lAN VOLUNTEER. EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY 'TON A KENNEDY. o Dollars per year It paid strictly Two Dollars and Flfty'Conts If paid months j after which Three Dollars id. These terms will bo rigidly nd ;ery Instance. No subscription dls vtll all arrearages are paid, unless nt the Editor. ifeaatorial <£artia. iDLEB, Attokney at Law, Isle. Penna. (Mice In Building for led by Volunteer, South Hanover Attoeney at Law, ale, Potma. Office same os that ol vn ■Volunteer,’ ’ South side of the Pub- B. BUTLER, Attorney aj Carlisle, Peuna. Office with Win. J. ;E, Attorney at Law, iver Street, Carlisle, Pa., jAKLEY, Attorney at Law. >n South'Hanover ’street.Jn the room mpled by A. B. Sharp©, Av DUNBAR, Attorney at .•lisle, Penna. Office a few doors ■)n’s Hotel, xiTZHOOVBB, Attorney vunsklob at IiAW, Carlisle, Penn a. h Hanover street, opposite Bentz’s tol arrangement with the Paten t ■> securing Patent Rights. jLTZHOOVER, Attobney md Beal Estate Agent, Shenlierds rglnla. Prompt attention given to Tefforson county and the Counties . SHEARER, Attorney &c. LAW, Carlisle. Pa. Office near Court, ith side of Public Square, in '• Inbofl 9 •cond floor. Eutranco.HanoverStreet. tlolng in all the Courts of this Judicial :ompt attention will be given to all \ the Counties of Perry and Juniata, as Jumborland. iB6o—ly*. B. MAGBAUGHLIN, Attob ,t LAW. Office in Building formerly - Volunteer, a few doors South of Han 'SHAM, Attorney at Law, with Wm. H. Miller, Esq., South >f Hanover and Fomfrot streets. IRMAN, Attorney at Law. In Bheem’s Hall Building, In the mrt House, next door to the . Her-, uiisle, Penna. tS?C. GEAHAM, Attorney at few. Office formerly occupied by Judge mr&outh Hanover street, Carlisle, Penna. ElB6s—ly. , KWTON SHORT, M. D., (for- Srly of Centrevillo, Pa.) Physician and Shaving permanently Jocaled in. Me hui;. Pa., most respectfully offers his ser fthe public in the practice of Medicine taery in all their various branches.— tails promptly attended to.) • Particular Sgivon to Surgical Operations and the ht of Chronic Diseases. • ' _ • Sn Main Street, opposite Rail Road aye- Stairs. ' July 6. ’6fl-ly. GEORGE S. SEARIGHT, Den 7 r. From the Baltimore College of Benia} - Office at the residence of his mother, ither Street, three doors below Bedford, Penna. 1805. - [TISTRY—Dr. W.B. Shoemaker— Lotloal Dentist, Newvllle, Pennsylvania. Evdoor North of the Post Office. 5,1866.-—ly. iHfcetrtcal. for lOLEKA. , X. 186 6 . GREAT ZUNGAM BITTERS. mderful remedy was discovered and In about twenty years ago by Dr. S. Cheop [L lomf selin P and Felt of Gome which would strike the root °f disease, •ent much of the suffering which the hu dly was then compelled to endure, eat question was presented to his mind ,v in vivid colors as ho moved among the dying, and observed the, inefficiency ol s&^s^as^r^ssskjsaas^i Shattering marks of royal favor were dunonhta who discovered It. Hlsnnme red P upon the 801 l of Nobles and a gold with the following Inscription. Dr S. s, the. Public Benefactor, was presented used in several epi oAhoiora, both as a preventive and cura osore; and with such great success, that it a introduced into nearly all the general Id announce of preventionls v pound of cure, applies with marvelous a cholera, and therefore any remedy that otect us against this terrible disease should ly and persistently used. . . lathologlsts now agree that the cholera acts, on th© system, through the blood, at any combination which acts on the ex organs. and keeps them In working or mst prevent a sufficient accumulation of iiou to exert its terrible effects on the or 1. This Is true not only of oholerra, hut of all other maladies, especially the differ ms of fever. , ■ tr nr ,*u o . Slugara Bitters is just such a remedy as the conditions require. It acts on the organs retlon and secretion, keeping up a perfect e between them. This Bitters is composed y of roots and herbs, so nicely concocted ■cry organ is acted upon and put in tone. & is pleasant and Its- effects prompt and erous cases of the following diseases have ared by it; Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, y, Amentia, Dyspepsia, Flatulency, Ohollo, i One Dollar per'quart bottle. . ' , . Jlpal depot at the Walnut street wharf, fwfatobv George Winters, wholesale and liquor dealer, Second Street. Shower’s liquor store, and at the Fran Kim , Carlisle. 17,1808—om, S P E P S I A! PERMANENTLY CUBED BY jDON’B dyspepsia troches iEBPSiA Permanently Cured or the Money Refunded, e Troches not only give immediate relief i sure to effect a permanent cure lu Dya . They are not n purgative, and therefore so does not create a necessity for ’ use of Carthatles. They cause no slollncss stomach or griping of-the howels, and are tly harmless to the most delicate, • will Immediately correct a sour Stomach, latulenoe. Heartburn, Sickness or Pain In tomach, fcostlveness, Belching of Wind, Complaint, Headache, and nil tHoso eeablo and dangerous symptoms of this p, which-unfit one for the pleasures and k anddeUcate persons who have been ln by the use of powerful stimulants and pur is, will And them a mild, of the digestive organs to their original ;th and vigor. , . „ pared solefybj ttegggtotogjj,, & ~ Chemists, 718 Market Street, Phil a. Sold by all Druggists, e 21, 1868—3 m. . VENTOBB OFFICES D’EPINEDIL AND EVANS. ENGINEERS & PATENT SOLICITORS No, 135 Walnut Street Philadelphia. tents solicited—Consultations pn Englnoor aU^ndsn^o^an^sWffuny'Mtoided k from Patent Office procured. - B. Save yourselves useless 6 expenses, as there la no need ?S§t fVlew with us. All business with these Offi <an bo transacted In wrhlng. Fpr further fmatlon dlreotns above, with stamp enoiqs vlth. Circular with references, k. 1.1860—1 y. ;MPIRE SHUTTLE SEWING MA; ‘ Oil the latest improvements; are speedy , Jeleaa; durable: and easy to work. • . lustraled Circulars free. Agents wanted. _ eral discount allowed* No consignments do, dress. EMPIRE S. M. 00., Broadway, N. Y. wiyatr.istt-iy BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. dita gUjbettteemcnts. 