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THE DAILY SUN
Thursday Morning .' Tone 22
Hon. Clement L. Yallandigham.
The sadden death and tragic fall of
this distinguished Tribune of the peo
ple—a full aooount of which has been
given in oar telegraphic columns, has
made a deep impression on the public
mind throughout the United States.
He had figured prominently in public
affairs for a number of years. As a
leader—and he could be nothing else in
any party association with which he act
ed—ho was not always either discreet
or safe. He was generally, however,
bold and defiant. These were the qual
ities which won the hearts of the people,
and bound them to him “with hooks of
steel.” We knew him long,intimately and
well. His social qualities were rare and
attractive. .....
His late “New Departure” Dayton
Manifesto, about which so mUoh has
been said and written, we regarded as
intended by him more as a political
strategic movement, than as an abandon
ment of any of his principles.
The leading feature in that pronuncia-
mento was the acceptation of the new
Amendments to the Constitution of the
United States, as de fado parts of the or
ganic law. He knew well the power and
force of language, as well as the true
meaning of words. The “indusio uni us”
is the “cxclusio altering.” The declara
tion that he considered these Amend
ments as de /ado without other qualifica
tion, exdudes the idea that he meant to
be considered as looking npon them as
de jure, or rightful parts of the Constitu
tion.
Be that as it may, his resolution npon
this point, on close scrutiny and criti
cism, was much less objectionable than
the one finally adopted by the Ohio Con
vention. The one offered by him was
rejected. In this Convention, where
was acted his last part on the public
stage, he failed, both in his platform and
his desired nominee.
Oar object is neither enlogy nor cen
sure. His career in life, brilliant ns it
has been, as a lawyer and Legislator, is
over. It bas been brought to a close most
unexpectedly and in a manner most la
mentable.
Whatever may have been his errors,
either in judgment or action, he was a
most ardent friend of Constitutional Lib
erty, and we doubt not if his days had
been prolonged when the great struggle
‘ comes, os it will come, between the Im
perialists and the Constitutionalists,
throughout the length and breadth of
the Union, ho would have been found
doing valiant service in the cause of the
people, and in defense of those princi
ples upon which is based the entire sys
tem of American free institutions, and
npon which alono those institutions can
be maintained and perpetuated.
Honor to his memory and peace to his
ashes.
aud io bear, in meekness, the yoke of
destruction the balance of their days,
and to leave it, as an inheritance, for
their children after them ; then we khv
to them, and in all earnestness, that they,
too, must likewise "Hasten to retrace their
steps and regain the road which” in the
language of Mr. Jefferson, “alone leads
to peace, liberty mid safety.”
But, to tho three millions and upwards
of Democrats, now enfranchised in the
United States—constituting a majority
of the voters thereof—we say, with equal
earnestness, that now is the time for Mr.
Jefferson’s touch-stone for all who seek
positions of high trust, and they should
never forget that his principles point out
not only the path, but the.road—the only
road to victory in 1872, and with it a glo
rious rescue of the liberties of the conn-
try - 1 ...
“The Coming Revolution.”
In another column to-day will be found
on article under this caption. It is the
lost utterance which has reached us from
the New York World. Its tone is decid
edly better than any from that quarter
yet. It speaks of the great looked-for
triumph of the Democracy in 1872 as a
“Revolution”—not a Revolution to be
effected by physical force, or the power
of bayonets, as the revolutions in ten of
the present State Governments were ef
fected by the usurpers at Washington,
bat such Revolution as that effected by
the Democracy in 1800—that is, the Rev
olution of turning bad men out of office
arid putting good ones in their places by
the liberty loving masses at the polls.
We take pleasure in saying that we
like the tone of this article very much,
and commend it to onr readers. It
speaks of a readionary movement on the
part of certain leading Republicans. This
is all right. Let them, henceforth, in
the language of Mr. Jefferson, quoted
the other day by the World, and by us
re-quoted in another article to-day—
“hasten to retrace their steps.”
This is the reaction we wont. This is
the Revolution we desire to see take place.
This is our hope as well as their’s for the
salvation of the country. The putting
of bad men out of office and the putting
of good men, true to the Constitution,
in their places, will be a glorious Revolu
tion.
We doubt if the extremists of the
“Revolutionary Democracy,” so-called
shall fail to give this article of the World
n cordial endorsement. The only trouble
with them will be the perplexing question
whether or not they be only a tub throwu
out to the whale for the nonce. - We shall
see.
