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TJic Abyss Before lTs.
From the ff. Y. Triburw..
It It were poBsiM that the Amerioan people
Bhotlld commit their rlfMiDW to the keeping
of liorallo Seymour nud Frank Blair, these
CODBeqneuces are iuevii&tile :
1. The seizure of uubouuded power over the
Southern States by the late iUbels. In stating
this, we state hut what they, through a thou
sand months, have already proclaimed. Not
Frank Ulair only, but Bearly every talking
'conservative" in the South, has assumed
that the election of Seymour will be a popular
Verdict against the whole reconstruction
Ttolioy of Congress, and especially against the
right of the blacks to vote. They tell ns that
the election of Seymour and Jtlair will be a
ratiOcation of that plank of their Tammany
platform which stigmatizes the reconstruction
acts as "revolutionary, null, and void," and
that they shall proceed to treat them accord
ingly. That is to say: They will treat the
new State Governments as nullities, and pro
ceed at once to replaoe them by what they
call "White Men's Governments" that is,
governments based on their own good plea
eure. That they will be resisted, and that
bloodshed and anarchy will result, are inevi-
table. ...
II. Another result of Seymour's election will
be the triumph of that eueaklug, cowardly
form of repudiation termed paying the t'ive
tweuties in greenbacks. We do not mean that
this villainy will ultimately preva'.l; but its
advocates will for the momeut be uppermost,
And will push it to the extent of debasing our
currency so that it will have no definite value,
and the property of the widow and orphan,
mow held in trust, will be rendered worthless.
Knaves will pay their debts with ten to twenty
cents on the dollar, and labor will be paid oil
In money that has little or no value. Ulti
mately, the infinite evils of this scheme will
Btrip its advocates of power, replacing them by
champions of financial iutcgiity; so the debt
Will at last be paid, but not uutil after it has
changed hands to the loss of many timid or
needy holders, and its repudiation will have
Wrought general bankruptcy and ruin.
III. The white Unionists will be hunted
from the South as they were in the winter aud
Bpring of 18U0-C1. Many of them will be
killed in the process, a they were on the
former occasion. "They (Republicans) waut
to get up a tree debate," said Clingman, of
North. Carolina, in the Senate, in December,
lfeOO, "as the Senator from IN'hw York (Mr.
Be ward) expressed it in one of his speeches.
IJut a Senator from Texas (Wigfall) told me
the other day, that a great many of these free
debaters were hanging from the trees of that
country," (Texas). Such was the Southern
response to pacific overtures from the North
after we had elected our Piesident. It will be
rougher than that if they should now elect
their man. From every Southern stump, it
is proclaimed that "the carpet-baggers" (Re
publicans from the North) and "scalawags"
(white Republicans bom in the South) will be
run out the moment they can be without fear
Of damaging Seymour's prospects. Should he
be successful in November, the white Repub
licans in the South will be hunted over the
Fotomao and Ohio or into their graves, before
Christmas.
IV. The blacks will generall be allowAd. to
Stay if they cringe enough aud abjure the right
of suffrage. A tew of the leaders will be killed
for example's sake; but the great mass will be
Simply reduced to the condition of beasts of
burden and tolerated so long as they abide in
it. If they grovel sufficiently and keep their
mouths shut, their lives will be spared.
V. Hut the whole business ot blaok educa
tion will be arrested at once. The schools
kept by whites will be burned; those kept by
blacks will be peremptorily shut up. A negro
Seeking education for himself or his children
will be regarded and treated as an incendiary.
' All that has been so nobly and well begun
for the enlightenment and moral elevation of
the freedmen will be stopped, and their educa
tion made a crime in fact if not also in law.
Darkness will again settle upon the face of the
and, and common schools, even for whites,
either be forbidden or generally allowed to fall
Into disuse.
Such are some of the inevitable results of
Seymour's election, were that election possi
ble. The condition of the South resulting from
Buoh a triumph would make angels weep and
devils blush. It would be a victory of darkness
a jubilee of treason a long Btride towards
chaos and primeval night. It is not possible
that such a fate Is In store for our lire-tried
republic
Th.0 Indictment Against the Republican
rarty.
From the N. Y. Time:
-' The charges of corruption and misgovern
tnent made by Democrats against the conduct
tf the Republican party may be Buuuued up
ainder these counts: (1) that the Republican
jjarty caused the war or the purpose or aes
.pptio domination; (2) that this party wasted
Xhe people's money by an unnecessary in
crease of the war dtbt; and (3) that its plan
t)f reconstruction was adopted to perpetuate
Its own power.
iucn answer to the first charge, It is suffloient
St reply that before its aooebsion to power the
Republican party inourred no responsibility
g&i the conduct of national affairs. The attack
npou Fort Sumter was in its preliminary
la&es of preparation before Lincoln's inaugu
ration, boon after his accession to power, the
stttitfck was precipitated, simply because he
twxuldP not recognize the Confederate Uoveru
3tuenU' At his inauguration Fresident Liu
leolul had plainly shown that war, if it must
9oine, would be forced upon the nation by the
iouth; they must become the aggressors,
Otherwise there would be no conlliot. The
people knew then, and they still remember,
what party was really responsible for the
"Civil war. Thev knew then, and remetn-
ber, how this war was threatened by the De
mocratic party as the inevitable consequents
of its removal from power. It is not forgocten
whence came the threat of war, or whence
the first hostile blow. The Republicans Pre-
, eidentand Congress acted upon the defensive.
