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WHEN THIS OLD HAT WAS NEW.
Before this hat was made,
King Georga was on the throne,
bur Fathers all were rebels then
And fought with Washington;
The Tories cheered for old King George
The Revolution through;
And bragged about their loyalty,
F.ro this old hat was new.
When tbU old bat unz.t new
The sons of that base crowd
Revived the cry of "Loyalty,"'
And bellowed it tUoud ;
The Government our Fathers made
For them would never do ;
And they have torn its bulwarks down
Since tbis old hat was new.
When this old hat was new
There was no public debt,
No Greenbacks took tbe place of gold
Xo millionaire had yet
Ilis pile for Seven-Thirties spent
On which no tax was due,
But each man fairty paid his tax
When this old hat was new.
When this old hat was new
Elections still were free.
And every wan was thought to haio
A right to liberty :
Arrests were made by course of law,
Trials were speedy too,
A.nd Sew ard rang no little bell,
>V hen this old hat was new.
_ When this o.d hat was new
This land was in i s prime.
Miscegenation was uutaugbt
In all this happy clime;
And white folks then were thought as good
As Samßo, Gpff or Sue ;
But thing" have sadly changed about
lSir.ee this old hat was ucw.
When this old hat was new
The poor white man war free,
And every year a bran new boy
♦>uld dandle on bis knee;
But now, for ever} child he has,
H'.'j taxed til! ail i blue;
But things 1 tell you wore not so
When this old hat was new
When this old hat was new
Golu dollars did abound,
And not a stamp in a.l the land
Could any where he found
But now you dare not ki,=3 your wife
Unless you stamp her too;
But things X tell wcio BJI so
>Vhe this old hat was new.
REPUBLICAN SPLIT IN WISCONSIN. I
The Wisconsin Radicals are so dissatisfied j
with the action of the late Republican conven
tion, in that 9tate, that they have decided to
bolt'. They have called a new convention to
meet at Janesville on the 27th. The JMttly
l\'iscon*m, the foremost Republican paper of
tbe state, says this new convention is called
"by the friends of universal suffrage" —which
is its euphoristn lor negro suffrage.
Tbe same paper goes into a general exposi
tion of the grounds ot dissatisfaction with the
action of the regular convention, at Madison,
in which, it say's, "a very timid policy prevail
ed." We quote:
A considerable proportion of the delegates,
and many of them men eminent for character
and ability, were resolved that some positive
declaration in our favor of universal suffrage
should be included in the platform; and though
the majority of the convention were eviden'ly tin
anxious not to say anything that should ap
pear to condemn or oppose the policy of l'sesi
dent Johnson in the Southern States, there
prevailed, as we think, among them a willing
ness to adopt any resolution that would have
stated tbe universal principle, without direct
ly finding fault with the President. But this
was not allowed, and, mainly through the ex
ertion and the influence of Senator Doolittle,
the platform as it stands was finally adopted.
It is not surprising that this result has giv
en satisfaction to the more advanced Republi
cans of the state.
CURIOSITY OF THE WAR.
Among the curiosities brought home by the j
35th lowa is a wooden mortar, used at the re-
duction of Spanish I-oft, hear Mobile. It is
oot a "Quaker gun," like those which fright
ened General McClellaij at Manassas, but an I
instrument capable ol formidable execution, i
It is made of tire famous "gum tree, and Is j
constructed like other mortars, the whole be
ing of wood, except iron bands near the end
ol the mortar, to make it more secure. It can
throw a twelve-pound shell. The idea of con
structing these mortars, we arc told, was bor
rowed from a yankt**, who first used them to
throw shot into Vicksburg. Tweuiy-tive were j
constructed for the pioneer Corps, and they
did good service in the attack on Alobue- Ihtee
men could carry and manage a mortar with
ease, and they were used in rifle*pits and nos-;
itions where they could be used without ex
posure to the enemy's fiie.
THE I, VST So.*: o' ' writ of liuoeas
corpus was bv the President of tb* united States
himself, in the case of persons charged with
stealing Government horses. The General
who made the arrest said there was no objec
tion to turning the men ever to civil authori
ties, ''if they couiu be ti.ed immediately! Ihe
General eertaninly could not have been a mem
ber of a court-martial with which it usually
takes from four to five months to try a single
case. The use of the word "immediately" was
probably ironical.
