The Democratic' Watchman.
BI LLEPONTE,
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 31: OHM
Veto of the Eleeteral College Bill—
Its Return to the Sepete—The Pres
ident's Objections to It.
WA1(1111 . NOTON, July 20.—The President
this efternoon sent the following mes
sage to the Senate :
To Me Senate of the United States :
I have given to the joint resolution
entitled a "remoliition exoltuitngfrom the
Bleeteral College the votes of States
lately in rebellion, which shall not hive
been recognised," as careful examina
tion ss I have been able to bestow on the
subject' during the few days that have
intervened since the measure was sub
mitted for my approval. Feeling con
strained tp withhold m consent, here
with returrthe resolut ion
on to the Senate,
in which House it originated, with a
brief statement of the reasons which
have induced my Lotion. This joint res
olution is based upon the assumption
that some of the Sictes whose inhabi
tants were lately in rebellion, are not
now entitled to rep Wien in Con
gress and to participate in the election
of a President and Vice President of the
United States. i have heretofore had
occasion fo give in detail my reasons
for dissenting from this view. It ie"not
necessary at this time to-repeat them.
It is sufficient to state, that I continue
strong in my conviction, that the acts of
ittrielifon - by *Melt w =Mbar o - the
Southern States sought to dissolve their
oonnection with the Northern States,
and to subvert the Union, being unau
thorised by the Constitution. and in di
net violation thereof, were from the be•
ginning absolutely null and void. It
follows necessarily that when the rebel
• Hon terminated, the I States which
had attempted to secede, continued to
be States In the Union, and all that was
respired to enable them to resume their
relations to the Union, was that they
shouleiadopt the measures neoessery to
their practical rettoratioo tie States.
Such measures wags adopted, and the
legitimate result was, those States bar•
big conformed to all the requirements of
the Constitution, resumed their former ]
relations because they were entitled to
the exercise of all the rights guaranteed
to-tkitigt by its provision. This joint res
elution under consideration, however,
seems to assume that by the insurrec
tionary acts of their respective
tante those States forfeited their right.
sr 'doh, and can never again exereiee
them, except upon their readmission into
the Union, on the terms prescribed by
-Negress.. If Ibis position bs correct, it
follows that they were taken out of the'
Union by virtue of their lots of 'saes
men, and hence that the war waged on
them was Hegel and unconstitutional.
We would be thus placed in this incon
sistent attitude ; that while it was nom
Viieseed and carried on the instance, the
ground that the Southern States stand
being component parts of the Union were
In rebellion against the lawful authority
of the United States Upon its terrain
ation we resort to apolioy of reconstruc
tion which assumes that It was not in
fact a rebellion, but the war was waged
for the conquest of Territories assumed
to be the outside of Union. The
mode and manner of 'itself/ins and count
lag the electoral votes for President and 1
Vice President of the United States are
in plain and simple terms prescribed by
the Constitution. That instrument Im
peratively requires that the President of
the Senate shah t in the presence of the
Senate and House of Representatives
open all the certificates and the votes
shall then be *canted. Congress hes
therefore no power under the Coostitu
lion to receive the electoral votes or re
ject them. The whole power is exhaus
ted ; when in presence of the two Houses
the votes are counted and the reseb.ile
elared. In this respect the power an
duty of the Senate as under the Conati
Wien ; ar,,purely ministerial When,
'therefore, the joint resolution declared
that no electoral votes shall be received
er counted from the States that singe the
4th of March, 1807, hare not adopted a
constitution of the State Governments
under which a Slate Coverer/tent shall
leave been organised, a power is assumed
which is nowhere delegated to Congreie,
mime upon the assumption that the
State Governments organised prior td the
4th of March, 1887, were illegal and
void, the joint resolution by implication
at least concedes *that these States were
States by virtue of their organisation
prior to the 4th•of March, 1867, but de
nies to them the right to vote in the
. election of President and Vine President
of the United States. It follows either
this assumption of power is wholly de
stroyed by the Constitution, or that the
States excluded from voting were out of
the Union by reason of the rebellion,
and have never Nein legitimately re
stone. Being fully satisfied that they
were never out of the Union, and their
relations thereto have been legally and
sonstitutlonally restored, I pm forced to
tie eenelusion that the joint resolution
which deprives them of the right to have
their votes for President and Vice Pres
ident received and counted, isle ootifibit
with the Constitution, and that Congress
diete no more fewer to repast their, votes
than time cif the States which have been'
uniformly loyal to the federal Union. It
is worthy offernark that if thr•States
whose inhabitants were recently in re
bellink-Itars legally
organised and restored to their vigils
101111 , 8 tea • • •
sins satheded they gyre, the 04 legiti
mate authority said which the election
ter President end Vice President an be
held therein , mast be derived from she
Governments isetitpted before thatpri
ed. it clearly fellows Hot all the 441141
governments organised in these Static
and the sets of Coipeas to that Or
peas, and under military control are
Wiliest* and of so va lidity, whatever,
, _sad is that view the rotes emit in those
. Sots/ for President sad Vice Presidsitt
1 41Preginell of Ai ette poised slime the
415 of Mirth, 1866, sad in obedlitioti
— tbo - stroalled reocustrueties oebtof
gross rennet be legally resolved sod
oeunted, while the only votes, his thideir
States that cps he 'evilly cast tad
smutted, will be these east in pursuance
if the laws hotel*. is the eoVersi States
riot to the'legielaties et Compote on
the subject otreenstroodas.
