be American Volunteer,
>3
■d
•Kl
rBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
BRATTON 4c KENNEDY,
V.
OFFICE—SOUTH BIABKET SQUARE.
ETkbms:—Two Dollars par year if paid strictly
p advance; Two Dollars and Fifty. Cents if paid
flthln three months; after which Three Dollars
rill bo charged. These terms will bo rigidly ad*
lered to in every instance. No subscription dls
bntinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at
bo option of the Editor.;
NITED STATES CLAIM
AND
MeEAL ESTATE AGENCY!
WM. B. BUTLER',
K- ATTORNEY AT LAW,
B Office in 2d Story of Inhoff’s Building, No. 8 South
Hanover Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county,
Penna.
Pensions, Bounties, Back Pay, Ac., promptly
solleclcd. ,
Applications by mall, 'will receive Immediate
ittentlon. *
Particular attention gluen to tbe selling or rent
ng of Real Estate, In town or country. In all lot*
ere of inquiry, please enclose postage stamp.
July U,lBff7-tf
I GEORGE S. SEARXGHT, Den
■ ;C’-' I I Tiar. From the Baltimore Oollcne of Dental
fntrgery, Olllco at the residence of bis mother,
Bast libuthor Street, three doors below Bedford,
Penna.
■rg.'Dec. 1,1805. (
M T M WEAKLEY, Attorney at Law.
/VfJ « Office on South Hanover street,in the room
.!>, formerly occupied by A. B. Sharpe. Esq.
.f tjl E. BELTZHOOVER, Attorney
[vjn , and Counselor at Law, Carlisle, Penna.
'- Omce on South Hanover street, opposite Bontz’s
:-7 Store. By special arrangement with tho Patent
,;,<)Jlloe t attends to securing Patent Rights.
i. XBOS. , _
f B. MAGLAUGHLIN, Attob
key at Law. Office ia Bvilldlng formerly
.'•& occupied by Volunteer, a few doors South of Han-
Pt son’s Hotel.
. Deo. 1,1805,
TOHN. C. GRAHAM, Attorney at
09 Law. Office formerly occupied by Judge
Graham. South Hanover street. Carlisle. Penna.
Deo. 1,1865—1 y.
MO. HERMAN, Attorney at Law.
# Office In Rheem’s Hall Building, In the
rear of the Court House, next door to the 41 Her
ald" Office, Carlisle- Penna.
Dec. 1,1805.
fTXT F. SADLER, Attorney at Law,
jzT;' *YY • Carlisle, Ponna. Office in Building for
*|?.lhorly occupied by Volunteer, South Hanover
■’’iVrtroet. • _
IBGS. « *
‘.3i& :
KENNEDY Attorney at Law,
; u/iYY • Carlisle, Penna. Office same as that oi
“American Volunteer,” South side of the Pub*
■ftfrllo Square.
Dec. 1. 1865,
%OHN LEE, Attorney at Law,
•Jil North Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa.,
■>£| I<eb. 15,1806—1 y.
A. DUNBAR, Attorney at
-sfl Law, Carlisle, Penna. Office a few doors
fvest of Hannon’s Hotel.
Dec. 1,1805.
,<A\R. J 'R. BXXLER offers his profes
- J atonal services to the citizens of Carlisle and
r'-’STclnlty.
on Main street, opposite the jail, in the
-toom lately occupied by L. Todd, Ksq,
£i Aprllll, 1807-ly
2Brg OooTjs.
§B6T. Hrttlsu: "1861
; 1
ri|
BAM GAINS
- \< : X
. iv-jiV Now opening in
DOMESTIC GOODS,
. | DRESS GOODS,
/ }!,% CABSIMEREB, SATTINETT3 AND J BANS,
WHITE GOODS,
'§! DRESS TRIMMINGS,
rik ZEPHYRS,
n
RIBBONS AND NOTIONS
■''M
; .v?p AT
:#ING’S NEW STORE,
:;i
. VO. 05 WEST MAIN STREET,
-::hs
.'.‘•■ypposite the Mansion House,
Next door to the Post Office, Carlisle.
16,1807.
OOK OUT DRY GOODS MEN!
TO THE PUBLIC,
;V --ai have Just returned from, the East with my
v jfpting Stock, and as usual. 1 am selling Goods a
’ ■ 0 cheaper than any other Dry Goods House
town, ido not think it necessary to occupy a
. r abluran of newrpnpor to endeavor to keep up my
-.AVfßpatatlon for selling Cheap Goods, nor do I
-■'.fiyfeh to resort to any 1 other clap-trap to gall the
; All I ask of them Is to call and examine
; .Jjfor themselves, and it not satisfied with the prl-
V:i|es, not to buy. Remember the stand, No. 82
: -ignorth Hanover street, next door to Dr. Kiefler’s,
Miller & Bowers* Hardware store.
■|l VM. A. MILES.
S. I will say nothing about my third and
Jburth grand openings.
April 18.1867.
i2B
- E W SPRING STYLES.
; J,|| “ OUR OWN MAKE.” -
HOOP SKIRTS. 628.
Embracing ©very Nevr and Desirable size, style
{knd Shape of Plain and Trail HoopSkirts,—2,
11-4,21*. 2 8-4,8 1-4,8 1-2.8 8-4 and 4 Yds., round
Byery length and size Waist; in every respect
Fnurp Quality, and especially adapted to meet
the wants of First Class and most fashionable
trade.
S',,Our own Make,” of fHoop Skirts, are llhter,
ftfuore elastic, more durable, and really obaper
r»ban any other make of either Single or Double
gjoprlng Skirt In the American Market. They are
gwararnted In every respect, and wherever Intro
aancea give universal satisfaction. They are now
gpoing extensively Sold by Retailers, and every
should try them.
f Ask for “Hopkln's Own Moke," and see that
Ifaohßklrtlß Stamped “ W. T.HOPKINIS MANU
FACTURER, 628 Arch Street, Philadelphia.”—
sf* o others are Genuine A Catalogue containing
Size and Retail Prices, sent to any address.
ja uniform and Liberal Discount allowed to Deal-
Orders by mall or otherwise, promptly and
Scarefully filled—Wholesale and Retail, at Manu
|iaotory and Sales-rooms. ■
I No. 028 AKO3 Street. PHILADELPHIA.
I 18 made to order, altered and repaired.
5 . Terms, Net Cash. One Price Only.
I A ' „ WILLIAM T. HOPKINS.
» April 18.1897—10 m.
IQ.R'ea't'
WATCH BALEI
aten t Lovor Movements, full
BnnSwi* Hunt i n S Coses, Sterling Silver. Beautl
mmß« DB i av t. ed aad 1,1 every respect first class
be ?? Id at dollars each, being lesa
iThfSft^«t^ ourttlB 1116 cost of manufacturing!—
Siiifrt«iß^ M . ar ? retailed by Jewelers at from
Rl cost to the manufacturer being
watche# was purchased at a
ortliS, a f*? London, aud are now offered at
iacorre^t r 'r^fi y f low fl sureB, that all may possess
[?!'voiX (3 SfLT^P e '’^ o6 P er at a merely nominal sum.
rdpHn^«? tch warraa ted for 3 years. Parties or
>#TtM »a m Bent by mall, mast enclose 80 cents
in ■
, Address all orders to
MARLIN CONNOR.
