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WEDNESDAY, JANUAAY 23, 1867
Oar Jobbl bepartment.
,The Job Office c 0 the INTELIAGENCER
ene of the gioit . complete in the State.
We are prepared to do every description
of job work at the shortest notice and
in the highest style of the art. Our
presses and type are all new, and the
work we turn out speaks for itself. Our
friends throughout the county should
make its point to bring all their work to
this office. By so doing they help to sus
tain their party paper. We defy com
petition in the way of Sale Bills, Post
ers, Cards, Notes, Circulars, Bill Heads,
Letter Heads, Programmes, and all de
scriptions of Book or Job Printing.
Come to the INTELLIGENCER With your
work, and send your neighbors here. A
little exertion in this matter by all
our friends will help us greatly in
the course of the year.
Any of our friends wishing sale bills
printed, can send us a list of articles
and date of sale by mail, and we will
send the bills to them through the mail
free of any extra charge.
N. B.— We do ?cork as cheap as any
other office in the county.
llow to Get Cheap Paper
There is not a newspaper in the coun
try which is not paying vastly more for
the paper it uses than ought to be ex
acted. The manufacturers have sue
ceeded iu establishing a complete mo
nopoly of the , business. They have
arranged a tariff which enables them to
make an enormous profit on their wares.
All the talk about reducing the duty (01
paper has so fur amounted to nothing.
A few of the large newspaper establish
ments in the Eastern cities have con
ceived it to be to their advantage to keep
up the price of paper, and they have
thrown their influence in Savor of
the monopolist. But or them, there
is reason to believe the duty On
paper might have been reduced or
abolished. If it. were abolished or re
duced to a proper rate, paper such as
we use in printing the Intelligcne , r
could be had at least one-fourth cheaper
than It is now. Every country news
paper is directly interested in securing
reduction (it' the price of gaper, and
HO is every reader of a book or a news
paper. A little concert of action would
have forced the repeal of the duty oil
paper long ago. The country news
papers can reach the di frerent members
of Congress most elFectively. Suppose
every country newspaper in the north
should print a number of blank peti
tions Lo Congress demanding the repeal
of the duty on paper, and should send
them to prominent suliscribers at each
post office, with directions to have them
signed and forwarded at once to the
member of Congress from their district.
How long could any member stpnd up
against such a Hood of petitions from
his own vonstituentsLf Not fur a week
surely. NVepoint out a means by which
a repeal of the duty on paper can be
certainly and speedily elrected. Let
every country newspaper see that its
subscribers are furnished with blank
petitions, awl there will be an and of
one monopoly, and a very speedy end
at that.
The Radicals Cannot Recede
The Radicals in Congress Lair put
themselves ill a position from which
they cannot recede. Having taken the
initiatorysteps in regard to the impeach
ment of President Johnson they must
prosecute the work they have under
taken. The Judiciary Committeeof the
House must investigate the charges, and
if evidence is found to sustain the alle
gations they must so report. A report
being once made the House dare not
refuse to act upon it. They must pro
ceed to impeach the President before ihe
Senate. When that is done the Senate
will have no alteniative but to put Mr.
Johnson on trial. If the .1 udiciary
Committee of the I Louse should fail to
report in favor of impeaching the Presi
dent, the whole country will see at a
glance that the Radicals have utterly
failed to substantiate a single one of the
charges about which they have made so
much noise ; if the Committee should
report in favor of impeachment, the
House would not dare to pass over the
charge, because the people would con
clude at once that the whole thing was
a swindle from beg - inning to em]. They
must put the thing through now
that they have undertaken it. We do
notapprehend they will be at all scrupu
lous in regard to the matter. We believe
they have made up their minds not to
stop short in the contemplated revolu
tion. The people must prepare them
selves for the struggle that is to come.
They Joust be ready to step into the
galling breach, and to save the form of
our free government from destruction,
no matter how great the sacrifices which
will be required at their hands. The
Radicals dare not recede from the posi
tion they louse boldly taken. They
must advanee or suffer political destruc
tion. In their own words, " revolutions
never go backward." This one must lie
forced back ward by the people.
Itemmals from 011ie(
Terrible has been the out-cry of the
Radicals in consequence or the decapi
tation of office-holders. One would
have supposed from the wail which
ascended to heaven, that the slaughter
of the innocents had been wholesale,
and that starvation was the only fate
before the wives and children of the
whole army of patriots who had con
sented, at the request of Mr. Lincoln ,
to serve their country for a considera
tion.
The whole air wax thiek with curses
heaped on President Johnson. We were
deceived with the re , t of the world.
Our astonishment was unbounded when
we learned from the statement of Sena
tor Cowan, made in the Senate (
her, that the total number of removals
was only 446, out of a total number or
appointments of 2,434. Of the twenty
one changes made in the Department
of the Interior, seventeen were made
by the present Secretary, one of them
having been for "official misconduct."
Of the 1:17 removals in the Post Office
Department, 120 were for political rea
sons. The number of nominations for
appointment in the civil service sent to.
the Senate, from the commencement of
he present session to January 14, in
clusive, is 357. Five nominations for
civil appointments have thus far been
acted on.
Let any one who knows how the
President was vilified and abused by the
entire Radical faction read that state
ment; and then let him say, if he dare,
that President Johnson has been vin
dictive or hasty in making changes
He ought to have removed multitudes
whom he left in their coin fortable posi
tions. His failure to do so weakened
his friends and strengthened his
GE=
CHARLES MASON, ESQ., President of
the National Democratic Association of
Washington City, las issued a call . for a
meeting in that city to-morrow eve
ning to take into consideration the pro
priety of recommending the assembling
of a National Democratic Convention
at an early day, and to transact such
other business as may come before it.
Democrats from all sections are cordi
ally invited to attend.
Inauguration of General Geary—His In
augural Address.
On Tuesday, Major General John W.
Geary, as his admirers call ,him, was
duly inaugurnted Governor of 'X'ennsyl
vania. The day weal* inauspicious
one for a display of the ktrid ctmtnjn
plated, And this circumstance enalAed
the Harrisburg Telegrapk to frmiim
excuse for the very meagre orbwd
present. The procession was a very
poor affair. On arriving at the Capitol,
a prayer was offered up by Rev. Sena
tor Brown, of Lawrence; the Clerk of
the Senate then read the certificate of
election, and L. W. Hall, Speaker of
the Senate, swore the Major General
into office. This was all there was of
the show, except the speech of the new
Governor.
We venture theassertion that a weak
er address or one less suited to the oc
casion was never delivered. Judging
from both the manner and matter we
conclude that John W. Forney has quit
writing speeches for John W. Geary.
John W. F. did get up a piece which
John W. 0. is said to have spoken im
mediately after the election, which was
decent English, and in which the ideas
were expressed with some clearness. If
John W. F. had not been a candidate
for Senator, and had not quarrelled with
John W. o's. master, Simon Cameron,
the inaugural address of our military
governor might have been a respectable
Radical document. As it is we cannot
think of lumbering up our columns with
it. A short synopsis of it is all our
readers will care to see.
In the very first sentence we have
an allusion to the Deity coupled with a
reminder to the crowd that the Speaker
was a great military chieftain. Pro
ceeding in a train of thought which is
logical in its vanity, he goes into a dis
cussion of tftecauses of the rebellion,and
n estimate of what it cost to subdue it,
and is thus enabled frequently to call
the attention of the crowd to himself.
