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O.B. O00DLANDER,
NOEL B. LEE,
Pobllehenl.
tJTarrJjj.
W. C. ARNOLD,
I-AW k COLLECTION OFFICE,
CliRWBNRVIM.il,
iU Overlaid ConaLy. Pena'a. TSy
TBUl. B. NUBBAV. CVBUB SODDOB.
MURRAY & GORDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Jber-OBIee It Pla'a Opera llouaa, oeoond floor.
0:1074
FRANK FIELDING,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
Will allond lo all bualnaai ealraaled to him
promptly and faithfully. bovII'71
WILLIAM A. WALLACB.
HAaar r. WALLACB.
David L. bbbbb.
joaa w. wbislbv,
WALLACE & KREB8,
(Suioee,ore to Wallaoa A Fielding,)
ATTOENEY8-AT-LAW,
U.127J Cleartteld, Pa.
loiiro a. b'bballv. Aiai v. a'cianr.
McENALLY & MoOUEDT,
ATTOUNEYS-AT-LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
af-dfLnS, bnilniu ftltandod lo promptly with)
Utility. Oftdt on 8eond ftrat, aboro tbo Flnt
Nfttiunol Dank. jaa:l:7l
Q. R. BARRETT,
Attornkv and Counselor at Law,
clearfield, pa.
IU r In (( rttlgned hir Judfttihtp, hM recanod
ihe ,rkottoo of in law in ait old onm at uiar
flrlM, Ptv. Will alt nil the eonrti of Jefftrtoa and
Kilt oountlai bB ijiMUlly raUioad ill eonnaetlon
will raalueat oouniel. i;ia:7
A. G. KRAMER,
ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW,
Real latala aad Colloalloa Ageat,
CI.EARPIEI.D, PA.,
Will promptly attend to all legal batlDeaa ea
trueted to hi, oare.
er-Offioo la Pla', Opera lloaee. JaBl"!.
WM. M. McCULLOUGH,
ATTOHNEY AT LAW,
CI car Held, Pa.
firfr-Offlaa In Ilia old We.il. ex HoUl builJInff.
Leg! boaintM promptly attaodad to. Hral eilata
bought fend told. jail
A . W . WALTERS,"
ATI'ORNBY AT LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
eVfjuOffic. In Orabam'a Row. deeS-ty
H. W. SMITH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
lUV.n Clearfield. Pa.
"WALTER BARRETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Clearleld, Pa.
JHT-Offlaa la Old Waalarn Hotel bulldlag,
eorner of Seooad and Market SU. novtl,IS.
ISRAEL TEST,
ATTORNEY AT I, AW,
Clearfield, Pa.
i-0a la tha Court Hoaaa. lyll.'M
JOHN H. FULFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
JEar-OSoe oa Malkot ttreet, opp. Court Hoaaa,
Jan. I, 1874.
JOHN L. CUTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
nd Real Eatata A font, Clearfield, Pa.
Offlaa oa Third atraot, bal. Cherry A WalaaC
flrReapoetlelly offara hla aarvlaea la Balling
ad bujl luda Id Olaarlald and adjolnlni
leantiaa i and with aa eiporlenoo of ever twenta
feare aa a aanayor, lattera hlmialf that he eaa
render allafo.ll.a. Fob. Jl,3:tf,
jTIl AK E W ALT ER 8 ,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
ADD DBALBB IB
Haw iMfgm and liiimbor,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
OBoe In Oraham'l Row. I1IS1TI
J. J.' L INGLE,
ATTORNEY-AT - LAW,
I IS Iretwlt, Clearfield Co.. Pa. y;pd
J. S. BARN HART, '
ATTORNEY - AT LAW,
llelleroiita. Pa.
Will praetloe in ClearO.ld and all of the Oearta of
tha 2Mb Jadielal diatrlet. Heal aetata baelneee
and eollaetioo of elaima Bade apeetaltlaa. Djl'll
DR. W. A. MEANS,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
LUTIIKR8UURO, PA.
Will attend profeialonal ealla promptly. au10'70
' DR. T. J. BOYER,
PHYSICIAN AND SU RQ EON,
ODIee ea Market Street, ClaarOali Pa.
rOIa) hoaral to 11 a. ., aad 1 to I p.
D
R E. M. SCUEURER,
IIOMIHOPATHIC PnYSIClAN,
Offloa In reiidenee oa Market at
April 14, U7S. Cleajeld, Pa.
" J. H. KLINE, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN k SURGEON,
HAVING located at Feaaleld, Pa., ofera hla
profaaaioDDl aerrleea te the people of that
pleoe end aarroandlng eoantry. Alleelll promptly
atunded to. ' 11
DR. J. P. BURCH FIELD,
Uu gargeoa of the :id Reglmeat.PeBBaylTaata
Velaauere, having retaraed from the Army,
elfora hla profeeaional aervleei lo IhtelUaeae
ef Olaarlald eoanty.
aorProfeeoloael ealla promptly atuadod to.
Oflee ea Staeod etreet, formerlyooeapled by
Dr. Woodt. lP'l.
DR. H. B. VAN VALZAH,
CLEARFIELD, PBNN'A.
OFFICE IN MASONIC BUILDING.
T- OBee hoare From It to 1 P. M.
. May II, H7.
DR. JEFFERSON LITZ,
WOODLAND, PA.
Will promptly attend all ealle le toe Ilea of hU
proreaaioa. pov.e-71
D. k. DOHERTT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER A HAIR DRKSTER.
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Sh..p la room formerly eeeupled by Neagk)
Merhel llrret.
Jely 14, '70.
ARRY HNYDER,
(Formerly with Lew gehalet.)
BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER.
UShop oa Market St, eppeette Cetrt Ileaet.
Aeleea towel for every oaatomer. may 11, '70.
WHOLESALE LIQUOR STORE.
At tha and of the bow bridge,
WEST CLEARFIELD, t'A.
The proprietor ef thle eoiabliebmeal will bay
hla lloaere dtreel from dlellllere. Partlee haying
from thle koeee will be rare te get a pare artiele
at a email aaergla above eeel.? Hotel aeeporo eaa
ha furnlehed with lloaere ea reaeeaable terma.
Pen wiaee aad brandlee dlreet from leeley'l
Vlaory, at Bali, Maw Verb.
UKiROi M. COLBURN.
Clearleld, Jeae 10, llft tf.
JIIBTICEH' db COHHTAIILEA' PIBB
Wa have pristed a large aamber f the Bw
FEE BILL, aad will ea the reeeipt ef tweety
Ire eaata, mall a eopy te av addreea. atylo
CLB'ARFI
GEO. B. Q00DLANDEB, Proprietor. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. TEEMS-$2 per annum in Advance.
VOL. 50-WHOLE NO. 2187. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876. NEW SERIES-V0L. 17, NO. 36.
Cards.
JOHN D. THOMPSON,
Joatlee of the Peaee and SerWoaer,
Corwenavllle, Pa.
teB.Colleetlona made and moDoy promptly
paldorer.
RICHARD HUGHES,
JUSTICE OF Till PEACE
FOB
ntcatur ToumtMp,
Oeeeola Mllli P. 0.
II afflelal builneia entreated to him will be
promptly attoDded to. meblt, '70.
OBO. ALBBBT IIBBBV ALBBBT.M......W. ALBBBT
W. ALBERT & BROS.,
Maaefaetarerl A eiUnalve Deal an la
Sawed Lumber, Square Timber, &c,
WUOUbllU, 1-BjHfl'A.
