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'kiDdDPpR, forbearanoe and Inatioe." Well, ' pointing to the case of Alabama f The terms
Gcnornl Rosrcrnns' Virginia Mission.
From tie .AT. T. Tribune.
We have a liking for General Roseorans. I'
his fertnne had equalled hi ability, be would
sow moot probably be a high oilier in tbe
army. We wee glad to have hiin oar Mexi
can Minister, for we felt be would do the
country ret vice. We do not feel so well satii
fled With his Sulphur Springs tui.niou. Sinoe
the raliant Don Quixottn wut forth to fight
the windmill, we hare known of no mission
more absurd. Ueueral Kosecraua means well
and if be could dictate terms of reconcilia
tion, there would be come hope of their gene
ral acceptability. Unfortunately, we kujw
too well the nature of the terms he will ob
tain irom the Southern leaters. lie rightly
estimates the iullucnoe which, Le and his
Generals .would have on tbe Kibels of the
Bouth but it is fully to suppose that tlieir in
fluence will be materially clianged. Tdkithe
caw of Lee. If we b-!ieved iu constructive
treason, or admitted the popular doutrlue that
rebellion should be puuinhed by hauging, we
Should take General Lo as a oonpiouous ex
ample. Of all the Rebels, civil aud military,
he was perhaps tbe most gitted, the most dan
gerous, and the moat wutou. Aa a soldier,
he carried the confidence of his chief to the
camp of Rebellion, aud aided in swaying Vir
ginia into the war, without oaus or provoca
tion. Men rebelled from lauat clem, ignorauce,
devotion to slavery. General Lee was a Rubol
from ambition.
Peace brought politioil and personal duties
to all of us. To Robert E. Lee it brought a duty
of honor. lie possesfed great influence
with the Southern Rebels, lie knew how
greatly he had sinned and with what miguan
imity he had been protected by General
Grant. We are told that when he saw the
generosity of Grant to his shattered army, he
was "overcome with emotiou" tbat he was
Erofuse with thank. Siuoe tbat tearful diy,
owever, he has been silent, lie kuew what
the welfare of tbe South demanded that am
nesty was at hand if suffrage were given
that the North merely wanted justice secured
to the raoe it had freed to throw down every
barrier, and . unite every interest in the
harmony of a restored Union. 11a saw the
Cobbs and Eills of tbe South, the men who
had been warriors in peace and oitizens in
War,.fomenting discord and bitterly assailing
every plan of recousirnction. Lie saw these
cowardly myrmidons of hatred filling the
South, like many evil spirits. ' Like the
Witches in Macbeth, tbey have worked their
charms to a dismal-fatal end anl iufected
the very air with their "bell broth, boil, and
bubble." Like the Centaurs in Dante's hell,
their aim seems ever to drive baek the race so
long at their mercv into the dark river of
blood. See what they have made the South I
Emigration is arrested napital shrinks from
her cities and seaports commerce seeks less
congenial bat more secure climes credit is
dead her vast resources are neglected there
is no industry, no enterpise, no national
progress, no public spirit nothing bat politi
cal chaos and social auxiety. Tue men whose
energy would bless the South are banished,
while those whose industry would make her
fields to blossom as the rose are held in orael
and dreary subjection. This has come be
cause her people have listened to prophets as
false as Johnson, and Toombs,and Wise, and
beoause the men whose voices should have
been commanding men like Lee, and his
generals have been either silent or sullenly
antagonistic Lee, especially, has had the
happiness of great States at bis bidding, and
he has chosen, to remain neutral, to shrink
from duty and responsibility behind the groves
Of his Lexington Aoademy. Instead of aotiug
the part of Washington, to which he is said to
aspire, he has been merely the Tnrveydrop
Grandison of the South. The people he lei to
rain have looked for three years for leadership
and action, lie has merely given them de
portment and phrases.
Now, when an enthusiastic and not over
cautious soldier rDphtt into his presence and
tells him that he cau, aud must, and shall
Bpeak, the oracle of deportment opens his
mouth. What he has said to our diplomatist
we have not learned. We presume it is, in
ihe eyes of General Boseorans, a most im
portant declaration, for we learn that he has
visited Washington to confer with Mr. John
eon. , We may have it in "an address" at any
moment. According to one narrative, the
General addressed Lee certain questions, in
substance as follows:
"Whether wecan hope for any permanent peaoe
and pre sperlty uncer tbe present UouKretisloual
plan of recotiblruotlon, which burreuueis io tue
control of negroes aud slew wlilles nearly nil
Of tbe Uontbern Stales? Whether, If the wnites
were all enfranchised and Riven the control of
tbe Booth, tbey would I rem U;e ueniOKS Justly
and kindly ? eio. General Koseoraus requested
General Lee to oomerwUb other leading South,
ern Generals and civilians, and oolalu their
Views In connection witu hie own."