Colonel Fisk’s Martyrdom.
In What Does True Progress in
Government Consist? And
Who Should Retrace Their
Steps?
Mr. Jefferson, in his first inaugural,
after setting forth what he deemed “the
essential principles of our Government,
(as quoted in full, tho other day by the
New York World and re-published in
The Sun) said:
“They should be the creed- of our
political faith—the text of civil instruc
tion—the touchstone by which to try the
services of those we trust, and should we
wander from them in moments of error,
or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps,
and to regain the rwl which alone leads
to peace, liberty and * ft r j.”
These word >. at. tl.ab time, were most
“fitly spoken," and stand now “as apples
of gold in pictures of silver.” They
proclaim the great truth that real pro
gress in Government consists in reaction,
as well as in action—in retrograde, ns well
Of. forward movements. It often requires
the “ retracing of their steps” by those
who “in moments of error or alarm have
wandered ” from the “esseutial princi
ples ” of constitutional liberty.
If then, any portion of tho Republi
can party, at'Jhis time, (be they called
Conservatives, or by any other name) have
become convinced that, in “moments of
alarm” in the “Reconstruction” process,
they wandered from any of the “essen
tial principles,” we say they belong to a
class which should “retrace their steps.”
If any portion of the people, whether
called Republicans or Democrats, see
that, “in moments of error,” they gave
sanction to measures which lead to the
undermining of the entire system of our
free institutions, “the world’s best hope,”
and to the erection of a consolidated
empire in their stead—of these, also, we
say, they, by every consideration of pa
triotism and love of country, ought to
“hasten to retrace their steps.”
If those “Now Departure” Democrats
of Pennsylvania—who “in moments” of
great temptation, in their thirst fot
office, have recently wandered
from the true faith and eaten
their own words, when they fell down and
worshipped the image of Baal (declar
ing, in their humiliation, that the most
monstrous {usurpations in the annals of
history, were all done “ in the {manner
and by the authority constitutionally apt
pointed”) have not made up their minus
deliberately to barter their birth-right
for little more than a mess of pottage,
A considerable hub-bub was ere
ated in and about “the Hub” last
week, all because of an application
from James Fisk, junior, to. the
Mayor of Boston for permission for
the 9th Regiment to serve God in
their uniforms and with banners
flying' and bands playing upon the
sacred soil of Boston Common last
Sunday. Eisk made the application
to the Mayor; the Mayor referred it
to the Board of Aldermen, and the
Board of Aldermen got into a wrangle
over it, and there the matter hung
fire, with the impressing growing
that the Puritanic air of Boston was
not likely to he impregnated with the
prayers and psalms of the saintly Fisk
and his pious regiment.
While matters were at a dead lock
in the City Hall of Boston, Fisk came
the sharper over the Mayor and Board,
by asking and obtaining permission
from the Governor of Massachusetts
to march liis regiment through the
streets of Boston on Sunday. Sub
sequently Fisk discovered that a city
ordinance prevented the entry of any
regiment npon Boston Common with
out the consent of the Mayor. Where-
iip6n he was compelled to renew his
application, and it was granted by
permission of the Council. But,
afterward, such a hullaballoo was
raised about the matter by the whole
host of the Boston saints that the
Board of Aldermen rescinded the ac
tion of the Council, and-the courtesy
was withdrawn.
Fisk’s next recourse was upon the
Mayor of Charlestown, of whom he
asked permission for his regiment to
march to that city and hold religions
services in any public place, at the
same time expressing a preference for
Monument Square or the grounds
surrounding Bunker Hill Monument.
This request was also refused, on the
ground that a large number of Bos
ton roughs would follow the regi
ment in its march from the Hub to
Georgetown, and that would be alto
gether too much for the moral atmos
phere of the latter place.
How the matter was finally ad
justed we do not know, but the' tele
graph has informed us that the regi
ment did march through the
streets of Boston, and held very reli
gious services in the Boston Theatre.
