THE DAW 'fitTJSfKG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 18C8.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
IDITOlilAL 'OPItOWB OF TH1 LEAD1R9 JOTtHXALfl
CroN CtiBKXM loPl'lH COMPILED KVBHT
BAT FuS TBB BVEKINCJ TELEOBAPH.
"Penioerney Is l'evoliiUon.n
From the JV. 1'. WvrUt:
De mocracy Is nvo utlmi. II li ,l,e '".."V
that 111 mm wlwinn'i.lrmtccl Fnuicml. Minir
did not iimlerVlutjil I1U plnif..riii. HuUiiHiirea
Wan, ami the rcpivne .unuvool umiiv ir more
than oruliiHfy iw.U'icl Muttony, nit n.
perlecllv well, wiieu iih i.-oirecl hlun.-lf lu
favorol ihllltury in:.i r..n e wil'i l lie Sout tieru
fcilnttH, ibnl b H?. flpn' Hilun t ) the convictions
of tlm DrmociRiHi iT'y He came t irmru
beorliiK hii lionornl k mI; li wk only tv Mir
reiidiTiiiH li, end olldi In in J ilQ cllsiiouoroil
coimi'trMcy, Unit lie I'lmW lliul wel.iorim and
RllVHI'OellllM't. Wit llHViJ Rffll Willi'. H rHD-
Jute imt i'U' prisplcs luun lift Joiins'm could
do in cllstriicllng li nMtl'in. With BUir
ax Pnslileiit, or ni'lirr with tlio pirty lie
reprtM'UlB in power, wlih friends In CO'iKreas,
aud Heiialnia IlkH Ku.'Htiideu mid Tram
bull mid llenderitciii, in the porpi'iuttl egnuy
of pit u nod eitmilcs, )e c.iuid wiili luipanliy
rkmiII tlie woi k ol rMiiH: ruction and oritur ins
lullilHiy cow rummers in disoerse the Lt'tf'sU
lureH fil the H'tiilh. Would tue "retoilo i" mop
Leie? Wo icincnilx-r tout. Uie rwuormio 1 or
tlie UourboriH bitiugm. a wori foatnro of li mr
luuilKiii ttuiu lliHtol LoiiW XIV. flirt rcHiora
tlon of IleiuooiBPV mcmm i ho resiiHCltitlion or
the slave power with iiih HireiiKUi or aimer and
venut 11 nee, and without tue rextralnluir lo
iuenpi's of property, Tucre 1h not hing p islUve
Jn the ilemooriitle, policy but veimmucn a .d
revolution, and (Jnieral BUir in the repreoa
ttlve ol ihal fienn. Tne parly has 110 eym
tiatliy with nny m DiliMoit ol progress. It Ins
an npolouy for ev.-ry victory, und a regret lor
every triumph. JV. 1". Iribune.
The Tribune penults its partisan heat to
carrv It Ifyoud the liuilta of oauinr. If what
has Veen done in the South it) riyht, it ought
to stand; not otherwise. To prove that it is
jiot ripht, we oau cite a witness to which the
2'rtbune cannot consistently object the Pri
lime itself. 13ut it U neuesaary to go baok
pome ii(jhteen or twenty months.
Shortly hefore the asseiubliDg of the Legis
lature which elected Mr. Coukliog to the
United States Senate, there was a good deal of
floating talk which connected the name of Mr.
Greele with that position. With the ooyuesa
which marks his conduct on such occasions,
jlr. Greeley made his preparations to spend
that winter lecturing iu the West, and avoid
the appearance of taking an active part
in preying his own claims. Shoatly
before leavmg, he printed in the Tri
bunc a striking and memorable article
Which placed hi in in pronouueed antagouism
to his own party, and which, he mini hive
teen conscious, extinguished whatever cbanues
lie may have had of election to the Seuator
Ehip. We allude to these facta became it is
fair to presume that what was written on
Euch an occasion, was written with the utmost
deliberation, aud expressed the settled con
viction of the writer.
Mr. Greeley's election to the Senate was
made impossible by his proclaimed dissent
from leading features of the policy of the Re
publican party. Is'or wss it merely on that
oocasion that he set forth his dissent. The
Tiews he then expressed hvi been again and
Sgain presented in the t ribune, and a part of
them were sutiseqiinntly reiterated on an oc
casion even more memHrable in repelling the
assaults of his party tor signing the bail bond
Of Jefferson Pavis. We do not see how he
Can reasonably object to so much of the De
mocratic platform as coincides with his own
Trell-known aud unrecauted opinions.