'DIAMOND DEALER & JEWELER, WATCHES, JEWELRY* SILVER WARE, WATCHES and JEWELRY EBP AIRED. Ohostirat HAS OK lIAKD' A LARGE & SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF DIAMOND JEWELRY OF ALL KINDS. BINGS, PINS, STUDS, DIAMOND SETS, &0„ AISO, ON HAND A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SWISS & ENGLISH WATCHES, MY ASSORTMENT OP JEWELRY IS iOMPLETE IN ALL' RESPECTS, Embracing Articles of the Highest Cost, AS ALSO, • Articles of Comparatively Small Value. PLAIN RINGS ON HAND. SILVERWARE OF ALL KINDS, ALSO FANCY SILVERWARE. SUITABLE FOB BRIDAL ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS ALWAYS ON Particular Attention Paid to Repairing Watches . Diamonds and all other Precious Stones AS ALSO, OLD GOLD AND SILVER COUNTRY TRADE SOLICITED. Feb. 1, l8(J0-iy. •Jjj REMINGTON & SONS, MANUFACTURERS OF BE VO DYERS, RIFLES. MUSIC SITS AND CAM BIN MS, . For the United States Service. POCKET AND BELT REVOLVERS, REPEATING PISTOLS, RIFLE CANES REVOLVING RIFLES, Rifle and Shot Gun Barrels, and Gun Materials, sold by Gun Dealers and the Trad© generally. In these days of Housebreaking and Robbery, every House Store, Bank , and oJJXcc, should have one of REMINGTON’S REVOLVERS. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the late Improvements in Pistole, and superior workman ship and form, will And all combined in the Now REMINGTON REVOLVERS. Circulars containing cuts and description of our Arms will be furnished upon Application. E. REMINGTON & SONS, lllon, N. Y. Moore & Nichols, Agents. No. 40 Courtland St., New York. . April 12,1808—Cm. . Jgrtobes, ® into are, &c. ■jq'BW STOVE STORE! "Would Inform bis numerous friends and the public generally, that ho has opened A NEW STOVE STQRE , , In South Hanover Street, adjoining Wm. Blnlr <S Son’s wholesale and retail grocery, where ho has on hand a largo assortment of the latest Im § roved and most desirable Stoves In the market, ueh as COOKING STOVES of every variety and size, all of wldcli lie wl warrant to give entire satisfaction. Also, PARLOR AND OFFICE STOVES, for wood or coal, HEATERS portable and station ary RANGES, all of which he will sell 20 per cent, lower than can be purchased at any other estab lishment in the county. Before purchasing e sc where you will And to your interest to give him a call as ho is determined not to bo undersold. TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE, made of the very best material and at reduced prices. ROOFING AND SPOUTING promptly attended toon reasonable terms. Also, Fisher’s Self-Sealing FRtTIT CANS, admitted by all to be the best Can in the market, warranted to be as represented or the money re tU FiRE-pitooF Bricks and Grates put in Stoves on moderate terms. ‘ ■ ....... Thankful to his friends and the public for the liberal patronage heretofore conferred, ho hopes by strict attention to business and a desire to please, to merit a tto Sept. 0, 1808-Iy» & CLAUDY, (Successors to J. D. Gobgas.) The subscribers respectfully inform tho publlo Qorgosfin rear of &e Court House, whore they araprepared to accommodate the patrons of the Sid establishment and nil others wire> may favor them with their work. If you want the very best tit thfl lowest orlco. come to us. All insured for six-months or longer. We havenothingonhand but tho best bakers, and warrant tbera to be such for we keep none other. Come and see the great variety, we can give hundreds of testimo nials if desired. Como and see our HEATERS AND RANGES, F. RASTER, Solo Proprietor. Stationary and Portable. of all kinds in great variety, fiom tho voiy best tin-plate. All you need in our lino can oe had from us at a saving of 20 per cont.- CoU at our Store and Ware Rooms, in of the Court House, and yon will save money in your pureba ses. it will tuUy pay you to come. TIN ROOFING AND SPOUTING , d By Srict P attentlou to business the‘ hope to merit and receive a liberal share of pub lie patronage. July 13,180(1— ly The gablisle cooki TO NEW AND OLD HOUSEKEEPERS, i new and perfect Air-tight Gas Consuming Cooking Stove for Coal or Wood,! At our laundry and Stove Jtooms, Main St., Carlisle. The patems of this Stove are new and original tndcslgn. and gotten up expressly for our use. Wo therefore call It Tt combines every newtWnl Valuable Improve ment°ffi Cooking Stoves. Itls some In appearance—is a perfect Air tjgnt ana Experienced Housekeepers wIU And upon examination that the N-E W -CAB LIS L E COOK nuSdto call anti see It, os wo ate confident It will fully recommend Itself QAJIDNBB & cO . March 23, 1860.— ly.. \ GBIOULTUBAL BOCIET Y J\ S'at.Ti MEETING. IB6o.