.fgtetuwite* ■ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1866, *.' The printing presses shall be tree W every person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedlngs of the legislature, or any branch of government:- and no law shall ©ver be made frt rAßtraln the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions Is one of the invaluable rights of men: and every citizen mav freely speak, write and print on any sub let". being responsible for the abuse of that liberty In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers or men in public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi enoe.” Why We Sustain President Johnson. When, on the death of Abraham Lin coln, Andrew Johnson was suddenly elevated to the high position of Presi dent of the United States, he . found himself standing face to face with great and grave responsibilities. The armies of the Republic had triumphed over armed rebellion ; the work of the war rior was done, and the labors of the statesman about to begin. The position was one which demanded great wis dom, experienced statesmanship, more than ordinary prudence, and the most exalted and disinterested patriotism. All our readerswill remember how anx iously the nation listened to every word which fell from the lips of the newly made President. The dangers that v threatened the country were plainly seen and duly appreciated by the people. The war had been sustained at the most enormous sacrifices of blood and treasure by the masses, because they were resolved that the Union of the States should not be destroyed. When the armies of the South had surrender ed, the great body of the people of the North were ready and willing to grant fair terms to the conquered. They had been fighting to restore the Union, and they wished to see the speedy consum mation of their cherished desires. They waited in anxious expectancy for an enunciation of the policy which Presi dent Johnsoirintended topursue. When it was made public, iu the proclamations to the different States recently in revolt, fanatics and interested political mana gers tried in vain to suppress the hearty 'approval which was given to it by the people. Immediately thereupon the Demo cratic newspaper press of the country, with the exception of a few papers which have since seen the error of their course, cordially endorsed the policy of Presi dent Johnson, The Int< lligenc r was among the very first to do so. In an editorial prepared and published as early as last .June, we reviewed llie reasons for giving our support to Andrew John son, and indicated the extent to which we were prepared to go iu our approval of his acts. That article was copied, with approving comments, by nearly every prominent Democratic newspaper in tiic North ; thus showing that we were leading in a direction in which the party were fully prepared to follow.— The conclusion of that editorial was in the following words : In every move which President Johnson may nnikV In restore law and order, and to preserve, protect and defend the Constitu tion of 111" I'nitcd States, ho will have tin* warm sympathy and the hearty and earnest support*, not only of the Democratic press, but of the Democratic masses throughout the whole country. Thissupportand Hym- Ihv will be given freely; the more freely because it could never ho extorted, except through the honest conviction that his acts are right, and his policy calculated to pre serve Ihe Constitution, tore-cement the Union, and speedily to restore permanent peace and prosperity to our war weary and much distracted land. The support which we then promised to President Johnson has ever since been freely given. ‘While we may have differed with him "s to some of the mi nor detail* of his plans for the mere temporary government of the States, we saw that was always moving steadily iu the right direction. We could not help giving him credit for exalted and disinterested patriot ism. His every act showed that he had in view the best interests of the nation, and that he was laboring with consum mate wisdom, and with far seeing and statesmanlike sagacity, to accomplish the great work of restoration which had been committed by Divine Provi dence to his hands. Unmoved by sel fish considerations, unin 11 ueneed by the ties of party association, unawed by threats and unseduced by the offer of almost supreme power, he lias steadily pursued the even tenor of his way. Step by stop, slowly, wisely and sure. Iy he has advanced in the only true path of national safety. He has done much already toward the accomplish ment of the great task assigned him. 'Despite of the most bitter opposition from such traitors as Stevens, Sumner ami the many who follow them, he lias succeeded in restoring permanent pence to a land lately tossed to and fro iu the wildest political commotion. Had he been aided, asheshould have been, by Congress, we might have been able, even thus early, to rejoice,over the pleasing spectacle of a perfectly restored Unioift The opposition to the great and wise plans of the President has not come from the rebels of the South. AVhen they laid down their arms, they felt that they were utterly powerless. They accepted the situation, and declured themselves ready to adapt themselves to the old order of affairs. Willingly, cheerfully, with an alacrity that was not expected, they adopted the policy of President Johnson and entered into his plans for restoring ea and in no Democratic county that we know of, does political prescription go so far as to refuse to publish all such statements in at least one newsaper of each party. Here in Lancaster city, where the necessity for so doing is not nearly so great as it is in the county, Democratic officials publish all such documents in the Republican daily paper. The Commissioners of the county, and the Frison Inspectors pub lish their reports in the Intelligencer. In so doing they do their duty, and pay a proper respect to the very large pro portion of tax-payers who take our paper to the exclusion of others. We are sorry to be compelled to reflect upon the Di rectors of the Poor. They seem to im agine that Democratic tax payers have no right to know what becomes of that portion of the public money which pass es through their hands. We publish their statement in our daily without charge. We shall ask to be paid for publishing it in our weekly. If pay ment of a reasonable bill is refused, we shall ask why it is done, in the name of at least nine thousand of the tax payers of Lancaster county. We represent that proportion of the people of this county, and we shall not sutler their rights to be disregarded without entering our earn est protest. Attend to the Spring Elections, We would earnestly urge upon the Democracy of Pennsylvania the gram! importance of attending to the Spring elections. Properand prompt organiza tion in the different townships will en able us to obtain control of very many election boards which carelessness will give into the hands of our opponents. — The contest upon vrhich we are about entering will be one of the mostexciting ever witnessed. The bold bad men who are now in power will scruple at nothing which may be calculated to ensure their