THE DAY,, fiVEKIKG TELEGKArH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY
23,
1868.
SriRIT OF TEE rRESS.
JDlTOBlAli OPINIOHB OF THB LKADItffl JODRNAI,S
BPON CCBKBtiT TortCB CO HI" 11. till KVJi3T
BAT FOB IHI IVESISO X PI EG HA PH.
)I;inu Hit lin es in 13.'.' WnU
From the JY. Y. Tribune.
We rejoice to learn tlinltlio Vei'en Manu
facturers of tle Northwestern flutes will hoi I
an Kmpo?itK)ii of their pro-U'ct'i at Chicago on
the 4'h, .1th, and (Hh dues or Ati;,'at next, fuel
tliTvt a bniMing, now ntarly coini'lteiI, which
affords '10.CMKI rquarn fct'of ,';ieo, has been
Secured for the purpose. On the isih instant,
thirty-due manufacturers had entered J.K.
lots of goods for exjio.-ition; and nearly ;i
liurdrnd ruamiftctuirM-s of svoolfen faWies in
Ihe Northwest had joiui'l 1 lie Association. A
Trade r?a!e will l" hell ou tlm U.-,t day of the
Imposition. Though IntcD.leJ primarily to
display the growth aud proi-n;. of woollen
luauufaeturi a in the Norihwt-st, the woollen
fabrics of oilier sections will lm alnntt" I.
-The raj'id growth (if rianufac'nre:! in the
TYest is a tl;t i,,e of general ; 'iti. lo tion, IV.l'ti
Catiou should iihvay t-nd to that x darter
Vhere feed isn.ert i.lniin'ai.t and chen p; and
that is the veiny of the Ali.-i.-ainpi. H'cul is
lend must he prodtit'i'd at less co t in the
JNortliwefet thau t-.-f hern iu our country, the
jirairies of TeMiE ex-cejMe I. iVueru food and
rool are choap, wb.le tin: poiouV.iou is iiiiel
liceflt and mi tic, vik.-I.-.i uitMiufatturxii
f-hould thrive: ;.i.
Lorn who w ill .-ee
iSiauei.j.ioli-j tin' S"iit of the
lUOSt extelihe !ii:u)nf.; : u '-e of aul iitttuti.il
ivooleu fal'i ios on 'his cmii ipnt.
We rejoii e ul tJie - th of mAm;f.ictuiv?.
Id the West fcr ei ouotnie a:, 1 also for poiitk-.il
leaaoiiS. It r-stnui'd pi t-;. eri!y to 'Jin West
nd harmony to our unole country. Our
l-acer dia:cgU"S are ah-, ays seeking to f.iu
the em hern of sectional ji-idomy, even while
afiecting to i ; '"re th" ex i: t mui e of tint jea
lousy; aud they j iay ipon :li" tarilV iivU'Sti'vu
to this end. Tuiy 5j.iI iurd'y ? ;sume that
laanufactuies are ix. lu--iv ly V. .item, while
Agriculture is 'e.ei r., and that ; totectiou to
liome industry taxes the V'et for the Vieueiit
Of the East. Ask tiein why Hem Clay and
ill drew Jackson advocated the eucoi 'agement
Cf manufactures hy protectiou iu order to
Becnre certain an 1 ipiauiif.:'.;-" mr.rkots to
the farmer, and they are tilent, oi isr.-"rtto
the old slung about '"bloated inonopolisto,"
,f 'taxing the many to enrich the few," etc.
The most decidedly, tupialiuVdly protective
Tarilf ever framed hi this country, all things
considered, was that of l-2i, which was fash
ioned aud ji.issed by a Jackson Ji.miocratio
Corgress. The Democratic, delegations from
Is'ew York, l'euusylvania, Oluo, and Kentucky,
Vere nearly unanimous in its support. They
passed that Tai ill' expressly to provide markets
for their foustitufcutj agricultural products,
Jliy calling into existence new manufactures.
And the result tho ved the wisdom of their
policy. This couutiy never before grew so
rapidly iu population, production, and wealth,.
US under the iullneuce of that "Mack Taiiu."
Is'ew England has her factories built, her
Capital massed, her labor collected. The West
13 behind in these respects; but her abundant
and cheap food, her cheaply produced wool,
lier immense beds of coal and of irou oref.,
and her vicinity to tho.-e miuiug regions which
are certain to atlord a vast and eager market
for snbstau'ial, fervieeahle fabrics, all'ord im
mense couu'ei balancing advautag which she
is found to improve. We lcpj within ten
years to chrouiide Western ex positloua not.
only of fabf'.'S, but of meti.ls :.nd wares also
which will far exce-td any yei held in U&' a
tr New Yoi I .
Ucnmil ('l u st' j'Wiij i
from the AT. Y. Tribvr.t.
The letter of Gov- ior "Vat js of Illinois,
pointedly coin vV tiog the er'ioii that t!ic
colonelcy of a i , itacft of volunteers which he
(Yates) conlei i-t d .. th Ciah iia tanner was
ever sought by fhe latter, invites attention to
a phase of Oecerul (iiantV eharacur which is
quite unlike that of nome o.her culicers of our
late war.
Trent the berinnirg to the end of that
Struggle, Ulysses 3. fir.VJt rose Lhro.igh every
grade known to our Fervue. A poor, ob
scure, friendless private citizen, ha volun
teered at llae outtet, aud was chosen captaiu of
& company. He was soon made AdjaUut;
then Colonel; then higadier-(ieueral; then
Major freiieral; then Lieuteuaut-Ueneral; dually
General-in-Chief. Yet nobody ever heard hint
asking for a better post. In every case of his
promotion, he took tiio position wherein ha
Vas wanted no one ever heard of his wanting
a better one than he already had. ' Friend,
come up higher,1' was the mandate adlressed
to this lowly fcervaut of the Jl-.-publio not
thac he wauted promotion, but that the couu
try eorely needed the r.ut man in the rkjnt
place.
