j:. A. 31'Vlli.i:, Ildltor and lu blither.
HE IS A FREEMAN YtUOX.i HE TRUTH. MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.
.Terms, per year lu advance
VOLUME G.
KB EN SBURG, ' PA., SATURDA Y, J UNE 22, 1872.
NUMBER :22.
r
!
3T XX Xj Xj ,
JULY 4th, 1872.
$0,CCO WORTH OF PROPERTY I
i.- I I e I III' f lilll, WU LOTS
AT OAK DALE STATION.
TickctGL$l.GO.
' -:.n of the Concert, the Mnnn-
ite Iff I I 1)1. NO l.O'j'S to tno
r : i" the nsinil manner, tint 11-j.n-
: ,...! . :.TI A l.l.V.
' l.i.l . -lir tl Mr. P. CI II.!. IT. AND, of
. . I .. v ho-o title to the same is indis-
.. , . , I , ,;:'-- situated Con VCIltotlt to the
v.j.. i: 1 vcclient mill plcusant homes
4. . , , : n mid tm chitnic. These Lots
.: nine dally. A rich six-foot
, i, ...us I oal underlies this proper
, " , i Is open atnl in rood working
, . ; i-iU. w hich irivi-s I'll 11 access to
, 1 i i.i ntli, will lie tM" away with
, it is mi unti'il. The coiil. vii l-
ii ; per hnsliel, is worth i 1 li.iKIO.
j.i i t i I latrc House is also .si mated on
, . ;:t..! w itli the out-l nildim;s, will
. - .: . t Ii the Lot on which it is built,
i II known, ihrivimr and pro-pcr-.
! hi present contains mi Acuikniiv,
,i M.ilr Hons", T st Olhc-e, Hi
! ..h. !. ;iii:l a hirire n;iiii'."-r of handsome
- i itnil t a ken u 1 1-isrf-i Ikt, is h do-
. ; . iv lor industrious working men to
: km U'M. To'tlip jrrttcr up nf n club
!.v. a hiiiiiiM UK Silver Watch will beniv
... I ii" t.'i:iriii of a chili of twenty, Vivo
i. will I e L'i i n. 'l"o tin- trotter up of a
; ii ii.Tw" 'lu k.'tsuill In- sfivrn. To the
i i;; i.l u club ol tlx, tio Ticket will be
: !l.
I I i; lo'ih 'wii;r mnueil jrctitlcmen, wr-il known
H I i-i lie i i . n I e: I lis ii l'it t.lm 1 1: h anil A lle
. . i: v i !t it ..h:i e permit li'il us to I'l'I'iT to til em.
'i !: will viiuli tor t he honesty ami inteiriity
I i i.' in ii ij i i.e : 1 Ion. .las. I Mack mere. Mayor
t ; i 'i: t .! 1. 1 . Ii. i'tl l'i -si ile: 1 1 cl t !ie Mci hnnics"
Si;vi:.t; 1! ink : I'.'ii j-i in in Miitfcrly. State l'riiit-
i ; U. M i ? -. : t I'urccll, K!Uorainl I'ulilisiwrul'
il!v Mi'.iov, A I i -s-- lienx i ity, J'a.; t'ol.Satn
u I K i! oi e. County Trea-'irer. As to the title
in s ,iil property, refer to 1 1. S. l'loyil, Attorney
lit Law, Nit; rant M reel, 1 'it t! ru h.
Ul.OlK.i: II. I5 A N A l l.I.T.
;i'i:irl tliuinor.
To whom all communications must tie nihlress
i I. i.i m nil otlirc, 72'i'hinl Ave., l'it tslm rjr.
l'ei-oiis remitfiny !oncv must scml by Kc;j
i.tt u ! Letter or 1. O, tinier. May ll.-Ct.l
V WIST . iTV . urH'PN
I'-
.ua! Cmcc lOt W. Fifth St., Cincinnati, 0.
i:rr nzzzizzi-.v is u c3.c-.r7.
IN VALUABLE GIFTS!
'iv !lt lJI.--TUIllfTr.il IN
3tli SK.XI-A.. UAI.
9
iw1 be U awn T!i:irslny. Jul. .4tli, 1ST2.
One (j;i:tr.d C iiiiHal l'i If.c f
110,000 IN GOLD!
iAZ PRIZE $5,0CO IN SILVER!
i wo Prizes $1,000- g&
Five
Ten
Prizes $500
Prizes $100 -1
' 1 !' i.-iU) i'ntiiiK't s mat Matt hfl Hi-tves with
;. c-.'.. .i;.'(i( nanus.': ui ril, i,TM.
T'-.io Hi.frs t l;ijft., tritli Sit iff-Jl , anted
llnrnfH.1, t'rttt.'i $if.OO rai h.
' ! i a .1 liosewooil Tiunss wort h cneli.
11 i'.niiiiy Sewing M.ieliiiu-s. worth Iki each.
J i;i.,'il dm silnr l.rvrr lliintiiw Jl'atchcn,
iri 1 Hi mm $M to W4) t acit .'
! n'i.'s' Clohi Leoiitinc ami (Icnl's !oM Vest
I l.airs, Soliil ami .Kouble-lMateil Silver Table
iiinl Teaspoons, 1'Uotoyraph Albut;i5, Jewelry,
& s.. -e., .Vl-.
V;:'.t z: i. n,; TUko'.s I ini'ci ts r.O.roo.
AtilATS WANTl-:i I ielietv. to
J.lljrral I'riiiltuiiH will brcivVn.
i.voi.k Tickhs f2: Six Tk Kr is ?10; TwEi.va
TlCKKTS 'J HEMV-KlVt TlCKKTS H0.
( 'ii -eti hirs -ontaininir a f ill! list of prizes, n ile-f-ei-ip!
ion ot t lie; manlier of r! rawing, and oth-r
i.itoi niation in reference to the l)ist ribn t ion,
be sent to any one orilci niK them. All ict
1. is must be nil dressed to
..I n K. !..!. S1M Ilnx SO.