I cannot refrain from directing your
special attention io the declaration con
tained in the joint resolution "that none
of the States *We inhabitants were
lately in rebellion, shall be entitled to
reprisentation in the Elector!! College,
&a. If It meant that no Slate is to be
allowed to Tote for President oe ViQc
-
Peesident, tell of whose inhabitants were
engaged in Ibe Isle rebellion, it is ap
parent that Ile one of-the States will be
excluded front 'roans, shies it
known that in every Southern State
there were many inhabitants who did
not participate in the Southern rebellion.
but who actually took pail, in its sup
pension or refrained from giving it any
aid or countenance. I therefore con
clude that the true meaning of the reso
lution is that no State, • portion of
whos inhabitants were engaged in the
rebillion, shall be permitted to partici
pate In the Presidential election except
upon tbe terms and conditions therein
prescribed. Aestiming this to be the
true construction of the resolution, the
inquiry becomes pertinent, may those
Northern States, • portion of -whose in
hnbitants were actually In the rebellion,
be prevented- at the discretion of Con
gress from having their electoral vote
counted f It is well known that a por
tion of the inhabitants of New York and
Virginia were alike engaged in the re
hellion, and It le equally Well known,
that Virginia, as well ci New York was
at all times during the war reoog
oiled by the federal government as a
State in the union so olearly, that upon
the termination of hostilities it was not
even deemed necessary for her restora
tion that a provisional government
shoold be appointed. Yet according to
this joint resolution the people of Vir
ginia, unless they comply Willi tbe"
terme it prescribes, are denied the right
of voting for President and Vice Presi
dent, while the people of * New York, a
portion of the %inhabitants of whioh
State were also in rebellion, are permit
ted to have their electoral vote counted
without undergoing the process.. of re
constuotion prescribed for Virginia,—
New York is no more a State than Vir
ginia. The one is as much entitled to
be represented in the Electoral College
as the other. If Congress his the power
to deprive Virginia of this right, it
can exercise the same authority with
respect to New s York or any of the
States. Thus the result of the Presiden
tial election may be controlled and 4-
termined by Congress. The people
would be deprived ot their rights udder
the Constitution to choose a President
and Vice President of the United States.
If Congress were to provide by law that
the votes of none of the States should be
received and counted if vain for a candi
date- who differed in political sentiment
with a majority of the two Houses, such
legislation would at once be condemned
by the country as unconstitutional and a
revolutionary usurpation of power. It
would, however, be exceedingly difficult
to put into theConetitution any more au
thority for the joint resolution undo
oonsideration than for an enactment
looking dit eoilt to the rejection of all
votes not is acoornence with the politi
cal preferenee of a majority of Congress
No power exists in the Constitution au•
thorising the joint resolution or the pro
posed law ; the only different* being
abet ono wield be more palpably Litman
stitutional and revolutionary than the
other; one would rest upon the Radiosl
error that Congress has power to pre
scribe the terms' and conditions to the
right of the people of the State. iso cast
their votes for President and Vice Pres
iient " For the realsons thus indicated-I
am constrainqi to return the joint reso
lution to the Sonata for stleh further ac
tion theron as Congress may deem ne
cessary.
[Signed] ininaswJouxsou
Wminimaroc July 20. 18438.
The Negro of the South.—His New
Masters and his Present Form of
Bondage.
' The sale and enslavement of the hu
.. race. wh the crimes of man
stealing and slate-trading could be made
profitable, pecuniarily or politically,
have from the first year of their arrival
in this eountry to the present moment,
been most uesersepuleasfy engaged in
and vigorously prosecuted by the carpet
bigger and his Puritan ancestors.
