BILLEFONTE REPUBLICAN.
Ws W. BROWN,:
HUTCHISON,.
'erms, $2 per Anntim, in Advance.
BELLEFONTE, PA
- : - ...ednesday Morning, March 3, . '69.
How Careless.
The Tratohn_tan, and other semi-reb-
el sheets,'have a great deal to Ley
about the extravagance of the Repub
lican party; but they are very careful
not to expose their own rottenness, ex
travagance and corruption. They re
fuse to
much
there:,ison why it costs
so much mure Them to rule in this
county; o an it did under Republican
. 1416 -.-tow, the - county tax is 7i mills
• to the dollar; under Republican rule
- 2i `Mills. Why is this ? MEEK is a
pretty bird to talk of the extravagance ..
of any partyain't 910 W ? Tin fact
is, the Democratic CommisPjioners do
not attend to anythimi: 'much, unless
it is tosee that MIZEK gets his pay for
Co. printing. s .`.te. Look at the dilapida
ted.'coption of the Court House. No
oar? 'taken of it at all. It looks as tho'
it hid been built thirty years ago.—
Everybody is talking about it. Bad,-
as the outside is, the inside is worse.—
The nice iron fence that encloses the
yard, and which was put there at a
handsome expense to the tax payers of
the Co.; under the pretext of being an
ornament to the town, is now not only
a disgrace to the town, but to the en
tire county, and shows how negligent
public.servants may becoine, in looking
after public property.
They do not, however, neglect their
own interests. No,' no—not they. Ev
ery dollar that can be made ; every
penny that can be filched from the pub
ho':clib, is sun* sltecl down and their
attention immediately turned to the
next little, speculation; but never once
to reparing the 'Court House, -or the
fence which surrounds it. If the tax
payers are 'satis ed with this 'kind of
mtarigement, we do not know as we
need complain much ; but we want
MEEk and.his Court House. clique to.
hold their Silly tongues, stop lying about
thC iteimblican party, 'and set them
selves earnestly to work to correct their
•own 'Randers, to explain their own
mis-management, their own black and
'damning record in the last twelve
years, and especially since the com
mencement of the slave-holders rebell
ion. .
Crawford Couaty. System.
A few months ago the.Editox6of the
Centre Hall Report& eoniuveneed agi
tating and urgingihouiitntion of the
Crawford County System upon
.tte
Deinocrittie party of this county. He
published, we think, two artieles,iiret
-tyrittrong, and well written, in 'favor
of this measure, paid a visit to Belle
fonte returned home and from...that
day to the present, we have heard
:nothing more from the Reporter on
the Crawford. County System. What
the Court House - clique threatened to
. de he -did not stop
agitating this wholesome change, has
not yet transpired; but one thing' is
...pretty certain, that the clique did
command him to "dry up" on this
subject, and his silence.shows that he
"dry'd up," caved, wilted, and has
determined to take care of hireSelf,no
matter what becomes of the Penns
valley Democracy. Kurtz wants of
-ftea. He knowsithat the power of the
clique is supreme in this direction.— .
The Democrats in the Valley do well
enough to vote the ticket at the gen
eral election; but they are of little use
in making nominations. Kurtz knows
this; and knows his rights, and the
rights of his people, but knowing
them, he is too cowardly to maintain
them: He dare not incur the dis
pleasure of the Bellefonte ring. We
care very little what Kurtz may do in
the matter, but it makes us feel sorry
to see our Democratic friends in
Penns Valley cheated, bamboozled
and constantly set aside and trampel
ed upon by men who profess friend
ship, and profess it only to deceive.
Democrats of Pennsvalley, awake !
arouse to your true interests ! Fred
arick, assert your rights---your inde.
.pendence. Stand up like a man. Let
Ns hear from you often on the Craw
ford County System. No, you . dare
not.