They could not without treason, surrender the
Government to insurgents. 1 The cartr was
' successful in spite of the armed opposition of
iue ooutu and tne no Jess rebellious oppoai
' tion of those North rn Deinouraiii whn Hvmna
. thiaed with the South. Here, at least, there
j was no partisanship, no corruption. Nor
( ao we una mat partisanship entered Into
Fresident Linooln's administration' in the
conduct of either military or State affairs,
lie selected both in his Cabinet, and amonjr
Lis eubordinate officers in the olvil service a
i large number of those who had opposed hi a
. election. To this course he was moved not
less vj ma uwu cuoice man uy expedieuoy
' Ills was not a partisan administration. Au4
It was a new thing in our po ltioal historv.
i For a whole generation indeed, ever since
Andrew Jackson's term there had beu a
general eubsidation of subordinate officers
j for tb perjwtuatfon of the power of the
DtmccraUo iartj. 'Ike laimre ot that party
In I860 had been due to a division within I
itself, between sectional and national Demo I
crate. Fresident Lincoln reoogniied this faot,
and in bis appointments, both for the army
ana tne civil service, ne appealed lor support
co less to national Democrats than to Repub
licans. Thus a system of oorrnption which
had lasted for thirty yean was completely
broken up. It is tru that some Democratio
Generals, like McClellan and MoClernaud, were
tnperseded in the course ot the war, bat they
certainly received prominent positions and
were allowed a fair trial.
And when Lincoln's administration had
nearly run its course and the Republican Con
vention met in 1864 to nominate candidates for
another term, what course was pursued f Lin
coln was noruiualed for Freeldent; nobody else
would have been accepted by the people, for
it was felt that he was the nation's choioe and
hope. But in the nomination for Vice Presi
dent, an important (but by no means neces
sary) concession was made to National Demo
crats by the choice of Andrew Johnson. John
son was elected with Lincoln, and soon, by
accident, he became President, and here begau
a complicated series of difficulties. From its
very liberality the Republican party was
placed in an exceedingly embarrassing position.
Scarcely had the Thirty-ninth Congress (elected
with Lincoln and Johnson), assembled in its
first session before ii was compelled to join
it-sues with this accidental Fresident. In its
work of reconstruction, this Congress had to
oppose a defiant South, a reoreaut Fresideut,
and that party in the North which had sym
pathized with the Rebellion. No previous
CoDgress had ever been placed in so unfortu
nate a Htuauou, ana at so eveniiui a crisis.
Its moderate measures for a restoration of the
country incorporated in the Fourteenth
Amendment were refused by the party most
Immediately interested the Sonthern States.
Then by an absolute necessity, military gov
ernments and negro suffrage were resorted to
as the only means of extrication from a diffi
culty which threatened the peace of the nation.
Vith what impudence then does the Demo
cratic party make the charge against Congress
that it adopted its final plan of Reconstruction
fiom partisan motives 1 Suppose the Repub
lican party vo succeed in its echeme of South
ern restoration, how is it to gaiu anything for
iteelf as a party f The moment restoration is
acconiplifrbed beyond dispute, other questions
will arise than those which now occupy the
nation. Upon these qneions, iu the South
ern States, there will be no essential difference
of opinion between the potions takeu by
white and black voters. Upon these questions
the blacks as surely as the whites will vote as
the interests ot their section dictate; aud this
fact was anticipated by leadiug Republican
Congressmen who advocated negro suffrage.
The charge of extravagance and waste rests
upon no belter authority than Governor Sey
mour's speeches; and the charge made by
the latter was fully refuted by a statement
made by Mr. Blaine in Congress shortly after
wards, showing that the military appropria
tions of Congress, after deducting the pay
ment to soldiers aud sailors mustered out in
18G5, did not involve a larger atnouut of ex
penses per regiment than was appropriated
during iiucnanan's term, notwithstanding the
latter was estimated upon a gold basis. The
expenses of the Freed men's Bureau have b:wn
estimated in tne same extravagant mauner by
Democratic orators, in the face of facts offi
cially sthted that completely refuted them.
Tliroats of Southern Democrats.
From the jf. Y. Evening Fust.