His creed, habitually condensed by himself
Into the brevity of a motto, was ''Universal
Amnesty and Impartial Suffrage." lie re
monstrated with great force of argument and
liead.-trong fervor against the impolicy, aud
What he then regard-d as the futility, of ex
cluding the learling citizens of the fiouth from
aotive participation iu the politics of their sec
tion. He did not think it esseutial that all
the negroes should vote, but only such part
of them as should be found to possess
reasonable qualifications of intelligence. We
need not say that this was quite a different
Bcheme from the actual Reconstruction policy
Which the Kepuulicau party now ask the peo
ple to indorse. It condemned not only the
revolutionary reconstruction policy which haa
leen executed at the point of the bayonet, but
the proposed constitutional amendment which
preceded it; the so-called fourteenth amend
ment being inconsistent with Mr. Greeley'a
principle of universal amnesty. We need not
point out in detail how his views clashed with
the policy of his party; his sacriQoe of his
chances to be a Senator, and the bitter obloquy
he enoountered, sufficiently attesting the col
lision. How, with, what consistency can he denounce
as "revolutionary" an attempt to nndo what,
in Lis opinion, ought never to hare been
done? In his opin on, the disfranchisement
of the leading Southern whites was an unwise
and mistaken policy; how then cau he object
to its reversal ? lu his opinion, the security
Of the negro race did not require that all of
them should vo'e, but only those who are
qualified; why then should he regard as a
calamity the prospect of restoring things to
the basis which he iuiself proposed as a set
tlement of our difficulties T
The success of the Democratic party In the
coming Presidential election would practically
carry out Mr. Greeley's policy of universal
amnesty. This would indeed be a "revo
lution" in the sense of undoing the pro
Bcriptive policy of the R-publloau party; but
as that prosoriptive policy was wrong, why
Should Mr. Greeley ret; ret the triumph 01 a
principle for which he has s strenuously
contended, aud lias encountered so much, ob
loquy f As, by his owu showing, his party
made a mistake, why should not the mistake
Ve rectified in obedience to the sovereign will
of the American people ? It would be a strange
doctrine, indeed, that nothing is ever to be
reversed which an unscrupulous aud impetu
OUS faction, in temporary possession of power.
may choose to decree. Aud if the mistaken
rroscripuve policy oi iue iiepumicana in reter
ence to the Southern whites may be proprly
reversed, why not also its mistake of admitting
all the ueeroes "at one fell swoop" to the elec
tive franchise ? The care with which the Tribune
discriminated between impartial aud universal
Suffrage, advocating only the former, may be
taken as a proof that the reconstruction policy
ot Congress is wrouc; and the sovereign peo
pie may as freely rectify the errors of their
transient rulers as exercise their sovereignty
lu any other way. 1 lie reconstruction mea
Cures have never yet been pronounced upon
ly the people; and if the unauthorized acts of
their representatives are not subiect to revi
pion and reversal, the reponsibility of repre
sentatives to their constituents ia a phrase
wuuuuv lueauiug.
The Cnnnmlcn in Now York Hmnt mid
unsworn i' itu 1'iqiior niiu lrt'e Luger.
From the N. Y. Hernia.
The Ktalu tf Nuw Vnilf istoivo
- ... W4TJ nai
tattle ground in the approaching Presidential
ctniorrlM And will lui lwitlv fmrituutMtl tnnn
" fb-vl ..... ' j vwv lueiq-
much as without the electoral vote of New York
it would ue uueriy impossible to elect the
Democratic candidates any way. As the Irish
and Germans hold the balance of power in
Hew York it may happen, singularly enough,
that our adopted fellow-citizens may be called
upon to decide who shall be the next Presi
dent of the United States. It was their vote
tLat turned the fctate ltwt fall over to the Pe
ru ocr toy by a majority of 50,000, h whol of J
wl ich was secured In the ults of Nr York '
and Krotklyn; and the principal incentive to
the solid movement of the foreign element at
that linie was lb offensive fanatical legisla
tion of the Republican party in regard to
liquor, )gr and the Sabbath. But the De
mocrats who were elected last year by the
Irish and German votes cheated their frieuli
and proved false to all the pledges they made
befoie they got into power, Th radicals ori
ginally passed the Metropolitan Kxcils law, it
is true; but the 1 monratg, by refusing last
year to amend it or in any manner to change
it, odious leatures, became its parent by ad ip
tiin; at)d its unjust and exorbitant fees, its
detestable spy system, Its blue light Sunday
r filiations, which they failed to. niter when
tley had the power to do so, are no to be
la il at the doors of the Tammauy De noorAcy.
The liquor question is not the sole induce
ment with citizens of Irish birth or parentage
to support the Republican ticket this fall in
preteieiice to that of the Democratic pirtv.
't wo years ago the Irish Peuiau vote beat lliiff
niau for Governor, and elected Fentou, on the
ground that the Kepnblioati State Govern
meLt, by rtfusing to interfere with the raids
upon the Canada border, had done more to
j radically help the hereditary euemies of
Great Biitain than had ever been done by the
Imocrats, with all their professions of sym
pathy wiih the Irish. It is well knowu th-it
General Grant, as an American soldier, woul I
have no objection to a war with Kuglaul
dnrirg his term of office, and would, at all
evt nts, evince no disposition to allow the Bri
tish Government to trifle with us upon any of
the important international questions aiising
out of the war of the Rebellion. General
Giant, who fought that war through to a suc
cessful termination, would not be very likely
to mince matter with the natiou that sympa
thized with the Rebels from first to last, aud
wmt as far as their courage peimitted them
in aid of the Confederate cause.
