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- The Lfttc Session of I'onjross.
From the If; Y. if arum. ' 1 .
Congress has illjoiiruert, after an exciting
Cession, which has juUh1 iu oJiuparitlvelv.
little liarui, ami iu mhiih po.iitlr gmtd. It Id
Impossible to lentow rjr KHtat lr' nP',n
Cession which ha broiiM no prtioitUr re
form in the civil servii e. in whioh a revenue
till w4 Bmotlnrefl through a'olnt laziuess,
and which ban done n..tliiuu towards reinoviug
the doubt which ov.-rclnu'l our natiouil
credit. Yet the reJuuiiou of the whUky tax
to a practicable rate, the removal of taxes
from ootton aud doniHatio mauufctarea, tbe
Tirogrens made iu the woik of recormrnution,
and the defeat. of all the dmgfrom sch-jmen
for an enlargt inent of paper currency, aul of
jnany other pTaiuible but injurious uinS'iures,
are matters tor which our national legislators
deserve credit.
The first important subject that was
brought before Congress ou the opening of its
Tegular session, was the report of the C jin
jniltee on Impeachment. The feeling of the
House was then so strongly" oppn-w i to the
measure that it was only by the un of dila
tory motions that the miuority could ob'.aiu a
chance to be heard as fully as they believe I
to be their right. Iinpeachuinut wn then
Toted down by a vote of 57 to 10S. Th
Jlouse and the country felt relieved at this dis
position of the question, aud it was generally
Supposed that tlie President would endeavor
CO to conduct himself as to avoid giviug any
excuse for a revival of the project. H it this
Lope was disappointed. Mr. Johnson's pug
nacity and perversity would not let him rest
in peace. Vhetht;T his proceeiiugs were
illegal or not, it is at least perfectly certain
that his removal of Mr. Stanton was inspired
Chiefly by his innxiety to do souiethiug otTn
Hive to Congress, aud to prove that he had
Ctill .some power to annoy his enemies.
Had - Congress been able to bear the
Insult then put upon it, we have
little' donbt that Mr. Johnson would
Lave been encouraged to proceed to aoine clear
Violation of the Truure-ei-Oflbe Act; in which
case hid conviction aud removal would have
Leen certain. .We nball not, however, renew
Lere the discussion of all the many questions
that arose out of the irnpeachment. To speak
It from a merely party point of view, although
We had become bo thoroughly weary of Mr.
Johnson's "ugly" disposition, his perverse
attempts to defeat reconduction ou any plan
except his own, and his suspicious affiliations
With corrupt men and women, that our sym
pathies were at the outset entirely with the
prosecution, yet we became satisfied before the
close of the trial, and are now more than e"ver
convinced, that the success of the Republican
party next fall is far more nearly certain under
the acquittal of Mr. Johnson than it oould have
Leen if he had been convicted by the casting
Vote of Senator Wade.
The release of cottou and of manufactures
from taxation was. in our opinion, a beneficial
measure. We have always been opposed to
any system of taxation which undertakes to
collect a little tribute from every producer.
.Although looking fair ou its face, it is open to
at least two insuperable objections: it cannot
Le BO levied as not to tax any article twice,
and it cannot be collected from every one who
ought to pay it. The tax on manufactures was
a perpetual source of annoyance to houest
inanutaoturers, a constant temptation to fraud,
and a much greater burden on the country
than it was ever meant to be.
The only method of taxation on manufac
tures which can be fully carried out is one
Which lays the burden on a few articles of
general trse, bo that the revenue officers may
confine their attention to those. Unequal as
this mode appears at first sight to be,
it is only at first Bight that it appears bo the
tax thus collected would be drawn from a
Vast number of persons, paying the entuueed
price put upon the goods by the manufacturer;
and, in this manner the burden is about as
equally divided as it would be if all branches
Of production were taxed. The tax being
thus paid to the Government by a few
persons in the first Instance, the assessors and
collectors can keep a strict watch upon them,
and need not depend upon their representa
tions, as they generally must where every
manufacturer is a tax-payer. The Govern
ment thus receives a vastly larger proportion
of the taxes due to it, while the people are
freed from the oppression of a system which
necessitates espionage and official investigation
into every man's" business, or else leaves
Lonest men to pay the whole tax, and to be
undersold by their perjuring competitors. The
plan of taxing everything has been perma
nently abandoned, after a long and thorough
trial, in countries where honesty among excise
Officers is as common as it is rare here, and
Tre thank the Fortieth Congress for putting an
end to it.
The reduotion of the tax on whisky was
also a wise act, though lor dilfsreut reasons.
