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non; HTESm CITHER, of Berlcs Co.
Representative Men or the Repnbllcan.
~ (l , Part)' In Pennsylvania. •
I*ll6 Republican party in Pennsyl-,
vania is a hybrid concern, an ugly cross
between Knownothingism and New
England fanaticism. Its character Is,
well indicated by the men who lead it.
Of these there are two classes, Simon
Cameron representing one and Thad
deus Stevens the other;
Cameron is the embodiment and per
sonification of political corruption and
official scoundrelism. From the time
when he laid the foundation of a fortune
by swindling the Winnebago Indians,
until he was turned out of the Cabinet
of Mr. Lincoln for aiding and abetting
a host of thieves in plundering the
National Treasury, his career has been
that of a political thief. He has made
merchandise of every public position
which he ever occupied. The money
which he accumulated by dishonest
means has given him power. He has
used It unsparingly to advance his in
terest, always taking care thnt the
eventual Income more than justified the
Incidental outlay. He has trained men
in his ways of thinking, and made venal
those with whom he has been intimate
ly associated. Finding the Democratic
party too honest and made of material
too unbending to suit his purposes he
left it. He found the Republican party
of Pennsylvania perfectly suited to his
designs* He owns that corrupt aud
dishonest organization. In its State
Conventions his word is law. He owned
a majority of the last Legislature, and
expects to have the House and Senate
filled with hiß hired minions at the next
session. Then this good old Common
wealth will he disgraced by having this
corrupt wretell chosen to represent itiu
the Senate of the United States. Simon
Cameron is tlie representative of that
large class of Republican politicians
who have made the Legislature of Penn
sylvania a den ot thieves and disgraced
the State by theiropen venality. Under
his fostering care, aud encouraged by
liis example, they have increased and
multiplied until it lias come to pass that
no private individual or corporate body
calculates on securing legislation with
out paying members for their votes.
The Cameron inn creed is the standard
of political honesty in the Republican
party of Pennsylvania, aiid the corrupt
crew which he leads controls the organi-
zation. . .... , , i
Thaddeus Stevens is a political leader
of somewhat different character. No
doubt many people suppose him to be
an honest fanatic. Such he is not how
ever. An itinerant Yankee, he located
in Pennsylvania. His crusade against
tlie ancient order of Free Masonry was
an intensely fanatical movement. By
it the worpt passions of the people were
stirred up. Thaddeus Stevens’ real
character was plainly shown so soon as
lie succeeded in riding his Anti-Masonic
hobby into public position. Then, find
ing that he aud his fanatical party were
speedily repudiated by the people, he
attempted to perpetuate his hold on
power by the use of revolutionary
means. His political dishonesty
and his utter recklessness of con
sequences was shown in the advice
he gave a more honorable political friend
when Relativised him to throw conscience
to the devil and stand by his party.”
That sentence furnishes the clue to
Thaddeus Stevens' political character.
Less mercenary than Cameron, he is to
the full as dishonest and infinitely more
dangerous. . Cameron merely asks to
make money out of public position)
Stevens is controlled by an almost in
sane love of power. Each of them is
willing to risk the best interests of the
State or the Nation to advance their own
personal designs. Failing to dupe the
people of Pennsylvania by his fanatical
antimasouic humbug, Thaddeus Stevens
became the acknowledged leader of the
anti slavery fanatics in this State.
There is some reason to believe that
he is at least partially honest in his
love for the negro. His domestic
relations would naturally lead to that
conclusion. We know not how
else to account for his long cherished
wish to see the two races put on a level
of social and political equality. That
morbid desire has, however, been in
tensely increased of late by the convic
tion, which he lias repeatedly expressed,
that unless the negroes are allowed to
vote his party must inevitably be speedi
ly hurled from power. To Beoure the
continued dominance of the Republican
party, he Is willing to prevent any resto
ration of the Union, to imperil the fi
nancial and commercial interests of the
nation, to enforco the social and politi-
cal equality of the negro at the point of
the bayonet, if need be, and to plunge
the country into irretrievable ruin. The
followers of Thaddeus Stevens embrace
nearly the whole body.of the prominent
Republicans of Pennsylvania. Those
who are seeking office in its ranks are
willing with few exceptions, to endorse
his infamous schemes and to further hiis
dangerous and revolutionary designs.
\Vith them self interest lathe controling
motive and they are willing to see the
nation suffer public detriment if they
may butadvauce their private interests.
They follow both Stevens and Cameron,
and are ready to imitate the mercenary
spirit of the one and the reckless char
acterof the other. Stevensand Cameron
are the representative men of the Re
publican party of Pennsylvania, and he
who knows these two bad men welb
knows the party which they lead thor
oughly.
Utterly Repudiated.
Tliepet schema for preventing a restora
tion of the Union r hatched out by Thad
Stevens & Co., has failed to please any
body. Even the stock of negroes about
Washington repudiateit. Thesefavored
-gentlemen, who occasionally dine and
wine with “ Old Thad.," Charles Sum
ner, Billy Kelly and John Forney, are
“dbwnonit." In Forney’s Chronicle,
which is the organ of the negroes in
Washington, George T. Downing, a
negro calling himself " President of the
Colored Delegation at Washington,”
publishes a card in which lie says that
the late report of the Committee on Re
construction fallß far short of the hopes
' of the negroes. This stock;up specimen
of the negro race having been taught
by the radical Congressmen with whom
he has associated to regard himself as
better than any poor white man, insists
upon making universal suffrage the
condition of re-union. He talks out
. boldly, demanding universal suffrage as
a;right. How “Old Thad.” may feel
under this rebuke from a negro we
know not, but we are sure that the
black upstart is not a bit too severe on
the radical Congressmen. They, ought
not to be allowed to dodge the doctrine
of negro suffrage after having so re
peatedly and uuquivocally committed
themselves to it in all its length and
breadth. We hope “Old Thad’s” col
! - • oredihousekeeper will see to it that he
i ■ “ stpuds up to his work, and that he does
‘-■jfot turn his back on his favorite color!
How The Soldiers Are Going.
We have never believed that the sol
diers could be induced to support Gfeary.
They knioflr thatjie i§,indebted to the
PhUadeltfm& /^pirer’.;fo^l& : M|ytary t
reputation such'as it is.|,jrhey afaiow;
that he profess®*! to be}.:|‘a
Democrat,” uptil he wAs! offered; the!
nominathjn of jhe party by
Simon Cameron and John W. Forney.
They know that when he became the
tool of these corrupt and Intrigueing
politicians, he was ready to do their
bidding. ■'Thajr know that he has openly
declared thht he endorses the acts and
the speeches of Thad. Steverts. Know
ing tljese things, no right thinking man
among the returned soldiers will vote
for Geary. All over the State they are
arraying themselves with the Demo
cratic party in support of President
Johnson’B policy, and in open opposition
to the radical dißunionists and their
bogus Military candidate for Governor.
Wherever the attempt has been made
to get up clubs among the soldiers
pledged to the support of Hies ter Clymer
and President Johnson’s policy, the
returned veterans have responded most
heartily and enthusiastically. In York
several hundred rallied at once to a call
of that kind. In Mifflin county a Cly
mer Club has been organized among
the soldiers, which already numbers a
large proportion of that class among its
: members. The Perry county Democrat
comeß to us this week with a call for a
Soldiers’ Democratic County Conven
tion signed by some hundreds of bona
fide veterans. On the other hand tlie
soldiers fail to respond to calls from the
supporters of Geary. We had an in
stance of their aversion to him and hi B
party in the recent convention held in
this county. The meeting was ridicu
lously small. In Mifflin county a sim
ilar meeting was an absolute failure, so
much so that they had to choose acivilian
to preside. In Perry county less than
a dozen responded to the loudest kind
of a call from the leaders of the Radical
Disunion party.