Albany, n.Y
.CoNaaLur. Dk, o. M. Wobthikqton.
fcEW.DR'UQ STORE.
■}i| The subscribers have opened a now
DRUG AND CHEMICAL STORE,
No, 7, ‘East Main Street, Carlisle,
(hey have Just received a large and fresh
of tho very beat
DRUGS AND MEDICINES
f 7 the City Markets, to which they
the attention of the public.
’ - Also, a largo variety of
Vp PERFUMERY and fancy articles,
: M ant * V(lr^ous Patent Medicines,
• H Sf o ® B ftn< * Medicines warranted pare.
vm •‘r rreacrlptloae carefully compounded. i
|i April * WQriXHINQTQ*. J
’1 P^J. N and FANCY PRINTING of “
m. vqlto^oIto^ 0 " ”“ w ' examaai
May 10,1807—1 y
fflu iintricaa Boiuntecr
BY BRATTON & KENNEDY.
i&eal Estate.
J^E Ali ESTATE POE SALE!!
W. J. SHEARER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND AGENT FOR THE BALE OF
Cumberland Co. Real Estate,
OFFERS THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE
HEAL ESTATE'FOR SALE
AT REASONABLE PRICES
IN TUB BOnOUaiT OF CARLISLE.
No. 1. BIX of tho finest BUILDING LOTS In the
Borough, on South Hanover Street.
No. 2. The six mast elovatoa BUILDING LOTS
in tho Borough, sltuatedat tho head oi South St.
IN TUB COUNTRY.
No. 3. A TRACT OF THIRTY-SIX ACHES,
SUIV R . 9? Il l I , but ' comfortable BRICK DWELLING
ZiPii.,* I*mine stable, Ac., and a young and
thrWlng Orchard oi CHOICE FRUIT, situate on
the Railroad, in North Middleton twp., West, and
within a mile Of, tho Borough of Carlisle. Tills
property aa a HOMESTEAD and for general or
Truck !• arming, Is tho most desirable tract of its
Carlisle 130 foUncl an y whore in tho vicinity of
Tito certain .extension of the town West
ward, partly consequent upon the improve
ments made and contemplated by the Railroad
Company In that direction, drawing, as they
necessarily will, nearly the Whole trade ofTho
town to that end, will very greatly enhance the
vaiuo of this land to the future owner, for any
purpose whatever, rendering it a safe and profit
able Investment.
Feb. 28,1800.
Jhmilturc, &c.
B. E wTnG,
CABINET MAKER
AND UNDERTAKER,
WEST MAIN STREET,
CARLISLE, PENN’A.
A SFLNFDID ASSOUTMENT OF
NEW FURNITU RE
for the Holidays comprising
Sofas, Camp Stools,
Lounges,* Centre Tables,
Rocking Chairs, Dining Tables,
Easy Chairs, Card Tables,
Reception Chairs, Ottomons,
' Bureaus, What-Nots,
Secretaries, &c., &0.,
Parlor,
Chamber,
D'nlng Room,
FURNITURE,
of ..ho Latest Styles.
COTTAGE FURNITURE JN SETTS,
Splendid New Patterns.
BEDSTEADS AND MATTRESSES,
GILT FRAME'S AND PICTURES,
in gieat variety.
Particular attention given to Funerals. Orders
Aom town and country attended to promptly
and on reasonable terms.
Doc. 43,. 1800—tf •
JAB INET WAREHOUSE
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Tho subscriber respectfully Informs Ill's friends
and the public generally, that ho still continues
the Undertaking business, and Is ready to wait
upon customers cither by day or by uig.it. Ready
made Coffins kept constantly on aand, botu
>laln and ornamental. He has constantly on
land Fisk'a Patent Mctalic Burial Cfcjc, of which
ho has been appointed tho solo agent. Thla case
is recommended as superior to any of the kind
now In use, it being perfectly air tight.
He has also furnished himself with anew Rose
wood Krause and gentle horses, with which ho
will attend funerals in town and country, per
sonally, without extra charge.
Among the greatest discoveries of the ago is
T Veit's /Spring Mattrasa, tho best and cheapest bed
now In use, the exclusive right of. which I have
secured, and will bo kept constantly on hand.
CABINET MAKING,
in all Its various branches, carried on, and Beau
reaus. Secretaries, Work-stands, Parlor Ware,
Upholstered Chairs, Sofas, Pier, Bide and Centro
Tables, Dining and Breakfast Tables, Wash
stands of all kinds, French Bedsteads, high and
low posts: Jenny Lind and Cottage Bedsteads,
Chairs of all kinds, Looking Glosses, and all
other articles usually manufactured in this line
of business, kept constantly on hand.
His workmen aro men of experience, his ma
terial the best, and his work made In the latest
city style, and all under his own supervision, ir
will be warranted and sold low for cash.
Ho invites all to give him a call before purchas
ing elsewhere. For the liberal* patronage hore
tofire extended to him ho feels indebted to his
numerous customers, and assures them that no
efforts will bo spared in future to please them In
style and price. Give us a call.
Remember the place, North Hanover street,
nearly opposite the Deposit Bank, Carlisle.
DAVID BIPE.
Dec. 1.1860.
Jpi^Eß’S
BOOK AND FANCY STORE,
AND GENERAL NEWS DEPOT,
83 WEST MAIN STREET,
' CARLISLE, PA.
A fine assortment o£ Goods on hand, such as
Writing Deaks,
, Port Follow,
Ladies Companions,
Work Boxes,
Satchels,
Ladies’ Faites,
Pocket Rooks,
Scgar Cases,
Card Cases,
Gold Pens,
Pen Knives,
&c., &c.
A LARGE SUPPLY OP
FAMILY BIBZ E 9
and PHOTOGRAPiIiO ALBUMS,
AT REDUCED. PRICES.
DIARIES FOR 1867.
Subscriptions received for all Magazines, Fash
ion Books, Papers, <to., at publishers prices. You
save postage and always sure of receiving your
Magazines by subscribing «l Piper’s.
Special attention is paid to keeping always on
hand a supply of
, SCHOOL BOOKS,
for town and country schools.
Books and Music ordered when desired.
May 23,1867—tf
Jg SALE'S
(LATE POWELL’S) EMBROCATION,
For all Diseases incident to Horses , Cattle, and the
Human Flesh, requiring the use of an external appli
cation.
This now Compound, prepared by a, practical
Chemist bavins a full knowledge of all the medi
cal virtues of each ingredient that enters into Us
composition, is warranted to exceed anything of
the kind ever yet offered to tho public a 3 an ex
ternal application for tho diseases which it Is rec
ommended. We are satlsiled that It will work
its own road into tho confidence of all who use
it, and those who try it once will never bo With
out It, and t'aeretoro wo rely on experience as the
beat test of Its usefulness. It Is pronounced by
Farriers, and all who have tried It to bo tho best
application over used. This Embrocation has
been put up for over eight years, and It is only
through the Increasing demand and urgent re
quest of my friends and the public that I send It
forth as the grand remedial agent for the various
diseases to which that noble and useful animal,
tho horse, Is subject.
Many remedies have been offered to the pub
lic under different forme, some of these are inju
rious, others at best of little use, aud many whol
ly Improper t<9 answer the proposes for which
they are recommended.