THE Centre Hall Reporter,last week,
contained an article in regard to *hat
he is pleased to ea!l the extravagance
of the Republican party, and says that
! Mons Tye:a:ram, a stiff Centre
touni ty Badfeal l thinks that the peo
ple shoulehold indignation meet
' KoltrA has forgotten,it seems,
that the Ifeinci s or s atic },`arty of Penn : -
vivailia, by its r o un d eri "g, stealing,
and unparalleled eitriyagaltoe, im
posed - upon the tax payers of the
State, a debt of forty-one millions of
,dollars. This is a fact that he care
fully withholds.from his readers, and
seeks to draw the wool over their eyes
by slandering the Republican paity,
.and publishing unblushing falsehoods
Imannfactured out of the whole cloth,
i4pon such men as Mr. THOMPSON.—
:Mr. R,llwrz closes up his heavy effort
yin the following classic language ;
"rif the prospect of going to hell
,does not ch - E ck the wickedness of these
.men, ':much less will indignation meet
tams. Vile only indignation meeting
.Ghat will effectually stop this plunder--
t!g, will be by MOSE THOMPSON and
bis:politieai friends voting the Demo
:eratte
NOW, we would inform Mr. KURTZ,
that we :are not authorized to speak
for Mr. ThomPsoN, but this much we
will venture to say, that " Mom?.
TnoikrPsorz" and his politicalVriends"
would sooner go to h-1 than—do any
such thing—vote the Democratic
ticket Eli ?
The Price of Grain.
We do not intend, as a general thing,
to meddle with the prices of grain,
further than to give, from week to
week, a true statement of the markets
both .here and in Philadelphia. This
wee k,however,weinadvertcntlyselected
for our "Agricultural Department" an
article from the Chicago Tribune, o n .
taming statements the veri reverse of
what.we believe. It is our opinion that
such articles are written in the inter
est of the grain speculators and find
their way into the papers, either as
paid advertisemente, or through care
lessness and want' of thought on `le
part of the editors. NoMan , `"f course,
can tell to a certainty - w l) !.,.t . her wheat is
.
going to be higher
or lower; but one
thing we' do tnow, that Editors, by
Paying . ,ittle more attention to this
subject, could save the farmers many'
a
a dollar, as well as from the imposition
of speculators. • •
We do not advise the farmers to
sell or not to sell ; and we request
them to act upon their own judgment
and not upon ours ; but we, as we
have already said, do not believe the
statements made by the Chicago
Tri
buns. Consequently if we bad wheat
to sell we. would not sell at present
prices. The Trzbune's 'statements in
regard to Liverpool and London are,
not founded upon facts. The Tribune
says. "Odessa is pouring in wheat and
th e neighboring ports are sending forth
their grain in numerous vessels, while
the news comes that California has a
very large surplus crop, . which she
must export," &c. Will the people
believe the mere ipse dixit of the Trib
une f For our own part we do not
believe a word of it and demand
proof. If there were any truth in
the statements contained in the Tri
bune article, will some one interested,
or will the editor please explain to us,
why wheat keeps up so well? Ex
plain to us why in Philadelphia red
wheat is Worth to-day from $l.BO to
$1.90 per bushel, amber $1.95," and
and white wheat from $2.10 to $2.20
per bushel. Will the Tribune please
tell xs- why California ". must export"
any more than our farmers who are
out of debt must sell at present prices?
Finally, we want the Tribune to ex ,
plain to us telly the speculators in grain
who are buying it up at from $1,40 to
$1,60, ere not anxious to get it off
their hands at present Philadelphia
prtees ? Speculators in grain, if there
:was any truth in the Tribune's article,
and they believed it,would neither eat
nor sleep until they disposed of every
bushel they possessed at the present
Philadelphia prices. Ha fall, at pres
ent, in the price of wheat would bene
fit the laboring men of the country,
there might be some excuse for such
articles as one •in question. But
every man who has any knowledgs of
Political Economy,knows that the very
reverse is true. With, our currency so
much, below par, or its gold value,
* wheat' should not he below $2 00 per
bushel, and there . is no reason why it
should be. With theserateS, labor is
plentier, and better paid, and the far
mer, mechanic and daily laborer fares
sumptuously every day.
But if the farmers become fright
ened, and sell off their wheat as sug
gested by the Tribune, who does not
know that the speculators will control
the market, and run up the price be
fore
next harvest to $2.50, perhaps
$3.00 per bushel ? What care these
men'for the interests of the consumer ?
This wheat Ring is almost as rep
rehensible as the " Whiskey Ring,"
and like it, should be broken up.
We have thrown out these sugges
tions for what they are worth. Our
farmers and friends can act as they
may think best.