continuancein the positions which they have so much abused. The experience of some years past ought to be sufficient to teach us that they will not hesitate to resort to the most bare-faced and un blushing frauds. The Democracy should take immediate steps to secure the elec tion of their most competent men in the different townships in the State to the important positions of Judges and and Inspectors of Elections. Let us be gin the campaign aright by carrying the township elections this Spring. There is time enough to do this important work effectually, and barely time enough. We hope all our country ex changes will urge this matter at once. Let the best men of the party be put forward as candidates, and let a vigor ous effort be made to carry every town ship where we have any possible show for it. A little of the right kind of ef fort can effect wonders in this respect. Let it be attended to at once. Washington’s Birthday For some years past the 22d of Febru ary has not been celebrated by the American people as it deserves to be. — In the midst of angry partisan strife, and with the booming cannon of a civil war sounding in our ears, we have almost forgotten to do proper reverence to him who isso justly styled the Father of his Country. This day is being properly celebrated in many of our cities. Here, in Lancaster, no public demonstration is being made. This is not as it should be; but we believe the people feel the influence of the auspi cious occasion, and remember, with gratitude and rejoicing him who has made the 22d of February a holy day to every true American. The great characteristic of George Washington, his chief merit, that which most clearly distinguished him among statesmen, was the stern moral courage which enabled him to stand up for the right, no matter whence opposition come nor how powerful it might be. To-day, as the American people reflect upon this, the great distinguish ing characteristic of tlje first and most revered of our Presidents, they will not forget tire recent act of Andrew John son. .They will recognize in him who nOw happily presides over the destinies of this Republic, the same devotion to principle, the same resolute determina tion to.do what he believed to be right, which marked him 'who first sat in the chair now occupied by Presi dent Johnson. They eacli came into power at the end of a great revolution. Each had committed to ills hands the great work of restoring harmony among discordant .States, of building up anew a nation whose very existence had been in immediate peril. History tells us of the patriotism of George Washington, and the world bows before him in iu yoluntary homage. Andrew Johnson is even now engaged in forging out the facts which must make liis history. He has shown himself to be a statesman of too true a stamp to yield to the demands of party a single conviction of the re quirements of public duty. To-day the American people, without respect to party, will 'couple his name with that of Washington, of Jackson, and of all the purer men of our past history. A special despatch from Washington to tlie Philadelphia Ledger says Mr. Seward has written the President from New York, nongratulating him on his speecli delivered in tills city on Thurs day last. The position of the President is therefore fully endorsed by his able' Secretary, This gentleman has now no party ends to serve, nor is he ambitious for further honors. Ail lie desires now is to stand by the whole country and those wlu) stand by it. His speech be fore the Cooper Institute meeting is in vested with additional interest and sig nificance by the fact of his receiving two or three despatches from Senator Nye, and others in Washington, stating that tlie President hud made aterriblespeech —one that lie could not: possibly approve or endorse, und one that must iupyita bly break up the Republican party, JR'. Seward was not deterred. Occasional of the l‘rem by no means accepts the facts of tlie President’s speech. He is especially disgusted, however, with Us “ dead-dCck' ’-tlons.— Ag*. ThtrPrestdent’sGreat speech. We have put ourselves to some con siderable inconvenience in able to lay before our readers a fulliije port great speech delivered f-:by President►Johnson'' the'.lvjfest [as semblage of people vjrtiich waitedron him yesterday at the House, pit is the fullest’andfreestexpression of hjs opinions which beda- giv&n y to the public. He speaks out with charac teristic boldness and energy. Having dared to do what he conscientiously be lieves to be right, he adheies to his po sition \yith ivfirmness L tliat Is a ifUtiLg! accompaniment of his. well, recognized honesty of purpose. He meets th? great wants of the hour, proves himself en tirely equal to the occasion, and con fronts the issues forced upou him with the air of a mau who never knew what fear meant. He lays bare the infamouß and revolutionary designs of such dis unionists os Stevens and Sumner, and those \yho stand by and support them. He holds these, the traitors of the pres ent hour, up to the scorn of an outraged and indignant people. He shows the masses how artfully they are plotting the ruin of the Republic. He points out the dangers which threaten, and warns us of the revolution which is impending over our heads. He speaks the truth without any attempt at concealment. His Bpeech will be read with iutense interest by the honest masses. They know and appreciate the man ; and in Andrew Johnson’s policy they will recognize the true plan for reconciling all conflicting political elements, re storing the Union on a permanent basis and preserving the Constitution of our country unimpaired, as it came from the hands of the fathers of the Republic. The Delegation of Tailors, We had a pleasant chat this morning with the Lancaster representatives of the delegation of Merchant Tailors, who recently went to Washington to secure if possible, some change in the form of the law by which all makers of wearing apparel are taxed so heavily. The taxes paid by this class of the community seem to be most disproportionately heavy, and it is thought that Congress cannot fail to grant relief on a fair rep resentation of the case. The delegates from Lancaster con sisted of Messrs. John Metzgar, Thomas Coleman and S. S. Rathvon, all well known to our citizens as being promi nent among our most enterprising and successful business men. The whole deputation, comprising as it did dele gates from all our principal cities, con sisted of some forty-six of the largest manufacturers in the country. Mr. Metzgar having written to Thaddeus Stevens in regard to the matter, the delegation on assembling at Washington on last Wednesday, found him ready and willing to aid them in securing a 'hearing from the Committee of Ways and Means. They were introduced to that Committee by Mi. Stevens, who facetiously remarked in doing so, that he had the pleasure of. presenting Jirr men —all tailors. There being just forty five of the delegates present, the mem bers of the Committee saw the point of the joke, and enjoyed it accordingly. Mr. Stevens then left the delegation in the hands of the Committee of Ways and Means. Their statement of the cause of their grievance was