A Judicious aud really useful composition, free
from these objections, has therefore long boon de
sired by many gentlemen who have valuable hor
ses, and are unwilling to trust them to the careof
designing and pretended Farriers. Their wishes
are at length fully gratified by Dr. Beale being
Rrevaiiod upon to allow this valuable Embroca
od (which bos nroved so elUcaclous to tho vari
ous be nreparod and brought out to
the publ'c.
This Embrocation was extensively used by the
Government' sy urlng tho war.
Address all Orders to
DB, EDMOND BEALE,
602 South Second Sired, Philadelphia, Pa.
9S“ For sale at the Drug Stores of Cornmau it
Worthington, East Main St.eet, and D. Balaton,
South Hanover Street. Carlisle.
April 11,18(fr —0m
J)HOTOQRAPHS
FOB THE MILLION I
I will nend, post-paid, 50 Photographs of the
most celebrated Actors for (JO cents; 50 Actresses
for 60 cents; 50 Union Generals for 60 cents; 50
Rebel Generals for 60 cents; 60 Statesmen for 50
cents; 50 beautiful young Ladles for 50 cents; 60
line-looking young Gentlemen for 60 cents; 0
large Photographs of French Dancing Girls, in
costume, beautifully colored, exactly os they ap
pear, for 50 cents; or for 50 cents,Oof the most
beautiful Ladles of tho Parisian Ballet Troupe, rs
they appear In tho play of tho Black Crook, at
Nlblo's Garden, New York. .
Bend all orders to P, O, Box 177, Troy, N, Y
May W.IBOT-ly
[jFVomi the PUOtburg GnzcUc.]
THE HMDS PACIFIC RAII.IVATS.
It is now known to the public that the
Union Pacific Railway Company, East
ern division, had resolved to curty the
main line of their road to the Pacific, not
directly across the Rocky Mountains,
through Utah and Nevada, and over the
Alpine heights of the Sierra Nevada
, range, but by a more southwestern route
through the southeastern partof Colorado,
'east of the Rocky Mountains, thence
. through New Mexico and Arizona to the
southeastern border of California, and
thence through the great valley of South
ern California to San Francisco.
Thls'irnportant change of route will be
attended by many and great advantages,
the chief of which, probably, is, that the
tremendous snow drifts of the route direc
tly through the mountains will be avoid
ed. Another is, that the Southern route is
level compared with the other. On the
lino of the Centra! Pacific Railroad, run
ning from Sacramento to Salt Lake, the
• Sierra Nevada Mountain summit is seven
thousand feet above the level of the sea,
which is one thousand feet greater eleva
tion than any other railroad summit in the
world ; and the Rocky Mountains cannot
bo surmounted by any pass between the
Rio Grande and tho beads of the Missouri
at much if any less attitude. On the other
hand, on the Hue through New Mexico,
Arizona, and Southern California there
are no formidable mountain barriers; and
where the elevation is considerable, as in
the pass of tho Sierra del Mirabres, west
of tho Rio Grande, there is no snow. Tho
Sierra Nevada on that route has sunk
‘down almost to a plain, and up through
the magnificent valley of Southern Cali
fornia, celebrated for its oxtrnordina r y
productiveness,* there is no difficulty,
neither is there any difficulty between the
Sierra’del Mimbres range and the Colo
rado river, which space embraces the en
tire b’eadth, from east to west, of the
Territory of Arizona.
The country through which this more
southern route runs isall valuable—very—
much is rich in soil, and still more, es
pecially in Arizona, is rich in minerals of
almost every kind. It is a region of vast
and varied productions, tiutono which nev
er can be properly developed until a’great
line of railway shall connect It with the
States on and east of tho Mississippi, and
with the cities of tho Pacific const; but
when so connected and made easily and
quickly accessible, will give ah Impulse
to,our national prosperity beyond any
thing known in our past experience.
( I have no inclination to depreciate the
bold enterprise of our Galiforhiabrethreii
in pushing a railroad from Sacramento
across tho Sierra Nevada range Into tho
rich mining State of Nevada. Their en
ergy demonstrates that, although in
choice of routes they may find it' neces
sary to traverse the dreary andserpentino
valley of the Humboldt to reach the re
gion of Salt Lake, the great work will
still go on, conferring immense material
benefits, and generously rewarding them
for their outlay. Nor am lat all inclin
ed to underrate the other great work of
making a road frond Omaha, up the val
ley of tbegPlatte, and over the Rocky
Mountain range, to the great valley of the
Utah; for this too will be a road the val
ue of which it would be difficult to esti
mate; for over it Southern Dakota, Ida
ho and Utah, at least, can be reached;—
But as to the value of the country over
which each will pass there is no compar
ison. Alexander K, McClure, Esq., edi
tor of the Cbambersburg J2cpo ’Vo/yy, who
went up the U. P. Railroad of tho Platte
in May last, thus cha-actenzes the valley
of that river:
“ There are but few settlers on tho line
of tho road; and after we enter, what is
called the Platt© Plains, about Fort
Kearney, there seems to belittle that can
ever invito the husbandman. Tho valley
or vast plain is bounded on every side by
vast bluffs, ranging from twenty to thir
ty miles apart, and the bluffs seems to be
terribly sterile and repulsive. The Platte
river rolls lazily along the south of the
railroad, hugging the southern bluffs at
times, and again striking out near the
centre of tho* valley ; but it tires tho eye
Kitchen
and Office
to look at it and its surroundings. It'is
a murky, shallow, treacherous stream,
with shifting sand for its bed, and naked
banks, skirting it most of the way. I
have looked for miles along its banks
without seeing so much as a shrub, much
less a tree; bub at times, where it nears
the bluffs, it puts out along its banks a
stu n ted i miserable growth of cotton wood.
* * The valley is a miserable waste,
and I fear over must be. * * * I have
not found a single stream in it but the
Platte river—the whole plain thus far,
north of the river, not furnishing a sin
gle tributary * * *. There is not a
habitation on the route for nearly two
hundred miles, but such os are necessary
to accomodate the railroad and travel.”
An intelligent gentleman of close accu-
rate powers of observation, who, in the
summer of 1859, travelled leisurely across
the continent to California, furnished the
author with an extended and minutely
graphic description of the country over
which he traveled, to wit: the valley of
th© Platte, the mountains north of Den
ver, the basin of Utah north of Salt Lake,
the valley of the Humboldt, and thence
to the Sierra Nevada—very nearly the
route of the Union Pacific Railway, of
the Platte and that of the Central Pacific
Railroad from Sacramento to Balt Lake.
Upon leaching the eastern base of the
Sierra Nevada range, under the head of
“ General Remarks upon the Region
Traveled,” he said:
“The country passed over from Fort
Laramie to this place is good for nothing,
unless I except Bear-river Valley; and
that it is said to be too cold for agricultu
ral purposes. Certainly .it is good for
nothing else. With the exception of that
about Bear river the laud is generally
poor and rocky. The low bottoms on
the head of the Humboldt are rich • bub
there w© liad ice before the middle of
August;'arid from that down it is too dry,
even if It would otherwise do. Then
there is no timber, except a little on the
main range of the Rooky Mountains, till
we come to Bear river, and none from
that, except a few scrubby cedars, until
we come to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Tho Indians live on it, but how no one
knows. And then nine-tenths of this
extensive region are mountains, I do
not believe that it will ever bo anything
but what it now is.”