EDITORS
WHO is HE ? Gen. GRANT an
nounced, a few days ago, that Penn
sylvania would be represented in his
Cabinet. He declined to give the
name of the man he had chosen, stat
ing, at the same time, that it was a se
lection which nobody seemed to antici
pate, but with which everybody would
be pleased. This has set everybody to
thinking, and the would-be knowing
ones about Washington are terribly ex
cited, and " Who can it be?" is upon
the lips of every one.
How stupid (?) the smartest of men
sometimes are. Who else could it be,
but the chevalier Bayard of the war,
the modest and retiring hero of Fort
Steadman, Gen. JNO. F. HARTEANET,
now Auditor General of Pennsylvania?
What other flame would so completely
"fill the bill ?" •
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
ADOPTED.--Both Houses of the Na
tional Legislature have finally adopt=
ed, the prop used constitutional amend
ment.
'The vote in the Senate stood 39 yeas
to 13 nays, ind in the House 143 yeas
to 43 nays: .
The bill including the amendment,
i ..tads as follows
.671 it enacted, &c - : two thirds of
b ot h ili•ouses concurring, That the fol
lowing
a olendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States, and when
ratified by ee-fOurths thereof. it
shall be
of . said Constitution.
- a-part
Article 15. Th‘
e right of any citi
zen of the United otates to vote shall
not be denied or itbrialeed by the Uni
ted States or States on at.Ncount ofrace,
color, or previous conditio.n of servi
tude.
The Legislatures of twenty eight
States must ratify the: above before
it can become a part or the Constitu
tion.
Senator Sentor of the Tennessee
Legislature was inaugurated Governor
of that State on the 25th ult. Gov
Brownlow will take his seat in the
U. S. Senate on the 4th inst. •
Bellefonte needs a market House,
or at least two regular market days in
the week.
Protection.
Too much, we think, cannot be
or written, upon the subject of Protec
tion to American industr.z/N. It is the
only policy that will give an impetus
to our manuSacturing • and business in
terests; mad enhance the interests of
'ate laboring men of tile country. It is
the only policy that will make a dc:-
mand for labor, raise the price of la - bor,
and establish it on n permanent foun
dation.
The f•r s nids of free trade are at work.
The Democratic Watchman., and
air the Democratic papers in the
country, at the :bidding of the New.
York Free Trade League,, and the
English aristocracy, that:furnishes the
money to keep it in existence, have
thrown off the masks hitherto worn by
them, and openly and avowedly espous
ed the cause of English free trade.—
But while they are working to build up
England, and fasten the slavish chains
upon Ireland, the friends of American
industry are not idle. On the 17th and
18th of February last,. : they met in
Philadelphia and-organized the "Na
tional Industrial League." Leading
protectionists from-almost every State
in the Union were present, and there,
in sight of Independence Hall, they re
solved that they would spare no pains,
energy or labor, in urging upon our
Congress the importance of legislation
in favor of American men, and Ameri
can industry. What an important
movement I Our miners of oar and
coal, our American working men, na
tive and foreign born, should now firm
ly resolve to aid in this movement.and
to vote with no party who is not fully
committed to the great American doc
trine.
The Irish Republic, in speaking of
the organization of the "National In
dustrial League," says that the object
of these men waiter save the great Re
public of the West, which England fail
ed to conquer by force of arms, from
becoming a mere English dependency,
by force of what is called Free Trade.
This is, beyond all question, part
and parcel of that Southern slavery
born treason which culminated in an
open attempt to destroy the life of the
Republic. And this, too, is part of
that 'more cowardly and contemptible
Northern Coperheadism which,under
the guise of x false Democracy, sym
pathized with, and supported those
who, Cain-like, turned their murder
otts. weapons against their brothers',
hearts.. With a few honorable, and,
perhaps, not altogether inexplicable,
exceptions : they were Free Traders to
a man. And how far their vile and
suicidal policy is still p'ursued may be
judged from the fact, - that du
ring the past year one hundred and
eighty-three millions of American,,gold
dollars have been paid into foreign,
and principally into: English pockets,
for goods which, in nineteen - instances
onkef twenty, could have been man
ufactured here in our country. Wh , .)
can calculate the loss of wages to the
American workman and the loss of
profit to the American manufa . Cture'r
which this shameful tile unfolds? In
the name of interest, ofjustiee, of lib
erty, of country, how long is this in
saneand ruinous ii , ickedness to be en
dured ?