Thet-e considerations, joined with the fact
that Grant is a firm believer iu free liquor,
pood liquor, and plenty of it, aud that Gris
wold is a perfect King Gambrinus in regard to
Inger, which he deals out wi'.h a liberal baud
to his aimy of employes, will be very likely to
turn tlie Irish and Geimnn vote over to th
Republicans as solidly as last year it was cast
for the Democrats, and to give the State to
(rent and Griswold by fifty thousand majority.
Sejmourand Hoffman, the Tammany caudi
date for Governor, are both Puritanical io
their notions and live upon cold water and
weak tea. Hoffman, we believe, did attempt
a glass of lager at a German meeting
during the campaign of 18U6, but was coin
pelltd after drinking it to go home to bed
and send for his family physician. Grant
on the other hand, would scorn to drink wter
without something in it, and wheu Griswold
built the monitor for the Government, iu the
early part of the war, he succeede i in push
ing forward the work to a speedy conclusion
by distributing free lager in unlimited, quan
tities among his men. The Irish aud Ger
mans naturally sympathize with the meu who
fought out the war tor the Union, aud as the
Republicans have now presented to them a
liberal liquor and lager ticket for their sup
port, free from all the offensive characteristics
of straight-laced, New Euglaud radicalism, it
is very likely that the entire naturalized vote
in New York will turn over to that side, and
by electing Grant and Griswold will forever
wipe out of the Republican party Fourierlsin,
free love, and fanaticism of every sort and de
sciiption. The Democratic Nominee.
From the N. Y. Times.
If hypocrisy ia the homage which vice pays
to virtue, what term shall fitly describe the
efforts of Democratio journals to pervert or
conceal the war record of Governor Seymour ?
The earnestness which characterizes tli-m is a
tiiliute to the loyal sentiment of the people,
which ia certainly not complimentary to the
combination which controlled the nomination.
The Copperheadism which carried the day in
the Convention must be hard pressed wheu it
opens the canvass with an effort to prove that
Mr. Seymour was a zealous War Democrat.
Such, however, is the plea with which, friendly
journals open their advocacy of Mr. Seymour's
claims.
The Boston Poif pushes Its zeal still further.
It not only insists that ita candidate's war
record is satisfactory, but it represents tue
Rrpublioan indictment against him aa consist
iug of but two insignificant charges.
"1 wo points of attack nave been singled nut
by the niunvgers of the Opposition. Oo is that
Uovernor Heymour. in tils Fourth of July ad-
dipss iu placed himaeif aa the Uoveruor of
Isew Yoik lu un attitude of quasi hoMillitv, If
not iic mil hostility, to nis country, men strug
gling almost hopelessly with aimed reoehion.
1 he inner ih, mat id auuressimj tue new xora.
Holers, and the excited populace who lolloped
lu tbtlr train, duilug the same mouth, he gve
llitiu ufcsuruuce of hiu 'irleuaaulp by apply ine
io them the famlllxr title of 'rav friends.'
'11k se are the counts in 'Do rauloal lndioun-mt
wl lch those who preler inein exnect to emul-ty
u It h success lu demouHlrullug Mr. Huymour's
in Ciriess for the position to wu.cU he has been
uoinluaiea."
If these were the only or the main points of
attack, Mr. bey mour s position would be much
stronger than it is. The Fourth ot July speech
is, indeed, a Sink in along chain ot evidence
proving the spirit wtr.cn actuated him; but to
this, or any single speech, we attach com para
tively little importance. So, also, with the
well-worn statement about "my friends." Its
impwit has always been exaggerated, aud we
Should be content to see the canvass carried
on without any reference to a pLra-e which, of
itself, indicated neither complicity with the
l idlers, nor approval of their course.
Our opposition tp Mr. Seymour rests upon a
much bioader basis. The indictment against
him is founded on his general conduct io re
lation to the war, both in and out of office.
We can dispense with this or that speech, aud
still find ample reasons for condemnation iu
Lis notorious hostility to the means em
ployed for the preservation of the Union, in
the obstacles he helped to) place in the path of
the Government, aud the succor he indirectly
but effectively rendered to the Rebel cause,
lie waa a "peace Democrat" from the start.
He never acknowledged the right of the Fede
ral Government to prevent disruption by
force. Ilia utterances and action encouraged
the South; for though, as State Executive,
he responded to calls lor troops, it was in the
performance of an inevitable duty, while hia
whole moral weight waa th own into the op
posite scale. Hence he is chargeable with
Laving fostered the Copperheadism which
eubarrassed the Government, and stimulated
the passions which had expression iu the
New Yoik riot. Hence, too, the mistrust
with which all but the Coppsrhead elumeut
of the party has since regarded Mr. Seymour,
and his failure to carry the State wheu last
nominated for the Governorship.
