secretary of the Navy, II a Phllifielphlan and an Infidel —The West Cheater Jllrflll.ol.fl bactITIM., as that tho wheat rrop, in that section, promises a greater kid than for years past. —The Norristown Herald, has an aeoonnt of the biting of two mon and a boy by a rabbi dog, lu liatfied, Montgomery county —Pntur M.utmes of Shanosville Berlin county, committed suicide by hanging him self on Friday last Pittsburg Peat favors the repeal of the prevent libel law Be does every other sensible paper Ip the State. —The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have bought the t lerator end dock property In Erie for the burn of 1200,000. —1 he Redford county delegate to the >mmg Itepubtieen Gubernatorial Convention hal been instructed to vote for Gov —Eu Lsams, of Laneastar county, recently slaughtered a hog seventeen months okloshp h weighed 117' pounds. oopternher next tho Grand Lodge of the German Improved Order of United Broth• run .01 n•nemtilo In lifirrlsnUlT omnan VM111104.1 COOTELLO killed her Mo b ind,:th u club, 010 tither day. wylist he MM. engaged In n drunken brawl la Jameatoeu, Mercer county —A female ghost la netueug the good folks of Ntohrsente, Barks county It le said to nightly haunt the spot where Mils ADLIAIDt LLO'LII WAS murdered some years ago. —L.ss 11.1 cs is hard at work organising a new circus company at °lrani, brio county no will travel by 'intro:id eteluetvely t.bla year —Jon• flay. , au , tionver, a few day. ago void it suss, is ith 11 0 •011 pigs, belonging to Jour L BAIL ; of 1,, it Ifernpfiold township, Laneaw t4ir count,, for 11107,2 L —Creen•turg, nape the Democrat, has a young man ;rho has :ipplir.l for a patent to "present enointg " It euttists ore cluthem pin attached to the none M:u.0...Er., of Leeeliburg, Went. mere,and etAmtv, was 1.,111ed one day lAA week by a lot of ~late LJltng upoo Itlm from the lute Lel of the Weston. Penn IL Realroad —Wyoming Bradford and Suommbanwa COO/Itif. have modructed their oeuartorial del egate. t.• v ate far lion Al. PACEIR (or Derv." LOT Else a izmpt4 man and would make PlrOtlx candidate n• n to'l before, tie Pennsylvania l.egir.lature it Inch rnlurgrol the rule of eeb donor in l'•nn.yleanin., and to make all parties in trrtoreFt capable of tuAtifying In rill matters IP wine), to u P/C h they qr.,' </I:formed mine hou:le of the Northern Centre) Railroad, at Sunbury, we deeroyeal by fire Ito , : track % lieu a how.e eatche9 fire le Sun bury, th. y ft burn, en they haze tie Co,' rive parlineut, Ditto, Bellefonte , a posted U. ,t .eeronty twousand Odd Vero,. kn PhOndeApialst, oo tho 29th of April, to ...deform, tho fif.toth antoverntry of the evtabllohinent of tno Order In the Oohed —l+ tea. M Llt of I'Lconixt ilk, Cheater tounty, wax rrrrr tod s foie days since and corn• hutted to pri,on on the barge of forging two protniertory totem—ohs of Ifioo on his fattier, nod another of POO or. his brother, a dro4r, kr (attic rdterutivh Committee of the State Agnooltural eat lety have determined to hold the next Ewa fair somewhere lu Western Pennsylvania. The Meadville Repo/goon o r . gee its eltisene to prearnt the claims of thin lo• tality. —The Indiana &sprier k Amer won. a fall illown African ennnt rag, in Just wow Rowing into the ind Lana Moseenger, another sheet of the same kind, for asserting that the prpunt mongrel Legislature kr less eorrupt and ex travagant than former ones. DAVOEM, Of illf•chinicsbunCumbe glad county; has *atone that was plekatt up la Vlrun , a roma yearn ago, that iw valand by ne.4eattoe min, at 1400,000. A pretty valuable atone, but °Ca good diml leaaconsequettoallian a great many lenaller one. --.3a0 &mom, Of York mainly was instantly killed * few dive ago, while working a Masa query, by the falling of a rock upon him. The York Pemoyittinum call "go complete was the tletdm crushed and burled, abed nothing ant one oehis limbo *cold be seem. -114Pittobatz Chowneretag says tbtt Mr*. 11acou, A. Claaics, wilt of Wu. Gtanni. remain"! In Anthony townotdp, trim:Ant now" nu. on Monday nook, nobtetid of 4 female dill& and on Wednordny foiknrine, had two MO , / tri4e/nidren. - 4 -013 the. 2nd, inst., A 3,09ng man tintid tre, rusidiug in )3eaver township, Quinn county, was passing near Shippenville, with a very sharp al on his shoulder ; hedilipped rind fell, sod in doing so the edge of the as was drawn arrests his throat, severing the Jugular vela, causing almost iil.tllo4. death. —Swim Distorst.rr.