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WEDNESDAY, JULY •L 1888
FOR AUDITOR aErMBhaJ
EI'ARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette county.
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Gen.WELLINOTON 11. BET, of Columbia co
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Ratification Meeting
Our country readers have been making
inquiry already as to the time when the
Democratic Ratification Meeting will
be held in this city. To all such we
would say that the probabilities are
that it will be on Saturday evening,
July Ilth. It is expected that distin
guished members of the National Con
vention from abroad will be present.
The call will appear in the next issue of
the WEEKLY INTELLICIENCER.
Two National Democratic Conventions
On Saturday next two great National
Democratic Conventions will assemble
in the city of New York. In the one
will be gathered together the represen
tatives of the men who freely volun
teered to fight for the restoration of the
Union and the preservation of the Con
stitution. There will be many of the
foremost fighting Generals of the Union
armies, the dauntless chieftains who led
the way where the light was thickest,
and danger most imminent ; and there
too hundreds of those who won distinc
tion 11.9 subordinate officers, with thou
sands of the rank and file who bore the
• brunt of battle on many a bloody and
well contested field from the first Bull
Run to the last battle at Appomattox
Court House. These men will meet to
renew their pledges of devotion to the
;Ilion, to preserve which they so freely
'idled their blood ; and With a spirit of
determination as inflexible and fierce
as that which they exhibited against
armed treason in the field, they will
swear vengeance upon the Northern
traitors who would deprive them and
their children of the fruits of the great
victory they won, by setting up negro
dynasties on the ruins of ten States of
the once glorious Union. To this
Convention the eyes of a large ma-_
jority of the Union soldiers of the
nation are now anxiously turned.—
They see that Gen. Grant has, with a
mean and truckling spirit, consented to
turn his back upon all the generous acts
of his life, to repudiate every noble ut
terance which ever fell from his lips,
and for the sake of office, to become the
mere tool of a set of adventurer who
are the types of all that is nAst base
and mercenary among extremest Radi
cal politicians. Whatever of respect
the honorable and honorably discharged
veterans may have had for Grant be has
completely and forever forfeited. It is
not strange, therefore, that his name
fails to elicit the first spark of enthusi
asm. The men who once follow id him
with pride when he led on the battle
field, now regard him with cold disdain
and think of his self-assumed baseness
with a loathing too deep for utterance.
They will not vote for the man who has
willingly consented to abandon an hon
orable position to become the pliant
tool of such base political adventdrers
as Washburne and Forney. So, to the
soldiers' convention, which is to meet
in New York on the 4th of July, the
soldiers of the nation look for an ex
pression of opinion, as they look to the
other convention which assembles on
the same day for a candidate whom
they will gladly support.
The National Nominating Conven
tion of the Democratic party will be
called to order at high noon of Inde
pendence Day, in the new and magnifi
cent temple which will be dedicated for
the occasion. There will be gathered
the loftiest intellects of the nation. It
will be a grand reunion of all the States.
Not one will be unrepresented. The
foremost men in civil life from every
State and Territory of the Union will be
gathered to take council together, to de
vise means for rescuing the nation from
the dangers that beset it, and for bring
ing relief to an oppressed people.
That wisdom will guide these two
great Conventions, and that entire har
mony will prevail we have r.o doubt.
The Democratic party is actuated by the
highest and purest motives in this great
crisis. The leaders, civil and military,
we are assured are prepared, without an
exception, to abandon all mere personal
• preferences, and to unite upon a plat
form of the most patriotic principles,
upon which they will place as candidates
none but men of the-most exalted char
acter. The time grows short. A very
few days more only will intervene be
fore the names of the next President
and Vice-President of the United States
will be announced to the listening na
tion in the persons of the candidates of
the Democratic party.
The National Convention
The com in g Democratic National Con
vention will be the largest, most talent
ed, and most influential body of the
kind ever assembled in this country.
Besides the delegates there will be
thousands of leading Democrats and
conservative citizens from all parts of
the country. Not a few who were prom
inent in the Republican ranks but a
year ago will be in attendance. From
every State and Territory the wisest
, and best men of the nation, without re.
_sped to former political associatiens, are
atherin •
The ConventionCo will. I. called to or
der o4l3aturday the , 4th' of July, and
atter the anpeinttrient' of the various
ohm:rate:es adjdurn until Monday.
The not illations may possibly be made
4 on Di - outlay, brit the probabilities are,
..aot until Tuesday. • •
The Last Ilays and Latest Acts Of a 818,
, tingttlahed 901oreA Braider."
Elsewhere paperwiltbelcund
a graphic sketch of the gait' dayeYand.'
latestacts of King Theodora's, of
sinla, confessedly the ablesit negrciruler*
In Africa.. The reader not fail to
remember that he and his subj ects stand
at the head of their race. They are not
only the most civilized tribe of Africa,
but profess to be Christians. Theo
dorus is said to have been very learned
in the Scriptures, and he certainly gave
evidence of remarkable acquaintance
with it in the hortotary passages which
he thundered at the band of the naked
and unarmed prisoners who were drawn
up before him to await his royal decree.
This is a specimen of the negro as he
exists at home under the most favorable
auspices. Those who were brought to
this country as slaves were chiefly froin
tribes confessedly inferior to the Abys
sinians. They have been considerably
improved by contact with white men,
but no one except a blinded fanatic
or a selfish Radical politician would
dare to claim that the mass of them are
fit to be entrusted with all the high pri
vileges of American citizenship. To
deliver up any State to their colOrol is
to place it fairly on a descending plane
down which it must be borne to inevi
table ruin. That has been proven in
the West Indies to the satisfaction of
every reader of history. The mass of
the American people see and feel the
truth of such a proposition with all the
unerring certainty of instinct, and the
just feeling of unutterable repugnance
to negro equality is fortified by an un
broken array of historical facts which
can not be ignored. To all who are
thinking of endorsing negro suprema
cy in the South and negro equality in
the North by voting for Grant and
Colfax, we would commend a careful
study of the last days and latest acts of
the most enlightened and powerful
ruler of Africa, King Theodorus, of
Abyssinia, who ended his life by blow
ing his brains out with that chief of all
Christian weapons of warfare, a Colt's
navy revolver.
Who 19111 Be Our Candidates?
That is a question we are asked many
times every day. We have not cared to
speculate as to the result. We are as
sured that the selections will be wisely
and judiciously made, and being satis
fied of that we possess our soul in per
fect patience. It looks as if the game
cock of the army, General Hancock,
would be the nominee, if the candidate
is taken from the East, while Hendricks
is looming up strongly in the West. We
should not be surprised to see the ticket
made up of the two names mentioned,
and each seems to have about an equal
chance of heading it.
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Grant7Not a Republican Candidate.
Grant sends his children to school in
a splendid carriage, and a mounted or
derly in the uniform of a United States
soldier rides behind. He byes in a
magnificent mansion which was pre
sented to him and pays no taxes on his
bonds. He receives a salary of twenty
thousand dollars a year, all of which
comes out of the pockets of the op
pressed taxpayers. He declared more
than once that he was not fit for Presi
dent, and did not desire the nomina
tion ; but he consented to abandon all
his principles and to become a mere
dumb tool in the hands of a set of des
perate, plundering politicians. Is such
a man the most fitting representative
of Republican principles? Can the
toiling masses desire the election of such
a one to the Presidency ? We rather
think not. In their distrust of Grant
and their dissatisfaction with the action
of the Radical leaders is to be found the
secret of the coldness with which the
nominations of the Chicago Conven
tion have been received throughout the
country. Neither Grant nor Colfax are
Republican candidates in any proper
sense of the term. The masses have no
love for them, and that they will he
ignominously defeated all that we see
about us indicates very clearly.