Moreover, the present supplies all that
should be necessary to defeat Mr. Seymour.
Argument about the past la well in its way,
but the strongest argument is that which is
derived from his position in regard to the
gieat questions before the country. He haa
made himself a party to the revolutionary
programme which enabled Mr. Blair to dia
tance competitors, aud ia the exponent of a
policy which menaces the couutry with strife
md dishonor. His oraoular utterauoa on the
bond aud currency questions have not hiu
dtrwii his Indorsement of robbery aud quaai-
repudlatlon. While pretending to desire
peace, be neither accepts the work of recon
struction nor attempts to restraiu the mi
nn which threatens its violent overthrow.
When we refer to Mr. feyraour'a reoord, then,
It is not with the view of making tht ttin a ile
or evn the principal grouud of ' aoorn&'ion.
But in his case the pst helps to elucidate the
present. Hia attitude five years ago makes
iior apparent the meaning of hi altitude at
this moment. We see that tho Copperhead
ism of the New York Convention harmonizes
with the Copperheadism of the Governorship;
and we see in both, combined, the strongest
possible reasous for exploding from the Presi
dency the representative of principles at
variance with peace. Personally and pri
vately, Mr. Seymour may merit the lauda
tions of his fiit-nds. We have to do with him
simply b a public man, whose politiaal career
in tlii- State di-entitles him to the oouti leuoe
of moderate and loyal m-n, and whose present
candidature commits him to au extreme aul
dangerous policy.
Why Is it n Blunder?
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Tht re is perfect accord among tho3 who are
not lestraiued by fealty. aud party necessity
fieui avowing their convictions in averriug
that tbo late Democratio National Conven
tion blundered sadly. Every ins who
feels at liberty to say what he thiuks says
this, because every one feels it. "How could
they have thrown away their chauce of suc
cess?" ia the universal inquiry. Here were
collected over six hundred delegates from
every section of our country; uiny of them
nien of decided ability; nearly allot' them ex
perienced politiciaua. The Rabel Cou
gress was largely, the Rebel
army still more bounteously represented;
and the Rebel chiefs are generally shrewd
men. Add to these most of the caudidts for
Governor, Congress, etc. etc., in the loyal
States who have been defeated or run out dur
ing the last seven years, f torn Ilorv.io Sey
mour aud Judge Woodward down to Vallau
dighan and prisoner Mahouy, aud you would
suppose that 1 ere waa collected wit enough
to keep out of the fire. Aud yet they walked
right into it 1 What ia the explanation of
this f Conventions generally nomiuate to
win; why did this oue violate the rule so
ilagrautly that even the British Tory oracles
which hate the Republicans implacably
give up the contest as hopeless ?
Ihese questions auswer themselves when we
have realized that the cise of the sham Demo
cracy was essentially hupel-ss, aud only to be
retrieved by au adroit, masterly juggle. And
there were powerful ami implacable factions
among the delegates, each more intent ou ita
own special eud than on a party triumph.
Air. remiieton was the candidate of the
strongest and most potive interest iu the
Convention that whose ptimary object ia the
virtual lepudiatiou ot the national debt. But
for the two-thirds rule, we think he might
have been nominated. Every delegate from
the South would have heartily supported him
from lust to last, had his success been proba
ble. liut bis greenback dodge had been sys
tematically lrowued ou by the leaders of the
i.asteru sham Democracy, aud pointedly by
Horatio Seymour. So strong a prejuiice had
been aroused against hia "lawful money"
scheme, that had he been nominated, he would
probably have leceived no single electoral vote
trom the populous iNorth and East. So his
nomination was rendered imp tssible.
Whether Chief Justice Chase would have
run better is questioued; but this, at least, waa
obviously true of him ha 1 he bsen nomi
nated, the result would not have be.eu evident
from the outset. We cauuot doubt that the
nomination of Chase was advisable; aud we
believe the cleverest politicians in the Conven
tion, Seymour included, thought so. But
Hnck romeroy and his Kbel crowd wouldn't
stand it. Tuey threatened to bolt and mike
a general smash if he were put up. They were
stiong enough to veto any nomination sds-
cially obnoxious to them, and they did it. S j
Chase went overboard.
There remained one strong combination
Hendricks tor President, with LUuco.ik or
English for Vice. Hendricks is able aud plau
sible, holds opinions substantially identical
with rendleton's, yet ia by no means so ob
noxious as he to Eastern prejudices. We do
not believe he could have beeu elected we do
believe he could have made a far better run
than Seymour probably better than any com
petitor. Then why waa he not nominated f
Because the Peudletonites wouldn't stand
it. They held that he had not shown their
man fair play that he ought not to have been
a candidate against Pendleton and that they
had long since resolved that, if their favorite
were not nominated, Hendricks should not be
They were for Pendleton in dead earnest; if
he could not be the man, they would have the
nomination thrown East, so aa to have a dear
track tor their nag in '72. Hence, when Pen
dleton waa withdrawn, Seymour waa instantly
nominated.
