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Afraid of Restoration.
from the Boston 7tt,
The radical writers handle the restoration
question only an party pettifoggers. Mr. Lin
coin osed precisely the tight phrase when he
nnotinced the problem to be the restoration
Of the people of the Sout hern 8tates to their
former I elation" to the Union: and he initiated
the movement which waa sure to provide a
Bolution of it by framing the provisional Gov
ernment for North Caroliua hich his Bnooea
eor in office faithfully copied. The object of
restoration, then, is aimply to bring back-.
ot a pan, but the whole of-the people of
the South to their true relations to the Union.
None bnt partisans would dream of or desire
anything lees than this, and none but cow
ard leaders would bo far take counsel of their
fears as to run to the opposite extreme of
BuWhe radical leaders have been almost
religiously careful not to employ the signifi
cant term restoration at all; they have used
reconstruction in its stead, llow can the
autonomy of a great Union of States be re
constructed, save by the consenting aotion of
every one of them ? It notoriously cannot.
And hence the steps taken to reoonstruot
after such a violent fashion are legitimately
revolutionary. Thaddeua Stevens confessed
that they were, and declared that all who
took a part in the passage of these several
reconstruction laws Knew mem w ue um
Bide of the Constitution" that is revolution
ary. The work of restoration is easy in
deed, by the side of the arbitrary legisla
tion entered upon by Congress. The entire
tody of the people of the South showed them
Belves ready for it, and received the enoo
miums of General Grant, Senator Morton, and
other radicals for their excellent dispositions.
The Union might have been restored by De
cember, 18G5; instead of that, we see to-day
that to the three States of the South Vir
ginia, Mississippi, and Texas to which the
amendments to the Constitution were duly
submitted as to integral States in the Union,
Congress has forbidden the casting of an eleo
toral vote for President in the election to be
held this fall. This is enough to show where
all the opposition to restoration lies. Three
States, that are ready to testify to their oba
dience to the organic law by complying with
its requirements in voting for President as
Well as on a Constitutional amendment, are
threatened with a severe penalty if they
dare to infract a law of Congress by ex
ercising the highest prerogative nuder the
supreme law 1
It is held up by the radioal press as a stigma
on the patriotism of the great party of the
Union that it should have admitted to its
National Convention leading Southern men
who were actively engaged in the war againBt
the Union. On the contrary, it is to ba re
garded as the proof of the ability and fitness of
that party alone to restore the long-lost
fraternity of the sections. A Slate is such,
Hot by reason solely of its territorial area
and its physical resources, but of its men;
and these men who are aUudnd to are among
the most intelligent and influential of the en-,
tire . Southern population. Radicalism, we
know, is trying the vain experiment of setting
up the inferior and the degraded in place of
the 'Superior: last as it is crying out fur
peace while discussing a plan for arming one
race in the south against me otuer. dm tne
good sense and large views of the American
people will not suiter themselves to be con
fused by the pettifogging of such partisans
To restore the South, the intelligence of the
South must by some means be won over. The
radicals are of too bigoted and malicious a
temper to be equal to such a task, and the
Democrats have demonstrated for their part
that' it can be successfully accomplished, for
the strengthening of all the national bonds.
It ia perfectly natural that the radical jour
nals should 6narl at them for this, and betray
their envious hatred by charging the success
ful party with sympathy for the old plans of
the Southern people. The dominant party
bad ' such an opportunity onoe to practise
magnanimity as no political party ever ea
Joyed before.- It might have bound the
Southern population to its cause forever. But
. It was not born for great and generous things.
It would to-day a thousand times rather have
a fragmentary Union, to be deplored of all
patriots and men who love rational liberty,
than adit that the Democrats had anything
to do with fighting the battles of the Union, or
came in for the least share of honor and
praise for the grand accomplishments of our
common arms.
Therein it exposes its real charaoter. In
its very accusations of its opponents it unwit
tingly publishes itself. llow, pray, would it
have . these leading men of the Sonth dealt
with f Shall they be perpetually disfran
chised, which is - practically Mr. Sumner's
thirty -year proposal t What kind of peace
and fraternity should we have, with the best
minds of one-third of the population of the
couatry forbidden to interest themselves in
public affairs ? ' What would , the States thus
deflowered and palsied amount to? Let as
not deceive ourselves by thinking that the
Infliction of such a pen lty would not reaot
with a terrible fatal ty on ourselves. Barka
Bays, "liberty is a good to be improved, not
an evil to be lessened. It is not only a pri
vate: blessing of the first order, but the vital
spring and energy of the State itself, which
lias just so much life and vigor as there is
liberty in it." We have a class of statesmen
sow, however, who fancy that they can im
prove en the standard principles and axioms.
They bold to restraints, and not to freedom;
nominally that freedom may take no hurt,
but- really that they may themselves secure
all the advantage. '
The country looks at these things just as
they are, and not as they are distorted and
discolored by the ingenuity of radioal malioe,
about to be foiled of its favorite purpose.