-The entire so-called Democratic par
ty is Free Trade to the core. They
may not have the. honesty to put it
boldly. as .a plank into their " plat
form," but it is the cardinal hinge on
which their whole policy turns. We
assert this as a fact, deny it who dare?
It is for the Irish voters, who are the
foundation on which the whole of thig
dreadful and destructive superstruc
ture stands, to ask themselves, are
these facts? Is it, or is it not, a fact,
which one of the meat able members
of the present Congress lately declar
ed, that in the one article of railroad
IRON we, the people of the United
States, bought from England, in tea
short months, TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND
TONS more than ALL other countries
of the earth taken together? Is it a
fact, as was announced in our hearing
in the Report of the American Iron
and Steel Association, that of the
whole consumption of iron in this count
ry, England supplies fully forty per
cent. ? is it a fact, or not, that by
this false and unpatriotic Free Trade
policy, England manages to continue
to be our mistress? That we are her
chief commercial dependency ? That
we maintain her throne and aristocra
cy ?
Who, then, are the friends of Eng
land, and the enemies of Ireland ?
land ? Who puts the plunder into the
pockets of the former, and locks the
bliains on the limbs of the latter? The
men who vote for Free Trade. The
men—let them gnash their teeth at it,
if they choose, but they shall hear the
trutti—lhe. men who Support the De
mocratic party.
Tim following is Governor GEARY'S
dispatch to General GRANT, denying
the report that he had written a letter
recommending a Pennsylvanian for a
Cabinet appointment:
ExEnurivE Cu.karnzu, 1
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 26,'69. J
Gen. U. S. Grant, 143 t Elect.
By the newspapers of to-day I ob
serve that certain persons have stated
to you that I have written you a letter
to influence your Cabinet appointment
from Pennsylvania. have never writ
ten or telegraphed to yon, or to any
other person, a word in favor of, or
against any one for that position. If
you have received%any such letters or
telegrams, they are forgeries.
Truly yours,
JNO. W. GEARY.
The Philadelphia Press of Saturday
says it has been authorized to state
that no letter has been written, or au
thorized to be written, by either Jud
ges AGNEW or WILLIAMS, recommend
ing the appointment of any person as a
member of General GnAmr's Cabinet.
Editrial and .Other Items
-7 -Kankakee, 111., ha&a $75,000
fire SiiturdsiS , morning.. -
---Rich gold digging have been dis
covered in Lovier California: -
—Nearly half the town. of Chippewa
Falls, Wisconsin, was burned on the
24th.
-The mails are carried by sleighs
in Canada, the railroads being block,
ed by snow.
—ln the Illinois Legislature on
Saturday the bill to repeal.the registry
law was defeated.
—The Missouri House on. Saturday
passed the bill amending the charter
of the Pacific Railroad. :
—All the railroads in Mine are
blocked by snow, of which there has
been a fall ofeighteen inches.' .
—Rev. Robert CollYer, of Chicago.
addressed the Women's . Suffr . age •As
sociation of St. 14ouispn Saturday:
—A fire re, cently, at Morristille;
Vermont, destroyed the „Masson-
if hall building. It was partlyjn :.
sured. •
—Andrew. Collins..was. instantly kil
led by being run over by a train on
the Pennsylvania Road, in West Phil
adelphia, on Saturday. - .
—Watson, ; Cassidy & Co.'s paper
mill at Lyringham, Mass.,•was•entire
ly destroyed by fire Saturday -night.
Loss $25,000; ingitianee'sl2,ooo.
—Nathaniel G. Wood, watchmaker
and jeweler, Hanover street, BOston,
was robbed on Sunday morning of soy
en thousand dollars worth of property.
—The Park Savings Bank in Brook
lyn was ribbed, Saturday, of a:small
tin box containing $45,000 in city
bonds and $4OO in mcney. No arrests.
De Soto county Missisippi, is, now
without civil officers, all the former
incumbents having failed to take the
oath required by General.Gillam's or
der. -. •
—Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony addressed the citizens and
legislators at Madison, =Wisconsin,
Friday evening. Gov Fairchild presi
ded.
D. C. Stickney, au'expressman,had
$32,000 stolen from his dwelling in
Boston on Sunday. Suspicion rests
on an inmate of the house, who has
disappeared.
A check for ten thousand- dollars,-
the amount of insurance on :General
Rousseau's life, has been forwarded to
his widow, by the insuranco'agent in
Washington.