Again; we had ofli 'V.s perpetually ijuariel
ing, grumbling, fretting, in view of their treat
ment by their superiors. Tu-y weri not pro
moted so la-t as they deserved to be or they
Lad fewer men than they needed or they
Were not put in command of divisions or corps
that bhould have been confided to them. Oao
General asbomed to loc'nre the President on
the civil or political policy that should govoin
the conduct of the war; on another occasion,
he complained to Washington that part of liij
men "broke iiisi rediialjly." Gu. liragg, when
utterly routi il by (lir.nt at.Mi.-sion Kidge, com
plained that his men rati and left their cannon
to be captured, when 'hey shuii'd have fought
and saved tbelu. .Several professed a wiiiiug
liess to light it the war were ei i, fm ted in ac
cordance with theii notions; if' not, they
wouldn't. Grant, on the other hand, never
complained of ill usage by the f ivei nmeut or
lad behavior ou the part, of his mm always
Seems to le Katiidhd -n ith both; au'l, if ever
dissatislied, ishilent. He favored no "policy"'
Lut the crushing out of the Rebellkm. He had
Sie conception of doty that led him to regard
the Federal Executive with di.-trust or dis
favor. Iu shoit, ( i f nut quietly leo. ived his
orders, and, to the extent of his r.bil.ty, exe
cuted them. It Will be tlie fault of tiio poo.ile
if this species of generalship is not n-.;.e com
mon hereafter.
A Danger to foe Ate. "it .! l':i: ;!"cN;; aii-l Hi
DiJly.
J"-0)ii the N. Y. Times.
The eagemet:.s of y-na'.ors and Uepresenta
tives to escape lro.n the Capitol nee 1 ui ( x
planatiou to auvb . ly who ha ; pas.'ed thrf
dog-days in AVa.-fo'iigiou. The exigencies of
the campaign lurui h anoth.-r sol uioii -igainst
Which ordiuaiy pio'.ests wou'd he uuavadiiig.
And yet there aie considerations which
J&hould outweigh all in the judgment of
those who i'LCMguiz the obliga'ious of
duty. Of thee tlie foremost isthed.iuer
Which may po.-sdbly overtake Union inte
rests in the South, iu t-onseijuHiice of the
Withdrawal of the military from tin recon
structed States pending a contest iu which
the Rebel element may hope to receive th )
lielp Of tie national Executive. With the
reorganization of civil" government, the au
thority of the military comtiiauders over the
Civil ollicers or concerns of a Mate properly
ceases. The soldier' rule will be legally pos
pible only in the three btates which have thus
tar not complied with the conditions of resto
faUpa, litre OUgUt to le uo difficulty iucou-
Fequenee, and there could be none if the Fresh I
dent were resolved iu good faith to nyhold the I
work of Congress. For the right of thenewlv
installed Governors to invoke the flrs ritauoa of
the Executive, ou the occurreni -j of serious
trouble iu their respeotive State, constitutes
ample provision against all probable emergen
cies. 15nt Mr. JpVidfou's lard veto in '"Age re
veals a source of coLnpiii atious of the gtjiw.-
character. The proclamation declaring the
ratification of the fourteenth amendment by
Noith Carolina and Florida, made appuvut
his unwillingness to rccognie authority
(leafed under the Jteconstructiou acts. The
veto of the Electoral College resolutiou
brings out the same fact iu a shape
whii h it were criminal to overlook. It is not
merely that Mr. .Johnson Laes and in?ults
the reconstructed Governments; ho denies
their legitimacy, and is prepare, 1 to treat as
invalid everything done by or nud'-r them.
Jiis latignrge is emphatic. "All 'he .Sta.
goveri nictits (oganied iu those Slates un der
tho ads of Coi gresi for that purpose, and
under n.t'litr.ry couliol" writts the 1'iesi 1-ut
"at" illeci'iinate and of no validity what
ev. r." "Tiie ovMy l'.otimate anth-.i ity," lie
declares iu lb" same document, ''tin !t wh-cli
the ehciiou fir l'ri.-f-i'ieut. and Yi. e President
can be hel l th' i- in, must be derived from the
governments ii.-tit eted'1 l-fore -I'll M trch,
AS T. That is to hay, Mr. Johu-ou repu lia'es
as l-t.-tar.l ai d xadawful the Govii;tiieni'i
foimid t'tider his cwu oi lers, which Congress
;";r good regions refused to sanction.
A hat follows .' if, alter the with Ira-ral cf
the noiita.iy frotu the :ei on-truced Slate.--,
their ri-spective governments, or any of them,
le ( onionted with pciil to ordi r .and lo.iid
autl.oi ily, it is j'laui that any application to
ti e i'residt nt for succor would be d;.-roardeJ.
Suppose, for example, Govtrnor Ib'ldeu, of
Ninth Caiobiia, in the prefeij.,0 of di.Iicnl'i.-s
wbicli Le is nibble, utiriled, to overcome,
appeals to tho l'residi.nt for ai-itauce in
r.iei:,ti.in:ig the law: what mut be the
Pre-i'ient's response i He will acknowledge
the rci e:pt of "a paper" trausmiit.-d '"by
Mid under the name of W. W. Jljhieu, who
therein writes hinelf Governor of North
Carolina," and lie will brt'S'jUely inform the
said llolden that Li3 Goteruorship and his
Government are "illegitimate and of no
validity whatever." The succor st.lieite 1 will
be ii fused. n tho other hand, Jlr. Johnon,
following the logic of his elearly expresvd
opinions, must acknowledge the authority of
ex-Governor Worth, whom Congress dis
placed, and sustain tin authority of his Gov
ernment, v. ho.-e title Mr. Johnson still pro
claims valid, uotwi'hstan ding its tenuiua'.ion
linger the law. The re?n!t will be that. th.j
jiower of the Federal Government, so far as it
is controlled by Mr. Johnson, will be exerted
.".gainst the existing Governments, and iu
f. vor of ( mbinali us form-d to give effect to
tlie (iovemmt ids s-.'t aside by Congress. For
the time, the President will be on the side
of the revolutionists, and aa'nst the Gov
ernments under vhich the States have been
mtored.