To this General Lee made a reply, "a care
ful and well-digested statement," in which he
was joined by General Beauregard, Mr. Steph
ens, and others. The burden of this is Baid
to be as follows:
"General Lee, In bis reply, states tbat be be
lieves the people of tue South Mncerely desire
peace snd a restoration ol tue Uulou. He did
not think it possible thai the oouutry could
prosper wnlle the (-oulrol and mnnagouieut of
the Govern ruebU of tue Ha'es of tbe a mth re
mained in tue bairns of the net roes and a few
Whites, aud the ma-s of tbe men represeolluij
ner Intelligence are disfranchised. Heheilevex
If tbe while of the Souui were relieved of all
political disabilities, aud thereby given ascend
ency, tbey would, If led to tnemeive, treat the
negroes with kind rets, lorbeareuoe, aud jus
tice. - Tbe Southern people. In his opinion, re
gard Ihe quextlous of slavery aud BucexNlon as
settled finally by tbe war, and ibey uo dlNpo-d-tlon
or inclination ti re-ei-uoilsti t ie one or to
again tiy tneot tier. It is the unanimous wlsb,
nays General Lee, of. the S ui hern people lual
we sball have last lug peace. Tueylong for it.
The people of tbe South have tue greatest inte
rest in having a good and Btable Geverument
tbat will protect them In tbeir rights and inetr
property, under which tbey may go to work,
iuai whatever thsy may a '.-cumulate by their
Jabot may be secure for thtimelves aud their
children."
In the first place, by what right has the
white man in the South i demand a political
''ascendenoy?" It the white men of the South
are superior to the negroes, they need no law
to make it manifest. The superior races will
always control tbe inferior. Ta ask for a
legal status is to confers weakness. In the
North, we La? hundreds of thousands of
Btrangers coming to us; peasants from Ire
land, serfs from Kuawla, Germans, and Wehh
and Knglich. They knov lea. about onr coun
try than the negro', for tbey are aliens; while
be has lived here for generations. Thev are
Stranger to onr laws, pur customs, and ltn-
suase. let we ask tio protection from tu
myriad of foreigners. Nor do we promise to
treat them with "forbearame." We give them
an opportunity, and they must do the bei'.
tbey can afierwaids. So long as a mau is
neither' a 'felon, nor an incapable, be hts the
rfgbt'to'- a voice in the elections. We are
willing to trust the negro, and the rule we
' impose upon purcelves we do not hesi.ateto
apply to General Lee.
But we are told these negroes are an inferior
race, and that the Southerners, if we only con-
the Southerners, Robert li Lee and the rt of
tbem, bad the negro race in their power. They
were its masters. They bought the nerri au i
Fold him, and nnder the broad domain of our
Republic the ownership was protected. What
"foibearance," what "kindness," what "jus
tice" was shown f Read the laws of the
Southern States before the war, and find an
answer in that shameful history of oppression
and outrage. . Eduoatlon made a crime chil
dren torn from their parents licensed couou
binsge labor stolen-the whipping-post, the
cudgel, the blood hound and the iron oollar
this is what the negro reoeived from the
Southerner, and the right to do all this was
contended for by Robert E. Lee npon a hun
dred battle fields. This was before the war.
What has been done since ? Have we seen any
bontberri movement to edaoate or elevate the
new race? Where is the least evidence of the
Eroposed rebel "justice" to the negro? Not only
ave the Southerners neglected the colored
race, but they have denounced as tyrauny
every effort of Northern men, t elevate an 1
improve it. When we see justice proffered we
may believe it, and net before.
There is something whimsical and absnrd
in this attempt of Lee and his colleagues to
dictate to tbe North a policy which means the
reversal of all that has been done toward recon
struction. Repeal the Fourteenth Amendment,
abolibh the routhern Governments, withdraw
tbe army, take power from the negro, aul
give "aeoendenoy" to the rebil, aud what
then f In sixty days every loyal white mau
will be an exile, every loyal black man will
be under laws of apprenticeship and Burveil
ance, and we shall have twelve Southern
States in the condition of Kentucky and Mary
land. Will these men hesitate to use that
power 1 Does General Roseorans suppose that
they would stop? The "compromise" he
suggests, degrading aa it is, and representing
nothing but a prejudice, would only
be the beginning of a series of agi
tations and compromises having for
tbeir object the payment of tho
Rebel debt and the "guarantees" for which
that debt was inourred. We spurn the offer.
