The Democratic--Watchman 1314.1.1;LEFONTE, PA FRIDAY MORNING', MAY 29.1868 Truth Elrontly Told The follOvring" extracts are from a /Teed' delivered by Hon. D. W. Voorhembecore the Democratic Slate Convention of Indi- 12112a111 in ilia midst of these darke'ning days, when the laborer goes about the striate id quest of bread; 'and gvinding is low, 'and skeleton want,Juoks et the doors undwindows of many an honeAt household you are taxed by Congress (or the support of a standing' army beyond what any other endure beneath the sun. The people of the United States are paying over five hundred millions of an nual revenue. lifore than one half of that enoriota amount is shadowed up by the Congressional poitdy of reconstruc tion. If the farmer or mechanic:, pay twenty dollars to the tax-gatherer, ten of it goes as a tribute to a vast military government, which exists In plain, opeb and confessed violation of the Constitu tion. If your property is advertised on the trees at the cross-roads;-and on the doors of public houses for delinquentand unpaid taxes, remember that they would not have been half so heavy, and you might easily hove paid them. if the standing army had been .abolmhed and the expenso of govern!ng the Southern States left where It belongs, with the people of those States. I=l And the generous and growing farms those plantations of more than oriental magnificence, from which all this start ling wealth wan obtaintd, and which havo been so much derided by the disci ples of New England, what was their value? They were worth over one thou sand four hundred millions of dollars, while all the real estate of a similar character in New England was apprais ed at four hundred hod seventy millions. Where now is the mighty wealth of the South ? Whete are her corn, her cotton, and her catne" Why AD her inexhaus tible acres lie barren and unbroken Why do 'her gigentrn resources invite none.of the capital of the world Why does business enterprise turn away from title natural paradise of trade! Why does the emigrant, in search of a home, go to colifer, harder and poorer regions' There, you can look and behold the rea- COOL for yourselves. The Radical Con greed has killed the life,the hope end ihe prosperity of the most fruitful portion of the Republic. Once it pouted tuto the hip of a foster- Jug add proteelhig government a stream of treasure as deep and strong as thecur rent of its own Illissiesippi Now it bangs like a paralyzed limb, a helpless incite' brance, a poor pensioner and burden up on the patience and bounty of the rest of the body Its fields are smitten with an unnatural puerility Every production has withered and died, as if some vast upas tree hat. east its shadow over all. A fatal and desolating blight is —upon, the land, upon the mountains, and upon the corn, Lotrupon 1116 new wine. And upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeih forth, and upon men, andispon cattle, and upon the labor of hands " In her ancient glory and strength she could meet one halt the taxation which now darkens the face of the land. She could take from yo shoulder one-half the load W 1 , ow bends you to the earth The Soul on a natural condition Spropperity—the child of protection ine•ead of oppretieton—an object of love, and not of hate.spoliat ion and vengeance on the part of the Gov - ernment,could pay two hundred and fifty millions a year, as the public revenue- Under the present murderoua policy, however, toward her, it costs two lion Bred and fitly millions a year to govern. crush, and destroy her—makirtg a differ ence of five hundred millions, am amount almost equal tcithe entire expense of the Government. The Radical policy has not only set fire to and oonsumed one-half of the graisilriee, the stacks rod harvest fields of the United §tates,but it likewise taxes whai•is left to keep a standing nr mrover lys ghastly and smouldering ru ins It has made. But I may be told that the destruction of slavery is the cause of the destruction of tie much wealth t the fisma which I pave produced from the census of 18G0 were based upon slave labor. At that time the South contained a white population of 4,1504,000 Its black pop ulation numbered 3,896,000. There thot population, trained to labor. remains to day. v. ravages of star and the results of emaincipat ion have been made up, or nearly so,by the law of natural increase. ,The statesmanship of the country finds a vast laboring population in p ion of the most fertile and productive region of the earth, and by its policy, turns that