It is manifest that a road through such
a region must be mainly dependent upon
its through-business for its revenue. Yet
the enterprise is a good one; for by no
other'could the Black Hill,, country,
Southern Dakota, the Great Salt Lake
Valley, and the head of Lewis river,
which runs through the best part of
Idaho, be reached. But whether it is
destined ever to be a safe and reliable
route to California,remains to be seen.
How its managers are to cope with the
tremendous difficulties, topograpical and
climate, towards which they are driving
with unprecedented speed, and with a
boldness which, in the eyes of ordinary
men, borders on recklessness, a ques
tion not yet solved.
Since the managers of the Union Pacific
lloilway of Kansas, with a forecast emi
nently wise and prudent, hav'e resolved
to seek the shores of the, Pacific, by a
more southern line, strictly speaking
there is no longer any rivalry or compe
tition between these-two 1 great national
Each will develop the .re
gion through which it passes, be its natu
ral value what it may; and both may
reach the bay of-San Francisco, one ap
proaching it from the northeast, through
Northern California, the other from tnq.
southeast, through Southern California.
The one will render Utah and Nevada
accessible, and probably be ihe means of
rooting out the social abominations exist
ing in the former Territory; the other
will bring the beautiful plains and val
leys, and the innumerable mines of gold,
silver, and copper of the more southern
range of States and Territories within
easy reach of the great body of the Ameri
can people.
BST* The pleasure of doing good is the
only one that never wears out.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, IS6T.
IWI idil
THE CROOKED FOOT-PATH.
1»Y OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Ah! hero it is, tho sliding rail
That marks the old remembered spot—
Tho gap that srtuck our school-boy trail,
Tho crooked path across tho lot.
It left the road by school and church,
A pouched shadow, nothing more,
That parted from the silver birch,
And ended at tho farm-house door.
No lino or compass placed Its plan:
With frcqrent bonds to I‘cftor rlgbr,
In aimless, wayward curves it ran,
Bui always kept tho door In sight.
Tho gabled porch, tho woodbine green,
The broken millstone at the mill,
Though many a road may stretch between
The truant child can see them still.
No’rocks across tho pathway lie,
No fallen t,unk Is o’er It thrown,
, And yet it winds, wo know not wiry,
And turns ns If for tree or stone.
Po ‘lmps some lover rod tho way,
WiLli slicking Uno.i or leaping Heart—
And ho, It of on runs a^tra"
W di sinuous swoop or sudden start.
Or o.ie. pcrchaacc, with clouded
From some unholy Imnquc.'. reeled*
And sl-ico, oar devious steps maintain
His »rack across the trodden field.
Ni"', deem not tans-—no ear.li born will
Cou’d over trace a fau'tlcss lino;
On • t-ucju stops are human still,
To walk unswerving wcic di\inel
Truants from love, wo d-cam of wrath;
O, mihor loi us trust tho morol
Through all tho wanderings of the path,
We Svlll can see our Father’s door.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
Speech of lion. Ocorgo 11. Pendleton, De
livered nl I,lme, Allen County, Ohio, on
Thursday, August 15,1867.
’ Fellow-Citizens I propose to show
■ you that the Republican party, by rea
i son both of its principles and its practice,
; deserves your reprobation. Ten years
I ago you confided it to the possession of
1 the State government. Six years ago
you conflded to it the control of the Fed
eral government* In both its power has
1 been unlimited. The day of its trial has
come. You are to judge whether its wis
dom and purity have been equal to Its
opportunities. I deny it. I maintain
that in expenditure it has been reckless
and prodigal ; in taxation it has been un
equal, unjust and oppressive; in obedi
-1 once to the Constitution it has been con
stantly and boastingly deficient; in the
maintenance of personal liberty it Ims
been utterly unfaithful; to the preserva
tion of our confederated 1 system it has
, been actively opposed; in the discharge
of every duty it has been inefficient; in
the exasperation and grati fleation of every
passion it has been zealous and unweari
ed ; in the perpetuation of its own power
it has found thesoleruleof right. Taking
possession of the governments, both State
and Federal, in time of profound peace,
when taxes were low, the public debt
light, when harmony existed, both in
the systems of governments and in the
hearts of the people, except so Jar as it
was disturbed by its struggles for power,
it holds them to-day, in the midst of pas
sions tenfold more agitated than during
the war, bowed down under the most op
pressive burdens, laden with an enormous
debt, with ten States blotted out of exist-*
ence, and in their territory every vestige
of civil government destroyed, and every
guard and guarantee of liberty utterly
broken down. The system of govern
ment which they have inaugurated is
enormously expensive; the methods of
administration aro, beyond precedent,
extravagant; the morals of its agents are
utterly corrupt; violence has usurped the
place of law; passion has become the rule
of action ; force Ims displaced authority ;
military governments have been made
common ; arbitary and despotic measures
have been commended to the passions of
the people. Their zealous care and just
appreciation of liberty have been dimin
ished. Corruption revels in high places.
The Republican party is responsible for
these evils. I shall not depart from
my invariable rule i n political discussions.
I take parties and policies and. measures’
|as I find them. I accord to every man
sincerity and patriotism. I will not im
pute bud motives, nor use harsh terms. I
will not enter the arena of personal con
troversy. L prefer to consider the effect
of great policies on public interests, rath
er than to discuss the influence of person
al character on the administration of
office. And if, in delineating the ten
! dency and sequence of measures, I must
scan the motives and advert to the mental
and moral development of those who ori
ginate and apply them, I shall deal with
them in their collective character as par
ties, and avoid the ground allotted to per
sonal susceptibility. If our system of
government had been maintained ; if its
integrity were unimpaired, the subjects
on whiqh I would address you to-day
would be few and simple. They would
relate entirely to our State affairs; they
would touch only the making and the
executing of our local law. The election
is only for State and county officers; it
refers only to State and county affairs. In
its results it touches Federal policies only
in the election of a Senator and the adop
tion of amendmentsTto the Constitution
which may possibly be proposed. To the
State have been confided your dearest in
terests. Look about you. What do you
not hold under the tegis,of its protection ?
Your life, your liberty, the enforcement
of your contracts, the enjoyment of the
fruits of your labor, the title to your prop- ,
erty, the peace of society, the sanctity of
your homes, the protection of your good
name from aspersion, of your family cir
cle frgm pollution, of your parental au
thority from contempt, depend alone
upon your State government. The Fed
eral government was organized to repre
sent the States In the family of nations,
and adjudicate questions of trade between
the States. It has not the constitutional
power to punish a,murder in your streets
or a burglary in your houses, or u riot in
your city. It has not the constitutional
power to protect free speech at this meet
ing, or to render judgment upon and col
lect by execution a promissory note for
one hundred dollars given by one of your
citizens to another. Our system was a
“republic of republics.” Its crowning
glory was that it confided the fewest pos
sible powers to the Federal government,
and reserved the greatest possible number
to the States: that it called around the
States the affections and interests of the
people by leaving with them the legisla
tion affecting their daily lives, and con
fided to the Federal government more re
mote, and therefore leas susceptible tp
their influence, the fewer subjects of In
ternation'af and inter-Shite concerns.
And yet so great have been the usurpa
tions of Federal power, so far has it over
stepped the limits- both of subjects and
powers, that by its systems of taxation,
of banking, of tariffs, of civil rights bills,
of conquered provinces, of military gov
ernments, of martial law, its measures
are really of vital importance, and do in
fact, though wrongfully, dwar.’, into In
significance, even in State elections, ail
questions of ,State policy and State law.
