THB ' CLEARFIELD EEPIBLICAV CLIARFIILD, PA. UTAH LI SHED IN me la r eat Clrcalatlo af my Hawipapejr In Kurth Central PenuaylTanla. Terms of Subscription. f paid la mItum, or withla I B.onthi....? M jf piid aftar S and bofora I atonthi to If kiil altar iba oiplratloB of 6 bob t ha... 3 MJ Ratos ot Advertising, Traniieftt avdrertiaaniaaU, par aqaaraof 10 How or ten, 5 timet or left $1 60 Kr Bach aubaaquant loMrtioa.. fl A lininlitralori' nd Eiaoatora'aoUoat t M Auditor' ootioM I 0ulinmatid Kstraji I 6 Dirmlulion ootieaa 3 Proffttiional Carda, S 11 tiu or 1mi,1 year.... 0 L'tfal Dolloci.par line .. 10 YKAULY ADVBRTIBBMKNTB. i ukr $8 00 I J eolmmB.. 00 3 aiuarea. 16 00 aolnua ..... TO 00 I aiuaraa... ..J0 00 I 1 eolamnM ISO 00 Q. B. QOODLANDKR, Pabllabor. aiviicrs' (farfls. J J W. SMITH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, tl:1:TX ClearBeld, Pa. T J. LING LIS, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 1:11 Phlllpaburg, Centra Co., Pa. y:pd 11 OLANDD.SWOOPE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Curweuiville, Clearfield oounty, Pa. ml. , '78-tf. QSCAIt MITCnELL, ATTOBNBY AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA. rirOBIce In Ike Opera llouee. ocl", "TS-tf. G. R. 4 W. BAHHRTT, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, clearfield, pa. January 30, 1S7S. rSRAF.Ii TEST, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clearfield, Pa. WOOoe In the Court Houee. jjlltl JU, M. MeCULLOUOn, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA. Offi.-e in llaeonie building, Eeeond etreot, op .o.ita tba Court Itouaa. Je2S,'78-tf. C. ARNOLD, LAW Hi COLLECTION OFFICE, Cl'BWEKRYILLI, e?A Clrarfrold Countjr, Penn'a. Toy g T. I1ROCKDANK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA. iak In Optra Uouao. ap S&.TT-ly gMlTII V. WILSON, 1ttornty-at-I.ait, CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. aj-OIp In the Maionl. Building, over tbe Cuuety National Hank. mnrM-tt. yiLLlAM A. HAGERTY, .f TTOIt.YE I -.17'- t.f ', CLEARFIKLD, SENN'A Tfr-Wlll ntlend to all legal builnm with ptomptneee and fidelity. febl 1,'40-lf. WILLIAM a. WALL.CB. Hiaar r. wallacs. DATts L. bbbbb. loan w. waieLBT. rALliAOIi 4 KKKBH, T (Huweeeore to Wallaoa A Fielding,) ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, jil'77 ClearBeld, Pa. J. K. SNYDER, ATTORN KY AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA. office in I'ia'a Opera IXuuaa. Juaa IS, Hit. g Ji. McGEE, ' .irroiM-ir-jr-UH', DuBois, Clearfield County, Penn'a, .-Will attend promptly 10 all legal baelneei entru.ted to hia aara. jaaSI, 'Si Tnos. a. auBaar. oraci oanoi. Ml URRAY k GORDON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CLEARFIELD, PA. "Ofnoe 1b Ple'a Opera Uouaa, aaoond Boor. :!0'7e lOBBPI B. B'BIIAL1.T. DABIBt, w. m'oobdt. Mc cENALLY & MoCURDY ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, ejiearueid. ra, Legal baalneaa attended to promptly with) J-lelity. oaioe oa gooond atroot, abore tbe Firat National Hank. jaa:l:7e 4 O. KitAMER, ATTORNKY-AT-LAW, Real EtUta aad Oolloetloa Agent, CLEARVIELI), PA., Will promptly attend to all legal buaiaeia aa trnited to hie earo. aOOea la Ple'a Opera llouao. Janl'Jd. J F. McKENRICR, DISTRICT ATTOatNEY, CLEARFIELD, PA. All legal bualaaai entrBatod to hla oaro will re. eelre prompt attention. drOfioe la the Coart Houao. agl,187ly. JOHN L. CUTTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Hid Real Batata Agent, Clearfleld, Pa. Office on Third etroel, bet. Cherry A Walnat. pey-Reepeetfally offera hla earvleoa In aelllng and buying landa ta Clearield and adjoining eoaatleaj and with aa eiporloaeeof oaartweaty yeare aa a aurreyer, aaltara himeell that be oaa render aatlaraaUoa. IFaa. ll:aiiu. ghusitians' Cards. JJR. E. M. SCHEURER, IIOMtKOPATBIO PHYSICIAN, Offloa In roaldraee oa Flrat at. April M, I87J. Claaraeld, Pa T-R W. A. MEANS, PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON, DUBOIS CITY, PA. Will attend profaaalonal ealla promptly, angle'?! )R. T. J. VOTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offioa oa Market Street, Clearfield. Pa. dr-OBoa koart i to II a. at., aad I to p. a. D R. J. KAY WRIGLEY, IIOStPATHI0 P1IYSICIA, jedrOffloa adJolBlng the reeldenne af Jamoa Wrlgley, K., oa Seeead St., Clearield, Pa. Jely3l,'7B If. jjn. n. b. Van valzad, CLBAttFIEa.!), PEIIN'A. OFFICE IN ItltSinilNCE, CORNER OF FIRST AND PINE STREETS, af OOoe boara From 11 te I P. M. May li, IS). I) R. J. V. VURCH FIELD, Lau Swrgaoa of tjie ltd teglmeal, Paaaay Waal Volanteera, having rotarned froa) tba Army, elT.n hla profoaeleaal eervleea ta theeltlaeaa of Clearield ooaaty. eayProfe.aloBalaalla promptly atuaded to. OAae ee Boooad Itreel, formorlyoowapUd by br.Weoda. aprVUU 1IIB PRIMTINO OF 1TIRT Dt SCRIP I tloa neatly eiertled at ttM aire. CLEARFIELD GEO. B. G00DLANDEB, Editor & Proprietor. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. TEEMS-$2 per annum in Advance. VOL. 51-WH0LE NO. 2,600. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1880. - NEW SERIES-V0L. 21, NO. 38. i Cards. J Wt havo prlaUd a larsa nambar of tba aav f kb Bit. if ana wiu oa tba raoaipt ar twty. Ivo aaata. aiftil a aopf to njr 1irM. mjl$ WILLIAM M. HENRY, Jubtiob or taa Pbaob aan 8cnivansa,LUMUER CITY. Cullootlona made and money promptly paid OTtr. Artielee of agreement and daada of aonroyaaea aaotly eieeuled and warranted eor. reel or Bo ebargo. sjy'7l JOHN D. THOMPSON, Jni tie of tba Paaoa and Scriraotr, Curwcnavlllt. Pa taauOollMttoni nada aod noacy promptlj pftta oror. io i in HENRY BRETH, (OSTBSD I. O.) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE for bill rowMaair. Hay , l78.1j JAMES MITCHELL, DBAiaa ib Square Timber & Timber Lands, Jell'M CLEARFIELD, PA. REUBEN HACKMAN, House and Sign Painter and Paper Hanger, Clearfield, Peiin'a. kauWill aieeuta Joba la bii Una promptly and u a tyirkmanlika manner. ayre.o. JOHN A. STADLER, BAKER, Market Bt Clearteld, Pa. Freih Bread, Ruak, Rolla, Plea and Cakaa ob band or made to order. A general aaeortment of Confeetlonarlea, Fruit, and Nate la Hock. lee Cream and Uy.tere In aeaaon. paioon aoariy oppoeito the PnatolBea. Prieoa mnderata. Maran ia-'7e. WEAVER & BETTS, nsALaai m Real Estate, Square Timber, Saw Logs, AND LUMJiEK OF ALL KINDS. fffrOffloo oa Baoond itrt, la raar of itora rcoui of Uaorga Weavar A Co. f Jaotf, '70 tf. RICHARD HUGHES, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE roa Itttalnr Totrmhlp, Oaoeola Nilla P. 0. All official builnaia antrueted to blm will be promptly attended to. mohJH, "It. HARRY SNYDER, BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER. Bbop oa Market St., oppo Ha Court Uoaaa. A elean towal for every euitomer. Alao daaler Ib lle.t Brando of Tobarca and tlgara. fl.,rtlld. P. "aa It. "It- JAMES H. TURNER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, allacetou, Pa. aaar-Ra haa nraaarod blmtelf with all tba neoee.ary blank forma aader the Peaaloa and Bounty lawa, aa well aa blank Daedi, eto. All legal matter! ontraalod to bla eare will receive prompt attention. May Ilk, 187tl.tf. ANDREW HARWICH, Market Htreet, Cleartleld, Pa., KAai'VAOrnRBB ARD OBALBB IB Harness, Bridlet, Saddles, Collars, and Horse-1 vrmsmng uooas. -AII kiBda of repairing promptly attended U..1.J1...' llBvitHM. llnra. llru.h.a. Currv