region intif,s barren desert and a howl ing wilderness. The rich lands there. The brawny and stalwart labor is there, and actual want is there but the miderale and‘ incendiary politkotati of the North is also there ; the infamous Union Letgue with which to seduce the negro to his rain, is there ; a vast. and appalling military despotism, created tad used by a political party for pur poses of party abomination, is there; the Fteedmen's Bureau, that guarantees out of your pockets that the negro may live without work, is there, with Ile mighty clan of petpieionsmoiennous em 'merles; and theMmkness, reptiles,NlO ousts and plagues were not more fatal to Egypt than are these gigantic, evils to that ruined land. We heat the dreadful or. of actual starratip . n coming up at this moment from a country' richer far that tlrs.deltsof the Nile. A loan of thlrtp.soillions, to be paid by you,_ iii contemplation by the Akers of the Freed iiteds'Eureau at Washitigtonorith which le maintain a people who Will -hot weal melet others work in thit gardei spot of creation. Is this the bawouet. to which you. were invited by thelbolitien pf sla very T Is this the resit of good thittel to which you were bidden by the aholi- CCM emlisaries kA DICA L rill VOUS Thus Radios' reeonstraotlon prodeed , sad it Is the open end avowed purpose o f Congress to admit these States 'thus I n the hulas and unfler•the nontroi of tit e negroes before this session closes The great crime itt.pressed.imw each day and hour with fierce desperation And who is so blind as not to see the odious pur poses. .'"A Prealdentrel eleetletn Is at hai.d, a ntiti the flrat fruits of this accurs ed conspiracy are to be seventy electoral votes deposited for the Radical candi date by the hands of negroea. The ne groes of Georgia, in their dense barbari ty, are to out vote the freemen of Indi,; ana in the choice of n Chief -Mugistrate. The negro on the levees of the Mtssissip pi is to drown the voice of the intelligent farmer of the North. I speak advisedly. The Radical lenders, shine the late elections, expect to carry but Cent of the Northern Stales They despair of con trolling uuy Jongor the white vote of the country. They seek so longer to goecrn this mat Republic by *it white man's influence. They yield all that to Ibli Democratic party, and denounce a white man's party as an intolerable offense. But with seventy negro electoral votes, and to them added the votes of Tennes see, and Nlissottri,botli bastard offsprings of.the bayonet, they are Vreparing to rob the people of their sacred rights, and openly defy the legally expressed public will. The Oct sf reconstruction is un constitutional, if there is a Constitution in the land ; it is a fraud on the purpo ses and objects of the war, if that word has not lost all its meaning ; it 'upheld by perjury and duress, if there ' , e such a crime; and yet we are exto.cted to quietly yield to ire claim, that the negro shall make the next President Negro Voting in Georgia The spectacle presented to the gate of the people of thiscity, on Monday morn ing, the first day of the recent election, says the Augusta chronecle and Sentrjel, Is one which will linger in theii memo ries for years to come They saw a long line of sable voter+, headed by a 'ring master" on horse-back, brindishing an old cavalry sabre, and nil marchi4 to tbe invigorating music of a wheezing fife land the dull thud of a Irroken-headed drum. These were the •oters—the in telligent law makers and executive and legislati•e creator . ; of the county o f I Richmond It will scarcely be doubted that not a stogie son e f Item who toil fully trudged the streets in t bat 'molly procession could read or -wive, or hod the least idea of the chanicier I.{ IL blll ti t or who or what he was shout to vote, I save that Captain Bryant and the boss drivers" had told him he inu•t vote 01- the Radicals. As this long line of ig norant, vindicitive and defiant negro vo ters passed through our principal thor oughfares to the City .llall. where, the mockery an election was going on, every right-minded white men must have felt that representative government foutided upon such suffragins, was not only a mockery, but a crime against vir tue, law,,order, peace and human liber ty The alacrity with which each mem ber of the fantastic procession conformed to the different and frequently repeated orders fron the ••boss drivers" showed how completely they were under the control of their nishters, and how much they esteemed .it a privilege to be thus driven