—The Farmers and . Society will remem oreSd Innumlmr that wo will have the most extensive exhibition that a^o^ e am e invi^ as exhibitors order hf the CROFTi Secretary, July Ifl.llMO-tf American 1 Blanker such as A VERY LARGE STOCK OP PRESENTS, HAND. BOUGHT FOR CASH, JAMES M'GONEGAL COOKING STOVE PARLOR AND OFFICE STOVES for wood or coal. TIN WARE . \VAL ker & CDAUDY. CALL AND SEE IT 1 THE CABLISLE COOK! (ttlotijins. REMOVAL.! REMOVAL!! CLOTHING! CLOTHING! MY MOTTO, “ Quick Sales and Small Profits." Tho subscriber begs leave to informllls custom ers aiid the public, that ho has removed his CLOTHING EMPORIUM to.,the Room formerly occupied by H. S. Ritter, on Main Street,, two' doors West of Saxton’s Hardware Store, where he will continue tho CLOTHING. BUSINESS, In all its various branches. MADE UP CLOTHING constantly on hand. COATS, P A N T S and in every stylo and variety. Shirts, white & gray linen, Stockings, Undershirts, Neckties, Collars, Handkerchiefs, Drawers, Suspenders, &c. Also, the.best of French Cloths and Cossimores, In every variety. He has engaged the services of an experienced cutter, and especial attention will bo paid to putting up customer work in the latest and most fiishiouablo styles, JOHN TREIBLER. April 19, 1666—0 m IDEMOVA LJ IiTcLOTHXNG! Henry S. Ritter would announce to the pubao that he has removed his CLOTHING AN D • GENTS’ FURNISHING STORE to his new Store-Room, on West Main Street, three doors west of the First National Batik, Car lisle, where he is fully prepared to MAKE WORK TO OB DEE at shortf notice and in the best and most fashiona ble style. Ho has recently returned from the city with a very largo and carefully selected lot of Goods, such as CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, &c., which he Is prepared to sell at greatly reduced rates. He will always keep on hand' READY-MADE CLOTHING of the best quality and 'style, and warranted to bo as represented. Call and examine for your selves and bo convinced. His stock of GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING GOODS ios been selected with care, and embraces SHIRTS, DRAWERS, COLLARS, STOCKINGS, pUne and Common KECKTJES, 8 USpENDDRti* HANDKERCHIEFS, and all articles in that line. Our custom department npw contains the lar gest assortment of all the Fashionable New I* ab rics for our patrons to select from. GOODS SOLD BY THE YARD OB PIECE. Call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. We are always ready to show our Goods to old aud new customers. _ /KS* Don’t forget tho Stand, West High Street, in tho room lately occupied by R. k. bhaploy s Jewelry Store. April 20. isoo— iy. pLOTHING! CLOTHING!! GREAT FALL IN PRICES. The undersigned Is now receiving his complete assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, which for stylo, beauty and price, cannot be ex- C °Hls stock consists in part of fine Black and Blue French and English Cloths, Extra Heavy Doe skin, three cut and FANCY CASSIMEBES. Also, a largo variety of Casslnets and Tweeds, Kentucky Jeans, and Cottonnades, Linens, and Linen Drillings, In great variety. Also a great assortment of READY MADE CLOTHING. of every stylo and quality, White. Linen and Woolen Shirts, Summer Drawers, &c. Constant ly on hand a largo assortment of Ties, Collars, Hosiery and Gloves, Linen, Silks and Cotton of Trunks, Carpet Bags and Valises, of every size. , , , .._ Clothing made to order at tho shortest notice. Call and examine the stock. c . . Don’t forgot the stand—South Hanover Street, adjoining Miller & Bowers’ Hardware Store, Car-. U “ ie- ISAAC LIVINGSTON. May 10, 1808. ' faints, &c. Miller & bowers, * SUCCESSORS TO LEWIS F. LYNE, Worth Hanover Street, Carlisle , JPa Dealers in American, English and German HARDWARE, Cutlery. Saddlery, Coach Trimmings, Shoe Findings, „ Morocco and Lining Skins, Lasts, Boot Trees , . , and Shoemaker Tools of every description. Solid and Brass Box Vices Bellows, Files, Rasps, Horse Shoes, Hoiso Shoe Nails, Bar and Rolled Iron of all sizes. HAMES AND TRACES, Bortraent of Hardware of all kinds and °f thebest manufacture, which will bo sold wholesale or re fnti a f lowest prices. We are mailing great improvements in our already heavysto|iof goods, and invite all persons In want of Hard ware of every description to give us a call and we arefconfident you wAI he welt paid for your trou- Hoping that by strict attention to luwiness rad a disposition to please all we will be able to maintain the reputation Dec. 1, 1865. GREAT EDUCATIONAL INDUCEMENTS. A. Pint Class Business College at Carlisle, Bonn a. THIS Institution is now chardo, the Artisan, the Business or Professional m vritlNQ MEN of limited education. YOUNG MEN well educated taught In a first class Business YOUNG MEN of limited means, who tvould possess the best requisite to em luenco and dlsUnoUon. . YOUNG MEN who are desirous of receiving tno yuurm greatest amount of useful Infor of Study. BRANCHES TAUGHT. Sincle and Double Entry Book-keeping, In its vnrinus forms and applications, Including Gen- Arn.l Wholesale and Retail Business, Forwarding, CtoiffilSvExchange, Jobbing and Imp°rtln ß , fes&!a®sssi»«a Grammar. Composition, Telegraphing, &o. ngp» students enter at any time. . - Address, Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 23,1888. CARLISLE. PA., THORSPAT, SEPTEMBER 20, 1860. THE “OTHER END OP THE LINE.” Como all ye sound conservatives, And listen to my song; ’Tin but a little ditty, and It will not keep you long. ’TIa of three sneaking traitor-men, As you may well divine, Who keep up tho disunion light At tho other end of the line. So Stevens, Sumner, Philips, too, Bo sure you over f shun; They run tho nigger Congress at Tho Town of Washington. They are three sneaking traltor-’men, Who tho President malign, And keep up tho disunion fight At the other end of tho line. For four long years we fought the South, The Union to restore; Now Tlmd and Charley want to fight, In Congress, four years more. Because they’re sneaking traitor-mon, Who foully do combine, To keep up the disunion fight At the other end of the line. VESTS, But there’s a man from Tonnessoo, And Johnson Is his name, Who figures by the rule of three, And always bags his game. And ho will toko those traitor-men, Sure as the sun doth shine, And hang them high as Hamnn hung, At the other end of the Hue. AN ADAMS SPEAKS. A Massachusetts Republican iu Fa- JOHN <UIINCY ADAMS’S SPEECH. Boston, September IX.