--In the seduction case of :Rene ,
cock vs. Wilbert, at Frankfoit,
the jury. on Saturday returned; vir
dict of $5OOO damages, the full 'a
mount claimed.
•
—A duel was fought iiL l s.; public
house in Williamsburg, - N. Y;-Satur
day, between a Spaniard and a 'Cuban,
over events in Cuba. The former was
slightly wounded.
—The organization of the militia in
the country - districts of. Oinadg . is
sending a great many French . Cana
dians into the States, fearing that war
may be imminent.
—Many of the hop growers in:Wis
consin are disposed to try their luck
again, believing that a sufficient num
ber will abandon the business:to make
it profitable for the few.-
Postmaster Kelley, of New York,
has been directed to send all mails for
California and the Pacific coast by
steamer, and to retain all subsequent
mail matter until the 11th and 21st
insts. •
—A newspaper passed through the
Lexington, Kentucky;post office a day
or two since addressed to "Petroleum
V. Nasby, P. M., Confederate Cross
Roads, Kentucky." It was . mailed in
Oregon. •
•
—Frank Swift. of New York, and
E. T. Goodrich, of Chicago. skated a
match for the championship at .Buf
falo Saturday, but the judges failed
to agree, and no competent referee
could be obtained.
—Cincinnati shuts its doors against
"drummers." There is a law of the
city prohibiting them from engaging
in business there, and it is enforced.
Two . agents have lately been fined, one
$5O and the other $lOO and costs. -
Leonard Choate, recently arrested
at the West, was arraigned at New
buryport,. Massachusetts, yesterday
on fifteen separate charges of incen-.
diarism. He pleaded not guilty.
His trial was asfigned for March Bth.
—The estate of the late Hon. John
Minor Botts was sold last week by
auction. The horses, cattle, and some
other personal property brought an
aggregate of $15,000. His • stook was
quite famous, and buyers were present
from several Northern States.
—Another railway war has just been
instituted in the New York Courts ;
this time between the Atlantic and
Great Western and Erie Companies.
It is instituted by the Great Western
.parties•to compel the Erie to appro
priate certain moneys to paying mort
gages on the Atlantic and Great Wes
tern Railroad.
—The "Gardner Real Estate Dis
tribution," a gift enterprise concern,
which has been selling tickets in St.
Louis for some months past, and
which was to have been drawn Satur
day night, ended in a row. When
the drawing was prepared, the mana
ger announced that as only 76,000
tickets had been issued, several of
the largest prizes would not be put in
the wheel. The audience objeetal,
and the consequence was the lights
were put out, and the manager loft,
the crowd dis.persing in an hour or
two.
For the RsketteiN
:tibir. • .
MESSRS. EDiToRS :—Bacon . truly
said that laboi was the only real. ealth
ora country. That being an acknowl
edged Tact by all
_political economists,
the legislation . of a nation should 'have
a tendency to foster, promote and pre
serve that wealth, and thereby enhance
'the substantial prosperity of the Coun
try, and its, laboring members. A wise
Government will so construct its laws
that its, toiling masses need never be
idle ; but always prosperous. The im
merise-wealth of the country,labor,that
has been compelled to remain idle in
this country this winter, is beginning
to awake grave apprehensions in the
minds of all true philanthropists.
An acquaintance of ours, who went
to Mexico eighteen months ago, as an
employee of a- British and Mexican R.
R. `Coiripany, recently returned, gave
'us " a sketch of his experience there,and
hare, "since' his return, which corrobo
rates the prevailing idea entertained by
the teilinc , masses, that our Govern
ment's legislation has a tendency to
promote interests 'antagonistical to the
welfare of labor. He says that, after
fulfilling hi's contract,. and drawing .his
pay,..and about leaving for 'home, the
Governor of Very Cruz, upon the' pre
text that it was dangerous to his Gov
ernment for Americans to be at large
in his domains, had him throat into
prison, where he was robbed of his
money..and clothing. The American
Consul paid no attention to his com
plaints, and after lying in prison for
three months, Gen. Rosenerance ar
riving, caused his prison doors to be
thrdwn open. He then worked his pas
sage on board a merchant vessel to
Boston, where he searched the whole
city for employment, but failed to find
any. He visited Worcester and Spring
field, Mass., Albany, N. Y., Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Harrisburg, and sev
eral of the interior towns of Pennsyl
vania, in search of employment, but in
all these places failed to find an open
ing for his services. He Says that
wherever one vacancy occurred, there
were ten applicants for the position va
cated. In all the large places in this
country, that he visited: he found
thousands of robust men out of em
ployment, and many compelled to sub
sist upon the cold charities of the
world.
