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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. rmbADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1870.
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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 39, 1370.
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AMNES1 Y.
The question of general amnesty will agi
tate Congress as soon as business is resumed
after the holidays, and the indications of the
temper of the House just before the adjourn
ment point to the probable defeat of all
measures looking to the restoration to citi
zenship of the few still proscribed because of
their participation in rebellion.
The Republican leaders seem slow to real
ize the faot that amnesty is demanded not
only by the great mass of the people of all
political sympathies, but also by the interests
of general peace and prosperity. Whatever
opinions Republican statesmen may hold as
to the abstract justice or propriety of general
amnesty, they should not close their eyes to
the patent truth Wat some of the most de
cided Republican States have been swept
over to the Democracy by the obstinate efforts
of unwise leaders who insist upon maintain
ing political supremacy by a sweeping dis
franchisement of their political foes. It
seems a rational mode, arithmetically con
sidered, to maintain political power by limit
ins the ballot as nearly as possible to one
political faith; but the rule has failed so sig
nally within the last eighteen months, that
prudent and sagacious men cannot fail to
understand that continued disfranchisement
is a fatal policy.
Virginia was a Republican State. Her
people desired to be restored in sincere
accord with the administration of President
Grant, bnt a party of men who had no just
claim to popular favor insisted upon disfran
chising a large portion of the more intelli
gent Virginians, hoping thereby to perpetuate
their rule. Had Governor Wells taken a
manly stand in favor of enfranchising all the
people of Virginia, black and white, he w Juld
now be the Governor of the State, and the
Republicans would be in power in every
branch of the Government; but he was afflicted
with Butler's and Maynard's system of politi
cal arithmetic, and counted on disfranchise
went as his haven of political safety. The
result was the dismemberment of the Repub
lican party and the transfer of the State into
Conservative hands; and once there, it has
been kicked and cuffed by men assuming to
speak for the Republican party until the Con
servative power has gravitated into Demo
craoy. The sum total is a hopelessly Demo
cratio State of Virginia.
Tennessee was subjected to the same ordeal,
Certain Republicans resolved to make their
rule perpetual by silencing the voice of more
than one-third the citizens of the State. The
result was an open Republican revolt, and
general suffrage was attained at the cost of
Republican supremacy. Instead of being
two-thirds Republican, it is now nearly two-
thirds Democratic. The sum total is a De
mocratic Governor, Senator, Congressional
delegation, Legislature, and a hopelessly De
mocratic State of Tennessee.
West Virginia was the next admonition on
this subject. Her people, like old Virginia,
would have been Republican had all her
people been permitted to vote as early as
18G8, but the infatuation of power made
small leaders resolve to lengthen their dy
hasty by illiberal laws. The sum total is a
Democratic Governor, Senator, Congressional
delegation, and a hopelessly Democratic State
of West Virginia.
It is inexplicable that, in the face of these
lessons, so plain that the wayfarer should
have profited by them, the thoroughly Re
publican State of Missouri should have been
literally sacrificed to the narrow prejudices
of small men. It was clear to every intelli
gent observer, from the very hour that the
Republican party in Missouri refused to
accept general amnesty, that the people of
the State would defy all party discipline and
party affinities to reinstate all classes to the
rights of citizenship. In an evil hour the
President threw the whole power of his
administration into the battle in behalf of
proscription, and made the triumph of
amnesty a marked rebuke to himself. Here,
as elsewhere, the sum total of proscription
is a Democratic Legislature, a Democratic
Senator, a more than doubtful Governor and
Congressional delegation, and a hopelessly
Demooratio State of Missouri.
Theorize as we may, these are stubborn re
sults, and beyond the power of reversal
Notwithstanding the bitter feuds and passions
called into existence by civil war, experience
has demonstrated that the policy of proscrip
tion is not in favor with those of our people
who have the best reason ef any to enforce
it. While few Republicans in Missouri, or
Tennessee, or West Virginia, orVirgiuit,
would have entertained the disposition to
enfranchise their bitter enemies, the rebels,
five years ago, time, and business interest
and social attrition have gradually dissipated
the bitter strife that was cherished by neigh
lors against neighbors, and at last, when no
other opening offered for attaining general
amnesty, more tuan enough of tua earnest
loyal men of these States have broken through
their political affiliations to restore fraternity
and brotherhood to their once estranged aud
bitter associates.
