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f JOHN COBS HAS,
ATTORNEY At L A W
Ofllco In building attached to Franklin House,
. '% opposite the Court House, Carlisle, I’a.
June 4, ItJUS.—ly
professional (Karos.
CHAB. E. MAGLAUGHLIN, Attor
ney at Law. Ollicu In Building formerly
occupied by Volunteer, a few doors* Mouth of Han
non’a Hotel.
Dec. 1. lhG5.
H XT' E.-BBLTZHOOVEII, Attorney
•>- Jj • AND COUN3KLOH at Law, Carlisle, Henna.
" uuico on Mouth Hanover street, oppiiHite Bentz’H
'/•' Store, By special arrangement with the Patent
•/J OlUco, attends to securing Patent Rights.
X Doc. 1,1805.
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No. a South Hanover street. Olllco with W. J
Shearer, Esq.
April 8i), 18(18. —ly.
JOHN R. MILLER, Attorney at
Law. OlUce In Hannon's Building, opposite
tuo Court House, Carlisle, I’a.
Nov. 14, 18(17.
JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law
North HuUover Street, Carlisle, Pu.,
l«eh. 10, IHM—ly.
TAMES A. DUN HAH, Attorney at
PJ Law. Carilolu, Peutm. Ollico a few itoora
West of Hannon's Hotel.
Deo. X. ItWo.
Me. HERMAN, Attorney at Law.
# OUlco lu Kheem’B Hull UulUUng, In the
/■ rear of the Court House, next dodr to the "ller
aid" OlHce, Carlisle, Peuua.
Deo. 1, Ibtlo.
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& SADLER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
NO. 16 SOUTH HANOVER ST.
Doe. 19.1887.—1 y
W KENNEDY, Attorney at Daw
, Carlisle, Pennn. OfUce same ns that of
the “American volunteer,” South side of the Pub
lic Square.
Deo. I ISOO
JJNITED STATES CLAIM
AND
k REAL ESTATE AO EE GY!
WM. B. BUTLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OlHuu In 2d Story of tuholTs Building, No. 8 South
Hanover Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county,
J’umia.
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colluded.
Applications by mall, will receive immediate
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Particular attention given to tho selling or rent
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ters of inquiry, please enclose postage stump.
July 11, IK(J7—tf
CARD.— Dr. Paul Schoeppo, lal© from
Oermany.haa opened an ollice at >o. 42 West
Pom fret street, Carlisle. Patients attended to
promptly night or day.
Sept. 8, IMS—lm*
DR. GEORGE S. BEARIGHT, Den
tist. from the Baltimore Collcne oj Denial
ituffitri/. Ollice at the residence of his mother,
East LoutUor Street, three doors below Bedford,
Carlisle, Putina.
Bee. 1,1505.
IRctdcal
HAIL!!
Como yo Dlsconlato, and Take Coinage yo Alllc
tud! Use the Means mid go >«u.r way rugoic-
JngJ Chronic Bivenses Cured J Acute Pain In
stantly Uellovod ! flic liilud Cun a-d iu Bee! —
Tne Beaf to Hour I The Bam u iu Want! And
the sick Healed 1 By p ro f. E. h. DLTRB
LKV,
(the celebrated English Analytical J’hysicion)
author of tho icey to unlock thomysteives vt'J-’rcnta,
are Death*.
LET-NONE DESPAIR!
as Prof. D. has in bis possession those miullublu
remedies oi llio lute soieutlfic discoveries, even
the hand of the Almighty stretched lorth to save
the world of makmd from luuuuiciume sorrows
and premature dissolution, and wbjcu is robbing
death of Its thousand slings, and the grave of its
terrible victories.
CHRONIC OR ACUTE DISEASES
of whatever name or nature, oven those given up
ns boy Oil J the icach oj medical aid, me those
most desired, such easts the Proi. delight lo
•combat, ana witu liio am of .jud lo conquer, us
■thousands who hud despaired of health, Have
-again been restored to health and useluluess.
'i'lie Doctor does not only remove disease, but re
moves Hie cause, producing a p eiuaueul cure.
The UOiNsJuAII-'fIVK, even m advanced stages,
need no more dread a premature grave, as ail
-diseases oi iho
I*uv(/3, Heart , lironchiUs, Throat and Turi/nyilia
and respiratory ulleoUons are cured by Medical
InhuJation and Topical treatment the only mmi
liblo remedies known, Examinations uie made
wim Duryngestupu and Uespiromeicr, the only
reliable mug tester In the world.
LADIES OP AMERICA!
The celeb atud French remedies lor the cure oi
•all diseases peculiar to your sex, is now wiilun
your reach. -a word to the wise issulhclent. 'The
Profs, experience is equaled by lew ; his exam
inations have been from ten to twelve thousand
patients yearly la tue hospitals of X*'runce and
England for over thirty years.
A LIMITED NUMBKIt OF PATJENTH
are now preferred, nor does the Prof, desire to
make it lucrative but by his long and extensive
experience and scieutlUe treatment in the hands
of Uod to bcuelil Iho sick and sutluring.
CONSUL TAT lON FBEIS
N. the Doctor is permanent
ly located, and can bo consulted ut Eo. Ik, Alum
Street, Carlisle, Pa.