There is something in all this that
appeals very strongly to the rigid
righteousness of the age. The fact
that an entire regiment of men,
coloneled by a brave and pious com-
niamler like Fisk, should have such
difficulty in finding a place where
j they eould.say their prayers on Sun-
dav.with no other ostentation than
I beating drums, shrieking fifes, thun
dering brass bands, flying banners,
foaming chargers and the peaceful
and pious music of clattering arms,
is too incredulous for belief in this
enlightened Christian age, and could
not possibly be believed of any other
city than Boston, whose atmosphere
is not yet entirely relieved of the
savory odor of frying witches. It has
long been known that .Fisk added
the virtues of a hero to his other fine
moral and intellectual qualities ; but
no one, until now, ever suspected
him of possessing in liis portly
person any of the stuff of which mar
tyrs are made; but so nearly did he
come to being a martyr on this occa
sion that he has certainly proved his
title clear to a place in all subsequent
editions of “Fox’s Book.”
The Coming Revolution.
We touch bottom. The descent has
been long, and to lovers of the Constitu
tion most painfuL . But there is a point
beyond which the American people will
not allow their liberties to be invaded,
their supreme law to be violated, by any
party, under any pretext, or in the name
of any cause, however specious. We be
lieve that point has been reached and
passed. The powerful resistance made
by some of the ablest Republican leaders
to the usurpation of power by the Execu
tive, to the proscription of men like Sum
ner, to the abuse of patronage, to the
refusal of a Republican caucus to permit
bills for removal of taxation to be even
considered, and finally to the utter pros
tration of civil power at the feet of a sol
dier who would be dictator if the people
were as cringing and subservient as the
majority of “his faithful Senate,” proves,
we feel assured, that a large body of the
Republican voters will no longer sustain
the usurpers at Washington in their as
saults upon the rights and interests of
the people. These leaders, brave as they
may be, have not so sharply contended
against the majority, in the face of a pro
scription never surpassed for bitterness,
without ample assurances of support from
the people. They are not men to speak
thus strongly without arousing public
attention and fixing the convictions of
thousands of thiuking men. The meas
ures which they denounced were so extra
ordinary that only a plain exposure was
needed to arouse against such deeds the
indignation of all thoughtful and patri
otic citizens. That exposure, if made by
Democrats alone, would scarcely reach
the mass of Republican voters. But it
will reach them when made by Repub
lican leaders so prominent- and influential.
Wo Look forward, therefore, with confi
dence to a general and overwhelming re
action against that power which lias so
misruled the country.
It is high time. Year after year Radi
calism has become more daring in its dis
regard of every constitutional obligation;
more open in its assaults upon the rights
of the people and their local self-govern
ments; more rapid in its strides towards
centralization of power; more shameless
in its defence of monopolies and con
tempt fin- the interests of the millions
who labor and are robbed of their earn
ings. Starting with a fake policy to
wards the South—a policy of repression,
severity, and force—instead of that
states mau-like liberality by which alone
the bitterness of feeling left by civil war
can be removed, Radicalism has tried
one expedient after another in vain.
Each measure has aroused greater irrita
tion of feeling and ended in more con
spicuous failure; each failure has forced
the party to choose between a' total re
versal of policy and the adoption of
measures still more harsh. Shame to
confess that they had blundred drove,
some forward, vindictive feeling some,
desire for success others, and pure igno
rance, misinformation and utter want of
statesmanship made many the facile tools
of desperate demagogues. There are
men who deliberately calculated upon the
irritation and violence which harsh meas
ures would provoke at the South as a
means of reviving the war 'spirit at the
North and as a pretext for resort to
more shameful abuse of power. Under
these influences Radicalism has been
hurried forward in a mad career which,
in the nature of things, conld end only
in its overthrow or in military despotism.
Each new measure of repression strained
the Constitution still further. One after
another the safeguards of individual lib
erty and the rights of local self-govern
ment have been broken down. Between
the Kn-Klux bill, which empowers the
President to suspend the habeas corpus
and use force whenever he pleases, and a
military despotism more absolute than
that of Russia, there is but a single step
and a narrow one. Let the next Presi
dential election pass without reaction
and rebuke, and that step will also be at
tempted.
