ganarga Nublligmen.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1888.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
OILIBLES E. BOYLE, of Fayetto county.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL:
Gen. WELLINGTON 11. ENT, of Columbia so
Row to Secure Retrenchment and Be
form. .
Prominent Republican newspapers
are i forced to confess, even in the face of
the coming Presidential election, that
'there is no hope of. securing any re•
trenchment of the enormous expend!.
tures of the general govern men t, through
the agency of their party. Habits of ex
• travagance are so firmly fastened upon
the men who now control the govern
ment, through the agency of a usurping
and revolutionary Congress, that the
people must expect to be ground to the
earth by taxation until there is a com
plete
'change.
Had they the power, die Democrats
in Congress would at once Institute in
vestigations which would show such a
reckless squandering of the public
money as would startle every taxpayer
in the country. As it is they are utter
ly powerless. Every attempt even to
examine inta the gigantic frauds which
are practiced is promptly and effectual
ly checked by the two third Radical
majority. The people will never know
how theyore being plundered until
there is a nemocratio majority In one or
both Houses of Congress. It would be
impossible to say how many millions
of the money which is wrung from
the sweat and toil of the laboring white
men of the North, is worse than wasted
. No estimate can be make until the two
thirds majority of the Radicals is broken
down. But, enough is known, enough
is confessed to by a few honest Republi
can journals, to assure the masses that
they are being fleeced as no people ever
wore before.
The exactions of the most despotic
government the world ever saw were
light in comparison with the organized
system of systematic stealing under
which the people of the United States
are now suffering. It is utterly, vain
for any Democrat in Congress to at
tempt to institute au examination into
the rascality which is a recognized part
of the rule of the Radicals. The mo
ment a motion looking in that direction
is made, it is promptly killed by a solid
Radical vote of two thirds f or more.
If the people of this nation had no
regard for great political principles,
they would be compelled to vote for a
change on merely selfish and pecuniary
considerations. They see and feel—
_ they cannot help seeing, and feeling,
and knowing—that the money which
is wrung from them by taxation, is
being wrecklessly wasted; thrown away
with an utter disregard for honesty and
economy. Of every pound of bread or
meat, of every yard of clothing, of all
- ""` — bite masses eat, drink or wear, the gang
of Radical thieves demand a share.
I Every tenth day that the laboring man
/works, he toils to put money into the
treasury of the United States, which is
stolen therefrom by a band of robbers,
who are recognized and protected by the
/ Infamous enactments of a Rump Con
gress.
Does any ono suppose the masses of
the North will sustain a party which
sustains such a system? Will white
men march up to the polls and vote to
make Gun. Grant Supreme Dictator, In
order that the Radicals In Congress may
be glvtin still greater power than they
now possess" NVe think not. The
masses will not onitdetunnd a change,
bat, by their votes they will effect it.
All the money the Radicals can steal
will nut buy them a victory at the com
log Presidential election. The people
demand retrenchment and reform, and
they know it cannot be had until the
rule of the reckless party which Is now
In power shall be broken.
The Managers or Impeachment.
The Managers of Impeechtnent, who
have been photographed together, merit
and will secure a conspicuous place In
every 'Rogues' Gallery. In the centre
of the group eppeurs the ghost of Thad
deus Stevens, the practical apostle of
Negro Equality, the avenger of the
murdered Morgan, the grand Inquisitor
after the Freemasons, the projector of
the celebrated Gettysburg Tapeworm,
the author of the election frauds of Mil.
lerstown and Youngwomanstown, the
Hero of the Buckshot War, the ,inven
tor of Legal Tenders, the originator of
the memorable Gold bill and the finan
cier who has made the War Debt twice
what It should have been. He has
richly earned from the afflicted people
of this land the title coveted by Alert°,
the Visloott, the "Scourge of God." Be
side him figures the Lowell Cynoceph
alus, the fast friend of Jeff. Davis In the
Charleston Convention, the butcher of
Big Bethel, the sponge and tyrant of
New Orleans, the Insulter of ladles, the
robber of citizens, the bottled General
of Bermuda Hundred, and the hero of
the disgraceful failure at Fort Fisher.
He, too, has earned his expres—
sive soubriquet of "Beast." Next
comes the vindictive prosecutor of
the innocent women sacrificed by Mill
tary Commission to the manes of the
murdered Lincoln. His appetite for
Impeachment Is all the keener because
the accused is innocent, end would be
keener still if the punishment were
Death. Then follows the Allegheny
Repudiator; who has won the confidence
of his constituents and the only noto
riety ho enjoys, by a career of hold and
stubborn dishonesty that will damn him
to (Cllet infamy. The middle-pitted
Logan, who justified maumnion mid do.
clared that ll' he had 64 , 4 , 11 it Soul herner
ho would !wive been a traitor, else griu494
WO picture, But the subject 114 too of
fensive to pursue, It reeks 11104 a den
of reptiles In it menagerie, "Au ounce
of civet, good Apothecary," Were
Andrew Johnson as guilty as he Is in
neuent, his cause would challenge our
sympathy by reason of the pack of mon
great and spotted bloodhounds on his
trail. But being innocent, the patriot
President will go to posterity . .vith great
er glory, because of tile striking contrast
between his sterling virtue and the ley).
rous infamy of his accusers.
The Southern Electlonh,
The news from the elections in North
Carolina and Georgia seem to indicate
the defeat of the Radical Constitution
and the election of the Democratic can
didates. Even in Louisiana there is a
probability that the Constitution has
not been ratified. It Is said thirteen
parishes have voted against it, and only
six for it. The closeness of these con
tests shows how difficult it is for the
Radicals to win victories, oven with
the army and the Freedmen's Bureau
to manipulate the negro vote. Remove
these, and they could not command a
corporal's guard—not oven in South
Carolina.
Progress of Impenebment
The whole of the past week has been
consumed in speeches by the opposing
counsel in the impeachment trial. We
cannot give even a synopsis of any of
them except that of Mr. Grosbeck. We
have refused to belleVe that the Presi
dent could be pronounced guilty of any
crime Justifying correction, but the rad
icals seem to have no doubt of it. Prob
ably more than a week will elapse be
fore the final vote is taken.
The Southern Elections
The returns from North Carolina and
Georgia come in very slowly. It seems
to be conceded :that the Democracy of
Georgia have carried the State in spite
of the Military, the Freedmen's Bureau,
the disfranchisement of White Men, and
and all other combined obstacles. In
Ncirth Carolina it is very clone. ,
A Bad Spectacle.
• It is now the prevailing ; belie; gpong
men of all par ties Putt President Min
son will be contOted and', ,deposiid.
From thif beginning the Radical lead,*
have constantly asserted that there
could be no other resnit.'.When: the
case of the prosecution Was utterly
broken down by lack of evidence to
show that the accused had been guilty
of any such "high crime or misde
meanor," as wqpid justify impeach
ment, there was no .abatement of the
wicked confidence of his prosecutors.
With a criminal audacity that is aston
ishing, they have constantly insisted
that conviction was sure. When, from
time to time, it has been rurnpred that
a small minority of Republican Bane
tors would hesitate, before deliberately
perjuring themselves by voting to con
demn when the law and testimony JIM .
peratively demanded an acquittal, such
predictions haire been laughed to scorn.
The Radical press of the country her
alds to the world the belief that a suffi
cient number of Senators are ready to ,
disregard their solemn oaths and to vote
for the conviction of the President,
when it has been clearly proven that
he has committed no crime.
What a spectacle of political degrada
tion is thus presented I Do the people
realize the full measure of such unpar-
alieled infamy? Has it really come to
pass that the Senators of the United
States, sitting as sworn Judges In a High.
Court of Impeachment, are ready to
go down to posterity branded as, men
who deliberately perjured themselves
to gain a temporarfadvantage for them
selves and their party adherents? Such
is the prevailing belief throughout the
country. There is no man of intelli
gence In any party who believes that
the President has been proven to have
committed any impeachable offense.
Everybody is forced to admit that the
prosecution has utterly failed to make
out their case. Yet, it is confidently
expected that Andrew Johnson will be
condemned. Never did the world pre-
Sent such a:spectacle. History cannot
produce any parallel to this exhibition
of infamy. It is an exhibition of moral
debasement which is positively appal
ling. Should the people of this country
show themselves willing to endorse a
party which can commit such a crime,
they may bid adieu at once to a repub
lican form of government, and welcome
the despotism which is being prepared
for them.
Radical Bensons for Conviction.
Honest men of all parties find it ex
ceedingly difficult to believe that Presi
dent Johnson can be convicted. They
see that nothing has been proven against
him—that the labored efforts of the
managers toshow him guilty have utter
ly failed. Yet, In the face of all this
we find the Selate urged to convict
and remove him, act because ho is
guilty, but because the Radicals fear
what he may do In the future. Was
the name of Justice ever before mosti
tuted to such it use in the midst of a
sane and reasoning people? Suppose a
nfan on trial for murder, and it Is proved
that he has not committed the murder
with which he Is charged, what would
be thought of those who would urge
that ho be hanged, lest he might com
mit a murder in the future. That Is
the very course all the Radical leaders
are now pursuing towards Johnson.
