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A frl LfJ
McPIKE, Editor and Publisher.
HE IS A PKtEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE; AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.
Terms, S2 per year, In advance;
OLUME Vis
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1872;
NUMBEil 31.
i
TO WniCII IS ADDED A FUND OF
Aiito be divided amotifst Shareholders, as a majority may direct, at a
i meeting to be held on the ISdth of October,
T'O THE rMLTOTTC
At a
nth do
i v.rir-f Kit.tcini iit ot the terrible olstiMer inflicted unon the town by the recent tire, and appeal
'or nid i'i helwif of our sutlcrimr people. In discliurxiiw this duty, we will vfidcavor to convey
i fttint lili ii of the feurfiil ciiiuinity in as few words us possible. About four o'clock, p. M-, Thurs
lay, ttli of May, a lire broke out in the, western part of the town. A tierce wind was blowing at
be time, and all cllorls to cheek the Humes proved futile. In less thnn two hours this once beau
iful town was laid in ashes. The extent of ground over which the destructive element rajjed is
ihoitt thirty acres, in the central part of the town, inrludlnfr nil the stores and hotels, save one
if each: r.ll the banks mid olficcs. includinjf two printititf offices: AH phrecs of business except
public biiihlin-s. (Mu -thii d in urea of the solidly-built, and nearly the entire business part of
he town, is in ruins, ml certainly three-fourths of the w a th of the place is utterly destroyed
Iti Are rawed with such relentless fury that the terror-stricken people had to tlee for their lives.
Mini oiiscpicii ly but little personal property was saved. Indeed, many escaped with no other
ciol'tUin; than that upon Lheir persons at the time. Tom larwc number of tliosuirerers it isa total
Insfioi evi i thiiiff they possessed, and they are left liouseless and homeless, without h thinur in
the world ninl dependent upon t ho piiblie for bread. M hers i win whom I lie calamity is not so
never are ureal ly in need of aid to enable them to take another start in to battle of life. The
loss will imt fall short of a million of dollars, aiil the total amount of iusm-Kirce will nol exceed
one hundred thousand dollars.
t.eri.Toiis public, that in the past has responded so nobly to the cry for ht-p from foreign
la" - .ninl id l lie appeals of our own countrymen who have sullered like direful calamities, we
cm up-m vim, in behalf of this sulferinif but Impel ul people, l'OU AI U V ItSTANTI A L AIL).
J nurt h!ritics will confer a lutin favor upon them, and we jnticerely tiope that in the exercise
of lottr hiH-rality and generosity, it will be like the quality of mercy, '"not strained, bat twice,
bio--! - blessing him thai rives anil him that takes."
Mn ham. . San.nkk, Ks., of Somersel, Pennsylvania, is the Treasurer of the Relief Coni
militfi', to whom contributions can be bcnU KO. WCIX.I j
W.M. II. KOONTZ, -Committee.
ISAAC ill'GL'S, )
The above are the appeals of n PiitTerirT-rT.nmmunitv, and the WELLEKSMITRG .OOA T IKflS,
flUb-CLA V ami ''IMItKll LA N I) (Xl.Ml'A-NV, of Weilersburir, JHwscwi County, I'ennsy I vp.uiu,
propose lo deliver to tiie Ki lief Commit lee alt tliv pro? ts arising from the sales of shares.
. Somerset, Pa., July 20, 1872.
Tr. JAMKS LK FEVKE, Secretaty.
. JIhab Sih: Yours of the 11th inst. rcccil. Appre'!!!!!!!?
yeiirkind records tor rnr sufferinir people, we frratet nlly acc-ept yrur tender of a donation of
. 'Xt or uioi - on t of t he proceeds of the sale of your WeUenwiVjr or Somerset Couoty lauds, for
tn- lu in-lit of the surferers by t lie lafi- calamitous lire that laid our town in ruins.
H ps can be obtained at the Office of the Company, or from their Agents,
j WM. H. WESTON,
M P. MEAGHER, Johnstown, General Agent,
f Aiilhtirizi (I Ajfntfsv Ccimj,ri(t Count!.
'V'p'lU'E is hep-by jriicii that the follnwintr
1 i.i i iiiinis have been passed and fili-d in the
Ki spier's l Ulice at Ebetisburji", mid will beifire
f t.b -1 to t he i t 'hails' Court of Cainbri i eoiin
I v.Jnr contli-uiai imi and allowance, on Milrcs.
the ttli day (d .Si ptcmlier nrt, to wit :
.ci aid Account ot Si-pheii Stul.man, Ad
inuVinilnr, .Ve., of Lewis I'oliaiiKh, late of the
LiorotiKti ot .lohnstown. deeas-d.
First mid Vinal Aecount of Sarah Gallafrher
mil Michnel Malo, l-.Mecutors ,,r Thomas (iul
tiuTh r, title of Loieilo boron-rti, dceawil.
final Account of John M. K itiir. Aihninistra
'ur. of John It. Fromnld, late of Johustown,
Unnbria county, ileeeased.
Kinal Account of John IJicket. Executor of
th la-l V ill "nd Testament of f. M. Cooper,
lut of C!i:r 11 O mnty. Iowa, deceased.
Accounto! Joseph IIokuc, Guardian of minor
li'-imof I'eter Stunlan, late of Cumbria towu-
f! fl, ili'l-eased.
.i'e First Account of Georire J. Rodders, Ex
' .tor of the last Will and Testament of John
1- Vers, sr., late of the Uirou-h of Ebensburif,
AMiscd.