Prbtest Against the Arkansas Adven
. ,
The protest of the Democratic mem- Legislature of Connecticut, in conse
hers of Congress against the admission queue° of an infamous gerrymander of
of the set of political adv'enturers who I the State which defeats the will, of the
profess to have been elected by the peo- I people, and they have a bill up cotn
pie of Arkansas is timely and proper. pelling negroes to be received into all
In strong, clear and forcible terms it I the schools of the State on a perfect
sets forth the long array of outrages I equality with white children. It has
which have been practiced under the I passed the Senate and will be almost
pretense of reconstructing the South- I certain to pass the House. This the
ern States. No man can read this docu- Hartford Times very truthfully chartic
men t, to which are appended the names [ . terizes as a pure piece of Radical malig •
of the Democratib members of Congress, ally, inasmuch as ample provision has
without feeling convinced that the des_ been already made for the education of
perate and reckless course of the Radi- the blacks in separate schools. We only
tale is calculated to do great injury to mention it as an evidence of the dispo
the nation. This manly protest will be sitiou of those who are the acknowl
heard by the people, and will help great- edged leaders of the Republican party.
ly to make clear the issues of the Presi- They profess to believe that the mission
deutial campaign. It will also avail'of the organization is to bring about a
much in the Congressional elections perfect equality between the races, and,
which are to take place. The masses if they are successful at the coming
feel the absolute necessity which exists elections, every separating barrier will
for a change in both branches of Con- be speedily broken down.
gress, and they are ready to effect it
through the ballot-box. Read the ad
mirable protest of the Democratic mem
bers, and then hand it to your Repub
lican neighbor.
Reinforcement of the Thieves In Con
gress.
The Radical thieves in Congress will
be largely reinforced when the carpet
bag members from the South all get
Negroes To Be Admhted To Congress,
their seats. The honesty of these sour
'
If negro suffrage continues in the vy fellows was shown at once on the
South, the admission or negroes to Con- admission of the Arkansas delegation.
They had no sooner taken the oath than
gross is inevitable. The following letter
from Senator Sumner to a friend in they made a grab for the spoils. They
Norfolk, Virginia, which appeared had the assurance to ask to be paid for
among our telegrams yesterday,
c l ear l y a full year before they were elected.—
proves that:
This claim has been referred to the Ju-
SENATE CHAMBER, June '_'2
diciary Committee. Should it be allow-
DEAR SIR :—I have your letterof the 19th' ed (as it may be) it will only be another
in reference to the eligibility of a colored piece of theft added to the long list of
man to Congress. those already committed by the present
I know of no ground on which he could
be excluded from his seat if duly elected„' Congress,
and I should welcome the election of a coin
petent representative of the colored race to
either House of Congress, as the final tri
umph of the cause of equal rights. Until
this step is taken our success is incomplete.
Yours truly,
CHARLES SUMNEB.
A negro is running for Congress in
the Norfolk district, and this letter of
Sumner'is may be regarded as the au
thoritative expression of the views of
the Radicals in Congress. He speaks
for the party when he says : " l i tafil this
.step is taken our success is incomplete."
Negro suffrage in the South, to the
maintenance of which the Republican
party is pledged by the Chicago platform,
if sustained, necessitates two things—
Negro suffrage in every northern Stale
and the admission of negroes to Con
gress and all other official positions on
a prefect equality with white men. So
the people now understand it, and they
are prepared to vote intelligently
A New Daily Paper In Columbia
The Alorning Telegram is the title of
a daily paper just started in Columbis,
by Frank S. Taft. It is a neatly print
ed and attractive little sheet, well tilled
with paying advertisements, and prom
ises to be a complete success. This
makes the second daily paper for Co
lumbia, ,a mark of enterprise which is
certainly remarkable in a town of only
eight thousabdinhabitants. The Tele
gram is neutral in politics, and promises
to devote all its energies to a develope
ment of the business interests of Colum
bia. We wish it abundant success.
Hon. Lafe Develin, Chairman of the
Indiana Democratic State Central
Committee, was in town on Sunday and
yesterday, stopping with his friend and
relative George Brubaker, Esq. Mr.
Develin is an ardent supporter of Pen
dleton, and, to our surprise, seemed to
have infused a wonderful admiration
for his favorite into the breast of the
Chief of the Lancaster county Thugs.
The Democracy of Maine have nomi
natedE, F. Pillsbury for Governor. He
will make a vigorous fight ) and the
Radical majority will be reduced if
not wiped out. •
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A Carpet-bag Adventurer at the ifirmal,
Sehooh!,
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A 00l supportediiiihnStabl'inuld
'not ;stem to he a tireperVlaceXe r k the\
•liolding of pollOcal meetings. The in4i
4erests of education *not be advanced ,
'by the repeated delilterY.Of diets Peree
I partisan harangues - in, Seminaries and
Colleges, and any Institntion in which
such things are encouraged must be re
garded as prostituting itself to im
proper purposes. We have bad occa
sion to notice the extent to which this
kind of thing has been carried on several
occasions at the Millersville Normal
School ; The other evening there was
another exhibition of the same sort.
One Morris Wickersham, a brother of
the State Superintendent -of Common
Schools, made a speech before the Page
Literary Society, which, from the re
port of it in the Express, must have been
entirely out of place. After the usual
twaddle which forms the staple of edi
torial matter in Radical newspapers,
this fellow proceeded to give his views
on negro suffrage. The Express re
porter sums up the Speaker's ideas on
that question as follows :
The speaker then referred to negro sal
(rage; that here, on that very platform
from which he was now speaking, a few
years ago he had bitterly opposed this ques
tion, but now lie was glad to know that the
mist had been cleared from i his eyes, and
now he could see no reason why the man
who so nobly stood up in the oattle's front
—who was an intelligent being in a free
Republic, should not have the elective
franchise extended to him. Right and ne
cessity both demand a ballot for the negro.
This prejudice must be broken down, and
he for one shall be one to assist in accom
plishing that work.
Now, who is this Morria Wickersham,
that engages in preaching negro suffrage
at the State Normal School? We have
said he is a brother of the State Super
intendentof Common Schools; but that
does not give any idea of his antece
dents. He enlisted as a soldier, was
shortly converted into a Quartermaster,
and is said to have Made a fair specimen
of that kind of warrior; at all events he
showed his capacity by making money
enough to engage in cotton planting in
Alabama after the war ended. Failing in
this business, he turned to the usual re
source of the carpet-bag adventurers
who infest that region ; and came to
Washington during the Impeachment
trial with a crowd of the same kind of
fellows to work for the conviction of the
President. He expects, we understand,
to be elected to Congress from the city
of Mobile by the negroes. Of course he
is in favor of negro suffrage, and it is
not difficult to understand the motives
which brought about so marked a change
in his opinions. We have no doubt he
will be honeyfugling round with every
dirty negro in his district to secure a
nomination; and we suppose he will
not decline to go into the baby kiss
ing business among them, if the election
should'promise to be close.
Why Grant Should Resign.
Were General Grant running as a
candidate for President at a time when
the army exercised only its legitimate
influence upon the affairs of the nation,
he ought to feel it to be a duty for him
to resign upon accepting the nomina
tion. But, for him to hold on to his
command now, with all the power over
the Southern States which Congress has
conferred upon him, would be for him
to subject uimself to the gravest sus
picions. It will be very difficult to in
duce the people of the North to believe
that Grant and his military family do
not intend to use all the force which
they can command to control the negro
vote of the South. To relieve himself
from so grave a suspicion, Gen. Grant
should resign at once. The country is
not prepared to view with approval the
spectacle of the General of a great army
placed in control of the ballot box in
many of the States, and using his au
thority to secure the Presidential office.
That looks too much like military
usurpation to be agreeable to any lovers
of republican institutions; and the peo
, ple, if they are properly jealous of their
liberties, will not cast their ballot for
any one who occupies such a position.
Negroes in the Public Schools.
The Radicals still have control of the
The Se6 . etary or War has just sent
in to Congress an estimate of what
will be needed to supply deficiencies in
the appropriations already made for
the execution of the Registration acts.
It foots up the grand total of Six Hu:c
hum) AND THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND,
FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT
DOLLARS AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.-
Here is a nice little sum to be wrung
from the toil and sweat of the white
men of the North. It amounts to more
than a dollar for every voter in Penn
sylvania. Work away ye toilingmasses!
