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THE DAlL, EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1808.
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The Campaign Oiucd.
From the Boston pott.
A visible sense of relief ia manifested all
over the country, at the announcement of the
names of Seymour ami Blair as the constitu
tional candidates for I'realJeut and Vice-resident
of the United States. The universal
feeling of satisiaction springs from the assu
rance that we are vow to have a government
under civil guidance rather than military con
trol. Iloratio Seymour has no match as a
Statesman among the ptiulio men of the coun
try. Hy his ability, his experience, and his
6hining patriotism, he has established a fame
which cannot be shaken by the moat violent
assaults of partisan opposition. If the war
is really over, and the soldiers' work is done,
then it is time we proceeded to subordinate
Arms to laws, and to secure through constitu
tional methods what has already been settled
ly the conflict.
The campaign is now fairly opened whose
issue is the salvation of the Union and its free
Government. If we are asked what is to be
opposed, we point to that arraignment of the
party in power factions, frantic, and revo
lutionary corrupt, reckless, and usurping
Which is attached to the platform adopted by
the Democratic Convention. It is worth the
Utmost effort which can be unitedly made to
drive such a party from the places in which
it seeks to entrench itself. That it can be
done, nobody doubts who holds fast to his
faith in the people. Radicalism sees clearly
enough how its supports are falling and the
ground is sinking under its feet, and it there
fore schemes with the boroughs it would
make of the Southern States, to see how to
offset the fraudulent electoral votes manufac
tured by the Freedmen's Bureau against the
honest votes of the citizens of the Northern
States. It dodges the great issues; relies on
its false boasts; works with all its might
upon such popular prejudices as it luiy be
able to excite; and hopes to hide behind
the military reputation of a successful com
mander until the universal indignation is
passed.
With Radicalism the struggle is one of life
and death; on the part of the people under the
lead of Seymour and Blair, it is a struggle for
the security of the common liberties. The
lines between this riotous politic 1 faction and
the real sentiment of the nation, do not require
to be drawn anew. No statement which the
former can adroitly put forth on its own behalf
sow, will obliterate the record of its past his
tory. It has had full swiug with power sinoe
the Union soldiers couqnered a peace in the
same of the Union; and that power has been
need, not to restore permanent harmony
among discordant States, but to destroy oue
branch of the Government, to practically
suppress another, and to usurp supreme do
minion for itself. When . such a revolu
tionary body comes before the people
and ai-ks for an extension of porer that ic may
continue its encroachments until appeals to
the people will be no longer . necessary, it
ought to be a theme for general gratitude that
a peaceful and orderly method still lies open
by which to disengage its grasp on the ftovern
ment. The chief merit of this method, how
ever, consists in our putting it to instant and
vigorous use. Iu dealing with bloated conspi
racies under a free government, nothing must
be taken on trust out of all their protests
and professions, but they must be judged
Sternly by their acts. Do we need any further
Illustrations of the temper or tendencies of
radicalism ?
One would be stone blind not to recognize
the expressed sentiment of the people of the
country since this revolutionary body of men
began to devolop their real intentions. Pa
tient as the people are accustomed to b4 under
almost every infliction of misrule, in the belief
that free principles have vitality enough to
work themselves safely through all ordinary
forms of abuse, they have unmistakably
Shown their determination to submit to this
tyranny of radicalism no longer. The recent
popular elections sufficiently prove that. As
often as a fair and square vote could be reached
on the issues which this body would present,
it has been a vote of unqualified condemna
tion of its destructive course. And we are to
take up the popular decision where we already
nd it, and go forward in its name and with its
support to the filial overthrow of all the ele
ments that are to be found in combination
against Republicanism. We are summoned to
unite as one man against the Jaoobins who
think the Government was oreated for thair
use and advantage. All good men, all patriots,
all who hate oppression in every form and be
lieve iu the equality of the States iu the
Union, and the people of the States under
their own local Governments, will come for
ward now to renounce interpretations which
make constitutional liberty a fraud and con
vert our republican system into aa odious
despotism.
This battle Is one that cannot be shirked or
evaded, but must be fought out on its merits.
Detraction has happily lost its power, except
against the guilty party making use of it. The
people have got over their fears of bug-aboa
epithets. Sham patriots pass for precisely
what they are. It is discovered that loudness
is not loyalty. The cry of freedom works no
favor to the party tbat values it only as a cry.
The heavy load of taxes is the true response
to the radical professions of economy. The
costly continuance of an army in the South is
the best commentary tbat can be made on re
construction. Extravagance and corruption
make the very air rank with the practices that
Set off radical professions. Their people have
the matter now in their own hands. Their
welfare, their safety, their liberty Itself ia
clearly at their own disposal.
