.gtomiit’ar BtvamipaxJAy, •' June e; i'Be6; ' TliS jttmtmg preuoi mall be free to every fioreon who undertake) to examine the pro oeedifirt of the legletature, dr any branch of govcrnmenti and no law than ever be made to restrain the right thereof The free commu nication of thought and opinion! le ono of t&o Invaluable right! of meni and every oltleeti may freely ipoakiwrlto and print on any mb toot t being reiponilblo for [lie abuito of that llborty, In proieeatlona for the publloatlou of papom lnvontlgoung tho ofllolal oondaot of ofll aeri, or men In publlo oapael tlei. or whore tbo matter publlelied li proper for publlo informa tion, tho truth thoroof may be given In evl donoe," o FOB GOVERNOR: Hon. niESTEB CLTHEB, of Berks Co. Pennsylvania and tlie South. Shall we have Union or disunion? That is the question upon which tho people of Pennsylvania, and of all the Northern States, must decide by their Voteß in the coming elections. The modified plan of the Senate caucus pro poses to delay the restoration of the Union no less than the more objection able proposition of the Committee of Fifteen. To subserve the purposes of Republican politicians the Union Is to he kept divided. To enable them to carry out this iDfumous purpose they rely upon their ability to keep alive in the North a feeling of hatred toward the South. If they cannot succeed in' that the people will decide against them and their schemes by an over whelming majority. Will the people of the Pennsylvania still be led blind folded by passion The war is over. All the purposes proposed to he accomplished have been successfully achieved. If the Union Is not restored it is the fault of the Radi cals in Congress. Sluvory, whether the cause of the rebellion or not, has been wiped out. The news, even as published in Radical newspapers, shows that the people of the entire South ac cept tlie results of the war, ami are willing to bear true allegiance to the Constitution and the Government of thejUnited States. The slaves are well treated and are only doing ami faring badly where injudicious agents of tho Fruedmeu's Bureau and rapacious Northern speculators interfere between them and the wliltes. There is no unl moslty towurd the negroes on the part of their former owners. Even in the Memphis riots it has been proved to the satisfaction of the Radicals themselves that citizens ami returned (Jonfederate soldiers had nOlianil in IhcdlsUirbuuces. The whites of tho South are principally concerned about repairing the ravages of tlie war. They are building, planting and doing their host in every way to better tlielr material condition. What Is tlie proper course for the peo plo of Pennsylvania to pursue under such circumstances. Do not our duty und our interests alike demand that we should lay aside passion und prejudice and aid these people with whom we so lately wuged war. Their section is part of our common county—they an Import ant part of a people with whom we havo common Interests and a common des tiny. We would not permit them to separate from us. Now that they are willing and ready to coalesce with us, shall we act as if all our professed love for the Union was a sham and u lie'.’ Pennsylvania is closely allied with tlie South. Joining Maryland and Vir ginia along her entire extended South ern border, she is geographically united to that section. Heretofore tlie inter course between our people and their Southern neighbors has been most friendly. They have married und in termarried, until everywhere a thou sand ties of kindred and of blood have knit them together in bonds of the olosest and most kindly relationship. In material interests we are no less closely related. Our rivers all run toward the South, and our chan nels of trade tend in that di rection. We are in all respects nearer akin to the South, more closely allied to that section in commercial in terests, and more dependent upon it than upon any other section of our ex tended country. If there is a single State in the Union which cannot af ford to help the New England fanatics to vent their unreasoning hate upon the South, that State is Pennsylvania. It is high time we ceased to he the pol itical bond slaves of cold-blooded Yan kees. 11l the coming election let the people of this good old Commonwealth act upon their own generous impulses and their honest, convictions. They havo cowered under the lash of Tbad. Stevehs and his radical associates long enough, and have allowed themselves to be sold to disgrace by corrupt political scoundrels like Simon Came ron too often. Every true Pennsylva nian should spurn these bad men and their satellites, from the most insigni ficant candidate for the Legislature up to their convenient and pliant tool, John W. Geary. Distinguished Visitors. Last evening Ex-Governor Bigler and Judge Findlay, of Somerset called to see us. They had been pay ing a visit to Wheatland, the home of Ex-President) Buchanan. We found Governor Bigler looking as well and as robust as ever we saw him. Judge Findlay has been nominated for the Legislature in Somerset. He can run more votes than any man in the county, and we think can be elected easily. The district is composed of Bedford, Fulton and Somerset. We ought to gain a Senator and two mem bers of the Legislature up there. Judge Findlay will add much to the strength of the tioket. Misrepresenting the Soldiers. The soldiers have failed to respond with any heartiness to the culls in the different counties for meetings to send delegates to the Pittsburg Convention. In every instaucs the attendance has beeu wonderfully slim. A few radicals have got together, as they did in this city, named a set of delegates, and passed resolutions of a radical charac ter. The same farce was enacted in Beading on Saturday. The following dispatch to the Sunday Press will show what was done: Reading, June 2. —A meeting of soldiers, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Piltsburg Convention, which meets on Tuesduy next, wus held this afternoon in the court house. Colonel George W. Al exander, a brave soldier,, presided to the satisfaction ol’all concerned. Fifteen dele gates were appointed. An attempt was made by a Coppcrjohnsou to introduce res olutions endorsing the course of the merry Andrew, but they wore promptly hissed down. There is no comfort here for acci dentals or apostates. The wording of that telegram is suf ficient to show the character of the as semblage. The soldiers were not pres ent. If they had been those who hissed President Johnson would have fared badly. The great mass of the men who did the fighting, stand firmly by the President. They have no affinity with the radicals who follow the lead of Thad. Stevens, and they will prove this by refusing to cast their votes for John W. Geary. Election at Washington* D. C. At the municipal election Yesterday Richmond Wallach was elected Mayor of Washington over H. N. Easby. These and all the candidates for mem bers of the City Councils, with several exceptions, had pledged themselves to the workingmen to sustain the princi- Sle of eight hour? os a legal day’s work. To political question was involved in' the election. A Word to Every Democrat. 