El II VOLUBIE XVIII.-NIIIIIIIER 6 EC POTTER JOURNAL, rubusFcp DT W. X.pALAILIFEY. PrOPTletor. sar Devoted to the genie of Republicanism, the in terests of It grin olture, the advaneemeint of Education, and the beat gocd et -Potter county, owning no guide except that'of Principle, it wilt endeavor to aid in the work-of mere fully Frei:don:liking our Country. . -- farAdv,ertitements inserted at the followirui rates, except. where specialbargains are made, A "square" Is 10 linPs of Brevler or 8 ef.Noriparell types;: , 1 gq !fir!. 1 insertion .....'... ...... " $1 50 1 1 square, 2 or 3 insertions 2004 . Each sah.equent insertion lesethan 13-- _ 1 40 1 signore, 1 year 10 00 .. - Bu Ines* C.. rds, 1 year 6 00 Administrator's or Executor's Notices 300 - Special and Editorial Notices per line.-- 20 - liCi•All transient advertisements must be paid in advance,and no notice will be taken of advert ['entente Vern a distance, unless they ere accompanied by the money or satisfactory . reference. 1 , sarJob- Work, of all kinds, executed with neatness end despatch. BUSINESS NOTICES. bt. Hawley. H. H. Cammln. .A.ttorneya-at-Lans. " ' VILLI.4.7IISPORT, Penn's. Special attention V, giv,tt to CullenOon of ['claim's, Bounty and flack Pay. and all claims against the National and State Government.: nov2ltt Free'sud,Accepted Ancient 'fork Haien% T,IULALIA LODGE, No. 342, F. A. M. Slated Idee'ing4 on the 24 and 4th . .edneitayeot each month. Mill, in the 3d Story• of the Olnisied Block. D.(l.lntun.trocs,Sec. WM. SHEAR, tV.M. R. A. DRAKE. M. D., pTIYSICIAN sad SURAIVON, offers his Nervico , to the citizens of this place and vicinity end desires t.) inform them that he will promptly respond to all eallA for prof&elonAl services. Office on IsLtin street, Over.aartalnesJeWelry Store t Iteeldence nearly op poilte the (Alice of the Fox Sr. Rossi. Eatate.--1:-23.. O. T. ELLISON. p., PIIACTICI NO PHYSICIAN. Couder.port, Pa., ~respoetfully informs the citizen. of the illlace and Vicinityi that he will promptly,,re.poud to all call• for prof...Mon. , ' met %leen. oriFirat street, first dour w•itt of his renidenco. 17-10. • JOHN S. HANN, Arrli.74.TElr AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. `Coudersport, wdl attend the several Courts iu l'uttir, earnerou and McKean counties. All bust+ ness entrusted to his care will receive prompt attert: lien. ,! Mee on Mani street, in re‘itience. ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, A. TTORNE.Y A N:n COUNSELI.Eit AT LAW, Condersport, P , will attend to all business en trusted to his c:tre with pr.:tupt:lcsm and fidelity. (Mite In the seco❑d storey of the r/Im.teti Mocks. ISAAC BENSON, • A TTORN . - C EY-A.I.A W thi 4 Cour‘port, Pa., will sump' to all.bu:lnens ootrust,d to him %vitt care and promptness. Attends Cow is of adjoining coun ties. 0111 c,, on S coed sirect,neor the Allegany bridge F. W. KNOX, ATTORNEY .: I 'l ND COUNSELLOR LAW Cult ereport, Pa., w.II attend the thqurta in Put -.r and the ..Uoining comities. NULLEA CE: MeALARNEY, 6iTTOR NrIECVS•AT LAW, ILinntencno, Penn's.— Agent,' for the Collection of Clttimeogoit.et the nited . Shoeitrind StateCoverninent.,mylints l'enelonn, Bounty,AtieareofPay,Ac-Allrelt 13. x 95, arri.b,ine 'Pr Ir. MILL-IM, J. C. IeLLARSIIIT M. W. McAILARNEY, REAL ESTATE and INSUR vNCE. AGENT.— Land Bought and Sold,' Taxes paid atni Titles investigated. Insures property againet tire in the best companies in the Country, and Persons against Acel dents In the Travelers Insurance Company of 'Lan ford. Business transacted promytly 17-29 P. A. STEBBINS do Co., 110110C11ANTS—Dealere in Dry •GoAs, .Fancy Ari, Goode, Groceries.Provisioiv;Flour,Feed,Pork, .nd everything usually kept in a good country gore. Produce bought and snid 17 C. H. SIMMONS, ArErt.criANT —WELLSVILLE N. T., Wbole. PU1.115 and Retail Dealer in Dry Goole, Fancy and Staple Goods Clothing,Ladies Dress Goods Groceries, Flour, Feed, &c, Retailers supplied on liberal terms C. S. At E.. A. JONES, gERCAANTS—DeoIersin Drugs.liedieines,relnts, Oils, Fancy Artseles, Stationery, Dry Goods, ueerles, ece., Main Street, Coudersport, Pa D. E. OLMSTED. Iti rErt cif:lNT—Dealer in Dry Goods, Ready-made Utpsekery, Groceries, Flour, Feed, Nit, Provisions, &e., M.in street, Coudersport, Pa COLLINS SMITH, MERCHANT—Do:der in Dry Goals. Groceries, Provisions, Dap-In-arc, Queens ware, Cutlery, and all G , hyls u-ually found in a country store.' n'6l H. J, OLMSTED, HARDWARE Merconnt, raid Dealer in Stoves, Tin and Sheet Iron• Ware, Main street, Conder spurt, Peni.a. