The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-22

the first and hercest men to demand that
the question OF reunion should not be
entertained. In speech delivered in
Charlottesville, North Carolina, on the I7th
of July, 1868, he said !:
"lf We are true to ourselves now. true
to our bi-thrights, the Yankee nation will
utterly fail to subjugate US. x As
for reconstruction, such thing was in
possible-Such an idea mast not be toLerQ-
ted for Instant. Reconstruction would
not end the war, out would produce moro
horrible war than that in which we are
now engaged The only terms on sOhich zoe
can obtain permanent peace are final and
complete separation from the North. Rath-
er than submit to anything short of that,
let US all reSolUe to die like men ucorthv of
Jreedona!"
La the Atlanta speech he announced
that as soon as Maryland secedes Wash
lngton must be taken, and boasted that
''lt may De that soon the confederate flag
with fifteen stars, will be hoisted upon the
dome Of the ancient Capitol" But as
the "last man OF the South" did not find
"bloody grave" and as they did not "alI
resolve to die like men," he now proposes
to submit to 'foul dictation," provided
that dictation bids him come into the
Senate of the United States uuYashed Of
the blood he has causelessly shed, and
unrepentant of his treason, and to inaug-
rate still "m9re horrible war; He first
soiemniy swore as National Legislator
that he would support the constitution
and the laws aud sustain the government
and the Union. He next, with periured
soul, was sworn to be faithful to the WORK
OF dlsmemberment and death, and now,
reehiDg with double perjury, he comes and
demands admlttance, without condition,
guarantee or atonement, into the ancient
Capitol over whose dome he boasted that
the rebel flag would yet wave with fifteen
blurred and blotted stars emblazoned
thereon.
-Herschel V. johnson, Democratic
candidate for the Vice Presidency on the
Douglas ticket in 1860, is the colleague
chosen with Mr.. Stephens to represent
Georgia In the United States Senate
He, too, proposes to enter the Senate in
disregard o. the law of Congress, and as
matter o. right. He had just been cho-
sen to The rebel Senate in 1868, and when
the true men of the South proposed peace
after the Union victories in 1868, he said
Ill accepting the rebel Senatorship:
''There is no step backward. All is
now involved in the struggle that is dear
to man-home, society, liberty, honor,
everything-with the certainty of the most
degrading fate that ever oppressed peo-
pie If We fail. 1t is not recorded in his
tory that eight millions Of people resolved
to be free and failed. We cannot Weld If
we would. Yield to Federal authorities T.!
NeUer Ito UaSsaLage and sulgugation-
The bleaching bones of one hundred
thousand gallant soldiers slain in battle,
would be clothed in tongues of fire to
curse to e0erIastany infanly the man toho
sohispers yietd!
Such were the sentiments of the ex-
rebel and would-be Union Senator when
he accepted the traitors trust; but now
that he hopes to find the government
faithless to itself, he is obiivious of
"vassalage and sub;ugation," aud of the
tongues of fire" which are to course to
everlasting infamy the man who whispers
yield" And these men are welcomed
from the very inner temple of treason's
bloody work, In their approach to the
highest honors in the Union, and are
seconded in their demand by President
Johnson, by few debauched Unionists,
by every blatant Copperhead, and with
uDnIingled fervOr by every rebel through
out the laud
The Georgia Senators are the best typo
of the Senators chosen from the rebel
States as class. Such is the entertain
ment to which the President would invite
the loyal and bereaved millions of the
Nation - Ghan,bersJurg Repository.