ganatottr guidligator.
. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1868
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of FoYetto county.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL:
Gen. WELLINGTON 11. ENT, 01'0111E01a co
To Editors
We have been requested to state that a
competent and properly qualified party de-
Biros to • purchase a country Democratic
newspaper in this State. One not requiring
a large outlay of capital desired. Address,
Editor Of iNTELLIGENCER, stating price,
&c.
The Presidential Campaign Opens Moll
The Presidential campaign opens glo
riously for the Democracy. The spring
brings with it a renewal of last fall's vic
tories, and there is no doubt that we can
triumph at the Presidential election. All
that is necessary to insure our success
is thorough organization and vigorous
and untiring effort. Every means to
spread political truth must be employed.
The best and surest is the wide circula
tion of able Democratic newspapers.
Let every Democrat make this part of
his daily duty. See to it that every
voter who will read a Democratic paper
is speedily furnished with one, and the
result will be witnessed in largely in
creased majorities at the coming State
and Presidential elections. Work in
this important matter us it becomes free
men to do when the liberties of the
people and the life of the nation are at
stake !
The Voice of the People
Let the faint-hearted, who doubt
whether the American people can be
trusted, take courage: The masses are
not sleeping, neither are they deaf to
the calls of their country. The results
of the elections just hell in Connecti
cut, Michigan, Ohio, lowa and _Kansas
show that the people fully appreciate
the present terrible crisis in our coun
try'shistory. It is seldom, indeed, that
so many elections, occurring on the
same day, in different States and wide
ly separated cities and towns, all show
victories and gains for one party. The
causes which produce such a'result must
not only be extraordinary ; they must
also be of universal application.
Never did any party put forth greater
exertions to carry an election than did
the Radicals to redeem Connecticut.
Congress abolished the tax 011 man ufac•
tures as a bribe to New England ; the
little Nutmeg State was overrun by
Radical orators; a Radical General dis
played his epaulettes on every stomp,
and Radical Congressmen bawled them
selves hoarse in every school house ;
Radical office-hohlers were bled most
freely, all over the country, and green
backs were scattered like leaves in
autumn ; every fair :Ltd unfair device
that could lie devised was resorted to in
order that the little State of Connecticut
'tight he returned to the Radical fold
--but it was nit in rain.
General Grant was put forward as the
rallying figure, and it v,ias formally an
nounced that this election was to lie
taken us a test of his popularity. A 9
such we, therefore, accepi, it. In Con
necticut Grant, as the Radical candidate
for President, has been overwhelmingly
defeated.
The Democratic majority of last year
has been largely inerea,ed, and it is now
sure that against limit the Democratic
candidate for Pi esidont Will sweep a
large majority of the Northern states.
The gains in New Hatup.thire, the large
majority In Connectieut, the unbroken
tide of Democratic victories at nearly
every municipal election which has
been held this sprirg, all tell the same
story.
Hadn't the Radicals better take some
other candidate, sjnee it is sure that
Grant will be defeated':
Butler and Grant Reconciled
Grant and Butler have become recon
ciled to each other. They have had an
interview and all the differences be
tween them have been amicably ad
justed. There was no special reporter
present at the meeting of these two
great men, but it is easy to imagine
what transpired. The bottle question
was brought up, but, we are happy to
say, in a shape not in the least often-
sive. Ulysses asked Ben. to imbibe,
and the bottle being uncorked the re
leased hero of Fort Fisher proceeded to
tip glasses with the Radical candidate
for the Presidency. Grant felt that he
could not afford to let the pamphlet
which Butler had prep:u - e•d be given to
the eyes of a curious world. The cock
eyed warrior must, be silenced. Ile was
Invited to name his price. Afterseratell
ing several bald place,. on his head,
Btitler named the position or Minister
to England. With a cordial embrace,
a hearty slinking of hands and more
drinks, the bargain was consmn mated.
The Radicals are jubilant over the an
nouncement that Butler's threatened
exposure of (lrant will never be forth-
coming. The multituthnous affidavits
which Butler had secured to prove
Grant a habitual drunkard will be eon- !
signed to the flames, or locked up in
one of the strong boxes where the Beast
keeps his stolen spoons. We do not
wonder there is rejoicing in the Radical
camp at this reconciliation. IL was
needed.
Let them Impeach lit m If Ih ey Aare.
New Ilampshire shows :1 I),mocrat lc '
gain of nearly a thousand; Connecti
cut doubles last year's majority ; Michi- i
gan repudiates n
and NugrO
Sufrrage by more than ten tlintisand ;
and the municipal and town elections
in every Northern State chow
tide of political feelim.:. let the
Radical usurpers of Comrr,- , -1 impeach
Andrew Johnson, and 1 1011awncd. For,
as the old hit at Porihnilif,do, , ,y :
They'l N.(11011111,1 If .10.
I,ell,lkneil it tlio.
Senator Fisher's Opnlloll,ol' Forel:0 'torn
During the discussion in the Senate
on the new registration low, by which
working men, and especially natural
ized citizens are to he impeded in the
exercise of the election franchise Gen.
J. W. Fisher said in the i4etiate:
"The Democratic ports iv eiittmii , iid
bog trotting igntm,,,t trishuipn awl ~“f_r,
bellied lager twerll."
Now, considering the vory limited
literary attainments of t 4 ,:iator Fisher
it ill becomes him to talk of ignorance;
and any one who knows bow he ,an
swill both lager beer and something
stronger will be surprised to hear hint
make an accusation against any mail or
any class of men for drinking. It would
perhaps be charitable for us to suppose
the Senator was drunk when he got oft'
that speech. For both the 1 rishinan's
potheeu and the German's lager this
senator has a decided liking.
The Impeachment Trial
The managers of the impeachment
trialclosed their testimony on Saturday,
and the case on the part of the prosecu
tion is now before the country. We do
not think any fair-minded Republican
can conscientiously say that,..a case has
been made out against the President.
The Court adjourned until Thursday
next, when the defense will begin. That
the Money structure of the prosecutiofi
will be completely demolished there is
no doubt.
The Valley Democrat
A new Democratic paper called The
Valley Democrat has just been started
at Mechanicsburg, CUrn berland county.
•It is a good sized sheet, and is owned
and edited by Capt. T. F. Singiser, who
was a gallant soldier during the war.
We, wish him abundant prosperity.
The,NeW Registry Law.
The working men ofPennszlyanhotre
not willing to support the MAW pal*
any longer. That was proven by the:
State election of last fall, and 1:44 beeri
abundantly demonstrated at Jilf,the'
. municipal and township , ::efeetione
which have since taken place. The
nominees of the Republican party haVe
been beaten by: the votes of the laboring
class s. This,is a well recognized fact
whl cannot! be denied. The radical
maj ity of the .Legislature are well
c i
awa e of it. \
SOIL being the case, the leaden of
the Radical party in Pennsylvania see
very plainly that they are doomed to
continued defeat in this State, unless
some method can be devised whereby
such obstacles can be thrown in the
way of the laboring classes as will pre
vent a full poll of their votes. To lay
burthens upon this class of the people,
and to make the exercise of the right of
suffrage costly and difficult, is the means
deliberately adopted by the Radical
leaders to enable them to carry this
State at the coming important elec
tions. Efer since. the present Legisla
ture has been In session a committee,
composed largely of leading Radicals,
has been busy preparing and pushing
through a registry law. In due time
their work was done. We publish else- i
where the bill, which has been passed
by a strict party vote through both 1
houses. It has been signed by Clover- 1
I nor Cleary and is now a law. i
No man who reads this registry act
can fail to see that it has been framed
with the express design of placing im- I ,
1 pediments in the way of the laboring 1
1 classes, and especially of naturalized ,
citizens. It makes voting a costly priv
ilege. Every man who desires to exer
cise the right of an American citizen, 1
i heretofore free and untrammeled by
1 oppressive laws, must be willing to lose '
1 at least two days' work if he would make 1
1 sure of his right. That to a poor man is,
in these days of Radical misrule and
oppressive taxation, no small matter.
There is to be at least one day spent in r
attending to the registfation ; and, by
the closing of the polls at Ii o'clock,
the working man is prevented from
voting when his day's work is done, as '
thousands of them have been in the I L
habit of doing heretofore. Any man
who has stood at the polls cannot have
failed to notice what a crowd of honest, 1
sober and industrious citizens have here
tofore
come forward in their working
apparel between the hours of (3 and 7
o'clock in the evening, after a day of
arduous toil, to deposit their votes in
the spirit and with the manly bearing
of independent freemen.
It is because this class, the stay and
prop of society, the strength, the power
and tile glory of our free republic have
turned away from the radical party with
loathing and contempt, that the radical
Legislature of Pennsylvania has enact
ed a registry law, framed for the express
purpose of making the elective franchise
costly to white working men, while
Congress throws open the ballot box to '
every barbarian negro in the South.
