s 1 1 PlllPWi) ' fMBwmm o ' r b II. I.. JOIIXSTOX, Editor. MB IS A FREKMAS WHOM TUB TRCTH MAKES FREE, AMD ALL, ARE 8LAVBS BESIDK, II. A. SITIKE, I'ublUhrr. VOLUME 2. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1868. NUMBER 31. The Cambria Freeman WILT. BE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, At Ebensbnrg, Cambria Co., Pa. At the following rales, payable within three vw nth s "from die of subscribing : One copy, cue year, - - - - - $2 00 One copy, six months, - - - - 1 00 One copy, three months, - - - - f0 Those wh o f.iil to pay their subscriptions 1 until after tl.e expiration of six montns will be charged at the rate of $2.50 per 3car anl those ho fali to pay until nfterthe ex piration of twelve months will be charged at the rate t.f $3.00 per year. Twelve numbers constitute a quarter; tvvi-iity five, six mouths; ami fifty numbers, cue year. HATES OF ADVEKTISIXO. One square. 12 lines, one insertion. Each subsequent ineertiou, Auditor's Notices, each, Administrator"' Notices, each, .Executors' Notices, each, "Jbtray Notices, each 11 CO 25 2 00 2 50 2 50 1 o0 6 vtos. 1 yr. 3 HOS 1 square, 12 lines, '2 squares, 24 lines, 8 squares, 80 lines, Quarter column. Third column, Half column, (hie Cduniu, $ 2 50 I 4 00 $ 6 00 5 00 8 00 12 CO 7 00 9 r.o 11 00 14 (0 2f, 00 10 00 14 00 16 00 2o C O 35 00 15 00 25 00 2S 00 35 00 CO 00 l'r'..fossi-iial or Iiusiniss Cards, not exceeding & lines, with paper, C 00 Obituary Notices, over six lines, ten cents per line. Si.e-cho' and business Notices eight con's pr line ;.u first insert i'iu, and four cents for each t-ubs'quet;t inisev! imr. R-js-l tit ions of Societies, or commur.ica tioi.s -it a personal Lature must be pa.d for as a.lvet ti.-.etncnts. j k raiMixo. We have made arr&ngements by which we can do or have d-me all kinds ..f plain and fancy d. b l'riutin?, such .s Hooks, r.imphets. Show Card?, liiil and Lcttei Heads, if mdl.il!. Circulars, Arc, in the best Ktyle of the art and at the most moderate prices. Also, all kinds of Ruling:. Blank IVioks, Book Binding, &"c, executed toorder tiP g ;.nd as the beat aud as cheap as the cheapest. KGISTEU S NOTICE Notice is hereby :"tven thai the following accounts hive t,;-i; i,;i--el rtn l tiVl iu the Regi-ter's t'lTie.a 1 lieil.urir. :tnl will be presented to t'ik' Oit ham Court of Cimhrta county for con Jirniation :n! a'dow aiK e, on Mouliythe 7th tav of SeptcinViiT next, to wit : The account of Abne M.iguire. Executrix of .n!rew Kdrigne. late 1 Elteifbutv, uee'd. Tie- first lia.-.l account of C. P. KKis. Admr of Thomas Johnson, late of C'rubria borough, ilec'il. Tlie second and partial account of Fh!bp F. ShiflVr, At!:;i; . t.f Moses Yoder, hue ol ltic.li lurid lown-hip. dee'd. The account of KeWcca Aim Duncan. Ad uiiusirt:r x ! Henry 11. Duncan, lute of Biaek I ii k U , iter "J. 'J'he first :ui i fi ia' account of C. B. Ellis, Adiiu . of M.irk O. Ki.owltou, lato of Johns town, dee'd. The account of John II. Kincr, Adiar. of Joliu 15. Frotn:i!.l, bite of Jolnii'owti, dee'd. The third acouiU of deo. M. Keade Adrnr. of Holjprt Lhm, late of Ebcnshiur. dee'd. The first account of Jacob II. iSlull, Admr. of Eminuel N. Grumling, late of Richland township, dee'd. The first and final account of Jacob It. Stull, Admr. of John Oroyle, late of Richland town bhio, dee'd. The first rind final account of Rob'tH.Rot rrts. Guardian of Mary Krnma Davis, minor child ot Robert Davis, dee'd The first a-id final account of John Bennet, Ouardian of George and Augusta Agnes Davis, minor children of Robert Davis, dee'd. The account of Robert L Johnston, Guard !n of Anna M. Frieze, minor chili cf Jose phine Friese, late of Cambria county, dee'd. The account of Elenrzer William?, Admr. el David Williams, late of Ebenshurg, dee'd. The rt account of Peter Stritwnattcf, Guardian of the minor chil ren of 1'eter Wci Lle.dcc'd. JAMES GRIFFIN, Register. Itegisr.fr's Oihce, Ebensburg. Auj. 13, 1S63. N THE ORPHANS' COURT OT J. CAM 15 RIA COUNTY. Notice is hereby friven that the following Appraisements of cer tain property of decedents, set apart for the wulows ol intestates, under Act ol Assembly of the lldi Apiil. lf.il, have been 'filed in the Iti-gisTcr'e Cilice at Ebrnsburg, and will be pro fited to the Orphans Court for approval on Wednesday, the Dili of September next, to wit: Appraisement of real estate of John E. Me Dcrtnitt, late of Chest twp., dec 'd, set apart for the widow c-f said deceased. Appraisement of" certain personal property tet np.irt for the widow of Thomas Kaylor, lato cf Allegheny towm-liip, deceased. ' Appraisement of certain peronal property Ktt ap.irt for the widow of George McGjugh, lute of Clei field township, deceased. " Apprai.-cmcnt of rea.1 estate set anart for tho widow of Jcsiah R l.-own, deceased. A ppraisetneiit of certain property. set apart for the widow of John B iurn, late of Susque hanna township, deceased. Apprai-etni'iic of certain personal property net apit for the widow of Win. Charhon, late of l'ruspect borough, dece ised. JAMES GRIFFIN, Clerk. . CTeik's Office, Eoen.