THE FREEMAN
BXSBUAa, PA.,
TmvntDAX, : : : JJakcm 11, 1869.
The Inaugural Address.
Id another column will be found President
Grant's Inaugural Address. It it brief and
is not remarkable for either purity of style
or originality of thought. Unlike fimilar
addresses from Washington to Lincoln, it
betrays up want of self-confidence in his abil
ity to bear the heavy burden which has been
imposed upon him, and in that respect is in
bad taste. Gtn. Grant' professionu of re
trenchment and reform are common to all
tucb productions. Tudeed, an Inaugural
Address without a declaration of rigid econ
omy and vigorous retrenchment would be
ike the play of Ilamlet with the part of
Hamlet left out. Gen. Grant is no doubt
incere in this regard, but we look upon
Congress as so essentially and hopelessly cor
rupt that, in order to carry out his honest
purpose, he will have to resort to a very lib
eral exercise of the veto power. That he
will avail himself of this constitutional right,
so much denounced by the radicals, ia not to
be doubted, because ha brandishes the veto
power in the very face of Congress. As to
the manner of paying the public debt he is
heart and hand with the bondholders, and
therein differs materially from tha views of
many of the prominent leaders of Lis own
party, fur Senator .Morton and other radicals
ia the Senate, and Gen. Butler aud others of
his faith in the House, have peclared within
the last two weeks thai to pay the debt in
gold was no part of the contract.
General Grant's theory or plan of paying
the public debt is as novel as it is ridiculous.
He i-eenis to think that nature has liberally
applied us with the moans of doing so, and
hat all that is necessary is to dig a sufficient
quantity of gold and silver out of the bowels
of the Rocky Mountains, transport it over
the racific Rail Road to the Philadelphia
mint, and the question is solved at once.
The debt of no nation in the world was ever
paid in this way, and General Grant will
discover before his term of office expires that
the publie debt of the United States cannot
be liquidated by any such process. A care
ful reading of any treatise on Political Econ
omy will very speedily cure him of this de
1 jsion.
We did not expect from General Grant an
unqualified endorsement of the universal
negro suffrage amendment. When he ac
cepted the Chicago nomination he also gave
his adhesion to the platform, which declared
language not to be mistaken that the
question of suffrage in the Northern States,
at least, was to be left exclusively to their
own control. It. is not in character with the
honor of a gallant soldier thus to repudiate
his own deliberate act. But in this respect
Gen. Grant only follows in the footsteps of
his'party, and both have kicked the platform
from beneath them. While he expresses
the "Aope" and "desire" that the right of
safTrage may be conferred upon all the ne
groes in the North, Gen. Grant has not one
word to say in favor of removing the politi
cal disabilities which stand between twenty
tiro thousand intelligent white men in the
South and the ballot-box. As the majority
of the popular vote in his favor was made
up entirely of the negro vote which he re
ceived in the South, it is fair to conclude
that Lis 1 hopo" and "desire" on this subject
spring from a lively sense of gratitude for
. favors received from tha "man and brother.'
In his address Gen. Grant is painfully si
lent on the subject of protection to American
ijdustry. This is certainly a poor way of
backing up his friends and ought to create a
howl in the camp of the protectionists. But
the most noteworthy feature in the whole
aldress is. that from the beginning to the
end of it he does not once make use of that
ttereotyped but much abused word loyalty.
Nor does he make the sligheat allusion to the
"slaveholders' rebellion," that prolific and
inexhaustible source of radical buncombe.
There are cfluces not to be condoned by a
loyal league association.
We now Lave Gen. Grant's professions.
Let us patiently wait for his practice.
CilliM S CAB1XET.
An unusual degree of curiosity existed in
rcferenco to the Cabinet of Gcneial Grant,
from the fact that he was resolved not to
make it public until the names of its mem
bers were sent to the Senate. The following
is the list :
Secretary of State Elihu B. Was-hburne, 111.
Secretary of Wsr Maj Gen.Jno. M.Schofield.
t: ,.r V Ailnli.h R Rur'e. Phila.
Secretary of Treasury A. T. Stewart, N. 1 .
Secretary oi Interior jacoo u. wi, vjuiu.
Postmaster General J. A. J. Cresiwell, MJ.
Attorney General Saasuel T. Hoar, Mass.
The M saying that "the mountain was
ra labor and brought forth a mouse," was
never more fully verified than wheii the
fcregoing names, excepting that of General
Schofield. were sent over tie telegraph wires
on last Friday. It surprised both friends
and foes alike. It is unquestionably the
weakest Cabinet that has been selected by
any President rrnce the formation of the
governmeat. The Radicals may affect to be
atisfied with it, and Borne may even eulo
gise it, but to the leader of the party it
cannot but be deeply humiliating. It is not
the entertainment to which they hoped to
be invited, and cantot fail to produce weep
ing and wailing where every thing was ex
pected o be lovely.
Heretofore it . has been- supposed- that a
Secretary of State ought to possess the very
highest order of inlellect. It has aecovding
Jy been filled by our most able and distin
guished statesmen. We need only mentioc
Clay, Livingston-, Forsjth, Webster, Cal
houn, Clayton, Everett, Marcy, Cass and
Seward. When compared with such intel
lectual giants Elihu B. Washburne assumes
the dimensions of a mere dwarf. lie has
acquired some notoriety in Congress as the !
