tradlin stprisifing. Wednesday, December 6,:103115 FROM ONE. LEAH \ ALL. • Qongress having, failed to, provide . a irat e whereby the seceded States could return to their places in the Union. Pres ident Johnson said to them—nullify your ordinances of secession, repudiate the r.e bel debt and ratify ,the amendment to the 'Constitution ; so doing you Ni i tll place ?ourselves in a most favorable attitude to the nation. A decent regard' for the honor and safe ty of the goyermuent would not hay per mitted him to require anything less of them., while simple justice would have wai muted hint in exacting a great deal more. The fact is, these terms' must have been suggested solelythy a prudent and pact otic consiilet Miotifiir the future peace and unity of the Republic. They require twi t :indemnity for injuries sustained, nor 'do they exact any penalty for ofiences coMmitted. The past h, lost sight of and security for the future only is con tem plated. Ordinances of secession deny the bind • lug force of the federal compact. This was an open question once, but au un successful rebellion of four years' duration settled it: This decision must be accept ed or the history of the last four years -might repeat itself: hence these (trillim ces must be declared null and void. The iiirsuruption q any portion of the rebel _debt by any - of the States would interfere with their contribitting to the payment of the nat humid (Wit, and might seriously int pair the natidnal credit ; hence this debt mutt be tepudiated Pninftd experience has taught us' that Slavery is an element of discord, that our government cannot exist half slave and halt tree: consequent ly the amendment-to the constitution must _be atloptthl. Thus it is evident that in - piesetibing this action for the 'seceded States President Johnson had but one ob ject in view, and that was to suitor the govertuntiltgaitist future trouble and have been well for the South if sliekhad hone,stly and promptly acceded to these. terms. The results of the war were Iso obvious that she could have done so without :,Atcriticing al* of —her material interests. or doing violence in her convictions. fot' Slavery had long .since expired, and the amendment simply seals the mouth.of the sepulchre, and the doctrine of States' rights, as defined by _ her, had exploded with the last feeble charge of powder used in the service of her Confederacv. Bnt rathei than look at thing, in this light she perverselg groped about in the dark, and stambleg and blundered xt hen ehe should have tvalked erect. By her own obstinacy and false pride, which are yet to be repente of, she defeated the geperous . schente 4 - f the,Presitlent. and has carried the mattO to Congress, where she must expect more justice mid less forbear-,, ECM We judge of the temper and disposition of the South from the action taken by her different COM eutions and f. It is to be presumed that they were rep risentative bodies. The work of recon struction was especially confided to them, and the people scent to be satisfied with the manner in which - thf:Y performed their duties. The President's terms were submitted to•them in good faith. and they were a-I:- ed to accede to them in - order that the won: of reorganisation Might be perfected without delay, and their representation hi Congress be secured. Their action has not been 'uniform, except so far as it is characterized by at arrogant and disloyal spirit. Some have'declined to nullify their ordinances of. secession, some to re pudiate the rebel debt. others to ratify - the amendment to the Constitution. just as though their compliance was not a matter of necessity; but of grace. They are evi _ dently very anxious to have their State governments reorganized, but it is equally clear that they are planning and scheming tolave it done at the smallest possible cost. There has been a time since the-close of the war when they would bavecgladly . accepted any terms the government