The provisions of this law are well
calculated to serve thepurpose for which
it was framed. It gives the Radical
political tricksters of Philadelphia com
plete control of all the boards of regis
tration in that city. This is accom
plished by the insertion or a special
provision different from the general
act, as applied to the rest of the State.
Such a law is absolutely infamous. But
while it remains upon the statute books
of the Stale it will lie rigidly enforced
wherever the Radicals have the power
to do so.
Such being Llnr case, the duly of labor
ing men is plain. They must make the
sacrifices demanded by them, and see to
it that they are not deprived of their
votes by the rascality of the men who
are their natural and confessed
enemies. Naturalized citizens must,
for the time being, submit to insults
for the sake of securing their rights
and the rights of their tel
a law cannot long pollute the
statute books of Pennsylvania. It will
lie speedily wiped out, because a vast
majority of our citizens will scorn to be
ministers of injustice and oppression.
Let every Democratic journal in
Pennsylvania see to it that this rascally
piece of legislation is fully understood
by the people, and it will utterly fail
to accomplish its intended purpose.
What Conyertcd Logan Into a Radical
The secret of John A. Logan's great
animosity toward President Johnson is
easily accounted for. This blatant, ilem
agogue is perfectly corrupt. lie was a
Conservative while he held a commis- ,
sion in the army, and about the time of ,
our Peace Establishment
Gen. Joe. Johnson's surrender he took
The expenditures of the War Depart
occasion to:denounce in the presence of a !
meet for the mouth of March were about
crowd of rebel °Rivers at Raleigh, N. C.,
.-14.000.000
, a greater sum than the
the whole gang of rod iiqtle led by Thad,
whole2,•early expen RC'S of the Govern-
Stevens. When he first made his ap
ment under John QuineyiAdatus. And
pearance at 'Washington, after the war
was over, he professed to be in decideall this money is expended, for what?
d
Po put the white men of the South
sy i tnipathy with President Johnson.
cp -ro l
Having a lot of cotton claims on hand om etely under the domination of the
to manipulate through the departments negrq,When no Northern State will
he pestered the President daily, until give hint a vole! Is it not high time
Mr. Johnson told him, in reference to a this vast stamilug army was dismissed,
particular job, that he could not order
and peace and Union restored? Are we
ou
its payment on the insufficient grounds
to continue to pay
tidy million dollars a year to roue hun
keep men and
presented. Logan failing to secure an
it . f our own rare in subjection to barba
extravagan t fee out of the money to be
rum negroes? What say the Conserya•
thus dishonestly abstracted from the five Republicans of Lancaster county?
national treasury,turned upon the Presi
dent, and from that time to the present
Newspaper Improvements.
has been a bitter radical. Logan is 001 v
Phe Fulton Democrat is about to ion
a sample of a large class of men, in and
Having made our en
out of Congress, who are daily belching
tranc, upon editorial life through its
out abuse of Andrew Johnson.
columns we feel a decided interest in its
The lleArdle Case. prosperity. Its present proprietor, Mr.
The attempts of an usurping Congress Donehoo, finding that his law practice
to curtail the powers of the Supreme demands much of his time, has sold au
Court seem likely to lie attended with iuteres! in the paper to Mr. S. M. Rob
suceess. The McArdle ease has been iuson, a practical printer who will be
postponed until some time in Decem- a valuable acquisition. Success to the
ber. The party now in power dare not new firm.
permit their acts to be subjected to the The Scranton Dail)/ Rcyistcr has been
test of a legal examination. Congress enlarged and otherwis,:i improved. It is
is well aware that its reconstruction au excellent paper, and gives every in
scheme, and a great proportion of its dication of being in a prosperous con
other legislation would be at once pro. di Lion. We congratulate our friend,
flounced unconstitutional and-void, even Mayor hill on his success
by Judges a majority of whom were
never connected with the Democratic
party. The Supreme Court yields so
far to the despotic will of Congress :Is to
delay giving au opinion in an impel ,
tout case involving theconstitutionality
of the reconstruction acts. The an
nouncement will be regarded by the
people as another evidence of the rapid
growth of the despotism which now
rules this nation. If we would preserve
a vestige of the free institutions be
queathed to us by our fathers we must
unite, 'Without respect to former party
ties, is one grand effort, to overthrow
the tyranny of the radical leaders at the
coming Presidential and Congressional
elections. The postponement of the
McArdle case is a solemn warning
which th e people would uo well to heed.
When the Supreme Court bows to the
dictation of Congress our liberties are in
the most imminent danger
A Prophecy
When the impeachment clause was
under discussion in the Convention
which framed the Constitution of the
United States, M. Governeur Morris
expressed himself as follows: "Much
has been said of the intrigues that will
be formed by the Executive to get into
office. Nothing has been said on the
other side of the intrigues to get him
out." Charles Colesworth Pinckney
said : " If he opposes a favorite law the
two houses will combine against him,
and under the influence of heat and
faction will throw him out of office."
Those two great men foresaw the dan
gers which beset the republic to-day.
ANDREW JACESON JAMISON, is the
name of an interesting scoundrel and
negro thief, lately nominated by the
negroes and white jail-birds intonven
tion at Jackson, as their candidate for
Lieutenant-Governor of Mississippi.
"Equality Before the Law."
TheOrofessed•object of the Radicals_
is toittin , fer the negro what Thaddeus'
Stevens k4les "equality before the'
That is one •of the , pet:phrases
'which wehar conattuatlyzepeated. ft .
is advanced' as a great moral idea. Not
unfrequently it is falsely putforward as
the leading idea of the Declaration of
Independence. Let us see what is
meant by this favorite Radical maxim?
In every State of the Union, except
Kentucky, the negro has the same pro
tection under the law and the same
equality before the law that is enjoyed
by any white citizen, so far as life and
property is concerned. That is not,
therefore, what the Radicals mean.—
They are not satisfied with the complete
abolition of slavery and the placing of
the negro and the white man on sub
stantially the Same platform of equality
before and under the law.
The design of Radical legislation, as
seen in what is termed the reconstruc.
tion of the South, is to place the balance
of power in the hands of negroes; with
the expectation that they will be able
to control their votes through their pre
judices and the active interference of
Northe - in adventurers. If this scheme
is carried out it will enable the three
millions of Southern negroes to elect
twenty Senators and fifty Representa
tives to Congress. That would notonly
give to the extreme Radicals complete
control of the South, but would give
them a balance of power whereby the
North would be easily controlled. Such
an arrangement, if consummated,
would enable the Sumners and Stev
enses to rule this nation as they saw fit
for years to come. The President would
be a mere dumb figure, the Supreme
Court would not dare to exercise its
Constitutional powers, and State Gov
ernments would be completely subjected
to the will of an usurping Congress,large
, ly re•en forced by negro membersor the
venal white representatives of a negro
constituency. Hon. S. L. Tilden, in a
speech made before the New York Dem
ocratic State Can vention, shows clearly
the political power which Radical re
construction will give to the enfran
chised negroes of the South. He said :
" If those:3,000,000 of negroes • elect twenty
Senators and fifty Represeritatives, they
will have ten times as touch power in the
Senate of the United States as the 4,000,000
of whites in the State of New York. On
every question which concerns the coin.
martial metropolis ; every question of trade,
of finance, of currency, of revenue, and of
taxation, those 3,000,000 of liberated Afri
can slaves will count ten times no much in
the Senate as 4,000,000 of• Sew Yorkers.—
One freedman will counterbalance thirteen
white citizens of the Empire State. These
3,001,000 of blacks will count ten times as
much as .1.0110,000 of white people in Penn
sylvania; ton times 110 much as 2,500,000 in
Obio ; tell times as inuch as 2,225,000 or
2,500,000 in ; ten times as much as
1,5e0,0e0 ill Indiana, These 3,000,000 of
bhu•ks will have twice the representation
in the Senate, which will be possessed by
live great Commonwealths—New - York,
Pennsylvania, (thin, Indiana, and Illinois
—embracing, 13,500,000 of our people."
Should the Radical scheme of recon
structing the Southern Slates, on the
basis of universal negro suffrage and the
disfranchisement of the bulk of the
whites, be consummated, the small
Yankee States of New England and the
negroes of the South would control
Congress. And how such a Congress
would control the nation we can see
from what is now transpiring at Wash
ington. Are the freemen of Pennsyl
vania and the other great Middle and
Western States ready to subject them
selves for years to come to such a domi•
nation as that would be Do they wish
to commit the destinies of this nation
to the absolute control of New England
Yankees and barbarian negroes? If
they do, let them support the Radical
candidate for President and Radical
Congressmen, and they will speedily
find themselves bound hand and foot.