On the subject of slavery he expends
about a column of empty words, ringing
the old worm out changes upon the sub
ject. That part of his address, if we are
not mistaken he gleaned from an old file
of the Harrisburg Telegraph.
He had to say something about the
ocessity of education) if for no other
canon because he exhibitedsuch a lack
of it. His remarks on that subject re
iniud oC the compositions of school
boys. He concludes that portion of his
address in the following language:
" Pennsylvania should be the vanguard
of i'lluention, She should remember that,
as she has been the mother of States, she
should also be the teacher of 'States."
What State was Pennsylvania ever
le mother of? Where are her political
daughters? We never heard of them,
nor any one else, until their existence
was thus announced by Major General
l;overnor John W. Geary.
The next subject to which the lumi
nous genius of our Governor addresses
tself is the military of the State. Here
he is quite as much stilted and no more
ractical than in his talk about educa-
UM'. The subject was lugged in to en
able him again to call attention to him
self, as a military genius. Merely that
and nothing more.
Much of a muddle as his talk on pre-
•etling subjects is, it is not until he be-
gins to debate on the tariff that the
stupidity of the speaker fully exhibits
itself. This part of his address is made
up almost entirely of quotations, but
so bunglingly put together that we defy
any man to make good sense out of the
jumble.
Uf course he had to ventilate himself
on the question of reconstruction. From
what he said it is hard to tell what wing
of the Radicals he belongs to. About
the clearest sentence in the whole clause
relating to national affairs is the follow
ing:
The abhorrent doctrine, that defeated trea
son shall not only be magnanimously par
doned, but introduced to yet stronger
privileges, because of its guilty failure,
seems to have been insisted upon, as if to
strengthen the better and the contrasting
doctrine, that a nation, having conquered
its freedom, is its best guardian, and that
those who were defeated in honorable bat
tle should be constrained to submit to all
the terms of the cot
That is about as clear and as states
manlike as most of the Radicals clatter
upon the subject.
We hope the friends of the newly
elected (;overnor will take him in hand.
Frank Jordan can get up a decent
document. We hope he will see to it
that the annual messages of this guber
natorial prodigy are decent English,
even if they are nothing more.
Sumner's head Still Sore
('hales Sumner showed what a mis
erable white-livered coward he is by a
speech which lie made on last Friday.
While assailing President Johnson iu
the most bitter and malignant manner,
he exclaimed:
Thank 4 od, now it e slave masters have
wen driven from this Chamber, such at
ast is the liberty of an American Senator!
No doubt he rejoiced greatly in the
fact that on the floor of the Senate there
was a large majority ready to approve
his blackguardism, while from the gal
leries a crowd of 'negroes looked down
and grinned their approbation. He
would not have felt safe if he had been
surrounded by the men who sat there
when he made the speech which cost
him a caning at the hands of Brooks.
n those days no man could have as
sailed the President of the United States,
as Sumner did ou Friday, without be
ing forced to take his seat by the pre
siding officer of that once august body.
Sumner's remark proves that the cane
of a gentleman is sometimes the best
thing to keep a blackguard in order
His head is evidently still sore.
The Investigation Committee.
The Harrisburg Telegraph is parading
to the world the announcement that the
Investigation Committee have failed to
discover any evidence of fraud in the
recent Senatorial election. What bare
faced audacity! Does not every body
know that the majority of Radicals in
the Legislature, who were bought up by
Simon Cameron, appointed a Commit
tee for the express purpose of prevent
ing any investigation? It was a Com
mittee of Investigation got up to pre
vent an investigation. Of course they
report that they do not find any evi
ilence of bribery or corruption. , That is
jog what they were appointed for. It
ws:- their business to whitewash Simon
and th , in-mives. Any other kind of a
report W 0 ,1 1 ,1 n o t have been received. It
Will I, in order for some Democrat
to t v tliat. " the Committee, haring
fullyunla,lduly for which it
waB uppoinfr , i, 4. hwcwalil 0/ discharg
ed." We call on Mr. Boyle of rho
House to do this. We have no doubt
the Radical majority will lie gratified
for such an act of courtelf,y.
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White Foreigner.; Not as Good an Negroen.
In the proceedings had In Cong t , ,,,,
ou Tuesday last, the following it, 1' s
corded:
Mr. Koontz, of Pennsylvania, from the
Committee for the District of Co
made an adverse report on the memorial of
citizens of foreign birth, praying for the
same rights as negroes.
What do white men of foreign birth
think of that ? The Radicals in Con-_
press refuse to grant to white men in
the District of Columbia the same priv
ileges they have conferred indiscrimi
nately upon the negroes. Every negro
can vote there, but white men of foreign
birth cannot. What do Irishmen and
Germans think of that specimen of
Radical progress?
The First Official Signature of Governor
The first official signature was to the com
mission of the Secretary of State, Jordan.
We publish this not as a matter of
general news, but as an item of personal
interest to John Cessna, Esq., of Bed
ford.
Lancaster to be tjirrymandered.
It is currently reported to-day that it
is the intention of the Radical matirity
at Harrisburg, at the instance of Tome
of our -citypoliticians postpon •v.ur
city e4ctiot so,as to ovre . the
kreparation ar4 p e suctaills
as may "gerrymanaer" Oincariair so
effectually as to theßadicaid mi
nority to elect a majoritY,:tif CitY;Coun•-•
oilmen.
It is proposed, it is said, to divide the
city into seven or eight wards, arranging
them in such a manner that theßepub
licans can control four or five of thenti, !
and to these four or five wards a Ma
jority of the Councilitien - wilrtie'glien."
Others assert that it is the intention to
divide the city into small precincts, each
to elect one Councilman. As no census
of the various blocks composing the
wards has been taken, this, of course,
cannot be done fairly.
In all their plans, whether of creat
ing new wards, or precincting those at
present existing, no intention exists of
making the representation of the various
wards fair and equal, but they propose
to divide the present representation
among the subdivisions which they
may create.
Although we have little to expect
from their fairness, it may not be amiss
to show how grossly unjust the present
apportionment of Councilmen is.
By the census of IS6O, the population
of the various wards was as follows:
N. W. Ward 5,380
N. E. Ward 4,053
S. W. Ward 4,257
S. E. Ward 3,911
At the last general election the vote
of the various wards, taking in each
case the candidate for whom the high•
est vote was polled, was as follows :
N. W. Ward
N. E. Ward..
S. E. Ward...
S. W. Ward.
It will be seen that in population and
vote the North East, South East and
South West Wards are almost exactly
equal, and the North West is about 40
per cent. larger than each of them.
The Councilmen are divided as fol
lows ; The North West has 8, or oue for
every 142 votes ; the -North East has 7,
or one for every 114 otes; while the
South East and South West Wards have
together 9, or one for every 184 votes.
In other words, the North West and
North East Wards, with a population
of 9,435, and casting 1,934 votes, elect 15
Select and Common Councilmen, while
the South East and South West Wards,
with a population of 8,168, and casting
1,654 votes, elect but 9; or to put the
strongest case of all, the North East
Ward, with a population of 4,055, and a
vote of 800, has 7 Councilmen, while
the South. West Ward, with a popula
tion of 4,257, and a vote of 866, has
but 4.1.