Combe, Ae., alwaya oa band and for aala at tbe loweil eaab prlee. (March 1, Hit. Q. H. HALL, PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER, NEAR CLEARFIKLD. FENN'A. ttVPampt alwavi aa band aad atada to ordar aa ibort ootiM. Piaaa borad oa raaaoaabla tarrna. All work warrantee to raadar totlifaetioBp aad delWarad If daiirad. yJb:ljfd fjlvery Wtable. TnB Badertlgaad baf laara to laform taapab He Uat ba .a bow fully praparW to aeoowaio dkta all ta tba way of fur-Blab. o( IU.aa, Ba( glea, haddlaa and llarnaaa, oa tba abortaat aouea aad aa traaaoaabla taraia. Roaldaaoa oa Loanat itroet, batwaaa Third aad roartb. OKO. W. OKARHART. Olaarsald, Fab. 4,1874. WASHINGTON HOUSE, GLEN HOPE, PKNN'A. TUB andcralgned, baring leeeed tbll from aiodloaa Hotel, la tba village of Glen Hope, li now prepared ta Beoommodet. all wb. may call. My table and bar aball ba (applied with tbe boat tba market afford!. OKUROE W. DOTTS, Jr. Olaa Hope, Pa., March 20, 187t tf. THOMAS H. FORCEE, aaabaa ib GENERAL If ERCH ANPI8K, GRAUANTOPf, Pa. Alao, extaaaWa aiaBBfaotarar and daalar ta Bqara iiaiMr aoa bbwm Lamboroi bu atada. 4P-0rdr aoltoltad aad all bllla promptlj E. A. BIGLER a CO., , aaALiaa IB SQUARE TIMBER, and maaulaetarori af ALL HINDU OP RAWED I.rjMltKH, I 7'7J CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. 8. I. SNYDER, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER All OBALBB la jWatehoB, Clock) nd Jewolry, 0rmkmm' Jfow, Mmrht AVmv, CI.EARPirXD, PA. All klsda of repairing la my Ba. promptly at- naea 10. jaa. ill, laiv. Clearfleld Nursery. ENCOURAGE HOMB INDUSTRY. Till aadarffiirBad, haTlag ottabliabad a War Mr? ob tb 'Plh, about balf wy botwata Clerle)d sad CarwcntvUlo, la praparad to far- aiab oil ktndi or FRUIT THEKB, (ataadard aad dwarf,) Ivartrwataa. Bbrobhorj, Urapa Viiaa, UocMbtrry, Lawtoa Blackbarry 8 Lr wherry, aad HMpbarry Viae. Alio, Btbvrlaa Crab Treoa, yoinoa. an aariy aoarlat KBoaara. , Urdara praaiptly attaadsd to. Addraaa, 4. v. WHIUUT, apJI M-j Carwoaavllla, Pa. MEAT MARKET. F. M, GABOON 4 BE0,, Oa Market at, aa. ioorweatof Maaatoa Uoaaa, CLEARFIELD, PA. Ooff Brran.em.ato ar. ef th. moat oemolete eharaetar ler raralahlag Iba pablla with Freeh Meauor all klad,and or IBevary beat anallty. Wa alao deal la all kiBda of Agrloaltaral Impla meata. whieb we keep oa etbtbltioa for tba bea- eit ef Ike pablla. Call aroaad whoa la Iowa, aad lake a look at thlaga, ar addraaa aa F. M.CARDON A BRO. Ooaraeid, Pe., Jaly 14, 1171-tf. ClmrKtH Inturanct Jfenrv. JABBB BBBB. O.BBOLL a. BIBBt.a. KERR BiniLK, jlgmtt, Rrpraoeal tbe following Wd elber Inl .lej. Co'l Computed Ai.rta. Liverpool Loadoa A Oloba-D. R. Br.At.lol.at Lyoomlag oa mat.al Aoaah plaaa.... B.BM.koO PheeaiB, of Hartford, Ooaa I all dlll Inmreaoa Co. of North America 1,1.11,174 North Brltlak A MoreaaUlo U.B. Br. 1,7I!,MI rVoltlik Oemmatalal U. 1. Braaoa...- 7I.H WatMtow. .. - tl,ll Travotara (Llfa A Aeaidaal) 4,111,414 OeV. aa Market BC, epp. Court H euro, Clear ield, Pa, iaaa 1, 7lHf. HOW OPPORTUNE ! JDDGB BLACK'S OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL QAEFTELD, Au OTerwhelmlnir Condeaiuatlon af ilia Radical Nominee fbr Prealdent. Tho letter found below was writton in 187C, tho year ol the GREAT FRAUD, in reply to a speocb made by General Uarfiold, who was al that time the Radical loader in Congress. Tito Judge lays baro tho shams and frauds practiced upon the pcojilo by the leaders of the Radical party over since its birth in 1856. Tho fact that tho Judge and the (ionorol both belong to tho anmo ohurch(Campbullitus), and both proach occasionally, makes the letter rather spicy at this time. Again: In tho numerous scrapes into which Garfield has allowed himself to bo raked during his army and congressional career, he has always employed Judge Black as bis attorney to sco him through. This is rather natural, and liko Oakcs Ames and De Golyor, the General always in vests his money where it will do the most good. Every man and woman in tho United States should read this lottor and then hand it to the boys and girls for contemplation. Hero it is: To the Jion. James A. Garfield. Mem ber of Congress from Ohio : 1 have read tno speech you sent mo. 1 am aston ished and shocked. As the loader of our party, to whom the candidates are especially delegated the conduct ol tho campaign, you should have mot your responsibilities in a vory differ ent way. I do not presume to lecluro so distinguished a man upon bis errors ; out u i can provont you, even to a small extent, f.om abusing the public credulity, it is my duty to try. l'ro- miBing only my grout anxiety between us for many years, I follow tho Uora tian rulo, and come at once to the "middlo of things." You trace back tho orginal of pres ent parties to the earliest immigalions at I'lymonth and Jamestown, and pro- i ... a.. A 1 t.- : icbb tu uuu iu iue opposing uocirincs then planted and afterward constantly cherished in Massachusetts and Vir- ginia, tho germs of which now make emocracv and Abolitionism the dead ly toes of each other. Tho ideas so planted in Massachusetts were, accord ing to your account, tho freedom and equality of all races, and tho right and duty ol every man to exercise his pn vata judLpiieiit in politic ae well as re ligion. On tho othor band, you sot forth as irreconcilably hostile the doctrincB of Yirvinia, "that capital shall own labor ; that the negro had no rights of manuoou, ana tuat '.no white man might buy, own and sell him and his offspring forever." Following theeo assertions with others, and linking the present with the long past, you em ploy the uovices ol your rhetoric to glorify tba modern Abolitionist and to throw Icul scorn, not merely on the Soutborn peoplo, but on the whole Democracy of the country. This looks learned and philosophical, and gives your speech a dignity seem ingly above the reach of the ordinary demagogue. Happy is be who knows the causes of things; felicitous is the partisan member of Congress whose stump speech goes up the river of time to the first fountains of good and ovil. But your contrasts of historical facta is open to one objection, which I give you in form as simple as possible whoD I say that it is wholly destitute of truth. This, of course, implies no im putation on your good faith. Your high character in the church, as well as tno Stato, forbids the belief that yon would be guilty of willful misrepresentation. The men of Massachusetts, to far from planting tbe right of privato inclement, extirpated and utterly ex tinguished it, by means so cruel that no man ol common humanity can think of them even now without disgust and inclination, i am surnrised to Und yon ignorant of tbis. Lid yon never near ol tneirightlul persecution thov carried on systematically against Bap tists, Quakers ana uatnoiics r now thoy fined, imprisoned, lashed, muti lated, enslaved and banished every body that claimed tbe right to free thought? How they stripped the most virtuous and inoffensive women, and publicly whipped them on their naked backs, only lor expressing their conscientious convictions r llavo yon never, in all your reading, mot with tho story of Roger Williams? For morely suggesting to the public au thorities of the colony that no person ought to be punished