-burg, Aug. Ifc'fcUt. SHERIFFS SALE By virtue of a wi'tt of Fi. Fa. issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of C.unWri county, and to me irecte.l. titers will be expsed to Public Sile dC the fcter House, in JohuHown, on Satur aay, the 5th day cf September next, at 1 o'clock d it , the following real eatte, to wit: "All the right, title aud interest of John Miucely, of, in and to a lot of grouul situated in CoDemuugh twp , Cmq'oria county, fronting fifty feet on Alain street and extending bick one hundred and thirty feet to Township road, adjoining lutf Charles Wendle on the south west, h iring.there'm erected a two story plank house and nhink stable, now'ic the occupancy of Levi ltichtrJT.rrl John Y iger. Taken in execution and to !e sold at the suit; of Levi 1$. Cotuck. JQIIN A. CLAIR. ShcrifT. Sheriff's Office, Ebensburg, Aug. 20, 13C3. TfcTOTICE Whereas L?lter3 of A2--1.1 ministration ceil tf.stami xto an vexo have been granted to mo by the Regiur of Cambria county ou the estate of Win. W. Gittinfi, late of the borough of Ebensburg, dece.u-ed, notice id hereby given to all persons Lavir.g claims against said deceased to present them properly authenticated for settlement, and to those in debted to m ike payment without delay. NEW"! ON J. ROBERTS; Adm'r. Wjetrtrurg, July 93, 1S. SHERIFFS SALES By virtue of sundry writs of Vnd. Exnon. and Al Vend. F-xpon. issued out of tha Court of Oornmon Picas of Cambria county, and to ma directed, there, will be exposed to public sale, at the Court House in Eueiusburr, on Monday, the 7th day of September next, nt 1 o'clock P M , the following rcil estate, to wit i All the right, title and interest of William Bradley, of. i:i and to a piec or parcel of land situated in Washington tnp.. Cambria county, .idjoininr lands of' Hugh O'Donnel!, heirs of Edward Donaldson, and others, containing one acre, mora or less, haT:r:g thereon erected a one and a half story plank hous.j and dank 6table, now in the occupancy of the said Wm. iJradley. Titkcn in execution and to be sold at the suit of R. L. Johnston. Also, all the right, title and interest of Thoa. Downs, of. in and to a lot of ground situated in Millville borough, Cambria county, fronting on Cinder street, and extending back by an alley on the east to the Conemsugh river, and ncSjoiidnglot of Charles Schul's on the north, having thereon erec?ed a two story plank houfe, now in the occupancy of. the said Thes. Downs. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of R. L A. C. Duncan. Also, sll the right, title and interest of Mary Eigenhrrvd, of, in and to a lot of ground situa ted in Catro'dtown borough, Cambria county, fronting Fixty six feet on Main street, and ex tending back two hundred f'rei to an alleT, ad joining lot of Albert Oswald on tho north and an alley on the south, h-Ying thereon erected a two etcry frantt house and frame tble, now in the occupancy of the atid Mry Kigenbrod. Ta en in execution and to be sold at the suit of Perer Campbell. Also, nil the right, title and internet of Jacob Shoemaker, of, in and to a p:ec or parcel of land situated in RiehLmd township. Cimbria county, at'joiuinj: lands of Richurd TJikeybile, PcfLT King, and others, containing sixty-four acre, more or les. 'iion twenty acres of which re cleared, having theicmt erected a one and i half story log ho-j?e and eibin barn, now in the occupincy of George Cutter. Tak&n la execution and to be sold at the suit of Elizabeth Slmmkcr. A l-o, a'd ths right, tltTo a-d int5t of Win K P: "fr. of, in and to Cr.tr lots of gmrtnd sit uatcd in the Borourh of Enensbnr. Cambria conn'y , fronting or. Centre street and extending back to tho Public S pure, h-iving thereon erected a two story brick hmise and nlank sta ble, now in the occupancy of tho said Wm K. Piper. Taken in execution and to be sold at ihc j-uit of A. M. k R. White, for use of Rin croft, Beiver & Co . now for ue of Harry Wh:te, executor of Thomas White, dee'd. Also, all the riht, title and interest of John Keelao, of. in ard to a lot of ground situated in Cambria borough. Ctrr.bria county, fronting forty feet on Brovd street and extending: back one hundred and thirty feet to an alio-.-, udjuiu- intr l' t of Andrew Myers on the north aud lot of Fr.v.icis G iliiselh on th-2 south, having there on erected a two story plunk house and two frame stables, now i:i the occupancy of the said John Keel an. Tnken in execution and to be so'.' at tin suit of G W. Stutsman. Also, all the right, title and interest of Jan. S. R irri'cv, of, in and to a lot of ground Fi'tua te.1 in Gth ward, Johnftown, Irnntin sixty feet on Morr.s strft and extending fack one hun dred and s xty fire feet to an alley, adjoining an alley on the e.is a. id lot of Elizi Batter on the wf st. having thereon 1 rectod a plank double house, with a one story kitchen attached, and frame Ftih'e. now in the occupancy of Anna Ramey and Wm J Sprccher. Taken in ex ecution and t3 be sold at the salt of H B. Claf lin k Co. Also, all the right, title an 1 hiterot of Jamas Burk, of. in and to a tract of land situated in Summethl'l twp., C imbria county, adjoining lsnds of Ciiristiau Smay, JcrerrtUh MeOoniglc, Edward M"G!adc. an 1 othe-s, containing tliree hundred acres, more op less, about ciuety acrea of which arec'eired. having thereon erected -two one and a half atory log houses and a log stable, now in the occupincy of Henry A!!en baugh and Je-eruiah B irnes. Taken in execu tion and to be sold at the suit of Robert L. Johnston. Also, all the right, title anl interest of John Kcelin. ot. in and .o a lot of ground situated in Cambria borough, Cambria county. front;:i fifty feet on Jiro-i t street and extending back t an alley, adjo:r.in lot of J-.h Bradley on the eist and lot of John Keelan on the west, having thereon erected a two story plank house and plank statde, now in the occupancy of the said John Keelan. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of R. k A. C. D incn. Also, all the right, title mi J interest of John Thompson. Jr., of, in nnd to a lot of grrund situated in the Borough of Eb3n?burg, Cam bria county, fronting on the plank roa), and adjoining lot of Mrs Hutchinson on the north . Edward Davis on the east and Simple street on the south, having thereon erected a two stcyy brick dwelling hone, now in the occupancy of John Thompson, Jr. Taken in execution and to bo sold at the suit of James Clifford, for use cf John Fenlon, Ev. Also, all the right, title and interest of Hi ry McDarle. of, in and tT a lot ot g-ound situ ated in Gallitzin tow-ship, Cambria county, fronting on the New Por'age Rail Rond, ad joining lanl of G ir? Yekley ou the north and lands of James M Cl vkey on tho south and east, containing one fifth of an acre, more or less having thereo-i erected a one story plank house and plank sthln, now in the occupancy of the said Henry Mid) vie. Taken in execu tion and to be sold at the suit of Hrnry Scin lan, Adm'r of Andrew Stupp"', dee'd, et. al. Also, all the right, title and interest of Jacob Burgoon, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situated in Washington township, Cambria county, adjoining land-i of the heirs of Philip -Noon, dee'd, heirs of Edward Donaldson, dec 'd. and others, containing one hundred and ten acres, more or less, about fifty acres 0 which are cleared, having thereon erected a two story plank house, framibarn, and a coal b.mk.no'V in the occupancy of the said Jacob Burgoon . Also, a piece or parcel of land situated in Washington town-mi?, C imori x cou.ity, adjji a ing lands of tha heirs of Edward Donaldson, dee'd, heirs of Thomas 0-irro'd, dee'd, an 1 oth -ers, containing 6ix acres more or less, having thereon erected a one and a half story plank house, now in the occupancy of Andrew Stro mer. Taken in execution and to bo solJ at the suit of Cambria county. JOHN A- BLAIR, Sheriff. ! Sheriffs Office, Ebensburg, Aug. 20, 18G3. UHLIC SALE. The f.ibscribcr will offer at Public Sale, on the premises In Carrol' township, Cambria county, one mile and a half east of Carro'ltown borough, on the road leading to Chest Springs, on TUU3DAY, Si ft. th. 1G8, at 10 o'clock a.m., the valuable FARM upon which he resides, coatainl:: fcU Acres, more or leis, about 3iJ Acres of wlilcu are cleared and under good fence the balance being we'd timbered. Thero is erected upon t'n-3 premises a two story Plank House and Log Barn. There are also a young Orchard ol thri ving trees and excellent water on the premise i"Tb.i3 farm will be sold all together or in part.-!, as ruav be dc-rh'ed by purchasers. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold a lot of House Furniture, Farming Imp'enients, Horses, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Wheat, Rye, Oats, ily. Potatoes, and many otner articled. Terms made known on day of sale. Afcg. 27. 2: JOHN GEO. TREXKLE Horatio SeymourNext President, A DOUBLE ACROSTIC. He is onr choseN chieftain, he shall lead O'er victor fiEIds the country to success; Reduce the tuXes aavo us in our need. And, making greaTer freedom, make laws less. This trust we r lace to him, uor doubts nor fears Invade our peRfect faith. We knew this man On whom the widEning circles of the years Shed larger luStre. Let tho critic scan Each act of his whole life with sharpest kea, Yet shall be finD no flaw : he is, indeed, Host earnest, gEuerous, kindly of all men. Oh, worthy couNtrymen. I pray give heed ; Tjuited in thaT common object stand Record your votes for him, aud voting Bave your land. CIS A. IV O OTATIOS TO IION. GEO. II. PENDLETO.V, AT BANGOR, MAINE. GREAT SPEECHJOF A GREAT MAN. Hon. Gsorga II. l'end'eton met with r most brilliant and overwhelming recep tion at B.ingor, Mj., on tha night of the 10th ult., upon which occasion he deliv ered one of tho most sound, eloquent, con vincing and unanswerable speeches which , has ever fallen from the hps of any states man, living or dead. Want of ?paco alone prevents us from giving this rnastetly ef fort entire, byt the following eztraefs con tain tha greater portion of the able argr raeuts of this talented youn statesman of the West, and no one of our reader? should fail to give them an attentive p-trusal : "Tho State governments were in full vior and operation before and during and after the war. During the war the Sfatc government of Virginia was called upon to giv iu assent to the creation of West Virginia, and members of Congress were admitted from Louisiana so soon a3 Fed eral troopa obtained foothold in that State. After the war the States of the South were invited to ratify, and did ratify, the fourteenth constitutional amend men, and it derives its vulidily from their assent. The Republican party by tha reconstruc tion acts abolished these government?, and created in their stead military governments, which no man will pretend was within the constitutional powers of Congress. By the aid of tha army they have built up other governmenta, not according to tho will of the people, but according to the will of Congress, and they have founded j them upon the exclusion of the intelligence and wealth and virtus of the white race from the right of sutfrage, .and upon the admission of every negro to that right ; and they have made there negroes buy their exemption from the ititorferencs if , the army and their recognition as States by ratification of the Fourteenth Consti tutional amendment, and a pledge that they will never change tho rule of suffrage. 