I The rs-enslavement of the lately
emancipated blacks of the ,Southern
States is now engaging the spent/on of
the orepet-baggers because thitre is al
most 'is touch profit fi reducing the Da
rt, to politicos' slavery as there once
wee to baying him with New England
rum, and then sellibg him to the colo
nists of Virginia. And the creel object
of New England in destroying the old
and patriarchal-form of negro slavery
was to substitute for it that most selfish
and unfeeling form of human bondage
wbioh secures the Tote of the negro, end
neither clothes, nor fie di, nor gives him
useful and honest employment. The
form of slavery triads the earpet-baggers
have introduced into Virginia is as hid
eously selfish as thmt which it has super
seded was liberal and humane. Through
the aid of seoret societies, by constantly
worklag elide 'defeats and by appealing
to his most brutal phissiong, the wapiti.-
bagger bait bound the poor negro In the
fetters of • species of slavery which WM
only end in hie utter deasoralisetlon sod
;nth. So terrible has been the demorsl
'xenon resulting from the form of glittery
introduced into the South sines 1846.
that It bee already swept away (It has
been estimated) one sixth of the *ogre
population.
That system of glittery which previll;
ed at the lioutirtostil toe - North ebolleh
eal-iti-eisittetaimelie4,lle-megr. • .
of profit c c a tiller of , this sell. The •e
-gro Las better figkelethed and oared for.
than any agrienhersi lihereg k af modera
times, end the vital %Mastics of lb)
census prove Sint le Wali'the' healthiest
end most lenrilvied letterer is the world.
No 'bete in, Chriatemalom was the do
laborer ee egempt from the diseamie an ,
infirsallee which or 0001taioned by. l l"
vicious !adularia/ loodoquaio 'Nos
sad uollesltby drillings as was tko
block !show of the South until tie bar*
Malt Monne of New logisod ensloso=
riot fell upon bite in •1866. But this
hem Of boudoir. did pot Put monoj is
utillniont gastritis, is the pickets dile
nistorupolors politissi , adronaurros of
the Nord. inn 'trots
form,of idegrg blimp titltiON
is likely to pm* of moot imoottoto
groat to lb* North Is that which, while
it iliememot i hapong two the molder tie
buram of supporting the slave. gives
him all the spoils of office, and the right
to beggar the Southern property bolder.
tkz t xalioa. The object In view wee
attained by the empty bauble of freedom'
lirni by reeking the -npgre voter, and
Alien controlliog his vote. through the
agency of seterettiooleties. flare was a
sort of enslavement after the carpet bag
ger's own heart, _ was artfully dis
guised by a proolimation of emancipa
tion, which was simply • treacherous
bait which concealed the barbed point of
the deadly hook which was to Catch the
blank leviathan. It, wee just such a
swindle se that which the New Englan
der has Invariably employed when plot
ting to turn the weakuesa of en interior
race to their own advantage. It was re
newing the old game which the early
colonists of Massachueetts resorted tp
When the Indian wee to be cheated of
his land, and the negro to be torn from
his native land by Puritan greed. "Lib
erty and euffrage " ore the "red cloth
and rurA" with which the Ancestors of
these carpet-baggers commenced their
crusade against the black and red man.
A gallon of rum was the old New England
price for a freshly caught African, slid
a yard of red cloth was the pilot paid to
the lodise-for a thousand acme of land
The policy of that section has always
beep . in dealing with inferior Teem' to
cheat them. honesty in dealing will)
inferior MTN has always been derided
by the "eleot of the Lord."
111, In their treatment of emancipated
negroes, the carpet-baggers arere-eneo
ting the deliberate •Illantes which ther
seceders practiced towards the native
African and the Indian, They demand
frc m the negro the molt uubeettatiug
obedience to their political decrees
't'hey hold over him the terrors of those
diabolical secret societies which they
have established in every magisterial
and oehetsble's district. If he dares to
disobey his New 'Englund mewed', he is
hunted with a ferocity with which no
slave follower ever chased a fugitive
through theswarupe of Louisiana. blobs
threaten to tear hint to pieces, aseassius
shoot him at the door of hie humble
cabin, and the church denounces and
excommunicates him.