It cannot be said that we dwell on au imtgi
i ary danger. Nothing is more certain than
the determination of the disaffected whites, if
possible, to take into their owu hands the
voting for the Fresidency. They mean to
make it ,-a wime man s election," unlets re
strained by superior power. Wade II imp to u
hr.s confessed so much, and his views and pur
poses are echoed by every ;-hade of the rj,,utli
ein oppi''!hv. I'm who'- .ju.sUon i,u'"fs
r." : '.l.e Ability of the -:.":.- Ui g Governments
o ti. force their author!: aud to secure the
holding of an election in conformity with the
laws. And these Go -minerUs may be uu
ci'ialtothe task, unless assured beforehand
ot Federal help, if nei essary. t'uch an assu
ratire would, pcihaps, be suilioifiit ; for it
Would teach the ievoia'ionic'.s the hopeles
Jieis of their Pcheines. At present tin assu-lai-ceis
on tin; o'her side. The Waits and
Wade Hamptons plot abd threaten with the
knowledge that the President is whir them.
Now, the obvious duty of Congress is iu
come way to piovide for these coa'iny.encies.
How and with what means they should be
guarded against it is tho bu.-.iuess of Congress
to decide; but the country mav Toll ask that
the method shall bo unetinai. There may be no
actual necessity for Federal interposition: but
ir there is not, it will be because a readiness
to uphold the recognized State Governments is
too palpable to be misunderstood. TutV,
Congress may, by timely precaution, avert
seiious difficulties between the period of its
adjournment and the period of reassembling,
or by negligence invite them.
The inty extends further. Whatever in the
remotest degree affects the smooth working of
lleci nstruction, if yet incomplete, should be
linisbtd. Nothing can witli t-afety be left to
chance. It will not do to trust, however slightly,
to the good faith or the good will of the l'resi
dent, whose hostility to the work df Congress,
Mai the governments of the South, is too
dangerous to be treated lightly. Congress
must do for itself all that the requirements of
an eventful interval may render expedient;
and it will imperil the peace of the South, and
of the. country, it it leave r-.y part of this duty
uiitiijishe l. The ti't. - i.ill be well tpent that
is einployni in f ', uiymg the results ot recou
nt ruction against its. enemies, opeu or con
cealed. lY;Muil I'o'.iy.
FrMii tlie Ar. 3". Cuiomcrci'tl AUmtistr,
The Citirai is very severe upon the ex
llebels who are called upon to speak iu behalf
ot Sevmonr and Hlair, aud who u'ter such
glittering phrases aa the "lost cause" is to b-
itvived. '".'cession is not dead." The CV:i7i
tal es for its text the words, "Though, you
bray a ft...' in moitar, his folly will not de
part f,!u him," and thu hays that though
there men have been brayed in moitars aud
byrilhd on'iiiaiic , they siii! come back as
""l)e.-h in their toby as ever." It th.-u sharply
disapproves of b ibel General.; and Ibbe plot
ters against tin- I't'ieu, v ho are to come North,
tu take the sluing a;;uiut Grant and Colfax,
and adds, '".ud us ircui thi.j aoi.-taLce, or we
aie loi t."
l'.y all means h i these g. ntry come. We
!..(; d, during he Cun vent ioo, the old familiar
oracle ol the plantation whip, and we would
not. deprive Vance, and Wade Hampton, aud
lttiikner, and For est of the unctuous graliil
catiou they take iu insulting and defying Nortli
ein sentiment, Mid in Ventilating their reac
ti.na;y views u ihe t-'reets ot New York.
IVihitps TiMimbs will come to call his vas
sal roll at Hunker Hill, and to abnse his
Heluociatio tnend-i lor letting the South slide
into Kebolliou, and then looking coldly ou
while the lire was taken onto! the S tuth
ern heart. I'eihaps Wi-.e and some young
man named I;heU will al-o come to do
us good, aid to idiow the knavery of a
pi ( pie who would not let the South alone
in war, and w ho will n 't yield to all its de
mands in peace. To bo sure, such men as
these would only harm the cause they up
hold, but they would Fet Bo clearly b if ore the
North the enormity of the principles which
seek lecogmtiou in the triumph of Seymour,
that the Democratic party would be over
whelmed with even greater disaster than now
awaits it from natural causes. As the Ciihi'ii
well ray-': "livery Uebel speech made at the
North and Ee'iels seem unable to make any
but Ethel speeches will cost 9, hundred
votes Ut evoy ony it gaius."
The fact in the Union men of the country
cannot V humbugged by this absurd and
wicked U bel oratory. Tbey know this party
t the very bottom, aud they will repudiate
the subterfuges by whioh they peek the resto
ration of a cause not only lost, hut utterly
damn' L
Vow the Ileinihliciin rurty lias Stabbed tht?
Tiihlic Credit.
from Ihe N. Y. World.
Tlie outcry about "repudiation," which has
been started in this ouutry, an I is echoel
from the other side of the Atlantic, is a direct
consequence of the short-sighted, vacillating,
eelf contradictory, ami unjust legislation of
the Republican party. The fiscal laws passed
by the Re: ublican Congress are a hotch-potch
ot absurdities, so that any attempt to iutro
d nee order aud equity into our linaueial sys
tem gives a handle to the calumniators of the
couutiy. This is no reason why the blunder
ing injustice of the Republicans should not be
reohli. d, but it is a strong reason why the
authors of the mischief should no longer be
trusted with the power they have abused.