like brutes through our ntreete Upon reaching the City ha ll, ballots were placed a their hands, and they werehrgpteil to hand them to tne same man and fn the same manner their dr'. ver disposed of his And this to what is called manhood suffrage, the basis or constitutional liberty and the salvation of free government'. --They nay in Illino;s, since the last proceedings of the Court of im peachment, that Yates drunk in better than Trumbull sober -- , Pittrhury Corn MeTCIOI, Rild4C4ll That in Radicalism defined It needs no better definition . it prefer.' a drunk ard, a bloat, a pest to 'society, an lode cent man, that will rote for and ■saint to carry out all of their Jacobin measures . to a statesman, •t jurist, an it right man, one whose moral character to above re proach Senator Trumbull has Come re• gard for his oath and judicial standing --to hive that he cannot rote for all 'bat radical ptoobininin deniren, hence the above slur, or that radicalism pre fern drunken debauched Dick Yates, to the statesman and upright man Lyman Trumbull. And the party that makes this preference professes to have all the "morality, virtue, decency, religion and temperance there in to the country," within its folds It is the party that prefers '•Yates drunk to Trumbull so berr " A nice party that for ;bite cra vat gentlemen to lab:r Air; and de nounce the Democratic party. If the Oriatium religion and obristimm 'example was of no more account than theee white cravat gentlemen who prefer the party that "prefers Yates drunk to Trumbull sobe" are, then they would be in appto. priate businese. Let the above par's prsph from the Commercial be the text for next Sunday morning'. sermon of every political preacher in the country. It will be appropriate. His hearers can then see the political party their minis ter In laboring for —Sieubrneille (0.) Os uUe --Two flagmen who cannot read or write' have been chosen to represent a county in the SouttloCarolida Legislature. TheYreednian's Bureau agents are rep resented by a correspondent of the New York Times as suspicious of every man with a white skin, who offers himself as • voter, White voters are treated by theta pampered Federal of f iciate with great insolence. The Radicals intend to retain power by twain tett,,Afrioanized States into the electoral scales, ten States In whleh • woolly pate end • lampblack evade shall be qualifications enough to make their caner • votek.— Floats are marching on rapidly' to a die °Mee consummation of stun sort.—Po rt. ----A-pathetle correspondent of the New York BAn ley@ Mr. Masbate_ drew tears from many in the audience when he epok• of the Gerrit case, "where the ma s er murdered her babe to prevent Its return to slavery,". We etippoile the case of thibabelhat Wag murdered be cause It weuld not say Its prayers, bad nettling pathetic In it, or epßld not be used to prove that Mr. Johns ought to be Impeaelted. As.amlog coarse people the broadest Poke, ie most eifeetive, so among a people'stuttlded by -false sent', meat, the most aunghlgsted, hypoerasy fs the most eagerlj relished.— Pair erten (Texas) News. The Republican Party the Know Noth r _ irlg Party. The Republican party. whileit p;ofet see a great love fur our Toreiknborn citi zens, is at heart and in fact a Know Nothing party. The lenders of the Re publicen party have fo'r the last few yearn professed great friendship for citi zens of foreign birth, and by operating upon the Mate prinolplee of' liberty, which pervades the,breast and warms tip the soul of men who have fle'd from op promotion and came to this ooqntry that they might enjoy liberty, by their con stant howl about the equal rights of mon, and professing to be infitvorof making all "equal before the law, without regard to color, birth or religion," have made the foreign born citizen believe that the Re phblican party is the true part j m of free— dom, and that the leaders of party where the champions of Lb i b ofitiressed of all nations, and that theirs was the only party which advocated the rights of mei to life, liberty and the pursuit. of happin Coo. While the Radical party was weak. and needed the assistance and votes of our foreign horn citizens, it managed to keep hid from their vies their an'i-republi can dogmas and their hatred of foreign ere But now when it is strong, and thinks it can afford to lose the •otes of those who they call '•hog trotting, ig norant Irishmen, and, svravbellied lager beer llutch,•: (hey let their true princi ples come to the surface, stud show to the world that instead