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to •rder r in good style, on short notice. "COEDEIISPORT HOTEL. DF. GLASS:4IEILE, P“OPRIKTOIL, Cornet of Slain . • and Second streets.Couderaport.Potter Co. Pa. A.Livety St.ble Is also kept in connection with this Hata. :Daily Stases to and from the Railroads. ,Potter Journal Job-Oilier. HAVING lately added a fine now aesortaient of JOR,TYPE to our already large agaortment. we are now prepared to do all Made of work, cheaply and with taste and nentneas. Orde:a solicited. wANTED. AGENTS , $153 PELL MONTM, TO sell the improved C immon Souse Family Sew ing Machine. This Machine will stitch, hem. fell, tuck, cord, braid, bind, inviter, quilt, and embroider ' beaustrally. . Pelee only $23. Every Machine is war 'rented three Sean. For terms eddress or call on C. BOWERS CO. Recept ion room, No. 245 S. Fifth Street, Phlindelphis. Pa. • lm MARBLE WORK ,nit.' hub , 'Monuments and.Tomb-Stones ;t r , of an kinds, will be furpisited OD fessona• „ ble terms and abort notic. by C. nre -Residence: "Rulalla, n so n tß . of Coudersport, pa.,n the Siottemahoning Road, or hew:. nriors el non.. • e. a:r DAY BAKE IRNStON, BOU IT lf and WAR CLAIM AGENCY Fangio:le procured fur Soldiers of the present ar who are diethled by re:vino of wounds received or disease contmoted while In the service of the United States ;and pensions, bounty, and arrears of pay ob tained for widows or heirs of those who have died or been killed. while Irv. servlee. All lettere if inquiry promptly answers i. and on receipt by mail of a state ment of the else of claimant , I . will forward the ne cessary parrs for their sianntnre. Fees in Pension oaties.sa axed. by law. :Refers to lines. Isaac Benson, A: o: 'Olmsted, John Et. Mann, and F. tCr. If.nox, Esq DAN BAKER.; -• Claim Agent, Uotidersport, I. annett 64 1 1.-590-I"ekr-Theln-ZeirowuraT "L"; braving iebinfr aO4 neim icl od a Uttio a r a r se tipper feed. - Warranted five years. Above salary er large eocrunlisione paid. The nwt.i machines cold is the traltad States for less thans4,ool7hlsh are isilv llseolled by ifoalic Wheeler Br, Wilton, Grover Is Da itsv,ineger & Ca.. fa )3 sthelder. A 1.4. other cheap ins. shines are infringenicarts and the seller, or .niet 11 0 6... tovilstv. dna. and imnr4siatitosot. Circularf -Ildikisa b riisiantat .s.sl...iskClark, Mad". , VbillS, or Obtoser, 111. Den. 114,.1.114. - ArelY• . • - i' --N s. er .--- Ilk $ ' ' ' , • ~ • . • 1.:, -- , - . , .• - J 9 • , , _ '-... .• . . . 1 , 1 . , . , , RECONSTRUCTION. SPEECH . • , OF HON. GLENNI W. SCOITELD, OF PEtiNSYt.ITANLA, 1 f Dram House of ilepiresentatives, Apr/1 28,.1868, 'The House, as in Co mmittee of the Whole On the state of the Union, having under con bideration th' President'a annual message— IIr.SCOFI LD said: 1 ' !Mr. `SPE :KER : What is the whole amount of di loyal populati on in the soutti• era States ?, I do not in lude in this'iu quirY, persoes who have beenstigmatized as "sympathizers" or Peopperbeads," much less any other portion of the Dem ocratic party , but o n ly those who sought to divide the country-into two republics l who now regret the failure of the en- Law, tterprise. The whole amount of white population in' the eleven confederate 1 States is, 5,007,624.1 Deducting front this amount the estimated number of loyal people is those States, and adding the dis loyal scattered through the other i five Nave Statea, will give the answ er .to, nay question. Making this' dedu c tion and addition from the most reliable d• to within my reach, I baelude that th disloyal pohulatiun in the whole South will not exceed, if - indeed it will equal, five mil lioas l in all. ' • If the' eleven confederate States were readmitted now ,(the l- Constitution and laws remaining unawedded) what amount Of representation: in Congress and the Electoral College l would this five million be entitled to claim ? They would cer tainly have these; eleven States. There could hardly be a doubt about Kentucky cur if the loyal men of that State, aut.: fouled by the power of the Federal Army and the persuasion' of General patrouag,e, with the young. dist:Monists absent iu the South and the old ones disfninchised at borne, could scarcely bold their own, what" could we expect them to do when these young men have returned, the disfrao • chisiog laws have been Swept -away, the Army removed or palsied by orders, and Federal Patronage at least once, taiu ? This would give them twenty-four Sena/ turs.! There are four more States that belonged to the slveholiiing class, Dela ware, Maryland, West i Viirginia, and 3lis souri. Is it any stretch of probsbilitift ; to suppose tnat two more Senators will 1, be picked up somewhere in these four" States by the codfederate element? 