HAMPER, s[.PIIEESOE hopurrou AND mamas, 'allinore sired, imbue* Use (biol./Wise and DiAIRIMIki Gettysburg. Pa. TrAtits OP PUBLICATION Taa Sras iss flairinu to publlahed every Fri day morning, at 32.00 a year in advance ; or 52.5 0 I not pall within the year, No enbeeriptions discos• - tinned until all arearagee aro paid, unless at the op. Lion of the publishers. A/WM=I I MM are inserted at removable rateL— A liberal deduction will be mule to Perilous adverti sing by the quarter, bait Seers or Yelir. tiers still be inareted at spreial rates, to be agreed upon. AV-The circulation of the SIAS AXD to one half larxer that over attained by any newspaper In , Adams comity ; and, as an advertising Medtam, it cannot be excelled. - Ton Wona of all kinds will be promptly executed, and at fair rates. Uand•bille, Blanks, Cards, Pampb tete, .1t , in every variety and style will be printed at abort notice. Term, `groftsoional tardo, - FIR. WM. STALLSMITH, Dent ist, having located in Gettysburg, offers his services to thirpnblic. lie can be found, for the prel ant, at the Dag uerreau rooms of Levi Mumper on Bal timore street, opposite gahnestocks' store, where be will be prepared to attend to any cav within the province of the Dentist. Persons in want of full or partial seta of teeth are invited boron. Terms rsween unable. . [April B,lBBB.—Am DR. R. B. ELDERDICE, Annonncei to hie fricade, and the public, that he hen returned to riftlV SALT M, - and resumed prac tice. °Mee at the Hotel. litcHtuan TITOISM, P. 0 ,1 f Adam, counly, Pa. DR. J. A. ARMSTRONG, Having located-at NEW SALEM, will attend to all brandies of his profession, and will be found at Ida office when not professionally engaged MCKNIONTSTOWN, P. 0.,} Adams county, Pa. DR. D. M. ECKENRODE, having located at HEIDLERBBI3III3, offers his alervices to the public, and hopes by strict Attention to his pre• fessional duties to merit a reasonable share of public patronage. [April 29.—0 m DIL J. W. C. O'NEAL Ilas his Office at his residence in Baltimore street, two doors above the Compact . Office. Gettysburg, -Iday 29, ISO 7. - - JOHN LAWRENCE HILL, Den tist, Office inChambersburg street, one door west of the Lutheran Church, nearly opposite Dr. It. Horner's Drug Store, where he may be found ready and willing to attend any case within the province .1 the Dentist Persons in want of full sots of teeth era invited to call. [May 29,1897 DR. C. W. BENSON HAS RIISUMED the Practice of Medicine 'in LIT TLESTOWN, and offers Lis eel-vices to the public. Office at his house, corner of Lombard street and Foundry alley, near the Railroad. Epecial attention givon to Skin Diseases. [Littl.town,Nor.l3, 1867. A. nVID WILLS, ATTORNEY - AT LAW,OIPee nt his residence in the South-east corer ufCeutreS.Tiaro. ltejrence.—llon.Thadieus Stevens, Laneaster,Pa. )1 ay 29, 1807. AGENCY.—The under signed will attend to the collection of claims against the U. 8. Government, including Military Bounties, Back Pay, Pensions, Forage, &c., either in the Court of Claims or before any of the Departments at Washington R.G.McCREARY, May 29,1 867. A ttorney at Law,Get e l OS. 11. LEFEVER, .ATTOR NE 1" AT LA IV, • LITTLESTOWN, PA, Will promptly attend to Collections, Conveyances, W iting; Deeds, Leases, &c., and all other business sintrysted to his care. Ziik*Ofllce on Frederick street, at the office formerly sicenpled by Dra. Sborb, Kinser and Metering. May 20, 1868.—1 y. P. M'cONAUCIIT, _Attorneys and Counsellors. D McCONAUGHT has associa • ated JOHN3I. KRAIITII, Esq.. in the practice of the law, at his old office, one door west of Binumt's Drug store, Cluarnbernburg.street. Special attention given to Sults, Collections and Et. ttlement of Estates. All legal business, ''end claims to Pensions, Bounty, Back-gay, and Damages against U. Statos,at all tittles, promptly and efficient ly attended to. Land warrantellocated, and choice Farm for sale, in lowa and other western Staten. [Nov. 27,1867.-tf - AJ. COVER, ATTORNEY AT • LAW, will promptly attend to collectionsand all other-Business entrusted to his care. Odlee between Bahnessock and Danner and Zieg . erBi tares, Baltimore street, Gettysburg, Pa. May 29,1867. DAVID A. BUEHLER, ATTOR NEY 17' LAW, will promptly attend to collec tions and all other busipensritrusted to his care. 4s7.o2ice at his residence in the threesteiry building opposite the Court Mouse. [Gettysburg, May 29,1807 'gitsintoo T4lls. JOHN W. TIPTON, FASHION ABLE BARBER, North-East corner of the Diamond, next door to McClellan's Ifotel,)Gettys burg,Pa. where he can at all times be foundready to atten d all bteineasin hie line. Ile has also an xcellent,sidstant and will Insure I ttlsfactlon• Olve him• all. May 29, 1867. QURVEYOR AND LICENSED t...) CONVEYANCER. The undersigned, having ta ken out a Conveyancer's License, will,in connection with the office of COUNTY SURVEYOR, attend to the kVILITING OF DEEDS, BONDS,RELE:ASECWILLS, ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, CLERKING OF SALV3, AC. Having hmleonsiderable experience in this 800, be hopes to receives liberal share of patronage. Busi ness promptly attended to and charges reasonable. Post office address Fairfield, Adorns Co.. P&. J. B.WITILEROW. May 29, 1867.—1 y Tarnentrro and Toutrartoro. O. C.C3.S.IIMAN CARP ENTERING. T HE undersigned respectfully in form the public that they have commenced the Carpenting In the Shop formerly oecnpial by Andrew Schick, York street. We are prepared to do any work in on r ne °Liminess and u reasonable many other establisbment.in Gettysburg Wo hope by • strict attention to business to merit •biro of public patronage CASHMAN A ROWE May 2% 1867.-t t WM. C. STALLSMITH & SON, GETTYSBURG, PA., CARPENTERS & CONTRAC roßs, Aro prepared to do all Mods of Carpentering—contract- lug awl erecting bnildioga of all kinds, llowdrlng, &c They keep constantly on hand and manufacture to order, DOORS, SIIDTTRES, BLINDS, SABI; DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, CORNICE, DOOR AND WINDOW BRACKETS, And any other ,A rtiele in the Building Line Seasoned material constantly on band, experienced werkme . n Maar. In teadinesx and work executed with dierdat 1101.-Or&r , promptly attended to WM. C. STALLSMITH, C. 11. STALLSMITH Sept.lB, 1807.—tf TO THE BUILDING COMMUNI TY AND ALL OTHERS * WHO WISH TO IMPROVE. THE undersig tha ned respectfully in forms the public tbe still co ned respectfully CARPENTERING BUSINESS at his old stand, on, West street, Gettysburg, and is ready at all times id accommodate those wanting any thing done in his line. ffe Is prepared to furnish all kind/tot wart foribialding parpOses, of the beat ma terial, and-'as lently and cheaply as it can be done at auy _other establishment in the county. gxperieneed Hands always In readiness and work executed with promptness anddispatch. Jairnaakhilter past favors,he hops, by attention to bushises to receive a liberal share of public , pat. renege. 25,111437 . Wlt. 431111ErnihN. Hand Book of Politics for ,1 8 6 8 . .R E.A.D JUL Y QM:CULLY stinditl ibit pia tbal coming Pre/d -dentist csaspalgn. - Will andathiall tho natter in the Tattiest Sisiraids of ,PllOl,llllO, and: . Oonh piled Erna akin sanreas. Win' alb Dinhlcbdte PO. LITICI3. Acannt versa Goaltssabbit, Waal Psniss, in cluding linitirehmes& Esainsttnschlan Damedlli Pn• II tate, Platforms, decapitate* of Ounibbites, i c.. from April, 1110, to July, 1901. , Dsbt and Pan* lion, Davaniteanti Expiaditudim&lbablittintebent Zs- Cietration and Votes. illientas Talditufron MO to date. MD poses, Pm sioti,4l4o,viosaViaki. p Themocco Pol ve itical Munn fah.nidan& Subsc:= itsplinithaSt CiOUIPW,I ilr, 711, cents, Fashio be - reenvid gi is Austere of A. D. Gettysburg, 1.1% - • [July tEL 2 VOL. LXVIII. NO. 37. e l award* gouoto. NEW FORWARDING AND COMMISSION I/OUSE. HAVING purchased the extensive Warehouse Car., &C,,, of CULP it XLIPISUAW, the undersigned fotend to carry on the business, nu• der the firm of Siouan k Co., at the old stand on the corner of Washington and Railroad at reets, on a more extensive scale than - heretofore. i'i' A regular line of Freight Cars will lesye our Warehouse every - TUESDAY NOON, and accom modation trains will be run as occasion may require. By this arrangement we are 'prepared to convey •Freight at all times to and from Baltimore. All business of this kind entrusted to us, will beprompt ly attended to. Our cars run to the Warehouse of Stevenson k Sons, 105 north Howard street, Balti more. Being determined to pay good prices, sell cheap and deal fairly, we invite everybody to give ns a call. July 17 ~--Im* Jan 8, 1868 M'CURDY & HAMILTON, July 21, IEGA.