We rejoice, then, that reaction seems
sure and near at hand. We speak not as
partisans. Dearer than any party is the
country. Higher than, obligation- to any
party is onr duty to the republic—to that
experiment of self-government which,
within a few short years, will either vin
dicate itself or end in failure. That it
may not fail, Radicalism must be arrested
in its mad career. If the reaction be
thorough it was of minor consequence
whether it came under one banner or an
other. Posssbly public opinion might
have been so rapidly aroused that the
Republican party itself conld have cast
out its evil spirits; but the Ku-Klux bill
settles that question; it is the clutch of
despotism npon tlie throat of that party
which will not be shaken off, and a wise
Democracy has now but to invite and
welcome the aid of all honest and patri
otic men. A better day will dawn.—
Lawless soldiers will be dismissed from
halls of State, to make room for
men who respect the laws and
know something of statesmanship. Po
litical freebooters will be warned to seek
other lands where Saxon love of liberty
does not forbid chronic revolution. The
madness of partisanship will cool and
give place to a reasoning and candid pa
triotism. That horrible apparition—the
man on borsebaok with the naked' sword
—visible now these six long years in the
political horizon, and growing ever near
er and more distinct, will vanish forever.
Justice, with her equal balances, will once
more appear.
Hasten the day, brave Republicans
who battle against the wolves of party to
save liberty and justice from their jaws.
Hasten the day, staunch and patriotic
Democrats, who can well afford to forget
how long yon have denounced this fatal
policy if in the end your country may bn j
saved, Jqiu hands both, in one vigor
ous and resolute effort, not for this party
or for that, but to arotiso the people of
this land to a sense of their danger and
their duty. Bring it to a vote whether
the “peace” which we are promised shall
be sneb as the Czar gave to Warsaw.—
Bring it to a vote whether free America
means to build up thirteen Irelands- be
tween the Potomac and Ohio and the
Golf. Let it be at once adjudged whether
all the industry of the land shall be at
the mercy of a few monopolists, and all
its liberties at the mercy of a few dema
gogues and one soldier.—jfr. Y, World.
WHERE WILL THE NEW DE
PARTURE LEAD US, SUP
POSING WE FOLLOW IT.
“Thougilts that Breathe, and
Words that. Burn.”
From the Coiumbna Snn, June 19.
We believe the New Departure is ut
terly wrong in principle and a fatal er
ror in policy, and will now give our rea
sons for this conviction:
Before the new departure the Demo
cratic party was a unit, and the Republi
cans were greatly divided upon the re
construction of the Southern States. The
injustice, unconstitutionality and gross
usurpation was beginning to be in every
section admitted, and scarce .defended,
except by arguments as weak as the
cause they were used to sustain. State
after State was rescued from the plun
derers, ana from New Hampshire to
Texas, light,
A GLORIOUS, CONSTITUTIONAL LIGHT,
was bursting from the political sky. It
was visible as the angel in a flame of fire
to Moses, or the flaming cross bearing
the inscription—“in hoc signo uinces”—in
this sign shalt thou conquer! to the
great Constantine. The truth that we
were freemen and not slaves, that our
government was a constitutional Repub
lic and not a military despotism, was
by all men. We all began to appreciate
the fact that the object onr wise fore
fathers intended to secure and perpetu
ate was that all general interests should
be left under one common government*
and all local and sectioual interests
should remain with the States or sec
tions to which they belong. This was
the key stone of the arch.
When this stone was once destroyed,
the whole wondrous structure would fall
in ruins. By the new departure we sur
render this mighty principle. We say
Congress and not the Slates can regulate
suffrage; that the President can in peace
suspend the writ of habeas corpus, or in
other words, that Congress can, by an
act in express violation of our Great
Creator, lorce an unwilling people at the
point of the bayonet into rebellion or
the most abject servitude.
To escape this conclusion, see to what
inconsistencies we are now forced by
Radical arguments. We are compelled
to say that onr “accept the situation”
now, is hypocritical; or that our late op
position was founded on error. Are we
to fight on the old, well-marked and se
lected line, or in the hour of victory to
ground onr arms and march prisoners,
bag and baggage, horse, foot and artil
lery, into the camp of the enemy ? No !
will leap as loudly from the lips of mil
lions as the red live lightning
LEAPS FROM ITS FIERY HOME.
If we accept the new departure, we
surrender the right of local government.
To exhibit how slipperyTi position is to,
a Democrat, we quoted on'yesterday from
one of the ablest Democratic papers
South, the Courier-Journal, ot rhe 12th,
that it accepted the amendmei.is tiually
and fully, and that the “agitation for
their repeal is -
SIMPLY FATAL.”