We do not look for all the sores of treason
to be healed until a new generation shall
supplant those vLo staked everything aud
lost. While ninety-nine of every hundred
of the Southern people either actively or
passively accept the results of the war, there
are still a few turbulent spirits who make,
and will continue to make, the lost cause a
pretext for crimes they would commit under
any circumstances. The Southern people, as
a class, are not justly chargeable with the
lawlessness of the few who disgrace their
sections; and every attempt to punish the
more intelligent class for the offences of men
who are outlaws by nature will but embitter
the new leaders of the South against Repub
lican policy, and make the reconstructed
States more certainly and blindly Democratic.
It is noticeable that the most earnest advo
cates of general amnesty are Southern Sena
tors and Representatives, and that the few
remaining Republican States in the South are
those which enfranchised all classes at the
very threshold ot reconstruction .
We commend these facts to the implacable
loyalists of Congress, and submit to them
whether enough has not been sacrificed to
the cause of hate and prejudice. Four im
portant States have been madly thrown away
on the direct issue, and but few remain
wherein the Republicans can be hopeful, be
cause no Southern man, however sincere his
repentance, can act with the Republican
party without doing violence to all his looal
sympathies and associations. The time has
come for, all the ghastly scars of war to be
healed for generous laws and a truly homo
geneous people. "Let us have peace !"
THE FIQI1T OVER SAN DOMINGO.
The fate of parties in this country has often
been more strongly influenced by the per
sonal quarrels of prominent politicians than
by the inherent justice of principles. Tue
irrepressible conflict between Hamilton and
Jefferson, developed when they were both
members of Washington's Cabinet, gave shape
to the antagonistic forces of Democracy and
Federalism. From Jackson's rivalry with
Clay, his quarrel with Calhoun, and his attach
ment to Van Buren an entirely new series
of political combinations were engendered
So, too, Van Buren's jealousy of
Cass, Buchanan's fight with Douglas,
and the deadly animosity of Thaddeus Stevens
to Andrew Johnson, led to the most momen
tous changes among politicians who nomi
nally belonged to the same party and pro
fessed, in general terms, the same faith. The
late squabble at Washington over' the San
Domingo question has aroused such intense
feeling, and attraoted so much attention,
that the quidnuncs are wondering whether
it, too, is to exercise an important influence
upon general politics, and, by causing dan
gerous divisions in the Republican party, to
hasten its downfall. The Democracy are
hoping for some such result. During the
acrimonious debate in the Senate
over Mr. Morton's resolution, their
leading'representatives spared no pains to add
fuel to the angry flame. They may care little
whether Cassio kill Roderigo or whether
Roderigo kill Cassio, but they are anxious that
there should be a deadly quarrel, and as the
President is for the time being the most
salient point of their antagonism, and Sumner
the .weaker party, they back up the Massa
chusetts Senator, and pretend to discover in
him virtues which had entirely escaped their
observation during the last quarter of a cen
tury. The World of yesterday is not only
clear that the "friends of Sumner have a
right to complain of Grant;" but
it warms up into a eulogy of Sumner for his
studious and laborious habits, his peouniary
probity, and for his vast stook of knowledge
in all matters relating to treaties with foreign
nations; and it is natural to expect that a
similar tone will speedily be adopted by the
Democratic Senators and the Democratic
press. We must, therefore, anticipate that
the Democracy will make all the capital they
can out of the existing quarrel, and they will
be not at all chary in the selection of means
to compass tbeir end. After their coquettings
with Andrew Johnson, their partial capture of
the man who above all others is the father of
the Republican party, William II. Seward,
and their dalliance with Chief-Justice Chase,
it ia difficult to say who is proof against their
blandishments, or to affirm positively that
Charles Sumner may not become a steady
object of their affected adoration.