-tf FLOU:I?, GRAIN, GROCERIES, &c TRE unifersigneil are paying at their Ware-house, in Carlisle street, adjoining Iluehler's Hall, the highest prices for FLOUR, NS - HEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS, BUCK WHEAT, CLOVER AND TIMOTHY-SEEDS, _POTATOES, Lc., &c., and Invite producers to give them a call !Afore yelling They have constuatly on hand for sale, A LARGE SUPPLY OF GROCERIES Molannen, Syrnpn,Coffees,Suprs,&c., with Salt Fish Tar, nd,aps, Bacon and Lard, Tobaccos, &c. Also the bent brandsof HABIB, with FEED of all pi n & They likewise have SEVERAL VALUABLE FERTILIZERS, Soluble Pacific Guano, Rhodes' Phogplnto and. A A Mexican Guano. Whilst they pay the highest market prices . for all they buy, they sell at the lowest living prefits.— They nit: a shareof public patronage, resolved to give satisfaction in every case. July 3,1867.tt DANIEL GULDEN, DEALER IN Dry Goods , Flour , Grain Grooeries, Lumber, ('oal, d.c. TILE undersigned keepson hand, at his Warehouse, known as “Gultien's Station," in Straban town ship on the line of the Gettysburg Railroad, all kinds of GROCERIES, Including Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Spices. Ac., with Salt Fish, Oils, Tobacco, Baron. Lard, &c. Also, LUMBER AND COAL, Inilliding Building Stuff, Shingles, Lathe,Stove and Blacksmith Coal. Also, Guano, and a large assort. linen t of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes. Hatn nod Cope of all kinds, which he is prepared to bell at the low est prices. Ile also pays the highest market price for Flunr, Grain, Corn, Oats Buckwheat, Clover and Timothy Seeds, Potatoes, lc., or will receive and forward the same to market on commbeion. lie respectfully asks his friends and the public to give him a call. Ang. 21,1867.-If DANIEL GULDEN. = CHANGE OF FIRM. THE undersigned having leased the Ware-huuso on the corner of Stratton street and the Railroad, Gettyaborg, Pa.. will carry on the Grain & Produce Business in all its brandies. The highest prices will always be paid fur Wheat, Rye, Corn, Oats, Clover and Tim, thy Seeds, Flaxseed, Sumac, Hay and Straw, Dried Fruit, Nuts, Soap, llama, Shoulders and Side., Pota toes, with everything else in the country produce Gil 0 C FRIES constantly for sale, Coffees, Sugars, Molasses, Syr ups, Teas, Spices, Salt, Cheese, Vinegar, Sods, Mustard, Starch, Brooms, Buckets, Blacking, Soap, Sc. Also, COAL OIL, Fish Oil, Tar, &c. FISH of all kinds; Spikes and Nails; Smoking and Chewing To baccos. They are always able to supply a Bret rate artful of Flour,. ith the different kinds of Feed. • Also, Ground Plaster, with Ouauoz and other &rill.' zers. COAL, by the bualiel, ton or car load. We will also run • LINE of FREIGHT CARS to N 0.77 North street, BALTIMORE, and 811 Market street, PIIILADELPIIIA. All goods sent to either of the above places will be received and forwarded promptly. Goods should be marked" Benn ern' Car." H. 8. BENNER & BRO. April, 8,1868.—1 f Aottis and Itotauranto. Caslitown Springs. EIGHT MILES FROM GETTYSBURG. E. P. KITTINGEE, -oprietor. THE tindersitned, hoeing thoroughly refitted the NATIONA lIOTEL, in Cashtown, with the Springs attached thereto, invites the attention of the public to his superior accommodations. Persons de siring to spend a few weeks or months in a healthy neighborhood, with the advantages of pure mountain air, daily baths, troutfishing, tc. can fladpo more at tractive place. Visitors to Gettysburg and the Bat • tle-field ran reach it in. a couple hours ride over a good road. The Stabling accommodations are among the best in the county. A good table and the best of Wieres and Liquors. Charges etesonable. _ E. P. KITTINGER. June 17, IS6S.-3m H. U. ROWE KEYSTONE HOTEL.' GETTYSBURG, PA. WM. E. MYERS, PROPRIETOR. NOW OPEN. THIS is anew House, and hasbeen fitted up in the moat approved style. Its location • pleasant and convenient, being in the most business portion of the town. Every arrange ment has been made for the accommodation and com fort of gne•ts, with ample stabling attached. With experienced :servants, and accommodating Clarke, we shall use every endeavor to please. This hotel is now open for the entertainment of the public, and we kindly solicit a than of public patr °nage. hay 29,186 T. UNITED STATES HOTEL, OMNI' TUE N. Y. & NEW ILAYEN & WESTERN IL IL DEPOT BEACH STREET, BOSTON BY F. M. PRATT, FORMERLY OF THE AMERICAN ROUSE. Mu, 1887.-ly EAGLE HO-TEL. Tfie largest and most commodious in GETTYSBURG, PENNA. COINtll Or CH/LICIIIMIRG MID WISIIINOTON rum JOHN L. TATE, Proprietor. Vir An Omnibus, fur Passengers and Beggar, runs to the Denot, on arrival and departure alien Road Trains. Cerbral servants, and reasonable chargai. , May 29, 1367.—tt CARLISLE, PA. ), VVISITORS to Carlisle will find the very but seaphmodathma It the Pennsylvania Hotel, Sept by JOHN ILEItLZ ow _the'cooster of No, A A o m over 4114 LOW&O . Alfred*. . The TABLE is implied with everitbiog the mark ets atibrd ; the BAB is 'tsar Id with the Anest =Win* Liquors £c., end the Yards sad STABLING sisiss4ll with the Wuxi are in charge of so t espori swid Wahl Sootier. ApralTs,the okl PitNlsl3n9/NIA $ trta and be 00111d0004.reasoinable. 11(salbAl$116-111111 stra ... . . . . _ . ...., . . . „ -, . . AliNt ,- ' .• . . : _ . * • . . \._ . . . . . . • -.. NI \ . . . 7 ' s \II- ' . . - ' . . 'll.** .- 1 V 1 TIX : \t• WM. M.BIORAM. ALEXANDER COBBAN, JAMES BIGLIAM. DEALERS IN 110DERT McC17111:11 - , 11 - 31. S. I'll3ll4l'oN. OF ALL KINDS Pdiral. Hooftand's German Bitters, .A.lci D HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC The Great Remedies for all Diseases of the LIVER, STOMACH, OR DIGES- T2VE ORGANS. Hoofland's German Bitters Ti composed 011ie pitrejn ices (or, as they are medici nally termed, Extracte)of Roots, Herbs, and Rarks, ma king a preparation, highly concentrated, and entirely freefrout akoholicadmi.rture of cny kind. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC Is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bittern with the purest quality of Santa Cruz Rum,Orange, Lc., malting one of the moat pleasant and agreeable rem edies ever offered to the public. Those preferring a Medicine freo from Alcoholic ad mixture, will uso HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS. Those who have no objection to the combination of the Bitters, as stated, 111 am HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC They are both equally good, and contai II the same medicinal virtues, the choice between the two being a mere mutter of taste,the Tonic being the most p•datable. The stomach, from a variety ofcausce, such as Indiges tion, Dyspepsia, Nervous Debility, etc., is very apt to have its functions deranged. The Liver, sympathizing as closet, as Itdoes with the Stpmach,tben becomes al , fected, the result of which is that the patient suffers from several or more of the following diseases: Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullness of Blood to tlieHeady Acidity of theStomach,Nausea, Heart-born, Disgust fur Food, Fulness or Weight In the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hur ried or Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations Whell in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before theliight, Dnll Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspira , Hon, Yellown cc: of the Skin and Eyes, Plain in the Side, Back, Cheat, Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Constant Im aginings of Evil, and Great Dept e.lsien of Spirits. The sufferer frofn these diseases Should exercise the greatest caution in the selectiun of a remedy for his case, purchasing only that which he is assured from his investigations and luquiries true merit, is skilfully compounded, is free from initit lonsin Bred and has established for itselfa reputation for the cure of these diseases. In this connection we wimiti submit those well-knou n remedies— 11 - 0017,A ND'S GERM. I N BITTERS, ESE lIOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC PREPARED BY Dr. C. JACKSON, =I Twenty-two yeareslnce they were first introduced In to this counlry from Germane, luring which timo they Lase undoubtedly performed more cum, and beneleted suffering humanity to a greater extent, than any other remedies known to the public. These remedies will effectually cure Liver Complaint, Jaundice, Dyspepsia. Cl.ronic or Sere&tm Chronic Diarrhea, Disease of the Kidneys, mill all Diseases arising front a Dn....Meted Liver, tunmch, or Intestines. DEBILITY, Resulting from any Cause whatever; PROSTRATION OF THE SYSTEM, induced by Severe Labor, Hard ships, Exposure, Fevers, etc. There is no medicine extant equal to these remedies in such eases. A tone and rigor is imparted to the a hole system, the appetiteisstrengthened, food is enjoyed, the stomach digen•promptly, the blood is purified, the com plexion becomes sound and healthy, the idiots tinge is eradicated from the eyes, a bloom pi given tette cheeks, and the weak and nervous Invalid becomes a strong and healthy being. PERSONS AD NCED IN LIFE, And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily upon them, with all it a attendantla, will fled in the useof this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an elixir that will inatlt new Ilfe into their veins, restore Ina measure the energy andardor of more youthful days, build up thiiir shrunk en forma, and giro health and happiness Co their re• NOTICE It is a well-established fact that fully one-half of the female portion of our population are selckm in the en- Joymeut ofgood health ; or, to use their own expresaleu,, "never feel well." They are languid. devoid of all ener gy, extremely nervous, and have no appetite. To this Class of persons the BITTERS, or the TONIC, is especially recommended. WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN • Are made strong by the use of either of these remedies. They will cure every case of MARASMUS, without Call. Thousands of certificates have accumulated in the hands of the proprietor, hat space will allow of the pub• lication of but a few. Those, it will be observed, are men of noto and of such standing that they must be be lieved. TESTIMONIALS. HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD, C7tief Ju,ttice of the Supreme Corirl of Prnne., writes Philadelphia, March 16,1567. "I find `Hoofland's Gorman Bitters' Is a good tonic, useful in diseases of the digestive organs, motor great benefit In cases of debility, and want of nervous action In the system: Yours truly OEO. W. WOODWARD." 110 N. JAMES THOMPSON, Judge of the Supreme (bur: of Pennryfrania. Philadelphia ; April 28,1668 "I conshlez 'llooflantl's German Bitters' a valtiabie medicine in case of attacks of Indigestion or Dyspepsia, I can certify this flout my experience of it. Yours, with respect, JAMES TI1011PSON." FROM REV. JOSEPH 11. KENNARD, D. D.., Pastor of the To mb Bap lig Cagrch, Philadelphia Dr. Jackson—Dear have been frequently re quested to connect my name with recommendations of different kind. of medicines, but regarding the practice as out of my appropriate sphere, I hare In all cases de clined; but with a clear proof in various instances and particularly in my own family - ,of the usefulness of Dr. lloofland's German Bitters, I depart fur on -e from my usual course, to express my full con vic t ion thataergen erai debility of the system, and especially for Lin,. am plaint, it is a safe and raluablepreparation. In some \cases limey fail; but usually,ldontit not, it will be very 'beneficial to those who sutler from the above causes. Yours, very respectfully, J. 11. KENNARD, Eighth, below Coates et. FRO II REV. E. D. FENDAIL, Astistant Editor Christian chronicle, Philadelphia I Lave derived decided benefit from the use of Hoof land's hero ?n Bittoro,and kola my privilege to recom mend them &a a most valuable tonic, to all who are suf• tering from general debility or from diseasts arising from derangement of the liver. Yours, truly, CAUTION Hoofland's German Remedies are connt erfeit ed. See that the signature of C. 111. JACKSON Is on the wrapper of each bottle. All others are counterfeit. Principal °Mee und Manufactory at the G erman 31ed1. clue Store, No. 631 ARCll:street, Philadelphia, Pa. CHARLES M. EVANS, Proprietor, Formerly:C. 31. JACKSON & CO. PRICES Hoofland's German Bitters, per bottle, $1 00 o halt dozen, 5 00 llootland's German Tonic, put up In quart bottles, $1 00 per bottle, or a half dozen for $7 50. iartto not forget to examine well the article you bay in order to get the genuine, [Jan. 15, 1868.-ly For sale by all Druggists and dealers in tnediclnes. oal, 'gtuniter, &r. GETTYSBURG LIME KILNS TUE undersigned ham bought out his former part ner, W*. Oman, and now continues the THE LIME-BURNING BUSINESS himself—at the Gettysburg Lime Kilns; on the corner of the Railroad and North Stratton 'treat. Thank ful for past patronage, he will endeavor to deserve Its continaanCe, by prosecuting the business as vigorous. ly and ones large a scale as posalble—elways selling • good article and giving good measure. Farmers and others may look for thei prompt Ailing of ordors. Ho also continues the COAL BUSINESS, oaring tit* most popular kinds. Itousekeepars and other should giso him a call. Blacksmith Coal con 'tautly on hand. Um?* and Coal dellverod aarwbere to G ttyaburg. Gettysburg, 8ar.20,1857.-if JACOB Rl3llll. A mamma op BLANKS, Cotrapou,dittalstrs -11. tatleatel Swain% DeediA Kieli_Witswin liataq'ProsiAikary Net*, ariiii sod witwo. waives at Pr e a ll li / r . , 90 asel ReeasilosiA Zht ffitar and *Mind. ETTYSIVG BUSINESS DIRECTORY (Sea Advertisements.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. It. I. 31cCrenry. York street, in residence. McConangby & Krauth, Cbamhersborg it., residence D. Wills, on Public Square, in residence. A. J. Cover, Baltimore at., near rahnestcck's Shire. D. A. Buehler, Baltimore street, in residence. J. W. Tipton, N. N. eon Public B.lculre Newport k 7•iegler, corner Wa.sinngton ,t Middle ate noor k SHoEXISCUS. D. Kltimiller & Bro., York it oppoef to Bank. D. 11. Klingel, Baltimore street, third co ire. John M. Belling, Carl idle street, near Railroad Depot co:tractions, TM, AC. A. It. Feistel, Baltimore street, Brat square. E. IL Mlnnigh, Chnmbersbnrg et. np. Lath. Church Jain DI. iilinnigh, Baltimore street, first square. John Gruel, Charubersburg street, near Engle lintel. CARPENTERS AND CONTRACTORS. Wm. C. Stalismith & Son, York street, first iqunre Win. Clansman, West street, near Cliambersburg. Cashman & Rowe, York street, second square. CAP.R ES, AC. Danner & Ziegler. Middle street, near Baltimore. Tate & Culp, Washington st„ near Cl ambersburg W. F. Gallagher, East Middle at. second square. • CLOTIZINfI. George Arnold, eon of Diamond and Cliambcraburg at F. Cunuingltham, Baltimore street, first square. T. C. Norris, Clututhernburg street, first square. Jacobs tic Brother, Cliambereburg street, first square. Jacob Briukerbotr, corner of Yolk and Public Square COAL, LCIIPER, LIMY, 40. C. 11. Enehler, corner of Carll'ile and Railroad streets Jacob Reilly, corner of F4rattou and Railroad. • DENTI:i.T. Pr. Wm. Stallsmitli, Baltimore street, first sqrmrt. J. L. 11111, Cbambernburg street, oppositsvEagle Hotel Darr:CMS. A. D. Buehler, Chanthersburg st., near Public Square 'lnhere, Baltimore street. fir,t equal e. It. Sterner, Chatut,',; st., opposite Christ's Church. tinT GOOLS. Falincsto,l; llrctl ra , cur. or Dalto. and Middle rte. J. L. Schick, cor. Baltimore and Public Square. Dupborn d Ilutnuall, cor.Carlislu and Public Srjuare Robert k Eli int, Balt. st., oppoxlte the Court-lion,. Geo. Arnold, cur. Diamond and Chatubersburg nt. Imvid Sterner, West street TOLWARDING ♦ND CON 3 1351nN ROUSES. Ingham k Co., tor. Washington and Railroad. 