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* R 1. RUSSELL. J. H. LOSGKSKCKEB.
1) USSELL & LONGENECKER,
\J ATTORNEYS ASD COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
BEDFORD. PA.,
Wi!l attend promptly and faithfully to all busi
ness entrusted to their eare. Special attention
given to collections and the prosecution of claims
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OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court
J Jo use. apra,'67tf
J. MCI). SHARPE. E. P. KKRR.
QHARPE AT KERR, ATTORNEYS
AT LAW. BKDFOHI), PA., will practice in
the courts of Bedford and adjoining counties Of
fice on Juliana St., opposite the Bankiffg House of
Reed A Schell. [March 2, TS6.
J. R. DURBORROW. I JOBS LL'TZ.
nu RB () RR o W & LUT Z ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
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their care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
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of claims against the Government for Pensions,
Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lauds, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
'•Mengel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer
office.
fOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT
f J LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders
his services to the pnblic.
Office second door North of the Mengel House.
Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861.
M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT
I j LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and
promptly attend to alt business entrusted to his
care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military
laims, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected.
Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street,
t vo doors South of the Mengel House.
Jan. 22, 1861.
F. M. KIMM ELL. | J. W. LINGENFRLTER.
IT" IMMEIjL & LINGEX FEFT lilt,
ATTORNEYS AT I.AW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Have frrrned a partnership in the practice of
the Law. Office on Juliana street, tvro doors South
ofthe ••Mengel House,"
JTI If. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT
LAW BEDFORD. I'A Will promptly at
tend to collections and all business entrusted to
his eare in Bedford and adjoining counties.
Office on Juliana Street, three doors south of the
' Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mr 9.
Tate.
May 13, 1664.
B F. ME VERS. | /. W. DICKKRSOS.
MEYER** a difkerson, AT
TORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., office
same as formerly occupied by Hon. S. L Russell,
a few doors south ot the Court House, will practice
in the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions,
bounty and back pay obtained and the purchase
and sale of real estate at tended to. J may 11,'66.
IT AYS IRVIN E. A TT< > 11X KY A T
1 LAW. Bloody Run, Pa Office in Harris'
New Building. inarl3'6B
{AOMETHING NEW.
The undersigned has just returned from the city
with all the
LA TE IMPROVEMENTS
in Photography, and is introducing the new Style
of Picture called the
CABINET *l7. E PHOTOGRAPH."
which has attracted so much attention in New
York and Philadelphia.
Having gone to considerable expense in refit
ting and improving his Gallery, he is enabled to
make anv ofthe
NEW sTYLES OF PICTURES A T VER V
LOW PRICES, FROM 25 CEN TS UP
He would also invite attention to his splendid
stock of ANN AS AT GREATLY RENRCEH PRICES ;
also GILT, KOSEWmoft.and WALNUT FRAMES
and MOULDINGS, very cheap. Also Brackets
for Ornamenting Parlors.
HIS FANCY CASES are of the latest s'yle anil
made of the best material.
Photographs copied and Enlarged from old J>e
guerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Paintings cr any other
kind of Picture.
Thankful to his friends for their patronage dur
ing the past fifteen years, he hopes to merit a
continuance of the samo. and would respectfully
invite all who wish a correct likeness of thern"-
selves, to eall and examine his work before going
elsewhere, satisfied that he can give entire satis
faction to any who may favor him with their cus
tom. T. R. GETTYS
junl9m3
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get up Clubs in our great
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and the large remuneration received for selling
our goods. We will present to any person, (fret
of nut), sending us a club, goods worth $3 to S3OO,
or will pay cash if necessary.
All goods sold at. an uniform price of ONE DOL
LAR for each article.
We have made special arrangements with the
celebrated ORIENTAL TEA COMPANY, to sup
ply their standard Teas and Coffees, at their best
prices.
Agents wanted everywhere. Descriptive Circu
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AT TIIF.
OLD STAHL WORK-SHOP,
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purchasing elsewhere. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Special attention paid to the manufacture and
furnishing of coffins. Terms reasonable,
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VV TORY !—30,000 LBS. WOOL WANTED!