politely heard by the Committee; and many questions Basked and answered. The delegation left favorably impressed and hopeful that their wrongs would., be righted. After having interviews throughout the day with numerous members of Congress, the delegation proceeded to the White House in the afternoon, to call on President Johnson. They were introduced as a body by Mr. Owens, of Washington, himself a prominent tailor of that city. Mr. Milligan, of Philadel phia, made a short speech on behalf of the delegation, to which the President replied in his usual happy maimer, al luding to the fact that he hud himself began life as a tailor. The members of the delegation were at once put at their ease, and some half hour was spent in friendly conversation with the worthy and affable Chief Magistrate of the na tion. All left deeply impressed with the integrity, the firmness, intellec tual power and the disinterested patriot ism of Andrew Johnson. The War Upon the President. Thaddeus Stevens does not shrink from making open war upon President Johnson and his policy. For days a rumor has prevailed that the members of Congress from Tennessee would be admitted to seats. It was known that the President was anxious that they should be. He had so expressed him self openly. Had lie sigued the Freed men’s Bureau Bill Thad. Stevens, and the radical crew whom he leads, would have agreed to the admission of the Tennessee delegates. So soon as Andrew Johnson saw fit to veto that most infa mous bill, the fate of every Southern Representative to Congress was sealed, Mr. Stevens vented his spite at once by forcing the following resolution through the House : Resolved , Thai in order to cense agitation upon a question which seems likely to dis tract the action of the government, as well as to quiet theunoertainty which is agita ting the minds of the people of the eleven States which have been declared in insur rection, no Senator or Representative shall be admitted into either branch of Congress from any of the said States until Congress shn 11 have declared such States entitled to such representation. It was a concurrent resolution from the Committee on Reconstruction, and was a directs 1 roke at the President ,aml it was put til rough under the operation of the gag law by a strict party vote of, yeas 10!), nays4o. The witrbeLweeii the radicals and the President must go on ; but the people will sustain Andrew Johnson, as they sustained Andrew Jackson in his veto of the United States Bank Charter. The Earthquake. When Thud. Stevens heard the Presi dent’s veto message read he exclaimed : “ there is an earthquake all about us.”— The rumbling of it seems to have been plainly heard in Lancaster. Certain prominent individuals, publioans and other officials, have been seized with a sudden trembling. They stand togeth er on street corners, and in the market places, wearing a distracted look, whis pering together like conspirators, and gesticulating wildly. Thealarm which agitates the boul of their guilty master has cast its shadow upon their lives Ever and anon they feel about carefully to see whether their official heads are still safe on their shoulders, They are in terrible trouble. Where they can find consolation we know not. If they go to Forney’s Press they will read this |most unwelcome injunction: “Thev (the friends of Thad. Stevens,) et id oinne genus,) must ABANDON ALL aspiration por place.” Ob, intoller ablelot! Ob, burthen too grievous to be born ! Whet shall these affected of ficials do? Let them imitate the wise steward in scripture. Let them get up a mass meeting, and denounce that miserable old revolutionist, Thad. Stevens, pigbt here in his own home; let them pass a string pf long resolu tions endorsing Andy Johnson. By so doing they might Bave their official heads from the axe. For this advioe to Lancaster county officials, the creatures of Stevens, we charge nothing. John W. Forney, D. D.—dirty dog or dead duck—you pays your money, and you takes your choice. In the one ease he is canine; in the other, canard. Autfiorltatire Repudiation of the Presi dent’s Policy. Republican Legislatures iibjjfcfe* &osion in the Northern S&tSs aij passing ticjionmfthe revolutionary and repudiating the; policy of PresidentUohnsan. ; - '■! : -1 C ,-. 1 ; jhe York Tribune exultlngly -announces the actioir of the Radical members of the Legislature of Ohio, in the following strong language : The Union members of the Ohio Legis lature have tho honor of being the first to ■ indorse tho House rosolationuor the exclup Bioubf Rebel iu Cougress.-.Ou theoveoing of its passage, Ohio resolved: “ That in tho action of the Union Representatives in Congress we recognize an exposition of the principles that made ns a party und saved our country through the late Rebellion, and wo tender such Representatives our nearty support.” That is but one expression of the leeling which sweeps over tho country likea whirl wind, and which seeks out its honest and honored representatives in Washington with a declaration of profound gratitude and respect. The Republican majority in the Leg islature of Maine have passed similar resolutions. While the Radicals are thus showing their approval of the acts of the revolu tionary faction in Congress, the Demo cracy everywhere staud firmly by the President. Resolutions endorsing his acts and his policy have been passed by the Democrats in the Legislatures of Ohio, of Maine, and of New Jersey. They staud by Andrew Johnson be cause they believe him to be right, and they will continue to sustain him with all the moral and material power at their command, so long as he does what is right. Defeat of the Frccdmen’s Bureau Bill in the Senate. On Tuesday, Mr. Trumbull, of Ills, called up the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill iu the Senate, with the design of pas sing it by a two-thirds vote over the veto of President Johnson. He made a lengthy speech in its favor. When he had concluded, Senator Cowan remark ed that he wa- willing to let the speech of Mr. Trumbull aud the message of the President go to the country together. There was no further debate. The ques tion being called for, the Chair an nounced that it was, “ Bhall the bill pass, the President’s objections not withstanding? Upou which the yeas and nays were required. The vote was as follows : Vkas— Messrs. Anthony, Brown,Chandlei Clark, (Jonnc.ss, CniAn.i reswcll, Fessenden Foster, Crimes, Harris, Henderson, How ard, Howe, Kirkwood, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Williams, Wil son, Yates—:3l>. Navs Messrs. Buekalew, Cowan, Davis Dixon, Doolittle, Guthrie, Hendricks, John son, MoDougal, Morgan, Nesmith, Norton, Kiddie, Sauisbury, Stewart, Stockton, Van Winkle, Willey—lS. Absent, Messrs. Foot and Wright. Mr. Polad, of Vermont, said his col league, Mr. Foot, was confined to his bed with sickness, hut if present would have voted for the bill. The bill was thus negatived, less tLan two-thirds voting for it. The Republican Senators who voted to sustain the President were Cowan of Pa., Dixon of Conu., Doolittle of Wis., Morgan of N. Y., Nesmith, of Oregon, Norton of 111., Stewart of Nevada, Van Winkle aud Willey of West Ya. All the rest voted against him. Conversion of the Express. There is a class of Republican news paper editors whom we could sincerely pity, were it not that their course is of such a character as to excite universal contempt. Nearly every Republican pa per in the country has boldly and bitter ly denounced the Veto Message of the President. 