What the honest, toiling masses wish
to know is, what causes this state of
affairs—that honest, intelligent, sober
and industrious American citizens are
compelled to be idle, and see their lit
tle ones want for the common necessa
ries of life, and that, too, in the. most
inclement season of the year. • .
Would it not be well enough for the
laboring masses to enquire into these
facts, and apply the remedy•without
respect to party or PolifidS: They have
the cotrettive pbwer in their hands, -if
they properly apply it. The true reme- •
dy, and kl,le may repiecVtor • all these
evils is, a Protective Tariff .Will our
adopted -fellow citizens never consider
the importance of these questions?
Yours, &c.,
- BreckinriOge Rettiins.
Under the supposed protection, says
the Philadelphialitgitirer, of ANDREW
JornisoN's' Amnesty Proclamation,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDOE has ventured
biqk to the United States. He is the
first of the expatriated rebels, except
ed in previous amnesty proclamations,
who has returned. He will probably
be soon foll Owed by JACOB THOMP
SON, SLIDELL and JUDAH BENJAMIN,
and possibly
_all of them will ask some
reward of the rebels in consequence of
their sufferings.
The last public appearance of
Neekinridge, previous to his going
ever to the Rebels, was et Baltiniore,
and in the same city he makes hiS re
appearance. -Of all the miscreants
who took part with the Rebellion,
this man was the most odious in his
treachery: He had not the common
and paltry excuse of lesser Rebels,
that be must go with his state, be 7
cause his State did not go with the
Rebellion. •He•could not rely upon
the allegation that he was in the
South when the Rebellion broke out,
and'widearried away by the excite
ment around him. He was a mem
ber of the Senate of the United
States when Fort Sumter was attack
ed, having sworn to support- and de
fend the Constitution a short time
previously. He stayed in the Senate,
participating in public business, after
the war had commenced, and although
he interposed his feble influence
in favor of the Rebels, he did
so at the same time protesting his
loyalty. It was on the. Bth of Au
gust, nearly five Months after the
commencement of the war, after two
battles of Big Bethel, Boonville, Rich
Mountain, Carrick's Ford and Bull
Run, that .Breckinridge ate his last
dinner with the Secessionists of Balt
imore, and received their congratula
tion, no doubt, at his intended defec
tion. Ho left Baltimore immediately
afterward, sought the Confederate
lines and' offered himself as a volunteer
,in thiißebel cause. Scarcely any. in
ittance•of treason as nefarious can be
'pointed to. *lt was an act worthy of
one oho, if ho had lived in the Revo
lution,
would have envied and follow
ed the example of.Benediot Arnold. -
As a soldier,. Breckinridge was a fail
ure. Ho took to the rebellion neither
honesty or talent. He required high
o aive as the price of his treachery,
An d h o ;vas 'made a Major-General, a
'position for rhieli he was neither fit
ted by (Attention nor capacity. He
MO hit illOtthtii4 to the Rebel cause
ratittir thtui a benefit, and for his last
vandal Hitt., tho conflagration of Rich
ittOlkit IMO portion of the chivalry
of iliAt plitiNt ruined by the result,
Will How ilirgivo —Ph iladelplizq
Remarks of Senator• Cameron.
In the Senate, on Wednesday;Mr.
Buokalew_, while discussing the ques
tion
of changing the mode of choosing
Presidential electors, charged that half
a million of dollars had - been bound
out in Pennsylvania to control the last
Presidential election. When he had
concluded his speech, Mr. Stewart, of
Nevada, moved that the Senate recede
from its amendments to the Constitu
tional amendment and concur in the
House proposition. Senator Cameron
then took the floor, and we copy his
remarks from the Daily Globe:
Mr. Cameron. I shall vote in favor
of the motion now made by the Sena
tor from Nevada. I had no intention
to say a word on this subject, and.
