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' SPEECH OF
IX-SESATOR UEXDRKKS,
At Zanesville, olilo, September 23, 1809,
My Fellow-Citizens,: From the time
that I accepted your invitation to be bore
to-day until I left my home lasteveulug,
engagements—which I could not post
pone or neglect—ao'entirely commanded
my time that I have not been able, to
make that preparation to address, you
which was due to you as well as myself,
so that t have to rely on this occasion
upon some hastily prepared nobs, but
mainly upon the righteousness of the
cause in which I speak. It has been sug
gested by your chairman that I was born
in the county of Muskingum, That is so.,
and the suggestion brings to my mind
that since that time, since the period that
my father moved from this county out
into the new State of Indiana, great
changes have taken place in our country.
Indiana aud Ohio were then border West
ern States; now they are Central States;
our population bos passed westward across
the great rivers aud mountains, until
now we occupy a country from pcean to
ocean. Our population has increased,
until now as a people we outnumber
France,outnumber Greatßrltttin—l mean
England, Ireland aud Scotland. 'Our
Wealth has increased—our power in the
world as u people has greatly increased.
These considerations should impose addi
tional obligations upon every man that
addresses his fellow-citizens upon Ufa
great questions of the times—upon-* every
man who occupies a public position.
morton’s calumnies.
During last month a distinguished citi
zen of the State of Indiana—a man of
marked talent, a man of, great power in
his party—Governor. Morton—came to
you-- State, and in a. neighboring town
opened the canvass, as it was called, de
claring the position, views and doctrines
upon which it was proposed that the Re
publican party should carry, the Slate of
Ohio, - As that was the opening speech*
oi the campaign in Ohio, I propose some
what to notice what‘ho said upon that
occasion, and to review some of his posi
sitions of fuel;, law, and right. In that
speech of Governor Morton to the people
of the State of Ohio there is much that I
cannot answer. There is much that I
would Hot answer if I could. , I lion id not
answer that part which the judgment of
the country would pronounce scurrilous
were it not for the respectability jf the
author. I will call your attention to one
or two expressions he uses with regard
to the Democracy of the country. Ho
says: “You cannot take a decayed, effete
and corrupt Democratic organization, and
make oat of it a new, patriotic and hon
est parly." I would not return in kind a
reply to that. First, it is not in my heart
to do so: and, secondly, because I have
too muon respect even for the Republican
party to use such language. Again ho
says : “ What good thing has the Demo
cratic party achieved? or proposed to
achieve? In the last twenty years can
one be named? In general terms, it af
firms all'mannerof wlpkedness and cor
ruption and extravagance* in national
and State administration.” This is the
general and sweeping charge with which
the campaign in Ohio opened, and that
too by a man who, for the one-quarter of
,the period he mentions, was an active
member of the Democratic party, and an.
earnest seeker for its offices. Gentlemen,
my judgment of the duty ofa public man
is that ho has no right to utter language
of disrespect and opprobrium to gentle
men who differ with him in opinion. I
shall indulge in no such language this
afternoon, and in my opinion no man
who occupies a high responsible position, *
.conferred upon him by-the people ns Gov
ernor Morton, has a right, nor can he
well aflbrdto be the calumniator of one
haif of the people of this country. The
expressions of confidence whieli he made
in that speech iu the honesty of the
masses of the Democratic party of Ohio
was a poor compliment when taken in
connection with the insinuation that
they were too stupid, and too servile for
independent thought and action.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE—RETROSPECTIVE!.
The Governor nest approached, in the
course of his speech, the fifteenth amend
ment. He said to the people of Ohio
that they should ratify that amendmeut;
but that it was not important whether
Ohio should ratify it or not. Now, as
the Governor has expressed- i:i that
speech to the men of Ohio this opinion
in the year 1809, that they should ratify
the fifteenth amendment, I propose to
show you what views he held upon that
subject before his party occupied its pres
ent position. In the speech he made at
.Richmond, in the Btate of Indiana, while
be, .was Governor of that State, on the
59th day of September, four years ago—
just four years ago this month—he uses
this language in regard to this question.
He was-dlsoußslng Mr Sumner’s proposi
tion, that in the Southern States a. large,
body of the white people should he ex
cluded from the ballot, and it should be
conferred upon the negroes. Upon that
question the Governor used this lan
guage : 11 The first efi'eet will, be to erect
colored State Governors in every State
where there is a colored Slate ’govern
ment, to electa negro for Governor, and
negroes for Supreme Judges. White emi
gration will cease. There will be no more
white emigration to any such State. You
will absolutely shut it oil, and elleotually
from the Northern States—and from Eu
rope, too—whenever that eventshall hap
pen. Thus they will remain permanent
colored Stales at tho South. Tho white
men who'are now there will remove, and
would not remain under such dominion.”
