The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-03-19
Political Gleaninss and NOtings.

tie new Constitution of Alabama, Congress
has determined to admit the State into the
Union and receive its Senators and Rep
resentatiyes without further parley. So
goes the work Of reconstruction. Any
thing that promises to keep the Radicals
in power will be done by the Rump cons
sPirators, though common decency and
common sense, TO say nothing of the
Constitution and laws of the country, are
outraged by such proceedings. A coten-
porary says, with more truth than irony,
that judging by the action in the case of
Alabama reconstruction comes down to a
fine point. Something like a hundred
Northern adycnturers and niggers get
together somewhere in State and make
what they call Constitution. Evidence
that this Constitution is the act Of the pco-
pie is not necessary, neither is evidence that
tie people assent to it. Let it only be
presented to Congress and Congress will
pass law declaring the State in. That
Is the whole process and since reconstruc-
ton is SO simple and easy, it may seem
wonderful to the country that so many
astonishing political gcniuses as the Radi-
Gals number could not accomplish 1t before.
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union very
pcrtinently suggests that the Radical Con
vention committed a great oversight in
neglecting to exact pledge from Auditor
General Hurtranft and Surveyor General
Campbell, requiring closer attent ion to
official duties, if elected. Monthly visits
of fe~ days are hardly sufficient for the
high salaries allowed. If the chief clerks
in those departments are to be the re-
sponsIble heads hereafter, as heretofore,
let the election be for chief clerks. 1t
hardly pays to keep two men in salary
merely to bear the titles Of Auditor and
Surveyor General, whilst the duties of
those positions are put upon clerical SUBJ
'ordinates. If the Auditor General and
Surveyor General cannot remove their
families to Harrisburg for three-years'
term, or if they caunot remain long enough
away from home to attend to the duties
of their Offices, they should be elected-to
stay at home.
wendell PIIILLIPs, in letter to the
Anti-Slave,y Standard, says that "to
have impeachment .tu1, would be ma
tional infamy, in the black darkness of
which the mere annihilation of the Re
publican party would be but a trivial
matter" 1t is a pity, observes the New
York Tm,,s, that Nr. Phillips is not in the
Senate. His evident impartiality, the
fairness of his temper, and the judicial
tone of his mind, would render his ser
vices as member of the ''High Court of
Impeachment" on the trial of the Presi-
dent, absolutely invaluable. Cannot Con-
gress, in reconstructing Alabama, manage
to bring him in as one of the Senators
from that State, in time for the trial?
TnR Democrats in New Hampshire, at
the late election, reduced the Radical ma
Ority one thousand and .Jorty>stz votes,
gained for their own tichst over four
thousand, and made net gam Of tl1e'Hy-
-four Representatives in the Legislature.
The Boston Post truthfully remarks, the
same ratio of reduction and increase will
give the Democracy the country in Noyem-
ber next.
WHAT will be the inevitable results Of
a continuation of the present revolutionary
party in power First, chronic riot,
then loss of confidence, then decay of capi-
tai, then blood, then segregation of sec
tions, or else a military empire. Either
IS likely to occur under the lead of such
men as Stevens, Butler, Sumner and their
''torch- -and~turpentine" associates.
STANTON offered to draft veto message
for the President, showing the unconstitu-
tionality of the Tenure-of- office Bill, under
which he now claims to hold his place.
Stanton maintained its unconstitutionality
when he had no personal interest in the
matter. He only discovered its constitu-
tionality when it was his interest to do so.
The Radical State Convention, WHICH
assembled in Philadelphia on Wednesday
OF last week, re-nominated Hartranft and
Campbell, by acclamation, as candidates
for Auditor and Surveyor Generals, and
declared its preferences for Grant and
Curtin as the nominees of hhe party for
President and Vice President.