Your masters want millions, of money
to control negro votes, which are to
count against yours at the coming Pres
idential election. Therefore work
away, like dumb, unthinking brutes;
and be sure to keep on voting for Radi
cal candidates! Vote for Grant! Vote
for Thad. Stevens! Vote for Radicals
for all offices! Vote to make thd ne
groes masters of the South! Vote to
give negroes the balance of power in
Congress, and at Presidential elections !
Keep on voting as your masters bid
you! Vote to make yourselves slaves !
THE tickets for the Democratic Na
tional Convention, are being engraved
by the American Bank Note Company,
and it will be impossible to imitate
them. This precaution is rendered ab
solutely necessary, as there will be an
immense crowd present, all anxious to
obtain admission.
IT IS SAID that the Radicals have de
termined not to permit any election to
be held in Virginia, inasmuch as they
are convinced that they would be de
feated. They intend to keep the State
out of the Union, and to refuse topermit
her vote to be counted in the Presiden
tial election. This is a epecimen of
Radical reconstruction which will set
many Conservative Republicans to
thinking,yery seriously. ,
In Town
THE Democracy of the Slate are al.
ready engaged in planting hickory
poles. We expect. M see;them stan4ing
thick before 'the campaign. Is over , ''lt
is a good old-fashioned DeMocratio cue
tom, and deserves to be perpetuated.
More Money to Buy Negro Votes
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.state
kal m i4t fee_t_ dei3pOitloir* thOnitir*
Jackotelitihtkdasm
.overAhe nonghatioriZof Grayit and Col e :
every singliiins*ce where ani
. ,
attempt hiSbeen*lde tafget up::a
fication meeting a marked and complete
failure has been the disheartening re
sult. The masses turn a deaf ear to the
ringing of bells, and resolutely refuse to
heed the loud call of brass bands. In
vain are the names of distinguished
Radical orators pasted as speakers at
these meetings. The people seem to be
determined not to Iliten to their shal
low
pratings.'
After trying every known expedient
to get a decent audience together in the
city of New York, the Republicans of
the Ninth Assembly District bit upon
an entirely new device. They sub
scribed money, bought innumerable
baskets of strawberries and lots of ice
cream, and then invited all who would
consent to come to what the New York
Tribune styles "A Grant and Colfax
Strawberry Festival. The Ninth Dis
trict being in a populous part of New
York city, the likelihood of finding
plenty of people willing even to be bored
with Radical speeches while feasting
without money or price on strawberries
and ice cream would seem to be more
than ,ordinarily good. The hall en
gaged for the occasion was large, and a
fine brass band was in attendance. Six
hundred people, great and small, male
and female, we are assured, on the au
thority of the tribune, only aix hundred
all told, were present. .Horace Grefley
made a speech, and then came, what
think you reader—"a dance," a real
jolly dance.
Here is the last Radical method of
getting a small crowd together to listen
to the philosophising of the white bat
ted sage of the Tribune and other Radi
ical speakers. Before such devices the
coon skins and hard cider of other days
must fade out of remembrance. But
what will be done when the strawber
ries are gone? Do the Radicals propose
to fall back from these pets of nature to
raspberries, then to blackberries, then
to whortleberries ? What will they do
when the latest of the berry tribe has
passed away ? It will still be weeks and
months until the second Tuesday of
November. The berrying season is
brief, but burying goes on all the year
round, and the probabilities are that
the Radicals will be mourners at the
biggest kind of a funeral in November.
When a party has to give free feeds of
strawberries and ice cream, closing up
with a dance, to induce even a small
'crowd to listen to its chief orators in
such a city as New York, it may be con
sidered as near the end of its existence.
Let the funeral .proceea?
Another Impeachment Scheme
Old Thad Stevens has started another
impeachment scheme. He has pre
pared four articles, which he proposes
to refer to a select committee, with in
structions to report at some future day.
The first article charges the President
with instituting provisional gov,ern
merits iu the South without consent of
Congress ; the second, with usurpation
of the pardoning power ; the third, with
using his patronage to obstruct the laws
of Congress in the Southern States; and
the fourth, with using corruptly his
patronage to affect the result of elec
tions iu different States within three
years past. Old Thad expects to be
able to succeed in his impeachment
scheme after the scalleywag and carpet
bag Senators elected by the negroes of
the South take their seats. That he be
lieves he will be able to carry impeach
ment through after the admission of
these Senatorial adventurers we have
not the slightest doubt. He is a vindic
tive old creature and never stops half
way in any devilment he may have on
hand. The moderate and more decent
portion of the Republican party are
alarmed at this new movement, and it
is expected that the introduction of his
articles will excite no little commotion.
He is said to have prepared an elabo
rate speech in their defence, of which
he will speak a few lines, and the clerk
will read the balance. We shall see
what will be the result of this third at
tempt at impeachment.
Pardoning Rebels
The House of Representatives has
passed by the necessary two-thirds vote
a special bill relieving from all penal
ties and political disabilities some
twelve hundred rebels. Among the lot
was the reprobate who offered to raise
one hundred thousand dollars to pay
any man who would assassinate Presi
dent Lincoln, and others who were as
desperate as ne. The Senate had, at
the suggestion of Democrats, added to
the list some two or three original Union
men who were reluctantly drawn into
tne rebellion. These names were strick
en out in the House. The rule with the
Radicals is to pardon any scalywag who
will consort with negroes and work to
sustain negro supremacy in the South.
None but such degraded specimens of
white manhood need apply. Any who
are ready so to deprave themselves can
be freely and fully forgiven and taken
into full communion in the Radical fold.
Even Jeff Davis himself would be glad
; ly received into the U. S. Senate on
such conditions. A readiness to put
himself on a par with the negro •is all
the passport the vilest and most mur
derous rebel needs to entitle him to full
immunity for all past crimes, and to
qualify himself for any office.
What Soldiers Say
The soldiers are not the men who de
sire to keep up strife between the two
sections. Having fought the war out
they desire a complete restoration of th
Union, and are willing to forget and
forgive. This was fully proven at a
large meeting of Union soldiers which
was held in Nashville the other day.
Resolutions were adopted expressing
faith in the honesty of rebel soldiers
who surrentered ; commending their
good conduct since the war; declaring
disfranchisementoi the dominant party
unwise and ungenerous; favoring uni
versal amnesty and pardon for all past
political offences; declaring that the
public credit must be maintained, but
bondholders must be paid in greenbacks.
Delegates were appointed to the New
York Convention. General Dawson
presided.
THE following Republicans voted
against giving McGee, of Kentucky, the
seat to which lie had no claim : Messrs.
Baker, of Illinois; Bailey, of New York;
Bingham and Spalding, of Ohio; Farns
worth, of Illinois; Hawkins, of Ten
nessee; Poland, of Vermont; Stevens,
of Pennsylvania, and Thomas, of Mary
land.
They are not the most moderate men
of the party, but being lawyers of some
reputation they were not quite prepared
to say that a majority of either house of
Congress bad the right to admit to a seat
one who was never elected.
FORNEY'S Philadelphia Press con
temptuously speaks of General McClel
lan as the author of `! All quiet along
the Potomac," but it fails' to add that
this quiet was not the lasting rest re
sulting from the loss of 117,000 men out
of 220,000 in Grant's disastrous march
from the Rapidan to that point on the
James river from which McClellan was
readied, and which Grant might have
reached without the loss of a single sol
dier. ' '
THE' Radical leaders have advised
Grant to leave Washington, and he is
going ,out to the. Rocky kountains.
1%18 is done with a•vlew to get him out
of the reach 'of pestering politicians
who it is feared wiliget him to talk
about something else than horses and
Marshal Brown's pups.
"7 , The Suicidal Mania.