: and and Finul Account of F. D. PUirm, Ad
J i.lstralor of 1 . T. Storm, late of Wasbiujf ton
township, deceit seil.
Account or C. H. Ellis, Trustee of the Estale
tif iiannah Hmi-li, laieof Johnstown, dee'd.
Anemint of Mary Heslop, Administratrix rttw
t-tiiiitu ium;ii.i of Joseph Heslop, late of
Oin-niausiii boi-iiiitch, Cambria count v, dee'd.
First and I'm tial Account of John A. Kenne
fly. Administrator of Iiominiclt MeUride, late
Ot Carroll township, deceaseil.
i. C. .lihu- "'ITJ.CY, ReuMrr.
9 H Kl"'l"K. AuK.3.1;2.-4t.
V,,c!ows' Appraisements.
IV OfH L is hereby Vi veil that tho following
l.-'aiseiiiei.M ot Keal and Personal Pro-
i Till Hei'iMlelif.s. aelcererl ui.lcu ur.u- r.
...';f !"r'",i'-s"'ndertheAetof As
" '"-Al""'l. IN'.I. have been tiled in the
n i - h oince. and w ill be presented to the
was i nurt fur approval mi WedueMlnj, the
"fSi'litumlior nrxt. lo wit -
iiti.ry and Appraisement or the personal
l d .,r bvim Kobcrls. ileecased. elected to
er '.!.'!',")' j"1 ,,y Ui ""'''"w. Cuciuda li. Jtob-
i --r- ntoi-y and Appraisement oT the perstmal
, 'p-i.yof William Orr, late of tho Uorouirh
! , " .'wll,.'.,,'','1,s,'f1- '- 'J to be retained
' w widow. Harriet )rr,-i71.',5.
Jtiilnry nnrt Appraisement ot tho personal
j ",r ' l;'tfcot l eter Allbautfh, deceased, re
' il by his widow,-ii(l.i)7.
I'l'rniseineiit or certain personal proticrty
a".T! .f,or ,h.? Vs' :,f. E1?Hnor 1'owell, widow
"LV,.L!r.;r" 0f UlacllU township.
M priiiseiiient of the
personal projierty and
Hi lev. ln.if ir... .......
J'l'Kh. dis eased. M t apart for Susan Itiev
" of FUid deceased,- MiNl.Ol). '
4 , - . ,it:,t- U"MiY, (rrrfc.
-rk s Olhee, Ebensburg-, Auif. U, lS72.tt.
j'UP(KXA IN DIVORCE.
n I , . CAM ItHIA COUXTV, SS.
""ONWKAI.TII OF l'KNNSVr.VANIA :
j & I Shinlf nf t'linibrui Co tirtrAinn:
i Ts- i Von ure herebv commanded that
you summon XV. XX'. II. Fukkman to be
( ?iniieiir at our Court of Common Fleas, to
( J-l.-n for said county at EhctiKburjr, on the
! S mini i,( Vpfcii.r iirrt. lo answer a cor-
' Iiorce tiled against bim in said
! 'v M U,Y -N- Kukkman, by her next friend
r ,J'" !r'IN 1 tbis ,,u ai" not to oinittat
j1 I'l'MI.
i V'T ""' ''onmable John Dean, Prosfd't
! V! ,,,,r l'Uit, at Ebeusbuir, tbo llth
' I fiui'Vl!' ,n,,h' V-r or our Lord one thous-
'fit humiied andsventv-two.
J. k. iii r k.
Frothonotarr.
fJ.-t,J
; fei1 hr,n fl
ERSET RELIEF FUND
tfpal, Iron, Fire-Glay and Timber
J cmly ONE MILLION DOLLARS
I IX FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY,
j J Slisii-e of TWO DOLLARS EACH,
Lint-,
a pnHir meeting held at the Court House, in 'tfcj Borough 'or Somerset, on Friday, the
of .May, A. l. IS'.:;, die iimlerMneil were appointed u Cominittoe to present to the public
rder ot t he Kclief Committee. 1. WEVAN'l), Chairman.
A. II. CUKFKOTII, Secretary.
Sf.MEIiS-ET, PA.
J V li t ue of sundry writs of Ytuit. f j-po. and
-li. Ft ml. ..rpirn., issued out of the Court of
Common Fleas of Cambria county, and to me
ilireeteil. there will be exposed to Fublie Sale,
on Moinlay, 2l day of SpptrniliPT next, at " o'cl'k
y. m.. the li.llowiiijf Iteal Estate, to wit :
A i.i. the riht, title and interest of Michael
Chardon, of. in and to a piece or parcel of land
situate in Cleai tleld township, Cambria county,
adjoining lands of James ltyan, Mieh'l M'Clos
key, and ot hers, continuing .il Acres, more or
t-s. nlxnit : Ai res ol which are clenred, bav
Iiik thereon erec-ted a two story loj bouse mid
a lev Uini -now in Hie ceunttey of Michael
Chardon. Tuki.'ii in execution and to bo eol.i ut
the suit of Adam Col lis.
Alo, all the ribt, title and interest of Lucas
Moyertiiid Bridget Mover, of, in an-l to a cer
tain pieveor parcel of land situate in Clearlicld
township, t'ainbria county, adjoiniiur lands of
Matthew Ivory, David Sutton, and other;!. con
taining 08 Acres, more or les.s, about 25 Acres of
which arc cleared, having thereon erected a two
story plank house and a frame stable now in
the occupancy of Lucas Moyer. Taken in exe
cution and to be bold at the suit of Francis
Cooper.
