T11H DAILY KVKNING TKLEQIUPHPIllLADELPiriAl WEDNESDA F, FEDRUAItY 2, 1870.
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Editorial Opinions mt th Lenitlnc Jeavnnla
Vvom Current Tiic Compiled Every
Day for the Brenlna Telemph.
THE REPUBLICAN TARTY.
Frm th N. T. Sun.
It ia the misfortnne of ths Republicans
that they have not at the bead of tho adminis
tration, in this extraordinary juncture, a
statesman with sense, experience, and skill
enough to bind these loose and diaintegrating
lementa to the standard of the party, by
striking out an attractive and inspiring policy
for the fntnre. The crisis has not a prece
dent in our history, and but two or three an
alogies; and to meet it we have a President
who ia incapable of appreciating his own in
tereats and indifferent to thoie of his party,
not a statesman of any sort, nor eren a poli
tician, and who has not only had Tery little
xperienoe in publio affairs, bat whose know
ledge of the transcendently important snb-
!eota with which he is called to deal is to the
ast degree meagre and unintelligent.
Besides, General Grant has not even sought
to supply his own painfully manifest defi
ciencies by calling to his oounsel the ablest
statesmen his party can afford; but, with one
or two exceptions, he has selected his advisers
from among the commonplace partisans of tho
country. Ilarrison, Polk, and Pierce were
rather inferior men, though, in respect to
proper training for the Presidency, vastly
superior to Grant; but they summoned to
their Gabinet some of the most eminent
statesmen in the ranks of thoir party. Look
ing to the promotion of the public weal
rather than to the preservation of his per
sonal importance, Ilarrison was not unwilling
to be overshadowed by Webster and Critten
den, nor Polk by Buchanan and Marcy, nor
Pierce by Marcy and Guthrie. But Grant
takes Ilamilton Fish and George M. Robeson!
Ia the present unprecedented crisis, when
the political horizon is eurtained with thick
clouds, and the old oharta are rolled np and
laid away, are General Grant and his Cabinet
the men to launch the Republican ship on
an untried voyage, and steer it safely over
the unexplored and uncertain sea of the
future 7
. Turn we then to Congress. Its halls are
as replete with talent as they are destitute of
friends of the President. And who are the
leaders of the Republican party in the two
houses t Mr. Sumner dominates the Senate.
Vain, oonoeited, arrogant, pompous; holding
the wildest doctrines upon international law,
and uttering the crudest notions about
finance; wont to conceal meagre ideas under
a sophomorical amplitude of rhetoric, and
smother them under masses of far-fetched,
ill-assorted, generally irrelevant, and always
useless learning he is the last man who
should be intrusted with the guidance of the
Republican party in an exigency like the pre
sent. He is an incompetent pilot, except when
the gale blows strong from the African coast.
The wind no longer nits in that quarter, and
Mr. Sumner will seriously damage his reputa
tion and his party unless he disappears from
Eublio view along with the dusky client whom
e has served too well.
Mr. Butler, regardless of all the proprieties
of time and place, has usurped the leadership
of the House. Brimming over with brains,
audacity, and ambition; never in his element
exoept when fomenting a quarrel with dis
tinguished members of his own party, whom
he rules on the principle of "your purse or
your life;" always eager to jump into other
people's business, as Mr. Dawes keenly ex
pressed it; aspiring to play the role of Thad
ileus Stevens in the House, with an intensely
pro-slavery reoord behind him ; coveting
Henry Wilson's seat in the Senate, with his
Weather eye peering far out to sea in search
of the Presidency Mr. Butler, with the helm
la his hand, is the very pilot to run the Re
publican party high and dry upon the shore.
,. Though the signs are ominous, there is no
need that the Republican party should suffer
shipwreck. ' But with an incapable, inexpe
rienced, irresolute President, surrounded by
a' feeble and disoordant Cabinet, and relying
upon the support of an unfriendly Congress,
its danger' is extreme. If the ' party , would
escape the fate which is surely impending, it
must demand an immediate reoonstruetion of
the Cabinet, compelling incompetency to give
place to capaoity, while at the same time de
posing Mr. Sumner and Mr. Butler from
positions which they are peculiarly unfitted
: to mi. v";;--
' ' Oh for a pilot to weather the storm !
t i-. - PRESIDENT AND PRINCE.
romthtir. 71 World.
