The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-06-04
The Republican, Party Esead.---
A Lively Funeral Discourse.

Ion EIaLt5 d wen knOnu W cSlcIh Iatl
cal politician, writes as follows to the
Cincinnati Commercial, under date Mac
a-Cheek, May II:
l wish to make few observations of s
philosophical sort touching the late Repub
lican party.
l assisted some twelve or thirteen years
since at the birth of the party just demised
having travelled from the Mac-a~Cheek val
ley TO Buffalo, carrying plank for the
platform on which the newly born was tc
be Graded, aud my affections have grown
with its growth to such an extent that it,
sudden death threw me into state of pro
found grief, disturbed by indignation.
passeG from lamentation to an indigna tion
meeting, and from an indignation meeting
to deep grief. But with reflection came
consolation. l came TO the consoling thought
that was not the only sufferer. and hand
ing out my surplus afflietiou to my beloved
country at large, l found my share could be
carried without much inconvenience.
/ The immediate cause OF its death was dys-
pepsia, aggravated By whskey.
But the seeds of weakness and disease
were planted in its birth. We began party
of reform, OF agitation, of aggression, aud
we took into our embraces the old whig par
t., that was party of conservatism, aggra-
waited by great dignity and timidity. The
result has been internal dissensions. The
ultra reform party could not digest the con-
servative lump, and we have been afflicted
with cho.ic, so to speak, that well nigh des~
troy ed our usefulness. Our actions, III con
sequence, have been contradictory. While
at one time we create John Brown, and
glory i'll john Brown as our greatest and
best beloved, organized huge armies, fought
out big wars and liberated a race, ON the
otEer hand we have been busy smoothing
our wars wrinkled front with the decay
plasters Of past wrong doing. 1t is called
compromise which means to give the devil
yosr soul in 4 dign6ed, peaceful manner.
Tie last internal convulsion exhibited
with great cearneSs the different elements
On the one side we had Butler, Stevens,
Bingham, Logan, Sumner and Drake; on
the other stood, in calm repose, FesSenden
and Trumbull, while between foated another
element. born of the revolutionary times,
thai had It's ma: ketab.e value, and huctuated
as either party bid
Now, am ed to admit that Messrs.
Fessendcn and Trumbull were actuated by
the highest and the most honorable motives.
do not b.leve they could be bought with
money or swnyed by prejudice. They felt
that they were Jurors, under oath, answer
able to their CD for the verdict they rem
dered. Nor DO l blame them for responding
as they did to the solemn question asked
them by the Chief Justice / believed that
the thirty five voting guilty" were honor
able, honest men. But in political life a
blunder Is worse than crime, and Messrs.
Fesseuden and Trumbul blundered in
belonging to the republican organization at
all. They should have gone over to the
party OF Stanberry and Groesbeck, where
the old wing dignity is preserved intact, aud
where conservatism Is so intense that an
ancient wrong is preferred to a new right,
aud where official position is SO glorlfied
that halo is thrown around an inebriated
mule that an al-wise Providence, through
some mscrutable reason, has set on end and
made our President.
w hen Impeachment was first hroache
the evidence was &C well known as it was at
the end of the trial. At the beginning
Measrs. FeSssndeu and Trumbull should have
made tneif fight. Failing to defeat it they
should have resigned their positions, as
honorable men, aud washed their dignified
hands II the res possibility. But they chose
to reserve themselves for a conflict when
their triumph would be our death, and are
somewhat astouished at the popular howl of
their dignihed, honest, honorable stupidity
We could have survived blupder great
as this is had it come alone, but il is the
concluding act Of long series. Through
the unsettled condition of country suffering
from civil war-we have developed more ras-
calty than any organization ever called into
existence. We have filled the Offices with
thieves and their pockets with steaings
We have organized rings that in turn create
and control the gov rnment
Men go IN p~Or and come out mIlIionaires
For one dollar paid to the government from
hard earned taxes, hur dreds stick to the
dirty fingers Of official scoundrels. We
have whiskey rings, Indian Bureau rings,
rings, national bank rings,
railroad rings, landjObbiug rings aud internal
Improvement rings. From the lowest Off
;ials up to Senators and Cabinet officers, the
5aint of corruption runs. until the people
iazed and confused, cOulound the right and
listen with indifference TO the threats of ex-
Dosure.
When charged with all this they have
Andy johnson is corrupt and
lppointed scoundrels to office" Wen.
Messrs. Fessenden and Trumoul have. un-
-er oath, pronounced him not guilty, and
ct him go ac9uit.
Al the Guu ui lcaIlu war the people Gad
a right to expect that the expenses of the
Government shos!d be brought back at
)nce to peace footing They demanded
reduction of the army 20 what it was iu
1860 that the useless monitors should be
'old-for old iron that the hundred thousand
thieves called of1ce-holders should be dis
missed, and she appropriations cut down to
a reasonable expenditure.
We have replied that Andrew johnson,
who.came In through assassination, has or
ganized assassination at the South, and an
army of at least fifty thousand men is neces-
8ary to keep the peace. Messrs Fesseuden
and Trumbull have voted not guilty, aud let
Andrew go acquit.
The people have expected that in our
hands reconstruction at the South would
progress with reasonable speed, and that
unhappy region restored to a state of quiet
and prosperity The expectation might not
be reasonable, for the blind bigotry that
hurried us into bloody war has developed
III hate that, with stupid fury, casts aside
all social aud legal restraint But we an
swer that our wise acts of legislation have
been rendered null and void by an Execu-
i've that plants itself squarely in opposition