The undersigned having leased the Large New
Woolen Factory, erected recently at Waterside
for a number of years, respectfully informs the old !
customers of the Factory and the public generally. ;
that they will Deed at least the above amount of
wool. They have on hand a large lot of Cloths, !
Casunercs, Tweeds, Sattinetts, Jeans, Blankets.
Coverlets, Flannel, Ac., which tbey will exchange I
lor wool, as has been the custom heretofore. Carpets !
will he made to order, at all times. Stocking I
yarn of all kinds always on nand. Our Peddler, |
W. If. Ralston, will call on all the old oustomers,
and the public generally, in due time,for the pur
pose of exchanging goods for wool. The highest
market priee will be paid for wool in cash.
N. I! Wool carding spinning and country Full
ing will be done in the nest manner and at short
notice JOHN I. NOBLE A BRO.,
iuay22m3 Waterside, Pa.
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Sioofland'si (fotumn.
you ALL
HAVE HEARD OF
HOOFLANDS GERMAN BITTERS,
AND
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC.
Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia.
Their introduction into this country from Ger
many occurred in
1825.
THEY CURED YOUR
FATHERS AND MOTHERS,
And will cure you and your children. They are
entirely different from w w the many preparations
now in the eountry cal I—l led Bitters or Tonics.
They are no tavern-S ■-preparation, or any
thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi
cines. They are
The greatest known remedies for
Liver Complaint-,
DYSPEPSIA,
Nervous Debilitv,
JAUNDICE,
Diseases of the Kidneys,
ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN,
and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver,
stomach, or
IMPURITY OF TUE BLOOD.
Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullnes
of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Full
ness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc
tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the
Pit of the Stomach. Swimming of the
Head, Hurried or Difficult Breathing,
Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or
Suffocating Sensa f I tions when in a Lying
Posture, Dimness of V * Vision, Dots or Webs
before the sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi
ciency ot Perspiration. Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back. Chest,
Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat,
Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imagi
nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits.
AH these indicate diseases of the T.iver or Di
gestive Organs, combined with impure blood.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS
is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It
is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots,
Herbs, arid Barks from which these extracts are
made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi
cinal virtueus are ex tracted from them by
a scientific Chemist, f ft Those extracts are
then forwarded to this V..F country to be used ex
pressly fvr the manufacture of these Bitters.
There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used
in compounding the Bitters, Ifencc it is the only
Bitters that can be used in CK"es where alcoholic
stimulants are not advisable.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC
is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit
ters, with PURE Santa Cruz Rum, Grange, etc. It
is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, in case
where some pure alcoholie stimulus is required.
You will bear in mind that these remedies are en
tirely different from any others advertised for tbe
cure of the diseases named, these being scientific
preparations of medicinal extracts, while the 01h
... X .101,0 VO lam IU some lorm. Die
TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and
agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its
taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while
its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali
ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of"
all tonics.
DEBILITY.
There is no medicine equal to Hoofland's Ger
man Bitters or Tonie w in cases of Debility.
They impart a tone M and vigor to the whole
system, strengthen A the nppetite, cause an
enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di
gest it, purify the blood, give a good, sound,
healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye. impart a bloom to the cheeks, and
change the patient from a short-breathed, eiuaci
j ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced,
I stout, aud vigorous pcrsou.
Weak and Delicate Children are
I inade strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In
■ tact, they are Family Medicines. They can be
administered with |>eri'ect safety to a ehild throe
months old, the most delicate female, or a man of
I ninety.
These remedies are the best
Blood Purifiers
ever known and will cure all diseases resulting
from bad blood. Keep your blood pure; keep
your Liver in order: • keep your digestive
organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by
the use of these reme JL-d dies, and no diseases
will ever assail yon The best men in the country
recommend the in. If years of honest reputation
go for anything, you must try these preparations.
FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,
Chief Justice ofthe Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16. 1867.
Ifind that "Hoofland's German Bitters'" is not
n intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use
ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of
great benefit in cases of debility an t want of ner
vous action in the system.
Yours Truly.
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON.
Judge of the Supreme Conrt of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2s, 1866.
I consider "Hoofland's German Bitters" a valua
ble medicine in case . of attacks of Indiges
tion or Dyspepsia. I \ can certify this from
iuv experience of it JTjL. Years, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON.