Their power and population will not
avail to protect them. They will then
learn by a sad experience what is
meant by this cry of "Equality be
fore the law."
Too Drunk to Vote
•\ Radical exchange says
Senator Yates, of Illinois, has been so
drunk that he has not voted since the im
peachment trial commenced. Prominent
Republicans have WI men Min letters, but
the prospect of his either resigning or con
ducting; himself decently is very poor.
If, as the Radicals announce, Yates
has been too drunk to vote ever since
the impeachment trial began, how
would it be possible for him to vote In
telligently at its conclusion ? Is he to
be allowed to do so? lie could not have
heard understandingly a word of evi
dence. Yet it is possible President
Johnson may be condemned by the vote
of this drunken brute, Such is Radi
cal justice.
Judge Crier
Judge Grier, of the Suprewe Court,
has a proper appreciation of the con
duct of the Court i u declining to decide
the McArdle cure. Ile submitted a pro
test which was read in open court, in
which he says :
This case was fully :vaned in the
n ingot' this month. • It is a case which in
v.ti v., not tally the liberty and rightsof the
appellant in this rase, butof milhous °four
Fellow citizens. The roan tt y had a right to
I expect it would receive the immediate and
solemn attention of the court. By the post
: p.metnent of this case this court has sub
jected them-elves, whether justly or un
justly, to the imputation that we had eva
ded the performance of a ditty imposed upon
us by the Constitution, and awaited for
legislative interposition to supersede our
; action and relieve us front our responsibili
ty. I have only to soy: '• Pude hoc oppro
brio tarsi 7102 t paluisse repelli," or, literally
transiated, '1 ion ashamed such au oppro
brium should be east upon the court and
that it cannot be refuted.'"
Abuse of Catholics and Foreigners
While making a speech in favor of
the new registration law, now before
the State Legislature, John Hickman
made a most bitter assault upon Catho—
lics and Foreigners. He declared that
a negra.was better than a Catholic Irish
num. On being interrupted by a Dem
ocrat, he beciune still more violent in
his language, lauding the negro and
denouncing Ivishrhen and Germans.—
This is an exhibition of the spirit which
animates the leaders of the Radical
party. Some of them try to conceal it,
but the old virus of Know-Nothingism
rankles in their veins and will slioNvH
itself. I
JOHN T. JOHNSON, the colored barber
of the House of Representatives, has
been elected one of the delegates to;the
Chicago Convention by the Radicals of
Washington City. What say oar Re-;
publican friends to thatr.!
Gential Giant Issues Illsitorders to the'
• , - .- fienateMn
• The Ne* York•bibunestakekOreso
display the folloiiiing paragraph moat
con4deuottely at the head of ifif:editici.
ritdeoluceaa: •
We have assurances from Wanifingtini
that Gen. Grantfinds it not inconsistent with
his duty as a solder to announce it as his
opinion that the only hope for the peace of
the country is the success of the pending
Impeachment trial. He feels that national
security demands the removal of the Presi
dent. If the trial should fail,
,the people
can only expect more assumptions a power,
and a more determined resistance to law.
When the General of our Armies entertains
this conviction there is no room for doubt
as to the duty of the Senate. The loyal
nation demands the President's removal.
That is unquestionably the most start
ling paragraph we ever saw in a news
paper. It sounds like an authoritative
announcement that the great American
republic has ceased to exist. Is such in
truth the case? We look to Washing
ton and we sec Andrew Johnson still
occupying the White House; but he
seems to be their only by suffrance.—
We enter the Capitol, and there we find
the Senate engaged in going through
the forms of a trial, and the culprit be
fore that body is the lawfully chosen
President of the United States. The
country has been shocked by the man
ner in which a majority of those who
are sworn to act as judges in this most
important trial have disregarded the
most sacred provisions of law and the
plainest rules for the regulation of tes
timony. It was sufficiently humiliat
ing for us to belielie that a majority,
and perhaps two-thirds of those who
constitute the Senate of the United
States, were willing to violate their
solemn oaths, to violate the law of the
land and to commit a bold outrage by
voting to remove the legally constituted
President of the United States, in order
that they might give his place to some
creature of their own chosing. That
seemed to be sufficiently alarming. It
showed that the leaders of the party
now in power were ready to resort to
the most desperate expedients, for the
purpose of maintaining their hold upon
office.
But startling as such au exhibition
was, it lost some of its repulsiveness
because the forms of law seemed to be
regarded even while its spirit was be
ing so ruthlessly violated. But now the
people are coolly told by the leading
Republican newspaper in the country,
that because General Grant approves of
the removal of the President, " there is
no room for doubt as to the duty of the
Senate." In other words, Senators are
to obey, not their oaths, not the law of
the laud, but the dictate of General U.
S. Grant. Andrew Johnson is to be
removed, not because he has committed
any crime, not because there is proof of
any guilty act, but because Gen. Grant
so orders.
What remains of the form of free
government bequeathed to us by our
fathers when such things are possible?
The Republic has ceased to exist. We
are even now living under a military
despotism. The word of General Grant
is to be regarded as supreme, not in the
South alone, but in the Senate Chamber
at Washington and throughout the
nation. The wan who is in reality
but a subordinate officer under the.
President, and who is a recognized
candidate for his place, issues Lis or
der for the removal of his superior, and
the leading Republican journal in the
country calls upon the Senate of the
United Sates to obey this decree of an
insolent dictator.
Rev. John Crotnllsh
It will be remembered that this trou
blesome, vain and self-sufficient nui
sance drove off some of the best mem
bers of his congregation in Columbia by
preaching political sermons to his own
congregation, and abuse, by name, of
the venerable Bishop Hopkins before a
secular meeting in another church, be
cause he had dared to write a book ou
the scripture doctrine of slavery; and
that he formed one of the speakers of a
temperance meeting here in Lancaster,
in which the virtuous country popula
tion of this county was treated with ob
loquy and contempt. Having run him•
self through his course of "usefulness,"
this firebrand found it expedient to
leave, and we now find him at his old
tricks in New York, not on a political,
but on un " evangelical " platform, in
connection with the notorious Doctor
Tyn g
It appears that a sou of Doctor Tyng
broke a rule of his church, for which
his Bishop reprimanded hiin, and this
act brought out much Tyng.Cronalish
rancor, backed by such pious journals
as the Harper's publish, who turn an
honest penny by piety and indecent ad
vertisements in their Family Weckly !
See Harper's Alayazine for April, ISIS,
p, hit 4 5, where we have a bit of Har
perian morals:
But they would probably remind the
Easy Chair that Sir. Tyng had chosen to
make sundry promises, and that he had not
kept them. Would th ay also think the
Easy Chair jesuistical [they certainly
would I] ii he suggested that it is very
I easy to imagine Sir. Tyng as choosing to
I regard thc intent rather than the literal
form of his promise?
These Tyng-Cromlish Radicals, in
stead of letting the question at issue
take its course quietly, as worldly sin
ners would have done in a parallel case,
became violent, and instead of admit
ting that they had appartnlly broken a
rule, they denied the facts and forced
the other side to prove them. And their
violence continues. Not being versed
in ecclesiastical matters, we do not k'new
the merits of this question, but we .ad ,
vise the dissentients to be careful lbw.
they let a flippant Radical like Mr. ,
Cromlish betray their cause when they
have inen like the judicious Leacock at
hand. Mr. Cromlish said:
If I stole a penny on Broadway [why on
Broadway ?j I ant liable to arrest, hilt list
for any theories I might hald. [Mr. Tyng
was therefore reprimanded. not for an act,
but hat a theory I If a policeman attempt
rid to arrest me S r such a cause [ail art as
sumed to bo a tittil.r . iLl I should have a right
to Shoo! hill'
This is (he point to which we were
coming—a clergyman, a public teacher
of the gospel of peace telling us that if
we are not conscious of having done
anything wrung we may shoot a police
man who thinks he has reason to arrest
us! And yet, this same Cromlish be
longed to the Lincoln party, under the
dominion of which arbitrary arrests
were too common; and he probably
agrees with Thaddeus Stevens that it
is proper to act "outside of the Consti
tution!" and to embarrass the Supreme
Court of tini - United States. Not to do
so might obstruct his " righteousness,"
for he says :
I do not see how we can accept the con
st of the law as settled by this sen
tence, and go ahead and feel our rightful
ness and righteousness !
Mr. Cromlish was known amongst us
as a violent political Abolitionist, and
the intelligence of this meeting is shown
by the fact that they received, without
comment or inquiry, the classical wis
dom of a speaker, named Worrall, who
edified them by sending his thoughts
wool gathering, and mixing the white
"Scythians" uud their arrows with the
black Australians and their boomerangs,
which, when thrown, return again. He
says;
Like the arrow of the ancient Scythian;
this sentence will rebound from the shield
to harm hint who shot it!