1 I; . :li St.. Cincinnati, O.
y:sn:.r,Li: iikal estate
" SAI.K. The undersiirned offer for sa
foi:
for sale on
- r a m ' -s
inn ttAuen
n ti ni-n i r rrn
. i r '.in ml terms three tnicts of valuablo land I repay his personal obligations how person
:i!'ed:;!o;iows!i,' CiUUbrm tOU"ty la-' al devotion to himself, rather than to public
1 mi! o. I t'oiitaiiiinK- 00 Acres, more or
i' - 1 "in :."'i Acres learod. having thereon
! (I'm -loiv I'lank House, i (und as
1 i i vi i y comfortable, ti double Lor Darn,
1 '! ne ,'. I'l.tSoildiiitrs. There is a thriving
"ii'.vj ori b-.ixi of no choice fruit trees mid fx-
iinee on the premises.
" . ,V , ,'-7.Vul,,auli"x 31 Acre, about 7
' V.i.'1"',' . v!"'T 1 'iiin k House, a Water Suw
.1 , ' ', ''' ""' "iik rami without a superior
; i.i M . ee-irry. nrul the iiul outtiuiidliiKS.
't i , ' oritiiinii.K- no Acres f exccl-
;"nr in., ( i-l.:nnl. w ill, two jj,,,,,! yaw Mill Sites
r.'ie
.':i:il ;l
; .-'.'ii pur
in s e;isv,
! di r-'-i ibed Tracts adjoin ench
be sold separately or tojrether.
Ii i.-ers. Terms very liberal and
i'or further particulars apply
. m . jt i. i-:ss.
or OLIVKlt MAKIX,
:- -;iin. Kbeu&burif I. O.
Mil eyelid s is a i :
at ki::i :i rates !
L. D.IlOVFMAX.jrradunter.f Dental Sur-
i v, respect lu I! y Inlorms tho public that
- permanently loeatetl in L'llKNSliUKU.
!. !! may be found every day of the week.
:- HOFFMAN, after liiivinir liml jjnu.le nrue-
D
I;.
I " r fhc space of se en years, does not licsi
1 i'1' in nmmiinir that he enn irlve erfect SiMis
l ii in every fflerclaiiiifr to the profession.
I 1 t ma hes of .Mechanical an: Surifi-1 Den
; enre-rully and seientitieir.lv performed
' ) ' Hilar attention tfiveri to tilling decayed
Also, teeth extracted without pain. For
' 'H In r information concerning prices, eto
' ' I in his office on Illh street, opposite the
on., ri i House, where may tic examined sam
I' ' - '! his work, u liult tittU tmlft lie n tn lie
W (' i i.itul. l"uy ai.-tf.
J 1 ssOMI'HON of PARTNERSHIP
-The firm of Z.lnv Jt Son will expire by
iriiturmn on the ftrxt tlm tif Junr, pro.xlmo, ar
'r winch tnno tho Mercantile business will be
""inned at the old stand by Oko.C.K. Zajim.
' t.- r-oris indebted to the said firm will pleuao
1 s 8inl" their aceounts without delay.
V "i" the retirini uiomtier of the firm,
.1,. , ,"nr"'' ln tf"" Store until the first day of
1 i" il:,lM" "ftcr that data all unseltled ac
i. '.u' wa be 'eftwith other parties for Willec
GK(l. V. K. ZAI1M,
J i ' tii.-,... . J AS. ii, ZA1IM,
-st, jiay u, iS7S.-tit.
Jl- M. LLOYD & CO -
rl,r'a)(,,h."ANKEiS' ALTOOXA, VA.
t .r 1.1. T,V,:l,,al cities and Silver tail
' ivr,ronX ,ul' iion8 made- Monies re
Jntereit "r u','; J,aj'",,.1 on demand without
' ' ' "'"w"0 intercut at fair rates. J
t "
wiiat a Senator Knows Atont tliB PresMent.
feUJlXCK OX GRIM.
Mr. Sumner opetied his !ate terrible de
r.ur ciation of rresident Grant io the United
States Senate with the announcement that
hs was a member of the Republican party
aud one if the striiihest of the sect. lie had
never failed to sustain its candidates and ad
vance ilu l urposes. Not without regret could
he see it suffer, nor without a pang could he
see it changed from its original character;
for such a change is death. Therefore he
hoped, with no common feeling, that the
peril which menaces may pass away. Lie
.-too I at i s cradle and . was
NOT WILLING TO FOLLOW ITS FIEABSR.
Mr. Sumner thin puceeded to the details
of t he progress of the party and his connec
tion with it. As a patty it was necessary
and peimanent and always on the ascending
plane, but. alas ! how changed. Once prins
ciple was inscribed on its victorious banners,
and not a name only. It is cot difficult to
indicate when the diastn us change, exalting
the will of one man above all else, became
manifet-t. ' Already it hail begun to show it
se'f in personal prttensiotis ! When the
President was ekcled by the Republican
party, he precipitated upon the country an
id-cousidered and ill-omened scheme (or the
annexation of a portion of San D mir.go, iu
pursuance of a treaty negotiated by one of
his own household. It was pressed for
months by every means and appliance of
power, and reluctant Suuatuis were seduced
to its support. While
TREADING L'NDEIl FOOT THE CONSTITUTION
iti re of its most distinctive Republican
principles, the President seized the war pow
eis cif the nation, instituted foreign interven-.
tion, and capped the climax of usurpation by
a menace of violence to the black tepublicof
Hayti, thus adding the manifest outrage of
international Itw to the manifest outrage of
the constitution.
Mr. Sumner would gladly leave this matter
to the judgment alieady recorded were it not
put iu issue agaiu by extraordinary tfforts
radiatory iu every line of office to place its
author for a second term in the Presidency.
Since silence gives consent, all these t fforts
are his tffnts. They become more notewor
thy when it is considered that the name of
thecaudidale thus pressed has become a sign
cf ili.-cord and not concord, dividing instead
tf uniting the Republican party, so that
these extraordinary tfforts tend directly to
the disruption of the party, all of which he
witnesses and again by his silence ratifies.
