The Democratic Watchman.
BY P• GRAY` MEET
JOE W. FUREY, ARROCIATZ EDITOR
larths, $2 Or Annum, in Advance
BELLEFONTE, PA
Friday Morning, May 12, 1871
Democratic State Convention
II FA D Ql' A TITERS DE{lOl R %TIC STATE
COMM ITTFF: OF PENNY( I.V Vs lA, I'llll,l
Dii.rniA, April 2011, 1871
pie; chosen to the democratic State
Convention will assemble in the clinm
ber of the House of liepresen (al at
Harrisburg, on Wednesdav, May 21th,
1871, for the purpose of nominating
canduluies for Auditor General and
Surveyor General, and for the contoll
erfltion of twittery relating to the or-
pruzation of Ilie party mei the nil
vaneement n 1 st. 4 rritielide. The Con
ventlon %%111 I,e called to order at ten
o'clock nTo By order of the Stilly
Cb mnitttee. VV. MITTCII LEI?
The Emperor's Proclamation
We print in another place, a procla
nation by the Emperor VI 1 481.4, ni
regard to the enforcement it the Ku
flux bill to deprive American citizens
of their liberty. In this proc . lautation
the Emperor plainly tells us that he
will not hesitate to make use of all
his unconstitutional powers, whenever
be has the opportunity. With illy
woucealed !mould) he repeats to 118
that the provisions of the Ku Klux
bill apply to every State in the Union,
and elves 1/8 to understand our court ii,
illOr Legislatures and our fiovernors
are all at the disposal of his sovereign
will. AND T 15 14 ALL TRUE That's
the worst part it. Congress has given
him the power to suspend, at his own
pleasure, the great writ of habeas for.
poor, the palladium of civil liberty.
When the Emperor tells us that he
has this power, he is making no idle
boast. A word from him, or the
touch of a little hell nfa til.o Aso,
would consign un all to the dungeons
or hastiles of the land. Ile us, indeed,
Emperor and Aitiorrat. The heck of
his royal linger can send Gov GE eat
to Fortress Monroe or Lafayette. or to
the infamous old Capitol prison at
Wa4ltington And av he can 110 in
•
Pennsvhanni, PO call he ilo w e‘er)
State of the Union, llovrmAN, of New
York, im nA eater than IleAriy,of Penn
sylvanta, or WALKER, of Virgtnia.
All, limier the late act it Congreea, are
bject to the Imperial decree
/levee to, the helieete ot thia iimirper
of royal prerogittivem.
But, yvlole4ying to the North,
"Obey it , , or your Stater,hlttill It,l tI e
weight of my sovereign lIINpIiu tile,
he Emperor particularly threatens the
poor Soul ,tt 111(11 IN Id N adi pro..t
beneath Ins iron heel It IN there that
the tyrant expects to first exercise his
despotic power. It is there that lie
iii-
Mods to make the first grand coup
iretat. 'rile first slight disturbance
that occurs in one of those States will
be the excuse for him to send his armed
minions to take possession of the Stuff,
aeclare martial law, HMI an.linle the
Government of it himself. nix, the
initiatory step, being accomplished, it
will be very easy to take the next one,
and thus eventually, popular govern
ment a ill be blotted out from the South,
and the whole country come under bin
personal control to he manipulated, as
it may please lion, for the advance.
ment ul ltia own unholy ambition.
There is only one hope for the coup•
127, and that lien in the strong deter
asination or the people to reinnt to the
tiaoth —peaceably, if they can, but
Ati*cibly, if they must—the execution
of thin infamous law. The Radical
Congress has sold the liberties of the
country to a grasping, avaricious, dee,
potie, unprincipled and ignorant dicta
kw, who knows nothing and cares for
'Nothing but his own individual ag
grandizement. In the people alone
b now our last hope. Our rulers have
betrayed us, and we are indeed lost if
toe do' not save ourselves.
