Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-08-29
Massachusetts and South Carolina.

Our Wigwam politicians are felicitatins
| themselves extensively over the fact that the
Massachusetts delegation and the South
Carolina delegation walked into the Conven-
ton at its opening arm in arm. Even MIR.
Doolittle, with his usual profundity, thinks,
or says he does, that if that sight could only
have BEEN witnessed by the people of Mas
sachusetts, it would instantly have work ed
a complete revolution in their political SEN
| timents. y.
Now, we must confess, it produces very
pretty stage effect to see these gentlemen
walk into the Convention in this loving and
amiable style, and it showed considerable
skill on the part of the managers to open
| the performances in SO moving manner
But We cannot help reminding our political
ire-pullers of the Wigwam that it is no
| ne,o thing to find a certain class of Massa-
chusetts politicians walking arm in arm with
those of South Carolina 1t used to be
done at every Democratic Convention, even
when South Carolina was imprisoning Mas
| sachusetts seamen and mobbing her COM
missioners sent to test the constitutionality
of South Cardinals laws Heaven knows
We should be glad to see Massachusetts, and
South Carolina in perfect accord, but it will
require something more to accomplish it
than Wlgwam promenade between a lot of
Massachusetts duughfaces and South Caro-
lima ex-Rebels. Massachusetts is not rep
resented in the Wigwam. Some men are
there who live within her boundaries, but
the brain, the heart, the sentiment, the NOR
al power of Massachusetts, are not represen-
ted there. Messrs. Orr and Couch may
perambulate up and down the Wigwam till
doomsday, and it will mean nothing except
political by-play, unless the Fundamental
ideas which form the structure of society in
IL 4,
living sympathy and accord. $40 .s
The great problem before our country for
solution is well typified by these two States,
and we wish that our Wigwam friends could
be brought to see that it can never be solved
by perambulatory performances, or spread
eagle speeches, or convlvlal conferences.
The problem in our country is to do dtcdy
scith the dntdgOnism 6etUee,t dristocracy and
den,ocracy and to realize the true democrat
ic idea i'm the whole structure of our society.
Now look at Massachusetts and South Car
olina. Massachusetts, is true Common
wealth. Its people stand on a perfect e.
quality before the law. 1t is State mod
eled after and fully realizing the true Amer
ican idea of State South Carolina, on
the other hand, is an oligarchy. The mi
nority rules instead of the majority. The
masses of the people are disfranchised.
They are subject to taxation without repre-
sentation. They are forced to obey laws
which they have no voice in making. There
is no equality before the law. Her society
is composed OF privileged classes and op-
pressed classes Her whole structure and |
of government is vitally dRtdgo-
aistic to the true American idea of State. |
Still more, South Carolina having just |
been suppressed in violent and long con-
tlnued attempt to overthrow the Govern
ment of the United States, in which at
tempt she voluntarily seeded from the u
nion and abandoned her relations to her sis
ter States, now demands to be re-admitted
not upon terms of equality, but upon those
of superiority. She asks that each Of her
rioters may hare t,oo and One-hal times as
much po,cer IN all national affairs as a TO-
ter IN Massachusetts,. She asks for .fUe rep
in Congress, when her voters
only entitle her to t,oo. In short, she de-
mands that her oligarchial form of govern
ment shall give her voters two and half
times the power in the nation that they are
fairly entitled to WELD
Now does Mr.. Doolittle suppose that an
tagonisms like these, going to the very foun-
1ations of things, can be reconciled by the
petty promenades Of Messrs Orr and Couch
On the floor of his Wigwam? Is that the
extent of his political sagacity? Is that the
!
The instructive intelligence of the Amer
,an people tells them that this antagonism
between democracy >and aristocracy in our
country must cease. They have sacrificed
hree hundred thousand lives to make it .
ease. They are not now, through p0litl-
al cbicanery, to be defrauded of the just vic
ory they have won The democratic re-
publican idea triumphed On the battle field, !
md it must triumph in the halls of legisla-
ion. Our Wigwam politicians, in the
lame of peace and union and goodwill, are
n truth doing all they can to perpetuate
and discord. They would lay
Up for our children, and perhaps for our
elves, repetition of the terrible struggle ]
ntent are they on political power that they
would keep alive in the body polite ele
nent of strife and discord, which is as sure :
o work out disaster and convulsion as any
,hysical cause is to produce its natural cf- >
ect. Philadelphia Ietegroph q
THE MOUNT SAINT GoTHARD TUNNEL:-
,he tunnel to be made under Mount SAINT
,othard, in France, according to Faris
,nrnal will be about 20 miles long, inelu- +
ING several covered passages rendered ne
essarv lest life should be exposed to ava
inches Only four air-shafts will be re-
u;red the deepest of which will not much 6
sa . eed ed 800 yards. The southern entrance
f the tunnel will be about 3, 700 feet above 9
he level of the sea, and the northern exit q
cry nearly the same. The expense of the a
1nnel is estimated at about $l2, 600, 900.
t is grand undertaking, and, when compile I
ed, will be a credit to the enterprise of
rance just think of a railroad train pass !,
,g through, instead of over or round !, !
whose base is 20 miles. !, 'l :
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