Bayne ventures to run for Congrera
against a carpet-bagger, and the carpet
baggers at once incite the pair ignorant
blacks to seemil one of ihiir own race in
the moat brutal rnan4ner
IV. The bondage which New England
hay substituted for the putelarchal form
of slavery be the most -bidenuie which
ever scourged soy portion of the humeri
race It boslaves but gives nothing in
return; their mess of pottage is all
which the oarpet-bagger'giree to hie po
litical slave The price of ''suffrage" is
"soup" and nothing more.
The present rulers of the blacks as-
Same none of the duties of their old Vie
gide masters They value them for
their roles as the trapper or the plains
values buffaloes for their bidet and skins
A black voter who is ragged and half
starved la worth folly se much to a car
pet-bagger as a fat and well fed suffra
gan "Why waste good clothing and'
generous diet upon the nigger," says
the carpet bagger, "when be is such an
infernal fool as to permit us to lead him
by the emus without demanding from our
hands whit his old master. gave him!"
And hence the scoundrels Whe have re
enslaved the negroes of the South neith
er feed, clothe, house nor pay them wa
ges. lie gets no Ate irom his present
master either in infancy, sickness or
old age. Hgcepi aq, a voter, whole mle
sion it is to put his carpet-bag mailer
in office. the present misters of thejovr
negroes have no use for them. The
present "slave-drivers" do not march at
the head of sleek, well fed and comforta
bly clothed laborers to the corn and cot
ton fields. They drive their ragged and
demoralised serfs to the polls, where, •f
ter they have deposited a mysterious
pipet of paper to a box of which a car
pet-bagger holt., the key, they are dis
mi.sedio etareewetsal or earn s support
from their former master. —Richmond
Enqutrer,
The Shame of Radicalism
Very little time, or trouble, will be
wasted in defeoding the public record of
Go4 l , Seymour duties the war. To do io
would Ire merely to expose en oft repes-
tett and fully exploded R•dleal calumny.
The eatery, of disloyalty coming from •
Pennsylvanian, is as impudent as it is
ungmueful. ii truthful defense at Oor.
Seymour, reads like an Indictment of
the "loyal men" of oar 'Stets fn 18611.
and It is strange that a f shame,
or n decant regard for the feelings of '
political friends, does not constrain Rad
icalism to a discreet silence When the'
"loyal leaguers" of Pennsylvegia, ere
' while so lond in their boasts of'patriet-
Ism were trembling to the very joints of
their knees, and with white lips, ;hie-'
poring of the approach of the rebels,
their coward fears were but at rest by the I ,
prompt melon of Gov. Seymour aed the
Demooratio Governor of New Jersey.
Regiment after regiment was berried' :
forward by these patriotic governors to
the succor of oar Invaded State, while
the admielstration at home. paralysed 1
with fright, will unable to raise a cote
patty. These troop' alone stood between
the threatened city of Harrisburg, and
the enemy, whilst oieled telegrams,
filed with &terms, were hourly die.
patched by Governor Curti; to Pr.ei.
dealt Llecolar is there not numb of the
history of this period, so shameful to
hlstant loyalists, that the Radicals shenkl '
gladly hide, Dittoed of eagerly hastening
to empties t Many' • one of the terj 1
fellows who now re RI gently &Mail Gov..
Seymour for_"loYalty," Could
not have held the . n between hilt, • at.
g fee ureic In Cs this tedumny ~
Jely, 1883, far lees have lifted, musket
and starched to the deka** of his Ines.
did State. But sow, seetill`e ' from all
rebel alarm., base in his legratitede,
they date to *barges man like iferetio
fbelymoer wit.) giving aid 1•114 comfort %4 1
the rebel.. he Go renter of Penns/Nee
alibi his oposolies" sad is Ida Miser)
soinsio, graitfaßy aokarolodood ell/
proasptaass sad.. palirlotiaai of Govt Bey. 1
ilaglf,,lo be.l.4aifloig L Y 1 410•00h44140 ; sad
pl. Hiadielidg pf 7/ qilsollyoala poralit 1
4
a itiok foo , Woll "%paw of 'Mired 1
114yanatr.v.. WWI Wig ' th e palatal
ammon , cootie ate d, tad larbole 4 l'
Itistor' f kpsfal poripil.
y o tot aka
t r a fs6aie n MAIL 1
—The ottleville lOW*, di
Charge H. 'enditirs Al OA
the reel Preeldeney,.
The Demotratio Nominations.—Why
Conservative Republicans Should
• Support Them.-Letter of Senator
DoWittle of Wisconsin.
WiteIIINOTON, July 18, 1868.
