Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-11-22
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ge7s~ The Northern Tier Gazette, of the Sth
inst, contains an able and sensible article
on the subject of United States Senator,
from which we take the following para
graphs
From this mere glimpse it isevident that
the United States Senate is not shelf
whereon dextrously to lay away worn out
politicians tits not crypt for modern
mummifed magnates, nor is it mere sine
cure with which to reward public men how
ever true they may have shown themselves
in other honorable service For the honor
of our State, and the good of the Union, we
trust the incoming Senator will be a man
Of energy, extensive experience, and lofty
a'a ,snanship. The eloquence to move
Sena'es differs vastly from what may win
t.l=udrts iro-a popular assemblies.
;,veral worthy gentleman have been
veins pending "the reconstruction" holds
prominence in the House from which it
would be unwise to remove him.
Grow, who ably represented this District
in Congress, we are glad to see named, be-
cause it will keep him before the public
mind for elevated station which with en-
idfRGQ experience hereafter I'LL.
1t s a cruel kindness that urges these
weighty cares OF Senatorship upon Gov
Curtin Immediately after the exhaustng
management of the complicated affairs of
the Commonwealth for double term, during
a period of great public trial and danger
| Weighed down by those arduous labors as
he has been, it would be as unjust to the
full fame of Gov. Curtin himself as it would
! be perlous to immense senatorial interests
requiring vigorous attention, to tax him with
them. Doubtless honors, greatly superior,
are in store and will attend our model Gov
ernor upon his recuperation from i'll health
caused by the crushing cares of the Com
monwealth during the war
Nor can there be any call for his service
senatorial at this time. For, beyond all
question, in Simon Cameron, now in the full
vigOr Of his age, meet numerous and rare
qualifications, admirably fitting him to fill
the position. 1t was in the hearts of many
to give him the Presidency when God placed
over the nation Abraham Lincoln, In Mr..
| Lincoln's Cabinet, the capacity Mr.. Cameron
had already evinced in the Senate for the
ready mastering of vast combinations in
their endless detail, intuitively grasped the
aggregated complexedness in the coil of
affairs of that 'tumultuous time, and lead
him early IN the war to advocate the very
measures which afterwards caused victory
to perch upon our banners, and insure sue
cess to the Union. 1t is due Mr. Cameron
as the representative man and our favorite
son of Pennsylvania, that place and scope
be afforded him in the United States Sen
ate to complete his glorious record upon
ba of nd
human rights, in carrying forward which,
and because he was in advance of his com
peers, he was displaced
Who so fit to take prominent part in the
final adjustment of the vexed questions of
State, as he who so early,in his high place,
advocated and urged the plans and princi-
plies which have conserved the Nation and
made that adjustment practicable and about
to be accomplished.
Simon Cameron, with fair record as a
Senator familiar with the details of states
manship--himself part of the war, and in
innate with all its workings-standng
square on the slavery question, prompt to
favor the armlng of negroes the honored
member Of Mr.. LincOln's Cabinet of un.
questioned loyalty to the Union and to
Pennsylvania, both i'll her general and in
her local and agricultural concernmentS :;
with large personal, landed and proprietary
interests in the industrial pursuits of the
State with long time experience in public
and corporate business and possessing as
he does the confidence of the people, be is
preemnently fit for Senator and he will
stand in that body with none his superior
in wisdom and sagacity, prudence ard pub
lie spirit.