, It ia sad to read the criticisms of Republi-i
-can journals and their edifying Washington
" correspondents on the errors of commission
and omission, chiefly omission, on the part
of our President in bis treatment of Prince
Arthur... , - . ,
- In , one quarter there is an outcry on ac
count of asserted ill-breeding of the Presii
'dent, that, after indicating the hour when
and the place where . he would ' receive tho
, Prince, no one was ' ready at the appointed
time when, promptly at the minute, the
latter arrived, accompanied by tbe British
Minister and the Governor of . his Royal
Highness but the Secretary of State;
who was compelled to act as messenger or
usher to go and remind the President, with
his attendant Dent and Badeau, that the
royal guest had arrived. The critics say i
and in that 'they are right that, having un-l
dertaken in a ceremonious way to receive;
) Prince Arthur at a prearranged hour, General
Grant should have kept his appointment,
' punctiun tempoi-is, and been at tho reception
room door to greet his royal visitor at the
threshold. Such would have been the polite
and significant attention of the Quoen if she
had arranged an audience with President
Grant at Windsor Castle or Buckingham
Palace. On such an occasion Lord Claren
don would not have been compelled, as was
Mr. Fish in respect to the President, to in
' form her Majesty that her distinguished visL-.-
tor awaited her presence. Probably, however,
President Grant thought it would tend to im
press the youthful Prince with a proper sense
of the dignity of an American President and
the grandeur of American institutions to keep
bis Highness waiting a reasonable time. Pre
sident Washington would not have taken that
view of the subject.
-" - From another quarter comes sharp censure
that the President did not return the visit of
the Prince. These censors say that Grant
having entered upon relations with the son of
the Queen, not simply as a well-bred young
, jngiisiiman, but as a member of the reigning
family of Great Britain, he should have done
what the accepted European rules of propriety
in such cases require, which is to immediately
i repay the royal visit; and in that the carpers
are correct. If Prince Arthur had thus paid
bis respeoU to thO iunperor or the French.
. ' and boon received as a member of royalty.
the latter would, they say, in all probability
,., have returned me vuut on toe same uay. "
!''. A third set of Republican critics ara dis-
Ested that their pet President should have
oliuod to accept the invitation of the Bri
tish Minister to meet the Prince at dinner. I
They insist that, after the way in which I
Grant began with Prince Arthur, both offi
cial duty and proper regard to the estal- i
t:..i l ...l.. .1 - - v. I
ufluw luiee m trwibe ueiutuuuy uuuoi nuuu
circumstances required him to thus honor
the royal visitor. And this was the more
necessary inasmuch as President Grant has,
first of all the Presidents, adopted the habit
of dining about Washington wherever in
vited, which habit he has reoently carried to
the extent of dining at Welcher's, notwith
standing his ignoble repulse from that restau
rant last summer, when in pursuit of a break
fast. Still a fourth olasa of cavillers at the hono
rable founder of the new regime of Grants
and Dents insist that, if he could accept Mr.
Thornton's invitation to meet the Prince at a
ball, he oould certainly havo found reasons to
warrant an acceptance of an invitation of the
Minister to meet his royal visitor at a dinner.
But these "loil" cavillers fail to take into ac
count how much our beloved and brilliant
Chief Magistrate prides himself on those
dancing faculties he exercised so much last
summer at Long Branch and elsewhere. At
dinner, where the head is put in requisition
for conversational purposes, he may be awk
ward and even glum; but put him in a ball
room, where heels are to be displayed, and he
asks no odds of royalty. "Circumstances,"
our Republican fault-finders must see, "alter
cases." Devotion of the President to the
saltatory art, our dissatisfied and staid Re
publicans must see, has pervaded the whole
court circle in Washington; and inspired vene
rable Cabinet ministers and noble matrons in
obedience to his example
"To com and trip It as yon go,
9a the light fantaaUo to,"
in honor of the worthy son of his royal
mother.
Our dear countrymen, on whose fault-findings
we are commenting, expect too much.
President Grant has not been an idle loiterer
in the bedizened saloons of royalty, but in
rather different saloons ia the far West, to
wards the setting sun. He has never had ne
cessity or occasion to inform himself as to the
etiquette of European courts, nor has any one
around him, except possibly the cherished
Badeau, who flourished for a few weeks in
London as second secretary of the American
legation. His has been the tented field, or
the simple, hearty, and unceremonious fes
tivities of dear Galena. Fighting and dancing
are his strong points; and as he could not win
a battle in sight and honor of the Prinoe, he
cheerf ally did the other thing, and did it well.
Let any Englishman dare impugn the dancing
of our President!
TOE CURRENCY AND THE DEBT.
Fram ths N. T. Trmee.
On two important questions Congress did
good service on Monday. The House voted
down Mr. Ingersoll's proposition to instruct
the Committee on Banking and Currency to
report back his bill authorizing an uncondi
tional increase of national bank currency. And
it rejected, by a strict party vote, the resolu
tion of the Democratic McNeely affirming ths
right to redeem the five-twenties in green
backs. Inflation and repudiation were both
unequivocally condemned. The Senate, too,
defeated with equal decisiveness Mr. Chand
ler's amendment to the currency bill in
creasing the bank circulation to the extent of
a hundred millions. Neither chamber showed
inflationists any mercy.
We do not accept the rej oction of Mr. In
gersoll's resolution as any indication of a dis
position to maintain intact the present xtatm
of the currency. The vote certainly leaves
scanty comfort for the inflationists, and none
for those who would precipitate the action of
the Banking Committee on a subject requir
ing the most cautious scrutiny of the various
schemes that have been propounded. But
there are good reasons for believing that the
demand of the West and South for a partial
redistribution of the bank circulation will be
in some shape conceded, and that the Trea
sury suggestion for the redemption of the
three per cent, certificates will be adopted.