M-Ordan aolleited. Bllla Oiled oa ihort aetloe
and reaaonable tome.
Addreaa Woodland P. O., Claarlleld Co., Pa.
elt.lj W ALBERT A BRUg.
FRANCIS COUTRIET,
MERCHANT,
Frenebvllle, HearOeld Canity, Pa.
v ... nal..n,l nn lianit a full aiinrtmant
Dry Qooda, Hardware, Qroeerlea, and everything
aaaaliy Bept in raiaii mti, wn.cn win .viu,
lor eaan, aa eneap a. in .n. wih..
Franohvllle, June 17, 1867-lj.
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
PBALBB IB
GENERAL MKKCII AND1SE.
URAIIAMTON, Pa.
Allo.estonalve manufaetareraod dealer Id Bqaare
Timber aad Hewed Lumber M ail Biaoa.
y-Ordara aollsltad aad all bllla promptly
oiled. nJ'"
R F IJ BEN H AC KM AN.
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Peuu'a.
ktA-WIII eieeau Joba Id hit Una promptly and
la a workmanlike meaner. . efre,07
G. H. HALL"
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
DEAR CLEARFIELD, FENN'A.
AVPampe alwaya on hand and made to order
en ihort notioe. Plnea bored on reaionabla terma.
All work warranted to render aatiifaetion, aad
delivered ifdealred. mjZ9:lypd
E. A. BIGLER & CO.,
aiALBBI IM
SQUARE TIMBER,
and manufactnrera of
ALL KINDS OP BAH ED LUMBER
l-7'71 CLEARFIELD, PKMN'A.
JAS. B. GRAHAM,
deeler la
Heal Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
SHINGLES, LATH, A PICKETS,
l;l'7l Cleariald, Pa,
JAMES MITCHELL,
DBALBB IB
Square Timber & Timber Lnnda,
Jell'71 CLEARFIELD, PA.
JAMES H. LYTLE,
III kralter'o Building, ClealBeld, Pa.
Dealer Id Groeetl, Provliloni, Avgetablea,
Freit., Flour, Fted,
aprl4'7t-lf
WARREN THORN,
BOOT AND snOK MAKER,
Market HI., Clearflold, Pa. "
la the abep lately occupied by Freak Short,
ue deereeeat of AUaghaBy Hoaaa.
: T. M. ROBINSON,
Market wreet, CleartleW. Pa.,
' MABBPACTOBBB OP
Lieht Bad Ueevw Vanera, Collarr, Peddler,
Brldlea, Aa. RepearlBg aeaily deae.
May 14, 1110-Om.
JOHN A. STADLER,
BAKER, Market St., OerOdd, Pa.
Freeh Bread, Ru.h. Rolle, Plea end Caker
on band or made to order. A general aeaortment
of Confeetloneriea, Frutta and Nnte In atoek.
lee Cream and Oyatore Id eeeaon. Saloua ararly
oppoaite the Poatuffiee. Prieea moderate.
Mereh 10--71.
J. 11. M'MURRAY
WILL SUPrLT YOU WITH ANY ARTICLE
OF MERCHANDISE AT THE VERY LOWEST
PRICE. COMB AND SEE. (I::73y0
NEW WASHINGTON.
CHEAP GROCERIES I
LVMUER CITT, PA.
The aoderalened annooaeeo te hla old friend.
and patrona that he haa opened a good line el
UHOCKHIES A PRUVIHION8 at the eld eland
of Klrh A Spaneor, for wbiea be aollalta a liberal
patronage. " " vr mwmn.
bomber uity, re., maron av.u.
MARBLE AMD "TO HE YARD.
Mra. M. . 1.IDDELL,
ag engaged IB the Marble haaiBeaa, deeirea
to iBform her frlenda and the poblle Ue4 ehe haa
Bow aod will keep eoneteotly un band a lerge and
well eeleoiad atoek of ITALIAN AND VERMONT
MAKHLK, and la prepared to rurniah ro order
TOMBSTONES. BOX AND CRADLE TOM US,
MONUMENTS, do.
Yard en Heed atreot, near the R, K- Depot,
Clearleld.Pa.
JeH,70
8. I. SN Y D E R,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
ABD DBALBB IB
I Witches, Clocks and Jowolry,
erelem'e , Afarttl Area),
CLEARFIELD, PA.
All blade of repairing la my llae promptly at
eadedto. April U, W4.
lal very Ntable.
TUB BBderalgaed bega leavato Inlorm the pah
tie tbet be ie new fully prepare' to aeeommo
dele all la tha way of faraiablBg H..eeo, Bagglea,
daddlee end Harneaa. en tbe ahorleat Detlee end
aa reaeoneble terma. RealdeBoe ea Loaaetetreet,
keinaa Tkted aad Foarth.
OKU, W. uaAHHAITi
llearleld. Feb. 4, 1074.
MITCHELL WAGONS.
The Beat is the Cheapest I
Thomea Reillv hea reeelred another large M ef
"Mltehell Wegene," whleh ere emoeg Ihe very
beet maBofaelared, end whleh he will eall at the
moat reasonable retn. Illi eteek laeledee elmoet
ell dererlplloaa of wagoar largeand email, wide
aad Barrow trace, i-au awe new mem.
ep,B I4 THOMAS HR1LLY.
ANDREW H ARWIC K,
Market PI reel, Clearleld. Pa.,
MABUrirVt-BBB ARB DBALBB IB
HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS,
aad all klBda or
unDRK riruKiKiiiKa OOOIS.
A fell atoek ef Peddlera Hardware, Bre.be.,
n l. tti.. b ... i,Am .IM,. an head
and for aula at ihe loweit oeoa prleca. All kiade
ef repairing promptly attended to.
Beef aad repelrlng. All binde of herecre leather
'clel;.d, Jan. IS, 1070.
The aaderelgaee) are new folly prepared la
Berry aa the baalsasa el
VNDEBTAKING
AT REASONABLE RATES,
Aad reepeetfelly eoll.lt the pelroa.ge ef thoea
aeeeieg ewea eorrienv. w
jonn TEOUTMAII,
JAMES b. LEAVT.
ClnHald, Pa., F.h II, 1174.
rjNDKRTAKING.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN BONO.
Air- Bii, WHH aad AW
Reform', tbe ery of the Netloa,
The thelrea they're kwklag eaiU Uae,
Sarprlard at the grand nomineiioa
Of Tlldee and Hendrioka ao tree.
Of Tlldea aad Headrieka ao tree,
Of Tildes aad Headrieka ao tree,
Surprtoed at the greed aomlaatioa
Of Tildas aad Haadrleka ea true.
Aroaie, ye oppreaeed with laletlon,
Deoelved by the m.B yoa IboBgbt trae )
Vote at the Natloe'e eleetioB
For Tildea end Hendrlehe the troe.
For Tlldea aad Haadrleka, eta.
Tllden'e the maa St the etetloe,
So fearlem aad hold we all kaew
Thf, hero will ebOBt rerormellon, '
With Headrieka le etend by him tree.
With Headrieka, ale.
Oor plleti ere both ea tbe ileeb,
Tbe eld Ship of Xute keavee la view
A weraing te grabber.- ebeak-
, Reform a oa the old flog, eo tree,
Reform', on the old lag, ete.
(eetloael atrireaad dlvlelea, '
Engender 'd by partllan erew, -
Muet go to tba ohade, of oblivion,
While tha Union edraaooo aeew.
W bile the L aloe, ete.
Tha Beat aad the Weat sever feller'd,
The North BUd the Soalh ever true;
United tbelr foee will he jleugbter'd
By Tilden end Hendrioka the true.