"Lt the party split," says the President,
"I will not renounce my chance of a second
term." The exteut of this personal pressure
and subordination of party to the will of the
individual compels us to consider his preten
tions. These, too, are in issue.
"ON WHAT MEAT IOTH THIS OCR C.EOAK FEED,
that he fhould ast-ume so much V No honor
for victory in war cm justify disobedience to
the Constitution and to law, nor cm it aff rtl
the least apology for any personal immunity,
privilege or license iu the Presidential office.
A President nr. list turn into a King before it
can be said of him that be can do no wrong,
lie is respouthle always as President. As
foremost servant i f law he is bound to obey
its slightest mandate. As the elect of the
people, he owes not only the example of wiN
ling obedience, but also of fidelity and indus
try in the discharge e f his conspicuous effioe,
with an abnegation of all self-steking. No
thing for elf, but all for country. Aud now,
as we regard the career of this candidate, we
find to our amazi-ment how litt'e it accords
wiili this simple requirement. Net onlj are
ConMitution and law disregarded, but the
Presidential i Dice itself is treated as
I.ITTL"-. MoHK THAN A PLAYTHING
and a perqtbMte; when not the former, then
he'atter. Here ' he'details are ample, sh w
ing how from the beginning this exalted
trust had drooped to be a peisonal indulg
ance, where palace cars. fat horsen and seas
side loiterinfcs figure more than duties : how
lt Tnial aims nd eibjects have been more
prominent thnti ;uWc interests ; how the
Presidential cfliee has been Useo to advance
his owe family on a scale of nepotism dwarf
Ing everythii.g t f the kind in our , history,
and scarcely tqnalltd in those ccriupt gov
ernments where this abuse has most prevailed
how in the same spirit ( fiice has been con
ferred upon those from whom he received
gifts or beuefits, thus making the country
or party service, has been made the standard
if favor Low the vast appointing power,
conferred by the const itutiou for the general
welfare, has been employed at his will to
promote his schemes, to reward his friends,
to punish opponents, and to advance his elec
tion to a second term how all these assump
tions have matured in personal government,
semi-military in character aud breathing the
military in spirit, being a spirit of Caesarism
or personalism, abhorrent to republican ins
stitutious.w ueie subservience to the President
is the supreme law how in maintaining this
subservience he has operated by a system of
combinations having their orbits about him,
so that,
LIRE THETLAKET SAT17RN. HE IS SURROUND
ED BY kings;
nor does the similitude end here, for his
rings, like the planet', are held in position
by 6atelites how th:8 utterly unrepublic.n
Cajiarism has mastered the Republican party
and dictated the Presidential will, stalking
into the Senate chamber itself, while a vins
dictive spirit visits good Republicans, who
cannot submit bow the President himself,
unconscious that the President has uo right
to quarrel with anybody, insists upon quar
relling until he has become .
THE G BEAT PRESIDENTIAL QUARRELLEB.
with more quarrels than all other Presidents
together, and all begun and continued by
himself ho-v ' his personal followers back
him ir. quarrels, insult those he insults, and
then not departing from bis spirit cry out
with Shakespeare,
"Wo will have rings and tbingrs and fine array."
And, finally, how the chosen-head of the
Republic is known chiefly for Presidential
pretensions, utterly indefensible in character,
derogatory to the country and full of evil in
fluence, making ... . . .
PERSONAL OBJECTS A PRIMART PT7R8UIT,
so that instead f a beneficent presence be is
a bad example through whom Republican
institutions suffer and the people learn wrong.
Would that these things could be forgotten!
But iic, thrct'gh fficious friends, the Pre-
ident insists upon a second term, they must
be consideied. Nobody will vindicate them.
It is easy to see that Caesarism even in Europe
is at a discount, that personal government has
been beaten in that ancient field, and that
CESAR WITH A SENATE AT HIS HEELS
is not a fit model for our Republic. -King
George III., of England, so peculiar for ob
stinacy and narrowness, had retainers in Par
liament who went under the name of "The
King's Friends." Nothing can be allowed
here to justify the inquiry: "HAVE WE A
KING GEORGE AMONG US?" or that
other question : Have we in the Senate a
party of the King'a friends?"
The end of pereonal government is auto
cratic and in direct conflict with Republican
government. A government of laws and
not of men ia the object of Republican gov
ernment. Nay. more, it is the distinctive
essence, without which it becomes tyranny.
Therefore, personal government in all its
forms, and espec;ally. when it seeks to sway
the action of another branch or overturn its
constitutional prerogative, is hostile to the
first principles of Republican institutions aud
an unquestionable outrage. That our Piesi
dent ha3 offended in this way is unhappily
too apparent. The .President is a civilian.
Toconiprehend the!personal govemroet t that
has been established over us, we must know
its author. II is picture is
A N ECKSS ART FROSHSrirCK,
not as a soldier, let it be borne iu mind, but
as a civilian. To appreciate his peculiar
character as a civilian, it is important to
know his triumphs as a soldier; for one is a
natural compliment of the other. The suc
cessful seildier is rarely char.gud to the suc
cessful civilian. There: seems incompatibil
ity between the two, mod'fied by the extent
to which the one has been al'owed to exs
elude the other. One always a soldier can
not late in life become a statesmau ; one
always a civilian cannot late in life become
a soldier.
Iu modern Europe few soldiers have been
more conspicuous than Gustavus Adolphus
and Frederick, sometimes called The Gteat.
But we learn that both failed ignominiously
in their domestic policy, and showed them
selves as short-sighted in the arts of "peace as
they were sagacious in the aits of war. The
judgment of Marlborough is more planted.