There has been more private
legislation for the Radical cities of
Tbiladelphia and Pittsburg during the
pesent session of the Legislature than
Oor the entire State besides. It is i n
private legislation that corruption is
dominant, and if the radical politicians
111 these two fanatic-cursed cities
11/00iii be content with what other peo
*are content with, the Leg'stature
atlthii Commonwealth would net hear
stigma that now clings to it. But
as long as we have Radical cities and
11•Alieal Legislators we can Impei"for
so improvement tilt will bring about
desired results. \
Geary ea a Workingman
Great is GEARY—in his own estima
tion. Great, good, generous and just
would he have himself in the estima
tion of the toiling masses of our Com
monwealth. hear him talk one
would imagine that his back was bent
with the terrible weight of unceasing
toil, nail his hands hard, bony and
blistered from continued use of the
pick, the axe and plough, lie leaves
110 occasion pass by that he does not
tell of his l'Ove Mr the laborer and his
desire to protect the working 111/IhSei
of our population, and yet in nil
life lie has never done a week's work,
and in all his official career has never
been instrumental
, in securing a single
nienefit for that class of citizens.
Perhaps we should not say he line
never worked. What we mean IN, lie
has never done muscular, manual la
bor. Such work as the limit fisted,
sunburned farmer, woodsmen and day
laborers do; such work as the achnig•
backed, coal blacked miners do; such
work as the weary, pnokly paid me-
Clialilefi 110 ; such work as the hundreds
nl thousands of honest, milostrious ('lt
izers of this commonwealth, who earn
their bread by the sweat of their brows,
are daily required to accomplish.
To be lair, we must admit GP utl
lifts worked. lie is a "workoit. -
tle worked once upon a time, upon
the old Portage railroad, to rub the
State and the workmen under hum
I he dele.
I hnir man
Ile worked when in Itlexico to tind
a place to hide in.
Ile worked while in liansaa to lie
troy the party and the rrle fide from
whum he got the position he hell.
Ile worked during the late war to
keep out of harm's wa3, and get his
newspaper correspondent imbued with
an idea of his greatnees.
Ile worked during bin last political
campaign to make the people believe
he 411,1 riot pardon Tvv to 111.111,.
lle worked up at Bloomsburg once
to in preen the Sunday cchool cluldren
with the 'deaf that none of them might
at smile future day become an great
men an Governor (kniti, and some ol
them woven of an great men
lie has worked ever since he got in
to the Iliibernatorial chair, to impress
the people with the idea that he should
have a higher..and better position, and
is now working—assiduously, inten
demagogu4Cally working to
make the %i orkinginthl believe that he
18 the only friend they have ur thin
broad Commonwealth —that lie in the
"Moses" that will deliver them from
the bondage of Capital, and lead them
Imo the green immures and by the still
waters id vane and conlyntinent.
It is his ' , residential aspirations that
make him the blathering, pretentious
friend of labor that he is. It is only
blather and pretence, for who in this
broad hind can point to a single art of
(lIEARI', that had for its empectal object
the amelioration of the conditHill Oi the
working classes?\V can name a
single instance in 4/filch his actions
base ant been to lavor capital, and his
words to favor labor?
ME=
We have tionply to warn the work
men against rel)ing upon hi,' friend
ship or good iiitentione. When lie hay
ow.] them for his own benefit, lie will
cart them amide an a worn out shoe.
The Next President—James Thomp
son, of Erie.
The following article from the Wes•
fern Press has been copied by many of
our Deniocratsc exchanges. That.
Judge'fuorrana i s an able man and
would make a good President there is
no doubt, and we hope that our nation
al convention will be wine enough, if it
does not take bon, to at least select
come man of equal ability. What is
now wanted in this country is States
manship and honesty and the courage
to meet and discharge faithfully and
emciently every duty. The Western
Press says :
We are for Judge Thompson ,hu t fore far bet
ter and a far higher reason than that of his
birth and locality We are fur him, because
under all circumstances we think him the
hest fitted man in the country for the post,
lie Is a man of the people—a graduate of the
printing office. They have frequently made
him theltepresentative—at Harrisburg at
W•shingto —and he always rose to the full
measure of their most sanguine expectations.
In no public station has Ire proved a failure,
and all that he has occupied he has adorned
with graces honorable alike to himself and
the constituencies that trusted him with pow
er. As Chief Justice of the State he has made
an imp liThable record, that for all time will
hand hie name down to posterity as one of
the most Just end able Jurials whose Joint 1a•
bore have given the Pennsylvania reports a
world-wide reputation. Unconnected with
party or partisan politics and cliques for the
hurt fifteen years, he stands In a position to be
fair and just to all. Pure, generous In his Im•
pulses and Imbued with • manly detestation
of the theiving that Is oonstantly Insinuating
!worried() trusted places to rob and plunder
the people, we know no one that would be
more likely to Item them efficiently In the
high office of President.