The latter measure , is obviously de
sirable on the ground of economy.
And the justice of the call of the South
and West for a larger proportion of local
circulation is equally, apparent. . The
danger is that the expediency of recognizing
their reasonable claims may be made the pre
text for swelling the volume of . currency,
and so removing! further oil the day of re
sumption. , As the alternative of what, thus
considered, would be an unmitigated evil,
the redistribution ' policy challenges favor
able attention, it has its drawbacks, unques
tionably; it would inconvenience for a time
some of our Eastern communities, but the
choice seems to be between this course and
the more objectionable oourse which leads to
inflation. Out of the same circumstance
grows the strongest argument for postponing
the enactment of a free banking law. -.
All these matters are before the Senate' la
debate, and . before the Banking Committee
of the House, which is entitled to all the time
that is required fer an exhaustive examination
of the . currency question in its , varied bear
ingu. Delay is of much less moment than
judicious action. Hasty legislation,' even the
nremature attention of an ill-considered reuo-
lution, would inflict damage upon the credit
and business of the country. The one thing
essential is the development of something like
system, founded upon sound and consistent
principles, a system that RbttH avert .sectional
discontent bv natUfvincr the reasonable wants
of States now almost Uestituto of local cur
. - V
rency, and at the same time lay the founda
tion of practical effort in the direction of
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will be inadequate which does not make pro
vision for redemption by the banks concur
rently with resumption by tho .National uov
ernment. j Those are reasons for resisting
every attempt to force immature or partial
plans, as well as for rejocting the mischievous
policy favored by Messrs. Ingeisoll and Chana
ler. ' ' . i ; i
Nor is the most unceremonious treatment
undeserved by Mr. MoNeely and his Democratic
friends, who, while pretending to desire the
maintenance of the publio faith, lose no op
portunity of assailing it. The allegation that
the five-twenties are payable in greenbacks is
a mere revival ot the rendleton dootrine,
which is not disguised by the plea that "the
national debt should be paid in strict oompli-
pudiatora always say. They are for "strict
compliance with the contract," if it be inter
preted favorably to partial repudiation- not
otherwise. The frequency with which the
proposal has been put forward in the House
since the opening of the session, and the fact
that while a few Democrats talk against it,
the main body of the party either help it with
their votes or abstain from voting, prove con
clusively ths insincerity of Democratic pro
testations with regard to the debt. . The De
mocrats are enemies of the publio faith, and
tbe country may thank them for not a little pf
the embarrassment and loss which attend Im
paired credit. nThe decisive vote on Monday
shows that their power to do mischief U not
great. But the mere attempt is worth remem
bering as evidduce of the responsibilities
which still attach to the Rej '.',lioan party as
the guardian of the honor and interests of the
republic
IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE AND THE
POLITICAL FUTURE.
ram ths If. T. Trthun.
So Ions as there was hope that the fifteenth
amendment to the Federal Constitution might
be defeated, the Democratic politicians fought
it with malignant desperation. At length,
the handwriting on the wall can no longer be
ignored nor misinterpreted, and they begin to
scrutinize the toad's head with resolute intent
to discover or invent the requisite jewel. The
Louisville Courier-Journal (for example),
which has been conspicuous in the anti-negro
crusade, now says:
"Every one of the Southern Mates reconstructed
under the fifteenth amendment will fall Into the
hands of the Democratic part, and the Kenunll-
caos cannot risk a dlviiton In the North. On suf
frage they can hold together not on any other pro
position concerning the neirro. 8 u (Trace belDir set
tled, leaves the ultras nothing- to do but to agitate
ior social equality, wnn;u cannot oe made to wort
as a political Instrument. Besides, the disappear
ance of the negro qnestion as a live and progressiva
element in oar pontics win Clear tbe Held for new
divisions and combinations upon financial topics,
from whleh the Democrats have everything to hope.
So that tbe jubilation In radical circles over the fif
teenth amendment la pure effervescence, and
amonnts to nothing at all. A very few months of
universal so (Trade will develop ths truth of this
most thoroughly."
Otmmenu by th Tribunt.
Supposing the above to be true or even
half true what madness has ruled the Demo
cratic councils for the last three or four
years ! Just think of the mountains of insult
and scorn heaped upon the blaoks by the De
mocrats in our late State Constitutional Con
vention, clenched by a solid Democratic vote
at the polls last fall denying the right of suf
frage to any but comparatively rich blaoks.