Iglf constituted guardian of the treasury, 1
and for that he is entitled to credit. That
he is a man of any decided ability is not
even pretended. In Illinois he has occupied
a respectable position as a stump orator.
In Congress he has been perhaps its most
windy and turbulent member. His selec
tion betrays a sad dearth of first-class intel
lect in the Radical party, or a lack of judg
ment on the part of Gen. Grant, or perhaps
both.
Of A.T. Stewart, the new Secretary of
the Treasury, nothing more can be said than
that he is a wealthy merchant of New York,
and has never been supposed to hare inheii
ted the mac tie of Alexander Hamilton. His
reputation is based simply upon his enor
mous wealth. We admit that because he is
rich, it does not follow that he is either fit or
unfit for tho position. But from his antece
dents we infer that he is not the right man
in the right place, and we think it safe to
predict that he will prove a stupendous
failure.
Adolph E. Borie, the Secretary of .the
Navy, is from Philadelphia. lie is no doubt
a respectable gentleman. But what Radi
cal outside of the loj al league club in his
own city ever heard of him as a prominent
party man ? Borie is the tub thrown by
Grant to the Pennsylvania radical whale.
Such a termination to the Cabinet drama
must be especially mortifying to Curtin and
his man FriJav. Col. A. K. M'Clure. That
all the acknowledged leaders of the Radical
party in the State should have been ignored,
and that one so utterly obscure in politics as
Adolph E. Borie should be thrown to the
surface, is a curiosity in Pennsylvania poli
tics. It shows that professional politicians
are not truswp caids with Grant. If a Cabi
net so weak in the brain element can man
age to keep both its head and Grant's above
water for the next four years it will have
accomplished a task for which it is not now
regarded as competent.
AMALGAMATION.
We lire in a progressive age, but whether
our progress is downward, or upward and
onward, admits of grave and serious doubt.
Three years ago the man who would have
been raeh enough to even hint at the social
equality of the white and black races in this
country would have been excluded from all
decent society. But now, so rapid has been
our progress under the benignant sway of
radicalism, the advocates of this infernal
doctrine are not only tolerated in respectable
circles, but they have even entrenched them
selves in the pulpit. It is a wonder to us
that the avenging wrath of Jehovah does
not smite these clerical reformers in their
impious attempts to change and set aside
His wise and salutary decrees.
Mrs. Child and Anna Dickinson occupy
the foremost place in this new field of social
reform, while Theodore Tilton, a leading
radical, boldly endorses it in the New York
Independent, of which he is editor. A short
time ago he published a sermon on "Ameri
ca's Past and Future," delivered by a man
who disgraces his sacred office and who has
a local habitation and a name somewhere as
the Rev. Gilbert Haven. The following is
an extract from this sermon, prefaced with
Til ton's remarks endorsing it as "a fine spe
cimen of the sort of 'political preaching' of
which the people of this country stand in
great need." Can any decent white man or
woman read it without a feeling of the most
unutterable loathing and disgust?
The sermon nn "America's Past and Fu
ture," by Rev. Gilbert Haven, which fills so
large a pcrtion of our space to day, we very
earnestly commend to the attention of our
readers. It is a fine specimen of the Bort of
"political preaching" ot which'tbe people of
this country stand in great need. Mr. Haven
is one of the most eloquent and powerful
preachers in the Methodist Church ; and his
fine powers and wide culture are all made
tributary to that Christian Radicalism which
is tho glory of the age and the ripest and
best result of free institutions.
The Reverend gentleman is speaking of
the bright future of America under Grant,
and among Us blessings he thinks is to be the
inauguration of this greatest of all Unions,
the vnion between the while and black races :
But cquailty at tho polls is not the only
work laid upon the coming government.
There must be such a disposition of its pat
rouage, such a steadfast expression of its
convictions, such an employment of its influ
ence, as will tend to the abolition of the
whole mass of prejudice that stillJJefiles the
national heart. I am aware that this evil
cannot be utterly abolished by any enact
ments. The leprosy lies deep within. It
dwells in onr churches, in our souls, in our
education, in society. It still makes us look
at a face with repulsion which is of the very
complexion of the mother of our Lord nay
of the Lord himself. It still leads us to
erect barriers between us and our kindred,
and to make us and them talk of "our race"
as if they and we had a different parentage,
Savior and eternity. It must come to an
end. It is coming to an and. This election
is a great advance towards that end. If the
Administration as faithfully adhere to its
ralmg idea, and put men into office every
where without regard to color and with re
gard only to capacity, it will greatly prosper
this reform. Let him make Frederick Doug
lass a member of his Cabinet, and the nation
will commend and imitate his courage.