By Tildea aad Headrieka, ete.
MAX TON MARBLE'S riEW3.
A PRIVATE LETTER TO A POL'TINd LIB
ERAL REPUBLICAN COMPARING THE
TWO PLATFORMS, THE TWO LETTERS,
AND Till TWO CANDIDATES GOVERN
OR HATES' FINANCIAL HERESIES WHY
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CAN BEST EF
FECT SUBSTANTIAL REFOBM.
New York, August 10, 1878.
Dear Sir: Your letter is recelvod.
As i burd money man, u a
Liberal Kopublnnn, your indacisioD
should bo ended by a compnrison,
either
1. Ot the platforms oi the two par
ties. 2. Of the letters of acceptance, or,
3. Of tbe characters and capacities
oi tne two rroeiuenitai candidates.
In the first place, the last throe plat
forms of the Republican party show
no nroirroKfl. but a steady f'allintr off f if
... ' . .r. . a.."
you iuku itiw ai-uuum vuu uuauviai bi(-
uation at each ot the three epochs,
1HUH, ihts, 187H1, to say nothing or
the iuilhlcss violation, in Republican
ConirrcHaional legislation, of the pledges
ot Republican National Conventions.
Mow, at last, tbe latest or those Con
ventions openly rejects tbe proposal to
enjoin upon Congress preparation
needful tor resumption, and refuses to
inhibit postponement of resumption be
yond the dny named, January 1, 1879.
Now, at last, tbe same Convention re
times even to ronrirm the bollow prom
ise of that act of 1875, refuses even to
mention it, but, instoad, goes back to
the pledgo of the act oi 18V9 (of which
the act of 1875 was devised lor a mere
and sperions pretense of fulfillment),
and Ibrsooth, at this late day, "de
mands" Uie fulfillment of that earlier,
nnfulfllled, and almost forgotten pledge
hy a continuous and steady progress
to spocio payments." This it does in
a resolution which Itself, by implica
tion, admits the loct that lor seven
years neither "commercial prosperity,
public morals, nor "the national cred
it" bas sufficed to induce the Republi
can party to take the first step in its
'steady progros to specie payments,
or bas sufficed to prevent a single one
of its annual steps backward. And
that is all. iou are merely invited to
lean again upon one of tbe longest bro
ken of many broken reeds.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. ,
On the other band, the throe cor
responding national plaltorms of the
Dumocratio party show a distinct pro
gress, a successively higher tone, clear
er perception and purer purpose, cul
minating in tbe last, luis demands
reform "to establish a sound currency,
restore tbe publio credit and maintain
the national honor." This denounces
tbe lailure to make good tho promise
of tha legal tender notes (tbe core of
tho specie payments problom); de
nounces tbe changing standard of val
ue forced into the hands of the peoplo ;
denounces the non-payment of tbe legal-tenders
as a disregard of the plight
ed faith oi the nation ; denounces the
improvidence which, out of colossal re
ceipts and wasted resources, has accu
mulated no reserve: denounces tbe
Renublican party for bavins, durinir
eleven years of peace, mad no ad
vance toward resumption, and no pre
paration tor resumption, Dut instead,
obstructing resumption by wasting re
sources and exhausting all our surplus
income, and lor having, while annual
ly prolossing to attend a speedy return
to spocio payments, annually enacted
fresh hindrance thereto ; among
which hindrances it wisely or nnwiso
lv reckons the resumption date ot the
act of 1875, fortified in this at least by
tho tact that never has such a date
been anywhere an cftlciont means of
resumption. And, finally, aftor giving
tho best of all possihlo guarantees oi
its spirit and purpose in these precise
and several denunciations, theSt. Louis
Convention comploted its demand lor
resumption ty prcscrininir the three
essential conditions of preparation
therefor, to wit: "publio economies,
official retrenchmonts,and wise finance"
which "shall enable the nation soon to
assure tha world of its perfect ability
and its perfect readiness to meet any
of its promises at tbe call of the credi
tor entitled to payment
It is no descent from the bigbest
plane of economic statesmanship ior
tho platform then to have affirmed, as
it does affirm, that such a system, well
devised and in competent hands for ex
ecution, "would bring healing bn it
wings to all our harassed industries.
They are neitbor economists nor states
men who nave inspired tha people
with dread ot somo apocalypse ol ruin
to follow "cromatioir'c"cbntractioD.?
THE TWO LITTERS OF ACCEPTANCE.
(rov. Tildcn's letter accepting tho
nomination, and uov. Jlayes letter, in
crease the divergence of tbe two par-
tics at the very point whore you place
your chief solicitude Compare the
two:
Gov. Have tumble the great prob
lem, molls through common places and
a politician' phrase-making, and ar
rives at tho conclusion that "tbe leel
ins of uncertainty inscporablo irom an
irredeemable paper currency is a great
obstacle to the revival 01 business and
tha return of prosperity."
"A Daniol come to iudumont I"
So far reaches his perspicacity ; anch
i tbe last word ol bis statesman
ship excerrtthepromiseto "approve,"
(not to devise,) but to "approve every
appropriate step to accomplish the do
sired end.'1 , W shall prweitly see
what the degree of his competency is
likely to be, even lor tbe task or Judg
ing what to approve.
Look it that picture and then on
tbl lb loner ol uov. iiiuon ex
hanstive, statoamanlike, grasping every
detail and tha wfcor problem with
easy, unaffected power, and loosing
the unrdian not of pnoiic poncy ia-
ELD
miliar a bis garter." You are one of
tbe men who should be most compe
tent to appreciate the part of it which
analyses Ihe specie payments problem
to it elements, and oxposea a plan a
way out with nttcr daring, to tho
criticism of his peers, the allegiance of
bis party, and tho test of time. The
map of tbe platform he trnnslorms into
a working chart. Tho pledge of the
platform houndcrwritea with theprom
ib of an honest man.
THE TWO CAN I DATES.
And now, compare tho two men. In
what school of large affair bas Gov.
llayo been truinod V To the handling
of what great questions of publio poli
cy has ho becx bred? llo candidly
makos no prtenso to an exoeutivo in
itiative, but tbe writer has long be
lieved (and this haa been the ground
of his persistent devotion to Governor
Tilden Candidacy) that, except by an
exoeutivo Initiative, tbe problem of
ruacumg siucie payment id iiinuiuuiv.
If so, the highost peraonal competency
in the Executive is the primo condition
of success. No man whodoes notknow
currency as a science, and largo busi
ness a a practico, is competent to this
f rcat task. Under either tost, iiov.
laves fails conspicuously. Tried by
either tost, Gov. Tilden 1 tho lorcmost
man among us. Ilia capacity bos long
been notorious to tho greatest corpor
ations and tho largest interests in tho
land while bo was yet a privato citi
zen. Nor in his brief career as a pub
lio officer could ho keep from bursting
tbe swaddling clothes of routlino, as a
iiercuies nt ior tne iwcivo luuors.
TUB RESUMPTION-DAY REPEAL.
Rut the demand for the repeal of tbe
resumption-day dense, as a hindrance
to resumption, which you do not be-
Iiov it to be, is tho fly in your pot of
OltlLlllUntr LllW IllUhU III IUO OU J.UU1.
platform which binds yoa to the Re
publican beam, was over sucn a po
litical perspective r Was ever sucb
mioroscopio vision tbe cans of sucb
coemio blindness ? To parody the son
net ot lilanco White :
Oh who eould And
While dr and leaf aad iDeeet atood revealed.
That to eueb ootiBtleea orba thou mad'at him
bllad."