1 Do not their own acts convict them ofj the charge I have mada ! Are they not surely aud rapidly, even though silonlly, sapping the foundations of the Government and changing its form and nature ? Are they not accumulating po.ver in tha Fed eral Government and taking it away from tha States V Do they not declare openly, and make it the basis of their creed, that Congress has a power over the right of BudTragd in ten Statos which it has not over the same subject in the other States. Why is it they build up these governments upon the basis of the negro vote alone? My friends, divest yourselves of passion ; look at this work steadily. Is not the Btoli.I ignorance of enfranchisedslaves too narrow a basis for a prosperous State possessing equal powers with the State of Maine? Why is it insisted on? Th reason-, the sole reason, is that they be lieve they can control the negro vote ; that by this vote they can secure the election of a President and Senators and Members of tho House and Governors and Legislatures and Judges, and so wield longer tha powers of the Government. I know many of these men well. They are men of intellect and daring. They are men of firm reBoIve and lofty purpose They are not actuated by low greed of gain, nor lovo of the emoluments and honors of office. They have the truo spirit of fanatical reformers, and fhey s ;ek power that they may overturn this B3'8tem of government and build up another system ia its Mead. My friends, we are engaged is no Bcrumlde for office. We arc stimulated by no lust for power. This struggle touches the life of our confeder ated system. It touches the question of union of unity. It will decide in the far off future the destiny of our country. If our opponents succec, we will hnve first Unity, and then Despotism, and then Revolution, and then Separation, and then whatever God in his wrath may inflict. If they fail, we will have tho Constitution obeyed, the Union maintained, liberty enjoyed, prosperity alfpunding, peace everywhere, and all the glories of our past will be but as the early bud compared with the blooming beauties of the full blown flowers 'In this supreme hour of our fate I beg you to paus and weit,h well your duty to the country, as in the hour of death you would weigh your duty to God. To ex periment is too costly ; we cannot afford it. We might lose our liberty, for there is a limit to human endurance. We cannot buy what-we do not pay for, and we can not pay more than what exaction can squeeze from our people. Freedraen'a Bureau, military commissions, military government, the support of ten State gov ernments, constitutional amendments, ne gro suffrage, carpet-buggers, are in them selves expensive luxuries. When they bring with them stagnation of business, small crops, idle hands, no cotton, no rice, no sugar, no home nfarket for Western breadstufl's and pork, and no exports for Eastern ships to carry, they are more ex pensive still; and when they superadd high taxes, high tariffs, exemption of capi tal from all burdens, an increase in the hours of labor, an Increase of the prices of necessaries, and a decrease of the wsiges of labor, the expense gets to be intolerable. The amount of money collected by taxa tion in three ytarsof per.ee, from July, 18G5, to July, 1S68, reached $1,594, 175,000. I have it from official sources. The Commissioner of Internal RevenueT reports for 18GG $501,572,000, for 18f.8 ! 4 1 1,300,000, and Appletnn's Encyclo pedia reports for 1867 $501,302,000; total $1,594,174,000. In each case tho gold collected at the Custom-house i3 es timated at 1 40. Of this amount tho rev enue from the tariff reached $724,581, 000. The expenditure of the Government has been scarcely less than this enormous sum ; for if you will look at the public debt on the 31st August, 1805, you will find that it amounted to 82,757,000,571 , and if you look at the last monthly report, made August 1, I8G8, you will find it is stated to be $2.G33,58S, showins a de crease of 124,107,215. The Commis sioner of Internal Revenue tells us that the value of all the real and personal property in the United States in 1S60 the lands, farms, houses, town lots, money, slocks, bonds, railroads, steamboats, thipB all amounted to only 14,282,726,0 iS. If the products of three yTars if peace have made up for the ravages if four ycats of war, then the taxation for three yeais has amounted to very much more, than one tenth of all the property in the country, while the taxation of Great Britain has amounted to one-thirtieth part. If the taxation for these years were assessed wpon each individual equally, it would amount in the United States to 34. 