Ho asks: “Is it desirable to have colored
State governments? X say it is not, for
many reasons.' One reason is that such
States would continually constitute a bal
ance of power. However clearly and
strongly we admit thm natural rights of
the negro, I submit to the intelligent
people that colored State governments,
are not desirable ; that they would bring
about results that are not to be hoped for;
and finally, I believe would bring about a
war of races.” In regard to tbe personal
fitness and qualifications of the negro to
.be a voter and a political power in this
country, Governor Morton used this lan
gucigo: “As I said before, only one-in
five .hundred could read ; many of them
until the last few mouths were never oil
the plantation, and most of them were
never out of the county in ,whlob they
lived and were born, except as they were
driven by the slave-drivers. Can you
conceive that a body of men, white or
black, who have been in this condition,
and their ancestors before them, are qual
ified to be Immediately elevated from
their present state to the full exercise of
political power, not only to govern them
selves and their neighbors, but to take
part in tho government of tho United
States? Can they bo regarded as intelli
gent and Indepeudentvoters? Tho mere
statement of the fact furnishes the an
swer to tho question." The gentleman
who expressed these views four years ago
lu regard to tho question of colored State
governments In tho South,-in re -an! to
the qualifications of the negro to exercise
political power, in 18C9 says to tho great
Stale of Ohio, it is your duly to ratify an
amendment to tho Constitution which
will make them voters everywhere in
the Union.
V.
MEI
But hi u more solemn ami important
paper than that from which X have read.
Governor Morton subsequently expressed
his views. In a message delivered by
him ub Governor of the State of Indiana,
in the fall of 18(15, he uses this language :
The subject of suffrage Is by the Na
tional Constitution expressly referred to
the determination of tho several States,
and it cannot bo taken from , them with
out a violation of the Constitution—of
Ifolllkat
OF INDIANA,
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1869.
the letter and spirit of that instrument.’’
As Governor, In a message ho said, "you
cannot take from a State the control, of
the question of suffrage, without violating
the fetter and spirit of the Constitution of
the United States." And now he’says
to the people of Ohio, you should, ratify
the fifteenth amendment. In the mes
sage he went onto say, “ It la u. fact so
thanlfeat that It should not be called in
question by any, that a people who aro
just emerging from the barbarism of
slavery are not qualified to become a part
of our political system, and to take part
in tho government of themselves and
their neighbors, but of the whole of the
United States. So far from believing that
negro suffrage is a remedy for all ourNa
tioual ills, I debt whether it is a remedy
for any, and rather believe that its en
forcement by Congress • would be more
likely to subject the negro to merciless
persecution than confer on him any sub
stantial benefit.”
CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION.
These are the opinions expressed by
Governor Morton uponlnls-dellcate ques
tion. Before I speak further upon the
merits of this amendment, I wish to ask
you, my follow-oii izeus, one or two ques
tions. In the first place, do you believe
that this is a suitable time in which to
change tho Constitution of the United
States? And in refliecting. upon that
question—a grave and important one—l
aak you to consider very briefly, If you
please, the circumstances attending the
country when , tho Constitution was
framed and adopted. It was just after
the Revolutionary War, in which all the
Stales participated; a war in which the
men of all the States united; in which
the men of Now York aud men of Mas
sachusetts stood side by side with the
men of Virginia aud South Carolina;
in which men of every section died Upon
the same battle-field and were buried In
the same honored graves. After such a
war the people' in. every section enter
tained feelings of kiudeess and fraternal
love toward the men of every other sees
tion :,thuy mourned for the common dead,
add rejoiced over a common triumph.—
That was the state of. the public mind
when the Constitution, was framed by
the great convention over which George
Washington presided. .Now, my coun
trymen, 1 ask you if wo are in a condition
to-day, as a people, to favorably consider
a change in the form of our government?
We have just come out of a most unfor
tunate War in which any people can be
engaged, a civil war—a war in which one
section of the'Union has been arrayed
asaiust another—and the passionsexcited
by that war have not yet altogether sub
sided and passed away. There are an
gry passions still burning beneath the
ashes; there is strife yet in the political
world, and men are divided into fierce
political contests yet. I ask yon, in such
a state of the public mind, is it well that,
we should lay bold of tho Constitution,
the charter of our liberties—that great
instrument we all should revere 7 I say,
in my judgment, that we are not in a
proper condition, as a people, to consider
the question o I a change in out form of
government. 1 wish to ask Republican
gentlemen one question. Bo you think
that you, here in Ohio, ought to consent
to this amendment? I refer to you out
of great respect, because the particular
reference X now make touches you rather
than Bemocrats. One year ago, when
you cost your ballots for Grant and Col
fax, that ballot said the States in the
North have properly the right to control
suffrage, for in the resolution that was
adopted in the platform of the National
Convention of that party, it was declared
that in all the States that bad not rebelled
it properly belonged to the people of those
States to regulate ihe question of suffrage.
If you have supported the candidatesand
and the platform thus plain and distinct,
is it right, after you have carried the
election, to' falsify the assurances thus
given to the country 7 X ask Republican
gentleman, what assurances have we of
the.good conduct of men we vote for ex
cept the promise they give in advance of
the election 7 And are you, men or the
Republican party, willing thus to derm l
alize our institutions and to allow politi
cians to give their pledge to the people
before the election, and, after they have
carried it upon that pledge, to prove false
to the assurance thus given 7 It is a ques-
tion in which you are interested quite as
much as the Democracy. .1 appeal to you
because you made the pledge as a pMty.