1 11 this State there have been twoor three prominent exceptions. In our city the Examiner comes out fearlessly. Mt endorses Thad. Stevens ami the radicals in Congress freely and fully. That is honest. The Inquirer is mute. We have yet to ascertain where it stands. The course of-the Ex press has been such as to excite con tempt. Its vascillation has been such as to make it an object of ridicule. On Tuesday, the day after the Veto Mes sage was read in the Senate, it had an editorial condemning it, from which we take the following extract: Tiie true friends of Andrew Johnson, those who stood by him when rebels ami copperheads alike sought his ruin and de feat—will deeply regret that he should be so radically opposed to a measure which passed both Houses of Congress by a two third vote, and received the approbation of loyal people North and South. In some of his objections the President is certainly in error, and tho difference between him and Congress isso radical, on some important points, that his veto cannot be sustained by the representatives of the people. That we regard as honest, aud as strong enough. • Bu. itdid notstop with that. The next day it publishes, with fpproving comment, a long editorial rom Forney’s Washington Chronicle in which the President was abused and ridiculed without stint. Among other strong passages in the article were the following: If the President's reasoning is correct then all the legislation of tho past four years—no matter how salutary and saving in its con sequences—has been illegal, unconstitu tional and arbitrary. And again : This message of President Johnson will fall like tlie cold hand of death upon the warm impulses of tbe American people, who have given so much of their treasure and their blood to the cause of the Republic, and have reposed such unstinted and un questioning confidence in the Executive. On Thursday it published in full the bitter radical speech of .Senator Trum bull, denouncing President Johnson and his veto of the Bill, with the fol lowing approving comment: On our first page to-day will be found Senator Trumbull’s spceeh in review oftlie reasons assigned by the President for ve toing the Preedmen’s Bureau bill. Let every one wiio wishes to understand the merits of the eontroversv bet ween the Pres ident and Congress, carefully read tlie speech. On Friday it had a long editorial in the same strain from the Pittsburg Commercial, in which the following passage is to be found t If President Johnson has a sincere friend, and if that friend is himself sound iu mind and heart, he will not fail, without loss of time, and without concealment, to tell him plainly that persistence in the part he lias taken must lead to fatal estrangements.— The President is not wise, no friend of his can lay claim to sagacity or wisdom, if lie supposes that Congress does not truly ,ep reseut the fixed and unalterable will of the people. Differences in regard to details are to be expected and will be excused, but there must be no sacrifice of principle. That would seem to commit the Ex press irrevocably against tlie policy of Andrew Johnson. It is hard/br us to conceive how it could manage to swal low all It had said in opposition to the President. Yet itmanaged to do it most effectually. In Saturday's issue it had a long original editorial taking back all it had sqid during the week. How this marvellous conversion was wrought, we can only conjecture. It hour opinion it was the effectof a careful, and, itmay be, prayerful reading of the great speech delivered by the President on the There ig still some hope for the Express' It may, if it continues to ipiprove, yet be able to take rank as a decent and loyal newspaper. Forney, In his Sunday Press, says Nearly all the Republican Union news papers of Pennsylvania have spoken strong and decidedly against the Presi dent's veto message. We notice that the influential journals of Cheater, Del aware, Berks, Schuylkill, Lehigh, Lan caster, Lebanon, Bradford. Tioga, Sus quehanna, Lycoming. Columbia, Cen tre, etc., have taken this course. In view of a singular editorial in Saturday’s Express we are led to ask how tflftf .pgper rgnfts, Certainly not as one of the influential organs quoted by Forney, Thad. Stevens Thirty Tears Ago. £>Jn Tuesday's Intelligencer appeared an account of the “Buckshot War,” in which Thaddeus Stevens figured so largely Bom ethi n g like tttirty years ago. -Then, as now, he showed himself to be 'a bold, bad man. He was as willing then to override the Constitution of as he now is to destroy Constitution of the United States. Age sometimes moderates passion and softens down the sharp characteristics which make violent men notorious. Years had : no, such- effect upon Thaddehs Stevens. -Heisasoverbearing in disposition, as reckless of conse quences, as regardless of law, and as ready now to risk the ruin of the nation for the sake of keeping his party in power, as he was to risk the best inter ests of Pennsylvania thirty years ago, for a similar base purpose. In glancingover the files of the In telligencer we find the following pen and ink portrait of Stevens as he ap peared in the sight of honestmen at the time he commanded his revolutionary gang in the “Buckshot War:” Thaddeus Stevens, and we are gladtosay it, is not a Pennsylvanian. His own his tory proves that he came hither a stranger to her people, and has eon inued, at all times, consistently adverse to her interests. He has been, since his unfortunate presence in the Legislature, Pennsylvania's evil genius, and if she bus degenerated at all— and the three past years of her life prove that she has—he planned the misfortune.— We will not repeat here his utter destitution of reputation—lor his career is one of that kind which could ouly have been, run by a villain at heart. Pennsylvania has three blemishes on her escutcheon ; the Masonic. Inquisition; the ebarteriug of the United States Bank; and the present outrageous condition ot afiairs. The first it is not re quisite to say, he originated and completed. The second was the 'fitting offspring of his brain; for he read that infamous Bill before the Ritner House of Representatives. The last (the Buckshot war) is liisown by every law of right. He began the anarchy^—it is the sad consequences of his own plans. He dissolved the Government. He is now urg ing the Senate to goon in its path of de struction. He is emphatically ‘‘the power behind the throne.” The lust is a desperate and final plunge. It will either make or unmake him. If it is successful he can cover up the festering infamy of his life, and save himseli uud companions from impending ruin. If it is unsuccessful he will be spurn ed, not only from the Halls of Legislature, but from the very State—- if the lawn permit his escape. That sketch of Thaddeus Stevens is from the pen of John XV. Forney. It was written almost thirty years