of being a: party of freedom, they are advocates of intol erance and proscription, and would, had they the power, prevent every foreign born citizen in the land from exercisim, the elective franchise, end thereby have any voice in the laws and governinent of the country which taxes him and de mands his services iit its defence, and which to his naturalization lit, took a solemn oath to support Irishmen, Germans, and oth r foreign born citizens, do you doubt ,this • If you do, the following /extracts from speeches made by prominent Republican. , might to remove your doubts Ilitiri.ng the discussion, in thol'ennnyl vent% Legislature, on the question of striking the word white out of the Con etitution, and on the Registry bill, John Hickman, fornu rly a Radical member of Congress, awl now n Radical member of too leigt‘liture from Chester e-,unty, I 1113 V r , ,,sibly nee the day that I may ICC side by site With a cohsved woman I have seen a great matiy colored women that I would rather wa lk with than a great many white men I known a great tnany negroes who I think are better entitled to •ote , b.s moment than a great many white men who do vote, and have long exercised the Iran chive " Again he said: ..An intelligent ie baiter. than pn Irish Cathalla,%,.l uttitisai to • •ote," A C Reinital,white-niggor from Liu caster, remarked "If Democrats give the right of suf frage to foreign paupers, to whom a spelling book is a sealed mystery, and who still smell of bilge watet,'and from whose garments the Celtic aroma or the Teutonic fragrance of the fatherland has not yet been removed by the pure nir of freedom,why should not thecolfee, colored dricentlants of the first families of the South have a voice in reconstruct ing the States of their forefathers " Fisher, same stripe, from Lancaster, declared: :.The Democratic party was composed of bog trotting, ignorant Irishmen, and swag-bellied, lacer ben. Dutch " Latigdon, or the Bradford district re marked that. "Negroes were better entitled to the elective frenehtse than Irishmen The leaders of this part, who say that they are in favor of equality before the law, and of conferring the right of suf frage upon all persons,without regard to color, birth or religion, falsify their own word, and ,object to the "bog-trotting, ignorant Irishmen, and the swag-bellied lager beer Dutch." enjoying the right of suffrage, and why Because they were born in a foreign:land Not only so, but they say an "intelligent negro is holier than an Irish Catholic, and is en titled to vote " Hero is another falsi fication of radical professions They ob ject to an Irish Catholic's having the right to •01e, , n0 matter where he was born—they object to him on account of his religion, and they would object to a German Catholic, a French Catholic, or any other Catholic, whether American or foreign-born, for the same reason— They have found Gut that they cannot hdodwink the foreign-born citizoqukity longer, agill beam) it is that• they prp pose to put thi ignorant aegro above them Tbey hope by franchising the negro, to be able to vote-out the fore ign born citizen, and by that means keep themselves in power, until they can pass and enforce Islet oarryinz out their Known-Nothing principles. —Council Bluffs Bugle ---Such Northern Republicans as refuse to allow ihli negves to vote at home, osonot without the most flagrant "illiberality," insist on foiling negro sufilmil upon the people of the South As these Northern voters claim the right to decide it fir themselves &Ira home question, Nullity and Gainless requre that they should concede aro same right to the people of other States. Moreover, eight and invitee are of pal I obli gation ; If the negroes have a right to vote In the Southern States, And this right is superior in all local opposition, than they have a right to vote every where In ',Ott, of local opposition No maw Gan constantly vote against noire suffrage in Miohigan, affil coatinutp •ta act with'• party, the cornerstone of whose polioy Ir negro mirage is the Southern States. So far as this ques tion is a:twinned, the Deutoeratio party is 10 sympathy with a majoriti'of the Atieriean people.