The Democratic Watchm'an,
tEY 0 N TE, PA
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FRIDAY MORNING, JUNtI9. 1868
Let Us Raison Together
'Our radical brethren hitie been limns-
Mg themselves and disgusting the con
servative maltose iFith their little itu
pelichmeat shrw Or the last two mouths,
andh.we thould life very much to know
just bow mieny of them NOW ever thoilgtit
inipeaehtnedt a good thing. They look
Risk whenever Um subject is mentioned.
-flow is it with the people" Let us see
if they too have not cause for sickness—
even indignation at all the pant Radical
rule, which, if it be not ended soon, will
eases our sumlike that of-Aneient. Rome,
to set to nee po mere. For unless there
be r change, a financial crisis must come
orittis that will wreck our credit. It
Is almost inevitable. The innumerable
agents of the tiovernment with their
prodigious salaries are daily increasing
the taxes, and pi.ing up the debt—its
amount no man can'tell—all created un
derradioal rule. It is of that gigantic
myth-tilde that all the coined gold and
silver of the earth cannot cancel it, and
this and the next generation will not see
it half paid Let us talk In a more stub
horn tongue, with facts that more Imme
diately concern us. and see if there be
not potent reasons for a change of rulers,
for !here is no need of this nation's the
orizing about the payment of our nation
al debt Under the present management
we cannel meet even the accumulating
interest.
,The American role Ilion, with its total
lobe e, has coat the. United Mater' more
thao eight billion of do)latil i tand Mink to
untimely graves nemesia hundred thane
oatudi men; while the expellees of tireal
Britain for past ages by sanguinarYcom
bats amounting to unnumbered billions,
have made the mathematician marvel in
hhe computations. The Englinti tax-pay
er pays about three per cent. on the con•
cols of hi+ kingdom, while the unfortu
nate American pays from five to maven
and three-tenths ,
But this is not - all Taxes must en.
'lance the price of every article that en
ters the moulti.elotben the back,or warms
the feet , taxe+ on everything consoling
to the taste, smell, feeling, bearing sod
netting: taus on heat, emigration, ma
chinery and light, taxes on the sea,
ocean.eari h and amen everythiog grown
' , et home or brought from afar; taxes on
the crude material and its increased
ant
us by thf improvement of art, taxes on
the drug to restore it man to health, and
the sauce to glut his appetite, taxes On
sugar, tea, coffee, fish and oysters, and
the man that sells them : taxes on rum,
gin, beer and brandy, and the drunkard
r tkat
_drhika Alum.; taxes on the Mein,-
nose, telegraph, railroad, and the bands
that made them ; taxes on banks,lawyers,
judges and Wallin!, and their bleeding
victims; taxe+ 'on' bond+, thortgiges,
deeds end notes,and the rnisere that bold
aim; taxes on the garb that decks tin
king and the hemp that bangs the rebel?
on the queen's spice and the pauper's
tilt; on the bride'• watch and the nails
in the coffin, at bed or blilard,istok or
wet!. we all - wont pay. The school boy
glides on hie taxed pitmen , the dandy
runs his horse with hi+ taxed sulky, on
a tailed highway : and the dying Amer
ican takes his doistrum, which has oust
htm five per cent ,from a spoon that paid
fifteen per cent , falls back in expiring
agony on a settee that paid twenty-five
per cent ,and dyed in the presenoo of his
physician, who paid ten dollar, for a li
cense to hasten his departure Then hi.
whole estate Iv immediately taxed from
one to time per cent , after which bia
name is banded to future generations on
taxed marble, them be goes to his last
resting place to be taxed no more
let u• :int lb. laborers, mechantop,
professional toes, clerks, merchants and
everybody in tilts r eel Northwest,if all
tins le ■nt enosgb to descend a change
Even the hooded interest should ask a
change. for it lakes no prophetic eye to
see "Repudlatioo" written in the bold
est ch►ractlere on the banner of the son•
..enaful political party in the future The
people ere thinking - Davenport Demo
•rat.
Colfax on Free Speech
In hie 'letter of acceptance Schuyler
I;olfai Dap'.