on account ol his bonost convictions, be wasdnvon into the woods and pursued ever afterward with a ferocity that put bis lile and that ot his friends in constant danger. In tact, the cruelty of their laws against the freodom of conscience and the unfeeling rigor with which they were exeouled, made ilassachnsetts odious throughout the world. ihese great crimes of the 1'ilgrim Fathers ought not to be cast up to their children, for some of their de scendants (I hope a good majority) are high Drincinlod and honest men. sin. corely attached to the liberal institu tions planted in tbe moro southern latitudes of tho continont. Butifyou are right in your assertion that tbo Abolitionists derive their principles from the ideas entertained and planted at Plymouth, that may ao count for the coarse and brutal tyran ny with which your party has, In re- oent limes, trampled upon tbe rights ol free thought and free speoch. iNor are you more accurate In your declaration that the old Yankees planted the doctrine of freedom and equality, or opposed the domination of one race over another. Messrs. Pal frey and Sumner have said something to the effect thntslavory never existed n Jnassacbusotui, and yon may bave been misled bythem. Rut oithor are wholly Ignorant ef tho subject, or else they were spoke with that looso and lavish onveracity which is a common faultamong men of thoir political sock The Plymouth oolony and the pro vince ot Massachusetts bay were pro slavory to the baokbone. If von doubt this I rofer you to Moore s "His tory ol Hla very In Massachusetts," whore the evidence (consisting chiefly of records -and documont norfectly authenticated) is produced and collated wiid a lullnese and tairncsa wblob can not be questioned. The I'lymonth Im migrants planted precisely the doc trine whieb you ascribe to the James town colonists ; that is to Bay, they held that "the negro had no rights of manhood ; that tbe wbite man migbl buy, own and sell him and his offspring forever." Practically and theoretically thoy maintained that human slavery in its most malignant lorm was a per lectly just, proper and dosirable insti tution, entirely consistent with Christ ianity as tboy nnderstood it, and founded on principles of universul jur isprudence Tboy insisted upon it as an established and settled rule of tbe law of nations that when the govern ment orcommumty or political orgam- ration mado war npon its subjects, or the subjects of another, and vanquish ed thorn, the poonlo of the beaton party had no rights to which the right of the conquorors was not paramount. Wbonover it was dcmonstratod.by act ual experiment, that any people were too woak to aoiona uioir nomos ana families againBt an Invader who visited them with tiro and sword, tboy might lawfully be etrippod ot their property, and tboy themselves, their wives and children might be held as slaves, or sold into perpotual bondage That was the idea thoy planted in their own soil, propogated among thoir co- temporanes, ana transmuted to me Abolition party of tho presont day. You have preached and practiced it in all your dealings in tho South. This absolute domination is what you moan, if you mean anything, when you talk about the "precious results of the war." If the doctrine thus plantod by the original settlers in Massachusetts be true, and it tbo "precious lruits oi it, which you are gathering with so much industry, bo legitimate it is a norfoct justification of all the slavery that evor existed on this continent. I our groat exemplars, from whom you ac knowledge that you havo derived your ideas of freedom, certainly thought, or ptofessed to think so, and thoy carried it out to its logical consequences. When an African potentate choso to fight with and subdue a weak tribo, insido or out of his dominions, ho sold tho prisoners whom be did not think prop. or to kill, and tho men of Massachusetts bought thorn without a question of bis tillo! They kopt them and worked them to death, or sold them again as thoir interest prompted, for they hold that tho right of domination, resulting from tho application of bruto force, was good in tho bands of all subsequent purchasers, however remote from tho original conquisitor. Thoy exocutod this theory to the fullest extent in thoir own wars with tbo Indians. Without cause or provo cation, and without notice or warning, tboy fell upon tho'Pequods, massacred many ot them, and mado slaves of tho survivors ; without distinction of age or sox. About seven hundred, includ ing many women and children, wore sent to tho West Indies and those sold on public account, the proceeds being put in tho colonial treasury. Eight score of these unfortunate people es caped from tbe butchery by night, and altorward gave themselves up on the solemn promise ol the authorities that they should neither be put to douth nor enslaved. The promise was broken with as little romorso as a modern Abolitionist would violate his oath to support the Constitution. The "pre cious results of the war" woro to be lost by an honest obsorvanco of their pledged faith, and the victims of this infamous treachery were all of them Bbippod to the Barbadocs, and sold or "swuppod for Blackamoors." Tbis practice of enslaving their captives was uniform, oovered all cases, including women and children, aa well as fight ing men. When death put King Philip beyond thoir reach, thoy sent his wile and child with the rost to be sold into slavory. Tholndians mado bad slaves. They were hard to tame, they escaped into the forest, and had to be hunted down, brought back and branded. They nevor censed to be sullen and disobe diont. Tbe Alricans always, on the contrary 'accepted the situation, "woro easily domesticated, and bore tho yoke without murmuring. For that reason it became a settled rule of public and privato economy in Massachusetts to exchange worthless Indians for valua ble negroos, ohcating their West India customers in every trade Perhaps it waa here that your party got the jrirm of tie honesty as well as its humanity. Thoy made war for no othor object than to supply thomsolvos with bii b joctii for this fraudulent traffic. In 1C43 Emanuel Downing, the foremost lawyor in tho colony and a loador of commanding influenco, as well as high connections, made a written argument in favor with a war with the Narragan setts. He did not protend that any wrong had been dono, but be had a pious dread that Massachusetts would be hold responsible forthe false religion of the Narragansotts. "I doubt," says ho, "if it bo not synne in us, having powor in our hands, to suffer thorn to mayntayne tho worship of the evil, which their pow wows ofton doe." This tondernoss of consciousness is vory characteristic of tbo party which got tho "germ of its ideas" from that source But we go a litllo further, and you will toe with pleasure how exaotly you have copied their doctrines. "If," Bays he, "upon a just war, tho Lord should dolivor them into our band, we might easily have mm, women and children to exchange for Moors (negroos,) which will be moro gayneful pillage for us than woe ooucoive, for 1 do not see how we can thrive nntil we get into a stock of slaves sufficient to do all our busi ness. " Tbis (except the spoiling) might come from an Abolitionist