—American Volunteer Grisly is now for Grant, but he wasn't If.heo. be Wrote the following: "More soldiers were uselessly slaughtered In the late war throughthe blunders of tirunkea odious than by bullets of the tee." When the editor of the Tribune dealt Grant this blow between the eyes he wu for Chase ; but boring gun} over to Grant, we dethand to knot► whether the Tribune change has oleo wade Grant any less • drunkard 1 Wkil tile Tributio answer this polite question! The AOrobat C i andidate for tho Pres denoy. The stuff purporting to be written about Grant's boyhood, by big fallier, is evidedtly sheer invention, or if it is not, Grant was as great a reseal and cheat'as a baby as be, le now as a' man. For In etnnoe, the booby is said to have won a wager by the following deceit :—lie bet half a dosen marbles, that h. would jump twenty-five feet tit- a single leap The bet was taken, and the incipient to, bocce-pouch and Ashiskey•barret won it, by jumping from a perpendicular bluff twenty-five foot high,landing on a bed of soft mud, into which he sunk up to his Middle, where lie Stunk fast until pulled out by his father. How prophetic this of the moral leapn'tbis juvenile cheat liar was to take into the-depths of' mud and slime unfathomable ! The trick by which ho cheated robiLput of hie Tialfdoxen marbles was thing but a forerunner of the dec, ptio wh hill die has just prac -1 tioed upo the l osident, to cheat him out of th control one of his own See rettrier And. his heat leap into'-these nasty depths of Mongrel filth and negro equality in the tilling conclusion of a life whioh began ;n the ditiplay of sutoh moral turpitudellut there is a difference he could be pulled out of the mud lard which his boyhood cook such delight in leaping, hut what hand eon extriosite him from the bottomless mire into which - be is now sinking? But these silly Ties about Grant's boyhood havo a far deeper significance than spear _upon the face of them. They look simply like foolish, hartnleen lies, disgusting enough**. every person hello is not it fool, bnt they evince II congoloptAneem of pope. tar depravity in the unscrupulous pub Inhere who put forth such demoralizing trash At any former period of our his tory such lying pictures of kyinictua boy, hood would have been redelied with un speakable diirgiist by everybody, hut now they areput cot ..:1 as the eupposed most ityailabit'lgielts to place- a min in the Presidential chair. Another of the sto ries which the paredt Grant relates of his brutal boy is, that "he once rode a mule in a circus, with a monkey stand ing on hie shoulders hanging on to his hair," atni, it is added, -there was not a renter in his nerves " Of course not The mule, the monkey and the boy were so near of a New, that there was no occasion for tremor of nerve?. Now all the anecdotes, ..hel her true or false, .imply allow the boy to have been a lit tle brute. All wax evidence of the dawn ing of the lowest attributes, without a single ray of that mental light which promises sagaeity and nobility ofthar.tc ter, At any former period ofrour history toe man who should have published slice stuff as a means ef elevating a mule•moo key hero to the Presidency, iiculd, have been hooted out of all rispectible iteciety There wife a time when a paper contain ing such abominable trash could Ito have found adre.,:ttanee into a thousand families In the whole United States It would have been deemed an insult to the ritspectabtlity and dignity of the Atitert: can people to have named ouch a kind red companiou of monkeys aid mules in connection with the Chief May ietracy of the United States. If a people are to be judged by the ektiracter of their can didates for high acne, what is to be the verdict of history upon the Ameri can character of the present generation! It brings the glow of shame upon the cheek of the respectable man to think of it.—Day Book. The Radical Break-up The breaking up of the Radical party, which reflecting men have long foreheen as inevitable, hen been greatly hastened by the anxiety of Certain notorious iudi •iduals who bare been- leading it, and who foolishly fancied they could go on leading and maintaining party success. Warnings they heed not. because they would rather fail to en attempt, howev er base, than yield ti.e control to more honest and more temperate counsellors We prognosticated that the day was not distant when men thus banded together on no good principla, seeltiig only per sonal aggrandizement anti pecuniary gain, roust divide and destroy each oth er. We claim no prophetic vision ; we claim nothing more than the . exercise of common manse founded on the general experience of mankind , we claim' that the 'vast majority of the American people are honest, and mean to deal fftlrly, man to man; upon this we establish such opinions cud views a hive characterized our journal during the preseut memora ble period of