So far as the intrinsic merits of the San
Domingo quarrel are concerned, wa think the
President much nearer right than his Sena
torial adversary, but there is little use in
having a Senate if it is to be made on all
occasions the mere echo of Presidential
opinions; and while we differ from S turner's
conclusions in toto,we do not doubt his riylit,
even in a narrow partisan view, to form aud
adhere to opinions of his own on all issues
which are not cardinal principles of the Re
publican party. We cannot see the wisdom
of eulogizing the acquisition of Alaska and
condemning the annexation of San Domingo,
but a member of the United States Senate
has clearly a right to adopt this course if
such be his good will and pleasure, and
he is lesponsible for it only to his
constituents. The practical question
likely to arise in this connection is
whether Sumner should be displaced from his
position as Chairman of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations, on aocount of his hos
tility to the Presidential San Domingo policy,
and we hope that before such a course is
adopted the Republican Senators will weigh
well all the probable oonsequenoes. Let
them if they choose utterly reject, if they
will, Mr. Sumner's doctrines about San
Domingo, or refer this whole question to a
special committee of which he is not even a
member, but let them pause before they
undertake to do what in popular appreciation
will nuder the circumstances be considered
equivalent to reading him out of the Republi
can party, and to making him in the eyes of
an influential portion of that organization an
object of undeserved persecution on the one
band, and of increased Demooratio solicitude
en the other. It is not even beyond the
bounds of possibility, if he is driven
from the Committee on Foreign Rotations,
that a portion of the Democracy may come to
regard him as an available Presidential candi
date. They have adopted in Massachusetts,
as a standing Gubernatorial candidate, John
Quincy Adams, who is ,the grandson and
great-grandson of the historio objects of
Democratic hatred, and when they become
ready to condone Charles Sumner's aati-
slavery record they will easily fraternize with
him on other issues. While we do not pre
tend that there is any serious danger that
any combination of circumstances can make
Sumner the Democratic Presidential candi
date in 1872, the approximate danger of driv
ing a portion of his admirers into the Demo
cratic ranks would certainly be invited by
his exclusion from the Chairmanship of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; and,
all things considered, it would be decidedly
better to avert the danger Itfian to court it.
We are glad to notice that, at an adjourned
meeting of the Board of Guardians of the
Poor held yesterday, the "little unpleasant
ness between tne venerable President of tue
Board, Mr. Win tall, and Air. Parker was
amicably arranged by explanations satisfac
tory and creditable to both parties. We hope,
however, that Mr. Parker's efforts to unearth
and reform abuses connected with the man
agement of the Almshouse will not cease, and
that his colleagues will cordially sustain all
feasible schemes for increasing the efficiency
of the important institution under their
charge.
The Fkencu insist that if their nation
Great Britain must inevitably go down with
them; and this theory is substantially oorrect.
It is becoming every day more and more pal
pable that the three great powers of the
future are the United States, Germany, and
Russia, and it is a gratifying fact that these
nations are likely to maintain forever the
friendly attitude which has hitherto char
acterized their intercourse.
The completion of the Mt. Cenis tunnel
is announced in a despatoh from Bordeaux,
and by this great triumph of modern engi
neering a pathway cut through more than
seven miles of solid rock secures free and
uninterrupted passage of a continuous rail
way nearly 14(H) miles in length from the
British Channel to the Mediterranean, while
the Alps cease forever to be a barrier be
tween France and Italy.
Akermak, the Attorney-General of Grant's
administration, has failed to save Georgia
from falling into the hands of the Demooracy.
Indeed, it is said thai he proved a dead
weight to the Republican party of that State,
and he has certainty been as useless for par
tisan purposes as Fish in New York or Cres-
well in Maryland.
NOTICES.
Men's Winter
Business Coats,
ALL WOOL,
FOR
Six Dollars.
Hknmtt A-CO.,
Towkr Hall,
No. Bis Market btkekt,
IlAI.l'.WAV BETWEEN FlITH AND SIXTH STREETS,
ARE CLOSINd OCT A LOT OK COATS
AT ABOVE-NAMED PRICE.
