The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-23
greeley on whIstemore.
wHrrrrMoRE, unabashed and with b

w HfTTEhOREs OnaD2SDeQ ana Win DIa-
zen face, has made his appearance at
Washington, endorsed by majority OF
eight thousand of his negro constituents.
He has not yet presented his credentials,
but is en5esvOring 10 find out what are
the chances for his admission. judging
from the outspoken utterances of some of
the leading Radical members of Congress,
as we'll as the decided tone of several
prominent Republican journals, his pros>
poets do not seem to be at all encouraging.
His fit habitation would be prison. in
stead Of occupying a seat amongst men
| who claim to be highA minded and honora-
! BILE.
In the following truthful and scathing
article, Horace Greeley does full and am
pie justice to the subject, and at the same
time pays well deserved compliment to
The Democratic members of the House
for their course in reference to the dis
graceful business of corruptly bartering
away cadetships
CoEeREss, OR THE PExITEETIARr?-A man
| is presently TO offer himself at the bar of the
| House for readmission, concerning whom this
| same House recently adopted this resolution
RESOLVED, That B. z. Whittenore. late
member from the lst District of 6outh Caro-
| lima, did N Ike appo ointnents to the Military
! Academy at W est Point and the Naval Acad-
| envy at Annapolis in violation of law, and that
his conduct in the premises has been such as
to show him unworthy of & seat IN the House
i of Representatives, and is therefore Condemn
ed as conduct unworthy of the Representative
of the people.
Is this corrupt man, who was unworthy of a
scat three months ago. TO be readmitted as
worthy now2 We hear, that he has been tele
| graphing to his friend and counsel, Gen Butler,
the nsHs of his triumphant re election; that he
confidently expects to be admitted without dis
pute; that reputable members deploring it
in helpless sort of way, and going about
dolefully asking each other, "Row can we
prevent it2''
Really We do not know. The House s made
the sole judge to the qualification of it's
members Once il seems to have had pretty
decided Lotions concerning the qualifications
of Mr.. B. f. " Whittemore. It grew less deci-
ded in some similar cases; finally it disgraced
itself by permitting Mr.. Butler of Tennessee
TO remain, albeit as guilty as Whittemore him
self; now, perhaps, it may think Mr.. White
| more possessed of all the qualifications required
for its present standard II is the sole judge.
But We can assure members that the time
/. is at hand when larger body of voters will
be called to sit in judgment. Thus far the
| Democrats have promptly spurned and cast
, out every member OF theiI party found guilty
of this cadetship inamy We assumed great
virtue OF the outset then we furnish able
counsel for the Congressional cadet merchants;
| next we excused one because he had been an
| unusually active Republican, and after that
! the whole business broke down. We tell
hoxy bod f,,llv OC
this sort of thing stand. We utterly
! and vehemectly protest against assuming any
! more party responsibilities IN behalf OF the
, car bag Congress men, Here ia man no
toriously guilty of shameful and criminal acts.
| If the United States authorities have not al
ready neglected their duty in the case, be
would have been admitted to the pententiary
of South Carolina, just about the time he ia
approaching the bar of the House to take afresh
upon his perjured lips the oath of office. The
law of Congress explicitly provides that if any
member OF Congress shall, directly or inui-
rectly, receive any pecuniary or other valua
BILE consideration for procuring any Office or
: place under the Government, he shall be liable
to indictment for misdemeanor in the United
, States Court, ard upon conviction shall pay
fine Hot exceeding ten thousand dollars, and
be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term
not exceeding two years, and be thereafter dis
qualified from holding any Cfhce of honor
profit or trust, under the Government of the
United States.
The House has resolved that he has done
these things: it has itself prescribed this pen
atty for the doing of these things; it now asks
whether, ignoring the guilt, and defying It's
oR n law, it shall readmit Mr. WhittemOre-
/ perhaps that he may vote for the repeal of the
odions law!
We have consistently urged Universal Suf-
, frage and Universal Amnesty as the true solu
tion for the problem presented at the close oi
: the war by the conquered South. We have
never held that Negro Suffrage, coupled with
Disfranchisement of Whites, fforded such {
solution. We point now to Its disgracefu
workings in the of this Whittemore
and ask Honorable members-W hittemort
himself is soon to show an admirng worlc
p what this high title, Hon orable" means
to consider the result and draw their own con
clusions.
8 p. S. Since the foregoing article was
: put in type. the proceedings in the House
7 on last Tuesday, show that WAittemor'
was refused his seat by vote of 81 il
e his favor to 81 against him.