The Alabama Legislature has just passed an
act removing all disfranchisement tor rebel
lion. The Georgia Legislature is about to do
the same thing. The Tennessee Legislature
will doubtless follow the example when ic
meets iu regular session. We hope all the
other Southern Legislatures will in like man
ner make the suffrage impartial. We have
conbtantly advised this as the true policy for
peace.
But it must be confessed that the men now
disfranchised do not oiler many temptations to
the present voters to be liberal. Everywhere
they deal only in threats; they deolare openly
that if they regain the vote, they will use their
political power first and foremost to disfran
chise men who now possess votes. Under the
circumstances, the men who now possess the
political power in those States cannot be
blamed, if they hesitate before repealing the
disabilities of those who thus threaten them.
It is a pity that the Southern Democratic
leaders have not a little more oomraon sense.
They are now what a Western man would call
"the under dog;" they desire to regain the
political citizenship which they flung away
some years ago. But they make their wishes
known only by threats against the men who
now vote. Not only do the Democratic leaders
confess that if they can get the power they
will disfranchise the greater part of the Repub
lican voters, but they even go further. Wade
Hampton, in South Carolina, says:
Those who are not for us are against us, and
If they cast their destiny with the radicals, to
them and not to uj muni they look for support.
Of course, all present contracts should be kept
In good faith, but let ut not employ la the
future any one, white or black, wao gives his
aid to the Republican parly. II we pursue this
policy firmly, it we devote ourselves to the
great work before ns, with earnestness, we can
carry South Carolina for Beymoar and Blair."
This is the way he urges the employers, the
capitalists of the State, to coerce the working
men, and force them to vote against their own
Interests, on penalty of starving their fami
lies. The Mobile Tribune, a Democratic organ,
Bays:
"We must break up the loyal leagues, and to
do that it Is only n cental y that ihe uegroes
should be propeily lumiuued. feint out to the
negruts the wuy they ah uio go. Tell them that
the carpeubuKKere lu the legislature are tbe
veriest scum throw u up uy the b.iilloK cauldron
of the lute revoluliODury war; thiu they are a
uul.li of umillcul VK.a'K.Di a on tne nrowl for
plunder, end they win surely aid yon lu driving
i ho iinjji lncipleu wreichex tVotn the 8' ate."
This kind of language is heard all over the
Southern States; and these are the persuasive
means employed by Southern Democratlo lead
ers to prove to the present voters the perfect
safety and advisability of removing all restric
tions and penalties for rebellion.
The Radicals nnd the Peeplc Prospects
lor the Presidency.
from the y. Y. Herald. '
Oregon is normally a Republican State, but
this year it has gone completely over to the
Democrats. In the previous election it had
about Its usual Republican majority, giving
that decision tn "political Issues tha'.ls natural
with a population supplied in a great degree
from regions having the most active sympathy
with the radioal spirit; yet this year it gives
' an unmistakably definite majority to the
other side. This is a very significant faot in
an election in such a State, coming imme
diateljfter the party with which it usually
acts has put its Presidential candidates iu the
field. Kentucky is another State whose people,
have recently given formal expression to their
I political predilections. The election in this
State has taken place fclnoe the naming of the
Presidential candidates on both sides, and Ken
tucky not only goes for the Democrats we
should expeot that but it goes their way by
such an overwhelming majority as indicates
that other political opinions have hardly force!
enough there to keep themselves alive. Here,!
then, aim two Ktat that mv unna in
Democrats tir these people ha ye bsea able to
perceive the drift of Presidential movements.
One is an old slave State, not, however, the
most fiercely Demooratio of the slave States,
even tn the old times, a State that did not.
nominally go with tbe South in the war oat
bad its sympathies that way, yet wa thought
to be safely enongh organized to do better for
tbe Republicans than in previous years. The
other is a free Northern State, peopled by
that sort of community that our political his
tory shows is always the readiest to be ag
gressive, to take the side of any party that
calls itself the party of progress, aud that i
naturally much less susceptible of conserva
tive influences than older communities.
From these facts of the situation It is evi
dent that the popular impulse against the
radicals, which began two years ago, aal
seemed to culminate iu the fifty thousand
majority agaiust that party in the Empire
State, has yet lost none of its momentum. It
was deeper than most men thought. It had
fast hold upon the ultimate oonvictiona of
each man, aud thus became the positive pur
pose of the mass, and it is doubtful if there is
any power to stop its progress. The nomina
tions have had no effect upon it. The sud
den recognition of the radicals that they had
gone too far in their assaults on everything
dear to the people, and their consequent
bait, came too late. The promise of
honest government that they make in
presenting the name of Grant, the assurance
that their, future views of national neces
sities fchall be taken from the standpoint of the
commander who saved tbe oountry all this is
quite unheeded. So is the threat from the
other side, given with the name of Seymour,
that everything shall be construed in favor of
the men who endeavored to break the govern
ment to pieces. Fopular will goes forward
bliud to all, consoious only of its stored up
determination. Individuals are nothing. There
is no charm in any name. The contest of
great principles must be carried to its final
result. Such is the popular temper. Ouly
the deepest sense of the outrages against the
country and its laws, as well as against
humanity practised by the radical leaders,
could have brought the people to this mood
aud wrought the conviction that no other dan
ger is so great as for that party to continue in
power. Perhaps, also, there is another thought
active in the case. There is a widespread
uneasiness under the burden of taxation in
volved by the debt; and though both parties
tend towards repudiation, the people will have
their revel ge on the men who made the debt.