Then consider the recent foolish baste of our
Democratic magnates to rescind the ratifica
tion of the fifteenth amendment by our last
Legislature, and the cheers with which that
vote was hailed by tbeDemocratio Legislature
of Kentucky. This Democratic withdrawal of
our State's ratification was carried by the votes
of Senators and Assemblymen who knew that
they defied the will of their constituents
in so voting knew that they were elected by
corruption and fraud, favored by apathy and
heedlessness on the part of many Republicans,
wno tanoied that no gTeat national issue was
involved in that election. The Senators from
the Saratoga, Clinton, Oneida. Dutchess, and
Chenango Districts, the Assemblymen from
warren, uiinton, acnuyier, Steuben, Otsego,
Fulton, Saratoga, and several other counties,
well know that they abused the power con
fided to them in thus voting. And all for
what ? Where is the net profit of the per
formance t We are reminded by it of the
African who listened, as he supposed, to a
sermon from Whitefleld, and was moved by it
to violent physical demonstrations of peni
tence and conviction, but was astounded, soon
afterwards, by the assurance that he had not
heard YVniteheld at all that the famous revi
valist was taken suddenly ill, and another had
to supply his plaoe. "Then (said he) this
nigger has rolled his new clothes in the dirt
for nothing."
bo long as Demooracy, in the partisan
sense, means a denial of the neorro's humanity.
and means little else, the blacks are com
pelled to be Republicans. To vote otherwise
is to confess themselves baser than their
worst enemies ever declared them. A few
may be constrained to do it, just as an Irish
peasant sometimes votes for his landlord's
candidate against the champion of his race
and his faith; but there is no deoeption in
either case. The vote represents the voter's
bread and butter, not his convictions nor his
wishes. Thus the States of Georgia and
Louisiana were carried for Seymour and Blair
in 18G8 by constraint and terrorism by co
ercing thousands ot biacKs to vote against
themselves and terrorizing thousands more
into avoiding the polls. . The electors who
cost the vote of those States represented the
weakness, the poverty, the dependence, the
cowardice ot those thousands; there was no
belief on any side that they represented any
thing more.
Ot course, the Democrats will change their
tactics directly. They have fought impartial
suff rage to the bitter end; they will stop fight
ing it when the fifteenth amendment shall
have become a part of the Federal Constitu
tion, because to tight it longer will be suioide.
They cannot rationally expect to carry South
era States as they carried Georgia and Louis
iana in 18G3. Tbe blacks, as a class, have be
come more intelligent and more independent;
and each intervening year we see them less
abject and more intent on vindicating their
political rights, wealth and social prestige
may control some of them; but the immense
majority will vote for no champion of gov
ernment by caste.
We expect to see the Democratic politicians
striving to make up for lost time by extra
ordinary efforts to ingratiate themselves with
their late chattels. They will insist that the
past has been a muddle and a misconception,
which should be utterly sponged out and for
gotten that they never meant to resist negro
enfranchisement, but only the domination of
the canting, lying, thieving, psalm-singing
Yankees and carpet-baggers. They will get
up barbecues, invite the blacks to take their
choice of tables, and harangue thorn on the
recollections of their common boyhood, with
its pranks and games, and appeal to their
Southern nativity, sympathies, and prejudices,
A Texas lawyer, who had fought zealously for
secession, remarked in 18i;." that it at first
came a little awkward for men of his stamp
to address negro juries; but they very soon
caught tbe knack, and opened with "Fellow
citizens ana ueniiemen 01 tne Jury, as
though they had never addressed a jury which
was not black. Human nature has a wonder
ful facility of adapting itself to circumstances.
And the Democrats will make their wa
with the negroes, though not so fast as they
seem to imagine. The blacks forget easily;
but then they have more to forget than any
people ever had before; and some part of ft
is very recent ana very loouumy aggravating,
With regard to much ' of their recent treat
ment by the sham Democracy, they will be
moved to inquire, in the words of a fading
ditty,
"1 ssppose II was right to dissemble your love ;
. Uut, wby did you kick me down stairs?"
while their wooers, disappointed and dis
gusted with their ill success, will often be
provoked iato temporary unconsciousness of
the. necessities of their position, and will
swear that they have done fishing for nigger
voles, and shall henceforth strike but boldly
for the good old Democratic principle of ",A
White Man's Government." This will set
things baok for a season; but they will think
better of it, on cool reflection, and return to
the ungrateful task of converting the
negroeB to Democracy ultimately with
fair success. "One touch of nature makes
the whole world kin and a mutual fond
ness .for whisky and iubacoo will do much
to bring these disoordant elements , into
a state of assimilation if not of absolute fu
sion. The one thing indispensable to success
in this arduous enterprise is patient, invin
cible perseverance. Should it miscarry, Jit
will be through an error akin to the Dutch
man's, who wss stagger! by the BiblioU
account of Elisha's making tho axe to swim.
"Do you thinn, be asked his spiritual guide,
"that oould make an axe swim?" "Cer
tainly, if you had nndoubting faith," was the
correct reply. "I wm faith I here goes!"
was the prompt rejoinder: and awav flew the
axe into the lake, where it sank like a stone.
"There I resumed the triumphant exoeri-
menter; "it has gone straight to the bottom,
and J knetrit would." Too much must not
be expeoted from that sort of faith.