1' fear, there will be more'.'' This, will givel them twenty six Senators. In the; House of kepresentatives this populatioh will ha've as, large, if not larger, proportionate representation. By the ap:" portiournent of 1851,, fifty eight Repre sentatives were :assigned to the eleven, confederate States. These States will be 89 dietrieted by the hostile Sentiment of their several Legislatures that not one .1 true Unilia . woo can be elected. To the other five slaveholdiug States twenty-six were assigned, by the act of 1861. If any one will 'take the trouble to look over these districts, I thiisk he will come to the conclusion that even if laws disfrani: chising rebels in, Maryland; West Viri ; gioia, and Missouri remain in .foree, not less thaq half of these will be controlled by the influence and votes cr - ihe late secessionists This gives seventy-one Beprese4tatives in the House. But even this large number must soon be increased. The twoififtlis of the four millions freed men whieh were not counted in the rep resentative basis of the' last census must be counted in the census of 1870, and (other thins remaining the same) add to that number thirteen members morel; so that the fivel million disloyal popula tion. as. soon as their full power can be felt through the elections, "will have at least twenty-six. Senators and eighty-four presentatives and one hundred and ten votes in the Electdrall College. This is a low calculation.," When we consider the earnestness , or rather 1 should say the fierceness. of 'these! people, the ability, ambition, well courage of their leaders, we may well apprehend that the number will be even greater: But this number is their own—legitimate and/ certain un der the laws as they staUd. Supposing the entire population of the United States to be thirty-five million I now, this five million Will be just one ;seventh of the Whole, but will have more than one third of the representation in toth Houses of Congress, and more than ne third of the Electoral College. The same amount of loyal population at the North 'is fepre- sented bY only about half that number. If by facitions or party division among the loyalists of the military, they could con• trive to Secure one sixth more of the.rep resentatien they Would have a majority of-the whole, and be able to control Fed. eral legiilation, elect the President, and distribuie hie patrenage. theta States are admitted and these penple corneae have the unabridged control of this twofold representation, how will they desire to nse it ? Ido not in qnire hOW they pcissibly may use' it, nor etc‘lo9# gin now enmet or intend to . 1 %). - 40.111 -- thOwi: :n9Ketsir4nei by 1! •_1 kea to ti)o f`kitleitiles of Illy,' &atrioolley, }p i a the &is3epi.iptioq of Notßiltg. Litet/108 1 417a ifetht• COUDERSPORT; POTTER. COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY. MT 22, 1866. • united North, it would be their interes. and desire to use it. Fur the perpetua lion of the Union? I fear not. They have come back to the Union, we should remember, only by coercion. To them it is a forced bridal. j They submit to it,bu' they' do not, because they cannot, embrace tr. in their hearts. Tlie soldiers maimed, *iyee widowed, and children orphaned in their bad rause; appeal to their leaders for the promised support, but the Union has no pensions for them. The fortune, invested in confederate faith seen° her of realization in the Union.' Itatied of the North and . its anti slavery majori ties, the original motive Ifor secession, is ten times stronger now than in 1861. arid is backed up by 64,000,000,000 of debt, damages, and pensions, which, as they insiat,icoold, in a separate govern. meat, he levied by BO export duty u the cottori.consuadog world. The life habits of these people, their love of ease i 'and domination t i heir pride, aristocracy, wealth, and pe4cr i were all theout•growth of an institution which might possibly be ' revived in a separate republic, but which is forever gone in the Union. "Confed eracy", is a word that must long be en shrined in their hearts by the tender ;memories of their fallen kindred, .but it Invest live, as they well koow, in the his tory, Adkins, and ballade of the Union, associated with perjury, dishonorable 'crime, and cruel war. If they should profess to love the Union we could not believe them. It is so unnatural that it would be easier to believe they were hyp ocrites than that they were mounters. But they are neither hypocrites or monsters. 