July 16W.—U'
DB. CABBAIjL’B VEGETABLE
UORDIAD,THHONDYKNuWN OUR.H 1-OR
•la.cl IiKA VEU, DIAiINTNS. WRAKNiAto AND
INi’DAMATiUN OP i’HiU K.IDNHYS AND URI
NARY oiiANNhli-A—Dr. Uarral, lor the past
several years has made the diseases of the kid
neys ula special study, auU Is now able lu pui be
fore cbe public u perlect cure for Hie same. The
following are evidences of the kidneys being ui
fected—Pirst, a distress in the small ol the buck
when walking, standing, or lying too long, es
pecially wnon first getting up m me morning,or
in case of to mucU exercise, TUis is generally
followed by a distress m tnu sides, silliness and
swelling of the Umbs and stomach; also, a ten
dency to dropsey, shortness of urcatn, uuu rheu
matio pains. Many people are couilued to ibeir
Uomus wUU tills disease, and nave been given up
to die wild the dropsey or rheumatism, but this is
an atleotiou oi the Kidneys, i’noy may know this
by leellug worse when nuviug cold, and lu tuis
ease the unu will have a very Uiyh color. Dia
betes is a weakness or inhumation of the kidneys
and urinary channels,causing irequeul discharg
es ol urm, both day and night, these dischaiges
are at times uucuutrulanle, at other times with
pain and a very disagreeable burning. The
Uravel is a stone, caused by u sediment which
collects at the kidneys when they lull to act free
ly, then passing througn the urinary channels
there becomes an increasing stone. All this is
caused by the kidneys not performing their pro
per functions. The experience ui thousanog i H
that UAUkAiih's UoiuuAh win dissolve thlsstone
so that n will pass without pain and clear out
nil that seduuout irom which it collects fllu i
stimulate the kidneys to their proper action •
thereiore reemove an ihoabovoinentlonedtrou
ble, the uso of this article ironi one to three
months will cure the most severe cases
Prepared by Dr. UARraLI, ollico UJJ Harmony
SU, Philadelphia. Price $l.
k*-«oJd by ah Druggists.
A cure is warranted legally Jn all cases who
cull upon Dr. Uurraii.
Write and ask these parties what Dr. Carroll's
Cordial bus done lor them; JRuv. li. U. Llppeu
cott, A. W. oiaaahoro, N. J. Mrs. Alien Walla,
Mt.* Holly. N, J. John Haudbest, .hki .juiumer
Bt., Philadelphia. ’
DrUers dlrocled to JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY
& CUWULN, oua Arch St., Philadelphia,
Kor sale in Carlisle by
May ‘26, 1W&—ly
HOUSE,
OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE,
CARLISLE , PEER’A,
GEORGE WETZEL, Proprietor.
Fob. 0. 1868.—1 y
QUMBERLAND VALLEY HOUSE
CORNER OP EAST HIGH
AND
BEDFORD STREETS,
CARLISLE. PA
J- D. F LOYD, Proprietor.
March 12,180.—1y,’
HOOFLAND’S GERMAN BITTERS,
Hoofland’s German, Tonic.
Prepared by Dr. C, M. JACK3OH,
The Great Remedies for all Diseases
Hoofland’s German Bitters
Is composed of the pure Juices (or, ns they nro medlrf
rtnlly lormech Kx g-g trade) of Hoots,
n erhjMUKl Barks, Tr3VjOT nmklnj a preprvm-
Uon, conuen tmu-d. mid entirely
frrr/rovi Alcoholic ImAa fn<«*i admixture of anr
Anna. * *
HOOFLAND’S GERMAN TONIC,
Is n combination of nil the Ingredients of the Bitter*,
with the purest quality of Santa Cmt Rum , Oran™,
etc., (miking one of the most pleasant and agreeable
remedies ever ollered to the public.
Those preferring a Mcdlclno free from Alcoholic od
mixture, will use
Hoofland's German Bitters,
In caeca of ncrvotia depression, when eomo alcohollo
•Umolua ie necessary,
Carlisle, Penn’a.
HOOFLAND’S GERMAN TONIC
The Bitters or the Tonic are both equally good, and
contain the same medicinal virtues
The stomach, from a variety of causes, such ns Indi
gestion, Dyspepsia, —. Nervous Debility,
etc.. Is very apt to /jgy have Us function*
deranged. The result Wgl ISB of which la, that th®
patient auiTer* from several or more of
the following diseases:
Constipation. Flatulence, Inward Filet,
Fulness of Blood to the Head, Aoldlty
of the Stomach, Nausea, Heart
burn. Disgust for Food, Fulness
or Weight In the Stomach,
Sour Eructations, Sink
ing or Fluttering at the Pit
of the Stomach, Swimming of
the Hoad, Hurried or Difficult
Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart,
Ohokiryr or Suffocating Sensations when
In a Lying Posture, Dimness of Vlaiocn
Dots or Weba before the Sight
Dull Pain in the Head, Defi
ciency of Perspiration, Yel
lowness of the Skin and
Eyes, vjssfe. Pain la
the Side, (tif Back,Cheat,
Limbs, etc., vBT _JTM Sudden
Flushes of Heat. Burning
In the Flesh, Constant Imaginings of Evil*
and Groat Depression of Spirits.
These remedies will effectually cure Liver Complaint,
Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Chronic or Nervous Debility.
Ohmulr Diarrlnea, Disease of the Kidneys, uni] all
Diseases arising from u Disordered Liver, Stomach, OP
Intestines.
Resulting from any Cause whatever l
PROSTRATION OF THE SYSTEM,
Induced by Severe Labor, Hard
ships, Exposure, Fevers, etc.
There ts no medicine extant equal to these remedies
In such cases. A lone and vigor Is Imparted to tho
whole System, tho (=ss=»a AppelUelsSlrength
ened. food Is enjoyed. stomach digest*
promptly, the blood ls purified, the cora-
Slonon ticcomtf HaSi found and healthy,
ie yellow tinge is eradicated from the eyes, a bloom.
Is given to the cheeks, and the weak ana nervou* la*
valid becomes a strong and healthy being.
Persona Advanced in Ldfe,
feeling the hand of lime welghlnu heavily upon
them, with all iU attendant Ills, will And In the use of
this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an cUxlr that will
instil new life in o tholr veins, restore In a mesnmr®
the energy and ardor of more youthful days, build up
theb whmnkoa forms, and giro health and lmppin«*«
to tholr rotnuluing yean.