Can a nation be more degraded, politi
cally, Intellectually and morally than
to be represented by a Congress to whom
political vampires dare profibr such ad
vice and such reasoning—by a Senate
whom those who know it best assume
that such reasoning will move.
Radical Comments on the Michigan Elec•
The heavy vote against negro suffrage
in the State of Michigan, does not seem
to have iisheartened those who are the
real and recognized leaders of the Re
publican party. They declare thitt the
result was brought about by the Inju
dicious action of a small fragment of
their party, who were weak enough to
unite with the Democrats to defeat a
great principle. They insist that the
bulk of the party is ready to vote for
putting the negro on a perfect equality
with the white man in every State of
the Union ; and they declare with great
confidence that It will not be long until
the last barrier betweerithe two races is
everywhere swept away by legislative
enactment. With Johnson out and Ben.
Wade In his place they expect to hasten
the coming of that day. Those Conser
vative Republicans who aro opposed to
negro suffrage will be forced to desert
the corrupt and fanatical leaders of that
party unless they are willing to go with
them to the full length of their pro
gramme. The sooner they do so the
better for the country. A triumph for
the Radicals at the coming Presidential
election will render It exceedingly diffi
cult if not utterly Impossible to prevent
the establishment of negro equality In
every State.
A Prospect for Congressional Aspirants
The latest rumor Is that Old Thad. Is
to be Secretary of State, if Johnson
should be removed. Ho ‘vill be a fitting
Prime Minister for the pious and cour
teous Ben. Wade. How foreign nations
will rejoice at the removal of Seward,
who has driveb all their public men to
distraction by the interminable prolix
ity of his dispatches. In the event of
Ben Wade's succession and Old Thad's
elevation, who will secure his seat In
Congress? Will it be Brubaker, the
learned; Billingfelt, the classic; Dickey
the sagacious and marcastlc ; Orelst, the
witty; Ellmaker, the Cleeronlan ; or
some of the aspirants from surroumlin g
villages? We wait the coming of the
time when such a scrub race will be in•
augurated by the death of Old Thad, or
his removal In Home other Providential
manner, with an assurance that there
will be rare sport.
HON, JOHN IC, M00111 , ;111 , ,All offend
a resolution In Congress, a day or two
since, diroating the Committal) on Com
merce to Inquire whether Congress has
the power to malco regtilations In ro
pad to railroads In the different States;
ilnd, If such power is found to exist, to
inquire into the propriety of appointing
Inspectors of the rails and other ma•
terial used on the different roads. Also,
to ascertain whether a law should not
be passed requiring all passenger and
mall cars to be constructed of iron.
Whether this Inquiry will ever come
to anything depends upon the amount
of legislation which has still to be done
to establish negro supremacy In the
South and negro equality In the North.
THE New York Timer) makes a very
strongpointagainst Impeachment when
it takes the ground that the Senate has
no right to convict Andrew Johnson
for attempting to put his own interpre
tation on the Tenure of Office bill. It
says the Senate cannot consistently find
him guilty without doing the very thing
for which it would thus condemn the
President. The Thrzea justlyalms that
it le a disputed point, whlohYan only be
properly determined by thci • Supreme
Court.
THE Chicago Republican said, the
day before the election In that city :
Tomorrow's result in Chicago will bo
taken as an indication of how the West
stands politically, and how Ililnels will go
in November. It is the last great election
that will take place in the Northwest be
fore the great national contest.
The Democracy accept the prediction
of the Republican, and are confident that
the whole State of Illinois will repudiate
Radicalism in November as emphati
cally as its chief city has dozie.
IN Arkansas prominent white citizens
are being arrested and 'thrown into
prison on the mostirivolous accusations
being made against them, by malicious
negroes. In. one instance the only
crime committed was an attempt to
make one of the black lords pay au
honest debt. Such is justice under the
combined rule of bayonets and 'negro' ,
bullets, '
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THE LANCASTER, WEEKLY INT LIG-ENCER, WRT)NESDAY', APRIL 29, 1868.
The Moral 'Obligation to Exercise The
Elective FranchiseSsinicientionsly n ,
*OrnlOn4blitica \ areefosely
TlAat n4inicontrary 6' the generally
rekiiivekopinion, but it Is nevertheless
unquestionably true. In thin country
we have had' repeated instances of the
ease with which the masses are induced
to abandon party organization when
some question presenting a moralaspect
is thrust into the political arena. The
libolitionists gradually acquired the
power which gave them control of the
Republican party, and eventually of the
Government, by their persistent appeals
to the moral' sentiment against slavery.
Without that lever they could never
have accomplished anything.
The people of this country are pecu
liarly susceptible to moral influences as
applied topolities. This may not ap
. pear upon the surface, and, in the eager
strife to accumulate money, selfishness
may seem to be the dominant Impulse
of the masses; but deep down in the
popularheart, ready to respond prompt
ly whenever properly appealed to,
abides a reverence for law and a love
for whatever conduces to the welfare
and the hor or of the nation. The
American people are not indifferent to
anything which is calculated to affect
-their political future, and they ,can
never be induced to continue in the
support of any party which habitually
violates the Constitution, tramples upon
law, commits acts of injustice and
usurps power for the sake of retaining
office. Against such acts the moral
sense of the masses Instinctively revolts.
They may be controlled by party preju
dice for a while, but, so soon as the mists
of passion are cleared away, they ., will
repudiate the party which has commit
ted itself to evil ways with loathing and
contempt.
Believing in the patriotism and moral
rectitude of the American people, we
have no doubt about the result of the
coming Presidential election. To sup
pose that they would consent to con
tinue the Republican party in power
would be to take it for granted that the
people are not sufficiently intelligent to
undersrand the great issues now pre
sented for their serious consideration.
That cannot possibly be the case. The
lines between the contending parties
are so distinctly , drawn that no man
who reads can fair to see what public
duty demands of him.
The people of the North made the
most enormous sacrifices during the
war because they believed it to be their
duty to do so. To this they were
prompted by a reverence for the Con
stitution and a love for the Union. The
Republican party professed to be solely
Influenced by a desire to protect the one
and to preserve the other. Thousands
who had never acted with it before, sup
ported Its nominees because they honest
ly believed in the professions made by
the leaders of the party. When the
war ended in the complete subjugation
of the rebels, the people of the North
did not demand that vengeance should
be taken upon those to whom they had
so long been united by the closest ties
of friendship and kindred blood. The
speediest possible restoration of the
Union was what was demanded. At
first the leaders of the Republican party
(11(1 not dare to show their opposition
thereto. It was only by very gradual
steps that they advanced from one out
rage to another. ' Believing that a re
stored Union would be fatal to their
supremacy, such men as Thaddeus Ste
vens and Charles Sumner set them•
selves to work to prevent the ac
complishment of what the people
most desired. To accomplish their
purpose they have advanced from
one usurpation to another, and have
added crime to crime. We need not re
peat the titles of the unconstitutional
acts of a revolutionary Congress, by
which the Southern States have been
kept outof thoUnionand under the iron
heel of a military despotism, with the
understanding that they shall never be
relieved therefrom until the men of our
own proud race willingly place their
necks beneath the galling yoke of negro
rule. With startling rapidity the revo
lution has progressed unchecked, until
we find two thirds of the Senators of
the United States ready to blacken
their souls with the crime of deliberate
and wilful perjury, In order to depose
the lawfully elected President of the
United States.
We have said that morals and polities
aro closely allied in this country, and
we believe it. If we did not wo should
utterly despair of the Republic. We
are euro that the people of all the great
Northern. States will always be found
ready to repudiate any political organ
ization which may commit one tithe
of the outrages that have been perpe
trated by the Republican party under
the lead of the revolutionary fanatics
who control ft,
Alarge proportion of the rank and tile
of that organization are honest and con
scientious. They have refused to en
trust the ballot to the negro lu their
own States, because they believe that
the best Interests of the nation will be
subserved by continuing over it tho
government of white men. Does
any one suppose that those Repub
licans who so lately helped to de
feat negro suffrage lu Ohio, Kan
sae, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michi
gan, where the number of blacks is In
significant, will vote at the coming
Presidential election to commit ten
Southern States to the complete con•
trol of negroes who aro more Ignorant
and degraded than the same class aro
in the North? Will they deliberately
force upon men of their own race, to
whom they are allied by the ties of
friendship and kindred blood, a de
gradation which they would resist
with all the powers which God
and nature have given thorn ? We
think not. We have a higher es-
Llmate of the moral sentiment of the
people of the North, We know how
strong among them is the feeling that
calls for fah' play. We aro confident
that a some of Justice and a conviction
of duty will compel thousands of hon
est •Republicans hi every Northern
State to vote against the candidate of
the Radicals, whether lie be General
Grant or any one else. In the coming
election, the people will be influenced
by principle. They will go to Me polls
Impressed with the idea that voting fs p,
high and sacred moral duty, and with
a full estimate of the exalted privileges
of American citizens, they will rebuke
the corruption and the dangerous usur
pations of the reckless revolutionists
who aro now In power.