Thereseems not to have been asingle
scholar present, oran explanation would
have been demanded of this perversion
of the fact that the Partitions had " the
peculiar custom . of discharging their ar
rows while they were retiring full speed"
according to Lempriere, who states far
ther that " this manner of fighting, and
the wonderful address and dexterity
with, which it was performed, gained
them many victories."
Another speaker said: "Let us ap
iieal to the press." We consequently
present a reminiscence of our old friend
of Columbia, whilst Frank Leslie car
ricatures Dr. Tyng presenting his pro.
test—a police officer on each side to
keeporder, undismayed by the proba
ble presence of clerical pocket pistols
and scathing Scythian arrows.
• I
-- - Butler's Speech.
' .Tyomaitting and proper that. the
1 in the managemtttit of ti*
ime to ant of President - -Johnson
should be entrusted to the moat despir
callaiintiscrupulous trickster and
pettifogger iiitbe country.' 'lt is well .
known thatAen.Butlerharbors a bitter I
grudge against the President, because
he refused to remove Stanton and ap
point him (Butler) Secretary of War.
It was in keeping, therefore, with the
•whale of this 'impeachment movement,
to put Butler forward as the leader in a
prosecution against-the President for
undertaking to do, for the good of the
country, what he had refused to do to
gratify the inordinate ambition of the
hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher.
Knowing how low he stands even in
the estimation of all honest Republi
cans, and how heartily he is despised
by a vast majority of the American peo
ple, Butler eagerly seized upon this op
portunity to bring himselfprominently
before the country.
One would have supposed that not
even Ban. Butler could entirely forget
the dignity and the importance of the
occasion. The a, the character of
the trial, the exalted position of tlAac
cused, the eager expectation of the world
which was looking on, all the surround.
ing circumstances, in short, were calcu
lated to raise the expectation that the
opening speech on the part of the Man
agers of the Impeachment would, to
some extent at least, be worthy of the
solemn occasion.
But, we venture to say, never II was
any audience so entirely disappointed
as was that which attempted to listen
to Butler as he read from manuscript
for more than three hours. The crowd
on the floor and in the galleries of the
Senate chamber listened in vain for
anything which made a case against
President Johnson. If all that Butler
charged in his low and scurrilous way
should be admitted by the defence,
there would not be the slightest danger
of a conviction before any honestly con
stituted Court. Even with all the lati
tude in which Butler indulged in
making his charges, not all his accusa
tions combined can be magnified into
any offense, such as the framers of the
Constitution contemplated when they
provided that the President might be
impeached for "treason, bribery, and
other high crimes and misdemeanors."
The comments even of Republican
papers, show how weak the case of im
peachment really is, and how utterly
the speech of Butler failed to bolster up
the cause. The New York Times says
of it:
Ile frequently weakens the force of his
statement by unnecessary violence of lan
guage; he occasionally descends to sophis
tries that are disgraceful to his reason ;
he
attempts to bolster up slim points that had
better have been passed over; he is guilty
of perversions that are more ingenious than
honorable; he makes appeals that might
be very effective in a stump speech, but are
grossly offensive in a legal argument ad
dressed to such a body as the Senate; and
he indulges in vituperation that is entirely
misplaced at the opening of such a trial.
The New York 11c:raid, after a
thorough review of the speech, con
cludes as follows :
We M.ve thus hastily reviewed the open
ing speech of Mr. Johnson's prosecutors.
It they have proved anything like "high
crimes and itnisdemcanors, we have failed
to discover the proof. The speech has not
oven the advantage of sophistry. Its argu
ments are lame and beggarly; its quota
tions are worthless and can aid the defence
only; its charges fall to the ground from
their own weakness: Throughout the long
pages we have perused we find everything
of the partisan and stump orator and
nothing of the statesman performing a
grave duty. Asa legal argument it scarce
ly rises above the level of the pettifogger's
balderdash. There is but one truth to be
found in it, and that says that "the future
political welfare and liberties of all men—
in this country we suppose—hang trem
bling on the decision of the hour." All true,
very true, but not in the sense that Mr.
Butler means it; for whatever be the end
of this trial, it will be the deathblow of the
Radicals as a political entity, and thus will
be assured the future liberties of the people
of this republic.
A Sample of Negro Rule
The N. Y. Times, a well-known Re
publican paper, says editorially :
The latest news from San Domingo is
that the country is in anarchy, and the
prisons are full. Of course there must be
some sort of governing force in existence
to keep the prisons full ; but this is proba
bly about ihe full extent of its power. It
is painful to see such it. rich timid charming
part of the world given up to ruin and sav
agery. It is grievous to see the control of
such a country in the hands of such a peo
ple. But we see no help for it. And we
may rest satisfied that if there be any lower
depths of human degradation than that
winch they have reached, it will not require
them Many years to sink to it. II the pop
ulation would resort to cannibalism, and
devour each other out of existence, it would
probably be the best thing that could hap
pen.
San Domingo is one of the most fer—
tile islands in the world, and before it
was given up to the rule of the negro
race was one of the most productive
and prosperous. The sad condition of
things existing there to-day is the le
gitimate result of negro rule; precisely
what may be expected wherever he has
control. Yet with all the examples of
the past and the present before them,
the Radical leaders insist upon giving
up teu States of this Union to African
domination; and multitudes of people
in Pennsylvania are ready to support
them in their mad design. Never in
the history of the world was there such
an exhibition of folly.
A RAnteAL exchange says:
General Grant was greatly mortified at.
the publication of his early history by his
father. A correspondent stales that justice
to the General requires the statement that
he made every proper elTurt to prevent their
publication. It is now understood that he
has quite recently made such peremptory
representations as will be apt to stop their
appearance.
Grant's life must have been very
faulty, indeed, when lie fears to let the
public read so partial au account of it
! as his own father would have given.
Yank - vs. Negro
There has been a vigorous fight fur the
Congressional nomination in one of the
North Carolina districts between a
white carpet-bag adventurer named
Dewees and a negro named Harris.—
The darkey insisted upon his rights.—
The white adventurer got letters from
Washington urging Sambo to decline
for the good of the party. Mr. Nig
could Lot see it in that light. Fi
nally the negro agreed to take so much
money down for his chances, and a
thousand dollar greenback cleared the
way fur the imported Yankee.
Scabs on Society
A Radical journal in Ohio has taken
to expressing the real sentiments of the
bloated bond-holding leaders of that
party. It speaks out plainly. In a re
cent issue after declaring that working
men owned no property and paid no
taxes it addressed them as follows:
"You unfortunates, have nothing to do
with taxes but to rail at them—you natural
born Democratic aristocrats, pay no taxes,
own no property, and have nothing to sell but
your votes; you mysterious scabs upon so
ciety, itc."
That is plain talk. The masses can
understand that. The working men
who paya heavy taxon eveiytlingthey
buy, and get but little more than lialf
dollar's worth out of every dollar by toil
can see in that paragraph how they
stand in Radical estimation.
THE March statement of the Publk
Debt shows au increase. So it will
continue to be while Congressional ex
travagance prevails and the Union is
kept divided. The policy of the Radi
cals tends directly to repudiation, and
nothing but a complete change can pre
vent that disgraceful calamity from'be
falling us. Let the bondholders take
warning.
The Gettysburg Lottery Swindle
Seven postponements of the drawing
of the Gettysburg lottery swindle have
been made. The last was to the first of
April. Now it is announced that it will
be postponed yet a little longer. We
denounced this swindle when it first
made an appeal to the public. If any of
our readers have invested in it they
have done so contrary to our advice.
The Progress orDespotism.
r The Harrisburg Stine . Guard says :
It is dutyuf Centro:itCa to see that every
State has a Republican form of gcwern
ment, and int Maryland has not got such a
form, she ahotild not be allowed represen
tation until she adopts it.
That is the very sublime or impu
' dence. The people of Maryland have
precisely the same right to order and
control their State Government that is
possessed by the people of Pennsylva
nbi. There the majority are fairly rep
resented in :the State Legislature, while
in this State the Radicals have so ger
rymandered the districts that even
when the Republican party is in a mi
nority they still elect a majority of the
members of both branches. Thus we
see that the Government of Maryland
is in truth more repUblican than that of
our own State. The demand of the
State Guard is one which has been fre—
quently made by the Radical leaders. It
shows a manifest design to extend their
usurpations beyond the boundaries of
the States which participated in the re
bellion. Congress would havens much
right to reconstruct Pennsylvania as it
has to interfere with the government of
Maryland; and if the power of the
Radicals is not speedily overthrown we
may expect the attempt to be made.