0 H. Ostrander, 16eq., Dane ills, Ia:
MAR Sin: 1 am in receipt Of yam let.
ter of the 10th instant, in which, speak
ing fcr yourself and forty-eight other
Conservative Republicans of your town,
you express a •-sense of dteappointment
and regret that no better namee had been
offered by the Democratte.party to lead
the Conservative and patriotic masses of
the people to •lotory, and the Radios"
Republican party to merited defeat. As
a gentleman and a statesman Mr Sey
mour bolds our respect, but as a Peace
Recommit we are indisposed to vole for
hen;" and you are pleased to say, that
if toy name, among others, had teen
placed at the head of the ticket, ..all
would have gone well, and vie:Wiry would
have been certain." l'omderire my op
pillion upon the situation and "the
prospect" of a third party."
I thank you for the confidence thus
reposed in me. and shall not shrink
Iron the responsibility of stating frankly
ha y ( Tinton.
I do not t hink the organization of a (bird
psrty is wise, or can work any practical
food to the great cause in which we are
engaged. In the very nature of things,
when great principles are at stakedbere
are, an there can be, but two effective
politieid parties. "lie that is not for
one it against me," in politics as well as
in religion,' IA a truth upon which every
*lee man is compelled to act. •
What, Oben, is tile great aqAparaineunt
issue? Wbat to tbat greet lad unpar
donable wrung for which the Reclined
party Is now arraigned and should be
overt brown
It le substantially !bin:
In violation of the Constitution- 7 in
violation of Pledges made sod often re
peated, from the fist battle of Bull Run
to the end of the war; pledges to the
North to get men and money; pledges
especially made to the Democracy to get
their support in the field and in thaelect
dons ; pledgee rtede to the Booth to in
duce them to my down their arms and
to renew-lheir allegiance; and pledges
to foreign powers to prevent interven
tion—in violation of all these solemn
pledgee, upon which we invoked the
blessings of Almighty God upon our
cause, and, by which alone we gained
strength to master the rebellion—in
cation of the natural and tualienable
right 9f the civilised men of every State
to-govern themselveg, end in violation of
the clear provisions of the Constitution,
which leaves to each State f,.r itself the
right to regulate euffrsge,this party has,
without Iris), by el" FORE firelo laws, dls
franchised hundreds of tboaeands of the
most intelligent of its citizens and has torn
ed upon ten States and vii millions of
our own Anglo Sazon race the universal
and unqualified' toirrage of seven' hun
dred Thousand ignorant, and,in the main,
half civilised
This le the great wrong for which that
party is arraigned at the bar of public
judgment,and for which Relit:told be over
thrown,
o coneummate that great wrong,tbey
bare abolished all civil government, and
civil liberty even, in these tea States ;
They hare established eve absolute
military despotisms, wherein all right.
to life, liberty and property are subject
to the will of one man.
They have kept the Union divided.. •
They have prevented the restoration
of industry-:
They kept dote! the credit of the gov
ernment, dating the three yeses of pesos
to a point so low that, to Ibe shame of
every American, the six percent. Bonds
of the United States sell for only 73 in
gold, while thrbonds of Britoil, beering
only four per cent. Interest, brink door
00 in Gold ;
They have encroached upon the juat
rights of the Executive;
They have threatened the indepettdeoce
of the Supreme Court;
. They have nnjustly,and without cause,
impeaobad aad plat upon trial the Prsei
dent himself, and by every species of de.
nunoiation, and even by threats of -
sination, have endeavored to force the
Senate to convict him, in order to place
in the Executive chair one who will Llll4l
all its power to oonsummate that gigan•
tio wrong against the Constitution,
against our plighted faith, against oivi•
lisatios,and against our own rue and
kindred.
The Convention'in New York met for
tbepurpoge of organizing to overthrow
the party in power for this great wrong
and restore the Onion and the Constttn•
ttee, and the rights at the States, sod
of all the 81,otos under it. Now, k do not
say the tiontioations made at New York
are the very beet that could have been
made for that purpose,
The elements to be organized into it
victorious army are four fold. To nut a
military figure, there were tour army
oorpe to be organized toto one grand
army.
First. The great Demooratie imps.
SaoneAl T.lot-War Democratic corps.
Third. The Coo rite Republican
corp.
Fourth. The Civilized Southern ceriis.
The first, or Democratic corps, was
bully orwanized, with Tonics well tilled,
but not in suifioimit numbers to scour,
the •lutory.