"If time had been no litepabliean party,*
free press sod tree speech would be as sus
dinowe frost the Potomac to the Rio (Irandc
as teo years ago."
perhaps Schuyler has not ho;ard'of the
doings of the military Satraps lu the
Soothtduring the past year Undoubt
edly be is ignorant that an iwritor in
Tennessee and another in South Caroli
na were lately Imprisoned for strictures
published upon military government ;
that seversA etiors, have been compelled
to relinquish their positions upon notiest
from the military authorities that free
speech is a crime tt% Doorss of news
;papers have'been warned to cease oppe
sitiOn to the "reconstruction" acts or he
closed up. lie does not know,probably.
'bat Judges have been dragged to priso%
for refusing to empaosl negro juries ;
that all public offioars have been debarr
ed from the right to speak in opposition
tb the Afrioanizatica acts of the Rump;
that thousands of white Men have been
rejected from the registry liel for-elec
tioneering for • white man's govern
ment, and that the Negroes have been
tnebbsd,beaten and murdered by "loyal"
mop for daring I. speak for and vote the
Nuttooratio ticket. Of course be has
forgotten (Radicals hive abort memories,
you inset.) the reign of terror which ex
isted during 1862-8 4, during which
mere than earboadrelDeutooratie news•
piper office* were mobbed and destroy
and Coarse of editor', throw. into prison
and their papers suppressed, exoluded .
from the malls, ke„beasused they dared
is publish Eli truth. ile sewer beard
lii tinkle of the little bell, whisk sent
hundred, of honest and guiltless OHM to
dosgattie for the 4 .erliae" of telling the
Radial despots sad plunderers that they
wore hypeeritana and aeoundrele,asd that
they were dragging the country down tb
that ruin sad degradation whleb,it is sow
sopsplilly searing. Certainly )dr. Col
fax sewer knew or heard of thee* air
cnntelonces or he wash' sot attempt to
impose upon the American people so pal,
pearls an untruth At the above,=Pstriei
' Union.
The Chicago - Platform''
4 -
usual With - such carpentry, it
prates and promises much on financial
economy and reform %inong other
things it resolves
'Mai the Cbtritruilant ortbe Unit
States should be adudnistered with the
strictest economy; and the corruption.
;Web hare hem* so shamefully nursed and
festered by Andrew Johnson call loudly fot
radical teform."
The laws reguiatini- the treasury de
partment of the government are the i work
of Congress, not of Andrew Johnson.
The same men who controlled the Chica
go Convention are responsible mainly
for the prevent financial conditioa. The
trouble is in the opium itself, not in the
corruptions foetered by Andrew John
non." Our whole Treasury Department
is now a downright swindle of the peo
ple, industry, honesty, and economy
were once sure pompons to competence
if not to aflluenoe. Now they lead to
neither. The reason if, because labor
is plundered of its earnings If by some
meano the money thus deliberately nto
lem(for no milder words should be need)
could be applied to paying the atational
debt as now computed, the •children are
born who would see that whole vast
amount cancelled without haring whore
the money came from to do it. Instead
of that, under our present treasury lawn,
not only this generation but as chil
&area children will be continually
crushed under the weight of it, and
American civilization be retarded there
by a hundred years.
Why is it tkat the national banks are
permitted to hold on interest at mix per
cent in gold, more than three hundred
millions of government bonds? issuing
fl 9 money the same anfount in their own
bills under set of Congress. On these
band" the banks receive annually in gold
eighteen millions of dollars And, as
we showed last week an The Revolution,
in addition to this, the banks have re
ceived from the government fifty
mtl-
Hone of legal tender three per cent cer
tifiootes which they use as money in
their banks 'reserves, and on which they
also receive olio million five hundred
thousand dollars a year.' Were all these
lawmen" to be replaced with government
greenbacks, the people, who earn all
the money, might receive the benefit et
it instead of the banks that earn none of