In presenting the name of Judge Tampion
for President, no unknown name Is offered.
In every State le the Union, it is appreciated
as the name of one who stands In the front
ranks of American statesman—of one who has
been tried sind been found wanting
either in ability, Industry, or courage—of one
competent to the place from his training, his
habits hie porky, and his high mental powers.
The Democrats want no military clapdrap
In their nest notnineec The people are sick
ening of retch traah. The administration of
Heneral Grant has about cured them of the
Idiosyncrasy that favors drums and gunpow
der. 'The sending of armed troops to overawe
the people In li e exercise Of their elective
rights lord startled many and disgusted ail;
and.the people now want amen for President
who uaderstands somewhat of the Consiltu
lion of his country, and who, when ho takes
the inauguration oath "to preserve, protect
nod defend it," has corns hien of the forte of
the solemn obligation taken upon himself in
Judge 'Thompson is presented the man for
the ttelettnn—a man who bows before the
majesty of the law, of matured judgment snit
experienee, unconneeled With elitilloll. no inc.
11111, to punish or Irtercht to reward, and .110
eat, enter upon the Mutts of oillett ni lh clean
block tool pore purposes,—/Oront the , Irrherrn
Prath, Pennav/tranta
7'he l'euple's I ',elm 'al l'ax liar r, is
Ilse same of it pulilientitili 111111. hits
been emit 114 4iy the American Ffee
Trade League of New York, which
happily illustrates the elleels °fan op
['restore tariff upon Ow onlihdiy of the
country. Here is the story of all Amer
icon farmer, its told in words and pie
tares by this paper :
"lie rises 111 the ninrniii , z, puts on
his - flannel shirt, taxed sixty.live per
cent., and his trousers sixt) per rleal.,
hia,test taxed sixty per Cl'lll,llllll his
overcoat taxed, cloth sixty, buttons
forty, braid sixty, lining sixty, and
padding one hundred nail filly per,cent,
d raws on hi s boots tfINC.I thirty five
per cent., pots on some coal IflNell HiX
ty per cent , in his stme taxed fifty
five with a stove-pipe taxed one hum
tired and filly per cent.; hos lowri ton
breakfast from a plate taxed tort) lire
per cent , with it knife and fm k, thirty
live per rent, seasons lii. lii with
salt taxed one hundred 1111.1 4 I 4'41 I'l
et 111., and pepper one , i ..1 /11111
lityllll, lellils 111 e I , ', o T,,t,1,1 paper
taxed mealy, ink )hurts the, and it pe
teem five per cent -puts on his lint
taxed serrate per cent_ sniokrs i t li i i.
V/111/11/IXII One hundred rind fitly per
rent., bitches his liwse,,, shod with
arils taxed sixty severt per "emit , to a
plow forte live, with chains 0111 , hits
bred, with harness thirty fist.; goes af
ter, arils to a village store and buys
goods for his wife, taxed at the follow
mg rates; A handlterelliel, thirty five,
shawl two hundred, woolen dress one
hundred, hat forte, stockings seventy
five, shoes thirty tier, umbrella sixty,
rice eighty two, ..nip seventy, candles
bule, paint twenty-five, starel, fifty,
at.
needles t enty live, thread severity
three, pen %-ria.taf._, gloves fifty, books
-twenty lit , pillBllllllY the—flirtt gets
it ballot and-votes under the "old flag"
taxed one hundred per cent., for it Free
Trtnle candidate for congrees.
Ile secs his grain going east on rails
taxed •:•.3,01/0 it mile, in iron cars taxed
fifty per cent , drawn by a locomotive
taxed fort) live per cent. 1 heart sick,
he takes a last look at his tools taxed
ruin lint fl,e to one hundred and
tiny per rent., and finally wearied snub
thinking how the trititr robs him, lie
goes to his bed, made of wood, taxed
twenty per rent , draws over hint a
sheet taxed fair live per rent , a blank
et la Xed Iwo hundred and lorty per
cent. and takes a dose of quinine, tax
eil forty live per rent Finally lie
yields the unequal struggle and this ix
his end His fate 111 recorded on mar
ble taxed seventy pet' cent., and Its goes
to the happy lend where tariffs are
unknown"
The "Pictorial Taxpayer" is to be
obtained from the American Free
Trade league, New York city, at the
rate of fire cents per copy. It should
be fn the lignils of every intelligent
thinking man in the 1.111011.