'j he London Ttnu.t has a long article com
ic ntieg ou the imperfect synopsis of the De
mocratic platiorm which was transmitted by
the eceau telegruph. It directs its nnima d-
en ions to two points the proposal to tax
the Federal bonds, and the proposal to pay the
l'.ve tweuties in greenbacks. From its remarks
on the first of these topics we extract the fol
lowing passage:
" I'l e Dt moot iit ie Convent Ion favors, we tiro
to (l, i he t xnt Ion of Collet s; uos lion Is. Too
)i! r o e Is Hoioewhiit in. let! n lie, but. It mM.ol
couise, he lnterpretO'l by a rett rence to the pro
posnlH whieh luive been iu Kited In tlie Union,
r.tnl !iK e found more or let-s support, nmon ltn
poliileinnH. They ere l.ivo. It, niimt he piouiUe I,
,o iioike them Intelligible, t'lnt, all tlie Iid'oIh
Inmo il by the United .suites since the batlnnl.iK
ol t he v sir have, ell In r by direct cunnt ment or
by t,e incnrpnrHi ion of previous Ktinute-i iu
I he t.cis autliorl.ln their Ishoo, beon doalared
t xein jit Irom tn.:itlon by or under fStato or mu-
i icipiil Rutliorlly. We have ofien couilemtied
the policy ol IhlH exeinnt ion, and, recnunlzln
the rif c HSlty of keeping fuith wi.h reNpecl to
I I e hondH Hint, lied hei n )-'-upi1, recoininrn led
that the exemptlou should not be extended
o hondH to be Issued In conversion of debts
1 ei ioilictilly mntiu lie;. No cli.inge has, how
ever, been niHile, mid t l,o ennso pi' nces of the
exemption are beiilnniuu to be Keveroly fell.
.ll the locnl taxHiiou within the Uoiou is
r -."-Ml by h direct tux assessed upon thecapl
tiliz. d viiliie ol all pr-.perly ol every kind
wi:hin h State, county, cltv, or township. Xiie
r.'.tecl local taxation in the Eastern cities lot"
v;o h o from 'J lo a per cnt. on tne oitpii.ili.ed
vhIhh' Ion, swrf Ho ins up, therefor;', a very euu
s i rt tile j. art. of the income of iniiiiy kinds of
ptoperty; end toe tn peyei'H who have been
'objietetl to these impostssee their n.-i-ilt.ir
woo liHve Invested loeir me.iiis iu Federal
siciiililes Wholly exempt from them. Tin;
s; i c'ik le is to tlie lust d-ree ln ltHl inc;, and it,
ts net pjnrnrdinnr.v thiil. a c.rv 1i-r hi tsen lie
n Hridloj; Unit ti e . u .n.n'.v should be rouioved.
Coloi 'li; a elv, uo d l.dtn and jn-tice coiitleinn
wimoui I'csitui Ion the plans advoc.utd us
ni".,i:s of i s removal."
The London Tiims is quitfe right in consider-
ii g the exemption ot the bonds from taxation
as an unjust discrimination against the owners
of other property, audanatmal source of com
plaint and irritation. A political party which
puts the public obligations ou such a footing
as to revolt the general Sense of justice, is the
wor.it possible enemy to the public credit. No
people can be expected to bear heavy burdens
wit hou' discontent, uub-ss they are equitably dis
distiibuted. Respect for human laws, like respect
for the Divine laws, should rest upon their iu-t--iusio
justice as well as upon the authority
of tlin legislator. The U-puhlkan legislation
has outraged the public sense of fairuess, aud
fhe Democratic party has nieiely given ex
piessioii to a general popular demand in insist
ing that the public burd-us shall be borne by
the owners of all descriptions of property
alike. If the Republican pat ty has entangled
us iu unjust obligations, that id a good reasou
wbv it should not be kept in a position to per
petuate or repeat the mischief.
The Democratic party has no intention to
repudiate any exirting obligation, nor is auy
Mich repudiation necessary in order to re
move the evils ot which it complains. The
live-twenty bonds will idl be redeemable iu
the eaily part of the next administration, by the
lapse ol the live years. What the Democratic
party proposes is to take up these bonds aud
cul'Stitute others taxable at the same rate as
oilier descriptions of property. The platform
condemns the unjust legislation which has
filled tLe public ruiud with discontent, and
Sets lorth the equitable principles which will
govern the issue of new bonds when the De
mocratic party comes into power. Iu this
e'ection, (he Republican party will be judged
by what it has done; for it has had power to
do anything it pleased, aud has perpetrated a
monstrous injustice. The Democratic party
will be judged by what it promises to do,
which is, to pav the five-twenty bonds as
speedily as possible, and so change the form of
the national debt as to make it taxable liKe
other property. Repudiation would be the
certain consequence of continuing the unjust
Republican system, which the Democratic
paity proposes to change. Complaints are
best silenced by redressing the wrongs which
occasion them.
The other part of the Democratic platform
which the London Tinas condemns is the pro
posal to pay the live-twenty bonds iu lawful
money. It any party deserves to be lashed ou
this tcore, by the organ of the foreign bond
holders, it is the party which has so worded
the laws as to make this au opeu aud a de-
bateable question. 1 here is no dispute as to
the obligation of the Government to pay the
ten-forty bonds in coin. Nobody disputes the
obligation to pay iu coin the interest both on
the ten.lorty and the live-twenty bonds. I liuse
obligations aie exempt Irom question, because
the law is fiee from ambiguity. The insertion
ot two words in the act authorizing the issue
of the five-twenties, would have precluded
Ihe acrimonious and unsettling aii-
cust-iouB which have arisen .respecting that
class of bonds. Why, il Congress mteuded
they should be paid in gold, were the statutes
i-o draw n as to opeu the way for an opposite
intei pretatiou f ft a man employs a lawyer
to draw a deed, and limls, two years atter
waids, that his title is open to dispute by the
imperlection ot the instrument, his auger
justly lights upon the incapable or dishonest
attorney ft the public creditors are disap
pointed, it w ill be iu consequence of the blnu-
uerine. amhteuous, and kuavndi legislation oi
the Republican party. It Congress intended
the five-twenty bonds to be paid iu gold, why
did not Congress sav so? It wouli have been
just as eay to insert the words "iu coin" iu
the live-twenty bonds as iu the ten-forty
bonds; Hist as easy to connect those explicit
; . , -.1 . :.. : 1 Al... . ..