The tax ought to be at least one dollar per
gallon, because the article is a mere luxury,
and the system of taxing a few articles only
requires that those articles should be heavily
assessed. A tax of one dollar could be bjrue
Ly whisky without diminishing the production
to an extent which, the most ardent oppo
nent of teetotalism could believe to be injurious
to the country. But the simple truth is, that
a tax ot the proper amount furnishes a margin
lor nrinery . wnicu 11 la impossible tor our
officials to resist. It is not necessary, let it be
observed, for the "whisky ring" to control
all, or even one-fourth, of the revenue officers
of the country. All that they need to
do, or have usually done, is to
control the officers of a few districts,
and then confine the business to those dis
tricts.' This plan, leaves them millions of dol
lars, if necessary, with which to influence a
hundred petty officers. Millions never were
necessary, however. Bo far, it does not ap
pear that the bribes used attained to the
dignity of eix figures. The officers were
Luutrry and eager to sell themselves for oon
tempti,ble sums. Indeed, the friends of one of
the persons recently convicted of tbo most
outrageous connivance at forgery allege, and
We think truly, that he received no bribe at
all, and committed what was practically per-
. jury merely out of gooa nature. Certain it is
that he was too poor to pay his counsel.
Now, when our revenue service has fallen
Co low that it seems impossible to get an hon
est man into it, or to keep him honest for one
day alter he enters it, aud when Congress is
nnwilling or unable to do anything toward its
reform, it is obvious that the maintenance of
a high duty is a premium upon bribery, and
that the next best thing to do is to lower the
duty to such a figure as will give the distiller
little choice, as a mere question 01 money,
Letween paying the tax and bribing the tax
collector. Alter much examination, Commls-
eioner . Wells, who is one of the few men in
office who have any capacity for their work,
reported that a tax of fifty cents could be col
lected; and Congress has done well iu follow
ing his Advice.
The action of tLo House upon the Internal
Jleveiiue Uill reported ly Mr. Bcheuck, of
which the hill finally paRsed was a nwre frag- I
tnent, was discreditable enooRh. TW passage I
of BUch a measure, remodelling the entire in
ternal revenue gvMein, was the most impor
tant duty of the wholsesHton, Almost every
thing else (Wight better have Wn Baoriflced
than this. The whole financial system of the
Datiou iuvolviDg, a has long been visible to
men who nnderetand political eoouotny, and is
fast becoming plain to others, the whole pros
perity and honor of the country depends '
upon the administration of the Internal
Revenue Department. . Yet the bill was
flnng abide, when a few days would have
enfliced to Dutch it, because honorable members
wanted to go home nnd make stump speeches.
General Butler's well known per-tonal devo
tion to and enthusiasm for General Grant ray
plead his excuse for such a course; but the
House cannot expect us to believe that they
all feel the flame extraordinary zeal in the
raupe. At all avents, if they did, they might
have made General Butler their deputy to the
people, and have sent him to Btump the coun
try for Lis favorite, while they contributed to
the Buccess of the campaign by proving the
capacity of the Republican party to reform
abuses in the Government,
t While referring to this subject, we inut o.ill
attention to the significant fact that every
Democratic Representative except the two or
three members who were ou the committee
which fiamed the bill, voted to kill It; thus
illustrating the truth of the charge which we
made against them last week, tliat they con
tribute uo aid whatever to adiuinUtrative re
fo.m or to the purification of the Government,
but are simply a factious, bitter, an I selfish
minority, who would rather that the country
tbould Buffer from the evils of a oorrupt aud
oppressive fiscal system thau that their oppo
nents should have the credit of its reform.
Let any fair minded man compare this record
with that of the Republican minority in the
Congress of 1857-50, under the leadership of
John Sherman in the House and of Lyman
Trumbull in the Senate, and he will be apt to
forgive the Republican party many of its
faults rather than entrust the nation
to the keeping of a combination of
Northern corruptiouists and Southern ma
lignauts. Many other topics suggest themselves in re
viewing the wcrk of the session, but spice
fails us. The reoonstruotioa acts of previous
sessions have been improved. The admission
of the Southern States which have complied
with the law has proved the good faith of the
Republicans in proposing the terms of restora
tion. Except Mr. Ciristy, of Georgia, who
has not claimed his seat, and who will very
likely claim it in vain, and except the Georgia
Senators, every Southern representative in
either House in admitted. Tne removal of
political disabilities from many Southern men
has been one of the good fruits of the Chicago
platform. The ratification of the F mrteeuih
Amendment is of itself a sufficient theme for a
column. But we inurtt leave these subjects
untouched. We rejoice that bo much has
been accomplished. We believe that very few
schemes of pnblio plunder have succeeded in
this Congress, aud that several nave been
stopped by it. Its faults have been mostly
negative. Let us hope that it may yet repair
its omissions, and earn for itself a name of
permanent honor, as it has now earned the
credit of having done better than mo3t of its
predecessors.