----As Willi expected, the Itinlical
committee of the Connecticut Logisla
OM` to canvas~ the votes
es.i in the late election fur (lovernor,
ha, e counted (inventor 1 7 ,Val feu out
and M 111311 ti I..le‘s rm. in. That this
Is ;Orem! there 'ant the shadow of a
doubt The election was a very close
one, hut Es(aisii had a fair majority
~f the votes cast. In one precinct,
where the Radicals said that ENGLISII
had received more votes than lie ought
to have hail the Committee, Radical
as it was, found that tlie Democratic
count was exactly rtg/if,lint that .111WIE1.1.
had one hundred fraudulent votes.—
In the face of this how can that same
committee now give .Ixwaxt, a majors
ity of SCi votes? 'liters is fraud right
on the lace of ii, and he must indeed
Le blind who cannot see it.
- —Now that the dead-lock in the
Senate and House at Harrisburg has
been broken up, the probability is
that, as the end of the session sp.
proaches, a great deal of hasty and it
ly-considered legislation will he rush
ed through, The calendars of both
Houses are filled with private bills,
many of which are of a very doubtful
character. We think it behooves our
legislators to attend closely to their
business just at this juncture, and
watch that the people he not burdened
with another lot of useless and rims
tibus special lawn. Let us have all
the legislation that is necessary for
the general benefit of the State, but do
not spend time and money in impos
ing upon the people a host of frauds
and absurdities.
—One day we are told that the
Joint High Commission at Washing
ton-has satisfactorily concluded its la•
bore, and that all the questions in dis
pute between England and this Govern•
ment have been amicably settled. The
next day this is contradicted, and we
are on the verge of a bloody war ! And
so it goes. Really, outside of the
members of the Commission and th;
Emperor and his cabinet, nobody
knows much about it. We don't
thidir, however, there is any danger of
a Tip, for his imperial majesty, Tim
m I, is mttch better at making war
upon his ow*oountrymen than upon a
foreign enemy. A couple of roars from
the British lion would soon bring him
down upon his marrow-bones. '
—'Fliers are more troubles in the
coal regions, about Scranton, and riots
have again occurred. Three or four
men have been killed, and a, general
feeling of inv.tenrity prevails through
out that conunnnity. It seems strange
that some agreement c nfot be arriv•
ed at her,i yen the mines and their em
ployers, whereby this rioting: and
Woodshed might tie made to cease. •
Representative Conference
The following are tie proceedings of
the Itepre , entati re Conference, which
met at Lewistown, on tie 3,1 instant.
It will ie seen that, like the Sena
lot !al conference at Huntingdon, it
first 'helmeted for lion. M. T. Shhgert
for Auditor General, and afterwards Mr
1/r Markley :
l'ot , nant to notice the liepresenta
ii,e ( . .wierenee 01 the eontwee of
Nllllltn and llnnongdon met in
LI,Nl , illlVil, on Monday, May 3d, 1871.
The I.lhot mg gentlemen presented
their eiedentiftla and were admitted as
rook te,
I I untmgdonlm S. Miller,
IS Foinq and F Ilefright
Main— (Iworge Bates, Reed Sam
Ide,li Wiley.
.Inniala I. B. Louden, I, W
Kimd.y, I,nil Fowles.
Ihi 11101011, ; el)rge ‘Vm Icy, was elect
ed President, and S. B. Louden, Secre
nay.
Cm motion, .1. B. Selheimer and B.
It. Foust were elected as delegates to
the Democratic State Con% ention.
The following resolutions were pre
rented and unanimously adopted:
Erno/rui. That the delegaten elected thin
day I.v the+ itepreseintative l'onferenee,lve and
they are hereliy inntrueted to one all light
mate and honorable 1110411 N to weeiire the mom•
1,11111011 of T Shugert. of
fillillV, for Auditor General, and If after
having ev 111111.1,1111 i fnlrnnd leglllmate
for that pill pone, II shall prove Inc
p0..11,1l to twotire Asr Shugerl'a nomination,
111011111 Ihal 171.114. w &WM it our !lilt)/ so
well an our privilege to name Dr Markley, of
Ituek+rellnly. RS 010 neetind elioilui of thin
ilooriet for that important iinlee, and hereby
um+une•t our delegates under pitch rirounm
ti to labor for and Perm,' his nomina
tion
Thnt the delegates Unit day elect
ed tie and are hereby lu•tructed to 11. e all hon.
nintile meson. U. .lndare the nolffitiNtlon of II
Stewart Wilson , Kit , of Uauphm county fur
Surveyor iitineral
Prosl.