woios wnu tue principal as wnu inn luieie.-t
of the live-tweL'tes. It is for the bepublicau
paity to tell the bondholders why this was
not done why their claims are thus ex
post d to the cross-winds of angry debate
w hy there is so much to be explained aay
and hi much to be made out by circuitous in
ference before their rights can be established
If any class- of laws should lie worded with
distinctness and -precision, H is laws creattu
heavy pecuniary obliga'.ioi.s on the part of the
Government. If the five-tweuty b m Is were
meant to be paid iu gold, the law should have
explicitly paid so, iu order that the Govern
ment might have had the advantage of that
expliidtness in the eale of the bonds au l iu the
subsequent maintenance of its owu credit.
The present doubt, controversy, and dissatis
faction is all caused by the omis.-iou of the
Republit.au part to givo to thai loaVaollors
that aspurance in the laws Whioh a portiou of
the party pretend to give them in au election
eering squabble. It is scandalous that this
business has been so mismanaged as to occa
sion piich a controversy, by which the na
tional reputation suffers and tho public credi
tors are kept in a state of uncertainty.
What cau the public creditors expect of
the party that passed that statute of repti iia-
tion, ttie legal-tender act T In consequence
of it, tho debtor part of the nation has been
debauched by the legalized repudiation of a
great part or their debts, J lie act lvts cor
rupted the State Government as well as the
ptiople; the interest ou the State dbta con
tracted previous to the war being paid iu what
is called lawful money. hat Republican
will tell us why the honor of our citizen and
the honor of our Stat3 ought not to lie held as
racred as the honor of the Federal Govern
ment ? We do not here lefer to private aud
State dfbts which were contracted aftr the
legal-tender act was passed, but before it was
pasFed. J here is no repudiation in paying In
greenbacks debts incurred after the passage
of the law, unless there was a special stipula
tion to pay them in com. Now, the legal
tender act was so worded as to include
Ft deial dt bts as well as private debts and
S'ate deb's, and hence it was important that
ill subsequent laws authorizing loans shoull
explicitly state that they were payable ia coio,
if navmeiit in coiu was intended. Hut
the fad is indisputable that there is
nothing in the loau laws which exempts the
five-twenty bonds from the sweeping language
of the legal-tender law. The clanu of the
bondholders is subject to this great drawback
and impediment, fer which thuy must thank
tbe Republican party, n is what tuat party
put into the laws, not what the Democratic
party has put into its platform, w hich invali
dates their claim to payment in coiu. If they
have been deceived, their resentment should
fall upon tie Republican authors of their dis
appointment a disappointment, iu which they
will receive little popular sympathy because
they will suffer no real loss. They will receive
back: as much for their bonds as they have paid
for them, with enormous interest for their
money while it was out of their hands.
Jlr. Tildcn IVwiSdercd.
Fitm Vie JV. Y. Evening 'o.il.
Mr. Samuel J. Tildeu, one of the leaders o'
the New Yoik delegation in the late Demo
cratic Convention, and long known in this
State as a good lawyer and as a great light o'
the Van lluren or "barnburner" wing of the
Democratic party, has written a letter nomi
nally to Mr. J. D. Hoover, but really, as the
II urnl msists, "to the Seymour and Blair
ratification meeting at Washington." The
II oril remarks that this letter "pitches the
tune" for the campaigu, and proposed that all
stuKe in.
Jlr. Tilden begins by assuming that the
contest is all a joke, made up, in tact, like a
play to show oil the actors. fhe "great
theatre," he tells us, "will be the populous
and powerful commonwealths which stretch
from the Hudson to the Mississippi. The
people of these commonwealths, by their votes
next November, will practically determine
the fate of constitutional freedom iu the New
World."
Mr. Tilden here forgets that New England
has not been dislrauchised. lie forgets, too,
that the Hudson river is too short to form the
boundary of the Southern States, lie forgets,
too, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas,
California, and othtr Western States, which
are not between the Iiud.son and the Missis
sippi. Hut, strangest of all, he evideuMy forgets
that his own iesiduee, the city of New York,
is ou the east, and decidedly not on the west
side of the II mitten river; so that Mr. Tildeu
himself, bo far from being an actor in any play
in the theatre named, could not be even a
f peotator, but must (day outside.
The li or'', being thus sung entirely out of
the vlsv, by the very "key-note" of the ever-
ture, makes a mild protest. It comments
thus:
"The thratre the eret belt of populous free
Ktities winch stretchsH lroiu the Hudson to the
Vislsslppl, roici biynnd. In thK niJinltlcout
belt ref-idta tho mass of our people hero Is tlie
colel seat ol American industry, commerce,
end political Influence. Oui lyiu l'anat lcl Now
Eeglprit, and the outlying desolated Mouth, are
of little account In the c.tuipaigu."
The little words and beionl are adroitly
added to Mr. Tilden's "music" to make it
more harmonious for the World, "lleyoud"
means, first, a little way east, so as to include
l'ark Row; second, aloug way west, to include
everything from the Misbissippi to the Califor
nia coast. In short, the World would inter
pret Mr. Tildeu's language as highly poetical
as well as "musical;" for by the Hudson it
understands him to meau the eastern boun
dary ol New York, and by the Mississippi
river it understands the Pacific ocean. A
happy instance of that "amplification," to
ue a technical term, which the World is so
tond of in "figures" of ever kiud, arithmeti
cal or epistolary.