On the next day, the 13th, it “agitates”
the question in the following excellent
manner: “It is only by energetic local
municipalities that the current, of power
can be prevented from flowing into, one
central channel and thus becoming a-des-
olating flood. Indeed, the only security
for the liberties of. this people lies in the
maintenance of this fundamental princi
ple. With it we are safe; without it'we
are exposed to the inflictions of an inev
itable military despotism. It is evident
that the people of the United States do
not folly appreciate the peril to which we
are exposed. The States are now almost
mere lifeless carcasses—a prey to the.foul
worms of despotism.” t
Now we ask are the States always to
remain
“lifeless carcasses,
a prey to the foul worms of despotism ?”
Are we never to hope for a political res
urrection ?: God forbid ! We wish to
“agitate,” until a virtuous, intelligent
and indignant people will arise in their
might and breathe the fresh breath of
life into these “lifeless carcasses” and
they spring to their feet with renewed
vigor- We wish to speak with no double
tongue—-we wish not to worship any
TWO-FACED JANUS.
We believe when God places an indi
vidual or nation in a situation that a lie
mnst be spoken or acted to save life,
then the time is come when that indi
vidual or nation should die,
We hear much said about policy. Pol
icy. Policy is bnt
ANOTHER NAME FOR DECFIT.
It has destroyed more men and nations
than it ever saved. It is' only the fidse
homage paid to virtue by vice. It is
easier to be than seem to he.. If Radi
calism is true, let ns “accept the situa
tion” in good faith ; if false, let as make
no new departure, "bnt fight it boldly to
the bitter end. We are told by the high
est authority that the end never justifies
the means. However noble the end, it
should be sacrificed when demanded by
truth, justice and honor.
The_ cotton crop in the vicinity of Au
gusta is not good. The snake crop is.
The heavy and continuous rains have in
jured the cotton. They have benefitted
the snakee. From the best authority w-
Jearn that there have never t»eei; so many
snakes seen about Angnsta at this season
of the year. They are principally of the
rattle-snake variety, and are all finely
developed specimens. We learn that on
Sunday last no less than six rattle-snakes
were killed at one place on the Miliedge-
villeioad. One of the reptiles wsts of
large proportions, and had ten rattles and
a “button.” Mind your eyes when you
go a blaekberryiug.—CLroni Jc & Sen
tinel.
• Rome is enjoying the.vp u of a .baud
Of loving g\|-us. • ,,, ..-: u ..ffc I
Augusta drowns vagrant dogs.
printer’s UDetnl’s Comer.
The Printer’s Devil is one of the most
useful creatures on earth—though but
few printing offices have found that out.
He exists in every office—is commonly
unnoticed and not esteemed. The large
amount of good he does is not appreci
ated, and lie passes quietly along, bear
ing the Blame of every wrong about the
cilice, and is made the subject of every
rude jest. All this he bears in silence
and with great patience, no matter how
nr just the reflection or abuse that may
be heaped upon him.
We claim the credit of being the first
to notice the real merits of the Printer’s
Devil, and to promote him to a position
of respectability and prominence com
mensurate with his worth. We have put
him to assisting. In, the editorial depart
ment, and find him a real genius. We
hereby introdnee him to onr readers in
the matter which follows. Henceforth
he is on our editorial staff.
INTERVIEW BETWEEN TWO PARRIES, AS RE
PORTED nr the sun’s printer’s devil.
Jim—Sambo, what abont dese New De
partment Democrats? Is dere enny dif-
franc atween ’em an’de trooly loil? Some
says dere isn’t enny, and some say the dif-
frunce is wide as dat atween Heaben an
Hell. What’s you say about it?
Sambo—Well, Jim, de diffrnnee atween
’em, as dis nigger looks at it, is jist de
same -difference dere is atween me an’
Boss.
Jim—What’s dat, Sambo?
Sambo—Why, yon see, he is Boss; but
we eats at de same table, and eats de
.same tings. De only diffhmee atween
us is, he eats it fust.
Jim.—I golly, Sambo, dat’s a good un.
Yon’s fust rate on connnbnsses. Yon
ort to quit carpenterin’ and jine Rob
son’s Circus. So you tink de only dif-
frence atween Joe Brown an’de-New De
partment Democrat, who abused him so
under de brush arbor, is dat he swal
lowed it fust?
Sxmbo.—Dat’s de only diffrnnee, Jim,
dat I see atween em. P. D.
“our motto—victory.
“The daily True Georgian will fight it
out on the Accept-the-Sitnation platform
at all hazurds, at any cost and at all sea
sons.”
This is-the standing motto of Dr.