The Air-Liuc Route to Flinuiclal Ruin.
Prom the iV. 1'. Tribune.
A correspondent, recently writing to the
Zrifcunc, Bays:
"We favor the payment of the flve-twen'les In
pieenlu.oks. You au us liow, men. win we pay
the greenback? In Kolil. to tbe uttermost far-
tbiuu. when ve can; but meantime we will
avoid tne rulnoiiH lutt rest we pay at present."
Let us analyze the effects which would result
from this blunder, if it should be consuin
mated. The above statement is a step in ad
vance of the Pendleton theory. The writer
has discovered, by dint of hard pounding, that
when the bonds have been all withdrawn and
greenbacks issued, the principal of the debt is
as large as ever.
Net a dollar of it has been paid. The United
States still owes the hollers of the greenbacks
$2,500,000,000, which our correspondent says
should be paid in gold. But he says we have
Stopped the payment of the interest. Waiving
the point that it would be as just to repudiate
the principal as the interest of any debt on
which we have agreed to pay interest, and
hence the plan, if a good one, stops short of
Its full fruition by 12,500,000,000, we will sup
pose the lob done. The bonds are recalled
The greenbacks are issued The blow is struck
whom has it felled f -
First. We have agreed to pay $2,500,000,000
in gold on demand for a debt which we oould
buy to-day for 72 cents per dollar, or for
$1,700,000,000 in gold altogether, thus losing
at the outset (' the greenbacks are ever to be
paid) 800,000, 000 in gold, or 6$ years' inte.
reBt on tne national debt.
Secondly. The national debt could not ba
paid out of the surplus earnings of the people,
after paying for the ar and tear of working
capital and the support of the people, in less
than twenty years. A note without interest
payable in twenty years, is worth that sum
which, if placed at compound interest for
twenty years, will produce the Bum for which
the note is given. The note of the Govern
nient for $100, due in twenty years, without
interest,. and sure to be paid iu coin, would be
worm only
' Kven were there absolute certainty
therefore, that every greenback note would be
paid in lull in gold, at the end of twenty years
it would be worth only twenty cents on the
dollar. If used as a currency iu .which prices
were to be stated and debts paid, all prices
would go up 350 per cent, above what they
now are, or 400 above the gold price, and all
debts would be payable with less than one
third the actual value which would now pay
thein. If all values would rise at the same
time, the extent of the evil could ba arrived
at by computation. But they would not.
Imports and exports, dry goods, wheat, pork,
beet, and other exportable merchandise, would
rise in price long before wages aud rents, and
these still long before real estate, and real
estate in commercial cities would rise long
before, and more than, country property.
This would Bet on foot a general gambling and
speculating era, such as the country has never
Been. Gold would go up from 140 to 500.
The poor man who to-day Bells his shop or
cottage, that has heretofore beeu worth $1000,
for $1500, thinking he has made a great ad vauce,
finds before long that he onght to have Bold it
for $5000 in order to make himself whole, and
that he has lost three-fourths of all he was
worth, unless he can swindle somebody as
badly as he has been swindled. In such a
chaos and wreck of prices and of business, the
houeat workingman is ruined; the hard-earned
property he has accumulated melts like the
dew he Bcarcely knows why. Such a condi
tion of things is favorable only to the gam
bler and laud-shark, aud fatal to all honest
and legitimate industry. Talk of saving
$120,000,000 of interest per annum I It would
unsettle and tumble into chaos the entire
property of the country, bo that no man
could be certain of saving anything.
The twenty thousand millions of dollars,
which the entire real and personal property of
the country is worth, would rise to one hun
dred thousand millions, and iu the rise
eighty thousand millions of it, at its al vanoed
values, would pass from the bands of those
who have honestly earned it into the hand) of
speculators. This proposition Uuoohes u on
shoreless sea. It has no element in it but
certain destruction,' widespread anl terribly
disaster. The very existence of business
and - indastry depends - on preventing the
fools from - running . our - finances ' upon
this rock of repudia'ion. it is not a
question of mere honor but of overwhelming
interest nay. of Belf-preservatlon. The do-
alltd payment of the debt in greenbacks.
eveu if they were certain to be paid iu gold In
twenty years, and therefore depreciated only
to twenty cents on the dollar, for this is the
banls on which wa have thus far calculate t,
ould pp-edlly ruin every non-speoulator in
the country. The most reikless gambling
would be the only salvation of auy man of
business. But it is not true that the green
bacVs would be paid in coin iu twenty years,
aud consequently it is not true that the depreci
ation would Btop at twenty cents per dollar.