1 l’ho Democracy of Pennsylvania in tend to wltfln 'the pending political Contest. £4oy haye served* notice to that eUbc't on the Dadloal (Jlaunlonlsts, who follow'the lead of Thod. Stevens. Tlio leaders and tho lqpsscs'are In earn; est. They intend,: to elect, Clymer, to return a majority of truoDnlon'men to Congress, and to secure a majority of momhors of tho Legislature pledged to prevont tho olcctlou of Simon Camaron to tho Unltod States Senate. Tlieyhavo the power to aceompllsb .all theso pa triotic purposes. A poll of the entire democratic vote of the State, swelled ns our numbers will be by multitudes of thoughtful Conservative Itopubllcnus, will give us a grent and complete victory put the contest will be a tierce one. The Radicals know that their political existence is staked on tho issue of the present campaign. If they are defeated in October, they will be buried so deep beneath the BCorn of an indignant peo ple, that they can never hope for a political resurrection In Pennsylvania. Hence they will not give up their hold on official position wlthoufa desperate .struggle. Tho Democracy must go into the pending contest resolved to leave no agency which may conduce to honora ble success unemployed. Every man must do his whole duty. There must be such close and perfect organization as never existed in our ranks before. Every Democratic vote in the State of Pennsylvania must he polled. This cannot be done without tho most vig orous and well directed effort. Every election district must be thoroughly canvassed. To do this effectively will deinund the organization of a club in every ward and township. Sow is the time to attend to that work. It should not be delayed u single week. It can be easily done. Let a few leading, ac tive Democrats get together and take initiatory steps at once. Any man who re eads thin can start a flub in Ills dis trict. Let him call on half a dozen of the prominent men in his district and have an evening set for meeting. Large meetings are not needed as yet. We will have those when the contest grows warm. What is needed now is the for mation of clubs for perfecting the work of organization. These need not he very large to lie effective, hut they should embrace at least one good mun In each school district. As soon as such a club is formed let them send one of. their number to the chairman of the County Committee, He will lay down work for them which can he done easily, und which, If litre done thoroughly, will tell with tremendous weight at the polls In October. We hope every Democrat wild reads tills will act ut once on our suggestion. Do not wait for your neigh bor to move. Take the Initiative your self, and do so t,ills very duy. If but a single Democrat in each township in the [state should act upon our advice, the parly would lie so thoroughly organized within a mouth thnt defeat would be impossible und a glorious victory abso lutely certain. Nothing can prevent our success but a luck of proper efficient organization. Let each man who reads tliis act at once. The responsibility rests on every one alike. All the beat interests of the country combine to urge to action. Let there not be another hour of delay. The prompt, efficient action of a single man tn each election district in the Slate is all that is needed to effect such thorough organization of tile Democratic party of Pennsylvania, as was never had before. You, reader, are the muu on whom this work de volves. Do it, and do it this very day. ilemember that with thorough organi zation defeat is impossible. A I'cw Plain Thoughts. From the accession of Mr. Jefferson to power in 1801 until the advent of Mr. Lincoln in 1801, the government was conducted on Democratic principles.— There welt, it is true, at long intervals, men belonging to other political organ izations chosen ; but after they were installed in office, they found it im practicable to carry on their adminis trations upon the narrow and contracted views of the faction accidentally in power. This was the ease with John Quincy Adams and John Tyler—so of Fillmore, and so, also, of Andrew Johnson, the present incumbent of the Presidential chair. We appeal to every unprejudiced mind if such is not the fact. This being the case, then, let us study the history of the Republic for the sixty long years above referred to. Can we iiud anywhere, in any age of the world, or in any nation, a parallel to the happiness and prosperity of the American people? Crime was almost unknown, and the taxes were so light as to be scarcely felt by the people. — And, by way of contrast, can we find such wretchedness anywhere as fol lowed the overthrow of the Democratic party in 1860? It is literally true, and so impartial history will read, that the immense national debt under which we are staggering, the whole cost of the gigantic war through which we have passed, its vast slaughter of men and destruction of property, and the enor mous taxation entailed upon us and our children for generations to come, are the returns the people have received for their misplaced confidence in the Abo lition party. Jf the Abolition party had not ob tained control of the Government, it is admitted that there would have been no war—no slaughtering of tens of thousands of men, no destruction of thousands of millions of property, and no weight of taxation that will for long years cripple the industry of the Nation and reduce do serfdom the laboring classes. The Abolition party cannot shift the responsibility on the Demo cratic party. The representatives of the Democratic party in Congress voted for every proposition for a compromise —voted for the resolutions which the lute Seuators Douglas and Crittenden declared would result iu a “just and honorable settlement of our national difficulties;” —and the representatives of the Abolition party voted against and defeated them, and loudly cried for the shedding of blood ! These arc all facts which cannot be controverted, and the only hope for the nation, the only security for the future; is in the restoration of the Democratic party to power. The Government of this country never has been, and, what is more, never will be, successfully ad ministered upon any other than the Democratic theory. Other parties have tried a different theory and failed, and the Abolition party of the present day will be the most conspicuous failure of them all. Its leaders are fanatics—not ’statesmen. Its policy is. inconsistent, extravagant and mischievous, and so loqg as it holds the reins of power the prosperity of the country will be made to suffer, and decay and death to our political institutions will be the final and inevitable result. Colorado. The Chicago Republican says that Governor Cummings of Colorado, who passed through that city on Thursday week, on his way East, reports the present population of that Territory at from 10,000 to 20,000 —no more. Here, then, is a Territory, with a pop ulation leas than that of Lancaster city, which the Abolitionists wanted to bring into the Union as a sovereign State with one Representative and two Sena tors in Congress, and which wdqld have been accomplished but for the timely veto of President Johnson,* The Bepobllcsn Newspaper Preu. Every man of sense must find the Republican newspapers of this State to be a very dreary kind of reading jUBt now. Fearing to advocate boldly the real principle* of their party a* set forth by. such representative men a* Steven* and Sumner, and yet not dar ing to ropudlato the dangerous and rev olutionary doctrine* advanced by them, tho republican nowspaper pres* and tho ropublloau party of this State are re duced to a really pitiable condition. Thoy denounco Androw Johnson be J cause their representatives In Congress have done so, and yet they do not openly uphold the acts of the men by whom they are led. Here and there a bold radical speaks out, declaring In favor of negro suffrage, and all the dis tinctive and well recognized principles of the real leaders of the party, but the majority of tho public organs In tblß State dare not follow where such pa pers as Forney'.