Mr. Tilden, with the World as chorus, goe3
on to sing in the following straiu; or, more
exactly, to strain out the following song:
' I lecognizo twoKirmd nd predominant Ideas
movinit me popular miud to demand hucIi a
hin ge.
'f bene pre justice to the people and economy
In Ihe Uovei iiineut.
' Justice to the people. This Is threatened by
a Henatot hil oIIkhicIiv, which, having ulrcittty
aosoi b d Into itself t he powers exp:e.ily dele
gated by too t-'oustiiuilon to the Judicial and to
the toieculivo biiihchtu of the Uoveruiueni,,
seeks now to perpeiimto Itself by n nyslom
under which Senaiore of fatiaw, nominated to
order bythice millions of newly eniruncliised
nosri ck, shad exert iwico us much political
power us the representatives fif Liirteeu tall-in-ns
end a-hali ol mir own race, inline the
liieiit belt ol the Union, between tho AUaatie,
l tie Mississippi, uud the Lakes."
That Congress has threatened the Demo
cratic party w ith "justice to the people" is a
melancholy fact to Mr. Tilden; under which
all the consolation his muaic can give him
teims to be needed. Hut this method by
w hich a senatorial oligarchy "seeks now to
perpetuate itself'' is one of the dimmest elu
cidations in all the lyric literature of political
minstrels. Ju what way Senators of straw
can exert pow er iu perpetuating an oligarchy,
and how their exertions can be intensified or
their success ensured by tho fact that tbey
are nominated to order by three millions of
negroes does not appear at all. The only faot
tLat is evident concerning the poet's flue
frenzy is, that "the belt," which has juat
befoi reached only from the Hudson to the
Mississippi, has now been stretched all the way
from the latter river to the Atlantic.
Hut the peculiar inspiration of the lark,
"whih singing still doth soar and soaring
ever bings," is certainly imitated with vigor
in the next passage:
"j:con my In the Government. This Is lm.
posbiole under ii sy-teni wi leh, w illi lie couute
systems, annually con-umes u bum nearly equi
valent to all the net earning of labor, uud all
the not cnpiial In our country."
Tlie net earning of labor i3 about i?o,000,
0(0,01 0 per annum "iu our country." The
"net capital" is about 18,000,000,1)00. The
rum is (1,000,000,(100; aud this, according to
Mr. Tilden and the World, is about what our
Government annually consumes. We h ive had
occasion sometimes to cvnect tho World for
its u gleet of small sums ami trilliug disore
pancieH of (statement; but this must all be
reti acted now. The mind which cau soar
e.vcii in .-a- Eubliaie lyric, to Bitch a disre-
213 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
4
OFFER TO 1HR TRADE, 13 LOT?,
FIEE K X E AID BOERBOX WHISKIES, IX KOM)
OT 18155, 180 0, lfciOV, oikI 1N(W.
aiso, nm im aisd mnv&z mnmi, ;
Cf GREAT AGE, ranging from l&o to l-i.
ldboial contract will be entered Into for loin, ibivl at Distillery, of Uity yen v m iur.f ,jti,i
gard of everything conceiv.il.ile, must not be j
criticized by figures, tables, aud "stubborn" i
things. i
The poem and the music ought to have j
stopped bete. They reach their loftiest straiu
at this puiut. '
LUMBER. ,
1868.
FPBUCK JOIHT.
bjeit'jcii JUf?x,
JIK..I I.OC1C.
HIlM L( ii:K.
"I Of Q SF.'.iSONKD CLEAR prjsre. 1 CfiO
XOKjO. f?l'AM)ivKil CUC H I'l.SK, lOOC?.
CMtOCK i'ATl I'T.N PiN V,.
BPANlbll CKDAlt, f OH l'A'f TKP.NS,
K KD CKDA K.
O'Q JUllMDA FfOCItlXO, I O, 0
lOUO. l-LUUlDA H.'JOiUNU, LOOO.
ClKOUlna fluuiunm,
ikui;;iA tAiot'.uvH.
Di'lJjAWAKE i'LOOIUAu:
A8.M Fi.OOKI NU.
WVLNL'T f iAiOKlN'a.
IXOJUDA o'l'KP XOAKUa,
KAli, I'U.NK,
1 Or-Q WALNUT P.DS. AMI PLAK. "I 0,'Q
lOUO. WALNUT HUS ASL) PL,4.NJi. 1000.
WALNUT JiOA Ri(S.
WALKUT PLANK.
1 QOQ ;N!ir!.riTAKKK3' LUMBKt. 1 0;0
lOUO. VKDKKI'AKKU.S' l,L'AliiH. 10U.
Kh.l) CKL'Ali.
WAIMT AM) P1NB.
I Ciftft SKAHOiNKi) POPLAR. l.j,ifi
A.OOO. KlhASUSKiJ CUKKKV, J.OO5.
ASH.
WBIIB OAK PLA.MC AJJD B0ARD8,
H1CKUUY.
1 UMl CWAK 1 OX MAKERS' "I .?,;
BPANiHrt CKDAK LoX LOAJiDH,
FOR BALK LOW.
IFJiR. CAROLINA fCANTLlN'O. lon
ACH)0. CAROLINA H. T. !S,1JS. lODO.
iNURWAV HCANILiyO.
iPflR CKtlAlt SHINHLES, 1 ft?C
JCOO. CVPRK-SMILNtiLKS. lOUO.
ilAULK. liko I'll RR fe CO.,
1 H No. nan wtTil Street,
T. 1 GALV1N & CO.,
LUMBER CCKH!iS6iGN MERCHANTS,
KlIACKAHAXOX STliEET WIIAKF,
BELOW SLOATS MILLS,
(SOCAlXKli), PHILA DLPIIIA,
Ad KNTS FOR SOUTHERN AND EA8TKKN JIarin
lucturtru ot VJi.Ll.OW PIN K aul SPUUCKTiMUJili
iJUAliLrt. etc., Rliull bo harpy to luriiHli urueem,
wnulesle ratcn. ileliveruOle at any Rcce slbU p;rt.