and who therefore put the oountry in position
to require repudiation. Revolutions always
repudiate the debts of oivil war. Such repu
diation is the basis of oompromise, for neither
one side nor the other will consent to repay
money borrowed to put it down. Repudiation
is, then, very likely the ultimate bourne of
this impulse against the Republican?, and we
than yet see a Congress elected strictly to re
pudiale the debt, iu the meantime the same
impulse must act consistently in sweeping Re
publicauism from power at all intermediate
points, ot whieh the Presidency is a very im
portant one.
It stems consistent with all the facts, there
fore, that the reaction against the radical
legislation and reconstruction shall so on as it
began, sweeping State after State, aud fiually
sweeping tbe nation and giving us another
President like Pierce only instead of poor
Pierce it will be silly Seymour. Regarding
the characters of the two candidates, it readily
occurs that the parties nave respectively got
the wrong men. Seymour is the creature who
should be in tbe hands of the radicals a pitl
ful tool to be used as Pierce was used by the
Sonthern radicals, into whose hauds he fell-
ana uram snouia stana at tue neaa oi tne
advancing Democracy, to wreak its relentless
will against radioal power. But taking
tne men as they are aud the situa
tion as it is, we can only hope that to which
ever side victory inclines it will cive no doubt
ful voice. Let the decision be positive one
side or the other for therein is our only
safety. From an election that either one side
or the other can by any ingenuity dispute we
w ill have a civil war. Some of the Southern
States are preparing this possibility in making
laws to take the vote for Fresident from De
mocratic communities and give it to radical
Legislatures. Should the Republican candi
date be elected only in virtue of these ma
noeuvres it will take another war to put down
the protest against him. Should the election
turn on any one of many such contingencies
peace will be farther away than ever, and,
therefore, it is to be hoped the Northern
people themselves will make the decision ab
solute. ' .
The Senate the Government
From the Boston Pott. -
The glaring iniquity of the method chosen
by the radicals in Congress for recruiting the
Senate, is exposed in the letter of Governor
Seymour in the most impressive manner. It
is beoause he does these very things with so
much truth and temperance combined, that
the Greeley school of radicals hate him with
such a perfect hatred. Jefferson was denounoed
high and low in his time, and it was beoause
he had a cool, philosophlo, and masterly way
of pntting things that excited hatred beoause
he could not be successfully answered. And
of all the passages in Governor Seymour's
felicitous letter oi acceptance, none seems to
stir radical hostility quite bo visibly as that
containing his oalm and patriotio appeal to the
reasonable men of the Republican party, to
abandon the mad leaders whom they have
vainly sought to restrain.
The 7 'i ibune makes the bullying boast that
even if the people do elect a Demooratio
Blouse of Representatives and a Demooratio
Executive they will be helpless, and oould not
"carry out their wishes" except by inaugura
ting revolution. That is to say, the Senate is
to be the Government t No more distribution
of powers. No more balancing of one branch
of Government against the other. Beoause
radicalism shall have been driven to its last
hope and hole, therefore one branch of Con
gress, not radioal shall no longer "carry out
the wisheB of its constituents," and an inte
gral branch of the Government shall be power
less, "the servant of the Senate," unless both
Shall unite in initiating revolution t This, too,
from the same Tribune that shouts from year
to year for larger popular rights, and profesees
to be sensitively jealous of tbe encroachments
of all forms of power.
It becomes us, then, to look carefully into
the character and composition of the Senate
which the radioal leaders thus propose to set
up as the Government. In the first place, it is
no strict representative of tbe people, and
never was. It stands only for the integral
States which together make up the Union.
It is the symbol of State rights and State in
tegrity. And it is Buoh a body that hi to be
set up as the essence and authority of our re
publican system, by men whose habiLit is
almost daily to scoff at the idea of the States
having any individual rights, aud to denounce
those who consistently maintain the doctrine
as secessionists and advocates of disunion.
Like all hypocrites, these radioal leaders are
driven by stress of circumstances to take
refuge in the very doctrine, improperly ap
plied, which they have been so voluble and
vociferous in condemning.