There was the War Democratie corps,
widish supporfted Lincoln in 1884 but
which, in consequence, of the great
wrong shoved iceutionsti, was reedy to
Itself from the Rdaioal army un
der Cheek! Grant ; snd there Was the
00uservativs Republican mops, of which
you are pleased tp speak of se e s lead
er,, who, for the , same' ressotte,„weret
ell to their power to bring to
eagle. ; : ..
The two lael, are, the .reegukting come.
they ~ hold the balance ppger. A t /,
mat of pellet', id the' 4retWMee been
riven ttheottlerlif Unelte tit the other,
it weal& beim wade...oisr.ototaty more
eisej, if wet rwareatalitlltt;.
srerybetly
,haoers the !wilt ef th
icipteid II to delied4 lb. lla
p a porteet
edeittles, wititberVii Milli be able to
wink Oise ' two term in euthoieet
numbers, and oar g them to the bestV
mom t I:Filmier. U we IMO.
7.14: is w t zw, If wit 4spnot,iletw
'`
illWortjedervikeit II iardatylte, sip
05..-iirimmoof;lifnot tho Comiitation
r°ol4 , !tot 1 40 it ? .tho iiciao or. t 4
ata aim 68 1 2141'0es of the people
r eitiaot itiiitlre'for one tobeitht. My
jodgiweitt le for 11i my , iwit s l • b en t, is
as4ggqp
tritlet of
lOW So far from relaxing, We should
redouble our efforts. Bear in mind that
the war was endesi three yearsago, whet
a new era was opened in pelitical affairs,
that. Mr. Seymour ilje, man of high
character, "of ungueitiotutd patriotism,
of great. ability and expuienoe, wholly
with us Upon the living lad paramount
issue: sod that, if eleoled he will make
• most able and dignified - President, and
oertainly no Pennsylvanian will forget
that, tent for his promptness and energy
In forwarding the forces of New York to
Gettysburg, /that great battle might
have been lost and Pennsylvania over
run. While; in General Blair, we have
a civilian and %soldier who promptness
and indomitable reacittlion Railed Camp
Jackson ; and saved Missouri from
eiceesion.; who Owen stood among the
foremost of the war Republicans, in
council and in. the field, while the war
lasted ; and when it was over, wait
among the first to demand that for which
the war was prosecuted—the Union of
the Stales under the Constitution, with
their' rights, legality, and, dignity un-
Ilbpaired.
Let us unite for a victory' Let ne
have peace—a peace which comes' not
from a violated Constitution and the 1
despotism of the sword. but a peace
which comes-from a restored Union and
the supremacy of constitutional law, by
which alone liberty is scoured.
Respectfully, Yours,
J. R DOOLITTLI.
Authoritative Declarations-40M
manta on the Democratic Platform
On Tuesday last, In the , Benate of tae
United States, the funding bill was call
ed up. on motion of Mr. 8 ,when.
Mr. Ifermeices took the floor,and be
ginning with the oh lion that he bad
noticed recently a disposition on the
party of the majority on political ques
tions to avoid the defensive and to as.
some the offensive,wbich Senators would
find impracticable. lie proceeded to say
the people would want to know what had
been done with‘tho twelve butidred mil
lions that have been collected from them
by the internal revenue and the tariff
system since July 1866; wby it is that
the army costs eight hundred millions in
time of peace, when it mild to cost but
seventy - er_eigh ty ; why the Su•
preme Court - bed bees denied the right
to inquire into the constituticnality of
the acts of congress; vary the tieentive
has been stripped of all the power -cod
ferred upon bim by the Constitutionotz
eralsed by bim in accordance with the
views of the lathers of theConelltution ;
why governments att. were *latest_ a
success in the South were rep:aced by
military power, rubstituting subordinate
military officers for the judiciary, and
finally, with other Constitutione—none
of which is better than their predecessor
Unlelll It consists in taking power from
the white MAO, and giving it to the
blacks. He passed in review a number
of otber.sets of the Republioan party In
the same manner ; mod then after die•
claiming any personal abjections to the
Republican candidates, proceeded to
contrast the two platforms. The New
York platform, he said, could be easily
understood, but what did the Cbioago
platform mein ? His colleague said it
meant one thing, and the Senator from
New Jersey [Mr Prelin•buysen] said
it meant another thing.
M. Susaismi asked Whether according
to the New York platform, the flve-twen-
See, In the seaator's opinion are to be
paid in lawful money or in coin
Mr. Rasmus*. ID 111111WIP to that
question, I will road the resolution,
[Laughter on the Republican aide of the
house ] 4,1 rt.peated that it OM , itapos•
Bible to misunderstand its meaning, and
proooded to read the resolution.