We havenot theslightestdoubt that the
election of Grant by the Radical party
would be a signal for the establishment
of negro suffrage and negro equality in
every Northern and Border State. One
half of this country cannot be subjected
to despotic rule and the other half con
tinue free. There always has been "an
irrepressible conflict" between the two
systems of government, and it is now
going ou in our midst.
Evidencelntredneed Ojetteeening the
President's Swirliest
WAsicritelTOrtApril 3.
The - . "High Court of ,:^lMpeachment"
opened promptly at nook today. The
usual number orepechitoproweapied,the
galleries, and 'the "Managers'? came over
shortly after the Court was called to order.
The attendance of members of the Mouse
was decidedly slim. Only the Speaker,
Clerk, and Mr. Washburne, Chairman of
the Committee of the Whole, with a dozen
or two of their Radical associates, were
present to repre.ent "all the people of the
United States."
The proceedings commenced by the
adoption of an unimportant amendment to
the seventh role, after which Mr. Tinke
(telegraph operator) was recalled with
reference to the copy of the President's 18th
of August speech. Before examining him,
however, Butler offered in evidence the
Presidet's message to Congresson the 27th
of June, 1866, relative to the proposed con
stitutional amendment, known as the four
teenth article, and other documentary mat
ter in connection therewith.
The examination then commenced in re
gard to the speech above referred to and,
Messrs. Sheridan, Clephane, and Smith,
short band reporters and Colonel Wm. G.
Moore, the President's Private Secretary,
were severally and successively called and
examined with reference to the correctness
of the report of said speech, which, it will
be remembered, was delivered by Mr. John
son at the Executive Mansion, on the 18th
of August, 1866, upon the reception of a copy
of the proceedings of the Conservative Con
vention, held at Philadelphia, a few days
prior to that date. If seems ult Mr. Cle
phone, ono of the witnesses, was em
ployed to make a report of the Presi
dent's . remarks, for publication in the
Chronicle of this city, and it came out in
the testimony of that gentleman that he,
then managing editor of the aforesaid jour
nal, requested - him to furnish a report of the
speech precisely as deliverd, without allow
ing any revision, whatever. After all, the
witness was unable to swear today, that
the report as published In that paper was
strictly verbatim, so it was not admitted in
evidence, Butler, however, offered the
ropy used by the agent of the Associated
Press, which had been slightly revised by
Colonel Moore. the Private Secretary of the
President. When Colonel Moore was sworn
Butler thought be hada fine opportunity to
make a point against the President by
showing that the witness was an officer of
the army, but bad never discharged any
of the duties of his position, but had been
kept at the White 'House by order of the
Executive to act as his Private Secretary.
Accordingly, he interrogated Colonel M. as
to his rank, Ac., in the army.
The witness replied that he was a pay
master in the regular army, with the rank
of Major, "Did you ever pay out any
money," inquired huller, with a sneer.
Col. Moore promptly replied, "No! Not
oat of government funds." A general out
burst of laughter followed this happy re
tort, and the Massachusetts pettifogger hail
no more to say on the subject. After
some few questions concerning the correc
tions made in the President's 18th of August
speech, Cul. Moore was permitted to retire,
and soon after the Court took a recess for
ton minutes. Upon reassembling, Mr.
Grimes, of lowa, moved that when the
Court adjourn to-day, it be to meet on Mon
day next. The yeas and nays being order
ed on the motion, resulted, yeas 19, nays 23.
So it was not agreed to. Butler then re
newed the offer to give in evidence the
manuscript copy of the 13th of Au
gust speech, which had been par
tially proven by the reporters. The
President's counsel lord no objection to it,
beyond the exception taken in the answer
to that class of evidence. Butler then read
the speech in extenso. Very few Senators
listened to the reading, and the impression
on the minds of all was that it was of no. ort
of conseriuenceas testiumnyon the pending
trial. The 18th of August speech having
been disposed of, the next step was to prove
the Cleveland speech,of the 3d of September,
1866. Accordingly, Mr. Win. M. Hudson,
of the Cleveland Leader (a Radical sheet),
was put on the stand, and under Butlef's
manipulation, proceeded to speak of the re
port of said speech he made for the afore
said paper. Ho had no doubt of the cor
rectness of the report. He took notes of all
that was said, Ac., Ac. Butler was satisfied
that he made out his case and turned the
witness over to the President's coun
sel fur cross-examination. Mr. Everts
was selected for the work. Ile soon
extracted from the lips of the wit
ness the very impottant fact that his
notes were in long hand, and not of a phono
graphic character. As the MOSS-examina
tion proceeded the evidence given by the
witness under Butler's examination, iu
chief, was completely annihilated, nothing
whatever being left of all he had stated.
Senators looked at each other and smiled.
The managers (.vith the exception of But
ler) hung their heads. The Massachusetts
pettifogger turned about in his sent, and
seemed exceedingly impatient to repair the
shattered testimony which he had just got
in concerning the important (7) matter of
what the President said in his extempo
raneous remarks at Cleveland.
After Mr. Everts had concluded the
cross-examination, Butler re-examined the
witness, and by prompting hint with a
, copy of the paper containing a report, or
whet purported to be a report, of the speech
in question, got him to reiterate something
that he had said before, but this was unfor
, tunate, for Mr. Everts "came back at him."
and knocked it all over the second time.—
The weakness of the ease presented• by the
"managers - was fairly illustrated by the
testimony introduced to-day, With a Sen
ate or court divested even partially of pc,
lineal prejudice, such accusations (support
; ed by such evidence) as are made ag ainst
the President, would not be listened to a
moment. They ate based on nothing, abso-
Itmely nothing, and as contemptible us they
:ire, they are not even sustained by such
avid, nee as would he admitted in any jus
tice's court in the United States.
WASHINGTON April 4.
In flue Impeachment Court, to-day L. L.
Walbridge and J. A. Dean, phonographic
reporters, were examined as to the Presi
dent's speeches in St. Louis, and testified to
the corroctness of their reports. R. S. Chew,
Chief Clerk of the State Department, testi
fied to the change in the form of commis
sions since the passage of the Tenure of
Office act.
Iu order to anticipate a point which the
counsel of the President will doubtless
make, the managers offered in evidence n
long list of appointments of heads of de
partments as appear on record at the State
Department, and only one instance of the
removal of such an officer during the ses
sion ot the Senate. That officer was Timothy
Pickering, who was removed from the of
fice of Secretary of State by President
Adams, on the 12th of May, 1800. The list
was furnished by Secretary Seward, on the
application of "the managers," and was ad
mitted in evidence without objection by the
counsel for the defense. After getting it
in, however, Butler discovered that it tend
ed to strengthen the position of the Presi
dent by furnishing a precedent for
the removal of Mr. Stanton. Ac
cording be (Butler) sent for a copy of the
journal of the 12th of May, 1800, to show
at what hoar that body assembled at that
time, the object being to create an impres
sion that the removal of Mr. Pickering
might have been madean hour or two before
the Senate met, thus taking the case outside
of the category in which it is placed by his
tory, as well us by the records of the State
Department as copied, and previously given
in evidence by the managers. This con
temptible specimen of Massachusetts petti
fogging was soon detected by Mr. Stan bery,
who called upon Butler to show by the jour
nal at what hour the Senate assembled on
the 12th of May, 1800. Butler hesita
ted a few moments, and, after glancing
v Africa for the Africans. rapidly over the pages of the book, was
compelled to acknowledge that t lie
A _Radical exchange says: precise law did not Ile
A freedman who lett Charleston2fiouffx presumed, however, that Mapper. ar.
Adams
Carolina, for Liberia a few months ago.„ sent in the nomination of John Marshall
writes back the most glowing accounts of to be Secretary of State, before he notified
matters and things there. Alter statimt Mr, Pickering of his removal. This did not
that he never felt free until he reached that mend the matter, because Mr. Marshall's
Republic, and that he harl'selected his land nomination was not confirmed by the
Mr cultivation, he adds : "Of all the fruits 1 Senate until the 18th of May, 1800, while
found on the land my tongue is unable to Mr. Pickering's dismissal from the office
explain, but I will give you the names of 'occurred cn the day previous. This trans
smue. First, a field or thirty acres of coffee. action, with its cotemporaneous history
Second, cocoanut trees iu any quanty. will probably be offered in evidence by the
Third, lemons by the bushel. Fourth, the counsel Mr the defense, and is sufficient of
great palm tree, the most important and itself to show what the framers of the Con
precious tree in the country, from which we stitution thought of the President's power
get nice oil, cabbage, butter, then the ker- to remove officers of the government.
net, shingles, then cord and thread, and Mn. Creecy, Appointment Clerk of the
then, best o f all, we can get wino of it to 'Treasury Department, was examined and
drink. All of these we have on the farm. testified to the authenticity of a letter from
Tell my brother Washington that this is the tbe President to the Secretary of the Senate,
country to come to." notifying him of the suspension of Mr.