.'oiiHtBiiily receiving anil ou hauil t our -.vliart
Kll'lUKKN FLliOKfNU. KUiNTLlNU. StlUN
OLKS, JiAMTKRN LATHM. PU'JikTS. UKH-SLA I'd
fPKl'CK, H I'M LOCK. KKLKlJT MlCHlOA A.H
CANADA PLANK AND UOARDci, AND 11 AU
aiA'il U bit 1P-KNK!LH, 1 31 siuthj
ALL OF WHICH WII.l, TtK RI,IVKlif:D
A'f ANY I'AKTOFTHK CITY 1'BW.vlPTLy,
u
TKITP STATES BUILPKKS' 3IILL, N09.
1 Ot -Ii ! ami -U U T.'ICTIi'L VqiU uin,.
Vt dim AO 0, A. A A. All.1 A A-A IHUCel
EuLEH jr ISnO., PROPRIETORS.
4 ' flays oo tiauU, muileot the Best Seasoned Lumbti
at low rIcoa,
W(H)D VOULL1NOS, BRACKETS, BALTJSTilllS
AtD WitW.lJS.
jewels, BalnstGrs, Brackts, and Wood Monlrtinn
WOCI) MOLLDINQS, BRACKETS. BALU3TEK3
AfiliEWUA
Vr ainat an J Asli Ban Railing, 8, tii, and 1 Incbe
SnTTKRNOT, CHESNUT, AND WALNTJ7
a uVLI.'INua to order. Ui
CARRIAGES.
c-?VT GARDNER & FLEMING
CAKHIAGE 13IJILDI3RS,
SO. 214 S0LT1I FIFTH STREET,
BELOW WAL2SOT.
An 3nortment Of NEW AND SECOND-HAND
CARRIAGES always on band at REASONABLE
PRlC'Jiii. 5 finwsm
TRUSSES.
so "SEELKY'S HAIiD KUBBKli TUV
vtt No. 1.147 CAEiSN (JT htreeU This Traw cor
reeiiy applied will cure aud retain with ease me mom
diUii.iiU riiplure; alwas cleau, llk'hli easy. sate, an'
ccuiicrtable, used II batlilnu, rJu-t to rortu, uevei
ri.m, brealfs, soils, Oecorre limbwr, or movwi froa
place. No strapping, iiard Rubbor Abdomlual Hup.
puiier, by winch the iioihers, Cinpulunl, and Ladle..
Sulieriug 7. IU1 Efciiialo weaknis, will find re lefand
perlsulBi-ppor'.! very Ik-lit, neut, and ellectiial. Pli
iiiBtriinieni.8 riiioiikter Rrai'es, Elasilo Htocklnsw foi
eak limbs. Huspoaiouo, etc. Also, lftruo ntock bhsi
J.catUet Truasea, bait tuaai price. Lady in auenrt.
aocp. 12win
COAL.
BSIIDl.'LKTUN & CO., DKAL81W IN
. HA RLEK.H LEHJOli and KlUl,: VEIN
oOAL. Kept diyiinder cover. Prepared exprMT
t,r family Yard, No. li WAeUIKwTO
Averm Ottliw No. 514 W A Lii I'T firi. ri
f KE STSAEl CEWESrlATOn
SllSVFArTUKIXQ COMPASI
or rt.iiJMsvi,VA5iiA,
CAPITAL, - - SIOO.CCO
Ibis Company are now in (pared to ftiruleb
WIKUANB'U ATK SIT IMPKOVED ISiTflXSI
GODliATOU,
Ol ary power rinlred, npou two weeks' notice. They
nave been Introduced iu tblu city, aud thoroughly
tMiud w lUi luoet auili, fiw tcry results, and are sold
t.Mlliil UA R IN TEE Ot? ABSOLUTE fsAPETT
fKOM UICyfKlJOTlVK EXPLOSION. Thoy ar
clicapcr In thai cost, and iu expense ol erection, more
economical In fuel, durable and convenient In tu
ttiAu auy o-ber apparatus ijr Kuerailux stem,
or oompany,
(KOOMH Kos. 6 and 6),
No. CC8 WALNUT STHEET
NELSON J. NICKEiWON, Presideni,
EJJV'ARD II. GRAHAM,
l.H,ui
becretary and Trea nrar
QEOKCE PLOWMAN,
CARTESTE2 AND LUILDEjI,
HE MOVED
Ja So. m DOCK Street,
phi ladelpiiia:
JOHN c n U M P.
CARPENl'ER AND BUILDER,
Nnvl'l: KO, 913 f.tl;H HTKi rT, AN
KV. 178iJ tilJLSSl'T KTBKr.T,
M VUlLAV&LrilLM
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
CO
EMANDY, WINE, G!r, ETC.
13 S ALL & Kc-ZRIDV,
IKrOKTEBA OF
I3UAITDIES, VIMS, GI?iC, Era,
a::d DietijJjEbs oy
mi old RiE, Bamoi m vizviuxmA
W 1 I M IX V,
rUEE AND UNADULThr;ATI,rf
ISC. 1P1 South t'JiOfj'T iir(,o
Prr il ?:!., Tjj; a;
Iilqonrn by h9 II -tttn and De'jniin furtti;;,J
etp'e.fciy lor li)!l'y ii.u n.eduinai pLipoeiw, U;nvr
by mall will b vrf upr'.i atn oii.i io. l iiuioo
Cl li A SI 1' A ( : N K.- A N 1NVO I (17Tm'I'Ta Hi
J ioie" CbauipRk'ic, lm ii .uiil k i hy
JAM .,- CA H-l A I H, j il ,
126 WALK tJ and at iJANITp: 8tr.
C II AMI' ACM'. AN ISVrif'K OI "GOLl)
Lac" Cbfcr'l.Hvre, Impcrier. a il lor ante bv
li WAL I'T i'd -l HH I -' r-rt,
C11JAMPAGXE.-A N 1 N VtTl (lUV'L0n
J lla" CInuupr-gLf, hiipiirttl m,o n rha'c-bv-.