So it will be throughout tlie entire
State of Pennsylvania. The soldiers do
not believe that they fought through
tlie war in vain. They did battle for
tlie sacred causeof the Union,and justly
regard it as an Insult to be asked to sup
port a political party which boldly
avows its intention of preventing a re
storation of the Union until the negroes
are allowed to vote and made in all re
spects the equals of the white race. Tlie
soldiers will stand by President Johnson
and will support his wise and states
manlike policy. They cannSt be gulled
into endorsing the infamous schemes of
such avowed dlsunionists and negro
worshippers as Thad. Stevens aud
Charles Sumner. They know that
Geary is only a miserable tool in the
hands of the Stevens faction, in this
State, and knowing this they will re
pudiate him with scorn and contempt.
The soldiers, in the language of a brave
private, 11 will vote.as they shot, for the
Union and not for the negro.
Who Shall Do the Voting.
Somebody must do the voting in the
South. Who shall it be? Shall it be
white men or negroes? The Democracy
are in favor of leaving the control of the
whole country in the handsof thewhite
race; their opponents would transfer
a large portion of it to the management
of the ignorant blacks. Which policy
shall prevail ? It is for the people to say
at the coming elections. We think we
know what will be the answer of the
honest masses of the North. Having
annihilated the rebellion, they will not
show themselves so cowardly as to fear
those whom they have beaten in battle.
They will trust the white race of the
South, and affiliate with them rather
than with the ignorant and degraded
negroes whom the war has set free'
The Republican leaders can never suc
ceed in making this government half
black. The decent white men of the
North will utterly refuse to countenance
any Buch infamous design, and will set
the seal of condemnation on the men
who by their votes in Congress have
shown themselves ready to force it fipon
the country. The issue is fairly made
up and the Radicals cannot blind the
masses by better appeals to the predju
dice that existed against the rebels.
That thing is about played out. No man
is so ignorant as not to know that the
Southern States must very Bpeedily be
come in all respects a constituent part
of the Governmentof the United States.
The question is, who shall rule, and do
tlie voting ? What says Pennsylvania?
The second Tuesday of October will
tell. Shall the ruling race be black or
white? Each voter must answer for
himself.
The Radicals in Maryland.
The radicals are bound to be crushed
out. It is impossible that they should
retain power long outside of New Eng
land. They did hope they had the
State of Maryland so shackled thatthey
would be able to hold it for years. The
infamous registration law which they
adopted was meant to secure that re
sult. Under it a very large majority of
the best citizens of the State were dis
franchised. The very stringency of the
law promises, however, to bring about
its speedy repeal. The more decent
among those who have been registered
as Union men are unwilling to deprive
their neighbors and friends of tne right
of voting for the sake of keeping a
few corrupt scoundrels in office. Ac
cordingly we find the split recently
made, in the organization calling itself
the Union party extending all over the
State. In the coming election a ma
jority will be elected to the Legislature
who will repeal the registration law.
The recent letter of Governor Swann
shows that he will freely Bign such a
bill. As soon as that is done there will
be an end of radical rule in Maryland
forever.
In n Tantrum.
Bergner of the Harrisburg Telegraphy
a genuine unadulterated Hession, has
been thrown into a state of intense ex
citement by his removal from the Post
Office. He*swears in broken English
and sputters away in a manner very
terrible to hear. He threatens to an
nihilate Andy Johnson and all his
supporters. The Telegraph is to be en
larged and improved to a capacity suffi
cient to give the Ex. P. M. full sweep.
If Bergner can succeed in making his
paper a meaner, more untruthful or
more disreputable sheet than it has
been, be will certainly prove that he
has the capacity for diving down deeper
and coming up dirtier than any human
being now living.
The Boys In Blue,
The love of the Radicals for the sol
diers was manifested on Friday by the
rejection of General McKelvy, the
newly appointed Marshal for Pittsburg
District. Gen. McK. has been, a life
long "Whig. He has served during the
whole war. His record is- without a
blemish, llis name is without a stain.
And yet he was rejected by a strict
Radical vote. Even Willey, of West
Virginia, who was General McKelvey’s
counsel lor years, when the latter had
his iron-works in Virginia, under the
radical whip and spur, voted against
McK., though he had pledged ftis honor
that the confirmation should be made.
“The boys in blue” should be saved
from their “friends.”
Lemuel Cook, a revolutionary hero,
died on Sunday night at Clarendon,
Orleans co., N. Y., at the advanced age
of 102 years.
Progress Downward.
The Express boasts that the Jtepubk
licau party now occupies the position,
held hy the Democratic paHy ajp
;the progressive political
!of tie country;, A ijjore Iridiculojis a*;
iserttqn was rieyer put forward.
;have.been empty fools infill ages of the
'world wiio fathvG nOt’heen able.to dtflr
tinguish between political change and
governmental refornS/'and the Editor
of the Express evidently belongs to that
class. The boasted progress of the Re
publican party is progress downward,
not upward or onward; The Demo
cratic 'party was and still Is the tree
progressive -party.' It'Wishes to see
the nation move in a right direction,
ip, obedience to safe and well estab
lished laws of political action. The Re
publican party would set it to spinning
off at a tangent in a course that would
lead to inevitable destruction. The
Republican party would spurn all con
stitutional restraints and follow the
mad caprices of such fanatical fools
as Thaddeus Stevens and Charles
Sumner. The Democratic party in
sists that all parties shall abide by the
Constitution. A strict construction of
that sacred instrument and a close ob
servance of all its provisions was and
still is the fundamental basis of the
Democratic creed. In ail the past Tt
refused to infer powers not granted,
and discountenanced every political
movement which was not strictly con
stitutional. That was the great secret
of its unparalleled success. It moved
forward Bteadily, but always in safe
lines and on a sure basis. It was sel
dom defeated because it was nearly al
ways right. It led the nation safely
and impressed upon it the seal of its
wise policy. As in the past so in the
present the Democratic party clings to
the Constitution, assured ;that any
pretended progress which is made by
violating or overriding the funda
mental law of the land will be found to
he progress in a wrong direction. The
Democratic party does not believe that
Sumner nmi Stevens are wiser than the
fathers of the Republic, and tlie peo
ple have had about enough of what
such men call progress. It is progress
downward.
Thail’s Own Plan.
Thad. Stevens, tired of the slow pro
gress being made by the majority of
dlsunionists in Congress, has put for
ward a bill of his own, whioh he thinks
will accomplish what his friends desire.
It is warranted to prevent any restora
tion of the Union for years to come.—
There is nothing new in it. It is only
his Gettysburg speech reduced to reso
lutions, and reads much like the plat
form on whicli General Geary stands.
It declares in a multitude of words :
Ist. That the efforts of the Secession
ists to destroy the Union was a com
plete success, and the war to restore it
an entire failure.
2d. It proposes to render any restora
tion impossible until all the negroes are
allowed to vote and made the equals of
white men in all respecu.
As Geary endorsed the Gettysburg
speech and everything else that “ Old
Thad” ever said or did, of course he
will not refuse to endorse this cheap and
easy plan for preventing a restoration
of the Union.