Alas that ia so! If we shall ever be able
to restore again our system, tlio States
and the Union will assume their proper
spheres; the States .will perform their
manifold and simple functions under the
eye of their people; the Federal govern
ment will perform its few and conspicu
ous duties under the direction of consti
tuent republics. The States will give
dignity and power; and splendor to the
Federal government, which, in turn,
will reflect on them the lustre of its bor
rowed .greatness.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The constitutional amendment confers
suffrage on the negro, and takes It away
from tho white man* Wo hear many
theories on this j,lon of voting—uni
versal suffrage! manhood suffrage I
Gentlemen,.l will not stop to analyze
them all nor trace in each tho premises
to its logical conclusion. But this I will
affirm—that never in history—never in
any government—never by any party in
any government—even Including prolific
Isew England, has tho right of suffrage
been in practice, held to be a natural
right. • Women are excluded—minors are
excluded—aliens are excluded. Pure
minded, well-informed, patriotic.persons
—not stained with crime—not tainted
with mental or moral defect—for some
reason or,other —have always been ex
cluded; and that exclusion has proven
that tho right la neither natural or uni
versal.. The necessity of the State—the
good of the community—political wisdom
have always controlled the enjoyment of
this right—aud have established, ns far
as uniform practice can establish it, that
the governing powers of every civifsocie
ty may, subject to moral Jaws and tho re
volutionary right of every minority, de
cide in whom the political power shall
reside. In England the rule of wealth
has been tho rule of exclusion—perhaps
I ought to say the rule of admission. In
I* ranee, even since the Constituent As
sembly decreed universal suffrage, nati
vity and residence have been the tests. In
New York, and perhaps some other States,
while white male citizens have been all
admitted to suffrage, negroes wee re
quired to have a property qualification.
In the Western States negroes were not
admitted to suffrage on any terms. In
Massachusetts, the test is not color or
wealth, but their capacity to read the
Constitution. In the South to-day, as
administered by military power, in
spired by the ideas of the Republican
.party, neither universal suffrage nor
; manhood suffrage prevails. The distinc
tion of color alone is destroyed, but the
rule of sex, birth, residence, age, sanity,
and above all, “ loyalty,” :s maintained.
Womler.ul! Is it not, that .amid all tho
rules heretofore adopted, noingenfous in
dividual , no self-r.'ghteous community
has invented or adopted the rule of intel
ligence, or virtue, or fitness?- The right
of suffrage then is not natural. It is
given or withheld according to the dis
cretion of tho governing power. Shall
.it in Ohio bo given to the negroes ? I an
swer no! I disdain to respond to the
mere vulgar abuse that this is prejudice,
or caste, or association. I disdain to an
swer that bvutal levity which asserts this
opinion to belong to those who would de
light in Inflicting corporal punishment
or,separating families. I know and re
snect many colored men ami women.
They are honest, industrious, virtuous. I
would not only do them no harm, 1
would do them good. I would open
eve-'y ayenue of Mental and moral and
physical advancement.' The means of
acquiring wealth and education should
be within then* reach. But I would not
give them political power. They belong
to a different race. They have different
blood and bones and organization. They
have different tastes and habitsaud capaci
ties. It is not merely a difference of cli
mate or sun, or birth, or education, o-*
color. It is an Inherent and radical diff
erence of race, of blood, of nature, of.in
tellect, of capacity, which no training’
can efface, no associations, or habits, or
discipline can extinguish. God made
them different, man cannot make them
the same or equal. And all the teaching
of histoiy, and all the observat'on of our
experience is that the commingling of
the blood of the white and black race in
jures both. Go into the Southern States,
whore circumstances have been favora
ble to this amalgamation; go into our
cities, where affection has sought to es
tablish the happiness of the hybrul off
spring, and you will see that every ani
mal passion is more developed,
moral quality more depressed, every phy
sical iuliraaity inoro exaggerated time in
either of the pure races. The elements of
contrariety are so strong that combina
tion developes the worstqualitiesof both.
There is philosophic wisdom in the gov
ernments of Liberia and Hayti, which
exclude white men from political power.
It is the philosophy of the separation of
the races, not the separation of distance,
but of communion. It affords to the ne-
gro the only chance of independence—it
enables him to prove whether he is capa
ble to the cares of government. It is the
same philosophy which is expressed in
the doctrine so often repeated by Douglas,
“ that this is a white man’s government;
established by white men, to be adminis
tered by white men, for them and their
posterity.” Neither Pennsylvania, nor
Indiana, nor Illinois, nor Wisconsin,
nor Michigan, admit negroes to suffrage.
Shall we, by grantiuge::traordinary privi
leges invito an immigration of this char
acter? Do the laboring tnouof the State,
want either the contact or the competi-
tion? Will the resources of the State bo
built up by the accession ? The tyranny
of the ifecleral government may enforce
negro suffrage in the Southern States. It
may, by the unlawful exercise of mere
brute force, reduce those States to negro
communities. Shall wo open our doors
to receive their superabundant negro
population, and thus reduce ourselves to
their condition ? The Republicans tell us
that slavery has imbruted the negro—
that it has degraded his nature—that it
had inflamed his passions, deadened his
sensibilities, and deprived him of the ad
vantage of culture. ‘Would you then in
vite him, thus degraded by his old posi
tion, and thus inflamed by a newly ac
quired position, to come in and partici
pate in the control o t our government?
What interest of the negro in (jhio re-
quires, this change? Has the white race
oppressed him? His life, his J*be»ty, ills
property, are subjected to and protected
by tho bame laws as youra. He is taxed
In the same manner. His rights are pro
tected by the same courts, the same
judges, the same jurors, the same wit
nesses, the same rules of evidence. X
never knew, I never heard of a case, in
which injustice was done to a suitor be
cause ho was a negro. But this amend
ment not only admits the negro, but
it excludes the white man. It excludes
not only those who have participated in
the rebellion, but those who have dcsoit
ed or avoided the draft. By Us ternjs it
would have excludded all those who,
having served till the war was over, left
their ranks witboutpermissionj and were
technically deserters." Here was a dilem
ma: Many honest meh, especially many
honest Republicans, would have been
thus excluded. There was. no time to
amend the proposition. So the aid of
Congress was invoked, and it passed a
bill which called the “Ohio Desert
ers’ Bill.” It provided that men who
have left the service as X have described
shall bo considered desei tew, so far as to
:deprivo them of pay and emolument; but
not so far as to deprive them of suffrage.
Thqt is to say, in the opinion of Cong* ess,
they performed their duty as soldiers too
badly to entitle them to pay, but we'l
enough to be good Republican voters.
But passing this view, is the proposition
wise and bcneficleut? Shall we exclude
any of our while .citizens for a political
offence? Shall we put such exclusion in
our Constitution, when wo do not put
there exclusion for any other crime?