But under it, as well as through it, will the
work go forward. Senators and representa
tives will enter Congress of the condemned
hue. They have already become Mayors,
Secretaries of State, Lieutenant Governors ;
they bold no small influence and office in
the uplifted Sjuth
Yet more : our feelings of aversion will
change to feelings of regard. The com
plexion at which we now profess to revolt we
shall look upon- with pleasure. Vice is not
the only thing that is at first hated and
afterward embraced. Virtue is more fre
quently subject to this experience. It is
very rare that a real gift of God ia fallen in
love with at first sight. How few behold in
religion all "the charms with which she is
divinely invested. How many turn with dis
gust from her pleading, pleasing counte
nance. How few are instinctively drawn to
temperance, to study, to work. The world
beholds in vice everything charming, in
virtue everything repulsive. But acquaint
ance changes this experience, and we cling
to the good we at first disdained-. If ay, we
usually are the move bad ia proportion as
we were hostile. It is the law of our nature
that we choosfl that which we say we will
never hare. If yon hear a person declaring
that he will never be a Methodist, be sure
that he will yet be of the most earnest type
of that religion. If he Bays, "I will be any
thing sooner than a Congregationalist," you
may mark him as foreordained to be a sober
deacon of that orthodox church. When the
young lady says, "I'll marry anybody but
Mr. Simperton," she vtill soon be found cast
ing her most languishing meshes around
that jut despised youth. When pompous
young Jones say S,"I hate the very looks and
van. name of Miss Marigold," be you cer
tain he will ere long say to her, "Your face
is angelic, your name is sweeter than the
lutes of paradise. I can only live in the
light of your affection." So shall we treat
our brethren of color. We shall "see
Helen's beauty in the brow of Egypt." We
t-hall say, "What a rich complexion is that
brown skin." "It is Italian, Greek, Oriental,
perfect. How far it excels our chalky hue."
We already paint our houses after their
color. Our girls crinkle their hair after the
natural outlines of their sister's locks. Th is
is one of God's modes of curing us of color
blindness. We shall see, as Mrs. Kemble
says, that there are qualities in the human
skin superior to a pink aad white tint, and
that in velvety softness, in fineness of fiber,
in richness of tone this despised flesh sur
passes our own. o o
Already, too, our romancers and poets, the
imaginative foreflytrs of the slower-footed
fact, are putting this future into their fasci
nating tales, and all the greedy crowd of
novel readers are finding their freshest mor
sels flavored with this celestial truth. The
stage makes an octoroon a heroine, and
wins thousands to the admiration of a color
on the boards which they still falsely profess
to detest in the parlor. Mrs. Child, in her
"Romance of the Republic," gives a vivid
portraiture of the wrongs and rights of this
married life and love, in conflict with the
curse of caste. Anna Dickinson waxes yet
bolder, and, in her "What Answer?"
shows how inevitable, how beautiful is this
true affection, despite, nay, including this
difference of color. And the hour is not far
off when the Y,hite-7iued husband shall boast
of Vie dusky beauty of his wife, and the Cau-
cassian wife shall admire the sun kissed
countenance of her husband as deeplg and as
unconscious of the jnesent ruling abhorrence
as is hit admiration of her lighter lint.
Desdemona teas as deeply fascinated by
Othello's visage, as was he by Desdemonas.
Thai hour is not coining it already is. blot
a few of Viese marriages which God has
made, and wluse legal validity man, in a few
instances, has rductantly acknowledged, are
already filling homes with happiness, and
both prophesying and leading Vie way to the
future unity and blessedness of America.
Amalgamation is Godrs word, declaring the
oneness of man. and ordaining its universal
recognition, ll'io art thou that fghtest
against God f
THE AHESDMOT.
The negro amendment to the Constitu
tion, having been kicked to and fro like a
football between the Senate and House of
Representatives, has at last assumed a defi
nite form and shape. It is as follows :
Be it resolved, Lc, Two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, that the following amend
ment to the Constitution of the United Suites
be submitted to the legislatures of the several
States, and when ratified by three fourths
thereof, it shall be a part of said Constitution.
Akt. 15. The right of the citizen? ef the
United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by ti e United States or by any State,
on account of race, color, or previous condi
tion of f ervitude.
Si:c 2. The Congress shall hare power to
enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Many of the radical Senators voted for it
under protest, in order that it may be sub
mitted to the Legislature now in session for
ratification, and for the additional and
weightier reason that their party would not
have a two-third majority in the next House
of Representatives. As a conspicuous in
stance of violated faith, the passage of this
amendment by Congress has no paralled in
the political history of the country. The
Chicago platform, in plain and unmistakable
terms, pledged the Republican party not to
interfere with the question of suffrage in the
Northern States, and on that distinct prem
ise it went into the canvass and elected its
candidate for President. It now repudiates
this prominent feature of its platform, and
with shameless duplicity does the very thing
which it had solemnly pledged itEelf not to
do. After havicg obtained the support and
confidence cf the people, and secured another
lease of power, it deliberately betrays them.
Some of the radical Legislatures in the ex
treme Westeru Slates have ratified the
amendment with indecent haste. The fact
of the passage of the amendment by Con
gress was sent by telegraph to the Legisla
tures of Louisiana, Nevada and Kansas, and
on that information they proceeded to ratify
it. Their action in the premises is simply null
and void, foi the reason that the law requires
the Secretary of State to give to the different
Legislatures official notice of the passage of
the resolution. When that has bc:n done
the jurisdiction of the Legislature over the
question commences, but not before. What
official notice had Nevada, Kansas or Loui
siana cf the passage of the amendment?
They had son at all, and consequently their
action was premature and of no effect, as
thty will hereafter be given to understand.
We suppose it is safe to assume that the
radical Legislature of this State is prepared
to eat the dirt that is set before it. Judging
from the past, it is vary evident that the
majority of that body aie fully prepared to
sound all the depths and shoals of political
infamy. What do they care for plighted
faith or violated pledges? Their rule of
political action is that the end justifies the
means. Are there not twelve thousand ne
groes in this State ready to vote tho radical
ticket when this amendment becomes part
of the constitution ? If the present Legisla
ture ratifies the amendment it will perpe
trate a gross and unpardonable fraud upon
the people. It was net elected ou any such
issue, and to settle that question now would
be a flagrant usurpation of.legislative power.