S It IA Seely
Tho Platform of 1872
For sometime past a unrulier of the
leading Democratic papers both north
and south have been discussing the po
sition the party should assume in the
next Presidential campaign. Whilst
we consider this movement as rather
premature, still if conducted in the
proper spirit and wttli the proper end
ju view, it would do no harm and
might be the means of accomplishing
much good If on the other hand it
is for the purpose of forestalling the ac
tion of the party in the national con
ventiou of 1872 it can be of no benefit
and may result in great disaster Dem.
ocr.tle cannot be brow beaten and but
lied into positions which their con
sciences do not approve or their judg
ments commend they are not so set.
isle and subservient as their oppo
~cuts, they think and act, each Wail
lor himself, and if arty newspaper or
any man or net of men think they can
1,11 their peculiar tenets down their
throats they will find out their min
take when, perhaps, too late. The
Connie iil the par!, li.nng the late war
has dettionsmire I this ; for without
fear, favor or all, , standing upon
the Constiiiiiioli and the exposition of
it made by its hither-, they marched
right oil, heeding not the calumny and
abuse that was Les l ie.] ~pun it, nor the
prosecutions and ii.jitrien that many of
its members 1111nel - rd. Its actions were
based upon principlet and it swerved
not, either to the right or left; but
went right on.
Shall we now forsake our principles?
That is the question we are forced to
consider by the course of some of our
party Journals whose Pole cry is expedi
ency and success. None, more earn/
eetly than we, desire success; but not
at the sacrifice of honor and principle.
Rather, a thousand times rather, that
the Republicans should control this
government for years to come, than
that we by dressing ourselves up in
their old and worn out clothing; by
commending that which we have al
ways heretofore denounced as unconsti
tutional, arbitrary and tyrannical and
still believe to be so—should succeed.
If our principles are correct, honest
arid juel we must eventually and sure
ly succeed, and let us stand firm and
true to them ; if we cannot approve
them, then let us act with those whose
principles we can approve. But so
long as we believe ourselves in the
right let us tight our fight ever.
The tenth article of amendment to
the Constitution of the United States,
embodies in a condensed form the prin
ciplee and platform of the Democratic
party, "The powers not delegated to
thelDnited States by the Constitution,
nor Prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively or
to the people." In other wordio--all
power residing in the people of the sew.
eyal States, they are only deprived of
the exercise of that which they have
delegated to their federal or state gov
ernments or prohibited to theinsell es
in the Constitutions of the same. We
believe in civil liberty and self govern
went. Our opponents in just the re
verse ;limy desire a streog centralized,
consolidated, or despotic government,
call it by whichever name you choose.
Standing and acting upon these prin
ciples, as we have in the past, can we
endorse the saoalled 14th and 15th
amendments and the reconstruction
octal We think not. These amend•
meets we have always alleged were il
kf ally forced upon us and the recon.
ell uction ante passed in violation of the
Constitution. We still believe these to
be unconstitutional, null and void and
cannot by now endorsing them com•
mend the wisdom of our opponents
and acknowledge ourselves in error
believing as we do just the reverse.
But it is urged we must "accept ac
complished facts." What are the ac
complished facts which we are bound
to accept ?
Are they constitutional amendments
and laws passed without authority and
in direct violation of law? Did we no
cept the alien and sedition laws? Only
so long as we could not help ourselves.
Have not many and various tariff and
other laws been altered and abolished
over and over again although accepted
at first when we had power to do noth•
rug 'lee? Does might make right? It
is suggested that amendments to the
Constitution are very different things
from mere laws passed by Congress.
In what respect ; rl both are passed is
violation of the fundamental law, are
"not both null and void? But they
have been proclaimed as part and par
cel of the Constitution by the proper
authority. Can the proclamation of
that which is false be binding? Judge
Stephens in his admirable speech de
livered in January Inst says—"l,
know of no power—either on the earth
or above it or under it—that has burrs•
diction to proclaim Nay, Kir,
I know of no power which has juris
diction to proclaim Amendments to
the. Ceistitution. According to my
reading of that instrument, amend
melds constitutionally proposed "Shall
be valid to all intents and purposes,
as part of the Constitution when ran
tied by the Legislatures of three fourths
of the several States or by Conventions
in three-fourths thereof, as the one or
the other mode of ratification may be
proposed by the Congress I The rati
fication by three-fourths of the Stales
acting through their Legislatures or
their Conventions, sets the seal of va
lidity on the amendment and makes it
a part of the Constitution. Nothing
else can do n. It must be a true rati•
lication by a trite Legislature or a true
Convention of the State. A false rati
fication by it true Legislature of the
State will not do. A true ratification
by a spurious Lekislature will not do.