As was said before, we have little to
expect from the majority in the Legis•
lature, but we heard so much during the
last campaign, about the terrible injus
tice of a vote iu South Carolina count
ing more than a vote in Pennsylvania,
that it seems a little strange that it
should not be equally unjust that a vote
in the North East Ward of Lancaster
should count nearly twice as much as a
vote in the South East and South West
Wards.
Last fall the Republicans carried the
North West Ward and the Democrats
the three other. Generally the Repub
licans carry the North East Ward.
The two South Wards always go strong
ly Democratic, As the matter now
stands the Republicans have a better
chance of electing a majority of City
Councilmen than they could possibly
have under any fair districting of the
city. We hope the Legislature will not
lend itself to the perpetration of a
manifestly unfair apportionment. Such
a gerymander as would be necessary to
assure the Republicans a majority of
the councils of Lancaster Would be so
unjust that we can scarcely believe any
legislative body could be induced to
pass it.
The Select Council is Republican at
present. If the Legislature will consult
that body they will find no disposition
to favor the proposed scheme. It had
its origin with a few ward
Multitudes of the most influential and
respectable Republican citizens would
be ashamed to have any thing to do
with such a bill, and they neither ask
nor desire the proposed change.
The Religious Press
Since the outbreak of the war, the
religious newspapers (so-called) have
been among the most violent partizan
sheets in the North. In bitterness and
unscrupulousness, they have put to the
blush the veriest sensation journals. No
word of aim-, was too low to find a
place in their columns. Side by side
with an article in praise of the Savior's
Sermon on the Mount, was to be seen
the most infamous array of falsehoods,
designed to foster a feeling of intense
and irreconcilable hate, notonly between
the two contending sections, but between
the different political parties in the
North. In every election these pretend
edly religions journals were found tak
ing an active part, and no calumny was
invented by Radical political papers
which did not find an echo in their
columns. We looked through them
regularly during and since the war,
and we only express our honest
belief when we declare that to them
more than to ally other single agency, is
to be ascribed the bitter feeling of hatred
toward the people of the South which
still exists among a portion of the peo
ple of the North. The Devil must have
been delighted at the manner in which
the majority of Church papers in the
North served his cause. Religion was
in a great measure forgotten by them ;
charity was east out from the churches
as a thing accursed; and the most ma
lignant and unholy passions of the hu
man heart were fostered with the same
care which real Christians bestow upon
the culture of the divine graces .
Verily theeuemy of mankind must have
laughed with fiendish glee, as he saw
the religious press and the pulpit of the
North vieing with each other in their
zeal to perform his work. Even during
the elections of last fall we could not
pick up a protestant church paper, if
we except one or two, which did not
devote nearly its entire editorial space
to the political canvass. Christ and the
Church were not, spoken of. We are
glad, however, to notice even a single
evidence of improvement. The Meth
odist Christian Advocate, published at
Pittsburg, has the following sensible re
marks upon the impeachment of the
President. It says :
We regret more than we can express the
novernent started in the House of Repre
sentatives to Impeach President Johnson.
It will unsettle once more the foundations
~(society, and create a wide spread sense
or uneasiness. The nation needs rest. It has
I,sen feverish long enough. And firm, not
extreme measures, are the great want of the
Lour. We trust the movement may yet be
arrested by the sober second thought o
(; , thgress. In less than two years theques-
Mai will come before the high court of the
people, and it is better to defer it to that
heal holllmnont.
We are glad, we say, to notice that
single evidence of returningreason, and
we hope it is only an earnest of sincere
repentance for past offences and a
promise ot future atonement. The
church papers of the Methodists have
been exceedingly bitter and deciflenty
unscrupulous ever since the war began.
We hope they and all other papers of
their class will cease to devote them
selves to the stirring u pofpoliticalstrifes.
They have driven more men to hell
within the past six years than they can
ever induce to take the narrow road
that leads to heaven In u similar period
of time. That reflection ought to be
sufficient to awakensincere repentance,
and to lead to active efforts to counter.
act the immense evil they have Wrought,
Congress to Change All the State Govern.
meats to Suit the Radicals.
r- Th extent to which the RadictkU l
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can: Sir , anything iioa Rep - . lie w ~ ch we
choose to call a Republic. Rome was a
Republic under Nero.• Rome was a Republic
under Trojan, and under her vilest rulers
There have been Republics everywhere in
the midst of despotism. You may call what
you choose a Republic. /iVhat A- speak of
ncrwris theatepublkiiitendeatY pie Decla
ration of liidep . pdpiacLe. ~..cden,y,.that„t47.
- OdikAiiitgitlide alei•eeria — R,erniTlie: ' r
deny that the State of Pennsylvania has ever
been a Republic, and I wish thit arngr ess
would take it in hand and make it a Republic.
That is the first time the purpose of
interfering with the State governments
of such States as continued loyal has
been publicly announced. The House
had under consideration at this time the
'bill for the admission of Nebraska,
and the debate was on the Edmund's
amendment, declaring that -Nebraska
should not be admitted into the Union
as a State until its Legislature conferred
the right of suffrage upon the negroes.
Mr. Stevens is logical in his revolu
tionary programme. He knows that Con
sgress has as much right to legislate for
Pennsylvania, and to require conditions
of her, as it has to require them of any
of the Southern States, or of anew State
applying for admission. If the people
sanction the usurpation of Congress in
one instance, and allow the Constitution
to be violated iu one particular, they
will have uo right to complain if the
Radicals in Congress follow their plan of
revolution to its logical conclusion. It is
absurd to suppose that Congress has the
right to impose the degradingeondition
of negro suffrage upon any one State
without possessing the right to force it
upon all. It would not be one whit
more unconstitutional for a majority of
Congress to pass a resolution declaring
vacant the seats of all Congressmen
elected from Pennsylvania, and refusing
them admission until all the negroes
within our borders are allowed to vote,
than it is to apply such a rule to Ne
braska or Virginia. The principle is the
same. Its application is no more revo
lutionary in the one case than it would
be in the other. If it is admitted as
right in a single instance, it must be
conceded to be righ tin all others. There
is and can be no distinction between
States in this respect. So far we per
fectly agree with Thaddeus Stevens. If
the governments of the Southern States
are not republican, neither is that of
Pennsylvania. If Congress has the
right to declare that members elect from
South Carolina shall nottake their seats
in Congress until negro suffrage is made
the law of that State, they have the
right to exclude members of Congress
from Pennsylvania on the same ground.
There is no doubt about this matter.
The power either does not exist, or it is
of universal application.
We hope the people of Pennsylvania
are looking at the events of these days
with eyes unclouded by party prejudice;
that they are scrutinizing the acts of
Congress as intelligent freemen should ;
that they are preparing to discharge the
duties of citizens aright. Are they
ready to concede to the Radicals in
Congress the right to annul the Ccnsti
tution of the United States and of this
Commonwealth at the same time ? If
they are not prepared for such a sweep
ing revolution they in c ust speedily
declare their opposition. The re
sult of the election of last fall
is claimed by the Radicals in Con
gress as a popular endorsement of their
most extreme views. They have been
thereby emboldened to engage in the
wildest revolutionary undertakings. It
is not strange that Thaddeus Stevens
should express the hope that Congress
may speedily pass a law conferring the
right of suffrage upon the negroes in
Pennsylvania, and breaking down all
barriers between the two races.
If the people of the North have sanc
tioned such interference with the South
ern States, they cannot complain if
Congress should make the rule univer
sal. Such power cannot exist without
being unlimited in its application. Did
the people of Pennsylvania sanction
any such doctine in the recent election?