-At the reunion of the °Moira Of the Army of the Potomac, held iu New York on the 20, .oen. Unitas 13. Mc- CLUI-ti , was elected ternporary chairman, "and on taking his seat was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. The tieueral acknowl edged t i ime compliment in a hriof address." —The Patriot at idarrisburg sums up the list of delegates to the iitate Conventiou, en Worm . Instructed for Casis-73; for rsciaa -6; (or SPessviseti-3; delegates not chosen-,. 40, chtmen And not fubtructed-n, whole nuns bar of dolegutes-1.371; necessary to a Choice -67. --Steens Exam le to put the XV amend• meat through the renusylvenlit, Legislature without debate. Why not, orders - ba)zog been kilned from the new cettlAa T The question nO longer holeoga •;$ the people of the loyal Mmes. There must be no dlecu,elon herenfter upon any 'natter In which the people have ao later amt.—Poet. - - Mingo" informs the E1p7144 that there is to Manhteim "a mammoth porker, belonging to J. G. Ferree, elm!' is vpposed to weigh over 70U pounds; Mr. F. also possesses a pair plioasants au tame that they will eat out of his hand, and in addition to the above, ho has a dog with live legs and 41 Calf With two distinct UAL" --The Deaver Ratites! says, "thus far every county which has ',elected delegates to the Eltete'Contrentlon bout instructed fel assay ex , cept Jefferson, willell In giving a tight-rope er.• hibition If the balance of the counties only follow suit, and nominate 0 ♦re it will recurs the election of it !move, the Detettelat.. !nay tee proper to piece lu (lie field• —The Oreen.burg Argus gives an account of a Mad Cow in Salem twp., Westmoreland county, and adds that fears are entertained that conelderable stock in that neighborhood WWI bitten bye rabid dog a few wooki since. Wo have no mad dogs down this way but we have some mad Mongrels, who feel.like snap ping anything that comas within their reach mince Utrasu the I. refused to make ''Our MI DI'," one of his cabinet advisers. —An effort will be made at the next election for County Superintendent In Chaster county, (in May nest.,) to have the oftee,tilleil by a fe• mole. The candidate will be Mien Matt 1. Sunnite, of Unionville, who in a graduate of the Connecticut State Normal School, and a lady of eminent qualifications, energy and ability to fill the position. The State Superintendent of Common Schools has decided that there la nothing In the law to prevent the election of a female for County Superintendent. —The Oswego Onwstfe chronicles n splen did Demottatle victory In TiogVeounty • "In the Board of County Superrieora hot year there one, but one bemoerni Of the nine borne In thin count•, this year the Dennocrata elect supervisors in five, and In' two other town, they hate eueceeded In defeating the regular Republican eandhiaten by supporting bolter. The auperviror election.. In other In terim errarrtles show Democratic gains tamest an satisfactory " Good for 'flora I Centre county will gladly pray for the entire cent...radon af her long de , calved curter aIrONDIM —Some days ago we published the foci that a girl named Fete item had en dearored to kill her new born Illegitimate child by throwing it into a vault, from which, how ever it ROA reiteued ar.ve, We ape elated that the girl had made information for fornication and bastardy against thin 'non she :illegal lobe the father of the child The name of this man Is Joilara WeDDLZ Every effort has been male to apprehend him, bill it k now knownthat fie has gone to New York Ile he a discharged soldier, and collected his bounty before leav ing —Post, RAPl.—Yestorday morning, a young woman named M•er ANN Witeov came before Mayor Decet, and preferred a charge of rape againet a young man named Dams The woman alleges thaton Saturday night she slat ted the house of a colored man named Moses Tsustau, at the extreme head of Federal street, Allegheny, where she intended to remain for the night Some time after she had retired three white young Men came to the home, and after threatening to kill Taunus if he offered to make any resistance, they forced themselves Into the apartment which she occupied. They then forcibly outraged her person and pro posed to clear the house. Before doing so, however, they *rented a loaded gun, which was standing in the corner, and threatened to kill the wornati and TRIMS/A if they gave any information of the affair They also lighted a toren and set fire to swers] pictures Whisidi ware