The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-11-17
A APORTENTOUs HOUR.

Franklin Repository, has been making
apilgrimageto the Negrophilist's Mecca
and has had an hours interview with |
the successor Of the Abolition Mahom- |
ct. That hours talk between johnson
and Mcclure, if correctly reported by
the latter, gives awful portent of acom-
ing hegira of the faithful from the Of
fees at Washington. For the informa-
ton of our readers, we quote from Nc
Clure'slettertothe Franklin Repository,
of last week:
However reticent he (Johnson) may be on some
issues, he seems to have no as to the pol
icy he conceives to be the true one to bring back
the insurgent states He discussed the position of
those states and their people with great interest
and occasional warmth, and with frankness that
left no doubt to his purpose. He holds that
hev 1cere nevsr ont Of the Union that secession
however accomplished as fact, connOt be accom-
plished in Jaw that the supreme authority of the
government in those states was not overthrown by
reheIliOH, bot simply In abeyance and, of course
1t logically follows his premises that since the re-
bellion has ceased, the States lesnme their prop
er place in the Union and restoration is accom-
plished'
Now, mark you, this is just what the
men who control the sO-called ''Repub-
fcan" party mostemphatically deny
They aver that the ''insurgent states"
did go out of the Union and We're con-
quereda foreign communities and must
now be governed as subjugated pro-
Vinces. Such is the theory announced
by Thaddeus Stevens and entertained
bynearly all the Republican" leaders
in Pennsylvania. Such, too, will be
the view Of large portion, if not Of a
majority, of the Republican" MEM
bers Of the next Congress. Here, then,
is great dividing principle and either
the President, or the Republican lead
ers, must basely and ignominiously sur
render, one to the other, or there must
be division between them, organized,
on both sides, with determination to
be successful. We quote again:
II shall not soon forget the emphasis with which
he declared that the South must come back and
be part of US and 1T must come, he added with
all its manhood don't want it to come eyiscera-
ted Of its manhood +"
''The PRESIDENT is clearly adverse to confscation
and that question is practically settled. What
ever might be the views of Congress confscation
is not possible with an Executive determinedly
hostile to it and with the pardoning power in his
hands.
What say those magnanimOus spirits
who, at the late election voted for con-
fscatiOn, and for the general humilia-
tion Of the Southern people, to these
positions of the President? What says
that wonderfully warlike extermina-
tor of rebels, Gen. John Cessna, (whO
advocated confscationso loudly during
the late campaign) to these views of
the man he processes to support? VIII
these fellows cling to the doctrine they
preached but month ago, or will they
trim their sails to suit the steering of
Andrew Johnson? We shall see. But,
turn we to Mcclure, once more:
II believe that the President will WELD all his
power to effect the admission Of the representatives
Of the rebelous States into Congress during the
next session. The Senate being organized, the
question cannot come up there until it is brought
up ii order, but there will be strong pressure to
force the admission Of the Southern members, by
placing their names on the roll when the House
meets. This Mr. Mcpherson will not do, and on all
votes Of instructions, he will call only those who
are returned from States clearly entitled to repre-
sentation. The law forbds him to do otherwise,
and he win be faithful toit Honest Mcpherson
The question Of their admission will then agitate
the House, and fear, make a sad breach betlreeR
the President and Congress-
1.-The President will WELD all his pow
er to effect the admission Of the repre-
sentatives Of the rebellious States into
Congress, during the next session. y
Can this be possible? Can it be that the
President, who is exclusively the prop
erty of the Republican" party, will
be such a mar-plot as to overturn the
darling scheme of that party to keep
those representatives out of Congress?
Does not Andrew johnson know that
if he succeeds in his effort to "efiect the
admission" of the Southern represen-
tatives, he will destroy the "Republi
can" party? And knowing this, ought
he not to be ashamed thus to insist up
on the restoration of the Union, at the
peril of the political organization which
claims him as its chattel? Just think of
it! Horror of horrors ga sad breach
between the President and Congress !"
How many bright hopes of men born
for the special adornment of the guber-
Material chair, the Senatorial seat, or
the Congressional hall, viii be dashed
to the ground! How many McClures
and Ketchums and Cessnas will be nip
ped in the bud of their usefulness to the
state! How many hungry "Republi-
cans" will be barredout from the public
crib and how dull and tedious viii be
the columns of the sensation journals,
without daily account of robberies of