'Thej do not 'love the Union, and do not 'pretend to. It is untruthtul men of our own section that prevaricate for them. The same class of men that tutsrepreseoted the feelings of the North before the war, and thus deceived the South - and goaded them into 'rebellion, now misrepresent the feelings of the South to deceive the North and lure it into ir retrievable surrender. Before the war they deceived the South and betrayed the North ; but now it is reversed, they deceive the North and betray the loyal South. The same perfidious breath that carried South the untruthful story' of northern hate, and thus prompted tbe war. comes back now with another story, equally untruthful, of southern love. They tell us that the disloyal South is a gentle bride, impatit.nt fur the nuptials, when they know that she submits to them with loathing. Have they not laid down their arms 7 is the argumentative inquiry. Ne, sir ; their arms were taken from them Hove they not submitted ? No, sir:; they were defeated in battle. There is toOthing in 'their past conduct nor present attitude that justifies the use of the word sntonis skin. Prisoners of wanhave been taken, but they were released 'On parole • rebel armies have been dispersed, but they have been re-organized as State militia; rebel State goierdments have been over thrown, but again revived and restored to the 'old possessors; and forfeitures of life and estates have been remitted, but that is ,all. Call this clemency, privilege, vic tory, triumph, what you please, but do not call it submission, with which it has not one shads of meaning in common. We do not need to call witnesses to move that these people are hostile to the Union and its interests. The history of the hu man race proves it. Whoever attempts to prove the cont rary must first show that they are unlike any other paople whose passions, struggles, and defeats are re corded in the annals of the world. But witnesses have been called—Union generals and rebel' generals,'• Union and rebel citizens, without distinction of party, condition ' race, or color—and all support tinder oath the great historic truth, that a purpose imbibed in infancy, cherished and stimulated by the rostrum, press and pulpit for a lifetime; upheld by large for tunes, wrung from the toil of slaves, and sanctified by the blood of sons and kin. dred, has not been and cannot be surren dered to military orders. Such a purpose surrenders only to time. I do not presentil this great truth now by way of reproof or condemnation of these misAuided people, 'out only- by way of caution and warning to ourselves. I come to the conclusion, therefore, that they do not desire the per petuation of the Union. If we would re move all restraints and give them freedom of choice they would' revive the confed eracy at once They would take advan tage of a way with Great Britain or France to secure their iodependence r and they would take advantage of their double representation here to promote such a war., If uo Opportunity of escape should soon offer, would they not, still live in hopes of it and in persistent hos tility to the country's obligations to the soldiers, widows, orphans, and creditors of our 'rim, and friendly to the lissom!)• lion of sttnilaroblig,ations created by them , selves in the interest of the rebellion ? Even in advance of their own coming a portion of their vast claims have reached your files. 'Men my ,oellempe [..2)/F. RAND'ALT.I from thisDammlAo4r p.sed that the national -faith, pledged in war, should not be broken in patae,there was one voice ] from Kentucky against. it —only one by count, but considering the quarter from which it came, multitudi nous in omen. A bill has also been in troduced by a gentleman,sometimes Called the Democratic leader in this House, to repudiate in part the public 'debt under pretense of taxing it, in violation of the lows by which it was created. These cannot be regarded as the oddities of one or two men, but'rather as impulsive eon• fessions of imprudent scouts, too far in advance of the following army. The purpose will not e , be generally disoloied until the forces are arranged for its eke. cation. I am speaking now only of the dangers 'hat will beset the Republic by the al lowaoce'of a representation unfriendly to its prosperity and even its existence in such disproportionate numbers.; But we should not forget that this act Ps alio a recognition as republican in form of con• stautionsi we have never seen (excePt that of Tennessee) and all, except those of Lincoln °riga, under rebel summing. The white Unionists whit have been look ing through five years of persecution, lynching, and confiscation to this as their hour of delivorance, will find themselves betrayed into the hands of their old, en. humbled,' unreleitinm, tormebtors. It also consigns tire freedmen to the tyranny of old [eskers, not now as heretofore bribed to4iurbanity by a monied interest in the preset vation of their chattel estates. Twenty-five per cent., says an honorable gentleman who presents his back offen sively to the North as he his, his low obeisance South, twenty-five per .rent have already perished. The wish no doubt was father to the thought with the mas ters in whose interest the deelaration was made. _ These, then, are my premises. I will repeat them 1 There are only abint five million disleyal.population in the country. 