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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

I1IPEACH0IErT.-The following facts
cited by the New York Tribune are sig
nificant
Tt is notable that the prominent ad-
vocates of impeachment have not had
the sympathy Of their colleagues
Messrs. Boutwell, and Butler have been
foremost in the hunt; but not one Of
their eight Massachusetts eolleages
votes with them, Mr.. Churchill of this
State gave the casting vote for irnpeach-
neut in Committee, yet barely two of
his cOlleagues-KeISey and Ward-VOte
with him in the House. Mr.. Ashley of
Ohio was one Of the prime movers OF
impeachment, while Mr.. Lawrence of
that State sustained the report in Com
mittee: yet they carry but three of their
colleagues with them. New Hampshire
votes to impeach; but not one member
from Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Is
sland, or New Jersey, and barely one
from Maine. OF the Republicans in the
House, 81 voted for; p against impeach-
ment.
It is worth notice, moreover, that the
inCessant clamOr against Congress as
reckless, proscriptiVe, revolutionary,
&c, is based on acts that Congress has
never sanctioned. Mr.. Stevens makes
a Confiscation speech, which not one
other Member of Congress has second
ed; yet the country rings with denun-
citation of it as showing the malignant
cJuin8als of s'the Radicals" So with pro
jeCt after project which Congress has
listened to, because it must, but refused
to adopt. We challenge History for an
other instance wherein a triumphant
Nation has dealt so fOrbearinglY with a
crushed. rebellion as ours has done.
The Tribune also very truthfully and
sensibly remarks upon this subject;
We cannot resist the conviction that
to adopt impeachment now; would bring
upon the country greater evils than
those we seek to avoid. To the Repub-
Gcan party, Mr.. Johnson is of more use
in the White House than he would be
anywhere else. Impeachment would
make him a martyr; while, with no
more evidence than this enormous vol
ume Of testimony, the Senate could new
er. convict him.
We trust the country will not fail to
note that Congress has acted in this mat
ter with patience-with wisdom-with
serene dignity-without passion. A
few individual memberssm have said
Incorporate things, but the action of
Congress has not been intemperate.-I
Impeachment has been put to rest. The
National Grand Inquest finds MOI bill of
Indictment against Andrew Johnson
Now let us proceed to Retrenchment,
Financial Reform, and the final Recon-
struction of the States.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

TEE NATIONAL BASKs.-The New
York Tribune proposes the following
amendment 70 the National Banking
laws
j. Let the banks he required to depos-
Is bonds as EeeuritV for their eIrgula1CIls
the gold Ud11s Of which shall at al times
exceed by ten per cants the amount q
their circulation
2 Let them be required to keep re-
serve either IN gold Of lawful currency
the gold value Of which shall pear the
same proportion (about q per cent 70
their total liabilities as their prese05 re-
serve bears in greenback value to tbelr
Liabilities.
8. As the above amendments would
place the National Banking system on
q basis Of specie or its equi Ealents the
interests of all the banks would thence
! forward be in favor Of the resumption
Of specie payments. The only proYl-
sions necessary to secure the public
against an imitation Of the currency are
/ to compel all currency to be issued at
I the risk Of the issuer, and on an ample
security. II this be done, we would
/ need no cast-ir0n clause limiting the
/ amount Of currency which should be
1 issued to s390, ,00O, 600, or 70 any other
4 particular sum, hut would be absolute
I ly safe in allowing every bank to issue
{ as much paper as It desired TO issue on
8 EL19 hE0b5DEe4 e-4E AA--AS-AA5
I which should be such as 70 secure De-
4 yond posi- bility Of failure the redemp-
I ton Of every dollar issued. We would
/ be safe, also, in allowing as many banks
I to be formed as chose to comply with
1 the conditions imposed
I 4 AS the complement to and conse-
Z Quenee of the above clauses, therefore,
/ the clause limiting the total circulation
/ under the National Banking system to
/ $500, ,000, 600, should be repealed, and the
i system be expanded into one Of Free
I Banking" without any element Of mo-
nopoly whatever, and under such
( guards as would absolutely prevent in
1 1ation. The amount OF currency would
/ then expand and contract according to
the business wants of the community,
and the absurd effort Of Congress to
/ Iegislate how mt1ca et1rreney Is needed
ffIs5fi ret our ttforced loans be re-
! tired, and let Us have one uniform cur
/ reucV, secured. redeemable, and self
regulating, viz. that provided by the
+ National Banking system. If this be
/ not done, the National Banking system
/ viii be destroyed, and we shalt return
to the Heterogeneous and troublesome
/ system of State banks. The legal ten
deTs viii be liable to imitation or con-
1 traction, according, not to the interests
/ of the community, but to a vote in Con-
/ gress, or the viii Of the Secretary Of the
/ Treasury. When Withdrawn, as they
ultimately must be, the country viii be
! without a uniform currency Of any
kind. Until Withdrawn, they constitute
j the Treasury a United States Bank o.
Issue, insolvent, uusYstematic, and
hourly setting before the country the
authoritative example Of National re-
pu0iatiOn.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13
A Coon TAKE oFF.-senator Chand-