Well; what ia there bad in Saymour's no
initiation ?
Simply this: The country knows him. He has
repeatedly avowed views which others have
held in reserve, ins speeches, etc, supple
mented by Blair's recent letter, place their
party distinctly before the country on a plat
toim which the country. does not and will not
accept. Iheir nomination wa3 a blunder,
simply because it exposes what should have
been kept concealed if success were desired.
It is just such a blunder as though the Con
federate flag had been raisedV and saluted in
piodaiming the Tammany nominations. It
lendera a Democratic triumph hopeless, by
letting all men know exactly what a Demo
tratiu triumph would involve.
The Work of the Convention.
Vi-om the N, Y. JVatwn.
What ia perhaps the mo3t remarkable about
the Democratio Convention ia that it joins
issue wiih the Republicans on only one point,
and that ia the proper mode of payiug the
national debt. Considering the number aud
variety of the questions which have divided
the parties since 1852, the number of things
in the lit publican policy whichT.he Uemocrata
have opposed since the outbreak of the war
consideiing, too, the number of outrageous
violations of the Constitution, and all sound
principles of government, of which they ao
cuse the Republicans through their press aud
thiough their orators, one was naturally led
to expect a platform bristling with proposi
tiois which Republicans would be compelled
to traverse, and on which the people would
be enabled to pass at the Presidential election.
For instauoe, we might reasonably have
lot ked for an affirmation of the riant of seces
siou from a party which vehem-ntly denied to
the General Government the right to preveut
sectssiou by force of arms; aud for a demand
lor compensation for the freeing of the slaves
from a party which denied the validity of the
mancipation Proclamation; and for a declara
tion in lavor of free trade from a party which
lias been a free trade party from ita foruaatiou
and has treated the high tariffs of the last six
years as monsters of absurdity; for a declara
turn iu lavor of hard money from a nartv
which has always been the implacable toe of
paper issues, and which denied the coustitu
tiouality of the issue of the legal tenders; and
for a piomtse to undo the reconstruction work
of Congress irojA a party wuiou, ha? waUi
tained, and does still perslstewtly mintatu, tlw
illegality aud oppressiveness of every step in
it; and, Anally, for a declaration in avor f "a
white man a government" from a party whi t'l
has always treated the mental aud mor.il iuVrio
rity of the negro race as a fun lamntl pitaitil
Ihci which there is no getting rid of. au 1 oi
which all political arraugnnneuts, iu a c niutry
in which both races were fouul, must b-t
based, it must be admitted by any body who
is familiar with the history of the last six
years, that there nevr was a party in a fro
onntry which sullcret less from lack of ciu
troversy. In fact, we do not recall a single
rase in which a party has bten divided from
its opponents by so many questions of t.h
hichesl interest, aud questions, too, whiiili jjo
down to the foundations of moral as well as of
political science. If the Demoorajy only U )
lieves one-tenth part of what it says, no pirtv
has ever taken th-s field with even oue-teuth
as much responsibility.
In the platform as it lies before us, uo vever,
we find none of these things. The right of
slaveholding and that of s-0HSaion are given
up on the ground that they have been "settled
by the war, or by the voluntary action of the
Southern States," aa if a war wrongfully
begun aud wrongfully conducted couM settle
any question of constitutional or moral light,
and as if the Southern States since the war if
Democratic accounts of their condition be true
have done auythiuj; voluntarily. It de
mands the restoration of the States to their
rights in the Union under the Constitution,
tint deprives the dem-tud of ail value either to
friend or foe by omitting to utate what those
rights are. It demands au amnesty for all
political offenses, but this can otfnnd no one,
as nobody haa beeu puutshed for poUtnul
offenses, aud nobody is likely to be. It dn
manda the abolition of the 1'Yeedinen'a Bu
reau and the reduction of m army, but the
rieeduieu s Bureau is already in process of
abolition and provision has been ma le for re'
during the army. The peventh article de
nounces "abuses in administration," ant
demands the "expulsion of corrupt men from
office," one of those exceedingly amusiug
demands which appear regularly now in the
platloims of all parties, aui which, as no de-
lender tit abuses or ot corrupt men ever shows
himself co nomine in the flesh iu the political
arena, must be aimed at some ghostly organi
zation visible ouly to spiritualists. The doc
trine of indefeasible allegiance also, against
which the eight article is aimed, now finds no
eaithly supporters; the right of the States to
regulate the suffrage has been formally con
ceded by the Republican party; and if there
be anybody who proposes to hive the public
"forget our soldiers and sailors," or refuse to
"execute the guaranties given in their favor,"
he has thus tar managed to conceal himself
lroni an indignant community.