GOVERNMENT BY NEGROES. '
Fnm tin roll Matt QaiotU.
la the Interest both of historT and of poli
tical scioace, it is much to be wished that
more were known of the nature and eff eots of
tho system of government whioh is on its
trial in the Southern States of America. The
experiment is without precedent, and is of
vast importance whether it succeeds or fails;
nut mere m u aimost entire want or authen
tic information as to the faots. The most
careful examination of the Amerioan news
papers fails to produoe any effect on the
mind exoept absolute distrust of their stats
ments about the South. If the Democratic
writers are to be believed, the system im
posed by ths reconstruction laws has no
parallel for cruelty and folly. Men of the
same race and education, and mainly of ths
same historical traditions, as their Northern
masters, are said to be under the heel of
debauched and illiterate savages, guided by
a handful of white scoundrels who had made
the back-slums of the great Northern cities
too hot to hold them. The pictures of the
ourts of justice and legislative halls of the
South which these journals give are the coun
terpart of the scenes whioh are enacted hers
by Ethiopian serenaders and Christy Minstrels.
Black men in absurd dresses are perpetually
taiaing ungrammaucai nonsense interspersed
with idiotio jokes. But the story of the Re
publican press may be described as the direot
contradiction of these statements in every
single particular. It represents the South as
governed upon tne most approved constitu
tional models, by a population of primitive
innocence led by virtuous political mission
aries. Schools and churches are said to be
rising everywhere; and the material wealth of
ths country, daily increased by the labors of
a rapidly multiplying peasant proprietary, is
alleged to be steadily rising to the standard
which it touched before the war. The sole
drawback on all this moral and material pros
perity is said to be the terrorism exercised
by white conspirators united in secret socie
ties with grotesque names. There is evidently
on both sides a settled practice of inventing
or distorting lacis, wnicn is not nkeiy to be
abandoned until party beats have oooled down
much more than they seem likely to do for the
present, we may add that the few British
travellers who have visited and written on ths
Southern States since 1865 have added but
little to our information. Their interest
seems to have still centred on the war of se
cession, and they were apparently only anx
ious to pick up facts confirmatory of their
theories as to the past.
This scarcity of trustworthy information
is the more provoking because it has become
dear that the Congress of the United States is
not trying gevernmentby negroes as a merely
temporary arrangement. The act which it has
just passed for the settlement of the affairs
of Georgia shows that it intends to watch
continuously over its system of reconstruc
tion, and to insist on it being applied in its
integrity whenever it is accidentally or
totally deranged, ueorgia hart complied with
all the requirements of the general Recon
struction law, and military government had.
therefore, theoretically, come to an end. But
tne .Legislature elected for the State oon
tained a majority of white men, and their
first step was to disallow tbe election of all
the negroes who had been returned. There
was some sort of legal pretext for this vio
lent and ul-iudged step, but its legality was
doubted, and the constitutional point was
referred to the courts of justice, which de
cided against the expulsion of the colored
men. The negroes would, therefore, have
been probably allowed to : take
their seats. But this did not satisfy
Congress, which seems to have speedily
made up its mind that measures of far severer
repression were required for the whites of
Georgia. The new Act of Congress directs
that the Georgia Legislature shall reassemble
exactly in the condition in whioh it found
itself before the expulsion of the negroes;
that nobody's eleotion shall be disallowed for
reasons of race or color; that all persons re
turned shall take an oath denying in language
of minute precision that during the war they
gave assistance of any sort to the secession
ist Government of the State otherwise "than
under physical compulsion," and that tbe
Federal (and not the btate; courts shall enter
tain prosecutions for perjury in falsely swear
ing to this effect. If it had been generally
understood that the North did not intend at
any time to relax its grasp upon the South,
there would have been , nothing very
wonderful in this measure, . consider
ing what the conduct of the Georgia State
Legislature had been. But its formidable
charaoter arises from the contrary assump
tion having been made, and from its having
been supposed that, when the general Recon
struction law had been nteraiiy complied
with, the reconstructed Southern States would
be left to themselves, and their publio acts
submitted for allowance or disallowance to
the law courts exclusively. It. must now be
assumed that if. the experiment tried in the
South fails anywhere to give the results ex1
peoted by the Republicans, the Congress of
the United States, so long as that party is
dominant in it, will interfere to correct the
miscarriage. Except in the case of the United
States, there has been great uniformity in
the history of the suppression of rebellions in
modern times. - First, there has been severe
and often sanguinary "punishment inflioted
on the chiefs of the revolt: then bos sue
ceeded a period during which the successful
empire has enforced strict obedienoe to itself
from its subjugated dependency; and finally
has come a 6trong desire, growing some
times out of policy, sometimes out of a sense
of justice, and sometimes out of mere
emotion, to win its affections, or at all
events its voluntary aoquiosoence in aooom
plished facta. England is just at present
feeling an almost passionate wish to be recon
ciled to Ireland and to be beloved by the
natives of India; Austria has done her best
to come to terms with Hungary, and there
are signs that the sufferings of Poland are
beginning to cause oisoomiort ana oompunc
tion even in Russia. The United States seem
destined to an experience of a different kind
On the morrow of the conquest their treat
ment of the Southern leaders was marked by
a gentleness which will always be remembered
to their Honor. inu in ine next stage oi tueir
relations with tbe South, the necessity for
combining despotio rule with something like
the forms of local self-government forced
them to adopt a policy which has more than
made up for their abstinenoes from blood
shed. Nobody whose intelligence has not
been impaired by the habit of repeating
formulas about universal suffrage can doubt
that the punishment inflicted on the South
ern whites is far the severest whioh one com
munity has ever inflioted on another.