What the American people demand is the
Bpeedy and perfect iraternization of the whole
country. If Rebel oflioera ar ready to return
to tneir oia allegiance, men one great end of
the war has teen gained. As for assorting
and placing a population in the South for poli
tical purposes, it never oau be done and the
oouatry will not wait to see it attempted
Wkjft it wants and impatiently desires is pre
cisely what it sees is being rapidly and seo-
cesitully accomplished by the great constitu
tional party or. the Union.
A Trjlng Time for Taminaiij Tho ToMI.
cftl Kins and the l'lizo Ring.
From the Jy. y. Jieraia.
Tafcmany is in trouble. Following the bent
M tne people 01 an countries in the present
y, it wild Indiana are ripe (or revolution
CTedyfor a change. They have got Jnt0
U)r vV quarters in an aristocratio neighbor
hoc lurrounded by musio balls, a grand op.
rU'a ocicjtxwh, a circus, a new hotel and any
Lc' of first-class shoddy boarding-housa,
r-d tSry miss the old Pewter Mug and the
J 'ck rlum lager beer saloons of Frauklin and
lorth William streets. ' With their change of
CtIon baa come a corresponding disturbance
jd. thtfir sentiments towards their old leaders.
Seven or eight month Ago, in the freneral ami I
charter elections, the Tain man v machine was" I
all powerful, bore down every opposition, and
carried its candidates into omje by unprece
dented majorities. It obtained control of the
judiciary, the Legislature, the several elective
city departments, the Boards of Su
pervisors, Aldermen and Counoilmen, and
succeeded in placing one of its principal
workers on the Police Commission. It wiped
out Mozart, swallowed up the Union Democ
racy, and laid the ghost of the Citizens' Asso
ciation. One might have supposed that Tarn
many, from the sweeping character of its vio
toiies last fall, was booked for a long career
of at solute power over the affairs of the city
of New York. But it begins to show symp
toms thus early of a decline more sudden than
its recent rise. Miles O'Reilly has departed,
and the friendship which with true Irish gene
rosity he had terdered to his old enemy after
giving him a tremendous whipping is lost for
ever. Comptroller Connolly, who heads the
Finance Department, while smooth and easy
with bis associate leaders, is, as usual, pre
pared to take care of himself before any other
organization. McLean, the gallant Street
Commissioner, gives neither force nor weak
ness to any party, being a sort of negative
political quantity, with excellent social quali
fications. Fernando Wood, having pocketed
his leases and abandoned his outside opposi
tion, is more to be feared than ever.
In the midst of all this the unsettled, dis
satisfied element inside the Tammany organi
zation is working and working, and boding
mischief. It will concentrate in opposition to
the nomination of UofTman for Governor, to
which the leaders are pledged, and will accept
any candidate, from Uuiialo to iirooklyu. in
order to defeat him. This inside revolution
will be headed by Sheriff James O'Brien, one
of the pluckiest, most influential, and efficient
of the Tammany braves, and will count in its
ranks such Democrats a3 Aldermau Mike
Norton, Coroner Flynn, and any number of
active politicians from the First Ward to
Mackerelville.
The worst of the business is that the prize
ring has separated from the political ring at
the very moment when shoulder bitters are in
demand and bruisers are beyond price. John
Morrissey, who two years ago forced the nomi
nation of lloflman and demanded and received
for himself the position of Congressman, now
deserts the Tammany leaders and Deinouratio
candidates, bets his money heavily on Grant,
the great General, and Colfax, the great Know
Nothing, and avows his determination to beat
Hoffman in the State Convention. Under
these circumstances there is only one
course for the Tammany leaders to pur
sue. They must at ouue look round for
some young prize lighter from the o' her side
of the water, with good muscle and lots of
pluck, enlist him in their cause and pit hiin
against Morrissey. It is important that they
should have the prize ring on their side. Jem
Ward would do if he were younger aud an
Irishman instead or. an uugiishuiau. liai as
that champion is ineligible, and as such bogus
fighters as Ileenau and Coburn are out of the
queBtion, they must take O' Baldwin, the Irish
giant, or some other Hibernian bruiser, into
their pay. They can soon Ot him for office.
for Morrissey himself was only naturalized a
few weeks before his election to Congress
Then if they can pacify. Sheriff O'Brien and
will pay their honest debts, which at present
they neglect to do, tliey may yet hrklge over
the next election and extend their term of
power another year,
"Who arc for l'cuee 1
from the N. Y. Tribune.
General Grant and his supporters are labor
ing assiduously to heal the wounds inflicted
on our oountry by a parricidal Rebellion and
a devastating civil war. They do not propose
to do this by surrendering everything to the
Rebels and making them lords paramount.
They demand that the loyal people of our
whole oountry not a part, but all of them
shall be placed on as good a footing as the
Rebels, and henceforth enjoy equal advantages
and opportunities, rights and privileges, with
those who squandered one million huuiau
lives and five billions of property in a despe
rate struggle to divide and destroy the Union.