The validity of the amendment anti its
authority as a part of the Constitution,
are made to depend upon the historic
truth of its ratification as required by
the Constitution. Proclamations of
falsehoods front Presidents, or from
any body else, have nothing to do with
the subject."
If the power exists to make amend
ments anti laws by mere proclamation,
can they not be repealed in the same
way?
As a matter of expediency why ac
cept such so-called "accomplished
facts 7" Nothing could he gained. All
the political capital to he made out of
such a move has already been reaped
by the Republicans who were the au•
theirs and perpetrators of these frauds.
Besides we believe our course upon
these measures has resulted in decided
advantage to our party ; otherwise how
can you account for lire loss of seven
hundred votes in the Congressional ma
jority in this county at the last elec
tion, notwithstanding our antagonists
were reinforced by about one thous
and negro votes?
No, our course, both in principal and
policy has been right, and when by
reason of that very course victory is
within our grasp it is no lime to beat
a retreat and leave the field and our
new allies to our enemies.
Whilst negro suffrage is and must
be odious and repugnant to every de
cent and respectable citizen, who has
the slightest self pride or love of his
touritry and its instutions, the evil
does not terminate here for the ac
ceptance of these amendments as "ac
complished facts" would be to create
precedents that must certainly end in
the destruction of our government.
These amendments and reconstruc
tion acts must be wiped out and the
power to regulate aufrrage left where
it originally and rightfully belonged--
in the States. Each being tree to act
as it may see fit. With thin the De
mocracy will be satisfied and with
nothing short of it. And we venture
to predict that-the men who in the con
vention of 1872, would attempt to corm
mit the party to thehe amendments,
would not inake a respectable corporal's
guard. That there may be such an
effort made is quite likely, for where
is the political organization that has
not in it. rank,' at least a few who
would e.ii rifiee principle, honor and
he m ,' v p. r the sake of 1.111 . 1 . 4 ; hit
inmle it will be iovtligled
birth.
Let us remain rue to the faith ;
faithful among i:ie laithlese, and with
our feet firm: v planted upon the con.
etitution, with Jefferson and Madison
for our guides we can overcome any
force our enendee may bring against
us Never let it be said that the De.
purcipitated in the death
blows to civil liberty and Reif govern
ment in the United Statee of America,
--West Cheater J Person ian.
Ku Klux 8111---Grant's Proclamation
The President has issued the follow.
ing proclamation :
l'he act of Congress entitled "An act
to enforce the proviaions of the four
teenth amendment to the Constitution
of the United States. and for other pur
poem" approved April 20, A. D. 1871,
being a law of extraordinary public
importance, I consider it my duty to
issue this, my proclamation, calling the
attention of the people of the United
States thereto, enjoining upon all good
citizen. and especially upon public of-
Anent, to be zealous in the enforcement
thereof, and warning all perpons to
abstain from committing any of the
acts thereby prohibited.
The law of Congress applies to all
parts of the United States, and will be
enforced everywhere to the extent of
the powers vested in the executive.
But inasmuch as the necessity thereof
is well known 111 have been cative.l
chiefly by Persistent %ioiationa of the
rights of (Attune of the United States
by combinations of lawless and (haat
fected persons in certain localities late
ly the theatre of iusurrection,and mili
tary conflicts, I do particularly exhort
the people of those parts of theconntry
to suppress all such combinations by
their own voluntary efforts, through
the agency of local laws, and to main
tain the rights of all citizens of the
United States and secure to all such
citizen the equal protection of the laws,
Fully sensible of the responsibility
imposed upon the exective by the act
of Congress, to which public opinion is
now called, and reluctant to call into
exercise any of the extraordinary pow.
ers thereby oonferred upon me, except
in cases of imperative necessity, I do,
nevertheless, deem it my duty to !mike
known that I will not hesitate to ex
boost the power thus vested in the
executive whenever and wherever: it
shall become necessary to do so for the
purpose of Bitchin; to all citizens of
the United States the peaceful enjoy.