While portraying him as "the greatest con
queror of the age, the hero ot a hundred
fights, the victor cf Blenheim and Ramillies,"
the same philosophical writer describes him
as a man not only of most idle and frivolous
pursuits, but 60 miserably ignorant that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries, while his politics were com
pounded of selfishness and treachery. Nor
was Wellington an exception. Though shiu
ing in the field without a rival aud remarka
ble for integrity of purpose, unflinching hon
esty and high moral feeling, the conqueror
of Waterloo is described as "nevertneless
utteily uncrjaal to the complicated exigen
cies cf political life."
6VC1I ARE THE EX AilTLF.S OF niSTOET,
each with its warning. It would be haid to
fiod anything iu the native endowments or
in the trainii g of our chieftaiu to make him
an illustrious ex- eption. At least nothing
of this kind is recorded. Was nature more
generousi;h him than with Marlborough or
Wellington, Gustavus or Frederick called
The G:eit ? Or was bis experience cf life a
better i reparation than theirs? And yet
they fai ed, except in war. It is not known
that our chieftain had any expeiieoce as a
civilian until he became Piesident, nor does
any partisan attribute to him that double
culture which in antiquity made the i-ameruaa
a soldier aud a statesman. It basefteu beeu
said that be tot k no note of public affairs,
H EVER VOTING BIT OKCE IN HIS LIFE,
and then for James Buchanan. After leav
ing West Point hb became a captain in the
army, but soon abandoned the service to
appear at a later day as a successful General.
There is no reason to believe that he em
ployed the intermediate period in any way
calculated to improve him as a statesman.
fie teas earning a ftw hundred dollars a year
tanning hide a at CiuUtna. liy war he pa.-sed
to the President, aud such was his prepara
tiun to govom the great Republic, making
it an example to mankind. Something aleo
must be attributed to individual character.
THE LATE SECRETARY STANTON CN GRANT.
Here I express no opinion of my own. I
shall allow another to speak in solemn
words echoed from the tomb. Oj reaching
Washington, at the openiug of Congress in
December, 18C9, 1 was pained to hear that
Stanton, late Secretary of War, was in fail
ing health. Full of gratitude for his unsur
passed services and with a sentiment of
friendship, quickened by common political
sympathies, 1 lost no timo in seeing him,
and repeated my visits till his death, toward
the close oC the same month. My last visit
was nuarked by a communication never to
be forgotton. As I entered bis bedroom,
where I found him recli.iiug on the sofa
propped by pillows, lie reached out his
hand, already clammy cold, and in reply to
my enquiiy. ulIow are you ?" he answered
"Waiting tor my furlough." Then at ooce
with singular solemnity he said : "I have
something to say to you." -
Wheu 1 was seated he proceeded without
one word of introduction : "J know Gen.
Grant better than any other person in the
country can know him. It was my duty to
know him when I saw him and when I did
not see him, and "tow I tell you what I
know. I1E CANNOT GOVERN THIS
COUNTRY." The intensity of his manner
and the positiveoess of his judgment sur
prised me ; for though I was aware that the
late Secretary of War did not place the
President very high in general capacity. I
was not prepared for a judgment 83 strongly
couched.
At last after some ' delay ocenpied in
meditating on his remarkable statement, I
observed "What you say is very broad."
It is as true as it is broad," he replied
promptly. ' -' -
- I added, "You are tardy. Why did you
wait till this time? - Why did you net say it
before bis nomination-?" -
He aBswered that he was not consulted
about the nomination, and had no opportu
nity of expressing his opinion ' upon it ;
besides, he was much occupied at the time
with his duties as Secretary of War and bis
contest with the President. ; v - , ; -A
I followed by saying "But you took part
in' the Presidential election and. made a
succession of speeches for him in Ohio and
Pennsylvania.": ?. . .. - J
"I spoke'said he, "but I never "intro
duced the name of Gen. Grant. I spoke for
the Republican party and Republican cause."
Insisting upon the re-election of the Press
ident challenges inquiry, as it puts him again
upon the country. But even if his pressuie
for re-election did not
MENACE THE TRANQUILITY OF THE C UNTRY.
it is important that the personal pretensions
he has set up should be exposed, that no
President hereafter venture upon such ways,
snd no Senator presume to defend them.
The case is :
CLEAR AS NCOS.
In opening this catalogue. I select two
typical instances of nepotism and gift-taking,
officially compensated, each absolutely
indefensible in the head of the Republic,
the most pernicious in example and showing
beyobd question that surpassing egotism
which changed the Presidential office into a
personal instrumentality,
NOT UN LI KB THE TRUNK OF AM EL? PflANT,
equal fr all things, small as well as great
from provision for a relative to pressing a
treaty on a reluctant Senate, or forcing a
relation on a reluctant people. Between
thee two typical iustances, I hestitate which
to place forcnu st. - But since the nepotism
of the President is the ruling passion reveal
ing the primary in.tincts of his natur6 ;
since it is maintained by him in utter uncon
sciousness of its t ffensive character; since
INSTEAD OF RLUSHIKG F' R IT
as.an unhappy mistake he continues to up
hold it. ; since it has been openly defended
by senators on this floor, and since no true
patriot anxious for Republican institutions,
can doubt that it ought to be driven with
hisses and scorn from all probability t f repe
tition. I begin with this undoubted abuse:
THE N CM BUR OFCRANTS RBLATOXS IN OFFICE.
There has been no call tif Congress for a
report of the relations holding office or sti
pend or money making opportunity under
the President. It is evident that any rei-o!u-tion
calling for it, moved by a senator not
knowu to be fur his re-election, would meet
with opptsition. aod an tfTirt to vindicate
Republican institutions would be denounced
as an assault on the President. But the
newspapers have placed enough beyond ques
tion for a judgment on this ext'aordinary
case. Although thus far there has been no
attempt to appreciate it in the li?ht of his
tory, our .list makes the number of bem fici
aries as many as foity two. It will not be
questioned that there is at least.
a baker's dozen in the categoky
thirteen relatives of the President billeted on
i he country, not one of whom, but for this
relationship, would have been brought for
ward, the whole constituting a case of uepr-ti.-m
not tin worthy of thej wort t governments
whose fiice is a family possession. Beyond
the list of thir teen are other revelations show
ing that this Ftrange abuse did net stop with
the President's relatives, but
THESE RELATIONS OBTAINED APPOI. TLKTS
FOR OTHERS
in their circle, so that every relation became
the center of influence, while the President's
family extends indt finitely.