Is that unreasonable f
The Rebels are disfranchised in two States
only Tennessee and Missouri not by Con
gress, nor by Federal authority in any form,
but by the loyal people in those Status. If
this be right, Andrew Johnson, above all other
men, deserves the credit of it; if it be wrong,
be should bear the blame. It was he who
gave out the watchword "Loyal men, white
or black, shall rule America." Xt was he who
managed the first election in that State at
which Rebels were not allowed to vote. lie
thus carried the State for Lincoln and himself
in 18C4; but Congress did not count her vote I
The Rebels of Tennessee and Missouri want
to vote. . We want them enfranchised. But
from unmistakable indications, we infer that,
if they were this day restored to the : fullest
rights of oitizenBhip, they would , use their
power to disfranchise the blacks of Tennessee,
and perpetuate the vassalage of those of Mis
souri. If they will unite with us in favoring
universal amnesty and impartial suffrage, we
are quite sure that both will be speedily car
ried. . But, so long as they demand enfran
chisement in order that they may disfranchise
thousands who were never Rebels, is it a won
der that they excite little sympathy f
In the reoently reconstructed States a very
Small fraotion of the Rebels are disfranchised.
Congrers decreed that bo many of them as bad
taken a solemn oath of fidelity to the Constitu
tion in order to enjoy the honors and emolu
ments of publio station, and had voluntarily,
deliberately violated that oath by aiding the
Rebellion, bbould not vote until the restriction
should be legally abolished. The radioals of
Alabama and Georgia have just enfranchised
the disfranchised Rebels of those States; the
other States will follow as fast as they can
safely do so. Governor Soott has strongly
recommended this course in South Carolina,
and the Legislature will doubtless coincide
with hiin, if the Rebels will behave so that
they can.
, The World insults the friends of nniversal
amnesty as follows-
"Nothing Very 'favorable can be said of the
efficacy or the deathbed repentance; but the
consclcnoe whloh is aroused by the terror of
such a situation nevertheless takes a Juster
view of the misdeeds of liie departing ainner
than he ever acknowledged in the vigor of
health aud hope. The Hopublljan party Is lu
that dlalreasiug sltnatlou, and la trying the
ertecls of a too tardy repeutanoe of tulnm
which It committed withouiootnpunclloa when
it thought It had a stroug bold upon Ufa. Xua
foregoing paragraphs, commenting on aud
commending the notion of the Alabama Legis
lature In removing political disabilities from
white citizens, are a complete aotcuowludg weut
that those disabilities ought not to have been
Imposed. For what Is the ground on wulch the
Ulfcfranohlsement ha bueu defended? Why,
thattheHoutbern leuders.were so disaffected and
disloyal that they eouid not safely be trusted
to exercise political rights. If the reason was
eood. the disabilities should have been con.
tmued until there was evidence of a bettor
state of mind. - But the radical organs dally de
clare that the Hebel leaders are growing con
stantly worse and worse thai, their attitude is
bolder. Is more reckless, contumacious, aud de
riant, at the present lime than It has been be'
f'r since the close of the war. . Aud ynt ihla la
liie time selected for the removal of the dim
billuett no often declared to bo an IndiNpensable
precaution agalust Kebel Influence! If the cur
mm nunc! accounts of the Houtbern temper
are
correct, tUi precaution -was i never
necessary aa at this moment.
ao
Either dlsfranchlRement an1 dlsiMll'l"
were- - never - tieeeaaary, or It la ab mrd
to remove them no- -tint, 1. if tbr oe a iy
truth In the radio! re pre mitnUou. of tu "
aeut condition of the Suuihorn inlad. Tn U
ftudden rerqoval, no noon nfier they wir I n
powd, Is an extorted ounfwHhjii i Lninoeof
main pillar ot tue r 1 1 -i 1 twill.. w t roitn
fiom Ibe beginning. The Tribune' euo iralu'iis
on the llberalliy ( luti Alaiiimi L elmaMir
are preposteronn. Thn .nrpl-b Lenl-laturf
are uiere puppuU of ih4 Noriuern rwdio.ln. Tie
dlRabllltlea are remoter! rtpi ue i he Tlepublt
can leaders have beenme frightened, Ttiey dr
not encounter lhn Julnmeni of tun people upjii
their policy in all tn-tiieon l-f irmity,"
- - Commute by the Tribune.
The views and Inculcations of this journal
touching amnesty aud enfranchisement should
ly this time be well knou. We have been
petting them forth persistently for more than
three years. With General Grant's conUaut
efforts in the same direction, the publio is also
familiar. And no man can well be ignorant of
the fact that the disabilities imposed on thn
prominent Rebels by Congress were intended
to be temporary, and tob removed so soon as
they could be with safety.
But the Rebels are as defiint and maltguant
at ever, urges the World. That is, unhappily,
too true; and hence the failure of the late ef
fort to enfranchise them In Tennessee. We
wish they would let us help them out of their
bobble; but if they choose an opposite oourse,
we must submit.