In the great National Convention you,
aspired the people that it should be re
tained to the States, each for itself, to de
cide whether the negro or any other
class should be admitted,to suff.ago that
are now excluded.
TUB MEANING OF THE FIFTEENTH
AMENDMENT.
What is this fifteenth amendment? The
first section provides that the rights of
citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be ‘‘denied or abridged because of
race, color, or previous condition of ser
vitude.” And the second section provides
that. Congress shall have full power to
pass all laws necessary to carry tuis into
full effect." Such is the amendment. —
What is the effect of it? The olleetof it
is to take away from each State of this
Union the control and regulation of a
question that is important to her as au
independent mefiiber of the confederacy.
If it had been proposed to change the
Constitution and laws so as to give Con
gress control over the right to vole for
ollloers of the United states, such as
President, Vice-President, and members
of Congress, a very different question
would be presented. jjut this amend
ment proposes to take away from'each
State the control of suffrage for State of
fices as well as Federal offices.
Now, I ask you upon principle, if you
are to elect in the State government
judges, governors, and legislators, who
should decide the voters-upou these offi
cers? They are State officers, they are
not Federal officers. Ought it not, upon
principle be the people of the State who
should decide for themselves ? Our fa
thers thought so, and so they provided,
and so it has remained since 1789. Have
you observed any reason to change the
Constitution in that respect, and take
away from the State government apower
that is essential to her existence as an in
dependent State? . When I use the word,
independent State, gentlemen, I do not
mean a State with a right to withdraw
from the Union. When I speak of the
rights of a State, Ido not opeuk of any
right of secession. I speak of those rights
of government and those powers of gov
ernment that the Constitution of the
United Statesrecognizea as belonging to
tbe States. That Constitution bos al
ways recognized as belonging to tbe State
the right to regulate the franchise in the
State, Now you propose to take it from
the States and confer that power upon
Congress. Do you men of Ohio feel that
the power is safer in Congress than with!
yourselves? (“no, no.") With yourselves
you regulate it accordiug to your own
pleasure. If it be handed over to Con
gress you eaunot tell what will be the re
sult. .. Now, I know of no State in this
Union having a larger Interest in the
question of State rights than Ohio. No
State has a greater interest in maintain
ing—except it be more distant States—
the rights, dignity, and equality of Hie
States uudor the Constitution of the
United States. You have a great State;
Your population is largo ; your wealth is
enormous; your interests are varied.—
Are all tnose interests not better pro
tected when your home government is
maintained, with all its constitutional
rights and powers? Your property Is
protected, and your person is protected
under the laws of your State. If you are
offended by wrong done to your person
■or property, you go to the State for pro
tection. If the, laws that regulate the
disposition of your property and domes
tic relations be unsatisfactory, they are
,corrected by your home legislation. If
you onoo allow the Congress of the Uni
ted States to become the controller of
those powers abff questions which the fa
thers left with the people of the States,
iiow far is it eventually to go ? You oan-
not tell. So that your safety, In view of
your power In this Union—in view of the
great interests to bo protected—your safe
ty, in'Ohio, Is In maintaining ail the
' rights, the dignity, and equality of the
States unimpaired. (Applause.) This is
but one step in the wrong-direction—to
take from the people of the States a pow
er that they have, and glvejt to the Cori
giessjof the United States. lam not go
ing to discuss this afternoon, before you,
whether the negro is fit to be a voter, or
whether the negro Is your equal,' or my
equal. I suppose each gentleman has his
own (judgment upon that question. X
believe tbattbla question belongs of right
to the States, and tbat it is a change in
the very .nature and frame-work of our
government to take it Irom tins States
and confer it upon Congress. In the
name, then, of the States, I object to this
.amendment. On behalf, of our home
govern mout, I object to it. Wo are safest
when we are protected by a government
near by us; where the public officers are
responsible directly to the people. What
does Congress any longer care for the
will of the people if it can carry their
measures, purposes, and policy ? They
do uot turn auy more to inquire what the
people believe or what, the people want.
They are ready to make a pledge to you
in advance of the election, and disregard
it as soon as the election is over. This
fifteenth amendmeut shows this. If the
members of the Legislature don’t obey
your will, but pass laws tbat they know
you do not want, they have to come home
.to you and answer for that. But mem
bers of Congress have now come to feel a
sort of Independence of the Judgment,"
wish, and will of the people. lam not
in favor, then, of handing over the . pow
ers (hat belong of right to our homo and 1
domestic government to a government <
further removed from the people. I think 1
you expressed it very well in one of your 1
resolutions of the DemocraticConventiou
of this State; “ Cousoliuatlou, in this 1
country, means the absolute dominion of
monopoly and aggregate capital over the '
lives, the liberty, and property of the I
toiling masses".” Stand by 'your State I
governments, for they are your homo
.protection. Stand by them, not in any i
hostility to the general government, but i
stand by them under the Constitution ]
of the United States, and maintain for- i
over that harmony between the States '
and general government which.gives so- d
curity to the people and respect and dig- ■
uity to both forms of government. I
* THE ADMINISTRATION-.
Great credit is claimed for this Admin
istration by its admirers. I have look,
ed in the papers to ace what it is all
about. A capacity for travel and taking
fresh air I concede at once. (Laughter.)