Oilier good tn proportion.
Messrs. Etre & Landell, proprietors of the well-
known dry goods house at the corner of Fourth and
Arch streets, give notice that they have on hand a
large stock of tine holiday goods suitable for New
Year's gifts. This drra have no trash whatever on
hand which can be advertised as cheap goods and
sold for almost notUlLg, but which give satisfaction
neither to the purchaser or seller. All the goods
exposed for sale at this house are of the very best
description, and the prices are not what can be
called cheap, but reasonable. Bat in order to favor
the practice of making holiday gifts of articles which
are of themselves of intrinsic value, this Arm, as it is
their regular annual custom to do every December,
have now made a redaction- In prices on some of the
One dry goods, such as expensive shawls, silks, vel
vets, piano covers, and dress goods. A specialty of
ibis week's business is the introduction of the
widow's shawl in subdued colors, which is an article
designed to meet a great want In the market. The
business house of Eyre A Landell has beea estab
lished long enough for the public to know just what
can be had at the establishment, and on what a
olid business foundation the operations of the
house are conducted. The Arm have been for
twerity-flve years in the same locality at the corner
of Fourth and Arch streets. During all that time
the business operations of the Arm with its cus
tomers have been conducted lu the most accommo
dating manner, as all w ho have had dealings with
the house can testify.
WHAT IS MOKE COMMON OR DISTRESSING THAN A
Bilious Attack v Who is not familiar with the
well-known symptoms,' oppression across the sto
mach and chest, low spirits, restlessness, gloomi-
iiesB of mind, weariness, dull headache, dirty,
greasy appearance of the skin, yellow tinge of the
white of the eyes, loss of appetite, and costlveness '
Few, indeed, or tne more ordinary ins or life are
more widely prevalent than these bilious disorders,
aud yet they may readily ie got rid of by U3lug Dk.
Jayke s Sanative Fills, by whose operation the
liver will be rapidly restored to healthy action, the
vitiated secretions of the Ntomach changed, all cog-
tiveness removed, and the whole system assisted
in recovering its normal condition. Bold by all
drngififts.
pitman Jim i' be For singer and public
speakers, to keep the throat moist and voice clear,
it is excellent. i!5 ecu' per box. Druggists swll it.
istei'uek 1 Whitman & Son,
Sale Manufacturers,
8. W. corner of Twelfthand Market streets.
WIliaiIT'5
IV 11 PLUS ULTRA
Hinced Meat.
Unequalled for Quality.
('ACTION. Beware of all imitations, as there is
but one WRIGHT in the market.
DEPOT, a
SOUTHWEST COR NEK
SPEING OAKDEN and FXtAKKLIN.
ISOLD BY ALL 0110 :XRS. 11 15 tfrp
OLOTHINOi
THOSE OVERCOATS
At the Gteat Brown Hall
Are the Very Perfection of
Beauty,
Cheapness,
Good Fit,
Fine Styles,
Tastefa'uesa.
Elegance,
Durability,
Neatness,
BUY
AN OVERCOAT FOR YOUR BOY,
$5 TO $18.
BUY AN OVERCOAT FOR YOURSELF,
$10 TO $40.
i
Tee Great Reduction In the price of o verco it
at the GREAT BROWN HALL makes It
Worth your while
To embrace the present
opportunity
To get
A FINE OVERCOAT,
Cheap! Cheap!! Cheap!!!
We do not only sell Overcoats, but line Winter
Clothing of every description Is offered
NOW
At prices which defy competition.
Don't forget onr Custom Department.
YOURS, TRULY,
GltEAT BROWN HALL,
603 and 605 CHESNUT STREET.
t THE
HOTEL
'PHILADELPHIA:
Handsome Goods.
Elegantly Trimmed,
Artistically Cat,
and
IVXade in the best
STYLE.
Tailors.'
Tailors.
Tailors.
SECURE
DURABILITY.
