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MONDAY HORNlN0. :. FEB. q. 1896.
The wasAassssn Ses-naAc--Mr. Pesains.
so ssa and tho Republicans. &c
A. our readers kaow, there was serenade
in wasAisgtoa city on the night Of the cleo
tion OF Speaker, and the musicians. In the
darkness Of the night biackened the hue OF
thsir compliments by bestowinG them upon
Messrs. 0Row aud HICKMAN, ~ well AZ upon
their be,ters, Messrs. PENNINGTON and SHxR-
NAN. The two latter gentlemen made very
conservative speeches; the two former very
decisive ones. Grow was coarse, and HIcK-
NAN out-Heroded 0Row. HICKMAN once more
paraded his eighteea millions Of freemen against
the eight Of the "feeble Southern States"-as
the redoubtahle gentleman chose to style
them-before the musicians and the multitude
attracted BY their Kidding. He ridiculed Virgi-
nia, and sWore tremendously that the Union
should not b dissolved. These Republicans,
who are now the source OF all the danger to
the Union. are making the greatest display OF
devotion to it imaginable. They have taken
the Union under their especial protection!
that the Ore through which he has passed has
not been without its effect He is certainly
chas,ened and smoethed down. and gave not
the slightest intimati0n Of any Of the revoln
tionary doctrines Of the "irrepressible con-
flict.' party and the "HKLPRR book" He
ayowed the most devoted attachment to the
Union, and declared purpose of conquering
the .prejudices" Of the people of the South
with frmne.s and iove-with brotherly kind
ness and respect" Now, these are very diff
ferent kind of weapons from those indicated
in the HxLrER book, which the honorable
gentleman endorsed. He owes il TO himself to
repudiate the HxLPER-or Hellhr- ed--bloody
ones which his name and influence have re-
commended to the world and to offer in their
siead these conciliatory and afectionate agents.
which he eepoused before the serenaders, and
under the genial and soothing influences Of
their thrilling national airs.
MrIPxNNINGToN was national and conserva-
tive. He is not a swearing man. He is gen.
tleman, and we are inclined to believe a well
meaning and patriotic public man. He was
the Governor of New Jersey during the ex-
citing period Of the contest in Congress be-
tween the two sets Of Congressman from that
State, one Of which claimed their seats under
the broad seal Of the State. He demeaned him.
self on that occasion with dignity. We have
a "Reminiscences in this State with regard to
him which entities him to respect. AT the time
of the passage Of the ''inspection law for the
examination of vessels departing from our wa
tiers to prevent the Ascending Of slaves, he
opened a correspondence with 1t. Governor
JOHN NJ. GREGORY, then filing the office OF
Governor in consequence of the resignation of
Governor GILMRR; and that correspondence
was altogether creditable to Gov. PENNING.
TON, showing him then to be as different from
SEWARD as is day from night But Governor
PENNINGTON made great mis- take in becoming
q moderate Republican''-he made a greater
mistake in voting for SHERMAN, the endorser
OF Helper Nor is it at all to his ad Vantage that
he has been elevated by the Republicans over
the head Of CORwIN, whose conservatism was
q little Zoo strong for them, and whose ener-
gstic declarations touching the solemn obliga-
ton of the North TO enforce the Fugitive Slave
Law, (Which Mr.. FILLMORE has recently de-
clared in his ungraceful and discreditable let
ter, no signed with such extreme reluc tance,)
were understood to be positively offensive to
them. These are serious complaints against
Mr.. PENNINGTON; yet in his speech he not only
offers no disagreeable remark, but makes. some
allusion to "wrongs" and their being redress
cd, which we are left to construe, we trust, in
his personal behoof. He said:
Our land Is . land of freemen, our liberties were
achieved by the great exertiOns and services of
fathers, and believe no man In this generation
viii let this blessed nhertsnee 20 t" pieces? Cries
wrong at enc time you remember the saving OF
Mr.. Cla, that old patriot. when he went home to
law. On being addressed by some, old man. who
:.ld. "Cisy YOU have done wrong Wei" sa,s
he "My friend, 1T You were ont cunning. and on
ssaia Ss Wsaldy shIoS 2 x:as
PICK TIE mt and H try it over cheers Now.
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you came in here TO- night It went to my heart.
and said. as long as our national songs remain
this country will he united. tCheers)
Let us have the wrong made right That is
all that is needed. But to make it right, Mr..
PENNINGTON, and those Of his stamp. if
they believe not in the "irrepressible con-
fict'' of SEWARD and HELPER, nor in the
conservatism of the anti.slavery agitation
must cut loose from their unfit associations.
and take position to fright the "wrong'
done.
SHERMAN declared his conviction that the
election of a Black Republican President was
a certainty. This is an old trick of politicians
to cause the tremor Of alarm in the opposite
party. He ID equally positive that such a
President may enter the White House with
out dissolving the Union. There was some
what of q constrained pleasantly in the man.
ner of the honorable gentleman's remarks on
this point which suggested that he could not
shut his own ewes to the danger Of such an
event. The skeleton of disunion was, no
doubt, at the time glaring its sightless sockets
upon him-those sockets which are set with
no eyes to look into the future! We commend
to the great defeated HELPER nominee, the
language Of Mr.. RIvKs on this point. who
with all his patriotism and Union conserva
tism, breads the horrid yisage of that skele.
ton. Mr. RIvEs, in his letter published in yes
tsrday's WAig, says:
''Should such party. founded on anti social. Sec
tlona! principles and sustained by exclusive sec
Government by means of dominan geos raphical
majority 1t will be the severest and most hazard
Gus trial through which institutions have ever
passed, or c0nld. by possibility, pasS. No good
wise man should be willing to see them put to such
q test"
Mr.. Rives ON the Impending Crisis.
We notice elsewhere q letter from the Hon.
WV. y. RIvHs ON the question of the day. 1t
IL highly conservative, and written with his
usual vigor and perspicuity. He approves
moot decidedly Of measures for self-defence
ana for promoting our own manufacturing
enterprises and our independent foreign COM
merce, ~ the best means of protection against
The encroachmepts from the North. He speaks
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