25, while in France the taxation for the saute time would amount to 22, and in Austria to less than 1G. The public de' t of the United btatcs. if assessed upon a h indi- vidual. would amount to $74 25, ll public debt of France to 53, and of Prussia to $12. I said to you tltat I never mada a statement that I could not verify, and I hold in my hand this rep-iro from this Republican Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. Wells. It is open to the inspection of any gentleman. Oo tho 27th page of that book, which your member of Congress can furnish you, for it is a pub lic document, you will find verified every word I have said. Our Republican friends are very much astonished at this exhibi tion. Laughter. Did you ever know a spendthrift when he was brought face to face with the condition of his affairs, that was not very much astonished indeed. They will turn upon us with some state ments made by this same commissioner. In his letter to Mr. Allison, he says that during the three years of which I have been speaking, tbe amount paid on account of the public debt is 250,000,000, and that ought to save 15,000,000 annually in gold by way of interest. Now, if you look into that report carefully, you will find the actual reduction of tho public debt is but 134,000,000, and that the balance is made up of an estimated surplus in the Treasury which is not there, if at all, for the purpose of paying the public debt, but for the purpose of beinr used for the ordinary expenses of the Government; and if you look at this 134,000,000, you wiil find that of this amount 71,000,000 have been reduced by virtue of the con traction of the currency and calling in the greenbacks, which pay no interest at all ; and if you will put side by side with these facts that in three years (he increase of tbe debt which pay interest in gold, has amounted to 002,000,000, you will sco how much your burdens have been light ened. Then this same Commissioner tel's us that the estimated surplus in the Trea sury, on the 1st day of July, lb'08, is 34,000,000. Where are they ? They have not been paid on the public debt ; that I have shown you. They are not in the Treasury ; that I have shown you. I have, unfortunately, for our Republican brethern, a list of tho deficiency bills that were passed during the last' two or three weeks of the last Congress, and the list that I have, imperfect as it is, shows that they have appropriated out of this 34, 000,000 the sum of 27,000,000 in that way. I hold in my hand this list. I hate to trouble you so much with the details of figures, but as this is a fair specimen of the way in which our Republicanfellow-citi-zens, when they get invested with power in Washington, seek to cover up their do ings, you will excuse me if I call your attention to it for one moment. The way in which these gentlemen manage is this. They appropriate very much less each year than they know will be expended, and, toward the end of the session of the year for which the appropriations have been made, they get up what they call "deficiency bills" to cover tho excess. Then they go on in the same BesVion and appropriate for the next year a very much less amount, and when that year comes round they pass "deficiency bills" again ; but when they come to tell you what the expenses year by year are, they say, "That is all we have appropriated." "These are our appropriations." "See how much we have curtailed upon Iat year!" They forget to toll you aioui" h i uicy bills. (Laughter.) ! Listen to me one moment. I will not de tain you" long. Deficiency in expenses of reconstruction, 057,000 ; second, appro priation for the same object. 278,000 ; a further deficiency in Third District, and 87,000 for destitute people (chiefly ne groes) in the District of Columbia. Then we come to the War Department, nnd we have a deficiency in the War Depart ment of 1,900,003. Then comes the Postmaster-General's Office and the Quartermaster-General's Office and the Post office Department, and we have defieicne bills in each ; and the Treasury Depart ment, and we have a deficiency bill there; and coming to the Collectors of Custom", we have a deficiency there ; and coming to tha Construction branch of the Treasury, and we have two deficiencies there. Then comes the Interior Department, and we have a deficiency there ; and then the government of Territories, and wo have a deficiency there. Then comes the Legis lative Department, and we have a defi ciency of 000,000 in the Senate, and 115,000 in the House. Then we come to a second legislative deticiencj', then Pension Office, then two deliciences in Public Buildings and Grounds, and lastly a deficiency on the miscellaneous bill. (Great laughter.) When next any i f your members of Congress tell you how much money they have appropriated for next year, ask them to read how much they appropriated in deficiency bills. "I will not weary you with this detail of figures any further. I might speak to you an hour on that subject. They would afford you a very instructive les-cn. You would see a great many things that "3011 don't s-ae now. I don't know whether it is wo ih your