—The second ratification meeting of the proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention of August 14, was held in Fanouil Hall this even- ing. The attendance was large and the meeting highly enthusiastic. ing was presided over by Colonel Isaac H. Wright, assisted by a large number of Vice Presidents and Secretaries. After appropriate remarks by the President, Hon. John Q,. Adams, son of our Ameri can Minister to the Court of St. James, was introduced) who after long-continued GLOVES, applause, spoke as follows Hit. Pbesident and Fedlow-Citi zens: We have met here to-night to pledge our support to the principles of po litical action enunciated by the Conven tion which met at Philadelphia, August 14, and in so doing to swear anew our fealty and allegiance to the sacred Con stitution of our fathers. I come here as a member of the Republican party to give in my adhesion to those principles, and I ask your indulgence to a somewhat tedi ous detail of the reasons which have dic- H. S. RITTER. tated my action, and which may possibly commend themselves to moderate men of my own or other parties. I have no words of lively and animating denuncia tion of my old friends to indulge in nor shall I be able to claim applause for ar dent eulogy of the President; butputtlng aside ail personal considerations, pray your attention for a few moments to a dry discussion of some of the principles which seem to me to be involved in this solemn contest. One word only about myself: Some people seem to think it a very easy and pleasant matter to differ with the mass of your old political associ ates and listen no more to the teachings of the ablest and kindest and most re spected political friends. I can only say that X totally diflbr from these people, and to me it has been a very sharp and i painful struggle.' Month after mouth I watched and waited and hoped that in some way an open quarrel in the Repub lican party might be avoided, and 1 be lieve now that a little kindness and for bearance would have avoided it; but when at last the issue was thrust-before us, I had to choose between my friends and my convictions. Npw what is this issue that wo must pass upon each for himself? It is simply this: The majori ty in Congress claim the right and exer cise the power of excluding from all rep resentation whatever, the people of ten States of the Union until they establish to its satisfaction a proper “practical rela tion” to the Union, whatever that may be - and the evidence of this relation is to be the passage of an amendment to the Constitution, dictated to them by a por tion of the representatives of a part of the States of the Union. We insist, on the other band, that the war was fought to compel the rebellious in the insurgent States 6b perform their duties to the Uni on and that as soon as the insurrection, was subdued, and peace and order restor ed it was the constitutional duty no less than the right of those States to send representatives to Congress, and that in case the “ elections, returns, and qualifi cations” of such members are regular and correct, Congress has no right to exclude them from their seats. (Applause.) We further protest that the assumption by Congress of a power nowhere granted by the Constitution to establish an inquisi torial and revolutionary tribunal to ex amine, not the ‘‘elections, returns, and qualifications” of any of its members, but to pry into the private feelings, talk, ana condition of the people of the once insur gent communities, with a view to exclude States from Congress, is no better than usurpation. (Applause.) And averring as we do that these States were never ont of the Union and could not be, we there fore insist upon the immediate admission of all the loyal Representatives and Sen ators duly elected and qualified to seats in Congress. This, at least, is the issue offered us to-day, and to tide over this election; but the radicals who crack the loudest whips over Congress delight in proclaiming that the only real final issue is universal” suffragefor the negro. When that comes I hope to live to discuss it; but to-night let me adhere to the propo sition before us. Now if one could have had prophetic vision at any time during the war, how astonished he would have been to have seen through the smoke thatgreatparty which so resolutely fought out four yearsof dire warfare to put down the heresy that the Union, was dissolu ble, spending thousands of millions of ao l(l, and hundreds of thousands of ines timably precious lives to maintain the doctrine of the supremacy of the Consti tution in all its strictness, now strug gling desperately to retard a restoration of the Union. One can hardly resist the superstition that the evil spirits of seces sion and disunion exercised at the Bouth bv the point of the bayonet had fled to the Capitol, and entered Into and pos sessed our rulers there. (Cheers.) Nor do I sav this in any spirit of exaggeration, as you may realize if you will but recur for a, moment to the outbreak of the war.