Ttbcls and Carpet-Baggers.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
General Wade Hampton, at the meeting to
ratify the nomination of Mr. Seymour, de
clared that of tbe 150 members of the South
Carolina Convention, about one hundred are
"niggers;" that the entire roll of members pay
only $700 in taxes, while they are authorized
to lay upon the people of South Carolina over
$2,000,000; that of tbe 4700 so paid about $500
are payable ly a single conservative member.
and that if this state of things be continued
every white mau will leave the State.
The last prediction smacks strongly of the
'die-in-the-last-ditoh" polioy which our flre-
eating lords ol the lash made so familiar to na
by long-continued threats, and ridiculous by
protrameu uuu-jicrioriuauoe. i lie considera
tions which will determine South Carolinians
to bid adieu to the halls of their anuestnra
are very much like those which induce the
cause of emigration everywhere, from tb
descent of the Goths upou Rome, down to the
latest importation or emigrants from liJllaul.
or from the stampedes of wild buffaloes
to the flight of waterfowl. When the South
Carolinian aristocrats can get better picking
and more lordly indolence elsewhere than iu
South Carolina, they will go not before. Bit
if anybody is to be coloured, by all means let
it be the class which Wade Hampton repre
sents. South Carolina could do without her
gentlemen as well as Ireland without her es
tablished church, or France or Italy without
their Bourbons.
fOver two-thirds of the population of South
Carolina are blaok. The division of the Legis
lature between tbe raoes represents each fairly
in proportion to its numbers. There is at first
glance an obvious fairness in this, compared
with the old Constitution, under whtou the
whole voting power was vested in less than a
third of the people, and which was as obvl
oucly despotio and undemocratic South Caro
lina has ever been a supercilious and pesky
dukedom in our family of republics. Now it is
converted into a republic, and of course the
ex-dukes don't like it, more than Bomba pre
fers a felt hat to tbe crown ef Naples. The
facts, if they are facts, which Gn. Hampton
setB forth are not free from harm and wroog,
nor do they indicate a perfect state of society
and government. Though the utmost of taxes
pmd by any legislative body is very small
compared with that paid by the whole State,
jet General llamrtou is right in arguing that
South Carolina needs more tax-payers iu her
Legislature, and it is wholly the fault of Gen.
Hampton And Ids class that they are not there.
Let General Hampton, Governor Orr, L. M.
Keitt, T. Barnwell Rhett, and ttie like say to
tbe coloied men of South Carolina, "We no
longer oppose your exercise of the right of suf
frage or any other political right.but on the plat
foim of equal and exact justice to all men, and
aristocratic and exclusive privileges to none,
we ask your suffrages," and we will guarantee
tbat they can at any time be elected to any
offices in the gilt of the people. But so long
as they go before the people asking the jni
uority to elect them to ulliue tor the purpose ot
disfranchising the majority, they will be fortu
nate if they are not themselves disfranchised.
That a Legislature should coutaiu tax
payers who will guard the rights of pro
perty is debirable ; but the defense of
property is less important at present,
in the South, than the maintenance
of tbe personal and political liberties of a full
third of the Southern people. While the Le
gislature of South Carolina, with its one hun
dred negroe8audno tax-payers, maybe poorly
prepared to defend property, it is well fitted
to defend the personal liberties of the freed
men the rights of tbe working class, by
wbim all the property And capital of the
State have been produced and must be
renewed. Agaiist this freedom formidable
conspiracies still exist. There are but two
wa to insuie it. Its enemies must 'around
arms," or its friends must keep tbe political
power in safe hands until they do. So long
as Wade Hampton and his class say to the
majority of the people of South Carolina,
"I he euly condition on which we will vote is
tbat you thall not vote," they exile them
selves from power, and surrender the ollides
of the Mate to uon tax paviucr negroes aud
carpet-baggers." We can appreciate the
evil of governments controlled by men who
pay few or no taxes. We do business iu
the midst of a city governed by carpet-baggers
not long over from Cork, Limerick, aud
Sauer Kr&uttnthul. The difference between
our carpet-baggers from Europe aud those with
which the rebellious Hamptons are alllicted is
tbat ouis are eeljeraily as deficient in mental
and moral cultivation as in property. We
believe most of the Southern carpet-baezers
have at least made the acquaintance ot the
schoolmaster. Nor is the South peculiar iu
finding carpet-baggers willing to accept her
cilices. The new Slates of the far West aud
the Pacific elope have far more of them than
the South. Tne remedy for such evils as may
be incident to uuiversal suffrage is for the tax-
paying people to take part iu the Government.
It they refuse they must submit to be fleeced
until they do, just as the tax payers of New
York city are fleeced by their Democratic
carpet-baggers until they are forced to vote
in self-defense. In politics, as iu agriculture,'
tbe Southern people, aristocraoy, and ple
beians, white and black, Republicans and
Democrats, must "root hog or die." If the
tax payers want the offices they have such
superior facilities that they can get their fair
share of them. If they refuse them tbe nontax-payers
will accept and make the most of
them.