Ai.hi, nil the rljrht. title and interest of John
S. Luther, of, in and ton piece or parcel of land
situate in Carroll township, Cambria county,
adjoining lands of Joseph Ilouck, Francis Lu
ther, ami others, containing FX) Acres, more or
less, about thirty acres of which are cleared,
having thereon erected a one-and-a-half story
plank house, now in the occupancy of George
Luther, and a two story plank house anil frame
barn, now in the occupancy of John S. Luther.
Taken in execution and to be sold at the 6uit
of Davis & Lloyd.
Al-sn. all the ritfht. title and Interest of Zeph
aniah XVraWland, or, in and to fl piece or parcel
of laud situate in Susquehanna township, t'ain
bria county, adjoining lauds of Hiram Fritz,
Isaac XV eakland and others, containing t Acres,
more or less, about 15 Acres of which arc clear
ed, ha villi thereon erected u two story plank
house, a frame barn, and a small stable, now in
the occupancy of Zephaniah XVeakland. Taken
in execution aud to be sold at tliet-uit of Johns
ton Moore-
Abso, all the rijrht, title and Interest of St.
Clair l'fouts, of, in and to a piece or parcel of
land situate in Susquehanna township, Cam
bria county, adjoining' launs or Peter Garman,
Win. Carman. and others, containing 2S9 Acres,
more or leas, about 3d Acres of wbicu-rc clear
ed, having- thereon erected a two story plank
house and lojr barn now in the occupancy of
J. M. Dunlap. Taken in execution and to be
sold at the suit of John Lockhard, for use of
John Martin aud Thomas Patterson, lixecutors
of James Graham, deceased, cl. ul.
Ai-so, nil tho ritfht, title and Interest Of Win.
Lloyd, of, io and to a piece or parcel of land sit
uate in Susquehanna township, Cambria coun
ty, adjoining lands of heirs of Kichard Nag-le,
dee'd, Aimer Lloyd, and others, containing- 100
Acres, more or lesfi, about 'M Acres of which are
cleared, having- thereon erected a one-and-a-half
story plank house and lop lutrii now in
the occupancy of Wm. Lloyd. Taken in execu
tion and to be 6old at the suit of Lloj'd Ilouck.
Ai.ro, all the risrht, title and interest of Chas.
Oswald, of, in and lo a certain lot of ground
situate in Carrolltown borough, Cambria coun
ty, 1 routing on Main street on the wesl ami ex
tending back to land or llciijamin YVeiiner, ad
joini'iir lot of Joseph Zolncr on the north and
lot of .iolin stoltz on the south, having thereon
erected n two siory plunk house now in the
occupancy of Andruw ttoelet. Taken In execu
tion aud to be sold at tho suit of F. Bearer.
AI.SO, Ail the rirht, title, and interest of Cor
nelius Cruui, of, in, and to a certain piece or
parcel of laud situate in Suminerhill township,
I'-ambria County, adjoining lands of Joseph
XV rijrht, Cat limine Cium, and others, contain
ing twenty-four acres, more or less, about sev
enteen acres ol w hich are cleared, having there
on erected a two story lojr house and lojr barn,
now in tbo occupancy of Cornelius Crutn.
Taken In execution and to be sold at the suit of
Solomon EnJh.
W. Tt. TION ACKER. Sheriff,
Sherifl'e Office, Ebeusburjr, Aug. 16, 1872.
TIIE COMLNG GOVERNOR K LANCASTER.
An Immense Political Demonstration.
ME. H UCKA.LE WS SriZEClf.
Ills Senatorial Record His Votes for Rnpplles and
Bounties A Complete Refutation of lUdioal
Mandcrs The Holrombe InterTlew
Necessity for Ueform, &c, c.
The meeting at Fulton Hall last night,
says the Lancaster Intelligencer of the 21st,
was a grand political demonstration. The
notice given was brief, but the assemblage
was one of the most imposing ever wit
nessed in this city upon a similar occasion.
Long before the hour appointed for the
meeting every seat in Fulton Hall was filled
and the aisles were packed by people stand
ing. Hundreds were obliged to turn away
xvithout obtaining admission. Very many
of the best and most intelligent Republi
cans in the city were present. They went
to hear the truth, and returned to their
homes determined to cast their ballots in
favor of reform and an honest administra
tion of our State Government. Mr. Buck
alew was receixred with enthusiastic cheers
when he entered the hall, and was intro
duced by Dr. Carpenter, Chairman of the
Democratic County Committee. In his
usual calm and clear method he spoke as
follows :
SrEECH OF Mil. EUCEAT.EW.
Fellow-eitizen of Lancaster County: I
appear before a Lancaster county audience
for the first time. Although I have known
many of your people many years, it has
never happened that I was with you in
your popular assemblages in any of the
great election contests through which we
have passed in the last twenty-five years.
But I am here to-night to salute you all I
hote, as friends, and I hope, also, as fellow-
co-workers with me in an enterprise in
which we are jointly interested. It is not
one iieculiar to the speaker who now ad
dresses you. It is one that goes home to
each and all of you. the question is,
"Can xxe in peaceful times, unditured by
the clangor of war or any disturbing force
from abroad, can we secure to ourselves in
this country just, honest and successful
governments in our btates and in the gov
ernments of the Federal Union?"