BOTH of the men who have been
chosen by the negroes of Arkansas to
represent that State in the Rump Senate
at Washington are Northern adven
turers. McDonald is from Pennsylvania;
and Rice from Minnesota. Take such
carpetbag adventurers from the Repub
lican party in the- South, and nothing
would be left of it except a white scaly
wag here and there and a horde of bar
barian negroes.
An Able Speech.
We publish to . -day the able speech of
Mr. Groesbeck. It will be read with
great interest. Even the Radicals ad
mit that it completely demolishes their
entire fabric on which impeachment is
based.
• Sven United . States Senators as are
suspected of having any regardfor their
oaths are being subjected to all kinds of
intimidation to prevent them from
voting to acquit President Johnson. It
remains to be seen whether they have
sufficient manhood to give a verdict ac.
cording to the law and tEte evidence.
.irr one of the Parishes :of Louisiana,
the Radicals were compe led to adver•
tise for a candidate for Judge and Dis—
trict Attorney, there being no lawyer la
that region mean enough to accept officul •
at their hands. Whether they noßteil-,
ed in raking,up aoarpet-bagOdventerer,
or not, we have yet to learn. • • , :
4 , . Deficient*. • ,
We b o ' tie
tinik.ll l 4'
tintionrt9 'lietlsct tin V., t th437Rad;,ls"
haire adopted , reeinningpeviceror riick
nito
irig simple and iiiedulops peoPle be " e
that tbit are taliking*tp‘ l itte ' .
reduce itiermodis'expeadltn ' of
the government. One of the favorite
devices is to set out at the beginning of
the financial year by making low es
timates for the different departments.
The Philadelphia Ledger, a paper which
never makes a mistake about such pat
ters, shows up this system of deceit, by
giving some figures in relation to esti
mates and actual expeditures for the
War Department. It says :
By official records, it is shown that the
actual expenses are sometimes live hundred
per oentnm above the official estimates. In
his official report to the President in- De
cember, 1865, Secretary Stanton's estimate
for the War Department ,expenses, which,
he said, is " adequate for a peaceestablish
ment," for the fiscal year commencing the
80th day of June, 1866, was $33,814,461. His
drafts upon the Treasury for that year were
$117,700,980 18. Mr. Stanton's official re
port, dated in December, 1866, and reported
to Congress, estimates the expenses for the
fiscal year ending June, 1868 at $55,255,665.
The drafts of the War Department upon - the
Treasury to the 81st of March, 1868, nine
months, were 8110,908,111 68.
General Grant, Secretary ad interim, in
his official report last December, estimates
the total expenses of the fiscal year at $77,-
124,707. In other departments similar dis
proportion is also observed between the
estimates and appropriations and the de
ficiency bills of the next session: of Congress
must, therefore, necessarily bo unpreceden
ted.
We call the especial attention of tax
payers to this system. Is it honest to
attempt thus to deceive the people?
Is it not very suspicious when an esti
mate is made for thirty millions and
four times that amount is expended by
the War Department? How can Gen.
Grant be trusted when he resorts to such
trickery Nothing more was to be ex
pected of Stanton, for he is but a mis
erable trickster at best, but there was a
time when the people had a different
opinion of Grant. That was, however,
before he: agreed to become a mere tool
in the hands of the Radicals.
It is high time the people were hon
estly dealt with. This thing of calling
for one-third or one-fourth of what
they intendlo spend, and then getting
Congress to pass a Deficiency Bill dis
posing of more money than was voted
in the original Appropriation Bill, can
not deceive-the people any longer.—
They can see what it is costing us to
keep up an army of seventy-five thous
and men to enforce negro supremacy in
the South, and they know that the bur
then will be none the lighter because
false estimates are made at the begin
ning to be eked out by a gigantic de
ficiency bill at the end of the year.—
Honesty is the best policy in all things,
and the overburthened tax-payers have
a right to demand that they shall be
honestly dealt by. We have had
enough of this roguish trickery, this
pretense at retrenchment when none is
intended.
Freemen of Lancaster
Southern negroes are at this moment
electing YOUR rulers. Emancipated
slaves are crowding white men from
the ballot boxes, and choosing members
of Congress to make laws . for YOU. This
is done In flagrant violation of the Con
stitution of the United States and in
open:deflance of the will of the Northern
people. The principle of Negro Suffrage
has been Indignantly spurned by every
free State that has passed upon it. Yet
Congress invites negrocs to assist in
governing YOU.
The system has never ban author
ized or sanctioned by the people. The
Congress which adopted it was elected
on another issue and for a different pur
pose. So far as the people have had an
indirect opportunity to pronouncejudg
ment upon it, their judgment has been
unmistakably adverse. Yet Congress
insists upon enforcing the scheme, and
using the system to perpetuate itself.
To save the system from destruction
Congress has fettered and gagged the
Supreme judicial tribunal of the land.
When that Court was about to condemn
it, Congress hastily and Indecently de
prived the Court of the jurisdiction that
reaches the liberty of the citizens. The
habeas corpus was wrested from the
Court to rescue the despotism of Negro
Reconstruction. The House of Repre
sentatives passed a bill requiring two
thirds of the judges to concur in a decis
ion in favor of freedom. And the new
political device of impeachment was
brandished over the Court to awe It Into
silence, and destroy that independence
which the Constitution is most solici
tous to protect.
The President having shown a dispo
sition to iriterposo in behalf of the peo
ple was promptly shorn of labs Constitu
tional powers. Dlspotisms were estab
lished In the South to take the ballot
from white men and give it to negroes,
and over these despotisms a tool of Con
gress was made Dictator. The President
was deprived of the command of the
army, by requiring him to transmit all
orders through a creature of Congress.
He was not permitted to remove his
Cabinet ministers, or a postmaster, tide
waiter or clerk without the sanction of
Congress. He was beset with spies, in
formers and detectives to report his
words and gestures to the new Masters
of the American people.
But It was not enough to shackle the
patriotic President. Congress wanted
the powers of his office to attempt to
shackle the people. They resolved to
Impeach him for not following his party
n the desertion of Its principles and the
violation of Its faith. And he stands
impeached to-day for opposition to No
gro Suffrage and Equality. This is the
head and front of his offending. The
charges actually made against Mtn are
the flimsiest and emptiest of false pro-
They have been refuted, dis
proved and demolished. But the frost•
dont will be deposed, and a creature of
Congress invested with his powers, In
order that every contrivance of corrup
tion, fraud and violence may be employ
ed to coerce the American people Into
acceptance of Negro Suffrage.
Against these outrages, past, present
and to come, It Is your duty to pro
flounce an emphatic protostat the ballot
box. You have one more opportunity
to speak through the mouthpiece of
freemen, before the infamous ptirposo
of Congress is consummated by the re
m oval of the President of the People and
the inauguration of the Pro-consul of the
Sooate. Lirt your voice join those of
your sister cities Cincinnati, St. Louis,
Chicago, Albany, Pittsburg and Har
risburg, In forbidding the sacrifice of
the Tribune of the People to the ebony
idol of Negro Equality. Speak for the
last time in warning ; and if your warn
ing Is despised, raise the cry for yen. ;
geance.
Grant's Drunkenness.
Elsewhere we publish a letter from
Wendell Phillips, in which the apolo•
gists for Grant's drunkenness are rough.
ly handled. We shall wait with some
anxiety to see how these leaders in the
temperance cause will meet the sharp
thrusts therein made. The weak mini
festoes of General Dodge and Senator
Wilson are completely riddled. That'
Grant does get drunk, that he has been
seen reeling drunk in the streets of
Washington more than once, is openly
charged on the best Radical authority,
and there iSno use in denying it.
A pisloyal Ilen.
A Vlighila'exchange says S. hen in
that State has just laid an egg which
has the mysterious initials K. IC. K.
distinctly formed by elevations in the
material of the shell, tlere IBA matter
wltioh calls for the pro.npt interference
of the military authorities. We do not
:know but that some action should be
taken in the premlsei by Congress. We
would respectfully call Old Thad's at
tention to the, matter: It is a most
marked.evidence of disloyalty.
ut.,
tllTiset - le Michigan Bakal Thinks.
`"The Kansas State Journal ptagliated
A _
LAIMO/ace, by a Michigan ItadiCaltitt
litioitighly disgusted with e deft
A **to suffrage in his n ve State.
luvia-11:.'" , • ,
• •
“lly-aitclUgan," has dislienored h lf,
and, oovered,the.party with shame and in
contdatency* in refuaing to adopt the new
Constitution. That State has a population
of nearly 1,000,000 hardy and enterprising
eons and daughters. Next to Ohio it is the
greatest wool State in the Union, but it has
all the. prejudices against ,negre• suffrage
that' S outh Carolina and gebrgia &ham
With HB'l,ooooo white population it has
also about 1,200 negroes, and for. some un
accountable reason the State - hoe declared
by, about 40,000 majorljg that the 1,200
ne
gross shall not. vote ; ItEd yet Michigan has
the inconsistency to. ask or, rather,. force,
upon. the people of the South the , very rule
with regard to suffrage which sherriects for
herself - by so large a majority.'Michigan
ought to be ashamed of herself. To main
tain her diabolicalinconsisteney she shonld
call home Zech Chandler and Jack How
ard.