A GOOD TAKE OFF.-Senator ChRnd-
Ter, on Friday offered the following:
"WHEREAs, we are at peace with all
foreign Powers and States and where
as, hOstiIities have unbappily cOmmen-
ced between Great Britain and the King
of Abyssinla and whereas we are at
peace with the government of Great
Britain and the King Of Abyssinia !;
therefore,
''ResoEUed, That we do now declare
our determination to maintain q strict
and impartial neutrality in the contest
between said eontending parties, grant
ing to the flag of each belligerent the
the same rights, privileges and immu-
mites, both upon land and water
Mr.. Chandler said: That is 3 Verba-
tim copy of a proclamation issued on
the 14th of May, 1861, with the simple
changes Of the name of the United
States to that Of Great Britain, and of
the Confederate States to Abyssinia and
therefore, I presume there viii be no
objection to it, 1t is but just and right
that we should observe the same cOur-
tesy toward Great Britain that she did
toward US, -[Laughter.l f..-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13


He STILL LIvEs.--The following is a
COPY Of -asE-8Essi5la Surgeons certificate
filed at the Pension Agency in this CITY
in the case Of John B. Conan, private
Co. "a" 14th Regiment Iowa VOluteers:
John b. Conan, OF fairfield county,
received seven wounds at the Battle of
Pleasant Hill, La, during the expedl-
tiOn of Gen. Banks,
1st Wound caused by a splinter from
a board caused by the bursting of a
shell struck left side of neck below the
ear and between sternO-CleidO mastoTal
swell and ramus Of jaw. There is a
total deafness of left ear, and partial
anchylOsis of jaw.
I'd Musket ball entered the left thigh,
seven inches above pratella or inner
margin of rectus muscle, passed out
ward and upward. and emerged at the
point where the tensor vaginae femorts
becomes tendinous, and beneath the
rastus eXtermus.
Sd. Musket ball entered the left thigh
over centre Of belly of rectus muscle,
passed backward, and emerged at the
upper angle of popliteal space fractur-
ing shaft femur in its course.
4th AIusket ball entered outer side of
left thigh over Yasties eXtermus muscle
passed downward, inward and back
ward, and remains lodged near knee
Joint beneath inner condyle of Femur.
9Th. Musket ball entered inner side of
AOt1 ESe5s s5A1A AAACA417 1DDfN 4lLU1Alh4 LLld1-
eolus, over inner edge of Tibia, and
was extracted near point of entrance.
9Th. Musket ball entered left leg, one
inch behind point of entrance Of 9Th
wound, passed downward and outward
and remains embedded in the interos-
seous space near ancle joint.
9TH. Canister shot entered pOsterIor
surface Of right thigh, at the upper an
gle Of Paplitial space, passed down
ward and outward and emerged at the
commencement of tendon of the biceps
muscle, four inches above external con
dyle of Femur. Cicatrices are numer-
Gus. Some are large and painful. Par
tial anchylosis Of knee joint-great diff
fculty in extending and fexing right
thigh, cannot walk except with great
pain, and can do no work except in a
sitting pOsture.-[COIumbu Journal.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

We regret that custom compels as to
give up 8 gooa deal Of our space to-day
g Johuson's worthless haTangue by
courtesy called the PRESIDENTS mes
sage. We farther regret that we must
do this to the exclusion Of the report Of
the Secretary Of the Treasury which IS
by far tae ablsr and more Imporbant
document.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

At Republican Union Convention,
neld Tor Alabama, at Montgomery, on
Dec. 2, Judge Smith was nominated for
Governor, A. J. Apologize for Lieuten-
ant Governor, r. NJ. Reynolds for Au-
dttors q. A. Miller for Secretary of State,
Arthur Bingham for Treasurer, NJ. b.
Cloud for Superintendent of Public In
struction, Littlebury Stang for Attor-
ney General, John @. Keffer, for Com
missioner of Internal Resources, and
Thomas NJ. Peters, Z. ". Peck, and b.
4. Stafford for Judges of the Supreme
Court. These candidates will probably
be elected, and will form she personnel
of the State government under the new
constitution. They are as able men as
ever represented the State of Alabama
officially.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