When they had fallen to twenty cents, they
would be three times more depredated, anl
consequently further from being paid in coin,
than the national bonds now are. The 1'eu-
dletons and Vallaudiuham3, who ory out
against paving bonds in coin that are depre
ciated to 70 cents, will find it to be just three
and a balf times as unjust and oppressive to
redeem the greenbacks in coin in full when
they bad sunk to 20 cents per dollar. If there
were to be any redemption of them at all, thoy
would only buy them in at market prices, bi
r ause that would be all they need pay to get
them. Just as Mexico is now buying in her
debt at six, and as Russia redeemed her debt
of 1815 at seven. Hence, when the greenbacks
have euuk to 20 cents per dollar, the prospect
s. not that they will be paid in full in gold at
the end of twenty years, but that they will be
redeemed at some future time at the rate or
five dollars in greenbacks for one of gold. This
prospect Is no sooner apparent than the green
backs go down from 20 to 5, gold goes np, as
it did iu the Rebel Confederacy, to 4000 all
valnes burst together, the whole national debt,
bonds and greenbacks, and bank notes and
private notes, are exploded, the people
are left without any medium of exchange
except gold and silver, and not more
than $200,000,000 of that in the whole
country. How mnch business could
be done in the United States with a currency
suddenly reduo-d to five dollars per capita tor
the whole people? Our farms, mines, fao
tories, and stores would be paralyzed as if
universal palsy pervaded the business men of
the country, r amine would stalk through
the land. The operative willing to work
would find nobody able to furnish him any
thine with which to buy food. The merohant
would refuse to sell on a credit that bore no
evidence 'ot being secure. All securities
would have vanished, and no means of doing
bnsinesa for cash would exist. Such a return
to barbarism, such a general and overwhelm
ing crash, such a wide-spread and destructive
suspension of industry, with the carnival of
crime and holocaust of suflering which would
accompany it, hi.8 never been witnessed in this
country. Yet this is the "dainty dish" whioh
some wonld set before the people under the
candy and specious pretense of "saving in
terest" on the public debt. It Is the air-line
route to ruin.
Choice of Presidential Electors.
From the If. T. Timet.
The action of the Florida Legislature, in
taXliJK to Knelt tho power of olxouslnii Presi
dential electors, is assailed by the Southern
allies of Seymour and Blair as part of a
Bcheme for seouring for Grant the vote of the
South. "It will not be tolerated," is the ory
that goes forth from Democratic throats
There shall be a direct vote by the people, the
disaffected declare or, if that be denied,
revolution.
Among the loudest who denounce the Flo
rida measure are South Carolinians, whose
Legislature formerly chose tha elaotors The
chivalry were, satisfied then, for they con
trolled the Legislature. They condemn the
renewal of the system now, because other
elements are in the ascendant. The differ
ence in position, no doubt, explains the dif
ference in their political philosophy. They
are not likely to be troubled in their own
State, its new Constitution expressly pro
viding that "presidential eleleotors shall be
elected by the people." " But they echo the
threats of resistance raised by Rebels in
Louisiana and Alabima, on the supposition
that tha example of Florida will be generally
followed by the southern Legislatures.
Constitutionally the Florida Legislature may
have acted within its powers. Ths Federal
Constitution provides that "each State shall
appoint, in such manner as the Legislature
thereof may direot, a number of electors"
and so forth. What South Carolina was at
liberty to do before the war, Florida is free to
do now; and other of the Southern States may
toiiow in the eama path, if they pleasa.
But the wisdom of the step, whether taken
by Florida or any other of the reconstructed
States, is extremely doubtful. Waiving alto
gether the relative merits of the two plans
election by the people or election by the
Legislature it seems inexpedient to enact the
latter with direct reference to the contest now
progressing. To render seemly the choice of
electors by a Legislature, its members should
have been elected in view of the exeroise of
that authority. The people would then have
an opportunity ot expressing their prefer
ences, and the legislator, would proceed with
entire propriety. These Legislatures, how
ever, were chosen without reference to this
question, and they cannot now exercise the
power claimed by the Florida Legislature
without appearing to deprive the people ef a
uurneueu vrivneue.
W7e put the case wholly on the ground of
expediency. As a matter of constitutional
light, the new Legislatures may avail them
selves of the appointing power. But we are
persuaded that its exercise, in the present
condition of the pnblio mind at the couth,
would operate iniuriouslv. It would look like
an attempt to secure a snap judgment. It
would give color to the pretense that the
Republican party is, after all, afraid to trust
the Southern vote. And it would ba used as
evidence of a determination on the part of the
Republicans to profit by any questionable
agency that may be at hand. These Imputa
tious would be as false as other of the Rebel
cries. But they should ba prevented, if possi
ble. Not evil only, but the appearance of evil
should be avoided in a contest with opponents
who eagerly seek a pretext for the disturb
ances they threaten.