cau cus to-day. You will find Downing's lottor in Moore, page ten. Thoy did got most of thoir Indians olT, and supplied themselves with ne groes in thoir places. Tbe shameless inhumanity with which the blacks wore used made slavery in Massachu setts "the sum of all villainy." In the letter ol Downing, already referred to, he says: "You knew very well we shall mayntayne twonty Moors clioap er thau one English servant." Think ofreduoinga West India negro in that intensely oold climate to tbe one twen tieth part of the food and clothing which a white monial waa in tho habit ofgotting. Thoy must have boon frnr.cn and starved to death in groat numbers. When that happened it was but the loss of an animal. The harboring of a slavo woman was, in lClfl, pronounced by tbo highest authority, to be the same injury aa the unlawful detention of a 6flf. In 1718, Sowell, the Chief Justice of the oolony, said that negroes were rated with horses and Aoci. Dr. Bolknap tells ns that aftorwarJ, when the stock enlarged and tbe market be camodull, young negroes and mulatloes wore snmetimos given away liko pun pies. This is the kind of freedom, this the equality of tbe raoee, which yon loarned from the ancient colonists. But they taught you more than that. Thoir precept and example established tbe slavory of whit, persons as well as Indians and negroes. As thoir remorse less tyranny spared no age and no sex, so it made no distinction of color. Be sides the cargoes of whito heretics which woro captured and shipped to . L I , 1. ; I...,, V, ..... L- i i lUUUl VJf UJUII viwaiuu III l.UlIBIIU tboy took special oengni in lastening thoir yoko on all who wore suspected oi ncteioooxy. uneinstance is wortny of special attonlion. f Lawrence South wick and his wifo were Quakers, and accused at the ssraq time with many others of attending t Quaker mooting, or "saying with Quakers" and "absent ing themselves iron tbe public oral nances." Tho Bontlwicks bad nrevi ously suffered so much in thoir persons and estates from thil kind of persecu tion that they could no longer work or pay any more linos, snd, therefore, the general court, by solemn resolution, ordoroa tbem to De camshoa on pain of doatb. Banishment, you will not fail to notice, was iu itself equivalent to A liogerinf doat'v' the parlies were poor and feeble ; lor it meant merely driving them into the wilderness to starve with hunger and cold. South- wick and hia wifo wont oat and died very soon. But this is not all. This unfortunate pair had two children a boyand girl(Daniol andProvidco)-wbo, having healthy constitutions, would bring a good price in tbo slave market. Tbo children were taken frcm tho parents and ordered to bo sold in tho West Indies. It happened, bawovcr, that there was not a shipmaster in any port of tho colony who would consont to become the agent of their transpor tation and salo. Tho authorities being thus halkod in their views of the main chance, wore tain to bo sitisfied in another way j thoy ordered .ho girl to be whipped. She was lashid accord ingly, in company with several othor Quaker ladios, and then conmittccl to prison, to bo furthor proceedid against. History loses sight of her thoro. Mo record shows whether thoy killed bcr or not. This is ono case out of a gioat many. It is very interesting and nstructivo when taken in connection tith yonr speech, for it shows the " gorra of tho dca which your party actco on wnon it kidnapped and imprisoned men and women by the thousands for behoving in American liberty as guaranteed by tbe Constitution. Tho Quakers and Baptists had no printed organ in that day through which thoir private judg ment could bo expressed, else you would no doubt have casos directly in point to justify your forcible suppres sion of 250 newspapers. Enmity to tho right of privato judg ment comes down to the party ot Ply mouth ideas by consistent and regular succession, it is woven like a dirty stripe into the whole warp and woof of their history. As toon as they got possession of tho Federal Uovornmo.it under John Adams thoy began to use it as an engine for tbo suppression of free thought. Their alien law gave the President powor to banish or im prison without trial, any fbreignor whoso opinions might be obnoxious to bis supporters. Thoir sedition pot every Democratic, speaker and writor under tbe heel of the administration. Their-standing army was used, as it now is, to crush out thoir political op ponents. If you come into Eastorn Pennsylvania, and particularly into the good county ot Berks, you will learn that the peoplo there still think with indignation of that old roign of terror when Fedoral dragoons kidnap ped, insulted and boat tbeir fathers, chopped down thoir "liborty polos," broke to piocos tho press ot tbo Head ing Eagle, and whipped its venoratod editor in the market Louse. The samo spirit broke out again in the burning of nunneries and churches under Maria Monk, and under John Brown tbe whole country swarmed with spies and kidnappers. When you abandoned the harlot and rallied to the standard of tbe thief, you changed your Icador without changing your principles. The slave oode plantod in Massa cbnsetti was the earliost in America and the most cruel in all its provisions. It was pertinaciously ad bored to for gonerations,and never reponted of, or formally repealed. It was gradually abandoned, not because it was wrong, but solely because it was found, after long experiment, to bo unprofitable. The plan of keeping twonty nogroes as cheaply as ono white servant did not work well ; for in that climato a negro thus used would infallibly die before his labor paid what he cost Thoy sold their stock whonovor thoy could, but emancipation was forbidden by law,nnloss the owner gave socurity to maintain the slavo and prevent bim from becoming a publin charge. To evade this law, those who had old or infirm negroos encouraged them to bring suits for thoir freedom, and then by sham demurrers, or other collusive arrangements, got judgments against thomsolvos that tho negroes woro froo and always bad been. Females likely to increase the stock woro advertised to bo sold " for that fault alone." Young ones, bocauso tboy woro not worth raising, woro given away liko puppies of a superabundant littor. In this way domostio slavery by degrees got looso in practioe, simply bocauso it would not pay but the principle on which one man may own another whom he audduceby superior strength or cunning was novor abandoned, ro pudiatnd or denied. That principle was cherished, preserved and trans mitted to you, tbeir imitntivo and loving disciplos, and you have applied it whorevor yon could as tyrannically as tbey did. You say that " war without an idea is simply brutality." 