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DIADDEUS STEVENS' FORMER OPINIONS

The opinions of Thaddeus Stevens have formed I
the subject of the last paper of an interesting series
by Elward A. Pollard in the Southern Home Jour-
nal, entitled " The Living Politicians of the Day."
Referring to Mr. Stevens's early opinions, the author
says, "In the year 1837 a Convention was called
in Pennsylvania to reform the State Constitu-
tion ; and happily there occurred in that body
a controversy similar or analogous to that
which now dividt.s Congress, as to the power
of the President of the United States to con-
trol his Cabinet, or, in plain phrase, to regu-
late his political household. Thaddeus Stevens sat
in that Convention ; and when an amendment was
proposed to restrict the power of the Governor in
the appointment of officers, he made a zealous and
flaming speech in opposition to it. The follow-
ing are some of the passages of that speech :
" Having reluctantly but inevitably come to
the mournful conclusion that all the vital
parts of this venerable and hitherto venerated
Constitution of ours are given over to immo-
lation, as a sacrifice to the restless spirit of
change, which has taken possession of this Conven-
tion, I do not, address you on this occasion with the
'hope of staying the hand of destruction which is
raised against it ; but simply to offer reasons which,
to my mind, are all-powerful for resisting the
depredations which are making upon this article
of the great charter of our rights. * * * Why
take the appointment of the Heads of the De-
partments, Surveyor-General, Attorney-General,
Secretary of the Land Office, and Auditor-General,
from the Governor? They are essentially a part of
his Cabinet. His own comfort, and the comfort of
each of them, as well as the public interest, require
that there should be perfect harmony and unity of
views and action among them. But if you take the
appointments from the Governor, it may and pro-
bably often will happen that he will be of one party,
and entertain one set of principles, and they be of
another party, and hold entirely opposite principles;
discord and opposition must 'then disturb their
counsels, and injure the interests of the State.
* * * * The Governor and the Senate would
either be of the same political party or hostile par-
ties. If of the same party, the Senate would be no
check upon the Governor, as there would be perfect
concert before the nomination, and therefore this
supervising power would be useless. if they were
of hostile parties, constant and bitter collisions would
I exist between them, which would greatly disturb the
faithful discharge of their other duties. * * This
work of ruin seems not to be exclusively con-
fined to one party. True, all the members
of the one party, whatever might have been
their views when they came here, now act
in perfect concert in stabbing the Constitu-
tion. They cunningly enough suppose that if this
amendment prevails, they can always secure the
spoils of office, either through the Governor or the
Senate,. as they may always fairly calculate in hav-
ing one of them in their favour. For, when the
burdens heaped upon the people by that party be-
come so heavy that they can no longer be borne,
and their Governor is hurled from power, the Senate
is not always also changed. Thus patronage
being their object, they act unitedly. While many
gentlemen of the other party, with an ostentatious
magnanimity and a childish simplicity, either from
the mistaken dictates of conscience, or to show
their perfect independence-and freedom from party
trammels, join them in their headlong course.
The struggle here, therefore, is a vain one. Bat I
have full confidence in a steady and disinterested
people ; disinterested as to the fate of parties, but
deeply interested in the welfare of the State, and the
protection of the lives, the liberty, and the property
of its citizens. Send forth to them this mangled, muti-
lated, and deformed constitution, and they will put
their seal of condemnation upon it; and they will
still live and prosper under the well-tried charter
which their wise and honest fathers left them."

A correspondent of the Baltimore Commercial
wrote from the City of Mexico, Feb. 23, 186 S :
,4 Mexico is losing friends daily. her treatment
of creditors is atrocious. General Sturm, who fur-
nished arms during the war, remained here for
three months attempting to adjust his claims. A
few months since he left with not a dollar in
money, but earnest promises to pay. 11Ir. Tift, a
New York banker, and firm friend of the Republic
in the trying times of the intervention, is still here,
and his claims are yet unsettled. Hundreds of
others— principally Americans—still wait from
day to day, and the prospect ahead is not the most
pleasing one. The right party is not at the head of
affairs, and the policy pursued is destined to wreck
the concern, sooner or later." The conspiracy
against the life and authority of Juarez he thus
describes :—" The plot was discovered in time to
prevent the tragedy. Colonel Esteves, and most
of the officers of the 7th Regiment of the line, were
connected with the plot. Esteves was to shoot
Juarez in his box at the theatre. Iturbide, on the
night of the 17th, and another officer, in command
at the palace, were to dispose of the Ministers.
The would-be assassins not being aware of dis-
covery began to carry out the plan as the evening ad-
vanced. Esteves was arrested as he entered the
theatre, and the rest secured at the same mo-
ment. The conspirators are now in irons, and will
be tried very soon. Papers and letters were seized
at the same time detailing the plan, and that Santa
Anna was implicated, and also General Negrete.
Up to this time the public knows nothing as to
the ramifications of the plot, but rumour has it that.
many accomplices are scattered over the coun-
try, and that other regiments and many pro-
minent persons were active in the commission
of the act. It is known that if the conspira-
tors succeeded, a plan of liberty was to be
proclaimed, and another man called to fill the
Presidential chair. Whether Santa Anna him-
self was to resume his old place is unknown as
yet, but the facts will appear on the trial, and in
the publication of the papers which are now being
examined for that purpose. Excitement, of course,
was intense ; and the respectability of the parties
concerned makes it a matter of the most serious
character. It is no individual affair, nor the work
of a few enthusiasts ; but a plot conceived, and
was on the point of consummation, by men of rank
and position—the very body guard of the Presi-
dent, and guards of the palace. These are the
facts as officially stated in the Government
paper. A general distrust is apparent—distrust
of the Government in the management of public
affairs, in the capacity and honesty of Juarez
and of his Cabinet. The people have been
wrought up by continued usurpations—usur-
pations in the States—and. the Government here
unable or unwilling to interfere. The infamous
proceedings at San Louis and Guerrero, Sinaloa,
and other States have not ceased, and yet before the
general indignation has been half exhausted a new
monstrosity appears in the gubernatorial election
in the State of Puebla. There were four candidates,
one opposed to the policy of Juarez. That one,
Mendez, beat all his competitors put together at the
polls. The Legislature, now in session, immedi-
ately declared that there was no election, and with-
out proofs or investigation proceeded to elect the
man of its choice, and the man, too, whom Mendez
led in the 30,000 votes. And when a town of that
State, stung by the wrong, pronounced against this
usurpation of power, the leading organ of the Go-
vernment hopes that the people will not be induced
to resist, but submit quietly. The Government
here is silent upon the subj ct, and permit, with-
out a word of rebuke, this flagrant violation of law.
Who is so dull as to doubt its complicity in all these
abuses and usurpations ? The revolution and
anarchy that are abroad in the land—aye, the latter
and and more desperate modes of redress sought—fl,
legitimately from misgovernment, ifncaptirtcivs,manitill
duplicity, and the utter absence o
man here
of the conspiracy will be shot, noc,
those who profess to execute the laws. paThe leaders
be-
lieveshe:tdiwith afit)rt e
the tl
reefs,d Ihe ro
upon a vernment, is
structive shore. The attempted assassination r)apetit'lly drifting
pro-
duced a panic among the lights of the Republic, and
we are told that in ten days a new Cabinet will
succeed the present incumbents.