it and receive it all The litlerettce to
the labor of the country in .iaty five or
seventy years, the lite of k mail, watild
he more than Lbw-amount of the natiodal
debt ! would pay that whole debt
It is a and but stubborn fact that the
mass of the people have nothing to do
with their governmem but to sanction
with their vote .the doings, miedeings
and undoings of such cliqUes of dema
gogues or desperadoes as setae the helm
of public affairs. The treasury belongs
to the people, not to Hugh McCulloch;
and ntillleu DO J ay _ Cooke and the na
tional banks Wealth is the product of
labor, not of ganabling, by John Morris
wry at Neratogs, or a treasury bureau al
Washington Every dollar pocketed b
rapacious •ampyres 0091 a hours of Ord
labor It belongs to labor, nut to twin
dhow. We pity the poor toilers who
spent their dreary lives in rearing
worthless but enormous pyramip to
pamper Ind pride of Egypt's still mote
worthiest; IS togs. But might we not
rather shed our sympathy over those
who dig and delve on our nwu soil, in
the nineteenth century, to pile up Tabu
ll ous fortunes for a vulgar sboddyocAcy'
an aristocracy without head to appreci
ate or wisely use them ; or heart to pity
or thank those to wbom they owe the
hordes they dare call their own,' but
never earned
The laboring, the producing people,
should spit on all plaiforni4 th-it are not
solemnly pledge,' to overturn this whole
system of fraud and cruelty. No An
drew Johnson is responsible for it ills
impeachment and hanging even would
not help it. The election of General
Grant on the new Chicago pledges will
be no better The Chicago Pla:form
really means nothing. more than does
the nomination The work le with Cou
gross, and Coagrees seems to be a mar
ketable oommodity, as really as cotton
or corn And the people's hard earned
gold, in the hands of robbers, buy it
Agee ago it was said, —whoerver binds a
chain on the limbs of a slave, will come
to lind the other end of the chain on hie
owe neck " The North eusla•ed the
gre until the rebellion released him
Now labor everywhere is In chitin., and
we are fast ripening for Revolutrou It
may be, as we have more than once tali
mated in the pant, another Revolution of
blood —77 to Reroolutton
"Murder will Out."
The Pittsburg Republic is neithelha
Democratic or • Itepublioan paper, Ins
what might be termed a "go between Ly&
two parties." lisp feline • 41rbort timi
ago it contained the following startling
ed Dural%
"There are thousands of people in the
land Ito beleive that John Wilkes Booth
was hired by now prominent Radios.la t 3
slay Abraham Lincoln, and that they
ilea treacherously gave him np to des
strut:Rion by their minions in hope of
covering Abair racks The closeness
with wyob the other prieoners were
guarded tient outsidelinterootute: qn •
fairness of their trial and the beetewith
which-they were put out the world all
give color to the suspicion, whilst the
plot now maturing to complete tbe 'work
which the in left unoabbed-1 e.
the destruction of Andrew Johnson—
seams to fulfill the measure of proof
against them Abraham( Lincoln fell a
victim not when be prefoilned his most
arbitrary and hostile sots against seces
sion, but at a time when he *as healing
the wounds of war, boldiag out tile olive
branch, and appearing to gather the.
"repentant rebels" Into the old Union
Andrew Johnson is falling beneath hos
tile blow. fordellowing in the loot foot
etvitorltade by Abraham Lineola.V—
-' What a delightful record this damnable
abolition party will leave posterity. Ac•
count. of their murders, robberies, pit
ies, falser imprisonment", adilteriee,
thinskannees, ink Junto and general de
hauberk' will complete a criminal
calendar befdre equalled or to be
again dreamed ef.
—Tbe Mongrel mere; quite goner
ally,dersod the murderous negro riot In
lifasblngton No-body but white men
were killed. That is Whet ln'akes It
quite es tiefact•ry.
A Precious Document
The following letter found the
streets of Columbia a 4 the army of
ceo. Sherman had left. The oriejeetda .
*till preserved and MA be @holm and
dillbatantratild, if - aiejboWi
We are indebted to a diltinteishidl lady
of this oily fora Dopy, Soul witleAL re•
44est for pulic%tiou : We own add aolh.
