The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-03-10
Geary as u. s. Senator.

We believe it was the first Napoleon who
remarked, that there was but one step from
the sublime TO the ridiculous. The truth of
the saying is we'll illustrated by the semi
official announcement from Harrisburg, that
the man whose stalwart legs since the war
are too full of bullet holes to dance, is anx-
ious to be the successor of Simon Cameron
in the United States Senate in 1873. If it
had been stated that John W. Geary was
fixing things to make himself the success
sor Of Grant. instead of Cameron, it would
not have excited any undue astonishnent.
Geary is fully the equal of Grant as an ora
tor, while he surpasses him. in his own esti-
nation, as military hero. We do not
know that Storewall jackson ever expressed
any fear of Grant. bat is It not part of
the history of the war. Geary himself being
the witness, that StopewalI, at council of
his own officers, did advise them with baited
breath to beware of the terrible Geary.
The initiatory step in this Senatorial game
is about being taken by Geary's private
secretary, DR.. Gihon, who has resigned his
position and intends publishing a daily
paper at Harrisburg, with the view of ad-
vancing Geary's interests as a candidate for
Senatorial hOnors. Twenty years ago, when
there were political giants in the land, the
bare statement that a man of the mental
calibre and unbounded vanity of John ".
Geary aspired to q seat in the United States
Oh lar ~
preme derision and contempt. The Senate
could then boast of such men as Webster,
Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Buchanan and other
eminent and distinguished statesmen, whose
great abilities and public services have con-
ferrei honor and renown, not only upon
themselves, but upon their country. The
late civil war changed all this, and when the
radical political cauldron commenced to boil,
the scum was sure to rise to the surface.
It has come in its meanest and most una
dulterated form, and its baleful results are
plainly to be seen in both branches of the
national legislature. The Senate is now
such creatures as Warner and Spencer, Nc
D onald and Rice, Osborn and Gilbert, Harris
and Kellogg, for the frontispiece, with the
Rev. Hiram r. Revels as the dark picture
in the background. These men are all the
inevitable and natural political spawn Of the
rebellion and have slimiiy crept into the
Senate. without any intelligent or substan-
tial constituencies. IF, through the rapid
and startling revolutions of the wheel of po-
litical fortune, John W. Geary should ever
| become Senator from this State, result
which may all the gods forefend: he would
6nd q congenial place among the adventurers
| and carpet-baggers whom we have named.
We cannot, of course forecast the political
future, for the ways Of Radicalism are crooked
and hard to understand, but the day on
which Geary shall be elected Senator of
the United States from this renowned old
Commonwealth, will be day of darkness
and political despair. When that disgrace
ful event takes place there is just one thing
more that ought to be done, in order that
the cup of her humiliation may be filled to
overfowing, and that would be to elect
John ". Geary's man Friday, the immortal
John Covode, as his colleague. Then could
! the old Keystone State, like the Roman
matrsn when she was asked to show her
! jewels, poiLt with conscious pride to those
| two ilustrious sons of hers and exclaim
"there they are"