Let Robert E, L-e show himself as patriotic
and far-seeing as Longstreet, and we shall lis
ten to him. We do not mean to degrade the
routbern white men, nor shall we permit the
degradation of the Southern black men. Saf
ltsge is withheld from Rebels now as a wai
measure, just as we built batteries and raised
aiuiies. When they, show themselves worthy
it will be given them, but beyond and before
eveiy thing else we mast have peace. ' Peace
is the only compromise to which we will
listen. -This dallying with Lee, however well
meant, is only an electioneering contrivance
to help Seymour and Blair. General Rosecrans
forgets tbat the questions which he has re
ferred to General Lee were decided by a great
war, and that he contributed to that decision
at Stone river and luka. We shall listen to
Lee when he shows us that he has something
to say paying him the respect due to a man
who exercises, whether for good or evil, a
tremendous power in this country. As for
the brave "old Rosie," he is out of his depths,
lie is a diplomatist, but his diplomacy is wanted
in Mexico. It was for Mexico, not Sulphur
Spiings, that he was confirmed. A stanch and
well-built steamer bound tor Vera Cruz will
soon be coaling at Pier No. 17, East River.
vve advise our gallant old irieud to secure a
pleasant cabin in that vepseL and to leave the
country as soon as possible.
Mr. IJccclier's Political Consistency.
From the Jf. T. World.
The newspapers are giving currency to a
recent letter by Mr. Beecher, which ends in a
libellous fling at Governor Seymour a libel
lous fling of which no clergyman should be
guilty, and least of all Mr. Beecher. We copy
the closing paragraph of nls letter:
"Since all tbe men wbo sought to destroy tbls
Government are rallying around Heyinour, It, la
lit that all the men who stood up for the Union
should gather about Grant. Il Is aa honor that
will not happen twice in a man's lifetime to
have a chance to vote for me n a mau as GrauL
No youug man can well aflVri to throw away
his chance. Kveu If doue.lt ought to be la
lavor of some belter man tnan he, who through
all the years from 1860 to IriOS, studied bow to
help Southern treason without incurring the
rlhks and pains of overt and courageous trea
6onable acts. I am very truly yours,
"Henky WARD BBECaER."
1 his is the same Mr. Beecher who, two years
ago, poured scorn npon the policy which he
has since supported, which General Grant sup
ports, and which Governor Seymour has
steadily opposed. Mr. Beecher was bullied
out of the good sense and manly sentiments he
then expressed by a rebellions commotion in
the Plymouth Church. Is it quite beooming
In a minister of tbe gospel who skulked out of
a position he had deliberately taken for fear of
lobing bis salary is it quite in accordance
either with decorum or a proper sense of his
own personal infirmities for each a man to
wantonly accuse Governor Seymour of dieguis
ing nis sentiments irom apprehension oi oon
eeuuenoes ? What he falsely accuses Governor
Sevmour of doing, Mr. Beecher has himself
done in a manner aa. conspicuous aa it was
pitiful and humiliating.
Two years ago a Convention of Soldiers and
bailors was called to meet at C leveland, In
support of the reconstruction policy of Presi
dent Johnson. A committee, consisting of the
late General ilalpine, General blocutn, and
General Gordon Granger, sent to Mr. Beecher,
then in bis rural retreat at Teekskill, an invi
tation to attend the Cleveland Convention and
act as its chaplain. Mr. Beecher replied in a
letter oi great eloquence and vigor, declining
the invitation, but indorsing tbe objects of the
proposed convention, and arguing with admi
rable force of logie in support of President
Johnson's policy of reconstruction. Nothing
of equal power has ever proceeded from
Mr. Beeoher's pen. All the Lemooratio
papers printed and commended the letter.
The Tribune whined aud stabbed him under
the fifth rib. "There is a sadness," it said, in
many hearts where the eloquent pastor of
Plymouth Church has been loved and honored
a mournful consciousness that they have
trnsttd too confidingly aud loved unwisely."
The Tribune went on to tell Mr. Beeoher that
there were many faithful clergymen who would
sooner die than change places with him. Mr.
Beecher pail no attention to this; it did not
touch his enormous salary. But when, soon
after, he found Plymouth Church in a Btortn,
raging with wild denunciation of its renegade
pastor, he wilted and succumbed. And this
man has the face to appear in print and ac
cuse a firmer and mofe intrepid man of dis
' guising his opinions for fear of personal con
sequences. Governor Seymour needs no defense against
such an accusation comiug from any source
certainly none when it comes from such a
source.
A radical Plan.
From the Soiton Font.
We have the assurance of the New York
Times tbat the radical party has a distiuct
plan of reconstruction, beoause "what the party
advocates in the North it upholds in the
South." That is not so much to the point as
it would be to tell us whether the demands
of Congress to-day may uot be ohaugei to
morrow. The South itself has mainly coui-
tlained of this bo called "plan" of radicalisms
tufcnso it could not rely ou its terms. Does
of the Reoonstraotien law in that State were
strictly eomplied with. The proposed Consti
tution was defeated nnder the law itself. Yet
tbe people of Alabama have been saddled with
a Constitution which they refused to accept,
and a Legislature was assembled that con id
have no legitimate existence save by constitu
tional authority and support. Can a recon
struction juggle that Is made to work la that
way be called, in any sense, "a plan?" We
charged the radical party with presenting itself
to tne people without a definite clan. The
Times points to the reconstruction scheme.