Yet the negro has lived in that noun- Stanton, and the appointment of General
(.3-rant as Secretary of War ad interim '
on
try for thousands of years, and he is still August l'l.ll, 1867', under the Tenure of
a barbarian and often a cannibal. What Offieb act. Out the receiptof this commons
i
on t was transmitted by copies to tire
better answer could be given to those . cation
controllers and auditors of the Department.
who advocate putting him on an equali- At this point a recess of fifteen minutes
ty with the white race in this country. , was taken.
On reassembling Mr. Boutwell called the
The Florida quarrel. „ uttention Of C011usel:t0 the various statutes
'explaining the appointment to the office of
The New York Times says:
! ' General , is
According to the Washington despatches flePostmasterd dn. the schedule in
as 179 made which
whenpeci-
the
i❑ the Boston papers the quarrel in the • :Senate was in session.
-auks of the Republican party in Florida is Mr. Wilson called attention to theseveral
u sectional controversy between Wisconsin ' entries in the Journal -of- 1800, showing that
laid Massachusetts. The Massachusetts the Senate met before noon.
men assert that the Wisconsin party has Mr. Bingham offered,iu evidence, the ex
nold out to the rebels, and the Wisconsin (ecutive -messages to the Senate of December
men, in turn, say the Massachusetts men 16th and December 10th. 1867, and January
are afterspoils. The Floridians apparently I 18th, 1868, in which the President givee his
either care nothing about it, or are not al- reason jar the suspension from office - of
lowed to have any voice in the matter. We several officers, also a communication from
suspect the case is very nearly the same in , the Secretary of State accompanying one of
a good many of the Southern States. The I the messages, in which he reported the ac
natives are compelled to stand back, while It lion under the Tenure of Office laws.
the "aliens" from the North fight it out Mr. Butler then informed the Senate that
among themselves. the case on the part of the House of Repre-
What a commentary that is on the ! sentatives was substantially closed, al-
Radical plan of reconstruction ! And it though they might calla few more wit
nesses whose testimony wou ld
be only
comes from a leading Radical journal, siumulative,
be it remembered. Mr. Curtis, on behalf of' the President's
The people have one chance left.
They can rescue our republican institu
tions from the hands of the spoiler by
defeating the Radical candidate for
President, and sending Conservative
men to Congress. The fate of free
government depends upon the issue of
the coming election. A Radical tri
umph will invite and ensure the exten
sion to the North of the despotism
which has been set up over the South.
Every man who does not desire that
will refuse to support a Radical cE.ndi
date for any office.
The Campaign in North Carolina.
The white men of North Carolina are
laboring earnestly to defeat the new
Constitution which the Radicals are
trying to foist upon them. Itis no
wonder the white. population I.s prac
tically a unit against this alio! [Linable
concern. By this new Constitul don not
only is all distinction of cold r in the
schools prohibited, but all the o Mces of
the State, civil and judicial, are thrown
open to the negroes ; provision i a made
for a mixed militia, and white m m may
be put into the ranks as privates under
negro officers; the validity of ma triages
between whitesand blacks is reco; tuized,
and thus amalgamation is encou raged ;
and, to fetter the hands of the wl iites as
completely as possible, this Co ustitu
tion declares that ally person wh > shall
threaten to discharge a negro L :lector
from his service" shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon cone iction
shall be fined not less than one hundred
dollars foreach offence, one halfof thich
is to go to the informer." This pu is the
whites at the mercy of the negroe.s. If
a white man dare to rebuke one of his
field hands, all the negro would have to
do would be to go before a Court " or-
ganized to correct" and make oath that !
his employer threatened to discharge
him, and the conviction of the white
men would inevitably follow, the ;
negro pocketing more money by this
little operation than he could make
by a year of hard work. Is it
any wonder the White people of
North Carolina and of the other
Southern States are exceedingly anxious
to prevent the adoption of State Consti
tutions which contain such provisions?
We venture to say there is not a decent.
Republican in Lancaster county who
would not vote with the men of his own
race against such a Constitution if lie
were in any Southern State. He would
forget that the whites had been rebels,
and would remember that blood is
thicker than water. Why then should ;
any man vote to sustain the Radical
leaders of Congress, wha are the real
authors of this outrageous system ? Let
the people remember that every vote
cast for Radical candidates in Pennsyl
vania
is a direct, vote to sustain negro
supremacy with all its hideous features /
in ten States of the Union, and that it I
is also au indirect vote teestablish per
feet
equality between the two races in
every other State, Pennsylvania not !
being excepted.
Grant as a Church Goer
The Radical papers announce with a
flourish of trumpets that Grant has
taken a pew in Dr. Sunderland's church .
In so doing he has shown his complete
subserviency to the party which prom -
ises to nominate him for the Presidency .
This Dr. Sunderland is the same indi
vidual who, when Chaplain of the Sen
ate, was rebuked by a Conservative
Senator in the following resolution:
liesciZsed, That the Chaplain of the Sen
ate be respectfully requested hereafter to
pray to Almighty God in our behalf, and
not to lecture Him, inform Hint what to do,
or state to Him under pretence of prayer,
his, the said Chaplain's opinion in refer
eat's. to His duty as the Almighty. and that
the said Chaplain be further requested
aforesaid not vender the form of prayer to
lecture the Senate in reference to questions
before that body.
After endorsing negro suffrage and
eating any amount of dirt to secure the
radical nomination, Cien. Grant could
not more fitly finish up his record of
shameless subserviency than by making
a pretense of piety and joining Dr. Sun
derland's I
church.
- " -
counsel, then made a motion that, when
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THE Democracy of Georgia are ra•
V: .
rsc coT a r y t
n a e d i l t ot i i n rn ord i l o or - d t a o y atr i o t r r
ti a l l e l lit i to
Tidly perfecting their organization, and working days in which to prepar m e their el
will give a good account of themselves testimony. av e
uci
oralße stated tosti that they would not
motnhyelitodooffeuermbounttarrye
at the coming election. They do not ..quirertime to arrange
intend to surrender the Empire State I evidence.
of the South to negro domination with- Mr. Conness moved that the court ad
/Thum tuitai Wednesday.
out a struggle. , Mr. Johnson offered an amendmentmak
..........
Tills is what the Connecticut Irish- 1 Messrs. Sumner and Cameron interposed
men think : One McCloud, "Bead Oen-
, trgemarel,ciss,
andbuty
ere ruled b ruled out of order, and
e t i t t i T
e ta cni k r e t n d r jo es u u rn ite e l
tre" pf the State, chose to sell himself \ yetn4 e y 37, nays lO so
until nut sciay next, and the Senate at 3.30
to the Radical Committee, whereupon
his "circle" at once expelled him. Rad- ;
P. M. adjourned —.. .
.......
icalism must find a new " lay." After ! Two anxious parents paid 3150 for a spa.
this their motto will be, " No Irish need
Fall train from Portland to Boston recently,
in order to visit a daughter who was den•
apply." gerously ill.
IMPE.tCIIII3T..,
You will see from these facts that the is
land in question was not " within the law
ful jurisdiction of any other government."
nor was it "occupied by the citizens of any
other government" previous to the Ameri
can possession of it. An earlier occupancy
by any other nation or individual is not
asserted even at the State Dopartment.
The pretence that its situation subjects it
by mere construction of law to the juris
diction of St. Domingo will not be set up
by any intelligent person who has a decent
respect for truth, Of all nations on the earth
St. Domingo has the least show of claim to
it; for it not only Iles outside of her terri
torial waters and is wholly unconnected
with any part of her dominion, but the ter
ritory of another nation (the Hayuen island
of Beata) is between it and her.
On this desolate, unoccupied and appar
ently useless key Captain Kimball, then
engaged in the service of Messrs. Patter
son & Murgnioudo, of Baltiraoreffiiscovered
a deposit of guano. By the law of nature
and of nations, as well as by the act of Con
gress, they had a right to appropriate it.
They did so. They took open possession
in the name or the United Stales, hoisted
the American flag, sent down a large form
of men and ships and invested their whele
capital in the business of working it. They
had been seven months on the island when
the Dominicans came upon them, " pre
, sumptuously with guile," captured their
workmen, whom they kept for a month m
cruel captivity, destroyed the property and
I broke tip the business of the American
owners. Messrs. Patterson tt: Murgniondo
and the persons associated with them are
entirely ruined. They are all now ban g.-
rupt, solely in consequence of this outrage
upon their rights.
Too parties were entitled to the amplest
, protection of Otis government without ref
erence to the act of Congress on the subject.