The following is a full report of this
last effort of ye ancient Congressman
from Lancaster:
Whereas, The eleven .States which
lately formed tlie government, call
ed the Confederate States of Ameri
ca, have forfeited all their rights
under the Constitution, and can he re
instated in the same only through the ac
tion of Congress.
Therefore, be itemicted by theSenateand
House of Representatives of the United
Stntes of America, in Congress assembled
that the eleven Slates lately in Rebellion,
may form valid State < lovernmenLs in the
following manner:
Section 2d. Tlie State Government now
existing defacto, though illegally formed in
the midst of martial law, and in many in
stances the Constitutions were adopted un
der duress aud not submitted to the rutili
cation of the people, and therefore are not
to be treated us free republics, yet they
are hereby acknowledged as valid govern
ments for municipal purposes, and until
they shall lie duly altered, their legis
lative or executive ollicers shall bo ac
knowledged as such.
Section :Jd. Whenever tlie Legislatures of
said States shall enact that conventions
shall be called to form legitimate State gov
ernments by the formation and adoption of
State constitutions, the Governor and chief
executive officers shall direct an election to
be held on a certain day, to choose delegates
to a convention which shall meet at tlie time
fixed by the Legislature, and form a Statu
constitution, whicli sliu.lt be submitted to a
vote of tho people, and it ratitied by a ma
jority of the loyal votes, shall bo declared
the constitution of tho State.
Section 4th. Persons who shall bo en
titled to vote at both of said elections shall
be as follows: All male citizens above the
age of twenty-one years, who have' resided
a year in said State, or 10 years in the elec
tion district.
Section sth. Word citizen as used ill this
act shall be construed to mean all persons
except Indians born ill the United States or
duly naturalized. Any male citizen above
the age of 21 years shall bo competent to he
elected to act as delegates to said Conven
tion.
Section Gtb. All persons who hold offices,
either civil or military, under the Govern
ment called the Confederate? States of Amer
ica, or who swore allegiance to said Gov
ernment, are hereby declared to have for
feited their citizenship, and to have re
nounced allogicnco to the United States,
and shall not be entitled to exercise the
elective franchise until live years ufter
they shall have filed their iutontion
or desire to be reinstated with the
rights of citizenship, and shall swear ullo
glnnco to tho United Stntes, und renounce
allegiance to all other Governments, or pre
tended Governments. Tho said application
to bo filed and then taken in tno sumo
courts that by law are authorized to natur
alize foreigners.
Section 7th. No constitution shall be pre
sented or noted upon by Congross which
denies to any citizen any rights privileges or
Immunities which are granted to any other
citizen in the Stale; all laws shull bo im
partial, without regurd to language, race or
former condition. If tho provisions of this
section shall ever bo altered, repealed, ex
punged, or in any way abrogated, this act
shall become void, and said State shall lose
its right to bo represented in Congress.
Section Bth. Whenever the foregoing sec
tions shall bo complied with, the citizens of
said State may present said Constitution to
Congress, and if the same shall be approved
by Congross, said States shall be declared
entitled to tho rights, privileges and immu
nities, and be subjected to all the obligations
'of a State within the Union. No Senator or
Representative shall be admitted in either
House of Congress, until Cougress shall
liavo declared the State entitled thereto.
' Senator Wright of New Jersey.
Senator Wright is not dead as was
announced. The mistake concerning
his death was general, and was announ
ced in the New York papers of last eve
ning with obituary notices, as it has
been generally by the press since. Pre
parations were being made in Congress
also for tho usual eulogies, when the
dispatches came from Newark denying
the report.
“Civil Rights” In Baltimore.
The negro lawyer from Boston, who
brought a suit against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for not letting him
ride in the same car with white gentle
men and ladies, has not subsided yet.
He brought another action against a
city passenger railway in Baltimore on
a similar charge. Judge Giles decided
the case against him, but the negro has
appealed from his decision.
The Alleged Cotton Fraud Case.
The military commission which re
cently tried Dexter, a late United States
cotton agent at Mobile, charged with
combining with others to defraud the
government out of 3,344 bales of cotton,
found him guilty, and sentenced him
to the penitentiary for one year, to be
fined $250,000, and be forever disquali
fied from holding any office. The Sec
retary of War, however, has suspended
the sentence until the record can be
revived by the Judge Advocate General,
The Prince of Wales and Duke of Suth
erland “run with the machine,” it is said,
to all the fires in London,
The Weakness or the Bepnbllcan Party.
Thfe organization of the
in this Sta|e seems to be unf*
brojtipn. memtyho control the mw
chinfery
newspaper press is almosM untton sqfr>
taihlng oCThaadeuß Bteveftsi
Buphi unanimity tojmdicSja
stfength t btft, unless
taken, it will be found to be a source of
weakness in the end. This very appa
rent unanimity is blinding the leaders
aud luring them forward to political
destruction.. Here
man pp4a&s out y denunciation‘Of tlie
insane folly of the Radical Disnnionists
in Congresß, but he is at once bitterly
denounced as a deserterffom the party.
Multitudes are thus kept quiet, but they
are thinking none the legs seriously.
Thousands of honest and conscientious
men will first give expression to their
convictions at the ballot-box. The
quiet vote will tell with immense power
at the coming election. If any one.
wishes to know what the honest men
of the Republican party are thinking
we will refer him to the following ex
tracts from a communication to the
Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday.
Speaking of the County Convention it
says:
Will the Convention follow Stevens,
Sumner, Wade, Butler and Sehurz; or the
President, Seward, Stanton, Grant and
Sherman? If the counsels of the former
are to be adopted, and their principles in
corporated into the party creed it will not
be very important who should, be nomi
nated ior the Legislature or county offices.
The ticket will be doomed to defeat from,
the day it shall be made. If the teachings
and advice of the latter bo received and
followed, we shall have peace, union,
strength and success.
We cannot succeed, this fall on thc u Recon
struction Committee's plan. We do not de
serve to succeed on such a platform. We
can succeed if Congress will, without delay
admit the loyal members elected from Ten
nessee, Arkansas and other States, to seats
in that body, excluding all who have been
disloyal and traitorous. We cannot defend
ourselves for excluding loyal men, duly
elected, from Congress, on any satisfactory
ground, lie who remained loyal in a re
bellious State, must have giveu proof of
loyalty, tenfold greater than can be shown
by us here. -We are wrong in excluding
such from Congress. We have persisted iu
this wrong for six months. We are daily
passing laws which are to be in forco in
eleven States, which have not a single
representative in the law-making body, It
is a wrong without excuse, except such as
is to be.found in more prejudice and pas
sion. Must it be said that the great Repub
lican party, patriotic enough and strong
enough under tho load of conscriptions ana
heavy taxation, und when a wuil of woe
was wafted on every iftceze, to crush a gi
gantic rebellion, and (rescue the country
from a mortal peril, has lost all sense and
wisdom in dealing with the vanquished.
We hope not and think not. Let not the
coming convention repeat the insane folly of
the Harn'isburg State Convention. Let it
express the confidence which the people
feel in the patriotism, ability and integrity
of the President; and let it recommend to
Congress, and the President, too, union and
harmony, aud a cessation of strife and hos
tility between the Legislative and Executive
Departments of the Government, On such
a platform we will win, on any other we
will uot.