Yet it by no means follows from the fact in
sisted on by The World that they muit rman
disfranchised. If General Grant were thij day
elected, their claws would be cut so that they
might be turned loose without fear. And
whenever his election shall have been insured
by the popnlar vote of November 3 ensuing,
we confidently trust that they can be enfran
chised without danger.- Frauk-lilair's revolu
tion will then be exploded; so will all their
dreams of upsetting the new btate Govern
ments, driving out the "carpet-baggers," and
reducing the blacks to serfdom. Congress, by
a two-thiids vote, may legally remove their
disabilities. We are sure it may safely do so
whenever Grant's election is assured. If they
insist on keeping themselves disfranchised as
long as may be, very well.' The Democrats in
the next Congress cannot possibly have power
to remove thwr disabilities; the Republicans
ill have. Will thv take counsel of their
sente or their malignity f
"Democratic Doctrine for Workliijineiu"
From the A'. Y. World.
"It appe .is 1 1 ho oi o of t in fa d :i en hI V o
tllnts Dl thrt Denioe: atlc lti y. '-lal, vil li Dg
men eball volemi lm li t ni, loy -rs iMinmau i;
arjdlbal.il any umiIiI: fj tun m itj.U'M tu have
a political intnd of hin mri!, lie mid i fa lauil y
HhHll bo BtHrved Thu Wad llruiip'i n, ivuo
helped matte tho I). m .ci .i'i, nl.n lonn. said
the other day lu what trie World praises hs a
spiech which "doe h."uio- ( i lie mrlom
character," "let us not employ In tnoftrure
any one, white or bluett, who ulves his aid to
tbe Republican pan v.
"This plunk of theD-rii Mr.: 'iO platf-inn wo I'd
considerably simplify fl.cil.iiR. Suppose a
Democratic capl'uliit'. vin..loys a hundred
or two hundred m'-n; thy have only, 11
seems, according to he present D uno
cratlo doctrine, to numbly a-ik their innster for
whom he wishes them to vole, and be has only
to put his bauds in his pickeiH, pull our, tne
ticket he happens to f ivnr, and distribute It to
them. "Vote that or siHrve." Is his gentle and
persnaelve lantunte to what, a f iend of Wade
Hampton's, also a great Democratic lit? ht, Mr
Hammond, used to o 1 1 1 the "mudsills of
society." New York Evening Post-
We have nothing to Bay to the captious
spirit which snaps at an isolated expression
of one publio man, and holds a whole party
responsible for his haste or indiscretion. But
the advice attributed to Wade Hampton sug
gests some it-Unctions whiau we take this
opportunity to lay before tne publio.
The fact that such advice is given and will
perhaps be acted upon, is one of the most con
vincing proofs of the mischievous conse
quences of the radical policy in the South.
It proves that in one of the lairest and most
fruitful sections of the country enterprise is
paralyzed and the supply of labor is in
excess of the means for its profitable em
ployment. In a thriving and prosperous
community, where great publio and innu
inerable private undertakings are in pro
gress, and computing with one another lor
hands to carry them on, no class of citizens
are more independent than the laboring
population. it one man will not employ
theru, hundreds of others are glad of their
services. Employers who are growing rich by
the prosecution'of their business cannot afford
to have it brought to a stand. They will at
tach less importance to the political opinions
of laborers than to a full and constant supply
of their labor. . in a prosperous community.
an attempt to control the votes of the working
olaBBes by threatening them with loss of em
ployment, would be despised and laughed at
The advice' given by General liauiptou is a
melancholy aud distressing proof of the abject
condition of the Southern laborers, aud of -the
stagnation of (southern business, under the
hideous misrule of the Republican party.
The natural capacity ot the (south to give
full employment to all its laborers h prove !
(.among other things) by the enormous in
crease in the price of slaves previous to the
war. The raising of the Southern staples,
construction of the Southern railroad'), and
growth of the Southern towns- made the
competition bo brisk for the limited 'supply of
labor, that, lu the eatn net s of employers
to secure as much as they ueedeii,: t hey were
constantly oyer-bidding ou another aud
rnnnirg up its pi ice. When slavery
was abolished, the 6am oau-ea ouhi to have
pioduced similar eflcis. luntcad of com
peting lor the lite seivic- or laborers, em
ployers should have competed' with equal
activity tor their aoi-.ual, r lueir monthly, or
their daily service. There was much ot this
kind, of competition .ev-u uuder the slave
Bjstem. Nothing was more ootumou than for
the owners of slaves to lure thr-tu out for
wages, and they never failed to Hud re.uiuu
rative employment. It is all the fame to a
Southern employer whether be pays hij;h wags
to the laborer , hiuibelt or o niti-t otuer mau
who claims to own him.- WU-u slavery lell.
industry ought to have goue on all the same;
and the wages system wm bmter Biiitea thau
the clave system to a community so itnpove
risked as the couth was altr au exhausting
war. if the demand lor labor had been a
great as before, the freed mn would have
rapidly crown to a coudiuon of in Idpnudeunu
by the competition of their services. But
after four years of ireedom they are in so de
... ... . . , ..
gmuea a state mat euipioyuiem is rather a
boon to them thau a heuttit to those who fur
hifch it; while in every pio.peruus aud well
governed community it is d rcutly the reverse
Iso Northern employer would da'e utter such
a threat as that tnad" by Wnln Hampton; for
be would punish nobody but hinnelf by put
ting it into execution Ha would stop his
own profits; his haudi would imuiu'llately find
other employers.