It is a comfort to know, however, that so
far the "carpet-baggers" and the negroes
bave shown far more decenoy aud equity than
the Rebel aristocrats. ISO worse crime has yet
been charged upon them than that of color, or
birth, and loyalty to the Union, and a desire
to establish freedom for all men. They have
loosed nearly every bond from the unrepentant
Rebels, who are still seeking only to re-enslave
or disfranchise them. They have been stren
uous only for the protection of personal liberty.
They have not, like the governments which
tbey supersede, voted their States out of the
Union or into civil war. They have shown far
more prudence, judgment, and statesmanship,
though they are non-tax-paying negroes and
carpet-baggers, than the Rebels who plunged
tbe State into the vortex of destruction.
W hen the equitable Constitution which they
have founded does its perfect work, there may
be fewer Wade Hamptons with their three
hundred acres or roses, their enormous parks,
and slave-tilled plantations. But there may
be, too, more human souls permitted to bud
and blossom in the free air and sunlight of
heaven that, under the blighting influence of
slavery, would have developed only into
thorns to bleed the nation's feet aud retard its
onward progress.
The National Debt aud 'utioual Credit.
From the JV. Y. Herald.
It is the most difficult thiug in the world to
make the people aud pres of Europe under
stand ua or to speak ot us fairly. A portion
of the British press particularly seems to take
pleasure in raking us down and misrepresent
ing us whenever anything occurs to give it
an (ipportuuity of doing so. The characteris
tic egotism and selt-righteousness of John
Bull stick out iu a remaikable manner ou all
such occasions. We are called cousins, blood
relations, a great people, and all sorts of com
plimentary things are said of us when tbe
British want to settle Alabama claims after
their own fashion, to get a tai ill' from us favora
ble to themselves or to gaiusome other a i van
tages; but wheu we are iu trouble or believed
to be iu difficulties the cloven hoof is shown.
John Bull then strikes at us aud complacently
compares his degenerate offspring with his
own noble and honorable self.
For example, no sooner were 'the fiuauoial
features ol the Democratic platform, as adopted
by the Convention held iu this city, telegraphed
to Kugland than the pret-8 there cried out repu
diation; and we all kuow that by some means
or other, and either from iguorauce or design,
our six per ceut. gold interest securities are
kept down twenty per ceut. below the British
three and a half -per cents. If the credit of
one country be as good as that of the other
and the resources equal, the securities of the
two countries should have the same credit.
Biitish three and a half consols are quoted
now at ninety-four to ninety-five. This would
make United Mates sixes worth about oue
hundred and sixty, if, as we said, the credit and
means of paying be as good in one case as
the other. Vt what do we see f Oar securi
ties are quoted in Loudon at the game time at
a fraction ovr seventy-three that is, reckon
ing the value of the securities upon the inte
rest drawn from them and the return for the
capital invested in them, ours are considered
by the stock dealers aud capitalists abroad not
worth half the value placed npm those of
England. . Oar oredit stands less than fifty per
cent, below tbat of Great Britain. Thre is no
cause for this difference. It is not real, but
artificial, and can only be temporary. It arises
in a great measure from the persistent efforts
of tbe British press, capitalists and stook
dealers to depredate the character, standing,
and credit of the United States.
What are the facts with regard to the credit
of the United Mates to the prospnetof paying
the debt and tbe means of paying it f How
does this oouutry compare with England and
tbe other countries of Europe in this respect f
First, we will remark that our debt, enormous
as it is, was contracted at home; we did not
ask for money abroad; we obtained no loan
from foreign countries. Yet we raised more
uioi.ey than any nation ever raised in the same
time, and carried on a war unexampled in
magnitude and cost to a successful issue. No
nation in the world no, not even Eugland, with
all Ler wealth could have raised such a vast
sum within the few years that the war lasted.
The effort would have broken down any other
country. Why were we able to do this f Ba
caue we bad a vast and rich contineut, full of
Wealth aud natural resources, ant thirty-five
millions of the most industrious and enterpris
ing people in the world. 'J he debt is but a
small mortgage on tbe vast wealth aud un
equalled industry of the nation. We have not,
like England, reached the limit of production,
nor bave we any reason to look gloomily ou
the future, as Mr. Gladstone does of Eugland,
when her coal mines and other resources must
give out. Stupendous as the development of
this country has been in wealth and popula
tion, it is only the beginning of a mighty fu
ture. There are not three millions of paupers
to eat up the earnings of industry or who oau
not fiud employment. Every person is a pro
ducer; there is plenty of well paid employment,
and room enough for ten times thi present
population. There are now probably 40,000,00'J
of people in the United States, and within the
next decade there will be over fifty millions.
And it must be remembered that this popula
tion is equal in productive power to doable
that of most other countries, on aooouat of its
superior energy, invention and enterprise.
It is hardly necessary to meutiou here our un
limited agricultural resources, including
almost everything that is grown elsewhere,
from the hardy cereals of the North to the
Semi-tropical productions of the South, or to
our boundless mineral wealth in iron, coal,
copper, the precious metals aud every other
kind of mineral. All this is well kuown.