It Is a TTell-CRtabUshed fact that fully one-half of the
female portion of our population are sel
dom In tin-enjoyment |Y:|“ of Komi health ; or,
to quo their own ex Jp-J « nreeninn, “ nevtsr feel
well.” They are tan MlrLnjaf devoid of all
energy, extremely nervour, and have no apputilo.
To tlila class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIO, Is especially recommended. _
WEAK AMD DELICATE CHILDREN
Are made strong by the use of cither of these remedies-
They wIU euro every caso of MARASMUS, without
fall.
Thousands of certificates have accumulated In tlm
hands of the proprietor, hut "pare will allow of tho
publication of hut a few Those, It will he observed,
are men of note and of such standing that they must
ho believed.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pa., writes:
Philadelphia, March 10, 1857.
“I find ‘lloojland’s German Billers’ Is
a good ionic, useful JjT^k In diseases of tho
digestive-organs, and of great beni-flt In
eases of debility, and sfi™ want of nervous ac
tion In the system. Tours truly,
GEO. W. ‘WOODWARD.”
Hon. Tames Thompson.
Judge of f?ie Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, April 28,1868.
“I consider * Hoofland’s German Bitten* * a valuable
medicine In cnee of attacks of Indigestion or Dyspepsia.
1 con certify this from my experience of It.
Tours, wftn respect,
From Hot. Joseph H. Kennard, D. D.,
Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
Dr. Jackson—Does Blr: I have been frequently re
quested to connect my name with recommendations
of dlflorent kinds of medicines, bat regarding tho prac
tice as out of my ap n==. propriate sphere, I
have In all cases de IlysT dined; but with a
clear proof In vari II 'AJj ous Instances and
particularly In my wfl own family, of tho
usefulness of Dr. nooHaud's German Bitten*, I depict
for once from my usual course, to express my full
conviction that, for general debility of Vie system, and
especially for Liver Complaint, it it a safe and valuable
preparation. In some cases tt may fall; but usually, 1
doubt not, It will bo very benelldtu to those who suffer
front the above causes.
Your*, very respectfully,
J. H. KENNARD,
Eighth, below Coate* BU
JUsislant Kdiior Christian Chronicle, Philadelphia.
1 have derived dccldnd benefit from the use of Hoof*
land’s German Billers, and feel it tny privilege to re
commend Umjoj as a most valuable tonic, to all whoaro
vadcring from general debility or from diseases arising
from derangement of the liver. Tours truly,
HAIRSTON,
Hoofland’s German Remedies are counterfeited. Bee
that the signature of -- O. M. JACKSON
1* on the wrapper of’each bottle.
All other* are conn terfeit.
Principal Ofilco riPnU and Manufactory
at the Qermau Medicine titoro, No. 631AROH Gtrotly
Philadelphia.
CHARLES M. EVANS,
German Drugirtst, Proprietor,
Formerly O. M. Jicceon A Co.
Por lalo by 3>ruggl*u and Dealer* in Medicine*.
HoolU&d’i Gorman Bitters, per bottle fl 00
u “ half dozen 6 00
Hoo{land's German Tonic, put up In quart bottle*, 1 W
per buttle, or a half dozen for. 7 M
By Do not forget to examine well the artlol* ypQ
bay. In order to get the genuine.
Jivu.lSUb.—ly
BY BRATTON & KENNEDY,
irH-cn ieal.
AND
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
LIVER, STOMACH, OB
DIGESTIVE ORGANa
should he used.
DEBILITY,
NOTICE.
TESTIMONIALS.
Hon. Geo. W. Woodward.
JAMES THOMPSON.”
From Rev. E. D. Fendall,
E. D. FENDALL.
CAUTION.
PBICEB.
IforfkaL
THE HONDHOLDFK’S SONG.
The bondholder sat in ids easy chair.
Counting liis bonds was lie;
And ho turned up Ids nose at Seymour and
Blair,
And called them a terrible traitorous pair,
While ho sang to himself In glee.
“ The people are saddled for us to ride,
And booted and spurred arc we;
Wo rowel well every panting side.
Ami as safe on their brawu'ey back abide
As Slnbad’s Old Man of the Sea.
" Wo gave them paper for what wo hold,--'
At not quite half of the face;
Hut we’ll get full payment in gold, hard gold,
(Though laboring men are bought ami sold,)
If wo only win this race!
“The war Is over—so some folks say,
Hut certainly that won’t do;
-We must keep It up till election day,
(nil then at lust wo can make it pay,)
Hurrah for the Red, While and Blue!
“ Hurrah for that glorious hero, Grant,
The bondholder’s choice is ho;
He’d speak If he could, but luckily he can’t,
Ami the masses yon’t know what a regain
plant
A * glorious hero’ can be.
*• I have misgivings, I must confess,
That wo an’t put the ticket through ;
That the people at la it arc beginning to guess
A national debt Is a blessing to bless
A ‘ ring’ of a chosen few.
“hut why with misgivings, for who can pro
vent
The ‘ loyal* from getting their pay?
It Is only throe hundred and fifty per cent.
On every dollar of paper they lent
Toward keeping tho war under way.
“ Hurrah for tho flag of our country, then,
For, written on every fold,
I see Inscribed by Jay Cook’s pen,
‘ with rebels,’ which means all men
Who won’t pay our bonds In gold!”
oßlkal
THE GREAT ISSUES
Speech onion. Daniel W. Voorhcos
at Terre llatnlc, Iml., August 8.