ago—in the days when Forney was honest, truthful and trusted. Does he remem ber it? Does he ever call up the mem ory of purer and betterdays of his life? Whkt a contrast mu9t they pre sent when compared to his miserable present. Then he was not rich as he is now. He had not sold himself, his principles, his honor, his self-respect, allthatmen hold mo9t dear, fpr tbe profits'of office. He was not then the hired defender, the paid euiogistof men whose principles he hated and despised. He was a man then ; not a mere cring ing, fawning sycophant. * His pres ent baseness is in no way more plainly • shown, than in the efforts he is now making to bolster up Stevens and bis fellow conspirators in an at tempted revolution infinately more in famous and dangerous to the United States than was the “ Buckshot War” to Pennsylvania. And all men know that he is doing this merely for the sake of the spoils of office. Having betrayed the best friends he had.in the world for filthy lucre, he shows that he would not hesitate to barteraway thebestinterests of his country for the sake of sordid gain. As soon after the delivery of the Pres ident’s speech as the Radicals were able to collect their scattered senses, they rushed into caucus and adopted the fol lowing resolution : licsolvvl, That one member from cadi State having u Union representative in cither branch of Congress beappointed who shall constitute a General Congressional Committee, for the raising of means and dis tributing of documents, and other political information, to the people ol* the country, and that said General Committee shall ap point an Executive Committee of seven, who, under their supervision and inspee lion, shall attend to the specific objects in dicated. The country is to be flooded with doc ument designed to still further embitter the Northern people against the South. We shall have tales of horror far trans cending those related of “ bleeding Kan sas.” Tusteadof “Gooduewsfrom Kan sas —Another man killed,” —which the Abolition papers heralded with so much delight in ISSO, the Radicals will soon give us “ Glorious news from South Car olina—A Rebel cuts off a Freedman’s legs aud compels him to run a foot-race for his life!” “Striking manifestation of Disloyalty—The Rebels Shearing the Freedmen aud refusing to pay the Rev enue Tax on Wool!” Tiie Trijh-ne says “it is impossible not to see in the recent utterances of our President a determination to make waron theadvocatesof Human Equality before tlie Law." It asserts that “his Veto Message is a declaration of war— it can mean nothing else.” The Tribune seems to forget who it was that fired the first shot in this war. It conveniently fails to remember Thaddeus Stevens' assault on “ the man at the other end of the avenue.” It altogether ignores the fact that Stevens, in his coarse and malignant way, asserted publicly that the President deserved to lose-his life on tlie scaffold ! This war was begun by the arch-traitor at the northern end of the disunion line, and the President has accepted it because he could not avoid it without delivering up his country to disunionists. He has entered upon it reluctantly, hut his first defensive on slaught shows that he is resolved to make it “ short ami sharp,” The Press lias redoubled its efforts, in behalf of Joint W. Geary, whose star* has of lute been waning. Tlie cause of its activity in that direction is not hard to guess. Geary is a vain, weak man, who can be flattered outof his boots, and the editor of the Press is the prince of flatterers. The fleshpotsoftbe National administration having been put beyond his reach, the editor of the Press is more than ever anxious to get control of tlie State administration. Geary being tlie only one among the prominent Repub lican candidates over whom he oould exercise full and absolute authority, lie is doing his very best to elevate him to the gubernatorial chair. Geary would be as much out of place in the Execu tive Chamber of Pennsylvania as a goose in an eagle’s nest, hut he would suit Forney’s purpose adihirably. With what a royal air the “DeLd Duck,” gal vanized into life again, would dispense the patronage of the State administra tion. Happy the applicant who should secure his approving quack ! Trying to (lead film Off. As soon qs it was known that Presi dent Johnson had vetoed the Freed men’s Bureau Bill, Ben. Wade intro duced into the Senatea proposed amend ment to the Constitution, to prevent any man from being re-elected to the Presidency. That blow is aifiied righf at Andrew Johnson. The radicals, fear ing the spontaneous voice of the people would call him to preside for a second and full term over the affairs of the nation which he is doing so much to save, are taking this method lj|head him off. We calculate the peojfle will have something to say ip regard to the adoption pf any such amendment. The radicals will find that the days when they could safely ignore the will of the people are numbered. Forney has now got a name which will last him a life-time. During Mr. Lincoln’s time he was a live dog, but now, accordijig to President Johnson, fle Is only a " dead duck. 1 ! ' Forney Advertises for Readers. The Philadelphia Ledger is the great popular advertising sheet of Philadel phia All the people who want serv ing men and serving maids, all clerkp out of employment, all who have lost pocket books, the very few who are honest enough to notify the public that such an article has been found, all whose cattle have gone estray, all whose dogs are missing, announce the fact in the Public Ledger. It is too the great medium for advertising public lecturers and popular preachers. But the very latest dodge we have seen is that of John W. Forney. In Friday’s Led ger. prominent among the new adver tisements, the following appeared in staring capitals : ANDREW JOHNSON AND HIS VETO ' ANDREW JOHNSON AND HIS VETO ! SEE THE PRESS TO-DAY. SEE THE PRESS TO-DAY. It strikes us as being something new for the editor of one daily paper to call attention to his leaders by paid and displayed advertisements in thecolumns of a rival sheet. It looks queer, and a casual reader might argue, not without very good apparent reasons, that he who had to resort to such means to se cure a perusal of his articles was rather hard up. As an act of courtesy to For ney we have concluded to make some extracts from the letter which he ad vertises so extensively. .We do this the more readily, because we believe he echoes the real sentiments of the party to which he belongs. He starts out with the announcement that a certain class of men in Washing ton, whom he designates as Copper heads, were serenading the President and rejoicing with exceeding great joy over the event of the day—the Veto J fcssagr. The letter, be it remembered, was written on the evening of the day wlieu the document was sent to Con gress. Forney says, and those who know him best know he never lies: NO JOY AMONG THE RADICALS. Not a Union member of either House, and not even an officeholder, so far us I could hear, took part in the demonstration. Very significant that. 