When the amendment was before the
House for the last time, on- the 20th of Feb
ruary, Judge Woodward made an able
speech against it, from which we make the
following extract :
"Now, sir, it k from considerations of ex
pediency that J oppose negro suffrage. It ia
the good of the negro as well as of the white
man that prompts my opposition. It is my
desire that they may lire together ia peaee and
happiness, as always heretofore in Peanajl
vama, that leads me to deprecate this amend
ment. And especially bare we ia Pennsylva
nia a right to complain when, in violation mt
all precedent, of all constitutional law, ot your
own party platform, and of the peace of our
Commonwealth, you repeal our constitution
without giving a a right to vote against your
amendment. If such a highhanded wrong
does not wake up the people of Pennsylvania
to the revolutionary schemes of the republican
party : if thev can be beguiled by fair speeches
into the support of such a measure as this if
they are ready to have the negro thrust into
political partnership in contempt of their sol
emnly recorded will, why then, sir, a sad and
sickening degeneracy has come upon my native
State, and, tor the'firat time in life, I shall
blush to own myself her son. Africa never so
demeaned herself. The bardy savages of the
roouutain slopes in the interior of that conti
nent never debased themselves to the level of
the Bushmen and Hottentots of the Cape of
Good Hope. No, no, sir, they could be torn
from kindred and homes by the cruel slave
trader, and borne away to distant lands to be
slaves, but they never would, and never did,
voluntarily surrender to an inferior tribe of
tbeirownrace, much less to an inferior race.
And iave we, proud Americans, so lost our
ancestral traditions that we can no longer bo
inspired even by African example t
"We have seen in history the'proudJRoman
refusing citizenship to the roost illustrious
aliens : we have seen the Goth and Hun and
Vandal trample Roman grandeur into dust ;
we have glowed over the struggles between
the Norman and the Saxon, the Cavalier and
the Roundhead, the Briton and the Scot, all
of them jealous of their nationalities and ready
to abed their blood in defence of what they had
inherited from their ancestors. But now, in
this nineteenth century, we are to be held up as
the first example in the world's history of a
great people surrendering political trusts to one
of the lowest and feeblest races of the world's
population. The Aoglo-Saxon of American
descent giving up the inheritance which has
made hint great to the African ? Not to the
African in the wild freedom of his native jun
gles, but to the enfeebled, timid, ignorant de
scendant of a race of slaves ! Andthese are
to be made voters and law-givers, to be our
judges and representatives. Is there any pro
louuder depth of self-degradation, thanthis ?
If there be 1 have not courage to explore it.
Bates' History Once More, y'
The Committee on Printing in the State
Senate have made an investigation of the
probable cost of publishing Bates' Military
History. If this precaution had been exer
cised by the Legislature at the outset, the
project would not have met with any en
couragement.and Bates would have remained
in merited obscurity. The Committte report
that if Bates concludes his work in four vol
umes the entire cost wili amount to one hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars, as follows:
For compilation, twenty thousand dollars ;
for printing, binding, etc., one hundred and
forty thousand dollars ; and for expressage,
ten thousand dollars. The Committee fur
ther report that if it takes five volumes to
complete the work, the total cost will amount
to two hundred and seven thousand dollars.
The Committee also say, as we understand
the matter, that in as much as the Governor
directed the woik to be done the Legislature
is bound to comply with his order. But
this cannot be so, because it is expressly stip
ulated in the appropriation bill of Aprill 11,
1808, that the amount then appropriated
"shall net be paid unless the proposed history
of the Pennsylvania volunteers be completed
within ne year from the date of the passage
of this act." It is perfectly manifest from
the very terms of the act that Bates, not
having finished the Job as he was bound to
do, has no claim whatever against the Slate
for any further advances-
This leak in the treasury must be stopped.
The Legislature will surely not make another
appropriation to this useless project, in view
cf this startling report of the Committee.
By stopping it now the State will save about
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, while
the muse of history will not be seriously of
fended. Let this huge swindle have a qui
etus now and forever, and let the irrepressi
ble Bates hang his historical harp upon the
willows.
Important Announcement. The tiro
Lading Magazines cf the South Consolida
ted. With the issue for April. 18G9. The
Land We Lote and The New Eledic Maga
zine will be united ; Geneaal D. Hill re
maining an Editor and partner in the con
solidated magazine, which will be published
by the undersigned from their office, where
all letters must be addressed after the 1st
of March, 18C9.
There will be no change in the character
of The New Eclectie Magazine, except that
to its present features will be added such
characteristics of The Land We Love as
have heretofore made that publication so
acceptable to military readers.
The obligations of The Land We Love
to subscribers and advertisers will be assum
ed by the undersigned.
General Hill will continue to reside in
Charlotte, N. C, where all personal letters
and correspondence relative to tho military
departmeut of the magazine should bo ad
dressed. With the increased facilities thus secured,
we feel confident of being able to make our
magazine the most interesting published in
this country.
Lnder the new arrangement, the circula
tion of the Magazine will be larger than the
combined circulations of all the Magazines
of the South ; it thus becomes a most valu
able medium for advertisers.