Who will presume to say, then, that we
cannot pr.y the national debt, aud pay it, too,
within the period oi the present generation if
we choose ?
Unt tLe foreign caviller Intimate that our
people n ay repudiate the debt, and point to
party platforms and utterauces of party poli
ticians as indicating that. Our political parties
and politicians say a great many things for
bnncombe, and abuse eaou other for all sorts
of bad doings and intentions. In other coun
tries t artieB and politicians do the same, if
they do not go quite so far as ours. There is
a great deal of clap-trap in all this, and it is so
unders ood by the people. But with regard to
the platforms of the Democrats aud Republi
cans, which are much alike as to tiuaucial
questions, there is nothing squinting even at
repudiation in them. Both parties intend to
pay the debt honestly, and if either of them
did not it would be condemned by the people.
They do intend that the bondholders shall he
taxed as all O'.her property holders aud people
are taxed, and tne majority of both are iu
favor of paying the debt according to law, in
legal tenders while they are the lawful money
ot the country and where it is not stated th
bonds must be paid in coin. The majority of
both are for paying as much of the dbt as
possible at the earliest period aud in the easiest
manner within the meaning of the law. That
is all there is iu the platforms, and is that not
just? Is tbat repudiation? Does it not
rather show a fixed aud an honest purpose to
pay the debt ? We think our foreign creditors,
from whom we asked no lotn aud who have
voluntarily purchased our bonds, will soon see
that the credit of the United States stands as
high as that of any other country, and that
our securities will rise accordingly iu the
markets of the world.
Congress and the Army.
From the N. Y. Times.
The political rehabilitation of the South has
provtd the signal for the long-deferred reduc
tion of the army. It is noteworthy that not
a single voice, Republican or Democratic, ia
Senate or House, opposes this reduction.
Senator Wilson, who reported a bill to leave
tbe army on its present basis, did so only iu
order to furnish a clear schedule of its existing
Status, and had previously put himself on
reoord in favor of reduction. Even Mr. Gar
field, who objects to the slaughter of general
office rs, ad vocates a reduction of the enlisted men
to 25,000, which is a reduction of nearly 50
per cent. Accordingly, we may take it for
granted that this last will be the maximum of
tbe future enlisted army, with the chanues in
favor of figures still lower.
And why not? The only two justifications
for the present swollen muster-rolls bave been
reconstruction and the Iudiaus. lint, at the
bouth, martial law is giving way to munioipal
law; valid civil Governments, reooguized as
such by Congress, have been set up; and
State alter State marches to the musiu of tU.
L'idon. The Plains, according to General
bhtrman, who ought to be a good julie, are
comparatively quiet, an t no more murders or
robberies are the'e committed by prowling
Indians in a mouth than by roughs iu a ooist
wise city iu the same time. Ordinary garri
son and outpost duty is the only army work
le't, and this must be made the basis for the
pt-ai e establishment.
Two general schemes of army organization
always come up for comparison on any pro
posal to reduce and lix the military establish
ment. The first contemplates a uui'brm aud
iiioix rtiouatH reduction ot officers aud men;
the other is the cadre system, which looks to
a maximum of officers and a minimum of
enlisted men. Mi st array officers favor this
latter, at least to a partial extent. Geueral
Grant and the military authorities at head
quarters perceive its advantages. General
(Jai field's bill, reported from the House Mili
tary Committee, looks in the same directiou,
and provides for the retention of tbe seven
teen general officers, and the greater part of
the Stall officers. It does, indeed, reduce the
fixty regiments to forty-one, aud the -15,00(
enlisted men to 115,000; but when it comes to
officers, the chief reduction it proposes is that
a fourth of them (less than bin) out of the
2858) shall be put on half pay. In other
words, its reduction here consists in what
would be equivalent to discharging less than
4UU clhoers. or one-seventh, of the whoi.
whi'e the enlisted men are to be brought down
one half.
The advantages, we repeat, of the cadre
system, in providing a large, well trained, ex
perienced aud able body ot ofiioers, are beyond
question. These advantages have been veri
fied by experience, as well as recommended in
theory by European military systems. In our
own case, there is an additional argument iu
is favor from the fact that those experienced
ollii ers, who shall be forced out ot the army
after their able service during the war, may
not be available agaiu iu the hour of need
and this ia independent of any question of
gralitnde for that put servlon. NevertheTe?,
we o nnot rn thin the Home wai rlirht in
dei lining to adopt General Gai field's plan, and
in to amending it alto more nearly propor
tion the otucers to the men; its actiou is justi
fled on the grounds of economy and practi
cability. At to econemy, the disparity between the
ages of a commissioned officer and a private
soldier is such that, where one of the former
in retained, U is like keelug half a dozen or
a dozen of the latter. We admit that it is
pleasant to have a large body of skillful offi
cers at coram mid but it costs. Except on
economical grounds, w should not cut down
the army at all; it would hardly be wise. whn
we are forced to economize, to save at the
spigot and let run at the bung.
s to practicability, it would be idle to pre
tetd that when the whole army is reduced
one-half, its officers can be sa'ely reduoed only
one-fourth. It is clear that the reduction may
be made proportionately, and should be so
made in all grades. To keep up an army
where every tenth man is a commissioned
officer, and every third or fourth mau an officer
of some sort would be only one remove from
Artemus Ward's organization, in which every
man was an officer no privates allowed.