"If it is wrong for intelligent negroes to
vote in Michigan, it is wrong for ignorant
and brutalized negroes, made so inevitably
by the surroundings and associations of a
lifetime, topolicy vote in South Carolina. If it is
bad State 1,200 negroes to ote in
one State, it is bad for
State policy for v 12,000
of the same clams to vote in another State.
And this is all there is of the negro suffrage
proposition. If the thin-skinned, white
livered and milk-and-water Republicans
of Michigan haven't sense enough to ap
preciate these obvious truths, they had
heft& change their names and their politics,
and leave their lake-bound State, and
_move off up into Alaska or British America.
Their climate is not more cold and repul
sive than are the sensibilities of the people
frigid and unrelenting."
That fellow's head is level. He sees
that his party cannot expect to live un
less negro suffrage is made the rule in
the North as well as in the South, and
he fully accepts the issue. We do not
wonder he is completely disgusted with
"the thin-skinned, white-livered, milk
and-water Republicans," who areready
' to sustain negro suffrage in the South,
but equally ready to vote it down in the
North: Such men have no business in
the Republican party. Every vote they
cast with that organization is an act of
humiliation which no true man would
endure. Let all such shake off the
trammels of old party associations, and
act, from this time forth, with the De
mocracy. There is no other political
organization in the country which is
not pledged to the support of negro
equality.
The Impeachment of the Republican
That the Radicals are mistaken in
supposing that they will derive advant
age from the removal of Andrew John
son by the vile means they are employ
ing wo are fully convinced. The more
sagacious of their leaders, such of them
as are not entirely blinded by passion,
admit that so glaring an act of Injustice
must prove extremely disastrous to the
party. Thurlow Weed, who hasseldom
been mistaken in his estimate of the ef
fect of political movements, says :
" What the President would not do—that
Is, give them rope enough—the Radicals are
doing for themselves. A quarrel is to cul
minate in a crime. The Senate, the moment
its sentence of Guilty has been pronounced,
will be impeached and put on its trial before
the high tribunal of public opinion. When
the fire and smoke of the Radical speeches
in:Congress and the howling' of the Radical
press subside, judgment and reason will re
sume their sway ; when there will no longer
be an Andrew Johnson fora popular scape
goat and scarecrow ; when Congress will be
come directly responsible for all discontents
and disappointments—then, wo say, that is
reaction will sot in, and an indignation bo
awakened, from which the Radical leaders
will call upon the mountains to hide, and
the rocks to fall upon them. Even should
the consequences not overwhelm the Ito
publican party—of which there is groat
danger, they will crush the Senators who,
with no testimony to Justify them, say 'We
had the President of the United States
Guilty.' Though urged by their partisans
to do this thing, those very partisans will
use it against them. It will be said by those
who want their seats that the ' Impeach
ment' hiss become so unpopular that we
must drop A., 13 , C., D., R., P., G., tito..
until one by ono, they all drop out of their
positions."
The only mistake in Mr. Weed's
statement is to be found in the suggestion
that the Senators who vote for impeach
ment will be thrust aside to make room
for other Republicans. The reaction in
public sentiment will not stop there.
The party cannot purge itself by reject
ing Its impeachment Senators. This It
will infallibly attempt to do, but the
people will not accept that as an attone
ment for Its usurpations and crimes. It
will stand before the country impeached
for such grave offences that the masses
will never rest satisfied until it is com
pletely deprived of the power It has so
shamefully misused.
_ • 1 41> 4.
Mrs. Lincoln's Opinion of Rant.
Mrs. Lincoln had her own views of
those who hold high positions under
her husband, and she was in the habit
of speaking outvery freely. Her opinion
of Grant was not flattering, but, unless
we are much mistaken it will generally
be regarded as remarkably correct. In
the hearing of her spouse, she said :
Grant Is a butcher, and is not fit to bo at
the head of ourarmy." " But," replied Mr.
Lincoln, "ho has boon very successful."
" Yes," replied Mrs. Lincoln, 'he gone ally
manages to claim a victory, but such a vic
tory. Ito iOBOB two mon fur tbo enemy's
one. If the war should continuo four yours
longer, and ho in power, ho would depopu
late the North. According to his tactics
there is nothing under hi:seven to do but to
march a new line of mon up in front of the
Rebel breaatworlcs to bo shot down as fast
as they take their position. Grunt, I repeat,
is an obstinate fool and a butcher."
That Is decidedly severe on the gen
tleman who smokes in silence, but we
have no doubt the Judgment of posterity
will fully corroborate the opinion ex
pressed by Mrs. Lincoln.
What Fosters the Naked Drama ?
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune charges that the naked drama,
as exhibited In such spectacles as the
Black Crook, could not exist if the
clergy of that city and the country were
faithful to their trust. Does the con
tributor of the Tribune forget that the
principal business.of many northern
preachers, for several years past, has
boon the preaching of a vary bad style
of politics? How can it be considered
strange that vice should stalk abroad
when religion has been banished from
so many pulpits? When a professedly
religious Journal such as The Pulpit,
undertakes to: excuse the sensual sins
in which so many clergymen have boon
detected, it is only a natural conse
quence that the churches should be de
serted while the mattinees and regular
exhibitions of the Black Crook are
crowded.
A Tooth Dom the Jaw or the Radical
Party.
The followlug appears as a special
telegram at the head of the nows
columns of Forney's PrcBB;
Mr, Slovens spends an hour or two ovary
day with his friond, Col, Forney, In the
room of tho Secretary of tho Senate, during
the trial, and is full of anecdote and infor
mation, It is astonishing how much ho has
improved within the last two weeks, Yes• .
tordoy he had a loose back tooth extracted
—.the second he has over lost.
Will Col. Forney please inform us, at
his earliest convenienco, what has been
done with the aforesaid tooth from Old
Thad's Jaw? We would suggest to Con
gress the propriety of appropriatitig a
sum of money for the purpose of having
it preserved and properly taken oare of
for all time to come ; and that Colonel
Forney be given a large salary for keep
ing watch over it, after Cameron has
kicked him out of the position he now
holds.
Menge Election.
The 'Stale Guard of Saturdak, April
25th, publishes the following:
The Democracy are howling with delight
over the result of the late municipal eleo
tion in Chicago. The Republican vote is of
course much less' than it was for Lincoln,
but we imagine the silent voters are not all
dead. The figures on Clerk and . President
are as follows:
869.
Republican 1 11,816 KlMB6i.
Democratic 11,930 12.891
Republican loss, 2,572; Democrat lose, 705;
And out of this the Democrats have the
audacity to claim a gain of five or six thou
sand.
No, Mr. State Guard. The vote was
as follows:
Republican.
Democratic.
And out of this the Democrats have
the audacity to claim a gain of over
fourteen thousand.
116*Faninpilag *Mat and Judg
-5..- manta raynillapi
. 2.
, As there hibonatrable ingniryabont
the law recentlye(l,h/ the 4gialiie
tare, exempting mortgages, judgmenti
and recognizances from taZll4olk,
republish the act, which reads as fol
lows :
Be it enacted, &c., That all mortgages,
Judgments, recognizances and moneys ow
ing upon articles of agreement for the sale
of real estate made and executed after the
ppaesaseaaggee of this aot, shall be exempt from all
taxation, • except for State purposes; and
that from and' after the first day of Decem
ber next, no taxes of any description shall
be :assessed `or collected except for State
purposes, onerfrom mortgagee, judgments,
recognizancea or moneys owing upon arti
cles of agreement tor the sale of real estate,
whether made and executed before or after
the passage of this act: Provided, That
nothing in this act shall be constructed to
apply to mortgages, judgments or articles
of agreement given by corporations.
This act applies to Lancaster county,
but it will be seen that it does not ex
empt all mortgages find judgments from
taxation ; but only such as are "owing
upon articles of agreement for the sale
of real estate, made and executed after
the passage of this act." There !show.
ever the farther provision that after the
first day of December next all such aye
lietions shall be exempt, whatever
may be their date. It does not exempt
them fromiaxatlon for State purposes.
This statement will enable our readers
to understand how the law stands, and
to see whether it affects them.
Radicals Denouneing the Virginia Con
stltailon.
The more decent white Radicals in
the Virginia Convention denounces the
new Constitution in unmeasured terms.
A special dispatch to the Pittsburg
- Commercial says :
After adjournment several members were
called upon for speeches. Mr. Porter, Re
publican congratulated the members on the
constitution adopted, and predicted its ra
tification by an overwhelming majority.