Now, what is the rafon that the tabor sup
ply in the South i i in exccsH of the effective
demand for it? It is owin? eutirely to the
absurd and oppressive noli. iy of the lUdluals
They have kept the Bouth in so unsettled aud
attracted a state as to blight ail enterprise
and to Convert iuto discontented spoutiuir po
liticians men who would be otherwise enaed
in repairing their broken fortunes. . Though
hot little property bus .been confiscated, the
pieuace which has been held over tun prinot
pal property owners has been soaroely less
mischievous thau aitnal confiscation. The
prolonged exception of men of pro
perty from the benefit of an amnesty ope
rated as a flaw in their title, so tut
they could give no security for the lonoi
which they needed to set the machinery
of production in full operation. Tiie oiif
necessity of a ieetiou of country so exhausted,
was a large influx of foreign oapital. The
vengeful policy of the Republican party for
bade cautious capitalists to risk their moony
without security in a oornmanity that was
kept in a state of turmoil and disturbance,
and held in the iron grip of military despot
ism. The future of the Sonth wan too
uncertain.' under this provoking experi
ment, for the men of prudence to embark
in any enterprise which looked to dis
tant returns. The consequence is, that the
South has been enlisting merely from baud
to mouth, and all its greater interests continue
to lie prostrate. It was for the common ad
vantage of all sections that the war should
have been forgotten an peedily as possible by
the absorption of all the best business talent of
the South in industrial recuperation. If proper
encouragement had been given for Southern
activity to have taken this direction, and things
had been put upon such a footing that oapital
would have flowed in, to be employed in great
material enterprises, the demand for Tabor
would have bo outrun the supply that every
thrifty Ireedman would have been on the sure
road to independence.
'15ut in that case," It may be said, "the
negroes would not now have been in possession
of the ballot." True, they woutd not; nor
can we see that the ballot is of any advan
tage to a class who cannot vote with indepen
dence. But the elective franohlse would have
come to thn negroes in time as a oonsequence
o! the thnlt aud prosperity of the South, lu
the competition for their labor, the different
States would have bid against each other by
offering politioal advantages, just as our
Western btates did in their competition for
immigrant settlers when they made voters of
unnaturalized aliens. The laboring clashes
can have influence only when the demand for
their services is so great as to make them in
dependent of their employers. Ihe ability to
give au independent vote is the most important
qualification for the suffrage. The laboring
classes are not exalted but degraded by a
nominal t ossessiou of the privilege when
their condition is so abject that their employ
ers can coutrol their votes. The first care of
those who wished well to the negroes should
have bten to have made them sharers in the
mateiial prosperity of the South; bnt a labor
ing population can thrive only when their
employers are prosperous. The life of industry
is the rivalry ot profitable undertakings the
kind of rivalry thit can never have place in
au impoverished and unsettled community
where credit Is blighted aud enterprise pros
trated by the uncertainty that hangs over the
future. Whenever the material prosperity of
the South lieglns to be built up on a stable
foui da iou, and its magnificent resources are
in 1 e full course of development, the demand
for labor will bo far exceed the supply that the
fieednn-n like the workingmen who engage
in the frequent labor strikes in the JNortn
will te more likely to dictate terms to their
employers than to suffer any oppression at
thei:' bauds.
The Southern Opposition What Is its
Auture'i
From the Ar. Y. Times.
'ihe Northern Demooratio press, having
mutilated or suppressed the extravagant
uttei antes of their Southern allies, e fleet sur
prise at the ditgust they have called forth.
liibtsd of meeting fairly aud squarely the
irtuea raiced by Lobb, Wade Hampton,
bun men, and others ot that sort, the Northern
friends of Seymour and Blair refuse to see in
the Rebel declarations anything more than
teatonable opposition. H is an old trick
this of hiding the real thing, and then con
founding things that are different. It is
played now by ignoring all that is objection
able in the Kebel displays, and treating them
as legitimate resistance to ' an obnoxious
policy. The Philadelphia Age for instance,
asbumes an indignant air, thus:
"We demand oi tue,e Nortuei u presses which
object to Boutt. enters seeking redress of thoir
u lontcs through the ballot, wuether ttiey desire
to establish lu the Houtb any kind or form of
govt rnmect in wblon tuls mode of redress shall
e niuittei? uecuuee this la what it cornea to.