might have' offet ed. They were suppliants then. - and were trembling in antieipat ion=rot the 'vengeance of an outraged government. But things have changed since, and. em boldened by our, kindness. they now de mand Its a right what they would then have sued for as — a favor. They have become crafty as well- as bold. They practice chicanery and fraud. and imagine us too stupid to detect it. We doubt if a single State has acceptCd its good faith a single one of the President's terms. that is. ac • cepted it with an honest purpose to abide by it in the future, both in spirit and in ' letter. There is not one of them but * _professes to have accepted at least Oiie of these term's, and yet when their action is looked into, it appears that what they call acceptance amounts to a virtual IV ', pudiatipu. Take South Carolina for in - stance, anti consider her course in tegard to the amendment to the Constitution. She is neither•better tibr• worse than any of the others, and can fairly be used as an example. From this one, luaus all. It was long before she • would believe that the adoption of the amendment has nec essary to her reorganization. She knew she was in a bad way, but seemed to think that she conld recover without tak ing this pill that the President had pre pared'for her. She learned better hi the course of time and at length professed her self willing to swallow it. Instead lion - ever of taking it as it was prepared she coated it over with sugar. Thus coated. it went down, t.nd South Carolina fondly im Vinod that her ruse had been success-,.. ful, and that her recovery was certairtt, Brit it tun.e 1 out that the coating de4 stroyed the virtue of the pill, and that she wa . in:uted rather that benefitted by it. Sea li C ,ro'i i t professea not,to object to the amendme:it, because it would drive Slavery o it o"I ow stem. but becau s se it would give to Cones the right to legis late foe the freedmen. The President as- ' sated her. on what grounds we can't say, that this provision instead. of enlarging the powers of Congress in this respect, re - - stricter' them. So having fixed by her own legiSlation the statusof the freedmen, she adopts the amendment and asks to tie re . warded for it. Now thetuAdneit to the ' Constitution provides - fir the eXtinetion of Slavery. South,Carolina ratified it, but turns right ai.bund sail adopts a i Slave Code which establishe,, a system orsetwi , tale as infamous and-cruel as that :vide(' she hasabolished. Her course is insulting to the moral sense of the country. Her adoption of . the amendment is.a. sham: it is a nick upon the government and a fraud upon the freedmen. - \o wonder the pill has no virtue. It willhe 41 long time hetore the American people oil! a-sent to such a tecoustrue lino as this. They demand a fair and hones. - reconstruction and reject all such rotten material as this that. South Caroli na offers. The;. want a fabric large enough to accomnnulate :di men without reference to v 01..: and strong enough to hold them seen: ely. They' have commit ted the supervision of the work to Cou greys and we doubt not it will lie finished acceptably. MOCK SYMPATHY That mothii paper.the Patriot unit Union, vegan ly refiriKluced . through the columns of the Spirit, is much exercised about the de,igns . pf Northern and foreign capital ists ag-Sist the peace and ivell being of the negiit It charges these capitalists viith desit in.!' to share with Sonthein sia~dodders. the solid adcetages ttl ne gro labor. and terms it a di,lionitt able project. Its be eels of compassion yearn largely %t ith sympathy for the poor negto himself. Ile is now to ha\ c not one, hat ,many maitet s. - The humane attentions' he formerly received of good food, first etas:: medical attendance, not too much win-k.