Mr. 8 . Does the law require
the tire twenty boade to be paid in lb.
lawful money of the United States or in
coin Because I see the resolution leave.
it in doubt.
Mr. liminatuna—The resolution de
'Agree unless the obligation issued by
the Government, or the law authorising
its issue, expressly provide. that it sball
be paid in gold, it may be paid Su lawful
money. Now Jim law authorising Ain
Issue of live-twenties provided for the
issue of lawful money, and dot:IIMA
Treasury note. andlegal tender Bates
to be lawful money, and neither the . law
nor the obligation itself provided that
these bonds Dail be paid in gold
‘.
Mr. S —Do Mr. Seymour and
Mr. Belmont, and the New York
'World, and the other supporters of the
Democratic party of New York put that
construction on the law f Ought not the
Senator to state that in the Democratio
party, as to other ?satin, there is a dif
femme of opinion OR that subject
ileutoatces-1 do not. undertake
to - answer for Mr. Belmont or - ituy other
gentlemattlin the city of New York, ex.
eept. that the distinguished gentleman
to whom be has. referred—Governor
Seymour—Dye be elands upon the plat
form ; and I claim }het the platform ex.
plaint Itself; and standlnrupon the plat.
form, his position Is am, and earusot be
misunderstood. •
Mr. liaxpatont treat 04 1 0 suloSit•
Mr. Seymour as • who statesman mid •
profound thinker, and to express the
opinion that ho will be sleeted, And will
command the confidoeso of the eountry,
es not a so clonal but a national man.
He bed need hie position, as (It:tremor
of New York. to promote the comnitrolol
interOoto of the Vest. .Mr. Hendricks
spoke highly. ,a 100, of General Blair.
styling him generous, Lois:Aid, and
brave, and saying his name and time
would bo cherished and guarded by hie
late tatos la atoll. , In reply to the
Soniarktidsthi 7i debut In, - d to
ITWITI sin o rsconoltiiil4
lion la the Sea t° aehod the- Senate' ,
to reflect that ey had shut " Ebb doors
of th e Soprano rt against all %Star,
fate thole legialatioa on thet , 'Snident,
go closed by expressing the hop, ,that
next Msrch will leo • restoration bf the
eountry to this pesos *Molt teats not
upon a enbjeetion to deopetie pottior, but
upon. the Xesiored supremacy of LiusCoa
satiation sad the rightful authority of
itle doPertnlionto of the Governateat,
aka to a prosperity's Outlining as that
of pesos.
i to our
- 7 1 fr, Pendleton,by hit mealy, dig
idled ifirloiibritili - ettutint'dtMerlltn
canonic for thirTieeldeathilwontination
wen for himself iitenneede One, Mead;
sad admirer. The acne hill be when thn
country wiligladly honor him with phy
pot Mod st her belitowal.—Thrylox (OW)
Lodgir.
The, Lite fiemooreUo Convention
The protracted Sessions and frequent
balloting. of the Lat•Dentoeritio Nation.
al Convention Mulled from - two nue*
both of which were celectlated to inspire'
the party with the most isifguine expe c •
tattoos) of the 'woe's of 'tiled' ticket in
November. The Convention commenced
with the resolute purpose, of mercilessly
enforcing the "two-thirds rule" until it
should secure the strongest possible can
didate, sod adhered to that purpose to
the end of its labors. The partimaa of
the various distingulsb . agentlercen wh' o
were placed in nomination, regarding
the nomination as almost squire/sot to
an election, fought for their favorites
with terrible earnestness. Iletee there.
was muoh balloting, great exoltement,
five days of hot and unoomfortabie labor
but no fatal dleeentlons, no irregonolle•
able feuds', no differences upon 'plon k
pie,
The platform of Prinolplen—a master
piece of work—met with the enthaniactio
support of every delegate, and when
"Seymour and Blair" emerged from the
duet cud smoke of the warmly contented
struggle fairly and honestly, they we re
hailed with the • enthusiastic cheers of
the friends of all the disappointed tin
didatee. In 1844 and 1862, when the
exigencies of the pert rendered It ne.
cessery for all of its oldest and most die
anguished gatemen to be set aside, the
feeling of diecontent was infinitely
greater than ft was during the late Coo
vention, but it subsided in a few vette,
and Polk and Pierce defeated with ease
the foremoet,stateaman and the greatest
military hero of the Whig party.