My Friends and Fellow Citizens
Tho position in which I stand before you
at this time is not of my own seeking,
and brings with it many personal em
barrassments and personal regrets. I nev
er expected to appear again in your pres
ence as a candidate. You have honored
me in the past far beyond my merits,
and my gratitude to the people of this
district will only cease when my heart
grows cold and still in the grave. The
memory of their personal devotion to me,
through sunshine and through storm,
through good and through evil report,
will forever light up the pathway of my
life. Young and inexperienced when I
entered Congress seven years ago, I did
not claim that my services were worthy
tho attachment and support which I re
ceived at your hands. I claim nothing for
my public services except a sincere and
earnest desire to promote the prosperity
of the people ami to sustain and uphold
the Union of the Stales and tho liberties
of the Constitution. Conscious before
Cod of this high and holy purpose, I
was willing to let my humble record
stand, while I voluntarily retired to the
private pursuits of my profession, and
sought to give this portion at least of m.v
life to the pleasures and duties of homo
and friends. The love of office is not
one of the passions of my heart. Striftr
and contest for place and position are not
elements of my nature. I have seen
enough of the World to feel how its hon
ors cheapen and fade away as we come
near them, lint a duty belongs to each
one in the struggle for correct principled
which now agitates and abates this
mighty country. Those to whom I owe
more than a lifetime can repay imve as
signed to me my duty. They bid me
carry their banner in the Congressional
contest. They place in my hands the
colors of Conservatism, and tell me to
defend them and cause them to wave in
the evening of the battle over a Held of
victory. I accept the charge in obedi
ence to their command, and invoke the
candid consideration of an enlightened
people upon tho principles which will
guide mo if I again become your Repre
sentative.
In presenting these principles, I have
marked out for myseli a line of conduct,
from which I shall under no circum
stances depart. I shall present them
with kindness to all. Those who show
me the courtesy to hoar me shall receive
courtesy in return. Invective is not ar
gument, aud convinces no one. Passion
is a bud guide to correct conclusions,
and a Christian people should discard it
from their counsels. If there have been
asperities in the past, they will not bo
revived by me, nor will they be noticed
if revived by others. lam in the midst
of friends and neighbors, and there is
not an office in the world which I would
accept at the expense of their respect. I
concede to all who may differ from mo
the same purity of motive ami the same
love of country which I know animates
my own breast. “ Come and let us rea
son together.” If, then, we cannot agree,
and you decide against me, I will cheer
fully bow my head to the will of the peo
ple.
Tho Principle* Involved lu tho Content.
I need not, my fellow citizens, seek by
strong expressions to enhance and mag
nify the importance of the questions to
be settled by you at tho approaching
election. They are tho gravest, the
mightiest, and tho most commanding
that were ever submitted for decision to
the ballot of freemen. .The great and
original principles of free government
are all at stake. Tho sacred blood of the
Revolution cries to you from the ground
to save the great charter ol liberty for
which it was shed. The whole frame
work of tho Government sways to and'
tro with an uncertain aud easy-hhotiun.
Its various departments no longer move
In harmony, but crash and jar in angry
and dangerous collision. The laborer no
longer enjoys the fruits of bis toil, but is
daily robbed by the unrestrained hand of
plunder and unequal and uuiust taxa
tion; Since Adam weut forth from the
groves of Eden —the founder of tho la
boring man’s party throughout the uni
verse—the chief aud paramount duty of
every government baa been to protect Us
citizens in the enjoyment of their own
hard earning. That government which
fails to do tills, is on the swift, sure road
to ruin and decay. Lot us take a survey
of tho facts on this point, for which the
Radical party is responsible to tho peo
ple.
The best test of the capacity of a party
to bring prosperity to a country is its use
of the public money. The Radical party
has had entire supremacy, in the legisla
tion of tho country for many years past,
and must stand or fall by the record it
has made.
TI»o Vast Proportions or tlic Fnbllc Debt.
The amount of our national debt is
known to bo about two thousand six
hundred millions of dollars. This is a
sum so vast that the public mind scarce
ly grasps it at a mere statement, and yet
it is highly necessary that every citizen
should fully comprehend and measure
Us gigantic proportions. This debt ex
its as a perpetual mortgage on all your
property, ami on all your labor, and on
the property and labor of your posterity.
According to the policy of Congress, it is
lo be handed down from lather to son
for the next hundred years, darkening
every doorway with its inexorable de
mands. Has it lully occurred to you
what proportion this debt bears to your
posesssions, out of which it is to bo paid ?
A careful estimate of all the property of
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1868,
the United States subject to taxation
would show a value at this time of about
$15,000,000,000. Thus you will see that
more than one sixth of every thing own
ed by the American people is covered
and absorbed by their national debt.—
This is a plain fact that a boy at school
can demonstrate. Where in the history
of civilized nations was there ever before
such a debt in proportion Tb the means
of payment? I challenge the annals oh
mankind. .Other nations have tithed
their people—taken a tenth of their pro
ductions—but such instances have here
tofore been cited only as bold illus
trations of audacious despotism. You
are nearly double tithed, and the Radi
cal Congress gives no sign or promise of
relief. At the close of the great Napole
onic war of Europe, in 1815, England
found her bebt to amount to about $3,-
500,000,000. But to meet this liability
her taxable property reached the enor
mussum of $5O, OOOjOOD.OOO, making her
debt bear the proportion of one-four
teenth to her ability to pay. Your bur
den therefore, is more than double that
which lay upon the shoulders of the
Englishman. Yet British statesmen
found it necessary, in order to relievo
t heir people, to reduce the rate of interest
on their bonds to two and a half and
three per cent, thus malting a reduction
of one half of the public burdens. Shall
the American laborer he less an object of
care and kindnesson the part of his Gov
ernment than the subject of the British
monarchy? Shall a crowned head be
more tender and considerate to the de
mands of labor than an American Con
gress? Shall the old tyranny of King
George, against which our lathers drew
the sword, became more tolerable to the
tax payer than our own boasted asylum
of the* oppressed? But looking at the
(|uestion of your national debt, let us not
forget that our liabilities do not stop
there.-It is, perhaps, impossible to as
certain the exact amount of the State,
city, and county debts which are owed
by the people of the United Slates, but.
their amount will at least double the na
tional debt, which is known and ascer-.
tained. I trust the people will look
squarely at these important facts, not
as partisans, not as .Democrats, uot as
Republicans, but us honest men, who
hold in their own hands the remedy for
all evilsand injustice in the legislation of
the country. I speak to you not for par
ty or party triumph, but for the prosperi
ty of the people.