1 submit to your judgment, as a Christian man, whether war is rodoemcd or its brutality by such ideas aa you and yonr political associates entertain ot its purposes, objects and consequences. In all your acts and measures, and by all your speeches and discussions, you express tbo idea that the logio of blows proves everything you choose to assort ; that a successful invasion of ono people by anotbor has tho offect of destroying all natural right to, and all legal guaran tees for the life, liberty and property of all the people so invadod and con quered ; that after a trial by battle tho victor mar enter up and execute what judgment ho pleases against his ad versary ; that me crime which a weak community are guilty of when they attempt to defend their lives, their property and thoir families against in vaders who come upon them to kill, destroy and subjugato them, is to un pardonable that tho whole body of the offondors, taken colleotlvcly, and all individuals who partako oven passively ot tba sin, may justly be devoted to death or snob other punithmont, by wbolcssls or retail, as the strong party may see proper to inflict ; that the conqnoror, after the war is over, may insist that tho helpless and unarmed people, whom be has prostrated, shall assist him by not morely accepting, bnt "adopting" (lose your own word) tbe measures Intended to degrado and rob thorn, and thus mako himself master of their toult as well as their bodies. All rights of men are resolved ' REPUBLICAN. by this thoory into the miqhts of men I aver that this doctrino, in all its length and brcadtb, is fulso and perni cious. It is the foundation on which all slavory rests, and tho oxcubo tor all forms ol tyranny. Jt has no sup port in any sound rule ot publio law and has novor been acknowledged by wise or virtuous governments to any ago since tbo advent of Christ. You can find no authority for it, except in tho examples of mon whose namos arc given over to universal execration. Mahomet asserted it when ho forced his religion upon the subjugated East, when churches wore violently con. verted into mosques, and the emblem of Christianity was trampled under loot, to do replaced Dy tno badgo oi tho impostor. On the same principle roiana was partitioned, and Ireland plundered a dor.on times. Tho King ot Dahomey, acted upon on it wbon be sold his capliros, and the mon of Mas sachusetts indorsed it wbon they took them in exchange for captives of thoir own. i ou and your conferees adoptod it as a part of your political creed when, alter the southern people were thor oughly subdued, you donied them all rights of freemen, tore up their socioty, abrogated all laws which could protect them in person or proporty, broko tbeir local governments in pieces, and put thoin undor tho domination of nototious thieves, whom you forcod them to accept as their absolute masters. These results of the war are no doubt vory precious. The right to tralno in tbo nosh ol Indians and negroes was precious to the Yankocs and the King of Dahomey. That was tho fruit ot their wars, isut was it in eithor case legitimate? Your groat revorenco for tbo founders of your political school in Massachusetts, to say nothing of your respect lor the authority of the African princess, or your faith in tho Koran, will probably impel you to stand up in favor of tbe " ii'oas " which you have lcarnod from them. But 1 think I can maintain tho Christain laws of liberty in opposition to all your Mussulman notions; for God is great, and Muhomct is not His prophot. it would bo very unjust to deny that a great many men, from tho curliest period ol our history, wore sincoroly oppoBod to African slavory, from motives ot religion, benevoionco and humanity. This Bcntimont was strong in the South as well as the .North ; and by- nono was it expressed with .1 l .. t i.: ir mure icrvur man ujomivuuiouii uiiiini-u, the great apostle of Domocracy. But this concession can hardly bo mado to tho political abolitionists. As an al most universal rulo, tho leaders of that sect wore ribald infidels, and tbeir convcnticlos loomed with the most shocking blasphomy. Thoy were by tbeir own avowals, the most cruel barbarians of any ago. Scrvilo insur rection and a general butehory of tho Southern peoplo was a part of thoir programme irom tno Deginning. ids caclcrs to whom tboy gave thoir high est admiration were the men whose foot were tbe swiftest in running to sbed innocent blood. Soward won tbeir affections in early manhood by proposing measures from wnich civil war would bo suro to come, and In hich he promised that negroes should be incited to " rise in blackest insur rection." Thoy applauded John lirown to tbo echo for a scries of the basest murders on rocord. Tboy did not con coal thoir hostility to the Federal and State govornmonts, nor dony thoir en mity to all laws which protected too liberties of wbitomon. Tho Constitu tion stood in thoir way, and they cured it bitterly ; the Biblo was quoted against thorn, and thoy reviled God Almighty bimscii. i know mat the minrl nf man. like hlH bodv. is fearfully and wonderfully mado ; I understand all tho difficulty ol analyzing human passions, and I admit that we should not judge harshly of motives; but how those heartless oppressors of tbeir own race could bave any care for tho free dom of the negro passes my comprehen sion. Unless you can explain it other wise, the judgment of history must inevitably be against tho sincerity of their anil siavory proiussions. in tno present aspect of the case, it seems im possible to believe that lovo of tbe ne gro was not assumod as a mere excuse lor enslaving me wnno race, just as thoir ancestors put on tho pretense of pioty to gratify thoir appetite for the proporty ana dkkhi oi ueiier people than themselves. You muBt positively roconaidor this subject before you un dertake agnin to presont the Aboli tionists to the world in the respectable M.nmclnr nf fanatica. 1 think vou will find that tho ciow of the May flower brought over and planted no " germ of an idoa " which has flourish ed with more vigor than thoir canting hypocrisy. Hore lot mo say again, that tho v'ioob and wickedness of the Plymouth colonists are not to be visited on tho heads of thoir children, according to the flesh. Among them, in every part of tho country, are great statesmen, brave soldiora, true servants of tho church, and virtuous, patriotio Demo crats, who are more responsible for tho crimes of their ancestors than a peace able Scotchman is for tbo raids and robberies which in past generations woro committed by his clan upon tho English bordor. But you acknowledge that vou cot your political ideas from thom you boast that your party have no doctrinos of publio law and no no tions of public duty which wcro not plantod at Plymouth. Therefore, it is not only proper, but necessary, to show wnai tliese mens aim uoeiriuus wvrv, I now pass to a lator period. You say that thoro were two radically dif- teront tbcorics annul tno nature oi our government! "The North bclioving and holding that wo wore a nation, the South insisting that wo woro only a confederation ol sovereign Statos. It it not true that any such a theoretical conflict over existed bolween the sec tions. That the Articles of Confedera tion first, and tho Constitution alter watd united tbo .States together for certain purposes therein enumerated, and thus mado ns a nation among na tions, was never denied that I know ol by any party. But tbis national character was given to tho Uenoral Government by sovereign States who confederated together for that purpose. They bestowed certain powers on the now political corporation men created, and called it the United States of America, and they expressly reserved to thomsolves all sovereign rights not granted in the charter. Democratic