while to see them. It cer tainly is not unkss you can correct them. The conclusion of this whole matter is that we are more than 2,600,000,000 in debt, and that year by year the Federal Government collects from 3'cur pockets mere than 50'),000,000. If you add to that 500,000,000, the amount col lected by the various State Governments, it wiil run up to 300,000,000, nnd that is more than six per cent, of the value of all the property in the United State?, and more than thirty, almost fifty, per cent, of all the earnings of labor and capital in the country. Ict me state to you in sharp contrast with this Republican extravagance that the whole expanse of the four 3'ears of James Buchanan's ad ministration amounted to only 253,000, 0J0. Let me state that the expenses of the whole four 3-ears of the War Depart ment during the Mexican war, under Jas, K. Polk, amounted only to 90.000,000. Now, while we bave been piling up this gigantic line till it rises like a monument on the happiness and liberties of our peo ple, even unto heaven. While wo were piling it up we were recklessly expanding the currency." When pay-day now begins to make its approach we are just as in dustriously occupied in contracting the currency. Suppose a neighbor of 3'eurs should act opon the same principle. Suppose he should go into the market in the spring and buy whatever he wanted, and should voluntarily have the price of whatever he wanted enhanced, and should promise to pay in the fall out of tha pro ceeds of his summer's labor, whether agricultural or otherwise ; and suppose when fall came, and hi3 notes were com ing due, he should voluntarily run down the prices of everything he had to sell, so that it consumed his whole crop to pay his debt incurred in the spring, when, if he behaved rightly and kept up the prices, he might pay his debts and have half his crops for a surplus. Would you not say lie was a fool ? .Well, that is exactly what the Republican party has been doing for the people of the. United States What is the result ? You eec it in Maine, and from what jou see in Maine 3'ou may judge of what the results ire in the rest of the country. Are you prosperous? Are you growing rich day by day, or are you living off the proceeds of your past labors ? If you ere not prosperous, WI13 not ? Your skies are bright, 3'our ground is fertile, your air is pure, 3our .men are industrious, 3'our women are thrifty why is it that the wil of distress goes up from all over this State of Maine, and that poverty and wretchedness find their way into homes where before there was nothing but luxury and comfort ? Why is it that your agricultural interests are so depressed? Why is it that 3-our taxes consume such an enormous amount of your yearly sup ply ? Why is it that 3'our harbors are deserted and your shipyards a desert waste ? Why, the answer lies before you, so that the wayfaring man or the fool may not err therein. You cannot build your ships because every article that enters into their construction is taxed so high that the British colonies undersell you always. You cannot employ labor, because labor is compelled to pay theso taxes, and the bones and sinew and blood of men cannot work and pay taxes and be neither fed nor clothed. You cannot carry our West ern produce to other countries, because when we have paid our labor and taxes and transportation there is nothing left to send abroad. You cannot carry the Southern produce because, under Radical reconstruction farmers have teen converted into politicians, and cotton, rice, sugar, have ceased to be tho staples. . A garden has been turned into a desert. A liberal system is the life of your commerce, a3 it is the hopo of your industry ; yet tho ! tarifja mast be kept high to py interest these on our public debt, and the daily expenses incurred by Republican policy, and whilo it skims the rich alluvium of our fertile valleys to make the sterile rocks and bar ren coasts of Massachusetts to smile, it destroys your shipping and palsies your industry that her manufacturers may be protected. "I havo stated to you that the las! offi cial report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows the debt to be 2,633,588,755 ; of this amount 1,5S3,1 10,000 are in five twenty bonds. I maintain that these bonds are payable in legal-tender notes. The 1 aw under which tliev arc issued expressly declares that the legal tenders are payable for every debt due from tho Government except interest on the public debt. The bonds say they are paj-able in legal-tender notes. Senator Sherman says so. Senator Morton says so. Thaddcus Stevens says so. Tho Funding bill says so. The Democratic conventions of Penn S3lvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missou ri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan say so. The D'mocrattc Con vention of Maine says fo. The great council of the Democratic party at New York says so- A year ago, when I ap serted this theory, I had opposition enough to juslify an argument. Now I have not. I do not know how it is with your F.epub licans in Maine, but in Ohio and Indiana there the people are so anxious to get on that the threaten to jostle me off my own platform. (Great laughter and applause. ) A 3-ear ago the leading men called us