The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-08-30
NUMBER 45.

have gone to Washington, entered the
halls OF legislation, and proceeded to oc-
cupy their Seats, ''peaceably /. they could,
'nrcibly 1t they must" 5ut the record of
General M'Clernand, as military man,
was not such a. tn give tn his advice on a
question of carrying positions BY assaults
high degree of authority, and there being
some natural he+;tatipr Ia following his
counsel, tie golden opportunity wa. lost.
MIR. Montgomery Blair, who prufeSses his
willingness to act with any men, "rebels
or any one else, ,"'to put down the radicals.
Is never weary of talking to conservative
conventions of ''two Presidents and txo
Congresses There can be no doubt that
the pr"jec. of coup dekat has become
dangerously familiar TO the ICON n~ervative"
minG, and that the eminent legal oentle.
men of the North who are Publishing
opinions Affirming the right o. the exclud
ed Southern representatives to their seats,
are playing iEto the hands OF the desper-
ate gang of inscriptions politicians who
are determined to have the right e$tab.
llshed by fnrce. 1t is cImpu:e1 that the
gain, IN the approaching elections, of
tSdn:y tive districts now represented by
Union RppablicInI. will give the Johnson
party. III the next Congress, a majority of
the Ilonse CT Representatives, should the
| Southern dele -a.iuus be cou ted aud it
IS proposed that the johnson members
legally eutirlel 10 seats should cIn5iue
With the Southern preten1ers to seats,
organize as the H1u,e of L spresen tatives
Ut the Uni'ed States, and apply to the
! President for recognition. Should the
President comply, he would be impeached
| hy an uarecoSnizad House before an sin
Im pleta" Senate, and, if convicted,
would deny the validity of the proceeding.
The result would be civil war, in which
| the name OF the Federal Government
w1ulc be on the side of revclu:ionists.-
/ Such Is the programme which is freely
! discussed by partisans OF The Prcsident,
considered to be high in his favor aud
| the scheme, 1t Ii contended, is the Logical
result OF the position he has assumed as to
the rights of the cxclu led States to rep
reseutatior. II il certaI that the present
Congress Is as much the Congress of
! the United States as he Is President oe
the United States but it is we'll
! known that he considers himself to
represent the whole cjuntry, while he
thinks that Congress only represents a
! portion of it; aud he has in his character
| just that combination of qualities, aud is
| placed in just those anomalous circum-
stances, which lead men to che commission
OF great political crimes. The mere hint
OF the possibility of his attempting coup
detdt is received by some Republicans
with lo0k OF increduluus surprise yet
what has his administration been to such
persons bat succession Of surprises?
Bat whatever view may be taken of the
Presidents design: there can be doubt that
the safety, peace, interest and honor of the
country depend the success of the Union
Republicans in the approaching electinns.-
The loyal nation must see to it that the For
tieth Congress shall he aS competent 10 over
ride Executive vetoe5 rs the Thirty uinth and
be equally removed from the peril of being
expelled for one more in hIrm Iny with
Executive iIeas. The same eArnestLess, en-
| ergy, patriotism and intelligence which gave
success ~ the ", mast nov be exert1d to
reap its fruits ani prevent its recurrence. The
only 4 anger is that liz some representative
districts the people may be sTai!ei by plau-
sibiities and responsibilities for when, IN
political contests, any villainy is contempla-
tei there always found some eminently
respectable men, with a iTei capt. i of GER
tain emiRently conservative phrases. inno-
Gently ready to furiish the wolves OF )litIc5
with abundant supplies of sleeps clothing.
active at the present Tina aud the gravity
of their speech is Is iifyiny rs its emptiness.
Immersed in vJrds an 1 with no Gle Ir perccp-
ton of things, they mist IKE conspiracy for
conservatism. Their pet horror is the term
radical :" tleir ideal of heroic patriotism,
the spectacle OF a great nation which allows
itself to be ruined with decorJm, and dies
/ rather than com nit the slightest breach of
constitutional etiquette. This iuseusibility
to facts and klin4aess to the tendency Of
events, they Ill wisdom aud moierLtion.-
Behind these politictI dummies ihs real
forces of the johnson party, men OF InSolent
spirit resolute will emb;tterei temper and
u:scrdpulous purpose who clearly know what
they are after, and will hesitate ~ no '.infOr-
nj llity' in the attempt to obtain it. To give
til se persons political power will be to sur
render the results of the war, by placing the
Government practically in tue hands of those
against whom the war was wagei. No smooth
words ABOUT 1.-The equality of the States"
''the necessity of consultation" ''the wicked
ness of sectional conf cts" will tier the fact
thlt, in refusing to support Congress. the
people would set a reward on treAchery and
place Il bounty on treason "fhe South"
says Mr.. Hill, of Georgia. in a letter favor
ing the Philadelphia Convention, '-S9u sht to
5 I'VE the Constitution cf the Union. She
flied Let her Tow bring her diminished
and shattered, but un ted and earnest counsels
AMI energies to save the Constitution n the
Uaion.' The sort of Constitution the South
SOU 5ht to save by wArrrg against the Gov
er1ment IS the Constitution which she now
proposes to save by administering it IS this
the tone of pardoned and peuitent treason
Is ,hIs the spirit TO build up ''Natior
Union party ?'' No but it is the tone
sp rit now fashionable in the defeated -
States, aud will not be changed until rbo e' a,'
tumn elnctionS shall have nrOyed - ~