The terms of the Magazine will remain as
heretofore, $4,00 ter annum in advance.
We are offering very liberal premiums to
all who will canvass for us.
Address Turnbull & Murdoch, 51 Lex
ington street, Baltimore.
An Affecting Scene. Kissing a Wife
while Dying of Hydrophobia. Mr. Eeker
son, who died of hydrophobia at Saddle
river, bad to be held by five or Bix men,
and during his lucid intervals begged to
kiss hw wife, who was very ill in another
part of the house. Just before his last
dteadful fit he pleaded so piteously to kiss
her once more before he died, that, risking
the consequences, they took her to his bed.
The dying man carefully wiped the froth
from his face, and compressing his teeth
tightly to prevent any of the poisonoes sal
iva exuding from his mouth, kissed the lips
which he had so often pressed in Icve aud
affection, and then, resolutely turning away,
after bidding her adieu forever, relapsed ro-
to a dreadful paroxysm and died. The
man who kept the dog which bit Mr. Eek
erson, after knowing that it had been bitten
by another mad dog a week before Mr.
ckersonrs death, gave him fifty dollars as
compensation for injuries sustained, and
persuaded Mr. Eekerson to sign a paper of
release from further claims. The neighbors
are very indignant, amd talk about clubbing
together to carry on a suit against the own
er of the dog on behalf of the widow and
orphaas. The neighbors think that the
very least Mr. Hopper can do is to pav ofTa
mortgage of $700 resting on the Eekerson
place, and thev threaten a law suit if he
does not lift that mortgage. Trenton
J.) True American,
President Grant's Inaugural.
Citizens of the Uniteu States : Your suf
frage having elevaten to the office of Presi
dent of tho United States, I have, in con
formity wilh the Constitution of our coun
try, takeu the tat'a of office prescribed
therein. I have taken the oath without
mental preservation, and with the determin
ation to do. to the best of my ability, all
that it requires of me. The responsibili
ties of the position I feel, butaccept them
without fear. The office has come to me
unsought ; I. commence its duties untram
meled. 1 bring to it a concientious desire
and determination to fill it to the best of
my ability, to the satisfaction of the people.
On all the leading questions agitating the
public mind I will always express my views
to Congress, and urge them according to
my judgment, and when I think it advisa
ble, I will exercise the constitutional privi
lege of interposing a veto to defeat measures
which I compose. But all laws shall be
faithfully executed, whether they meet my
approval or not. I shall on all subjects
have a policy to recommend, but none to
enforce against the will of the people.
Laws are to govern all alike those oppos
ed to, as well as those who favor them I
know no method to secure the repeal of bad
or obnoxious laws so effective as their strin
gent execution.
The country having just emerged from a
great rebellion, many questions will come
before it for settlement in the rjext four
years which preceding Administrations have
never had to deal with. In meeting these
it is desirable that they shonld be approach
ed calmly, without predjudice, hate, or sec
tional pride, remembering that the greatest
good to the greatest uumber is the object to
be obtained. This requires security of per
son and property, and for religious and po
litical opinion, in every part of our common
country, without 'regard to priudice. and all
Llaws to secure thf-se ends will receive my
X he lit fiffnrt for enfurrpmpnt.
A great debt has been contracted in se
curing to us and our posterity the Union.
The payment of this, principal and interest,
as well as the return to a specie basis, as
soon as it can be accomplished without ma
terial detriment to the debtor class or the
country at large, must he provided for. To
drotect the national honor every dollar of
Government indebtedness should be paid in
gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated
in the contract. Let it be understood that
no repudiator of the farthing of our public
debt wili be trusted in public place, and it
will go far towards strengthening a credit,
which ought to be the best in the world,
and will ultimately enable us to replace the
debt with bonds bearing less interest than
we now pay.
To this would be added a faithful collec
tion of the revenue; a strict accountability
to the Treasury for every dollar collected,
and the greatest practicable retrenchment
in the expenditure in every department ef
the government. When we compare the
paying capaeity of the country now, with
the ten States still in poverty from the ef
fects of war (but soon to emerge, I trust,
into greater prosperity than ever before),
with its paying capacity twenty-five years
ago, and calculate what it probably will be
in twenty-five years hence, who can the
feasibility of paying evtry dollar then with
more ease than we now pny our useless lux
uries ? Why, it lookt as though Providence
had bestowed upo.i us a rstrong box, the
precious metal locked up in the sterile
mountains of the far West, which we are
t now forging the key to unlock, to meet the
very contingency that is now upon us. Ll
timately. it may be neces.iry to increase
the facilities to reach these riches, and it
may be nectssary also that the General
Government should give its aid to seenre
this access, but that should only be when a
dollar of obligation to pay secures precisely
the same sort of dollar to use now, and not
before.
Whilst the qnestion of specie payment is
in abeyance, the prudent business man is
earcful about contracting debts payable in
the distant future. The nation should fol
low the same rule. A prostrate commerce
is to be rebuilt and all industries encouraged.
The young men of the country, those who
from their age must be its rulers twenty
five years hence, have a peculiar interest in
maintaining the national honor. A mo
ment's reflection as to what will be our
commanding influence among the nations
of the earth in their day, if they are only
true to themselves, should inspire them
with national pride. All divisions, geo
graphical, political and religious, can join
in this common sentiment. How the pub
lic debt is to be paid, or specie payment re
sumed, is not so important as that a plan
should be adopted and adhered to. A uni
ted determination to do is worth more than
divided councils upon the method of doing.