England governed Ireland through a minority
which the mass of the Celtio population, how
ever it might hste, never dreamed of de
spising; the United States rule tbe South
through a majority of negroes, contempt
for whom was almost a religion with the
planter before the attempt at sooession. We
are not considering whether the punishment
was deserved, or whether the Northern States
oould possibly help inflicting it; we merely say
that, after the capacity of the negro for im
provement has been rated as highly as pos
sible, and after all possible deductions have
been made fer the credibility of the stories
published by the Democratic press, the
fact remains that government of white men
by colored ex-slaves is the aoutest form of
moral torture which has ever been applied to
a community. How unfortunate it naa been
that the punishment of the South has taken
this shape the United States are not likely to
feel until the time comes (and it will certainly
come; when the people of the North will be
animated with the strongest wish to be re
conciled to even the most obstinate zealots
of secession. We should be sorry to lay
down that the United States would have
done well to shed blood like water in
the first moments of triumph if only
they could have devised some less de
grading contrivance for ths provisional
government of the South. Yet it is quite cer
tain that bloodshed is easily forgotten: per
sonal outrage with the greatost difficulty.
ihe Hungarian nobles appear to nave for
given the Emperor Franois Joseph for his
wholesale executions of their brethren; but
nobody can fail to see that the "irreconcila
bility" of some of the most eminent of French
politicians is greatly due to recollections of
the personal dishonor to which they were sub
jected on the memorable morning of the coup
d'etat. At the present moment we are well
aware that nothing seems less important to
the great majority of the Northern people
than that the experiment which they are try.
ing in the South causes excessive discomfort
to a parcel of conquered Rebels; but they will
probably hereafter view this experiment with
other eyes when there comes the inevitable
waking to sympathy and pity, and when,
much about the same time, it appears that the
negroes, who are the instruments of punish
ment, have become not only a Southern but
a Northern power, weighing heavily in the
scale whenever a national decision has to be
taken.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
f- OFFICE OF WELLS, FARGO & COM
PANY, No. 84 BROADWAY, NKW YORK, De-
MDbir 3f, 1868. Notice ia hereby siren, tht the Tranafer
Book of Well, Farcro A Company will be CLOSED on
tbelittbdny of JANUARY, 1870, at I o'clock P. M , to
enable the Company to ascertain who are owner of the
rtock of tbe old Ten Million Capital. Ill owner of that
tock will be entitled to participate in the dititributioa
of aatots provided for by tbe acroement with the
Faoiflo Express Company.
Tbe Transfer Books will be openod on the 22d day of
JANUARY, at 10 o'clock A. M., after whioh time the
$5,000,000 new stock will be delivered.
Notice is also Riven that tbe Transfer Books of tbla Com-
any will be CLOSED on tbe 2bth day of JANUARY.
1870, at 8 o'clock P. M., for Ihe purpose of holdinc the
annual KLKUTIOH OF D1RKOTOUS of tbis Company.
Tbe books will be KK-OPENED on the 7th day of FEB
RUARY, at IS o'clock A. M.
12 SUM GEORGE K. OTI8, Secretary.
f2f- OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
PHTt.AriEi.rHiA, Jan. 25, 17.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Annual Meeting ef tbe Stockholders of this Com
pany will be held on TUESDAY, tbe 15th day ef Febmary,
1K71I, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the Hall of tbe Assembly
Buildings. 8. W. corner of TENTH and Oil EH NUT
Streota, Philadelphia,
The Annual Elootion for Directors will be held on
MONDAY, the 7th dity of March, 1870, at tho Office ot tho
Company, No. 228 8. THIRD Street.
12S3w JOSEPH LESLEY, Secretary-
mv- OFFICE OF THE FREEDOM IRON
Btreet.
The annnal meetinr of Ihe stockholders' of tbeVltHE-
DOM IRON AND MTEKL COMPANY will be held at
the OSice of the Company, No. 230 South THIRD Street,
1)1.(1. JI..Ki. TUITLUni V T. ..K D IliA -. lA
o'clock M., when an Eleotion will be held for Thirteen
Directors to serve for the ensuing rear.
Tbe Transfer Books will be closed for fifteen days prior
to tne nay oi saia election.
1 141 unsitLcn nnnmiii )!., oeorewry.
mgg OFFICE OF TIIE BELVIDERE MANTJ.
ISKi.vwunB. W. J.. Deo. 8. 1SH0.