Unquestionably, it is an ungracious task to
select and muster out some distinguished
officers, and to reduce others in rank, for no
fault or deficiency of theirs. But, if we come
down to the simple fact, five Mnior-Generals
and ten Brigadier-Generals are not required
for an army of twenty-five thousand men,
more espeially as it is not to be kept to
gether iu any solid bodies, but scattered iuto a
hundred posts. The same is true of the great
staff force in the Quartermaster, Ordnance,
Pay, Medicine, and other Departments, whose
Bureaus are in Washington. It cannot pos
sibly require the large lorce of staff officers
now ou du'y for tbe needs of au army of
twenty-five thousand men. It must be remem
bered tbat this is no new experiment that we
are makirg, but that the staff needs of a
small amy were familiar experience before
the late war.
The House lias, it must be confessed, made
havoc with the Military Committee bill. Bat,
on the whole, its reductions are sensible. It
has provided that any vacancies occurring in
the office of General or Lieutenaut-Oeueral
shall not le filled; and that is plainly wise,
especially considering tbe occasion of the
ortg nal appointments. It has prudently cat
down the Major-Generals to three, aud the
Biigadiers to six. It has reduced every staff
officer in rank and pay by oue grade, as befits a
small army, and besides has reduced the
number by one-half, to take effect on the lOih
of Maich, lfeo'!). Some ill feeling will natu
rally be c&U:-ed at first by these sweepiug
measures. Hut we doubt not that the pride
and patriotism of our army officers will be suc
cess! ally appealed to, their patriotism, as
they see the poverty of tbe country, and the
pie.siug need of retrenchment; their pride,
when they will hardly seek to retain places
which, it not sinecures, have at least become
useless to the country.
Why Do the Ilea then llagc'J
From the JV. Y. World.
It is iu vain that our Republican contempo
raries endeavor to revive the passions aud the
prejudices of the war. Their own frenzy is
fictitious, but if it were real the people would
not share it. The puty-cries, the misrepre
sentations, the maledictions, which were suc
cessful four years ago because of the xoited
and pat-sinuate temper of the public uiiud, to
day not only fail, but they do worse than fail
ibey defeat the purpore of those who use
them. Tbey give au arpect of the ridiculous
to that which was once sacred. There exists
no answering heat and passion in the p"ople's
minds, and the excited language of the Repub
lican journals falls upon their ears wl h no
other result than any equally exaggerated
and intemperate harangues would have. Their
first effect is to close the raiud against even
tbat small modicnm of truth which is con
vened in such a clumsy and offensive vehicle.
The electioneering violence with which the
7ribune, Herald, Times, and livening I'o.st
have opened their campaign may confidently
be expected to enlighten rather than to en
venom the miuds of their readers. As a
matter of fact it is not suited to the present
temper of the people. Its incongruity with
that temper is nut merely fatal to the purpose
of those who clothe their party purposes in
such outrageous and disproportionate lan
guage, but it will also have the effect of ex
hibiting to vast numbers of sensible men,
ardent iu their patriotism and intolerant of
diuerence, as high feeling so commonly is,
just how far they themselves were swept
along by the passions of the war, and the
prejudices aribiug out of those passious, from
the path of common sense aud tolerant pa
triotism. The Republicans four years ago really used
to think, and actually persuaded a great many
sensible aud well-meaning persons to think
that they alone were truly patriotic, that they
alone loy ally desired the prosperity, peace,
and union of the country. Men's minds were
so heated by the collisions, the cost, and tbe
calamities of the war, that it was possible for
this belief to te widely prevalent. Three
years of Republican misrule have disturbed
this popular and passionate credulity, aud
now it would be generally deemed a mark of
bigotry and discreditable rarrowness if a man
were to utter such intolerant sentimeuts con
cerning his fellow-citizens as easily passed
current among the unreflecting then.
Tbe Republican journals which we have
nained are proceeding upon the theory that
the ardent aud passionate patriotism of the
war epi oil has tipened and hardened iuto par
tisan bigotry aud intolerance. Ic has done
lio'hiiJg of the kind. The American people are
too eiiierpiising, intelligent, and active a race
of men for such a calamity to be possible to
them. They work out of their mistakes. They
shed their transient intolerance. Tuey are
hospitable to new truths and to fresh light
upou old OLes. They perceive their errors and
escape them as rapidly as any people ou the
taje of tbe earth. It is tbe rarent thing Iu the
world lor tbe crust of prejudice to harden
around and entomb the intelligence of Ameri
can citizens.