-and a careful serutiny of his moral condition. are now to be lost to lihn for ever----as a freeman he i, to serve those who have no ittpath for him. nor in terest in his Welfare of longevity.' lat 'short he is still to he a lit-‘‘ or of wood and a drawer of water, and may well ask wino has he gained by the \N at for the Afi lean and his lac - The stupim..:. tthieh could suggest such a qui stint' as this is only equalled the unparhlleled imMulence which at this late daY, would insult the iiitelligt_!nre of our people by claiming' for the condition of slavery a character thr Beneficence and humanity. superior to that of freedom. A base assumption which the :mullein peo ple are the nHelves state after :4tati• adopts the Constitutional amendment. and %%bleb i.now only atlvi)- eatt-d and deft:ipled by the toadies and t-eaters of the Not lb. We am however lteartil glad th,tt the Negro can give in onu Ns-old an answer to this question. Will lie ' , at kfiletOrY 1.0 hitrlLf. In 6 - silt/talon, and to chri.,,ti anitS-;:iiiTlThich will ttleutually reply to and silenee the nit synipatll3 mnufac tured try the Patriot and ri,i - m t 'and kin dri•d i mp el , i n his hultalt. That ,WOl4 t. -- f -` -‘ -•- ." I ._ , t o- f.o. tt.e ,- '.ions or as Coppetheads tote to call it. the ••v,ar for the Afi lean and his race. - has given the !African fieedom. and hegiving him that has given hint everything. It is trite Le has not immediately realized all the fruits of ft eedom. but he has now the saute opporttinit as the white man to weak out his destiva nett anutteled and unshackh ii. If he is still to be a hewer of. wood and a thaw( I ~r 1311•1', ill Las the ,l o tion , 10 i- Vil , q• Or evert w bite man, of choosing for , _ w horn Iry rill y. , ': K. w hen he will mid:, and how hard he‘i'ill' - c 111 k. and of receiv ing for his own eon:fort the wages he le-- earned in the sc, eat of his 1111,W. If tbo•t fin' \\llolll he works have no sympath . ‘ for him or ‘ reg - at d for his comfort. he is not compelled to stay --apt ivilege it 1% ill hard ly be eonteneliil he pos.sessed tinder the 041,1 eghne. liting thus to all intents and opuses his own IllaSter, it is loudly tio—_, ..iirle lii will fail in those humane atten tions to himself, which Were ,ogflielou , ly besto‘%ed by his tinnier nut--ter. and the loss of which are so feelingly tiepin' ed by our Copperhead Itiends. In all things it is highly probable. hat lug the money in Lis poulZet for his labor, he w otrill act very much like a white man and not deny him self anything it was within his weans to pro\ ide. except perhaps that et, re . 1 0 ,1 too: rid -scrutiny N% Melt in the good old days it \Nag, flue pleasure as well as the duty of every masto to furnish to his slave. Ile will probably neglect the Ind tone of those laws, now alas no loin er binding, which made it a penal Mimic! to teach a I slave to read or write. and n ads him ig norant and degraded as a br te, with but little more knoN% ledge of theliere or here after. It c ' lould be hatilly safe for:the roaster now to exercise (la- beautiful mo rality which prostituted his female slates alt will to his lusts. and Which . bes,ide - was a pr(vtitable morality to his pocket. ' Kite 10-s of this emend moral scrutiny the tie 2ro, iii,i. regret. but WV baldly think he %%ill. Int the cowl:try we think he looks back and regret , nothing in the bondage Wide!' oppressed lihn:how - e% et humane and benclieunt it way have Leen in the ,stim,,tion of 0111' COppetheall 1)101111.n Nor does he look to them now for syut pattLy or enemnagement in his new Coll dition. All he asks now that they stand by - . atid let him. at free man. w,; t ili out his on it salvation, V.itllolo let or IliffillatIlle• In regard to Nmthern and foi eigu capi talists erigaging in great enterprise, in the South and • employing largely' both c tpit,tl and labor. even if it is negro, we confess we copilot see anything discredit able or dishonorable in the matter. Jud ging limn the condition of the South and the tone of southern papers it is just what is . needed. We say God speed to all the energy and enterprise