Notice Is hereby Riven to tbe stockholders of She BEL
VIDEKE M A N U PAOTUR1NG CO M CAN Y respectively,
that katawnienU amountin to SIXTY PER CENTUM
of the capital stock of said company have been made and
payment of tbe same called for on or before tbe eighth
duy of February. A. D. 1870, and that payment of snob, a
proportion of all sums of money by tbem suhsoribed is
cauea ior ana aemanaea irotn uiem oa or DMore in sua
time.
By order of the Board of Director.
12 28 tiw 8. b H; RRERD, Secretary.
Efcf OFFICE OF ST. NICIIOLAS COAL
Philadelphia. .Tan. S3. 1870.
' Notice is hereby riven that the Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Kb Nicholas Coal Company will be
bold at tbis Office on MONDAY, Feb. 7, at li
o oiock m.
An Election for a Board of Director will be held at the
same time and place.
128 8t R. JOHNSTON, Secretary
OFFICE OF TIIE LEHIGH COAL AND
Tukahub't Department, )
TO.. ...... ...... i .. .. ci i iuta r I
niifAyMiriiiAtUBiiutiij 11 " " !
Certificates of ihe Mortsaue Loan of this OomDnnV.
dueAlnrcb 1, 187U, will be uid to holder thereof, or
their legal representatives, ou presentation at tbis oinoe
on ana alter mut uiue, iroin wuion time interne wiu
ovale. o. otlltr tiitttu.
1 111 tnMrfiafc IW.mhi.
j3 PHILADELPHIA AND READING RalLf
KOAD CO., Omce, No. SSI a. FOUR I'H Street.
Philadelphia, Deo. 22, 1849.
' DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books of tbe Company will beolosed on
FRIDAY, tbe 31st instant, and reopened oa TUESDAY
January 11, 1870. '
' A dividend of FIVE PER CENT, ha beensdeoUred on
the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National anil
Btate taxes, payable in OABil, on and after January 17,
1870, to the holders thereof a they shall stand registered
on the books of the Company on tbe Slut instant. Ail
payable at this office. AU order for dividend must be
witnessed end stumped. . 8. BRADFORD,
12 22 6Ut Treasurer.
s- PHILADELPHIA AND TRENTON
ROI.ROAD COMPANY Onice, No. 2M SOUTH
untiAwaua Avenue.
Philadelphia. January 19. 1870.
The Direct ors Iisto ttiiu day dvvlared a semi annual
dividend of f I V K rKH UKH i . upon the capital stock of
the Company, clear of taxes, from tha nrotite of tbe six
months ending Ieeniber 81, 1M4), payable on and alter
l-etiiuary i proximo, wnou uie transier books will be re-
cpeueo.
120 lit J. PARKER NORRIB, Treasurer.'
BjKy CONNELLSVILLE GAS COAL COM
PANY. I
PHILADKLHIA. .TinnirrM. 1870.
The Annual Meeting of the stockholders of tbe CON'
KL,1.H V11.LK UAB COMl'ANY wul be neui ai
their office. No. ai4' WALNUT Hlnint. on MONDAY
February 7, 1870, at 12 o'clock M., to elect nv Directors
to serve ior lue ensuing year. I
lahnwitot NORTON JOHNBOM, Secretary1.
sgy NOTICE TO SHIPPERjB,
THE CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE OAnIl
will be closed, for repairs to a lock, on MONDAY MORN
ING, tbe 7th of February, lbTO, and opened for navigation
in a few days thereafter, due notice of which will Do given
HENUY V. LESLEY, Secretary.
Philadelphia, Jan. 27, 1870. 1 27 dtiat
lv'cin TREASURER'S OFFICE,
PKlLAnv.Li'inA, Feb. 1, 1870.
Warrants registered In 1868 or im to No. fAMM) wilt, be
paid on presentation at this ollioe, interest oeasing frvtn
date. duu.ru r. mauuiui,
1 1 J City Treasuror.
w,;v- TI1K PARI I AM tJEWING MA.UHINE
Company's New Fauiil Bewirg Machines si nwet
emphatically pronounned to l that great lei,iderainiii so
loug and uniiousiy looked for, in which all the essential
oypenect 0IiEBf 0T 8trMt.
BPEOtAL. NOTIOE8.
gy- COLD WEATHER IXJKo- NOT !HAf
nr ntiRUM ine flvm erT uing nnion i n tf
OONATH ULYI.IKRINR TABLET OF S X.I1M KWsua
OI.YOKRINR. Its doily nee makes the skin deUoaeelf
oft and beautiful, bold by all rtrngsiste.
K. t. A. WRimir,
1 4t BailWtlllKillfUf Bmwt
f3T COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION
onpniwi mi anivwrneTio nee ot
Ni l RllllRDXII.'K. OR LAIJGITTNfl OAK.