11. S. Benner & Brother, cor. Stratton and Railroad McCurdy & Hamilton, Carlisle Street. ("MAMIE TARD. Peter Bei tler, Railroad, East of Stratton street GAS YITTM. It. D. Arm,r. East 3liddte street J.Cress & Son,cor.Chambersburg and Public Square Wm. Boyer k Son, York at., opposite National Bank. 31eals & Bros., Clismbersburg st..second EVIAN). Henry Overdeer, Baltimore at., third egnare. Wet. J. Martin. cor. of Baltimore and High streets. lalinestoek ltrotl•er4. roe. 13 tltioloto, and Middle ate. bighatu & Co., eon Washington and Railroad streets 11. S. Benner & Bro., roe. Stratton and Railroad 6 t 4. McCurdy & Hamilton. Carli.de at. Co., York et., first square II 31. Paxton. Baltimore street, third square. HARDWARE AND CCTLERT. Danner a 'Ziegler, Baltimore street, flrist !square. Fallm:stuck Brutliers, corner Dalto. and Middle eta L. McCreary & eon, PaPA. at. opposite Prem. Church Ptr, SHOES, IC. S. S. McCreary. Cliakrefleurg street, drat ftquaCre. Jgrot. Brinkerh..ff, cor. of York at.. and Public Square T. C. Nom., Cliande reburs street, first Nnare. R. C. CAA. Chmal , ersburg, Ft. Eagle Hubei, J. L. Tate, proprietor, corner Chambers burg and IN'aidiington. Keystone House. W. E. Myers, proprietor, Chambers Lurg street, opposite Christ's Church. LIVERY brAatLi. N. Weaver. WashiagtUn nt., north of Chambersburg T. T. Tate, IVaelkingten lit, near Eagle J4.tel. MALIILL J. 3T,Cannorr,corner of Baltimore and Mid.tir at recta Meals & Brother, York st., cart 0: Stratton NIUTOGEAPITEr...9. C. J. Tymon, York street, opposite National Back Levi l'iluroper, Baltimore et., first square. J.W.C. O'Neal, Caltirnare *trete, near la igh PAINTIN" , ; orrice. Mar 1' Sentinel, Baltimore at, midway between the Court Iloude and Public Fgoare, weat s i r. mots, TINWILE, LC. C. H. Buehler, corner cleat-11.1e and r o B. G.Cook, York at., nearly uppomite the Nat. Ilault SEOII SYORZ. Wanhington Dierbower, N. E. corner of Mamma- Jeremiah Cuip, York street, second square WATCOMAXEEL Soper & McCartney, Salto. street, first square THE TWO PARTIES Great Speech of Hon. G. w. Schofield, of Prtinsylvaniti, on the differences between the Republican and Demo cratic Parties. WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING Mr. SCOFIELD. Mr. Chairman, which way are we going? Are we, as some per- , sons apprehend and charge, drifting under party excitement and_ confusion, through mi-rule and usurpation, toward despotic government, or arc we, though in the midst of the storm, but in spite of it, still holding a compass-line inside the words and spirit of the Constitution toward a' more perfect development of republican government? WILIT ARE TUE PRINCIPLES or TLIE AMEEICAN GOVERNMENT ? What lift should we follow ? What is the fundamental theory• of our Government? The great men who laid its foundations held that "all men are created equal." They proclaimed this sentiment in the face of a world heavily oppressed with Inequality, rank, and privilege. 'I hey spoke and fought for it. Their eloquence and valor established it upon this continent. And that, I understand, is or ought to be the re cognized theory of our Government. It is a simple formula, a few words, a single principle, or idea ; but upon it our fathers raised the fabric of the new Government.— It is that one idea which makes the Gov ernment great, gradually rising above all other Powers on the face of the earth, even in its infancy giving liberty and protection to forty million people nt home, and reach ing out a helping hand to the oppressed and humble all over the world. Till M=M! I know it is said that the founders of the Republic did not really mean that all men are created equal, because they did not at first and at once confer equal rights upon all. It was impossible. Existing institu tions, vested interests, erroneous convic tions, mid deep prejudices stood in the way. They went as far as they could then, as far as the public sentiment of their day would permit, and then holding to and advocating equal rights for all men as the correct Re publican theory, awaited the fit times and opportunities and the proper development of the public sentiment to make that theory , more and more practical. Upon this the ory they founded a new political party, which they called the "Republican party." This word indicated as near as any one word in the language could the commonalty of all governmental rights. They added to this name the adjective "progressive," to indicate that they did not mean to go back ward nor to stand still, but move forward on this theory of human rights. It was not many years before this "Progressive Repub lican party" came to control the country. WHIT THE flB$T RRPITBLIOAS PARTY DID See what was done. The slave trade was interdicted and the trader declared a pirate. In many of the States slavery was abolish ed, and by an irrepealable ordinance all the territory then held made free forever. The franchise was enlarged, and except in the single State of New York, without distinc tion of race. Legislation could not make all men equal in talents, but it could give all an equal oppotunity to cultivate whatever God had been pleased to bestow, and there fore free schools were established. It could not make all men equal in wealth, but it could give all an equal chance toacquire itL and so Imprisonment for debt was abolished, exemptions from execution allowed, aid the laws of inheritance equelivovi THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN . : Till EARLY, DAYS OF TUE 11XFUBLI13. • 1 II Theses great advances toward the villein zed= of gommtental advantages were /i ( 4 I leggret * 0 4 90 q/ 11114011 There• GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1868. CM= MEM FOE ;C AND FOUNDIIT axEalts, ef.7 II kr.NE3S, ite MEN EQUAL EIGHTS were conservatives , in those days as well as in ours. They saw ruin in every progress sive step. The .prohibition of the slave trade would deprive the poor . African heath en of a chance to hear the gospel and save his soul. The dedication of the territories to freedom was sectional and unconstitu tional. Non-iMprisontnent for debt and, exemption from execution would both ,xle. fraud the creditor and destroy the credit of the debtor. Free schools would burden, the thrifty with taxes to -educate the children of idlers. The enlargement of the fmn• chise would be its degradation. But in spite of conservatism and its evil prophecy the country improved, and what is far more important mankind improved. But 'con servatism did not surrender; it never does surrender. The "progressive Republican party" Leconiing in time divided into sev eral parties upon temporary questions, and losing its distinctive name and organiza tion, conservatism allied itself with the slave power and obtained for the time the mastery over the several divisions. Imme diately the brakes arc whistled down ; all progresststops. It is now found out that the great declaration of our fathers for equal political rights was "a glittering gen erality," "a rhetorical flourish," an un meaning abstraction." Lis now found out that political distinctions are necesssary ; that political equality is a degrading level ; that the law should assign duties to one class and privileges to another. The revi val of this old doctrine was not received without objection among the dssbanded progressives. Small dissenting parties be gan to spring up. The alAitionists, the equal rights party, the free Democracy, barnburners, free-soilers, Benton democratt, and others which escape my memory as I speak, from time to time and in various States, attracted the attention of the public. THE rnoGLEssivz ItErrizr.7lN. , AGAIN GET CONTROL-FORMATION OP THE PP.EZENT IMPUBLICAN PA I:TY They were numerous enottzli to exhibit the deep discontent of thinking% progres sive men, but too feeble to resist the retro grade movement inaugurated by the allied powers—conservatism and slavery. In 1356 representatives of these various organiza tions, or rather of the sentiments indicated by them, met in Philadelphia. and then and there, in the old State House, in which the theory of political equality had been first proclaimed, formed a national party, pledg ed to take up the principles and carry for ward the work of the lattices. They took the name which had been honored by the advocates of equal rights in the better (lays of the Republic. The friends of freedom and equality all over the country began to gather into this organization, while the ad vocates of privilege, the conservatives, the anti-progressives and the backgoers squat ted at the feet of the slave power and as sumed the misleading name of Democracy. These Philadelphia conventionists assumed the name and reaMmied the doctrine of the first Republican party, to wit: that "all men are