I am not endorsing the demand for
the repeal ol tbe resumption-day clause
which was foisted into the St. Louis
platform by tbe men who yot rejected
that limited demand as a satisfaction
of their soft-money sontinieuLs. Their
position was untenable in every re
spect, and they should have been dis
lodged. Could the ropcalors have kept
their demand in tho platform, u probed
by the question whether they would
support the platform thus modified ?
Uut tbey did reiuse to support it, alter
tbu making it teas saltslactory to the
majority. Of course they could have
boon defeated by the majority, and
should have been. Had I been a mem
ber ol tbe Platform Committee, 1 would
never have assented to the insertion of
that demand. That was a good place
w Main. u,,u -in v. am. nil. v .,
whom eould lb demand be made?
nK.l ... iiu.in ... I- it .11 ir in-
The liouse is not Congress and the
Executive. By whom can it bo com
plied with? Doe a Republican Sen
ate or President take orders from a
Democratic Convention ?
THE BEPEAL VOTE OF THE HOUSE.
Nor am 1 defending the action of
tbe liouse ot ttcprcsentatives ander
the lead of Mr. Cox. Was the Ilouso
to assume the demand for repeal to
have been addressed toiuellr it conid
not repeal. The utmost of its compe
tency, by a vote for repeal, was to
make a false and foolish Issue with a
Republican Senate, and take the wrong
side of it ; was to give those authors
of paper Icgal-tondcr, those finishers of
inflation, a chance to masquomdo as
tho better friends of resumption.
as to tno proper course ior tne
House to pursuo, that staunch and
prudent leader in our party, Wm. R.
Morrison, Chairman of tho Committco
ot Way and Means, did me tho honor
to ask my Judgment, while we were
in St. Louis, and after ho returned to
Washington : and tho Hon. Kandall L.
Gibson, of Louisiana, Abdiol of Demo
cratic Representatives did the same.
To them 1 replied :
"Surely, tbo platform is a wnoio.
Tbe repeal clauso is one sentence in
one plank. To construe that sentenco
as if it were the wholo, is to falsify,
belittle, and misconstiue the work of
the Convention. How can this House
executo the platform ? It is within
its competency only to mako an issue
with tho Sonato. To press baro repeal
does not appear to mo to be tho su
preme stretch of human wisdom in
shaping political issues. To do nothing
this session is better than to do merely
that."
Uut now say, cantlidly, do you not
discorn in Gov. Tildcn's Icttcrasounder
and more just construction of the whole
St. Louis platform than that of the so
called "Independent" or Republican,
or soft-money critics, who find nothing
therein but a domand lor the repeal ol
the resumption day clause? lie cer
tainly does not believe that Democratic
resumption, with preparations to re
sume, will, in 1879, bo as impossible as
Republican resumption with no pre
parations to rosumo.
IMPORTANCE OF REPEAL CLAU8I EXAO-
OEEATED.
Your solicitude exaggerates the im
portance oi clause foisted into the
platform, wbicb, without that addition.
wa satisfactory to uovernor union s
Inends. f or, the repeal oi tne re
sumption-day clause of tbo act of 1875
leave in undiminished vigor eactt and
all tb meana to prepar and provide
for resumption (unused by Secretory
Bristow, whom you would now prefer
to Uov. naves), which that act crea
ted. Tbe repeal of that clause cancels
tho promise, to be sure, but it does not
cancel any the least of tho mean
therein provided to mak that promise
good. And, 11 Indeed there bo, as
Western Democrats and Western lie
nblicana aliko allege, any considera
te namber ol persons wbo are in mor
tal trepidation lest resumption day
shall roll the besvens together as a
scroll and melt the business world with
fervent beat, even though the fear be
folly, nevertheless, must it not in can
dor be said, that to cancel tbe promise
may be to disengage real preparation!
for rosamption from ono serious im
pediment to their success. Tb prom
Ise barer abould bav been an celled
till something better bad been put in
it plaoa, yet on of tb first step of
any sueoeaelul effort thereto Is a step
which "eramaieon" project, and "con
traction" proclamation overlook tb
necesalty of, a step which neb an open
contraotionist aa Amasa Walker wa
at last driven to feel the necessity of,
to wit, tbo necessity, in a eoantry gov-
erned tb rough anivernal soffrsgo, ol
dissipating tb vagti alarm and eve
tb unfounded tear of any large class
of people, having votes, that progress
toward reramption will canse, either
la the wise process or tb benefloent
remit, additional disaster. Thia I a
practical difficulty which eronomlst
wbo are not statesmen and hard money
men wbo do not approcinto the onsen'
tial conditions of political loadcrjhip,
aro liablo to underrate. But it Is a
difficulty which Gov. Tilden, In his
lottor, handles, both as economist nncl
statesman, with consummate sagacity,
You would iersuatle yonrscll that
Gov. llayo ha no less firm convic
tions and purposes us to resumption
and otbor financial rclorms thnn Gov.
Tildon, and jump to the Inferences that
he will be no less competent than Gov,
Tildon to carry thoso reforms to a suc
cessful Issue Jiio inference is un
sound; the promiso false Thoroisno
such equality as you allege, and for
ovidence ono may prefer Ins public
speeches to your incniiiy prejudices,
nov. haves' financial hkcoiio.
. Uov. Hayes, in a speech which ho
made at Hamilton, Ohio, in the sum
mer of 18ii7 Is uutbtmty lor the state
ment that ho "followed Thud. Stevens
in voting lor a proposition to issue one
hundred millions in greenbacks to pay
compound-interest notes fulling duo."
1 bo very reverse oi mat process is tho
plan ftir resumption advocated with so
much ability by your admired friend,
tbo luto Amasa Walker, both before
and in his criticisms of Sherman's
sham.
Gov. Hayes, in Bulaviu. Ohio, in
August, 18u7, rejected openly and de
nounced a means of resumption which
you bolicve to be tine qua nun. 1 quote
bis words train the vorbalnn report ol
the Cincinnati Commrrcial: "Judge
Rannoy and Judge Jcwett both com-
iluin that ttio Johnson Administration
is now engaged in tnking np green
backs by issuing in their stead inter-
out bearing bonds. 1 heartily concur
with thorn in opposing that policy. As
a membor of tho ilouso I voted nguinst
it a groat many time in the Ibirty
nintii Congress." Gov. Hayes pro
ceeded to denounce that policy as a
measure voUd for by ovory Democratic
member in both houses of Congress
who voted at all (a mnionty of mcm-
bors of hi own party voting against
it), and lor which, therefore, liis party
wos not responsible, but for which the
Johnson party or tho Democracy wore
responsible. Tins denunciation, on
that ground, of l'residont Johnson, of
Socrctnry McCulloch; and ot Demo
crats, aud this fatal defence of his own
party, he repealed often in that cam
paign, notably at Sidney, Ohio, on the
4th ol September.
Amasa n alker used to say : "There
ha net or been but ono difficult v in so-
curing a sound currency, and that has
been and Is the indisposition ol tbo
Government to convert its domand
notes Into time bonds." ,
Hut perhaps you will rejoin thnt
Governor Hayes bos sineo changed hie
opinion., and now entertains sounder
one. The fiict is this, that Governor
Hayes' opinions on the changing
phases of tbe currency question have
always been nicroly tboso of opposition
to tbe opinions of somo of tho Ohio
Democrats. They aro strong men,
witli the courage ol their convictions.