Last week we published from Charles
Dickens American Notes a portion Of
his chapter on slavery, citing from the
American newspapers current at that
day some illustrations showing the hu-
manizing and Chrissianizing Nature OF
this divine and blessed Institution. We
desire to add to Mr., Dickens collection
ono Ehieh we clipped rom a Tennes-
see paper while campaigning in that
State. Here It is:
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

It is a curious fact that the grievance
denounced by the Southern people as
oppression, despotism, and everything
else that is bad, should be the act of Sc
curiug by law the elective franchise to
the blacks. If at some future day trea-
son shall come to be viewed in its true
light, people win wonder that men who
forfeited all their rights by rebellion
should claim more from the Government
against which they rebelIed, and which
they sought to destroy, than they are
willing to accord to the blacks who re-
mained faithful to it, and all of whose
instincts are loyal. 1t viii stand to the
eternal glory Of our Government that
the chief act of oppression charged
against it by the Southern whites con
sists in its refusal to permit them to de-
priVe their colOred felloW-citizens of the
rights which everywhere belong to free
men.-1fdT,ysUtlL Tribune.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

One of the most important objects
to be accomplished by the Reeonstruo-
ton Conventions now in session in the
South is to provide a liberal system of
common schools the benefits Of which
shall be equally open to all. Geor-
gia has never yet levied a school tax
and by the laws of that State it has
been an offense punishable with i'm
prisonment to teach a colored person
to read. We want an entirely new
dispeusation in that line now, and the
reconstruction conventions should see
to it that it is secured. The South
needs nothing more than plenty of free
schools, school books and school taxes.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

Edmonia Lewis is a little American
girl scarcely twenty-five years, of age,
born in Greenbush, opposite Albany,
on the Hudson, of Indian and negro
parentage, and bearing in her face the
characteristic types Of her origin. In
her coarse but appropriate attire, with
her black hair loose, and grasping in
her tiny hand the chisel which she does
not disdain-perhaps with which she is
obliged-tO work, and with large, black
sympathetic eyes brimful Of simple,
unaffected enthusiasts, Miss Lewis is
nquestiOnably the most interesting re-
preventative of our country in Europe.
Interesting not alone because she be-
longs to q condemned and hitherto op-
pressed race, which labors under the
imputation of artistic incapacity, but be-
cause she has already distinguished her
self in sculpture-nOt perhaps in its
highest grade, according to the accept
ed canOns of the art, but in its natural
istic, not to say the most pleasing form.
Florence letter.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

AN ERA OF PoLTTNEss.-FouI Ian
guage has been banished from the Au-
strian camps. By an imperial edict all
officers are req aired from this time to
address common soldiers as "yoU" and
not as "thou :" the latter formula indi-
eating either excessive intimacy or con-
tempt. SuperiOrs addressing inferior
officers, sub-oficers and soldiers, are al
so in future to add to their names the
title of their rank. Swearing at infe-
riors is strictly forbidden.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

While we regard the legal tender cur
rency as an unmitigated evil which
should be got rid Of as soon as practi-
cable we have but little faith in the
double-cOmpression forced contraction
theory as a means of getting back to
specie payments. Retrenchment is the
great thing. Redeem the confidence of
the country by an economical and Wig
orOus administration of the govern
ment and specie payments will not be
difficult to reach. The key note Of Con-
gressiOnal legislation this winter should
be retrenchment.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

General Wash burne made a strong
speech in Congress on Wednesday op-
posing an appropriation of seven mil
Ions to purchase Walrussia. The be-
lief IS growing that the territ ory is not
worth a red cent and that it will "cost
more than it comes to-" The foOling
away of seven millions on this barren
waste when the nation is on the verge
of bankruptcy is one of the most brain
less things yet attempted by the john
son Administration.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

HANCOCK'S REACTIONART REGIME
Gen. Hancock has superseded Gen.
Sherman's order that jurors should be
drawn from the registered voters, by
another order that they shall be drawn
according TO the State MS, which ex-
clude the blacks. In this order he first
lays down 'sthe true and proper use Of
military power which is to uphold the
laws of civil gOvrrnment, to secure to
every person the enjoyment of life lib
erty and property, and specially, by act
of Congress to protect all persons in
those rights, to suppress disorder and
violence. and to punish, or cause to be
punished, all disturbers of peace and
criminals.
He then states that he has been Off
cially informed that the administration
Of justice is clOgged if nOtWhOlly frustra-
ted, by the order as to jurors. He then
lays down that it is the province Of the
Legislatures Of the States to determine
who shall be jurors, and therefore sit is
deemed best TO carry out the viii of the
people as expressed in the last Iegisla-
tive act upon this subject. And he
proceeds to say that it is for the courts
to decide the qualification of a Juror
under the law, and therefore the trial
by jury shall henceforth be regulated
and controlled by the Constitution and
civil laws, without regard to any mill
tary orders heretofore issued from these
headquarters
The meaning of this is Cen Sheri-
dan found that a system which drew
none but rebel jurors was a denial of
Justice to freedmen and Northern men.
The law required the jurors to be drawn
from the voters. The United States had
made the freedmen voters, and had de-
clared the illegally reconstructed gov
ernments provisional only. Persons
were not protected in their liberty and
property. Gen. Sheridan made this
order to give this protection. Gen.
Hancock palavers about the duty to
give this protection, and then restores a
system which denied it. In so doing
he seems desirous to recognize the state
government which Congress has decIar-
ed provisional only, and subject to the
end of protection to all the Inhabitants
as superior to the National Govern
ment. 1t is by such acts that Gen. Han
cock has SO captiYated the affections of
the johnson gang, that they talk of him
as the Democratic Presidential candi-
date Cincinnati Gdzette
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