created equal." but like that party they did not expect to secure to all men their equal rights at once. Centuries of vested wrongs still stood in the way. Re asserting the principle, holding fast to the liberties already acquired, they only pro posed to move forward slowly, securing to the unprivileged classes, act by act and nity should permit, greatqr Influence and advantage in the Government, until, in the course of time, in the distant future, the world should behold a great nation in which every citizen, without exception or distinc tion, had secured to him his equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness— a nation with no ignorant, no poor, no en slaved, no degraded class. WHAT THE nErnaucAs PARTY HAS DONE SINCE ISLG It is now twelve years since this party was organized, and I submit that the his tory of the country proves that it has held steadily to its declared purpose; to give every child an equal chance of education, it has advocated and legislated, both in the States and Territories and in the District of Columbia, in favor of free schools ; to give every man an equal chance to acquire pro perty, the old Republican party, as I said before, abolished imprisonment for debt, and made the necessaries of life exempt from execution. Following In these foot steps, the new Republican party, in the first year of its national triumph, secured to every landless man a one-hundred-and-six- ty-acre farm without money and without price ; and in the further practice of the same principle only last year it released the honest but broken debtor from the further pursuit of unreleuting credit. By an amendment to the Constitution slavery in sixteen States, in the District of Columbia, and in all the vast Territories of the coun try, has been abolished, and its restoration made impossible forever. We have many bright pages, in our short history—l trust we are to have many more—bat the page that records this brief amendment will be the brightest of them. The franchise, which lifts up the humble, protects the weak, educates the ignorant, and endows the poor, the synonym of liberty and self respect, has from time to time been greatly enlarged. Under Republican legislation the volunteer soldier retains his privilege and sends home his vote. One year's ser vice of the country endows the alien with the 'ballot. In twelve States, in all the Territories, and in the District of Columbia, the franchise has been extended to all and without distinction of race, and the whole tendency of Republican debate and legisla tion has been toward an enlargement of the franchise without restriction, except for EiEn THE OBJECTS OF .THESE EEPBBLIC-AN MEAS 81132 All these measures look in one direction, and lead only to one' result. They enlarge the rights, privileges, and opportunities of all the people, and suliordinate the laws to the popular will. That is not despotism, but freedom. These measures may all be wrong, but if so, it is because the theory of popular government is wrong. I have a right, therefore, to conclude that the charge of despotic tendency preferred against the Republican party is entirely without founda tion. TUE ABOLISIDLENT OF SLAVERY ANII ENFRAN- CIIISEMENT OF TUE COLORED RACE It may be said that two of these meas ures, namely, the emancipation of the slaves in all the States and their enfranchisement in the elevin rebel States, have been too much hurried. The Republican party did not in the beginning intend to move so rapidly.— Emancipation, which would withdraw from the enemy and add to us four million popu lation, became a military necessity. The great purpose of the rebellion was to with draw slavery from the wasting influence of the nineteenth century; to build it around with t t i lloi new nationality, of achrist age. That and wall out the light motive could only be destroyed by the de, Christian struction of slavery itself, and we struck it a hurried but fatal blow. Premature en 'franclAparnent, if premawe t le, , has been :forced npon us for a somewhat similar ma ion. t h e returning nibels-,donwaploi two esti of (kgllifellinent slither owv, tolthir- .ty-three more for the blacks, both sets to be elected exclusively by themselves. Under 'the amended Constitution.the claim was leg al. But such double power would enable them to vote down your soldiers' pensions, repudiate your plighted honor, force upon you the payment for emancipated slaves, and finally to master and re-divide the Union. To break the strength of this dis union element, we put the ballot in the hands of the loysl black man. Our own safety and the safety of the Union demand ed it, but it is in accordance with the theory • of our Government, and if a little prema ture, time will soon overtake it. THE ALLEGED DESPOTIC LAPVS OP CONGRESS But you have passed laws restraining the power of the President ; where is the despo tism of that? A. despotic government is a one-man government—all executive. How can restraints upon that one-man power be also despotic ? They might "be considered too Republican, too Democratic, but to call them despotic involves a contradiction.— What arc the facts? During the war the President was clothed with extraordinary powers. The Democrats complained. They apprehended that these powers might he used to destroy tip liberties of the people.— At length the war was over, Mr. Johnson had come to be President, but the extraord inary powers were still attached to the ex ecutive office. They were no longer need. ed, but were as dangerous as ever. Mr. itJohnson himself said In his celebrated East oom speech, that he possessed power enough to make himself dictator. A great many people thought he intended to try it. Then Congress began to do what the Dem ocrats claimed they should have done long before, confine the executive power to its old peace limits. Then they complain again. To confer these powers was despot ic, to recall them is despotic. One or the other complaint is unfounded. We could not be wrong each time. We were really right each time. It was proper that the Pre sident should have large powers to suppress the rebellion, and that these powers should be surrendered after the necessity was pass ed. THE DE6POTIC PLAN OF RECONSTRUCTION But your mode of reconstructing the South is despotic ! Not so much so as yours, provided you adopt the President's plan; and you have "adopted it. The President put the people of the South under military rule ; Congress did not. We did not order the Army there. We did not keep it there. We took no action till March 3, 'SGT. Up to that time the President had his own way, and all this time he governed the South by the Army. Till then his despotic will was law. Ile got up conventions. lie selected the voters. He shaped the constitutions and declared them adopted. He allowed no popular vote. That was his plan. It was Your plan. This was real despotism—un restrained one-man military power. Our plan was only a restraint upon yours. We did not order the Army away, to be sure ; but we put it under the control of law. We did not prohibit the assembling, of conven tions, but released them from the dictation of the President. We did not forbid consti tutions to be framed, but required their sub mission to the people. Your plan was to originate State governments in accordance with the President's will, ours in accord ance with established law. ' '• are,,El. 4t ,4J , 20.4 But you are making encroaclunents'upon the Supreme Court A bill which requires the concurrence of two-thirds. of the judges to declare a statute of the United States void was proposed, but never became a law.— Suppose it had, what despotism is there in that? Who compose the Supreme Court? Usually nine judges. They are appointed by the President and hold their offices for lite. The people can change their Repre sentatives once in two years, their President once in four, and their Senators once in six ; but the judges of this court are always be yond their reach. This is the only anti-re publican, aristocratic, despotic feature in our Government. While these judges are entirely above the influence of the people, they are not above the common passions and infirmities of mankind. They arc still po liticians, as much so as Senators and Repre sentatives, though not progressive. They held to whatever was uppermost when they were lifted out of politics to the bench.