2. This population when fully restored to the Union, the Coustitution and law.s remaining unameoded, will hold , more than one third of its reprexentative power and the supreme control of at least thir teen Stmts. 3. Thy will be interested to use that power for the division of the Union ; and, failing in that, for the repudi4tion of its military and financial loblightioos. New, what is to be done r If. these States are 'denied - re'prientation, it vie lit.ts the fundamental principle of repub lican governt ent. if allowed a double and hostile representation; the •Uniclu itself must be destroyed or preserved at the expense of another war Three remedies are propbsed: 1. Disfranchise some portion of the rebels. 2. Allow all the rebels to vote, but neutralize their disuoion sentiments by enfranchising the blacks in these States. 3. Equalize representation by taking as its basis either the number of voters or the population; minus the disfranchised classes ; so that these States shall have no more representation in proportion to their represented people than the old free States have. Either proposition would require an amendment to the Constitution, to be ac cepted ley the rebel -States as a condition precedent to their restoration. It is also proposed to couple with either proposition a second amendment. prohibiting the as sumption of rebel debts and claims either by Stases or the United States. ' The third proposition bas commended itself to much the largest number of Union weavers, and the amendments to that effect have already passed this House by more] than a two thirds vote. This, then, so far as this House is concerned, is the congressional plan of reconstruction. All we aik of the rebel leaders who are wrongly Charging us with having no pol icy at 'all, but designing to exclude th em for an indefinite period, is .a little time to put in form of fundamental law these pledges of future peace. For five years they , have been out upon plague-infected seas. Can , they not tarry at quarantine for a single session ? Stripped of all dirguises, herein lies the main disagreement. . Shall these States' be recognized at once is their present temper, without guarantees of any kind and with a twofold representation ? it is not whether they shall be represented at all ; to that we all agree. There may be a little question of time ; a difference of a few weeks or a few months, and that is all. Shall they be represented twice over, once in their own names and once in the name of the negroes ? -Shall they come, in upon a representatiOe basis that clothes' a white man of the South with almost as much again political power as a northern , man controls? That gives two white voters in South Carolina as ' much voice in the selection of a President and in . the legislation of this Honom se voters in Pennsylvania possess? -That :practically gives to one seventh of your populatinn, 0144:4*.f11-44:01410 ele,;,tb i ir4 of ENO .. . your power? That, s ir , ` is the great question before this House and the Amer iean public. It is so - effort on the part of the Opposition to carry into the politics of the country the old problem by which sixteen is made the majority of forty-nine. In .England it is called the spited of "'Te ton boroughs."' It has long been > the subject of political strife between the free and slave labor counties of Irlarylind,Vir ginis, and Tennessee. And when it is everywhere else:abandoned as a pernicious and Anti-republican theory of represents. I tion; we are asked to make it the' basis of reconstruction in the model Republic.. The enactment of these two , simple and brief amendments, cr otbcrs similar in ptftpose, is so absolutely necessary for the preservation of the I ltepublic and the dis charge of its obli gations to its soldiers, and credifois, midi is so just and even generous to the insurgents, that they: ought to receive the assent of every Union man, especially of every northern Union man. The Orposition do net dare to dis cuss their merits. While some deny that' we, have any plan of 171construction,othere