Radical misrule If our assumption could he proved false. then Radioalism might astatious ad infinitum: we weetuld not know where to find the ful crum or the lever with which to over throw It But being true, the fall of Radicalism wee, and le, just as certain as anything oan•be in this country, which reels upon falsehood, misrepresentation and tyran nical acts. A party may, through the force of overruling oirounistanoes, flour ish upon these for a time ; but necessa rily, in the nature of things,it could not last without corruption in the great m ; and this we believe hos never •minted, and in this land The corruption has been, and *amongst the political leaders ; and as the messes of the people find this out,they will leave them just ay rats desert ■ sinking ship, The fact that these political leaders are blind to thle_obvions truth, cannot stop the sound judgment of the popular mind &Rhona it renders these leaders more obstinate and self-willed. The march of light_ and truth will soon sweep the last vestige of Radioal usurpation from a re stored Claim The party of truth and Justine has nothing to Tear.—Pi:esburg Post. —The Mongrels of Milano's are In a bad way. No respectable man want ed to be Moir candidate to &hare an Ig nominious defeat under the nirtwAT. " 4- terdsmallan flag of "Grant and victory." Grant', victories, Ia all the States were elsotions have been held sines his name Gas been emblazoned on the Mongrel, ban ners has been such a reeord ofreduction of former majorities or of absolute over throw. that MC known.onezwre frighten ed already it “Grao,lMld.vietery ." —A disgusted 'Midler writes to com plain that the Mongrels who were so full of ieve'for the "boy. in blue," while the war wut going on, are new utterly re gardless of ►lt their protaittei. The rea son le, that the Mongrel love, for the "boys to blue" hoe referred to the boys to block. The way They Dodge Taxation - We have hedrd lately of a dodge re sorted to by heavy oparatere, to avoid taxation, which present. another cir oumstance shb4ing the iniquity of the esemptien of government bends from tax ation. 'Men in the habit of—handling large sums of money for speculation and othifi• purposes, to avoid being taxed, go to a banker, or some other patty fielding bonds, and known to the assessor to be such holder, and get'll certain athount of bonds upon some terms, upon the un dergitanding that they are to be returned after the assessors are got rid of. When the assessors dome round, they are told that the man of money has been invest ing his funds in bonds, and to prove it the bonds are produSed, This settles the question. and begets rid of taxation. After the danger is o•er y the booth are returned to the party who previously held ihfm. That party also escapes tax stion,hs he is one who Is.knewn to he a permanent holder, and the assessors do not' trouble him this way and by similar dodgps and covers, it is, that wealth escape& taxa tion, and almost the whole burden falls cfpon men of stmill means, and upon the laborers of the country. if we were governed by just and equal laws, snob things could not take place. • Will we not have such _laws? Shall not labor be shielded from these abomi nable trends and evictions of capital? Will we not again make our country free and strong, by unfettering induetry, and making it it land of bold-hearted, honest minded, working Oita freemen, instead of subdued, down-trodden, bond ridden, wealth-owned slaves? "111 fares the hind, to hastening ills u prey, Where wealth nreuinuJoteo and wen dehy, rrineen and lords luny flourish, or may fade . , A breath ran make them a a breath has made.; But a bold" .seoinunry, pride, "their country's When "nee. de+troyed, can Dover be eel -1,1 (,'r... 1).1 Ot I t. What a Working Man Thinks, In a recent eperch, Hon.• John A. Bingham, a member of Congrebe from Ohio, exclaimed —Thank God there is no such a'tbing as equal taxation." on this a Montpelier I Vermobtd working man, says the Argus, not formerly ft member of the DeinocrAtic party, corn inertia as tollowi tlf course Bingham and hut party rep resent the bondholder who has his horses. 