— You can tell the politics of a judge by the date of his commission, and the date of his commission by his politics. WHAT THE SETRENCF. COURT IS, IN FACT, AND WIIAT IT I'DOPOSEB TO DO They crystalize in the sentiments of their day and are changeless ever after. Soine of them cannot even now realize that there has been a great war ; and are trying to decide that a constable and grand jury were equal to the "late political disorder." Some cag not realize that the slave power had been legally dethroned ; and are trying to retain in the legislation of the country at least a few memorial shreds of the odious institu tion. I have the best authority for saying that a majority of thee judges have made up their minds that the "legal-tender" law is unconstitutional, ali will so decide in the cases now pending in their court. I men tion this fact, not for present • criticism, but as an illustration of the vast power of these nine men over the fortunes of the people.— Is a law that requires the agreement of one or two more judges before they make a de cision that will ruin all the debtors of the country by requiring them to pay their debts in gold despotic ? Every debtor in the country who now thinks such a law would be despotic will have reason to change his mind before he is two years•older. TUE CENTRALIZATION OF POWER Again, it is said that our legislation tends to centralization of power in the General Government, and that centralization. tends to despotism. I deny it. We have en deavored to preserve the Union of the States, because individual liberty can be best se cured in a single republic. The Republic was divided before we came to power. On the 4th of March, 1861, Mr. Buchanan sur rendered to Mr. Lincoln the northern half, having surrendered the southern half to Jef ferson Davis nearly a month before. We found the Union dismembered, and we have restored it. We found it with slavery, the chief incentive to disunion; ,and we broke the chains of four million bondmen. We found an hundred kinds of money that would not pass as many miles from home, and we have reduced them to one uniform system of equal value all over the land.— We found the Pacific States separated from the East by a vast rmoccupleVountry, and growing up into isolated, nationality, and we have stretched out great lines of railway to secure their commerce and hold their in terests and affections in the Union. We found commerce between the States every where burdened and obstructed by local and illiberal State legislation, and vie .have un dertaken some measures of relief. These enterprises, undertaken to preserve the har mony of the States and secure the growth and development of the whole country, are mistaken by small politicians for acts of centralization. WHAT WE DEMOMUTIO PARTY HAS DOla. In addition to carrying on a four-year war for the SUPpreedtla orthe aU 01101115 MEM beneficent and permanent reforms have been secured during the short life of the Repub lican party. Take as many years of Demo-, cratic administration prior to that and tell me what record you have left to awaken the gratitude or pride of the people. There stands the gallows upon which they im molated old John Brown, a brave but erring enthusiast of human freedom ; but its victim is more honored to-day than its cruel archi tects. Just beyond is the Dred Scott deci sion, rendered in violation of precedent, law, and Constitution, for the brutalization of four million Christian people. It has no friends now. Further on you behold the Missouri compromise—our fathers' bond of Union— the peace offering of its day, repudiated, broken, and trampled under foot that the inhumanity of the hour might be without restraint. Standing around it, as tit wit nesses of the wrong, are the "border ruffian war," the "Lecompton villainy," and the small tyrannies of Pierce and BUchanan. Still further down this dreary history stands the "fugitive slave law,"-to which every Democratic knee was wont to bow. Its manacles are broken. Its bloodhounds no longer bay upon the track of its victims.— No garlands crown its ugly brow. It has no worshippers, no admirers, no defenders, no apologists even. All have sneaked away. These are the monuments of their adminis trations. During all these weary years no thing was done by the predominant party to elevate and honor labor, to educate the poor, to lift up the fallen, to endow the landless, or to soften the cruelties of bondage. You cannot point to a single act that anybody will celebrate, that anybody will honor, that anybody will remember even except with regret or shame. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 1868. This doctrine of political equality forms the great "divide" between parties now as heretofore. The conservative or anti-pro gressive element, always beaten, except when allied with the slave power, takes heart from the complication of public af fairs and enters the arena with new dis guises. The remnant of the slave aristocra cy rallies to its standard. The foiled seces sionists extend their crimson hands both to aid and to be aided. A great church, believing that the mass of mankind should be guided rather than educated, leads its vast flock where otherwise we would least expect it into the support of anti-repnbli cans distinctions. Many submit to the the ory which degrades them because it de grades others more than themselves. And many mistake license to the vicious for liberty to mankind. It is the old combi nation, so often beaten. There may be a few recruits ; some few who have attained senatorial and judicial honors by the advo cacy of equal rights, through the natural selfishness of the human heart, have come to believe in rank since they have reached the highest. A few descendants of eminent men, unable by personal merit to command the position of their fathers, reject their fathers' doctrine. John Quincy Adams was a progressive Republican, and his grand-son i. 4 a conservative. The descend ant claims by law what the ancestor ac quired by desert. To these add a few nat ural grumblers, and you have the pres ent Democratic-conservative-sorehead-reb el party. WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HOLDS TO - AND DOZE ZOTIHSG, JILT GICEMBLE. Such elements can be held together in party of opposition, because a minority party need have no affirmative policy.— They bring forward no measures of their own. It is their busineseto hold back, to oppose, to criticise, to denounce, to threat en, not to originate, to propose, to decide, or to act. To avoid present accountability for the past they even condemn their own history and acquiesce in the defeat of their own measures. They were opposed to the "Leeompton fraud" and "border ruffian war," after Kansas became a free State. They approved the homestead law after it was enacted. They do not worship the fugitive slave law after it is repealed. They are in favor of the war after it is over.— They are opposed to slavery after it is abol ished. They will doubtless be opposed to repudiation after the debt is paid, and in favor of Universal seffrage after everybody can vote. But they attack whatever is pro posed by others, whatever is uppermost for the time being. During the last seven years they have done nothing but scold. Scold ing is their vocation; their sovereign remedy for all public ill. =1 They scolded the Union party when Bu chanan divided the Republic, and scolded harder when we attempted to restore it. If the Army lacked men they would scold. If a draft was ordered to fill it they would "Scold. If the Treasury was empty they would scold. If Taxes were levied they would scold. If' a loan was attempted they would scold. If a battle was lost they would scold about mismanagement ; if it was won, about subjugating the South. They scolded terribly when .