The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-05-24

itaL SO their telegraph informed US, "wlth
peals of laughter" They fired upon .,us
while we we're yet upon our knees begging
for peace and union. The contest once
begun, was conducted on our part with
great for5earance and within the strictest
military law. We even returned for
awhile their fugitive slaves. On their
part itlwas conducted not only within the
Condemned system of cruel guerrilla and
piratical warfare, but with fire, poison,
yellow fever, and assassination. The
estates of Union mea within their power
were confscate1, and have never yet been
| restored, and Union men were hung for
treason to their pretended government.
You tell US they have suffered. So
have we. Peace has come at last; busl-
ness prosperity will return; the insignia
OF mourning will be laid aside; but In the
heart of every family there is an unspoken
sorrow that will sadden life even to the
grave Now, we are admonished to be
magnanimous to the authors OF all this
suffering. I accept the admonition, but
submit that we are SO already. The law
condemned them to death, and we have
pardoned them. Their estates were for
feited, and we have restored them. Not
traitor has been hung; not one convic-
ted not one tried not 3 dozen arrested ;
but many have been hcnored as rulers in
States they only failed to ruin. The
hign-gounding eloquence of the gentleman
from New York, (Mr. Raymond } calling
upon US to admire the "courage and devo
ton" with which these bad men prosecu-
ted cruel war against our kindred. our
homes, and our country for four years,
has scarcely subsidized when our tears are
invoked over their self-inhicted suferings.
Thus at this end of the avenue we are
alternately called upon to admire and pity
them, while at the other the green seal is
kept hot with its work of clemency-
clemency often unsolicited, sometimes
| contemned. We have even ordered his
toric inscriptions to be erased from cap
tured cannon at West Point, that the
boys educated at the expense of govern
meat that their fathers could not quite
destroy might not be irritated. What
more can we do? What more can gen.
tlemen ask in the name of magnaniDity
"Give to this one-seventh Cf your popula-
ton more than one-third of your political
power 2" Is that what you ask, and call
! it only magnanimity to the false men of
the country? Call it rather treachery to
the faithful, or if that sounds tco harsh,
call it submission, surrender, what you
like, but for the sake of truth let no one
call betrayal of country and friend mag
nanimity to enemies.
Again, sir, the effort to cut off the
excess of this unpatriotic and sectional
representation is ascrioed to party motives.
Is notfthe Opposition exposed to the same
charge 2 Is not the Democratic party
as anxious to secure friends as we are to
avoid enemies ? For the last FIVE years
they have been beaten everywhere. Every
election has proven to them that they
were growing small by large degrees
''Would to God that night or the rebels
would come" has been their daily prayer
Does their haste to embrace the misguided
brethren come solely from pure love and
affection Is it not possible that their
passion is somewhat like that Of
"The immortal Captain Wottle,
Who was all for love and little for the bother
Is it not possible that they look little
J to party, too2 That they long not only
for the alliance but the leadership of the
South They must remember that this
leadership was generally able and always
consistent, however unwise. It was not
under that lead that they proclaimed both
secession and coercion unconstitutional
tha. the war for the Union was constitu-
tional, but there was no constitutions
mode of conducting it; that an army
should be raised, but volunteering was
impracticable and drafting unconstitution.
al +; that it was right to raise money, but
wrong to tax or borrow that they were
opposed to emancipation, but not in favor
of slavery. Il was not under that lead
that Andrew johnson was denounced as
!; LiEcoln's satrap when he consented to be
provisional governor of a State from which
the old Governor and Legislature had rur
he drove out the Governors and Legis
, latures of half dozen States and supplied
their places with appointees of his own
Is it not probable that, tired of then
contradictory and hypocritical position
they crave the understanding leadership
of Breckinridge and Hunter, Davis and
Toombs, as much as we can possibly dread
it?
AS another excuse for opposition tt
this plan of restoration it Is said there are
other Inequalities in representation tina
ought to be removed as well as this. Al
honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania
! complains that the six Eastern States
have eac., two Senators, while New Yorl
ond oi,,er large States have no more. L
;s true that some of the eastern States ar
small: but the Constitution provides ina |,
E each State. whether large or small, snai