The Radicals claim that they did, and are
proceeding to act upon the supposed en
dorsement of the masses. Hence the
audacity of Thaddeus Stevens and his
fanatical and revolutionary associates.
An Infamous Scheme
We find the following among the tel
egranis to the Philadelphia Press:
The colored citizens in the Third Con
gressional district of Maryland have deter
mined to hold an informal election to cast
their votes for a Representative in Con
gress. These will be forwarded to Wash
ington, and if not received by the Commit
tee on Elections, will at any rate be made
a part of the historical record of the con
test between Stewart, the defeated Radical
candidate, and Phelps, the successful Cop
perhead candidate last November. The
fact that Stewart was defeated by
men who were disfranchised under
the State Constitution for sympathy
with the rebellion is sufficiently es
tablished by the certificate of the officers of
the election, now on tile in the House com
mittee; and the question will arise whet her
the votes of loyal colored citizens shall not
be counted against those of disloyal, and
therefore disfranchised, whites. The case
is a new one, but it is one of many pro
duced by the revolutionary public situa
tion. Parliamentary routine may exclude
the votes of the colored men of Baltimore;
but the question is one of great magnitude
and will have at last to he decided, viz:
whether the States have any right to ex
clude citizens from the enjoyment of politi
cal equality? If the Supreme Court can
decide that State test-oaths are unconstitu
tional, because they interfere with the ex
ercise of professions like lawyers and
clergymen, may not all State laws be un
constitutional that assume to take away
the high franchises that inhere to citizen
ship?
We hope every man into whose hands
this paper may fall will read the above
item carefully . In it the Radical plan
is fully developed. They are resolved
to maintain their hold on power at every
hazard, no odds how revolting and
revolutionary the agencies to whin
they may be driven. Just think of it.
Negroes to be allowed to cast their
votes in some way not recognized by
any law, and the votes so cast to be
used to count out a Congressman
duly elected in a State where all the
appliances of a rigorous registration law
and an iron-clad test oath were applied
by election officers of the most radical
and unscrupulous character! And this
outrage is to be based ou a great princi
ple; on the principle that "no State has
any right to exclude citizens from the
enjoyment of political equality." If it
can be made applicable to Maryland
nothing can prevent its application to
Pennsylvania. The President once
removed, and the Supreme Court re
modeled, there will no longer be a check
upon the Radicals in Congress. They
will carry out the wildest schemes of
revolution with impunity. The people
must prevent the impeachment of
President Johnson if they would save
their liberties.
Admitted to Practice.
On motion of Mr,Garfield, of Ohio,
a negro lawyer, who hails from the town
of Oberlin, has just been admitted to
practice in the. Supreme Court of the
United States. A year or so ago Charles
Sumner brought a Boston darkey to
Washington and put him through in a
similar manner. That negro - disciple of
Blackstone having died recently, it was
necessary to find a substitute. Not that
there is anything for them to do, but
simply to assert in this public way the
entire' right of the negyo to full political
anti social equality. It is the principle
whivit Is involved, you see.
Newspaper Changes and hiprovements.
There have been quite a number of
'changes and enlargements among bur
timocratic exchanges within the pres
• nth.
, k e, Patriot and Unio
ot*ati . of Democracy of t State, ff.
big:m enlarged and Chan ite fro ..pn
eren,inA . . to a morning pap* Th: -
trials a bold and able allibeate the
right, and we hope the people of the
State may extend to it the generous
support it• so well merits.
The Carlisle Volunteer has been en
ifirged hitprOve!.l. It is ime of the
beat.-.wegLicky.pagers in Teansylmania v
and we heartily wish our friends Brat
ton and Kennedy the suceess they so
well merit.
The Sunbury Democrat has changed
hands; Truman H. Purdy, Esq., an
able gentleman, well known through
out the State, retires from the editorial
chair which he has so ably filled.
Messrs. Eicholtz and Aulten are now
publishers of the Democrat. Mr. Eich
holtz is from Lancaster. The Democ
racy of old Northumberland will no
doubt give them a substantial support.
The Clinton Democrat has also
changed hands. J. W. & W. P. Furey,
have taken charge of it. It has been
very ably conducted heretofore, and
those who succeed Mr. Orth will find it
difficult to excel him. We are assured,
however, that they are men of the right
kind them. Success to them.
The Columbian, a paper started by
the Johnson:men of Columbia county,
has changed hands. John G. Freeze,
Esq., is now editor, and he intends to
make it a consistent Democratic paper.
It is one of the handsomest papers in
the State.
The Newcastle Gazette, an admirably
conducted country newspaper, comes
to us enlarged and otherwise improved.
It looks as if it was flourishing decidedly.
The Indiana Democrat, published by
Jas. B. hansom, Esq., comes out in a
new dress with the beginning of the
new year. We are glad to notice this
substantial evidence of its prosperity.
There may be other changes and im
provements which we have failed to
notice. Throughout the State Demo
cratic journals seem to be entering
upon the new year with renewed hope
and increased energy. We hope and
believe the masses of the party will
extend to them all a generous support.
They richly deserve it.
Speech of Simon Cameron
After Simon Cameron had been elect
ed Senator, all the Radical members of
the Legislature waited on him at the
Lochiel House. In reply to their con
gratulations he made a short speech.
The only portions of it which were of
political importance were the following
paragraphs:
Six years ago I thought that slavery was
the strength of the rebellion, and ought to
be destroyed without delay. I wished also
to arm all black men who would volunteer.
Of course I thought that clothing a black
man in the American uniform clothed him
also with the rights of an American citizen;
and I am always sorry to see a 'black sol
dier, and reflect that even Pennsylvania
denies him the ballot--the only weapon
whereby he can protect himself. I hope to
live to see the word "white" stricken from our
own Constitution, and the spirit of caste,
based upon color, utterly destroyed.
The South, however, is more controlled
by social influence than by political princi
ples. If you are wise and firm you may
possibly educate the rising generation into
loyalty, but there is no method of states
manship which will make this generation
of the South loyal to the Union and to the
flag. The poison of thirty years cannot be
eradicated by the subserviency of the Pre
sident, or by the statutes of Congress. Let
us look the truth in the face. The Southern
territory is disloyal. The loyal men of to
day must guard their children against
another treasonable rebellion. The Con
stitutional Amendments and impartial suf
frage will help to do this, but universal
amnesty will help to undo it.
Of Andrew Johnson I said long ago that
he was a traitor to his party, and enemy of
his country, and a bad man. He has done
many things, but nothing worse than offer
ing the offices of the country to those few
unprincipled nien who agreed to desert and
betray the great Republican organization for
his patronage, He joined the Democratic
party long ago. He has a right to give them
the offices, but he has no right to dispose of
them at auction to weak-kneed Republi
cans.
We do not wonder Thaddeus Stevens
telegraphed to his friends to vote for
Cameron. Stevens never went further
than Cameron has in the direction of
negro equality. With characteristic
boldness, Cameron declares himself in
favor of striking the word "white" out
of the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
and of breaking down every barrier
that exists between the two races,
Election of U. S. Senator—Simon Earner
on Chosen
The vote for United States Senator W as
fbllows
In the Senate, Messrs. Bingham, Browne,
(Lawrence), Brown, (Mercer), Coleman,
Connell, Cowles, Fisher, Graham, Raines,
Landon, Lowry, 711'Connaughy, Ridgway,
Royer, Shoemaker, Stutzman, Taylor,
Worthington and Itoll, Nwaker-19, voted
for Cameron.