$3OO would commute the draft, and worse when the law was repealed. They scolded when greenbacks were issued, and scolded again when the issue was stopped. They scold when the rebel States are kept out, and scold when they are brought in. THE USELESSNESS OF A: SCOLDING PARTY WHEN CALLED ON TO ACT-THE WORK LAID OUT BY TUE DENOCIIATIC PARTY While this party remains in the minority scolding may answer their purpose. It may even enlarge their number by the ad dition., of malcOntents and impracticable men. But if they carry the election next fall they must 'become actors instead of critics. What will they then do ? If they have been honest in their opposition to Republican measures they must attempt to undo them all. They were opposed to coercion ; they must, therefore, restore the confederacy and treat for terms of sell= Lion. They were opposed to emancipation, they must restablish slavery. They were opposed to the amendment of the Constitu tion, which forbids payment for emancipa ted slaves and the asumption of rebel debts ; they must, therfore, repeal it. They were opposed to the repeal of the fugative-slave law ; they must theiefore reenact it. They opposed the readiniskion of the eight recon structed rebel St4es ;, they must therefore turn them out. Their candidate for Vice. President says thby will, and that by revo lution if the,carinet by law. They were opposed to the enfOnchisement of the col ored people in the rebel States ; they must, therefore disfrandhlse them and leave the rebel power withioi,t check or division.— They oppose Ri l e 'enfranchisement of the citizen soldiers, 4;ati they must be disfmn: chiscd also. HOW TUE A 11410; AND PEOPLE - 6NO DACE WREN DE3IO4ACY ORM CONTROL. It may be said they cannot accomplish all this. That is tee, but they can try it, They must try ii,*ilbecause i 4 they do- not it is-a confession tiat have all along been wrong, and we h tie all along been right, which is a cent' lion that they ought to be defeated at the ions. They carried the Legislature, of OW last fall, and immedi ately began the l+ork demolition. Their first attack was cm the franchise. They at once withdrew limn•the soldier, the student, ithd the quadroon; st+,bom .they oho* and F. WHOLE NO. 3521. proscribed together, the right to vote.— Ohio gave her consent to the constitutional amendment, which makes the loyal States qua! in representation in the Federal Gov ernment to the rebel States, and prohibits payment fur slaves and the assumption of rebel debts, but this Legistature revoked it. Suppose they fail in their efforts, how is the country to be benefited by a four years' strug gle over it ? If they succeed, the old slave aristocracy becomes again the master of the country. The defeated rebels become the political victors. Hampton and For rest and Preston will be the honored sol diers at Washington, .as they were &the New York convention, and Grant and Sher man and Sheridan will be discharged on parole. It is said they will not carry mat ters so far ; the northern wing of the party will moderate and restrain the insolence of the rebel wing. So we were told when Pierce and Buchanan were candidates,. but after the election we soon found that the southern Democrats controlled the north ern. Whether the northern Democrats design it or not it will be so again. - VIE FINANCIAL REFOEMEITS-ROW CAN SORTIIERY DEMOCRACY BETTER THE FINANCE B. But it is said tbistarty can get us out of all financial trouble. The southern wing got us into it, but how can they get us out ? WEI they pay it ? They ought to do so, but they will not, and I suppose they cannot. They pay no taxes.- They say they have nothing to pay with. They could do noth ing, then, but tax us and dispose of our money. Why should they be selected for that office ? When have they shown any financial ability superior to northern men ? They run the confederacy four years and two months, and so far from developing financial ability they developed a great lack of IL Their only schemes were forced loans, to be paid out of taxes on the loans themselves. Their currency became so worthless that they were forced to collect taxes in kind. They developed great milita ry ability; I concede, but as financiers they were total failures. It was always so. Be fore the war they borrowed from the North the money to improve their estates, build their railroads and public works, and it has been mostly paid in confiscation and bank ruptcy. They might double your debt by adding theirs to it, but how would they, or could they, discharge it, except by repudia tion ? OW CAN NORTHERS DEMOCRACY BETTER OTT. FLVA SCES. . . What could thd northern wing of the party do ?. They have had the Administra tion and run the Treasury Department for the last three years. The whisky tax that ought to yield $90,000,000 'per year has, under their management, yielded less than fourteen million dollars. They are in favor of free trade, so they would get nothing from customs. The internal taxes arc now nearly all collected from whisky. tobacco, banks, and incomes. Could they find any better sources of revenues ? Would they take the tax from whisky and put it on bread ? From tobacco awl put it on coffee? Front incomes and put it on labor? Or would they abolish taxes altogether? How, then, could they relieve us of debt? NO way, sir, except by following their southern wing into repudiation. That would be an expensive payment. It implies disgrace abroad, and disVess,revolution,and anarchy at. hams, I hsvgra als.yn thought thak-lihAr- ties of this country could not survive a re pudiation of its debt. In my judgment it would produce a convulsion which would eud in the establishment of a less popular form of government. HOW TO GET THE BONDS TAXED AND SAVE MED But it is said, again, they could tax the bonds. Very well. But why make that a party question any more than taxing whisky or incomes? If all the bonds Were taxed, including those held abroad, at the rate pro posed, that is, ten per cent. upon the inter est in addition to the five percent_ already collecte 1, we could only realize from this source i 12,000,000. Compared with our other sources of revenue, this is a small sum. Why surrender the Government, with all its financial, military, and political interests, to those who but three year ago were in arms to destroy it altogether, in order to secure so small a modification of the tax law? If the people think it best, upon full considera tion, to levy this tax, can they not so in struct their Representatives in the several districts? If General Grant is elected so as to give confidence in the stability of the Government and the continued peace of the country, we can exchange our bonds for a long bond bearing from one to two per cent. less interest. This would save to the coun try from twenty to thirty million dollars per year instead of $12,000,000. We would not only realize in this way more thith as much again money, but avoid the charge of in cipient repudiation. Why has that not been done already ? OCR NATIONAL CURSE. It you can tell me why God in his pro vidence has seen fit to afflict this country with such a President as Andrew Johnson, I can ansiter the question. For three years he has been sitting there, an obstruction to all proper legislation and administration. If we propose a new bond with low interest he calls before him the correspondent of the London Times, sad fills him with ap prehensions of repudiation to be scattered all over Europe. If we put a tax on whisky, which, it honestly collected, would relieve us of all other internal taxes, he is careful to see that it never goes to the Treasury. He counsels with the bitterest opponents of the war and plots with the bitterest rebels. Their common purpose seems to be to keep the country distracted ; to defeat the reconstruction of the South ; to advise, prompt, and aid resistance; to encourage mobs and murders to fulfill their prophetic war of races ; to keep the finances unsettled and business men in doubt ; to worry the men who trusted the Goverment when they Nvculd not, and make them unpopular with the people; to mag nify the Minions of taxation, and thus con fuse the judginent and tire the patience of the people. The more distress, rotor im aginary, they cats produce in the country the greater will be their chances of political success. • WllO 13 lIESPONSIBLS FOR OUR FINANCIAL CON/ MilEl3 They make the trouble and hold the Re publicans responsible for, it. With John son controlling the Treasury and all the Executive Departments we can do nothing. Re can and win and (IRS thwart all oar efforts. If the Government . now goes, into the hands of the southern rebels with only, such restraints as their northern allies choose to impose, capitalists will have no con fidence in the Rah:am:anon of any new contract and will make none. TaR klifatlL OF FATING TUN BONDS' IN WIZEN- 1732221 But, it is said, again, that this party would pay off the bonda in greenbacks at our* and have done with interest. At present we have no surplus of greenbacks to pay with, and unless taXation is very much In creased we will. not have several years to come. Whet* the bonds shall be paid In greenbacks or . gold is th quoniott. for ; the future. = It Is Is not a question for this Teas or next It may never be a question, Be. fore we will be abiti to pay at all, or can be called on to pay, gold and greenbacks may and probably will be of equal value, It may become a troublesome question at some Mare day; but why anticipate the trouble? Do not the times furnish trouble enough without this ? 