log in the way of coalmen on 'doh a
document It speaks for itself ;—
I' )MP NE.411( flAximv, 11. C ,
Feb 211, Mit
ify Dear have nip time for
particulars. We have had a glorious
timein this - State. Unrestricted licenoe
to burn and plunder woe the order of the
day. The chivalry have' been Stripped
of most of their valuables. Gold watch
es, silver pitchers, clips, spoons, forks,
etc., etc., are as common in 'camp as
blackberries The terms of plunder are
as follows: The valuables procured are
estitaatod by cut:loonies Each company
is required to exhibit the result of its
operations at any given place-1-6 sod
first choice falls to the share of ,com
mander-in-chief and staff, 1-5 to corps
commander and stalf,d .5 to field officers,
25 to tho company. Officers are not al
lowed to join these expeditions unless
disguised, s primates. One of bar corps
commanders borrowed a 'wit of rough
clothes from one of my men and was
successful in Ws place TIC got a large
quantity of silver (among other things
au old silver intik pitcher) and a very
fine gold watch from a Mr De Sauseure
of thin place idolumbia ) lie fisintsure
is one of the F. 1 0 V's--, and
was made to fork out liberally Officers
ever She rank of captain are •not made'
to put their plunder in the estimate for
general distribution. This is very un
fair, and for that reasenon order to pro
tect themselves, the subordinate officers
and privates keep everything back that
they can carry about I heir perem—such
as rings, ear rings, breallt pins,ete ,etc ,
of which, if 1 live to get home, I have
about a quart. I •03 not joking—l have
at least a quart of jewelry for you and
all the girls—and some No one diamond
pins .and rings among them. General
Sherman ha, gold and silver enough to
start a bank, Ilia share iu gold watches
and chitin-alone, at Columbia, Vlll.B two
hundred and soventy five.
Hui 4 said I could not go Into parlicu
IRIS, All the general abates, and many
besides, have valuables of every deecrig-
Lion, down to ladies' pocket handker
chiefs I have my share of them. too.
We took gold and silver enough from
the d--d rebels to have redeemed their
infernal currency twice over. This—the
currency—whenever we came across it
we burned it as wb considered it utterly
worthless.
I wish all the
.1. %. t; try this army has
could' be carried i..tbe "Old Bay Wale."
It would deck tier out in glorious style;
but, alas ! it will be mattered all over
the North and Middle State. The
dawned nigger.. as a g I thing', pre
ferred to way at home—particularly af
ter they found out that we wat.led only
the able bodied men, and, to tell the
truth, the youngest and beet' looking
women Sometime* we- took off wkole
families anti plantations of niggers, by
way of repaying some Influential seces
sionist But the useless part of thesewe
noon managed to lose—sometimes in
crossing rivere—sometime! by other
ways
1 shall write, you again from Wilming
ton. Goldsboro, or some othtr Flaoe to
North Carolina The order to morph
has arrayed and 1 wrist oloite,)rurrledly
Love to grandmother and Aunt Char
lone Tate care of yourself and the
children Don't show this letter oat of
the family.
Your affectionate husband,
TllOll. J Nyman, Lieut, etc.
P 8 -1 will send this by the grit dag
of truce, to be mailed, unless I bars an
opportunity of sending it to I-111ton Mead.
Tell Sallie I am saving a pearl bracelet
■ud ear-rings fkiTer. But Lambert got
the necklace and breastpin of the same
set. lam trying to trade him out of
hem. These were taken from the Misses
Jamison, daughters of the President of
the South Carolina Secession Conveation.
We found those on our trip through Ge
orgia T. J. M.
Thi. letter. wig add d to Mrs.
Thomas J Myers, 8011100, Maas —Macon
Journal and Messenger.
A Few .Facts
For the year 1860 lie expenses, of all
departments -of the Federal Government
were only sixty-four ',taboos of doUara,
and the cocoons alone raid six-sevenths
of the whole amount
In the four succeeding years there
were paid out of the Federal Treasury,
(hree Minuend three hundred and forty-one
million. of dollars, malting eight hundred
and thirty five militant two hundred and
fifty thouland per year
This exceeds by eleven millions the
whore Federal expenditurie from the
beginning of the war of the revolution
to tee theta that the Jaboblo party came
into power, and slows equals the
amount by which England inn ed her
debt In the ion; space, of one hundred
sioiirenty Mei years, embracing a p
I-WM( frequent domestic disturbance
send gigemaie foreign ware.
,Thilse amount. do not inolude then,e
pentlitures by States, counties, cities
and Wens In lb. four years referred to,
which were ebonnons.
The Government of the United,f3tates
ie now expending after three year. of
pesos, upwards of throe hundred maltose
per year, as against sixty-tour ?million. in
1860.
We hare expended sad destroyed is
seven years nearly half tie wealth of
the nation, are nader • debt of two
dottiest§ fivelmodred millions°, dollars
se4jp‘tarltig the people at the rale of
.three hawked mfillttes per year; for
let It burgh Is aged that the people hews
to pay all this—• port of the ulle me
4
should .—for remember t at thee,
best able to pay—tAi terii
uebitlty—
holdesti of the betide—pity oodles, mid
nearly ime-half tbe mount of our taxes
go to support there le luxury, and gtWo
them the power to lord it over
'Due are loam of The fruits of seven
years et Jaeoble to the dieted
vantege of the emote,.