THE CROCS in England hare turned out bad-'
lv As the wheat crop in the United States is
twenty millions of bushels short of an average
the supply irura this cpiarioc cannot l>e depen
ded upon-, without largely ""hancin? price
Out corn cmp, which lias been .-irgc. may pos
sibly help England out of her difficulty.
VOLUME 61.
NEW SERIES.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON A
DISUNION PLATFORM.
Democratic journals and Democratic Speak
ers cannot recur too frequently to the discus
sion of the antagonism manifested by leading
radical Republicans to the restoration of the
Union and the pacification of the country. This
antagonism is openly avowed by the bolder di>
| unionists, and is day by day made more palpa
; Me. The recent speech of Tiiaddeus
at Lancaster will go far to convince the roost
sceptical that he arid such as lie are opposed to
the restoration of the Union, either with or
without slate-ry. No man in Pennsylvania has
a better right-to claim th position of leader c r
the radical Abolition party than Mr. Pleven's.
By reason of ability and long service lie lias
acquired the fight to speak by authority. It lie
has been consistent in ore thing, it is hatred
o F the Southern people, lie has been a Fed
erlist, a Whig, at: Anti-Mason, a Know-Noth
ing and a Republican, but under each of these
party narr.ee he lies always been an Abolition
ist—eager at all times and under all circum
stances to lead a crusade against the Sou h.
His Lancaster speech is in perfect keeping with
his character. The result of the war has not
satisfied him. The suppression of rebellion, the
utter extinction of hostility to the General Gov- j
ernmcnt, the reiterated expressions of willing-1
uess on the part of the Southern people to ac
cept the issue of the war and return to the Un
ion, are not enough to fill the full measure of;
his detestation of tkeSouth ile must have vest-j
gtaiice without mercy. 1 lis malignity will be
satisfied with nothing less than entire subjuga
tion —until the white men of the South are \
made to feel that they are conquered aliens, and
the women and children arc beggared by con
fiscation.
There is something melancholy in the sight
of an old man, past the utmost limits of the
average of human life, seeking occasion to ex
hibit bis hard hearted malignity and blood-thirs
ty cruelly to the world. But this speech of
Mr. Stevens would not require mure than a
passing notice, were it not for the fact that lie
is now the re ognized leader of a party which
aims to plunge the country into new ditfteulties,
and render the war, which has cost so much
blood and treasure, prolific of interminable
difficulty and contention.
Mr. Stevens prepared his sp eth ccrcluily,
intended that it should bt general!"' read and
evidentlyjiesigne^y *
{'resident Johnson. It forms a very proper
supplement to the resolutions of the Republics'
State Convention. The speech and the resolution
should be read together. They mutuaiiy .'brow
light on each other. Stevens was a member of
the convention, and the resolutions show his
handiwork. Indeed ho takes special pains to
tell us that he was the author of the resolution
proposing the confiscation of the property ot
all rebels worth over 5"10,000 —and as they
show an unity of design fi< m beginning to end
and that design squaring with the views ex
pressed in the speech, there is no mistaking
their paternity. The Republican party of
Pennsylvania stands upon a platform dictated
by Thaddeus Stevens, and that platform is one
of uncompromising hostility to the reorganization
policy of President Johnson, which affords only
prospect of a speedy restoration of the Union and
permanent tranquility to the distracted country.
Mr. Stevens states the issue correctly when
he says:
There are two theories prevailing. The one,
looking at the revolted States as never having
been out of the Union, proposes that they be
regarded as restored thereto so soon as their
people shall reconstruct their State government
the other proposes to regard them as subjuga
ted aliens, and their territory as foreign terri
tory conquered by force of arms.
The ffrst theory is that of the President and
the Democratic party —the second that of the
radicals and the Republican State Convention.
Let any man read these resolulions carefully,
and lie will sec that they commit the party to
the second or Stevens' theory, and go so tar as
to assume that the overtures of the President
to the Southern people have been already re
iectc I—a 1 —a falsehood industriously piupagateu
by the radical press for sinister purposes, for
which they were most emphatically rebuked by
the President in his late speech to a delegation
of Southern men.