'He then goes on to state the reasons why the Repub lican members of Congress refused to join in the general rejoicing, and to de fine their position in regard to the President. It will be seen that the rup ture is not a sudden, but a very wide and permanent one. In Forney’s opin ion Andy Johnson has been coquetting with the Copperheads for many months past. Hear the ex-member of the Kitchen Cabinet: EVERY REFCHLICAN OFFICIAL DOWN ON* THE PRESIDENT, Up to this writing I have not conversed with a yinglQ individual—Senator, Repre sentative or citizen, who avows his willing ness to support the policy foreshadowed in the veto message of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. I saj* this, you will observe, before we have received any intimation from the people ot the States, their legislators, news papers or politicians, and before either House has taken action upon that extraor dinary document. In one respect it is far better that tlie relations between the loyal people and Mr. Johnson should be clearly defined and understood. The suspunse which has prevailed in regard to his exact policy, succeeding and yet rapidly changing the almost unammousupprovaf of his an nual message, v. as almost insupportable. HOW HE HAS ItKKN COQUETTING WITH THE COPPERHEADS. You will recollect that, prior to the New York and Pennsylvania elections of last year, ulthough the President was repeated ly called upon by the prominent Union men in both States, and solicited to declare in favor of the regular Union ticket, or at least against the Copperheads, he refused to take sides with the friondsofthe country. In our own State, it cannot be denied, that he promised to give Mr. Cessna, chairman ot the l. nion State Central Committee, an answer—which answer was .never received. In New York he was so utterly, demoralized by the visits ofthe Democrats who demand ed his indorsement of their platform that he was only inferontially quoted in favor of the Union candidates. In both these States brave men who had fought against the rebel enemies headed the Union tickets, and yet, although they stood upon plat forms earnestly approving the President's course, aiid pledged to him the lovai sup port oi the people, he refused to abandon his neutral ground and allowed the Cop perheads to claim him as their supporter. HE RECEIVED VISITS FROM WALLACE, Ct.Y MEU AND JOHN VAN Hr REN, TO THE EX CI.rsiON OK THE RADICALS. Relegations ofthe loading and most pro scriptive Democrats paid regular court, and wore received almost in state at the Presi dential mansion. From Pennsylvania we had such men as Senator Firmer and Wal lace—the slanderers of Andrew Johnson in lsw, who led the Copperheads in the Leg islature when they refused to allow him to speak in the Legislative halls; from New York we had such men as John Van Huron, who was almost a guest, and the daily con fidant of the President. THE ANGUISH OF THE RADICALS THEREAT. Meanwhile, the Union members nf Con gress watched these extraordinary proceed ings with undissembled sorrow. ~ THEY EXERCISE GREAT AND TENDER FOR- ILKA RANGE. Mortified as tliey were to see him enter taining and listening to tho Copperhads of the North and the traitors of the South, hu militated by his ill-digested, incolierent, and illogical harangues as he received and answered all sorts of delegations—they sought, in every instance, to suppress their apprehensions. Thus everything was done to avoid, postpone, and render impossible, the condition of things which, it now ap pears, has been for months craftily, sedu lously and treacherously preparing. THEY woo HIM STRONGLY TO RETURN, RUT IN VAIN, I From tho tipie when Montgomery Blair, and other Copperheads, last summer, at tempted to paralyze and to prostrate that party by claiming that thev spoke in the name and with the authority of Andrew Johnson, the latter has been so indifferent to tho measures he voted for in Congress and sustained while he was a candidate for Vice President, and even directly after bo assumed the Presidential chair, that his coldness amounted almost to absolute ami open hostility. HAD AS THE THING IS, tT MUST RK MORN HRAVELY The millions of noble spirits who at first rejected the idea that the man, thus sus tained and thus apologized for by a gener ous and loyal people, would be* callous or treacherous, and who were thenruluetantly forced to accustom themselves to this dis mal apprehension, will not, I am spre, siirink from the task now luid upon them of consolidating their ranks against the common enemies of their country. THE WHOI.E DUTY OF THE REPU ULIUAN PARTY—TO FIGHT FOR UNIVERSAL NEGRO SUFFRAGE—AND TO TAX WHITE MEN TO SUPPORT NEGROES IN IDLENESS. The dangers which threaten us may be anticipated and prevented, if we are onlv bold and fearless in the knowledge and in the discharge of our imperative duties. And what are these? IN THE FIRST PLACE, TO SUSTAIN THOSE FAITH FUL AND OBEDIENT REPRESENTA TIVES IN CONGRESS, THE OROANS AS THEY ARE, OF THE LOYAL MIL LIONS OF THE REPUBLIC, IN THEIR RECENT ALMOST UNANIMOUS \OTES IX FAVOR OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AND IN FAVOR OF THE Stx-r JI;^ rVKTOKUB v the PRESI DED 1. Observe that these two demon struUous repruseiit mill typify the withes and the doctrines oj the whole body of the great Union party. rtlh H.NAI. KEWA4D IVillcu AWAITS THE FAITHFUL. plaice' 1 nfjan d°n all aspirations for Radicals of t)ie “small fry” order are endeavoring to break the force, of President Johnson’s ponderous blow at Stevens, Sumner & Co., byallegingthat he was drunk when he madehls speech on the 23d, The New York Tribune discredits this allegation. It knows very well that the President Bpoke “ words of truth and soberness ” when he pointed out Stevens, Sumner and Phillips as disuniouists who are now trying to accomplish adisruption of the Union. The Tribune says; ! lliere is. wo suppose, no impropriety in referring in a public journal, to what lain all mens months. The extraordinary speech of President Johnson on Thursday has been attributed to a weakness to which it ts universally understood he is occasion ally addicted. Dispatches from Washing ton affirm that the speech was made under no such influence. His friends, certainly wll U e gfet to hear that the best excuse that could be offered for it cun no longer be pleaded in palliation. Tuad. Stevens boldly denounces President Johnson as a “ tyrant.” Do President Johnson's Postmasters and Internal Revenue Collectors and Asses sors In Lancaster county agree with Stevens? This question is bqt£ inters eating and important, and it will have tp be answered before long. Tbe Republican Press on tbo Veto lies- If we are to judge from tbe comments of such Republican papers as have' reached us the condemnation of Presi dent Johnson’s course in vetoing the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill will be u ni versal and outspoken. The' breach between them and Andrew Johnson is one which cannot be bridged over. They can no longer say there is no antagonism between the President and the leaders of the Republican party. The induce ment for lying being thus removed, we may expect Republican newspapers to speak the truth. They are already doing so. Forney opens up in a letter to the Press with the following wailing, whin ing Letter from “ Occasional." Washington, Feb. li), 