Tho Terrible Counler-KcTOlutlon Aj
proacliliijr.
From the JV. Y. Herald.
The figures as they come in from Kentucky,
are mounting ub for the Demooratio majority
The last returns, whioh we published yester
day, set down eighty thousand majority for
DtevenBon, the Demooratio candidate ior uov
ernor, and these returns represent the country
districts from which they come in slowly, and
win pronaniy snow larger gains, aoooraing as
they are received. Tha result of the June
election in Oregon was quite as remarkable an
evidence mat the people are awaice to tue mui
tifarious mischief which the radical party has
wrought in its administration of tha Govern
ment. Wo cannot, therefore, shut our eyea to
the direction of then straws whtoh show hi
the wind blows. The ReDub'.ioiO majority iu
Oregon in 1800 was 37; the Demooratio uu-
Jority for member of Congress (in Aolitary
one who represents that young State) was, at
nenh otion of the first M uUv in Jaue. 18GS.
120!) Here was a gain of - the anti-radtoal
party of over fifteen hundred Votes iu a voting
population of about twenty thousand. Taking
there two States as an exarnpl. we will flod
that the people are not abandouinir their hos
tility to in wontorr and dangerous policy of
the ruling faction, whioh during three years
ot peace has increased the national debt an
liept up war prices and war taxation. The
Kentucky election has takeu place since the
Presidential nominations of both parties were
made; and yet bo far from the -nomination of
the radical convention strengthening the b.tok
boue of the faction, or the nomination of Sey
mour and Blair weakening the Bpinal column
of the Democracy in that Sta'.e. they have
turned events the other way. These results
are but the early indications (the skirmish
fire bb it were) of the great revolutionary bat
tle which is about to open. If the other 8tate
elections which ar to come off between this
and the Presidential ' contest in November
thonld happen to give like indications of popu
lar hostility to the radical usurpations and
corruptions, who can tell . but that the nomi
nees of the Chicago Couvention may be over
whelmed by the weight of radical malalmin-i.-ttration
since the Rebellion was wound np by
General Grant that they have to carry on
their shoulders ? If we look at the facts which
confront the people when they coma to vote,
we find that taxes to the amount of three thou
sand millions of dollars have been imposed
upon us. We find that the national debt has
been increased to the tune of three thousand
millions more. And this when the country U
at peace and the people had a right to hopa
for a reduction of taxes and the national obli
gation as the lruit of victory won, God knows
with what terrible sacrifices to every home
and hearth in the country. But instead of tha
load being lightened we are called on to bear
further exactions, to submit to increased ex
penditures. In order to keep a portion of the
country in subjection more troops are called
for. Men foisted into Congress from the
Southern States, and Governors who really re
present little more than a mock constituency,
demand from tha Government an expensive
army to assist them in carrying out schemes
and ambitions whioh are purely partisan and
are positively destructive of tha peaoa aul
good of the country. It Is facts like these
which meet intelligent men of all parties when
they come to cast their votes, and we cauuot
be surprised that majorities are found to pro
test emphatically against a continuance of this
kind of government.
The people demand a change, and it is the
people, and not any particular party, who will
make the issue at the approaching election.
Names and individual candidates count for
very little in this contest. It is a cheap gov
ernment, honestly administered in view of the
fact that the country is at peace, which the
people require. A serious counter-revolution,
therefore, terrible to the politicians, no doubt,
but good and wholesome tor the people be
cause it is being horn of the people is at
hand. Nothing but the marvellous aotivity of
our population and the untold resources of the
country could enable us to bear the present
burden of taxation or induoa us to submit to
carry it bo long. But it is evident that a reac
tion has set in, and it may he that in the course
of events as now foreshadowed the next elec
tion will result in sending m majority to Con
gress possibly in favor of repudiation, but cer
tainly in favor of a vast reduction of the pre
sent enormous taxation. Tha publio mini
leans that way. Let us have peace, real peace,
is the popular cry, and the popular heart
naturally yearns for the possession of that
prosperity which should accompany peace.
The result of the Presidential election may ba
bo vaguely decided m the coniiict between the
rights of the Northern and Southern States in
the matter of franchise as regulated by radical
legislation as to drift us into another oivil war;
but it is clearly the duty of the Northern States
to set the seal emphatically upon the issue by
their votes and leave nothing to chance or no
opening for conflict. The expression of anti
radical sentiment in the late elections in Ken
tucky and Oregon is but the precursor of a
great counter-revolution, upon the verga of
which the country stands this moment.