Ji.vciy oppoemonio tne radical ticket, accord.
lug to i nil leal lueas, la support ot Hebel due.
trine. 'Jo deny that the wuite race auould be
held in subjection to the black, Is au opposition
to me rumens, ana inererore tne tuoel doc
trine: therefore anybody who holds It should
not, be permitted to vote, aud auy body who does
vol- lor it, voles witn tne iteoeia. liut it la a
oootjlne peculiar neither to the North nor the
Niutp. xt la couimou to all white men. Keool
,lc!ing, ihtn, that tne whole oi oar theory of
g'tvei unieiik ib loupuea on mis ngci oi tiny part
oi the country to uige by means of elections;
wha'ever ibey may, righily or wrongly, believe
to oe tneir rums: rcoiieoiiog, too. that it was
not. becaUKe the Mouth struggled to maintain
ct 1 1 hiii riiiwu. nut because it sought to main.
it.ln them by foice, we abk what It is Hampton
kii ruiotM. ii.rtiua wutu it" lotfuuuob but BUO
civb ox seymour, ana Jtsiair with his own
WlHPtB." , ,
- If the Southern opposition were confined to
the lair exercise of lawful and peaceable
means, we should have nothing to say against
it, except on the ground ot its own merits.
riuuu au opposition, however zealously con
ducted, would not furnish a valid reason for
impugning the loyalty or the objects of its pro-
u.i.ieiij. Any form of government under which
this incde ot obtaining redress might be dis
coiiioged, . or branded .as an offense, ' would
deseive all the cenoure of the A tie and its
fiieitds. " ' ' ' 1 '' 1 ' '" :
- ve nave recently shown, however, on 'no
Jti-r. authority than that ot the Charleston
Altrcury, that the newly formed governments
Miu.lt oi the largest liberty to their opponents.
No ibstacle U offered to those who are in
opposition;- no autboiity invoked, to. restrain
or lm 111m their endeavors. The opposition' is,
in truth, at once bo free and bo powerful that
the me re boasttul of the Kebel prints claim
for it a certainty of sncceBS in at least three
ol the reconstructed States.:. No stronger proof
oould be had , of the absolute freedom of
opinion and action which properly belongs to
republican government
But with this lawful opposition the South
ei extremists whom the -doe undertakes to
dt fend are noC eatihllrd. They do not merely
aim at out-voting the Republican party, they
threaten that it black votes . determine the
result, it shall not be respected. They de not
limit their advocacy of change te the ohan
uels and ageucieB which the constitutions of
the several States provide; they dehounoe
theFe cobbtitutiojis, and the Governments or
ganised under them, as unworthy of respect,
and threaten them with a violent overthrow
if the Demooratio ticket be eleoted. They do
not propose to overcome the evils attendant
upon the sudden and universal enfranchise
ment of the blacks by the means which sups-,
rior intelligence and property ooufer; they'
dt clare, on the ooutrary, that white votes alone
tball settle the oontest between the candi
dates, and that negro enfranchisement shall
cease. They contend, generally, after the
manner of frank Blair's letter, that the new
governments have no claim to the obedience'
or bopport of the whites, and that the first
outy oi a Demouiatiu president will be to de-
'loy them by Federal force. Carrying out
this principle, Wade Hampton has maintained
that the black votes fehall not be included in
the count, and that M a majority of whites are
for Seymour, be shall be installed in the
213 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
OFFER TO THB
PIKE KIE AM) BOURBON WniSRIES, L BOT,
OT lt-OC5t l-0, lOT, nud 1808. t .
A1S FlilE USE LIE AND BOIKBOX WHISKIES,
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from to 1845.
Liberal contract will be entered Into for lota, tnbond at Dlstillary.ofthla yearn' msnuuetur.',
White House laws and bayonets to the con
trary notwithstanding.
This being the general charaoter of the
Southern opposition, we are warranted in de
nouncing it as an embodiment of Hebel doc
trine. The name would be as nothing if it
were not earned by those to whom it is ap-
plhd. They winoe under it because its appli
cation is deserved.
For opposition of the kind we have de
scribed cannot be confounded with that to
which the country was formerly accustomed,
or with that which now manifests its power
nnder the parliamentary system of hulaud.
Opposition whiob is entitled to consideration
is uniformly carried on within limits defined
... . . ... . i
by the laws. This maices war upon vue iano
themselves, and Is therefore revolution.
gOAOMA WOE COMPANY.
Established for the sale ot
rCHECALirtlBMi WISE.
Tbls Couiparjy oner lor sale pore California Wines.
W111K CLAHKP,
BliUHKf, MUSCATEL.
AKUHXICA, CHAJiFAGNE,
. PUHE OBAl'K UK ANDY
roltale auo retail. 'l of their on grnwlrg, aud
wairtmted to contain not tdog but Ibe pure J alee of lite
"'lit'cl Vo. u BANK street, Phllsflelph'a.