1800. This afternoon, while Senator Yates, of Illinois, was in the midst of his pow erful argument in favor of universal suffrage, the President's son and private secretary presented a message in writing to the Senate, returning to that body in which it originated, with his objections, Mr. Trumbull's bill for tbe enlargement of the powers of the freedmen’s bureau. Although there was intense anxiety to message read, Governor Yates continued and concluded his argument, which reflected so much credit upon his patriotism, and gave so much delight and instruction to his triends. You will have the document at length in your morning’s paper, and may therefore conceive the painful disappointment of the great majority of the Senate while it was being read. During the debates on this important measure, it gathered such strength with the people and with their public servants in Con gress, that no one loyal man ever anticipated tile slightest oppo sition from tlie President. indeed tbe vote by which it passed was so sig nificant-including as it did the over whelming majority of two-thirds of the two Houses, that it was reasonable for the National Union party to believe that if it had not originated with the Execu tive, it was prepared and perfected witli ills sanction. The fact that it was al lowed to pass unopposed, even by a sug gestion, through those various stages, until it was laid before him for liissigna ture,may well excite more than surprise. I Vc now realize the abundant authority of the Democratic newspapers for assert ing that the President was ojijwsi d to t/iis important measure—a very singular circumstance when contrasted with the fact th((t the staunchest , most self-sacri ficing, and most influential gut riots in the land remained in almost total ignor ance of his intentions near!// tt/i to the moment wlten his veto was received. When I wrote yesterday I indulged the hope that his reasons for returning this bill would be such as might be accepted by his triends as so many improve ments ; but this fond anticipation is totally dispersed before liis exception less and sweeping veto. Tbe whole measure is distasteful to him. There is not a feature of it that meets his ap proval. I write at too late an hour to specify the points that are suggested ill opposition to his message ; one will suf fice. The allegation that eleven States of this Union are unrepresented in Con gress, and that their absence when this bill was passed is one of the evidences of its injustice and unconstitutiomdity, and that their presence is essential to give legality and force to legislation, if it proves anything, proms that all the important legislation of the past four gears, intended to save and to rescue the Jlepubliv 1 and to put down the rclnllion, was illegal or unconstitutional. The pa triotic people of tlie United States must now look to their Congress. Fortunate ly for tbe future, these two great Houses stand in solid and in stern array around the rescued liberties of tlie Union; hut if they are expected to complete the great mission intrusted to them they must be sustained and strengthened by tlie people. The President has taken his appeal to the people, now let Congress go with him to their great constituency. The New York Tribune concludes a lengthy editorial on tlie subject witli the following words : Three lines in tlie Federal Constitu tion abolishing and inhibiting all laws and ordinances that bestow or withhold privileges because of color, would be wortli several Freedmen’s Bureaus.— Justice —Equal Rights—tlie recognition of his Manhood—these tlie ex-slave wants—not coddling and petting. Say, if you will, that be must read before lie can vote; but then don'tletWhite villains burn liis poor school-house. Say, if you will, that lie must have property before lie can vote; but be very careful that the law secures to him all lie earns, and gives him every needed facility for maintaining bis rights. If you deny liim tbe Right of Suffrage hecuuseof liis ignorance, look well to' it, Unit you do nothing calculated to perpetuate that ignorance, and that you incite him to learn by proffering him enfranchise ment as the reward of his diligence and acquirements. 11l short, make your laws rigidly just, then abolish your soup houses, But until then . Mr. Johnson has made a grave mis take. He has relieved those who elect ed him of a great responsibility by taking it on his own shoulders. Here after, whatever wrongs may be indicted upon or indignities suffered by the Southern Hiacks, will la* charged to the President, who has leu them nuked to their enemies. Time will show that he has thereby precluded a true ami speedy restoration of the South, and indicted more lasting misery on her Whites than on her Blacks. Our neighbor, the pj'pnss, dies v very hard. We pity it. Of course it could not preserve its dignity under the cir cumstances. We have no doubt it felt immensely relieved by being able to in dulge in its usual fling at those whom it still persists in calling copperheads. It thus weakly and timidly dissents from President Johnson : The true friends of Andrew Johnson, those who stood byhiinwheu rebelsjnnd copperheads alike sought his ruin'and defeat—will deeply regret that lie should be so radically opposed to a measure winch passed both houses of Congress by a two-third vote, aud received the ap probation of loyal people North and South, In some of his objections the President is certainly in error, and the difference between.him and Congress is so radical, on some important points, that his veto cannot be sustained by the representatives of the people. The Harrisburg Telegraph seems to have been stricken dumb.' In the issue containing the veto message it has not a line of editorial, except a puff of some insignificant member of the House —only that, and the meagre little para graph, which shows how terror lids taken hold of the soul of the Postmas ter : We print, entire, to-day; the Presi dent’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill. We confess that we did not antic ipate such a sweeping disapproval of all tiie features of the bill. Xcgro Suffrage Xot to be Abandoned, A special despatch from Washington to Forney's Press Jays dowu the follow ing as the programme to be pursued by the Radicals: It is not doubted that the bill estab lishing universal '-uffrage in the District of Columbia, which passed the House, and is now before the Senate, will be brought up in the latter body and press ed to a final vote at an early day. While there is no doubt that the President will veto it, it is evidently the determination of the Union party to let the whole facts of his connection with this question be made known. It is confidently stated that he will throw the vote of his Ad ministration agaiust any bill conferring even qualified suffrage upon the colored people inWashington. The Copperheads here are exceedinglyjubilantat thefact that they have finally obtained poses-* Blon of the President. They feel con vinced that they will nowbe abletocon-? trol Washington aseflfectuallyas they did ,» of filav ery and secession. \vith the aid of Andrew Johnson—the removal of all independent men from office, the