FROM REV. JOSEPH H. KENNARD, D. D.,
Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
Dn. JACKSON—DEAR SIR :—I have been fre
quently requested to connect my name with rec
ommendations of different kinds of medicines, hut
regarding the piactice as out of my appropriate
sphere, I have in all cases declined; but with a
clear proof in various instances, and particularly
in my own family, of the usefulness of Dr. Hoof
land's German Bitters, I depart for once from
ray usual course, to express my full conviction
that for general debility of the system, and es
pecially for Liver Com say plaint, it is a safe
and valuable preparation. In some cases
it may fail ; bnt usual ll ly, I doubt not, it
will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
J. II KENNARD,
Eigth, below Coates Street.
CAUTION.
Hoofland's German Remedies are counterfeited.
Tbe Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK
SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each
bottle, and the name of the article blown in each
bottle. All others are counterfeit.
Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle;
Gr, a half dozen for $5.
Price of the Tonic, £1 50 per bottle;
Or, a half dozen for *7 50.
The tonic is put up in quart bottles.
Recollect that it is Dr. Hoofland's German
Remedies that are so universally used and so
highly recommended;-w~-v and do not allow the
Druggist to induce I ftyou to take anything
else that be may say-l~"F is just as good, be
cause he makes a larger profit on it. These Reme
dies will be sent by express to any locality upon
application to the
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
At the German Medicine Store.
As. 631 ARCH STREET, PhttwlFpJita.
CI IAS. M. EVANS,
PROPRIETOR.
Formerly C. M. JACKSON A Co.
These Remedies are for sale by Druggists. Store
keepers aud Medicine Dealers everywhere.
Do not foreret to examine the artiele btew
tn ortlrr to get the genuine..
uiay29'Bßyl
lit? |swlfanl <sa2f tie.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL NOMINEES.
I
FOE PRESIDENT,
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
FRANCIS P. BLAIR.
OF MISSOURI.
Extracts from the Great Speech
OF
HON. IIORATIO SBVHOt R.
OF NEW YORK,
Di-liierril at (lie ('wiper Institute, before
Hit- Jackson Central Association.
■J sine 23, ISK.H.
Why arc the tax-payers laboring un
der a debt which bears an interest of
• six per cent., while other governments
i can borrow money at three per cent.,
i and at this low interest their bonds
sell for better prices than ours? Why
is the laborer, the farmer, the mechan
ic, and the pensioner paid in bad mon
ey, so that they get one-quarter less
I than they are entitled to on every pa
per dollar paid to them ? Why is the
bondholder wronged by t lie tainted
credit of the Government, so that he
cannot sell his bond lor as much by
one-third as the citizen of Great Brit
| ain gets for the bond of his govern
j ment. which hears a lower interest;
; and why is his claim made odious in
the eyes of the people by the fact that
I his interest is paid in specie, while they
are compelled to take debased paper?
i It is clear to every thoughtful man
I t.hnt inilGie t-afi.tjr nn.t Honor Will not
admit of our having two kinds of cur
rency for any length of time. We
must have a uniform currency for all
classes. There is but one question to
be settled. Shall our currency be uni
formly good or uniformly bad? Are
we to force the bondholder to take bad
money ? Are we to have an honest
standard of value for all, or is indus
try, enterprise, and morality to be per
plexed and disordered by a shifting
and dishonest standard? If it can be
shown that all these evils under which
we labor, spring from a common
source, then it is clear that all classes
should join in a common effort to root
out the policy which sheds such wide
spread curses.
I fur moit izi tit/ lb/per Money ttnd Coin.