- Pres* and the Pitts burg Gazette lead. From day to day they are filled with glittering general ities, which are framed to cover up be neath the tinsel of a meretricious style the real meaning of the statements which they are ufrald to utter more boldly. Their columns femlnd the reader of tho celebrated saying of Tal lyrand that “the use of language Is to conceal thought." Who has seen an open and cordial discussion of the great questions now agitating the public mind In any repub lican newspaper published in this State? What single journal of that party has attempted to make an argumentln favor of the position taken by its leading men In Congresslf any one has we have failed to see it. They treat their readers as If they believed they either had no Interests in the great political issues of the day or were totally ineapuhle of comprehending them. Not daring to advocate the true doc trine of their party, beiug compelled to ignore the very existence of the platform adopted at their State Convention, and lluding that they cannot whitewash a weak man who was a military failure into a hero, the republican newspaper press of this State are reduced to great straits. Being unable to approach the reason of the people they appeal to their baser passions. Were hale a normal condi tion of the human intellect they might succeed In carrying the masses with them by the means they are now em ploying. It. was effective during the excited period of the war. Vet even thou, on tho home voto in Pennsyl vania, Lincoln’s majority over Model -san wuh only a little over five thousand. I'lien the Republican press used tho same tootles It Ih employ ing now. 'They cried “ copper head ” with more vehemence and more effect than they can do 10-dayi and had boiuc arguments which they use effectively. Now they have no ar gument left, und their parrot like cry lias lost all its force. Vet they keep It it' up. A reiteration of weak and huse slanders is all that is to be found in the editorial columns of the Republican press of this Htate. Whole columns are taken up in de nouncing Hlester dymer as a Copper head. It must be the dreariest kind of reading. We pity people who are compelled to depend for political food on the editorial columns of such papers as our neighbor, the Express. Yet it is only a fair typo of its class. There is not a new idea in its columns in a week ; scarcely a new expression. It is the same old slang whanging political abuse, repeated over and again. If its readers are satis fied with that kind of stuff we are. It leaves us nothing to assail or answer. The miserable trash it prints will make votes for the Democratic party. What is true of it is true of the Republican press throughout the State of Pennsyl vania. What Republicans Think of Irishmen. He who would know the real senti ments of the Republican party must go to Massachusetts. Boston is the cradle of the party, and the home of not a few of its representative men. The utter ances of Republicanism in that city are unrestrained and outspoken. At a large mass meeting held there on Thursday, resolutions were adopted endorsing the majority of Congress, denouncing Presi dent Johnson and declaring against any plan of restoration which did not make the negro in all respects the equal of the white man. Characteristic speeches ■were made. Among other speakers was ex-Governor George S. Boutwell, now in Congress. While lauding the ne groes, he took occasion to denounce the whole Irish element of the country, in the followingbitterand insultingterms. Said he: He said there was a great interest on the subject of punishing the rebels and granting the colored men their rights. They had waited forthetrialofthegreatleadingrebel ; but they were no nearer to it than they were a year ago, although there were no legal obstructions, lie believed that there never could be any reconstruction until the rights of the negro were granted lo him, which were the elective franchise and eli gibility to office, ami in the course of years his election to office. These wore the prin ciples they were hen? to consider. He then alluded to a Met,'lellan meeting once held in this halt, tv hi eh wax coin posed mostly of Irishmen, and said that they a cre now engaged in. some kind of a movement to free their own land , Out he did not believe they would sueeeed or that, they ought to suc ceed, until they entertained more liberal views concerning the freedom of the colored man. The Irish came lo New Kngland on account of the aggressions of dreat Britain, and unless ire jircventcd the oppression of the negro in the South, they would also come to Hew JCngland to enjoy <mr rights and Privileges. Of all the disgraceful things that will be written in history there, is nothing to be more reprobated and denounced than the character and conduct of the Irish who came over to this country, leaving one of oppres sion and tyranny, to enjoy tilth us the privi leges of our institutions, and combining with traitors in arms against us and the negro and seeking to deprive us of our just rights. What do the sons of Erin think of that kind of talk ? It is not mere idle bluster. The Republican leaders hate the working classes. They sneer at the Dutch and denounce the Irish, while exhausting all their sympathies and wasting many millions of the public money upon worthless negroes. No intelligent foreigner who has a particle of self-respect can act with any such political party. It is the infamous Know-Nothing organization lacquered over with the gloss of New England fanaticism. The wool of the negro is used to cover up the naked deformity of a political organization which made itself infamous. Sambo and “Sam” are near akin. The Republican party is a mulatto bastard, springing from illicit intercourse between Know- Nothingism and original Simon pure Abolitionism. Itsmellslikeanegroand talks like a Baltimore Plug Ugly. It is the most corrupt, the most arrogant and the most daDgerous party that ever ex isted in any country. To secure a con tinuance in power it would disfranchise poor white men, while allowing every greasy, ignorant negro to vote. We re joice to see indications of its speedy ex tinction in every State outside of New England. It ought to be shutup within the borders of Yankeedom and allowed to ating itself to death there. No other portion of this fair land should be pollu ted by the presence of its corrupt and decaying carcass. The Cholera at Hew York. The report of Dr. Blssel, the Health Officer at the New York Quarantine, reports for Friday that there are fifty nine new cases of cholera and eight deaths on theshipsPeruvian and Union, leaving ninety-seven cases on the hospi tal ship. let the laboring White Men Bead! , There Is to-day In this broad land, ’Say* aeon temporary, many an earnest,-; jhone&t, hopeful working man, breast ing the wave* of adversity,' hi* stout heart clinging to the plotnre he see* away off In the far future, of a home of hli'own, purchased with the savings of hi* weekly toll. To be sure, to-day he ho* no savings; the great war debt, with It* taxes upon him, eat* up all hi* little surplus. Tho enhanced price of the necessaries of life, growing out of ' the paper currency—the financial shin plaster curse upon him and his—he has to'stagger' under. He has no surplus now ; but he hopes on and hopes ever. He sees the little home, and the Bohool house, and the church, and his weekly news Journal, and a decent wardrobe, and three good meals a day for him and his—a beautiful dream, away off In the far distant future. For the present, all Is dark and gloomy, and if It were not for hope his heart would sink within him. He struggles on in poverty and self-denial; his children are ragged and Ignorant; he works and earns his ten or twelve dollars per week, hut the landlord and the butcher, and the baker and the eoal dealer take all his money— for are they not taxed, doubly taxed, trebly taxed, and he has to foot the bill. He realizes that he, as a consumer, must suffer through these taxes ; that thepeople must bleed at every pore, but for what? Let the complaining tax payer, who cannot educate his children and feed and clothe them as formerly, read and judge for himself. The Negro Bureau wants, according to the bill reported by Mr. Stevens, $ll,- 584,500, for Negro necessities down South, the coming fiscal year. What a sum !