The Enemy ltccoils !
From the N. Y. World.
The Tribune makes two notewoithy admis
sionsone explicit, the other virtual. The
explicit admission is, that tha Republicans
can succeed in electing their candidate for
President only by tha most strenuous exer
tions; the virtual admission is, that it is neces
sary for the party to retreat from the Recon
struction acts and fight tha battle on a
dillerent issue. Both admissions are signal
flags of apprehension and distress. We first
desire attention to this paragraph:
"Yet we do not believe, nor wimU others to be
lieve, Ueneial Grant's eleotlon certain. We
would have every one realize that the election
Is not yet decided that tue Hepublio tue cau
win if tbey work, but must lose if they are
heedless or apathetic. We hope to carry I'etiu
BlvaniM, Ohio. BDU Indiana Id October, bul by
email, majorities, huoh as will animate both
PHrtlealo more determined elforis lu Novem
ber. Our Indiana friend tain of a large ma
jority In that Hlute; we ehall be content with a
snjsll one. We do surely hopa to carry tills
Btate, but know well that hard work is required
to do It. lrUnda of Grant and Colfax! uo not
believe wenhall win easily; for, without stren
uous effort, we should not win at all. But work
on Iu assured conviction that victory la within
your reach."
This is a great lowering, nay, a complete
abandonment of the vaunting and confident
tone which has heretofore prevailed in tha
Republican press since tha Demooratio nomi
nations. It has been trumpeted all over the
land that the Demooratio party has defeated
itself; that its National Convention destroyed
whatever slender chances it had, by its plat
form and ticket. But lo I a new light has
dawned npon tha Tribune; and as the rays of
the sun first gild the highest mountain sum
mits and afterwards tha lesser elevations, so
the rising Democratic strength whioh now
strikes tha Tiibune, will soon be perceived by
the minor organs of the same party.
We are neither pleased' nor sorry that tha
Republican leaders have at last a realizing
sense of their weakness and insecurity. Ao
tivity will no more save them than suptneness,
go it matters little whether they proseouta
their campaign in a sanguine spirit of confl
fidence or with the spasmodfo energy of despe
ration. In fact, everything they hava done
for the last ten months is a symptom of dis
crepitude, but most of all the nomination of
such a man as General Grant. Why did they
go out of their party to nominate him f
Simply because their party had so Bunk iu
publio confidence that they had no hope of
success with any of their old leaders. But
the nomination of Grant has not helped them.
In every election which has been held since
it was determined on, the party has lost
ground. And now, after slighting all their
old leaders for a neophyte, and fouud that he
is a weak candidate, they begin to feel the
necessity of casting aside all that is most
characteristic iu their policy. Observe how,
in the following paragraphs, tha Tribune
attempts to befog and shift the issue:
"This Is the real and only question," Bays
Kiunk lllulr. "It la Idle W talk of bon is, green
i bucks, .old, the public faith, and the publio
218 & 220
FRONT ST.
s.
OFFER TO TUB , TRADE, IN LOTS,
FINE RYE AM) E 01 It B0 IV WniSRIE S, U IMB,
Of 18(55, 1800, 18C7, rvntl ll-iOJS.
A1SP, F1!IE TIKE ME A1VD B01TM WHISKIES,
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from to 184S.
Liberal oon traoU will u enierad Into forlola, kond at Distillery, of this yearn' mann factor. I
credit. We most have a PrenMent wh will
txtcute Ihe will ol the people by trampMn?
ltito ouhI the usurpations or uonrettn Known
n ihe Kecoimtrncuton aois. 1 wi.n to atma
before Ihe Convention upon tuis isue, out u n
one wblch embrnoe eveiyllilni; elne." . g
h Tank, whs entirely l lUi; tm is tuo reai mu
only quostlon; this doet eiuumoe everytuion
elhe. bhuil the conNttiuttou W meoJmjnt., now
solemnly incorporated In tue foun ihIIou of nil
our law, remaiu t roi iuib uni-uii'uiui n no
CoiiKretwIonftl pUii of reconstruction, Toe
fcuohcquenl measures were adopted la ordr to
secure the lucceiut of the uuneniiment; Ami njf
tbHt Ihe amendment Iihm tieoo'iie h prt 01 t ie
CouKtUut ii, n, end U no proclaimed by tne y-cre-tm
y of Hlate, the military hills re ot no former
efircl; lliev phks out of existence. Miuury
rule ut the South, In ell the Siat whtcn have
uHin.ieil Lhn nmenilment. U nl hii end. It WHS I
never intended to be tuoie than temporary, aud
Its aim having been aouoinpllaued It, ree 1.