And we point in turn to Alabama, in proof of
our charge.
flow can our contemporary, then, with such
deceitful and imgnlar working of recon
struction claim that its party upholds the
"work peiformed under the law," when it is
notorious, in other cases as well as that of
Alabama, that it has wholly set the lleoan
slrnction law aside f How can it say that the
wholfi tendency of its party's efforts "is to
secure just and permanent peace," when it
practices the grossest frauds anil injustice in
the enforcement of its own policy i With
what truth cannot it talk of the "settled prin
ciples of the (radical) party," when its action
openly belies every profession of them f The
radicals have not kept any sort of faith in this
matter. They have made a law, and then
trampled npon it. And now they boast of
having a clear and distinct "plan," and of
holding "settled principles." If reconstruc
tion is an accomplished faot, as they insist,
why does it not stand alone, instead of having
to be propped up with bayonets r If disloyalty
is at last thoroughly put in subjection, why
this fear of a powerless and disfranchised mi
nority ?
It was only the day before its reply to the
rosl on this subject, that the Times asserted.
in an elaborate article on the same subject,
tbat Reconstruction "is the growth of neces
sity rather than the working of a premeditated
plan." That is precisely what we have said,
in onr arraignment of the radical party. The
i vnes tads, "we nave always believed that a
prompt and magnanimous settlement of the
difficulty would have been best." Then why
was not such a settlement had ? The Times
iUelf supplies the answer; "tbat oourse might
have been adopted but for Mr. Johnson's evi
dent desire to keep the process of restoration
in his own hands." Here is the whole secret
in a phrase. ) It was jealousy of the President,
and a determination to nurse this matter as a
party measure, tbat has kept the Union need
essly divided for more than three years of
peace, and drawn thirteen hundred millions of
dollars from tbe pockets of the people. And
we shall never have restoration, if this selfish
party, which bas confesteily prevented it, is
continued in power. It bas delayed reunion,
degraded the Executive office, "clipped the
wings" of the Judiciary, usurped nearly all
tbe powers of tbe people, and now proposes to
rule every where by the sword.- That is the
only distinct "plan" with which this revolu
tionary faction can be fairly credited.
Unclean
From the Petersburg ( Va ) In ex '
Even a scalawag has a vulnerable place.
Achilles was open to hurt in the heel, the
negro has, with all his insensibility to pain,
a tender shin and even th scalawag
moral rhinoceros as he is has been fonnd to
have a soft spot open to the Bhafis of his op
ponents. ,
Where is it ? That is the strangest part of
all. Tbe last feeling which one of them would
be supposed to have preserved would be a
sense of shame, and susceptibility to reproach.
But so it is. Their greatest complaint against
their former associates is a despairing cry at
the odium and oontempt hurled at their de
voted heads poor persecuted saints. Con
science does net sleep tortured, unhappy con
science not even in the bosom of a scalawag,
but there, guilty and self-acousiog, it up'ifts de
precatory hands, and with hasty ppeeoh turns
under tbe brands whioh honor and decency ap
ply to their repndiators.
"They do not care." Oh nol Thoy are
proud of the scornful glanoa with which
honest men return their timid, half doubtful
advances. They revel in martyrdom so they
say; but somehow they never speak, nor
write letters for the public, but there comes
to the surface the quick writhing of the worm
under tne foot of outraged society.
Do they deserve this heavy punishment or
not r is it reauy as outlaws and lshmaels
that they stand in relation to our homes and
institutions, or is their claim admissible,
wnen tuey protest to be persecuted for "mere
difference of political opinion f" We think
that the instinct of the people has judged
aright.
Were their fall only moral suicide, they
might be visited with only that loathing oon
tempt whioh has all the qualities of pity but
they have lallen like Lucifer, bearing to their
lower regions an internal hate of all that is
better than themselves or brighter than their
lot; they have become in descent, not only
negative blemishes, but positive enemies of
their kind. They trade, with the lowest pas
sions ot tbeir besotted souls as currency, for
our highest hopes and most sacred possessions;
they war with relentless fury and with tern
ble means upon all that divides a higher life
from tbeir own miserable degradation not
to bnild up hell, but to pulldown heaven
And what should be meted out to these
revellers in every pit of moral tilth, bat undid
tnrbed enjoyment of tbe wallow . which their
instincts suggested. They prefer riding oar
land to ruin to marching with it towards a
long destiny of peaceful freedom they ohoose
to rule the poor negro rather than be the equal
of tbe white man they incline to a mess of
pottage, ana refuse their birthright they
pawn their souls to the devils of lust and
petty ambition, rather than earn an honest
living by sturdy blows; then let them lie in
the pit with the idols unto which they have
joined themselves; let them glut their fill
with the husks of the stranger's service; as
tbey have made their beds, so let them lie in
them.
Tbe man who would do these things is not
worthy the sound of a cordial voice, nor the
touch of a maiden's band he is foul, debased,
unscrupulous, godless, beastly. Ha is
trjing with might and main to rob us
of our liberties, . our Becurlty of person
our properly, our eomai peaoe, our
household nappiness ir ne succeeds we are
without hope it he fails the brand of Cain
should be put upon his mnrdrous brow, and
the nrger or scorn snouia ioiiow him as
- tbadow unto death.