Messrs. Burnett, Davis, Donovan, Glutz,
Jackson, James, Randall, Schall, Searight,
Wallace and Walls-11, voted for Edgar
Cowan.
In the House Messrs. Adaire, Allen,
Armstrong, Barton, Brown, Cameron,
Chase, Chadwick, Colville, Davis, Day,
DeHaven, Donohugh, Espy, Ewing, Free
born, Gallagher, Ghegan, Gordon, Harbi
son, Hoffman, Humphrey,Keunedy,Keeus,
K immell, Kinney, Lee, Leech, M'Camant,
MCreary, :Mee, APPherrin, Mann,
Marks, Mechling, Mein v, Penuypacker,
Peters, Pillow, Quay, Richards, Routh.
Seiler, Sharpies, Shuman, Stacey, Stehman,
Stumbaugh, Sobers, Waddell, Wallace,
Watt, Webb, Weller, Whaun, Wharton,
Wilson, Wingard, Woodward, Worrall,
Wright and Glass, .Speaker-62 voted for
Simon Cameron.
Messrs. Barrington, Boyd, Boyle, Breen,
Brennan, Calvin, Chalfant, Collins, Craig,
Deise, Fogel, Gregory, Hamer, Headman,
Hetzel, Hood, Hunt, Jenks, Jones, Kline,
Koon, Kurtz, Linton, Long, M'Henry,
Markley, Myers, Mullin, Phelan,
Quigley, Rhoads, Robin: teh, Sat
terthwait, Tharp and Wei
for Edgar Cowan.
Equality Being Practit
Washingeoi
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes as follows :
"The great problem of the equality of
human rights," as styled by Mr. Sumner,
is being practically tested in this District,
under the impetus given by the passage of
the negro suffrage bill. The metropolitan
police commissioners have just received an
application for a position on the force by a
colored man, who is backed by the recom
mendations of a dozen or more whites. It
is stated on good authority that this will be
at once followed up by a demand on the
part of the black citizens of the District for
a proportionate share of the clerkships in
the departments, and, further, that perfect
equality as to seats will be insisted upon iu
the churches and theatres.
How this will be received, and how ac
ceptable it will be to the peculiar friends of
"equality," it is hard to conjecture. It is a
well-known fact that there is no man in
the country more exclusive or pretentious
ly aristocratic in his private and social re
lations than Mr. Sumner, the great cham
pion of the new doctrine and it is shrewd
ly suspected that he will not altogether
relish this practical result of his long
cherished ideas.
Count the Cost
One of the necessary consequences of
the abolishment of the State govern
ments of the South, will be the assump
tion by the Federal,Government{of all the
the debts contracted by those States
whilst in the Union, amounting to up
wards of three hundfed millions of dol
lars. The rights, powers and obligations
of a conqueror go together.
Rightly Famed
The Rev. Inaccurate Abbott, of Harper's
Magazine, (did anybody every hear of him
outside that publication?) is said to he on
his way to France, where he expects to
secure a job in the literary line from Louis
Napoleon. The proposition is to "do'
L'E7npereur in three volumes. The Em
peror has our most sincere commiseration.
We clip the above notice of the in
tensely loyal Abbott from a Radical
newspaper. "Rev. Inaccurate Abbott,
of Harper's 4fagazine I" Never was
a more fitting name fasteped op a
literary humbug.
Judge Woodward Declines.
By the following correspondence, it
-11 l be seen, that the Hon. George W.
' ' ockiward declines, positively, belug
thilettiwdidaWor le 441,.tm0n t.
''. l .preme cAn
. 14
.T i'', This determination
ilrill* ed. ' ith regret by'_ e pip)-
, gough his :•.: ~..--t• or it .'• diglil-
S(4o l _, l'_,'' •"' ' !i '; • ~...,‘" A tiO L
`administrathr'bf the aw, he hasbeen
upright, able and impartial; and will
take with him in his retirement the es
teem and confidence of the community
,at large., He is still in the full vigor of
li4), posiessing all the faculties and
- Textrattg which mackettim twornamenr
to the Bench. Long may he live, to
bless society with his usefulness :
PTITSBIIRGH, Jan. 7th, 1887.
Hon. Ge' o. W. Woodward, Chief Justice of
Supreme Court if Pennsylvania :
DEAR Sin c Nest fall the citizens of Penn
sylvania. will be called upon to elect a Judge
of the Supreme Court. The public mind
would be greatly relieved and the public
heart greatly gratified, to' know that you
would consent to be a candidate. For fifteen
years you have filled that high position so
ably, so acceptably, have "been so clear in
your great office," that you have won the
confidence, affection and admiration or all
men. We know of no man in Pennsylvania
of a more pure and unsullied character, of
more eminent abilities as a Jurist, or greater
worth as a citizen, and we earnestly trust
that you u - ill permit these high qualities,
embodied in you, to continue to adorn the
position you have filled so long, and so
well.
We are, with great respect,
Very truly yours,
Jas. H. Hopkins, Geo.P. Hamilton, John
H. Bailey, Christ. Magee, C. B. Kenney . ,
R. P. Fleniken, J. B. Kennedy, Alfred
Kerr, Thos. T. Keenan, R. C. G. Sproul, D.
D. Bruce, N. P. Fetterman, G. L. B. Fet
termau, John Mellon.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14, 1867.
Gentlemen: In answer to your very kind
note of the 7th inst., I am obliged to say, as
I have said in answer to numerous inquiries
of the same sort, that my purpose has long
been unalterably fixed, to retire from the
bench at the close of my constitutional
term, in December next. I do, therefore,
most respectfully, but definitely, decline a
renomination, and I wish to be so under
stood by all I he deputies to the nominating
Convention.
I have been deeply impressed by the gen
erality of the desire that I should remain
upon the bench. For a year past I have
been in receipt of such communications on
the subject, from every part of the State,
and from all classes of citizens, as to leave
no doubt, or room for doubt, that the Demo
cratic people universally wish for my re
election, and that ninny Republican lawyers
would cheerfully consent to it.
I allude to this fact, not merely to express
my gratitude for the public confidence
which it implies, but also to say that it
has put me upon a serious review of the
grounds of my declination. Not meaning to
state all the reasons that have led to my reso
lution, it is due to gentlemen who address
me as you have dons, that I should remind
you that thirty years ago I maintained,
in the Reform Convention, thatfifteen years
were in general a sufficiently long tenure
for Judges of the Supreme Court—that lll
teen years ago, when I took the office, I
declared against a renewal of the term—
that this declaration has been repeated as
often as I have had occasion to speak upon
the sultject, and that two years since I re
moved my residence from this city to
Wilkesbarre, in anticipation of the expira
tion of my term, a change of residence which
would not have been made if any thought
of re-election had been entertained.
Having advocated the substitution of the
limited for the life tenure, I was unwilling
to take any personal advantage from it,
and therefore peremptorily declined a nom
ination in 1851, whichwould have displaced
one of these incumbents, and the vacancy
which I came on the bench to fill in 1852,
was occasioned, not by the constitutional
limitation, but by the death of Judge
Coulter. But now, being the first Judge
who has completed the term of fifteen years
under the amended Constitution, it seems
to me to be my duty, in accordance with
the sentiment of 1831, to retire to give place
to a fresh recruit.