•
with the opertiv of the month of,
.1104 :it would only W-natinatin,,suf
rSiiia.,Abat joy and hope-it:Woad falign,
Universally. Yet, strandifto say, it per
feox mania for the commission of Weide ,
seeMliUhave prevaileittlirouglionttha:
country ever since June came in. We
have scarcely picked up an exchange
from any part of the United States in
which 'we have not seen recorded the
revolting particulars of some terrible
case;of self-murder. The methods of
fele de se seem to haVe been almost as
I varied as the clutracter of the victims.
Some have mangled themselves in the
most brutal style, by gashing away at
their throats in a manner which dis
played-complete ignorance of the lo
cation of the jugular vein; others
have chosen to try death by strang
ulation, making it more ghastly and
painful than it would have been
under the hands of a skilled Jack
Ketch, or a Sheriff with all the conve
nient appliances of a modern scaffold
at his command ; those who were not
easily alarmed at the report of fire arms
or ariald of the smell of gunpowder have
made quick work of the business they
had on hand by rudely blowing their
brains out or skilfully directing a bullet
through their hearts; melancholy lov
ers and love-lorn maidens have sought
relief in watery graves, being wooed
thereto by the plaintive and mournful
music of the waves; the poisoned chal
ice has continued to assert its right to
be regarded as a refined and convenient
method of ending life, and many have
resorted to this as the true lethean
draught. But there have been other
and even more revolting methods em
ployed. In several recorded instances
those who had resolved to make as end
of life threw themselves upon a railroad
track and were crushed out of all sem
blance to humanity by the remorseless
iron monster.
It is passing strange that an epidemic
of suicide should have broken out all
over the country just at this season of
the year, when nature puts on her finest
robes, and when the mere act of breath
ing is a luxury. We could understand
it better if it had come upon us with the
approach of winter, in the melancholy
days of autumn, or when the glory of
earth had completely departed. The
weather is known to have a great influ
ence upon both the mental and physi
cal condition of mortals, but why the
present June should have been so fruit
ful of suicides is a mystery we cannot
pretend to unravel. We can only record
the fact and leave the cause to be sought
by those of a more speculative turn of
mind. Who will give us a solution of
the strange phenomenon?
Loyal Veteran Grant Clubs
That is the title under which the
Radicals are trying to rally Union sol
diers to the support of their schemes of
disunion. Query—Will those soldiers
who decline to vote for the tool of For
ney and Washburne be considered dis
loyal ? There will be a vast army of
them—more than half the rank and file
of the gallant volunteer soldiery of the
country, with multitudes of the most
distinguished officers—and they cannot
be frightened from the determination to
vote for the conservative candidates by
the stale old cry about disloyally. Not
they. Having bravely faced- Southern
treason on the battle field, they are
ready to meet Northern treason to the
Union and the Constitution at the bal
lot box. They will fight it clown
though it seeks shelter under the
leadership of Grant, and will "fight it
out on that line, if it takes all Summer."
nother Large Addition to the Public
Debt.
No statement of the public debt will
be published oil the Ist of July, as the
month will terminate the fiscal year,
and the condition of the national debt
will be included in the annual report of
the Secretary to Congresss. The result
of the financial transactions of the
present month, it is thought, will show
a small reduction of the debt. On the
Ist of July, however, about $45,000,000
in coin will have to be paid out of the
Treasury, $28,000,000 of which is inter
est on the five-twenties and six per
cent bonds of 1881, and $7,000,000 prin
cipal on the loan of 1848. These expen
ditures will cause the next fiscal year
to begin with another large addition to
the national indebtedness.
SOME fellow who wants to patch up a
bad character has sued the publishers
of the Williamsport Standard for libel
ing him. Our friends do not seem to be
at all disturbed by this prosecution,
and, in the end, we have no doubt the
fellow Wllo . began the suit will wish he
had kept out of it. That is almost in
variably the case in such afihirs. People
who have brittle reputations had better
submit quietly to the strictures of an
independent newspaper press.
A New Way of Electing Congressmen.
Letting the people vote, and then re
fusing to admit the man who gets fif
teen hundred or two thousand majority,
and swearing in the defeated candidate.
That is what was done in the Case of
McGee.
This is the new Radical plan for elect
ing Congressmen, and it is modeled
after what is known as the "loosing
game" of draughts or checkers. The
loser is the winner. Hereafter we sup
pose every candidate for Congress will
try to get all his friends to vote for his
opponent. That will make quite a
change in the present mode of election
eering. The most unpopular man in a
party would be most certain to be elect
ed. This would be a good county for a
Democrat to run in under the new rule,
and we may expect to see Old Thad
beaten this fall. What quere ways these
Radicals have, to be sure, and how we
are advancing under their rule.
Negro Clerks in the United States Senate.
Senator Conness, Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Mines and Min
ing, has appointed a negro clerk to his
committee at a salary of over $2,000 a
year. The fellow will have almost
nothing to do, and the appointment has
been made for the express purpose of
furnishing a full recognition of the doc
trine of equality. The Radicals in
Congress are not afraid to illustrate
their doctrine by their works. If the
white men of Pennsylvania desire to
see the system progress to complete ful
filment let them vote for Grant and for
Radical Congressmen, and they will be
speedily gratified.
Cost of the Registry Law
The Registry law passed by the Rad
icals last winter will prove to be a most
costly affair, if carried out. The York
Democratic Press makes an accurate
calculation of the amount of money
which will be required to enforce its
regulations in that county this year.—
The sum total foots up $3,720. It will
c"st each county in the State a propor
tionate amount. Lancaster county will
have to pay about $5,000 for this piece
of foolish legislation. The people did
not desire the passage of this law, and
all classes will be pleased if the Su
preme Court should decide it to be un
constitutional, as we suppose they will.
GENERAL CANBY telegraphs to Gen.
Grant that the sensational reports which
have appeared in Radical papers relative
to recent outrages are without any foun
dation in truth, Of course they are.—
This, thing of inventing outrages has got
to be a regular business with Radical
neWspapersi however, and it will be
kept up with great vigor during the
Presidential campaign. Let the people
remember that General Canby has offic
ially branded the men who publish such
reports as, liars.
ON Wednesday afternoon three well
known Radical Senators appeared on
the floor' of the Chamber in a state of
gross intoxication. They are all strong
supporters of the party of moral ideas,
and voted for the conviction of the
President.
=ME=
11 : Bradjord.—Victor E. Piolett is a condi
'', , ,:for the Democratic nomination for
I tCorigresi i4i.the-,l3th district,:
-9 , ' The DeMixrasijs of Clarion crin`tity hive
FnoxdiiideitE. B. Brown, Esq., editor of the
;clarion - Democrat. for , Assembly, and-lo
!Arndt in favor 0f,..H0n. Wm. A. y97allaccifor
State . •• ' - -',.,.,-, . •-• I , -
~. Senator.
The'Democracy of Cambria county have
nominated the following tick et : Assembly,
Captain John Porter; Prothonotary. CapL
J. K. Hite; District Attorney, E. P. Tier
ney; County Commissioner, Maurice
M'Namara.
Armstrong.-The Democrats of Arrnstiong
county have made the : following nomina
tions.: Congress, Peter Graff; Senate, Jas.
A. McCulloch; Assembly, John Steele;
SurYekor, Sfilerti Hileman ; Chairman of
the County Committee, Jackson Boggs.
Schuylkill.—The Democracy of Schuylkill
met in convention, at Pottsville, on the 22d
host., appointed a county committee for the
present year, and fixed the 25th of July next
for the election of delegates, and the 28th of
July for the nominating convention.
Northurnberland.—The Return Judges of
the NorthumberlanS county Democracy,
met en the 23d inst., and declared the result
of the delegate election as follows! For
Congress, Geo. W. Zeigler; Assembly, Wm.
H. Case; District Attorney. Jeremiah Sny
der; Commissioner, Wm. E. Bucher; Sur
veyor, J. K. Francis.
J. H. McCormick was chosen Represen
tatiye delegate to the next 4th of March
convention. ,
The Demociats of Philadelphia have com
pleted the ticket by making the following
additional nominations: Mayor, Daniel M.