We have not space to review all of the man
ifold absurdities of the Stevens' theory. They
are patent ami lie on the surface. It the South
ern people are "subjugated aliens" and their
territory conquered foreign territory, then they
became foreigners by the several acts of State
secession, Which were valid instruments, and
accomplished the purpose for which they were
designed. ?r. this view of the case. there can
| bo no obligation upon the government to re
' cognize the existence of States at all; but Con
' "ress may disregard former local divisions,and
1 treat the South as so much territory and so
I many people, conquered by force cf arms, to
be governed and otherwise disposed of as the vic
tor-. may determine. Why not appoint a mili
| tary governor, at once, for the. entire South,
I and why allow the people to exerc-sany civil
; functions or hold- any property at all ? Since
we are called upon to agree tha* accession not
i only destroyed the Union, but also obliterated
i the States, and left us nothing tut a o nanny
. people arm so much property to be d.sporcd of
iat our pleasure, what need ot alio wing any
| portion of this conquered people to take part
iin the government? And by what right can
1 ; we ask them to rwear allegiance and loyalty to
a government in which they have no part or
interest except that' of obeying and suffering ?
Disunion could net have been robre thoroughly
i and effect ual!y r acc<>inp!:shed by the ertsbksh
. meat cf the tAbr.federi.cy than by tl:c operation
of the radical theory The former sought to
' uiake us two nations —ike latter would in ef
fect make us two peoples, with separate inter
; ~s ts— the governing victors, and the governed
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 29, 1865.
vanquished seeking the first occasion to throw
otf a hated foreign yoke.
"Mr. Stevens boldly avowed his belief," savs
the report of his speech, "that the very exist
ence of the Republican party depended upon the
I rebel Statu* being l:cpt out of 0# Uepon for cu
■ while." All, there is the trouble. If the Un
| ion is restored—if the Southern States are per-
I truiled to send representatives to Congress, it
i will not work well for the Republican party.
The interest of the Republican party is para
mount to the Union. And this from tlie rep
resentative of a party that has treated us du
ring the past four yea'rs to so many smooth
word about subordinating the interests of a
| party to the Union. At iast we (iud that the
j Republican party conies before the fJnion. Hut
iwe are not surprised. The Republican party
was placed belore the Union in 1801, when the
I Crittenden Compromise was rejected, because it
might damage the party, and why should it
not retain the first place in the affections of the
| same men in the year 18(>3 I "l'crish a hun
dred Unions rather than abate an iota of our
| principles!" was the shibboleth of the Tribune in
| IS6I. The Union has perished, according to Mr.
t Stevens, and must stay perished for the pood of
\ the Republican }*irty\ This is toe watchword
I of the same old disunion leaders in 1805.
The truth is so plain that no man can mis
tak< it, that the Democratic party is now the
or.iy organization in the country in favor of
the restoration of the Union, and the only par
ty that is giving the President :t heartv and .-ul
cere support in hi" efforts to restore the Union
j and re-establish the supremacy of the Consti
tution. The radical are now as hostile to the
Union as ever, and the leaden of this faction
are everywhere sounding the notes of prepara
tion for a vigorous onset upon the President
and his measures.—Jige.
~\Frotu the JV. Y. Times (Seward's organ) j
The North and South—The Speech of
Hon. Thad. Stevens.
There are a great many Southerners in this
city trying to make arrangements for a resurnp- i
tion of businees. As r. general thing, their :
conduct is manly, frank and sensible—calcula- I
ted to win the confidence and respect of every
generous and jdst community. Nine in every
ten of them have been utterly ruined by the
rebel l ion. Must of thein cast their fortunes in
to tbe struggle fur a cause j
t0 and finally defeated. TUT i
have lost pur. ten, influence, property, phjldren,
fnends—everything which makes life desirable, j
Under such circumstances, weak men sink down
into abject despair, or drag out the rest of their J
lives in the safe obscurity of foreign lands - ;
The defeated Southerners meet their calamity
in a more manly style. They s'>o\v in their
defeat, as they diJ in their struggle —courage,!
desperate tenacity of purposes and that high
spirited readiness to meet all the responsibilities
of their conduct, which never fails to command
the respect of the world. _ !
It may not seem wholly in keeping with this !
courageous temper, that quite a number of these ,
persons, on reading the speech of Hon. Thad.
Stevens, have abandoned their business projects
and gone home discouraged. They say they ,
cannot face the desolation which his plans pro
pose for the South. They cannot put their
farms again in order, clear them of their in
cumbrances. rebuild their ruined dwellings,
plant fresh crops and get a new start in life for
their children and with the prospect,
at any moment, of seeing the whole swept a
wav by a ruthless confiscation. They cannot
work with heart or hope while such a sword is
hanging over their heads.