Of the abuse of the Republican party, of
which the latter portion of the platform is
composed, it must be said that whether Justi
fiable or nniustiliable, it oilers no issues to au
adversary. Neither policy nor principle can
ever be wrapped up in vituperation, aud the
applicability of epithets is a point which can
ever re submitted to the people. 1 his partic
ular brauch of the controversy between the
two parties has to be worked out iu the news
papers and on the stump, and to them we may
salely band it over in the full as-uranoe that
the lit uocrats will, by next iSovember, have
got as good as they will nave given.
There therefore only remains one point on
which the Democratio party offers to do bat
tle. Out of the hosts of principles which it
has upheld one time or another during ita
long and checkered career; out of that vast
collection of grievances which it has accumu
lated since ltsOO, and In describing which it
borrows the language of the oppressed in the
worst of past ages, it produces nothing worthy
of being embodied in a positive proposition,
and fought for at the election. It has no re
form to call for; it does not offer to carry any
reform out, either in the administration of the
Government or in the machinery of the ad
ministration. It goea iuto the cauvass simply
to maintain the doctrine that, wherever in a
national promise to pay money the word
"coin" is not mentioned, the debt shall be
paid in "lawful money of the United States
that is, another promise to pay issued
by the same debtor aud that the
representations made iu explanation of the
'original instrument by the officers of the Gov
ernment, and the understanding of those who
lent the money, and which haa remained un
distuibed for tour years, shall count for
nothing. Such a "battle-cry" as this coming
from any political party would be singular
enough; there was only one thing needed to
make it by far the most singular battle-cry of
history, and that waa, that the party raising
it should be a party which haa alwaya maiu
tained that paper money Issued by Govern
ment is not and canuot be "lawful money, "
and that, therefore, the currency iu whioh it
oalls for the payment of Governm-tnt debts ia
not simply inferior in value to coin, but haa
no value whatever; and thia one thing the
battle-cry in question haa. The Democratio
party, after many changes and reverses, at
last takes the field in support of a compound
swindle, made up partly of fraudulent bank'
ruptcy and partly of uttering counterfeit
money.
We know very well what satisfaction this
extraordinary performance has given, and ia
giving, to the Uepublicana. The platform,
combined with the character of the candidates
who have been selected to stand upou it, seems
to render Demooratio success hopeless, unless,
indeed, all principle aud all honor have de
serted the American people. The triumph, at
the close ot the war, ot a party which put
forth no claim to public confidence except ita
willingness in the richest oountry in the world
to cheat the public oreditor (we again repeat
that all talk ot "the letter of the law," in
discussion between a government and ita
creditors as to the rights of the latter, simply
adds impudence to knavery), would Indicate a
degree of moral debasement which would cer
tainly puzzle both preachers and philosophers,
and would greatly increase the doubts an I mis
givings with which so many thou'iutui
and intelligent men are looking into the moral
future of the world. We have, we confess, no
doubt whatever about the result of the eleo
tion; but we shall not "be satisfied with simple
victory. Nobody who has watched the pro
ceedings of the Convention, has seen the iutlu
ences which controlled it, aud knows anything
o the men who managed it, or of the ideas of
government which were .dominant in it, aud
who believes that, once equality ia established
in a State, honesty must form the main ele
ment in its progress, will be content unlesti it
is shown not only that a majority, but that au
immense majority, of the people repudiate the
party and its doctrines. The course things
have taken in the last three mouths goea
strongly to confirm the suggestion, we have
several times made that the basis of one
party, at least In this couutry, would be rather
ignorance and rascality than attachment to
distinct and well-marked political ideas. At
the Convention which hai just adjourned no
particular doctrine or principle which tuojght-
tul men of any school of pontics nave pro
duced or defended seemed to hijve any attrac
tion or any authority. About all the great
questions of government, the settled as well
as the disputed, there was every Indication
either of iguorance or indifference. The thing
which commanded most applause and seoured
heartkfct concurrence was a small cheat from
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OFFER TO THE TRADE, IN LOT3,
FIRE RYE AIM) B0UKB0N' WHISKIES, I BOXDt
OT 1806, ll-iJO, 1U7 niul 1H(H,
AIS HUE MINE ME AjVD .BUUilM WHISKIES, J
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from lSC-i to .
Liberal contracts will be entered Into for lots, in bond at Distillery, of this years' iuaiufactar.
which nobody iu the room could expect to
make over a few dollars, and for whioh no ds- i
feuse or apology cau be d ."cover- d in the J
woik of any statesman or moralist of auy age j
or country, aud yet it called forth the "wil iest j
enthusiasm." The following that the.-ie men '
can commaud iu the United S ates shoull not
only be a minority; it is the duty of all gojd
men to see that it is a small minority.
The Coming Men of the South.