pardon of thousands of return ed rebels in our midst, and the encouragement of the old secession sym pathizers, the Northern Unionists who the colored race, will find j Jordan * B - a hard road to travel.” The defection of the President has set back the Improvement of the District of Columbia for at least half a century, Resolutions instructing their dele gates to the State Convention to vote for "W* 3 ear y f Pr Governor, were voted down by a large majority in the Berks County Republican Convention at Reading on Saturday. A Warning. We solemnly warn tbe people. Men in Congress—bold, artful, able and elo quent, with loyalty on tbeir lips and ireedom as their watchword—are forg mg chains for the freemen of the North. Tlie undoubted evidence of a project for virtually subverting free government in tlie United States, under the pretence of perfecting it—a project for stripping all popular franchise of everything but the name, under pretence of extending it to negroes—admonishes all of us to hasten to hear whatever may expose the secret motives, and thus frustrate the abominable designs of a tyrauuical few who, in the intoxicating of power, dare to compass the annihilation of the sov ereignty of the people. There is such a purpose on foot. There is no doubt of it. The scheme is to add to their respective support, at their Northern homes, the support of the whole South, through the negroes this is to be effected by treating as disloyal all who withhold their applause. They count upon all sympathies of modern civilization, for all would be done in tlie great names of freedom, philanthro py, protection and progress. The sys tem once established, uo human power could stand before it, until, in the course ot ages, it should yield to some popular trenzy like the French revolution. Such a political monopoly would back its intolerance of party opposition by the military arm, and to prevent all dissatisfaction there, the soldiery would be negroes. Tbe doctriueat the bottom ot all this is a deliberate repudiation by the class of usurpers in question of the dogma of thesovereighty of the people, and their habitual and contemptous de claration in private conversation that sell-government is a failure, and popu lar suttruge a humbug. Said one the other night, “the strongest wills must govern, and it is only a question whose are the strongest.” Soldiers of the L nion ! Is this what you-* have fought for? The general plan, as we have said, of this high-handed faction, is to enthrone themselves, like tlie thirty tyrants of Athens, and keep up a perpetual ma jority in all the branches of the Govern ment, by proscribing all opposition as disloyal, and enforcing the discrimina tion with a negro army. Once fairly established, only a successful revolution could overthrow it. Rut to initiate it involves certain practical steps, and, we anxiously hope, an insuperubleobstuele. liut this depends upon the people. In the first place, no action is to be taken on tbe claims of individual mem bers elect to ('ongress from the South, but that whole section is excluded simply by non-action. This is to con tinue. liut the rights of uegroes and refugees of the South are alleged to lie .the principal business of the session.— Therefore this Congress may be said to profess to compromise a loyal represen tation from the South, or indeed to be little else Ilian a legislature for the South, though no negro and refugee elections have yet been carried on. It is obvious that the fact makes no practiced (infer ence. Rut it is very necessary to the scheme that the formality should here after be regularly gone through witli, and that that there should he a means of coercing the Executive to enforce the requisite proscription from time to time. Hence the revolutionary bills, gotten up under pretence of meeting the oh. vious occasion for some provisional and temporary regulative machinery where by to conserve the freedom of the negro until the normal relations of society and ot States to Die Federal (lovernment shall have hud time to settle ; but con taining, in elaborate ambiguities and novel and alaimingprovisions, a virtual repeal ofthe (’(institution of the United States. Without amendments which cut off these odious features the people have in his record a sullicient assurance that the President will not approve such hills. Will they force this revolutionary legislation ? That answer depends 'oh the people. The appropriation bills ure yet to act on. The financial legislation, so urgently necessary, has scarcely been begun. A hundred forms in co-opera tion of Congress is necessary to the Ex ecutive are yet in the control of the former. The immense stake of the North in commercial and financial leg islation of this session is totally neglect ed. The North, aching under the public debt and an unsettled revenue system, is practically without representation in Congress. Southern negroes are seem ingly the only constituency. We have said we solemnly' warn the people. We tell them that a crisis is coming which can be forefended by their simply taking heed and. lifting their mighty voice of commaud iu sup port of the Union. Let meetings, therefore, be held alt over the North and West, with an indignant disregard of party and party names, to shout into the earsof recreant Representatives and proclaim to tlie world their sense of the inestimable sanctity ofeivil supremacy, their loyalty to the grand old Union for which they have suffered so much, and their readi ness to sustain the Chief Magistrate in firmly and faithfully fulfilling ihelofty trust to which the people have sworn him, against the infernal plot of a revo lutionary cubal. Xationfi! Intr.lli(jcnri r. A Dead Duck. There is one 7 uaek less in the world. We by no means desire by this startling announcement to convey the idea that there has been a death in that body of eminent medical gentlemen whose ap peals on In half of popular science ap pear in the advertising columns of some newspapers, under the taking titles of “ Affficted Read !” and “No Cure, No Pay !” For aught we know, every one of that skillful aud worthy fraternity is in florid health and doing a prosperous business in the healing way. We use the word 7 uaok to express the utterances of the domestic fowl whose entire vocal*- ulary consists of that melodious inoixv syllable. When we sav that three is a quad: less in the world, therefore, we simply take a facetious way of observing that a duck is dead, and although the statement may seem somewhat unim portant, we find our apology for making it in the fact that the President of the United .States has conveyed the intelli gence to the country in a public speech. This was the way it came about. Some body, in tiie vast crowd assembled be fore the White House oil Thursday, calk'd upon Mr. Johnson, who was nam ingoverthu encmiesof the Union,Sum ner, Stevens, Wendell Phillips, etc., to give his opinion of Forney, to which his Excellency promptly responded: “/ do not waste rnij ammunition on dead ducks," He of the Chronicle, aud Press may lie considered, therefore, simply an ornithological specimen—well stuff ed, it must be admitted, but alas! of such a common species as to stand no chart s. of