A capacity to provide for one’s own
.household is not denied either. (Laught
er and applause.) But why the plain
people out herein the West—why the
men of Muskingum County, in l.ho Slate
of Ohio—shall offer up praises to this
Administration is more than X can com
prehend. X have not been able to see,
since it came into power, the expression
of a single sentiment in-the exercise of
office favorable to the laboring interests
.of this section of the country. Do you
speak of the foreign policy of the- Ad
ministration? What has the Adminis
tration done abrogd? Under the leader
ship of Mr. Sumner, the Senate relented
the treaty in regard to the Alabama
claims with England. But what have
thby dune since in regard to the Alabama
claims? Cuba has their sympathy, they
tell us. Poor, down-trodden, oppressed
Cuba! But wo haye not been allowed
to hear of that sympathy -with her, ex
cept as It may be whispered from cabi
net meetings. Oh, we did hear from
Secretary Eawlins, on his death-bed. —
That he sympathized with Cuba I have
no doubt, ana that he was a true friend
to the Liberal cause in Cuba. But this
administration, as an administration,
oilers no help, no kindly support and
sympathy, for men that ate lighting for
liberty against such oppression as even
our father?, in the days of the Devolu
tion, did not know of.
HOW TUB DEBT IS BEING PAID OFF.
But they claim they are paying off* the
national debt. .Bo you know how that
Is done! They made a tariff so'hlgh, in
order to protect peculiar interests, :in
order to raise prices of goods upon the
country, that the manufacturers of these
goods must make great profits. They
raised the tariff so hig|i that it brought
into Che Treasury more gold and silver
than was required to pay the interest on
the bonds. Our tariff has been bringing
into the national Treasury gold and sil
ver from $170,000,000 to $190,000,000 a
year, and it only requires $140,000,000 to
pay the interest on the public debt. So
that the gold has been accumulating in
the. national Treasury, and when Bout
well came' into office, I suppose there
had thus accumulated over $1,000,000 of
.gold In the national Treasury from the
tariff'. Now, what is done? He sold
this gold he found on hand in the mar
ket, with the greenbacks he
got for the gold, he buys in 5-20 bonds at
their.market price—about $l2O, for every
$lOO of bonds. And that is what Ims
been going on; and that is the way they
are paying off the national debt—paying
$2O lu addition to what Governor Mor
ton says Is the contract. In this same
speech from which I have read, Gover
nor Morton compliments the administra
tion for paying off* the debt. One hun
dred and twenty dollars for every one
hundred dollars, according to Governor
Morton's construction of the contract,
and that, too, out of gold that had accu
mulated when they came into office.—
And if .you can see any great credit in
that it is more than I can comprehend.—
Every thousand dollar bond that is paid
off costs the government in greenbacks
about one thousand two hundred dollars?.
Governor Morton says the coutractAvaa
one thousand dollars in greenbacks for
one thousand dollars ’in five-twenty
bonds. Now'what do you think of It?—
Are you going to offer up praise to the
administration for that? To pay off the
national debt in that way will cost the
| people of this country nearly four bun
dled millions more than Governor Mor-
I ton said in the Senate was the contract
between the bondholders and tho gov
ernment. Do you want to know how I
think the excess of. gold in the Treasury
ought to be avoided ? This thing of col
lecting gold and sending it over to Wall
street, in New Yorlc to be sold lu brok
ers' room, is a corrupt thing in which
the government ought to have no lot or
part. It Is offensive to .your conscience
and taste. I know it must be so. How
is it to be remedied? Bring the law
down so there will bo no more collected
off of the people than the government,
economically administered, shall require.
That doctrine is not new. Andrew Jack
son declared that the government ought
not to collect-more money than is suffi
cient to support it economically.
THE NATIONAL I!ANKS“'
In the aneach to which X have referred
Governor Morton makes a defence of the
national banking system, and as that was
the speech which opened tile campaign,
it is to be regarded as deoiarlngtlio views
of the party In this State. Can you see
any advantage to the peoploin the nation
al banking system ? Governor Morton
says Democrats want to break down the
present system and re-establish the State
banking system. He says that without
finding .It in the platform, or declared
by any of the candidates, so far as 1
know. The Democrats say this: That if
tho government of tho United States
must furnis.h a currency, why not issue It
directly from tho Treasury, like she did
duriug tho war, instead of Interposing a
banking system between herand the peo
ple? It is done in this way : If a man
wfmts to establish a National bank ho
goes to Washington and deposits an
amount of bonds, and then strikes oft as
many bank bills os that deposit will al
low, aud brings those bank bills out aud
circulates them ns money, tlio bonds of
tho United States standing os security for
these bank bills. In other words, the
government is security for the banks*
Now, If the government is to be security*
lor the banka, why not allow government
to issue Treasury notes at once ? The
Treasury totes are as good .credit in the
pockets of the people, or are os safe money
in the pockets of the peppie,'as the bunk
notes are when they-rest for security on
the bonds of the government. What
would bo the effect of that gentlemen ?