From I he N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Some of the leading spirits of the Canadian
rebellion conducted themselves with so much
decorum, propriety, ami discretion during the
succeeding jears that they recovered their lost
ground, advanced in inllueuce aud pre'ermtnt,
and ultimately rose to high poiiions uuder
the Government which they had enieavored
to overthrow. Iu mutation ot their example
some of the leaders of our Rebellion are now
pursuing a policy which, if persisted in, can
but ledound to their great personal advan
tage, as well as to the peace aud prosperity of
those among whom they live. We allude to
such men aa ex-Governor Joseph Browu, of
Georgia; General J. L. Alcorn, of Mississippi;
General Longst.ieet, now of Louisiana; (reueral
Wickbam, of Virginia; aud Governor Orr, of
South Carolina.
These late Confederates perceive that the
"lost cause" ia lost forever, and that motives
of policy, if nothing more, should lead the
vanquished to accept of the situation, aul
abide in good faith by the result of the appeal
to the arbitrament of arms. They possess
sufficient foresight and sagacity to know tnat
their erring oouutrymen cannot improve their
condition by "kicking against the pricks,"
or endeavoring along with Hampton and Vanoe
tind Wise, to levive secession, and endeavor to
achieve in the political arena, by the help of the
Democratic party, what they failed to secure
in the contest of blood.
Governor Orr, particularly, haa revealed
much moderation and sound sense in his fare
well message to the people of South Carolina.
And first he recoguiaes the supreme authority
of the General Governm-nt aa contrasted with
the heresy of State rights. Whatever the
national authority wills must be respected
and obeyed. The remedy for unwholesome
laws, if such there be mnst be found in the
peaceful ballot, and not by a resort to Blair's
revolutionary programme. "Whatever," he
Bays, "may be my individual opinion aa to the
constitutionality of the Recoustructiou acts, it
waa my duty to recognize their validity until
pronounced unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of the United States."
OPERA GLASSES.
pllOM UAIIDOU & SOX, riEIS.
JAMES E. CALDWELL & CO.,
JEWELLERS, 1
No. 902 CHESMUT Street,
II a. v Juit OiBd a Large Iavotca of
rAHTICULAKLY FINE
OPERA GLASSES,
Including every variety of '
Rock Crystal,
Ocular Graduated,
Puclicssc, and
TAMABLE MD SIGHT LESSES.
ALSO. li 1 iw
Tourist G lasso and Telescopes.
SEWING MACHINES.
THE GREAT
ABIEBICAM COMBINATION
BUTTON-HOLE OVEKSEAJHLN'G
AND
SEWING MACHINE,
Its wonderful Popularity Conclusive Prool
of iU Great MerlU
The Increase In the demand for this valuable
Mat-bine lias been TENFOLD during the last seven
muutbs of Us tlrstyear before the public
Ibis grana and surprising success Is unprecedented
In t lie b.Biory oi bewing Maculues, and we feel full;
warranted In claiming that
IT IIAM NO EQUAL,
Being absolutely the best
FAMILY MACHINE
IN THE WOHLD,
And Intrinsically tbe cheapest, for It la really two
Haclilues combined In one. bold at the
S. W. Cor. of ELEVENTH and CHESNUT,
FHILAD&LP4TA. fSSUttulhtf
FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS, &C
H. 8. K. G.
Harris' Seamless Kid Glovos.
EVI'.BT PAIB Wi UHAHIED,
FXCLUblVE AGENTS FOB GENTS' GLOVEa,
J. V. SCOTT & CO.,
I ftrp MO. Sl CJIKSM DT STHCKT,
pATENT BEOTILDE It-SE AM
III It T MANVFAVTOBT,
AM DOBMTl.KMB.VN riTBN -SIM IMS MTOBB
frEKKECT FITTING BHItWTS ANDllRAHTEBI
made from meiirtimel m very shun noilue.
All oilier articles ol UEJSTLJUlE'ii DUJffiSS
GOODb in fun variety.
' WINCHIWTEn CO.,
UP No. tinKIHKwNPT Htrwi.
UNION PASTE AND SIZING COMPANY".
1-UMtw tor KoxttitikHrii. " binders, Pier.
httU(tr, Sbonnskeis, Pocket-bonk MakTS, Ulll
1'ilers eic. H will not sour. Is cliep and always
rffy tor we. Refer J 11. I Ipi rncutt & Co.. Dxvar
Keller. Wllllum Munn, Phl'artWulila ' Inquirer,'
Uaruer Bros., American Tr!t HncW-ty. anil other
bole agebW, I,. L. t'KAUIN A OU.,
si No. Uu OOUJULRUM iskreott
A 4
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& CO-
BRANDY, WINE, GIN, ETC.