They nevor uave up till they were
squarely dotcated in National Conven
tion. '1 hoy always defined Governor
Haycsand gave him his boundaries:
never ho them. Ho has at no timo
had a grounded, independent iuili'inent
ot bis own in these matters; and since
both parties in that Klato have chas-
seed and changed partners with great
freedom, bis testimony can bo invoked
for almost any error, as woll as for
several truths.
So recently, howover, as the canvass
of 1875, the position of Gov. Hayes
was precisely that which you attribute
to Mr. Hondricks now, but which in
fact bettor corresponds to Senator
morion position at tho same or an
earlier period. At Morton, Ohio, on
the 31st of July, 1875, Gov. Hayes
said: The Republicans ot Ohio "do
not proposo to force resumption by a
contraction ot tho currency. They
are satisfied to leave to the influences
of time and tho inherent energies of
the country tho work that yet remains
to be dono to placo onr currency at
par."
THE UROWINU UP TO RESUMPTION POLICY.
Do you rccognizo tho mellow bun
combe ? "Icuve to tho influence of
lime anJ tho inherent euergics of tho
country." What energies? And why
not leave to the same energies, which
being "inherent" muko no demand on
good men, and to tho san.o "influences
of timo," which ncod no aid from hu
man hearts . or brains, every other re
form as well at tho reform of tho cur
rency ?
Wbon you wrote that "Gov. Hayes
is as aound on free trade and hard
money personally as you are, did you
really believe your friend capable ot
the loolisb lailh ot tiov. 11 ayes and tbo
toll money men in tbo "growing-up-to-
rosumption policy I I bat is flat igno
rance. To begin with, our currency
sufficed in quantity, twenty-live years
ago; and the moro rapid circulation
since insured by checks, book credits,
clearing houses and other exchungo
contrivances, constantly cnuhles our
currency requirements to expand much
less rapidly than our wealth and popu
lation increase. Great Britain, fur ex
ample, has doubled her population, and
moro than quadrupled her exports and
imports in the lost half century. Her
people, nevertheless, aro able lo trans
act their business with a paper circula
tion no larger than it wus filly years
ago. Our own population, from 1850
to 1875, not quite doubled. Our wealth,
Irom 18.ri0 to inill, a littlo more than
quadrupled. During the same twenty
years our currency has been more than
quintupled. If Gov. llayo and his
party rido the hare at tins speed, the
tortoiso, left to "tbo Influences of timo"
and bis "inherent energies," has a stern
nhase and a long one. So much for
Gov. Hayes' growing-up-to-rcsumplrnn
policy.
WnoCAN BEST EFFECT REFORM.
But your correspondent is not in ques
tion. It is a parity of power in the
chiefs of the two parties that you affirm.
Can you then possibly think any man
competent to lead his party to specie
payments who is not competent to lead
them to effect a great reduction of tho
aggregate oi Federal taxation, not to
say a great improvement of its modes?
.Not ovory party leader could accomp
lish that, had his partisans an interest
in all established abuses. But besides
tha incompetency Gov. Hayes enjoys
in common with any lienublican can
diduto, he has an incompetency all bis
own. ror, oi ine lust mentioned con
dition of currency reform he betrays a
blank unconsciousness. His rooord,
too, a a Congressman and a Governor
leaves him wiiu his prools to mako.
Not so Gov. Tildon. His prools are
made. Not merely in what ho has
persistently written, but in what bo
baa successfully dune, baa bo demon
strated bis ability to tak that indis
pensable step toward resumption ol
specie payments tne reduction ol tax
ationthe administration of the Gov
ernment vpon a smaller seal of ex
pense. In two year he has minced
REPUBLICAN.
tho Slnto taxation of Now York nearly
one-hall.
in tho improvement, moreover, of
tho inotlos of Federal taxation, 1 It a
doleguto to tho Cincinnull Convention
oi 1H72 (which remitted tho question
ol Eroo Trade to tho Congressional
districts) who now expect moro of a
party controllod by protectionists who-
over thoir titular bead, than ot a trained
and instructed economist like Gov. Til
don, leading a party which in it St.
Louis plulioriu dared turn. con. to de
nounce in sum unci in detail, in causo
and in consequence, tho monstrosities
ot tho present tariff, and upon that
issiio goes to tho whole country r
But us to the iinmcdiato problem oi
specie pity mciils and the party of powor
in tho chiefs ol tho two parlies nay,
let me rather say, as to tho capacity
of any Republican President to carry
out that reform, tho evidence to sutisfy
or oven to oncoiiriigo you is titr to seek
Gov. Hayes, as an cxhortor to specie
payments, would novor surpass den
Grant. Ho would novor approach his
personal supremacy, n bat has lion
Urantdono fur spocio payments? That
ho did prevent ono worso inflation let
us gratefully remembor. uut with all
bis exhortations nnd all his personal
supremacy, what lias ho been able
afllrmutively to effect. Liko Gov.
Haves, be qutlo lacks that high per
sonal competency to deal with tho dif
ficulty winch would bavo assured to
tho Exoeutivo initiative the outcomo
of a legislative ratification. Ho could
not btidgo Ins party ono inch. I ould
Geu. Hayes do moro?
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE CUR
RENCY.
Gov. Hayes, like President Grant,
would bo obliged to work through a
parly interested in ovory abuso, and
the heir of its own history. Ho would
have to deal with the party which
created legal tenders ; which cancelled
the early provision for their oxchango
into interest-bearing bonds; which
madu tho law thnt enabled President
Grant to pack tho bench of tho Su
premo Court with jndgos willing to ro
vorse its previous decision against the
Constitutionality of tho legnl-tcndor
act ; which, in ovory yoar of war and
during ten following years of peace, by
successive inflations, put fresh hin
drances in tho way of resumption;
which violated unblushingly overy par
tisan and every official pledgo of a pur
poso to resume ; which reissued, by ex
oeutivo usurpation, notes issued with
out Constitutional authority; which
has transcended the war limit imposed
upon such issues, even by tho puckod
court's last legal tender decision; which
refused to destroy the notes withdrawn
by Secretory Bristow (replaceable 100
to 80 by the national banK notes) and
openly declined to givo security that
they should not bo reissued as wore
those withdrawn by Secretary McCul
loch ; which, in March, 18119, solemnly
pledged tho faith of the United States
to make provisions at the curliest preo-
tirnblo period, for the redemption of
tho United Mates notes In coin, and
which in 1875 again, for thojhiindrcdth
time, dishonored Unit publio faith by
Jiassing John Sherman's sham, naming
Ian. 1, 1879, as the day of resumption,
and providing and preparing for that
resumption with a surplus which has
never boon accumulated, with a sale
of bonds which bavo nevor been sold,
nnd with an expansion of paper issue
which has only not boen realized he-
canse, in the disastrous extremity to
which Republican charlatans and plan-
rcrs had reduced tho businoss ol the
country, inflation itself, except by a
greater increase ol governmental cx-
Iicnditiiro, had at last become itnposst
lo. NO IIOI'Z FROU THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Is it from such a party that you hope
for bettor things?
Is it from the party whicu in Na
tional Convention on a second ballot
nominated Samuel J. Tilden, that you
droad a darker day?
Do you hope lor reform from tho
party that, as represented in National
Convention at Cincinnati, voted down
the resolution in which il was pro
posed by Gov. Davis of Texas that tho
convontion should declare it "tho duty
of Congress to provulo measures lor
carrying out the provisions of what is
tormed tbe Kcsitniplion act ol Congress,
to tho end that resumption of spocio
payments at the timo fixod by said act
cannot bo further postponed?"