There are two ways of making our
paper money good as coin. One is to
contract its volume by calling in the
legal-tenders. This will make them
scarce and will force a specie standard ;
hut it will carry ruin and bankruptcy
into every part of the country. It will
hear down the prices of property and
of labor. It is a policy which cannot
1m; carried through, for the country
will not consent to it. There is anoth
er way of lifting up our greenbacks to
par which will not harm any, but will
help all, which will bring back confi
dence, will revive business and enter
prise, will lighten taxation, will give
to labor honest money, and will do jus
tice to the public creditor. And that
way is to give to all the world full faith
in the honor and wisdom of the Ameri
can Government. Our paper money is
not its par in coin, because the na
tional credit is dishonored. How trail
the notes of our Government, which
pay no interest, be worth their face in
gold or silver, when the bonds of Gov
ernment, which pay six per cent, in
terest, are worth only eighty cents on
the dollar? You cannot make the
notes put out by banks worth more
than the bonds which secure these
notes. It is a sad thing to say that our
credit is dishonored in the markets of
the world, but it is true, and it must he
said, if we are to find a remedy. It is
humiliating to find that when Great
Britain borrows a thousand dollars for
twenty years it pays the lender hut
$1,71>0, when, if we make the same
loan, we have to pay $2,760 to the
lender. If we wish to help the tax
payer, if we wish to get at the cause of
debased currency in the hands of the
laborer, we must first find out why our
credit is dishonored—for it is a tainted
credit that sinks alike the value of
bonds, of greenbacks, and bank notes.
Make the credit of the United States as
good as that of Great Britain, or of a
merchant in good standing, or of a
mortgage on a farm, and our troubles
would disappear.
Contracting Wrong.
1 f we make our paper money good by
a harsh system of contraction, we shall
cripple the energies of the country, and
make bankruptcy and ruin. If, on the
other hand, we debase the currency by
unwise issues, we shall equally perplex
business and destroy sober industry
and make all prices mere matters of
gambling, tricks, and chances. This
will end as it did in the Southern Con
federacy. At the outset the citizens of
Richmond went to market with their
money in their vest pockets and
brought back their dinners in their
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1868.
baskets; in the end they took their
money in their baskets and took their
dinners home in their vest pockets.
Make our money good by an honest
and wise course, and when this is done,
it will be worth twenty-five per cent,
more than it is now, which will be c
qual to an increase of one-quarter in
the amount of currency. Business
will l>e strengthened, industry will be
encouraged, prices will be regular, and
men will then dare to go on with use
ful enterprises.
The Cause of Our Disgrace—Official
Statements.
We find right here the cause of our
troubles, perplexities, and national dis
grace. Our credit is tainted. But for
that we could borrow money, as Bri
tain does, at three per cent., and <-ut
down taxation. But for that our paper
money would be good, and gold and
silver would glitter in the hands of la
bor. But for that fact there would he
no question how the bonds are to be
paid, and we never should have heard
of the greenback issue. But for the
national discredit, business men would
not be perplexed, and the disquiet and
fears which now disturb the public
mind would not exist. Now, if this
dishonor cannot be helped, we must
bear it in the best way we can, and we
must get on with the sectional, and so
cial, and political troubles growing out
of it until time and events shall bring
some cure. But if it can be shown to
be the work of those in power, then all
sections, all classes, and all interests
should unite and turn them out. For
tunately we have official statements to
guide us in our inquiries. We take
the showing of the very parties under
impeachment to show where the guilt
lies. To show the waste of those in
power Jet us compare the cost of Gov
ernment during the four years of peace
before 1861, and the four years of peace
following the Ist of July, 1805. For
the fiscal year ending July 1, 1869, I
will take the estimate just made by the
Committee of Ways and Means. Bear
in mind that this is the best promise
the Republicans can make on the eve
of a Presidential election. It will
prove to he many millions short of
what they will spend, but we will give
them the benefit of their own state
ments. After the close of the war, and
up to the Ist of July, ISGS, the War
Department paid $105,001),(XX); which
is $75,000,000 more than was spent by
the same department in four years of
Mr. Polk's administration, and which
included the cost of the Mexican war.
It took nearly twice as much to stop a
war under Republican policy as it did
to carry on a war under the Democrat
ic management. But I will not take
this $195,000,000 into account. Let us
close the war. Since July 1, 1865, a
bout three months after the surrender
of Lee, up to July 1, Uses, tiie cost of
Government will be by official reports
and estimatessß2o,39o,2oß. Up to Ju
ly 1, 1569, by the estimate of the Chai
rman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, it will be $197,973,366, making
the cost of government for four years
$1,018,363,571. This does not include
one cent paid or to be paid for interest
or principal of the debt. Ihe cost of
government during the four years he
fore the war (leaving out interest on
debt) was $256,246,414. This shows
that the Republicans have spent in
time of peace four dollars where the
Democrats spent one. But the cost of
government grows greater, and we
will allow them to spend two dollars
where the Democrats spent one. This
will make $512,462,828. But they spent
$565,910,616 beyond this. What did
they do with the money? During the
four years cf Mr. Polk's term, which
included the Mexican war, the cost of
the War Department was only $90,540,-
788,21. We find that the cost of tlie
War Department, taking their own
statements and estimates, will be in
those four years of peace, $541,613,619.