This Senate Government which is proposed
to us as the new source of authority, was not
elected by tbe people directly, a the House
And the Prtbideut mo, but uy uiu State Ligic-
latures. More than that, it was not chosen
with any referenoe to the "living question"
which now press on the attention ot the ooun
try, aud which radicalism ouce professed itelf
anxious to grapple with. Farther still, it Is
recently reornited by men chosen by L-gUla-tures
without nbona fide oonstitneooy chosen,
in fact, by Congress itself, the Senate bearing
Ha part. And the new recruits come from
States which they openly confess to be as yet
unable to sustain tbetr own local governments,
and lor Which they beseech or Congress the
continuance of military aid. As Governor Sey
mour pointedly remarks In hi letter: "These
men are to make laws for the North as well
as the South." And he adds with startling
truthfulness, that as soon as all the Southern
States shall have their Senators counted in
after this fashion "they will have more power
in tbe Senate than a majority of the people
of this Union, living in nine of the great
States!"
Now It is bad enough, in the name of jus
tice and equal government, that a handful of
men, without a substantial constituency,
should possess such a monstrously dispropor
tionate share of power in comparison with the
same number of Senators who represent nine
of our largest and most populous Northern
States. This gross inequality In the Senate
merits the severest reprehension of all truly
republican statesmen. But when we come to
consider that this same handful, holding so
large a ebare of power are boasted of by the
Tnbure and its radical followers as in great
part the Government itself, whioh may defy
the people's representatives in the House and
the people's elected Magistrate iu the Execu
tive chair we realize with much greater force
to what a depth of degradation radicalism is
striving to sink our republican system, and to
what abject slavery it would reduce the intel
ligent and still independent popular will.
There is but one way of safety, and but one
mode of redemption. The people yet have it
in their hands, flow long they will retain it,
it is for themselves alone to say.
The Dying Speech nnd Confession of the
ltadicala.
From the If. Y. World.
"The Alabama Legislature has Jasl passed an
act removing all uirfrrnchmemeut lor rebel
lion. The Ut-orgla Lt-gtMluture is about to do
the same thing. The Tennessee Legislature
will doubtless lollow the same example when It
m eta In regular session. We hope all the
other Southern Legislatures will In like maimer
muke tbe sull'inne Impartial. We have cou
Biaiilly advised this as the true policy for pence.
"But It must be confessed lhat the men now
disfranchised Co not offer many temptations to
tbe present voters to be liberal. Kverywnere
they deal only In threat; luey de;inre openly
that If they regain the vote, tin y will use their
political power 11 rot uud loremost lo disfrun
chlt.e men who now pot-Hen voles. Under Ihe
clicunifctancea, the men who now possess the
politicnl power In - mono mates ctuuot be
blunied if Ihey besl'ale before repealing the
disitbl itleH of thoKe wno thus threaten them.
Ken York Evening Fust,
The Legislature, iier due consideration, has
passed au eel removing ail diu'rauonlseiuentt
lor rebellion. There whs not one uegHtlve vote
lu Ihe Senate, and bulthlrieeu against aevenly
thiee In the House. Henceforth there la no
dlf lancbb-ed class In Alabuma no person dis
franchised unless lor some non-political felony.
The chief Democratlo clamor bgalnst "earpet
brg" aud "nigger" rule lu Alabama 1b therefore
silenced. All her people are equal iu right and
law. The fourteenth ameudmeul excludes the
u ading Kebels from certain Federal otlloen; but
re-ervtB to Congress the right to remove tuls
disability.- No one can doubt that Oougreha will
reepect Ihe ucllon ol the Legislature la the pre
mihen, sue remove every vestige of disability,
piovlded the Kebels do l ot, srek to disfranchise
tbe blacks. In thort, the Republicans of Ala
bama propose a lull end Haul peace on tbe basis
of universal amnesty impartial suffrage. And
they do not wait to bargain or exaol equiva
lents they hew square up to the line, leaving
i lii-lr od v ruuilwi Iriw to follow or not fulluw
their ltati. li will yet be realized that their ac
tion wa no less wise than bold and generous.
A'eu York UYilune.