We cannot blame them fort his feeling, buttiie
fear out of which it grows seems to us quite
unwarranted. There is nothing either in the j
past conduct or the present temper of the North
to justify the belief that any such policy as ihat
recommended by Mr. Stevens will be adopted.
True, Mr. S. is a prominent and influential pub
lic man. His ripe age, his long experience in
public life, and his position as official leader in
the House of Representatives combine to give ,
weight and importance to his view scf public
affairs. Hut as a public man he belongs rather
to the past than the future. He is universally
known to be extreme in all his views, some
times to the verge of eccentricity; and while
Congress and the country always listen with
attention and respect to his expression of them,
they are never allowed to shape, t<> any consid
ablc extent, the practical conduct of public t
--fairs. Mr. Stevens insisted throughout the last
Congress that the Southern States and people
should be treated as alien enemies ; but Con
gress never concurred in his opinion. In the
Raltimore Convention he urged the exclusion
of delegates from eveey .Southern State that
iiad been in rebellion. —but they were admitted
by r. vote of two to one. So we venture to
predict that if Mr. Stevens should introduce
into Congress bis last grand scheme fcr a sweep
ing confiscation ot Southern property, he will
not get twenty-five votes in its favor.
President Johnson'., speech to the Southern
dclerati >n the other day, ought to reassure
Southern mer. upon this point. His authority
is certainty quiie as high as that of Mr. Stev
en?, and hi; influence upon the coarse of hgis
hition w.ll he ten-fold greater. Ire assures the
Souih, in the most emphatic ternao, that ihey
will not be persecuted nor treated harshly—
that their welfare; will be consulted —that their
past sufferings have atoned for their past offen
ces—that we, regard them as me tuber* iko i
same great family, alienated and betrayed into'
fearful crimes lor a time, but still bound to us
by t'es of r.P etion and to be trusted and cher- j
ished upon their return' to the authority they j
have tried to overthrow. This is the language I
of a generous and magnaniinous statesmanship, j
and it finds an echo in tiie national h°art. Ihe •
' people of the North are not revengeful. I..cy j
have never hated the South. Even in the inidst,
of the war they have cherished kindly senli-
ments toward the people they were compelled I
to light; and now that the war is over, the}
have no thought cr wish to crush a fallen toe.
h'or tiiey know perfectly well that the people of
the .South must come to be our friends, —that
as the nation is one, so have all its people a
common welfare, —only to be secured ly com
mon sentiments of respect and of mutual re
gard. Nobody anywhere, who has any just
conception of the duties and necessities of the
immediate future, dreams of stripping the al
ready impoverished people of the South, as a
means oi promoting and building up the pros
perity of tiie nation. The great mass of the
Northern people, without regard to party, will
sustain, heartily and vigorously, the policy of
the President. They went into the war re
luctantly, but they have fought it oit victor
iously ; and they accept the extirpation of slav
ery, the perpetuation of the Union, the increas
ed consideration and respect which we enjoy n
broad, and the self-reliance and courage which
it has developed at heme, as an equivalent for
the sufferings, burdens and sacrilices it has in
volved. And much as we detest their cause,
we Lave no reason to be ashamed of the man
ner in which the people of the South evinced
their devotion to it. Their courage, their de
votion, their readiness to sacrifice everything
dear to them in its behalf, do honor to the A
naerican name.
We trust the people of the South will pros
orute, with continued energy and confidence, j
their efforts to renew the prosperity of the |
Southern States. Let them heed the President's j
vurning and pay no regard to sjiceches that i
may seem to breathe a spirit of hatred and re- j
Tenge. They have their fate in their own i
hands. If they will take hold promptly and j
properly of the task that awaits them, appre- i
eiate aright the new relations, political, indus- j
trial, and social, which the war has brought a- '
bout, and act with wise reference to the neeee- j
sities which those changed relations have crea- j
ted, they can easily disarm all distrust and com- j
matid the hearty and effective sympathy of all
the people in the Northern States.
DEMOCRATS i-THE DUTY OF THE
HOUR.