assail it with insidious and deceptive ob jections. Some of these I propose to wide'? here. i ' First of all, they complain of the con sumption of time Five months have passed, and aot a rebel admitted, is the complaining accusation. The Opposition are impatient. They cannot wait. Come in at once, say , they, to the "erring breth ren." Do riot wait to drop your side 1 arias or exchange your disloyal garments. Bills to pTatect the loyal men of the South at your:pretended violeuce are pond-, ing now, come and help defeat them. We I will soon !Java bills to eolarge pensions ' and equalizel bounties tm the soldiers you I have maimed and the widerri -you have made; your advice and votes . will be needed. A bill to give bounty land to the "boys in blue" could not be defeated our the "butternuts" included witheut you. A bill to lift the burdens of taxa. tion from thi industry of the country and place it upon your .foreign confederates, through exported Mitten, will need your attention. Hurry up your organizations. Do not wait to heal {tips blistered with a double oath of broken fealty before you kiss the •Holy Evangelists with another. We have buried our sons and aro fan. guishieg to clasp the hands of their mur derers. When once admitted, deny that you ever tried to break op the Govern ment, but swear on all occasions that the Lincoln party were and are the traitors. The complainants have only themselves to blame for much of this delay. - Except for their pirsistent opposition the amend meets would have beep aubtnitted months ago to the Legielatures then in session in the loyai States, and been assented to , no doubt, by the constitutional number. Except for their own opposition they might now be welcoming back their long mourned friends to beats in these [Halls But ihey would consent to nothing that did not tram them greater . in numbers, and more malevolent in purpose. Hence the delay. Hinc fire lacrime. Next we iire told 614 it csenfiicts with the "President's policy." What is the President's policy I - I aver, fi rs t, th a t the President, when last ein;horitatively heard from, was in. laver of the priociple embodied in each, of the proposed amend merits Of , the first one, because he re quire,: the confederate States to adopt it; of the scowl; one, because he has repeat edly declared himself in favor of making the number of 'voters the basis of rCpre. sentatient I aver, second, that he does not coesider the status of the States such, that their assent to constitutional amend ments canoot be' required - as conditions : : precedent to their restoration, because he directed Mr.' Seward to , inform these States that their assent to the amendment proposed in. the last . Congress' was "indis poosable" to restoration ; sod because he has not himself dealt with themes If they were States already in the Union. Gov ! ertiOrs, Legislatures, judges, and a full set of county and township officers were at work' under constitutions once deolared Ito be republican in form by the United States.', These governments were regular unless you; assent to the doctrine of for fejture, for they , had political continuity,, what the church people call apostolic sue ' cession. Yet( they were destroyed by the President's Oder and new ones , extem porized it thei i r stead. i From thol t tme to this, in % these States, the breath otthe President has been the: law of the land. Mr. Johnson weot mach further in thiS direetien than his prede cessor. Mr. Lincoln established govern ments only in States where he found none existing Were, but Mr. 'Johnson first destroyed existing , governments and then supplied their places with those of his own oreation.l l So, both by words, and 'lotions which speak louder than words, the. President . aeiecits to every principle' involved in , the congressional policy of m recomit:lion. , Indeed, the two policies, 'mold not well ponfiict,.because they relate to diffeeent siatijeCts. The one creates or 410 0 4 1 itt40113400-,oibilr re* TERMS.- 41.50 PER news their Federal reletions, yfite., - n these organizations were coinPlete, l ftn i d the States'ready to apply to tonitre 'for a return to the Union, the Pres ties i polioy was ended: Ms work wu it detile. The rest was for Cengress. Ili he d tad his Secretary orStitelto ieform'Ciciirirrnitr Sharkey. July 24, 18135„ fibrirtner iktir via, September 12, 105 - ,:' - itildr - iii be in formed us in hilamitiartizesenge...7.lthe has changed his peliiii, !Inge_ then, if,.ls hardly worth whi!ta to l inquireiihat it is now,for his principles re written in Water. I do not wish to d isguise the feet thit while he approves the two ameaditeets and_believes the power exists . ' to requite tieir adoptiou as conditions of, return, be thinks it unnecessary to insist upon any terms additional to those:imposed by him self. It is in this opitaon that his old persecutors, the defeated elemies ofltire T Union, the foiled plotters of his'assailtin:- mien, have taken heart, and with Oriel malice conspired with northern sympa thizers to pursue him . iith—fheir..unre looting friendship. Their last hope 'ratite destruction of this country lies in the ae..