cop perheads and traitors. Now they politely I su' the theory is true, but altogether im practicable. Not at all, my friends. Pay the bonds as they become due. Save the interest. Save the premium on gold. How ? The national banks have out a circulation of 300,000,000, secured by bonds. You understand this operation very well. Three men buy one hundred thousand dollars wcrth of bonds. They doposit them in the Treasury. Tbxy get their six per cent, interest in gold. They get 90 per cent, in batik notes, and th;.3 they come home here to loan at 10 or 15 or 25 per cent., as they may be able to exact from the purse of the borrowers. The Government pays G per cent, in gold to these gentlemen for tho burden of lend ing at 20. Break up this system. Call in that circulation. Lssue greenbacks in its stead. ike v.p 300.000,000 of bonds and sav 1S,090,C00 in gold an nually by way of interest. This will re duce -our debt, reduce your interest, and enable j-ou either to reduce your faxes or to increase 'our payment the next year. Y'our income is at least 500,000,000 a 3-ear. Be honesf. Be economical. Lei the thefts be stopped. Let robbery be punished. Expend one hundred and fifty millions of dollars a ear twice as much as President Buchanan expended, far more than General Jackson expended in any four years of his administration. Add otic hundred and fifty millions for interest, nnd yet you havo more than two hundred millions of dollars a year, and that sum constantly increasing by a large amount, with which to pay off the public debt. In this way it can be paid, every dollar c f principal and inieresf, by the time it be comes due, without adding one cent to the tax or one cent to the circulation. If it is thought advisable, the taxes can be re duced and the .payment be prolonged for ten years. 'I hear it stated that this is unjust to the public creditor. Nut at all. You pay him back all he gave, you pay him high interest, you pay him all you prom-, ised. how me a single bondholder who, if you pay him to-dny in legal tenders with gold at 140 per cent, will not replace his outlay, I will show jou fifty, who, in ad dition to twelve per cent, interest, havo addvd in five years forty per cent, to their principal. The question is not whelhor you will pay the bondholders what you owe, but whether you will rob the people to pay the bondholder what you do not owe. (Applause.) I hear it stated this is unjust to the people. When this Legal Tender law was passed, it confiscated two thirds of all the indebtedness of the coun try. The man who had a rote for one thousand in gold was compelled to take one thousand in paper. The man who had leased a house for five hundred in gold could pay his rent with five hnndred in paper. 1 knew an instance in New Y'ork City. A man sold his neighbor a lot for twenty thousand dollars. The pur chaser was a thrifty trader who could make more than 6 per cent, from his money. The seller was a thriftless trader who could not make so much. They agreed that tho purchaser should pay when he pleased, but in the meantime should pay 6 per cent, interest. He waited till gold was two hundred and fifty. Ho took his twenty thousand in gold and bought fifty thousand in legal-tender, paid twenty thousand to the seller, invested thirty thousand in Five-twenty bonds, has drawn one thousand eight hundred in gold a year interest, and now is the most loj-al patriot anil the loudest clamorer for pay ment of the bonds in gold, of all my ac quaintances. (Applause.) lie is a rea sonably good man, they say. lie i3 a Christian man, and they Bay that ever' night as he goes to bed he prays God that he may do to other men as he would have other men do to him, and when he raises his band in prayer, that God may deliver him from all his enemies, he prays espe cially that be may bo saved from that public enemy who wants to pay the five twenry bonds in gce-backs idou-l laugh ter and applause) and I hear it said thia system will depreciate the currency, ami cheat labor of its just rewards. Not at all. Every dollar of tho public debt which is in this wsy pah! will relieve the properti' of the country from tho mortgage which ia upon it, and by making the greenbacks rao'n certain of redemption will increase their value. No, gentlemen, py these five-twenties in legal-tender notea tho moment they become redeemable, and yon will reduce tho debt, you will save tho intertst. won vri'l re!ivc labor from itsbnrdeus. (Applause ) Couple with this the tasatlon of capital to the same extent as yen tax labor, stop tho excessive contractioa of tho currency, ex pand it if oeccssary te recover the buvnes of the country the proet ration it now fuels, and you will mako capital profitable; yi will make industry contented. Your fhip yards will be alive again Onr fertile f:c'.Js will yields Ixuntinil harvest. Labor will perform its accustoinod work, and bow-ng its cheerful head to a burthc: which is -!