Year: 1868

Second Assistant Engineers H. M. Quig, NJ p.
Towne, i. L. Vandersiice, F. w. Toumon and J.
Van Amberg have been ordered to temporary duty
connected with the contractors trial Of the ma
chinery Of the Minnetouka.


son, Acting Assistant Surgeon Thomas owens and
Acting Master J. M. Butler have been hOnorably dis
charged


POLITICAL GOSSIP AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Radical Policy Of Usurpation and Revolu.


tion-Whaa IL 10 Tending to-Charges Against


the Radical Party-Their Want Of Magma.


nimity-The Merging Of Country in Party


The Rejection Of MIR. Stanberry.


WAsHIN aTON, June 7, 1858.


To one who enters upon review Of the course
and policy Of the party which controls the aes
TIMES Of this country nothing is more calculated to
bewilder and confound than the startling array of
occurrences compressed within the space Of few
short months, and revealing but an outline
of the Jacobinical conspiracy which aims
at ruling this republic in the interests
OF corrupt faction. SO great have
been the number Of acts that have been perperated
in hagrant outrage Of justice and proprety that the
swift Indignation OF the independent press has been
mu ch too slow to visit all with the notice they de.
serve. In the history OF free and sovereign peo-
pie no other instances be recalled where their
elected Servants exhibited such unblusnng disre
gard OF public opinion OF public decency and morals
and, above ALL of such unaected contempt for what
the American people have been taught to reverence
and cherlsh-the constitution of the country. The
radical party has plunged into q career where to
Ontinue is to perish and where even hesitate Is
to be lost and In setting at naught the well estab
lished usages In the system policy and practice Of
the government, and in haunting defiance in the
very teeth OF the great conservative Of the
people, but seals its own fate while by the
great ethical law Of compensation which permits no
evil thout its correcting and attendant antidote OF
good, 1t shows by tangible demonstration that it is
possible to weaken corrupt and utterly destroy the
best and freest government in the world by the un-
checked action of an extreme party.


The political destiny Of the country has been
dragged out Of Its sure and settled orbit and it's
most vital interests have been made to subserve the
perverse policy Of ENGRAVING our institutions the
experiment Of swinish suffrage; not that the world
may be edifed with the consistency Of democratic
government, but that Puritan hate and an unbrdled
greed OF power may be gratined.


Within few short months and host OF irreverent
hands have been raised in violence against the con-
stitution, and 80 numerous have been the offences
against this sheet anchor OF liberties that the
historian can only expect to treat within reasonable
compass Of one here and there.


The Supreme Court attempted to exercise Its ap-
pellate Jurisdiction In the McArdle Case and bill
was promptly introduced and passed for muzzling
this last court Of appeal for the citizen In the Ju-
dietary Committee ofthe Senate two bills lie DOR
mant-one to nullify an independent decision from
the Supreme Court, and the other to make General
Grant dictator.


The impeachment of the President had no othe.
motive than to remove one who made himself obnox.
fous BY drawing too much attention to the sacred.
ness Of the constitution.


The clam0r against the Senators who helped to
defeat impeachment was nothing more than the
vengeful cry Of the vultures that hoped to gorge
themselves the spos Of ONCE and the plumber OF
the peoples treasury.


Alabama, which the most fraudulent efforts of q
carpetoag conspiracy failed to restore to the Union
Oh the precious plan Of Congressional reconstruc-
ton, is to be dragged in as a negro prize and her
sham constitution legalized Arkansas and the other
Southern States sovereign the equals of their
Northern sisters to be degraded at the fOotstoo
OF radical tyranny and refused admission to the
Union except under the imposition for all time to
come Of fundamental party conditions. Impeachment
over, we have Board Of Managers whose functions
should have ceased with the trial for which they
were organized, instituting investigation into the
private affairs Of American citizens with more auto
cratic exercise OF power than the Star Chamber
of old ventured upon. Private kilograms which are
certainly as sacred as private letters, and
In many instances deemed more 80, are seized
by order Of selfconstuted despot and tortured to
represent men as guilty Of offences for which no
other proof could be produced.


The seizure Of these private kilograms is without
exception the most significant and appalling evi-
dence Of the demoralized condition of the public
mi md ho vfrif ~
cabal which presumes upon that decentralization.
The act might have been excused in that trying
crisis of the country's fate when secession dung
down the gauntlet Of disunion; but at time when
the normal condition Of law and order
prevails the indignation OF an outraged peo-
pie should have been heavily visited on the
heads OF the usurping adventurers who dared
to trample ON one of the dearest rights OF freemen
II is truly said 'eterna vigilance is the price Of
liberty" and 1t is only that vigilance which extends
to things apparently small that can fully embrace
the dangers TO free and popular government. The
Of the Capitol into Bastle for the ncar-
ceration OF citizen whose only offence Is refusal
to surrender one OF his most precious rights is
another charge in the catalogue Of usurpations and
high handed outrages perpetrated by the ruling
power in the government


All over the policy which 10 has deemed ft TO in.





the tyranny which an unruly majority exercises over
The feeble opposition in the House Of Representatives
echoed in the petty spite which Senatorial caucus
or executive session displays towards any Of ad-
verse political views upon whom 1t passes judgment.
rhe rejection Of Henry stanbery for reconfrma-
ion as Attorney General is the latest instance Of that
'ontemptible malevolence which crops out wherever
case presents itself with even remote afiliation
o party or party difference The excuse offered the
'nbc for the rejection Of Mr. stanbery is his refusal
o argue the McArdle case-a refusal which most |
'eople would commend as eminenty proper and |
consistent, considering that the Attorney General |
lad already pronounced q deliberate opinion |
hat the reconstruction laws as applied to |
uch cases as McArdle's were unconstitutional |
nd therefore debarring him from undertaking /
0 defend the contrary principle The people not
o obtuse as not to perceive that the gallant and |
rateful conduct OF Mr.. stanbery In resignng his |
Ositon as Attorney General and Fastening to the |