that capital can pour hit o the goal'. It is that which will give employment to both tAhiteand hitter:, and 'o restore prosperity to a put of our hind Which in progress is now lOU years behind us, and but for the curse of Sla very would l have beeri equal with us. It is that which will build school houses and churches. spread learning and piety, and finally give to - the South that prosperity which we of the North enjoy. • Qt he Stanktht Reposittm), (E4mbersbirrg, ip a• CONGRESS n►ef on Monday last and or ganized by re-electing lion. Schuyler Col fax, of Indiana, Speaker, and, Hon. Ed ward Mcpherson, of Pennsylvania, Clerk. The President's rats&lge_wasyead yester day, but was not received at' the trine of our going to press. It kill appeariu our next issugt„ AT a caucus of the Republican Members of Congress in Washington on Saturday ttiglit last, the following resolution %%as reported and 'mani c-. intently adopted, and IN ill be offered in the IlouSe - of Representatives by Mr. Stevens Resarrd, By thetenate and House of Repre sentatives in Congress asseinbled, that a jnint com- Meeklimaf jiteen members shall be appointed, nine of •%‘ honiabitil-be members of the Howe and six of the Senat who shall inquire tutu the condi tion of the States which ti rmed the so-culled Confederate States of America, and report wheth er any orAlietn are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress, with leave to report at auy time by bill or otherwise: anil until such re port shall base been made and finally acted upon In- congress, no member shall be received in either House from riemy of these' said so-called Coutederate States; and all papers relating to the repi., , sentatires of the said States shall be refer led to said committee %%Montt debate. Mr. Colfa's wtoil000•ly nototnared for Speaker by the (looms. and Mel'io;rgon for 'ho k. • Sours C utot.INA adopts the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery with the object of piing, her Representatis'es into Congress, but. utah7tit. hes to defeat its opefation by passing a ta% voile ttiinch is a practical restoration of sla very in about its worst forms:-leaving nothing wanting but the nani. One of the strongest ar *intents that ran bmadaneed fur negro suffrage is presented in Southern Legislatures. is here laws ore adopted wre , inng, :in rights trill the colored people, and they are left without any rosoit but ph .ir:el brie, and a resort to that w:nild be "in :mi ilmtion, - and would Ming down upon them all the poster 4.f our armies. 'Cheer rouditiou is still one Tn cuininawith , •r.l, wp,01..- of esery one iltir and ,l-nres lu s4 : e the tzight pre- \\'onKs II Nnitts.r.i in; —We learn that the '• holker Farm, - 2..9., hides 501ith. t ......t .1* Rini-bur:;. has heen ,elected as the -.no for steel heaN) Anietlean tin, country.. oi,. %sill be et Int ne i:17.1: and l% in employ man!, hs hose. their add lartzely to the I'Pula:ioa 1.1:arr....h0n.!. and alto that eit au 111111..11ii WI It• v.:1) of Fa:pent). l'nt. I %.11 n.-1' tp. r own near imuthod Atopt , t. :Lod is now quite a, hull, a, it w a- at an) la,t year, and - the bonbon* t, onward :n7il upnard. material , ‘vlttell Co to in.,ke a new epaper, are zzo louli that no one can well afford to publi , ll a pa per for boo. , than double tin wire received before the war. ' Dir. TIM; COIN IV A(.ll' rOit l . 01111•S ti. ue 61%. 'A...1 , 1+1:1 1 0.. 1 and the ed iter and pubh4er. I , a luau et armadant 40litid parts. aide and fearle , ,,u 111.•11.4.111.1•44 the truth . We art ulad that Lr 1zr1)1,47, Tut: Drnwroet ha , Leru pi i r.•ha, e d Wm. letittedy, hae .1 the Shippembonz &nand, and lII' 111litt'll %%11111110 1 ”lunhrr. th•• 1•111.111,111(11 ,•1111,8 to be tinder the e v r..l of Mes4r;:l,lrattmi - THE Axikanoit Cmtry r last week on au ,al,rc.•d •heel and in auentire new drcg.. •• fruit it- , tu•ad to the • foot- , ti,k: - Tl u • I 'ourt er i• a st..rfing Union paper and null litel It , the large patroluink. It visj‘ix.t. PERSONAs- —(1,11 :iClitt 1:% , 111V, t. , )1 . 