Gentlemen : I might say many pleasant
things concerning your county as introduc
tory to my remarks to-night. I might speak
of its early as well as ol its recent history.
I might go back to the time when Benja
min Franklin appeaVsl to the fanners of
Lancaster county for transportation and
supplies for the ill-fated expedition of Brad
'dock into the wilderness, and when his ap
peal was promptly met. I might go on and
point to successive periods of your history,
when your county exhibited her patriotism,
her energy and her devotion to the coun
try in times of emergency and peril. I
might dilate also upon the peculiarities of
character in your jiopulation, as settle
ments were originally made and as society
grew up and increased in magnitude, with
-a corresponding swollen volume of various
interests, and an accompanying prosperity
such as is vouchsafed of few sections of our
own Commonwealth or of other States
But, gentleman, I shall not dwell upon
these points, however, pleasant it might be
for us to pass some time speaking of them
and listening to them. Although my moth
er was of Irish descent, I never had my
tongue upon the blarney stone and there
fore you will excuse me. Laughter.
AN ELECTION CRY.
I pass on to matters that may be if not
more interesting and pleasant at least more
suitable to the occasion. In a work writ
ten by D' Israeli the younger, a work of
imagination, lie depicts the trouble and
UlniciiUy of a pair of English politicians
about a generation ago and early in the
reign of her present .Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain. They were named Taper
and Tadpole, and their difliculty was to
obtain .an election cry. Now, it would
seem as important that an election should
have a cry as that a sermon, should have a
text, or a newspaper a motto. Well, Mr.
D'lsrael's politicians after racking their
ingenuity finally settled upon their election
cry, which was this : "Our young Queen
and our old institutions." There was a
pleasant collocation of language, vague and
general in signification suited to the neces
sities of the politcal situation. In this
election campaign there was no difliculty in
settling iijkwi a cry for Democrats and Ke
fonneis in this State. It was a plain mat
ter. The language lay before them. They
could not miss it. Therefore, tho cry was
raised early ; it continues to this evening,
and it will be re-iterated hereafter. Their
election cry is "down with the rings!"
Applause "Down with the King!"
G reat applause.
THE KEKOKMEK'S CRY.
But what does this mean? Why, it car
ries upon its faco words significant to every
Intelligent citizen of tho Commonwealth.
It means that government has gone wrong.
It means that men in public station have
consulted their own interests instead of
the public. It means that there is odium,
suspicion, and some measure of disgrace in
public affairs in this State, and connected
with those who have been entrusted by the
peoplo with the exercise of their sovereign
powers. Our cry was really made for us
by our opponents. They brought into ex
istence the wrongs out of which this com
mon watchword arose, and I trlist that so
effectual and complete will be the decision
of our ieople this year, that a repetition of
this cry, at least in our State, will never
hereafter be required. Applause. That
the lesson now to be administered by the
people will not only be wholesome in char
acter, but also so enduring in its conse
quences, that public men hereafter will not
transgress will not render such popular
action as we now have necessary and proper
to vindicate republican institutions from re
proach. Renewed applause;
THE RINO CKY.
But oxir opponents have been troubled
for an election cry; and they have gone
without one from early in April until a very
recent date. They knew not what to say
in some brief sentenee in which to sum up
their side of the issues of the Campaign;
Well, gentleman, they have ascertained
that this want must be supplied, that it is
not practicable for them to carry on suc
cessfully, or even respectably, a campaign
without grouping around some common
expression or watchword, the principles, or
if you please, the passions which inspire
them. Mr. (I believe I should say Major,)
Russell Errett, the Chairman of the King
State Committee, in an address issued
within a few days, informs those who fol
low his guidance that they are no longer
to pany blows ; they are to give them, aud
he proceeds to do what all good teachers of
doctrine do, or ought to do. He proceeds
to illustrate his advice by an example ; he
proceeds to make an assault himself. And
what he does, and what he proposes that
others shall do, may be indicated by the
watchword for which it would seem that he
has been seeking, and which is a familiar
one to all of you. He proposes, substan
tially, that the ciy of his ieople shall be
as it was in war times "loyalty," and that
charges against all opposed to them of lack
of patriotism shall be freely indulged in
through all the avenues through which a
party can sjieak I mean its speakers,
newspapers and members.
In persuance of this design and to revive
if Tossible the passions of the war, he pro
ceeds in his address to make an assault
upon me, and he does it hi terms not usual
in political controversies between gentle
men. He proceeds to do it without prov
ocation, and with a willful and deliberate
intention of stating what he himself knows
to be untrue. This is strong language but
I do not utter it unadvisedly. I shall pro
ceed to prove that it. is just. He says to
you, men of Lancaster, and to you fellow
citizens thoughout the State, in express
terms, that during the war, or at least
during the concluding years of the war,
you Mere represented in the United States
Semite by a disloyal mau ; and he proceeds
further to assert that not only was this
disloyalty exhibited in Senatorial serv ice,
but also in private intrigues and intercourse
with the enemies of the United States.