Legislation upon this subject may not be
necessary now, nor even advisable, but it
will be when the civil laws are more fully
restored in all parts of the countrv. and
trade resumes its wonted channels. It will
oe my enaeaver ro execue toe laws in good
faith, to collect the revenues assassed, and
to have them properly accounted for and
aconomically dispensed. I will, to the best
of my ability, appoint to office those only
who will carry out this design.
In regard to foreign policy, I would deal
with nations as equitablo law requires indi
viduals to deal with each other, and I would
protect the law-abidiDg citizen, whether of
uative or foreign birth, wherever his rights
are joepardized or the flag of our country
floats. I would respect the rights of all na
tions, demanding equal respect for our own.
If others depart from this rule in their deal
ings with us, we may be compelled to fol
low their precedent.
The proper treatment of the original oc
cupaut of this land, the Indian, is one de
servipg of careful study. I will favor any
course towards them which tends to their
civilization, Christianization and ultimate
citizenship.
The question of suffrage 13 one which is
likely to agitate, the public so long as a
portion of the citizens of the nation are ex
cluded from its privileges in any State.
It seems to me very desirable that this
question should be settled now, and I enter
tain the hope, and express the desire, that
it may be by the ratification of the Fifteenth
Article of the Amendment to the Constitu
tion. In conclusion, I ask patient forbearance,
one towards another, throughout the land,
and a determined effort in the heart of every
citizen to do his share towards cementing a
happy Union, aud I ask the. prayers of the
nation- to Almighty God in behalf of this
consummation.
There was a strange and startling ex
hibition at Laeonia, N. II., a few Sundays
ago. As the people were assembling for
worship a well-dressed stranger coolly as
cended some ladders which still remained
upon the new Unitarian Ohnrch, mounted
to the very top of the steeple, surveyed for
a few moments the- landscape aud those
who were watching him in terrified groups,
turned a somersault, gazed about a few mo
ments more, descended to the grouud and
walked out of town, without uttering a
word or manifesting any emotion but of
calm etelidity. ne is thought to have been
an escaped lunatic
THE ClIHAKT.
We present this morning, says the Hur
risburg Fatrioi of the 8th inst., the following
brief biographical shetcbes of the members
of General Grant's cabinet. The lives of
few of them present any points that are of
much real importance to the public, but as
they have been suddenly elevated into promi
nence, any facts concerning them, the dates
and places of birth, even, may not be with
out interest :
TUE SECBETABT OF STATE.
Elihu B. Washburne was born in Liver
more, Androscoggin county, Mtdne, Septem
ber '23, 1816. Two of his brothers, Israel,
Jr., and Cadwalader C, bave been members
of Congress, and many consius and half
cousins of the same name have taken nearly
any public office they could get. )5!ibu
served an apprenticeship at printing, studied
law at Harvard University, and commenced
practice In Galena, Illinois. He was elected
by the Whigs totbeXXXIIId Congress and
has been elected ever since. He was chair
man of tne Committee on Commerce from
the XXXVth to the XXXI Xth Congress.
At the death of Thaddeus Stevens he became
chairman of the Committee on Appropria
tions. At the Senatorial election in Illinois
in 1860 he was beaten by Yates. By favor
ef his fellow-townsman, be now becomes
tho chief member of the cabinet.
6ECEBTAHY OF THE TREASURY.
Alexander T. Stewart was bore near Bel
fast, Ireland, about the year 1802. He is
of Scotch-Irish extraction. He is said to
have taken his degree at Trinity College,
Dublin, about the year 1822. In 1823 he
landed in America, and commenced teach
ing school. He afterwards inherited a con
siderable sum of money, with which he em
barked in trade. Ho has amassed an cnor
ruous fortune in business, estimated by
many to be an great as fifty millions. Iu
1847, when the Irish were suffering from
famine, Mr. Stewart chartered a ship, and
filling it with provisiohns, sent them as a
gift to Ireland. In 18G2, he contributed
10,000 to the relief of the Lancashire op
eratives. He was one of the earliest sup
porters of Grant fr President, He is a
rather tall slim man, with sharp, cold, ava
ricious feature ; a countenance furrowed
with age and care ; a voice harsh and un
friendly in is mildest tones. He has found
delight, in business alone,
lone life. Ho uow propr-ses
throughout a
in his extreme
ago, to amuse himself with politics.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
Adolph E. Borie was bom in Philadel
phia in 1809. When 16 years of age he
graduated at the Pennsylvania University,
and completed his education in Paris. Af
ter traveling in Europe, he returned to
Philadelphia aud became a member of the
firm of M'Kean, Bori6 & Co., in the India
and China trade. He amassed a large for
tune in business. Mr. Borie was one of
the founders of the political club known as
the Union League, and is now Vice Presi
dent of that association. It was at the
Union Leage rooms in Philadelphia he
made the acquaintance of General Grant.
BLCBETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
Ix Governor Jacob Dolson Cox, of Ohio,
wa3 born in Montreal, Lower Canada, on
the 27th of October, 182S. His parents
were natives of the United States, his lather,
who was a master builder in New York,
having taken tho contract to build the Ca
thedral of Xotre Dame in Montreal, tempo
rarily residing there when his son was born.