Boldly he avows that if he can subject us to
the supremacy of illiterate hordes of blacks, or
worse, to that or nimeeir ana ms oarpet-bag
associates, he will do it. 1 hen if he does not
we elou'd not need be told the treatment due
tie violator thwarted in bis brutal purpose,
the aeoshin foiled in bis cowardly blow, the
incendiary stayed with, ma stealthy torch
Forget I Never while the suu shines on the
country saved from such a fate. Forgive
Never while one true Impulse of manly love
of right, aud hate of wrong, animates one
boFom iu Virkiuia.
Dig a social grave for their 'putrid oaroases,
fo dei p that the eartLquaki s of ten ceutuiies
would not disturb their cursed bones; and
while they live lot the children huddle toge--ther
and the women shiiuk iu horror, at
, j , ,
paoses near them the ghostly ghoul who was a
scaiawag.
Know now, you triflers with yonr fathers'
names, your brothers' honor, your kinsmen's
happiness, your neighbors' safety, what a fu
ture will crown your dirty work. "Unolean
unclean" is tbe cry through the camp of Is
rael; "and the people fly when the leper
comes."
Tlio Lr.tcdt (.'nlnmiir.
From the If. T. vrning Post.
The very fmall work of Inventing personal
slanders against the foremost soldier of the
republic, into which some Democratic papers
seem to think tbey are foroed by their despe
rate prospects, is carried on by a few of them
as if they liked it; and, to all who love their
country and are proud of its splendid names,
is one oi tbe niot paiuful features of the poli
tical canvass. The World of this city seems
to take the lead in this peculiar line, bat is
sharply followed up, and even with improve
ments, by many country jcnrnals.
ihe last dev'cj of partisan malice Is to re
present General Grant as cruel. It is asserted
tbat he was regardless of the brutal tortures
inflicted on our soldiers by the present leaders
of the Democratic party in tbe Southern States,
and refused to exchange prisoners with them,
man for man, except on unreasonable condi
tions. From this assumption the World infers
that all tbe anguish ot starvation, exposure,
Slow disease, and lingering death of mind and
body, to which leading Senthern Democrats
subjected thousands ot patriot soldiers at An
derhonville, Charleston and Richmond, are to
be charged solely to the General of oar areata; .
II there is any one feature of General
Grant's character so familiar to this nation
tbat partisan passion cannot obioure it, it is
his distinguished humanity. In every stage
of his career he has been noted for that tender
sympathy with suffering, which joins with
valor and skill to form the triple star of a
great soldier's glory t The soldiers who
were Tescued by his triumphs from their living
graves in the Libby and at Andersonville,
have told their story to the world; and all
men now know that, although the men who
had followed Grant, when they were lingering
on the brink of death, and hoping for it as a
deliverance, might doubt of their own resone,
might even doubt of their country's cause,
they never doubted of their great oommander's
heart. And to them might safely be left the
answer to this oharge.
But there are other facts, equally well
known, which come forward in every memory
to refute tbe slander. We print elsewhere the
account given by General Meredith, one of our
commissioners for the exohange of prisoners,
shewing exactly why the exchanges were so
much interrupted. The notorious faot is that
tbe Rebel Government systematically subjected
prisoners of war to bad treatment as a matter
of policy. By torturing the prisoners they
thought to difgnst their Northern friends with
the war; as well as to destroy Union men. By
giving them food of less quantity and meaner
qnality than is necessary to sustain a healthy
life, tbey saved their own stores and prolonged
their resistance. But their main object was to
force ns to an exchange of prisoners on their
own terms. . . . ,
Our soldiers were of two classes, white and
black. The Rebels would exchange the white
men, if they could retain the blacks to murder
tbem. The Government refused to permit
this. The Rebels claimed that tka whiu
were prisoners of war; but the blacks were
traitors and rpioe. They WOUld give Up Only
the former, reserving the latter to be dealt
with according to their own bloody laws
against negro revolt. Neither Mr. Lincoln nor
General Grant would acknowledge this dis
tinction; nor yield np any portion of the de
fenders of the Union, as out of the protection
of the flag they fought tor. This was the
first difficulty; and under all the complica
tions the question afterwards assumed, this
remained essentially the difficulty in ex
changing. Suppose it to be true, as some of the lead
ing Democrats who were then prominent in
torturing our soldiers now claim, that towards
the close of the war they were eager to waive
that point for a time and to exohange all
prisoners, man for man, who does it shew?
Merely that the situation had changed, so
that they clearly saw that if an exchange
could be effected they could prolong the war,
but tbat without it they must speedily fail.