hanging against the wall la the room, and thou departed, havirig drat discharged therm, to prevent TRIIIBLIt from using it. Brown was arrested and locked up for a hearing Subse quently a hearing took place, when It turned out that the woman was a bad character, and that there was no truth In her allegations con cerning the "outrage" Brown 1,111. Cued for disorderly conduct, and MIAT Ave MY sent up for vagrancy —Pittsburg Post President Johnson's Farewell Address President Johnson has issued the fol lowing address . To the people of tAc Culled Slates. The robe of office, by eonstitutional limitation, this day foils from niv shoul der,, to be ituniedistely a,surned by lay succyssor. For loth the torbenrande mud co-operation of the American people in aLI his efforts to adadnister the govern ment within the pale of the Federal Constitution, are sincerely invoked. 'Without ambition to gratify, party ends to subvirve, or personal quarrels to avenge at the sacrifice of the peace and weifure of the countryorty earnest de sire is, to see the Constitution, 114 do fined and limited by the fathers of the republic, again recognized and obeyed as the orupecine law of the land and the whole people, North, South, blast and West, happy and prosperous under its wise provisions. In surrendering the high office to whi c h I w a s called. four years ago, at a memorable and terrible crisis, it is my privilege, I trust, to say to the pie of the United Stites., fe Inc words vincrukition lin billet cosine so ceaselessly assailed and aspersed by politicos, leaders; to whose plans and wishes my polity to restore the Caton has been obnoxious, In a period of difficulty 'and turmoil, almost without precedent in the history of any people, conseque.nt upon the closing scenes of a great rebellion, and the assauioation of .the then President, It was, perhaps, too much on my part to Wiped of devoted partisans, who rode on the waves of ex eimmerst.. which at that time sleep all jitiforo them, that degree of toleration and magnanimity which I sought to re- ' commend and enforce, anewhich I be lieve in good time would hate advanced us infinitely further on the road tu per manent pence ,nntl prosperity than wo have thus far attained. Doubtless, had I at tho cumineneement of toy term of office, unhesitatingly lent ha mmers, or perverted them to purpose and plan out tide of the Constitutum, and becpute an Instrument to schemes of confiscation and of general and oppressive disquali fications, I would have been hailed, us all that was true, loyal, and discerning, HS the reliable head of a party, whatever I might have been. As the Executive of the nation, unwilling, however, to nceetheto propositions of extremists, and bound to adhere at every personal hue urd to my with to defentl the Constitu tion, I need nut, perhaps, be surprised at .having met the fate of others whose only rewards fur upholding constitu tional right and law, have been tbe Con aciousness of having attempted to do their duty, and the calm and unpreju diced judgment of history. At the tune a mysterious Providence maigned to inn the Ake of Premidelit,' I was by the terms of the Constitution, the Commas dee-in-Chief of nearly a million of men under arms. One of my first acts was to disband and restore to the vocations of civil life, this immense host, and ,to divest s myself, an far as I could, of the unparalleled powers then incident to the office and the times. Whether or nut in this step I was right, and how far deserving the appro bation of the people, all can now, on re fleetly'', judge, when reminded of the ruinous condition of public idfairs, that must have resulted from the continuance in the military service of uch n ut. , t MIMI/VT of men. The close of our do mestic conflict found the army inner to distinguish itsulf.in 11 new held, by un effort to punish European interven tion in Mexico; by many it was belle% ed and urged (hot, aside from the as sumed justice of the proceeding, a for eign war, in which both Ind , * would cheerfully unite la-vindicate °whorl*. of the nation. I flag, and furtheirillustrato the national prowess, would he the sur est and speediest way of awakening na tional enthusiasm, reviving devotion to the Union, and occupying a force con cern rig which grit vir.d mihts evistrtl as to its willingness, after four years of ac tive campaigning, at once to return to the pursuits of pence. Whether (110,0 SpeelliatiUn4 were true or false, it will !Kt CUllerded that they existed, and that the predilections of the army were, for the time being, in the direction indica ted Taking ads antage of this (cling, it would have been easy, as the,Comman der-in-Chief of the Army and Navy , imd with all the power and patronage of the Presidential office at my disposal to turn the concentrated military strength of the sinition against French interrer. once in Mexico, and to inaugurate a movement which would have been re ceive' with favor by the military and a large portion of the people It is propel in this connection that I should refer to the Mimed unlimited additional inners tendered to the Executive by the Illp:1- aurei relating to civil rights and the Freedmen's Bureau. Contrary to most precedents in the experience of public men, the powers thus placid a ithin rot grasp were declined, al in violation of the Constitution, dangerous to the liber ties of the people, and i••nding to aggra vate rather thnit Nelsen the discords na• turally resulting Born our cis it war With -a large army and nugln,»lml authority ' it would have been no d cult tasks to direct, at pleasure, the des times of the Republic, and to make se cure my continuance in the highest office known to our laws. Let the peo ple, whom I am addressing from t'ne Presidential chair during the dosing hours of u laborious term, consider how different would ha- 13 been their present condition had I yielded to the dazzling temptation of foreign conquest, of per sonal aggrandizement and the desi-e to wield additional power Let them with juuice consider that if I hare nut un duly magnified me office the public bur dens barn not been increased by my acts and other and perhaps tf nutands oi tens , of thousands of lives sacrificed to ve t i ons of false glory It cannot, therefore, he charged that my ambition has been of that ordinary or criminal kind which, to the detriment of the people's rights end liberties, ever seek♦ to grasp more and unwarranted powers, and to accomplish its purposes, panders, too often, to popular prejudices and party Rana What, then, bare been the aspirations which guided me in my official acts? Thor• acts have been elsewhere comprehensively stated and full) discussed, end become a part of the nation's history By them, lam wil. ling to be judged, know mg that, how. ever important, they at - least show to the impartial mind that my solo ambi. tion has been to restore tno union of this State* faithfully to execute the office of I f resident, and to the best of ability to preserve and protect and defend the Constitution. I cannot be censured if my efforts have been impeded in the interest of party faction, and of a policy which was intended to reassure and conciliate the people of both sections of the coun try, was made the occasion of inflaming and dividing still farther those who were Only recently in urms against each other, yet as individuals and citizens, were sincerely dustcart, es I shall ever believe, of burying all hostile feeling in the grave of the past. The bitter war was waged on the part'of the govern ment to vindicate the Constitution and save the Union, and if I have erred in trying to bring about a more speedy and 4 1astins pence, ko extinguish hear-burn-t ings enmities, and to prevent trou blea isethe South, which, retarding ma terial prosperity in that region, inju riously affected the whole country, I am quite content to rest my case with the more deliberate Judgment of the people, and, as have already intimated, with tins digest future. The war, all must remember, was u situ pendous and deplorable mistake. Neith er side understood the other, and had this simple fact and its conclusion a been kept in view, all that was neededivis accomplished by the acknowledgment of the terrible wrong and the expressed bit ter feeling and earnest endeavor at atone meat, shown and felt in the prompt ratification of Constitutional Amend. meets by the Southern States at the close of the war. Not accepting war as a confessed false step on the part of these who inaugurated it, wu an error which now only time can cure, and which oven at this late date we should endeavor to ExperienCing, moreover. as all have done, the frightful cost of the arl4- trament of the sword, let us in the future cling closer than ever to the Constitution as our only safeguard. It is so be hoped that nut until the burdens now pressing ppen its with such fearful weight AN re moved, will our people forget