—almost equal to tho entire cost of supporting the Government of the United States thirty years ago! Negro commissioners, $47,500; negro clerks, $12,800 ; negro printing and paper, $OB,- 000; negro fuel, $15,000; negro ward robe, $1,750,000 ; negro food, $4,100,250 ; negro doctoring, $500,000; negro rail road riding, $1,080,000; negro school marms, $21,000; negro school houses, $800,000; negro telegraphing, $lB,OOO, etc., etc. Working white men of tho North, your families are made by the present party In power white slaves. Vour task isplaeed before you, and Ih ho plain that you cannot mistake it. Vou are to toil ami Hweat so that the negro may have $11,584,500 111 comforts, though you and yourH die on the roadside through the labor which alone gives tlils vast sum to the lazy, wnrthleHH black race of the South. Vou need not memorialize the State Legislature for an eight hour a day law. It will be In vain for you to expect higher returns for your labor. You will he compelled to work longer and take less pay per day for It than ever, In order that four millions of Indolent, good for nothing negroes may he maintained In Idleness at your expense. Slueo tho formation of the Govern ment up to the present hour, the work of Democrats lias always been to repair the political and social damage tho old Federal or Tory faetlonists, whenever they got Into power, have uniformly perpetrated. Democratic administra tions have always righted the abuses which the Innate corruptions of their political enemies, when by accident or chicanery they obtained the rehiH of Government, always committed. The great reform, we trust, will commence with the present year ; but the job In the Augean Stables in former times was child’s play to the work now on hand. While the blunders financial, moral and political, disgrace the whole country and are bringing ruin in their train, the true reformers should not be disheartened, but should put their shoulders manfully to the work, and again, as in times past and gone, en deavor to get the old Ship of State ouce more on the right track with a Demo cratic pilot at the helm and a Democratic crew oil board. Stevens and Geary both Endorsed. The Allegheny county convention assembled on Tuesday last and nom inated a full ticket. The resolutions adopted are decidedly significant.— They make clear the position of the party which supports Geary. Among others are the following: Resolved, That the Republicans of Alle gheny county cheerfully eudorse andjmtify the nomination of Major General John W. Geary lor Governor, and will labor with earnestness and zeal to secure the election ol this bravo and patriotic son of the Key stone State. Resolved, Tliut we heartily approve the platform of the Union Republican State Convention thut placed General Geary in nomination, and will adhere to it as ex pressing fully our creed upon the political questions of the day. Resolved, That tho unfailing devotion of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, during a long and illustrious career, to the cause of freedom and humanity, and his hatred of treason and traitors, and by his advocacy of the right stamped him as the man above all others whom we call salely honor and trust as a leader in this crisis. Resolved, That the peoplo of Allegheny County will sustain the course ofthe Repre sentatives in Congress upon the question of Reconstruction, and that the action of the Republican majority in Congress upon that question and in tfie passngo of the Civil Rights Bill, meets with our hearty concur rence. Resolved, That the course of our Repre sentatives in Congress, Messrs. Williums and Moorhead, meets with our cordial ap probation, and we will sustain them in all they have done, und hereby express our abiding confidence in their übiltty and ti dollty. The resolutions as a whole, were adopted with but few dissenting voices, and the one endorsing Thad. Stevenfe, was received with hearty applause. Mr. Wm. M. Murray, of Pitt town ship, offered the following additional resolutions: Resolved, That we deprecate all attucks mude upon the President or upon the ma jority in Congress; that both representa tives of our party should be treated with fairness and Kindness, and that all attacks upon either are well calculated to induce distraction and hostility in our party, and to invite defeat. Resolved, That in President Johnson wo recognize the firm patriot, the profound statesman and warm defender of the peo ple in all sections of the country. These resolutions were received with evident disapprobation and were tabled by an overwhelming vote, followed by tremendous cheering. The action of this Convention is de cidedly significant. The resolutions ex plain the wordy platform adopted at Harrisburg. No one can misunderstand the resolution endorsing Thaddeus Ste vens. It is broad, plain and compre hensive, as much so as Geary’s endorse ment of that individual \nd his acts. The resolution declaring that the Con vention approved of all the acts of Wil liams and Moorhead commits the party to every obnoxious act of the present Congress, they having steadily voted for the most extreme measures. The Radical Disunionists of Allegheny county have thrown off all disguise* They boldly commit themselves to ne gro suffrage and negro equality. The honest masses of Pennsylvania will not be left in the dark in the pending cam paign. This authoritative explanation of the Republican State platform will enable them to see exactly what the Radical Disunionists under the lead of Stevenß intend to do. A vote for Geary is a vote to prevent any restoration of the Union until negro suffrage and ne gro equality is made the rule through out the country. Let every voter re member that it is so declared by the Republicans themselves. A general court-martial has been ordered for the trial in Washington of the North Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau officers, and such other officers as are now under arrest, or against whom charges have been made in connection with the bureau. Ike Test Oath Unconstitutional. .' Representative Hogan, of Missouri, Bos addressed a letter to Senator Rev erdy Johnson asking him what his knowledge was regarding the decision of the United States Supreme Court, In the Missouri test oath case. Senator Johnson replies os follows: "The main question, In the case of Oaresohe & Cummings, to whloh you refer, was whether the test oath required by tho constitution of Missouri was constitu tional. On the part of those gentlomon my, associate David Dudley Flold, of New York, and myself maintained that It was not,‘,becauBe of the provision In the 10th section In the Ist artlole of the Constitution of the United States, that no State shall pass any bill of attainder or expost facto law. To this conclusion a majority of the court came, as was well known, a few days before the olose of the term. It was also certainly known to me, that the failure to an nounce the decision was not because any one of the Judges constituting the majority then doubted upon the ques tion, but I suppose that it was merely owing to the fact that the selected to deliver the opinion had not time before the close of the term to pre pare such a one as the importance and gravity of the question required. That this will he done during the recess, and that It will be delivered at the next term, I have no doubt.” The Memphis Riots. The official statement of the military commander at Memphis Is very unsatis factory to the Radical faction In Con gress. Tlielr expectation and intention was and Is, if possible, to throw all the blame of this disturbance upon white men. They have been using the oc currence as an argument in favor of the maintenance of tho Freedmeu’sßureau They have cited it repeatedly as a con-, vlncing evidence of the terrible out rages to which the negroes are subjected at the hands of the Southern white peo ple. With this intent, these riots have been greatly magnified In Importance, and used as an argument to show the prevalence still of a reljelllous spirit In the South, and a sufficient' reason why all the Southern States should be exclu ded from representation in Congress, and all the white men In the South Bhould be disfranchised. The report