He was followed by Lindsay, colored, In a
speech to the same effect. Judge Smead, of
Accomao county, decidedly the ablest man
in the convention, loyal throughout the war,
and who has acted with the Republican
party ever since, denounced the constitution
and predicted its defeat by an immense
majority on account of the iron-clad oath,
which would practically render impossible
the inauguration of any government In the
State. Mr. Allan, who has hitherto been
esteemed one of the most radical Republi
cans in the State, followed Smead in a
speech to the same effect.
Beecher on Advertising
Henry Ward Beecher, in his latest Sunday
morning sermon, said that if he was a mer
chant and wanted to sell goods, be would
advertise in the nawspapers.—New York
Paper.
And Mr. Beecher would sell his goods.
Judicious advertising never fails. Mr.
Beecher would know how to advertise
judiciously—which is what a good many
don't know. It is the easiest thing in
the world to throw away money in try
ing to advertise. Letting on just too
little steam is no better than none
at all. The dealer who contracts
to have his advertisement printed
for a lengthened period, and seldom
changes it, does the next thing to noth
ing at all, at an expensive rate. It is
the frequent, persistent blows that make
the breach ; and so it is the frequent
advertisement, framed to enlist atten
tion, that bring custom. Where adver
tising has been reduced to a system, the
advertiser changes frequently, pays
freely, and never allows his advertise
ment to become stale. The same song
continually sung would ruin the best of
singers. Whoever has tested it never
underrates advertising. The weak, sick
ly, timid advertising is simply useless
expenditureof money. Thin gruel never
made one fat. Liberal advertising has
made more men rich than any other one
thing. Mr. Beecher is the best adver
tised man in the country, and he knows
the value of advertising liberally.—
Pittsburg Commercial.
Horrible Cruelty In on Orphan Amylum
Brooklyn is excited over the report of a
cites of groat aructlty towards ono of the
children in the larooklyn Half Orphan
Asylum, in Cumberland street. The boy,
Edward Ferguson, had committed some
offoneo, to punish which, two of the women
in authority, it is alleged, seized him, and
while one of them held him firmly, the
other poured oil of vitriol or some other
burning acid upon his exposed flesh. His
excruciating agony almost threw the little
sufferer into convulsions. One of the women
who inflicted the torture is under arrest.
Her name Is Miss Anna Campbell, and
a warrant is out for tho apprehension of her
assistant, whose name is Mrs. Davis. On
being brought before the magistrate, the
former said that In administering the pun
ishment, she was but carrying out the or
ders of the doctor of the institution She was
hold to bail in the sum of $lOOO to answer.
An examination of the case was set down
for Saturday next. The mother of the boy
is a widow, residing on Franklin avenue.
Many persons who had children In the in
stitution went this morning and Wok them
away.
Tho Fate of Impeachers
The fate of impeachers in history is signi
ficant. Of the fifty-eight persons who sign
ed the death-warrant of Charles Stuart,
thirty-seven survived the Commonwealth,
and lived to see the restoration. Of the
thirty-seven, nine were executed, twelve
imprisoned for the remainder of their lives,
eleven fled to escape punishment, three were
pardoned or released, and the fate of two Is
left in doubt. The' twenty-ono who died
before the restoration were attainted by
Parliament. Cromwell was exhumed and
hung ; and so were several others who wore
the chief instigators of the regicide. All
this was done, not to gratify any spirit of
revenge on the part of Charles 11, but in
obedience to a popular demand for Justice.
Of the estates of the fifty-eight regicides,
thirty-five were confiscated by exclusion
from the indemnity bill of Charles 11, ono
was restored by pardon, and the yearly I n •
come of the remaining ono was confiscated.
Tho Victory in Oh'miff°
The Chicago Times says exultantly: the
Republican National Convention will be
compelled to hold its sessions in a Demo
cratic city, unless it move nwaykom Chi•
cago. The chief city of Grant's own State
has pronounced against him. Chicago ,is
Democratic. At the election yesterday, the
Democracy carried the city by NO majority
—electing the Democratic candidate for
J udgoof the Recorder's Court, and the Dem
ocratic candidate for Clerk of the Recorder's
Court, and gaining four Aldermen. This
is groat glory. Last year, at the mayoralty
election, the Republican majority was 0,038.
Democratic gain, 4,8481 The Demooracy
have covered themselves with honor end
triumph.
An Exhibition of Indecency.
Forney's Proses notices editorially the
feat that a beautiful monument is being
erected in Doylestown to tho dead of the
104th Regiment of PounnylvaniaVolun
tours ; but it entirely ignores the fact
that this testimonial to the gallant dead
is duo to the energy and patriotism of
that distinguished Democratic soldier,
General W, W. H Davis. General
Davis has written a history of the 104th,
which is the best book of the kind yet
published, and through his untiring of.
forts the money was raised to construct
the monument of which the Press
speaks. Under such circumstances it
BOOMS strange that all mention of Gen.
Davis should bo omitted In the article
to which wo allude, and that occasion
should be taken therein to make a bit
ter assault upon the Democratic party.
Such is the Justice and the decency of
Radical Journalism.
Death of an Editor.
Col. T. Herron Foster, one of the pro.
proprietors and the the :chief editor of
the Pittsburg Dispatch died on Tues•
day morning.' He was a gentleman of
fine abilities, and much esteemed by all
who knew him.
THE election of a negro to fill one of
the principal State offices in South
Carolina is hailed as a great Republican
victory; and every big and little Radical
newspaper in the country is in raptures
over ,the result. Are those whd call
themselves Conservative Republicans
prepared to continue their connection
with a party which offers this as the
first fruits of its favorite policy?
Nzw Youths is threatened with a daily
religious paper. Its politics will be
Congregational, and its motto: Go ye
into all the South and preach Thad.
Stevens to every living creature.
THE Ku-Klux have appeared in East
Knoxville, but in a very mild form.
Two of them woke up a gentleman the
other night, about eleven o'clock, to in•
form him that they hadn't had a drink
since the battle of Shiloh, but the gen
tleman failed to come to time, and the
spirits were "sold."
GIN. " 808 " SCHENCK, famous for
the Vienna massacre, bas recently been
"completely, cleaned out at several
friendly games of poker" in Washing
ton.
Will Impeachment Heti Negro Beton.
• 114.110011g1T
• Thirßaditisleideolare that: President John
son must tie Rol rid of as an °Wade. An
obstacle to Radical femlahrhorrhe fa not and
has never been qq:having never been able to
otaitznct liar a lunar period than ten days
the wildest, mad estirfadmostrevolution
aryllaws they have
seen fit to pica. His
Power of bliderPosing by his velues a ten
aays' delay in the passage of laws does not
'account for the three years' delay in the res
toration clothe Southern States. In what
way, than, has be checkmated that policy ?
Not by a refuel to execute the Renonstruo
tion laws, for he baarformed every act
which those laws req uireof him. In fact,
they require nothing of him but the ap
nointment_of the fivellisixint.Commanders.
The scheme was contrived to dispense with
his action; and operate in' defiance' of his
official authority. • The military command
ers being appointed, he 1s not permitted by
law; and has not attempted in fact,thinter
fer with thediacharge of their duties, How,
then, is be an obstacle, Unable either to
prevent the passage of laws or to obstruct
their administration, he has not been an
obstacle by the exert ion of official authority,
but only by his personal influence. If the
Radimls think that by divesting him of his
office they will destroy his personal influ
ence, they are mistaken.
The Reconstruction project has-thus far
been thwarted for no other reason in the
world than because the Southern people
have refused to accept it. Their refusal is,
to be sure, ascilben to the encouragement
they have receited from the proclaimed
hostility of President Johnson to the Con
gressional scheme. But be will be no less'
hostile to it out of office than he has been in.
Ashe has stimulated the Southern people to
oppose it only by acting on public senti
ment, it does not very clearly appear bow
ejecting him from office will remove the
"obstacle." If anybody suppwes that his
conviction will inspire any additional con
fidence on the part of the South, in the jus
tice, wisdom, or moderation of Congress,
such a person must be singularly incapable
of viewing the subject from Sontherritioints
of view.
Even if Mr. Johnson, after his removal,
should go quietly back to. Tennessee and
"make no sign," the effect of the impeach
ment would be to deepen the indignation of
every honest man in the South, and cause
him to regard the Reconstruction abomina
tion with more fervent hatred than he does
at present. To punish 'the President in
manifest defiance of law, justice, and
eSt
deuce, on a false pretence of crime, is one of
the unlikeliest methods that could be
adopted for causing the Southern people to
regard the Reconstruction scheme with
greater favor than they have done hereto
fore. The real "obstacle" Is Southern oppo
sition ; and the unjust condemnation of the
President would render that opposition in
veterate.
To suppose that Mr. Johnson, a ft er his
removal would sliek away to his home and
hide his face would bo to mistake the
character of the man. He may be deposed
but he cannot be disgraced. He is not made
of such yielding, abject stuff as to hang
down his bead under an unjust sentence.