And this follows an expenditure of
more than $3,000,000,000 during the
war.
The cost of the Navy Department in
the four years ending July 1, 1869, will
bo, by Republican statements and esti
mates, £117,471,802; and this follows
an expenditure of $814,186,742 during
the war. In the four years before the
war the navy cost only $62,910,534.
We then stood in the front rank of
commercial powers. Our ships were
on every sea and were to be found in
every port. American shipping is now
by our tarilf policy swept from the
ocean, but the cost of the navy is near
ly doubled. The year ending July 1,
1808, is the third year of peace.
Rut the War Department cost $128,-
808,491, which is more than its cost
during the four years of Mr. Polk's
term, which covered the expenses of
the Mexican war. Not only does one
year of peace cost more than four years
of war then did, but the third year of
peace cost more than the second, for in
the year ending July 1, 1867, the War
Department spent only $95,221,415. In
these statements we have given the
Republicans the lull benefit of their
promises for the fiscal year ending Ju
ly 1, 1869, but we should like to ask a
few questions. If $38,081,018 is enough
for the War Department in that year,
why and how did you spend $123,858,-
490 this year? If $17,500,000 is enough
for the navy in 18G9, why did you
spend upon it $43,821,111 in 18GG, and
$31,024,011 in 1807? You have not cut
down the numbers of the army. Did
you waste money this year, or are your
statements for next year untrue ? We
ask Republicans to read the estimates
for the future, for they show the pro
fligacy of the post. If $500,000,000 of
the money paid for military, naval,
and other expenses had been used to
pay the debt, to-day the credit of the
United States would have been as good
as that of Great Britian. This rapid
payment, and the proof it would have
given of good faith, would have carried
the national credit to the highest point.
The bonds would be worth much more
in the hands of holders, and yet the tax-
payer would seem better off, for the
cost of the Government would be cut
down as its credit" rase. We could put
out new bonds, bearing less interest;
which would not have the odious ex
emption from taxation. Our debt
would have been less, our interest low
er, and our taxes reduced. The hours
of labor could be shortened.
The Effects of the Debt on the Toiler.
What now lengthens the time of
toil ? If we were free from any form
of taxation, director indirect, six hours
of work would earn as much as ten
do now. One hour more of work
ought to meet a laborers share of thecost
of government, another hour should
pay his share of the national debt. He
now works two hours more each day
than he ought to pay for the military
and negro policy of Congress and its
corrupt schemes. It lias just passed a
law that eight hours make a day's lab
or, while it piles up a load of taxation
which forces the laborer to work ten
hours or starve. But the wise and
honest use of this SSOO,OOOJHK) would
not have stopped here. When it car
ried our bonds to the level of specie
value, it would have carried up our
currency to the value of specie. The
plan of making our currency as good
as gold by contracting its volume car
ries with it great distress and suffering.
But if we lift up its value, by getting
rid of the taint upon the national
credit, it harms no one, it bless
es all. Now, our legal tender and bank
currency must be debased while our
national bonds stand discredited.—
They must rise and fall together.—
They are all based upon the national
credit. Bank notes cannot be worth
more than the bonds which secure them.
If, then, the $500,000,000 had been du
ly and honestly used to pay our debt,
to-day the tax-payers would have been
relieved,, the mechanic, laborer, and
pensioner would have been paid in
coin or money good as coin, and would
not be cheated out of one-quarter of
their dues by false dollars. The hol
ders of bonds in savings banks or life
insurance would be better off, as their
securities would be safer and worth
more. There would be no question
how they should he paid, for this ques
tion grows out of the follies of those in
power and will disappear, when they
disapi>ear from the places they now
hold. The bondholder would no lon
ger stand in an odious light. He
would not be charged with the taxa
tion which has been used to hurt, not
to help, his claim. If a wise, an hon
est use of the public money would
have done this good in the past, it
would do it in the future.