Now, gentlemen, this gross and indecent
accusation, proceeding from the reeogtuzed
head of the organization opposed to us,
justifies completely what I propose to do,
to-night, and what, under other circum
stances, might be supposed, to be indeli
cate, or in some manner questionable. I
propose to speak to-night, and to sjMjak
frankly, concerning myself, my views and
position early in the war, and during its
progress. Observe, and I beg you to carry
this thought in your minds. observe. I do
not propose to speak because I conceive it
to he necessary to me as an individual,
that I should defend myself against this
accusation, nor because I suppose an answer
from me is necessary to any result iu this
election But I do this for the satisfaction
cf friends, especially of many gentlemen
who have not hitherto acted with me in
political affairs, but who are disposed this
year to vote for roc upon the issue which
has been made up by my nomination.
(Applause.) I propose to show them, and
to so enable them to show others, and if
necessary, to lling it in the face i f every
calumniator, that the candidate nominated
at Heading, and supported as I believe, by
the honest sentiment of a majority of the
freemen of this State, was patriotc during
the war, (cheers) was upright and true upon
all questions relating thereto. (Kenewed
cheering.)
I came home from a foreign country in
the latter part of the Summer of IStil, some
months after the war began. A little over
a year subsequent to my return, I was cho
sen to the Senate of the United States by
the Legislature at Hanisburg, by a major
ity of one vote, an event of w hich doubt
less you heard at the time, because there
were circumstances connected with the
event calculated to fix it upon men's recol
lections. DECLARATIONS OF POSITION
The war ended in April 18G5, a little
more than two years afterward. Shortly
alter my election, in July li?G3, I prepared
any essay upon the existing political situa
tion in this country, and especially with
reference to the war which was then pend
ing, and it was published extensively; in
Philadelphia and in my own and adjoining
counties, and was distributed about in the
fonn of a slip sheet under my name. 1 will
read -wliat 1 Niiil then :
"That rebellion was against the laws of
the United States, and put the whole body
of them at defiance. Although it asserted
for itself a legal ground of justification, it
is most manifest that it was lawless and
unauthorized. The compact of Union, be
ing without limitation of time; inust be
held, as intended by its authors; to be per
petual ; and the provision contained in it
for its own amendment provides the only
lawful mode by w hich its obligation can be
limited or cha nged. Considering secession
as a breach of the public law, and in view
of the immense interests put in peril by it,
the State concurred in measures of hostili
ty against the South. But this was done
to vindicate the Irroken frw, and to secure
the objects for which the Government of
the United States was originally founded,
and for no purpose of conquest, or oppres
sion. Upon this ground we may justify
our conduct, and submit it, without nppre
hension of censure, to the judgment of fu
ture times."
That was the substantial and solid ground
upon which early after my election to the
Senate, I placed the war upon our side be
fore the people of this State.
I will proceed next to read a passage from
a speech delivered by me after the war
ended. In a speech delivered in the Sen
ate on the 21st of July, 18(5(5, I said .
"Keturning from a foreign country after
the commencement of the war, when it was
in full progress, and when no human pow
er could avert the storm which fell Upon
us, I found myself, as did most of the citi
zens of our country, absolutely controlled
by the circumstances which surrounded us
and which pressed us forward upon a course
of conduct which we could not avoid. I
thought then, and I think now that there
w as but one thing to do. We were en
gaged in a contest w hich was, as it has
been often described, a contest of life and
death, and there was nothing to be done
except to fight it out, to fight on, to pro
mote or assist the collision of force which
were then arrayed against each other until
some ultimate result should be reached.
As a member of the minority in this
Chamber, I gave my vote for those meas
ures of the majority which directly point
ed to the use of the force of this Govern-
j ment to subjugate the insurrection which
I raised its head against iis. I was opposed
to the political policy of tlie majority; and
have continued tb entertain and evince that
opposition down to this time in a resiiectful
aud proper manner. But upon the 'ques
tion of prosecuting the war to a conclusion,
I never had any difliculty ; I never had any
hesitation. Uion an examination of my
record and humble as it may be, even it
may by some jiersons at some time be ex
amined it will be found that from the time
I assumed the seat to which my State as
signed me in this Chamber, my course was
such as 1 have indicated, and was in exact
accordance with the convictions that I
held."
SUPPORT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
So much for declarations or statements
of positions. Now I come to the senatorial
record of 1S6L On the 15th of Febniary
a deficiency bill was pending in the Sen
ato relating to the Civil bervice. The
Military Committee of the Senate reported
an amendment appropriating certain mon
eys for the War Dei ait ment, to cover de
ficiencies for the current fiscal year, which
ended the oOtli of June, 1S04. The items
of appropriation in this amendment amount
ed to 5 04, 040, ami I have them here.
In the same bill was contained appropria
tions to the Navy Department of $2,733, -500.
At that date, the loth of February,
this amendment was agreed to in the
Senate by a unanimous vote, the record
showing that I was present, and again on
the llili of April, at a subsequent stage of
the bill, another unanimous vote covering
these appropriations was given, and on
the 14th the bill was passed finally in the
same manner, the (Jlobe showing that I
was present at each of these sessions, and
immediately before and after the passage
of the bilL These appropriations for the
anny and navy amounted to $ 100,239, 540.
In the same spring an act making ap
propriations so the naval service for the
year ending June, 18G3, and for other pur
poses, approved Maj' 21, lt04, was passed.
That bill provided for appropriations to
the naval service amounting to $101,577,
fcyy, covered by nineteen items of appro
priation. Then to seven bureaus in the
naval department the amount appropri
ated was )p3,22,50O, and to the marine
corps the nmount appropriated under the
same bill was.l,332,5'J "JO ; the aggregate
of these appropriations being $100,10,07
0!, besides large and liberal appropriations
to the several navy yards along the Atlan
tic coast, which 1 have not included. In
that case also, the bill passed unanimously,
the record showing that I was present.