Bard at tho head of the leading editorial
column of the “True Georgian”—so
called.
And why should it not be—at least for
a time ? Did he not help to bring it
abont ? Did he not help to elect Bul
lock on it, whom he afterwards wished
might “fall by the way tide ?” Is not his,
the distinguished honor of having first to
nominate Grant for the Presidency on
it? Is he not now trying to get the
Democrats to join him upon his platform
to nndo the mischief that he has done,
in the vain hope that somebody else,
npon the same platform will do better,
and save him and the country from de
struction ? J.
The trouble Doctor, is not so much in
“the man as in the land” in this case.
Better go back to your old motto and
keep your “rear open.” P. D.
“the departure.”
A farmer, whose cornfield was protected
by a close, strong' fence, found a pig in
his field every morning. The mystery of
the visitor was explained at last by the
fact that a hollow, elbowed log commu
nicated with the two sides of the fence,
and as soon as discovered, it was placed
under the fence, so that both euds were
outside of the field. The next day the
farmer amused himself by watching the
puzzled pig entering the log at one end
and emerging from the other, and perse
vering in his attempt to return to the
field. “A new departure,” if he could
have effected it, would have turned one
end back to the corn-side of the fence.
The Ohio Democracy have been trying
to adjust a crooked log, in order to get
.into the State cornfield once more, but
we are afraid both ends are outside of
the fence.—Jackson Dai!y Democrat.
So do we. P. D. '
... — MM
A Screyen county correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, says:
I have been growing the staple for years,
and mnst confess that the present is the
poorest prospect I have ever seen. In
the first place, the freedmen did nor pre
tend’to go to work nntil February, and
after they commenced, worked badly.
The spring was cold and wet, causing bad
stands. The rain throughout May, and
up to ten days ago, has produced such a
fine yield of grass that “enffee” prefers
the blackberry patches, the ponds and
lakes, and his old shot guu, to the more,
important article, the “hoe.” Many
planters have not yet finished “chopping”
out. Cotton in many places is not two
inches high, and the gronnd covered
with grass, However, on a few planta
tions, the crops look well, and are about
as forward as usual Blooms will soon
be abundant. The corn prospect is
muck better than the cotton. More corn
will be made, if the season continues
good, than any year since the war. Gar
dens are fine; vegetables of every variety
are abundant.
Mrs. General Gaines, of law-suit
fame, is now sixty-four years old, but
Set'to work,-the other day, as briskly
as ever in a new lawsuit. She is now.
‘the richest woman in the world, pro
bably next to Baroness Courts; and
has Unlimited offers of marriage from
youth and age, but prefers to remain
single. She is bent on doing good
with her fortune, and proposes sever
al excellent institutions for women.
Let a man begin in earnest what
“ I ought,” and he will end, by God’s
gvjjve, if he persevere, with “I will,”
Let him force .himself to abonud iq
u! 1 small qffipes of kindness, atteq-
tioUi.t jitiie.uonateness, and all those
for God’s sake. By and by they will
honm-nfi flip hfthit of his soul.
Political Parties irt France.
Supplementary elections have been or
dered at Versailles to fill the vacancies in
the National Assembly. The number of
members now in attendance is estimated
at six hundred, and the number of seats
yet to be filled at one hundred and four
teen. Of these latter, the Bonapartists,
who are now beginning to be very ac
tive in the Provinces, expect to carry
fifty. A glance at the composition of the
Assembly will show what a heterogene
ous mixture of parties and factions M.