Toe real lame now before the pooole, lht
which they inusldtcide at tue next Presiden
tial eleclii n, Is WUhII ihe fourteouth amend
ment Bland m a part of the luudainental taw of
the land ? .,
Out of the general wreck of the reconstruc
tion policy of Congress, the Tribune deems it
useless to try to Rave anything but the new
constitutional amendment. It therefore re
presents the stability of that amendment as
the chief, and, bo lar as regards reconstruction,
the sole issue of the cauvass. We will not
stop to remark on the dishonesty of this re
presentation; our object is merely to call
attention to the great 'change of base" which
the lears of the Tribune impel it to attempt.
There is nothing in "the fourteenth ameui
nent" which forbids the exclusion of every
Southern negro from the ballot-box. If they
are excluded, the States will have propor
tionally fewer representatives in the lower
branch of Congress, but the amendment per
mits them to regulate the eleotlve franchise as
they please. The fact that the Tribune tries
to retreat to the position its party occupied
before the reconstruction acts were passed, is
a significant indication of their great unpopu
larity, and Buch a confession of weakness as
we did not expect Jrom that quarter.
gONOMA WDiE COMPANY.
Established for the sale of
PDBE CALiroBNIA. WISE.
TblsfJompatiy offer for sale pare California Wines,
WBITK. CLAR!T,
hBkV . UVCATEL, ow
AHUELICA, OUAM.fA.QNE,
AND
PUBE OB APIS BRANDY,
wholesale and retail, ail of their o-n growing, and
warranted to ojniain no; blag bat the pure J ales ot the
Urrnt. No. 20 P INK Street, Philadelphia.
HaHN & QOAlN, Agent
8 J lmrp
CHAMPAGNE.-AN INVOICE OP "PLaNI
. ia WALNUT and 81 MRANITBS Btree.
CHAMPAGNE. AN INVOICE OF "GOLD
Lac" Champagne, Imported and tor sale by
JAMKH CARHT4IKH, XR.,
128 WALNUT and 1 GRANITE Street.
CHAMPAGNE. AN
rla" Champagne, Jmj
111 I 1M WALNUT
INVOICE OP "GLO.
orted aud for sale by
1KB CAKSTAIHH, JR.,
and Si URANiTK tt treat.
CARSTAIItS' OLIVE OIL. AN INVOIC1
ot the ahore, tor sale by '
JAMES OAR8TAIR8. JR.,
126 WALNUT and si UKANITJC Street,
MILLINERY.
M R S. R. DILLON,
NOS. S98 AND 8S3 S OCT II STREET,
Eas a large assortment ot .
MILLINERY.
Ladles', MIism', and Children's Bilk Velvet, Felt
Straw and Fancy Bonnets and Hats ol the lates
styles. Also, bilks, Velvets, Blbbons, Crapes
Fi-athers, Flowers, Frames, etc. etc., wholesale and
retail. g iej
PAINTED PHOTOS.
A
NEW TUING IN ART.
EKRLIN PAINTED PHOTOS,
A. S. ROBINSON, '
No 910 CHESNTJT B treat,
Has ust received a superb collection of
BKuKLIN PAINTED PHOTOQBAPUd OF
FLOWKR&
They are exquisite gems of art, rivalling In beauty,
naturalness of tint, aud perfection of form a great
variety of the choicest exotic flowering plants. They
are mounted on boards of three sizes, and sold from
ZS rents to 13 and 4 each.
For framing and the album they are Incomparably
bcautliul. 1 16
DYEING, SCOURING, ETC.
TRENCH 8 T EE A El
BOOUIUN G.
ALCEDYLL, MARX ft CO.:
o. lss south bubtehth btbekt
, 'akb
WO. nm BACH WTKKIET. tllOmW
CARRIAGES.
GARDNER & FLEMING
CAIIRIAQK BUILDKR8,
i
Kol 214 SOUTH FIFTH STREET,
BXXOW WALNUT.
An assortment of NEW AND SECOND-HAND
CARRIAGES always on hand at BEAbONABLB
FJUUm t fmwfim
TRUSSES.
fC 'S EELEY'8 1 1 AUD RUBBER TRUSS.'
4mm No. liMT (JftllsKUT Htreet. This Truss oor
rt liy applied will cure aud retain with euae me most
uilln uli rupture; always clean, light, easy. sale, and
oouilortable, mied II bathing, tilled to form, never
rusia, breaks, soils, becoun. limber, or moves from
place. No strapping. Hard Rubber Abdomlual Hup.
potu-r, by which the Mothers, Ckirpuleut, aud Ladies
suflering with Female weakneaa, will Bud rellel and
rrlclsiiT.porl; very llglit, uwU, and ellotual. Pile
nalrtmifUla hhouldr Braces, KlaxllO Hlocklugu fur
WHuk limbs. riimiiunuloHS, eio. Also, lance sux'k bvat
LutiU Trusses, hail usual pi'toe. LaJylnatumd.
auoa, Hvtwaa
t
218 I "220
S. FRONT ST."
A
& CO
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
JEWELRY I JEWELRY!