- The writer of the above signs himself
“An Old Republican.” As he thinks
so think thousands of honest men who
have acted with that party during the
past four years. They will repudiate
the platform and the candidate of the
Harrisburg Convention. The seeming
solidity of the Republican party is only
a false semblance of strength, which
temporarily conceals its real weakness.
When the votes are counted In October
it will be seen how great is the defection
within its rankß. The quiet ballots of
thoughtful men will put an end to its
rash and corrupt career.
“Old Thad” on the War Path Again.
Our belligerent Congressman is again
on the war path. On Saturday last he
threw aside all disguise and declared
open war against the President and all
his friends. The Tax bill being under
consideration, Mr. Stevens moved to
amend the sixty-fifth section by strik
ing out the words, “ The Secretary of
the Treasury is hereby authorized to ap
point an officer in his department who
shall be styled special commissioner,
&c.,” and inserting in lieu thereof,
“ Congress, by a concurrent action, shall
elect a special commissioner.” There
upon a debate ensued, during which our
Representative gave the country the
following specimen of his peculiar style
of rhetoric. He said :
I am done with giving patronage to tho
Secretary of tho Treasury where it can be
avoided, lie has already said that he will
appoint nobody to offico who docs not sus
tain the President’s policy. He has this
morning distinctly so informed a member
of the House who called upon him for an
appointment. He asked him whether the
applicant’s “ antecedents were in favor of
the President’s policy,” and when he de
clined to answer hinij ho said: “ I can ap
point, and will appoint, no man who does
not support thePresident’apoliey.” Heve
forred them to an apostate Sonator from that
. region, and said: “I willconsulthim when
I make the appointment, and I will appoint
nobody not recommended by him.” It is
time for this House to let the people of the
country know whether officers are to be
sacrificed to this determination of the sub
ordinates of tho President. If wo do not
stand by them they will uot stand by us,
nnd they ought not. It is time that we
build up a wall. This is a malfeasance in
office. I have already ascertained that four
of the subordinates of the President have
made tho safiio declaration. If I were a
little younger—and I shall be in a woek I
think—l would let those officers know that
this is a grand inquest of the nation before
which men, who are guilty of malpractice in
office, should be brought, and their cases
presented to another tribunal which is to
try them. (Excitement.)|
A voice—“ Good 1”
Mir, we are recreant to our own interests;
wo are recreant to our own dignity; we are
recreant to the interests of tho country if wo
do not stand by those who stand by uh. We
must take care that no more patronage shall
be put into the hands of any man to bo
abused—avowedly abused. It is time that
wo speak aloud, and lot our friends abroad
know that they aro in danger; that they
shall not bo sacrificed because thoy stund
by Congress, because thoy are not the tools
of a recreant President. (Excitement.)
I have authentic information that this
very day that course has been taken by tho
Secretary of the Treasury, and he has de
clared distinctly that in thnt State be will
consult nobody but a recreant apostate
Senator who has betrayed his party and his
country.
[Mr. Stevens was understood as referring
to Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania.]
The old wretch feels that he and the
radical faction which he leads are
doomed to inevitable defeat, and his
rage knows no bounds. His threat to
impeach the able Secretary of the
Treasury is the vaporing of a braggart
who is impotent except in the venting
of curses. The House has the power
of impeachment, but the Senate the
sole power to try the party impeached.
We imagine the Senate, radical as it is,
would hesitate long before acting on
any bill, founded on such a charge and
sent up at the dictation of our venom
ous Congressmen. If Stevens wants to
impeach any one, let him try his hand
on the President at once, and not on
his subordinates who only do his bid
ding. We hope he will follow up his
threat, however, and not leave the
country to conclude that he was only
indulging in vajJbring gasconade.
The result of Mr. Stevens’ outburst
must have been far from gratifying to
him. It soon dawned upon him that
not a single member of the House was
willing to sustain his movement, where
upon he eventually subsided and with
drew his amendment. It remains to be
Been whether he will follow up his
threat of impeaching Secretary Mc-
Cullough and his associates. In a week
he thinks he, will be young enough to
“let thosepfflcials know that this is the
grand inquest of the nation.” The whole
country will watch for the rejuve
nescence of our,antiquated Congressman
with intense anxiety. We predict that
at the end of the week he £yili be
nothing, more than the same miserable
.obi scold ; he is now, unable to enforce
his insane policy, or to prevent the re
moval of-his friends from offloe.
The Bostonpeople are considering the
question of transforming their present
court-house into a post office. ■ -
The quarrel between Roscoe Conk-
RadicalmemberofCongressfrom
%e State of New York, and Provost Mar-
General Fry at
fa#l»6ut to be «T Con-'
jgj&ftdonal committee, promises to lead
ltd disclosures which may the j>eo
'jjde of the United States some idea qftthe
epfixitso which they been irwln
ctled all) through the war*by scoundrels
who hdve been bawling for the Union
at the top of their voice. The following
from the Washington correspondent of
: the-N. Y. TribunciOpem the Conkling
the base: • • ;
ThtT statement, widely circulated from
this point, that there is a disposition to back
out of or evade the investigation ordered by
the House of Representatives into the ad*
ministration of Fro vost-Marshal Gen. Fry’s
bureau, is wholly untrue, so fer as concerns
the Committee and the principal witness
to substantiate the charges of malfeasance
and incapacity. Two subjects erf inquiry
are before the Committee. The first com
prehends every charge to be extracted from
thp general abuse and libellous inuendoes
contained in Gen. Fry's letter assailing
Roseoe Conkling, which was so improperly
read to the House. The second is that stu
pendous system of fratfd and imbecility,
which, in the crisis of our war, provided
tho army with bounty-jumpers instead of
soldiers, and enriched numerous agents of
the Provost Marshals Bureau with the
plunder of the people, and the Treasury,
The Committee has had several meetings.
At the fhpt of these Fry was brought up all
standing by the requirement that he should
substantiate his charges by facts, to be ju
dicially proven; and not by the reading of
abusive letters, written speeches and hear
say statements. He retreated into delay,
and asked for lime to bring witnesses to
Washington from Michigan, South Caro
■ Lina, Ohio and three or four other distant
States. He did another thing: he sum
moned Haddock, his Assistant Provost-
Marshal-General, whom Conkling, at the
end of eight weeks of trial in Utica, con
victed of stupendous frauds, and compelled
to disgorge over $200,0000f plunder, to come
to Washington* and organize the double
work of proving something against Conk-
Ling, and of saving Fry’s administrative
reputation from the utter ruin with which
it was threatened by the Committee’s inves
tigation.
Haddock came, opened a room at the
National Hotel, had detailed to him five or
six assistants, two of them Fry’s clerks,
and this Committee sit there daily, con
triving attack and defense ; fishing by let
ters sent all over the Oneida District, and
i generally through the State of Now York,
for some sort of testimony against Conk
ling, preparing delays in the prosecution
of the inquiry into the Provost Marshal’s
Bureau, and. filling up the leisure in this
labor of thwarting a Congressional investi
gation by causing to be reprinted all over
the country an article designed to belittle
and weaken Mr. Conkling, the original
publication of which, strange to say, was
successfully effected in The New York Jn
dependent.
The Investigating Committee will not
permit an utter waste of their time. Fry
will soon be called to “ time,” and tho in
vestigation of his abusive and vindictive
charges against Conkling will have the is
sue which every Republican memberof the
House knows it will have—the demonstra
tion that they were malicious, false and fri
volous.* Then the bounty lumping carnival
of fraud and incapacity will be put on trial,
and its sponsors and managers will get gib
betted by tho public j udgment, if not by the
common hangman.