Mr. Sumner here quoted from American
authorities on Ncpot'ni, and that but one
President. Adams, bad ever appointed rela
tives to office, and that the public sentiment
condemned these appointments.
Mr. Sumner then answered the apologists
of the President and coEtinued, assuming
that if, in case positive merit designated a
citizen for a particular post, the President
might appoint a relation, but it should only
be one whose merit was so shiny that his ab
sence would be noticed. At least it must be
such as to make the" citizen a candidate
without regard to family. But no such
met it is attributed to the beneficiaries of our
President, some of whom have doneliHle but
bring scandal upon the public service. At
least
ONE IS TAINTED WITH FRAUD.
and another with a commission of the Re
public abroad has been guilty of indiscretion
inconsistent with his trus. Appointed ori
ginally in open defiance ol Republican prin
ciples, they have been retained in t ffice after
their unfitness became painfully conspicuous.
By testimony before a Congressional commit
tee, one of these, a brother-in-law, wan im
plicated in biibery and corruption. It is
said that at last, after considerable delay,
the President has consented t i his removal.
Here I leave for the present this enormous
pretension tif nepotism swollen to elephant
iasis, which nobody can defend, and
PAS To GIFT-TAKtNt,
which with our President has assumed an
unprecedented form. Sometimes public men.
even in our country, have gifts ; but it is not
known that any President has before repaid
a patron with eflice. For a public man to
take gifrs is reprehensible.- For a President
to select Cabinet councillors jtcd other officers
among those from whom he has taken gifts
is an anomaly in Republican annals. An
ancient patriarch" fvared the Greeks bearing
gifts and these "words have become a proverb:
"But there are Greeks bearing gifts else
where than at Troy."
A public man can traffic with such only
at his pei il. At its appearance the prayer
should be said . ,
"Lead us not into temptation."
The President notoriously has taken gifts,
while in public service, some at least after
he had been elected President, until the Ga
lena tanner, of a few hundred dollars a year,
(to borrow the word of my colleague, one of
his supporters.) is now "rich in houses, lands
ard stock above his salary." being probably
the richest president since George Washing
ton. He has appointed to his cabinet .
"GREEKS BEARING GIFTS,"
without seeming to see the indecorum, if not
tho indecency of the transaction. .At. least
two. if not three, of the Greeks, having no
known position in the Republican party or
influence in the country, have been selected
as councillors in national affairs and heads
of great departments of . the Government.
Nor does the case of the first Secretary of
State appointed as. a. compliment difi'er in
character from the other two. The President
feeling under personal obligations to Mr.
Wasbburne for important'support. gave him
. ' iA COMPLIMENTARY NOMINATION -with
the undertsanding that after confirma
tion ha should forthwith resign. I cannot
forget' the indignant comment cf,, the late
Senator-Fessendenas we passed out of the
Senate chamber immediately after the con -firm
at on. who en id "Who eTer heard before
of a man nominated Secretary of State mere
ly as a compliment?". - But this is merely
' '. '-r-v . ; . . ' '
another case of the public'servioe subordi
nated to personal considerations. Not only
in the Cabinet but in other t Sices, there is
reason to believe that the President has been
under the influeuce of patrons. Why was be
SO BLIND AS TO TI OMAS MURPHY.
The Custom House of New York, with all
its capacity as a political engine, was handed
over to this ageut whose want of recognition
in the Republican fatty was outbalanced
by Presidential favor, and whose gifts have
become notorious. And when the demand
for his removal was irresistable, the Presi
dent accepted his recognition with an eflusion
of sentiment natural toward the patron, but
without jnstificationiu the cb&racterVjf the
retiring t fficer.
- I have now completed the survey of the
two typical instances of nepotism and eift
taking, officially compensated, in which we
are compelled to see the President. In
these things be shows himself that there is
NO PORTRAIT DRAWN BY A CRITIC OR AN
ENEMY.
It is the original, who stands forth saying :
"Behold the generosity I practice towards
my relations at the expense of the public
service! Also the gilts I take! And then
my way of rewarding patrons always at the
expense of the public service!"
In this open exhibition we see bow the
Presidency, in5tead tif a trust, has bcome a
perquisite. The President who can dn r-tich
things and not recogniz? at ouce the error he
has committed, i-hows that
fUPEU-F.MINENCE OF EGOTISM!
under which the constitution, international
law and municipal law. to say nothing of re
publican government in its primary princi
ples, are all subordinated to the Presidential
will ; and this is personal government. Add
AN INSENSIBILITY
to the honest convictions of others and yon
have a characteristic incident of this preten
tion. Lawyers cite what are called leading cases.
A few of thece show the Presidential will in
constant operation with little regatd to pre
cedent or reason, so as to be a caprice.
Other Piesidents have entered upon effice
with a certain modesty and distrust, but our
soldier, absolute'y untried in civil life, en
tirely a new man. entering upon the sublimest
duties before which Washington and Jeffer
son had shrunk, said in his inaugural : "The
responsibilities -f the position 1 feel, but I
accept them without fear.''
GRANT'S FIBST CABINET.
The next step after the inaugural address
was the selection tif a Cabinet, and in his se
lection the general tlisappointmeut was only
equalled by the general wonder. All tradi
tion, usage and propriety were discarded.
The just expectations of the party that had
elected him were 6et at naught, and the safe
guards cf constitutional government were
subordinated to the personal pretensions of
one man. Maiked among the Fpcctaclcs
which followed, aud kindred in charactei
with the appropriation tif the Cabinet as in
dividual propei ty. was the appropriation of
the ( Oices of the country.