Fox, unanimous; City Solicitor, T. J. Bar
ger; City Controller, George Getz.
The ticket is a most excellent on e through
out and sure to be elected by a large major
ity. The Democracy talk of from five to
ten thousand, and the judgment of the most
sagacious politicians is that the majority
can not fall below the first figure.
The Democracy of Westmoreland county
have put in nomination the following
ticket: Congress, Hon. Henry D. Foster;
Assembly, Henry B. Piper, James M. Ken
nedy; Sheriff, Daniel F. Steck ; Commis
sioner, George Bridge; District Attorney,
James J. Hazlett, Poor House Directors,
John C. Morrow, William Millikin ; Sur
veyor, Wm. R. Barnhart ; H. M. Husbands
Hon. Henry D. Foster, the candidate for
Congress, is wonderfully and deservedly
popular in the district, and there can be nor
doubt that he will beat the old ignoramus,
John Covode, by a sweeping majority.
Bedford.—The Democracy of Bedford
county have put in nomination the follow
ing ticket: Additional Law Judge, J. Mc-
Dowell Sharpe, of Franklin county, (Sub
ject to decision of District Conference);
Congress, B. F. Meyers, of Bedford, )sub
ject to decision of District Conference);
Assembly, Capt. T. H. Lyons, of Bedford,
(subject to decision of District Conference);
Commissioner, Daniel P. Beegle, of St.
Clair; Poor Director, Henry ];golf, of Na
pier; County Surveyor, Sam'l Kellerman,
of Bedford; Coroner, Dr. P. H. Penney], of
Bloody Run; Auditor, Val. Steck man, of
Bedford.
General Hancock and Mrs. Surratt
General Halpine, the editor of the N.
Y. Citizen, clears up all the rumors in
regard to General Hancock's having
been in any way responsible for the
execution of Mrs. Surratt, in the fol
lowing paragr4h:
The old and. 'thousand times exploded
lie of General Hancock's having had any
responsibility for Mrs. Surratt's execution,
we are surprised to find even the Lacrosse
Democrat having the hardihood to again put
in circulation. With the military commis
sion which convicted that unfortunate
woman, General Hancock bad precisely as
much connection as "Brick Pomeroy" him
self—and not one tittle more; Hancock's
only actual part in the matter being an at
tempt to secure for Mrs. Surratt's daughter
one final appeal to the pardoning power for
a reprieve in her mother's case. But in re
gard to this matter, His Grace the Catholic
Archbishop of Baltimore is prepared to
certify at the proper moment, and in a way
that will cover with confusion and infamy
all who have resorted to this vile slander
as their last and only hope for fixing a stain
upon the sword and plume of one of the
noblest soldiers and noblest citizens of this
or any other country—a man whose mere
presence,not less than his splendid military
and civil record, carries the mind back ir
resistibly to the grand old days in which,
as we are told, "there were giants upon the
earth"—great and patriotic organizers and
movers of the national forces, intellectual,
physical and moral.
Frauds are the order of the day. The
New York Tribune of Saturday con
tains the following among other edito
rial items:
Our Washington correspondent says that
there is some tear that the Senate will con
firm the Osage treaty, one of the most
monstrous frauds ever attempted in this
country, and which was so unanimously
denounced by the House last week.
Glaring frauds in the Second Auditor's
office, whereby the Government has been
swindled out of millions of dollars by dis
honest clerks altering bounty warrants,
have been unearthed by a Special Investi
gating Committee of the House.
GEN. JOHN 0. Rawraxs has under
taken to explain Grant's infamous order
in reference to the banishment of all
Jews from his department, but his let
ter of explanation only the more clearly
fastens the act of tyranny upon its au
thor. Grant showed by that order that
he is a stupid and brutal man, utterly
unfit to be entrusted with the guardian
ship of the civil and religious liberty of
the people.
The Democratic Column.
OHIO,
OREGON,
KENTUCKY,
N lOW YORK,
NEW JERSEY,
MARYLAND,
DELA W A R E
CALIFORNIA,
CONNECTICUT,
WEST VIRGINIA,
PENNSYLVANIA,
These States, now Democratic cast a
majority of the electoral votes of the
"loyal" States-124. Their number
will be materially increased by new ad
ditions next November.
Radical Nominees in Virginia
One would suppose theßadicals would
be able to numter in their ranks in Vir
ginia an occasional native fit to hold an
office; but the list of candidates shows
how utterly without support by the
white element the party is in the Old
Dominion. Of the following every one
is a carpet bag adventurer.
Governor, Brig. Gen. Wells, Michigan;
Lieut. Governor, James Clements, District
of Columbia. For Congress—First district,
R. S. Aver, Maine; second district, L. H.
Chandler, Massachusetts; third district, C.
H..Poter, New York; fourth district, Lewis
C. Thayer, New York; fifth district, G. G.
Curtis, New York; seventh district, Chas.
Whittlesey, Connecticut ; at large, Aaron
M. Crane, Connecticut.
Veto of the Omnibus Bill
WASHINGTON, June 25.
Today the President sent the following
veto message to the House:
To the House of Representatives:
In returning to the House of Representa
tives, in which it originated, a bill entitled
"An act to admit the States of North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida to representation in
Congress," I do not deem it necessary to state
at length the reasons which constrain me to
withhold my approval. I will not, therefore,
undertake at this time to reopen the dicus
sion upon the grave constitutional questions
involved in the act ofMarch 2, 1867, and the
acts supplementary thereto, in pursuance of
which it is claimed in the preambhb of this
bill these States have framed and adopted
constitutions of State government, nor will
I repeat the objections contained in my
message of the 2Uth inst., returning without
my signature the bill to admit to represen
tation the State of Arkansas and which are
equally applicable to the pending measure.
Like that recently passed in reference to
Arkansas, this bill supersedes the plain and
simple mode presented by the Constitution
for the admission to seats in the respective
houses of Senators and Representatives
from the several States.
It assumes authority over the States of
the Union which has never been delegated
to Congress, or is even warranted by pre
vious constitutional legislation upon the
subject of restoration. It proposes condi
tions which are in derogation of . the equal
rights of the States, and is founded upon a
theory which is subversive of the fonds
mental principles of the governmeni. In
the case of Alabama, it violates the plighted
faith of Congress by forcing upon that State
a Constitution which was rejected by the
people, according to the express terms oran
act of Congress, requiring that a majority
of the registered electors shall vote upon the
question of its ratification. For these, and
many other objections that might be pre
sented, I cannot approve this bill, and
therefore return it for the action of Congress
required in such cases by the Federal Con
stitution.
ANDREW JOHNSON
Americans in Honduras
A correspondent of the Mobile Register,
writing from Belize, British Honduras,
says:
There about one thousand Americans in
this colony, who are bonajide settlers. They
are scattered all over the country, still there
are several neighborhoods that are quite
thickly settled, viz: there are thirty Amer
ican families living in close proximity on
the Moho river; !a number of families on
Santa Anna creek ; several on the Mullen
river, and eighteen miles from the city, on
the Manatee river, are twenty-two fami
lies of Americana in a circuit of five miles.
Nearly all the large sugar planters are
scattered along New river. All are driving
ahead at something and doing well. But
one man that ever settled ,in the colony
from the States has gone back.
DEMOCRATIC ITOTOIIiIIIUMMIDISSIPPL ,
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The Negroes Repudiate the Radicals.
Great Excitement Over the Result.
Forney's Press, publishes the following
despatch from Mississippi:
JacusoN, June 26.—Jackson is ablaze
with, enthusiasm. Such excitement Was
probably never . known in this Stalk; A
colored Democratic club from Brandon,
numbering three hundred, is here to spend
to-morrow—our election day—and encour
age the colored Democrats. A grand torch
light procession, two miles long, took place
to night. The whole State is giving lhrge
Democratic majorities. The Democrats
claim 25,000 majority. Speeches are 'being
made to-night by various politicians. The
Loyal League is parading the streets, about
I two hundred in number. The Democrats
are receiving accessions from the League.