The. Jladical Negro Policy.
But the Republican party, at Chica
go, pledged Itself, by its nominations
and resolutions, to keep up its negro
policy. It is impossible to give untu
tored Africans at the South uncontroll
ed power over the Government, the
property, and laws of the people of ten
States by excluding white votes, with
out military despotism. You cannot
give to three million of negroes more
Senators than are allowed to the fifteen
million of white men living in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa, Kentucky,
Missouri, and Michigan without keep
ing up great standing armies. With
out a general amnesty, and the restora
tion of the suffrage to all the whites in
the South, a great standing army must
be a permanent institution. In order
to curse the South with military des
potism, negro rule, and disorganized
labor and industry, they cursed the
farmers of the North with taxation,
the mechanics with more hours of toil,
the laborers and pensioners with deba
sed paper, the merchant with a shifting
standard, and the public creditor with
a dishonored and tainted national faith.
Are these classes to turn and to see
how each can push the burdens upon
each other, or are they to make com
mon cause and do away with the curse
of a bad government ? If the Republi
can policy prevails this struggle must
begin. Either the laborer or the capi
talist must go down. Both cannot
live under It, and men must choose be
tween. If, on the other hand, the pol
icy of selfish ambition and of sectional
hate is put down our country will
start upon a new course of prosperity
and all classes will reap in common
the fruits of good government.
The Great Question at the. Coming Eh c-
The next election will turn upon this
question, can the congressional party
succeed in their efforts to excite and ar
ray the industrial and moneyed inter
est against each other, or will those 11-
nite and turn out the authors of the mis
chief under which they are all suffer
ing? The only hope of our opponents
is discord where there should he har
mony and concert of action. In our
State, at the last election, we appealed
to all classes to help us to save New
York from misgovern!;.cut and all
came up to the rescue, and we made a
change of seventy thousand. Ret us
again appeal to all classes interested
throughout the Union ; lot us go be
fore the people with these facts, and
we will make a change which will
sweep the wrongdoers from their pla
ces. We say to the bondholders and to
the laborer who has put his money in
to savings banks: "We do not wish to
harm you, we do not seek to give you
bad money, but to get a good currency
for all. It will not help us to break
down the credit of your bonds; it
hurts us; it keeps up our taxes by ma
king us pay high interest ; but we ask
you to help save us as tax-payers from
the cost of the negro and military pol
icy at the South. It is hard for us to
pay you if you let men in power take
the money we give in taxes to reduce
your claims and use it to uphold mili
tary despotism., We see clearly that a
state of affairs which will compel you to
take debased currency will force every
laborer, farmer, mechanic, and creditor
to take a debased currency as well.
If your claims were all wiped out to-
moirovvbyan issue of greenbacks, it
would not relieve the fears of patriots ;
labor would still be cheated by false
dollars, our standard of value would
still be shifting. Taxation would be
kept up by the Reconstruction policy,
for it is despotism more than debt that
makes taxation so heavy. Nothing
would l>e settled. The Judiciary
would still be trampled under foot, the
Executive would still be manacled so
that it could not punish crime nor pro
tect innocence."
The necesssity of striking down the Con
gressional Policy.
But strike down the congressional
policy, and all will be set right. Since
the war closed in 1865, the government
has spent for its expenses, in addition
to payments on principal or interest of
the public debt, the sum of more than
$1,000,000,000. On this sum there has
been spent nearly $800,600,000 on the
army and navy and for military purpo
ses. This is nearly one-third of the na
tional debt. This was spent in the
time of peace. Thecost of our navy
before the war was about $13,000,0<K) each
year. Since the war, when our slop
ing has been swept from the ocean by
taxation, the annual average cost has
been $300,000,000 although we have
now no carrying trade to protect.—
While money is thus wasted without
scruple upon the army and navy, if any
aid is sought to lessen thecost of trans
portation for the farmers of -the West,
or to cheapen food for the laborers of the
East, we are at once treated with con
gresssional speeches upon the virtues
of economy. If from this amount
there had been saved and paid upon
the debt the sum of $500,000,000, how
changed would our condition have
been. With this payment, which
would have cut down the debt to a
bout $2,000,000,000, our credit would at
least have been as good as that of Great
Britain.