But I come to a more important bilk the
largest of all, under which exjienditures
were made during the w ar. I mean the
army appropriation bilk signed by the
President on the 15th of June, 1SG4, to be
found in the Congressional Globe, 1st. ses
sion, 3tth Congressional Appendix, 177.
In that bill there were fifty-three items of
appropriation, aud the aggregate amount
was $o2y,323,b07 03. That bill was voted
upon in the Senate on the 2-d of April,
la04, and the yeas and nays are recorded
at page 1813 of the Ulubc. They are as fol
lows. Yeas Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Buch
aleic, Carlisle, Chandler, Clark, Collamer,
Conness, Cowan, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle,
Fesscnden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale,
Harding, Henderson, Hendricks, Howard,
Laneot Indiana, Lane of Kansas, M'Dougal,
Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, ltumsey, Sher
man, Sumner, Ten Fyck, Trumbull, Wil
kinson, V illey and A llson 30.
Nay Mr. Poweft 1.
Of thirty-six senators w ho voted for that
bill eighteen are now supporters of General
Grant, eleven are supporters of Mr. Greeley
and seven are dead.
Gentlemen, it has been truly said of
that army appropriation bill it was for
the yer commencing on the 1st day of
July, iat4 and ending on the 30th of June,
lbOo that these moneys thus voted by us
with rare unanimity, sent Sherman tri
umphant on his march to the sea.; replen
ished the thinned rauks of Grant before
Richmond and gave vigor and success to
all the operations, large and small, under
taken by our government in the closing
year of the v.Tti. It was that money that
brought the war to an end, and secured to
us, 1 trust, an everlasting peace. Cheers.
Yet a. chairman set up to manipulate and
pollute elections has tne face to send forth
his address branding me aud men like me
as disloyal, while he and his or many of
his present associates in the emergency of
the nation were looking to their own pock
ets instead of the interests of tlie country.
More cheering.
But this immense appropriation bill was
not at first successful. It passed the sen
ate, but the two houses got it by the ears
on some amendments, iu relation to that
everlasting subject of congressional de
bate, the colored people, l'hcy were at
issue, although both largely republican,
on the question about how and to what ex
tent certain colored troops were to be paid,
and it was necessary to have a committee
of conference. You w ill find the report of
the committee of conference on that bill at
page 2S45 of the Globe, for that session. I
will read you the names of those who sign
ed this report, which secured the final pas
sage of tlie bill and gave it its ultimate
form. It was signed on the part of the
Senate by T. O. nowe, L: M. Monill and
Charles ll. Buckalew, and on the part of
the House by Thaddeus Stevens; cheers
and Thomas T. Davis, and then for some
days afterwards 1 used to hear of rather
strong declarations, made by the chairman
of the House committee I mean the late
Thaddeus Stevens repeated cheering
concerning w hat he alleged to be the man
liness and magnanimity with w hich I had
agreed to pay liberally the colored troops
which he had employed great cheering.
If you want to look into declarations of
that sort (which perhaps are unimportant)
so made, you can inquire of Mr. Halderaan,
Representative in Congress from an adjoin
ing district. Upon that report from the
committee of conference when it was made
the vote was unanimous, so that I followed
that bill to its conclusion and assisted in
giving to it its ultimate fonn. That fin
ishes 1804, with the exception of the bounty
bill, about which I will say a Word after a
while. Iu lbC3, all the moneys voted were
not expended. When the bill were passed
we did not know that the war would end
before their expenditure would become ne
cessary. Of tlie date of 2d of March, lb'G5,
you w ill find an act making appropriations
for the naval service for the year ending
June 30, 1G6. The amount appropriated
was $121,480,028 03, and that biU passed
the Senate unanimously on the 17th of
February, the record showing I was pres
ent: At that same session, on the 3d of
March, 1805, you will find another act
among our ttatnes, "an act making ap
propriations for the support of the army
for the year ending 30th of June,' 1S0G; that
passed the Senate oft the 18th of February;
the record showing" that I was present
The aggregate amount of the appropria
tions made by that bill in thirty-four items
was $534,570,527 70. Here are five suc
cessive money bills, every one of which by
the record is shown to have been passed
with my consent and approval, because
they were passed unanimously with the
one exception of the army appropriation
bill of lb'G4, and for that I have read the
vote. They amount altogether to $ 1,427,
822,881 30.
soldiers' pay.
I come to another subject. I come to
the question of the pay of the soldiers. On
the 22d of December, 1803, the record
shows that I was present when the bill
passed unanimously, appropriating $20,
000,000 to pay bounties to soldiers, and it
also shows that an amendment offered at
that time, to reduce bounties from $300 to
$100, or to compel the lresident to pay no
more than $100 bounty to a soldier, was
opposed and voted against by me. Then,
gentlemen, you will find that on the 22d
of April, 1804, Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana,
offered an amendment, providing that the
pay of soldiers in the anny should be in
creased fifty per cent., provided, however,
that no non-eommissioned olhcer should
receive more than $22 per month. That
amendment was put to a vote, and I voted
for it. I thought it was just to the soldiers
whose pay was then but $13 a mouth, Ap
plause. J That increase would have made
their pay $10 50, which I thought was
reasonable. Again, you will find, on the
17th of May, 18G4, that an amendment was
offered in the Senate to pay the soldiers iu
gold. Their wages then being low, and
gold rising, and they having families to
support at home, the proposition was made
to pay them in gold, or its equivalent.