the lessons of the war; mad that, remembering them from whatever cause, puttee betweeen section and &tate nosy be perpetuated. The history of late events in our coun try, as well as of the greatest govern 11101ili Of ancient and modern tones, teaches that we htive;eNerything to fear from the departure front the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and the un due ascendency of 10011 allowed to as stlnill power in what are considered speLial emergencies. by Ha, on becom ing master of Rome, at once adopted measuroa to crush his enemies and con solidated the power of his party. Ile established military colonlea throughout and deprived Of full Roman franchise the inhabitunts of Italian towns who had approved his' usurpation, confiscated their lands and gave them to his soldiers, and conferred citizenship Upon u great number of slaves belonging to those who had proscribed him, this creating at Rome a kind of body guard fur his pre- toction Atter having jbit en Roma over to F , laughter and tyranny beyond all ex ample, tutu those opposed to him and his legions, his terrible instrument of wrong, :Vila. could yet feel safe in lay ing down the ensign of power, so dread abused, and in mingling freely with the linuiluirs and friends of Insainjria victims The feat whis.l.l he had tuspu (id continued alter his voluntary abdica tionand teen retirement, his will was few to a people who had permitted themutl% es to be enslaved. What but a .abide knowledge and conviction Unit tile Roman people bad become changed, ieeouraged, and-utterly broken in int, could have induced this daring bu , publie indiffer ence to coIIiNUNICCS so WI it'll, its to leas,) 11.1110 .111111 to evert. calamity which subsequently befel bier, could have justified the confusions of the dic tator and ty rant in his attuning experi ment \Ve llnd that, in the time which has since elapsed, human nature and exigem: cies in government have not greatly Llianged \V ho, a few years past, In contemplating, our future, could have supposed that, in a brief poriou o f bitter i..titperienee, et erything demanded in the mune of eniergenc or divided by capriceosould comai to be considered asi mere matters of course That eon s( ription, confiscation, lass of per& mal Itbatty, the subjection of States to Mill i Lary t tile and disfranchisement, with the es tension of the right of sutfrio , e, merely to accomplish party entlit s yveuld reseis the puosiro mihni) , -,loii, if not acquit , - of Ow people ot the llopuldic- 11 I has been clearly demonstrated by recent I occurrences that encroituhnients upon the Constitution cannot be pretent.d by the I'm silent "don. , how ever devoted or .1.U:1'111110 d lie may be, and that, tittli.s. the people ititcrixt-e, thene no power under the Constitution to cheek a domi nant majority of two-thirds in the Con gress of the United States An appeal to the It/Mon, litivpicer, is attended with lit„ to 1110,1 ; vdllio, It loft ac t, the 1.-Id' 'a 41i: id correct, in time, et iii as might 1../lose legi-lative iii. rpation. thtrig,r that the smile power which ~liiregartis the Constitution will deprive tloqii ot the right to change th, ir ruler-, except hi revolution W e lime already soli the I cirt,d ii non of the judicial V circotik,trilp,l when it was al' , rehend , ii th a t the court 4 would de idt• law., hating for their sob object the supremacy of party, while the veto pone' In l•..xectttrvo 1) the Constitution for the interest and proteetion of the people, and enetrined by Wio•liington and hit successors, has bent rendered nugatory by it plat kiln minority of two-thirds in each branch of the national legislature The Coogan tom evideutly contemplates that when a bill ot returned, with the l'resideut', , objet tion , , it will be tidally reeonssdei - ed 'by Congress, Such, however, has nut been the practice under present party rule It has he, 01114+ es ident that men who l , a•a It bill under partisan in (Menet., are roil, likelY, through patriotic motives, to admit their err, in, and there by weaken theirs own organizations by solemnly confessing it under an official oath Pride of opinion, if nothing else, has intervened" I,d presented a calm and disoasehmat. i-,..n.ekration of rr 101 l disappi \• • tit I s , • 1011 , alit h alt I ,A . !1.• it be allf(11 , 1 , 1 I i•„I lin has de, . ; liggre4l,l , I i111.