COMFORT,
NEATNESS,
. ECONOMY,
By baying your Business Suits of
EVANS k LEACII,
No. 628 MARKET STREET,
salts costing 115, we otter at tlx
Suits costing fit, we offer at lis.
Suits costing f 22, we offer at f IJ.
2M Suits of All-wool Casslmere at f 13,
S50 Suits of All-wool Casslmere at 113,
250 Suits of All-wool Casslmere at $i:t,
250 Suits of All wool Casslmere at $13,
Cost $15, and worth
Cost $15, and worth $20.
Cost $tn, and worth $20.
Cost $15, and worth $2.
Goods not satisfa:
mt Ley refunded.
:tory will be
exchanged or
12 8 thsrutm
FUNIS
KEADY-M A. J K
CLOTHING,
Combinirg Stjle, Durability, and Excellence of
Workmanship.
JONEO'
Ono-P rico
ESTABLISH ME NT,
No. C04 MARKET STREET.
CEO. W. N I EM A N Ft.
Handsome Garments made to order at the iboru
est notice. 10 3 tfrp
BOARDINO.
- SO OIHABD STRKET, BETWEEN EI.E
1 1 4 1 tenth and Twelfth and Ohesnnt and Mar
ket streets. Vacancies for Families and Single (Jen
tlemen. Also, a salt of rooms on the secoud floor,
furnished or unfurnished, with fim-class board.
Also, taV.e beard. 10 tmi
OROOERIES, ETC.
FANCY AND STAPLE
GROCERIES.
Including everything desirable for the TABLE,
particularly our
Delicious White Grapes,
Three pounds for One Dollar, are Jusj aSyabun Unt
and fresh as previous to Christmas.
Notwithstanding the large patronage so gene'
rously bestowed opon us during the last week, we
are still ready to wait on the public, and supply ill
their wants for the remaining Holidays, and
A HAPPY NEW YEAH.
E. BRADFORD CLARKE,
SUCCESSOR TO SIMON COLTON CLARKE,
S. W. Corner BROAD and WALNUT,
1 thstutf4p
PHILADELPHIA,
JEWELRV AND SILVERWARE.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
J. E. CALDWELL & CO.,
JEWELLERS,
No. 902 CHESNUT Street,
Open this da; a large invoice of
Pink Coral Jewelry
Of Newest Designs, just arrived from Naples.
They will also open on Monday next an invoice of
English Fancy Goods,
Including a fresh supply of
Ladies' Furnished Work Baskets.
Their stock of
PARIS AND VIENNA NOVELTIES
Superior to that of any previous season.
CHRISTMAS GOODS,
la Gold, Silver, Bronze, Crystal, Leather, Wood,
Etc Etc.,
AT PRICES SUITED TO THE TIMES.
lU2tf4p
. PLATED WARE.
Special Announcement
For the Holidays.
ELEGANT SILVER-PLAED WARE.
MEAD & RQBBINS
Invite special attention to their immense stock of
SILVER PLATED COOPS,
s Selected for Holiday sales.
Tea Sets,
Triple 1'la' Hard Metal Silver Soldered, from
to $76 per et.
Sua as low as $20, and a full slock of goods of ever
description in
Silver-Plated Ware Suitable foi
Holiday Presents.
EVKIIY ARTICLE WARRANTED AS REPRB.
SLNTI 1.
MEAD & BOBBINS,
N. '. Cor. NINTH and CHESNUT,
10 S stuth3m PHILADELPHIA.
DIt'EXEL & CO.,
No. 34 SOUTH THIRD ST11EET,
American ami Foreign Hankers,
DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIN
CI PAL CITIES OF EUROPE.
DEALERS IN ' .
Oo'vemment and Railroad Securities.
' Drtvel, Winthrop & Co., Drexel, IJarjes A Co.,
1 Ko. 18 Wail sirtet, No. J Hue Sonne,
"j NewYork. i Pai'ia.
! CHESNUT STREET SWING RINK,
t
i TWEKTY-THIBD AND CIIESNTT KTS.
Splendid filiating, -Ilea
ii I i Till Ite,
Cleerant Harm Itoomw.