11 . 311 , .t0 "TH.IIII th • «iut.•r —Kit Conan in Baal 1 %%oar hi- hair in the nJlerfall ha- old.iinvil it pardon for (leo. ho L. hi Fiat biro. —Frank ‘N 11.1,14,11 I th:11113. on Fritill) 1. I ir ,•141 , 11 t P /..••••11.1141 NVl,liirtgt”n ti. ;IA II I r l . of Ntalit Carolina. IA hi, ha. d a w ! .•r..1 1 .1) ul. i. imprw.ito2. and i. able tt3 I imni hi, room -I . 11:11'1 , ,, Buehler, w. 1.0 poits.z.r oi Harr! , f:dletz heir k the (loath of L r !at r.e in German) —Tire Rev. - I.)r ..po Witt. for maul }earl pug for of tl u • N,; Selsool Pre>h}tet•tau Church of remigova. and family tr.ttnlade, ithia t;.r Iltivata uu S!turtla!, niterntmn, in tin recenue cutter Gen. Franklin •lia+ accepted ,wid enter ed nimn the Mine: of the Pre.idency of tin. Cult Arms Company of ILattford. Conn. —Senator Oman :.itehen of a., like') to go into the Interior Deptirtunlit. M'at.,hington ru gtont connect kiA name mith that po,fition. —llon. 8. M. Hai ringtom , Chaneellor of the State of Delaware, died sudden!) in Philadelphia 'tin the :nth ult., from a stroke of paral3 Pk. —Frank Gurley, the murderer of Com. Robert 31*Cook, ij to he executed at lluntb‘ ilk., , on Friday 21, by .o-dee or wur Depart went. President Of the rnited Sates has pla ced n gOVetlllll , 2llt vowel at the control of Gov. Clirtin, for use during his loptge to Cuba and QUM —lsaac the fluantei iner, died on \Vednonlay m Pidladelpilia.toidden ly and unexpectedly. no Was a name kill. New Vial. —A loser, of over sixty - years. attempted to hang !limit:llM Lancaster She other day, bemuse a girl in her teens jilted him Ile e.as cut down before life vas extinet. —At a meting . of the Ilit.torienl Society of Vermont, in Montpelier, on the 17th ult , Ilon. Edvtard :WlTherson %%its eleetedit eorr - c,..ponding member of the society. —Hon. S. C. 1..-entlen, of l'onneetient, tma been appointed to fill the %arancy in the ttoartlof Examiner..d patents m,•11-4one.1 by the recigna, lion of Thou. C Thenlo'T. -1 he Faculty of the 'I henhnzie.ll Sl'tallCtrt of the E}angeheal Lutheran Cloneli a Get dvtertniu,d t",•tkl4,w a Prote-sorNhip in he Called the 1 lot% aril Prnlesm.r.lol). —The body of 11011. Vretitffil tor .4 the port of New Notk, who committed sui cide by 'mulling overbin'ird from a ferry-boat in to the iitlllSllll riser. hag not yet been reelAered —.la:oh P,uk•r, lln oetogenaTiati inethlier of (•ungress film] .Nev‘ 01 kans. , aas-liorii in Maine, in Deeember, 17711, and is now r , t; >ears old Ile and is a scar relation of )r. It , •ujamin Franklin. itati i.•ea stated that the Preeident ha , par tlondi;d.lohn Jtjtehell. Till, IR !Hittite. Itlitchel did nut apply for a pardon, but took the oath of allegjauce at the State Itypartita lit o hieh «:18 iittlispemidde in procuring a poo port —H0n.150,51. C. elect from the Sininghohl, 110. , district, t4ha%od hi, heard prethinttioy to going. to IVa.ht,igtott. 110 ItA under a belt-imposed oath not to nhave until ho had killed twenty-five linghwhaekers. The twen ty-fifth matt has droppe'd, —lion. Geo. W. Julian, M. C. from Indiana, while waiting for the cars in the depot at Rich mond, Ind., a few days ago, wag kdoeked down and cowhided by Sol. Meredith, Esq., who was defeated for Congress fast year by Mr. Julian. —John Hogg, of Baltimore, on Tuesday night work attempted to murder a t‘oitian named Elizabeth Campbell, by shooting her through the body. She still lives, litit is dangerously hound ed. Hogg after Warde put the pistol into his month and killed himself instantly. —The Lynchburg Va:•-Republican says that Gen. Jabal A. Early is at Nassau, N. P., engaged in v,riting a history of his campaigns. We hope he will not forget his Chanibersburg•-xampaign, where by his orders hundreds of innocent %%omen and children were made homeless. , _ . —Marshall and Freeke, convicted of the mur der of the German on Bo) d's .11 ill, Pittsburg, were