Shall we say that the boy who was just
coming of age, who was too honest to He
and too consoicdJous to bribe, and too
poor to buy a substitute, shall be forever
excluded because ho avoided the draft lu
order that he might support his mother
or sister, or.'percnance, orphans younger
than himself? Shall we say to the men
of Virginia—that Virginia which gave
these live Northwestern Suites to the
Union—that those who obeyed the teach-
ing of u political philosophy which was
universal among them, or yielded to
State pride or sectional feeling, or foolish
prejudice, shall bo forever excluded from
the suffrage, but that the thief, the mur
derer, the robber r the forger, the perjurer,
the burner, may come and bo welcome to
enjoy it? The tendency of the world Is to
treatdculently political offences. Shall
we here reverse the order, and add the
vindictiveness of vengeance to severity of
punishment? Shull we repel the intelli
gence and wealth and energy of the white
man, and invito the Ignorance and inca
pacity of the negro? The Old World
shames us by its example. The Emperor
of Austria has pacified Hungary—he has
put on the crown of. St. Stephen. On
that day ho granted amnesty for all poli
tical offences. And the last steamer an
nounces that Kossuth—the arch-traitor,
the great rebel, the conspirator against
tho life of the govern meat—is elected to
a scat in the very first parliament. An
astute observer and a great historian has
said; “The wise ruler never treats the
discontents of a great party ns he treats
the conduct of n mob which destroys
mills and power-looms. The neglect of
this distinction has been fatal to govern
ment strong even in tho power of tho
sword. n ' I near it said that some Repub
licans will vote against the amendment,
and yet vote for the Republican ticket.
This is folly or hypocrisy. This course
will defeat tho amendment of our State
Constitution, but if an amendment were
proposed to tho Federal Constitution, a
Republican Legislature would adopt it;
Ui)d if Mr. Sumner’s bill should pass, im
posing negro suffrage on all the States by
act of Congress, a Republican State gov
ernment, would hasten to enforce it here.
FEDERAL FINANCES.
r rUo vovcnucs of the feovcininciil, Uc
rived from taxation hi 18G0, amounted to
nearly five hundred and ninety millions
of dollars. This was a yen, of peace; the
army had been reduced; the navy had
been diminished; the vast military move
ments had ceased.. Yet, the expenditure
was one hundred millions more than that
of England, and ono hundred and eighty
millions more than that of France. The
greatest expenditure of England during
the Napoleonic wars, when oven Russia
was stimulated by her. subsidies—when
largo armies were kept in Spain and on
the continent, never reached one hundred
millions of pounds—less than five hun
dred millions of dollars. England has
thirty-six thousand millions of property
as a taxable basis. Fiance has forty thou
sand millions. Tho United States has
sixteen thousand millions. With less
than two-fifths of the taxable property,
our people pay largely more tuxes. Two
years have elapsed since the war ceuoed.
Two regular sessions—two extra sessions
of Congress—have been hold. Hus any
scheme of economy, has any reduction of
1 taxes been proposed? On the contrary,
has not the only scheme of finance looked
to the increase of the interest-bearing
debt, and to the increase of expenditure
by the increase of interest? The public
■ debt, bearing interest amounts to tweiuy- 1
two hundred millions: tho interest reach
es one hundred ana forty, millions.—
When the Hepublican patty came into
i power the debt was only eighty millions.
In five years it has grown so much, and
, this notwithstanding the vastanhual rev
enues, Though the principal is consider
ably less, the annual interest is consider
ably more than that of Great B itain;
ami the highest reach of Bepubiican
statesmanship lias been to propose the
conversion of greenbacks, which pay no
interest, into bonds, which pay interest
in gold, and thus to increase the number
of those who do not pay taxes, and to in
crease the burdens of those who do. The
amount of unfunded debt has been esti
mated at $800,000,000. If it shall be con
verted into bonds, theintercstwliltunount
lo forty-eight millions hi gold, and this
sum will be added to the expenditures.—
In the meantime, the number of«nathiu
al banks will bo increased, and the place
of th»greenbacks supplied by bank cur
rency. Our government pays a higher
rate of interest than any in Europe. Ev
ery dollar of its indebtedness is to be made
to pay that fate, and no provision what
ever is made for its redemption. This
process should cease instantly. These for
ty-eight mil hors annually should be
saved. The five-twenties should be paid
in greenbacks as they mature, or as fast
as can he done without too areatderange
mentof the currency.. Nearly four hun
dred millions of them ai:e deposited by
the banks as security for their circula
tion. These can be redeemed without
adding one dollar to the currency. The
interest on these bonds amounts to twen
ty-four millions of dollars annually. Add
this sum to the forty-eight millions above
•Token of, and we have seventy-two mil
lions in gold. Create ibis into a sinking
fund and you can pay the whole debt in
sixteen years, without adding a dollar to
your taxes or increasing year c ; rculallng
medium. -But the condemn of the coun
try could boar an increase In the cunen
cy. The ravages of war at the South
the destruction of capital there, tbelossof
houses, horses, cattle, agricultural imple
ments, the scarcity of provisions, the en
franchisement of the the impor
tance of setting the whole population at
labor at once—create a demand fo>* more
currency. Every interest there would be
advanced by the stimulating effects of a.i
enlarged currency. As fast as this in
crease could be wisely made, w he bond*
should be redeemed—the interest should
be reduced, and the amount thus saved
be added to the sinking fund. This is
repudiation. I hear somebody say. Not
at all. The five-twenty bonds arc all pay
able at the option of the government after
five years. Their very name shows it.—
They are payable by the law under which
they were issued, and according to their
face, in greenbacks. They are not paya
ble in gold. The interest is, according to
the p r ovision of law, and the language of
the coupon, to bo paid in gold. Not so
with the principal. The ten-foivy bonds
authorized by the act of Maich*3, 18(53,
are by the terms of the 'aw made payable
in gold. Tills is the only class of bonds
of that character; and as I **ead the late
ofilcial statement of Sec -etay McCulloch,
very few, if any of them, have been Is
sued. The government may then, accor
ding to the terms of the *aw, and of its
contracts, pay the live-twenties in green
backs at any time- after live years from
their issue, and there is no reputation in
dpingso. Of this class, there were out
standing oa the first of Aug., eleven hun
dred millions, and they n»utjre#probahly
in nearly equal proportion In each of the
next five years. This will not supersede
the necessity for high tuxes, for close
economy, for continuous industry. They
are inevitable. • With them and whatever
other plana wisdom may suggest, the bur
den will press heavily on you and vour
cbTilam. I have shown that the redemp
tion of the bonds will be so gradu-d, the
insreaso of the currency so slow, that val-*
lies' will adjust themselves, and business
interests become regulated without that
shook which usually attends great chan
ges of financial policy. But it it were not
so, still (lie bonus should be converted in
to greenbacks. They we s e sold for green
backs, it is fitting they should be redeem
ed .in the same'currency. This policy
would save the interest, pay tnedebt, and
bring upon the duplicate for taxation that
immense bniuuutof capital which is now
exempt. Ami these advantages- would
amply compensate for vhe evils wh l ch are
predicted. The deblamouuts toone-fifth
te property, real uml personal, of the
do country. One-fifth nfall the ca,»i
-:al of the eoun./y is e:;empt from taxa
ion. Interest eats up the substance of
ho people. Exemption from taxation
tggravm.es“be evil. This state of things
cuunot last. Iloppresses labor—itexcltes
deep disconteut. It ought to be relieved
by a fair and voluntary adjustment. It
will bo relieved, atallevents. The bond
holder should bo prompt and wise. The
people already believe this curse is the
blight of death; a.id we know by experi
ence, what they will do to “ save the life
of the nation.”