The government of the United Slates f »
to-duy paying interest on above $300,000,-
OOQTof her bonds, which are deposited as
security for these bank bills., If that sys
tem be abandoned, and the direct Treas-'
ury-note system adopted, you will save
by lifting these bonds and discharging
them the interest that is paid upon these
bonds, as declared in the platform of (lie
Ohio Democracy. (Applause.) I urn not
going to discuss the question of taxation
ofbauka in Ohio. It would make no
difference if the bunks transacted uud
carried on their business: by Treasury
notes direct, instead of these bank notes
that are secured by bonds. Ju that event
they would pay, no doubt, as much tax.
The national banks may suit, ifyou please
but let them not deal in paper secured by
the government bonds, but in paper is
sued by the government direct. Let them
become banks of deposit and banks of ex
change, instead of banks of issue, and
they would pay os much interest into the
national and Stale treasuries us the pres
ent system provides for, and at the same
time save a large amount of interest paid
out. The people of this country are op
pressed by the mode to which I referred
a little while ago. by the tariff. Luring
the war'advantage was taken of the peo
ple to enact a system of tariff laws such
as never would have been tried in former
days. It is most extravagant in. Us pro
visions, and most oppressive to the moss
es of the people. It taxes one class of in
dustry in the country for the purpose of
fostering another and protecting another
class. X tliiuk we must have a tarilf. A
portion of our revenue cau well enough be
collected by the tariff; but the tariff that
taxes goods imported into this country
from abroad ought to be leviud with a
view to revenue and not pn tceilon..Aa I
said, we are collecting far more tariffthan
is sufficient to pay the interest on. ,Uip
national debt, and gold is accumulating
in the Treasury, and that for the purpose
of furnishing this peculiar protection to
.special interests, and I am not in favor of
such legislation. You are willing to pay
luxes sufficient.to meet the expenses of
the government' administered economi
cally, but X don’t think the West ought
to be expected to pay great taxes iu tbe
Interest of manufacturing and other pur
suits* One of the greatest writers of mod
ern times iu tbe history of civilisation In
England has said of this subject of tariff
protection, that it Is “bounties to raise up
a losing trade, audit is taxes to pull down
remunerative ones.” Ho bus also said
“the industrious classes were robbed that
industry might thrive.” That is the ef
fect of it.. One class, due interest, is taxed
oppressively, that other interests may be
made to yield especlgl and large profits.
It is the interest of the people of the
Northwest to elect such men to Congress
and as Governors of the States who, will
express their opinions faithfully and con
stantly agamst all monopolies and favor
itisms iu thls cduntry. It is a duty de
volving upon the people of this country
to rid it of the extravagance, waste, find
improvidence that now prevails. What
party will y m rely on for . this purpose ?
The party that has been iu power when
these things have been brought upon the
country ?
TAX-PAYERS, READ!!
THE GOVERNOR (IBESTION
GEARY’S ADMINISTRA
TION EXPOSED!
. At the threshold of a gubernatorial
campaign in a great State like ours, in
which tire results, are to be potential,'aa
well without as within our borders, it
might seem appropriate to discuss tire
grave questions in national polities which
present'themselves on every hand. The
shortcomings of a national administra
tion that assumed the joins of, power
with flattering promises of-reform and
good .government,, the fatuity of its offi
cial head in surrounding himself with
advisers without experience and counsel
lors without knowledge; their utter fail
ure to create and abstain a policy in our
national affairs, either, foreign or inter
nal; the broken pledge for retrench
ment and economy; the unsatisfactory
condition of financial affairs; the increas
ed rates of interest;' the prostrated condi
tion of all kinds of business; and the
onerous and never-ending weight of taxa
tion, are themes upon each of which the
people thiuk and feel deeply, and to these
we might with profit devote our atteu
tion in the pending canvass. But niut
ters'of serious moment claim our atten
tion nearer home, ami remeniboring that,
our institutions are founded upon the
principles of local-self-government, and
that-the protection of our personal righis,
and of those lesser but important forma
and privileges which aid in making up
our form ot government, is vital 'to ils
success as a whole, it becomes our duty
to closely scan the condition of affairs in
our State government, and to learn by,
calm scrutiny there, .whether tbo'agents
wo have employed in its administration
had been faithful to their trust, and are
worthy of a renewal of our coutideuce.
That a widespread sentiment of dissatis
faction exists, nay more, that the pio
vaiilng tone of thu people and tile press,
of the Commonwealth, is against the of
ficial fealty aud personal purity of the
mass of those wl/o have made and exe
cuted our laws in,the past throe years,
wjii scarcely he disputed. Such a senti
ment could not exist, unsupported, by
facts, and it is our business in this can
vass to test its truth. ~
- We broadly charge that in every ele
ment of. good government, in every er
-1 sential fuature necessary to the protection
tof the rights of the people, the adminis
tration of John W. Geary Inis been a
failure. He is the Executive head, and
the policy dictated and the ends attained
are equally chargeable to his account,
and he is justly responsible for the mis
deeds of his subordinates and of those
whose policy was moulded at his discre
tion..- . ■
Hq is responsible that the expenses of
tlio state government are
than during the war, and are Increasing; '
that the treasury of the State is managed
in the Interest of a corrupt ring, and the
money of the people used to fasten new
burdens upon them; that unblushing
corruption is boldly charged upon the in
cumbents of place; that private legisla
tion, to the detriment of public good,
rapidly increases; that monopolies are
created and given power to oppress the,
citizen In his business; that the judicia
ry are attacked and the sanctity of tho
organic law overridden for a price; the
legislative borers aud corrupt olllcials
swarm around the seas of power, aud fat
ten on the body politic; and thevast
revenues that How in the coffers of the
Commonwealth are diverted from their
legitimate and constitutional purpose in
payment of tho State debt, and are appli
ed to the maintenance of a honl of un
nero-sary hirelings about the legislative
and executive departments of tho State
govennnen t.