I know, it is common to say that as the
office is a difficult and responsible one, a
man with fifteen years of experience in it,
is better qualified to execute it than a man
taken from the Common Pleas, or from the
ranks of the profession. But an observation
of many years has led me to think that the
public loses more by the infirmities of ad
vancing age, and the perfunctory routine
into which judges fall, than is gained by
long experience.
Men are not ordinarily placed upon this
bench until they have astained mature life
and have had considerable experience in
the profession of law. A mere novice would,
indeed, be greatly out of place in a court of
so large and diversifiedjurisdiction. But
when a man, past middle life, has served
fifteen years, it seems to me he ought to
hesitate about assuming so onerous duties
for fifteen years more. The question of the
renewal of the lease out to be considered
not so much in respect to present qualifica
tions, as to continued competency. If his
faculties fail not, the tendency of long con
tinuance in office is to careless habits of
study and business.
If there is any virtue in the limited tenure,
I am under peculiar obligations togive the
people the benefit of it, and whatever others
may do, it is elpecially my 4luty to guard
the public against the evils which it was
intended to remedy. My declination there
fore is final.
Renewing my thanks for your too kind
estimate of my public services, I um, gen
tlemen, with great regard,
Your obedient servant,
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
To James 11. Hopkins, George P. Hamilton
John H. Bailey, R. P. Flenniken, H
Burgwin, Esqrs., and others.
The County Tax
The pretended defence of their action
iu raising the county tax, which was
published by the Comity Commissioners,
has not only failed to satisfy us, but has
utterly failed to satisfy their own party
friends. The following sensible and
well written article on the subject ap
pears as a communication in the Ex
aminer. It will be read with interest
by every taxpayer:
[For the Examiner and Herald.'
MESSRS. EDITORS :—The published at
tempt of the Commissioners of Lancaster
county to vindicate themselves in almost
doubling the county tax, may be "explan
atory," but it is not at all satisfactory to
those accustomed to look aielow the mere
surface of things. The necessity must be
urgent, and the reasons cogent, that will
justify them in adding to the weight of a
burden of taxation which no other people
in the history of the world has been able to
bear. Our people stagger cheerfully un
der the load, on account of the vital im
portance of the objects for which it was
imposed ; but they will sternly resist
any unnecessary addition to it. And
what are the reasons given by the
Commissioners for this action which so
astounded the community? There appear
to be really only two, viz: the determina
tion of some of the creditors of the county to
withdraw their loans unless the interest was
increased, and for the purpose of paying the
cost of the new addition to the hospital.
Now, as regards the first, it must be con
fessed that the money never was more
plenty than it is now. The present dullness
in business is not occasioned by the scarcity
of money, but by want of confidence and
knowledge where safely to invest ; and
as the county loan always was a fa
vorite investment with our well-to-do
farmers, the community will not easily be
lieve, because a few creditors demanded as
increase in the rate of interest, that the
Commissioners, by proper exertions, and
making their wants known, court not have
obtained all the money required at the rates
now given, at a time when ourpeople hard
ly know what safely to do with their
' money. As to the hospital, we would ask,
what is the necessity of paying off the
whole cost by one year's taxation? Is it
properly a part of the yearly expenses of
the county? We expect this institution to
be of use not only to those unfortunates
who may require its benefits during the
coming year, but during the whole present
generation and many more that are to fol
low it. The burden of the cost of a public
improvement should be distributed as far
as practicable among all who are to enjoy
its benefits, and it has always been the cus
tom to pay quite gradually for permanent
and costly institutions of this character.
We venture to say that never before in the
history of this county or any other, has an
attempt been made to pay, by one year's
taxation, the cost of a permanent public
building like this; and we challenge the
Commissioners to produce the instance.
These reasons will not do. Only absolute
necessity will justify increased taxation at
the present time; and a reference to the
account of the Commissioners of last year
will show a balance in the hands of the
Treasurer greater by over $7,000 than the
balance of the year before, proving that a
tax of three mills was sufficient to pay all
the county expenses and gradually reduce
the public debt. In 1886 a tax of three
mills produced $120,924.24, and in 1867 it
would produce at least $130,000. An in
crease of two mills will produce over $86,-
000; and the Commissioners have not been
able, in their published statement, to
spend this enormous sum even in advance
on paper. The reasons given are so notori
ously and palpably insufficient that we are
justified in saying that they are not even
the real ones, which must be sought else
where; and in one word, the only reason that
can be given for this action, that suffices
for those that "know the ropes ," is, that
it adds the snug sum of one per cent, on
$86,000, viz : $B6O, to the salary of the "acct=
dental" County Treaserer, or Treasurers,
(whatever may be the numberof those who
participate in the profits of that office) who
public
have only .
one year in all to feed at the
If V.II
I;MM=EM;;
Few are aware of the magnitude of tho
Common School Stetem of Pennsylvania.
Being of slow growth d ituoperations of
a . ulet n•. tin) p made during
t : er of a ry lax attracted
e •.• tiOn. Th: 4 .110Wityg table of
:H co . iled fpont tite official report
the Supe '' , :ndent l ollCfpfnmon Schools
' Z . / 866 11 th: ore pnt d for general
ftuAleritaltcie of an inter
: g".fd .rtatitoltarac A ter, well worthy
of preservation :
Statisticsincrease
I
for 1868. over 1865.
SCHOOLS A SCHOLARS.
Number of schools____
Number yet required_...
Average No. moe. taught
No. of male scholars
No. of female scholars...
AlliboloNccotraebolarc-
Av'ge No. in each school
Cost of teaching each
pupil per
No. studying German._
Average attendance
Per cent. of attendance
on whole N 0................
Teachers—
No. of male teachers...
No. of female teachers
Whole No. of teachers...
Average wages of male_
Average wages of female
Average age of teachers
Average grade of teach
ers certificates..
No.ofteachers who total
ly failed
No. withno previous ex
perience
No. with less than one yr
Total Noofthese3 classes
No. receiving provls-
14,744 226
509 89
5 mo. 15 dt 1 day,
344,998 14,196
304,521 5,736
649,518, -..- _ - 19,984
51
6,134
8 707
8 .140114 34 1
31
tbl
23N years
Tonal certificates..... ...
No. receiving proles
Mona' certificates
Amount levied for
school purposes
A.m't levied for building
$2,515,115.30 1
498,842.1X3
'a,013,437.33
purpoSes
Total amount levle I
No. of mills levied for
school purposes. .... .
No. of mills levied for
building purposes_
RECEIPTS.
A_m't of receipt, col
Atu't State appropria
tion distributed
Am't State appropria
tion fox sal. of co. supts
Total receipts
2,A11,759,,t2
99,802.67
3,085,tr2.0.66
Cost of insiruOtion . and
co. supts. .....
Cost of fuel and contiml
gencies
Cost of school houses,
repairing, &c.
Total expenditures
These figures do not In
clude the operations of
the school system in
Philadelphia, which
forms a separate dis
trict. The total expen
diture for school pur
pcuws,including
was
023,3;
46,66'9,1,1
116,311. tr
=E=
School Houser.
Whole number in the State.
Number unfit for Use
Number well ventilated
Number with suitable furniture...
Number having outline Maps
Number wholly without apparaiue.
Ctrunty Superintendents.