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UISfONSTUVCTInX.
Hut Ifavlm: lhe*e <juestiona of material
ami pecuniary interests—what of the
Union which hud been intrusted to their
care?. I hud intended to analyze tiie re
construction bills, and to show you not
only that they violate the Constitution
ami the principles of civil Jibeity, but
that.theyare founded upon an utter dis
regurd'of both. But the telegraph to-day
saves me the trouble. It announces to us
that in one State the military command
er has postponed the meeting of the Leg
islature until he shall give it permission;
that In another State, trials by Jury have
VOL. 54.—N0. 11.
been suspended because the jury lists
have not been revised in violation of the
law of the State, but according to his or
der; that in another State a Governor,
who was elected by a vote of fifty thou
sand has been removed, and his compe
titor who received fifteen thoesand
has been appointed In, his place;
and that in anotho State, a respectful de
clination to serve ir a city council is con
sidered rebellious contumacy, and is to
be, punished by the appointment of ne
groes to that body ; and that.in still an
! other State, civil officers shall not give
the patronage of their printing to any
newspaper which does not favor the Con
gressional measure of reconstruction.—
And General Hayes voted for the law
which authorizes these things to be done
—approves and defends them all—and
when asked for the authority he'boolly
tells us they seem to be in accordance
with “ the will of the nation.” “ Will of
the nation 1” Where shall you look for
tho expression of tho will of the nation j
except it is fundamental laws, except in
its written constitution ? Will of the na
tion ! They are in direct violation of the
will of every honest white man and of
every intelligent negro at tho South; of
every Democrat and of every supporter
of the Administration at the North, and
or inousanas 01 Kepunucuns vno wve
liberty and fear the enroachments of des
potism. *lt is the will of the Kepublinon
leaders, that tills General Hayes mis
takes for the will of the nation. He is
not tho only man in history who has
made a similar mistake. On tho 27th of
July 1794, Robespierre was the .head of
the French government. He controlled
the committees and the Tribunal; he
ruled the Assembly. On that day, m
Paris alone, he sent forty persons to the
guillotine, as he had done on each day
for more than a month, and, bathed iu
blood, he exclaimed, “It is the will of
the nation.” On the next day Taliieh
attacked him in the Chamber: “traitor,”
resounded through the hall, and
on tho third day ho was beheaded amid
the execration or tho nation whose will he
pretended to execute. Is this tho restora
tion of the Union? Is this tho maintain
ing of the Constitution ? General Hayes
says that in a speech in Congress, in 1801,
I declared that “armies, naviesand blood,
can not maintain the Union.” Have
they maintained it? God forbid that the
Union under the Constitution should be
degraded by comparison with the condi
tion of things this day. I said, further,
“ Reason, justice, peace, may restore the
Union.” X repeat it. It Is true. The
event has shown that also. General
Hayes, in his Lebanon speech, says,
“ They want to return to*the old order of
things.” One hour of just administra
tion of tho Constitution would restore the
Union. Why can we riot have it?—
Why this entire dislocation of State gov
ernments? Why this entire suspension
of civil government at the South ? Why
this disregard or abrogation of tho Fed
eral Constitution in all its relations to the
South ? For what purpose ? I put this
question in all candor to every honest
Republican. Tho solo object is-to secure
to tlie n&groes the right to vote, and
thereby give them the absolute control of
those States. And the inducement for
this is the belief that the negroes will
vote with the Republican party. If it
were certain that the negroes would vote
•with tho Democratic party, these gentle
men would not bo in favor of negro suf
frage. Igo further. If they could beas
suredof controlling those States by means
of the white vote alone, they would pro
hibit negro suffrage. New England be
lieves that, with those States she can af
ford to lose—as she sees she soon will lose
—some of the Northern States. Despair
ing of using tho white man, she turns to
the black man. She sees iu him the
means of power. She sees reflected in
his.face tho perpetuation of tariffs, one
hundred percent, dividends,exemption of
bonds from taxation, the enjoyment of
1 profit and power iu office, the harvest of
1 capital, the heyday of New England
Puritanism. Agriculture may weary of
its burdens; labor may become restive,
North-western men may become disgus
ted with fanaticism, and believe that
Sunday laws and prohibitory temper
ance Jaws are unwise and tyrannical;
but New England soothes them for the
moment by an appeal to their philanthro
phy, and prepares for these events by se
curing a vote to the negroes, and the ne
groes to herself. Gentlemen! Republi
cans! Are you willing, iu order to fur
ther this partlsian scheme, to jeopard not j
only our government, but all free govern
ment? Are you willing to continue this
disgraceful spectacle—which I know in
your souls you are ashamed of—of sub
jecting ten States to mere military des
potism for the purpose of securing more
strength to your party. Ido not-claim
race disinterestedness than other men,
but I would gladly consent that the
Democratic party should be excluded
from ptnyor during my lifetime. If that
would induce you to restore the Union,
to reinstate the Constitution, and reinvig
orate throughout the whole system the
principles of free government.
TUB REPUBLICAN PARTY.
When X ventured lately to condemn the
whole policy of the Kepublican party, an
influential party newspaper exclaimed—
“ but what remedy does Mr. Pendleton
propose? He exhorts us to return to and
stand by the Constitution—we do not ex
actly understand what he means by that.”
Gentlemen, that Is true: that is the whole
difficulty. Theßepublican panydoesnot
now, and never did know what it is to
“siand by the Constitution,” They have
never made It the rule of their conduct—
the guide of their action. They have uev
erappreciated Uswisdom; they have nev
er-cultivated respect for its binding obli
gations, and so they have never studied
its spirit or its letter. Whatever they de
sire to do—whether from a sincere belief
that, the good of the country demanded it,
or that their party interests reqiro Mt—that
they have always done. Their owirwjll—
not the Constitution—has been theirrulo;
and to this standard, and none other, they
have always been perfectly true. In 1820
they opposed the establishment of the
Missouri Compromise Hue; in 1854 they
opposed its abrogation; in 1860 they op
posed its re-enactment. In 1840 they re
fused the use of State jails and State mag
istrates to execute the Fugitive Slave law,
on ,the ground that the setura of the fugi
tives was the duly.of the Fethral govern
ment. In 1850 they refused to votea more
stringent Federal law, on the ground that
the retunof the fugitives was the duty
of the State governments. In 1850 they
passed personal liberty bills, on theground
that the State should not assist the Fed--
erql government; and in 1801 they re
pealed all laws on the subject, 'on the
grquud that neither State nor Federal
government should execute the constitu
tion. In >lB5B they had possession of the
State governments; they magnified Stale
rights, adopted the resolutions of ’9B and
’O9 at their conventions, exalted the idea
of confederation us against unity, and pre
pared to array the States in armed con
illotwith Federal authority. lu 1802 they
had possession of the federal government;
they denounced State rights, called the
Kentucy resolutions treason,and have, as
fur,as in tlie'r power, by. mere brute force
as well as by legislation, reduced and de
graded the State governments. In 1850
they declared that “no war could be right,
and no peacecould be wrong,” that if the
South desired to change tlieir political re
lations and form of government; their
right could not be denied. In 1802 they
declared that the trinity of our salvation
was “ taxation, emancipation, and war.”