Do you hope for Bpccio payments
from tho parly which, afler having
repudiated the pledgo of 18i9, and af
ter having by the act of 1875 repudi
ated until 1879 tbe notes ot tho United
States which are payablo on demand,
finishes by repudiating nil that kept
the promise to the hope, in tbo act that
made a promiso to tho oar, of resump
tion of spocio puymont two and a third
years hence?
no you arcati ana uisirtisi ine party
that may havo erred as to ono item in
the long culaloguo ol hindrances to re
sumption which, as such, it denounce
and that Item, ono which novor by
it authors was intended to bo, and
novor bos been, made a help to resump
tion ?
A pnrty retained in powor retains its
character and its control of its highest
officials; whereas a party newly charged
with power which it has obtained by
the pledges of il plutform, and the
character ot its nominco, must accept
Ins leadership and be faithful to its
pledges In his interpretation of the
same. In the former case you have a
popular condonation if not a popular
endorsement of Iho past ; you have no
inducement to reform since its necessity
has not been affirmed, and since all
ofllciul rewards bavo been conferred
without that price. hero, then, goes
tbe influence of every ofliooholdur, high
and low?
in tho other case tho selfish interest
of overy aspirant and ovory appointee
concurs with tho highest aspirations
and tho best purposes ol the leader by
and under whom they bavo achieved
victory.
Tho Heady progress ol Iho llemo-
crutic party which you have witnessed
during the last docado yoa may look
to sco contitincd in the direction ol a
success thut ha been so signal. The
leaders in that progress are the cap
tains ir. this light.
Till DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO SUCCEED.
Woshall succeed. Obionnd Indiana,
hitherto repeatedly lost upon false
issues, will probably botb be carried in
Octobor by the Democracy. Ohio will
certainly be lost to tho Republicans,
though it is tho bom Stale ol their
candidate. 1 he Democrats cannot bnt
bo victorious upon the sound issues of
tho SU Louis platform and Gov. Til
den's letter oi acceptance. 1 venture
the prediction.
Observe that tbo soft money Repub
licans bave nevor failed to rule tbeir
party, and impress thoir wishes upon
every Item ot it affirmative legislation.
Sherman' sham is tbe monument of
the cowardice of tho bard-money Re-
publican, who did not dar "fight for
a funeral" with the soft-money Demo
crats bavo boon squarely defeutcd in
National Convention, and huvo prompt
ly and manfUlly wheeled into lino.
Perhaps lliey aro thomselvog suspicious
of tho causo of tho repented defeuls
which bavo followed their most gal
lant struggles. Perhaps they uro con
vinced oi their own misapprehensions
regarding tho hard-money men of tho
Lust. Anyway, as luilhltil Democrats,
they havo wheeled into lino, and they
will bo us loyal as Now York itself to
the declared will of tho party, and to
mo work ot resumption with winch
Gov. Tilden will mako his administra
tion illustrious. Shall wo begrudge
iiiem their side arms and tho honors ol
war? Thoy bavo already molted
into tha swelling ranks of tbo Democ
racy, and follow tha flag.
Aftor victory will come the harvest
ing of its fruits, will come tho construc
tion of a now aud butter publio policy.
This will bo a work as great, us fur
roaching as thai of Jcflorson at tho
dawn of tho contury, but tuoro difficult
and uflocling tun times ns many human
beings lor weal or woe.
from that, too, will you withhold
your hand? Yours, respectfully,
JUANTON ilAHUl.I.
THE COLOH L1XE.
NTEREHT1NG CORRESPONDENCE ON THE
QUESTION OF RACE A CLERICAL DEM
AGOGUE IN NEW IlAlirsllIRE UNDER
TAKES TO INSTRUCT A COLORED MIS
SIONARY IN VIRGINIA, AND UET8 A
OOOD LESSON.
A sclf rigbtoons Now llampshirito,
who estocms himself righteous above
ull other men, prefers to utilize the
negro as a Radical voter rather than
to see him free and happy with bread
enough for his family. Ho addressed
alctter (found below) to a "colored
brother named Jninjeo, at Jdchmond,
Va,. in which he gives tho combinod
standard Idea of hypocrite, demagoguo
and knave common to New England
when dilating on tbe nogro question.
Those men wbo seldom see a negro,
and who aro always lorcmost to lecture
thoso who tiava grown up with them,
in relation to their trcntniont,prosumo
largoly that they aro tho special depos
itors oi an that i sacred and wiso, and
that all others are wicked and ignor
ant tho old Pburisco over. Hut to
tho correspondence :
Concord, N. H., July C, 1870.
Dear Brother Dunjee : On the
12th inst. 1 sent you a chock for 850,
and havo roceivou no receipt or any
thing from you since
To-day I received a letter Irom Har
per's Ferry in which is the following
Bcntonco: "The report Is current bcro
that Brother Dunjee ha gnno over to
tho Rebels, and is going to stump for
Tilden and Hendricks. I am afraid it
is so."
My dear brother D., is there any
truth in that report ? Havo you oven
had a thought of doing such a thing ?
It you have, 1 pray you pauso before
you lako a singlo step in that direction.
Such a conrso would bo a cause of great
grief to all yur friends, nnd all tho
true lovers of freedom and piety. In
doing this you will bring a wound and
a roproach nnon your mission work
among froodmcn, and ruin your own
usefulness as a minister of Christ. How
II all thoso feel who have contributed
for your support in our mission work
for Richmond mcoting-houso, etc., it
you now desert your brethren and go
over to tho old Robs, tho haters of the
colored man and the causo of freedom,
and givo your influcnco to strengthen
the hands ot such men as Jen. iavts
and thoso who bavo murdered thou
sands and thousands of ycur colored
brethren at tho bun til within a lew
years past, to prevent them irom vo
ting for tho cause of their own God
given rights ? O, this cannot ho ; 1
will not buliovo it can Do so tin i near
more from you. Do write mo by re
turn moil and send receipt for fifty
dollars, and tell mo if there is any
foundation for tho report to which 1
bave alluded ; and bo entreated to go
no further in that direction, ii you havo
taken ono step, until you consult with1
our fn Irumts, ISrolhors JUorrell,
Bruckctt, Stownrt, Burgess. Anthony,
Chase, &c, Ac.
Do not fail to lot mo hear from you
at onco, and givo mo the fact on this
subject. Yours, truly,
hll.AS I UI1TIB.
P. S. Tilden ami Hondricks aro
identified with the old Rebol party, and
ill be supported by ex-l(ebels ot tho
JefT. Davis stripo and thoso who sym
pathised with thorn during the war
and since, and I would just as soon
vote for Jen. Davis lor 1'ivsident as 1
would for Sum. Tildon, tho former as
sociate of " Boss " Tweed, of Now York,
nnd always a Rebel sympathizer.
s. v.
Richmond, August 21, 187G.
Dear Brother Curtis: Yours oi
July -b' is before me about rumors
which you have heard in regard to my
going over to tho " Rebels.''
First, I would state that I havo tried
to fulfill my whole duly in my work
bore, and havo not at any timo neg-
icctcu my mission uuiien. iiiiin in
more interested In ull that pertains to
the best welfare ol the colored peoplo
and their highest development, ho, 1
have tried to conduct mysell and teach
my peoplo that is their Christian duty
to muko friends with tha white people
South, among whom tbey live. This
can bo dono without satjriflcing any
principle of manhood ; in fact, tho south
ern peoplo do not ask tho colored peo
plo to compromise a singlo right. But we
who live bore see tho great importance
of a full and manly reconciliation be
tween the two races. This can bo dono
bv dividing tho colored voto botwoon
the two parties. As soon as it is thus
divitled they will cease to bo an object
ol ostracism and bono oi contention
Both parlies will then treat thorn with
duo respect. Take Virginia, and tho
white people oi tins state are as menu
ly to tho colored peoplo as tboy are
any whore in America ; tho most friend
ly teelings exist between the two races.