The following well timed article we appro
priate from She Greensburg Argus: •
i At 'lie last sesrioo, (18t>/>) an Abolition (verv
J -y !} legislature, VOTED THEMSELVES
fcjlON—besides mileage. ~<x~
v.-ns added to the
and each, speaker was votca du—
extra. In addition to this, several -
were voted an ci'ldi'ional hundred dollars. Some
entire committees drew fifly dollars each addi
tional, and ono entire committee got one hun
dred dollars each— extra!, , >.
The session commenced on tiie 3d cf Janua
ry, and closed on the 24th of March — eighty
one days —a little over §l3 20 per day. Lut
Forney says they were in session only titty-one
days actually, which would be about
§2l 30 PER DAY !
In this calculation we have averaged the mile
age of the members at S3O. It is well known
that many of the members were absent a great
,leal, attending to private speculations.
But still worse. The Constitution prohibits
members of the legislature from accepting any
office created during his term ot office. In the
early davs of our State, the members did their
own graying.—Latterly, the. ministers at Harris
burg, by invitation, opened the morning ses
sions of the house with prayer. Last year the
ministers being of the b'ack-:opperhead stripe,
refused to pray without being paid for it. The
Rev. B. S. 11111, a member of the house from
Erie, wn® elected, or chosen in the luce of the
Constitution, to officiate as chaplain, and our
very "loyal" legislature paid him three hundred
dollars for "extra services!" A very cunning
v. of "whipping the devil around the stump."
Ten days of the session had passed before lie
was elected, and very ofteu he was not present
to officiate. lie could not have prayed more
l' an forty days. He received therefore, about
$7 50 PER DAY
for not more than forty prayers, of from two
to threo minutes in length, let this same
black copperhead legislature, and this Rev. B.
S. Hill VOTED DOWN A BILL TO ALLOW JURORS
ATTENDING COURT, TWO DOLLARS I'RR DAY.
As the last legislature voted themselves and
their offices about §153,000 compensation, and
passed only forty -seven laws ot a general na
ture, making sixty-two pages, fltteen of which
are the appropriation bill, (the laws ot a purely j
local character are many, and make a large
volume) so that each law of a general nature
costs the taxpayers of the State about eleven
hundred and tifty dollars, besides the printing
and bindjng 1
We have glanced at but one of the many a
buses of the black copperhead party. It is a
corrupt party. Oh ! tax-ridden voters of Bed
ford. ' Pennsylvania, will you longer tug and
pay, and pay and tug, or will you dismiss your
faithless and corrupt servants, nnd vote for
those old-fashioned Democrats, Davis and Lin
ton, C'olborn and Smith. Seriously ponder o
ver this question Our candidates are honest,
fearless, independent and incorruptible.
<SI"Ai. exchange gives the following sensible
advice ; "Stick to your home paper. No mat
ter if you are poor, remember none arc so poor
as the ignorant, except it be the depraved, and
they too often go together. Keep your home
paper. Kernember that it is the advertiser of
your neighborhood and tell* you what is go
ing on around you instead of a thousand miles
away.
ggrA parsimonious sea captain answering
the complaint* of his men that the bread was
bad, exclaimed: "What! complain of your
broad that is made from flour ? What do you
think of the Apostles? they ate shew bread
made from old boots and s'uue a -'
WIIOIiFi JVU.HBER, M! 6
I TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
T DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAR. COM ROOMS J
PIIIL'A., Kept. 10, 1860. J
You are upon the eve of a most important
election.
llotli political organizations have announced
their plattoiuis, and presented their candidates
for your 8 itFrageci
The Democratic party distinctly affirms its
support of the p dioy oi reconstruction adopted
by President Johnson, and announces its oppd :
sition to negro suffrage and Negro equality.
Upon these, THE REAL ISSUES OF TIJS CANVASS,
the Republican platform is ambiguous, its can
didates arc rr.uie, its central authority is silent.
We beli's ihat it is your right to know their
sentiments, a::d that they v/ht seek your sup
port should be frank in the expression of their
opinions. i. ,
Can you sustain the President by voting for
those who refuse to endorse his policy ? Will
you hazard the superiority of your race by vo
ting for those who are unwilling to proclaim
their belief in the inferiority of the negro?
DEMOCRATS OK PENNSYLVANIA !
Press home upon your antagonists the vital
issues of the campaign.
Through the press and on the rostrum, in
the field and in the workshop, demand that they
shall answer.
ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST PRESIDENT JOHN
SON'S POLICY' OF RECONSTRUCTION ?
ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST NEGRO SUFFRAGE
OR \E JKO EQUALITY ?
By order of the Democratic State Centra!
Committee.
WM. A. WALLACE, Chairman.
Republican Enmity to the Soldiers.
On the 30th of March, 1861, Mr. Hopkins,
the Democratic Senator from Wash ington coun
ty, offered the following resolution in the State
Senate :
Resolved, That the Committee on Federal Re
lations he instructed to bring in a joint resolu
tion instructing our Senators, and requesting
our Representatives, Congress to vote for a
proposition to pay the r on-commissioned offi
cers and private soldiers of the army of Hie U
niied Slates in coin or its equivalent.
i his it will be seen, was a proposition to in- •
crease Vie jfly of the Sol J • •*, yet how * as it .net
by the Republican majority in the Senate.;
Was it promptly passed, and the soldiers paid
of the LVR v ' Uc!l e lie P Pr - iderU
of Mo ... • , ,fcatf - fa W'*' L ef i ' --g ia payment
went to the ''nmmit'e on latterd; 'i.i'i&ivififetn
the Senate, a ic'ority f whom were Repub
licans, and there biumbereu uniil the Kith ot
April, when Mr. Hopkins introduc 1 a resolu
tion directing that committee to r >'rt on the
following day. This resolution was defeated,
every Republican Senator vv\ "7 against the same,
and thus an increase of the pay of the soldiers
was prevented. — Age.
MTVCLTNG OF THS PACKS. —WE learn that
the Miscegenation theory has en practically
commenced in a small way attire right place —
Washington. A big black wench has been ap
pointed to a position in the iemale apartment
of the Treasury Department together with some
"white trash."
The white females it appears, board in clubs,
at different houses, and the colored lady having
made application to the proprietor for one oi
those club houses for boarding was at once as
signed to proper quarters- —When dinner came,
the "white trash" and colored lady all met at
the same table for their rations; but the white
guests having no other mode ot manifesting
their distustc for such social progress, gave the
new boarder room enough at the table to ac
commodate ten boarders. V< e hope that either
Stanton or Ilolt, will issue an order compelling
the "white trash" to sit close up to their col
ored sister, and if they refuse to obey, appoint
a military commission, and try them for trea
son. Let them know that we have a govern
ment, and that darkies have rights, that must
be respectvd.
WHAT DANIET. WEBSTER SAID.—We can
not publish too often the following prophetic
language, uttered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, iu
1850, by the immortal Webster. Said he:
If the fanatics and abolitionists ever get the
power into :bir hands, they will override the
Constitution, set the Supreme Court at defiance
change and make laws to suit themselves, lay
violent hands on those who differ with them in
their opinions, or dare question their infallibili
ty, and finally bankrupt the country and de
luge it with blood.
How fearfully, in eveiy word, has the pre
diction come to pass!
POST THE BOOKS —Within a week or so ihe
following huge robberies have come to light;
C. Winsor, Mercantile Bank § 275,000
A. 'I ownsenu, New Haven Bank. ... 115,000
Smith J. Eastman, Produce Broker. . 500.000
Henry B. .Jenkins, Phoenix Bank... 300,000
I*. li. Mumford, Stock Broker 130.^00
E. M. Ketch urn, Banker 4,500,000
Unknown Cashier 100,000
Total §5,920,000
Political crime and private immorality go
hand in hand. The days of Republican suc
cess are those of stealing and robbery.
Horace Qrecly, in an article denouncing
matrimonial advertisements in a paper, says
of women, that —
"Besides priding themselves upon their per
sonal attractions, and fancying them of more
value than they really are, women are art
less a 1 1 unsophisticated and easily deluded."
i If the r e is any -woman more "unsophisti
cated" or more "easily ddu led" than Horace
| Grceiy himself, it must be Greely's wife
' There is not another one sure.
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VOL. 9, NO. 9
A RADICAL PAPEIS BOLTING.— lire Troy (O;
'Juries, a radical Republican paper in Miami
county, is not satisfied with the action of the
Republican State Convention in indorsing Pres
ident Johnson. It says, after quoting the in
dorsement :
"This of course settles the matter here in
Ohio until the next Convention meets. Those
i who telieve in supporting the President in his
wholesale pardoning of rebel. and in refusing
the ballot to colored soldiers, wifi of course
support the candidates that stand upon this
platform. For our own part, we support no
such principles nyr the men who advocate them.