;
1 Their business was lawful and they were
prosecuting it without injury to the rights
of any human being. Iran American (Mi
zell establishes and pursues any useful
branch of trade on a naked, uninhabited
island of the ocean he cannot be disturbed
there. A violent aggression upon him on
an island so situated is an injury to him
and an insult to the United States as gross
as it would be if committed on board an
I American vessel navigating the high seas.
IThe nation that submits to such a wrong
I without seeking redress must become utter
ly contemptible at home and abroad.
But the guanto trade was so important to
the agricultural as well as commereial in
terests of the country that it was thought
worthy of special encouragement. There
fore the act of August 15, ISDI, was passed,
which secures to discoverers an exclusive
right in the guano they may find, provides
a mode of making their acts matter of pub-
I lie record, and expressly reaffirms and
pledges over again the faith of the govern-
I inent to prevent crimes and protect the
owners against foreign aggression. Marry
guano deposits were held and worked by
Aniericrans under the principles of public
law berme ISrai, and many more have since
been taken. We have now fifty-eight in
all. In no case, except this one, has any
department of the government shown the
feast hesitation about enforcing the rights of
Um owners.
Now let us assume for one moment that
St. Domingo had a title. Did she not lose
all right to assert it by encouraging the oc
cupants to spend their money, time and
labor on the island in the belief that the
title wits their own ? Could she stand si
lently by until we were so tar embarked
in the business that to stop it was ruin, and
then spring upon us a claim which she
had dishonestly concealed? Every one
who has the ordinary instincts of a just
man will answer " No." In all the codes
of every civilized country and in the pub
lic law of the world it is an inflexible rule
that he who violates good faith by not
speaking out when he ought, shall not be
permitted to speak when he would. If yon
look on while expenditures are made on
Your land by a person who does not know
that it is yours you cannot afterwards take
it from him; his title is as good in equity
as it you had given him a solemn convey-
I once. You cannot mislead a man by your
I deceitful silence and then ruin him by tak
ing advantage of the ignorance which your
own frauds has produced. This rule being
• founded in principles of natural justice, ap•
plies as strongly to nations as to private
parties. But Mr. Seward asserts that the
sufferers in this case are not entitled either
to restitution of the property or to damages
Mr the losses inflicted upon them. Heins
' titles the Dominicans in all things. He is
either ignorant that law and common hon
esty required the Dominicans to give warn
ing of their title or else he acts in total dis
regard of that obvious principle. On the
nue supposition he is mentally, and on the
other he is morally unfit for his place.
But the Dominicans had no title or color
of title. They never exhibited any specific
claim either before the expulsion of the
owners or afterwards. When formally
called on to show their right they were able
to gave no definite answer. The pretended
title now sot up for them, clumsy and false
as it is, was all manufactured in our own
State Department.
It is very natural to inquire here why the
Dominicans, if they had no right, should
commit an inexcusable outrage like this,
since they could scarcely hope to do it with
impunity or keep the fruits of it. A single
fact will pluck the heart out of that mys
tery. Santanna, President of St. Doiningo,
had stipulated to sell his country to the
Spaniards for a stun of money, mid it was
demanded of him, as a condition precedent
that his should drive the Amerman flag
from Alta Vela, its proximity being con
sidered incompatible with the purposes
they had in view. Santannn performed his
contract, got his money and has never been
seen in St. Domingo since. It is also
true that certain Spaniards east a covetous
eye on the treasures of Alta Vela, and look
ed about them for some mode of. plunder
ing its lawful proprietors. They could not
assert a claim of their own, and Hayti, the
nearest neighbor of Alta Vela, would not
lend herself to the fraud. St. Domingo
was the only catspaw that could be used,
and she was brought to it only in conse
quence of the corrupt ascendancy of the
Spanish influence for the time being. So
the owners were expelled, und then the
American Secretary of State consented, for
some unknown reason, not only to aban
don the duty be owed his own country, but
to become the instrument of the. wrong
doers in getting up excuses which they had
not the hardihood to offer for themselves. I
The Government of Spain never assumed
any responsibility in this business, but a
letter from Mr. L. B. Clark (p. 591 asserts I
that the island is now claimed by a emu- I
pony of New York speculators under a ,
Spanish lease confirmed by St. Domingo.
Nothing can be clearer than teas the duty
of this Government when It became known
that American citizens had been thus rob-
The first thing to be done was resti
alder). To that end Mr. Seward should
have made to the President as simple and ,
' truthful report of the facts. Ilutil the par
ties were placed in soya. quo all negotiation
was out of place. It the Secretary thought
lit to diplounllize with them heshould have
permitted them to make out theirown case.
At the least and the lowest, ir be would en
list against his country and his fellow citi
zens, he should have opposed them fairly.
One or two occurrences will show you how
he conducted the defence of the plunderers.
While he amused the ownersof the island
with promises to report and with apologies
fur the delay, he was in correspondence
with certain , :ew York gentlemen, who
frankly told him that they wanted the guano
on Alta - Vela if they could be assured of their
right and of government protection in taking
it away. Mr. Seward, by his assistant, re
plied that he could not encourage them in
resorting to the island for that purpose um I
I less they could get the consent of St. Do
mingo, and advised them to get that of Hayti
also. Thereupon they got the consent of
St. Domingo and informed Mr Seward of
It in a communication which he has sup
pressed. Afterwards, becoming alarmed
at a newspaper paragraph, they wrote Mr.
Seward to remind him of hisimplied promise
to them and to tell him how much they had
expended on the faith of it. "We have done
so," said they, "feeling satisfied that our
government would acknowledge our right,
particularly after informing us how to ob
tain it." To this Mr. Seward unblushing
ly replied, in the very teeth of his first let
ter, that it (the first) was "a warning to all
persons that they would deal with Liao sub
ject at their peril." You will find this cor •
respondence on pages 57-8-9 of the Senate
document. It shows.that he encouraged
add impliedly promised his approbation to
a purchase from St. Domingo which he must
have knoWn could never be carried into
effect withbut depriving Patterson &
Murgniondd of rights which his obvious
duty required him to vindicate and pro
tect. While be was pretending to consider
how the owners Might be restored to pos
session he had already taken the other side,
and the false side, In his correspondence
with outsiders, who acted upon suggestions
.YOlunteered by him,. •
Why the Secretary changed his attitude •
and denied that he meant what was plainly
imported by his letter to Mr. Root is ex
plained in the letter addressed by me to the
President on the 7th of August last (p. 54.)
Mr. Seward sent me a " memorandum "
that the President had " accepted the con-,
elusions " of a report - said to have been
made by somebody in , the department.-:-
Although this was senseless on its face,
was easy to see that . it would - bo,uses44
some future 'time to prove adjudication by
the President against us; for the "memor
and= " could bo applied to any report
which might afterwards be got.up. But I
happened, by mere accident, to know that
in point of fact the caseneiver had been sub
mitted to the President-In any shape; and
that he knew nothing of It. The President,
when interrogated on the subject, averred
that the "memorandum" was wholly un.
The Alta Vela case—A Scathing Letter
From Judge Black—Seward Shown Vp.
The following letter of Judge Black to
General Garfield, of the House of Represen
tatives, gives his side of the story relative
to the Alta Vela (guano island) squabble,
which has caused the ex-Attorney General
to withdraw from the list of colansel for the
President in the impeachment trial. It Is
particularly severe on Seward, and is well
worth perusal
MY DEAR Sin: I owe von an explanation
of the Alta Vela case, arid I will give it to
you in as few words as I can.
Alta Vela is a small island or key, half a
mite wide and three-quarters of a mile
long. It lies about sixteen miles south of
the southernmost cape of St. Domingo. Di
rectly between it and St. Domingo is the
larger island of Beata, which belongs to
and is occupied by Hayti. Alta Vela is
destitute of water or vegetation, and was
never inhabited or used by any nation or
people for any purpose betorethediscovery
of guano upon ;it by Captain Kimball, ns
hereafter mentioned. It was regarded as
useless, and it is useless except for the gu
ano.
true. Mr. Seward having been detected in:'
that trick, and landing himself unable to
impose upon us a fabricated decision, it be
came necessary that he should give a new
face to his correspondence with the trusting
Mr. Root, and this Id only be done by a
bold assertion th t t letter which com
mitted him bi l the inter sof the Domini
can lessees d not menu what it said.
I will give on only a specimen or two of
the points which Mr. Seward bad made:
1. He asserts at one time that we did not
ask for restitution and at another that wo
made no claims for damages. In fact and
in truth, we demand both in the beginning,
and never withdrew either. The record
shows this.