Herein we have it charged, on Radi
cal Republican authority, that “in the
crisis of our war ” the PrdVost Marshal’s
Bureau set up by ‘President Lincoln’s
administration “provided the army
with bounty-jumpers instead of soldiers
and enriched numerous agents of the
Provost Marshal’s Bureau with the
plunder of the people and of the Treas
ury.” This charge comes from a quarter
that 1b now zealously defending the
Freedmen’s Bureau, an institution that
is no doubt as bad as the Provost Mar
shal’s Bureau ever was. It is said
that “when rogues fall out honest
men will get their dues.” We have no
doubt that Fry and Conkllng will
prove each other to be rogues ; but how
the honest people who have been swind
led by both of them are to get their
dues, is by no means clear to us. “In
demnity for the past” is, we fear, un
attainable, but “security for the future”
may be assured by a restoration of the
Democratic party to power, under
which the government always was hon
estly and economically administered.
Thaddeus Stevens and his Radical
associates in Congress, alarmed at Steed
man and Fullerton’s exposure of the
villainy and cruelty practised by offi
cers and agents of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau, have determined to whitewash
that rotten and rascally concern. They
have passeda jointresolutionto appoint
a committee to travel through the South
ern States toinvestigatetheFreedmen’s
Bureau affairs. This committee is to
be composed of two Senators and three
members of the House, and to be ac
companied by a stenographer and ser
geant-at arms. The National Intelli
gencer says only one construction can
be placed upon the appointment of this
Freedmen’s Bureau Congressional In
vestigating Committee. The reports of
the officers appointed for that purpose
by the President are unfortunately
rather damaging to the pet institution
of the Kadical majority in Congress,
and, by some means, the Bureau must
be whitewashed. No one can impugn the
honesty, fairness, and ability of Gens.
Steedman and Fullerton, who were de
tailed by the President for this service,
but they are looking after the welfare
of the negro and the promotion of peace
and harmony among all the people of
the South, “without distinction of race
or color." This-Is not exactly the pro
gramme of the Radical faotlon in Con
gress. They want some one to look
after the interests of the agents of the
Freedmen’s Bureau and find out how
to delay and prevent the restoration of
peace and harmony. Hence the Con
gressional Committee on the Freed
men’B Bureau affairs. The official re*
ports already made are much too dam
aging to the favorite institution to be
allowed to go uncontradicted. The
moment after these reports were pub
lished it was determined that so much
iniquity, corruption and fraud, not to
speak of outrageous oruelty, as they
exposed, must be speedily covered up,
or the Bureau would soon becomo so
offensive to the nostrils of the people
that the men who tried to pass the new
Freedmen's Bureau bill over the Presi
dent’s veto would never be forgiven by
their constituencies.
The Soldiers MoTlng—But not for Geary.
Two hundred and thirty-five honora
bly discharged soldiers signed a call for
a meeting to be held in the Court House
at York, to organizes “Johnson and
Clymer Soldiers’ Club.” The meeting
took place last Saturday evening, and a
seriesof resolutions wereadopted, among
which were the following:
Resolved, That having fought for the
Union, and assisted in restoring the na
tional authority throughout the land we
are unalterably opposed to the Radicals of
Congress who are attempting to do what
tho rebels failed to do—subvert our free
institutions hud destroy the Union.
Resolved, That we will stand by Andrew
Johnson in his noble efforts to defeat the
bold, bad men who stand in tho way of
the restoration of the States to their full
constitutional rights, and that we believe
that in his magnanimous policy Is only to
bo found a sure road to a restoration of a
Union of hearts, and a Union of States, and
peace and prosperity to the land.
Resolved, That we believe that the Hon.
Hiester Clymer, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, holds upon
all the great principles of public policy
views similar to our own, and is a firm
supporter of President Johnson, and that
therefore we will support him with our
voices and votes.
We learn from the Gazette that the
meeting was a great success, and that
the club formed at that time is increas
ing in numbers apd influence.. The
“boys in blue,” who fought for the
Union, sustain President Johnson, and
cannot give their votes to the mock
“ hero”'of the Rumps—John W,. Geary
—who is joined with 1 the Eadical dis
unionista, in their revolutionary, and
attempts to overthrow the
CrafttltuUbn. ■
The Deserter Law Before the Supreme
The question of the constitutionality
Of the law passed by Congress declar
ing that <}esertera'or delinquent drafted
men should be'disfranchised, tenow be
fore om Snpretnp Court. It ; comes up
ona«ase arising in Franklin ; coupty-
The Jacta in the/case are briefly as Al
lows f'Henry Reily, « citizen of Franks
lin county,was drafted into the military
service of the United States on the 19th
day of July, 1864, and, having been re
gularly served with a notice of his con
scription, he refused, and never did
report to. the Erovoat Marshal of the
16th district for service In the army of
the United States, nor did he furnish a
substitute, or pay the required sum of
money therefor. When Roily pffered
to vote in the township of Hamilton,
county o t Franklin, on the 10th day of
October, 1866, the judge of the election
refused to receive his voteon the ground
that he was a deserter from the military
service of the United States, and in con
sequence thereof, was disfranchised by
the act of Congress providing for the
enrolling and calling out of the National
forces, approved the 8d day of March,
1865.
When the case came up in the Court
of Franklin county the parties agreed
to submit it to the decision of the Court
without the intervention of a Jury.
Judge Alexander King, a decided and
well known Republican, believing the
law of Congress by which an attempt
was made to disfranchise citizens of
Pennsylvania to be unconstitutional
and void, ordered judgment to be en
tered against the defendant for refusing
to receive the vote of Henry Reily, for
the sum of one dollar and costs. Thus,
so far os could be done by the Court
below, the principle was decided against
the act of Congress, and that by a Re.
publican Judge. We published the
able opinion of Judge King shortly after
it was delivered.
The case has. been appealed to the
Supreme Court, and Benjamin Huber,
the defendant below, now asks to be
relieved from the fine imposed. Of
course this is to be regarded as a test
case. Since the election, out of which
this case arose, the Legislature of our
State has passed a law similar in terms
to the Act of Congress. Governor Curtin
has purposely refrained from signing
the bill because its constitutionality Ib,
to say the very least, extremely doubt
ful. On the opening of the case, Mr.
Meredith, the Attorney General, sent
the following paper in to the Supreme
Court;
Attorney General’s Office, 1
Harrisburg, May 23. 1860. J
My Dear Sir .-—I understand that a case
involving the question of the constitution
ality of the act of Congress which provides
for the disfranchisement of deserters will
bo heard before you to-day. It was my pur
pose, on the hearing of that case, as amicus
curias, to make or ally the statement which
I now beg leave to present to the Court in
writing. The physical disability under
which I am temporarily laboring will, I
hope, afford a ground for your kind indul
gence in the adoption of this mode of com
municating with the Court.