S. E. Comer Tenth and Chcsuut.
FEW STOBR ' NEW GOODS.
WRICCINS & CO.,
(Formerly WrlKKln A Wardcu. Fifth and Chpjiiiatl
Invite attention In tiieir 'f Jewelry fture.K K. cor.
Etr 'IKM H autl CHhvNUT Mree .
We are now- ),r-i.r. il. wnh our Kxtennlv Stock, to
W ATCH K.S ot th nto4t nitMhrRi0rt tnabAM Tipur.
ELHY, aim HLVKK WARi., always the lalest'da-
Ii:tih BPd bent qiial Clen,
O"o0n epi'ciRllv t'p.titnodforPRinALPHKrcNTH.
Jeriirtilar tutei'lin given to the Repairing of
WATCH EH AND JEWKL11Y. - 1 mwl
WKIOQIN8 6 CO.,
8. X. Corner Tenth and Chennut Ntreeta,
V.EW1S LAD0MUS&C0.
'DIAM0XD DEALERS & JEWELERS.!
WATCIIK8, JKfVKMty M HILVKft AUK
.WATCHES and JEWELET REPAIRED.
J02 Chestnut St., Phila-.
Would Invite particular attention to their large and
elrgant assortment of '
LADIKa' AND GEJJTtt' WATCHES :
of AmeM'-an and Foreign Makers of thejrintst quality.
In Mold and bliver Canre.
A vsrleiy of , Independent H Becond, for horse
tlrulne
Ladle' and Gents CHAINS of latest styles. In 14
and 11 ku . ,
BTTTON AND EYELET STUDS
In great variety tewist patterns.
SOLID SILVERWARE
for Bridal presents; Plated-ware. eta
Repairing done In the best manner, and war
ranted. 5j4p
FINE WATCHES.
We keep always on hand an assortment of
LADIESV AND GENTS' "FINE WATCHES"
Of the best American and Foreign Makers, all war
ranted to give complete satuiaetlon, and at
GREATLY REDUCED PBICE3.
FARR & BROTHER;
Importers of Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, etc
llllsmtbjrpj No. 82ICUESNCT Bt., below Fourth.
. Especial attention given to renaming Watches and
Musical Boxes by FIRbT-CLASa workmen.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1, 18G8,
I WILL CLOSE DAILY AT 6 P. M,
G. W. RUSSELL,
Impci ter and Sealer In French Clocks, Watches
- Flna Jewelry, and Bllver Ware,
Ko. 22 Kortli SIXTH Street,
8 26J FIIILADE LP HI A.
FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC.
1868.
PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST
FLAGS, IIAMERS, ITiAASPAEENCIES,
' , AJN'D LANTERNS,
Campaign Badges, Medals, and Tins,
OF BOTH CANDIDATES.
Ten different styles sent on receipt of One Dollar
and Fifty Cent.
Agents wanted everywhere.
Flags In MdsUb, Bunting, and Bilk, all Hies, whole
sale and retaU.
Political uiobs fitted oat with everything they m
require.
CALL ON OB ADDRESS
V. F. 8CHEIDLE,
No. 49 SOUTH TILLED STREET,
8 tfrp PHILADELPHIA.
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER &.CO.,
N. E. Corner of FOURTH and RACE St&,
PHILADELPHIA. ,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
WLite Lead and Colored ' Taints, Tpttj,
Varnishes, Etc
, AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
DEALERS AND CONSUMERS
LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH.
SUPPLIED AT
6161
INSTRUCTION.
gIEVEH8l ALB INSTITUTE.
BOARDING SCHOOL FOB YOUNG LADIES.
Terms Board,. Tuition, etc. per scholastic year.lSol
NO EXTRAS,
Circulars at Messrs, Fairbanks A Swing's, No. tit
CHEBNUT Stieet; also at Messrs. T. B. Peterson A
Brothers', No. tot CHESNUT Street,
Address, personally or by note,
N FOSTEB BROWNS, Principal, .
U I thmU Boats Aniboy . St. X
COAL.
B.
MIDPIFTON A CO.. DEALERS IN
HAHLUuH LKU1QH and JtAULsl vaiM
COAL, Kept rtjy outlet cover. Prpar eipreMiy
for family use. Yard. No. ia t AHlllNUTOJl
venue, Ottloe No, Ut WALNUT Street. It