In 1846, he removed to Ohio, and graduat
ed in 1852, at Obrlin College. He studied
law aiid bK:in the practice in the town of
Warren. In 1859, he was elected by the
republicans to the Ohio Senate, and was
soon recognized as one of the leaders of that
body. He was appointed by Governor
Dennison a Brigadier General of volunteers,
and first served in the Kauawha Valley.
He was afterwards at the battle of Autle
tam. He served subsequently under Burn
sides, Thomas and Scothild. He participa
ted in the whole cf the Atlanta campaign,
from Kenesaw to Lovejoy's. He command
ed a division uoder Scofield in the splendid
battle of Nashville, and afterwards took
part in the movements in North Carolina at
the close of the war. In 1865 he was elect
ed Governor of Ohio, but having opposed ro
negro suffrage in his inaugural, in 1866,
he was not renominated. Since retiring
from office he has practice! law in Cincin
nati. He was requested by President
Johnson, during the trouble with Stanton,
to take the post of Secretary of War, but
declined.
TOST MASTER GENERAL.
John A. J. Cresswell was born inElkton,
Cecil county, Maryland, in 1828; was
graduated at Dickinson College. Carlisle,
Pa., in 1848 ; was admitted to the bar iu
Maryland in 1850. At the outbread of the
war he was bo violent a rebel as to raiee a
company for the Confederacy. But Henry
Winter Davis succeeded in converting him
to the Union cause. He was elected to
Congress in 1862, and afterward, in the
death of Senator Hicks, was elected by the
Maryland legislature to the Senate of the
Unitee States to fill the va:ant term. In
1866 ho was a delegate to the convention cf
southern Loyalists in Philadelphia, and drew
up the platform and address cf that body.
When Joha W. Forney resigned the Secre
taryship of the Senate, Mr. Cresswell was
urged to be a candidate, but declined.
Since then he has been an active, but un
successful radical politician of Maryland.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Samuel T. Hoar is a son of Samuel Hoar,
of Massachuetts. who was expelled from
Charleston, S. C, in December 1844. His
mother was a daughter of Roger Sherman
George F. Hoar, who is a member of the
present Congress from Massachuestts, -is a
brother of the new Attorney Geneneral.
Judge S. T. Hoar, was born at Concord,
Massachusetts in 1816. lie graduated at
Harvard College in 1835. Immediately after
leaving College, he engaged in teaching at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and for two or
three years lived there and in other Western
towns. He was admitted to the bar in
1840. After a few years, he was appointed
a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In
April, 1859, he was appointed a Justice of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and
has held the office until summoned by Pres-.
ident Grant to take a seat in his Cabinet.
The Society of the protection of DestN
tute Roman Catholic Children of New York
city, in its sixth annnai report, states that,
during 1868, it has received and taken care
of 1304 children, mostly boys, and has bow
under its charge 867 children, of whom 702
are boys and 165 are girls. In 1858, the
total expenses of the institution were $178,-50O-,
ef which 1107.330 was defrayed by
the city of New York, and $4,905 by the
State of New York. The Society has ex
pended $651,108 during the six years of its
operations. The children are not merely
clethed and fed, but are taught useful
trades, sush as shoemaking, tailoring, bak
ing and hoopskirt making, and are besides
instructed in farming and gardening.
A few days ago two men fired at sense
wild clucks in a pond near Kufcstown, Berks
county, when the ball from one of their
puna glanced from the water and passed
through the bead of a boy some four hun
dred yards off, causing death in a few hours.
At Bichmond. Va., 00 Siturday, the
jury in the case of James Grant, indicted
for the murder of H. Rives Pollard, return
ed a verdict of not guilty.
Mrs. Straddon, "of Downington, while
removing the carpet in her kitchen upset
the cooking-stove, spilling a pot of hot wa
ter on her little child causing its death tie
next day.
The non. James G. Blaine, the new
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
has ben six years a member of Congress.
lie was born in Washington county, in this
State, in 1830. After graduating at Wash
ington College, be emigrated to Maine,
where he successively edited the Portland
Advertiser and the Kennebeck Journal. Ha
was elected to the State legislature, aod
was twice Speaker of the House. He is au
active politician, and hss borne a prominent
part in the business and debates of Congress,
IV O IV .4 ME.
It is a common thing now-a-daya to heir
persons complain about their physical disabili
ties, which bring so much discomfort to bjtii
mind and body that they find no gratification
in anythiag around them. Oue has no satisfy
ing rest at night, another n always peevish aui
despondent, still another takes no delight ia
society, and others again find no compear a tin 5
pleasures in labor, exercise, or even life. Jfa
name is given in pathology for their aiiraenta,
nevertheless, the causes are always present.
They Bimply lack vital power, and Pref. Bi
ker savs that "the best remedv for this data U
MISHLE1VS HERB BITTERS," which La
has ''used for several years, and with unifjrm
puccess," as it tone the Stomach and Liver
the seat of the complaint and reconstruct the
shattered constitution. This vitalizing tonic
speedily removes ti)9 cause of languor and dis
content, imparts a calm force to the nervouj
system, rouses the dormant organs of the body,
and blesses the sufferer with perfect and lait
ies heiltb.
BALDNESS, GRAYNESS AND OTIIEr.
imperfections of the Hair will be regard? i
as inexcusable after a trial of Mrs. S. A.
Allen's Improved new style) Hair Rs
stober or Dressing, in one bottle ) Fjvery
Druggist sel!s it. Price One Dollar.