For that, also, I voted. Then a bill was
considered in the Senate, and passed on
the 10th of May, 18G4, for an increase in
the pay of soldiers from $13 to 16 a
month, with sundry other rates running
up, iu some cases, as high as $31 per
month, for non-commissioned officers of
the army, and it is shown that I was pres
ent at the time the amendment was agreed
to, unanimously, and also afterwards on two
occasions, until final action upon the bill.
You have, therefore, iu reference to that
subject, the facts of the vote for the ap
propriation for soldiers bounties of $2o,
U00,000; the vote against reducing bounties
from $300 to $100 ; the vote to increase the
pay of soldiers 50 per cent. ; the vote to
pay them in gold, and afterwards a sup
lort cheerfully given to the increase front
$13 to $10 per month for private soldiers'
and larger sums for non-commissioned offi
cers. THE PAY OF COLORED TROOrs;
I dismiss that, and come to another
point, the pay of colored troops, and for
this a very few words will answer. By
an act passed 17th of July, 1802, before 1
was a member of the Senate, the pay of
colored soldiers of persons employed in
the army was fixed at $10 per month the
pay of white soldiers then being $13. That
law remained in force until 1804. although
Mr. Lincoln in his message at the begin
ning of 18G3-4 informed us that about lnO,-
000 colored men were in the public ser
vice, about half of them actually in the
ranks of the anny and the others engaged
in those pursuits and employments con
nected with the army for which colored
men were suited. Mr. Wilson; on the
22d of April, 1801, offered an amendment
to the anny bill against which I voted, and
that vote has been misconstrued. The ob
jections to his amendment were several and
1 mention those that I remember. One
was that it was retrospective. It went
back as to time. When we came to in
crease the pay of w hito soldiers in May we
only increased it from the time of the pass
age of the bilk but Mr. Wilson, when he
proposed his amendment, proposed that we
should go back to the beginning of the
year aud increase colored soldieis' from
that time. His amendment also provided
for an allowai.ee- to persons who secured
the enlistment of colored soldiers which
many of us understood was to be given to
New England agents who went to the
Southern States to procure colored soldiers
to till up the quotas of the Eastern States ;
and there was another feature w hich was
objected to. It looked to the payment of
certain South Carolina and Massachusetts
regiments, two from each State and giving
them increased pay equal to that of white
soldiers while all tho remainder of th
colored troops were not increased. This I
thought unjust and unequal. It wis al
leged in behalf of these regiments that
some promises were made to them when
they were recruited that they should have
higher rates of wages, but the then exist
ing laws applied to them as well as others,
and it seemed unjust to change the law as
to them, and give them increased pay not
for the future but going back to the time
of their enlistment. They had been in
service perhaps two years. You perceive
then that there were apparently good ob
jections to his amendment. But though I
voted against it, it was put into the bill;
and I afterward voted for the bill with that
in it, and you will observe that iu the com
mittee of conference, of which I have spok
en, we made a general adjustment of this
payment to colored troops both as regard
ed bounty and monthly pay, and we did
the best we could. Wc agreed that colored
troops should be paid the same as white
troops from the first of January, 1801, and
that all the colored men who had enlisted
under the President's proclamation of Octo
ber, 1803, should be paid the same amount;
and we agreed further that the attorney
general might determino whether there
was any obligation uinm the government
to pay in such cases as those of the Mass
achusetts and South Carolina troops.
This was the general adjustment of which
I have spoken, and with regard to that nil
I have now to say is that it w as liberal.
Applause.
i have spoken of those points; and I
dismiss them from further notice. I come
to another point of my discussien.
THE HOLCOMBE LETTER.
I have shown you my record in the Sen
ate upon the subject ot voting appropria
tions to the war ; upon the subject of the.
pay of white soldiers ; upon the subject of
increased pay to colored troops ; and you
will see how utterly unfounded are the im
putations I have answered. I come now
to the second branch of the assaults of Lr
rett. He says I was in a cahoot I sup
pose that is a proier word to express it
with men engaged in the rebellion, and he
undoubtedly alludes to a report which was
recently published, made by Prof. 1 i ol
bombfe to the Confederate government on
the 16th of November; 18G4: The profes
sor was one of the two men who were call
ed jicace commissionerSj in the popular
language of the day, in 1SG4, and in ins re
port he says that among other persons
whom he saw in addition to Gov. Hrtnt,
of New York, and tundry gentlemen from
other States, lie saw Judge Black, Mr. Van
Dyke and myself from this State. Now if
the professor had found it worth while in
making his report to go on and state what
was the exact truth, that he saw Mrs;
Buckalew and myself in the public recep
tion room of a public hotel at one of the
I most public places on the continent in tho
summer months, outside of the great cities;
and that he talked to us in a very unim
portant discourse for a period of perhaps
eiyht or ten minutes ; that we then sepa
rated ; and that we never saw each other
before or siuce--if he had stated all these
details, I suppose Mr. Errett's patriotic
concern would have been wholly prevent-
. ed. rLausrhter and amlansp.l
. In that brief conversation, which' took
place as I have described it ; the only thinsf
. of consequence or of interest that occtm-ed
j was this ; When we were about leaving;
; the professor said that he supposed Mr.