Mr. Sumner here repeated the charges of
nepotism, appointing relations to office, etc.,
and criticized in severe terms the conduct of
the President in sending a message to Con
gress on March 6th, 18C9. asking them to
set aside the fundamental law in order that
A. T. Stewart m'ght enter upon the duties
of Secretary of tho Treasury, he (Stewart)
being one tif those from whom the Piesident
had received gifts.
THE MI LIT ART RING.
He next spoke of the militaiy ring at the
White House and said that the Executive
Mausion had assumed the character e f a mil
itary headquarters. To the dishonor f the
civil Eervice and the total disregard of prece
dent, the President had surrouuded himself
with officers of the army, and substituted
military forms for those of civil life, detailing
for this seivice members of his late staff, al
though Congress has shown a purpose to limit
the employment t f military t fficers in civil
service by three different statutes.
Mr. Sumner condemned the President for
taking away froia their proper duties t fficers
of the army to make them Presidential sec
retaries in defiance of law, the subordination
of ih VVr Ouiirlment to the General-in-Chief,
the attempt to devolve the duties or
the Navy Depaitmeut upon a tieputj. so
that orders were to be signed A. E. Borie,
Secretary of the Navy, per D D. Porter,
Admiral, the effort to absorb the Indian Bu
reau into the War Department, military in
terference at elections, the tfforts to secure
the repeal of theTennre of-Office act, which
limited the Ptesiiient's power of appointment,
and Presidential interference with political
questions aud party movements in a distant
State, from Louisiana to New York.
SAN DOMINGO.
Mr. Somner also referred again at length
to the Sad Domingo question in ttrms of
condemnation, and said that the whole con
trivance, besides being a wrong to theBiack
Republic of Hayti, was an insult to the col
ored race, not only abroad, but here at home.
How a magistrate with four .millions of such
fellow citizens could allow this thing passes
comprehension.
The colored orittor, Fredeiick Douglass,
was selected by the President as one of the
commissioners to vWt San Domingo, and yet
on his return and within sight of the Execu
tive Mansion, he was repelled frm the com
mon table of a mail steamer on the Potomac,
when the other commissioners were already
seated, and through him was the African
race insulted and their equal rights denied.
But the President whoss commission he had
borne neither did or Faid anything to right
this wrong, and a few days later when enter
taining the commissioners at the Executive
Mansion, he actually forget the colored orator
whose services he had sought. ; Bnt this in
dignity is in ' unison with the rest. Often
insulting the Black Republic, it is easy to see
how natural it was to treat with insensibility
the representative of the African race.
HerrJI stay'this painfuljpresentation under
its various heads, beginning with nepotism
and gifttaking, officially compensated, and
ending in the contrivance against Ran Do
mingo with an indignity to the African race,
not because it is complete, but because it is
ENOUGH.
With sorrow imppeakable, I have madflthis
exposure of the pretensiors which, for t ie
sake of Republican institutions, every good
citizen should wish expunged from history,
but I bad no alternative. The President him
self insists upon putting them in isue He
will Dot allow them to be forgotten, , As a
candidate fur re-election he invites judgment.
And now a question of duty is presented to
the Republican party. I like that woik.
It is
AT THE MANDATE OF DUTY THAT WE MUST
ACT.
Do Presidential pretensions meiit the sanc
tion of party? Can Republicans without
departing from all obligations, whether of
patriolLm or duty, rtC'gn zeour ambitious
Caj ar as. a proper represent a ive? Can we
take the feai fnl rest ous.biiity of his pro
It ned empir-i ?
1 put tb'fe questions solemnly as a mem
ber of the R publican patty with all the enrn
estness of a life -devoted to the triumph of
this party. With me party wascouutty and
mankind, and with the adoption of all these
Piesidential pretensions party loses its char
acter, and Crops from its sphere aud the
creed ceases to be Republican and Vcomes
Grant. It is no longer a political party
but a personal party. For myself.Sl say
openly I am no man's man, nor do I belong'
to any personal party.
Mr. Sumner spoke at' length on the one
term principle.
Iu alluding to our foreign relations Mr.
Sumner said he felt bound to say that never
before has the management beeu so wanting
in ability and so absolutely without ciiarac
ter. Iu every directiou there is muddle
muddle with Spain .muddle with Cuba,
muddle with the BIkRepvbbc. mud..le
with distant Corea, muddle withBoglaud
on ail sides
ONE DIVERSIFIED MUDPLK.
Laughter. J To this ccuditimi are we reduc
ed. When, before in our history, have we
reached any such pass as that lo which we
have been carried, in .our questions with
England? Are there -.
LAURELS FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ?
Mr. Sumner ronclurttd : As I wail th
determination of the National Convention,
where are delegates from my own much
honored Cjtnmon wealth with whom I rejoice
to act, not without anxiety do I wait, vet
with the earnest hope that the Convention
will bting the Republican party into ancient
harmony, saving it especially from the
suicidal folly of an issue on the personal
pretensions of one man.
TII12 LOVLS Of LI.COL.
MR. IAMON S STORY CF HIS CODRTSHIT AND MAR
RIAGE, AS TOLD IN BIS BilGRAPU Y
Late in 1?32, or eirly in 1833, Mr. Lincoln
went to bonrd at a tavern in New Slemn, 111.,
kept by ,lmcs Rmledge. Ann Hutltdge, the
third daugbter of tlii tami'v. was at that time
shout II. nnd was probably the most rcEiod
-woman with whom Mr. Lincoln had then ever
conversed a fodest. delicate creature, fas U
nating, were it only by contrast with the rude
people by whom both were surrounded. All
witnesses ur.ltc in prid.-ing her. Mrs. Hardin
Ba!e, a woman of the neihKorhood who knew
her ell, said: "She hud auburn hair, blue
eye3 and fair complexion; was a prettv', kind,
tender, good-hearted woman, beloved by ail
who knew her. MeNumar, Ili'.l and Lincu'n
all courted her at the same time." The men
who spoke of Icr dcscri'e! her with yet moie
enthusiasm. She had a sad story. When a
little more than 17 she became engaged to Me
Natnar. He left her to go to the assistince f
his parents in the State ot New ytk, promise
ing to return as soon as possible; but weeks
grew moii'.h" and even years, and still he did
not come. She had loved him at first, bbt the
love set nis to hae cooled with his long ab
sence; and at last she responded to the passion
ate and impetuous attach nient of young Lincoln.