HaHN & QUAlN, AgeuUi 84lTirp
JAMES CAR8TA1RS, JR.,
Kos. 12C WALNUT aud 21 URANITE St?.,
IMPORTER OF
Brandies, Wines, Uin, Olive Oil, Etc. Etc.,
AMD
COMMISSION MEROHAMT,
ton THE SALE OF
PURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AND DOUR-
DON WHISKIES. 4 112
FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC.
1868.
PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST
FLAUS, DANGERS, TRANSPARENCIES,
AND LANTERN'S,
. Campaign Badges, Medals, and Pins,
OF BOTH CANDIDATES.
'J en different itylee. sent on receipt of One Dollar
and Fifty Cenw.
Aceots wanted everywhere.
Fiass In llDslm, Banting, and Bilk, all slzea, whole,
ale and retail.
Political Clnba fitted out with everything they m
require. ' '
GALL ON OB ADDKEBS .
' ' .' ' 1 .'
W. F. 8CHEIOLE,
No. 49 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
ilti Uirp PHXLAPBLPH IA.
INSTRUCTION.
gTBVEN8PALB INSTITUTE,
BOARDING SCHOOL fOR YOUNG T.ATtnp
term Board, Tuition, ate per acholaatlc year, S0t
. . : ' : NO EXTRAS. .
utrcnlara at Meaara, Fairbanks dk Xwlng'a, No, TU
UHE8NUT Street; also at Meeara. T, B. Peterson
Brother', So. 808 OHEH2IUT Street, '
Addresa, personally or by note, '
, K FOSTEB BBOWNK, Prlnotpai,
lfl l thmtl i . Sooth Amboy. N, X
OHESNCT STREET
FEMALE SEMINARY
V P.
PHILADELPHIA.
in ii aunismx ana mihs diliatb will reopen
tbelr BoardlDK and Day Hchool (Thlny-s tveuih
beaaiou), Heuleinber Id, at No. Ml Uheatiut ilrrth
Particulars bom circulars, 1 10 to lo l
PAINTED PHOTOS.
A
NEW THIN Q IN ABT.
BKBLTN PAINTED PHOTOS,
; J A. S. ROBINSON,
No. 910 CHESNUT Street,
Has Jnst received a superb collection ot
B KB LIN PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS OF
I FLOWERS. '
They are exquisite gems of art, rivalling la beauty,
naturalness ot tint, and perfection of form a great
variety of the choicest ezotlo flowering plants. They
are mounted on boards of three sizes, and sold from
26 cents lo W and at each.
For framing and the album they are Incomparably
beautlfuL 8 16
I CARRIAGES.
GARDNER & FLEMING!
CAIiniAQK BUIL.DKUS,
0. 21 SOUTH FIFTH STREET,
BFXOW WALNUT,
j , , : , : . !
An awortmnt I NEW AND SECOND-HAND
CARRI-'-OES always 00 hand at 'REAbONABLX
eaiutM. . sBfinwfca
j DYEING, . SCOURING, ETC.
F R
EN OH STEAM
H O O U I N
o.
ALtniDYLL, MARX & CO.3
' ' .... . ' '. i ; .
KO. It SOUTH BLCVERTB TOT
AKB
i
si HACH m-rnmrntt - fiu mn
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
4
& CO
TRADE, IN ' LOTS,
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
JEWELRY I JEWELRY!
S. E. Corner Tcuth and Chcsnut.
NEW STOKE. NEW GOODS.
WRICCIN8 & CO.,
(Formerly WrlnKlns A Warden. Fltth and Clieenntl
Invite Bttfutiou lu tltetr f.ew Jewelry eture, a K. cor
ner '1NTH ant I'H UHNUT Htrema. "i
Wears now nrppnrnl. with our Kxtennfve Stock. to
Oflor MR KAT 1N1UI:KM KNTS to bnyerH,
WATCH KH ot the niont relobrated nitvkers, JEW.
K.LltY, ann f-lI.VKR WAKE, always the latest de
alpDH BIKl npfit qnnl lllen.
Miindn especially riextirned for BRIDAL PRESENTS,
rprnriilur attention given to the Repairing ol
WATCH La AND JKWtLKV. l mwt
WHIGQIN8 & CO.,
S. K. Corner Tenth and Cnesnut Streets,
tms LAD0HUS & ccC
'DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS.)
WITCHKS, JEWELRY A Hll.TKB WAKk.
.WATCHES and JEWELET EEPAIRED.
Would Invite particular attention to their lares and
elegant assortment of
LADIES' AND GENTS' WATCHES
of Ame-lean and Foreign Makers of thelUntst Quality.
In&oldandbliverratra. H "
A vsrle'y
of Independent
Becond, for horse
latest styles, la li
(imint.
Ladled' and Gents' CHAINS ol
and 18 ku
BTTTON AND EYELET STUDS
tn great variety newest patterns.
SOLID SILVERWARE
for Bridal presents; Plated -ware, etc
itrpainug aoue in the beet manner.
and warw
8'HP
ranted.
FINE WATCHES.