Brinson, a negro Radical candidate in
Rankin County, joined the Democrats to
day..
It ia reported from Vicksburg that the
President of the Republican Executive
Committee in Mississippi voted the Demo
cratic ticket. Ten counties roll up a
majority from five thousand to ten
thousand. The Radicals have carried four
of the river counties. The Democrats allow
them all the river counties, ten in number,
but none of the inland counties. Although
there is great enthusiasm manifested, there
is no hostile demonstrations, and the op
posing parties trent each other with court
esy.
Radical Outrages ripen Conservatives—
Large Democratic dia.lorities—itadieni
Lie Contradicted.
JACKSON, Miss., June al.—Returns from
three boxes here give 269 Radical majority.
Only two fights have occurred. The loyal
leaguers severely beat a member of the
colored Democratio club, and a negro
knocked a white man down.
The returns come in encouragingly for
the Democrats. The estimated majority, as
far as heard from, is 15,000. Several coun
ties claimed by the Radicals returned large
Democratic majorities.'
The home of Jameson, the Radical candi
date for Lieutenant Governor, polled a
unanimous Democratic vote, not one Radi
cal vote being cast.
General McDowell telegraphs to General
Freeman, President of the Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, that he has sent no
co mm unicat ion to General Grant indicating
the course of the election.
Election Returns—Prospect Still Hope
tut—Plan of Me Radicals
JACKSON, June 29.—The second day's
election closed here with a Radical majori
ty of 616 in this county, where there is a re
gistered colored majority of 1,700. The
election will not close throughout the State
for several days. Full returns have been
received but from few counties. Some of
the Radical strongholds heard from give a
majority for the Democrats up to this timo
of 12,78.5.
The Radical newspaper at this place says,
in all counties where the Democrats have
received a majority the election must be
declared illegal and void, although there is
not a single outrage known to the public.
The official organ of the Radical party in
this State has suspended publication. The
polls at Vicksburg were kept open till 10
o'clock on Saturday night by General Mc-
Dowell, against the earnest protests of the
citizens.
From Wt.hington
WASIIINGTON, Juuo 29
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
Important action respecting Government
securities was taken by the House to-day.
Mr. Cobb, of Wisconsin, introduced a reso
lution instructing the Ways and Means
Committee to report a bill levying a tax of
ten per cent. on the interest derived from
United States bonds. After some explana—
[ion. a motion was mede to referthe resolu
tion to the Committee of Ways and Means.
This was disagreed to, yeas, 61; nays,
SO. The resolution then passed without
amendment, yeas 92, nays 54. This is con
sidered an important step, and the majority
by which the resolution passed indicates
that when the Ways and Means Committee
report the bill called for thereby, it will go
through the House by about the same vote
as that recorded above. It is doubtful,
however, whether it will pass the Senate
this session.
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU SWINDLE
In the Senate to-day, Mr. Howard, from
the Committee on Military Affairs,
reported
favorably on the bill introduced by himself
last week, in relation to the Freedmen's
Bureau, and to provide for its discontinu
ance. The principal features of the measure
were published in the Age of the 26th inst.,
and shows that the design of its author is
to continue the bureau indefinitely, not
withstanding the bill now pending before
the President, which puts an end to it as
soon as the Southern States shall have been
fully restored to representation in Congress
under the negro suffrage plan of reconstruc
tion, as it is called.
TEE STAR CErAMRER REPORT
It is understood to-day that Mr. B. F.
Butler will not present the report of the
"Star Chamber" Investigating Committee
in regard to the alleged corruption of cer
tain Radical Senators, in voting for the ac.
quittal of the President, until Wednesday
or Thursday next. - .No interest is felt - in
the matter, and after the document shall
have been read it will probably be ordered
to be printed, and that will be the end of it.
The Philadelphia Post ou Negro Suf
frage.
We commend the following article from
that ably edited Republican paper, the
Philadelphia Post, to Republicans of every
grade of opinion. It is an authoritative
statement of the creed of the party leaders:
The Edaeattnn of the Party
Every day adds to our conviction that the
Republican party must make Impartial
Suffrage triumphant, or be ruined by it. It
has taken a position from which retreat is
impossible, and if it cannot carry this prin
ciple through, it is doomed to defeat. We
shall find in every State that the Dejno
crats will attack the Republican party as
the champion of negro suffrage, and that
no dodging and cowardice on our part can
keep this direct issue out of the campaign.
Nothing remains for us but to accept the
situation created by Emancipation and the
Reconstruction laws, and resolve that Im
partial Suffrage shall be established, if
there is any power in argument, and any
use in appealing to the intelligence of the
American people. Though considerable
training will be required, much of it has
been already done. More than 200,000
votersi n Ohio believe that colored citizens
should vote, and bnt a small minority of
the party in that State remains to be con
vinced. There is about the same proportion
in the other States, and it is evident, there
fore, that we have simply got to convince
the minority.
That minority will finally yield to the
overwhelming influence of the majority.
The majority of Republicans opposed to
Impartial Suffrage would accept it rather
than desert the party. The sooner we can
make that issue the better, for one of the
chief evils from which the party suffers is
the discouragement of hundreds of thou
sands of Radicals who think that the prin
ciple should be frankly acknowledged,
North and South. The immediate duty of
every Radical journal is to admit the con
clusions of our own logic. Nothing is more
cowardly in a journalist who believes that
Impartial Suffrage is right than his refusal
to advocate it. Nothing can be more foolish
in a journalist who knows that the party
must take the responsibility of the meas
ure than to abandon all effort to make
it successful. Here is the position in which
the Republican party is placed: It is uni
versally recognized as the exponent and
champion of the right of the colored man
to vote; in attempting to embody that idea
in the laws of the North, it has been re
peatedly defeated. Now, if it could re
nounce the principle, there might be some
expediency in the conseravtive policy. But
that is impossible. To take the idea of the
equoj rights of all men out of the Republi
can 33arty would be like tearing the heart
out of a living body. It would be murder—
annihilation. We do not propose to prove
a fact which is established. This being
the position of the party, Its ships burned
and its bridges destroyed behind It, what
remains for us to do? Advale, attack,
triumph. There is no safety retreat;
there is no prudence excep in assuming
the risk of battle. Therefor ,we commend
to all friends of Impartial Suffrage the
watchword of the early Abolitionists—Agi
tate! Agitate! Agitate I Keep the invinci
ble argument, the supreme truth, before
the people, and hasten the victory which no
human power can finally prevent. That
which most injures the measure is the
timidity and distrust of its friends; if all
who believe in it as a principle, or desire it
as an element of political power, were brave
and united, it could be established at once.
There are no wise Republican politicians
but those who know these truths, and ,know
leg, do not fear to proclaim them.
• Desperate Congressional Plot.
The Washington National Intelligencer
says:
We have Information of a plot in con
templation by the Radicals in Congress
which is calculated to startle every reflect
ing man in the country. It is the purpose
and expectation of these Radical conspira
tors to control the Presidential election per
fas aut nefas. They intend, we hear, to
elect a President by the House of Represen
tatives, regardless of the popular choice,
throwing out votes at discretion where they
find them adverse, especially from the
South. In all these States they will fabri
cate votes from spurious electors, and the
purpose is that the present House of Repre
sentatives shall have the practical control
of the matter. In case of a legitimate ex
pression of the popular choice, they do not
count on victory; and b± the aid of the
House of Representatives and the regular
army they think to control—the matter.
General Grant is to be elected by the Hausa,
and by his sword is to usurp the office of
President from the duly elected candidate
of the people. Such Is the prospect before
us, if these conspirators shall not be taught
to quail before their designs are consum
mated.
The farmers in several counties on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland are now en
gaged in harvesting their wheat,—There
are some complaints of rust and the effects
of the damp weather' but generally a good
crop is anticipated. , . .
Democratic Nan -IDiettna In New York.
Srfeehor Governor Seymour.
