| Show another letter froni from thaddeus ste St ercus f L lancaster ancaster pa aug 27 1 lion thad stevens sl evens lias has so far recovered to his health heal hi that ic e expects to sta CI chitin iiii itin 1 a I few days dayd on oil a i conr our to tim tho upper lakes the fol following lowin letter from him appi at aie s in our paper to morrow jons JOHN A HEis rAw editor EXan examiner linci and herald columbia pa I 1 awn aug 21 01 ISM lion ilon thad stevens lancaster pa dear sir several of your intelligent constituents in this re region ion no doubt from want of proper information are complaining t of mistakes made by congress in not dot passing laws at the last session restraining the removal of certain officers cri engaged in reconstruction st I 1 contended that you yon had passed an act at the vury very close providing id for that very co contingency but which is not executed will ail be so 80 go d as to inform me limy far our representative is responsible for this omission if omission it be you know we licin tile ill tile habit ordealia of dealing I 1 a ily with tho member aiom tile moll A brief answer will much oblige 0 your friend SAMUEL lane ister PA aug 26 col aniu amuel cl chock columbia columb 11 pa jear sir yuu yott ale aiu light in ing it that la t congi ess in mida ide mistakes its aa is tile the inevitable lut of mail but yuu you mistake tal cc ill in sing ing that there is any law to prohibit tho the lemoral of the district without the consent of the senate 9 enate soon alter after tile the commencement of the last suasion session or of congress I 1 a bill flon I 1 lie committee of tile of representatives which contained cont a provision prohibiting the removal without tho courent of the senate it passed parsed the house and was sent to the senate the senate struck it out and returned it to the house who refused to concur in iu the amendment the result was a committee of conference when an ail animated eq test ensued several everad other questions in contrive ty sy between tho the houses house which t L ilau c oell ei ed to yield if this could be granted the senate 11 ly ret refused used declaring r that they would sooner lose the bill As that would frustrate all our legislation it could not be allowed tile the house yielded with a of the evils it would inflict indict upon the country sonic some of the members of the senate seemed ed to doubt their jouar under the constitution which they had just repudiated anti and cholly outside of which all ageel that zie it c iverc arting acting else our whole work of reconstruction construction rc atas usurpation usia pation or perhaps they had a desire to be thought to be gravely conservative and magnanimous these ideas seemed to control the action of some halt half dozen senators sanator j who prefer red trusting the president deriL my dear colonel a few senators of great ab ability iliff undoubted patriotism and purity have become so satu saturated with what they ale pleased to call conservatism whose meaning I 1 confess I 1 am unable to under underhand tand that thai I 1 fear they will f the monster that was slain in 1776 and again in ill 1861 and will thus do gicht cicat bimage d imago to the creation of a government now so capable of being converted into a political paradise paradie e this is liable to happen riot not so much by a direct and palpable attack upon its framework as aa by gradually forgetting the vital principles of the declaration of independence strike out one of tile the living sparks which give life to out our goddess of liberty and the mys deiy and intense heat whose welding lires fires near a century ap ago t and ut at present ale aio basill fusing tile p principles of fic edoin aija reducing despos tista to a cinder will gradually cool until the most conservative despot could thrust ilia his awold into it without affecting its temper I 1 I 1 have said above that 1 I lid did not know the meaning of conservatism I 1 leave liiv since seen the report of a speer speech j s slid lid to have been made 1 by an ohio S senator ClId tor at canton ohio which if it be truly repel ted and is to be consid cred ei fd as a definition of that doctrine then to me it is very alarming worse than ilian it is legislation without authority and reconstruction by usurpation I 1 am very respectfully your obedient ber servant vant THADDEUS STEVI S |