The Negro Policy Depreciating Our
Credit and Necessitating a Standing
Army.
It is because we did not thus aj ply
this money to this purpose, but spent
it upon the negro policy, the military
despotism, and other abuses of govern
ment, that our credit is so low. The
world saw we were violating our faith
with the public creditors and the tax
payers alike, when the money was
used fur the partisan purposes of keep
ing the South out of the Union until
sham governments could he manufac
tured by military violence and con
gressional action. The world not only
saw the monstrous diversion of the
money, wrung from the people by tax
ation, but it also saw that it made,
through a long series of years, still
greater annual expenses unavoidable
when the entire control of Southern
States is given over, unchecked by the
Intelligence of the white race, to untu
tored negroes, whom the people of the
North have said were uu fit to be voters,
when the unfortunate Africans, drunk
with unusual power, and goaded on
by bad and designing men, shall make
life and property unsafe, and shall
shock and disgust the world with out
rages, we shall be forced to raise and pay
still greater armies. Up to this time
the South has had at least an intelli
gent tyranny in military officers. Ev
ery man who is not blinded by hate or
bigotry looks forward with horror to
the condition of the South under negro
domination. The bad faith to the pub
lic creditor and tax-payer in thus un
settling our Union, of keeping the
South in a condition where it cannot
help the national prosperity, but is
made a heavy load upon the country,
is the real cause of our debased credit.
The tax-payer was told the burdens
put upon liiin were to pay the debt;
but the money was not used in good
faith to him, for the debt still stands;
nor in good faith to the creditor, for
he was not paid what he should have
been; hut it was used in away which
harmed both, in away that tainted the
nation's credit, kept up taxation by
keeping up the rate of interest, while
it sank the value of the bonds, and
with them carried down the paper cur
rency, and thus wronged the laborer
and pensioner. But for the policy of
had faith, of partisan purposes, mad
fol'y, we could to-day borrow money
as cheaply as Great Britain; but we
have cursed the tax-payers, the laborer,
the pensioner, the public creditor, for the
sake of cursing the people of the South
with military despotism, and negro
domination.
Every one must see, if ue paid off
one-fifth of our debt, had kept down
the cost of Government, had given
peace to our Union, had built up in
dustry and good order in the South,
not one of the evils which now alltict
us could have existed. Our whole
condition would have I wen changed.
We demand that our currency shall
be made as good as gold, not by con-
tructing the amount, but by contract
ing the expenses of Government. We
are against measures which will pill I
down business credit, and call for those
which shall lift lip tho national credit.
When wo stop the waste, which forces
us to pay a usury of ten per cent., and
take a course which will enable us to
borrow money upon the rates paid by
other nations, we shall add to the dig
nity and power of our Union. When
we give value to our bonds by using
the money drawn by taxation to the
payment of our debt, and not to the
military and negro scheme, we shall
relieve the tax-payer, the bill-holder,
and give strength and value to the
claimsof the public creditor. We have
seen tho mischief wrought out by the
policy of the past three years. It will
be as hurtful in the future as it lias
been in the past. Yet the Republican
party has approved it and is pledged
to it. We have shown how the policy
of using our money to pay our debts
would have helped us in the past. It
will do the same for us in the future.
To that policy we are pledged. There
is not one man of our party in this
broad land who doubts upon thispoint.
VOL 64.—WHOLE No. 5,455.
It was never charged that a single
Democrat in these United States ever
favored the military and negro policy
upon which the credit of the country
has been wrecked. Our remedy is to
use the public money to pay the pub
lic debt. It is a simple, brief, but
a certain remedy for our national mal
ady. Our ailment is debt, aggravated
by despotism.
