North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-03-21
Wednesday. Mar. 9 1 S66,
UNDER WHICH "wING," BILLYf

The announcement of this great discovery
is made with becoming solemnity in his
paper of the 7th inst He does not tell
Us, however, in direct terms, under which
wing he sails; but, no reader of his paper
can have any doubt as to his locus IN quo.
The President, and those who support his
restoration policy, we take it, make up the
conservative wing while Thad. Ste
phcns, Sumner, Philips and the = Dead
Duck and their adherents, compose the
radical wing. Let US inquire, under which
Of these "wings our Post master has taken
shelter, and in doing so, will allow him to
speak for himself.
We quote from his issue of the 2lst. of
Feb last:
g. The President has vetoed the Freedman's
Bureau Bill. We REGRET IT, but. though
there is considerable excitement. We hope no
serious Consequences will ensue."
In his next issue, Feb. 28th speaking of
the veto message, and the President, he
says:
while we differ from some the conclu
sions arrived at, we are 1riHing, as far as the
veto itself goes, to dDdId an hpneSty of pur-
pose to it's Trainer, If subsequent erents shall
not cOnriace as Of our error"
The President 10 doubt aims to be &c n.
serv,tive' IN his policy and in the details of
the great work OF reconstructIpn cannot DO
expected TO agree with those radicals, :"
Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stephens
UhoSe hres hare been infused Nth the spirit
of unirerSGt liberty, 6W of such u prrgfes
siua cast as TO make them f0rerunHers of
erenIs md in legislature halls 10 lire ahead
Of their time. II The President, however, is
TO be cajoled by fawnIng sycophants, and
turned asi de from The high purposes he has
heretofore announced by the dsceiIiul lures
Of those who have so laV-hly naligned him
and his administration, the hopes and confid
ing trusts Of many thousands will be bsff1pd
and he oiH hare to reap the results of the
popular piH.
Of the same date, in note to an article
from one of his correspondent ts-who at
tacks the Presidents restoration policy
the editor says:
"In giving place to the above communica
tiOn we will state that we are in az great q
quandary as the writer about the mixi-
ticAiion he aIludes TO, aud have concluded TO
watch the further developenent of the Ex.
ecutve Legislative difficulty before passing a
hasty Judgment pn probable results. The
New York Times a well as many other pa
pOrs nOminGLiy Republican favor the meas
ures aud sentiments Of the President through
OuF huY that ron. cooyc I,IP 0ne eide nf bo
nultisngn ar question"
In his paper of the 7th inst he SAYS:
'Mpre in sorrow than in anger many Re-
lublicans and Republican PRINTS have strong
" EXPIRE, sed dissal>faciion at the unerpect-
wed and singular freaks of The President,
his veto being followed up SO closely bv that
speech t. the street crowd in Washington,
which caused SO many of the democracy to
run wild with excitement and joy but The
dissolution of the Union party Is not so near
at hand ar many of them fondiy hoped
Of the same date we find the following,
copied from the Germantown Telegraph in
relation to:
"SENAToR CowAN.-Thie gentleman who
by some hocus-pocns was some years ago
chosen one Of the Senators from this State
pruves, as We have more than once said be
FIRE 10 he a southern abstractionist and pro
slavery advocate in all its phases. He votes
with the southern sympathzers against eve>
~ measure calculated To benefit the poor,
emacipa'ei negro, without regard to its
character. He is generally The only man in
the Senate, elected "a a Union man, who
votes 10 this way. The other day when the
District of Columbia Suffrage Bill was under
debate, he delivered the following statesman
Ike view on the question 1T was now
proposed, afier having freed the aegr0, to
,ive hin the right Of suffrage. What would
Ihat do2 Simply increase his chances for
getting his head broken at the polls by a
stronger race. Are we 10 infer that Mr.
Cowan stays away from the polls frpm tear
Of coming in contact with stronger head
than his own?
In his last issue apesking of the Presi-
dent and Hester Clymcr, he says:
"The Pre- sdent will bave 10 stoop consid.
ersbly below the base Of his TRUCKING
SPEECH ON the 22d of February to give cpun
tenance to the election of Clymer or any oI
his p"tical kun who have been laboring to
clog the wheels Of the general government.
II, after reading these extracts from the
latest editorials in the RepuJEcon, there
are any who have doubts as to which
swing its editor belongs, we rcfzr them
TO the following selections taken at randon
from his late papers, ii. relation to Thad
Stephens and his "rump congress :"
"The PENNSYLVANIA Delegation in the
House of Representatives contains the oldest
and the youngest members of Congress
Hon. Thaddeus Stephens. of the Lancaster
District. is the oldest (being seventy two
years Of age,) and in the judgment of the
intelligence of the country, the ablest man
IN thai body, certainly its leader; and Hon
Q. V. Culver, ,'of the Crawford district, the
youngest, being only thirty five. Both are
OF that stamp of loyalty which believes that
the interests of the country outweigh all
9th 'rs, and both are now pobly doing battle