of General Stoneman has fallen like a wet blanket upon the hopes of this revolutionary faction In Con gress. It dissipates the romance they lmd Invented, and, in n plain, unvar nished statement of facts, leaves the blnmo principally upon the negroes themselves as the originators of the riots, next upon the Irish policemen and Yankee negro haters In Memphis ; but exempts tho paroled Confederate and substantial citizens from any parti cipation whutover In the alleged out rages. Such expositions of facts are not hi accordance with the Radical pro gramme. They consequently evoke bit ter denunciations from these prejudiced partisans, who, while they know noth ing whatever of the circumstance, ore determined to deny the truth ofany state ment that Is not fitted precisely to the theories they have maliciously Invent ed. The masses of the people, however, are not so wilfully blind and deaf to the truth. They will recognize In General Stoneman a distinguished Union sol dier, who has, by Ills noble devotion to the cause of the Union, eutitled himself to much public confidence; and they will find in his evidently truthful, fair, aud impartial statements, a very dif ferent story from that which has garn -ished the recent speeches of Radical revolutionists In Congress. The Senate Scheme. It seems to be impossible for the radi cals to devise any scheme of reconstruc tion which is not ridiculous. The Sen atorial caucus repudiated Tliad. Stev ens’ sweeping enactment for disfran chising the whole white population of the South. Having done this, they began to east .about them for a small sized tub to throw to the radical whale. They profess to have found it in the following substitute for the third sec tion of the original plan: No person shall be a Senutor or Repre sentative in Congress, or elector of Presi dent or Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United* States, or under any State, who having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or officer of the United States, or as a mem ber of any State Legislature, or as an ex ecutive or judicial officer of any State, lo support the Constitution of the United States, shall liuve engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or eomfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. That would put under the ban all who have been Governors, State Exec utive officials, Senators and Assembly men, with their officers; judges ; mag istrates ; sheriffs and their deputies ; clerks of the courts; constables; dis trict attorneys, commissioners of all kinds; assessors; collectors; all law yers and attorneys in some States ; and perhaps militia officers. Who can sup pose that any Southern State would disgrace itself by proscribing all such men, embracing as they would the older and more sedate portion of every community. To do this would be to set the son against the father, relative against relative, neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend. There might be some excuse for the proposed enactment if the punishment intended would fall upon the heads of those who were most influential in ex citing the rebellion, and upon them alone. It would do no such thing how ever. Those most intensely and actively hostile to the Government throughout the war, and most influential at home since the war has ended, would be left untouched. The shallowness of the Senatorial scheme is thus easily ex posed. Every attempt of the radicals to devise “ a plan ” has been a signal failure. The Senate scheme is no better than those which have preceded it. It Icoks somewhat more plausible but is none the less absurdly ridiculous when examined. It is time these quacks should quit tinkering with a Constitu tion which they cannot mend. Maryland Politics, Decent men in Maryland are rapidly abandoning the Radical party. Thomas Archer, Esq., of Harford county, who had been appointed by the Radical Union Convention of that county a del egate to the Cth of June State Conven tion, has published a card declining to serve. He says he is in favor of Presi dent Johnson’s restoration policy and opposed to negro suffrage. In this con nection he remarks: “ I conscientiously believe that every man who unites with the radical party in Con gress, though his intentions and objects may be different, really throws the whole weight of bis influence to promote the ulti mate objects of that party. No one who has read the debate and proceedings in Con gress can doubt that the real object of that party is to establish universal negro suffrage throughout the Southern States. This is the burden of their speeches—the darling ob ject of their hearts—the principal plank in their platform. Now, how can a Mary lander who is opposed to the Bcheme—{and I give my fellow-citizens the credit to be lieve they all are)—how can he unite with such a party? When we join a party we certainly expect to promote the objects which that party has in view. We cannot sanction part of their measures and refuse our assent to another and more important measure. “It is folly to say this question is not at issue in this State. This is a great national party. Their measures are intended toem brace the whole country to which they are applicable. If the party succeeds in their ultimate objects, does any man believe they will consent to relieve our State from the effects of the odious Jaw ? It is manifest to me, therefore, that all in Maryland who support the radical party in Congress vir tually, though unintentionally, throw their influence in favor of negro sum-age,” Death of General Bcott. Though tho falling health of Qeneral Scott has prepared the nation to some extent to hear of his decease, the coun try was startled yesterday .Vwhen- the telegraph announced that he . Was dead. Until the gigantic war through which wo have just pagKd gave signal prominence to younger and compara tively unknown men, General Scott was tho chief military notoriety of tho nntlon. Kvory schoolboy had rend of tho hero of Lundy’B Lano and was fn miliar with his achievements. General Winfield Scott was born at Petersburg, Virginia, on June 18, 1780. Educated at William and Mary’s college, ho studied law with the Inten tion of devoting himself to that pro fesslon; but In 1808 he was appointed a captain of Light Artillery In the Army. In 1812, after having been suspended for a year on account of some misunderstanding with General Wil kinson, he was advanced to the rank of Lieut. Colonel, and ordered to the Canadian frontier. He bore a con plcuous and honorable part in the battle of Queenstown immediately upon his arrival at the scene of action, but after a victory had been substantially gained had the mortification to see It lost and to be taken prisoner. Throughout the war of 1812 his career was a brilliant one. At the storming of Fort Genge, at the bottle of Chippewa, and at Lundy ’, Lane he was especially distinguished as a leader. In that campaign- he laid the foundation of his future military renown. Between the conclu sion of the war of 1812 and the com mencement of the Mexican war, Gen eral Scott rendered considerable mili tary service. He led our forces in the Indian war which ended In the defeat of Black Hawk, held command In Charleston during tho nullification troubles, was engaged In the Seminole war and In settling the difficulty that sprung up with the Cherokees. His exploits lu the Mexican war are parts of history so recent and so well known that we need not attempt repeat them. lu 1802 he wus run as the can didate of the Whig party for Presidents but was defeated hy General Pierce. At |the breaking out of the rebellion he was living lu comparative quiet, with health so much enfebled that he found It necessary to resign the management of the contest to younger men. He was merely a looker on during the recent gigantic struggle, the magnitude of which far surpassed any of the contests In which he wus engaged, He lived to see It ended and died full of yenrs, hon ored