statesmen bad no theory about it. They saw thoir duly written down in tho fundamental law, they swore to perform It, and thoy kopt their oaths. Thoy executed tho powers of the Gen eral Government in thoir whole con stitutional vigor for that, as Mr. Jeffer son said, was " the shoet aurbor of our peace at home and our safely abroad " and they carefully guarded tho rights of the Slates as the only security we could have for a just administration ol domestic affairs. This was universally assented to as right and true. No counter thoory was set up. Difference of construction thoro might bo, but all admitted that when the lino of powor was accumtoly drawn between tho Fedoral Govermont and Stato sover eignty tho rights on one sido wore as sacred as those on the other. But within two or throe years past the low domagoguct ot your party nave got to putting in thoir platforms and astortations that this is a nation and not a confederation. What do they moan? What do you mean when you indorse and reproduce it? Do you dony that tho States were sovereign before thoy united ? Do you affirm that their sovereignty wholly merged in the Federal Government whon they assented to the Constitution ? Ib tbe tenth amendment a moro delusion ? Do yon moan to assort that tbo States have not now, and never had any rights at all, except what are conceded to them at the mercy ot the "nation ?" No doubt this new articlo was inserted in the croed of the Abolitionists be cause they supposed it would give a suit of plaUBibilitr to thoir violent in tervention with the internal affairs of the Slates ; but this is so false, so shal low and so destitute of all respectable authority that it imposes upon nobody. As a part of this conflict of theories, and resulting from it, you doscribe the South as "insisting that each Stale bad a right, at its own ditcrclion, to break the l mon, and constantly threaten secession, whero tho lull rights ot sla vory wore not acknowledged." In fact and in truth, secession, like Bla very, was first planted in New England. Tbore it grew and flourished and spread its branchos far over the land, long before it was thought ot in tbo South, and long before the full rights ot slavery woro called in question by anybody I Tbo anti-Democrats of that region in former as well as in latter times, totally misunderstood tho pur poses lor which this Government was made. They regarded it as a moro commer cial machine, by which they could mako such "gayneful pillage," if al lowed to run in thoir own way. When they woro disappointed in this by cer tain perfectly juBt and constitutional regulations of thoir trade which the common defenso and general wolfare mado nocOBBttry thoy immediately fell to plotting tho diamombcrmont of the Union. Before 1807 they organixed a conspiracy with tho British authorities in Canada tor tho erection ol ISew England into a seporate republic undor British protection. (See Carey's, Oli ver Branch and tho Henry correspond ence), riot long atlerward Joseph Quincy, whoso jdelity to the party that eloctod bim was nevor doubted, formally announced in Congress tho intention ol his State to lcavo the Un ion, "peaceably if she could, focibly if she must" Their hatred of the Union deepened, and thoir determination to break It np grew norcor, as tno resolu tion of the Democrats to maintain the ndependence of the country bocamo stronger. Yt hen tho war of 1812 be gan they wore virtually out of the Union, and remained out during the wbolo of that dosperato struggle, not only refusing all assistance to carry it on, but helping tho enemy in every possible way. It was while England had her tightost grasp on the throat of tho nation that the Harlford Con vention was called to dismember it ; and this, Mr. Jefferson says, thoy wonld not have accomplished but for the battle of New Orleans and tbe peace at Ghent John Quincy Adams in 1830, and Abraham Lincoln in 1817, mado elaborate arguments in favor of the legal right of a State to go out The late Abolitionists did not attempt to conceal thoir raneorous hostility to the Union. "No Union with slave holders," was ono of their watch-words, and down to the opening of tho war its destruction was the avowed object of thoir machination. There is ono oonclusivo proof of your enmity to tho Union, and that is your unwavering opposition to tho Constitution which held the States together. You know as well as I do, how absurd it ia to suppose that any man or party can support the Union, and at tho Bamo timo trample on tho Constitution ; and you certainly are not ignorant that you and your prede cessors, from the earliest times, have been anti-Constitutional in all ycur proclivities. Contemptuous disregard of Constitutional obligations is not now tbo mere germ of a doctrine; it is a part of your settled creed. Before and sinco tbo war, you havo trodden undor foot ovory provision contained in the great charter ot our liberties. 1 do not speak at random. I challenge you to designato a singlo Constitutional rightol tbe Stato, or individuals, which you have not at some timo, or in some way, deliberately violalod. This contempt for the Constitution, this practical denial that an oath to support it is sacred, implies a disregard of all laws human and divine, and when adopted, it loll nothing to guido you except tho propensities, evil or good, of your natural hearts. Many of you (and notably yourself) contracted no individual guilt, becauso you woro too proud for petty larceny, too bonovolenl for large handod robbery and too full of kindness to break wantonly Into the tabernaclo of human lifo. But gener ally tho moral principles of tbo ultra Abolitionists (if they evor had any) bocamo so wholly perverted that Ihoy saw nothing wrong in the worst offen ses that could be committed against their political opponents. In their eyes theft and murder not only lost thoir felonious character but became meritorious, if the victims lived south ol the Mason and Dixon's lino. When John Brown stole horses In the poaee of God and the Stato of Missouri, ho was taking a lawful booty ; when ho sneaked into a quiet Virginia village on a Sunday night and assassinated dofonsoless cilixens, ho was a hero ; and when ho died a felon a death on tho scaffold, to which he waa justly coir domncd, ho become a'martyr. You persist In misunderstanding tbe anlo-betlura attitude of tho Northern Democracy. Wo stood steadfastly by tho Union against all attempts of the Now England party to break It up by socossion. We sustained the Consti tution against the ferocious assaults of the Abolitionists ; we labored earnestly to save Republican institutions from tho destruction with which they were threatened by you ; and as long as the Southern peoplo acted with us we gratefully accepted their aid In tbe good work. Yonr avoiiment that the Democratic party desired tbe aggrandisement of slavery and yielded their con sciences on the subject to tho South, Is grossly unjust, if you mean to chargo thorn with anything more than willing bobs to protect tbe Soutborn, as well as the Northern and Middle States in tho exercise of their Constitutional rights. We had disposed of slavery in our Jurisdiction according to our sense of sound policy and justice But wo bad made an express