1414 carttages, lire wine parties, line plate his bonds I am a working man.. I have my tin dinner pail, my tool cheat, and my hard palms, and tired bones at night. aud. my hasty breakfast in the uturontg. a lean purse, and n tax rtrceipt at the. end of the year. • When quarter-day comco,-the bondhol der cuts uti 1116 coupons , and draw■ his interest, and thankstiod there is no such thing as equal taxation. I draw my puree and pay my rent And when the year hi gone be counts up hie gams, rustles his bonds, and has a wine supper And when the year is gobe, I look at the great rubber, the tax receipt, go to bed With an aching hear , to dream of Democratic tunes, light and equal taxation the bondholder does nothing lie in supported I pay State taxes I pay county taxes I pay village talcs I pay lowa boxes I pay revenue taxes I pay direct taxes I pay taxes on every thing I pay taxes to Support Congress pay taxes to support the (lovers meet. I pay taxes to support the bondholders who pay no lazes for any purpo,.e what ever I eisall vele for equal taxatson, nod down with the party who '•thnuke (od that there to euelt n Otng 11.11 equal tax atton.—Ex. --Some of the timid Mongrels are frightened it the feat That etveral nug roes from the South will be members of the Chicago Convention. But that is fooliskr-squestnisirnAss on the part of any Mongrel The Chicago Convention ought to be composed entirely of negroes of the blackest and •wooliest type. But still Cuffee would, be It disturbing element there. The "royal" soldiers especially will kink and swear terribly all over the country when they see uegroes helping nominate Grant Grout is not popular with soldiers generally, but when they see him nominated by negrobs, he will be more etiodorons than eVer, 7he New York Tribune call* the defeat of its party in Connecticut '•a se rious break in the Presidential line " Rather it's the first twist in 'the cord which is to suspend by the neck Grant's Presidential expectations. We trust there is little danger crihe line break ing Me NZORO PARTY. —Forney says, "the election in South Carolina has re sulted in a great Republican viotory." The pblacks were victorious, and the whiren were defeated. This is the Jesus before us. Jiball the black man triumph over the white? What say you reader? —Virtuous llossacbdsetts has repu diated wornau suffrage. Bub if any body should tell at-New Englander that the latter did not love as well, and- re spect at highly, the women ae the po grom he would feel highly offended. —Dan Sickles charged the Mongrel 'State Committee of New Hampsitire $250 a speeob, so they concluded, to dispense with his services. Dan took off hls cork leg and stood on crutches while speaking for effect, but the triok did not save him from being publioly denounced is "a murderer" by a woman. CoKvattriot PLeven.—Thfrty-eight, negroes were appointed delegates to the repbullean convention, which was held (Wednesday) list Jo Chicago, Of course their "loll" pale face fellow equals will bays Mein furnished with meals lop' veto apartment. The editorsef the Herald ought by all means be there. — The ' imP9 l loraent expanses .are set doiroot $500.000. Then and Now, The Impending .contest between th„ Syr° great parties of the country will be (treated with more than ordinary inter. est. Pre i rettius to the year 1860, It made but little difference to the people wbi o flarty, succeeded in carrying Ole Nati., dential eleotion. The nautili political olap.trflp was resorted to on both aides, of (MUM; but, after it wee all over, and the ' , result known, the people nettl e d quietly into their accustomed harmony and repose.. -Before the election, Igo, neither party teared that the success of the other would result to' the nuo urmi injury of thereouutry. 00icial comp_ tion was rare, or. if it existed at all, th e amount in•olied Tins so small nm to he deemed insignifloent and unworthy o f mention. To-day how different ! The present pail) , in power has swindled the peopl e , in the seven years of ntp rule, oui of more money than it before cost to Corey, the expenses of the goverment for ten years. It is natural to conclude, loin the past history of , the "Republican" party, (hat the eorrupti•na snit frank which have distinguished it will i mt only he continued, if it remains to power, but will be greatly incanted, piling the burden of debt sail taralton upon . 