Why have we been subjedied to all
this
To free-the nigger
Who lino been benefitted by that!
Not the nigger, certainly, for he is in
an intinlluly worse oondition than in
1860, and will sink lower and towel ev•
ery year,.ae the history of his race, and
addexperiumatilikethat now going on
with him, degonsteate.
((ot the ritin - irt IN) Efouthrfor
they barw, loot thrim thousand onilllono
of dollars yortit of productive property, in
the hire lot it fretting the nigger, sn4
become utterly imfoverisherdtmffruined.
Not the white men of the North and
West,.for their oomtherce is destroyed,
their ships have disappeared from the
ocean, their grea(est and beet market
for their agricultural products and'maa
u actures, the South has been cut off,
eat staple. of thellourbern States,
h were formerly the basis d our
foreign exchanges, and ; the main
spring ot induitry and prosperity, no
Hunger load our cars, freight our ehipit,
coveekdiur wharves fill our ware-houses,
keep our spindles In motion, furnish em
' ployment to our operatives and afford
them the means of comfortably and re
spectably feeding, - elothing and educa
ting their families, hut instead, there is
general depression in business, a dimin
ishing demand for labor, a lack of remu
nerative wakes, high priceet of the ne
cessaries of life, exhorbitant rents,
heavy taxes, and sullen despair. or des
oerals resolve to have a change and re,
lief. entering into the minds of the la
boring millions, the wealth-producers
and tax payers of cupntry.
We have furnished a few Agurea and
facts, to enable them to see what condi
tion we are in, the causes winch have
Produced it, who are responsible for It,
and we leave them to reflect upon the
bearing of what we have presented, and
consider the remedy which should he
Le[ them ponder and decide! •
Choose ye whom ye will support, the
authors of these things, 'or those who
here opposed and endeaver t, prevent
theca—La ('roue Dessorrit.
"The Party" ind. its Record,
The men who met In Chicago to nomi
nate Grant for President are not stran
gers to the America■ iteople. They are
known by their crimes. Here is a syn.
°pale of their rtoord.
They, incited a bloody colvll war to
gratify parne•n hate:
They sue - calmed un the beet blood of
the American people.
They so lived the profits of war that
they refused to make peace when the
enemy surrendered:
For three years they have resisted tbe
restoration of the Union r
They abolihbed len elate go•crotuents
and established military rule Instead :
They opposed the supremacy of the
federal constitution in war as a military
necessity, and in peace the • party neces
sity :
They Imprisoned men for exercising
the freedom- of speieh :
They have sopryseed presses for de
nouoeing treason to the government:
They have disfranchised a large por
lion of the people for opposing revolu
lion:
They have attempted to abolish the
independence of the executive depart
inent and to annibilare tire constitution
al powers of the President:"
They have &teemf ted to destroy the
jurisdiction of the Supreme court and
demoralize the judiciary :
The have impeached the-president for
defending the constitution, and attemp
ted to secure his disposal by intimida
ting and corrupting the Senate:
They have supported? greedy throng
of partisan Issaroni from the public
treasury under the pretetwe of recon
structing states:
They hate petitioned an army of par
tisans on the treasurf-under the pre.
tangs of protecting southern megrims
and paupers:
Theylinve.taxed the country over fire
hundred millions in a single year of
peace and aquensiered the bulk of it on
Nehemes designed for personal and par
(titan profit :
They hews taxed the west hundreds of
millions for the benefit of eastern capi
alists under the pretence of raising
money to pay the national debt:
They have excused the bondholders
and mannlnturere from taxation, and
imposed additional taxation upon com.
mere., labor and trade.
They have unused the power in it
partisan caucus at Washington to dictate
leeal 611,1 for. sovereign and indepen
dent siatee:
They have convertfd congress into a
den of political speculators and partisan
gamblers
These are but sem• deeds of the party
whose representatives assembled at
Chicago on the 20th ult. It Is safe to
say that the delegates who composed the
convention and their &mediate part lean
friends have robbed the people of not
less than a hundred millions for their
individual benefit within- the past twelve
months Four-fifths of Them might be
dismissed from office to morrow, Ogint
included, without detriment to thepub
lio service.--Malwaukos News.