In pursuance of the call of the Jackson
Ceiftral Association, a grand demonstration
of the Democrats ofNeW York was held on
Thursday evening at Mei Cooper Institute.
The large Hall was crowded to overflowing.
A number of circulars were distributed to
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e audience while entering, proposing Sal
on P. Chase and Gen. Han as candi
dates for President and Vice-Presldent;
Wm. M. Tweed for Governor, and a Cabi
net made up of Fernando Wood, Gen. Mc-
Clellan, Senator Doolittle '
Mr. Hendricks,
Farragut, Fessenden, and Seymour.
The audience were exceedingly enthusi
astic and demonstrative. On the platform
were Judge Garvin. Judge Russell, the
Rev. Mr. Deems, S. J. Cisco, Mis.§Susari B.
Anthony, and Mrs. Cady Stanton of the
Revo/ution.
After some delay Mr. Thomas J. Creamer
ntro duced Gov. Horatio Seymour to the
audience, who spoke at groat length. We
present the leading points of his address.
He said we see in every part of our land
proofs of la wide-spread change in political
feeling. As the evils of mis•government
unfold themselves, the best men• of the Re,
publican,party are driven from its ranks.
The American people ate disgusted with
the condUct of the Congressional party.
Can we mark out a policy which will unite
the majority under our standard? This
can only be done by a thoughtful, forbear.
ing, unselfish course. The financial con
dition of our country forces itself upon our
attention. Among the evil results of our
monied and tax policy, the most hurtful is
the jealousies it has made between sections
of our country. It has divided our Union
into debtor and creditor fitates. It builds
up favored interests and crushes out the
industry of other classes. It taxes toil and
lets some form of wealth go free from the
cost of the Government. It gives to labor
and business a debased money and to the
untaxed bondholder sterling coin. Lest it
should be felt that what I have to say on
this point springs from any views about the
candidates or action of the National Con-
vention, I will go back to the first years of
the civil war, when the Democratic party
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of New York took its position upon the fi
nano's] policy of government. In the elec
tion of 1862 it was discussed before our peo
. _
pie. We then pointed out the groat evils
which now trouble us as the sure results of
the errors of those who were shaping our
moneyed system. [The Speaker here quoted
from one of his speeches in 1862., and from
his message to the Legislature in 1864.1
Years ago we pointed out the wrong done
to the West by making them send nearly
twice as many soldiers to tho war from each
Congressional War District, as were de
manded from Vermont or Massachusetts,
while the currency given to them under
the banking system was not ono quarter as
great, although the Western States needed
currency the most. The act authorizing
the banks of New York to organize under
a general banking law was not signed, be
cause the currency was unjustly divided,
and because the system made a useless tax
upon our people of $18,000,000 in gold each
year. But the injustice of government is
not merely sectional, is is still morn repuP
sive in its favoritism to classes. It puts no
taxes on the form of property which. gets
the largest interest for the use of its money.
The exemption of bonds from taxation did
not, at the time of their sale, help the mar
ket prices. It was so unusual that it made
distrust. It was looked upon as a proof of
financial weakness; it hindered many from
buying them, as it always hurts the credit
of borrowers to offer unusual and extrava
gant terms. It was an exemption in its
worst form. If the Government had agreed
not to tax them for the purpose of the na
tion, it would have been more reasonable,
It's absurd to say because a man has loan
ed money for the general good, that his
neighbors should pay his share of school,
police and road taxes. It makes a greater
exemption in favor of those who live in
cities than those who live in the country,
as city taxes are highest. But the most of
fensive distinction is that of having two
kinds of currency. Good money for the
bondholder. and bad money for the laborer,
the pensioner, and the business man. Every
paper dollar now put out is a Government
falsehood, for it claims to be worth more
than its real value, and it goes about the
country defrauding the laborer, the pen
sioner, the mechanic, and the farmer.—
, Among' other things which have caused
anxiety in the disordered state of our
Union, is the fact that our Government
bonds are mainly held in one section of our
country. The labor of the West puts its
earnings in a Jorge decree into lands, which
are tax-burthened. The labor of the East
puts its earnings into savings banks, life
insurance, or in other forms of monied in
vestment. Thus they are deeply interested
iu Government bonds. The - amount in
savings banks, in this State alone, is $140,-
000,000. The number of polices given out
by all the Life Insurance Companies, are
about 450,000, and the amount of insurance
about $1,250,000,000. All of the funds of
savings banks and Life Insurance Compa
nies are not put in Government bonds, but
they hold an amount which would crip
ple or ruin them if the bonds are
not paid, or if they are paid in de
based paper. If we add the trusts for
widows and orphans, wo find that full two
millions five hundred thousand persons are
interested in Government bonds, who are
not capitalists, and who are compulsory
owners at present prices under the opera
tions of our laws. Thera is a fear that this
state of things will make a clashing of in
terests between the labor of the East and
the labor of the West. It is clear that our
opponents hope that it will hinder us from
going into the contest with compact ranks
and with one battle cry. However alarm
ing this aspect may be, I am sure there is a
policy to be marked out which will har
monise all jarring interests. Our paper
money is not its par in coin ' because the
national credit is dishonored. How can the
notes of our Government which pay no in
terest be worth their face in gold or silver,
when the bonds of Government which pay
six per cent. interest are worth only eighty
cents on the dollar? It is humiliating to
find that when Great Britain borrows $l,OOO
for twenty years it pays the lender but
$1,700, when we make the same loan we
have to pay $2,700 to the lender. If we
wish to help the taxpayer, if we wish to get
at the cause of debased currency in the
hands of the laborer, we must first find out
why our credit is dishonored, for it is tain
ted credit that sinks alike the value of
bonds, of greenbacks, and bank notes.
We find right here the cause of our trou
bles, perplexities, and national disgrace.
Our credit is tainted. But for that, we
could borrow money as Britain does at
three per cent., and cut down taxation.
But for that our paper money would be good,
gold and silver would glitter in the hands of
labor. But for that fact there would be no
question bow the bonds are to be paid, and
we never should have heard of the green
back issue. But for the national discredit
business men would not now be perplexed,
and the disquiet and fears which now dis
turb the public mind would not exist. Now
if this dishonor cannot be helped, we must
bear it in the beet way we can, and we must
get on with the sectional and social and po
litical troubles growing out of it until time
and events shall bring some cure. But if it
can be shown to be the work of those in
power, then all sections, all classes and all
interests should unite and turn them out.
Fortunately we have official statements to
guide us in our inquiries. We take the
showing of the very parties under impeach
ment to show where guilt lies. To show
the waste of those in power, let us compare
the cost of Government during the four
years of peace before 1864, and the four
years of peace following the Ist of July,
1865. After the close of the war, and up to
theist of July, 1865, the War Department
paid $165,000,000 ; which is $75,000.000 more
than was spent by the same department in
the four years of Mr. Polk's administration,
and - which Included the cost of the Mexican
war. It took nearly twice as much to stop
s'war under Republican policy as it did to
carry on a war under Democratic manage
ment. But I will not take this 8165,000,000
into the account. Let that close the war.
Since July 1, 1865, about three months after
the surrender of Lee, up to July 1, 18)18, the
cost of government will be, by official re
ports and estimates, $820,390.208. Up to
July 1, 1869, by the estimate of the
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, it will be 8197,973,466, making the
cost of Government for four years $1,018,-
363,574. ' This does not include one cent
paid or to be paid for Interest or piinelpal
of the debt. The cost of government, dur
ing the foul years before the war, (leaving
out interest on debt,) was $256,226,414. This
shows that the Republicans have spent in
a time, of peace, four dollars where the
Democrats spent one. But the cost of gov
ernment grows greater, and we'll allow
them' to speed two dollars where the Dem
ocrats spent one. This will makessl2„4s2 ' -
828. But they spent $504,910,646 beyond
this, What did they do with the money?