Nothing very favorable can be said of the
efficacy of a death-bed repentance; but the
conscience which is aroused by tne terrors of
such a situation nevertheless takes a juster
view of tbe misdeeds of the departing sinner
than he ever acknowledged in the vigor of
health and hope, i he Kepublican party is
in that distressing situation, and is trying the
effeots of a too tardy repentance of things
which it committed without compunction
vahen it thought it had a strong hold upon
life. The foregoing paragraphs commenting
on and commending the action of the Alabama
Legislature in removing politioal disabilities
from white citizens, are a oomplete acknow
ledgment that those disabilities ought net to
have been imposed. For, what is the ground
on which tne disfranchisement has been de
fended? Why, that the Southern leaders were so dis
affected and disloyal that they could not be
safely trusted to exercise politioal rights. If
the reason was good, tne disabilities should
have been continued until there was evidence
of a better state of mind. But the radical
organs daily deolare that the Rebel leaders are
growing constantly worse and worse that
their attitude is bolder, is more reckless, con
tumacious, and defiant, at the present time
than it has been before sinoe the cIobo of the
war. And yet this is the time selected for the
removal of the disabilities so often declared
to be an indispensable precaution against
Rebel influence I If the current radioal ac
counts of the Southern temper are oorreot, this
precaution was never so necessary as at this
moment. Either disfranchisement and dis
abilities were sever necessary, or it is absurd
to remove them now that is, if there be any
truth in the radical representations of the pre
sent condition of the Southern mind. Their
Budden removal, bo soon after they were im
posed, is an extorted confession that one of the
rr ain pillars of the radical polioy was rotten
from the beginning.
The Tribune's encomiums on the liberality
of the Alabama Legislature are preposterous.
The carpet-bag Legislatures are mere puppets
of the Northern radicals. The disabilities
are removed because the Republican leaders
have become frightened. ' They dare not
encounter the judgment of the people upon
their policy in all its hideous deformity.
The ' pretended removal of restrictions is a
piece of insulting hypocrisy. It is managed
in such a way that the enfranchised whites
shall take no part in the Presidential election.
The eame Legislature has passed an act pro
viding that tbe Presidential electors shall be
chosen by itself, and not by a popular vote.
By this disgraceful swindle the State is made
sure for Grant and Colfax. Instead of enfran
chising the Rebel leaders, that infamous
Legislature has disfranchised the whole body
of citizens. By giving the choioe of Presiden
tial electors to the Legislature, the pretended
boon is converted into a mockery. The only
practical effect It is expected or intended to
have is to reconcile the Northern people to the
carpet-bag governments by a false and deoelt-,
fnl appearenoe of liberality. j
If the disabilities were to be bo soon re
moved, why were they ever imposed f Bat a
few months have elapsed sinoe the State Con
stitution was formed, and nothing has since
occurred within the State which has essentially
changed the posture ot affairs, or can justify
a new polioy. Either the Legislature is wrong
or the constitutional convention was wrong.
A ' party stultifies itself, It makes Hself ridi
culous, by suoh a sudden and oomplete
abandonment of a polioy which it so lately
aud so deliberatively adopted. But, after all,
it maiutaius one kind of consistency; it is cou
sixtently trickish and perfldions; it con
sistently pursues party ends i tne vtu
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
' OFFER TO TUB. TRADE, IN LOTS,
FINE RYE AM) BOURBON WHISKIES, I BOM),
Or lfc5, 18UO, l&OT", ivntl 18(18.
AISP, FKIE FIRE UE AND BOIRRON WHISKIES,
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from to 1845.
Liberal contracts will be entered Into for lots, in bond at Distillery, of this years' manufaoturt.l
of the publio tranquility. It disfranchised
white citizens to enable it to elect a
radical legislature; it then pretends to enfran
chise them, and devolves the ohoioe of i'resl- j
dential electors upon the legislature. Suoh j
action is a bundle of confessions. It confesses, '
in the first place, that the radicals cannot
carry the State for Orant by a popular vote,
even with a large Lumber of the whites dis
franchised. It confesses that dlatranchineuaem
was a mere party manoeuvre, not founded on
any Bound reasons of publio polioy; for the
reasons assigned are much stronger now t,oy
the showing of the radicals themselves) than
at the time the disfranchisement was adopted.
The sudden dauger is a con'essiou that the
aspigned reasons were hvpocritical pretexts. It
is also a confession that the Republican leaders
have serious misgivings as to their ability to
carry the Northern States, and that they need
to let down, or rather to smooth over and dis
guise the prosoriptive insolence aud intolerance
which they have hitherto practised. It Is but
a few days since the Tribune tried to shift the
issue from the Reconstruction acts to the new
Constitutional Amendment. There is now
a further advance in the same direotion a
confession that one of the leading features of
the amendment itself is wrong aud impolitic
What rendered that Amendment particularly
odious and caused its unhesitating rejeotion by
the South, when it was first presented, was its
disfranchisement of the Southern leaders.
To abandon it now, is to confess that it
ought never to have been adopted. The Re
publican party pretends to take the back
track, because it has been overtaken by alarm
and terror at the rapidly growiog strength of
the Demooratio candidates. It is a death-bed
repentance as sincere as repentanoe in full
view of the grave commonly is, but of a kind
that would be itself as suddenly rejented of,
if the terrified sinners should regain their
hopes of life.
0N0MA WINE COMPANY.
Established for the sa'a of
rraECAuroBMi wine.
Tbls Company otter lor sale pore California Wines.
