We presume all of our readers know that
Thaddeus Stevens is a leading abolitionist of
Pennsylvania.
We learn, on reliable authority, that when he heard the election news from
Virginia, a day or two since, he said, with a sneer, "Well, well, well, Old Virginia has tucked her tail between her legs and run, and thus ends the secession farce." We do not know whether this utterance, or sympathy with it, prompted Gov.
Curtin, the
Black Republican Governor of
Pennsylvania, to fire thirty-four guns in honor of the event.
