The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-04-09
HOW EXTr, INES MEET-GLANCE
AT TUn SITUATION.

On Wednesday evt ming, April 4th, meet
ing of Union men," o-calied' was held in
the Courthouse at Hamburg Pa. Gov.
CURTrSS was declared president of the meet
ing by resolution. Not being present, he
was waited upon by committee who re-
ported back that the Governor declined to
attend. On motion of Mr.. GEORGE BERGNER,
Postmaster of Harrisburg,) a committee
was appeintcd to draft and report series OF
resolutions. Mr.. RERGNER subsequently re-
ported four resolutions, the third OF which
reads as follows:
"Resolred, That Andrew JoA. "son has Jo5sItsd
tie confidence Of thOS5 rho elseted In, 70 .no
Office Of honor in the Bepubhc and h. ''s .h;,,
himself into the embrace Of fhGsC Srhoss :.
aimed the bullet tchieh srdited him 10 tho o..
in the nation, he is no longer worthy OF the tsL w.
or confidence Ofthe Union party Of this State. h "
ViOLatiOH of JIIth TO The men UhO Sared The hYs a.
the country will cObsign him to deserved infamy;
and his malice has been ishown by the election in
Connecticut to6eaS impotsHt as taih is rOTthLe.
The party fthe Union stands firm, UnSedHeed By off,
= cidl bkaHdiShmeHts, and UHdired By threats. They
true to their principles and these involve oppo
sition to treason come from what quarter it may"
1t appears that the same creature who went
from this city to Harrisburg to dictate to the
recent nominating State convention the ma
licious resolutions then adopted against Pres
ident JOHNSON, also wrote the list we quote
from above, and made Mr. Postmaster BERG
NER his instrument to report them. Both
utter the same falsehoods, breathe the same
foul spirit emitting the offensive stencil Of
dead ducks.
Mr.. Postmaster BERGNER, who is editor
and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, of
Harrisburg flies into print about the meeting,
in his paper of the 9Th instant, as follows:
"The same men who stood between Andrew
johnson and the Kissing COpperheads Of Harris
burg In 1858 were there ready and determined TO
stand bstI0seH d1LdTsp JOHNSON anil tie country as
he with sinister motives stretches forth his hand
to choke to death before it has recovered its breath
after the fierce struggle with traitors"
Mr.. Editor BERGNER has a perfect right to
become the echo of any malignant he chooses,
to participate in mass meetings and falsty
history in resolutions, and become common
BLACKBOARD Of high Government officials, and
Notwithstanding all this, people can patronize
and read his paper if they wish to do SO.
There is nothing in the Constitution to pre-
vent this, and there is no disposition to our
knowledge, on the part of any persons to i'll,
terlere in such matters. But when Mr.. Post,
master BERGNER, from his standpoint as Il
Federal ofIice-holder, assumes to enter the
political arena as the falsifer and blackguarj
of the President of the United States ana
every member Of has Cabinet who were Sc
lected by the martyr LINCOLN, one of whom il
Mr. Postmaster General DENNIsON, the Har
risburg postuaster's immediate superior of
fcer, we think it is high time that such tel
low should be made to surrender to SOM
Union soldier who fought the battles Of tn
country in the recent war for the suppression
of the rebellion. The Federal Offices Of tn,
Government should not be given to its active
enemies. They should be given, whether t.
the soldiers or not, at least to loyal men o
intelligence, who disregard every private con
siderati6n and look to the best interests o
the Government of the whole people.
We notify Mr. BERoNBR and those 70
whom he speaks, that neither he, nor the