This is no fancy picture, but tho por
trayal of sober but startling realities, aud
Us truth will bo demonstrated by an In
vestigation of the subject.
TUo expenses of tho State government
during the last three years of the war,
under the administration of Governor
Curtin wore as lollows : ,‘
X’’or tho year ending December 1,1803, ,
they were $440,460; lor the year ending ,
December 1, 1805, they were $010,0X3. ,
For the three years siuoo the war, un
der the administration of Governor
Geary, they wore, for tho year eudiug
December Ist: •
1800 - - - $.‘108,009
1807 - - - 802,878
1803 , 8-15,539
VOL 56.—N0. 17,
. The expenses of 1868, it is thus seen,
jire $215,518 greater than were those of
; 1864, one of the most expensive years of
i the war.
All JiUmlt that during th£ war these
expenses would necessarily increase,
but cun there be any reason why they
should' he nearly fifty per cent, greater
now, when gold is 133, than they wero
in 1801 when it was over 200?
, The maladministration of the govern
ment is the only reason that can in truth
bo rendered for this frightful increase of
expenditure.
The Treasury ring is no myth, but it is
a hideous reality, and only, those who
huv< watched its operations and seen.its
slimy folds again and again coiled around
men whose constituents elected them, as
honest men ; only those who have seen
its manipulations of men and its almost
universal success in its movements, can
justly appreciate tho vicious influence It
exerts. The treasury of the State it re
gards us-its inheritance and the money
of the people as its legacy. To 1111 the
treasury and not pay tho debt, to bundle
i the deposits and realize cent- per cent,
from their skillful manipulation, to re
deem the loan bearing five per cent, aiid
replace It with one bearing six, by an
adroit arrangement with those ,in power,
have boon some of its exploits in tho past
three years. Previous to IS6r, the muss
of*our debt pal'd an interest of but five
per cent.; (but under the shallow pretext
that It was over due, the ring enacted
the law of February 2, 1867, by which
the Treasurer was authorized to redeem
the over-due five per cent, loans and re
place them with a loan beariug.six per
cent. In this arrangement the hand of
Governor Geary is plainly seen, for with
out his consent it could not have been a
a law,
A loan of more than twenty-three
millions of dollars bearing interest at the
rate of live per cent., was transmuted by
this operation into a six per cent. loan*
ami the amount of interest payable by
■ the people, which in 1866 was $1,802,105,
in 1807 to-$2,257,083, or
over s3ooiooo of an increase in the first
-year. In 18(33 we .paid $1,979,090 in in
terest, or $87,000, more than wo bad to
• -pay in ISOG. The expense of placing the
new Joan paid by the ritato was nearly
$90,000 making an aggregate of over a
half million of dollars paid since 1867 to
enrich the treasury ring. t All of this
'twenty-three millions of six per cent
loan is yet to mature, and upon It this
year, and each succeeding year, until
payment, $230,000 more of your money
than before was-necessary, must be paid
in interest. These figures are from tbe
official documents, and the same docu
ments show that the State Treasurer hud
in his bauds in 1807, an average month
ly balance of over three and a half mil
lions of dollars, and in- 1808 his average
monthly balance of over two millions
three hundred thousand dollars. With
these princely revenues at their com
mand, whaf could not the Treasury ring
effect? Large fortunes flowed gently
into the laps of these shrewd financiers,
and.they coutrolcd every appointment to
power and place. No law could be pass
ed against their will, and their assistance
in legislation was a guarantee of success.
No' bill was ever passed in which these
men were Interested that was'refused the
signature of the Governor, and ho never
initiated a financial measure against
them.
Thatcorruptingand debasing Influence
surrounded and pervaded the atmosphere
of the State capital scarce needs proof,—
The closing hours of the last session of
theXegislature were full of proofs of the
wealth, the power, and the corrupt pur
poses of the Treasury ring, aud so vile.
and base have we become, and so plainly
was the poyver of, money in Legislation
proved, that the moral sense of the peo
ple would be shocked at its recital, and
the outrageous character of the irausac
tlon i Imost stumps it as a falaehood.=r
Such things could not be, had we a lirm
aid pure jExecutlve. The knowledge
tout the calm and intelligent scrutiny
of a capable and honest Governor was to
be fastened upon their deeds, and that
the veto power would be exercised in
holding thorn and their purchased privi
leges up to the scorn aud execrations of
an outraged people, would go far to deter
these men from corrupting the weak'
and purchasing the corrupt, The evil is
a terrible reality. It confronts us in
1 high places, and it saps the vitals of the
State. The remedy rests with the peo
ple alone.