Number of visits made by Co. Supt _~,,
Number of vlaits made with directors.
Average length of visit
Number of teachera ess.mined
Number of certificates renewed
Dread Retribution
During the war a Democratic editor in
Dayton, Ohio, Bollmeyer, was murdered by
an Abolitionist, without any provocation.
An Abolition Court tried and acquitted the
murderer. The whole trial was u disgrace.
ful farce, and all who participated in it were
guilty of official perjury. Some three years
have elapsed, and the County Clerk, the
Sheriff, and about one-half of the jury, are
dead while . the infamous Judge, who out
raged justice at the trial, is an idiot in a lu
natic asylum! Jim Lane, while his hand
was yet smoking with the blood of murdered
victims, was elected to the office of U. S Sen
ator bya Puritanic Legislature. For one of
his murders he was tried and of course ac
quitted. lie has fallen by his own hand.
It is now believed by most of mankind,
that Mrs. Surratt was guiltless of participa
tion in the murder of Mr. Lincoln. When
she was under sentence of death, after a
trial which will be considered a blot on our
country and age, Mr, Preston King pre
vented access to the President, and denien
admission to her daughter, who almost
shrieked and sobbed her life away on the
steps of the Executive mansion. A few
months afterwards, Preston King stilled a
remorseful conscience in this world by self
murder.
A Tragedy
The New Orleans Oreacent of the 9th lost,
gives the following particulars of a tragic
occurrence which took place a few days
previous in the parish of Aroyelles : A
young man of the neighborhood, named
Apollianaire Desselles, had been paying
his addresses to a young lady, the daughter
of Mr. Louis Bordelon ; but had been re
jected by her on every occasion. He never
theless persisted in his uttentioas, and in
visiting the house. He is said to have cir
culated reports prejudicial to Miss Borde
lon's reputation. One night last week he
crept under the house, and forcing up a
plank of the floor in her chamber, he awoke
her from her slumbers, and, after saying
that he would return the next night, retired.
Mr. Bordelon, on being informed of this
outrageous proceeding, determined to put a
stop to its continuance, and, having armed
himself with a double barrel gun, he posted
himself in ambush, with two friends, and
awaited further developments. Desselles
soon made his appearance, and, stealthily
advancing to the window,attempted in vain
to open it. He then crept under the house,
whereupon Mr. Bordelon tired, and Des
selles was stretched out a corpse.
Mr. Bordelon immediately surrendered
himself to the authorities, and was released
on $l.OOO bail. His fellow-citizens hastened
to furnish the required security.
Abandoned 011 Wells
The Cil City Register gives a history of
the abandoned oil wells in the `mango
region, and concludes as follows:
"These are seemingly the failures. But
they are no more numerous than the de
serted claims of the gold diggings on the
Pacific side on our continent were during
the first few years of their development.
In both cases, by the wise natural laws of
compensation, stand out in bright relief the
successes. A less number of failures to
obtain good producing wells have oc
curred during the past niluing sea
son than any previous one. With
remunerative prices many of these deserted
oil wells be thoroughly cleaned out, and by
the application of greater skill and more
fitting machinery, be made highly produc
tive. In many localities this experiment
has been tried, and the result proves to be
highly satisfactory. With the adoption of
the petroleum product to other uses besides
illuminating and a demand created thereby,
equal to the supply, these wells will be in
demand. The land owners are now forfeit
ing all the leases they can get hold of
already, and in a short time we predict that
deserted oil wells will be few and fur be
tween. For we are well satisfied that with
the proper application of improved mechan
ical forces, four-fifths of the deserted wells
could be made to pay handsomely, thus
proving that the vast expenditure of labor
and money upon their creation, was not
wholly in vain, and will benefit somebody.-
The British Tariff.
The following account of the operation of
the British tariff may have some Interest at
this time. It is taken from the British Al
manac for the year 1867, the pound sterling
being taken at five dollars.
It will be noticed that the five articles
first named pay ninety per cent., send the
whole ten about ninety-nine per cent. of
the whole amount. The reduction of the
number of articles liable to duty which ex
perience has taught is thus stated by a late
English writer:
:I\ umber of articles liable to duty in
1660 was 1030 1841 was 1012
1787 was 1425 1849 was 515
1826 was 1289 18.53 was 486
Gross amount of custom duties in the
year 1.86.5 in Great Britain
Tobacco
Sugar
Spirits
Tea
Wines
Corn and Grain..
Dried Frttit
Pepper
Timber
Cocoa
All other articles
President Johnson and the Amendment-
Colonel Weatherly, a mernberoftheState
Senate of South Carolina, and who was in
trusted with an informal commission to the
President of the United States, has returned
to Charleston from Washington, where he
had a long and highly gratifying interview
with the Executive upon the question of
restoration and kindred topics, in the course
of which the President gave it as his delib
erate opinian that the Southern States,
through their Legislatures, should reject
the proposed Constitutional Amendment,
but in such terms as not to give offence to
those who are urging it upon the South.
Such action on their part, he believes, would
be sustained by the Supreme Court of the
United States—at least he had "reason to
hope that it would.
A Text for Biorsuisia.
A London correspondent of the New York
Times, in commenting upon the incidents of
the ocean yacht race, quaintly remarks—
" Mr. Bennett doubtless owes his victory
partly to pluck, partly to piety. It is edify
ing to read in the account of the voyage, by
his own reporter, that while making every
exertion to win the stake of $90,000, divine
service, was punctually performed at 12
o'clock on Sunday. As nothing is so bene
ficial as a good example, I have great hope
that a good effect may be produced upon the
contestants of the coming Darby,"
ri - ow promptly recurs to the mind the an
alagous old story—" John, have you sanded
t h e augur, stoned the coffee, and watered
the molasses?" "Yea, sir." " Then come
up to prayers,"
.ir,7Nf`Nrf!Em,E COURT,
Speech et lion. Jeremiah S. Black
The following able speech was delivered
on the evening of ti3e z Bth instant, at the
National Hotel, Washington, at the ban
quet given in honor of the fifty-second an
niversary of the battle of New. Orleans.
The speech was made in response to a toast
complimenting the United States Supreme
Court:
MR. CHAIRMAN: In the history of this
country it has never before been thought
necessary either to toast the Supreme Court
or defend it. But times have changed.
Very recently attacks full of bitter malig
nity have been made on that tribunal, and
measures are deliberately taken to break
down"its authority. Considering by whom'
these assaults are made, and what the ob
ject of them is, it would, perhaps, De better
to encourage them, since it is certain that
in the long run they can do no harm to
anybody but their authors. if you have a
a viper to deal with, or a nest of vipers, it is
better to keep them biting at a file than
anything else they can lay their teeth to.
Still, it may not be Inappropriate to look
for a moment at the occasion of the present
persecution.
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Three private citizens of Indiana, per
fectly innocent of any offense—l say per
fectly innocent, because, up to this time, no
human being has ever legally sworn even
to a belief of their guilt—these citizens were
arrested, kidnapped, and carried before a
body of men wholly without power to med
dle with them—not authorized oven to
swear a witness for them or against them—
and there, after a proceeding which it would
be mockery to calla trial, they were ordered
to be killed on a certain fixed day. In this
condition of things the judicial authorities
intervened, and, with the aid of President
Johnson, the victim were rescued.