-IAM KN CA HTA I !! jr.,
4 11 P2 WAl.M'T oimI 8 ( 1 ha N pp, -;r,
Cai5taii:s- ohivE oiTTan13vcTJIi
ot the above, lor taie by
J A it Esi CA RS J'A I K1, J
1 "WAI ra'T enJ fi Oo-ANITE ftiivj..
WATCHFf?, JEWELRY, ETC."
vtVlS LADGMU5 & CO.
'BIA1I0XD I) E. ILEUS .TKtVELI'IlS.l
AT( JIl:S, JKVKI,UV A SUA I'll lf.
. WATOIIES nud JEWELRY REPAIRED.
J92 Chestnut St., Thilft"
Would Invite pFTtlculnr u' lentlon tj their lures aid
eiegani Bitsorluiem 01
LADIES' AND MENTV WATOIIKS
of Amo-Iran and For'gu Makers of tln tlin. st quafity.
In Uoia 1 un hl.ver i.sts.
A varie y of Indeptndenl U Second, for husa
I'miini
i allies' aud GeuU' CHAINS of Litest styles. I J H
and m kt.
ETTTON AND EYELET STUDS
In great variety aewtst patterns.
BOLID hTLVERWARE
fur Brld it presents; Plated-ware. etc.
Kepalrii g dene In the best ujimnrr, and
rnied. 5.;B
3 P E c a A L
WOTIC2.
I XTIL SLTTOIl'EIi 1,
I V1LL CLOSE DAILY AT 5 I. 31.
G. IV. I'iUK.SELIi,
Importer and Dealer lu French CiocWn, Vfttclios
l'ine Jewtlij, and BUurWarn,
Xc. 22 xNortli SIXTH Street,
5 2fi PI1 1 LADELPH I A.
jAVU,a PUKCUASED '.TIIK LNTEUE&T
OF TIIOMA 1TH1GUIN., tiH,
Ity late partner lu the llrru of WRKictlNU ft WAK
LEN, I am now prepared to otter
A NEW AND VAIUKD STOCK OF
WATCHES AND JEWELRY,
AT TEE OLD STAND,
"-.E. COBKER FIFTIH AMI) til I..M'T S.T. '
And reRptCttully requBut a contlnu'.tnce or the p
( i-i iiace go Ionic aud liberally bi..,ii,wnl upon timh-ua
i -iu. rai ncuiar at'i niion jtiven K) llie repairing ol
WATCUlili AND JEWKLUV.
NS'ATCHEtt AND JEWELRY.
A. 15. n.tHDC.V,
0 ii wriuJin
Pbl'adelpbla, Marc'i 16, 1388.
JEWELRY! JEWELRYI
S. E. Corner Ttiitli ami CJiesiiut.
NEW STORE.
GO0D3.
vRiccifja & co.f
(Formerly WrlpgliiB A Waideo, Filth and CliesntitJ
invite aiifiitiou to iin-ir .'.ev Jewelry ouire, si. E. cor
, er TENTH and UHK-M'T hiiee s.
We are now prfparnd, wnu our Extensive Stock, to
.-iter U RE A T lNl)lU1itM.i lo InnerH.
WATCHES ot the ino.'l relebrsteil luHUers, JF,7-l-.LRi,
and tll,VER WARE, always the laiesi ttiv
- 'KliH aiiU best qual uie.M.
Goods epeciailv ee.s.nned tor Liil DAL PHEsKMTS.
tarticuliir attentir.u iiiviii lo tho Repairing el
v'ATCiIEfrj AND JEWELRY. 1 mwi
WHIGG1NS & GO.j
8. E. Corner Tenth und niicdnut Streets.
FINE WATCH Eh.
Wc keep always ou bond an kKsertiJient or
I..ADla' AMJD WESTS' ""jl f t WA'f CLi"i.i;
..if the best Amer'.CMi ;;d Prirelt,n Makers, r-i
. MilvU tu give conipn.:-i,l:j:u;tii.ti, and at
8LMCATL b EDUCED PRitEJ?,
FAJtK BKOTIiE'2.
LoipOTter ol Walchev Jewelry, AI uicl i-J(
UlUiatliirpl Co. S2 CIlitiNTjTMl., below Vonr'T.,
1hmec attentloo ,-,-rj to repairliij Wawhi-A
Aiuolcul iioxes bv Eii.ST-CL Aci. workroeii.
PAINTED PHOTOS
A
K E W THING IN A It T,
BERLIN PAINTED riIOl'03,
A. S. ROBINSON,
No 9.0 CHESNUT Blreel,
Has Bt received B superb collection of
UERLIN PiilNTJi) PrlOIOORAPilei OF
FLOW Ell A
Tbey are exouUta khuis of art, rivalling in beauty,
naturalness of tint, and peifeolliiii or form a treat
variety of the choicest exotlu ft iwerln pUnU. They
are niounted on boards cf three bizes, aud luld fruui
Mrent to 13 anil f i each.
Eor framing and liie albuui they are incomparably
beautiful 3 ir
DYEING, SCOURING, ETC.
I? r b r: Oil 0 T E A itl
6 C O IT I t I. N O .
ALCCDYLL, f.URX & CO.;
K, 3(J (iCT'lK tLPVU'.'M'Il R'i'KiUL'i."
ANl
KO. Oit H'E MTHVXTt ISlllttiW