But we see that the War Department
this year spent $128,858,466, when the
year before it spent only about SU"i,OOO,-
000. The longer we have peace the
more the army costs. llow is this?—
Well, it costs a great deal to keep sol
diers and Freed men's Bureau agents,
and to feed and clothe negroes at the
South. But why do you do it? Let
the negroes support themselves as we
do. You make the laborers of the
South work to feed and clothe these
idle Africans. True, but by so doing
we get their votes, and they will send
our traveling agents to Congress; we
shall get twenty Senators in this way,
while a majority of the people of the
United States, living in nine States,
have only eighteen. The peoph may
vote as they please, but they cannot
get the Senate nor repeal any of the
laws we got through for our advan
tage; we have managed it so that one
quarter of the people have more power
in the South than the three-quarters.
We now own the negroes of the South.
Did we not buy them by your biood
and money ? We now see where the
money goes ; we now see why the cred
it of our country is so tainted ; we now
see why the value of our paper money
is sinking. It was only at twenty-one
per cent, discount in IsGG; it is now at
a discount of about thirty-one percent.
We now see why our laborers and pen
sioners are cheated by false dollars. I f
the mechanic cares to know why be
works so many hours, let him study
the reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury. It is clear why business is
is hindered and business men perplex
ed. We now know why the public
creditor is harassed by our dishonored
credit, and the tax-payer is hunted
down by the tax-gatherer.
Tin' Negro Pol leg Ihe Giune of Taxation
uml Penury.
The negro military policy of the Re
publican party is at the bottom of all
those troubles. We now get at the
real issue between parties. The Re
publicans, by their nominations and
resolutions, are pledged to keep up the
negro an<l military policy, with all its
cost and taxation. These will be
greater hereafter. The government of
the South is to go into the hands of
the negroes. We have said they are
unfit to be voters at the North. The
Republicans say they shall be governors
at the South. We are clearly opposed to
this policy. We have seen how much
it costs the tax-payer, the bondholder,
and the laborer in the past three years.
It will be as hurtful in the future. We
have also seen how our policy of using
the money to pay our debts would have
helped the tax-payer, the bondholder
and the laborer in the past. It will
do as much in the future. The whole
question is brought down to this clear
point: Shall we use our money to
pay our debts, relieve the tax-payer,
make our money good in the hand of
thi' laborer or pensioner, and help the
bondholder? or shall we use it to keep
up military despotism, feed idle ne
groes, break down the Judiciary,
shackle the Executive and destroy all
constitutional rights? [Cries of "No!
no!"]
The discount upon our paper money
was twenty-one" per cent, in April,
lSfiG; it is now about thirty-one per
cent. It will continue to go down
under the same policy. As it sinks it
will curse all labor and business, it will
endanger still more the public credit,
lor the greater the premium on gold
the harder it becomes to pay specie to
the bondholder, and its claims become
more odious. What claim have the
Republicans upon our soldiers? They
takeaway from him one-quarter of his
pension by paying him in false money,
which is worth less than seventy-five
cents on the dollar. A wise and hon
est administration would have made
it worth its face in gold. What right
have they to call upon the mechanic
and laborer? They have lengthened
out the hours of their toil to feed
swarms of office-holders at the North,
and to support armies and hordes of ne
groes at the South. I low can they look
the tax-payers in the face, when they
have wrung from them so many millions
upon the pretext that t he debt compell
ed them to do so, while they were
using the money thus collected to sup
portstandmgarmiesand to trample up
on the rights and liberties of the Amer
ican people? Can they, with decency,
appeal to the bondholder, after taint ing
the national credit and sinking it to
the level of the Turk's, and endanger
ing their securities, by throwing upon
them the whole odium of taxation ?
Then let the East and West, the North
and the .South, the soldier, the sailor,
in ships or in the field, the taxpayer,
and the landholder, by one united ef
fort, drive from power the common
enemies of liberty, honesty, honor,
right, and constitutional law. jLoud
applause.]
Ax OUT HAG E ox TIIE HELPLESS.—
The Hagerstown (Maryland; Mail
says: "A friend residing in this coun
ty, who has had four children in the
Columbia Instituteof Washington city,
an institution where mutes are educa
ted, informs us that negroes are now
admitted as pupils, and that they are
placed at once 011 the same footing
with tiie white pupils. Not only do
the negroes sit side by side with the
whites in the school room, but the
white pupils are obliged to sleep in the
same bed with the negroes, and are of
ten compelled to kiss them. Thus are
we progressing—social equality in the
mute asylum, where not a word of ob
jection can be raised."