RADICAL PATRIOTISM ATA DISCOUST. 2 -
Mr. Mangan stalsd In Conroe', a few
days. ago that a proposition was made
by the Confederate government during
the war to pay three times the print' in
cotton, gold and tobacco in medicines
for our solders at Andersonsille and oth•
er Southern prisons that thesemedicines
should be put ander shame of Federal
surgeons, and be by them taken in per
son to the dinerent Southern prisons
and used and distributed for the aye Of
Union ' , prisoners aloe.. No respense
was made to (blot by the Federalgovent
moot. Hassid he could prore Ibis if !ha
Rouse would allow an official inquiry.
Mr. Garfield objected.
The iWbfine admits lirst they hat*
no obanoe to elect Grant, rfilln y with all
the eouthern negro Btatoo, attletie they
carry one of the great States of New
York, Penneylranis,and Ohio. But that
le giving It up, for , all of those States
are mare for the Droooorsoy—New York
b 76.000, Peonoylranto by 80.000, sad
Ohio by 25.000. Asiioot Ms Mongrel
party a food b•coot io.—Day Book.
_Forney says ( heintittibap me I )
that Gin. Canby "Is the beet Jurist In
the tinny." Then he la yeti nineh' the
nevem of Graet. 6 hlo . l4 p 6r from he
lm a Jewiti, • that he Ilium, orders for
the Indiscriminate pereeetitign of that
people!
What Democrat. Will Dor
It has been asked, "What will the
Democracy do if we help to place them
in power !" The queeteOrt to Well and
appropriately answered sod so satistso
10111—selonsil - rip; br - thweral W. A.
Goempn 40141111km* in elate speech,
tharWe feieNottnd to insert the answer
here: '
ttif the Democraoy get power in the
Government, they will reduce the tariff
tax on your tea, and what you drink and
wenr.
"They will restore the Union,ancl turn
ovei all, the Southern States' expenses
to be paid byThe South a , one.
"Ws will turn out and abolish ten
thousand Abolition Freedmen's Bureau
Ale. holders, and save iniilione of do!-
lare to the people's pockets.
"W. will bld As South support thew
eelvea and go to raising cotton and su
gar, akki will rakes produce to feed
theta
"We will pay the public debt in the
Wile currency we pay you and the
same you pay each other, and by in do
* save millions more in the pobltets of
1 1 &e people.
"If we pay the rich in gad; wo will
pay you in gold. If Sae pay you in pa
per money we will pay the bondholders
in paper money.
.•We will rootlet, laws to enable you to
buy your goods Whelks .you. eau buy
the cheapest, and sell where you can
got the best price.
"Wo will protect labor from othe en
croachment of capital.
-IVe will leave each Stale govern' it
self, limited only by the. Federal Con
stitution.
"We win redeem the army 112 the tie u tit
and send them to the Pletne to protect
the frontier end new route to the Fir
West •
"We w il! restore commerce, peace and
good will between the North and the
South.
We will reduce taxes, both State and
National
"We will lessen the officeholder*,
and release you from the taxation to
support Ihein.
“We will enact laws ibside the Con-
Milul ion
“We will restore pence at home and
abroad.
"We will inaugurate a day of modern•
lion, order and good will,inetead of hate
and es now taught by Jacobin
'•We will give erfual rights to all and
every one, and grant exclusive privileges
to none.
"We will submit calm statesmanshik
in place of mad Jattoblntim.
"We will make pets of negroes no
longer at the expense of the white. ben
nor force suffrage upon them at the ex
pense and against the will of those vain
have crested And umin,tained. the, Gov
ernment."
Grant's Slaughter of our' Soldier.
Ln Cite course of an ertiole on Grant
and the Soldiera, the National Intel!igen
cer, a warm supporter of the late war,
says.