compact with tbe other States to lcavo the entire control ol our domostio affairs to them selves. We kept our covenant simply because it would nave neon gross uts honedty to break it. Tho Abolitionists took a different view, and refused to kceptbcirfaith. I hoy b woro as solemn ly us we did to observe tho terms of the bargain, but according to their code I'. was a sin not to violato it. Tho fuel is truo that wo did not think it right to cut tho throats or shoot, or strangle the mon or women of tho South for believing in negro slavery ; but that is not justification ol your assertion that we yielded our consciences to tbem. Again : You chargo ns (tho North ern Democracy) with having given had advico to tbe Southern pooplc. Ibis consisted, you Bay, in assuring tbem that if they seoeoded we would take tboir part apainst any attempt to lorco tbem back again into the Union This is a gross error, and you will see it whon 1 recall your attention to the facts. In all our exhortations to the Southern men against secession wo woro met by the expression ot their fear that the Abolitionists intended, in any event, to invade and slaughter thom. Somo reason for this apprehension was given by tho fierce throats ot your leading men, and especially by your almost universal admiration of Brown for his raid into Virginia. Certainly Democrats (and vory good men, too) did then declare that a lawloss expe dition intended for purposes of moro pillago could not and should not be started in tho North, without such op position as would effectually stop it. But this was before secession, and it was intended to prevent that move ment, not to encourage it. You can not, with any show of jus tice, deny that devotion of the Union was not ono of tho strongest feelings in tho earth of the Northern Democracy. v o bad always deprecated a separa tion from the Southorn States with so much earnostness that ono of the op probious epithets you bestowed on ut was that of "Union savtrs." This was not a more sentiment of admiration ot gratitude to the Southern men who had led us through tho perils of the Revolution, settled our institutions, and given our country its high place in tho estimation of tho world. We felt all this I but we felt much more. Tho preservation of the Union was to us an absolute necessity. It was in dispensable to tho security of our lives, our personal liborty and our plainost rights ol property, liow Hue this was at all times, and especially in 1HU0, you will boo if yon reflect a moment on our situation at that timo. Tho Abolitfonists woro coming into powor. I need not say by what com bination of imposture and accident thoy got it All Northern Statos, as well as the Federal Government, fell into their bands. No doubt thoir dis liko of Southern people was very groat; but Northern Democrats were objects of thoir special malignity. Long be fore that time, and ever since, this sentiment has boon expressed in words and acts too plain to be misunderstood. ion show bow strong it is in your own heart when you toll southern mon (and you do tell thom so in this vory speech) that you honor thom ton thousand timos more than Democrats ot tho North. Remember, in addition to this, that tho leading Abolitionists acknowledged no law which might stand in the way of their interests or their passions. Against anybody else the Constitution of tho country would have boon a protection. But thoy disre garded its limitations and had no scru ples about swearing to support it with a premeditation to violato it We had bocn well warned by all the mon host entitled toour confidence particularly and eloquently warned by Mr. Clay and Mr. W whs tor that if evor the Abolitionists got hold upon the organ ised physical lorco of tho country they would govern without law, scoff at tho authority of the courts and throw down all tho dofenco of civil liberty. But if tho South had not seccoded wo might havo made a successful de fenso ol our Constitution though tho powers of tbo Government wcro in tho hands of its enemies. With tho aid of the Southern peoplo, if thoy had boon truo to their duty, wo could have or ganized an opposition so formidable in its moral and political powor tbat vou would scarcely have dared to assault us. No wonder that we were "Union savers ; lor to us the l nion meant personal liborty, free thought, and in dependent press, Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, tho impartial administration of justice all thoso great legal insti tutions which our forefathers had shed so much blood to build up. Tbo South deserted us ai tho crisis of our fate, and left us in our weakness to tho mercy of the most unpnnciplod tyrants that ever betrayed a publio trust boecBsion was not merely mad ness and folly ; it was something much worso. Wo could not but foci that wo were doeply wronged. There was no remedy tor tho dire calamities with which we were threatened except in bringing tbo acceded States back to thoir places in tho Union. Our con victions of legal duty, our exasperated senso of injury and a proper caro for our best interests, all impelled us to join the new administration in tho nso ol sueb lorccsas mignt oe lound neces sary to exorute tho laws in ovory part of tho country. But the Abolitionists wanted a war for tho destruction of the Union, lor the overthrow of the Constitution, for the subversion oi iree government, and for tho subjugation of tbo wholo coun try to that "highor law" which imposes no restraint upon tho rapacity and malico of the ruling powor. To such a war tho national conscience was op posed. The soul oi ovory respectable officer In tho army and navy revolted al it, and ovory virtuous man in pri vate lifo lolt it to bo an unspeakablo outrage. To those whndotibted before, the disaslor of Bull Run mado it plain that tho war could not bo successfully carried on onions it was put upon principles consistent with tho usages of Christendom and tho safety of our institutions. Therefore, it was that on tho 22d of July, 1801, Congress, with almost perfect unanimity, passed a resolution through both houses, de claring in the most explicit words that the war should be conducted to pre serve the Constitution and not to rcvo lutioniae it I give you hore tho words of the resolution Itself from tho Con grcssional Globe, pago Z2.1 : ffraaferd1, That tba preeeal deplorable alvll war haa beoa ferood Bpea tho oonnlry by tba dl.aa loalibl of tbo SoBlbara Stalei, Bow la arma againal Ibe ooaititutiooal Uovernment. and la arma arooaj the eaplul I tbal la Ihla Natlo.al emergency, Congreae, baaiihlog all feeling of mere paaeloa ar reeoatmoal, will reoolleol ealy ill daly ta the wbolo aoiairyi that thla war la But waged oa their part la aay eplrtt of eppree aina, or lor aay purpoee of eeanueat or auttjaga tie. ar parpoee ef overthrowing or latorfertog wltk Ih. right, or ea'abllabed Inalllatlona of theeo Blatoe, but lo defend aad malatala Iba eaareawep; m tba Ooaalitatloa, and ta preaerTe the I'aioa with all Ib. dignity, equality and rlgbu of the leveret State, unimpaired ; and that aa toon aa theea objeele areaeoumpllabod the war ought to eenaa. Confiding iu this assurance, Demo crats from every Northern Slate rushed to tho front by tbe hundred thousands; the bordor Statos of the South