merits of the rigT guarrantend t o
them by the Constitution and laws. It
is my earnest wish that pence and
cheerful obedience to the law may pre.
vail throughout thothind, and that all
traces of our late unhappy civil strife
may be speedily removed. These I'll 4
inn be easily approached by arquicri.
cence in the results of the conflicts now
written in our Constitution and by due
and proper enforcement of equal, just
arid impartial laws in every part of our
country. The failure of local corium'
nities to furnish such means for the
attainment of results earnestly desired,
imposes upon the national government
the duty of putting forth all crier
Kies for the protection of its churns of
every race and color, and for the ream
ration of peace v and order throughout
the country.
In testimony whreof, I hare here.
unto set my hand and caused the Pc al
of the United States to he affixed
Done at the city of IVashington this
3d day of May, A. 1) 1871, and of the
independence of the United States the
ninety•liftli. By the President,
U. S. CR tNT.
HAMILTON Ftxu , Secretary of Stale
pen. Sherman on the Ku-Klux
The General of the Army is at pres
ent on a visit of inspection to the
south and western frontier. A rriv ing
the other day in New Orleans, he was
tendered a reception E by the American
Union Club of that city, an association
professedly non-political but conviosed
almost entirely of radical politicians.
The General accepted Oa invitation of
the club and the reception came ofT
with the usual display of pyrotechnics,
oratory, Arc. After a number of toasts
had been given and responded to there
were cries of "Sherman I" "Sherman"'
and though the general begged to be
excused from speaking, the clamor of
enthusiastic members of the "Ameri•
can Union Club" could not be silenced.
The distinguished but taciturn guest
was obliged to speak, and lie did epee
ni the following manner:
"I believe this government will keep
on growing until it spreads itself over
the entire American continent ; but in
order to gain this much desired end,
and to maintain ourselves as a free
and independent republic, we have got
to show ourselves charitable towards
each other. It has been remarked by
some gentleman who has preceded rue
that it was generally conceded by the
soldiers of both armies at the close of
the late civil war, that if the questions
and all matters of the settlement of the
differences between the north and south
were left to the armies, it would he
nettled at once, and everything would
become quiet and orderly. I so be
lieved; and before signing the agree
ment with Gen. Joe. Johnston,l called
together all the generals under my
command and without a dissenting
voice they agreed with me. I believed
they surrendered in good faith, and
would have lived up to the very letter
of the agreement; and in my opinion,
if there had been no reconstruction
acts of congress, and the army been
left at the time to settle all the ques
tions of difference between the different
sections of the country, the people
would have at once become quiet and
peaceable. I probably have as good
means of information aa most persons
in Fegard to what is called the Ku
klux, and am perfectly mollified that
the thing is greatly over-estimated;
and if the Ku-klux bills were kept out
of congress, and the armies kept at
their legitimate duties, there are
enough good arid trite men in all the
Kindler!' stereo to put down all lvi
klux r.r other hands of marauders "
What a strange rebuke to the Nadi.
cal majority in Congress is contained
in theme truthful and pertinent' 'utter
ances ot General Sherman I What
thorough contempt for the assumption
ot the President that a necessity exists
for the employment of the army and
navy to suppress local disorders, is ex
pressed in these words I What a com
plete endorsement of the action of the
Democratic members of Congress in
opposing the passage of the Force
Bill is lurniehed in this speech of the
General of the Army! Let the Radi
cal politicians, the MOTiOIIB, the Conk
ling@ and the Scotts, the narrow-mind
ed tricksters who know nothing of
statemtnanship but much of the knee•
ery of demagogues, put this speech in
their pipes and smoke it. Their whole
programme for the Presidential cam
paign is blown to pieces by a single
breath of the hero of the March to the
Sea.—Er.
ofNebramka, a
large sort of fellow, was a imeeessful
candidate for the Legittlatore of that
State. After Ilse elertittli he took a
trip to Omaha, to have a good "Me '
and receive the congratulations of his
friends, one of whom said to hint :
'Well, General, how did you run
down there V
'o,' replied the warrior, 'I did just
eternally scoop 'em ;routed 'em, horse,
foot and dragoons.'
'flow did the vote stand 7'
`Well,' replied the General, it was
none of yonr darneilf tenon (MOUS tliinge ;
I only got one majority I'