•11, .1 1:1 , • 1..V1•11111%. depertment 4.1 o r go% eri. tit. it, nut, reudily work Its overtln ow It n u ns, however, be remedied without disturb ing the harmony of the instrument . The veto power is generally ~ xercised upon constitutional grounds, and when ever it is so applied, and the bill returned with the Executive' reasons for with holding his signature, it ought to bo im mediately certified to the Slim-erne Court of the United States for it, deci sion. If its constitutimuilly shall bode. declared by that tribunal, it should then become a law ; but if the decision is other wise, ft should fail, without power in Cungegss to re-enact and make it valid In cases in -which the veto rests upon hasty and inconsiderate legislation, and in which no constitutional question is involved, it would not change the fun , damental law, for in such case no per manent ail can be incorporated into the Federal system. It is dbvious that, without such an amendment, the goy erbment, as it existed under the Consti tution prior to I,,be rebellion, may be wholly subverted - or overthrown by two-thirds „majority in Congress. It Is not, *,bereforO difficult to see how easily and how rapidly the people may lose— shall I not say have lost—their liber ties by eu unchecked and uncontrollable majority in the law-making power, and when once deprived of their rights, how powerless they at e to regain them. Let '.s look for a moment to the his tory of the Innjority In Congress, which has acted in such utter disregard of the Constitatiosi, while public attention has been oarefully . and constantly turned to the past and expiated sins ,of the South. The servants &An people in high places hive boldly betkayed their trust, broken their oaths of eimervtinte to the (.7 0e 4 t i_ talon, and undermined the very fuun dations of,liberty, justice antl good gov ernment. When the rebellion was being . suppressed by tho volunteered services of—patriotic soldiers, amid th e dangers of the buttlefield, these 1 „,., crept, without question, into Plage end power In•ithe national council. M el , ill danger had passed, when no ended foe remained, when is punished and re pentant people bowed their heads to the flag, and renewed their allegiance to the Government of the United States, 'llw e it was that pretended patriots appeared before tho nation, and beget to prate about the thousands of, lives and mil lions of treasure sacrificed in, the sup pression of the Rebellion. They have since persistently sought t o inflame the prejudices engendered be tween the sections to retard the restora tion of peace and Itarmony, and by every means to keep open and exposed to the poisonous breath of party passion, the terrible wounds of a four years' war. They have prevented the return of peace and the restoration of the Union, in every way rendered tkelusivo the pur. poses, promises and pledgee by which thearmy was marshalled, treioon re buked and rebellion crushed, and made the liberties of the people and the rights and powers of, the President objects of constant attack. They have wrestial from the President his Constitutional. power of supreme command of the army and navy. They have detttroyed the strength and efl3ineney of the E xecu t ive Department by making sidairdinate otTicers independent of and able to defy their chef They have attempted to place the President under the power of a !add, defiant and treucheruu» cab, nc t iiftiver They have robbed the Exiivo tivu of the prerogative of pardon, ren dered null and void nets v granted to thousands of l .rs r ms under thu provisions of the Constitution, end committed gross usurpation by legisla tive attempts to exert Iso this power In favor of party adherents They have conspired to change the sv‘t,•to of our government by prefer• ing charges against the President in the form of oracles of impeachment, and contemplating before hearing end trial that he should be placed in arrest, field in durance, and si hen it became their pleasure to pronounce his senten ce , driven from place and puwur in disgrace. They have in time of 'wane increased the national debt by u reckless expen• dituro of the pubite• moneys, end lima' added to the burdens which nheady weigh, upon the people. They have permitted i t he nation to sutler the e% its of u deranged currency - to tlw enhance ment an price of all the nceoNsaries of life. They have maintained at large standing army for the enforcement of their measures of oppremon The • v engaged tn clam, legudation and built up and encouraged, monopolies, that the might be o:nr : iebed al 1.110 espeztea of Uto !MIN, They have tailed to net upon important treaties, thereby endangering iior preiedit peaceful relit toms wlth forelgo Their courve of it qurpation has not bet n limited to raids anon the Est cu (tvt• Departna nt fly uncon.titutienal and oppretsive enactments the people of ten States of the Union have been re.