The rebel armies were now in a state of
siege. ' Fighting behind vast fortifications,
which could easily be defended against triple
numbers, their great want was men. The
grand strategy of General Grant and the he
roic fighting of his armies bad so reduced thi
rebel forces that they could no longer effec
tively man their iutrenohments. Under these
circumstances, one able soldier being worth to
tbe besieged as much as. three to tbe assail
ants, they were willing to give man for man.
They were willing to carry forward to the front
the faint and dying victims of their torture
houses, and exchange them for as many stal
wart, well-fed rebel prisoners. Under all the
pressure of the thousmds who could not un
derstand why their friends should not be de
livered at any cost, our, Government took the
responsibility of refusing.
If this decision was ma le by Geuoral Grant,
it is one tor which the country nill honor him
tor ever, it was a far-sighted humanity, a
higher charity than a pitiful sentimentalism
can understand; but a rugged and a noble
charity, whioh saved the lives of scores of
thousands. It cut short the war. It defied
the misrepresentations of enemies on both
sides of the camp, and assumed the responsi
bility of leaving our innocent frieuds to suffer
a thort time in Rebel prisons, in order that
the tation might be saved. 11 ad Grant been
weak enough to yield at tbat time, and yet
strong enough to induce the whole admiuis
tration to yield with him, the great day of
Appomattox Court House might have been
delayed 4 year, or forever.
But the assurance with which the murder
era of our soldiers now oharge their own
ciimea '.upon General Grant, on the pretense
tbat he might have re-cued his friends from
their hand a little sooner, is surely without a
paiallel. That Robert Ould, Confederate agent
tor tbe exchange of prisoners, should now be
summoned as a witness aguiust the humanity
of tbe Union leader is something at wLl ;h oue
knows not whether to laugh or to be iudig
pant. But no laughter can do justice to its
absurdity; no indignation to its infinite mean
ness. The southern leaders of the l'emooratio
party will do well, as speedily as possible, to
turn their attention, and, if they can, the
attention of the nation, to something else than
tbe ii human torments they indicted on brave
and toiicable foes during the war; n r there Is
something in the memory of theie things that
wakes the old spirit of 1SU1 aud 1805, and
givts to the political oanvass much more of
the aspect of the late war, In its character and
In Its p obable close, than can well be agreea
ble to themselves.
WOODLAXIH CEMETERY COMPANY
The following Manager aud GUiucr tiav
been 6 ecled l r the year im;
KL1 K. fltlOK. President.
. , 1 1 . .. 1 1 T
Ferdinand J. lreer,
U tki L biuby,
Wm. TY. W dura
t-nnuie) e. Moon,
(II llr i-'Ullttl,
W'i liietile.
it A KnlK' I
218 & 220
S. FRONT ST.
213 S 220
S. FRONT ST.
ffETZ - $: CO
OFFER TO THB TRAPS, IN LOTS,
FINE EYE A1VD HOUltBON WIIISKIE S, IT IMD,
Of 18G6, 1800, 1807, and 18(J8.
AIS0. FME FIRE ME Ml) BUMEOtf WHISKIES,
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from lG4 to 1845.
Liberal contract will be entered Into for lota, n bond at Distillery, of this years' manufaotnre ,
SEWING MACHINES.
WINES, ETC.
ii M iSi UICE.AII
ASIEBICAM COMBINATION
BUTT0X-II0LE OYEESEAMLXU
SEWING MACHINE,
Its wonderful ropnlarily Conclusive Trooi
or its Great Merit.
The Increase In the demand for this valuable
Machine has been TENFOLD during the last seven
months of Its Brat year beiore tbe pnbilo.
1 bis grand and surprising success Is unprecedented
In the history oi Bewlng Machines, and we teel rally
warranted In claiming that
IT IIAH NO EQUAI
Being absolutely the best
FAMILY MACHINE
US THB WORLD,
And Intrinsically the cheapest, for It Is really two
Machines combined In one. Bold at the
S. W. Cor. of ELEVENTH and CUESJiUl
PHILADELPHIA (SlOilathtf
FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC.
1868.
PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
FLAGS BAITOEKS, TRANSPARENCIES,
ASD LANTERNS,
Campaign Badges, Medals, and Tins.
OP BOTH CANDIDATES.
Ten different styles sent on receipt of One Dollar
snd Fifty cents.
Ateut wauled everywhere.
Via la MBalm. Banting, and Bilk, all Blsaa. whol
sale and retail.
Political Clubs fitted ont with everything they m
require.
CALL ON OB ADDRESS
W. F. 8CHEIBLE,
No. 49 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
US tfrp PHII.ADKI.PBIA.
GROCERIES, ETC.
40
f'BNTM.-TIIH It KMT ROASTED COP-
t-'K; evt-r tola In Pulladelunia. at 1V1i.ii.4'N
old eaiaouaned Tea Warebouae. Mo. 10 CilKaJtUT
bireeu
30
(KNTNUOOD BTHONO KO.tNTEO
Cutt'JSK at wiiao.vw,
No. 2 CliliXi U f nirsHt.