gave in their formal adhesion to the Uovernmont; and our great mili tary loaders drew thoir swortls with alacrity in support of tbo froo institu tions to which thoy had shown their fidelity so oflon before. With what base porfldy this solemn pledge was brokon 1 need not toll you, lor this speoch shows that you know it well. Vou expressly doclnre that to far from sustaining tho Government you rovolutiouiiecT it. Instead of a war lor the Union, yon t-luitn that it put the Statos out of the l i.ion, and that you bad a right to keep them out as long as you pleased or admit thom to their places on any terms, however degrading, which you chooso to dictate. Instead oi restoring tho supremacy ot tho Constitution, all your politicians held, -and so far as I know from their public declarations ttiil bold, that tho victory of tho Fodcrnl forcoB aboli.ihod the Constitution, not only in the South, but in tbo North, and therefore thoy woro not bound to observe its limita tion'., either in the legislative, judicial or executive invusures. Instead ol bringing buck the States with their rights unimpaired, according to your promiso, you cripplod, enslaved, sub jugated and disfranchised tbem. In stead ot using tho war powor lor tbe just and lawful purposes to which you wore pledged, you converted it into a lslack Republican Job to put the rights of all tho peoplo permanently under the foot of an unprincipled party. 1 submit this part ol the case lo your consideration. I ask you to say whether you can find in tho whole history of tho human race another in stance of similar perfidy on a scale so large. The baseness ol tho Mussaehn- sells authority in selling the surren dered PcquodB into slavory after a sol emn promise to the contrary was but tho "germ oi an idea, on wnicn you acted in tho fulness of its growth. Their act wua in its nature and char acter nearly as bad as it could be ; but only eight Bcoro of helpless people suf fered by it ; tbe Victims of your treach ery are counted by millions. Tho offenses which you aro now en gaged in committing upon tbo public treasury aro tho natural seqnenccs of your crimes against popular liberty. Universal experience proves that power usurped will always be dishon estly used. Seeing that tho Abolition ists woro led by men whom no oath could hold to the Constitution, and whom no pledge could bind to an ob sorvanco of its principles, we bad no right to expect a docont regard for justice in their administration of tho national finances. 1 do not mean that the masses of your party were, or are now, destituto of common integrity. But that was overruled by tbe political doctrines of thoir leaders. Having once set aside the established law of the land, they had no standard by which they could measure the moral conduct of themselves or others, and they bocamo incapable of seeing tbo differonco botwoon right and wrong in public affairs. The "higher law" threw tho reins loose on the nock of all ovil passions. It not only abro gated tbo Constitution, but the deca logue as well, and the eighth command ment was nullified with the rest. You havo consequently made ours the corrupted Government on this sido of Constantinople. Perhups you will say this it a more general assertion. nut 1 am ready to maintain tbe truth of it against all opposors. You may take tho rottencst monarchy in Europe, go over its history for a hundred years, and produce tho worst act you can find of fraudulent spoliations npon its peo ple; and if I do not show something worso committed hero undor tho auspices of tho party now in power I ill give up the case. I am speaking of tho Government ot tho ollicials who rulo us for their pleasure and plunder us for their per sonal profit and it is no answer to quoto Mr. Lord's spoech before tbe Senate on tho trial ot lielknap. llis eulogy was on the virtue and intelli gence of the people, and ho argued from tbat tho duty ol tbeir servants to no have with integrity. Ho certainly did not mean to whitewash the administra tion. If ho had meant to do so bo could not bave succeeded, for thoro waa not wash enough in his bucket to go over the twenty-thousandth part of tbe job. While you woro hunting for certifi cates of character among the spocches of tho iinpeacbmont inanugers, why did you overlook that of Mr. Hoar ? Uo said in effect (for f cite him from memory) that tbe one production in which our country excels all othors in tho world is the corruption of its Gov ernment There was tho testimony of a candid witness bolonging to your own party, who knew whereof ho affirmed and spoke directly to tbo point. But it is useless to cite the evidence of individuals npon great publio facts that aro felt and teen and known of all men. Nothing over was more notori ous than tho general disregard of all sound principles by this administration. No pooplo on earth aro now suffering so much from extravagant taxation, and now hore does so small a portion oi tho taxes go to legitimate publio pur poses, or so much to the rulers thorn selves end tho rings they choose to fuvor. Industry is crushed'as it novor was before. Labor no longor works fbr itself sinco all and more than all of its surplus profits are exacted and consumed by tho hangers-on ot the Government. Now, although we call ourselvos freemen or freedmen, we are to all intents and purposos slaves, so long as you continue lo make ss hand over lo you the caruingt of our labor ; lor the essence of slavery consists in compelling ono man, or class of men, lo work for another without equivalent. We aro determined to relievo ourselvot Irom thit Intolerable bondage, as far as wo can legally and poacotbly, and if you do not help us, yon must at least cease to mock us by pretonding to be an anti slavory man upon principle. You tell ns that the Republican party "will punih its own rascals." Tbo nowapapor report of yonr spoech says that this was greeted with laugh tor from tho Republican tide ot tbe Houao. Certainly it sounds like the broadest of jokes. It you meant it in earnest, please to say what you foint) thit claim of impartial justice upon. You will hardly prove it by showing that Bristow and Wilson succeeded, with much tribulation, in convitting certain manufacturers of crookod wbiskv, and thoroby got thomselvet turned out of ofllco. It is rain to deny that there is, and has been, a general system of dishonesty pervading all anno ui vitii ovivii-c, WUIUO, BO IBr from being punished, it protected, en couragod and rewarded by the highest anthorilos. Yon havo tot yoir faces like flint againstall investigations tend ing to exposo rascality. Proof of that, if proof woro wanting, would be found in your own denunciation of the pres ent Congress for pushing lit Inqniries into incise regions weere Tonality and corruption might otherwise havedwelt in Buloty. In all your Southorn measures yoa have shown a positive abhorance of honoat government Yon forcod into all placet of power men whose char acters were notoriously bad, and main tained thom while thoy perpetrated the most shameless robberioa. Yoa resisted every effort of the oppressed people to throw tbem off, and whon those efforts were successful in snmo of tho Stales, yon mourned the fall ol th rolent with sincere lamenlations. Co'duIM on fourth pnge