- (auction of its friends .. War foiled thein, they resort to diplomacy. Tlie President was not much moved by their threats, will he bli sedneed - by their flattery 7 If tici, let me assure these of our friends whtitiris disposed to suppress their own coi3victien§ in hope to detain him and his . patronig e io a little se ' ect ccurt party, that - dey might as well exercise a reasonable lib:- erty of opinion. For if he ever deterininea to trust his pplitieal future to anybody besides the great earnest, triumphant Union organiation that elected him, he will have sense enough to put - them ,aside as mere nobodies in popniar strength, heartless friends and harmless enenries","aS courtiers always are, and posh straight for the "southern brotherhood,' rebel-led opponents of a -permanent - and peileifiii Union. In that event, his children tied friends may well rejniee that -the past - , at least, is secure. His' patriotic . thouititi of the last five years will still live,althoragh only to reprove him. . . •-: .•• Again, ft is said by way of came, "Why not admit such Union men as.row ler, Stokes, and Maynard, of Tennesseftr! Because it is not a question about INJ3O Shall a disloyal district, while , it ts,st l jtl in a disloyal spirit,. be destlared entitbat to representation with only-half-as many , represented - people_in it as we recytire - for a district in the -North? : That is thi question. Captliin - fsevuukee run up Ai? Union flag when' he wished to dicey an noarmed merchant vesselamder the power of his guns, but replaced it with the pi, rate emblem when be. had secured, ,hit victim.. The names of tbeeepatrieus ell hung out to day to aeoure repreaeltisloll to a rebel constituency behio.d•thetn t chtlt they will be hauled down at -the ; fire; election and rebels pat ,op ko their me t ed, You may think-yon are only reCoge,:tlag U the Union flag, but when it ie stoO 'lite you - will find yourselves alengtide the Alabama and in the power of ilk pqate crew. But it is said in reply, "We ,will nit admit difoyal men even if elected." How` can you help yourselves V if a whOle delegation from South Cartdine, for in stance, present themselverto the Clerk of the last House and ask to be placteiron the roll, prior to clganization, and tender him the certificate of their election sign it by the Govapor and sealed with the great 'seal of that most sovereign State, alien the. Clerk.say whichis loyal and which ii I suppose not. After.the o-gan ization, in which all have _participated, and all have bow 4u.dified_ and taken their seats , will yotilget up an ititini-ito7 twat comtnittee 'to e . plore the secret - re cesses of their con'sTeoces fafher enifessors to their loins ?" "No, but the iron-clad oath will exclude them." Do you not know, sir,lthat almoit every wise who is in favor of admitting thme States without cooditions is also in favor - Of :W. pealing that oath ? !They already demitir'c3 it as an odious and uncoostitntional ti i s s; The Secretary of the Treasury and The Postmaster Generid, , backed up by a tnes: sage frem the PreAdent, ask -its •sera( -o far as lregards their Departmen , s, thne making rebeli as eligible as Union sot iiq, a to the appointments here, and tiOtr;r elich lead I expect to pee it swept away, and'Ao do most of the genileneo who me now urging us to lay aside a real safe gnarl and trust to this cobweb of a morniog,.. Bnt'stippose we could in this way eli trive to dictate to these people wl.o they should' and who they should not elect, what kind of a representation would that be ? We say to them, "you are tree - to select your representatives, but miwitthat you select such as suit us, not yotmetv4.7 Yon call that representation ? call it obedience. We propose to extract the envenomed fang of the serpent More he is uncaged, and you to ,bind I him with test oaths afterward., Suppise; attain,y'na could :manage to exclude in! 'cull war those who had been engaged in the rebel lion, do' ou not know that a rebel car" stituency could find a fit irepre:e•siblioni -ECtritrenuei lcurtitra3e.] EM== II EEI Mil IBS
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