55
(I.MN.-JAVA COf'I'KK, IN UKUI
Government sacks at WIMO'li
IKULISII CIlItliOKY, roti M.4H1X4,
i Uudce ricn aud airouK For sale at Wlljtos'i
oid established Tea Warehouse, iNo. cHliSU'f
street.
CtJiTN Hi; It POIIHO.-UOOUNTHONti
BLACK 1JUA. WILKOX'M,
No. 2.K1 U 1' Street.
80
KAUK PEHOK AND r.NULIMU BKEAK
iADT TG. at WILsOa'M Tea Warehuiuu.
No.M CU JbMJS D 1' Blreeu
O1
IFTINUN rilOM TIIR HKMT TEAM IN Till
) :ITV, lor sain to-day u WIIJOM'N.ie imiIihui&iI
CARRIAGES.
g GARDNER & FLEMING
CAlllUAQK BUILDER8,
No. 214 SOUTH FIFTH STREET,
BELOW WALNUT.
An assortment or NEW AND BEOOND-HAND
CARRIAGES always on hand at REAbONABLI
PKiuaHL i tj m warn
PAINTED PHOTOS.
J NEW THING IN AHI,
BERLIN PAINTED PHOTO,
A. S. ROBINSON,
No .0 CHESNUT Btreet,
Uas last received a superb collection of
BERLIN PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS OP
PLOWEKH.
Tbey are exquisite gems of art, rivalling la beauty,
naturalness of tint, and perfection ol firm great
variety of tbe cuolcet exotic tlowerlug plants, Tbey
are mounted on boards of three sizes, aud sold from
26 rents to 13 snd M each.
For franjlug and tbe album tbey are Incomparably
ueautllul 1 15
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL.
VuiLM.uni.tHiA. January 18, IMS.
Tbe attending Managers are:
t) Morn toalu.Mo. l-6foub Delaware aveuae.
itoolpb K. hurle. Mo. 153 udck street.
AUeuoiug Vbyslilan Dr. J. 1. Da Costa, No, loot
spruce sir. ei.
Atu-iidlng 8urgeons Dr. Addlnell Hewnon. No. 138
ouib Hiietrinn uK.et; Dr. D. Hayes Ague w, No. It
Norib Kleveum siri-ei.
1 be fbsli'laiis and HurRnons attend at tbe Hospi
tal every day (Sundays excepted), iu receive appil
catli'it lor aauilxblon,
onions seriouHly tnjared by accident are always
alniHted If brouaUt to tba Hospital Immediately
tanrearter. itti
w
IRE GUARDS,
r K'rl in y Willi I riwuirr-jua XI I nnnirt if.
'I lie fiii.i hi er. bv punned reMiHi Ion requiring
Ivoili l ot lii id- rM uud VlMlnrs to prwent liekois t ihe
eiinmicf for ad aiWIon li Ilie Cemetery. T'cljets
iiikv lie bad at Hie Ofllce of the Oinpttny, No MU
AI.C IX felrett, or ol any U tbe Managers. 7 ill
gONCMA Vim C0MPAH.
Established for the sale of
11) HK I'ALIFIIRMA WINE,
This Con,pauy oiler Jor sale pure Oaaforma Wines
WJbllE. CLAKur.
C1AWRA. rvR
IbJbAriH v, MU-'CATEL.
AAUAXICA, CMAAQNK,
TT" IJ T7 tin A . . 1 nn .
wr.olei.al. ana ret a 1. ail of tnelr on rmwlr
warranted tu oumaiii uo hl.i. h..i ..,r''Ba
gr. K-.rjuiUB oj nis
MaHN a quaiIi., Ageuu g lrnrp
roB ITOB8 FKONTBJ, AMYLilTaiS, IAl.
. TO K I list, ETO. . .
Patent Wire Balling, Iron .Bedsteads, Ornaments
Wire Work, Paper Makers' Wires, and every variety
Of Wire Work, manufactured by
M. WALKER A MORS.
I2mw' ' No 11 a or to HlX'i'H HuaaL
WI L L 1 1 A M 8. GRANT,
CUNMlr-MuN MeltOHANT,
NC.8S. PKLaWAHK Avenue, Pbliadelphla,
AH K NT FOR
Inpoiit's Gunpowder, Kellni d Nitre. Cbarooal, EiO.
W. linker l.u.'r i l oco.a'e (J m. a id Hrouia.
(rorker, Ilros, (A to.'s Yellow MtiiAl Bueatlilnc.
Bolts and Nallt, - l'"i
JAMES CARSTA.I18, JR.,
Kos. 12C WALAUT aud 21 GRAMTE Sts.,
IMPOBIER OP
Ilrnudics, TYiucs, Uin, Olire Oil, Etc Etc,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT
XOB THE BALE OF
rURE OLD R1E, WHEAT, AAD HOUR.
HON WHISKIES." 411
LUMBER.