Grant, to please Stanton and lialleok,
went far off from the base of his supplies
to assail Led in the Wilderness, whose
base, meantime, was upen the railway
leading, on one hand, from Richmond,
'and on the other trom south western
Virginia. There, in the ambushes and
jungles of that Wilderness, from which
he bad, finally,(without'disiodging Lee,)
to retreat by...a moxement• in echelon to
take position before Richmond at just the
very point from which IltfoCiellan was
ordered by the atrocious pair--Halleok
and Stanton—he caused the slaughter
and wetted's' (knelled tug the Cold Har
bor butchery) of one hundred and twenty
thousand men, against a fourth of that
number by Lee. We have it from army
Radicals that when our troops were
crosetog the bridges at FreLieksburg,•••
der the imbecile Burnside, the soul-bar
rowing murmur ran along the lines,"ge
leg to the alaughter•house."
It will be remembered that Hooked got
utterly lost in the -Wilderness," which
was made the pivot of operations by Grant
at the instacee of such political and mil
itary laipesters as Hallett sad Stanton.
lohody knew better than Grant Gilt this
pion of operations against Richmond was
thoroughly vicious , but he hood promised
two wretched politicises here to "fight
It out on that line," while McClellan
could never be induefd to agree to snob
a murderous efimpaigß. In connection
it should be stated that when Grant Bret
mine to Washington be vainly asked of
Stanton and Halleek to have McClellan
put in the immediate command under
him of the Army of the Potomac, and
“Baldy Smith" of the Army of the James, :
He not only did not properly resent the
refusal of the authorities of the War
Office le ooneent to his recommendation,
but he weakly acceded to their plans of
an interior campaign spinet Richmond
by the Wilderness.
The Misr Times on the came subject '
justly remarks :
/ The histories of the ware show such
Wholesale human butchery, resulting
frets insompedenes, as was made, in
Grant's oampaign from the Rapidan to
the James Ui could have reached the
same position on the James without the
loss ors single man One hundred and
seventeen thousand Union soldiers were
uselessly slaughtered. rather than adopt
Ydoelellsn's pl an of water traneporta-
Lion. 'Fight ing It out on that line' .wae
ornel and **oily work. if soldiers' lives
its valtralkle.?
EQUAL TA XAT4CIi. —The Democracy
etands-fairly and full committed to favor
of equal taxation. Make the tens equal
let tha burden of Lbw govartunent
bear with the same for upon the rich
that they do upon the poorotnd,rest
oared, ft Will not be long until the rich
and influential men mine country wilt
unto with the poor in clamoring for
low taxes. While the botaboidere,nd
other capitalists are swept from tipi
tl ogi, they ran well afford to fool neon
corned, absolutely rodlitpront whether
lbtonces are high or lorf. •
—The trial of John H. Surrate hie
again been postponed. After the *Judi
cial murder of his mother, these people
at Washington sees le have sone quakes
of consoienoo on the subject of adding
another to their list of victints.--:Ez.
Why the Revenue is Short.
Less than sixty days ago an np-town
T ownie Collector pounced upon a brew
ery, and shut it, up. Cause—one of the
parties of the ceneern OA been purelhati.
log 'second-banded ° revenue stamps, 'of
the - ale retailers, and using titbit over
again. The fraud would perhaps have
not been 'let out,' hal not the retailers
from whom these dollar stamps wore pur.
abased at two shillings esob, been dazzl
ed with the fifty per oeot bribh for "in
formationAand so they duly inftrmed
The up-town Collector named 'ten thous
and dollars' as the ofa .lot off.' Parties
would not or could not comedown ; weeks
went ori, and Collector threatened to
confiscate and sell, Brewer could not,
or would not pay the the ten thousand,
and said 'go ahead.' This was hot the
game, however. By going ahead 'and
confiscating Government would gel only
his legal rights. -Thht would not do at
all. The unpeachable and honest public
servant became more docile and less
desperate in 4 iiis demands ; he would
tide 'live thousand.' Brewer would not
respond ; more time was lost. At last,
one of the Washington cabal, Secretary
Go-snuoks, arrived in town:and the in
tractable refectory brewer was verypo.
litoly invited to the office of the Collet
for and a comma:tits wstaaffectod. The
amount paid was three thousaud dollars
Secretary Go-snuoke and the tfoimpeech
able Collector each pocketed thirteen
hundred,dollers, and the starving and
hungry Treasury of the Tnited Slate
obtained the sum of four hundred dollars
out of three thousand, while the
'lona in formers,' of cense feelieg a east
deal ifeeper interest in the government
than in their own affairs, did not get the
first smell of the reward of their loyalty.