Therefore, the journals which appeal to their
readeis with tbe trei zied harangues, the vio
lent prejudice, and the bigoted intolerance,
which were not universally odious three or
four years ago, only because the nation wae.
then in the agony of a struggle for its unity,
are certain to make themselves ridiculous
now, and so far from envenoming the miuds of
their leaders, are likely to assist them to a
just and reasonable measure of their own pri
vate aud individual errors of prejudice, pas
sion, and ii jni-t oe.
As ea y a way as any to pi eve the change
which tune and events have brought upon
the n inds of ns all, and often wrought uu
ccnsilouely, is to endeavor to put ourselves,
as we are now, into our states of mind then,
'ibis is ti e natural aud usual way in which
we reckon in maturity our progress, or iu old
age our decline. It is thus that the bearded
man discovers how different be is, while yet
the eatue, from himself iu the illusions of
youth.
Tke, for example, that speech of Governor
Sejmour. not to the rioters, but to a crowd in
the City Hall Park five years ago a document
which became more thoroughly polarized with
213 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
OFFER TO TUB TRADE, IN LOTS,
FIRE RYE AXD BOlllBOlY WIIISKIES, I B(M),
Ol" 106, lfciOO, U-tOy, nml 1H()8.
A1S0, TRIE FIRE- 1;1E ASD B01RR0A AYIIISRIES,
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from to 1845.
Literal contract will be entered Into tor lota, n bond at Distillery, of thin yeta' manufactort.!
tbe passions and prejudices of the war epoch
than any other of equal brevity which cau be
named. It is merely necessary for any sensi
ble man to read that speech to-day to see, not
merely what a perfectly Judicious and proper
speech it was for the Governor to make, lu the
circumstance wherein he found himself ou his
arrivul in the city, but also to discover a tole
rably accurate measure of the prejudice to
which so many of us were unconsciously sub
jected. Here is the letter, as we find it in the
J'ost with the usual partisan electrodes at
either end:
SEYMOUR AND HIS "FRIENDS "
"Five years no this month Tuesday, July H,
1M4 11 oi alio Hey m our addressed Ihe rloieis lu
u.InciIv lu Hiee honeyed phrases:
"My Friends:! have come down here from
tlecjUlet of tne country to see what was the
(I lln vilty, lo learu what all Ibis trouble wxs
coni'tTiiliig I he draft. Let me essure you tli it I
am jour liiei'd (Uproarious cheering ) You
have leen my frleuUa ((Jrles of 'Yes, yes!'
lhiit'ssol' We are. and will be ugalu !') And
now, I nsnre you, my fellow cl i.-ns, tat I am
Ijcrelosliowyoua testol my friendship fCneers.)
1 wish lo luuirui you tnat I bave seal my A'lju-lani-Uei
eral to WaanlURton to confer with ibe
an. Unities llie'e, to have tins draft suspended
HDd stopi ed. (Vociferous cheer.) I esa you us
gono citizens lo wait for his return; and I assure
you ttit 1 will do ail that. I can to see ih t tnere
is no inequality anil no wrong done to any one.
I wish yi u to taUe Kood care of all properly as
to d c ilizeiiH, end see that every person Is safe.
The ntife k eptog of property and peremu rests
with )ou. end I cUare you lo disturb neither.
I I is jour duly to maintain the good order of
the city, hmj I know ou will do It. I wlsli you
now lo separate as good citizens, aud you cau
ui-scmble utialn wheiever you lsu to do so. I
a-k you o leave all to me now, and I will soe to
yi ui rtftbts. Wall until my Adjutant returns
Torn Hbhir gt m. and you shall be a -itl-tHed.
LlM en to me. and sen mat there Is un harm
done ioj tisous or property, but retire peace
biy 1
'I'tiis ts an excellent campaign document. It
ne-ds no comment."
But now see how completely the Post fails
to get its stream of disloyalty and dishonor
running tbrowgh the Governor's words. Yet
many sensible men imagined they saw such
currents coursing through them once. They
bad completely polarized with their own pre
judices every syllable which the Governor
uttered, and they would have done so had he
read from tbe steps of the City Hall the Ssr
mon on the Mount.
15ut happily such prejudice's cannot pre3erve
their potency. In time they perish by a sort
of tranquil exhalation, out of the minds of
those who have been under their dominion.
In this country they evaporate with excep
tional rapidity; and nothing will better ex
pedite the final stages of this useful aud
healthy process than the attempt of partisan
journals to put substantial legs under the
poor crumbling ghosts and set them walking
again.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
rT OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA EAILKOAD
COMPANY.