—- The party in power at the South claimed and exercised a right to secede, because, they said, their rights were endangered by the acts which the majority who had lust elected Mr. Lincoln would do as soon as it had fairly grasped the power of the government, and they demanded further constitutional guaranty of slavery In the territories os the condition of their re maining. It was in vain that the ma- filial §miml vor of Union. The meet- jority protssted that it had no intent of ini pairing their constitutional rights; tho Southern minority dominautin their own section persisted in their effort to take the slaveholding States out of the Union. Now look at Congress to-day, insisting, as it does, that Its rights are in danger if these ten States are readmitted to Con gress; it claims and exercises a right to hold out of the Union almost as many States as ever strove to go out; and it im poses the same condition of further con stitutional guarantees as the price of a renewed, much,as tho secessionists did of a continued, Union. I confess, us a matter of constitutional law and common sense, apart from the Intent of individu als, I see very little to choose between the man who takes a State out of the Union because he cannot get constitu tional guarantees to suit him and one who keeps, a State out of the Union until he can got constitutional guaranties to suit him. In both cases we must look for the evil principle precisely where the po litical theorist would have Indicated be forehand, in the inherent weakness of written constitutions, when the fears or ambition of a dwindling majority tempt them to overstep the limits of the organ ic law to avert their own humiliation, and the advent to power of a rival party which, of course, appears to thestill dom inant faction an insufferable calamity.— Now, my friends, this is the real danger which Copgress would avert from us. It is absurd to suppose that the bold and able men who have wielded the whole power of the North for years arc much alarmed at the return of a beaten and broken remnant whose power has passed away, whose prestige is gone, and whose burden is about as much as they can well bear, to mingle in the deliberations of Congress. No; the organs of Congress make no secret that their real apprehen sion is not the South, but the North—no longer the men whom they persist in treating as alien enemies, but their loyal fellow-citizens of the Democratic party.— It is to secure their dear people from the uuuttereble woes of Democratic rule, and to perpetuate the inestimable blessings of their own administration that they are willing to postpone indefinitely a true restoration of the Union. This extract from a Boston paper sufficiently shows their true intent: “How Long Will You Keep the South Out op Congress? —We answer: until that nest of traitors becomes fully satisfied that it never can again rule the nation by combination with Northern al lies. Make the Southern leaders realize that fact, and the pacification of the for merly rebellious section of the country, will be speedily accomplished, and its people will willingly acquiesce in any arrangement deemed necessary for the peace and harmony of the country by the loyal men who preserved the country from destruction. When the South re linquishes all hope of controlling nation al affairs, as it did in the days of Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan, the time will have Arrived for investing Southern constitu encies with the rights which they volun tarily forfeited. But, under no oircuin 1 stances, can the traitorous portion of the Union bo allowed to increase its political strength in Congress by the events of the war!” Now, gentlemen, this doctrine—and it is the doctrine of Congress reduced to its last analysts; you and they all know it is; no one denies it —seems to me to strike at the root of tlio very trunk principle of our scheme of policy. If we are to aban don the plan of trusting the people to their own government, we surrender the very citadel of our system. If once we submit to allow majorities to assume not only that they are right and their oppo nents wrong, but that the opposite party is so wicked that the ruling faction must alter the fundamental law to ensure their permanent disgrace, we may as well aban don our central idea of self-government; and in its place bring in the other theory, on which rests the throne of our friend the Emperor of the French, that the peo ple must be taken care of as incompetent or wicked. I have said that Congress seems willing to indefinitely postpone a restoration of the Union. If I were not anxious to bostudiously moderate I should say that the moat active and influental of its speakers and newspapers can fairly bo interpreted as utterly opposed to any re union at all. What else, X ask, can we conclude from the incessant stream of de nunciation and abuse; the constant search of new matter of Irritation; the perpetual recurrence to all the moat bitter and humiliating memories of the war; the daily tearing open of old wounds; and twitting and sneering and taunting pur , conquered opponents with all things that may tend to exasperate their anger and perpetuate their hate? What can any mortal expect from such treatment but perpetual alienation? And what is the meaning of the condition which their official act imposes if not- indefinite ex clusion of some, at least, of the States? — It is preposteious to presume that even Congress could suppose that all the for merly insurgent States would bo weak or dishonest enough to be bribed back into precarious and inferior seats in the na tional councils. For we must not forget that in assenting to the terms of Congress these States must acknowledge the con stitutional authority of the process by which they return, and be content to sit at the good pleasure of a mere majority, and by the authority of a simple joint re solution of a Congress of part of the States, exercising a power which to say the least, is not expressly granted by the Constitu tion. If any one even rejects the bribe, no alternative but