But it will be said that this vast debt
was made by the war, and that the war
was necessary to preserve the Union. —
Even if this were all true, and no part
of your debt was the work of those
thieves and plunderers whom John H,
Hale described in the Senate, in 18G2, as
endangering the Government and liber
ties of the people more than the armed
enemy in the field, yet it would In no
way efiect or defeat the purpose I have
in making this statement. I wish the
people, in the first place, to see clearly
and plainly where they stand —how
much they owe and what they have to
pay with. They will then bo better able
and prepared to appreciate the crimes that
have been committed against them du
ring the last three years by the Congress
of the United States. When the war
closed, and a mountain of debt, as I. have
shown, lay upon the bended shouldersof
honest toil, what policy on the part of
your. law makers was so strenuously called
for as the policy of economy—close, rigid,
searching economy? With one-sixth of
your lands and their harvests, one-sixth
of your fiocka and herds ami every sixth
day of your labor under mortgage for a
public debt, one-half of which was the
result of robberies on the Treasury by
contractors and other birds of prey, it
was not wonderful that from every farm
or workshop, from every hearth stone
where industry presides as a household
good, there went forth an appeal for re
trenchment and reform such as never
before arose from the hearts and minds
of the American people. I ask you,
whatan-wer has been made to this ap
peal ? lias Congress cut oll’useless ex
penditures and lowered your taxes? —
Has the Government returned to the
simplicity and economy of your fathers?
Remember that all the responsibility is
with Congress, for, by a two-thirds vote,
all power is in their hands. I arraign
Congress, therefore. Every dollar you
pay has to be sanctioned by Congress, in
an appropriation bill, before the tax- 1
gatherer comes for it. Congress fixes the
annual amount and sends the collector.
How, then, has the Radical Congress ad
ministered your interests and disposed of
your money ?
lCx(rUT»j;aut I'xju'mlJ tmc*.
A short tiihe since an investigation
ami publication wore made by a Iladical
gentleman of the name of Weils, in
Washington city, with a view of answer
ing the charge of extravagance now
made from every month against Con
gress. According to his own estimates,
since the surrender of Lee up to June 30,
18(58, n little more than three years of
trofound peace,you have paid for thear
ny $917,117,043, and.for a navy “as idle
as a painted ship upon a painted ocean/'
the sum of $133,110,1170, making for war
like purposes and preparations in a pe
riod of perfect pecee, the appalling .sum
$1,050,237,310. This for a period of three
years shown an average annual tax upon
the country of over $300,000,000 for the
army ami navy alone. Is this to he
home? Who will vote to continue such
a frightful curse? Three hundred mil
lion dollars a year for the arraj’aml navy.’
Before the war the expenses of the Gov
ernment, including everything, never
reached over elghty-flvo millions per an
num, and when they arose to near that
amount during the Mormon war of Bu
chanan's administration, the people
were aroused to fury by Radical leaders,
who now calmly behold the army and
navy alone costing nearly four times that
sum. No one need hesitate to denounce
the'atrocious crime against the labor and
the liberties of the country. During the
first year of. the war, while mighty ar
mies were being raised and great battles
fought, while rebellion was in command,
the array cost you only $160,157,794, and
the navy $20,889,170, making In all $190,-
04G,9'0. Thus it appears that war was
not as expensive us peace lias been under
the carnival of madness and misrule
which has reigued“afc Washington.
But extravagance and corruption pre
vades every other department, as well as
the army and navy. The revenue col
lected by this Government —and every
dollar coming from the laborer at the
last—during the year ending tbe 30th of
June last, reached the stupendous sum
of $471,700,000. Where does this mighty
sura go? Does it reach.the coffers of
the Treasury ? We are at peace with the
world. Scarcely a spec of Indian war
appears on our borders. There is no rea
son why our expenses should reach $lOO,-
000,000 u year, exclusive of interest on
the debt and pensions; and yet from tbe
30th of June, 18G7, to the 30th of June,
1808, a Iladical Congress levies and col
lects of the people’s taxes an amount of
money almost equal to the whole amount
expended by Pierce and Buchanan both,
duringeightyearsof administration ! If
the people will submit to this moat ex
traordinary and unblushing profligacy,
and elect men to office to uphold and
justily it, then, indeed, are bankruptcy
and despotism upon the land.
I’alfio l*r»(cftSloua of Kconomj- nml Virtue.
Ono of tho resolutions of the Chicago
Convention is as follows;
“The Government of the United
States should be administered with the
strictest economy, and the corruptions
which have been so shamefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew Johnson call
loudly for radical Reform.”
With this false pretense of virtue and
economy in their mouths, every expen
diture has been steadily increasing, aud
the scheme of reconstruction uphold by
the army is costings4o,ooo,ooo more than
a year ago. How is Andrew Johnson re
sponsible for this? He cannot spend a
dollar that Is not appropriated by Con
gress, and he has steadily opposed all
those measures which are enforced upon
the country by Congress, and which are
crushing you to the earth with taxation.
We have, then, the Radical definition oi
the “strictest economy,” as practiced
in the legislation of the country. Ii
means an annual expenditure of nearly
£500,000,000 of the people's money in
lime oi peace, which never before cosi
you over $85,000,000. If tills is the
•‘strictest economy” of that party, it D
time the economy of some other party
should bo tried.
Coat of the Frccdmcn’* Rurcati.
As additional evidence of the economy
promised by a Radical Congress, we lino
the sum of ($11,740 050) eleven millions
seven hundred and forty-six thousand
and fifty dollars appropriated for the sup
port of the Freedmeu's Bureau. This
miserable institution has also been oxten
ded again by law for another j'ear. with
increasing cost to the people. It was cre
ated in March, 1866,and has, during each
year of its existence, been more expensive
to the taxpayer than the entire adminis
tration of the whole country was forty
years ago. The annual revenues of the
administrationsof Monroe, John Qufnct
Adams, and the first term of Genera!