; Lincoln would have difliculty in raising
! the enormous numberof troops that he had
called for (500,000 men had been called on
the 18th of July,) and I said in reply that
the troops would be raised. He said he
had been told differently, and I responded
, that if any one had told hint so they had
misinformed him. Thereupon we sepa-
. rated. .
' I had gone to Niagara at that time iu
the performance of duty under a resolu
tion of the Senate, proposed by Mr. Ram
sey, of Minnesota, and passed by the Sen
ate on the 2d of July, 1864. By that reso
lution the Committee on Indian Affaire
(' were instructed to investigate the admin
istration of Indian affairs by the colonial
and imperial anthorities in the Britibh
. North American possessions;
We were infonned that in Canadri the
government was able to administer Indian
affairs without having their money stolen
, by their agents; We were informed that
, they were able to manage their Indian
j affairs without having Indian wars, and it
. was supposed that it might bo profitable
I for us to look into the details of their sys
. tem. We did not suppose that that govern-"
j meut had acted upon our example and hat!
followed our methods of dealing with the
i Indian tribes. We did not suppose for in
stance that they had paid the Indians gra-
j tuities promised them by treaty in Middle-:
uwu oaux mixes as was once done to our
Winnebagoes, applause and laughter and
it was thought preper to investigate their
system. Mr. Harlan, of Iowa; Mr; Doo
little, of Wisconsin,- and myself, three
rrfnh'i tif thA Tml
i , ; " w.iiuiinicj nrio
' selected as a sub-cam nihtee to perform this
uuty uunng me recess.
I ys written to meet the oiher gentle-'
men on the 10th of August, at Niagara
Falls, if it would suit me. The letter
sent by me in answer was delayed iu tho
mails, and consequently when 1 went w ith
my wife to the Falls some days later; I
found that my colleagues had beeu there
and had just gone on down, the river. :
When endeavoring to establish telegraphic;
communication with them, quite unex
pectedly I eneotmtered Judge Black; A
letter written by that gentleman, address
ed to Gen. Koumfort; of Harrisburg, dated
''York; August 13, 1S72," states What took
place betw een us, and explains his journey
to Canada at that time. I read from it as"
it has been sent to me; aud I understand it
is not confidential.
TtJE ELACK LETTER.
After stating that it is true that he was5
in
Canada about the middle of .nmst-
1864. and that he aid not. ov. tf
here as
a
; government agent, the judge proceeds
"Iut Mr. btantou knew before I left
j Washington that I was going to the Falls,
; and that I exacted to see Mr. Thompson,
J and he earnestly (at least very strongly)
; urged rce to cany out my intention, and
j made me promise that I would tell him
when I returned what were Mr: Thorn p:
son s views aooui peace, u uc should ex
plain them to me: I was bound to let
Thompson know of the promise I had made
to Mr. Stanton, so that he might limit hi3
confidence ftecordiinrlv: Tun-Mr- Tlini-
son (first at Toronto) ; had long ami lei
surely conversations wirn turn; and Was
introduced by him to Mr. Holcombe.
Both sioke very freely of the issue of the
conflict, and the terras on which it might
possibly be ended by agreement; I wrote
Mr. Stanton, oii the 24th of August, the
substance of what they told me, together
with some commentaries and suggestions
of my own, to w hich he replied; and I made
a rejoinder."
The judge after adding that this cor
resjiondence was hot ofiViaL and that he
had, at the time, reason to believe that
the federal government would consent to a
peace upon the basis of reunion tinder the
constitution, accordant with ilia resolution
of congress of 22d of Jhly; 1SG1, continues:
"The main object of all I said to Messrs.
Thompson and Holcombe was to convince
them that; isneli iw!iiA rmnrlif .-
i - - - - - - -. 'uu i j f u at;
j ccpted, if they could got it, and that they
must, lorego an nope oi maintaining a Sep
arate government:' "
He concludes his letter fts follows :
"After this I met Mr. and .Mrs. Buckalew
on tho American side of the river. He
was there, as I understood waiting for his
colleagues of a Commit fee, w ho had ap
pointed to meet him, and he did not know
how long he might have t stay. I told
hi,m, unreservedly; all I knew about the
situation, and all I thought. I urged him,
if he fell in with Mr. Holcombe or Mr.
Thompson, not to decline a conversation
with them, and to express as strongly as
possible (what I knew to be his opinion as
ii - . ;. . . ' . i . ,i - ..r I! 1.
wen ts uij own; niitt inr reuuii'u wo.
states was an inaisiensaoie conumou
of
T jl.:,.ri ll.. ms. .At-t. -Vi'.lo ir mo tiu
the
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Ji,;t,T r,.l-li.,l -iif in Ihtlftimbe. lint in all
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, 1 . 1 .Lu1.ic li I c filtiritnAnta ic iivnnl '
lv true. He left, and subsequently; upon
request fuade by I Ialcomce, or at his instance
the interview ahc:uly mentioned took place:
I agreed to it in the expectation that
there mitfht ho something added to hi
prior discusssion or conference with Judge
liack, hich I would have communicated
to the latter. In our brief conversation,
howfever, he did not introduce the subject
of peace negotiations, aud I did not care
to enter upon it, or prolong our interview.
Holcombe left Canada soon after and re
turned South, and was not, therefore, con-,
nected with the . odious proceedings of
Thompson and others iu the latter part of
the year. I will only add that I never had
a private conversation w ith a southern con
federate during the war, nor any intercourse.
With one, except uk.ui the occ;isioii already
mentioned: