The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-08-30

persons to whom they deny political rights.
but that Representation shall be based
throughout the Republic or voters, AID
not on population. The pitk of the shole
amendment Is In the last clause: aud Is
there anything In that to which reasons
bic objection can be made Would il
not be curious result Of the war ayain.t
rebellion, that il should end in ,nferrinc
On rebel veter in Spash Carolina pow.
er equal iC national affairs, to that of tvo
loya! voters in New York? Can aay
Democrat have the face to assert that the
South should have, through It's di>fran
chlsed negro freemen alone, power in
the Electoral College and iE the national
Honse OF Representatives eqnal TO that OF
the States of Ohio and Indiana combined?
Yet these conditions, so conciliatory.
moderate, lcnient, almost timid, and which,
by the omission of impartial suffrage, fan
very tar below the requirements of the
average sentiment of the loyal nation, are
still denounced by the new party of
"Unon as-tne work Of furious L liic as,
bent on destroying the rights OF the States
Thus Governor James H. Orr, of S Iuth
Carolina, a leading rebel pardpnel into
people OF that region to send delegates tn
the Philadelphia Convention, On the
ground that its purpose Is to organic
conservative" men OF all sections and
parties, 'to drive from power that RAd;c-
al party who are daily trampling under
foot the Constitution, and fast convertin :.
constitutional Republic into con .olidl-
ted dcspotism." The terms % which
South Carolina i. asked to ubmit, before
she can he made the equal OF y .in or
New ork III the Union, are stated TO oe
"too degrading and humiIiltiny ID be en-
tertaineo by freeman for "A single in
stant" When we consider that this
Radical party" constitutes nearly four-
tthS OF the legal Legislature of the nation,
that it was the party which stved the
country from d:smemberment while Mr..
Or aud his friend. were notorio I+ly en-
gagged in "trAmplins the Constitution
under foot and that the man ~ho de-
nGuncc> iC owes his forfeited life to it&
ciemency, the astounding iusoience of the
impeachment touches the sublime Here
Is contessed treason inveighinS aga in It
tried loyalty, In the naine of the GOn>ti-
tuition it has violated and the law it has
broken But why does Mr Orr think
the terms of Sonth Cardinals restored re-
lations to the Union "too degrading and
humiIiating to be entertained oy free
man for single instant 2" Is it because
he wishes to have the rebel debt paid -
Is it because he desires to have the Fed
eral debt repuHiated l. it because he
thinks It intolerablc that a negro should
have civil rights? Is it because he
reseDts the idea that breakers of oaths
like himself, should be disqualified from
ha7lnS another opportunity of fnrSwearing
themselves? Is it because he consider.
that white rebel freeman OF South
Carolina has natural right to exercise
double the political power of white loyal
fr,eman of Massachu etts ? lie M Ist re-
turn an affirmative answer to all tn Sc
questions in order to make it out that MS
5 .ate will be degraded and humiiiated by
ratifying the amendment; an! the nece.-
siiy of the measure Is therefore proved by
the motives known to prompt the attacks
of its viliiurS.
The insolence of Mr. Orr is not merely
Individual, but representative. Il l. the
result OF sIr. Johnson attempt ''to prI-
duce harnOny between the two sections"
by hetraying the section 20 which lie CIV
CO his selection. Had It not been fer his
treachery, there would have been little
difficulty in settling the terms OF peace 80
as to avoid all causes for future war bur,
from the time he quarrellea With Con-
gress, he has been the great stirrer-up uf
disaf .cJien ut the S,ath, anI the vir-
rual leader of the Southern reactiorary
party. Every man at the South who was
prominent in the rebellion, every mtu in
the y Jrth who Was prominent in adin
the rebellion, Is nov openly or c,vsrtIy
his parfi>ans, AMI b. Iawnin on him earns
the right TO detame the representatives. ot
the people hy whom the rebellion WIS put
down. Among traitors and Cbpp.rheaI.
the fear OF punlSnment hts been succce l9.!
by the hope of revenge ; eIatinu is Oh faces
which the downfall of Il chr )Ti overcast;
and return 10 the old times. when
united South rn'ed the colrtry by
means OF divided North, is c1n6 lently
expected by the whole crew of political
bailies aud political sycopha1ts whose
profit Is in fhe alb .sem4nt of the nation.
1t is even said thar, ii the mai priry of the
'Rump Congress cannot b. uvercam by
fair me1n~, it will De by foul AM there
are n"i-y plrlisans of the President who
assert that he has il him Crom vsllian
capacity for deaiin. with lesi>larve as
semolies whose notions of the pubiit soDd
clash With his own. In short. we are
promised, Oh the assembling of the next
Congress, u cnnp Il etH.
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believe, the first to announce this execC-