and respected by the whole na tion. Trouble With tho Soldiers. Thu Disunion press throughout the Stato Is hard put to to account for the uprising of the soldiers against Geary. The meeting In York has alarmed them greatly, and puzzled them tho roughly. When they get that little matter fixed up to their satisfaction, they can employ their time In explain ing how It comes that tho soldiers of Cumberland county, the homo of their paper General candidate, have repudi ated him with such unanimity. At the meeting called by the Hepublleans to send delegates to the humbug conven tion which Is to meet at Pittsburg, the resolutions endorsing Clymer were adopted by a vote ofl 18 ayes to 21 nays. The soldiers understand the political position lu this State thoroughly. They know that u vote for Geary is a vote to sustain all the infamous measures ad vocated by Thnd. Stevens, including negro suffrage and negro equality. They know, too, that the Convention at Pittsburg is but a transparent game of Disunion politicians to secure aseem ing endorsement of Geary. The sol diers ofTfennsylvania cannot be gulled by any such trickery. Apostacy and Supposed Apostacy. At a meeting of the Soldiers’ League in Huntingdon county, the following resolu tion was unanimously adopted, viz: Resolved , That the Reconstruction policy of President Johnson, which is now eliciting the approbation of every rebel in tho land, meets with our decided condemnation, and we hereby pledge ourselves to oppose on all occasions, and by every possible means, any attempt to mislead the people with such an insane and dangerous policy. That’s plain and sensible talk—the North ern rebels aro tlie only friends of Andy Johnson in this section of the country.— Harrisburg Telegraph. & We can understand that. Bergner has been so much irritated by being turned out of the Post Office that words can scarcely be coined strong enough to express the bitterness of his hatred to President Johnson. But what are we to infer from the following extract? Can it bo possiblethat Andrew G. Curtin Governor of Pennsylvania, is withholding his signature from tiie Bill for the Disfran chisement of Deserters, with the full know ledge that by so doing ho gives twenty thousand Copperhead votes to Hiester Cly mer, and neutralizes that number for the Republican nominee, Gen, Geary? Wo trust not. —Crawford Journal. Such are tho opinions of every loyal newspaper, men, women and children in Pennsylvania, and yet the Governor, who was elected by them, has turned, so far, a doafearto their interests. Wo hear that Senator Wallace, the Copperhead chairman of the committee, can give a reason why he offered a resolution complimenting Gover nor Curtin, nt tho dose of tho session. Time will develop tho reason why Copperheads compliment a professed loyal Governor.— Harrisburg Telegraph. Are we to understand that Governor Curtin has abandoned the camp of the radical disunionists ? Ib he in league with Wallace to elect (Jlymer ? Evi dently the Telegraph thinks so. No wonder it is in tribulation. Thenpostacy of Johnson might be borne, but that of Curtin would be a blow too grievous to be endured. If Senator Wallace “can give a reason why he offered a resolu tion complimenting Governor Curtin" we hope he will do so, and that speedily. The suspense of Bergner and his fanati cal readers must be intense in the ex treme. Let them be relieved if possible. Where the Generals Stand At the meetings which are being held in this State to send delegates to the bogus Soldiers’ Convention at Pitts burg, President Johnson and his policy are denounced. All the great soldiers of the war are with the President. Gen eralsGrant,Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, and all the heroes to whom we are in debted for victories, sustain the resto, ration policy of Andrew Johnson. It is only such mock heroes as Beast Butler, Sigel, Schurz and Geary, who side with Thad. Stevens and the Radical crew in Congress. The soldiers will mark the company which Geary keeps, and will treat him as he deserves. They cannot be duped by the movement of a set of small fry radical politicians who wore shoulder straps. The men who did the fighting, read andtiink for themselves, and their votes will be thrown against the Radical disunionists of Pennsylva nia and their puppet John W. Geary. The Fenian Invasion. The Fenian invasion of Canada, at least the Fort Erie part of it, has turned out a failure. After an engagement on Saturday with a force of Canadian, vol unteers, in which the latter were worsted, many being killed and wounded on both sides, the Canadians were reinforced, and the Fenians com pelled to fall back on American soil, where they were arrested by the U. 9. authorities. There are reports strations at other points on but the Canadians appear to be fully prepared to meet them. Gen. Meade 1b at Buffalo. A Noble letter From Ex-IT. 8. Senator ' Gen. Shields. CaBBoLTON, Mo., May 1. Messrs, dark H, Orem, W. C. B, Gilles pie, D. K. Turk, Macon, Mo: GxNTnßJiEit—l dooply regrot my Ina bility to comply with my engagement at your placo on Monday noxt. 1 too suddon and serious Indisposition of n mombor ot my finally makes It Imperative on mo to remain at homo until it bo God’s will to rollavo mo from unsiety. T bog that you will make this known to your people as my apology for falling to altond, and de sire this tho moro bocauso I make It a point novor to full In un ongngomout of this kind, oxcopt undor tho prossuro of overruling circumstances. If I can at any thun hero nfter atono for this flilluro, It will afford me plonsuro to do so, I havo novor boon moro thoroughly con vinced of tho necessity tor oxortlon than nt the prosent moment. Tho peril of tho prosont hour can hardly bo overrated. In this I agree with tho President, nnd think It would be treason to the Constitution and the Union for men to think ns I do and continue silent nnd lndlfforont at such a crisis. A few years of civil war do the work of centuries in altering and deterior ating tho ohnracter of a people, and none but strong and privileged races over fully recovor from such deterioration. Most nations have to pass through a soc ond conservative revolution to recovor tholr lost position, nnd If wo escape from that calamity it will bo by a violent polit ical struggle, amounting in substance to n revolution. The bad passions of human nature oncostimulated by war, survive tho occasion and make tho period that succeeds one of bitter revenge and cruel persecution. It was nt first hoped nnd behoved by tho friends of human ireedom everywhere, that our new peoplo, educated under tho be nign and elevated Influence of liberty, would show to the world that a dofeated pnrty in a olvil war could nccopt tholr de feat with dignity, and return to their nat ural allegionce without any feeling of dis honor or degratlon, and that party, disdaining tho base nnd cowardly gratification of rovengo, and, confidont in tholr own strength, lustlco and magnanim ity, could wolcomo back tholr orrlng breth ren, without Booking or desiring to Insult, humiliate or degrade them, or rundur thorn unworthy of that high destiny which should bo tho prldo and boast of all the free born citizens of tho only grant republic in the world. This would have exalted our national cbaractor In tho estimation of Christendom, and, like all public conduct which is truly great and noble, would redound to tho in terest nnd advantage of our own country. Tho loaders of tho present Congress are giving tho most convincing proof that a single despot, howover cruel, can be moro magnanimous and merciful than the In llamod fanatical representative of a free peoplo. They are not content with trying to humiliate, degrade and dishonor the whole Southern people cn masse, loyal and rebel, but they are determined to perpetu ate that degradation and fasten it upon their innocent posterity, by divesting them of all political power, and Investing their slaves ot yostordny with full polltlcalpowor to dominate over them. They imugine, and porhaps rightly, that no lmmnti pun ishment could dugrndo tho Houthern white like that of Investing their recent slaves with powor to decide upon their destiny. There Is n coldly calculated, refined vln dlctlvonoss In this that would do crudlt to tho donlzens of a durker region than their Ethiopian policy enn over make tho South. And besides tho gratification ol impish revongo, this policy promises them peculiar udvanlagos, for It is one of thu characteris tics of this cold-blooded faction, that In oven gratifying tholr revenge they never lose sight of their own Immediate Interest. Thu whole political powor of tho SouLh, when onco Africanized, can bo made avail able by snltnblo agents, undor their civil ltlghts bill, and such other kindred mutis uros, us they may bo able to pass over thu President’s veto. 