Jackson, were not equal to the annual
burden which tills system of support for
idle negroes iu the South imposes on you
laboring men of the North. Every vote
on your part given for the Radical party,
and especially for its candidates for Con
gress, goes to indorse, approve, and pro
long this infamous and oppressive legis
latiou. Is there one man iu the Sixth
Congressional District who earns his liv
ing by labor who will vote to uphold a
party winch spends from ten to fifteen
1 millions a years of the public money for
the support of Southern negroes? Is
there one man in this district willing to
work for the support of the idle African,
who is the ablest anti moat robust laborer
in the world. If there is I would like to
see him. I Would like to hear his reasons.
I would like to hear him explain his vote
in the presence of his wife aud children,
who look to him for the necessaries and
comforts of life. I would like to hear
their comments upon a system of laws
which robs and cramps them, in order to
sustain as public beggars the lazy, able
negroes of the South. I will give as a
specimen, one of General Howard's own
estimates, who,.as you are aware, is super
intendent, under the Radical Congress, of
the Freedmon’s Bureau . Ho says:
It is estimated that the amount requir
ed for the expenditures of the bureau for
the fiscal ,\ o ir commencing January, 1860,
will be $11,743 056. This sum is requisite
for the following purposes:
.Salaries of assistant and sub-assistant
commissioners, Si-17 r»no
salaries of clerks, 82 800
Stationery ami printing, 000
Quarters and fuel, 15 000
Clothing for distribution, 1,750 uoo
commissary stores, i,UH> 250
Medical department, soouOn
Tmnshortutlon, l.inoooo
School superintendents, * 21 000
sites for schools and asylums, oo«i
Telegraphing, 18 500
Where is the laborer in any of the nine
counties of this Congressional district
who, looking at these figures, which he
has to help to pay, will vote for a man
who approves the assessment of such
luxation ? I call upon the farmers and
the mechanics, and I call upon their
wives and children to rise against such
outrage and oppression. Shall the white
man and the white women be slaves to
the black man and the black woman ?
Yet what less is the Freedmeu’s Bureau ?
Congress is your master in the Inlerestof
themegro, and makes you work for his
maintenance, whether you are willing to
do so or not. Ami this is the “strictest
economy,” aa laid down in the Chicago
platform, and carried out by a Radical
Congress, and approved by the Radical
candidates for ofilee in Indiana and
throughout the United States.
Tito rnlun oftlio Workingmen.
Where, I ask, are these profligacies and
plunders to end, unless you rise now and
rebuke them? What limit is there to
to this carnival waste and riotous' use of
your money, unless 3*oo call the plunder
ers to an account? Will you extend
their license by your support of their
policy? if so, you become the instru
ments of your oppression, and can only
■reproach yourselves when your own pro
perty is advertised and sold for taxes.—
You are paying double what they once
cost for all the necessaries of life. A high
jroteetive tariff for the benefit of the
Eastern capitalists makes you pay throe
times their former price foi all you buy
at the stores to clothe yourselves ami
families. A few days since I saw a state
ment made by a workingman, which was
bo truthtul and just that I make the fol
lowing extract. He says:
“ For four days' work in 1859 I could
buy a barrel of excellent Hour. For an
equally good barrel now 1 have to work
eight days.
“For one days’work in 1559 1 could
buy five pounds of tea. For the same
days’ woik I can now buy but two
pounds.
“ For one days’ work then I could buy
thirty pounds of sugar. For a days' work
innv’f can get but fifteen pounds,
“ For a days’ work in 1859 I could buy
eight pounds of tobabco. For a days’
work now 1 can buy but three pounds.’
“ For a days’ work in 1859 I could buy
fifteen pounds of coffee. For a days’
work now I can buy but five pounds.
“ For one month's work in 1859 I could
nearly or quite clothe myself and lamily
a year. To do the same now lam oblig
ed to work at least three months.”
And such facta us these might be given
Lo an almost unlimited extent, showing
that the wages of the workingmen have
not increased in proportion to prices and
taxation. Yet where is the- “ strictest
economy” that has been exercised in his
behalf by the party in power? Do you
find it in the collection of nearly five hun
dred millions of dollars a year from the
pockets of the people? Do* you find it in
the establishment of a vast poorhouse for
the able bodied negroes of the South, at
tbe expense of at least fifty millions since
the date of its creation by law ? Do you
find it.in the keeping of a standing army
for the purpose of enforcing negro suf
frage at the point of the bayonet,-at a
greater expense to you than any entire
administration cost before the war? Do
you find it in the support of a navy in
idleness, which is costing you more Mian
during the first year of the war, when we
blockaded the entire Southern coast? Do
you liud it in the purchase of “ rifled
muskets,” with which to enable the mad
dened and deluded negro to turn tbe
South into a bloody and blazing Pande
monium ?
Have (lie Public tturdens been Cqnnltj and
JuMily Imposed Upon Ally
Now, if we have up to this point ob
tained some clear Idea of the amount of
our indebtedness and the objects on
which the public revenues are lavished,
and of the wholesale extravagance of the
legislation and of the legislators of .the
present period, Jet us next ascertain
whether the duty of bearing these great
burdens baa been equally andjustly im
posed upon all. Haa the party in power
created any privileged classes in this
country by law? Is there anyone man
in the United States who has to pay out
of his substance more than any other
one man, in proportion to his means, to
meet the demands of the Government ?
If so, then such enactments should be
torn down, and the party that framed
them condemned at the bal}ot-box.
I’tlTlleged i'lnMe« Proofed by Radical E>cbU«
latlou.
I have already shown that the national
debt is one-sixth of the entire possession
of the whole people. But it will he said
in answer that there is no danger of the
one-sixth of your possessions being dis
turbed or taken as we are simply paying
interest on the debt and waiting fora bet
ter day to pay the principal. Paying
heavy interest is a dangerous experiment
to individuals or nations. You are pay
ing to the bondholder on our enormous
dent an interest of six per cent, in gold.