It is a singular foot that in the whole
history ai l revenue P.M.:tires brought
about by 'informers,' not-one of them
has ever been paid a dollar for their no
ble agency in the matter. Tax payera
now see the qautiful workings of the
Internal revenue system. 'The tueohi•
nery is running for the benefit of thr
Washington thieves; and •their Intl
official tool. all over the Union, II Is
conjugation ?, steallug—l steal, loon
stealest; hemeals—weitiosi, ye orlon
steal, they steal. Wn there ever of
God's earth,sc infamous a Crew as toe
run the Government' of this miserable
country ? And to think that those ere'
tures are plantar g to take an
other lease of it ! Lot the working, 1111
payipg voter look ahead, and see what
the future promisee. Let bun view the
picture as-it now looks up, and then let
him take a retrospection, embracing le&
to 1860' and competr it wick 1860 to 186 b
Will he allow bin bone and muscle to be
kept grinding for the benefit of a party
I which has produced such a °henget We
think net. November will tell. —Das
Book.
General Grant as • Tanner
The Denver Gazette bestow/1 this uon—
siderovion upon nenerot ("front es s Ton
tier:
An enhance reviewing one of our
oomplimentery notices of ()rent, nue he_
tanned the bides of Copperheads, rebele.
eta
T. he ezehange alluded to has tackled
the wrong person with its statistics upon
aid subject, -by thus criticising our re
marks. We happen to have knees
Grant before the war end while It vat
going on, when, strange to say, as we
are dubbed. "Copperhead," we were to
the same military service as hitheeit, and
under his act:amend. When Colonel of
the 21st Illinois Infantr at Mexico,
Mo., he was a raving De or t OOP
day he was In Ringgold's Ban to that
city, and upon being asked if he t nett
the war wan to be pro.tecuied for th
ohtion of slavery, he fir , tt avowed It at
sell to be a Democrat, and then said he
did not belifive such to be De object, g iv
that if such were the object of the war,
upon being uonvinoed of the fact, he
woo,ld resign his commission In the Fed.
oral army and go over to the enemy
We were at Donation, SUCI know that
the only tanning prone.. he indulged in
at that place during the battle, wee the
tanning alas inner hide with whisky ,
be tanned himself in this manner until
he was unabl. to sit on his borne. That
battle was fought by General Smith, and
Grantilgot the praise. How did lie tan
the rebels at flhilob 1' We werecthere
On the 6th day of April, 1862, we a
"Copparhead,".expended upwards of one
hundred and sixty rounds of enimuni
lion shooting at the rebels ; our 'hide
was witted during the day, slightly.
bow by rebel bullets, while the
great "rebel mantic," Grant, was down
the river at Batrannaho When the sus
was shedding his last rays ova, the
bloody day's work, we saw 'Grant just
below, sneaking off a transport at Pitts
burg Landing. Who turned the tide of
battle the day following 7 Griot wee
there, but the fighting was done under
the direotion of a man who wee subs.-
quently monied and dishonored, Car.
los Buell. There is not • steadier who
PartinkPated in that battle who wilt not
say, that only for Buell, Grant's army
would have been annihilated at filhilob.
Truly bas the brave Prentice said that
"the true history of that battle wan
never written."
We can't understand holy Grant tin
ned the bide of old Aody. It everamae
was thoroughly tanned by another it.is
Grant, who was proven publicly, a liar
and a fodtby Andrew Johnson and the
eembined testimony of ire Alone. We
may indulge in a few more reminiscences
°anointing Grant's wining qualities at
some future time.
---Ben. Butler says : "Tits Copper
heads are all the friends of Jeff. Davis."
The sane Ben. Butler voted in. the
Charleston Convention fifty- times
fir Mr Davis. for nominee for Preel.
dent. He did all he Gould to Indus. the
South to rggigt what he denounced as
'the eternal northern aggressions," and
then went Into. the noir° war ageing,"
the Youth, for what he °Quid make out of
if. .His deeds bourne me baseness that
se Democrat would ever speak,to blot in
the street, and he Las thus been compel
led to make his bed with Sumner and
*lf the engross. If he , were himself a
delimit man, his punishment would be
swful.—Way .Book. •
—A oorrespondeut of the Trams ,
says that, Grant "still preserves the
streetasss mid simplicity of boyhood."
Well, he ought to, for he bac. bow thor
oughly pickled whisky ever slues he
Was seventeen years old.