1011Itat OW OWING MORI eastraitoza. Yes ; but the Democrats would print greembacke =ought° pay off the bonds.— That would give us *2,500,000,000 of cur rency at but ; If the bank Issue was still outstanding, $2,800,000,000. , During the war the Demoerata declared that in time it would take a cord of greenbacks to pay for a cord of wood. They would thus fulfill their owe prophecy. Such a coarse would wipe out the bonds , but the public ,credi tors would not be the only milkmen. It would discharge all private debts as well.— But like the confaderate currency it would have little value except to pay debts, and after that nobody would take it. A debtor might sea a horse for enough to pay for a farm he purchased on credit the year be fore r but there the traffic would end ; all trade would stop; all manufactures would stop ; the poor would have no employment, and property command no price. But, r af ter all, it might not effect a discharge of debts either public or private. &wow the debtors should refuse to take it, and the Supreme Court should decide the law un constitutional and void. That would bring everybody to specie payments at once. . It Is well understood that thla court will ulti mately render such a decision on the pre sent legal-tender law. They only wait a favorable time. Such an avalanche of Irre deemable paper might force the decision at once. DEMOCRATIC FLNANCIAL ABILRT As proof of the financial ability of this party we are reminded that in 1861 they left the country free from debt, and that under our administration a debt of $2,500,- 000,000 has been created. The statement is not quite true. They left the country in debt nearly one hundred million dollarrin time of peace, and its credit so low that Howell Cobb, the Secretary of the Treasury, informed Congress in December, 1860, that he was unable, after repeated efforts, to borrow the little sum of $10,000,000. WHO CAUSED THE NETIONAL DINT. It is true, we have a large debt now ; but who caused it? It will be admitted that the debt was created to suppress the rebel lion, and the southern wing of the party which now complains of it got up the re bellion to divide the Union. It ought also to be admitted, but I suppose will not be, that the rebellion was prompted and en couraged by a portion of the northern wing. Upon some portion of the Democratic par ty, as at present organized, lies the whole responsibility of this rebellion. la it fair, then, to hold us responsible for a debt caused by the misconduct of our opponents? THE IMPPDENCII OP THE DEMOCRATIC COM- PLAINT ABOUT THE NATIONBL DEBT. In 1863 there was a great anti-war riot in New York. To suppress It and repair dam ages cost the city a large slim of money.— Suppose these rioters and their sympathetic friends the next year had formed a party and nominated a ticket to contest with the old officials the possession of the city govern ment, would they have had the cheek to urge as a reason for the change that the debt 6f the city had been enlarged the year before? During the war the beautiful town of Chambersburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, was burned by the rebels.— A large debt was created to rebuild It. Sup pose these incendiaries had settled In Cham bersburg idler the war was ovee and bad finally been placed on the Democratic ticket for local officers, would it have been alto gether modest in them to urge the people to select them because the old officers had created this debt? If a discharged cashier, turning thief and robbing your bank, and thus entailing upon it a heavy debt, should, upon his return from the penitentiary, ask to be restored to his old place, and give as a reason that your hank was cut of debt when he was discharged, and a large debt had been created by his successor, would you be likely rester ehim ? And yet the im pudence of the New York rioters, the Chain bersburg incendiaries, and the discharg ed cashier, would not be greater than that of the late rebels and their northern allies, who ask to be restored to power because their own misconduct has forced the con traction of a large debt. The talk about relieving the country or its obligations means repudiation or it is a deception. They cannot levy the taxes more judiciously, nor collect and apply them more honestly than anybody else. Their three years trial under Mr. Johnson has not developed any - superior character in this direction. They certainly could not negotiate for a low rate of interest to al vantage. Capitalists, knowing the debt will always be hateful to a large portion of their party because it must ever remind them of their folly and humiliation, would fear to trust them.. ODE ABILITY TO PAT 01JH DEBT This portion of their party, to frighten the people into total or partial repudiation, constantly Magnify the burden and decry the ability of the country to discharge it.— Why, Mr. Chairman, the amount of our property to-day is $22,000,0a0,000. Every twelve years it donbles. Our population is forty millions, and doubles every twenty five years. The increase in the wealth of the country, as shown by an able and accu rate mathematician, would pay the whole debt in two years. In twenty-live years from this time our population will be eighty millions, and our property worth $80,414,- 000,000. To our increased wealth and pop• ulation the whole debt would be no more than one fourth of it is to us: If, then, they mean repudiation we do not need it, and cannot afford it. If, in any other re spect, they debit financial superiority, it is unfounded presumption. WILL WE MOVE FORWARD TO A GLORIOUS FU TURE, OR BACKWARD TO A FIIABZUL PAST ?, Aside from this question of finance, this party promise nothing except to fight over and fight backwards the political battles of the last twelve yeitrs. Is the country pre pared to embark in such a struggle ? Do we want an Administration which will not only resist all further progress, as Mr. Johnson has done, Ing undertake to work the country back, act by act and measure by measure, to the days of Pierce aNut Bu chanin ? Is any humakbeing to fie ben efited by it? Would it not be better to choose an Administration which will not only hold kast to the liberty and privileges already secured to the people, but, as time and opportunity pertnit„ move slowly for ward Mt. titegreat ll,ipublican doctrine of equal political rights ? NOT Dear &MUGU run Pitionta.—A good story is told of two rattamen, who were caught in the late big blow on. the Weida sppi, at which so many rem were swamped and so many steamboats loin their Sky riggings. The raft miss just emerging front Lake Pepin as the squall Minut. In an instant It .was pitching and writhing ai if suddenly dropped into Charybdis while the . wares broke OTC her with tremendous . uPtuury and expecting instant destruatioa, one of the men dropped on his knees cad commenced, praying irito a vim equal nth. E . emergency. Happening to open 1. an instant, ho observed hi* companigis v, , .ngaged In prayer, but pushing isioll • - ... .1.. the water at the side Of Jillesok ~ 'What's Mayer - , A ,, , ~ ; . ~ ~ * mh o ; "get down on . . • 7"' :: :lob's a nsinute, . 7 - " P an . I.riik , las POktiZitthY. noli'' ' ' -1 ' *Wu' IS a fht tr4vev. •witit a pole?" ' Zifilltn_^ . s specimen of a lap caw of ' ylloprefer to omlt raT er as 1 9 1 1 si O4l 'ugh bc,140,M ivy ' THE CLOVEN FOOT.
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