It was only when there Was -open mu
tiny anti rebellion against the action of
the Convention in 1848 and 1 8600tbat
the Democraoy idatatned a orushing de
feat.. At no moment was the late Con.
veution ever threatened with rupture
and , allsocrd. Never was there the
slightest risk that the friends of Pendle•
t o n, or of .any other candidate, would
oppose their personal preferences to the
nomination of any tionsiatenLijounereat
live or Democrat. The shameless disre
gard ollsprinoiple which the nomination
of a discarded Radical candidate for the
Presideney, like Judge Chase, would
have involved, ought hays recoiled in a
.•eplit" like that at Charleston on 1860,
but the fraction of a single rote from
the distant shores of the Pacific seems to
bare sip d the full strength of ens
pioneer of negro suffrage in the Comte
lion.
No one who reflects. for • single in
Plant can doubt that it was part of eon
neat wisdom to antagonise Radicalism
and Democracy by Ile nomination of Ivo
of the most determined enemiess of the
revolutionary party at Wsehielgion
which could be found within the limns
of the Democratic party There is' not
an instance in the Lietory of parties of a
reoklein, unscrupulous, desperate. revo
lutionary party having been defeated by
a line of timid policy, or by oomprotota
log time serving leaders. Such parties
must be hunted down like outlaws and
besets of prey. There is no other we, of
dealing with them. No men in the Untied
State. have wailed the infamous act,
of the Radical party with the persi*tent
energy of Seymour and Blair From
the first aggressive and unconstitutional
acts of Congreas these geotkmen hare
poured their batteries of well directed
artillery Into the majority of that on
scrupulous party. Following the lead
of such standard bearers the Dampener
will conduct an aggressive campaign
The Democratic platform te p powerfully
drawn indictment, whieh will be •igor
oust., prosecuted to a ~Lain ems•letion
of the offenders. The war will be ear
vied into Africa, and thgitrly which
has brought the nation e verge of
ruin will be placed in eh criminal's
dock and tried like a felon by .•the
country."—Risinamed Erscruelter.
Mongrel Alarm at the Democratic
Nominitiods.
The Mongrels of all ages and degrees
are displeased with the Democratic non
'mations. They are disappointed, ue
happy. Seymour, they think, is a Weil
nomination. Well If Ike nomination if
be forniest statesman of his limes, tar
the highest officio iu the United 81110115
"weak;" what he to be said of a DOMIDI
'ion of a nincompoop and whiskey go
iter, who is admitted, on all betide, to
be as destitute of statestn•nehip as he to
of character! If that is • strolls' coot
nation, it can be only in the ewe that
"smells to heaven." If that to a strong
nomination, the American people must
have lost, not only their virtue, but their
senses If a nominee of Governor Set
moues exalted character and statesmen
ship is weak, then there Dino such thin
" airenfill In the estimation of tee peo
ple of this country, 'inept in crime sea
foolishness, To call his nomination
"weak" is to arraign the whole Ameri
sin people, and to say that they are no
longer fit for seltgovernment. It is to
proclaim, that eminent stateacusosinp
and exalted character are po longer
deemed nec essary In a President of the
United States. And such, indeed, will
be the declaration of very man-Who
prefers Great to Seymour. The Atom
grebe also are alarmed, not to say shock
ed at the nomination- of Gen Blair for
Vioe President, antrprofess to snuff the
air of revolution is his election. Tbt
raimale, who are themeetrea tarry tog on
a revolution wbioh is aimed not only at
our free, system of government, but at
our elillintion, are horrified at the
nomination of a IMO who boldly profess
es to stop their revolution hy,..tha Mier
lion of the constitutional popsy' of the
enmities office. It, will, we confess, be
terrible polemist for the rabid Mon
graltutfj • fiflikote mane!,
b iT • man or GOA. Blair's decision of
obaraeler and pluok. To have a man
that plitterrho le neither their tool, nor
opal to thAir bribery, nor threats, wi ll
good and Ring them to a degree of des-
Waite* bordering on insanity. TO
accounts for the Mongrel bowling el
(lei. Blele's nomination. No better 51-
idettee et the great strength of tbe Dem
wide nessinatiOne scald be asked for,
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doom prompts the rage *bleb may mem
ifeet. ,Their (trite show Meat 'bey
vitally - Inm s and their deolaratioe of
the t• weekiert" of our nominations It
pied that they sie-paltllll l .l Ibr" 1 " w
ottkeir. great strength.—Deg-Beek.
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