Shortly before the termination of the last
session, a bill was sent to the Governor for
his approval, providing for currying into
effect, so fur as relates to the exercise of suf
frage in the Commonwealth, theenactmonts
of the act of Co.ngress referred to. Under
standing that one or more cases, involving
the question of the constitutionality of that
act of Congress, would be presented for your
decision at the present term, he thought that
a due observance of that respect.for and
obedience to the law, as adjudicated by the
highest judicial tribunal of the Common
wealth, which have always been prominent
characteristics of our people, required that
he should await, if possible, the result of
your decision. As the provisions of that
bill are probably not otherwise known to
tho Court, I beg to suggest that if it should
become a law, a very considerable time will
be required to make the necessary thorough
examinations of tho military records of tho
United States, and to prepare the detailed
lists which it directs to be transmitted to
the officers of the respective courts of quar
ter sessions, and to afford sufficient time
between such transmission and the general
election, to persona whose names may be
upon those lists, to obtain the evidence of
auy mistake which may have occurred in
regard to themselves individually. I con
ceive it to bo my duty to bring these cir
cumstances to the attention of the Court,
that they may be apprized of the great pub
lic interests that seem to invite an early an
nouncement of their judgment on the ques
tion. I am, with great esteem, *
Very truly yours, Ac., t
WM. M. MEREDITH,
Attorney General, Pa.
It will be seen that Mr. Meredith does
not intimate any conviction of his own
that the law is Constitutional, and it is
believed he holds the reverse opinion.
The case was argued before the full
bench of justices. John Cessna, Esq.,
opened for the plaintiff Id error. He
was followed by J Sharpe,
Esq., for defendant in error. The argu
ment was closed by A. K. McClure,
Esq., for the plaintiff.
It cannot be possible that the Supreme
Court of this State can sustain any such
law in the face of the plain and unmis
takable wording of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania. We are glad to be
able to say that, except in some isola
ted instances, the Judiciary of our
State have up to this time kept their
robes unspotted. We fully expect the
Supreme Court to declare both the
act of Congress and the act passed by
the Legislature unconstitutional and
vejid.
The Democracy of Somerset County.
The Democracy of Somerset county
have put In nomination the following
excellent ticket:
Congress—Hon. A. H. Coffrotb.
Senator—J. 0. Kimmel.
Assembly—Hiram Findlay.
Associate Judges—J. M. Iloldorbaum,
Joseph P. Brubaker.
Prothonotary—John J. Hoffman.
Register and Recorder—Norman B.
Ream.
Sheriff—Albert Hefiloy.
Commissioner—Joseph C. Lichty,
Poor House Director—Abraham Miller.
Auditor—Peter PbllMppL
J. P. Philson, of Berlin, Borough, was
elected Chairman of the County Committee.
Hon. A. H. Cofftoth has been twice
elected to Congress from that district.
Each time he ran ahead of his ticket
in every county composing the District.
Should he prove to be the choice of a
majority of the counties we have no
doubt he would be again triumphantly
elected.
We imagine the office holders in
Lancaster county must have passed a
sleepless night after reading “Old
Thad’s” last speech. 'Jhe hero of the
Buckshot War has deffed the adminis
tration to do its worst. From this hour
there must be open war between the
contending parties. Nothing can save
the heads of Stevens’ friends except It
be such a triumph of the radical fac
tion in Congress as will deprive the
Executive department of the Govern
ment erf all power. As such a thing is
among the impossibilities, we would
advise the <men who hold Federal of
fices to get their houses In order. Their
last chance of continuance in the snug
berths they Occupy Is gone. Their re
moval is only a question of time, un
less they should succeed in proving
their fitness to continue by their good
works. They owe something to Ste
vens for the past, hut they can expect
nothing from him for the future. He
cannot save their heads from the block.
He is now the worst enemy his friends
could have.
A Newspaper Change.
It is reported that the Chicago Be
publican, one of the strongest opponents
of the President’s policy in the West,
will change front next , week and- come
out in favor of President Johnson’s ■ ad
ministration. Its business manager,
Mr. Mack, and,Charles A. Dana, the
editor, and late- Assistant Seoretaiy of
War, are to retire,
Ohio Democratic State Convention.
Nomination of Secretary of State, Su«
preme CoartlHdMtaaMember oi
the Board of PjspUf Wovka.
ifrulonaijpi nt of Prtddpil Jthnson and
X?
otvTallaaiiglib and Fondle
i\ A jfl
-1 . TTio Actfoh of Ogngrcffcßenounced.
■ ■ s ■ W. -——- >
The Annual Democratic Statd.Convention
of Ohio met at Naughton Hair Columbus,
on Thursday the 24th.
The attendance of delegates lrom every
part of the State was very full and respect
able ; the Neil House, ,Ameripan Hotel and
other resting places for weary travellers be
ing crowdeato their fullest capacity. Among
the promlnehl persons * on'nand were'Mr.
George H» Pendleton, Gen. George Mor
gan. Judge Van Trump, Col. G. W. Mc-
Cook, H. J. Jewett, Wayne Griswold, J.
P. McKinney, Geo. Rex, (X D Martin, Silas
Wright, F. W. Thornhill, Edson B. Olds,
James Emmett, Wm. Larwill and Amos
Layman.
The Convention was called to order by
Mr. Dunn, Chairman of the State Central
Committee.
Mr. J. Jewett, wns chosen temporary
chairman, aud made a brief speech on tak
ing the chair. Messrs. A. J. Mullane,
VanleveandAquilak K. Wiley were chosen
temporary secretaries.
The Committee on Permanent Organiza
tion reported for President Hon. A. G.
Thurman, of Franklin county, nineteen
vice presidents and nineteen secretaries,
headed by Mr. A: J. Mullane.
Judge Thurman, the permanent Presi
dent, on taking the chair, addressed the
Convention at considerable length, tonch-,
Lng upon all the leading topics of tho day. !
At this stage of the proceedings Mr, Geo.
H. Pendleton was invited to a seat on the;
platform, which he ascended amid loud;
cheers.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
General George W. Morgan read the ro- ;
port of the Committee on Resolutions, as 1
follows:
Resolved, That the Democracy of Obioj
will adhere in the present aud in the future,!
as in the past, with unfaltering fidelity and!
firmness, to the organization of the demo
cratic party and to its ancient and well set
tled principles as enunciated by Thomas
Jefferson, the immortal apo9tleof American
Democracy, and as acknowledged and ac
cepted by the party from the foundation of
the government, arid especially of equal
taxation, and of representation of all States
subject to taxation.
Resolved, That one great question of the
day is the immediate and unconditional
restoration of all the States to the exercise
of their rights within tho Federal Union,
under the constitution, and that wo will
cordially and actively support Andrew
Johnson as President of the United States
in all the necessary and proper means to
carry out his policy as directed to that end,
and especially in securing immediate rep
resentation in the Senate and House of
Representatives to the eleven States from
which it is now unconditionally and arbi
trarily withheld, unless on tho degrading
condition of inferiority in the Union and of
negro political and civil equality, enforced
by the Federal government.
Resolved, That to accomplish tho pur
poses above set forth wo will cordially co
operate in public meetings, conventions and
at tho polls with all men, without reference
to past party position, who honestly and bv
their acts and votes, as well as by thefr
professions, support tho President in Ins
policy of restoration ns now desired.
The resolutions wore unanimously adopt
ed.
THE NOMINATIONS.
For the office of Secretary of State tho fol
lowing gentlemen were named: Amos Lay
man, ofFranklln; C. B. Flood, of Frank
lin, and General B. Lefevre, of Shelby. Af
ter two ballots General Lofevro was nomi
nated by acclamation, and returned thanks
in a single sentence. General Lefovro ou
listed at the breaking out of the rebellion
as a private In the army, and fought his
way up to a brigadier generalship. He i 9
a fine looking man, ami is said to be popu
lar with bis party.
Candidates for the Supreme Court Judge
ship were next named. The only nominees
were Judges F. M..lvoy, of Hamilton
county, and David Dovore. of Brown
county. After one ballot Judge Devore’s
name was withdrawn, and Judge Key was
nominated by acclamation.
For member of the Board of Public
Works, William Larwill, of Ashland; L.
Evans, of Lacking; J. Angel, ofTuscarora,
and A. Hughes, of Cuyabogn, were named.
Mr. Larwill was nominated on tho first
ballot.
SPEECH or MR. GEORGE H. PENDLETON*
The regular business of the convention
being now over, loud calls were made for
Mr. Pendleton to address the convention,
which be did at great length. Ho com
menced by congratulating that body on the
successful result of its labors, and for the
wisdom, harmony and unity which had
been displayed. The questions submitted
to the consideration of the convention, he
thought, were of too grave and serious a
nature to permit an indulgence in prema
ture or vain exultation; but the scene be
had. witnessed during the day was well
calculated to inspire courage, zeal and hope
for the future. The lapse of a year had
again summoned tho Stale Democracy to
council, and they returned to tho work
greater in spirit and number than ever be
fore. The organization ot Democracy was
coeval with the government itself. It had
secured for us peace, order, prosperity and
, liberty for over three-quarters of a century.
He loved the old Democratic party, honored
the name and fame of its founders, and
revered its principles, which had been so
beneficent in their results. He revered the
wisdom that had marked with such uner
ring accuracy the truo limits of powers
granted and powers reserved, and had ad
ored so faithfully to those limits. He asked
his fellow Democrats the duty of the hour.
The duty of the hour he considered to bo to
meet boldly and fairly the question of
union or disunion, the old government or
a new government, the old constitution
or a now constitution. This wns the
true question before the country. Tho
constitution had already been broken
by the malignant councils of tho radical
Central Directory, whose feet were on tho
throat of the constitution oven now, and
who intended to throttle it. The President
of the United States was endeavoriug in a
lawful manner to save it. Will the people
of Ohio, Mr, Pendleton asked, support the
President in his noble endeavor, or will they
support a Congress which is striving to sub
vert and overthrow the constitution ? The
constitution gave to the federal government
certain powers and reserved others; the
same powers wore granted to all tho States
and others reserved, and all the States
wore equal before the constitution was
made, and they must cotinue so os long us
the Federal Union Is maintained. Mr. Sew
ard himself. In hlslatespeech at Auburn, re
cognized this great fundamental truth. Tho
federal authority to- day la obeyed us Implicit
ly In Massachusetts as in Ohio. Notun armed
rebel existed to-day in all the late Confed
erate States; nor was thoro a show of opposi
tion tothofodoral authority thoro—not even
so much ns a shadow; and yet Congress
has persistently vloluted the rights of tliose
States—violated a right essentiul to the very
existence of free government—a right which
when violated It was tho duty of ovory froo
man to resist—tho sacred right of representa
tion. Mr. Sowurd said in his spoech at
Auburn that history furnishes no example
of a people who, uftor fighting so valiantly,
had returned so magnanimously to their
allegiance; and yet odious amendments to
tho constitution are introduced for tho pur
pose of reducing such peoplo to nn übject
submission, to goad them to a resistance in
order to get an excuse for the establishment
of military government and martial law.
Why should Congress persist In such a
course? Because it hates the government,
bates the .constitution, and hates the two
fundamental ideas on which tho govern
ment and constitution are based—that of
confederation and that of limited and re
served powers. From bis knowledge of
the men composing the radical majority of
Congress he nad no hesitation in saying
that they hated tho government and de
sired its overthrow. Mr, Pendleton next
proceeded to the Freedmen’s Bureau
and Civil Rights bills, and dis
sected them with an unsparing knife, de
claring them to be clear and palpable vio
lations of the Constitution. He praised the
courage and statesmanship of President
Johnson for vetoing those bills. Congress
found out lately that tho President had too
much patronage, and that it was dangerous
to the country. They therefore sought to
strip him of his legitimate power and to de
grade bis office Into a mere dependency of
Congress, which had degraded itself to the
position of a mere central directory. The
President had crushed away with one
sweep tho whole of their cobweb sophistry
by which they would have the South In the
Union to be governed or to be taxed, but
out of it to ery°y its benefits or to be repre
sented in the councils 6f the nation. The
President denied the doctrine of State sui
cide; denied that secession was valid in
law; maintained that the South was never
out of the Union and is not now, and labor
ed to restore the Southern people to all their
rights as,they were ready to perform all
their duties. Let the Democracy, then,
give the President a warm, zealous ana
magnanimous support—the more bo be
cause he had not been their choice and be
cause they had no favors or offices to ask
from him. The speaker concluded by de
claring that there was no time for delay.
The danger was imminent .arid pressed
heavily upon the country. The liberties of
the people-were imperilled, and paralysis
had already seized on a part of the govern
ment. The President sought to snatch the
country from tho blind' and bigoted Jaco
bins. The only ark of safety left was the
ballot box. which lies open for use in the
broad sunlight of heaven, under the canopy
Of open day;
Mr. Pendleton concluded amid the most
enthusiastic cheers.
The Convention then adjourned until
half-past seven o’clock.
■ ! • THE EVENING SESSION
.commenced after eight o’clock, and was de
voted entirely to speech-making. Hie ora
tors were Colonel Sawyer: C. 1.. Yanandlg
ham and Congreßsmah -f^ llo^l *
SPEECH OF O. * Ii« VALLANDIGHAM,
* Mr, Yallandigham was warmly received,
He wQuldmot promlse.that the Democratic
triumphantin the approach
ing election, but as the republican majority
of sixty thousand Jn‘lB64 nad been reduced
to thirty thousand in 1803, bo he believed it
would be diminished this year to ten or -
fifteen thousand. Moreover, that the De
mocracy would send to the Fortieth Con
gress twelve representative instead of two.
In tho language of the clergy, Provi
dence had removed Abraham Lin
coln, and iu his place was Andrew John
son, who was striving to restore tho
old Union. The speaker concurred
with Mr. Pendleton in saying that the Ohio
Democracy should stand by the President,
that it is tue design of Congress to depose
Andrew Johnson and put in his placo
Chief Juatlce Chase if they suoceeded In tho
control of the Congressional elections. That
* was their scheme and conspiracy. An at
tempt is being made, tho speaker assorted,
to drive the President into tho position of
aggression; to compel him to drive tho
Senate and House from tho national Capi
tol; but Andrew Johnson will not do so.
The Congressional conspirators aro usurp
ers ; but he will not uso violence, but fn
case of necessity will turn them over to the
Supremo Court. If they strike tho first
blow, then he will be justified in thrusting
them from tho Capitol. An attempt to tako
his prerogatives from him by placing an
other man in his place will justify him in
using all tho power of tho purse and the
sword in resisting. Any more civil com
motions are not to be desired; but if civil
war does come again, with tho administra
tion planted on a platform of right, tho po
sitions ot the democrats and republicans
will be reversed. The Democracy will thou
make the arbitrary arrrsts, and not tho re
publicans. Possibly Vallandigham him
self may then bo the military comuiaudunt
of Ohio.
The speaker concluded with a fiery per
oration. His spoech created a profound
sensation.
Speech of Secretary McCulloch.