Hut she felt that she must not mnrry until she
could obtain a re'ease from Mc.Xamar. She
wrote to him in vain, as she had waited in vain
for his corring, and in 1S35 she diedj as Son.e
say of brain lever it.duced by her anxiety of
mind. In her grave Lincoln was wont to de
clare his heart lay buried. A fe w days befote
her death he was summoned to her bedside; but
what passed at that solemn conlerei ce was
known only to him and the dying girl. But
when he had left her and stopped at the hou-e
of John Jones, .on the way home, Jones saw
signs oi the most terrible distress in his lace
aud his uinnner. When Ann actually died and
was buried, his prief became frantic; be lost
all self-coutrol, even the consciousness of his
own identity, and all his New Sjletun friends
pronounced him insane. "He was watched
wilh special vigilance during s'orn 8, fog. damp
and RloorriT weather, for lear of an accident.
At such times he raged piteously. dec'arin,
among other wild expressions of his woe, I can
never be reconciled to hive the snow, rains
atid storms beat upon ler grave. " His fiiend,
Bowlin Greene, took charge of him, and it was
several weeks before it was considered site t
let him go back to his old haunts and his old
employments. He was never precisely the si trie
man again. He had always been sub ct to ti s
of j:reat mental deprefion. but after this they
were nore frequent and alarming. It was then
that he began to repeat the poem w!.;ch. poor
in itself, is immortaTzsJ by his adoption ot it,
"Oh, why shoo'd the spirit of imirut he
proud?" A tew weeks alter the death of Ann
Kutleilge, her other lover, McNamar. returned
to New Saiemn : and he seems to h;ve mouri.ed
for her as deeply it not as wildly as did Lincoln.
One would peihaps expect ot j''ef, Lke-tlnU
ol Lincoln, as passionate a cotiS'ancy ; hut
dead is dead. Jl his heart was in Ann's grave,
he, htmsell, walked the eailh, in thi.-o im
meue Loots of bis. a very real and not an
ideal man. In lw36, a little more than a year
after Ann Rutledge's death, he n agmu a
Miss Alary Owens, whom ho hd met and
gomewh'it admired three years before. She
was a large, haifdsome, matrouly-look ing
woman of ar years a very different type ot
persou from the gentle, sensitive Ann . Aliss
Owens seems to have prided heracll much on
her education," which she says was "Uill'crent
Irom that of Lincoln ;" but he-r let era are
written in a high flown, inflated sty le, which
is far from conveying an impression of superior
intellectual power. Lincoln asked tier to
marry him, but she waited a while, in order to
become thoroughly acquainted witii him, and
then refused him. She did not think him
coarse or cruel, but she thought hiai though .
less, careless, not altogether polite as he uuht
be; in short, as sheher&elt expresses it, Uen
cieat in those little liuks which make up the
great cliaiu ot woman's happiness." The
"little links" be'ng of so great importance to
ber, she doubtless decided wisely. After this
decision, Lmcoiu was guilty of the one mean
ness ot his lite, of which, but for the resertbes
of the biogratiher, we should have been spared
the knowledge. He wiote a letter to Mm. O.
H. Browning, telling the story oi hi acquiu
lance with Miss Oweusiuani.nuenii.'Si uulair
and most humiliating to theladv. Mr. Ljraoii
speaks ot its publicuon as "a pait.tul dutv
It would buve beeu, 1 think, more . o l
in the breach than i" observ4,c; uia
let us tell the truin, it the heavens tail neems
to have beeu his motto. - Mr. L.iucoi0 haul
conclusion waa ibat he should never m.-.iry.
since he "should never be satirfkd with ni.y
one who wonM be blockhead enough to have
him. ". But neither buried heart nor wounded
pride sufficed to keep him very long from the
co i la' spread by feminine fingers. In 1839.
Miss M rV Todd came to live with her sister,
Mrs Ninian V Edwards, at Sprinp6e!d.
where Mr Lincoln was then established. She
was yjutig, just SI. well connected, and ac
cording lo Mr. Ltmon, "high bred, proud,
brilliant; wiity; and with a will that bent every
one else to her purpose." She seems to have
taken captive the lutute President the moment
she made up her miud.it would be expedient
to do so.
Mr. Lincoln Was a rising politician, frtsh
from the people, and possessed f great power
anions them : Slisa Todd was of aristocratic
and distinguished family, able to lead through
the awlul portals of ' good society" whomso
eer they chose to ' countenance. It was
thought that a uu'kid between them could not
toil of numerous benefits to both parties. Mr.
Howards thought so; Mrs. Ll wards thought
so; and it was not long before Mary Todd
herself thought so. She ws very ambitious,
and even before she lelt Kentucky announced
her belief that she was 'destined to be the
wile of eome future IVesiilent." For -a little
-while she was courted by Uo iglas as well as
by L ncolr; but she is said to have refused
the Little (liant," "ou account of his bad
ruorals." Being asked which one of them she
intended to have, she answered . " The t ue
I hat has Ihe best chance of bting President."
She decided in fator of Lincoln, and in the
opinion of . some ot.her hnsuaudV friends,
aided to n sitmII extent in the fulfillment of
the prophecy which the bestowal ot her hand
imnlied." ,
Mrs. Edwards Mis Todd's sister! sava that
Lincoln was "charmed with Mary's wit and tas-e-iliatcd
Willi her quick sajfdcil v, Ui.-j- uatuni unl
culture." Thor wero speedily n-rairrd, ami
their marriage w.jis only a question of time.