WWITK. CLARK r,
CATAWBA. FOlte. T
BfaJtHKV, AtUCATEL,
ANUKUCA, CHAM.FAQNE,
AND
PUBE GRAPE BRANDT.
wloleiale and retail, all or their en growing, and
warranted to contain noihlug but the purejulcts of the
"iJepot. No. 29 BANK Street, Philadelphia.
HaHN & CJUAIN, Ageuta 88 Harp
HAMPAGNE. AN INVOfCE OF "PLANI
III iry ' miMUPIMfUV, iiniwrwa una mi an i sr
JAMkti CAK8TAIRH. JR..
126 WALNUT and i OBAN1TK Street.
CnAMPAGNE. AN INVOICE OF "GOLD
Lc" Chaii-pagne, Imporiea nd tor sale by
JAKKU CARHTAIKM, JB,,
1M WALNUT and 21 ORAN1TK Street.
CHAMPAGNE. AM INVOICE OP "GLO
rla" Champagne. Imported and for sale by
m JAMKH CAKSTAIU8, JR.,
Ill 1M WALNUT aud 81 OKANITK Btreet.
CARSTAIUS' OLIVE OIL. AN INVOIC1
ol the above, for sale by
JAMS OAR8TAIR8. JR.,
126 WALNUT and M OKA.N1TK Street,
MILLINERY.
MRS. R. DILLON,
VHOS. tSS AND 833 SOUTH aTBEET,
Baa a large assortment or
L ' MILLINERY. "
Ladles', Misses', and Children's Silk Velvet, Felt
Btraw and Fancy Bonnets and Hata ol tbe latea
tyiea. Also, bilks, Velvets, Blbbons, Orapea
Feathers, Flowers, Frames, eic etc, wholesale and
retail; Big
' ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETC.
-VT BBRICK SONS' ; 7.
BOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, "
No. 430 WASHINGTON AVENUE, Philadelphia.
WILLIAM W RIGHT'S PATJUNT VARIABLE
. CUT OF BTEAM ENGINE,
Regulated by the Governor.
MEBBICE'S SAFETY HOISTING MACHINE.
Patented Juna, 1868.
DaVID JOYMB
PATENT VALVKLKsS STEAM HAMMER,
D. M. WESTON'S
PATENT SELF-CENTERING, SELF-BALANCING
CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MACHINE
- AND ' , "
- HYDRO EXTRACTOR,
For Cotton or Woollen Jtatiufacturoia, T lOrqwf 1
PENN STKAJtt ENGINE AND
Ml III . IJ UU I J L HI L L i V,.,....
1 . II. Af. ATUlk TUVltU liT Tl i A T IP . , . r kT .,.."
MACHlNieTfr, BUlT.KH-MAK.EiW, B U A O ?
eMlTHts, and FOUNDERS, Imvlug tor runny j.Jr,
btu in aucceasrul optuaUon, and boon xoiiulvel
engaged la building and repairing Marine and Klvu
ufclues, nigh andlow-prmtmre. Iron Bullem, Water
lauka, Propellers, etc. etc., reapuctfully otter tnelr
ervictMi to the public M being fully prepared to con
tract lor eugluea of all alaes, Marine, River, and
Stationary; having aeia of patterna of different auea
are prepared to execute ordera with quick despatch
Evory duecrlptloo ol pattern-making made at the
aborieat undue. High aud Low-pressure Fine
Tubular and Cylinder Bullers, ol tne beat Pennsylva
nia charcoal Iron. Forglngs of all slzea and kinds
Iron and Bruaa Caullugs or all descriptions. Boll
Turning, Sorvw Cutting, and all ether work oonnaoted
with the above business.
DrawlDgs and specifications for all work done at
tl establishment free ol charge, and work guaran-
Tne subscribers have ample wharf-dock room fot
repairs ol buaie, where tbey can He In perfect aafoty
and are provided with shears! blocks, talis, etc u.
for raising heavy or light welkhis.
JACOB O. NEAFIJL
JOH N P. LEV V.
II BEACH and PALMEB Streets.
I. VADSHM MJWB.I0K, WIUXAM H. MJtBKIOX
JOHN X. OOPB.
QOCTHWAHK FOUNDB1, FIFTH AND
Q WASHINGTON Streets. '
l PHILAUKLPHIA,
MERRICK SONS.
fJENGINEKRS AND MACHINISTS,
inannfociure litgn and Low Prensure bleant Engines
ior Laud, Rlvtr, and Marine Service.
Bollera, Uasometers. Tanks, Iron Boats, etc
Castings of all kinds, either Iron or braes.
J ron runs Hoofs lor Gas Wora, Workshops, and
Kallroad bullions etc
Retorts and Uas Machinery, ot the latsst and moat
Itnproved ooDMruutlon.