What we who are interested in tbe
great causa of humanity are ondeavor
ing lo do is to break down nil color
lines, and altogether forget sluvory,tho
war and tho past, and go on to higher
attainments and a brother Christian
man. 1 boliuve the white neobto of tbo
South are truo lo tho professions tbey
aro now making. Tbey do not desire
any moro slavery ; thoy will stand by
all the results ol the wsr tnoy are in
tho Union to fro out no moro forever.
Tbey aro laboring nobly In our State
for public education, without regard to
color. I bave evory right in Richmond
that I would have In Boston. They
aro doing all for the colored people in
a benevolent way they can do. You
know tb lata war laid It withering
band upon tho South and there aro
many poor pooplo botb whitoand black;
notwithstanding, llioro aro many of the
white gcntlomen who have contributed
largely to mission work for our peoplo
in Richmond and other place in the
South, Tboro aro 31,000 colored peo
ple in this city who nro depending on
tho whites for tho bread they cat.
Many poor pooplo of color would starve
to ileum hero but tor me Kinonoss oi
tho whites in giving thorn shelter and
food. You can havo no idea of the
truo condition of things bore. Now,
in Iho fuco of all these facts, I do not
think tho wlnto peoplo of the bouth
very dangerous Kebels.
just a word about somo ot our
troubles. You have board much tulk
about "Carpet-baggers." You havo
no idea tho amount of trouble these
men have given us. Men who were
of tho worst characters in tho North,
who wore from tho lowest haunts of
New York and Boston ; men ns had as
crimo could muko them, who wcro no
gro huturs in the North, bavo come
South and taken advantage of the
ignorance of tbe colored poople, and
have been elevated to places of high
trust in our Statu Governments, for
the sole purposo on tbeir part to plun
der the public. This same class of men
havo arrayed thocolored pcoploagainst
tho whites for political purposes, and,
when trouble comes, desert them. All
the mobs which we havo had in the
South havo been gotten up by bad
men. I know wo havo some lawless
whito men hero, but tho good peoplo
of the South must not bo blamed ior
their acts. You have them at the
North with you. This wild and fruit
less contest has been going on for years,
nnd who aro tho sufferers ? Tho col
ored men being tbo weaker party,
always loso ground, and must at lust
o to the wall it the nght is kept up.
know veik in New Hampshire, may
not see this matter as 1 do, but I tell
you tho negro of the South must go
under it tho policy ol tho lost lew years
is to bo continued. Now, if the Home
Missions Board discharges mo for these
sentiments, 1 regret it, but cunnot
yield my honest convictions ; I am sor
ry I cannot make them see the right
fulness of my position.
iou ask me what tho persons who
have contributed from time to time for
my support would think. To this 1
would suy, if thoy understood my truo
position tbey would, 1 think, mako
those contributions moro readily than
ever. The negro is now passing
through tbo most critical period of his
history, and his destiny for cood or
evil will bo guided by his action. If
ho arrays Inmscll against tho white
people, ho must, sooner or lator, be
ground to powder.
There is no natural antagonism be
tween tho two races in the South ; tho
whites and blacks wcro horn and
brought up together, and must livo and
die togother. Tho late trouble at Ham
burg, South Carolina, and other troub
les we havo had in the South since tbe
war, have not boon tho result of any
ill feeling on tho part of our homo peo
ple, but are tho result of tho actions
of bad men who bavo como South and
kept up from year to yoar the most
bitter political contests and havo used
every ollort to kocp the whito and col
ored pooplo from making friends, one
of their priuciplo moans is tho whole
sale use of bad whisky ; also, nppoaling
to the very worst passions of the ignor
ant. No stone ie left unturnod on thoir
part to exasperate and excito the feel
ings ol our poor peoplo, which might
at any timo bo kindled into a fhtmo
which might result in bloodshed. 1
only wonder we havo not had ten riotB
where wo havo had ono. Now I say
that every good man in tho South,
white and black, ought to join bands
and rid our fair section from IhiB terri
ble state of things. I hope you will
not misunderstand mo ; theso charges
aro not against tho good pooplo of tho
North. Wo will give tho most hearty
welcome to any good man ot the North
who may como among us for good pur
poses. 1 think it you wcro to live horo
a fow years you would tako the samo
stand that I have Wo bavo some
mon from tho North who are highly
respected, but all thoso take tho samo
stnnd, and aro not tho men objected to.
Tho colored men, if they aro to bo citi
zens of this country, must differ just as
white men do on all tho great ques
tions of tho day, sucb as finance, tariff,
luxation, and questions ol law, trado,
etc. I ntil we arrive at this point we
will bo mere machines, and not men in
the true sense of tho term.
In conclusion, I would call your at
tention to tho report of the Hon. B. B.
Douglas, of Virginia, on theFroedman's
Bank fraud, and the speech of Hon.
W. S. Stongor, of Pennsylvania, on tho
samo subject. I would also call your
attention to tho large amount of money
stolen from the widows and orphans
of tho clorod soldiers and sailors. Tho
District Ring and many other things
might bo mentioned, but timo and
spaco will not allow it ' The colored
voter of the South, as ruled by tho
Radicals, has no liberty in tho use ot
his ballot, which liberty wo claim and
must have, or continuo slaves. Ho
should bo taught independence and
self-reliunce.
Pleaso answer mo a few questions.
Who should bo the best judge of the
truo condition of tho southern peoplo
I, who was born and brought up in tho
South, as I havo been, and served
ttteiity-ncven years of my life as a
slave (whan a boy I played with whito
boys, and know there is no natural
bud feeling botwoon tho two races), or
yourself? What can yon in Now
Hampshire or Sluino know of our con
dition down here? Whon you call our
pooplo " Rebels," you do them a groat
wrong. I boliovo the people of tho
South aro as loyal to the Union as
thoso of tho North. I ask you, as a
Christian, do yon think it right to bo
constantly abusing the southern peo-
tlo ? They have como back to tho
Inlon and fully accepted all of the
amondinont lo tho Constitution, with
all tho results of the war. Tho only
reason why they have tnado such an
effort to get hold of thoir own Slato
Governments is to protoet thcmsolves
from tho wicked plundonngs and rob
bery of Carpol-boggor ; and overy
good man, white and black, ought to
join hands to emancipate us from this
tearful statu of things. Remember that
our borne in the South aro as dear to
us as yours In New Hampshire. Now
how would yoa liko your Slate lo bo
infested with a gang of those political
thiovo from another fur country, plun
dering the public treasury and leaving
a lax on the peoplo loo heavy lor them
to bear, and exciting riot and causing
bloodshed ? 1 ask you, would you
help thorn to continue the work ol de
struction against your own poople ? 1
tell you this is our condition, nnd the
colored poople aro tho main agency by
which tbey aro enabled to do their
work ; anil, in my judgment, nothing
but a division oi tho colored voto can
bring pcac and prosperity, which wo
so much need ; and 1 leel that no put
nit work or mission effort will enable
me to dor aa much for my ruco a this
work.