permanent subjection is offered by Congress. I will not spend time in showing how entirely witout sanction of anything to be found in the text of the Constitution is the arbitrary offer of conditional restoration contained in the Amendment and its enabling stat ute. Only to read them in the light of the tenth article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which says expressly that “the powers not dele gated to the United States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the peo ple,” would seem to bo a sufficient nega tive of constitutional authority. But the legal bearings of this extraordinary pro position have been fully discussed by more than one of the ablest jurists of the time Indeed, the candid and logical Republicans and their honest presses ad mit its divergence from the strict letter, but assert a certain pre-eminent concord ance with the spirit of the Constitution, and they justify this lax construction by the old plea of necessity and a kind of in describable reserved war right in the con queror in civil war to disregard his own constitutional imitations. As to this plea of necessity, not to dwell on the patent reflection that no usurpation or constitu tional overture ever occurred from the day Julius Crnsar crossed the Rubicon to the coup d'etat otUouisNapoleon, or the Com mittee of Fifteen of the last session of Congress, that did not strive to cover it self under the broad mantle of alleged ne cessity ; I might well be content to sim nlv deny the fact of the existence of such a necessity. But I will not detain you now to examine the evidence upon this head or to analyze this strange claim of reserved rights and lurking war powers, potent to retain their force long after peace is declared, and which are nowhere even hinted at in the written word of our organic law, but will content myself to night with asking merely what any reas onable man can fairly anticipate will re sult from the proposed process, supposing it is sucoesfully perfected. Passing over the strange anomality of recognizing these YOL. 53.—N0. 14. States, which we have ascertained by our committee to bo too wicked to be permit ted to vote upon the simplest matter of statute law, nay not even on questions of finance, where surely no human being, bo he ever so rebellious, could well give more foolish or dishonest votes than many of our Radical friends, as are still in the Union, and safely reliable, so far as to pass upon the gravest changes in our or ganic law, and that too under an open bribeallowing all this for the sake of the argument, what shall we gain by our move? Congress says we shall secure our-selves against another war, and take new guaranties for peace.. But I confess I cannot see how. This idea seems to me only a part of the general theory so pr<* valent with usktbat a statute has some soverign power to change the minds of men; the same theory which teaches that intemperance can be abolished by law.— Why. gentlemen, was there any lack of constitutional law against secession arid rebellion, and did it prevent the great war? No piling of amendment upon amendment will prevent revolution and anarchy so long as the policy of the ma jority compels the minority to hate the organic law, and teaches by example the whole people to disregard or evade it. — (Cheers.) Will evil-disposed men stand more in awe of our newly tinkered Con stitution after you have yourselves im paired its sanctity by trampling it under your feet, ns they at least will believe at the South, to serve a temporary purpose, than they did-when it was enshrined as a thing apart in every thinking mind.— Why, gentlemen, this seems to me as ab surd as if the miller whoso flush boards had been carried away by a flood and his dam shaken to its foundation, should tear away the beams and .planks from the base of his dam to heap upon its top to secure it from the next freshet.— The foundations of the Constitution and the Union is in the love of the people nothing else. (Tremendous cheers). If you loosen this foundation you prepare its sure overthrow. What can wo think, then, of men who say we are providing barriers to future disaffection by constitu- tional amendments which all the people know to be in violation of the very in strument itself, and a large section feci to bo invidious, insulting, and humiliaingt to them. It seems to mo you are starting the foundations of your dam. For let us suppose that those nefarious outlaws of the South and their hardly less atrocious accomplices of the Democracy, (as our kind friends call you) should some day return to power—and this supposition is admissible uqlmb Congress should discov er necessity, as well as implied er-law for voting themselves a permanent body until everything in every way suits them —do you suppose these convenient precedents will be forgotten ? Supposing these abandoned men should desire a now amendment to keep them in power or a repeal of some old obnoxious one, what is to prevent a rf ajority composed of such licentious characters as our Radical friends represent us to be, from having our committee of fifteen and voting Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and even this old commonwealth to be in most outrageous “practical relations 1 ’ with the Union, and olandly requiring her and them to do our will or not be heard in Congress? It may be said, “but that is absurd, it would be revolution.” loan only say that in my judgment this action of Congress is revolution no less. But it is said you will sacrifice all the results of the war, and abandon all wo have gained and fought for. If this bo so, we are surely wrong ; but is