Every description of Plantation Machinery, also
Hugar, Saw, aud Grist Mills. Vacuum Paus, Oil
Steam Trains, Detecators, Filters, pumplug, En
glut, etc.
bole Agents for N. Blllnox's Patent Sugar Boiling
Apparatus, Nesmyth's Patent Steam Hammer, au4
Asplowall A WooUey's Patent Centrifugal bugar
ht allying Machines. S" ,;
COjTTONND'fLaX, "
BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
Of all numbers and brands.
Tent. Awning, Trunk, and Won Cover Duck.
A If.o lJapr Manufacturers1 Drlor Felts from one to
se veial teet wide; Paul!, g. Belting. Hall Twine, etc.
" Wu. MS JO AUer
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
4- C O
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
JA3IES E. CALDWELL & CO.,
IMPORTERS
or
D I A 31 O N S,
M A N U F AC I U 11 K R S
OF
DIAMOND JEWELRY.
No. 002
CHE SHUT STREET,
4 4SW
PHILADELPHIA.
JEWELRY I JEWELRY!
S. E. Corner Tenth and CJiesuut.
NEW STOKE. NEW GOODS.
WRICCINS & CO.,
(Formerly Wrlpirlns A Warden. Fifth and Chwinntl
Invite attention to their "New Jewelry store, S. E. cor.
ner UMH and CH ESN UT Stree.s. '
Wearenow prpnan d. with our Extensive Stock, to
otlHrHKATlibui'KMKNT?l lo huvers,
V ATl'llES ot tue most celebrated rankers. JEW
EIRY, ana MJA'EK W ABE, always the latest da
altrus and best quail Hps.
Uooris especially Deolgnf d for BRIDAL PRESENTS,
J-arttruhvr attention given to tbe Repairing- of
WATCHES AND JEWF.LKY. f 1 mwf
WRIQGINS & CO..
B. K. Corner Tents and Cbesiwt Streets.
EWIS LADOMUS & Co;
DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS.!
WATCHES, JKWfCMlY A H1LTKII W1KK.
."WATCHES and JEWELRY EEPAIEED. .
jCIiegtnnt St., Phi
Would Invite particular attention to their large and
elegant assortment of
LADIES' AND GENTS' WATCHES
of Ame-iran and Foreign Makers of thejflnfst quality.
In Oolrt and fcllver Cases. 4
timing"'6 ' 0t Illlooendent Second, for horse
Ltdies' and Gents CHAINS of latest styles. Uk li
ftUQ lo Ml
BTTTON AND EYELET STUDS
In great variety newest patterns.
SOLID BILVERWARE
for rtrldal presents; Piated-ware. eta
Pepalring done In the best manner, and war
ranted. . - r
We keep always on band aa assortment of
LADIES' AND GENTS' "FINB WATCHES"
Of the best American and Foreign Makers, all war.
rented to glvecomplets satuiastlon.and at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
FARR A BROTHER,
Importers of Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, etOn
11 llsmtbjrp No, 82 CHE9NTJT 8t, below Fourth.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
UKTIL SEPTEMBER 1, 18G8,
I WILL CLOSE DAILY AT 5 P. M.
6. W. EUSSELI4
Importer and Dealer In French Clocks, Watches
Fine Jewelry, and silver Ware. -
Ko. 22 Korth SIXTH Street,
2fl PHlLA DELPHI A.
FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC.
1868.
PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST
FLAUS, BANKERS, TRANSPARENCIES,
AN1 LANTERN'S,
Campaign Badges, Medals, and Tins,
OF BOTH CANDIDATES.
Ten different styles sent on receipt of One Dollar
and Fifty Cents.
Agents wanted everywhere.
Flags In Mnsllu, Bunting, and Bilk, all slses, whole
sale and retail.
Politioal Oluba fitted ont with everything they u
require.
CALL ON OB ADDRESS
W. F. 8CHEIBLE,
ISO, 43 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
faa trip PHILADELPHIA.
INSTRUCTION.
g T fi V B 8 1 ALB INSTITUTE.
BOARDING SCHOOL JHB YOUNG LADIES.
Terms Board, Tnlllon , etc-per scholasUo yBar.lSOf
. . NO EXTRAS, i
Circulars at Messrs. Fairbanks A Swing's, Ho. Mi
CHESNDT strseti also at Messrs. T. B. Peterson
Brothers', No. ao CHESNUT Btreek
Address, personally or by note, '
N FOBTEB BROWNS, Principal,
10 I tbmtf Booth A moor, jr. X
HKSNUT BTHEET FEMALE SEMINARY
Vj PHILADELPHIA.
Hill UoMV KY and Mias DILT.AYB will reopsa
their Hoarding aud ay Kchuol (Tniriy-sevxutn
Vrn K- v 4"nt cr 1(1, No, 1815 Ches,", "''I.
PartlcuUra from circulars, tv w w i
( fine watches. I