When the cause came into the Supreme
Court the simple question was, whether a
citizen could be lawfully deprived of his
life without a fair, honest trial before an
impartial jury and a regular court. To
this answer was given unanimously, all the
judges yielding their full and unreserved
assent to it. They held, In effect, that the
pretended trial was a conspiracy, and that
the exectition, if it bad taken place, would
have been a mere lawless murder. What
else could they do? To hang men without
judge or jury iS an act so clearly forbidden
by the fundamental law that no one cam
make any mistake about it, if he has sense
enough to know his right hand from his
left. The prohibition Is written down as
plain as any one of the ton commandments ;
there is not a sentence In the Lord's Prayer
more simple ; not a moral precept can be
found in the child's primer that is more
easily Nualerstood. let the court is vili
pended, and abused, and slandered for say
ing it. The organs of disunion and anarchy
publicly proclaim their determination to
disregard the decision, not because it is
erroneous, but because it confines their
power by limits inconveniently narrow.
['hey declare that they will do, in defiance
of it, whatever gratifies their own passions
or promotes their own interests; and they
impudently use this very expression ; " Ii
the /ow st u nts i u our way, m, much the
for tAe lam."
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, the leader and
driver of the present Congress, denounces
this decision on the floor of the I louse. To
my certain knowledge he knows it tube
perfectly right. The senseless twaddle
about hanging American citizens by the
law of nations, on criminal accusations of
their own government, could not for a single
Instant impose on an understanding like
his. But he slanders the Judges for decid
ing what he knows and what they know to
be true, for no conceivable reason except
his desire that his particular friends may
continue to enjoy the delightful luxury of
shedding innocent blood.
The judges, and all who think with them,
are called traitors because they declare the
Constitution to mean what it says, and be
cause they will not violate it themselves or
permit its violation by others when they
can prevent it. If this conflict for and
against the Constitution implies treason on
either side, the guilt does not lie at our
door. It is not the man who sustains and
loves and believes In the laws of his coun
try that can be justly called a traitor. But
if there be an Amerietin citizen anywhere
who, with an oath upon his conscience to
support the Constitution, would make war
upon it, subvert it by brute force, and take
away the defenses It affords to life, liberty,
and property, leaving them to the mercy of
mobs, murderers, kidnappers, military
commissions, and bureaus of military
justice, such a nun is thoroughly , a traitor:
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Aye, from the extrement upward of his head
To the descent and dust beneath his feet,
A most toad-spotted traitor."
These arrows which they .ast against us,
barbed and poisoned with the accusation of
treason, rebound from our impenetrable
armor, and full harmless at our feet : for we
are shielded and helmed, and weaponed
with the truth; but if we choose to take
them up and send them back at our adver
saries, we would leave them quivering iu
their very hearts.
A great truth, on which the safety of so
ciety and the security of individual rights
must depend, is in its nature indestructible.
You may crush it to•day, I, it will re
appear and vindicate Itself to-morrow. on
the other hand, nothing is so evanescent or
so fickle as the passions that spring from
the interests and the prejudices of the hour.
Let the lessons of history be heeded. Titus
Oates, Bodice, and Dangertield enjoyed a
far greater measure of popular confidence
than ever was bestowed on Mr. Ilmt,
Mr. Conover, Mr. Campbell, alias Hoare,
or upon :ill the officers, agents, spies,
delators, and witnesses of the Military Flu
, reau put together. They—l mean Oates
and company—were loudly applauded in
Parliament; they were the prime favorites
of the British people, and they were the
very darlings of all the clerical politicians.
They held the life and honor of the nation
in their hands. If they but pointed a finger
at any' individual he was doomed, and no
purity of previous character, no proof of in
nocence, however clear, could save him from
destruction. Such was their overflowing
prosperity one year; but before the next
came round those wretched miscreants were
howling at the cart's tail, under the lash ()I'
the public executioner, and the whole popu
lation of London was clapping Its hands
with joy. Let the man who put his trust iti
a false popularity beware of the rebound
which is sure to come, sooner or later. It is:
written down among the unchangeable de
crees of Almighty God that no lie shall live
forever; and especially is this true of a great,
monstrous, bloody lie, like that which the
Supreme Court has put its broad foot upon_
I have spoken of the court as a collectiv(..
body. All the judges concurred in the de
cision of the question before them. On u
merely speculative point which lay outside
of the record there was a dissent. The mi
nority was wrong, of course, as all minori
ties are. Each judge, however, met hi,
duty to the case itself, and all are therefore
entitled to the reverence and respect which,
is duo to the highest talent, coupled with
the purest integrity. But one among theta.
ie printus inter purr, not because be is bet
ter or greater than the others, but becau.se
he is more fortunate. Ile was selected as
the organ of the majority, and gave_expres
sion to their judgment. The thoughts that
breathe and the words that burn all over
that opinion are his thoughts and hiswords.
The Irresistible logic which goes through
and through all adverse argument, and the
felicity of illustration which makes the
whole subject blaze with light, are his own.
The great production will be a guide and a
landmark for all future time ; it identi
fies its author forever with the sacred cause
of constitutional liberty, and makes his
'One of the few, the Immortal names
That were not born lodic."
It gives him a position to which iintwit,.
ly station can add any dignity, ror a man
of just ambition would always rather be a
public benefactor than to hold high office.
Mr. Chairman, when you recollect that
the court has saved us from nothing lass
than the total overthrow of our free gov
ernment, and when you observe the roar
ing and foaming of the calumny which lth
satli3 it, I think you will agree with me that
it is the duty of every Christian man in
America to put up a morning and evening,
prayer for the long life of all the Judges,
and the perpetual preservation of their Dist
authority.
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Another Prisoner allot 111 the
PeniLentlary.
Only a few days ago ono of the - officers of
the Indiana State Prison, at Jeffersonville,
found It necessary to shoot an insubordi
nate convict, full particulars of which we
published at the time. On Friday evening,
another convict, Bealamin Metier, was shot
twice by a guard. Metier hi a bad, unruly
prisoner. His wounds are slight ? one being
in the right arm, and the other in the right
side. He was sentenced for the term at ten
years, from Dearborn county, for assault
ing a woman with intent to commit a rape.
—Louisville Journal.
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The “BOCIII" Indecency Again
The Chicago Pose (Republican,) has a few
pithy words on this subject, which are
worth re-printing. It says, " We suggest
to Thaddeus Stevens the introduction of a
resolution, instructing reporters that when
members desire to indulge in vulgarity in
debate, (See Cong. Globe, of Monday, Jan.
7,) the remarks embodying the same shall
be suppressed, The spectacle of tut aged
statesman indulging in filthy jokes and
deuble entendres, in the midst of a serious
debate on a grave public question, in the
council chamber of the nation, is indeed
pitiable one. The country would look II I
vain for a similar indiscretion on the part
of John Morrissey."
The Springfield, Muss., Republican, com
menting on the Senatorial election in this
State, says: "The election of Simon Cam
eron to succeed Mr. Cowan us Senator from
Pennsylvania, strikes the country unpleas,
antly. Mr. Cameron may be no more c4r
rupt in the nse of means to obtain power,
than many other men in public lite, hut
the odor of corruption attaches to blip very
positively, and it is this fact thq. tnakee his
election a stigma upon his Statn and party.
There is no doubt that ha gained his seat
in the Senate before.lq wheels commonly
called bribery, and. it It was not strictly
that it was certainly close akin to it;
How it Looks.