This is nearly ten per cent. In
greenbacks. Hence you are paying
the high rate of between nine and ten per
cent, interest in such money as you have;
for gold is not for the people, under Radi
cal rule. Then if you can own a farm
worth $lO,OOO, and it would take one-
Hixth of it to pay your part of the national
debt, will it not take even more than one
<ixth of Its proceeds, its income, its inter
est wo will say, to pay your propor'ion of
this interest on the national debt? Von
are paying in gold oversUo,()f)i),ooo inter
est, without making any’ reduction on
the principal. Directly or Indirectly,
every dollar has to be produced hv the
workingman, and it goes, wet with his
sweat, into the colters of privileged
wealth. But it will bo said that, this is a
sacred debt, and not to pay the interest
would be repudiation. lam against re
pudiation in all forms, but in the lan
guage of the Democratic platform, laid
down in plain words at New York on the
4th of July’, I am for “One currency for
iho Government and the people, the la
borer and the office-holder, the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and the
bondholder.” I would pay all creditors
alike. The pensioner Is forced by a Radi
cal Congress to receive the monthly wag
es of his pain, blood, and mutilated llmbs,
in depreciated paper money. I would
pay no bondholder upon earth in any bel
ter currency than I would pay yonder
soldier, leaning on his crutches. ‘There
i a plunk in the Radieal Chicago plat
form which warmly compliments the
f-oldiers and sailors in the late war, and
proceeds to Umr, “ the bounties ami
pensions provided bylaw for those bi-iw
defenders of the nation areobligati ms
never.to ho forgotten. The widows ami
orphans of the gallant dead are the peo
ple’s wards, a sacred legacy, bequeathed
to the nation's protecting care.” Those
are fine sounding words, but how cheap
and deceitful! Those who spoke them
compel these brave defenders of the na
tion to receive their bounties and pen
sions in an inferior kind of money, while
the shoddy contractor, who amassed mil
lions during the war and never saw the
smoke of battle, is paid in gold. If the
one-armed orone-loggcd pensioner is en
titled, by law, to fifteen dollars a month,
they pay him in currency, worth about
ten dollars, and repudiate the balance.—
But the bondholder gets fifteen dollars
whenever the bonds say fifteen dollars.
Thai is tlie ilifierence made between
those classes by Congress. The same
amount of the widow's and orphan’s pen
sion is repudiated by Congress in tin*
same way. It is claimed that the bond
holder invested his precious money at
the call of the Government in its hour of
need. Is it not equally true that the sol
dier invested bis flesh and blood—that
the wife invested bet husband in (In*
morning of life to come back to her no
more forever—Unit the child who is now
making its orphan pilgrimage yivested
its father ? Whoso investments were tln
most sacred in the sight of God and man ?
Yet Congress makes the distinction
against life, widowhood, and orphanage,
and tells Shylock that the bond must be
enforced, oven though it takes the pound
of flesh nearest the heart. Whoa did
ever a Radical Congress ora Radical Na
tional Convention declare in favorof pay
ing “ the pensioner and the soldier, the
producer and the bondholder,” in the
same currency ? On this point you can
not be deceived. Congress created these
bonds, made them a speculation for
wealth, and has had unlimited power
over the question to the present hour. It
has appropriated about forty millions a
year with which to pay pensions to crip
pled soldiers and sailors, and to the wid
ows and orphans of the gallant and hon
ored dead. But there has been no gold
paid them. Greenbacks nt adiscount for
gold of nearly one half has been consid
ered by Radicalism a sufficient payment
of these sacred debts. If the poor pen
sioner should want gold for a special pur
pose, there isone way he might obtain it.
Let us Imagine the lame soldier and the
bondholder meeting at the same place to
receive what the Government owed
them—one for pensions, and the other
for interest on his bonds. Each, we will
suppose, receives a hundred dollars—one
iu coin and the other In paper. The sol
dier, wauling sonic gold, has only to give
the bondholder his hundred dollars in
greenbacks, and he will get in return
about sixty dollars in gold, according to
preMiiit rates of discount. The bond-
mlder walks ofi'with the soldier's hum
dred dollars, and forty dollars besides—
shouts for the Radical ticket, and thanks
God that he is a “ loyal” citizen.
Tlio (’lnimcd Superior Nniii'iK.r of llio Bond
v>(l Dcltl C’oiiMldrrrd.
But there seems to be In tin* minds pf
some an impression that there were
some things connected with tbe original
purchase of your bonds which make ail
the moral equities in favor of ihe bolder.
On the contrary, it is a well known lad.
that, wbmi most of these bonds were put
upon the market, fifty dollnis in gold,
changed into cuneney, w an'd buy a
hundred-dollar bond, which w n >w held
at par over 3*mjr beads, and ; n which
payment of principal ami is de
manded in 'g«-ld. They weiv ihe gn-ui
est. speculation of the age. If ih. na
nny patriotism in their purcha-c, U was
only invoked by bribes of million-..