-- ductal to a condition untie tntelorable t hitt that flora whielt the patriot. of the Itevolution rob, Iled Million-to!' A mer. an citizens can now inv of their oppressor. with im.re truth than our fathers did of British tyrantr, that they have forliaiden the tit,ite Governs merits to pass laws of immediate and pre , ning importance, unletto suspended, until their assent should he obtained ; that they have refused to pas. other la w s for Ilit• liceofiltriothitli,li 01 large districts of people, unless (Mew 'wild,. would re linquish the right at representation in tile Legislate? et., a right inestimable to (Mini anti iiirluddable to tN rants unit, that hey have made judges depentleth oison it will Mime for the tenure of their ces and the amount anti pay ment of their RIII/111,9 That they have erected n ruultittode of and soot hither .warms of t 4, liqr our pooplo and ..at out thoir I,llot.trioo That Otos,. Vinyls itf focb,.l rondo. tho trillitary indopom (lout 'of and I•tiporior to tbo citil powor, I . ollllllfleti with others to subject no to a jurboliction foroign to our Constitution and Alniwknowledged by our lows, quar tered large Itches of armed troops among protect.sl thorn by n mock trial front punishment for any murdors which they commit on oho injutbitants of those States, impost...l (mts on as without our tlopri yeti its in many dam , " of the lomellt of trial by jury, talon away o u r charters, ' , totted , lomestie insurrec- 1. 1 diOr d .qtr ION" h!t, r. q 1 n4,1)1N ()It. 41 1;•. s . .:, 4„,rwni I= n ,,.i.J ~, iS ~. blll ~ r. rime , I , ,nk 1 , Ji i s not ,{. l l e,emplete The Conrtitution r, .t• the' Mend poner of the Unite,' Slate,. In ono So probe Court, whose pinstlettlon Omit extend all cases arising untie r lb let mint tuition and the lawn of the fruited Stater Encouraged this promise or a refugq from tyranny a vitt. Ten of the United litrites, oho, by the order of a military commander, gh en under the sanction of 1 erne] and tielliterute ellictof Congress : had been denied the constitutional rights of lihnr ty of eonscienee, freedom of thepre., And of spetteh. personnl freetioni from military arrest, of lo.ing held to answer for crime only en Pre' sentment nod Indictment, on triat of jury, of Ohs writ of habeas corpus antPproteetion of eiv 11 and constitutional government,---a citizen thus deeply wronged appeals to thin Supreme Court for the protection guaranteed him by the organic law of the lan& At once a riere ,, And execited majority, by the ruthless hand of leg. isintive power, stripped the ermine from the Judges, transferred the sword of Justice to the general, and remanded the oppressed etflien to IL degradation and bondage worse. than death I It will also he recorded as ono of the marvels of the times that a party claiming for Itself ae‘ monopoly of eonsitteney and patriotism, and boasting, too, elite unltinitcal away, endeavor ed by a cOatly and deliberate trial to impeach one who defended the Contititutlen and the Union, not only throughout the war of the re bellion hindering his whole term of office NI Chief Magletrate, hut at the same time could find no warrants or moans at their command to bring to trial even the leader of the rebell ion. Indeed, the remarkable failures in hie ease were go often repeated that, for propri ety eake, if for no other reason it beenme at last necessary to extend to him an unoondi- Honed pardon. What mom plainly than thin Illustrated the extremity of party management nod Inconslntency on the one hand, and of faction, vindictiveness an nee on the other t Patriotlem willdbfF he encouraged, when in such k record sees that its instant reward may be the most rintleht party abase and obloquy, if not attempted disgrace. !mitred of seeking to make treason odious it would, In truth, scent to hare been their pur pose rather to make the defense of the Corlett tution and Union /1 crime, and to punish fideli ty to an oath of arose, If counter to party dic tation. 17, all the mespaut their command Happily for the peat.: efithe'ediititry, the War ME
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