Iu response to the serenade tendered
to hlui the other evening, Secretary
McCullough spoke as follows :
Fellow-Citizens: You are aware that
I am not in the habit of making speeches;
and I take it for granted, therefore, that, in
making the call upon mo, you intondod only
to pay me a passing compliment, and not
to elicit from mo any extonded remarks. 1
shaU not disappoint you. I shall not bo so
ungrateful lor your kindness as to inflict
upon you a spoech. My position, gentle
men, in roferoneo to tho issues which are
now engaging the public attention, aro not,
I apprehend, misunderstood by you.—
[CheersJ I took occasion, last fall, among
my old friends in Indiana, to define my
position; and sincothattimo I have had no
occasion to change, much less to abandon
it. [Applause.] I will say. therefore, as I
suppose I must say something on this occa
sion, that the general policy of tho President
iu reference to tho Southern States, and tho
people recently in anna against tho Federal
Government, has commended itself to
my deliberate judgment. [Cheers.] And
although it has been violently, and in
some instances, vindictively assailed, 1
have an abiding conviction that it will
be approved by tho peoplo when they
shall be allowed to pass Judgment
upon it ut tho ballot-box. [Loud dicers.]
This plan is fairly statod in the platform
of tho dub which many of you represent.
I need not say, therefore, iu regard to that
platform, any nioro than that I subscribe
to all its doctrines fully, und without reserve.
[Cheers.] I suppose, gentlemen, that noue
of us expected that nt tho close of tills great
war in which much bad blood had been
excited, and more good blood had been
shed, wo should have bright skies and calm
seas. I tuko It for granted that most of us
expected that at the eloso of this war there
would be passion and pique, and porluips
violence, which it would take time to briug
into propor subjugation. But although wo
anticipated tills, we know that tho people of
tho United States would bo prepared for
whatever might come up. Wo anticipated
that, at the close of the war, great questions
would come up for settlement, the discus
sion of which would be likely to agitato LhiH
country, to shake it, perhaps, from centre
to circumference. But wo know also that the
people has not been wanting In any previ
ous emergency, and we had confidence
that they would bo prepared to cope with
and HGttlo satisfactorily any questions that
might bo presented in tho future. [Ap
plause.] That faith is with us uow. It is
strong witjj us to-night. We have faith iu
the people, and wo have faith in that good
Providenco which, having led tills nation
through the red sea of battle, is not likely
to desert it now that tho dreadful passage
has been acomplished. Tho President of
tho United States, gentlemen, stands before
tho country in no doubtful attitude, llis
voice gave utternneo to no uncertain lan
guage when it denounced treason, nt the
out-break of the rebellion, iu the Senate of
the United States. [Cheers.] Ho showed
no faltoring fidelity when, counting every
thing else of no value, as mere dust in tfiu
balance, in comparison with the Union and
the Constitution, he went back to Tennessee
to fight treason and secession in their
stronghold, and peril his life und the lives
of his family. [Cheers.] His policy is
straightforward, intelligible, and practical.
If better policy can bo presented, one
more in consonance with the principles of
the Government, better calculated to pre
serve the supremacy of Federal authority,
while it trenches not on the reserved and
legitimate rights of the States; more Just,
more humane, better fitted to bind the people
of this great country in ncommon brother
hood, at the same time that it plucos Just
condemnation on treason and vindicates
tho majesty of the law —if such a policy can
be presented there is no man in the United
States who will more willingly embruco it
than Andrew Johnson. [Heurty cheors.]
But until that better policy bo presented,
he must be false to himself, false to his rec
ord, aud must in fact, ceuso to bo Andrew
Johnson,, if he does not adhere to his policy,
and sink or swim with it. [Cheers.] It is
pretty good evidence, uftor all, gontlomen,
of the correctness of his policy, that Cou
gress, after having been in sossion nearly
six long, weary months, has boon unable
to present one which they can ugreo upon
as a substitute. [Cheers aud laughter.]
It was once said, I think by Jehu Ran
dolph, that of all tinkers tho Constitution
tinkers wore tho most to bo deprecated.
[Cheers.] Ifthooldinan could rise from
tho grave, what would ho say to tho present
Congress, in which every third man, at
least, is a Constitution tinker? [Cheersand
laughter.] But they are not wise enougli
to amend that grand old instrument, the
work of our patriot futhers, of tho founders
of the Republic, tho glory of the United
States, and tho admiration of the world.
[Cheers.]
My fellow-citizens, there is but ono pro
position thut has boon presented that stands
even the ghost of a chanco of acoen'nnco by
the peoplo of tho North; and that is tho
proposition basing representation on votors.
And whose fault is it that that is not a purt
of tho Constitution to-day? Why was it
not submittod' with tho amendment abolish
ing slavery ? Whoso fault was that?
Voices— The Copperheads.
Other Voices—Thad Btoven’a,
Mr. McCulloch. Was it tho fuult of An
drew Johnson. [Shouts of “Tho fuult of
Congress,” '‘Thau. Stovons,” and counter
cheors for Mr. Stevens.] If tbocourno which
tho Prosldont was pursuing was obnoxious
to tho chargos made ugalust it on the recess
of Congress, how buppened itthatlherowas
no denunciation of it until tho mooting of
Congress? How hupponed it that these
Jupilers Tonans of Congress wore as silont
os though thoy had been dumb? Those
men, whoso duty it was to stand on the nun*
parts of tho Constitution, and alarm the
people of approuching danger—why did
they not denounce that policy and demand
of the President of the United States a con
vention of Congress ? No such domand was
made. Nosuchdenundution was then heard.
We did hear a voico from Pennsylvania, 1
believe, and perhaps a response from Mas
sachusetts. [Laughtor.] Butthepeoplowero
silent. The press was silent, if not appTov
-s’ellow-citizens, I did notintondspeaking
so much. [Voices— 44 Goon.”] I have only
to say: 1 have desired and hoped for the
continuation of the great Union party, with
which I have been ever identified. [Cheers.]
But if its leaders can present nothing better
than tho programme of the committee, I
am greatly apprehensive that Its days will
be numbered. [Cheers.]
I trust, fellow-citizens, that this will not
boAhe case; that it will discard Its hostility
and its attempt to continue alienation be
tween tho two sections of tho country, aod
that it will embrace those principles which
. look to harmony, to restoration and to
peace. If it should do this, it will continue
to bo the great and controlling party of the
country, and cover itself with imperishable
glory. Undoes not its days are numbered,
and the epitaph that will be written on it
will be, 44 it know how to prosecute the war
with vigor, but it lacked tho wisdom to
avail itseli of the benefits of victory.”
[Applause, and three cheers for Secretary
McCulloch.]
A Johnson Journal at Pittsburg.
A new daily paper, called The Re
public, has been started at Pittsburg. It
is intended to be the organ of President
Johnson’s policy in Western Pennsyl
vania, and Is a handsome and ably con
ducted sheet. From the following par
agraph its general tone may beinferred :
44 With no disposition to control the po
litical notion of others, wo shall roservo the
right to sustain for office such men and
vocate such measures as shall be best cal
culated to carry the foregoingpurposoa Into,
effect. No humbuggery of party organiza
tion will control us to tno support of men or
measures entertaining essentially different
views from those here avowed,,
In essentials we shall domand unity tuul
co-operation; In non-essentials, toleration
and liberality, and in all things expect ami
extend charity.”
The La Pierre House, Philadelphia,
we learn has been leased by Messrs,
Baker & Farley, of that city, and tho
whole establishment elegantly refur
nished and beautifully refitted and pre
pared for the comfort and luxury of the
travelling publlo.