The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-11-17

The election is now over, Abraham LIN
coin has been chosen President for another
four-years term, and the country is saved
Such being the case, we will haze 't'ie
cause, we think, to introduce politics into
,besa columns for some considerable time
to come. We suppose our readers are
not sorry for this we are sure zee are not.
Politics, generally speaking, is subject
of anything but pleasure to thoseengaging
therein. On the contrary, what with its
chickering's, and its strifes, and its enven-
omed personalities, it cannot but assume
distastetul and sometimes positively re-
pugnant aspect. Its inevitable result is
n engender discord and bad blood be-
tween the opposing elements. Still, poll
tics is most necessary evil. Under the
pecuIiar form of government under which
We live, we cannot ignore politics and po-
Ttical questions. So long as men are OF
different minds and adverse judgments,
which will be till the Last Man of Camp
bell stands where he can say, owe are
twins in death, proud Sum-" and so long
as the great principle that "the majority
shall rule" remains the cornerstone of the
governmental edifce under which We live,
politics must be. Like everything else
earthly, however, It has it's season Of dor
nancy, OF quiescence, when something
other than the relative merits of platforms
and candidates may constitute the topic of
conversation. With the election over, this
season has arrived. The popular mind
will therefore have opportunity to regain
its Sonted equanimity, the popular heart
its accustomed flow, and the popular pulse
its usual dila,ation of seventy beats to the
minute, instead of one hundred and ap-
ward
We Americans are certainly peculiar
people, with peculiar ideas and customs.
For weeks prior to election day, the pce-
yailing interchange of compliments be-
tween two political opponents is, on the
one side, "Hurrah for So-and-So" and on
the other, "D-n So and So ~ The pre-
gailing argument is word and blow
the blow ottcner first than last. Demo
Gratis and Republicans come to consider
themselves mortal participants
in q monstrous vendetta,-and so wage a
most bitter aud unsparing warfare the one
against the other. Madness is the ruling
demon of the hour, and stranger coming
into our midst from other lands might
pardonably arrive at the conclusion that
cur system of self-9overnment was mis-
take, and the Union failure. But i'm
diately succeeding the election-presso
what a change The stranger sees the
sworn foes of day before meet, speak
kindly, take each other by the hand, and
even laugh and joke together concerning
former differences of opinion. No bick-
ering then, nor strife and shoulder hitting,
but satisfaction and contentment on every
hand. No one takes it upon himself to
dissent from or fnd fault with the express
sed will of the majority, but one and all
bow thereunto, say it must of necessity be
night, and quietly suoside. The moral
We 0educe from this is, primarily, that we
Americans are a set of fools in that We
allow our angry passions to run away with
cur better judgment in the first place ;
and, secondly, that we Americans are wise
In that we do not permit any unnecessary
number of suns to set upon our wrath and
Ill humor.
We heard friend say, the other day,
that the provisions of the law giving a
nan the right of citizenship were intrin-
slcally wrong. He contended that, in
order to eligibility to vote, every man
ought to be required to commit to men,
ory the Constitution Of the United States,
the Constitution of the State of Pennsyl-
7ania, and the Ten Commandments, ard
De able to fully understand, and on occa-
sion, to explain the essential and leading
points of each of the which. Bv this
means, he thought much Of the corruption
Incident to elections might be avoided.
IN view of the fact that ignorant fellows,
Who probably never heard CT Constitu.
'otlon or the Ten Commandments. who
couldn't distinguish principle from a.