We keep always on hand an assortment of
LADIES' AND GENTS' "FINB WATCHES'
Of the best American and Foreign Makers, all war.
ranted to glvecomplete satlsiaetlon, and at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
FAR It ft BROTHER,
Importers ot Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, etc
U Usmtbgrp No. 824 UHE9NUT St., below Fourth.
Kspfdal attention given to repairing Watches and
Musical Boies by FIRST-CLASS workmen.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1, 1868,
I WILL CLOSE DAILY AT 5 P. M.
. W. RUSSELL,
Impci ter and Dealer In French Clocks, Watches
Fine Jewelry, and Sliver Ware,
Ko. 22 NorUi SIXTH Street,
ES26
PHILA DELPHI A.
MILLINERY.
M R S. R.
DILLON,
NO. BUS AND S33 SOUTH STREET,
Has a large assortment ot
MILLINERY.
Ladles', Misses', and Children's Silk Velvet, Felt
Straw and Fancy Bonnets and llata ot the lates
styles. Also, bilks, Velvets, Ribbons, Crapes
Feathers, Flowers, Frames, etc, etc, wholesale and
retail.
8192
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETC.
B K B I C K & SONS' .
SOUTH WARK FOUNDRY, .
No. 490 WASHINGTON AVENUE, Philadelphia,
WILLIAM WRIGHT'S i PATENT VARIAHr.w
; CUT OF STEAM-ENGINE,
Regulated by the Governor,
MERRICK'S SAFETY HOISTING MACHINE.
Patented June, 1888. ............ .
DaVID JOY'S
, PA1KNT VALVKLKsS STEAM HAMMER.
' ' D. M. WESTON'S
PATENT SELF-CENTERING, SELF-BALANCING
CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MACHINE
' AMD
HYDRO EXTRACTOR, '
For Cotton or Wuoileu Atauufaoimexs. 7 lOmwf ly
itfpfa , PENH STEAM. ENGINE AND
sSJlT ' h it aOii.Js.lt WUHKo.-NKAFIi0 4 LEVY.
ii...LiiaL AND TlifcOKUTIUAL KNUiHiKKH
MACHINIST. BUILEM-MAKiaw, .BbA.UK.1
sMl'i'lio, aua iOLJSOKiOS, havlug lor many jean
jeeu In successful opwailou, and beau exclusively
ugutced la building aud repairing Marine aud River
fcOKluee, high aud low-prMMure, Iron Roller., Water
tanks. Propellers, etc etc., respectfully otter ibelr
tervices to ihe publio as belug fully prepared lo con
traoi for engluee of all sues, Marine, River, aud
Mtaliouary; having seis of patterns of different sises
are prepared lo execute onlers wlin quick despatch,
fe.very deecrlpilou of pattern-making made at tue
shortest notice. High aud Low-prestnre Flue
Tubular and Cylinder Hollers, oi the best Pennsylva
nia charcoal Irou. Forglnge of all sizes and kinds
iron aud Brass Castings of all desorlptloua. Holi
Turning. Scr-w Cutting, and all other work connected
with the above biislBfBH.
Drawings and aueeineatlona for all work done at
IbetsietoUshnient tree of charge, and work guaran-
The subscribers have ample wharf-dock room rot
repairs of boats, where I hey can He In perfect safetv
aud are provided with shears, blocks, fails, etui aui!
fox raising heavy or light weights.
I .
" John p. ckvy,
REACH and PALM-hUt Streets.
J.VAUeHB! HKBBIOK,
WIUJAM B, MUBICOX
OODTHWAKK
joniv a. cop.
rUUAUBf.
. . .
FIFTH AND
KJ W ASHINUTON StreeM,
! , ,! PHlLADKLPHIa, . ,
. r-..,TM'KiUtK BOS. '
t ' DINGINUKKH AND MACHINISTS,"
manufacture lilgh and Lew prewture Steam Engines
for Lund, Rivtr, aud Marine bervioe.
Rollers, Gasometers, 'latins, Irou Boats, eta, '
(Jastlngs ut all kinds, either Irou or branR.
' Iron Frame Roots for Gas Work, Workshops, ana
Railroad btatloas. etc.
Retorts aud tias Machinery, ot the latest and most
Improved construction,
Kvery description of Plantation Machinery, also
Sugar, Saw, aud Urlst Mills, Vacuum Paun, OH
Steam Trains, Defecators, Filters, Pumping, Ku.
glues, etc.
bole Agents for N. Btlleux's Patent Sngar Boiling
Apparatus, Nesmytn's Patent Hteaiu Hammer, ana
.Asptnwell A VSoomey's Patent Ceutrllkgai tiugar
Dialling Macblute. 8' ,
COTTON' AN P Fi.AX,
SAIL DUOK AND OINVAA.
, Ot all numbers aud brands.
Tent, Awning, Trnuk, and Wukou Oover Duck.
Also Paper Manufacturers' Drlor Felts from one to
t ssveial (est witluj l'aitlli g. Belling. Kali Twine, etc,
r' JuiiN V, f.VKRMAN A CO.,'
' No. lug JUNES' Alier .