The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-11-10

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CH1T-CHAT WITH Our READERS
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 iu'le
cause, we think, to introduce politics into
these 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 those engaging
therein. On the contrary, what with its
chickering's, and its strifes, and its enven-
omed personalities, it cannot but assume
distasteful and sometimes positively re-
nugnant aspect Its inevitable result is
10 engender discord and bad blood be-
tween the opposing elements. Still, poll
tics is a most necessary evil. Under the
peculiar form of government under which
We live, we cannot ignore politics and po-
Etical 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, /. 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 Bonted equanimity, the popular heart
its accustomed flow, and the popular pulse
its usual dilatation 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 PIE
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-
yailing argument is word and blow
| the blow ottener first than last. Demo
Gratis and Republicans come to consider
themselves mortal participants
in monstrous yendetta,-and so wage
most bitter and unsparing warfare the one
against the other. Madness is the ruling
demon Of the hour, and 4 stranger coming
into our midst from other lands might
pardonably arrive at the conclusion that
cur system of self-government was mis-
take, and the Union a failure But i'm
dately succeeding the election-presso!
what a change! The stranger sees the
sworn foes of a day before meet, speak
kindly, taxe 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 find 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 oeduce from this is, primarily, that we
Americans are 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
i'll humor
We heard friend say, the other day,
that the provisions of the law giving
nan the right of citizenship were intrin-
slcally wrong. He eontended that, in
order to eligibility to vote, every man
ought to be required to commit to men,
CRY the Constitution of the United States,
The Constitution of the State of Pennsyl-
7anla, and the Ten Commandments, ard