it so ? What did we light for ? President Lincoln said it was to reduce to obedience to the Constitution the rebellion in certain States, and that the restoration of the Union either witli or without slavery, was what ho fought for. Nor was Congress less explicit, as the joint resolution passed July 1.1861. will show • Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the coun try by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitu tional government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emer gency Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or inter fering with the rights or established in stitutions of thoso'Btates ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Con stitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the Union with ail the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ; that ns soon as these objects are acomplished the war ought to cease. There is what we fought for to “mui. taiu the supremacy of the Constitution, and “topreservetheUnlon." (Applause. Shall we sacritieo this by ourselves, sub mitting to its supremacy, or do we not rather abandon what wo have gained when we ourselves infringe its provisions'. Why. gentlemen, slavery is abolished; secession is crushed i tho Constitution is supreme—at tho South and all this we propose to maintain as well as you , wc only ask further that tho Constitution shall bo supreme also at tho North. It is further objected that we would lot these States back with an unfairly augmented representation? I reply that I will first fulfil my constitutional obligations it tho heaveils fall; but that supremacy ouoo es tablished, I will go on with any party to insist upon a fair equalization to repre seutatlon | and lot mo say, that I think no party could maintain itself lor a mo ment at the North which should oppose an equitable and a Constitutional settle ment of this question. But it is not just now so utterly devoid of all difficulties as some of our headlong friends suppose. In its present form this provision ol the Amendment seems to me one of the most dangerous articles which.could possibly be incorporated in tho organic law—more revolutionary than all the rest together, for it strikes at what in my judgment is to be eventually the salvation of our gov ernment. Some plan to rest not upon uni versal suffrage, but upon intelligent suf frage. Men should be in some degiee com. peteut to judge wherof they are called to express an opinion, and a limitation at least to capacity to read some language seems not unreasonable. Now by the AmendmeutaU such efforts are precluded. Suppose South Carolina to-morrow wore to puss the Amendment to the Constitu tion, and at the same session other Legis laturo provide, exactly as wc do m this State, that no man who cannot read and write shall vote—suppose this were done in good faith in every Southern State, wh v tho result would bo that as, speaking generally, no freedmeu can read and few white men write, the Southern ropresen tation would be reduced almost low enough to suit Mr. Sumner or Mr Stevens. You may say. 44 Let them educate them, and so I say, hut the trouble is they wont, while so much easier a way is open, which la. to let every one vote and at once. South Carolina, under this amendment, has but to let loose on you intelligent Northerners, laborers and mechanics, the hordes of her freedmeu brutalized by cen turies of wrong, and driven from educa tion more fiercely than we have ever dar ed to urge our people to it, and she will still have all her power, while you will bo swamped in her fatal flood of degraded ignorance. So of all the South bribe them into this evil thing and no human power will persuade them out, and we ourselves must welter with them in this ADVERTISING TERMS. Advertisements will bo inserted at Ten Cents per lino for the flrst Insertion, and five cent* per lino for each subsequent insertion. Quar terly, half-yearly, and yearly advertisements la sorted at alibcral reduction on tho above rates Advertisements should bo accompanied by tho Cash. When sent without any length of time speclllod for publication, they will be continued until ordered out and charged accordingly. JOB PRINTING. Cards, IIANDnn.ES, Cxrculaks, and every other description of Job and Card Printing executed In tho neatest stylo at low prices. addition of four million man-power of Ig norance to our political system. Gentlemen, my solicitude in this mat ter is not so much, for the South. But I love and admire the people of the North and revere the frame of government handed down to us from the fathers of the republic, and when I see that great charter of our constitutional liberties as sailed by the same passions which have proved latal to so many similar plans of regulated liberty—when I see a victori ous majority inflamed with all the enmi ties and demoralized by the license of a long war, forgetting its veneration for our last safeguard. I cannot refrain from urging in such teeole words as X can com mand, patience and constant recurrence to the Constitution. Let us never forget ourselves nor weary in reminding our fellow-citizens that even if this congres sional scheme wore best for ten or even twenty-years to come, yet the vision of the philosophic statesman stretching for ward, for centuries, whenalmostthe mem ory of this episode in the magnificent an nals of the great republic shall have fa ded away, will discern how to secure a trifling temporary good which in a little time must have come unforced; the pol iticians of the day .yielded to temptation, and first infringed the organic law. Then the people lost something of their rever ence for it. At the next emergency the majority, more bold, tears away a larger mass of the rampart, and the apathy or the people is heavier, until at last, the ru ling faction knows no guide but Its own passing whim, and the nation stands ready to fall a prey to any man who will rescue it from the intolerable tyranny or an unrestrained majority. Bees this pic ture seem too dark? ily friends, you need study but little the brief annals of the people who have put their faith in paper constitutions before our great ex periment to see that I sketch the precise process which they all passed through.