'The agents with which they Intend to Immdnlo tho South under this bill, would be un Intolorablo allliction under uny circumstances; but when it is remembered thnt this brood of mean, petty, ■ hungry ofilolals, oro to be sent there to take charge of tho negroes and sustain thorn against thu whites, and to onlbrco negro oquulity, wo may form some slight idea of the potty little radical pandoinonlum they moan to establish in that devoted region. To evon discuss Iho uncoustltutiormlity of this bill would bo treating It with too much respect. No man who understands our system of government will dare to urge that Congress has thu power to enter thu Status, select out a portion of tlieir citizens, change their civil status, place them under spociul protection, send special agents to sustain them ugaiust the rust of the citizens, and remove them when necessary from under State laws nnd State tribunals, and place them undur the solo guardianship and protection of tho General Government. It would wrong their intelligence to sup pose that any of tho men who voted for that bill behoved it constitutional. President Johnson could not net with such men. No American who has a white conscience has to be blackoned in America, or crimsoned in Europe, to make a Republican suffici ently rod to do the work of a thoroughly radicalized fanatic. If this country is to bo saved from going the way of the other republics on this con tinent, we will oweit under God to Andrew Johnson. Ifweareeverngain to havo any thing worthy of being called a Union, wo will owe it to his loyalty and intropkmy. Rut a Union kept together by bayonets, or what is worse by a swarm of oflicinl ver min, appointed undor Civil Rights bills, to interfere with the laws, tribunals and rights of tho States, and tho hereditary constitu tional liberty of the people, is not worth tin hour’s preservation. No, let us have a real Union—a Union of hearts, laws, rights and Erivileges, or no Union. The people will avo no radical Union, with tho New Eng land for its head and Texas for its tail. Wo will have no Union with eloven Sta Les out or Africanized. The war, it is truo, has made us a pntiont people, and taught us to submit to any kind of government, but this must not be mis taken for a blind, ignorant, or slavish sub mission. We will start up wide awake some bright morning, and conclude that a rump Congress and a rump Union at this time are not qulto tho thing for this coun try, and so sure as wo open our eyes to this fact we will do what Colonel I’ridc did with tho rump Parliament—send the rump Con gress to seek tho devil—anywhere else ex cept in Washington, and bring back a whole Union, in all its beaulyand majesty, the greatest and noblest political structure in the world. To effect this peacenbly we must have a thorough organization of the people. Every man who wunts to preservo the Constitution of the Union ought to on tera Johnson club. We owe it to the noble stand taken by tho President to sustain him ; and what is moro wo owe it to our selves and to the country, and to tho prin ciples of constitutional liberty, to sustain his policy so long as ho sustains tho Consti tion and tho Union. This radical fuction must bo put down by a peaceable organiza tion, or tho country will drift rnpidlv into a so -ial civil revolution. Gentlemen, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, Jamks Shii;u»s. Why Geary Cannot be Elected, The Philadelphia Daily News, a Re publican newspaper which is as well known as any in this 9tate, very plainly intimates that General Geary does not stand a shadow of a chance of being elected. It declares that thousands of sensible Republicans know that the platform on which he stands will be re pudiated by the people of Pennsylvania and the candidate with it. We make the following significant extract: When General Geary was noinlnuled, a series of resolutions wus passed by tin* con vention which named him as the candidate of the “ l 'nion ” party, nml these resolutions contained matter very different from Lin* declaration of principles mado at Chicago when Lincoln and Hamlin were nominated, and at Baltimore when Lincoln and John son woro nominated. They also eontuin assertions concerning the courso Which President Johnson has pursued which are false in point of fact and grossly offensive in language. There cannot bo a doubt that those resolutions were intended to widen the breach between tho friends of the Fed eral government, and the revolutionists who are striving to subvert the Constitution. After the nomination was made wo called upon General Geary to repudiate tho offen sive resolutions, but thus far ho has not done so. There is yet time, but we can see no good reason for delay nor any fair one for refusing to state his views candidly to the people. The principles which now divide tho conservative portion of the Union party from the radical element are ofsuch import ance that they cannot be ignored at a time when the very life of the republic is at stake. The silence of General Geary warrants the impression that he intends* to stand upon those resolutions, and it is certain that they are not the platform, of the Union. It is folly for any one to Hatter himself with the belief that tho radical element alone can carry an election in Pennsylva nia, even if tho conservative Union men should simply refrain from voting. If any friend of General Geary will take the pains to calculate the percentage of votes which the party now dominant in the State can afford to lose, without incurring the cer tainty of defeat, he will find that it is very small; and if he will then estimate the uumber of votes which tho party whose popularity has mainly depended upon its being the Union parly will loso by taking an attitude of hostility to tho Union, he may be able to form a judgment as to tho prospectß of General Geary’s election, if he shall persist in standing upou tho Harris burg resolntions. _ The Cholera at hew York. New York, June 3.