Tbe bodies of men were drafted when
they were needed for tbe war, and placed
in front of the cannon; but the support
of the money chargers was only to be ob
tained by golden usury, whit-h now
grinds the faces of Ihe poor. The origi
nal cost of many of the bonds has already,
by this time been paid oil by the amount
of interest received ; and it will be but a
short period until all that you pay upon
them will be a clear speculation to the
holder; will be giving something for
nothing on your,part; will be a bounty,
a pension paid by the toiling musses to
the lords ot wealth and the favorites of
the Radical legislation. Talk not to me
about breaking contracts ; talk not to me
of tbe superior sanctity of an obligation
because it was made with one class of
men, rather than with another. When
the law which made gieenbacks a legal
tender was enacted the whole country
was full of contracts to be executed in
gold. But ihe farmer or mechanic who
had loaned his .gold to a neighbor, and
taken that neighbor's note or bond for
the repayment of gold, was informed that
the legal-tender act broke his contract,
and forced him to take currency, when
ten thousand dollars In gold was worth
twenty-five thousand in paper.* If a law
of Congress can annul contracts between
citizens, what respect can those citizens
entertain for an alleged contracts between
Congressand the bondholder? If Congress
assumes to step between private parties
and say that you shall take paper when
your contract calls for gold, would it be at
ail wonderful if the people should assum
the same power in order to give one and
the same kind of currency “ to the Gov
ernment and the people, the laborer and
the office-holder, the pensioner and the
soldier, the producer and the bondhold
er?” Let the public debt, then, princi
pal and .interest, five twenties, seven
thirties, ten-forties, and all be paid as
fust as they fall due in the lawful mon
ey of.the country. On this platform I
stand before you to day, and if 1 avain
enter Congn-s ns your representative I
will support no financial plan wnieb
gives to you one kind of money as a le
gal lender, and to the bondholder am>i ti
er and belter kind. Let this be under-
Blood by all. I will not vote to give ihe
rich man bre-ui, and the poor unm a
atone. Jefferson’s motto shall be mine ;
“ Equal and exact justice to all men.and
exclusive privileges to none.” If lire
workingmen of this district approve my
position on this point, X can only pledge
them in return for their support, that if
elected, it shall be faithfully carried out
with whatever ability I possess.
Eqanl Tuxutlon—TlivChlvnßO nnd XwvYorli
Platform* Compared.
Bui there Is another question in this
InimeillatfM'onneclli'n, on whioli I must
also be p.atnly understood. Property of
all kinds must pay an equal taxation. 1 —
You are taxed on everything you tou-di,
either directly or Indirectly. Yet the
man wliohe wealth is in bonds, on which
lie collects from you all, inun the crip
pled soldier and the widowed mother, six
per cent, in gold, is especially, by of
Congress, exempted from taxation. You
are paying higher taxes than the people
of Great Britain or the subjects of the
French Em pm
in power allow
one-sixth of t
country, to cm
gatherer. Tlu
party here. If
ing bonds, as s<
not done so?
er over the sub
day not taxed.
There was no I
which recently
hill providing
bond paying s
exchange It, if
only four per «
Washington re
on the public <.
tirely to the pn
to determine w
changed for foil
This delusion a
fraud upon the
the President ft
utos before the
very propel ly ti
conn* a law. N
done for yon on
lion, nor will
change the pn
gross. The t'l
deceptive plant
of tin* nation
and t
national faith
bondholder :un
utc-.- say that t
»u( permit, eip
while your pro
not he, without
taith ” / s to I
the olhcial ligni
paying more hv
than you did at
Tims it is plain
expect either IV
p ad ices of the
not mean to g
IU'S.-'ll, a - s})OWl
the same hind <
alike, and i( w),
t.ax-gallicrcr to
bondholder. 1
plain, ringing s
the fourth plan!
form, as laid do'
taxation of cvei
cording to its re
ernnicnl Imnds
ties. ” What m
rions sentence !
demptlon to lid
the sweating fai
proclaims that d
the night will s<
been told that t
lion was control
Vet, in a vole*?, i
mid high above
ear* of oppresse
proclaimed o no
/or Hu: In.
you, ami 1700/ 1
accord'uuj to its
rrmnent hourly
take my stand (
truth and justi
the history of p
or country, wen
men, the taxpai
nixed and detain
don vention. I
’‘that he Lliat i
way faring man,
err therein.” 1
tlie hopes, the v
the prayers ol e
oreun to the nt h
eairy the imnn
praelieal lejji-slal
every hraneh of
to tv newness of
ies in I lie il mil t
pet luiii 1 - of the
elm; la oi
tiunii of the wm
Tli«* htlrrt'NlH on
I have thus fa
in very plain an
great intoie-ts o
system in based
discusses with
your (lOvenmuM
atiou is talking t
your daily labor
as well us all Che
your huinc.s ; abi
owe, and nil 3
want of means
earns for the futu
leties lor the pro;
when you shall !
lime and opened
the mighty. nan
hour. .Ms .mien
nature, j infer,
wlio eai ! in ir I«in
lane*. I know [!
and ! heir eai e-, t
l Ivo il% iH «»!' s*<>u
i
'flu ve are olln
lional impoi l \\
si,on i-n;
strrui::iit'(] (\mu)
day mainly Up'
vit-w.-* upon it*, j
am familiar to v
many oeea-dons :i
I.nee them. I’.y
1 < mb red to the n
iry more vast, nn
til 1 * llian any of I
of Kurope. It I
fields of wnali h a
dews of heaven 1
'The Radical lead
negro equality,
negro Mipumiaey
()nee 1 le.jry Clu>
spair. “ Wiio shr
Cnion If it is om
01s of Radicalism
Ids honored sle<
claiming, “ The
is to resuri eel fal
wisdom and intel
ieate relations t<
me t. In the ha
groos in the Sum
i n Indiana, has li
of ten States. juh!
of Iwenly Sefiato
Congress. Unde
ical power of one
of a standing an
fed by iho V reed
to the votes of lei
The barbarism r.
never since the tl
a government, is
overawe the civil
both North and S
to the arena of
with ton limes th
you under the C<
are to count ton li
the elect ion of Pr
ost and under the
and evil-minded ji
densely iguoranl
holds tlie halanee
try, and will he n
lure policies and 1
j»y the State
framed in the So
their vagrant wh
Northern man w
groequality in its
eluded from the r
should wish lo se
lands. In all the
tions you will tin
which I read fro
Arkansas: M All f
ihg or voting, mu
the following call
solemnly swear {<
the civil ami politi
and agreenot to a
person or‘persons
or o»* p'ovimis con
or civo light, pip
Joyed l>y any mhe
tide S, section )
If, llu'ii, K;uiic
att'MnptH, oft ft
Mill'rugc cm Hit* i>'
U«t*ir own liotm
Northern man t
support it I'orovf