— Always just here the strain grew gradu ally too fierce fortho popular fortitude and virtue to withstand. But I have an abi ding faith that as in the past this great people have shown themselves faithful at the last to their self-imposed bonds for the general and permanent welfare, so to-day thou- sound sense will yet return to save the work of their great men, and that God may still bo to us as he was to those venerated Fathers. Gentlemen, there is butene safe path for our feet, but one unerring guide for our steps. I* we stray from that path for any temptation, no matter what its offered delight may be—if we abandon our guide, wo shall wonder long in blind paths, and may probably perish miserably at; the last.— That path is the teachings of the men who formed the Union, and that guide the constitution of the fathers of the re public. And in conclusion let me call to your minds the memorable words which stand in the front of our State Constitu tion, and pray you to ponder well their old-fashioned wisdom. “A frequent re currence to the fundamental principles of the-Constitution and a constant adher ence to those of piety, justice, modera tion, temperance, industry, and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty and to maintain a free government. The people ought con sequently to have a particular attention to all those principles in the choice of their officers and representatives; and they have a right to require of their law givers aud magistrates au exact and con stant observance of them iu the forma tion and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of the Com monwealth." (Tremendous applause, amid wh ioh the speaker resumed ms seat.) MAJOR OESERAI, WOOI; rEIVDOBSES THE PRESIDENT’S POEICY. A delegation from Troy, N. Y., headed by Hon. George Vail, on Thursday visit ed the President at Albany, and extend ed to him an invitation to visit that city, and also handed him the following letter from Major General John E. Wool: Troy, Aug. 29,1806. To Andrew Johnson , President of the Uni- ted talcs; ■ Mu Dear ir: The Hon. George Vail, of the city of Troy, will hand you this note. As one of our most respectable and worthy citizens, I would commend him to your kind attention. He is an old Jackson Democrat, and your political friend, who wants nothing and seeks for nothing but his country’s good. Ho, as well as myself, is exceedingly anxious, deeming it essential to the welfare and prosperity of the country, that you should succeed in your policy of reconstructing concur with you in the decla ration that “ wo have had war enough, lot there be peace.” Another civil war is indicated by those who declare the Union dissolved, it would rend the Ura ted States into fragments, followed by pestilence, famineand desolation through out the land, and would overturn the best Government ever devised by man, and ruin the finest country on the face of tll That you may succeed in your noble and generous efforts, to bring back into the folds of the Union a bravo people, and make us what we oug.it to he, a uni ted, great, and prosperous nation, should be the earnest and anxious desire of all true patriots arid lovers of their country. Tg -catly regret that important bus - ness will deprive me of the plcMure it would afford me to accompany the May or, Common Councils, Mr. Vail, and oth er citizens of Troy, who mtend to pay their respects to you on the morrow, while on route for celebrate the erection of a monument In commem oration of the late lamented Douglas. I have the honor to be, with considera tion of the highest respect, your obedi ent servant. tt o^ A Major General, U. H. A. jsgy The Press says: The appearance of Fred Douglass, a colored man, in the parade among the Northern delegates yesterday, caused more or less talk, and among ignorant Copperheads much denunciation. Mr. . Douglass, under the State rights law of iSTew York, is a voter m that State, and has, we believe, exercised the right of suffrage for many years. Mr. Doug lass distinguishedhiraselfduring the Fre mont campaign, and at the is an able and eloquent supporterofthe Union. He is perfectly to tako the "stump" with any Copperhead in Philadelphia on the question of State rights, and after a full and free debate to let the audience decide the question at is sue. “ Mind over matter” is his motto. Hero is the negro on a political and so cial equality with the white man. “Mind over matter" is not the motto—it is black over while, which Forney and his revolu tionary party are laboring for. They have the impudence to ask the white race to help them accomplish it, and we are sorry to say that some of them are on their side. Jsgg" Geary, says it is .right for the labor ing taxpayers of Pennsylvania to be im pelled to pay one million six hundred thousand dollars a month to support the Freedmen’s Bureau. Voters, is It right that the fruits of your labor should go to the support of idle negroes who are able to support themselves by work as you are? 1 No, itisnotl
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