The only advantage he gains from his offi
cial station is that it enables him to com
mand the public ear; but as a President
unjustly deposed this advantage will be
doubled. He is as capable as any man in
this country of the fiery zeal of a cruzader ;
he perfectly understands the average South
ern mind, and has an unrivalled capacity of
talking to its level. He will affect none of
the usual reserve of a rettred President
with a cumbersome dignity to support, but
will go forth with the burning ardor of
a Peter the Hermit, and, like him, will
be less indebted for his success to the
powers of the orator than to the preposses
sions of the audience. He will rehearse the
injustice and tyranny of Congress on every
Southern stump to men eager to hear and
swift to condemn. Ho will find the task of
convincing their judgment already done to
his hands. His only labor will be to rouse
and kindle their sympathetic indignation.
The negro reconstruotionists will find that
in attempting to escape the consequences of
his opposidon they have jumped out of the
frying-pan4htu the fire. They will ex
change the Comparative reserve of an officer
without any real power, for the inextin
guishable vehemence of an obstinate politi•
cal zealot, who will never speak in the
South without a great audience, nor
over fall to carry his audience with him.
As President, his influence is merely per
sonal, for ho has long been stripped of near
ly, every function of his offco . As a Proof
' dent unjustly deposed, he will lose no per
sonal consideration, and will ouporadd the
activity and volubility of a practised politi
cal speaker greeted everywhere with great
ovations. If the military satraps should
silence him in the South, he would come to
the North, where,
although he would find
public sentiment greatly divided, he would
be welcomed and greeted as no orator has
been since Kossuth. The idea that so irre
pressible a nature as Andrew Johnson can
bo " put down" by an:unjust sentence
which will leave his person at liberty, is
visionary.
But, quite apart from his personal activi
ty, his deposition from office will intensify
and consolidate the Southern opposition, for
there are probably not 5,000 white men born
and raised in the South who will regard it
in any other light than political persecution
dishonestly cloaking itself in the forms of
justice.—N. Y. World.
A Lndy wnlkis ninety4Tvo miles lu
tyfour Lours.
Weston, the pedestrian is not the only
person who is to be permitted to enjoy the
honor of walking 100 miles in twenty-four
hours, as hero in St. Louis a lady is contest
ing his laurels, and with a very good show
of success. Weston, on his tramp across
the continent, made several uttemps, but
failed, only accomplishing the feat a few
weeks since, near Buffalo, N. Y. A couplo
of weeks ago Mrs. Harry Thomas, a lady
of this city, was prevailed upon to under
take the great font, Concordia Park being
selected as the plane where it wee to be per
formed. A broad plank was laid on trestle
frame-work, and backward and forward
she was to march until .the task was con
summated. After ono postponement on
account of the weather, she announced her
self, on Monday last, as ready for the 1111.
dortaking. Quite a large crowd of specta
tors assembled at tho,Park to see the start,
and with an elastic, buoyant step, Mrs.
Thomas began her tedious march at 1 o'clock
in the afternoon. At first oho walked quite
briskly, but as time wore on and hours bad
boon consumed, her pace slackened, but
she continued the task without a murmur
or complaint. During Monday night watch •
era wore loft with her to furnish her
with want refreshment might be requir
ed, and keep a record of the time
and distance, as each hour rolled
around. On Tuesday morning she looked
very frosh,
' considering the fatiguing journey
she had taken, though her limbs had swol
lon somewhat, and her slops were slower
and more feeble than before. At half-past
12 o'clock yesterday, the score showed that
she had travelled ninety-two miles, and it
being fully apparent that the remaining
eight miles could not be made up in the
concluding halt hour, she ceased her walk
ing, amid the cheers and compliments of all
bystanders. Mrs. Thomas is a rather small
built woman, and would be considered
rather good looking. She does not look to
be very strongly made, nor capable of the
fatigue, of such a journey. She feels con
fident, however, of herability to accomplish
this unilortaking, and will make a second
attempt in a few weeks. She has already
done so wall that bets are freely offered that
she will succeed on the neat trial, duo no
tice of which will bo Louts Times,
The General Conforonoo of tho Moth()
(lint Epioiaciphl
Ono of the most Important ovonts of a ro
llßttlour that has over occurred in
Chicago will be the mooting of the gonor4tl
conference of tim Mothodist Eplmeopitl
Church of the United Shiite, to occur on the
first of noxt month. This conloronco 014-
pomblos only once in four ears; It is coin •
posed of dologatom from all ythe annual non.
forenows in the United Stntom, sixty.olght In
numhor, which have tin aggrogato clerical
membership of olgitt thousand, Tito ratio
of roprosontation In the general conference
is ono delegate for ovary thirty members.
It is oxpooteel that there will be present at
the forthcoming session nine bishops, two
hundred and thirty.fivo delegates from
England, Ireland, Franco, the eanadam and
the United States.—!ivory State and several
of the Torritories will bo represented. Soy
oral vary important questions will oomo up
for action, among them lay representation,
Southern work and the foreign mission
policy. The body wilt also constitute a
court of appeals, and during the session
the conforonco will elect general officers.
bishops, editors, book Agents and oorros
ponding secretaries of connectional eocio
ties.
A Ntrong Point.
'no N. Y. Herald says:
Ono of Mr. Nelson's strongest points is
the production of the resolution introduced
into the Senate by Mr. Johnson in the first
year of the war and then adopted by Con
gress as the expression of the country In
regard to the object of the Var. Tbat row.
lution declared that the war was for the
Union, and not for the destruction of slavery
nor for conquest nor the subjugation of the
Southern people. Tho speataalo now is that
Mr. Johnson is tho only man in tho goy
ernment who adheres to that declaration
and stands up in oppOsition to thoso who
are trying to secure the results of the war
as though italkd been one for conquest. He
is the-man who holds tothe main idea, and
and all the rest have been sweet on by the
revolutionary current. He is tried on party
questions, and yet not because he deserted
his party, but because be did not go with it
when it deserted its principles.
Negro Blot at the Polls.
The election at Augusta tGeorgla, closed
In a row between the whites and blacks.
Several were wounded, but none seriously.
The excitement was intense. Subsequently
a negro knocked a white lady down in the
public streets, injuring her severely.
This added to the excitement prevailing,
qpd fears were entertained of a general riot.
Several shots were fired at the freedman,bot
he escaped with a slight wound. After the
negro had been arrested, • the military
charged through the streets, dispersing the
crowd.
Geod.Womanl
The Hartford Times tells a good story of
Mrs. John Hubner, (a German woman,) of
that, city. Her husband, (a small man,)
walkonflned to his house by rheumatism,
unable to walk to the polls. Seeing that he
was likely to lose his chance of voting for
Gov. English, she proposed to earn' him on
her back, and actually did so! 'When. the
crowd at the polls saw her approach, they
gave her three cheers,
and made up on the
spot a purse of $2OO for her. That is the
spirit with which the Democracy of Con
necticut went into the contest.
Slate Items.
She Scott Won celebrated tho anniver
sary of the betide of Cerro Gordo, on Satur
day evening in Ptdiadelphia by a supper.
Eggs are now down to a Tarter dollar a
dozen. They are now the eapest food in
the Philadelphia market.
A bed otiron ore was recently discovered
on the Bum of David Plank, Esq., near
Morgantown, Barks county.
Win. E. Dodge, E of New York, has
made a donation of slsq.,
0,000 to Lafayette
College at Easton.
The Lewisburg Tournai states that there
is a line rafting freshet bathe Susquehanna,
and the rafts are running in abundance.
The railroad safe at Annville station, five
miles above Lebanon, was recently blown
open and robbed of $5O.
The Philadelphia Engine Company has
been awarded a bronze medal for their am
bulamxs exhibited at the French Exposition.
The members of the Masonic order, liv
ing in' Hatboro' and vicinity, this state,
have recently organized a lodge.
The sum of $lO,OOO was subscribed to the
stock of the Reading Library Company last
year.
Cloudy Boner has been arrested in Potts
town for engaging in a prize light with
Wm. James.
The drowned man found at the Fairmount
locks, on Sunday, is supposed to bo John
Connelly of Pittsburg.
The Philadelphia papers announce that
Strawberries have made their appearance
in that city.
Thorn are 80,410 chilten in the public
schools of Philadelphia-40,731 boys and
39,677 Earls.
West Chester has seven banking houses.
Reading hes a bare half dozen—four public
and two private.
Kemble Johnson," a celebrated trotting
horse owned by the late Reilly Smith, of
Easton, was sold recently for $l, 271
-•- -
W. H. Beal, of Philadelphia, has invent
ed an Ingenious dovice for heating railroad
cars, which removes all danger from fire in
case of a smash-up.
.A fatal disease to chickens Is now prevail
ing in some parts of Berks county. One
farmer in Cumrtt township recently lost
twenty in one day.
Tho Rainbow Firo Company of Rending
intend soon to present to the Good Intent
Fire Company of Philadelphian handsome
banner and a bookcaso.