2. In one place ho tries to make out a
little for St. Domingo on the ground of mil
itary necessity. If citizens of this country
were permitted to occupy Alta Vela It
might be fortified, and the occupation of it
In that way by a hostile Power would ho
dangerous to St. Domingo. That the United
States would need an intormediato point of
approach to attack a nation which is not
half as strong as any ono ward of Washing
ton city is absurd enough. It is still more
so to suppose that Alta Vein would servo
such a purpose when you reflect that it lies
on the opposite side of Beata, which is al
ready in the hands of a foreign Power.
Mr. Seward's effort to dignify the vulgar
and commonplace thieving of his proteges
by putting a military gloss on it Is a com
plete failure.
3. Ile introduces a letter from mo as At
torney General in which I said that a claim
of jurisdiction over Cayo Verde, made by
Lord Lyons in the name of his govern
ment, should be settled before an American
was put in possession under the Guano act;
and be gravely uses this as authority for
saying that St. Domingo without any such
claim might expel an American after hn
was in possession with her acquiescence for
seven months.
-I. Ile produces legislative acts of St. Do•
mingo in which Alta Vela is named as an
adjacent island to one of her provinces.
Was it ever heard of before that a nation
acquired Territory by merely mentioning it
as a part of her dependencies? Beata Is
mentioned In the same laws as Alta Vela Is,
yet Beata is beyond all doubt n Ifartien
island. The Parliament -of England for
three centuries habitually called Prance a
part of their King's dominion; but I think
nobody would say that it was thereby ninthe
an appendage of the British Crown.
- -
, A large part of Mr. Seward's paper
consists ut nn effort to show (hot Columbus
discovered the West India lAlands, includ
ing Alta Vela, whereby Spain became the
sovereign of it, and St. Domingo SIICeeNIOII
to the rights of Spain. To a man of com
mon understanding it is not necessary that
a fallacy like this should be exposed. Pre
cisely; the same proposition was asserted by
Venezuela in the case of the Aces Islan);
and thin tlevernment then treated it with
contempt. Mr. Marcy and General Cass
net only did not make such an argument
ag:ai not the rights of their country, but they
repelled it with indignation and put it down
as on insult which could not be borne.
.. •
I have selected his strongest points and
stated Mein us Mirlv us I could in a space
so brief. Perhaps diplomacy is
in which a man is not required to be per
fectly honest. It may be that some allow
ance ought to be made for the tricks of the
trade. But surely it is discreditable to the
United States that they should bayou Secre
tary whose principles are so loose that he
volunteers the influence of his °Mee to do
feat justice and employs his time in making
false defences for foreigners who have
wronged and dishonored the nation. Most
respectfully, yours, ,V.c. J. S. Ilmtek.
lloh. .T.;‘, GARFIELD, House of ltepre
SClltatives.
CO II g-resedonal
^ WAsIIINCITON April I.
The V. S. Senate yesterday, Was occupied
with the impeachment, a report of which
will be found elsewhere,
in the House, on motion of Mr. Kerr, the
Ways and Means Committee were instruct
ed to inquire into the expediency of preven
ting the transfer of special licenses, tin
motion of the same
lug . Committee were instructed relative to a
reduction of the tax on private banks. fli t
motion of Mr. Bailey, of N. Y., the Ways
and Means Committee were instructed to
consider the expediency of a reduction in
the force of the Internal Revenue Depart
ment. The Conference report ou the Tax
Repeal, as adopted by the Senate, was con
curred in, and the bill goes to the-President.
M r. Paine, of W is., from the Reconstruction
Committee, presented the Constitution
adopted by the Florida Convention, and it
was ordered to ho printed. Adjourned.
\Vasil INUTON April 2.
No business was transacted by the House
yesterday, and a report of the proceedings
In the impeachment trial will be found
elsewhere.
WASHINGTON, April 7.
In the U. S. Senate, yesterday, Mr. Wil
son introduced a - bill relieving the political
disabilities of certain citizens of Georgia,
which was referred. Mr. Trumbull, of Illi
nois, introduced a bill extending the provi
sions of the act of February 21,1663, relating
to appeals in the U. S. Circuit Courts. lin
motion of Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, the
Secretary of War was requested to com
municate information in regard to the prac
tice of settling public accounts by requisi
tions on the Treasury. The Naval Appro.
pristine bill was considered until adjourn.
meet. The House was not i❑ session.
Proceedings of the Legislature
IlAnninunito, April 4, Dins;
'rho Senate was not in session
In the House Mr. Winger of Franklin,
moved to consider the vote agreeing to the
motion to prospone the question or a Ilnal
adjournment until after the report of the
committee of conference on the general ap
propriation bill. Agreed to. Mr. Josephs
made an amendment to adjourn on the loth
inst., which was agreed tn. Mr. Adaire
moved a reconsideration of the vote just
taken. Not agreed to. The Senate amend
ment Liking on the 14th inst., for final ad
journment was then concurred in.
Ita umenu tut, April 6.
SENATE.—A bill incorporating the Penn
sylVania Express Company was passed to a
third reading,. Also, ono authorizing the
printing of 10,000 copies of the election laws.
A motion to print the inejority and minority
reports in the contested election case was
agreed to.
llousE.—The general poor law was finally
passed also u bill allowing stockholders
mcorporattd companies to define the num
ber of directors, also the new general Militia
bill, also the Senate joint resolution relative
to the impeachment of Johnson. The Stale
Lunatic Asylum bill was made the special
order for this evening. Adjourned.
=ZEMI!!
II Tram Powers is coining to America
The Captain General of Cuba aliiresse.
Mayor Hoffman as Governor.
A Swiss died in a hospital in Cleveland
last week of homesickness.
The M iAslssippi is now open to nnvigatitm
throughout it. 4 length.
Governor Fenton, of New York, refuses
to pardon Ketchum, the young forger.
Dr. Cheover in the claque for Impeach
meet in the Mdepende.ra.
There are thirty-nine sovereign prince'
in the civilized world, of whom the Pope LI
Rome is the oldest.
Mr. Thomas Hartzell, has been appointed
Poiarnaster at Nazareth, in place of John
U. Leibfried, resigned.
The Robert E. Leo Ineurance Company
haq just been started at Richmond. It is a
Life Insurance Company.
The steatner Magnolia, which recently
exploded on the Ohlo, was General Grant's
headquarters before Vicksburg in 1863.
• Temple Bar, ono of the most ancient land
marks of London, is to he abolished to
make room for a modern improvement.
the French novelist, thinks the
Wections or women of forty-live are often
deeper and more disinterested thu•t those of
younger woolen.
A correspondent of the Springfield, Mass:,
Republican gives a had nevount of the mor
al and physical condition of Albany, where
the New York Legislature dOth assemble.
An American was twice klabbed by a
'sulit in the city of Mexico recently. A
thick pocket-book saved him, and he re
taliated by killing his assailant.
The New Hampshire Republican State
Convention for the choice of delegates to the
National Convention, is culled at Concord,
on the sth day of May.
The death of Lord Byron is announced.
He was horn in 1789, and was the eon of
Captain 1 1eorge Anson Byron, Royal Navy,
and was a cousin of the great poet, Lord
Byron.
Mrs. Coleman, daughter of the lute John
J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, is about to write
a biograghy of her father, and requests all
persons having any information about him
likely to be of public interest to address it
to her at Baltimore.
In the darkest days of the Atlantic tele
graph enterprise, a friend of Cyrus Field's
bought ten thousand dollars or stock for a
ten dollar. bill. Mr. Field offered to take
the stock at a considerable advance. "Well,
but what do you advise me to do, Mr.
Field? " " Take your stock home," was
the reply; "lock it up in your safe, and
never look at it, or think of it till you come
to me for your dividends on it•" And that
man is now receiving on his investment of
ten dollars, eight hundred dollars per an
num in gold.
State Item..
The capital stack of a German theater
company in Philadelphia Is tixed at $200,-
000, the greater part of which has been sub
scribed.
An emigration party Is organizing at
Pithole for building a "branch city" in
Colorado. Mr. J. W. Bonta is President,
and will ‘: keep the hotel. The party start
on the Ist of-April.
The heirs of Mr. Yingst, of Dauphin co.,
who was killed by the Lebanon Valley
railroad last fall, have recently recovered
from the company $4,500 damages.
Mr. John Snavely, an old and respected
citizen of Cornwall township, half a mile
from Independence, Lebanon county, com
mitted suicide recently near his residence.
A temporary bridge near Johnstown gave
way recently, on account of too many per
eons being on it; several individuals were
< erely injured, but fortunately none were .
:d.
Jidoes Black, Esq., President of the
"Pethisylvania State Temperance Union,"
has ap`pOinted Rev. Pennell Coombe to ,
preach arablectxtreprt-temperance in what .. .OP.
is known nibs Eaditern District of Penn
sylvania, being the counties lying east of
Susquehanna river.. It will be a part oft&
mission to form county- Unions and, local
societies auxiliary to the State