A lady having accidentally broken a
smelling bottle, her husband who was
very petulaut, said to her ''I declare,
my dear, every thing that belongs to
you is more or less broken" True, "
replied the lady, "for even you are a
Iiff1a cracked -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

The conservatives of Norfolk, Va,
held meeting on the I'd inst. to organ
ize ''White Mans party" One of the
speakers was ex-GoV. Vance of N. O.,
who Says the telegraphic report) "was
very severe on the "Radical orators in
the South, and charged "them with en-
gendering hatred bet Ween the White
and Black races"
OF course, "Organizing a White Mans
party is his way of producing harmo-
ny between those races Tribune.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13
Ran News rRn1E MIssIssIpPr.-Wa

BAD NEWS FROM MIssIssIPPI.-We
trust that the Vicksburg Republican
exaggerates the number and atrOCity Of
the outrages perpetrated at the recent
election in Mississippi. it gives sew
eral instances where the freedmen
were kept from the polls By threats
and actual violence. 1t says that at
Mississippi City the election was trea-
ted with SO much contempt that the
polls were not opened at all. If these
statements are correct Mississippi is
still entitled to the bad pre-eminence
If enjoyed before and during the war,
and which seems to have boen main
tained since
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

The abuse of the Reconstruction Con
vention of Alabama by the secesh jour
mails of that State is as coarse and filthy
as it is vindictive and reasonable.
The following from the Montgomery
MaIl edited by an ex-RebeI officer, is a
specimen of the columns of stuff with
which that and other Democratic pa
pers in the State have been daily reeIz-
ing for weeks past. 1t refers to the
signing of the constitution by the dele
gates.
SIGNING THE BOGUS PARCHMENT.
''Mr. President suggested that now
was the proper time for the animals to
sign their sinking names to the dirty
work they have prepared for the ne
groes of Alabama.
ffWhereupon, those ef the menagerie
who could write, stepped up to the desk
and signed their death warrant.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13
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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13


We have always deprecated the i'm
prised at its result. Eleven months ago
we said of it in these columns
SIT seems likely that the measure viii
simply fail and bring rldicule upon the
individuals who have undertaken il.
And we believe it is better for the coun-
try that it should. Even though there
may be good grounds for impeachment
it would be better to circumscribe the
Presidents power for mischief than at
tempt at such time as this to re move
him from Office. such an attempt may
furnish a dangerous precedent for the
Democratic party should it ever get in
to power, and we believe nothing would
help it into power faster than serious
attempt at Impeachment. It would al
so have a most dangerous enect upon
the deranged finances Of the country
In short we see no possible good to be
accomplished by 1t, and apprehend a
great deal of evil to result from it.
there is vastly more important business
for Congress to attend to, and which
if properly attended to will occupy
all its time. Let Us have practical cont
mon sense legislation and no more at
tempts at desperate or imposst bic
measures. 1t is the most insane folly
to trifle with our time and opportunities
simply. because the power happens to be
in our hands. Let us be careful by a
wise and Just course to avoid jeopardiz-
ing it by rash and unnecessary con-
duct.D
These views we have not changed a
hairs breadth since the first of last
Faburary when we printed them. Not
that we. held johnson gui1tless or now
believe him so. But we believe i'm
peachment ought never to be attempted
except when so manifestly necessary for
the public safety that it cannot be fair
ly construed as a partisan measure.
otherwise it sets a bad precedent for
other parties, and so far smacks of per
secution as to enable a corrupt and IN
scrupulous President like johnson to
make himself more dangerous by con-
ceaIing his crimes beneath the specious
virtue of false martyrdom. The nation
has had too many proofs already that it
is better to let a traitor go scot free
than not to hang him,
We are glad to observe that Hon. c.
S. Hamilton voted against impeach-
ment.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-13

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