In 1854 they declared that the interest of
the country required the restriction of
suffrage, and that the Germans and Irish
and English and French ought to be dis
franchised. In 1867 they declare that the
interest of the country requires its exten
sion, and that it must bo given to the ne
groes. In 1859 Mr. Chase, then Governor
of Ohio, asserted: 4 4 We have rights which
the federal government must not invade
rights superior to its power, on which our
soverignty depends; and we mean to as
sert these rights against all tyranlcai as
sumptions of authoHty.” In 1867, Gen
eral Hayes, who aspires to be Governor
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Of Ohio, asserts that the States have no
sover gnty whatever. In 1804 they as
serted that the President had the power,
oy proclamation, to emancipate four rail
lona of slaves. In ISO 7 they deny that
he has power to remove a member of his
Cabinet. In 18011, party' purposes requir
ed them to consider the Union unbroken.
Id .Louisiana the federal government had
possession of New Orleans alone. They
admitted Hahn and Flanders to their
seats as representatives from that State.
In 1865 it had possession of every foot of
the State; these same men present them
selves os tienators, and they are rejected
because the'Btato of Louisiana has ceased
to exist. In 1862 they desired to create
West Virginia; they must have the con
sen tof the old state; they elect Governor
1 lerpontand a Legislature, and take their
Jaw as the solemn act of the State of Vir
ginia assenting toitsowndisemborment.
In 1866 they set up a military govern
mentjover Pierpout and his Legislature,
on the ground that prior to his election
secession had destroyed the State. In
1861 and 1862 and 1883 and 1864 and 1865
and 1886, during the war and after the
war, they admitted Representatives from
Kentucky, and now they reject them un
til acommlttegcan inquire whether Kcu-
In Ohio for the trial of citizens, and by
their Judgment sent them to death orex
ilo. In 1867 the Supreme Court, by a
unanimous decisou, declares these tribun
als illegal and their sentences void. In
1863 they vexed us with many oaths, and
In 1867 the Supreme Court refused to ad
minister them. For this they have
threatened to impeach the judges, and
have actually reduced theirnumbers. In
1861 they appealed to the patriotism of the
people, and raised immense armies to
maintain the Constitution and the Union.
In 1865 they preferred to continue the war
rather than make peace on the basis of
maintaiuing the Constitution and Union.
And to-day, calling themselves, with os
tentatious hypocrisy, the Union pa’rty,
they would prefer to recognize t|ie inde
pendence of the confederate States rather
than restore the Union on the bosisof the
Constitution. They have held and aban
doned every theory of government, and
every political opinion.
“ In the short space of one revolving moon.
Was statesman, poet, tiddler and buffoon."
They have been true to their passions ;
true to their desires; true to .their parti
san interests ; but never true to tiie Con
stitution. They do not understand what
itis to "stand by the Constitution.’' They
proclaim loudly that the Constitution does
not exist either in theory or practice in
ten States of the Union : and their* most
trusted and able leader, (n the fullness of
ids contempt for that instrument, niiMr
the few Republicans who are wllliugSo
obey it, declares in his own choice lan
guage that some fragments of the old arid
broken Constitution stick in their giz
zards, and trouble them of nights.- Gen
tlemen, this la the charge we have always
made. They do not understand what it
is to stand by the Constitution. And it
is for tills very reason as we assert, that
they, have clothed our land in the morn-
luff of Civil war, destroyed our form of
government, broken down the guarantee
of liberty, and loaded us with this enor
mous burden of debt and taxation. And
yet, I repeat the advice, "stand by the
Constitution. 1 * Thatisthesafeandspeedy
and certain remedy. We may not imme
diately be able to restore its authority,
but let us, at least never abandon or de
grade it. Its principles of govern men tare
the ark of our safety amid this flood. It
contains the hope of the world. In it is
preserved all that is valuable in the ex
perience of the past—all that is suscepti
ble of improvement In the future. It may
be tossed on wrathful -waves, amid the
blackness of darkness, but the sun will
shine at last. The dove will go forth
never to return —emblem of purity and
liberty and peaco, alio will seek to rebuild
bor habitations among the scenes of her
former life. Ido not despair. I will not
surrender hope. "Sorrowendureth fora
time, but Joy cometh with the morning.*’
I have hope in the aspirations of man ; I
ha v e faith in the providence of God. Pro
gress is the law of humanity— .
" And from the sky serene and far,
A voice falls, like a falling star,
Excelsior!”
It occurs to mo this is a historic day.—
It is the birthday of the great Napoleon.
Aptly for the encouragement of those of
you who despond, I remember an inci
dent of his life. In 1793, after he had won
distinction at Toulon, after ho bad declin
ed the war in Vendee, unemployed, pen
niless, alone, ho walked the streets of Par
is. He begged from Talma, the actor, a
few francs to supply his dully wauts. He
said: 44 lu Europe all things are settled;
the conditions of governments and socie
ty are fixed. I can get nothing here to
do. I shall go to the East—to the cradle
of our race, to, the birthplace of great
men, to the scene of. great destinies.”—
He did not go. In less than one year he
was master of the Directory, theconquer
or of Italy, rich in money, richer in fame,
surrounded by friends, powerful and had
entered upon that mortal career which
for twenty years immmade dynasties, and
governments, and society, the playthings
of his will.
“If Dis Tail Come Out. ’’—The follow
ing is an old joke, but as it comes in a
new dress, wc think it will bear preserv
ing:
■ywo* darkies in the West went out to
hunt possums, &c., and by accident found
a large cave, with quite a small entrance.
Peeping In, they discovered three young
bear whelps in the interior.
44 Look ueah, Sam,” said one 44 while 1
go in dar and gets the young bars ; you
Jest watch bean for de old bar.”
Sam got asleep lu the sun, when open
ing his eye', he saw the old bear scouring
hep way into the cave. Quick as wink
he caught her by the tail, and held on
like blazes.
44 Hello, dar, Sam, what dark de hole
dar?”
44 Lord .bless you, Jumbo, save yourself,
honey; If dis tail come out, you’ll find
out what dark do hole 1”
A good story is told of Professor
Adams, of Amherst. He was very dry
and witty, it is said, add the following is
too good to pass by :
A’student was called upon to describe
the peculiar characteristics of the shark.
Ho was a fluent speaker, and answered at
some length.
M Incorrect,” said the Professor.
Unwilling to acknowledge his ignor
ance, the student tried agaiu.
44 incorrect,”
41 Well, to toll the truth, Professor, I—l
don’t know anything about it.
44 Correct.”
A gentleman, after having paid his
addresses to a lady forsomo time,
the question,’ and the lady In a frighten
ed manner exclaimed;
4 You scare mo, sir I’
The gentlemen did not wish to frighten
the lady, and consequently remained
quiet for some time, when she exclaim
ed :
4 Scare me again.’
We did not lea.-n*how affairs turned
out, but should think that it was pretty
near his turn to be scared.
At a recent railroad celebration the fol
lowing sentiment was given:— 44 Oar
mothers the only faithful tenders who
never misplaced a switch.
A conscript, being told that it was
sweet to die for his country, excused
himself on the ground that ho never did
like sweet things.
A husband, on being told the other
evening that his wife had lost her temper,
and he was glad of it, for It was a very
bad qne.v
A little boy having asked his mother
what a 4 blood relation’ meant, being
told It meant near relationsvsaid, after a
moment’s thought. 4 Theu'mother, you
must be the bloodiest relation I’ve got, 1