The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-12-23
FROM rnE FrpERAL CAPITAL
WAsHrSGroS, Dee, Is.


I dignity to be taken a button-hole still
/ lower by permitting a lengthy "per-
sonaI explanation of the Rev. Mr..
( Brownlow to be read from the Clerks
desk. Tt contained an elaborate and
graphic. account of the beauties of Ten
nessee politics, including the many
fisticufs and rows" incident to the
struggle between Senter and Stokes,
together with he part the honorable
Senator took in the controversy, and
wound up by declaring the unaltera-
bic opposition of the Reverend gentle
man to anything that looked like De
mocracy. The Senate was evidently
ashamed of the exposition, not a MEM
Der paying the slightest attention.
Even the Clerk. who usually has the
below of an OK, read it in 50 low and
rapid a manner as to render it difficult
to catch the precise tenor. In the
meantime, the old man sat shaking
with the palsy while his ribaldry a
bout dying "to please Andy Johnson"
was being read to the assembled wis
dom of the nation.
Mr.. Carpenter mot without some OPP
position from Sumnerl succeeded to
day in getting in his ''great speech"
advocating Cuban recognition, and
the prevention of the Spanish Gun
boats from sailing from New York.
This matter derives its importance
from the fact that it il understood TO
embody the views of Senators on the
Radical side, who design to eoalesce in
solid opposition to the Administration
of General Grant, not only upon this,
but other points of great national i'm
pOrtance. In this movement are COM
pretended hosts of sore heads, who
will give his Exceilency great trouble
this session Mr.. Carpenter cut to
pieces the Presidents crude theory,
and especially denounced his action in
referring the matter of the guuboats 10
the courts, anG then sbamelessly or
dering its withdrawal through Dis
trict Attorney Pierrepont, the prospec-
tive Attorney General of the United
States.
The great question Of Virginia's "ad-
mission" has assumed a new phase.
The Reconstruction Committee has
postponed its consideration until Sat
urday. 1t will probably 90 over un-
til after the Holidays In the mean
time, further demands of humiliating
concessions are connecting. The bill
introduced by Mr. Ward, ''moder-
ate" Republican, from New York,
has been duly referred to Buffers COM
mittee, provides, as conditions, +" that
the Constitution of Virginia shall nev-
er be so amended or changed as to de-
prive any citizen or class of citizens, of
the United States, of the right to vote
in that State. who are entitled to vote
by the constitution thereof, now to be
recognized, or of the right to sit upon
juries, or Of the right to an equal
participation in the school fund and
school privileges as now recognized by
such Constitution; provided, that any
alteration of such Constitution may be
made with regard to the time and
place Of resi- dence of voters.
The bills introduced respectively by
Messrs. Trumbull and Drake, in re-
gard to the Supreme Court, apparently
differ in this, that whereas Drake's in
plain words Gusts the jurisdiction of
the court IN al eases where the con-
stitutionality Of an act of Congress
is brought in question, and Trumbull's
only where such laws have a political
bearing. 1t is clear that for practical
purposes this distinction is without a
difference. Yet brakes bill undoubt-
edly will be subjected to the accustom-
cd go-by, and TrumbulI's triumphant
+ ly adopted. Notwithstanding, Congress,
I BIZ the latter, Is clothed lrlth the DOlcer TO
( decide erbGt Iqlrs are and lchGt are not
! political. The Missouri Ourang-Out
+ ang has, however, defenders and eulo-
gists in this business. He is held up
+ as second Thad. Stevens. "In the
/ legal cast and frame of his mind, -
/ says a radical paper, "he strongly recalls
I Thad Stevens, Jtlio taught laU tcjthOlit
/ books7 And he is further propped up
/ by the following threat of popular
I vengeance tyet suppressed against the
supreme legal tribunal of the country :
( Popular feeling instinctiveIy, resent
{ ing the false position into which the
( judiciary was getting, and snuffing the
( danger, was, with rough impulse of
natural justice, making ready to save
/ the national peace and safety, even at
/ the expense of the Constitution and
write law. Mr.. Drake has show n
/ how the danger can be cured constitu-
tiOnally and inside of the law, and il
I this-the avoiding of a dangerous and
+ urgent crisis-is not the test of true
craftsmanship, we do not know what
it is.''
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, 1869.
/ In the Senate to-day the Georgia Re
construction bill is under discussion
/ From present appearances, the bill can
not become a law before 1.-THE holi-
days" 1t will, however, undoubted-
/ Iy become a law. If the Fifteenth
Amendment" shall become sure of a
doption, in the sense regarded by the
Radicals, then, when no necessity fCI
its ratification by Georgia shall be any
longer discerned, the bill, without the
amendment Of Morton, will probably
be considered sufficient fer all party
purposes; if not, the amendment iCil
preraH!
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