The vast increase in private legislation,
and the many corporate monopolies
granted, to the injury of the people, can
best be showp by a comparison of differ
ent periods. Under the administration
of Governor Packer, during 1858, 1859
and 1860, there were passed u total of 2,-
019 bills which became laws, or an annu
al average of 673. During 1864, 1805 aud
1806, under Governor Guriin, there were
passed 3,131 bills which became laws, or
an annual average of 1,044.. Whilst
during the session of 1807,1863 aud 1869,
Governor Geary's three years, 3,689 bills
became laws, showing an average of 1,228,
or nearly double the average
Governor Packer's term 1 . Tno necessity
for special legislation during the war was
far greater than since, «ud the amend
ment to the (joustitution depriving the
Legislature of power to enact Jaws in
cases in Wi.lchthe courts have jurisdic
tion, in.the hands of a firm executive
ollieer, would have vastly decreased the
amount of these vicious enactments. —
Scores of laws are found upon the statute
books of 1867, -1808 aud 1869, in which
the courts were vested with the control
of Uio subject, yet favoritism, or same
other reason, secured the approval of the
Executive. This is thd held, 100, in
which special privileges are secured, and
in whien the peculiar vocation of legisla
tive borers is made profitable, and wuon
ills seen that in the term of Governor,
Geary over eight hundred laws have
been enacted, granting charters to pri
vate corporations or enlarging the power
of those already granted, their prolita
may ho estimated, and the vice of the
system understood. Two-thirds of this
legislation is unnecessary and detrimen
tal to the people, and their salety demand
ed a clearly .defined policy on thissubjeot,
and a rigid adherence thereto by the
Executive. Genera) laws are broken
through by special enactment with his
consent until the rule had'beeome the ex
ception. Eor instance, to give him pat
ronage, the general law for the appoint
ment of notaries, detlniug their number,
'has, in thepessiou of ISUp, been again and
again supplemented, until he was vested,
in that single session, with the power to
appoint over one hundred in addition .to
tnos- already in commission. Such a
practice, multiplying ollielals, overlbads
the statute book, ana destroys a most
salutary law of government; that of gov
erning by general rule as far as possible.
The remedy for this mischief was in the
hands of the Executive. He has failed
to apply it, and has aided aud abetted
the wrong.
The deliberate overthrow of a judicial
district, tlie attempt to nullity the will of
the people of that district iu the choice of
their judge, and the palpable violation of
the Consiiiutiou in so doing, all are di
i.ctly chargeable to John W. Geary, for
the bill was signed on the very morning
alter the night of its passage under cir
cumstances which conclusively prove his
knowledge of its purpose and character.
If ho knew these, is it unjust to charge
that he know how it was passed and what
huso means seer ted the necessary majori
ty for lbs speedy enactment ? If the Ju
diciary are to be attacked and tbeexpresa
will of the people dolled by tho use of
money dn'a corrupt combination, of what
value are our institutions, aud whose life
or property is secure? John W. Geary
possessed tne knowledge of tho wrong and'
tho power to prevent it, and failed to use
them, and ha is justly responsible for tho
infamy.
Under these provisions of a law enacted
in days when national debts were not
considered national blessings, and still
unrepealed, certain revenues belonging
to the-State were to bo applied to the pay
ment of tire State debt through the opera-
Kates for
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JOB PItINTINQ.
CASne, HAKDBmna, Oibouiaks, ana every oth.
or description of Job and Cabd Printing. «,
tiona of a Sinking Fund. Since 1800, the
last year of Governor Packer’s adminis
tration, $43,348,000 have gone Into the
treasury. By far the larger portion of
this proceeds from the revenues specifi
cally applied by law to the payment of
the debt, and yet the debt uow Is only
obout four millions less than It was In
11800, and this calculation 'excludes the
loqn for military purposes, and to redeem
the overdue loan. JVnere have those mil
lions gpno, and why la the State debt still
so large ? The mismanagement of the fi
nances of the State, never so great as
within the last three years, the payment
of largely,increased salaries, the employ
ment of pasters and folders and other
useless officials, the increase In the
amount of interest, and the necessities of
the Treasury ring, have combined to In- ’
crease our expenses to so great an extent
as to divert these great revenues from
their proper destination, and therefore the
debt still exists.
Strenuous efforts were made at the close
i of the last session of the Legislature to
have the surplus in the Treasury applied
toward the payment of the debt matuf
,lug, and aseotlon was placed iu-tho ap
propriation bill, by the united vote of all
the Democrats, and a part of tbe Repub
licans, ordering thq anticipation of the
payment of about $BOO,OOO thereof out of
the surplus then In the Treasury. This
would have saved the State $50,000. The
bill was sent to the committee of confer
ence, and they stru -k ibis seotlo • out at
the command of the treasury ring. When
the bill came up in the Senate, on final
passage, in this form, it was voted down
by a vote of 22 to 10, mainly because of
the omission of this,amendment and of
the payment of the pasters and folders in
the House. Seven Republicans voted
with the Democrats and defen. J the bill,
and affirmed the wisdom of me amend
ment. Yet, within three d;.ys four of
those Republicans changed front and vo
ted with their brethren to reconsider the
bill, and they passed It by a vote of 17 to
16, two Republicans voting with the
Democrats, against the bill, and one
Democrat voting with the Republicans
for the hill. By this vote the State lost
at least 550,900, and the ring gained the
use of over $BOO,OOO for more than a year.