LIBERTY SILVER CORNET BAND.
OPEN ALL DAY AN D EVEN 1 N O.
CARD.
THE SKATING lTBLlO ARE RESPtUTKl'LLY
INFORMED THAT WE HAVE A hOUD BODY
OF SMOOTH ICE, SIX INOHE THICK, WHICH
WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE WEATHER,
BEINO IN A HANDSOME BUILDING, PRO
TECTED rmu snow or rain storms, and
NOT AFFECTED BY THE RISING OF THE
TIIFRMOMETKK.
viti j. x. payne into.
eWINQ MAOHINEi.
p II B
WHEELER & WILSON
. lEWMtt MACIIUtE,
For Bait on Easy Terms.
NO. 914 OIIESNTJT STREET.
I mw PHILADELPHIA.
DRY OOODS.
27 CnESNUT STREET.
AT RETAIL.
Grand Clearing1 Sale
0?
DRY OOOXS, '
Prior to making extensive alterations In the Store.
Rare oppottnnities of securing GREaT BARGAINS
adapted to the wants of Famtllea, and substantial
gifts for the HOLIDAYS. The entire Wholesale and
Retail Storks are combined, constituting the great
est concentration of BARGAINS in the better class
of DRY GOODS ever offered In this city, and all
marked aown to such extremely low rates as will
ensure rapid sales.
Strictly One Price.
ALEXANDER RICKEY,
No. 727 CHESNUT St.,
18 15 thstutf PHILADELPHIA.
DESIRABLE DRY GOODS.
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT.
POLITE AND RESPECTFUL ATTEN
TION. "AT THORNLEY'S,"
EIGHTH AND SPRING GARDEN.
SPECIAL ATTENTION INVITED TO
BLACK SILKS,
RICH POPLINP,
PAISLEY SHAWLS,
POWER-LOOM TABLE UN EN 3,
PIANO COVERS,
MARSEILLES QUILTS, Etc.
PARTICUL ARLY CHEAP.
JOSEPH H. TH0RNLEY,
NORTHEAST CORNER OF
EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN SU.
3 thstnt PHIL ADELPHIA.
GEORGE D. WISHAM,
No. 7 North EIGHTH Street,
Is now prepared to offer one of the largest and best
selected stocks of
Dress Goods
To be found In the city, and will be sold at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
NEW GOODS OPENING DAILY.
Elgliili Street Kmporlum for
Black Silks! 'Black Silks!
BLACK TAFFETA.
BLACK OKOS GRAIN, heavy, 11-60, $1-73, 2.
BLACK OROS OR A IN, wide, 12.
BLACK OROS OKALN, rich, S412S, $2 -60, 9-T3, 13,
13-60, 4, $4 60, 5.
A SPENDID ASSORTMENT OF IRISH POPLINS.
For Bargains call at
GEORGE D. WISH AM "S
ONE PRICE STORE,
9 S3 ths No. T North EIOHTH street.
Our Motto Small Profits tmd Quick Sale.
INDIA SHAWLS AND SCARFS.
No. 916 CXZESHUT STRZ3Z3T,
Has In store a large and elegant stock of INDIA
SCARFS. Also,
Silks in a re at Variety.
With a stock of
Rich India and French Fancy
Goods,
different in style from any in the eity. Purchasers
of Christmas presents will do well to examine the
stock before purchasing. 1 8 lmrp
HOLIDAY GOODS.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Spring Horses,
Rocking Horses,
Children's Carriages,
BOYb' SLED?, WAG0KP,
VEL0CIPED2S, Etc Etc.
H. J. 8 HILL,
Fdory, No. 226 DOCK 8treet,
134p BiLOW EXCHANGE.
OKATINU! ' SKATING! SKATINO! ON THE
i Keystone Park, H. THIRD and MO KRIS Streets.
Good music. SpleMid eompHuv. Everybody
pleased. Give us a call. Open afti rnoon and eveu
lDit. Tickets, Sftc, or five for l.
It t U V V &L23 Proprietor.