The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-09
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ut the Best. for that VIII sesome discussion
rnA comparison os views which are the
,sry EfeSbt0ut Of u Repubf5. Especially
vas all discussion discarded during the
ra:ent rebellion, but an attempt to discuss
questions of national importance not only
endangered the safety of the offending press
An types, but the personal safety Of the.
W er who would be hardy enough to as
aail any of the measures of the "Geysrn-
nent." @
Democratic history would have taught
the minipns Of power that the integrity of
the Constitution and Laws could be pre-
seryel, no matter how severe or tedious
tn Struggle Of arms. The war of 1912
! sied carly as long as the late rebellion,
and was wage1 against the most powerful
IA N oa satth. Oar country was inva-
deI in the North and III the South--our
! Capitol was bafned to the ground-and
this was sta sine when our country was
comparatively in It's infancy. During this
time New England did theoretically wha,
toe Soutrhas since done practically. She
refused her supplies of men and money
held meetings to nullify the acts of Con-
gress, eliminating in the Hartford Con-
vention-and, indeed, her citizens actual
ly gave said and comfort" to our British
enemies by burning blue lights on the coast
70 warn ;aam Of 4fapsrtdiag dangers. Yet
during all this struggle there WAS no de-
moli ion Of printing presses, no military
arrests, no incarceratIons in the fortresses
of the United States for either speaking or
wiring against the measures of the admin
is stration. No Constitutional right was
denied to any citizen because Of his opin-
ions during the whole course of the war
If there was q single exception 10 this rule
it was one which more than proves the
rule itself Gen. jackson, for the safety
OF the city, found it necessary TO declare
martial law at New Orleans. and even to
arrest the Judge who upheld the civil as
superior to ,Ihc military power. But 10
Inent of the greatest victory of the war
khan he acknowledges the supremacy of
he civil power by submitting 70 the SEN
hence of the same Judge he had imdrisoned,
g'nd voluntarily paying the fine Of 81 900
ks-I.~A mad 'eecn imposed on him.
In the war Of the rebellion, however,
different state of things prevailed, and the
Father Was in many cases Lu led into
prison while the sons were in the field do
iny battle for the Union. And the intol-
cTance o. these Its did not end with the
war, bat, fostered By the pride of power.
continued to prevail, and in 1865 and
1865 was apparently maintained by a ma
Ej5rity Of the People.
& But, thanks TO the continued and in
ere sing madness Of Radicalism. and to
the ''sober second thought" of the People
the reign of ianaticism has passed away,
aal right reason has resumed her throne.
The heresy of refusing to.reap the fruits Of
the war in a Union of the States. and the
determination to govern the white people
OF the South by the sulfrages of the untu-
torec negroes and the bayonets of North
trn army, has, in time, had its fulI effect
upon the public mind Hence it is that
reaction without a parallel in the history
of the United States has overtaken the
Radicals in the elections of 1867. Hence
1t is tina; almost every Northern and
Nes'ern State is reyolutionized. Hence
IT is that the great controlling Middle
States of New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio have already cut loose from their
Radical moorings, while the smaller States
OF New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland,
Kentucky and Delaware follow in their
wake. Hence even California, our mighty
young sister of the Pacific, whose fortunes
were supposed to be hopeessly wodJed to
Radicalism, has fallen into the Demo
cra'ic column. And hence, too, it is that
lSadicaiism, one year ago rampant and
defiant, glotying in her strength, is now
glad TO retain her hold on one or two OF
the New England States expecting to
cke out q portion Of hen former strength
from the sufrages of the negroes of the
South.
We congratulate, then, not the Demo
cratic party alone, but the conservative
people Of the North, on the auspicious
opening of the year 1868. The people of
the United States have plainly indicated
stheir sentiments, and woe to those who
Ldisregard them. And those who are silly