"MISCEGENATION,," —A singular case of mis
cegenation caine before the police court in New
\ ork on Monday, when it was discovered that
Charles Henry Ila use, a colored waiter, had
not only married a white woman, but had de
serted her and afterwards taken to himself an
other. By both of them he had children. The
women were seat to Black well's Island forsix
months.
WHAT WILL COME? —If the abolitionists re
main in power the following will come. In
some of their States while men unable to read
are already prevented from voting. The aboli
tionists are now striving to give negroes votes.
The next move will be to prevent men from vo
ting unless they possess a certain amount of
money, as in England. Then the ballot-boxes
will only be accessible to the rich, while the
poor are excluded. Such is the policy of the
abolitionists. They are tearing down the dis
tinctions between the whites and blacks and
building up distinctions between the rich and
the poor. This they call "reconstruction."
A CAPITAL EVASION. —Two literary ladies
were lately witnesses in a trial.
One of them upon hearing the usual ques
tion asked. "What is your name ? and how
old are you ?" turned to her companion, and
said:
"I do not like to tell my age; not that I have
any objection to having it known; but I don't
want it published in all the newspapers*"
"Well, said the witty Mrs. , "I will tell
you how to avoid it. You have heard the ob
jection to all. hearsay evidence; tell them you
dt n't remember when you were born, and all
you know of it is by hearsay/'
gar The Abolitionists of Minuesota, in their
State Convention, a week ago, read one Andy
Johnson out of thfiir nartv. Won't Andy feel
don't behave tumseli.
Our opinion is that said Andy will read "the
paity" out of power if it don't soon behave it
self and support "the government."
persons who call themselves the "Un~
! ion party" are the only or.es now in the coun-
I try who are opposed to Union- The Southern
I Stu'es want to get back into the Union; Presi
! dent Johnsen wants them back: the Democracy
want them back, and every conservative man,
i North and South, wants them back: but the
I "Yunyun party," with Simon Camerou and
Thaddeus Stevens at tiieir head, are determin
ed tlmre shall be no Union—"for awhile"—un
til ihej get their "hands strengthened" with
perpetual power. "Union party," indeed!
Ridiculous —unless : hey mean u union of col
ors.
REPUBLICANISM VS. THE PRESIDENT. —The
Republican party is coming into open hostility
against President Johnson. Their Pennsylva
nia State platform —framed to suit Thad. Stev
ens, Grow, fcc., says:
"That the people of the Southern states can
not be safely entrusted with the political rights,,
which they have rejected." -
But Andrew Johnson writes to the governor
of Mississippi that
"The people must be trusted with their own
government and, if trusted, my opinion is
that they will act in good laith, and restore
their former constitutional relations with all
the States composing the Union." :
Man cannot serve God and Mammon; anu
Republicans who wish to sustain the President
cannot vote for the tickets nominated hy the
ring-leaders who oppose the President's restor
ation policy.
LOTAI. AND DISLOYAL. —The late Republican
convention in Minnesota refused to endorse the
restoration policy of President Johnson. They
voted down a resolution to that effect. That
was loyal.
The Democratic convention of New York
held on the same day, fuiiy endorsed the pol
icy of President Johnson for restoring the
rebel States. That was disloyal. And so
we go!
THE only way a voter can declare in favor
of the policy of Andrew Johnson, is to vote a
gainst the Republican candidates for State and
county oiScc-s.
WAITEB —Please, sir, how will you nave
your steak cooked ? •
Serious gentleman— '.Veil done, good and
faithful servant.
fcjrln Connecticut no white man can vote un-
I less ho can read the Constitution, and yet it is
I proposed to vote on the 2d of October, in that
State, on an amendment to the constitution
I giving negroes the right of suffrage. The ab
olitionists contend that '-any man who opposes
I universal suffrage among all men, whether
j white or black, is a sham and a cheat," and
! yet tiic noses of the abolitionists of Connect
i icut are so long that they cannot see beyond,
, them and observe the inconsistency of their po
! siiion on this subject.
<3*lf you aro poor, sit down and growl a
boot it. By so doing you are sura to get rich
and make yourself particularly agreeable
' everybody.