should not have done so but for a re
mark which fell from my colleague,
which I think was disrespectful to the
State from which he and I come, in
which we were both born, and to w hich
we owe not only allegiance, but love.—
I was sorry to hear him say that mon
eny had leen brought into Pennsylva
nia to influence and corrupt the elec
tions there, and to produce a result
which the people did not desire. In
1854, my colleague and I separated in
politics. The first election, of any con
sequence, after that, was the election
for President, in 1956, when Mr. Bu
chanan and Colonel Fremont were the
opposing candidates. In reply to the
remark of my colleague 1 1 think I may
say with confidence, that there is hard
ly a man in Pennsylvania, now living,
who was acquainted with that contest,
who does not believe that Colonel Fre
mont was chealed out of the vote of
Pennsylvania by the activity and dis
honesty of the men who supported Mr.
Buchanan. Large sums of money were
brought into Pennsylvania to use as a
corruption fund andlhey were so used.
Sir, had General FremOnt received the
vote of Pennsylvania then, as he was
entitled to do, we should have been
saved the evils which grew out of Mr.
Buchanan's administration, including
the great rebellion which has cost this
country so much blood and treasure,
and its consequences. But Colonel
Fremont lost the vote of Pennsylvania
by the management of the chairman of
the State Democratic Central Commit
tee of that year, who, through the use
of money from other States, changed
the resilt of the election.
Sir, such things have often hapened
in Pennsylvania; but my remembrance
is, that they have always been done in
the interest of the Democratic party.
At the recent election we lost the city
of Philadelphia, and the Democratic
party nominally elected three Congress
men there; but all men who are ac
quainted with the contest in the dis
tricts of Me Myers and Mr. Taylor,
know that thosegentlemen are entitled
to their seats, and were only defeated
by great frauds:. They intend to claim
them, and I have no doubt they will
receive them. I-remember the other
day, in a contest for a seat in the Leg
iSlature from the city of Philadelphia,
three men were brought up and swore
that they had voted- at every precinct
in the city, and at each .place they had
.given different names to' the amount of
eight or ten each. They . - Voted early
and often, as niy 'friend 'from New Jer
sey I Mr.-Frelinghuyseni suggests.
I only rose for the purpose of defend
ing my State, and especially the Re.
publiaan_party, against this charge of
fraud.... The election, in. Pennsylvania
occurs earlier than in many of the other
States. It is a very iinportant State;
and, of course, the electlon is contest
ed with great activity. •• • •
• Now, let me say one word-in regard
, to the proposition of my colleague.. •I
know that I ought to, have
_studied the
question before I attempted
. to speak
upon it. Mycolleague saysthat of all .
the people in 'the - - World . despises
most stupid . people. agree 'with
shim in that.- stupid man is. not to
be admired by- anybody; tont we some
times differ. as to where the stupidity
is to be found: Sometimes we think
people are laughing with us, when
they are laughing at us; and so it may
be in regard to stupidity. I think it
would be very stupid indeed for the
party.in power now to.give to any fu
ture Congress the right of gerryman
dering Pennsylvania, Indiana, New
York and Ohio t so as to control those
States; for I think half a dozen shrewd
men from those States brought togeth
er could pass abill in Congress by which
they could control the destinies of this
country. lam in favor, therefore, of
leaving this power in the hands of the
States. Let the men who know the
local interests, the local feelings, and
the local strength and weakness of the
States settle it themselves at their own
homes. To be sure, by carrying such
an amendment as my colleague pro
poses the county of Berks in our State
would vote on the one side and the
county of Dauphin on the other; and
under such a proposition the condi , -
dates of my colleague last year might
have secured four or five electoral votes
in Pennsylvania, and a few in'soine of
the other States, but 1 greatly prefer
that each state shall show its whole
strength. Whatever the power of the
State may be, let it be given by a sin
gle vote in favor of the cain.liaate.
am not so much in favor of State rights
as some men who have been here. I
learned, during the war fbr the sup
pression of the rebellion, that we need
ed a stronger Government than we ever
had before. The great trouble at the
beginning of the war was, that there
was no power at Washington, under
the laws, that could not only arm the
forces that were offered, butthat could
wield them as they could have done if
there had been nobody in the States to
interfere with them.
I believe this is all I have a desire to
say on this subject. I think I have
shown, or at least I have tried to do so,
that Pennsylvania is not worse than
the other States; and if she has done
wrong, it has been the Democrats who
have done the wrong.
Puma
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