on Saturday sentenced to be hhnged. Mrs. Grin der was also sentenced to the t.atue fate, for the murder of Mrs. Caruthers. The time for the ex ecution of those three criminals has not been fixed. --,On Monday night week the family of Daniel Walrath,of 31antuqm; llerkitner-co., N. I'., con sisting of litite4:ll,Nvire and daughter, about twelve years of ageovere murdered by a party or par— ties sit:knot% n. Watrath was shot . through the head, Mrs Walrath's head was mashed in and. the child's tht:mt wan rut. No clue to the mur derer,: 11U13 yet been obtained. frier dn of deli. Itatti are eornplaining about his " annoances.'• It seems .that he has bad his hair cut to ice smee his itupriqumn,.o, anti they report through Not thern orgnns that_ Gen. rg Miles took•chae a the •• sheat fag," litl:at .1 etf. the last time dept 11,) ed-lin "eapillar c y growl 11" before the officers conhl 41.17, tt Query : tiow did he make ;Tay %%ilk tt ' As it could tint' be found, are we to pre,inue tittttullnuea it 7 .-(l,en. Rene _l. 1)e olonel and lireN Btigo , lo•r (;eti.•:',tl in the I:,.g.noyr coil. .11 the U:nited Si.tteA ,i;ed a reo days ' , ince. in II FrallriNco. A jath,.l.. v , a , a Freneli otlieet nl.o Qi•I'N.C.I the :trill:. the ljt•V -1,111111111 Ili , br”tber o •fit ~11leer of tile .srebel artily in the late oar, and vile belieCe that earb of the brothers ienl a , on in each ahoy. I;en.llt. lluss4.y tea , more than.eight ears Of age, being tia• oldest otlieer io the ,ety.ev. 3.lajor General C. IS it ler, IA a. mar -• rt t ed t , n the lilt ,toJi s Euttua l'a—etrd. heantihil ;old areo*li,lred Baltimore Theo. na. a larav attendance at this wedding and reception, among , t whom ‘s ell' General 1 lan c oek and 4aff, General, Wo.Jal besides many. Other Officer., Governor Itradford. Mayor Chap man-, .114:.• Alextunler, John Garret:John II B. Latrobe, and man) %sere present. —The llon. Thomaz , Connn, lately mil.- kter to MC.% brill: 111 \ l'W 101 k. lately introduced to one of the Engh-dt raitsi.a.y_une.l - recently trat ellitar, tll4,pulary heinu. an Ohioan. Thie term eiidentiv nrirlyd John Lull, %Om looked for a 11101111.11; a good do,al puz -71e4.11 hull ever his face tqlthielli) i16U,..;1.1:01. and ..eizinz the hand of Mr. Cumin. ho oxpre“ed hi. happlae— at maloug aegtauntaNt; , . avdsth,Ti v.l‘l.o.et hi; tribe it a- .rt pt,te with Of irfillts!—Mr eompb-xion rather Indian. -4 lt,vern..r Prank Lubbock, it J:exa,, Lett Fort It.•lman•.uuthe3adult.. for fits horn.•. lie that ,inee he has been a pri.inner ht. ha, been ;carded bt. and held familiar inteienin , e the private , ehlier trent eleven dillerent Nil hers and. had hr , knoiin uuu•h of them before the aarastiinee. hiq conheiencel'i (m14_1110% or has 4. ttilto.i'ed hitt, it, leave t h e Luton. lie belie \ lit ex p.-rienc.• «bile a prh:ttner, if he be;dr.m ed to tell it. ann.tt fad to to of.nntesersiet. ti, Tax toss at .1 'triaging her back homu tikker flail/4AL —William Barnes., rat eloquent and sincere &I- I hi of the Methudtst Church, and who bus been art netite wo key for the good of the cause for fifty years. drsd in the city of Philadelphia ' last, on to i:m•itotrolt oceaEioned by a snit hr, , ught agaimt hint by a parent for the marriage of Lis child. a minor, it ahout his I.:on sent, alt aith..ut the publication of harm 4. Ac cording ,tl , th. tenor of a hats bearing date 1701. th e Wine, of tom nage had t.. be I - midi:hod in pith- For year , the statute ha!: been, null, hot a learned judge decided that the law ism. still m force. POLITIC'iL INTELLIGENCE —.rhe otlicial anaj.,rit) - ,7t )Zepuyitan. in Ohio, OV.:r rgat . Domi.crat. '29.936. —I: \ -Gov. Aiken lap; been vlecteil to Cont;rt•.R trout the Charleston (HA riet of South Carolina. —The I.vgi,hthire .f .11.!..inia hag cleuted Ntee6r=. N. 11,,t14,.n aid l'arsowl, s. Senators —R. 31. Patt,,ll'B ilmj.ority - at , Ow .gdt•ti•d Gov erii..r.ol Alabama will rang.. I.o%%ceit nic arid sight.thon