I have given this matter eleven years'
thought, and for yoar I bav taken
great pains to inform myself a to tbo
true feeling of Iho wople of the Smit h,
unfl it la in V CfinelllHinn thnt Ilia uhifi.
desire to live with tho colored peoplo
in peace and quietness, and are doing
all thoy enn to gain that objoct. 1 bey
do not want all of Iho colored peoplo
to vole tho Democrulio ticket, but lie-
neve it would bo best to divido their
vote between Iho two parties. Thi
nninr. u-m, I.I l. n:..
ago but for iho terror of the Radical
party Rtiu us loyal league. There
has been no intimidation in tho South
worso thnn that practiced by tho Cur-pcl-bttggcr
purty of tbo South. I do
not churgo the colored ioplo with thi
cruelty. They uro not to blame ; they
nro only tools in tho hands of thoso
bad men. I have known somo colored
men lo bo whipped, somo turned out
of their churches, and all kinds of in
tolerant abuses havo been heaped upon
thoso colored men who dared voto the
Democratic ticket. In somo part of
tbo Soulb the life of a colored man
(Democrat) is not very safe. I submit
those fuels to yoa as the honest con-
jviction of my heart, and must say I
cannot accept your advice, becnuso in
doing so I would not do juslico to my
self and to my race
Yours, with great rcspoct,
John i. Dunjee.
WHEELER AND THE WAJl.
From tbe Philadelphia Tlmea, Angut "dr 1
It is i in possible tocondcrhn too Btrong
ly and earnestly the unfortunato spcocb
inado by Mr. Whoolor at St. Albans,
on Friday evening (Aug. 25th). Hud
he spoken simply as a privato citizen,
his violent sectionalism would do little
harm, and wo could afford to pass it by
with all the other Bourbon idiocy that
is talked on cither side But Mr.
Wheeler, as the Republican candidate
for tho Vice Presidency, occupies a
representative position, ' and what ho
says will bo taken as expressing the
position and aims ot tbe party that
puts bim forward as it candidate,
ror this reason wo fear that bis speech,
inconsistent, illogical and fulso us it is,
will do much barm, and all the more
becauBO better things were expected
of him. Tho only reason that has ever
boon given for the nomination of Mr.
V heeler was the good sense bo was
thought to hkvo shown in the Louisi
ana businoss, where he succeeded, by
Lis calm judgment and impartiality, in
adjusting a bitter partisan contest and
commended himself to men of all par
ties in North and South alike. So
proud was Mr. Wheeler himself of tins
achievement that be referred to it in
his lettor of acceptance, quoting from
his Louisiana report an appeal lor jus
tice to tho South. He spoko of the
unreasonableness of expecting that the
manses ol tho houth could in a low
years bo transformed into model north
ern communities, an end that could
only como "through a long course ot
patient waiting, to which no one can
now set certain bounds," and with a
great deal of " unavoidable friction
which will call for forbearance : and
ho went on to say :
We oompelled tbcee people to remaia 1b tbe
Union, aod now duly and intereit demeod that
we leare oo juet moana untried to make them
good, loyalcltiaeaa. How to dimlniehlbefneuoo.
Bow to otimulele tba elevation ef due portion of
our oountry, ere problema addreeeing Ibomealvee
to oor bait end wlieet ateteimaDahip.
In a similar, but even broader spirit,
Mr. Hayes expresses tho sumo duty
when ho says :
Let me nature my eoaotrymen of the Southern
Stitee that if I ehall be charged with the duty of
organlilng an edmioiftratloa, It will be one wblea
will reirard end eherieh tbeir traeet loteraela, the
iotereeto ef Ihe white end oelored people both aad
equally, and which will put forth lie beat efforta
in oenaii ol a oitii pouoy wnien will wipe out
forever the diitiuetion between North aod South
ia our eon moo ooonlry.
These are wise words. But thi
peaceful civil policy is not to bo secur
ed by military orders, nor the distinc
tion between North and South wiped
out by such speeches as Mr. Wheeler',
which has no other pnrpose, certainly
can havo no other effect, than to array
ono soction against tho othor. "Tbe
united South," "tho Conloderato par
ty," "the lato slave States," are tho
burden of his cry. "Wo confront tho
old issue," ho Bays, "wo are already en
gaged in another conflict;" "as in 1800,
we aro once moro face to face with a
united South," and "let your ballot
protect tho work so otloctivoly dono at
Gettysburg and on many a field of
strife." This is Mr. Wboelcr'a idea of
"how to diminish tho friction." In
tbo face of such attacks, how can wo
look for anything elso than "a united
South." or what encouragement is
there for thoso wbo bavo sincerely la
bored for harmony, when thoir ad
vances aro mot in such a spirit as this ?
Ion years ago, Massachusetts irroat
War Govornor, John A. Andrew, said:
"There ought now to bo a vigorous
prosecution of tbe peace, just as vig
orous as our recent prosecution of tho
war." Had his wiso counsel boon fol
lowed there would bo no longer a di
vision bctweon North and South. But
instead of this wo havo had nothing
but the old war talk and war meas
ures, through all theso weary years.
and to-day a representative of tbo par
ty in power, its candidnto for the V ice
1 residency, en think of nothing elso
to say, as a reason why it should be
kept in power, than thut it has not ad
vanced a single stop, since 18G6, to
ward tho accomplishment ot what was
thon and has been over since tho ono
great duty, tho one great tost ot its
statesmanship. Wo can assure Mr.
vt heeler that tho Northern people aro
.very tired of this sort of thing. Thoy
think with Mr. Sumner that "tho timo
for the soldier has passed," and they
would proter to voto for a man whoso
heart was big enough to take in tho
wholo country, rathor than for ono
who stands on Plymouth rock and
hurls anathemas against half his fel
low-citizens. Let him leave tho war
to the Butlers and Kilpatricks and
Mortons ; thoy liko it, and no ono ex
pects anything elso from them. But
a man wbo seeks tho suffrages of tho
nation must rccognizo no sectional
lines, and Mr. Whoelor will do better,
next timo be muko a spcocb, to tako
ior its kcy-noto tno earnost aspiration
of the country : "Let ua bave peace."
Hit Irtitnn,! nn in llin nffli.M nnnnln.
fS " i .vu.,.u,,
picked up a toothpick, and as ho pried
away at the molars bo said to Ihe
clerk :
"Must be hard musn't it foraman
lo be hurried in a trance state ?"
" Yea'r," was tbe briof reply.
"That's all I'm afraid of, oontinued
the confidential dead-beat. "I'm afraid
I'll bo burried before I'm really dead."
1 guoss not, answered tbe olork ;
"tho law regulates that."
"Tbo law 7 How r
"It proscribes bow long the body
shall hang bofore boing cut down."
1 be man softly laid lb toothpick
down on Iho counter and went over to
look at tho files of the daily papers.
Definition or Riri.i Terms. A day's
journey wa 331 mile. A Sabbath
dny journey was about an Knghah
mile. A cubit is Zl Inches, nearly. A
hand's breadth is eqnnl to three and
five-eighths inches. A finger's breath
is equal to one inch. A shekel of sil
vor is about 50 cents. A shekol of gold
was 18.09. A talent of silver wa
1538.32. A talont of gold was SI 2,809.
A ploce of silvor, or a penny, wa thir
teen cent. A farthing was throe oont.
A mile wa las than a quarter of a
cont. A gerab was one ocnt. A epha
contains seven gallons and five pint.
A bin was ono gallon and two pint.
A firkin was seven pints. Aomerwas
six pints. A hath wa throe pint.
"Why didn't I kill omobody?"
thought a convict aa ho entered the
Massachusetts Stato Prison to servo
out a ten yoare' sontonce for hen-stealing
side by side with a man sentenced
to five year for catiaing the death of
hi wife.