F. H- WILLIAMS,
SEVENTEENTH AKU SPRING GARDEN
OFFSBS FOB SAUg
PATTKRN LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.
EXTRA 6EA8ONKD PANJIL PLANK.'
BLILDINQ LCMBEB OP KVKRY mnro
TION.
CAROLINA 4-4 and 8 4 PLOORTNO.
HEMLOCK. JOISTS, ALL BIZBS.
CEDAR 6HIKGLE8. CTPTlRn ett,
- wiava DUI.H.
GLES, PLASTERING LATH, POSTS,
ALSO,
A FULL LINS OP
WALNUT AA'D OTHER HARD WOODS.
LUMBER WORKED TO OHERn am
NOlIcH. 7.1
i86a
SPRUCE JOINT
BPAtUCAjuioT.'
HjLMlAAJK.
1868.
1868. tffial5Bga?as 188
dPAMSH H
186a
1 QtiQ. PLOKIDA PLOORIMu
lOOO. PLOIUDA Pi,OOKla '
DELAWARE 'L,OOlUJS&l
Attn XOOK1NUT
W A L V 1 i LOOR1NO.
1868. K5Tiff:its i868"
RED CEDAR. A.-UJ.
WALNUT AJSD PTNK.
1 Cf Q BEASONED POPLAR.
AaU,
BJ.ACiOJNll.U POPLAR. to.-.
bEABONED CHERRY, lo6a
WHITS OAK PLAJN K AND BOARDS.
I Rf Ifl " P"-4? BO MAKERS' -I 0O
b FAN lib xl CEDAR RoJC i.OARnb UUO
PUR bALE DOW. JWO'
IRtifi ' CAROLINA ftOANTLINU, 1 o r
lODO. UAKUL1NA H. T. biLl lHfR
1868.
NURHAY bCANILHsoT
HI
CEDAR BH1NOLE8. ID.r.
0VPRiiabHLNuLE8, 1868.
MAULK. RrUTShR A buf
.uwcmmn tttreet, i
V 1 A TTTT-ar 7
LUMBER tCIYMISSION MERCHANTS '
&UACKAMAX0A' STREET WHARF,
BELOW SLOArs MILLS,
(aoCAi-iJtDy, PHILADELPHIA.
AOENT6 FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN Mann,
bteturers ol V ELMJ W fiMt aud Br'RUCETlMai'tt
RtaARDo. etc, .Hall b bai py to lurulb orders at
wuuleaale rate deliverable at any aoclnte oort.
CoiistfcUtly rtceiviii aud un baud at ourwn.rf
SOUTHERN t lWJiSfitl, SCA1S ILiitTsU 1!
OLE, EASTERN La I Ha. PICKET. B E D-bLA VtiL
SPRUCE, H EA) LOCK , nKLELT' MIOHIOAN aAj3
ALL OF WHICH WILL BE DELITISRKO
AT AWT PAI4TM THK UTT PkOMPTLr.
MTE1 STATES BQILDKUS' HILL. Noi.
It, so. ana U8 b. FIFTEENTH Street.
ESLEhf BHO., PROPRIETORS.
Always on band, made of tbe Best Seasoned Lasabsi
at low pi-Ices,
W,2D &?Yifia,U'' KAOXKTH, BALUSTXita
AN A A W Mio.
Newels, Balusters, Brackets, aud Wood Mouldings
ttOCD MOULD1M6IH, BRACKETS. BALUsTERU
AND NEWELS.
Walnut and A in Hand Railing. S, Vi, and 4 Inches,
BUTTEKNU'l, OUEtiNUT, AND WALNUT
aiOULDINOS to order. iia
GAS FIXTURES.
JOHN J. WKAVIB. J. BKLLKBS PKWNOCK.
WBAVEE PJCNNOCK,
PLUMBERS, GAS AND fclBAM FITTERS,
NO. .7 IS OR ID. SEVEN 1H bTHEET,
Pulladelphla.
Country Beats fltud up wltli Bji and Wa tr, In Urat
class style. Anatsortmeul ol Brass and Iron Liu aud
Force Puuirsofuttantlv ou haud
LEAD BCKNLNO AND CHEMICAL PLUMBIJJCJ.
N. U.-Wi er Wbeelt BUj.piUd to the trade and
Others at reasonable piirt-s. 7Slliu
GAS V I X T U R R a
Mlt-KKV, WEhKlLL THAWiARA,
iJo. 71i CiiEbAUT rlreS, -
IvariDfw turers ol hm eiiimin l.nn.rfo, etc., iu,,
WoUid call tbe alien tl- Ji ol the iiuhlif tutt elr lt Rf
(leyxtit airlUietil ol U.:n i.Kiidiil. A), PeudkUk,
Rri;ketB, etc. Tley l; o Idtr xii.t, " im lute
nwoiiiuiis aiid public bi i.iMiu., ai:a i, 1,4 f, tu,i.u
lagi altering and riMrluS lM lpa. .,'
All work warrant!. ?S.m