-ways heavy, will push forward with h'gher courage and loftier step. (Cheers.) Do not misunderstand me. I did not vote for tho Legal Tender law. I opposed it. I though; it very wrong. I was then, I nm now, a hard-money man. I foresaw the evils cf at expanded and depreciated currency but tiio law was passed. The evils were contracted; they have been endured by tho pc'T 1 i antl I am now in favor ct extracting from tho system all the good which cau be gotten out of it. (Applause.) I have no hostility to tho bondholders. They are, doubt'esj, wor thy and estimable gentlemen. I would do thenj exact justice. Whoro I promised goid I wc ::'.. pay gold j where I promised paper I would pay paper. I beg of them now to be just and wise. I woulil not threaten, but they may go further and fare woree. Labor as suffering ; it may become restive. Tho Republican party upsets this whole pol ry. It insists on paying the debt in gold and ex empting bonds from taxation. Tho Fiiud.ng bill exprcseea the whole idea it passed bx-tri Houses ; it would have become a law except for the adjournment. It proved that tho present bodies should bo exchanged for other bonds bearing 4J per cent. iEterest, payao o in forty ycare, principal and interest, both to be paid in gold, and to be exeaipt from all State and Federal taxation. Gold stanJs to-day at upwards of 140. This bill adds at ouce 6ix hundred millions and more to tho debt. It abandons therihtof taxation and thus gives up more than twelve millions of gold. It postpones indificite'.y tlie payment. If payment is postponed forty year the debt will never bo paid at all. It will becomo on cf the permanent institutions cf tho country. It the debt sht uhl be 2.600.000, 000, aud shonld be funded, at even 4 per cent., the annual interest wuhl reach $100. GOO.CCO ia gold, r.rd this mrst be raised year by year, from the labor of the country forty years. I low many of you will live that long i II w many of your children will live that long ? And yet, year by year, as long as you iiv", as long as they live, outof their sweat and blood, 1 their bones and sinews, of their breaking hearts and dying bidies, these on hundred millions must be raised. (Applause.) Do you know what a national debt means? It means hard labor, scant clothing brown bread, and no meat. It means that tho rich shall be richer and tho poor shall bo poorer. It mear.8 that untaxed capital shall pamper the idle with luxuries, while squalor shall preside in tho cabin of tho poor, and suffering shall make hl.i lift like a constant death. (Renewed applause.) I see before me many young mn. Are yon willing to perpetuate a policy which will forever prevent yon from rising above your present condition ? You look forward to a few years of labor, and then hope to devote yourself to trading with tho capital which, your industry and frugality shall have saved. In J'our dreams you see a snug cottage, light ed with the Mnile i love and sounding with, tho babble of infant tongue?, over which plenty and contentment cast their cheering rays." ("Ureat applause.) Am your willing to give up this bright prospect and be con teut for ever to pay to the tax-gatherer all j'our earnings beyond food and clothing ? (Cries of "No!"" No!" Extend the debt, and reduce tho interest ! No, gentlemen, pay tbe debt and save the interest. Roduce tho taxes, equalize the burthens, and indus try will be stimulated, business will be re stored, enterprise will to active and labor will reap its just and adeduate reward. An essential step in thi3 movement is the resto ration of the prosperity of the Southern States. They constitute an agricultural community. They are producers. Their interest are identical with yours. Their staples will furnir-h business for your mer cantile navies. They will furuibh wealth for us all. They ought to pay tiieir tdiaro I of the tax. and of the public debt. Tbcv can do it well. They will do it easily if order is established in their homes and se curity is fslt. "He who snweth shall also reap-" Every Instinct of selfishness, as well as patriotism, demands that the policy of hatred and oppression shall cease, and ihr.fc thoso States be restored to their rights and the people to their liberties. (Applause.) Fellow Democrats ! are j-ou up and active and well orgauized for the strugglo beforo you ? The eyes of the whole country aro upon you I The hearts of tho Democracy.of the Conservative men, everywhere are with you You will night tbe first battie of this campaign. If you win it. cvtu if you im prove on last year, you will givo it the pres tige of victory. We will carry the country. For twenty years the elections of Maine have foreshadowed the result in tho West. Wa "look always to you with inteuso interest. Our hearts and hope are with you. Send us in September rows of your victory (Criea of "we will I") Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, will follow ; Seymour will b elected (tremeu doua applause) and the shouts of our re joicing will be arswered to us from Heaven, as, when of old the angel choir announced, "I'caeeoa earth, good will to men." Tre mendous applause.) Robed. Dr. Holmes, having been oalled npen and censidetably bored by a ger.tluman, who had devoted Lirxseif to lecturing ii New England without much ahi'ity;fcr d iag so. inquired, "What aro you about at til par ticular time?" Tho answer was, "Letturi ing, si usual. I hold forth this evening at ltoxbury." The profesor, clapping hi4 bands together, exclaimed, "I am jjOid of it. I IiStst HkeJ tlr-frc ltoxbury people."
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