The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-10
POLITICAL SCRAPS.

their desks to keep cold victuals in,
and their steel pens for tooth picks.
Reconstruction has no limits, and the
Impeachment Committee propose to
reconstruct the English grammar by
the addition of from ten to fifteen in
definite articles"
A Constant reader" writes to ask if
the Rump Senate is to be called "High
Court of Impeachment" what might be
considered low court of that sort just
nOwG
Forney, in the Chronicle, says the
Democracy will undoubtedly nominate
Pendleton, and evidently fearing his
popularity, urges this as an additional
reason why johnson should be deposed.
In the Louisiana Constitutional Con-
ventien, the other day, resolution to
pays chaplain $3.50, drew the remark
from one of the 'colored gentlemen of
the body, that he didn't believe dc
gemman's prayers were wutf dat mount
money"
The Cincinnati Commercial, Radical,
thinks sit is rather good joke that the
Republican State Convention omitted
to indorse the great reconstructed recon-
struction policy of Congress-" The
Joke is, that the Reconstruction policy
of Congress" is so obnoxious and detest-
able, that even the Radicals of Ohio
were afraid to give it sanction.
"RooT HOG, OR DIE."-This is the
sanity Greeley's elegant reply to the
supplications of the starving white wo-
men and children of the South, and is
doubtless the sentiment of large por.
ton of the Radical party North; this,
too, while thousands upon thousands
of worthless negroes are being bounti-
fully supplied from the well stored
drawers of the Bureau.
The Harrisburg State Guard thus fore
shadows the defeat of the Radical i'm
peachment programme:
Thaddeus Stevens is not convinced
that impeachment will be success, not
that he thinks Johnson an innocent
man, but that he has his doubts about
the force displayed i'll drawing the arti-
cles of impeachment. Mr.. Stevens is q
great lawyer, and does not hesitate TO
stake his reputation as such on what he
says.
The friends of Ben Wade, sn interest
ed party, say that he has right to sit
as juryman in the impeachment case
The Radical Pharisees were awfully in
dignaDt when Senator Stockton voted
on his side of the question, but they
now propose to let Wade vote to make
himself President.
Since last year the Dem ocraey have
gained 1900 in Troy, 500 in Rochester.
3O4 in Rhinebeck, 300 in Lansingburg,
2SO 10 Elmira, $50 in Utica, l1in Vol
new. $50 in Millerton, aud, also, in Yon-
kers, Corning, Batavia, Armenia, aud
other towns in New York "too numer-
ous to mention9 Thus are the in-
peachers being rebuked by the people.
The Republicans of San Francisco
have split from the man Republican
party and begun separate organiza-
ton. They have formed u central club,
and issued an address urging Repabh-
cans throughout the State to form 9th
er clubs, and to go into the Presidential
campaign as an organization distinct
from the Union party so-called. The
leading points of the address favor re-
construction with guarantees, equality
of civil rights, and Grant for President.
The Bulletin (Radical) admits that this
separate organization will divide the
Republican strength, and perpetuate
the animosities of the party.
Mack describes General Logan, one
one of the committee on Impeachment,
as follows:
The West is familiar with General
Logan and his style of oratory, and the
people may Judge how ho will figure as
one of the seven wise men OF America.
For myself, confess / never see the
General in set speech that | am not re-
minded of certain six-penny prints OF
the battles of the late war-in which q
purple cannon isrepresented as bslching
forth three or four inches of red paint,
which will do either for fire OF blood,
according to the purchasers fancy. AS
that picture is to true art, SO is Logans
speech to true oratory. If there is any
fustiau or bombast wanted on the trial,
the General will furnish it-but law OF
reason not q word. He is neither a
reasoning man nor u lawying man. He
would come best into play if it should
30 happen that A. j. could be convicted
by the sheer force Of great expectora
tions. Except upen the fine carpet Of
the Senate Chamber, 1 can't see how
John can make his mark imam impeach.
ment trial