Why. in this exigency and under the
facts disclosed on the passnge of the bill,
did not the Executive do his duty and
send it back without bis signature? He
was too.weak, or he was the tool of the
treasury ring; In either case, he is unfit
for tbe place be fills.
The administration of John W, Qsary,
la a failure, the name of legislature, un
der his rule, has become a hissing and a
reproach, the fair fame of our noble Com
monwealth is tarnished, her revenues
are wasted, and her debt unpaid; her
magnificent resources lie undeveloped ;
or private enterprise must do'the work ;
the power to guide the State in her noble
career of progress, audio give her that
Elace among her sisters for which nature
as fitted her, must be sought elsewhere
than In the feeble capacity of him who is
now her Chief Executive; and we point
with confidence to the man of our choice,
to him who has grappled with the rugged
realities of our mountains and our val
leys, and by his indomitable energy has
made them the sources and tire avenues
of untold riches; to him who, with strong
mind and Iron will bos concentrated all
his powers in her development; to him
who has by these acts proved his capacity
to successfully manage and control his
own business; to him who baa by his •
business intellect, his upright deport
ment, bis spotless character, and his deeds
of charity, won the highest grade among
his fellow men; to Asa Packer,' the suc
cessful business man, os the man whom
Pennsylvania now needs to banish cor
ruption; to pay her debt .restore her credit
and develop her resources.
The Working!man’s Party.—The
Democratic Party has ever been the
Workingman’s party of the country, and
is so to-day. It is to the interest of the
workingmen to rally to Its support. It
has ever been in favor of the protection. ;
of the workingman’s interests and is so 1 '”
still. Workingmen can best promote
their Interests by giving it their support.
The Democratic party has been broken
down by workingmen havlng been mis
led and gotten away from it. These
snoiild speedily return and help to cor
iect errors if any exist, and then It will
soon again get strength. The Democrat
ic party was founded as a Workingman’s
Party, aud such it really is and ought to .
be. At the coming election, working
men ought to give It their support. Tn
doing that they promote their best inter
ests.
A Four, Vote.—A full democratic vote
this year ensures a Demooratlo victory.—
The Republican Party is lukewarm, dia
sattstiedgmd apathetic. Undertbese cir
cumstances a lull democratic vote is al
most certain to carry with it success.—
Up then, democrats, make a strong ef
fort, and a Democratic Governor will
again be elected. Let us have on the
second Tuesday of October a full'vote.—
A full vote carries the day.
BSIrA. young gentleman, not distin
guished either for good looki, riches or
wit, having met a severe rebut! from one
of our prettiest and mast dlstiuguised ac
tresses, and wishing Co punish her for
her disdain, consulted a friend as to the
best means for, his purpose. “Do you
wish to be very severe upon her?”
“Very.” “Then go and see her.”
Early Rising.— A gentleman from
Nevada, being asked by an old lady in
relation to the wellare of a favorite scape
grace of a nephew who bad gone to that
State, informed her “ that he bad died
from early rising.” This puzzled the
old lady very much until, by dint of in
quiry, she learned that “ early rising” ie
the Nevada term for hanging.
BSTA Domestic, newly engaged, pre
sented to his master, one morning, n
pair of boots, the leg of one of whicl
was much longer than theother. "How
comes it, these boots are not the sami
length?” “I really don’t know, sir
but what bothers me (be most ie, that tin
pair down stairs is in tbesame fix.”
BQy“ You may insert,” says, an ex
change, “ a thousand things, in a newt
paper, and never a word ot approbatio
from the readers; but just let a puragrap
slip in, even by accident, of one or tw
lines not suited to their taste, and yc
wilt bo sure to hear of it.”
BSy First Business Man—“ Just hlul
very heavy Joss, eh ? Sorry to hear i
How was It ?” Second ditto—“ Why,
insured my mother-in-law’s life fur u
thousand—sent her to Hempstead, Lor
Island, by rail -and hang meifahehasc
come back safe.”
Goy. Geaby is as vain as "Capta
Jinks of the Hoss Marines.” He is eti
nally saying to himself, and sometltn
muttoia it aloud;
I’m Gov’ner John of the Keystone State,
No mortal man was e’er so great.
IlaS" A Chicago woman lived eights
mouths with her husband before t,
found be had omitted, the formality ,
a divorce from another wife. W hen i
made that discovery he shot her.
JSS“ A fellow in Detroit bunged hi
self to his bedpost from despondency ,
belnglelt an orphan at the tender age'
twenty-eight.
Covode’s Latest Bulletin.—'' 1
gtaynt hr god sslk ter Kepout of fan
vanny, os we’re Got enuf trubbilea ■
Hand ter beet us." f
jgy Why is a dog’s tall a great no,
ty ? Because no one ever saw it Jjofy