Anthony Taylor, a much respected citi
zen of West Chester, 85 years of ago, was
crushed by a car at the Railroad depot in
that place on thalsth Inst., and instantly
killed.
An election for the consolidation of the
-- . •
boroughs of Lebanon and North Lebanon
was recently held and resulted In favor of
the measure by a majority of 569 out 067
votes polled.
By a law which recently passed the Leg
islature, it is enacted that partridges shall
be shot only between the 20th of October
and 20th of December of each year. The
fine imposed fora violation of this law 18825.
Mr. Wm. Chapman, the great Slate
manufacturer, intends to build a largo hail
at Bath, Pa., this summer, for the use of the
Masonic Lodge, which it is expected will bo
instituted there in June next.
Joseph Megary, elected Clerk of the Or
phans' Court in Philadelphia, has entered
upon his duties. He has appointed An
thony A. Lewis deputy, and Albert Fortier
Cotirt Clerk.
The new Lackawanna Valley House, in
Scranton, has been completed. It cost
$50,000. To finish it the proprietor, E. B.
Burnham, expended $15,000. It is the
finest house in Scranton.
Returns of the South Carolina election'in
dicate a Republican majority in all but
three or four districts. Partial returns from
eighteen districts show over 20,000 majority
for the Constitution.
Reading is soon to have another daily pa•
per (German ), to be issued by W. 'Rosen
thal, Esq., of the Banner von Berks. This
will make four papers from ono office—all
under the editorial supervision of Mr, Ro
senthal.
Dan Rico is traveling through Southern
Pennsylvania with his circus. Ho takes
occasion to give the impeachers some herd
rube every time ho appears in the ring, and
his pointed allusions generally "bring down
the house."
John Gibbonoy, who is charged with tho
homicide of Patrick Duffy, at seventh and
Shippon streets, Philadelphia, sovaral weeks
ago, yesterday delivered himself into the
custody of Chief Dotactlye Lamon,7nt Ches
ter county. Ho woe brought to this city
and was committed for trial.
An Anti-Tobacco Club has boon started
In Girard, Pa., with W, C. Culbertson as
President, and H. M. Webster no Secretary,
The topics it is to consider aro " the evils
resulting from the excessive use of tobacco,
as well as the virtues of camomile flowers
as a substitute."
There is an old lady named Elizabeth
Wood in Philadelphia, who is 107 years old.
She was present at the time Washington
crossed the river on the memorable Christ
mass eve preceding the battle of Trenton.
She is quite intelligent and retains to a re
markable degree the use of all her faculties
The Delaware river has been in tine raft
ing condition for several days past, and a
large number of log and lumber rafts have
been floating down it, on their way to mar
ket. The lumbermen on the headwaters of
the river did not suffer any loss from the
ice freshet and aro now getting their lum
ber to market in good season.
The Prothonotary of Scuylkill:county on
Saturday last entered judgment in the suit
of Moses Taylor and Samuel Sloan, Trua•
tees, versus the Now York and Schuylkill
Coal Company, for ono million, sixty-eight
thousand and nine hundred and ninety
throe dollars and thirty-three cents, ($1,008,-
003.03.) It is the largest judgment over
entered in the Court of Common Pleas of
Schuylkill county, and ono of the largest
perhaps ever entered in the State of Penn
sylvania.
Nov. Items
Tho Union Pacific Railroad is now coin
ploted to a point CM miles west of Omaha.
Tho Ohio romalo Collogo, near Cineln
nati, was burned yesterday. Loco, 8100,000
Fourteen business houses in Pulaski,
Tennessee, were yesterday destroyed by
Rm. Loss, $lOO,OOO.
Ono Jean Baptiste La Oroix has identi
fied Whelan, in prison at Ottawa, as tho
man whom he says he saw lire the shot
that killed Darcy McGee,
Four men woro arroetod at JoU'oreonvlllo,
on Tuesday, charged with conspiring to rob
a railroad train and murder those In ohargo
of it,
Tho second trial of John LlNSurratt Is to
begin on the 12th of May, It is understood
that Judge Black will be ono of tho counsel
for the defence,
Eight mon wore killed and four others se
riously injured by the explosion of a boiler
in a saw mill at Miamsteo, Michigan, on
Wednesday.
Volney Winehell, broker, disappeared
from Springfield, Mass., two weeks since,
with a largo amount of U. S. bonds and
other securities, including 817,000 belonging
to the Presidont of tho First National Bank.
The laborers on the Union Pacific Rail
road, at the Black Hills, were attacked by
Indians on Thursday, and four of thnin
worn killed, Tho Indiana in the vicinity of
Von Eitanton, Now Me: km, are very host) le,
and have kil t novoral whiten.
Pa-Govornor Plorpoint, of Virginia, ban
rondo charges to don, Grant against (lon.
Mahaltold. Ho sayn that tiolloilold ban vlo•
'Mod thu lawn by allowing ox-Confedoratem
who could not toko thu oath to hold office,
nod that ho ham mad° nupolottoontn preju
dicial to tho Union calm,
A Nadal ;dorm TlNltod Pro!Ho county,
Art on tho 111111 Instant, F0110(1/4, (Jut.
'nison, ea/lido:woo nod tlmbor worn prow
tratod, and many pormona novoroly
An unprooodontodballotorm °conned at t ho
mamo tlmo. Ploaom of loci, horn tho olzoof ct
walnut to a glom tumblor, full llko moo.
;hot, with fourfulonbot. Irlomohourwo war°
blown ontlroly away. No lives aro known
to hnyo boon loot.
tud of this Way in Abyssinia.
Lorrnox, April 28—Evoning.—Bcomatalies
have Just boon received from Abyssinia
which glvo the following highly important
and ttratifying intelligonco:
A bbattle was fought on Good Friday, be.
fora Magdola, between the British troops,
commanded by Napior, and the Abyssinian
forcos, under command of King Theodore
in person. The Abyssinians wort, dofoalod
and rotreatod into tho town, losing heavily
in killed and wounded.
On the following Monday, all his propar
ations having boon completed, Goneral
Napier ordered an assault upon Magdala•
and the town and citadel were carried by
storm, and King Thorodoro was slain. A
largo number of his warriors worn killed,
wounded and captured. Tha entire capital
remained in possession of the British forcos.
The loss of the British was small. All the
British captives wore found in Um city, alive
and well, and were sot free. Napier's in
stant return to the coast Is expected.
The Aftempt to Aminsidonto Prince
LONDON, April 26—Evaning.—Further
particulars of the attempted assassination
of Prince Alfred have been received. Far
rell, a Fenian, shot him in the back on
March 12, and the ball was extracted on the
14th. He was doing well, but would he
sent borne.
LONDON, April 20.—A despatch from
Sydney; New South Wales, dated March
81, states that Prince Alfred was recover
ing from the effects of his wound.
Terrible Boller Hoplos on
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.—A boiler in
the Penn Treaty rolling mill of Lelbert
Co., Marlborough street, exploded this a T..
to To oo n, demolishing the building. John
M, Gill, Frank Smith, and John Davis,
were killed, four were wounded seriously,
and many others slightly. Up to the pres
ent time thirteen wounded have been taken
from the ruins.
Fiendish Outrage.
UTICA, N. Y. April, 27.—A most horrible
and murderouklieed was enacted on Satur
day afternoon last at Pond Hill; about four
miles east of Camden valley, in this county;
A little girl, eight years old, daughter of
Levi Sanders, was brutally outraged a abort
distance from her father's regidenoe. Her
throat was then out and her 'Read smashed
with a stone, or some other , implement.
Wm. Henry Carswell, who is said to have
committed it, is said to be a single fel
low, and there is little doubt that be is an'
irresponsible chiuscter.
IMPICACH4ENT.
Mr. Groesbeck.. Great Speech
WASHINGTON, April 25.—The Senate, as
a high court of Impeachment, assembled at
noon to•day. The crowd in attendance In
the galleries was greater than on the day
previous.
The Chief Justice then directed the Presi
dent's counser to proceed.
Mr. Groesbeck, of counsel, commenced
his remarks. Re referred primarily to the
fact that in this country we have bad five
cases of Impeachment—four of judges and
one of a Senator. He laid it down as a first'
proposition that Impeachment was never
Intended, except as a remedy for the re
moval of an-obnoxious odicer who hold his
position for 11th. But this case woe now
here and it must be met. He then referred
to the argument of the managers, that this
body was sittings a Senate and not as a
court, and he proceeded to argue that it was
sitting as a court. Re then reviewed some
of the authorities upon this subject. Re
ferring to the trial of Senator Blount, ho
said the tribunal had hold in solemn deter
mination that it was a court. So in the
Peck case, and In every other, and In every
instance the tribunal solemnly declared it
self to ben court. HO then road from Judgo
Story relative to the duties of Senators sit
ting as a court of impeachment.