'the people until they sink bencnilt its enormous weight, or throw it al togeiher —by repudiation. The success of the opposition, 0 ,,, t fall, would also have a more ditegeretei effect titan mere pecuniary losses and burdens. The rights of the people, on der the constittilien. have l're - en grades' ly but surely diminishing tinder ihe run. of Jacobiniem, until the person and property of the American eit arc ere i. longer safe from the encroachments nal insolence of despotio power; ht., house tio lonfier a castle, safe from ntrnemo by the spy and informer , nod Ito deAr eat rights are trampled under hot by the government inquisitors Then, 130, statt.outon only were ' , jarred worthy to hold the highest Oh, In the gat of the people ow the op positron propose to put in the he'd candidate remarkable only for ha 00. Iktlity and look of statesmanlike pull ; whose military career may 6• cam toed up in-the -11iMeirtient - - that he oin !pushed is foe of IC's than one Lurch numerical strength, at is sacrifice of more men than the enemy possessed who seeks to cover up hit polities! ig Ildhinee by a grim silence, and situ Penns behind a cli ud ol smoke, the confident l i tclitif that the people will yet call him to assume the reigns of nitloary dictatorship Much is the man whole the apposition loves to hawse, nod In WiIOPO 'grasping hands- it proposes to place the destinies of a free people Freemen of America' your liberties are in danger lbespolistn stands ready to cosh beneath its iron heel the free dim', the rights and the privileges WTe, te.l years ago from the hands of tit tinny If you are not true to‘yourselves add to 'our country, and do not put down, at the ballot hos, the Oendisti glint tint waits and watches for your dent ruction. another year will wilt/ems the downfall of the net:Subtle itentembertug !tat "eternal vigilance Is the price 01 liher ty," be ye ready, with ballot or Millet, to maintain your sacred rights, or the darkness of despotism will eetAte gloom o•er the laud.-- l'on'tarh 111tru dacksontan rOOll MIEN AllO NOT TAO T.l/...--“l'Oci men are not taxed, ..—eirtitit deluded wort ingman , "they can't tax me, because I kill starlit nothing!" Can they not* lie (ore the war, you pelt! less Mon one hsl! for all you rot, drink and wear, Ihett you pay now, itriti,„diefore the war you had not the adpport of five millions of itig gems to provide for, who now eel , drink and *ear at your e xpett•te T.ik log the cost of supporting life to do). And reckless, wicked wealth, destroying ad- ItWil rat 100. and the poor whita vuier in the routed States, wit t to not worth a dollar in the world, is the hea•manozed mortal on God's earth Sleeping or waking well or id, at labor or at rest, week dap, and Sundays--the toles Are being piled on hint wheY is not worth a dime, by those aboYe him in the scale of property, who are worth thousands and hundreds of thousands ltemember,you moneylesA,honest itliler,if you eat drink, wear clothes—if you are wdrined And sheltered,you are thug made - to phy your own taxes and the taxes of the capital jets of the country also. They are lab recrly . Chub paled upon you. The great public debt is a curse to you. if tot currte'to the capitalist. itetnembei when you go to the polls next November. —Exchange ---The Southern Home Journal pub Hebei' at Baltimore, one of the west high toned literary paper, in the coun try, pays iu a recent issue, the WWI"- ing well-merited and deserving cameh meat to the lion. George ft. Pent!letos. It rays : • I "It is remarkable that Mr. l'emf e llon has none of that coarseness or eseese usually attributed to the Western poll Goan His appearance is singularly cut tisated, his dress decorous and hetom" log, he suggest redollections of the o ld gObool..getitlemau, and in hie style he bas the merit of reviving the graces of literature It; politics. lie calls to mind those better days of the itepublie, when ihe politician was also the gentleman ( and the scholar. We name him conk - &sonny as tße but living model in Amer ica of a pure and lofty literary style to party polities, in abstinence from per sonalities and tow fauoist:in (UP IT in well-knit and justly-adorned language , he btu no equal among the public speak ers of day,' - DgATu WON'T 811.V1 Y01.7. -It Las been decided that dying won't sem man or woman from the payment of taxes. As seism% are inetruoted that the "Income' of person, who died after the Blat of December, are taxable, and should be returned by executors. and also incomes which accrued in 1881, to 'persons ti,ka died within that year, Incomes socrulbg after decease should be returned by heirs. Thus it is tern that the insatiate tax gatherer follows a man in his coffin, rite at the portals of the tomb, plants himself by the side of the grays•digger , as he drops the alone ur on the rucrtal remains, and after dogging the carriages of the mourners, stalks home like • spectre, and 'enters upon his books the expeoted inoome the Treasury ip to de rive therefr4m. What • blessing i■ • public debt.—Es.
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