Philadelphia, Hay 18, 1868.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. In pursuance ol
resolutions adopted by tbe Board of Directors at
stated meeting held this day, notice Is hereby glveo
to the Stockholders of tbts Company, that they will
bave the privilege ot subscribing, either directly oi
by substitution nuder such rules as may be prescribed
therefor, for Twenty-rive Per Cent, of additional
Slock at Par, m proportion to their respective Inter
ests as they stand registered on the books of tbe
Company, May 20, lsss.
Holders of less than four Shares will be entitled to
subscribe for a full share, and those holding more
win res than a multiple of four Shares will be entitled
to an additional Share.
(Subscriptions lo tbe new Stock will be received on
and after May 80, 18B8, and tbe privilege of subscrib
ing will cease on the Siitb day ot July, ius8.
The instalments on account ot the new Shares shall
be paid Id cash, ss follows:
1st. Twenty-five Per Cent, at tbe time of subecrlp
tlon, on or before tbe 30ih day of July, HUH).
2d. Twenty-live Per Cent, on or before the 15th day
ot December, 1868.
8d. 1 weuty-rive Per Cent, on or before the 15th day
ol June, 1h9.
4th, Twenty-five Per Cent, on or before the 15tu day
ot December, lost, or It Stockholders should prufei
tbe whole amount may be paid up at once, or any
remaining Instalments may be paid up la full at the
time of tbe payment of tbe second or third Instal
ment, and each Instalment paltTup, shall beeulilleo
lo a pro rata dividend that may be declared on nil.
Shares. THOMAS M. FIRTH,
6 14 llw Treasurer.
PHILADELPHIA AND KEADINQ
BAIL HO A I) COMPANY. OUlce No. 227 b
FOURTH Si reel, PuiLAOh.H'BlA, May 27. 186.
NOTICfc To the holders of bonds of the PUILA
DKLPI1IA AND READING RAILROAD COM
Pa N V due A prll 1, U7U
The Company oiler to exchange any of these bonds,
of aim u each, at any time before the (1st) first day of
October next at par fora new mortgage bond of equa!
auiouul bearlug seven per ceit, lntere t, clear oi
United Slate and State taxes, having twenty-five
year to run,
1 he bonds not surrendered on or before tbe 1st of
October next will be paid at maturity, In accordance
with their tenor. B. BliADFOKD,
2slOl Treasurer.
tjf PHILADELPHIA AND READING
RAlLRcAD COMPANY.
Philaiiiii.i'Hia, June 25, 180.
DIVIDEND NOITUK.
The Transfer H oka of ibis Uninpauy will he closed
ou TU EfcDA Y. June 80. aud be reopened on THURS
DAY. J uiv IS, IhbS
A olViiiend ol IVK PER CENT, DM been declared
ou tne J'r. ferrtd and Oduiq on B'ock,clurut'uailiual
mu ii eUHie lax ; pavabie on Common Stock ou ami
toiler J tLY 16 to the holders thereof, as they shall
tuiil regis ered ou tie beokn ut tne Company ou me
no li itiHiuul. Ah payao eat this olllce.
6 its 2ui S. BRADt'OKD, Treasurer
njmc GUARDS,
FOB BTORB FRONTS, ASYLUMS, FAO
TORIES, ETC.
Patent Wire Balling, Iron Bedsteads, Ornament
Wire work, Paper Makers' Wire, aud every variety
of Wire Work, manufactured by
K. WALKER fc SOUS,
No 11 Hnrth SIXTH BtreM.
mwi
QEORCE PLOWMAN.
CARPENTER AND BUILDE2,
REMOVED
To No. 134 DOCK Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Crii CAST-OFF CLOTUIBG. THE HIGH
O yJ ' eat price paid lor Ladies and Hmi
tridrens
H B KIT TON.
lit lmJ
ISO. 804 SQUTU HUeot.
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
4
A CO
DRANDY, WINE, GIN, ETC.
ft E ALL & McBRIDB,
IKF0BTEB3 Of
EltATJDIES, WINES, QIWS, ETC.,
ADD D1BTILLBU8 Of
FINE OLD RTE, BOURBON AKD rORO.IGAHELl
WHISKY,
PUEE AND UNADULTERATED,
17o. 151 South FRONT Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Liquors by the B UIe and Demtjnhn furnlsbn
pxprexsly tor family Jhd medicinal purpose. Order!
by mall will be prnrantly attended In. I tthsiarp
c
UAMPAHNK. AN INVOICE Of "PLANT
Dore tbanipaue, imooriea aua for me y
JAAlks CAKHTA1RH, JR.,
128 WALNU1 and 2 URAMITK Street,
c
IIAMPAONE. AN INVOICE OP "GOLD
Lac" Cbai. panne. Impuruw and for sale by
jAfrhJS CA RWT41K8, JR.,
12 WALNUT and XI UHAKin Slrt.
C CHAMPAGNE. AN INVOICE OP "GLO.