The oath you took as Senators was a po
litical oath. Tho oath that is now upon you
is a purely judicial oath. You aro hero,
therefore, Senators, as a court, and ns a
court you must act. You aro to t .
case upon tho evidence brought here, and
not upon common fame, or common rumor,
as was said by ono of tho managers. Your
Jurisdiction hero is stopped alter you try
the question whether the President has been
guilty of high crimes or misdemeanors. In
every count there must bo the unlawful
purposo and intent, and when that is want
ing them can bo no crime. Suppose a
President should become deranged, and,
while in that condition, should break law
alter law. You would have no Jurisdiction
to try high crimes and misdemeanors. lint
lot us state another case
President Lincoln by court-martial at' •
rested and imprisoned citizens of the loyal
States, and the Supremo Courthas since do
cided his acts had no warrant in the con
stitution; but will It bo clitirnod that if
President Lincoln wero living he could be
tried for a violation of law when his inten
tions and motives worohonest ? If thoovil
intent and motive is absent, therocan be no
crime. With those preliminary observa
tions ho would proceed to note the articles
of impeachment as presented. .Tho first
eight articles charge but two acts, based
upon the removal of Mr. Stanton. It' the
President had the right to remove Stanton
and to give a letter of authority to Thomas,
then these eight articles full to the ground
and aro of no avail. We therefore have but
two inquiries to mako; Ist. flail the Presi
dent the right to remove Stanton, and had
ho the right to issue tho letter of authority
to Thomas, and upon these two questions
ho proposed to speak.
It was claimed on ono hand that this law
did not apply to Mr. Stanton, and if this is
so, thou the 'President had it right to make
the removal. Tho act was passed on Morel,
2,1807. Stanton's commission was dat..tl on
January 15th, 1862, and this comtnission
was given ho him by Mr. Lincoln to hold
office during the pleasure of the President
for the time being. Mr. Johnson bocamo
President in 1805, and ho has not commis
sioned Mr. Stanton at all, and Stanton,
therefore,'does not come under the terms of
this act. Stanton was not appointed at all
during the current presidonthil term. The
commission says ho Is appointed for the
current term, and Mr. Johnson never up.
pointed Mr. Stanton, and this should settle
the question of Mr. Johnson's right to make
the removal.
A dead man has no estate and can havo
no (Alice, and it cannot, thorotbro, be said
that he and
the odic° In Mr. Lincoln's
term. Ito contended tint it was not in the
power of Congress to extend the term of an
office which was to be held at pleasure.
Again, It would bo noticed tint thu tenure
of-office act contained no repealing clause,
and wo aro therefore at liberty to look bark
to the provisions of the law creating the
on:a of Secretary of War, and under Mat
law Mr. Stanton could only hold hie °Mee
during the pleasure of the President op
appointing him.
AL this point Mr. Posoondon ammo, and
sold IL woo ovldont that Mr. Uroombook woo
laboring In opoech, and that ho hod a moveru
cold, and ho would suggest that ono of the
numagoro go on, If Mr, Oroombock deolrod
Mr. Groesbeck was much obliged to tho
Senator, but ho had no hope that his foron •
elni difficulty would be any bettor after tt
day or two and hu must therefore beg the
attention of the Senate, and he would pro
ceed as well an he could under Ms difficulty.
Again referring to the old law creating
the °Moo, Mr. G. road to show that the
original bill was enacted by Ulu casting vote
John Adams, and that ho clearly recognized
tho President's power of removal of an in
aumbent of the Maio at his pleasure. if he
was right to Ma view that Mr. Stanton was
not covered by the law, and that the law of
Intl was in force, then what hecotnes of the
first eight artiolos of impeachment? Take
out the single question of the power of the
removal of Stanton from the eight articles,
and they have no other support. Suppose
Mr. Stanton Is within the tenure-of-office
act. What then? Why, the question Is
whether the, President was guilty for re
moving him when he honestly believed that
Mr. Stanton's 01180 did not come within
terms of the net.
Thigh' not exactly a quoution of t h e eon.
stitutionality of this law, but it Is a question
of the construction of the act, and lu this
Senate, hmong them) intulligunt Honutors
thomealvos, thoro Is a diversity of opinion
relative to the construction of that not. A
law of doubtful construction IN It is, yet It .
the Prosidont construed it cliffuroutly from
the Sonato, ho has boon guilty of no orlon,
and of no misdotnoanor. It was In ovidenve
boforo you, Sonators, that et a cabinet meet
ing the subject was diSOUSIMI, and t h e very
question of construction came up, and ti,
President and his cabinet all agreed upon
the construction. But supposo tho law does
apply to Mr. Stanton, the question still
arises whether the conduct of the President
was criminal. Ho did not propose to arguo
now tho constitutionality of the law, but ho
would inquiro whether, In the present IN
pout of tho case, the Prosident was guilty of
criminality in removing Mr, Stanton. Ito
started from the point that the question was
ut boost doubtful.
Our government burl boon divided into
aim departments, each independent of the
other, and no ono department ix respomd
blo to the other. All this Is (ourly mot out
in the constitution. At the head of the ex •
ocutlvo departmont tho President of tint
United Status stands, and ho Ix sworn to
protect and defend the constitution or the
United Mutes. This Is not an oath merely
to oxeouto tho laws, for lawa aro not nuniod.
Of all the °Moors of the government the
oath to protect, promorvo, and defend the
constitution of thee United Staten is admin-
IsTored to the President alone. In nil doubts,
In all difficulties, In all Uinta, ho must lock
alone to the constitution of the United
States. The honorable Manager lb:unwell
said that the Prosldont was only the 0.1(0Clt•
titre officer of Congress; but he (Mr. Groes
beck) did not so Intorprot the constitution.
Tho Prosidont was not the mom executive
officer of Congress, but lie la the head of one
of tho groat co-ordinate branches of the gov -
=Mont.
Upon this question ho took direct lantia
with all that the honorable manager lual
maid, 110 hero quoted from Mr. lioutwull'n
remarks upon thls (minuet, and maid the
doctrine thou enunciated wan the loot con
grunnlonal theory ho had hoard, If a law hu
declared by thuSupromu Court unconntltu•
tional, the President (hire not tomouto ono
Jot or lido or hi 1 and if he (wanton the law
aftorwardn, ho violates that higher law, t h e
constitution of the United hilitten, This, thou,
oxplocton Mr, lioutweini theory that t h e
President must oxcautunll laws, letirthor.
More. If n law in paused tnaulfuntly unuom
ntitutioual, tbu President Is tint hound to
oxuatito that law, and nued not await a (10•
ainlon of ilium Huproom Court. To follow Ilium
constitution In the paramount duty or the
President, and to protect the intogrlty of hin
cloparttnant In also it duty.
At 2.10 the court took a rococo,
Court wee called to order again at 3 o'clook
and Mr. Groesbeck resumed his remarks,
lie reminded the court of the points to
which he bud culled attention In the course
of his argument, and expressed astonish.
wont at the manner In which Mr. Manager
lioutwell had summed up the result of the
debates of 1789, and said the statement of
tho manager was not at all authorized by
the debates. The only question discussed
and Nettled In that debate was whether the
power of removal was lodged In the Presi
dont alone or lodged in the President and
Senate, and it was decided that the power
was vested in the President alone. The
first Congress passed a number of acts upon
this subject, and among them three acts es
tablishing the three executive departments,
and in the language of Chief Justice Mar
shall, it had to avoid such legislation us
would make the constitutional Interpreta
tion unstable. These laws wore in force to
this day.. • They were 'professedly interpre
tations of the constitution,
and had been so
declared by the Supreme Court ; by ell the
Presidents since the days of Wrishlngton;
so declared by the Congress that Paned
them, and so declared by all Congresses
down to the thirty-ninth.
Mr. Or&aback then came down nine years
later, and reviewed the action of Congress
In 1798, when the Navy Department was
formed, and when the power of removal
was recognized as in the President alone.
Twenty-seven years later the Postoffico
Department was organized, and the princi
ple was also recognized. It was also recog
nized in the establishment of the Interior
Department, and in the creation of tho Attor
ney General's offioe. All these officials had
taken their commissions for and during tho
pleasure of the President for the time being.
Ho also cited laws relating to the appoint
ment of postmasters and other subordinate
officers as recognizing this same principle.
It all the laws of Congress were collected
from 1789 to 1867, which affirmed the con
struction that the President had the power
of removal, they would average two or three
to each Congress. The law of March, 1867,
Mono came in to break upon the concur
rent chain of constitutional interpretation.
But be would ask if human reason might
not pause, and human Judgment doubt, at
this day upon this question? All the Pres
idents bad affirmed this constitutional in
terpretation, and acted upon it for eighty
; u the Supreme Court had affirmed it;
•eight Congresses bad concurred in
it. this was on the one side of the ques
tion, that the President bad the constitu
tional tight to make removals, while
on the other side there.: was but the
act of one Oongress:ftaffight; not, thetii
human -reason pan; • N'aud. -Woman
Judgment,doubt;; upon ; the :aosstrdotionf
Want it orinsinatin.titerresideltWitsPi, bY
that great mass of precedent, and to belloyo