OUR RETT
SEWING BIACHINE ! !
The saperier Bents ef the "Singer" Mi
ehinea otw all lb era, either for TaoiHy r
Manufacturing pnrpoe. are o well tatnoUahti
and o generally admitted, th.it au tnntncr.irija
of th ir relative excellences U no lacger csa
idered ncetarv.
OUR NEW FAMILY MACHINE.
which haa been brOB jht to pr?enon regard i
of time, labor, nr exp Me, U ov conHfn'Sr
rrentd to tha pub.l as itcomTifirHMly tt.a
Bvar Uicbixi 1 imrrcr
Th raschine in question 1 f-IM TLX. COM
PACT, DURABLE and BEAUTIFUL. It
ia quiet, liht mntii'ir. urnl cim ior n-
r RMlS A tiFtl A TA5.iT! CF WORE KfeTtr
beiore attamptM upon a si;iie llach.i.e. r.;:i:j
either Silk, Twist, Linen or Cotton Thrvj,
and sewing with aqnal fc;litT the vary ft:.t
and coarsest material!, an4 anything l.iw8i
the two extremes, in the niot bent:fn! "aid
ubstantial nnnner. Its a'ts.ihmenta for Hotii
niinj, Briing, Ccnliaj. Tuckii.j. Qailt:r.f.
Fellinc, Trimming, Bindiug, Jtc, art JTcitfl
and Pxactical, ami have bn invented di.d
adjuated especially for thla Machine.
New deeigns of the Unique, Ueful b-1 Fop
ular Folding Tops and Cabinet Cam, peciri-u
to the Machine manufactured by tais Cui.
ny, have been prepared for enclosing the net
Machine.
A (ainl Idea, however, cm tbet bi
veyed through the iridium of a (decma-i!;)
limited advertisement ; ar.d we therefore 017 1
every peron in qneet of a Hwinr Machine br
all means to exax.ine and tent, if tbey cn pos
sibly do so, all the leading rival Ma'chiue be
fore making a purchae. A eelection can tLra
be made understanding. Brnchee or ajrrn
ciee for supply in jr th rSin2r" Machinee il
be found In nearly every rttvtiid town throi;5
out the civilised world. whro Machines nil
be cheerfully exhibited and any iuformafio
promptly furaisbed. Or commaidcatier.s
be addreir d to
Tha Singer Manufacturing Company,
BROAD IV A T.
!f BIT YORK.
Pbilabklpmia Orpicc. 11C6 CiEiwct SrRrT.
i2T"C. T. ROBERTS, Agent for Ebenehurg
and vicinity, keeps thete Machines cnuiiiiy
for sale al his store on High street The pub
lic are respectfully iarirad to call and e tbnn
in operation. Instructions given free. M
chineeeoldatcity pricea. NomtitiTCBiKit.
AUo, Siuger'e Needles, Oil, Silk and Cetwa
always en hand. aug 2D.-1 v.
A NOBLE ARTICLE. The testimony of
intelligent men and women, in fivor ot nr
given thing, cannot be thrown aide, and ro
parded as worthless.
Da. Uoofland's Gisiiax Bittv.rt hive ra
ceived the endorsement and cordial approba
tion of the most eminent men in this hnd other
communities. The human system very often
needs a Tonic to strengthen it, and to aid ia
the performance of its functions when it be
comes debilitated. The German Bitters does
this, and possesses the additional advantage 0
being non-intoxicating. For the cureofiiver
complaint, dyspepsia, nervous debility, and all
diseases of the nervous system, it is unequal et!.
and is recommended by physicians of the high
est standing. The wonderful Bale which thi
article has, is of itself a sufficient guarantee of
its surpassing excellence.
This Bitters is XNTiaxtT frex peom all
Alcoholic admixturk.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN" TONIC if
combination of all the ingredients of the En
ters, with pure Santa Ciua Rum. oranpe, ani-C
&c, making a preparation of rare medical val
ue. The Tonic is used for the same disease
as the Bitters ; in cases where some Alcoholic
Stimulus is necessary. Principal Office, C31
Arch 8t., Philad'a, Pa. Sold by Drupdsu
and others everywhere. feb.25.-lni'
THE UNDISFUTED SUPERIORITY cf
the medicinal virtues of Robach's Blood Pill
Stomach B-.tters and Blood Purifier over all
other remedies, prepared to relieve Buffering
humanity, is shown in many ways, but especial
ly is it evinced in this important fact : That re
sponsible druggists and merchants all over th
country take active interest in introducing them
to their best customers and frietds, while, '
the same time, it is qnite as much to their p'
cuniary interest to recommend other medicine
The reason for this ie obvious. They ar 'u
positions to see the pre-eminent efficacy ot to
pills in cases of Liver Complaint and all
structions- of the bowels, and, ia fact, in all
cases where cathartic medicine can be employed
While the Bitter?, by their gen?e tonic, stinra
lent and laxative properties, and as a safe a'"1
certain remedy in Dyspepsia, have won the tJ
miration of every one who has given them
trial, and the Blood Purifier is acknowledged
to- be one of the best remdies to se j-ch oat
disease, cure Scrotula, U;d Sores, Eruptioui
and skin Diseases and to puri: v the blood ex
tant; hence the people must' naturally g'va
their voices in favor of remedies whioh effect
much real good in the world.