— Twelve new cases of cholera and five deaths occurred to-day on the hoßpital-ships. Several bad cases occurred on thePeruvlan, and thirty cases of diarrhoea on the Ports mouth. The yellow fever patients are improving. Dr. Bissell says the weatherj is bad for theoholera patients. A South east rain storm has prevailed ftll day, . - fa the Walklll [Special Despatch to thaPubllo Ledgor.j Middleton, N, Y., May 80,—It Is n6\v nearly two months slhce the people residing along that portion of the wal ls ill Valley wnich lies In the western part of Orange county wore attacked by a disease which for somo time banlod thu skill of tho physicians, thoy bolng nt a loss to divine tho causo.'Tho mala dy, It Is truo, exhibited tlio most posi tive symptoms of lead poisoning, yet all tho HUtlbrurs stoutly denied having used anything that* could havo been contaminated with loud. In some In stances wholo families woro stricken dowu, while in others only oue or two were attacked. Many of the cases re sulted in death. To-uay hundrods are sufl'erlng from Us effects. Among tho symptoms most prominent in these cases were sovere colic pains, nausea nnd persistent vomiting, cramps and partial paralysis of the upper ex tremities, and an anxious, gloomy ex pression of countenance. Professional men at once saw that these symptoms pointed to and were characteristic of lead poison ; but It was also observed that some or all of them were encountered in othor and far dif ferent forms of disease. The only symp tom which, regarded by Itself, was con clusive as to (lie lead poison was the blue lino at the margin of the teeth, which was present In almost every case. The doctors were sorely perplexed, but In about two weeks after the llrstviolent cases enmo under their notice, they had established the fact of the presence of lu the system of the patients. I now remained to ascertain the source from whence it came. After considerable research It was found that the lead was taken by the sufferers in bread and meal, and as a ?;reater part of those staples were man actured ut a mill in Phillipsburg, an Investigation was at ouco made In that direction, and the following facts were elicited : It appears that the pioprletor of tho mills bad gained a. reputation for tho superior quality of his Hour, and that the farmers, for many miles around, were In the habit of bringing their wheat nnd corn to Ills mill to be made Into Hour and meal. Aside from this, he exported largely, ho thut ills mill was kept constantly going, by night ns well us by day. One set of stones was set apart for hie “custom” work. This was an old set, constantly ueedlng re pairs, and large cavities frequently manifested .themselves, which, Instead of being filled up with the cement gen erally used for that purpose, woro filled with common lead. Borne of these holes were as large as n hen’s egg; one, we are informed, being as large on the surface as thu palm of a man’s hand. If when filled tho lead projected above the surface of the stone, it was hammered down level. Of course the attrition of the grind lug detached miuute particles of lead from tho stone, and mingled them with tho Hour. Tho lead thus communicated, when fer mented and subjected to baking with thollour was Immediately transformed Into carbonute of lead, one of Ihedead ilest of poisons. As soon as It was ascertained that the disease originated from thu bread eaten by the HUllerers, samples of the Hour were anaiy/.cd by Dr. Dorrance uud Mr. King, u chemist, of Middleton. These gentlemen fouiul, to their oston i ishment, that tho lead could he dis i eerued with the naked eye. It was, • however, snbiectcd to the usual stun i tlnrd tests, all of which revealed the 1 presence of lead in conslderablo quantl - ties. Of course, these revelations caused 1 a panic throughout the surrounding | country. C A Ktutementof thu leading physicians • of this vicinity shows iiltt eases of lead poisoning. I am informed that over one hundred cases have occurred In the • vicinity of Goshen. Many of the vlc -1 tims are prominent citizens. ’ i am informed thut a quunllty of this 1 Hour has been shipped to New York, ; and that seven cases of poisoning from , It have occurred in that city. The Senate’s Plan of Reconstruction. The following is tho plan of recon struction reported by the caucus of Re publican Senators: : Soction 1. All persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thoroof aro citizens of the Unitod .States and bf the Slate whorein they reside. No Stato shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge tho privileges or immunities of nny citizen of tho United States, nor shall nny .State deprive uny person of life, liberty or property without duo process of law, nor deny any person within its juris diction tho equui protection of tho laws. ! Section 2. Representatives shall be ap portioned among tho several States which may bo included within this Union ac cording to their respective numbers, count ing tho wholo number of persous in ouch State, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever in any State tho oleetivo fran* chiso shall bo denied to nny portion of its male inhabitants, being citizens of tho United States, not less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged ex cept for participation in rebellion or othor crime, the basis of representation in such State shall bo reduced in the proportion which the number of such malo citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens not less than twenty-one yenrs of age in such Stato. ; Section three being stricken out, thu fol lowing is proposed in lieu of it: 1 No person shall be a Senator or Repre sentative in Congress, or elector of Presi dent and Vico President, or bold uny of fice, civil or military, under the United States or under any Stnto, who, having previously takeu un outh as a member of Congress or us an officer of the Unitod States, or as a member of any Stutu Legis lature, or as an executive or judicial ofluHjr of any State to support the Constitution of the United States, shall huvo ongugod in insurrection or rebellion against tho same in giving aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds 6f each House, remove such (Us ability. . ! Sectidn 4. All obligations of the United States incurred in suppressing insurrec tion, or in defence of the Uuiou or for pay ment of bounties nr pensions incident thereto, shall remain Invioluto. ; Section four in tho original will be changed to section five, and it is proposed to clinngu tlmt. section so ns to make it road : Section f>. Neither the United States nor any State shall uNsumo or pay nny debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or nny claim for compensation for emancipation of nny slaves, and such debts and obligations and claims shall be forever held illegal uml void. Section 0. Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the pro visions of this article. Sympathy from the Hight Quarter. The Radicals are getting up a testi. moniul for William Lloyd Garrison. It is to be an endowment of $50,000. Chief Justice Chase heads the movement* Garrison delivered a speech in New York a few years age, in which he said : “ No act of ours do wo regard with more Conscientious, upproval, or higher satisfac tion, none do we submit moro confidently to the tribunal of heaven and the verdict of mankind, than when, several years ago, on the Fourth of July, in the presence ofa great assembly, wo committed to the finnios the Constitution of the United States I” The motto at the head of his paper, the Boston Liberator , was : “The Constitution und tho Union; a k l iuguo with hell and a covenant with death. By all means make him an endow ment ! He is entitled to one at the hands of the Radicals, and is deserving of all the sympathy Chase can bestow on him* In last Saturday’s issue of the Lan caster Inquirer we find the following choice morsel of editorial: “ Tho schemes ot the copperheads to de feat the election of Mr. Cattell in New Jer sey, by buying up Scovel, and thus pre venting h ballot, have been thwarted by a greater Power above. Gen. Win. Wright, who had two years yet to servo in tho U. S. Senate, died on Monday last, at his home. He was a man of fair abilities, and a hitter copperhead. Governor Ward will appoint Mr. A. G. Cattell, who is u thorough Republican and an able man.” We hardly know which most astou ishes us, the mean malignity of the par agraph or the ignorance displayed by the editor. No doubt the venomous wretch will be astonished to’ learn that Senator Wright is still living, with a fair chance of recovery; “the greater Power above ” be thanked for thesame. The Inquirer man ought to rend the Intellioencbr, or some other livfy newspaper. The Democracy of Illinois. The. Democratic Central Committee of Illinois have resolved to hold their State Convention In August, and to in vite to it those Republicans who depre cate the “ disunion schemes of tho Rad icals, and desire to support the pfttrlotJQ policy of the Pesldenft”
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