The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-02-22

u the pennsylvania Legislature IN tne pro
r. per light in the following letter
a Washington, D. c., Feb. 2, 1866
h Wednesdays and Thursdays debate in
a the Senate of Pennsylvania, on universal
e suffrage, was very pleasant souDeni'' of
the conduct OF the Copperhead poiti-
r clans during the war for the preserva-
! ton Of the Government. Nothing could
be more useful, as warning to others,
than the ridiculous explanations of the
Democratic Senatorial declaimers,
$ Messrs. Clymer and Wallace. After
having abused the poor colored man to
the uttermost for nearly two full days,
they attempted to defend themselves for
, their own assaults upon Andrew johnson
, when that fearless patriot, through his
friends, solicited the privilege of speak
ing to the people in our Legislative halls.
No political aspirants were ever placed in
dilemma at once so awkward and so
suggestive. He who reproduces what
they said of Andrew johnson in the
spring Of 1868, will smile as he notes
who moderate in COM parison is their pres
ent abuse of the colored man. Mr.. ely
mer, who is an educated gentleman and
J an incessant toiler for nomination for
Governor of Pennsylvania, was almost as
violent on Wednesday in his denuncia-
tion of the black man as he was when he
heaped his maledictions on the head Of
the white man, Andrew johnson, in the
Senate, on the 9th of March, 1868; but
his Philippe upon the latter was the bit
terest Of the two. Politicians like MIR.
Clymer did not then allow the considera-
ton that Andrew johnson was white
man, to save him from their fostering
calumnies Our President was then fight
ing for the white race Of the United
States. He was risking his life, as he
had sacrificed nearly all his means, for
the preservation OF what these selfish
politicians call the white mans Govern
ment. Hunted out of his own State by
the white traitors, he came into Peansyl-
vania to beg and implore, at the hands
Of the people, aid and encouragement for
the persecnted loyalists of Eastern Ten
nessee. He told them how his fellow
citizens, with their wives and children,
had been driven into caves and noun
tains by the human blood hounds Of sla-
very how, to use his own language, "his
property had been sacrificed, his wife
and children turned out of doors, his sons
imprisoned, his son in law forced into the
mountains" "My people," lie added,
"are arrested by hundreds and thousands
dragged away from their homes, and in
carcerated in dungeons, and your only
response to their murmurs is the ratting
and clanking of the chains that bind their
limbs. Whatr' he repeats, SIS their
condition to day? They are hunted and
pursued like beasts of the forest by the
secession and disunion hords who are en-
forcing their doctrine Of coercion They
are shot or hung for no crime save de-
sire to stand by the Constitution Of the
United States Helpless children aud
innocent females are murdered in cold
blood. Our men are hung and their
bodies left upon the gibbet. They are
shot and left lying in the gorges Of the
mountains, not even thrown into caves,
there to lie, but are left exposed to pass
through all the loathsome stages of de-
composition, Or be devoured by birds Of
prey" Here was 4 white man, appeal
ing for white men, women and children,
hunted, tortured aud murdered by other
white men who had taken up arms against
generous Government. And this same
appeal agas addressed 10 'gAite men, like
lEessrs. Clynler and Wallace, safe under
the shelter Of Government aCh0se terri
bic struggles for its oegn preservation they
Eo0kedupon agih scorn or ind,bcrence.-
Resident an the midst Of luru1y and plen-
! ty, paid By tie people for their doubtful
services ij1 tie Legislature, thcy refused
tbs wAite m.an, Andrc,0 johnson, thus
i.arohing their ctd for his aChite su6ering
family and friends, and did so lcjth the
most indecent and insolent e6rontery.-
And now, after country..sayed without
them, and in defiance of them-saved,
too, by the assistance of the strong arms
of the colored people Of the country, saw
ed by the men whom they hunted and
slandered little less than three years ago
they are suddenly brought to sense of
the supreme peril which threatens cur
political and social institutions through
the attempt to elevate the liberated 10y.
alsts of the South by an act Of Congress
Of the United States Now the white
race is to be saved from the negroes. If
the honest people of Pennsylvania need
ed anything more to convince themselves
of the utter unworthiness Of these Cop
perhead politicians, this spectacle should
do the work. 1t is better than elaborate
argument, and anticipates and defines
their settled policy in the coming State
campaign. When Mr. Hicster Clymer is
nominated Governor of Pennsylvania he
will find that while he is abusing the
friendless coIored man and drawing a
picture Of the horrors of allowing him to
enjoy inalienablc civil franchises, he will
be called upon to reconcile with this silly
and juvenile party-porroting his heartless
contempt of millions of white men dur