Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-06-04

tEdl,otial Correspondence philadelphia Herald
WASHINGTON, May ~, 1868
Outofthciro own mouths the Radical
party is being condemned. Tho way
things are going at present II would
seem hardly worth while for the do.
mocracy to expend words IN tho con
demnalion of the Radical party or yet
in vindication Of their own. To-day
no less than two Senators (both of
whom voted steadily with thcimpeach.
ers) in open Senate condemned the
policy of Radicalism in regard to the
admission of the late Rebel States.
Mr.. Ferry, of Connecticut, pronounced
the bill passed by the House as being
not only in violation of the oft-repcat-
ed pledges of his party, but diamctri-
cally opposed to the first principles Of
free government. Mr.. Morton, of In
diana, read from the Reconstruction
act the provision requiring that each
of those States shall ratify the pro
posed fourteenth amendment TO the
Constitution, and said amendment
shall become a part of the law Of the
land before they shall be admitted in
to the Union, @ and he proceeded to
expose the absurdity and impractlca-
bility of this provision in strain of
logic and eloquence that made one al
most believe Morton had turned Dem
ocrat What would the ratification
of an amendment by State before it
is in the Union be worth asked Mr..
Morton-just what Democrats asked
before the Reconstruction act was
passed. What right has Congress to
impose conditions of admission which
relate only to the domestic affairs of
the State, quoth both Morton and
Ferry = precisely what Democrats
have been asking for months past.
Such indicat ions Of returning reason
as these on the part of Radical Sena-
tors are calculated to give encourage
ment for the future welfare of the
country, especially as they have oc-
Cured so closely upon the heels of
that great triumph of justice over fa-
naticism, namely, the acquittal of the
President on the impeachment char
ges. For two years and more CON
tinuous indictment of"traitor," !" "usur-
per-" and "violator of the Constitution
and laws of the LAND" was howled out
against Andrew johnson from every
Radical mouthpiece, until many un-
suspecting folks began to feel that
this country had very bad man in
the Presidential chair; but, 10, when
these charges came to be investigated
by judicial scrutiny, they were found
so utterly groundlcss that a Senate
more than three -fourths Radical re-
fused to pronounce him guilty upon
a single count The consequence is
Andrew johnson stands fairer to-day
in the eyes of the American masses
than at any period of his life before ;
and, what is, perhaps, fully as impor-
tant to the welfare of the country, the
people now see the difference between
the declarations of Radical politicians
upon the stump, or even in the Senate,
and the verdict of the same men rem
dered under the restraints of judi
cial oath.
The Star, this evening, mentions
the interesting fact that six Of the an
ti-impeachment- conviction Radicals
attended called caucus of Radical
Senators this morning, whereupon
several Of the extremists, including
Wade, Chandler and Cattell withdrew
positively refusing to recognize the
''recusants' as any longer belonging
to the party.