Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-30

sublime in the vilIainy OF slavery. Here is
, a man who made the continent ring with
his execration of jefferson Davis and yet,
at the end of four years, has outbidden and
surpassed that prince of traitors. How
patriotic millions feel at last, as the cold
steel of ingratitude seeks to pierce their
vitals, that the malignities in Andrew
JOhnsOn's character that survived oceans
of blood and myriads Of dead, are the NAL
ignities born of slavery against the free
States of America Il had hoped" said
distinguished Southern Unionist, the other
day, that when the traitors prosecuted
and bounded him during four bitter years,
he would hate them sufficiently to be true
to liberty, but | was disappointed" And
this man invokes the blessings of Provi-
dence upon the last and most wicked Of
his cOntrivances AS | go back to the be-
ginning Of December, 1860, and trace his
career down to the present time, and re-
member all the enthusiasm and generosity
and coincidence lavished upon him only to
be requited by unexampled cruelty to his
benefactors, | wonder whether there will
not be day of reckoning for him and for
all who have likewise offended. The Scrip
ture is filled with warnings, one Of which
may be cited here as an inspired sentiment
AID rebuke upon his hypocrisy and perfid-
ity. 1t is taken from the eighth chapter of
Daniel, in which the vision of the prophet
is described as interpreted by the angel
| Gabriel and is as follows
DANIEL, cHrTER VIII, VERSES %, "a, 25.
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when
the transgressors are come to the full, king of
fierce countenance, and understanding dark SEN
tences, shall stand up.
And Gb.lI ll ,iCb4,- hut, l,N.h
own power and he shall destroy wonderfully, and
| shal prosper and prcatise, and shall destroy the
mighty and the holy people.
And through his policy also he cause craft to
prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself
IN his heart and by peace shall destroy many H.
shall also stand up against the Prince of princes
but he shall be broken without hand.
! Frequently rs this significant passage
has been quoted, question whether it ever
was more appositely applied than to An
drew Johnson. There is a curious accura-
cy in the phrases and a still more striking
fidelity in the predicted end of a wicked
tyrant8 reign.
But this is no hour for despair God has
been too forgiving, too generous, and too
constant friend to desert us now. He
bore us too strongly and too steadily
through oceans of blood and tempests of
fire and along the long, dark valley OF
death, to forsake us in this new tribulation.
Soldiers of Pennsylvania ] said at the
beginning of these remarks that the eXper
ience of our war had disprOved the theory
that great republic was in danger from a
triumphant soldiery, and that our real per-
il lay not in the men of swords, but in men
of words not in the leaders of armies, but
in the leaders Of parties not in the fight
ing patriots but in the skulking politicians;
not in the noble chvalry produced by the
education of the battlefield, but in the cum
ming diplomacy coined and cultivated il
the cleset of heartless dialecticians who
would wrap world in flames to crafty
their ambitious ends, and would not stoop
from their cozy eminences lest in helping a
fallen brother they might incommode them
selves If it were not for you, who are
still standing guard on the outposts, the
sleek and easy politicians, reposing on
their official cushions, would betray the
citadel itself AS look over our great
country and beyond the limited horizon of
party, am startled first at the conspicu-
Gus perfdy of an obscure man suddenly ele
waited by a grateful people for acts of
simple, yet of timely duty then at the
heartless mgratitude of the vanquished
and forgiven traitors and finally, at the
subserviency of others, who, in such an
hour, should be the apostles as we'll as the
champions of intelligent freedmen. Yet
how few in the long procession wear the
Union uniform | am not here to quarrel
with the Union officers who took part in
the Philadel phia convention, nor yet with
those who with equal Inconsistency assail
Geary, the hero Of of more than sixty bat
ties against slavery and treason, and hon
or Clymer, the embodiment of hatred Of the
! Union cause Such contradictions correct
themselves Like all violent and unnatu-
raj combinations they serve at once to in
struCt and to admOnish others. But upon
the principle that there is no good rule
without EXCEPTIONS to prove it, so those
| Union soldiers who make themselves con
| spicuOus, if not more than ridiculous, by
| Joining hands with the traitors and Copper
| heads-the success of whose efforts would
! have been to cover the cause in which they
won their laurels with lasting defeat-un
consciously keep others from following
their examples. But to the rank and file
of the Union army returned to civil life we
! have thus far been indebted for most of our
| civil victories and if we are saved from
the new conspiracy organized at Philde-
phia it will be mainly through their intel
! ligent exertions. When | reflect how sim
pie and how clear is the present duty of
/ the citizen,it is more than strange that any
citizen protesting to be grateful for such
services as those rendered by our candidate
| for Governor, General Geary, should be
found supporting candidate whose indus
trious sympathy with the rebellion has
been one of the wonders of the last four
years. Such a citizen has much to forget
and more to forgive. He must forget that
under the restoration policy of Andrew
Johnson the rebel soldier in South Carroll
ma will exercise a political influence equiv
alent to two votes for the one vote thrown
by the Union soldier of Pennsylvania He
must forget that the success of this disprO,
portionate power will enable the two hun
dred thousand whites of South Carolina, by
the representation of four hundred thous-
and blacks, to enjoy as much influence in
the national councils and electoral college
as six hundred thousand white freemen of
Pennsylvania. He must forget that every
guarantee supposed to have been establish
ed by the downfall of the rebellion will be
endangered and ultimately destroyed. Thus
fOrppttinor he nluSt he pnunliv fnrOivinr to