And devote their whole tun and practio to extracting
teeth without iHitn.
tiffos vlltH I'M snrt WALNUT Htraee. 11 n)
ggy- DR. F. K, THOMAS, THE 1JVTB OPE-
rator nf the Colton Iental A esowiatioa, i bow th
ewfy (m in Philadelphia who devotes bin entire wme aH
r notice to eitraetlng teeth, absolutely without paia. be
resh nitrons eilde gaa. rfW ell WALNUT H. IW
1ST QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANT,
Ajuxiii'r ei.u iji t ivnruuiA - i
OAPITALl JXOUO,!').
BABLNK, ALLEN A IMJLLF3. Arenta,
m MITUtMWAIJtUTIIVI
j5j- H. T. II ELM BOLD, ; DRUGGIST,
while engaged in tbe drni hustuwt, discovered ths
ior mode of nreosrinff V mid K.xtruitji. Hu bann
established upward nf NINETEEN YEARN, and in order
to satisfy the most skeptical appends tbe following
riuis Tne
LARGEST MANUFACTURING CHEMIST
IN THE WORLD.
I am acquainted with Mr. II. T. H BLMROLD. He nr.
copied the drag store opnstos my residnuee, sad waa
sucoessful in conducting the businee where oaken had
not been einallyso before him. I bar been favorably
Impreseea wila nis ensrsnter at d estprprtm.
Fran or I'dwubs A Whhihtsas,
ManufaoturinffCbeini sis.
Ninth and Brown etreets, Philadelphia.
11 M
vt li.i.i am wniuii ruin,
Nov. IB, WA.
flgy WAGER $5000.
In thtl Tifinftr T ftrivflrlMi AnrfinnatM nf ArtrM nf'
on WMlnMiltr aad
Batnrdsy of each week. I will wager the sum of that
there ia no physioian or druggist in the United States whe
can produce such evidence of cures in diseases of tha
manner, aioneys, ana gravel. 1 II St
J5ST NINETEEN TEARS.
H. T. ITFLMROLD'B KXTRAOT RITCHff baa
been established. Tbe oertilioatee of cures are hereao!
contradiction. They will be advertised in this paper from
time to time. Write any of the patient, should you doubt
atatementa. 1 SI ft
OBSERVE THAT TnE FAC-8IMLLE
of my Ittt sn4 Ohemloal Warehoesn la on tha
wrapper of each bottle, aad signed H. T. UKI.MHOLD.
beware of Begua Buohus, made by Bogus Druggiftta an J
old under fictitious name. 1 tl It
IS?- WAGER $5000. ,
Not thst I Ilka the Idea- hnfc that unam,nilalJ
like the matter tested, whether HKI.MKDIii'H Hirnun
baa effected more curse than any physician or medioinea
in snob diseases as it is roommndd, no matter by wb
or whom made. I 31 It
jjgy- T E 8 T 5 0 0 0. ,
1 have advertised my nrAnutlnii ' TTtrr.unnr.ri
BUCHU, as car for diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys,
Gravel, Dropsy, ate. I give the public enrtenoeof imi
uierita in cemnoates wnion win do aavertlsed In tni
paper Wednesday and Saturday ot eaoh week. will
wager above torn that there is no medicine prepared fee
these diseases that baa effected the number of cures. ,
, , it- T. UK.LMBULU, lrugist.
lM3t No. 604 Broadway, NewTfork.
BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYETHE
sat n (As uorld doe not contain lead no vitriol
poisons to paralyse the system or nmdnn Hn&th mm
perfectly harmlnu reliable inManlnnrovt. Avoid tae
vsuntea ana aeiustve preparations boasting virtue they
do not possees, if yon would escape the danger. Tha
geuuiue W. A. Batobelor's Hair Dye hat thirty years' nn
(oii'.m to uphold its integrity. Sold by Druggists. Applies!
at No. 16 BOND Street. N. Y. 117 mwf
WINES AND LIQUORS.
ill
er majesty;
1 CHAMPAGNE. j
DUUTON &. LTJSSOn.
215 SOUTH FEONT STIiEET. s
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CHAMPAGNES. Agent for her Majesty, Due da
Montebello, Carte Bleae, Carta Blanche, and Charle
Zaire's Grand Vin Eugenie, and Yu Imperial, M. Klae
man A Co.,of Mayenoe, Sparkling Moselle and BULKS
W LIS Ko.
MADEIRAS. Old Island, South Side Reserve.
SHERRIES. F. Kndolphe, Amontillado, Top, Vai
lotto, Pale and Golden Bar, Ci own, eto.
PORTS.-Vinho Velho Real, Vallot to, and Crown.
CLARETS. I'romis Aine A Cie., Montf errand and Bay.
deanx. Clarets and Sautrn Wine
GIN. "Meder Swan." '
BRANDIES. Hennessey, Otard, Dnpay A Ob.' varieu
Vintage. ....
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Importers of
BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, OLIVE OIL. ETC.. "
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For the sale of
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KIK8. !LM-
CAE STAIRS' OLIVE OIL AN INVOICE
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OARSTAIRS MnOALL, ' '
8 2py No. 186 WALNUT and 81 GRANITE 8U.
w
ILL! AM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS 1
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