Thiers has to deal with. The Assembly
represents no less than six different par
ties, or fragments of parties, which are
as follows:
1st. Radicals or “Reds.” 2d. Repub
licans of various shades. 3d. Monarch
ists, inclining to Orleanism. 4th. Open
and avowed partisans of the Orleans fam
ily. 5th. Legitimists, supporting the
Count of Camboy and the views of the
Ultramontanists. 6th. Imperialists. —
Finally, there are about a hundred mem
bers who make no avowal of political
preferences, but who have, thus far,
voted sometimes on one side and some
times on another. A part of this float
ing vote which, on several occasions has
held the balance of power, is cast by men
who are guided solely by their convic
tions of right; but by far the greatest
number of unclassified members is made
up of delegates whose instincts are purely
selfish, and who, like Mr. Micawber, are
“waiting for something to turn up.” It
is impossible to state with accuraoy
the number of members composing. the
different sections of the Assembly. Bat
assumiug the supplementary elections to
result as it is believed they will, the fol
lowing rough estimate will be found to
approximate very nearly to correctness:
Radirals...... 27
Republicans . 130
Monarchists and qnasi-Oncanists, 90.... )
Orleanists..., J 430
Legitim sts ......... )
Imperialists 54
Scattering 100
From the above table, it will be ob
served that the Legitimists have the
strongest, representotmii in the Assembly,
and next. to them the Monarchists and
Orleanists. Iu the votes which have
been token on measures looking to the
future form of government, and to the
relief of the Princes from the proscrip
tive laws which subjected them to exile,
the partisans of both Houses have thus
far acted in unison, ami have thereby
been able to control the action of the
Assembly. This, too, they were capable
of doing, without the assistance of the
floating ’vote, although a considerable
part of that has, sometimes, been thrown
in their favor.
But whilst the friends of the two
branches of the royal family have united
for the protection of their common inter
ests, it is not so certain that the fusion,
of w kick so much has been said of late,
has been nctually consummated. It is
indeed difficult to see how (t is possible
to hring about a hearty accord between
the Legitimists, with their theory of Di
vine right, and the Orleanists, with their
repeated declarations in favor of popular
elect ion.
Moreover, it is emphatically asserted
hy the opposing factions, both Imperial
ist and Republican, that the feeliug of
the country at large, iu respect to the
pretensions of the Orleanists .and the
Legitimists, is by ho means fairly repre
sented by their strength in the Assembly.
There is certainly reason to believe that
this is true.—Baltimore Gazette.
From the Hartford Times.
Trampling Upon Hie liiglits of
Citizens.
Not long ago the House of Represent
atives at Washington arbitrarily arrested
and imprisoned without a warrant a chap
named Pat. Woods, the '.charge, being
that he had violated the privilege of a
member of the House with whom he was
hail fellow well met, and whose nose he
punched during a little unpleasantness
iu a bar room at Richmond, ' Vai ; , where
both resided. Subsequently the out
rage upon Woods incidentally came up
iu the discussion in the Senate with ref
erence to the Tribune correspondents.
Declarations were then made!*y Messrs.
Sherman and Sumner, two prominent
Republican Senators, to which we invite
at ention. These things should be re
membered. People read and forget
them. Bnt their signifi ranee is such as
to warrant notice and remembrance :
“Mr. Edmunds (Rep., Vfc.,) asked Mr.
Sherman if the House of Represt ntatives
had not imprisoned Pat. Woods for three
months alter it had adjourned, and if it
was not legal. : .
“Mr. Sherman (Rep., Ohio,) replied
that the imprisonment of Pat. Woods
was clearly illegal, and that his constitu
tional rights were grossly assailed. There
was qo precedent lor his imprisonuieqt
in this country.
“Mr. Sumner (Rep., Mass,)—There is
no parliamentary precedent anywhere.”
Here is a frank confession bv: two of
the most eminent leaders of. the. Repub
lican party that under Republican rule
the constitutional rights of the citizens
maybe grossly assailed and trampled
under foot with impunity—so assailed
and so trampled not merely by some Ir
responsible or over-zealous agent or tri
bunal exceeding its authority, but by
one of the three co-ordinate branches of
the Government itself in the hands of a
majority of the Radicals. And yet these
Radical hypocrites iu Congress prate of
outrages upon personal rights in the
States of the South, aud pass laws to give
their man in the Presidential chair un
limited power, backed by the army and
navy, under pretence of a desire to pro
tect citizens in their constitutional
rights!
—
Significance of the New. Hamp
shire Election.
In closing an article bn the result in
New Hampshire, the New York Evening
Post (Radical) says:
“ The significant part of this somewhat
curious condition of affairs is that it has
been produced by a Legislature which
contains a clear working majority of men
who voted twiee fqr Mr. Lincoln for
President, and for General Grant in
1868; who supported the Republican
party in every election until the adminis
tration rejected reformers like Mr. Wells
and Secretary Cox, attempted to force
the San Domingo scherpeupon the party,
and demanded the removal of Mr. Sum
ner to make way for a politician like
Cameron as leader of the Semite. The
independent voters of Now Hampshire
nave given the poluic.d’spt culators notice
that they will support lim Republican
party only so long as 'it,ip tlie party of
reform and honesty,”