Jtut some how the Lincoln hue ullairs eeetii
nover lo have been altogether witisfaetorv. A
Mis-s Miuilila Ldwards presently made her np
pea ranee. isie was Ihe sister of Mr. .N in inn Ed
wards, a fresh youtiif oeunty, and her Lincoln
saw, and. secinar. loved. The attair with Miss
Todd, aecordiiiK to th Ki w a rdses. ncvtii(liii
to Stuart, according to llcrndoii. ac-eordin to
Lincoln himself, was a "policy match," tint this
was love. (Ceutlc ghost of sweet Ann Kul-k'dsre.-did
your spirit eyes prow snd'r) Mr. Ed
wards tried to marry his sister to t-peed. but sho
preferred Mr. Schuyler St ronir. and presently
married him. Lincoln bad been rcciraine-tl by
a sense of honor from decla rinir his passion,
though any words of his woulu probably have
beun uttered in vain. 14ut now conscience as
sailed him. He-concluded with irre-it ntmii of
in a i. mat hu would be doin Marv Toddjrriev
i ms wi onr were he to man y her when bis heart
had thus wanuercd from her. He went to her,
necordiiiKly, anil told her the tv hole storv. She
released him from his entraement. mid then
some parting endearment's followed, and, a-l
the natural rest? It. of those endearments, a re
O'ticiUation. l.Mopil Vhen you .wish to break
off your enajremetit with a woman, never kiss,
hc-rjrood bye. Janoolu and Mary were ajrain
eni.-iti.'-ed ; evc-rythinir w-as reielv for the niar
riasrn. even tho supper. Mr. Lincoln tailed to
meet his ens"Mjreiiient, the cause heinjr insanity.
His: friend too it him to Kentue'ry and kept lilhi
thiji e until lie recovered. M-.- Her:idoU believes
that Lincoln's insanity arrow out of a most ex
traordinary complication of fe.-lin?s aversion
to the marriai'.c promised, a counter-attachment
to Miss Edwards, and a new aeeess of un
spcakuhle tenderness for the memory of Aim
K'Mlodirf. Hut after Ids recoverv atid return
to Spriicrtiul 1 :t was not loriir bef lit: be man i.-.l
Miss 'lodd. She told him that though she had
released -him from the eniriurenient. her own
foelinjr for him remained unchanged. lie went,
to see bis frj-mt .1. i I M i le-n v. f.nd s:til to
him. ".Jim. 1 shall l-ajve to marrv'thut K'U'L" At
another time Lini.ti told hint that he "was
drieti into the marriage, that it wa a thinjr
planned by the K.I wards family." However,
through weakness, or through u-ml'Tiiess. h;
seems to have submitted to his fate; atid in
ISu: Mary Todd became Mrs. Lincoln. -Mr. La
man has succeeded quite tolorahlv in provin
him weak, incoiist-int .m l unchivalrous. llo
bestows equal energy iu proving him lo havo
been uncristian. lie prints various letters fr m
his friends recounting the infidel sentnocnt-
and speeches of Lincoln's voulh. and he con
cludes that "while it is very clear that Mr. Lin
coln was at nil times an inlidel in the ort hodox
sense of tho word.it i-alsn verv eltnrthat lm
was not at nil times equally willing that evert -body
should know it. 1I never offered to
li urjfe or recant : but ho was a wily politician,
i.nd fid not disdain to regulate his religious
manifestations with some rcfc-rcucc to his po
litical interests."
A Hosier's Revenge The SU.ry rf a
Fuhe Wtfe The fearful record of crime
made by her vigilance committee has given
to Jackson rouuty. Ind.. a. world-wide bat
unenviable fame. The many murders per
pelrated by these vigilants in the name of
justice, the quick work mada of horse thieves
and all other thieves, when detected, causes
a shudder to chill one's blotid and each par
ticular hair to stand on end. But it is re
served to a Jackson county farmer to eclipse
all Ihe barbarism previously practiced in his
county, and reach tho nfinemont of cruelty
in his treatment of his wretched, though guil
ty, wife. This Turner's name was Jones.
lie had a young and handsome wife, but her
ways were dark and her tricks vain, in her
husband's estimation, and so they did not
live happily together. A few evenings aga
Jones went home from his work aud f und
his wife gone, and also with her a consider
able, sum of money. A note upon a table
near the door jiT irmed him she had fled wi;h
a rran she hived, and pursuit would be vain.
The husband thought not, however, and
mounting a fleet horse lie dashed iff on Ihe
county n ad leading to Bennington. He
heard of the fugitives on the way, which
rent rpeed to his pursuit
It was toward evening whn he saw them
in the road ahead of him. Drawing bis re
volver, he increast d the speed of his horse,
and was soon up with the guilty wife and
her pa-amour. Holding the revolver "ocked
in one band, he plunged the other into his
pocket and drew forth a set of aitificiJl teeth
the wife had Itfi in her flight. "Here. Em,
take these d d old teeth; I don't want
'em no more," he exclaimed ; and Em took
them. "And now. Bill Bean."he continued,
turning to the frightened paramnnr. ' hereV
a plug of terbacker ; take it and light out ;
and sure' h 11 if ever yon or Era cornea
back to sponge off me I'd shoot you both.
D'ye 8-e that ar?" holding out the reviver
and shaking it threatengly. ,-N w git ;"
and it is unnecessary to say that B;ll Baaa
and E u got Ixuistille ledger.
A New Fairfield man who failed to get
a thirty cent pine-apple for a qnarter of a
dollar wanted to know "whether we are
breathing the pnre air of freedom or being
strangled with the fetid breadth of a hellish
despotism ?" The store-kveper. said those
were the ouly pine-apples he had. Da.nbu.ry
Nttcs. . , . ". .
A drcskard was staggered along singinsj
at the top of his voice.. Rock me to sleep
mother, 'O k me tosleep.' wl ei suddenly a
voice from the other ide of the street star,
tied him by excla-nvng, "t d m't know about
rocking you lo sle-ep, but I'll stone" you to
death if you don't dry up." i
Ton O'Connor, an Irish lad, owns 60tv
000 cattle io Tex-w.