J rla" Champagne, Imported and Air sale by
JAMKH CAKMTA1RH, JR.,
411 IMWALNUi and! O RA N ITK is treat.
CAESTAIUS' OLIVE OIL. AN INVOICE
Ol the above, for sale by
JMC3 OA RATA IRS. JR.,
128 WALNUT and in ORAM IK Street.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
JAVINa rURCIIASED THE INTEREST
Or THOMAS W BIGGINS, ESO..
My late partner In the Arm of WKIOOIN3 A WAR
DKN, I am oow prepared to offer
A KiW AND VARIED STOCK O?
WATCHES AND JEWELRY,
AT THE OLD STAND,
S.E. CORNER FIFTH AND CIIESMUT HTU, 1
And resptcoulty request a continuance ot the pa
tn ii age so long and liberally benlowed upon tne late
lirin. Par'lnnlar attention given to Ihe repairing ol
WATCHK8 ASD JUWULKY.
A. It. WARDEN.
Philadelphia. March 18. 1868. 8 wfin2m
JEWELRY! JEWELRY!
S. E. Coiner Tenth' and Chesnut.
NEW STORE.
NEW GOODS.
WRICGINS & CO..
(Formerly Wrlpgtns & Warden, Fifth and Cbmnnt)
Invite alien tiou lo their .New Jewelry etore, S. . cor
uer TJM'H aud IHKH.MT stree s.
We are now prepared, with our It x tensive Stock, to
oflor GRKAT lNliUt'KMa'NTd to Olivers.
WATCHKH ot tne n.OHt celebrated makers, JEW
ELRY, and SILVER W ARK, always the latest de
alus and best qual Hies.
Oeoos epeciallv rrenlgned for BRIDAL PHESRNT9.
fsrltcular attention given to the Repairing of
WATOliJOJ AND JKWKLRY. 1 mwf
WRIGQIN8 & CO.;
8. E. ('ornrr Ttntk and I'henut NtrerU.
'UWIS LADOMUS & CO.
'DIAMOND DEALERS fc JEWELERS.
WATCHES, JKWELKY SILVER WAKK.
.WAT0HE3 and JEWELRY REPAIRED.
J.02 Chestnut St., Phila-
WATCHES OF THE FINEST MAKERS,
DIAUOPD A3D OTHER JEWELRY,
Of the latest styles,
SOLID SILVER AND PLATED-WARE, ETO.ETO.
SMALL STUDS FOR EYELET HOLES,
A large assortment Just received, with a variety of
settings. J l4p
FINE WATCHES.
We keep always on band an assortment of
LADIES' AMD SENT)' "FINB WATCHES'
f tbe best American and Foreign Makers, all war
anted to give complete satisiaction, and at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
FAKR ft BROTHKK,
mporters of Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, eta,
Ulsmthlrpl Ho. 824 CHESNUTBt., below FouxAa,
'Especial attention riven to repairing Watches aaa
tiualcal Boaws bv FlItaT-CLAhH workmen.
TURRET CLOCKS
o. w. RCSSELL,
Importer aud dealer In fine Watches,
French Clocks. Uold Jewelry, Etc., No, 2a 14. SIXTH
street, having received tbe agency of
STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOOE8,
s prepared to mare estimates and contract tor pnt
lug np these Clicks tor Town Halls, Chnrcbee,
school Bouses. Etc, in tbe full assurance tbat Ibey
re tbe best and cheanest
TURRET CLOCKS
in tbe United S-atea,
Inquiries by mall promptly answered. id
THE STEAM GENERATOR
BlANlFiCTUUING HI3IPANY
or rCNAsiX.VAHlA.
CAPITAL, - 8100,000
This Company are now prepared to furnish
WIEUAHD'HI PAT KBIT IMPROVER STEAK
VENERATOR,
Of any power repaired, upon two weeks' notice. They
have been introduced In tbla city, and thoroughly
tested with most satisfactory results, and are sold
UNDER GUARANTEE OP ABSOLUTE SAFETY
PROM DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION. They are
cheaper In first cost, and In expense of erection, more
economical in fuel, durable and convenient lu use
taan any other apparatus for generating steam.
OFFICE OF CO MF A ST!
(HOOM3 Noa. I aud 6),
No. BBS WALNUT BTKEET
NELSON J. NICEERBON, President.
EDWARD H. GRAHAM,
oretarv and Trea aror
UNION PASTA AND 8IZINO COMPANY.
Paste mr lloxuiker. m"S binders. Paper,
hangers, Shoemakeis, Pia'ket book Mm, Hill
Piirs. eto It will not sour. Is obeP and alwars
Wy li.r une. Reler l J 1. I lpi encotl &. Oo.. Devar
A Keller. WIiHhui Muu, PUIiailelnlila Inquirer,"
Harper Bros., Aiuncau Tract Society: aod others,
bole agcate, L. L. ckaoin a oo
M Uo. ilM COMfclERU. kireeti