TiL ALL & McDUlDZ,
1VPOKTKBS Or
J3BANDIES, WINES, GINS, ETC.,
ASn PIBTlLLimS OF
F1KE OLD (lit, CCUR50.1 MD u'DKONGAHEU
W 11 1 H 1 Y,
rUFE AND UNADULTERATED,
ITo. lfil Eouth FliOHT Btroet,
PHILADKLPHIA,
Liquors by !) il tt'.o and I)i uiijoun furnlnhea
eiprefsiy tor faintly t d ineit irinal piiriu. Orders
by mall will hr nrnm""y ti""rt-l i.l 1 vih.inm
c
U AMPAtJN K. AN INVOK K UK "I'LAMI
Vote luaaJi'KKue miruiiru ami tor r e by
J A JW ! C'A K-T A I KS, J K
136 WALNU'l and 2' UKlMTHbtreet
c
II A M PAG N V'i. AN INVOICE OP "GOLD
Imo" CtiSi-i hkur, lu iji r n ad lorstoeby
J A y IX U A HH1 4 1 Sh.,
la WALMIT unci i MUA n I I R strews.
CIUMPAGiSK.-AN INVt.ICK HP ";LO
J rla" Uliait,iiigt t . lu.porit d iit n.rsa eoy
J Afti Kts A hl a I K-, JR..
11 IW WAIN t'l anfl 1 KKjIMIKsnvt,
CAliSTAIUS' OLIVE OIL.-AN INVOICE
01 the above, lor ale by
Imh K.-S CAIttSTAms. JR.,
126 WA Lfc UT uuiKA N1TE blreet.
WATCHFS, JEWELRY, ETC.
"VJLYIIS LADOMUSfi CO."
DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS.!
WATCHES, jmVFI.HV AKII.VKU HAKK.
VWAT0HE3 aud JEWELRY REPAIRED,
J02 Cheatnnt St, VM.
WATCHES OF THE FINK&T MAKERS,
DIAMCD AJJD OT H EH JEWELRY,
Of tbe latest styles,
BOUD SILVER AND PL VTETV WARK, ETO. ETO.
SMALL BTTJDS FOR EYELET HOLES,
A large assortment Juat received, with a variety of
Bettings 5191b
We keep always on hand an aosuriment of
LADIES AMD UCMW "FINK WATCUjKS
Jf the best American and Porelgu Makers, all war
ranted to give coiupleiesattslHCllon, and at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICKS,
FAIIR A BROTHE'tit
importers ol 'Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxea'tio,
II llsmthlrp No. 824 CHKSNTJT Bt below tfounh.
Especial attention riven to repairing Watonea acl
Musical Boxes bv rUim'.cjAbti workmen.
PAINTED PHOTOS.
NEW THING IN A K T.
BERLIN TAINTED riIOr03,
A. S. ROBINSON,
No 0 CHESNUT Street,
Has ust received asuporb cnilTilon of
BERLIN PAINTFD PHOTOGRAPHS OF
FLOWEHS
They are exquisite gems of art, rivalling In beauty,
naturalness of tint, and pttrfuotlun of form a great
variety of the choicest exotic iluw-rluR plants. They
are mounted on boards of three sizes, and sold from
25 cents to 13 and ft each.
For framing aud the album they are Incomparably
beautiful. , g it
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.,
S.E. Corner of FOURTH and RACE Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
IMPORIERS AND MANUFACTURER- OP
White Lead and Colored Tulnts, Tuttj,
Varnishes, Etc
AGENTS FOR THE CELEER1TED
FJIEXCII ZIAC PA IMS.
DIALERS AND CON-UME1W SUPPLIED
l9WE8TPlUCKHFOR CASH; 6 16 tf
GROCERIES, ETC.
r0 FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE RURAL
DISTRICTS.
We are prepared, as heretofore, to supply families
at their country residence with every description, ol
FINE GROCERIES, TEAS, ETC.,
ALliKKT V. KilHKUn,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
mrp Corner ELEVENTH and VINK HUW
THE STEAM GENERATOR
MAN IF DTI1 KING WM I'ASI
OF PliMtltlLVAMU,
CAPITAL. - - 8100,000
This Company are now prepared to furnish
WIEUAKD'N PATENT D1PBOTED STEAK
UEHKUAIUU,
Of any l-ower required, upon two weeks' notice. They
have been Introduced In this city, aud thoroughly
tested, with most satisfactory raulu, and aru sold
UNDER GUARANTEE OK AKHOAjUTK bAFETY
FROM DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION. They are
cheaper In first cost, and In eipeune of erection, more
economical In fuel, durable and convenient In use
than any other apparatus for gxueratlug steam.
oiricK ur (lunpiiv,
(ROOMS Nos. I aud 0),
No, eC8 WALNUT BTREET
NELSON T. NICKEKBON, President,
EDWARD H. GRAHAM,
mam
Hnnretarv and Trea ores'
WT ILL1AM & OBANT,
YY lOM Mti-KIDN M situ AMT.
Ke.88. DELaWAKK Avenue, Philadelphia,
A (IU NT niH
Turnout's Ounpnw'cler. Kellnfd Nitre. Charcoal, EtO,
I W. ttaktr A. Co. 's Cliocola'e 0.co. a id Hrouia.
Crocker, Bros. Ml Co.'S VeUuW Metal Huealhhig,
Bolts and Nallt. Ul
FINE WATCHES.
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