During the four years of Mr. Polk's term,
which included the Mexican war, the cost
of the War Department was only $90,640,-
788.21. We find that the cost of the War
Department, taking their own [statements
and estimates, will be in these fom-years of
peace, $541,613,610. And this follows an ex
penditure of more than $3,000,000,000 dur
ing the war.
The cost of the Navy Department in the
four years ending July 1, 1869, will be by
Republican statements and estimates $ll7,-
471,802 ;- and this follows an expenditure of
$314,186,742 during the war. In the four
years before the war the navy cost only
$62.910,534. We then stood in the front rank
of commercial powers. Our ships were on
every sea, and were to be found in every
port. American shipping is now by our
tariff policy swept from the ocean, but the
cost of the navy is nearly doubled. The
year ending July 1, 1868, la the third year
of peace. But the War Department cost
$128858,494, which Is more than its cost
during the four years of Mr. Polk's term,
which covered the expenses of the Mexican
war. Not only does one year of peace cost
more than four years of war then did, but
the third year of peace costs more than the
second, for in the year ending July 1, 1867,
the War Department spent only $95,224
415. In these statements, we have given
the Republicans the full benefit of their
promises for the fiscal year ending July 1,
1869; but vote should like to ask a few
questions. If $38,081,013 Ls enough for
the War Department in that year,
why and how did you spend 4123,-
858,490 this year? If $17,500,000
enough for the navz 4 l , n 1869, 'why did yr
134 7 , n 011 u irl i g? You fi l lv in e B l ot cut adnodwirtlie
numbers of the army. Did you waste.,
money this year, or are your statements for
next year untrue? We ask Republicans
to read - the estimates for the future, for they
show the proffigady of the: past.: If $500,-
000,000 of the money paid for military,
naval, and other expenses, had been used
to pay the debt, to-day the credit. of the
United States would have been as good al
that of Great Britain. This rapid payment
and the proof it would have given of good
faith, would have carried the national
credit to the highest point. The bonds
would be worth much more in the hands of
the holders, and yet the tax-payer would be
better off, for the cost of Government would
be cut down as its credit rose. Wo could
put out new bonds bearing less interest,
which would not have the odious exemp-
Lion from taxation. Our debt would have
been less, or interest lower, and our taxes
reduced. The hours of labor could be
shortened. What now lengthens the time
of toll? If we wore free from any form of
taxation, direct or indirect, six hours of
work would earn as much as ten do now.
One hour more of work ought to meet a
laborer's share of the cost of government,
another hour should pay his share of the
national debt. He now works two hours
more each day than be ought to pay for the
military and negro policy of Congress and
ite corrupt schemes. It has just passed a
law that eight hours make a day's labor,
while it piles up a load of taxation
which forces the laborer to work ten hours
or starve. But the wise and honest use of
this P 00,000,000 would not have stopped
here. When it carried our bonds to the
level of specie value, it would have carried
up our currency to the value of specie. Who
plan of making our currency as good as gold
by contracting its volume, carries with It
great distress and suffering. But if wo lift
up its value, by getting rid of the taint upon
rho national credit, it harms no one, It
blesses all. Now, our legal tenders and
bank currency must bo debased svbilo our
national bonds stand discredited. They
must rise and fall together. They are nil
based upon the national credit. Bank notes
cannot be worth more than the bonds which
secure them. It; then, the $500,000,000 had
been duly and honestly used to pay our
debt, to , day the taxpayers would have been
relieved, the mechanic, laborer, and pen
sioner would be paid in coin, or money
good as coin, and would not be cheated out
of one-quarter of their dues by false dol.
lars. The next election will turn upon ibis
question. Can the Congressional party
succeed In their efforts to excite and array
the industrial and moneyed interests against
each other, or will these unite and turn out
the authors of the mischief under which
they are all suffering? The only hope of
our opponents is discord where that 0
should ue harmony and concert of ac
tion. In our State, at the last election, we
appealed to all classes to help us save New
\ ark from misgovernment, and all came
up to the rescue, and we made n change of
seventy thousand. Let us again appeal to
all classes of interests throughout the Union;
let us go before the people with these facts,
and wo will make a change which will
sweep the wrong doors from their places.
We demand that our currency shall be
mado as good as gold, not by contracting
the amount, but by contracting the expen
ses of Government. Wo are against mea
sures w hich will pull down 1111.41110NR credit,
and cull for those which shall lift up the
national credit. When 4 ye stop he waste
which forces us to pay it usury of ten per
cent., and take a course which will enable
us to borrow money upon the rates paid by
other nations, we shall add to the dignity
and power of our Union. Wa have shown
how the policy of using our money to pay
our debts would have helped I,ls In the past.
It will do the same for us in the future.
To that policy we are pledged. There to
not one men of our party In this broad land
who doubts upon this point. We now get
at the real issues between parties rue
Republicans, by their nominations and
resolutions, aro pledged to keep up the
negro and military policy, with all its
cost and taxations. These will bo greater
hereafter. The government of thu South is
to go into the hands of the negroes. We
have said they are unlit to bo voters at the
North. The Republicans say they shall
be Governors at the South. We are clearly
opposed to this policy. NV° have seen how
much it hail cost the tax-rsiyer, the bond
holder, and the laborer in the past three
years. It will be as hurtful in the future.
We bare also seen how our pulley of using
the money to pay our debt would hare
helped the tax-payer, the bondholder and
the laborer in the past. It will do as in mill
in the tutu re. Thu whole question is
brought down to this clear point: shall wo
use our money to pay our debts, relieve the
tax-payer; make our money good in the
hand of the laborer or pensioner, ithil help
the bondholder? or shall we use it to keep
up military despotism, feed idle negroes,
break down the judiciary, shackle the ex
ecutive and destroy all constitutional rights?
I have said nothing in behalf of or against
the views of any one who is spoken of es a
candidate for the Presidency on the Demo
cratic side. I have said only what each
one agrees to and is in favor of. No man
has been named who is not hi
favor of reducing expenses, and
thus making our paper as good its
gold. No man has been trained who is not
in favor of cutting down military expenses.
No man has been named who is not in favor
of using the mitney drawn from the tax
payers to pay the public debt. No Mill
has been named who is not in favor of a
general amnesty to the people of the South.
No man has been named who Is not an up
holder of constitutional rights. No man
I has has been named by the Democratic
party whose election would not help the
taxpayer, the pensioner, the laborer, and
the bondholder. On the other hand, the
candidates of the Republican party are
pledged to their past policy, which has
sunk the value of our currency more than
eight per cent. in the past two years. The
discount upon our paper money was twenty
per cent. in April, ISin ; It is now about
twenty-nine per cent, It will continue to
go down under the same policy. As it sinks
it will increase taxes, It will curse all
labor and business, it will endanger still
more the public credit, for the greater the
premium on gold the border it becomes to
pay specie to the bondholder, and his claims
become more odious.
At the conclusion of Gov. Seyntour's
speech, the lion. S. S. Cox made a few re
marks, and the regular meeting then ad
journed.
The audience, however, did not depart,
but remained to listen to addresses by An
drew J. Rogers, late of New Jersey, and .1.
B. Fellows of Arkansas. The latter gentle
man was exceedingly eloquent, and ex
cited so much enthusiasm on concluding,
that the audience attempted to carry lani
out on their shoulders.
Finally, with three cheers for Capt. Ityn
dors and Uov. Seymour, the meeting broke
up at 10; o'clock.
The Freedmen's linrenn Swindle.
The special Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Age says:
The bill introduced in the Senate entitled,
"A bill relative to the Freedmen's Bureau,
and providing for its discontinuance," mis
led nearly every one, and created un
Im
pression that it was the intention or the
party introducing the measure to put an
end to the bureau. the fact, however, is
directly the reverse, as the bill providing for
the continuation of the bureau, which has
already passed both houses of Congress,
and is now in the hands of the President—
vests in the Secretary of the War power to
discontinue the institution In any State
whenever such State shall be fully restored
in its constitutional relations with the gov
ernment of the United States, and shall la)
duly represented in the Congress of the
United States. It was to prevent such dis
continuance upon the admission of "carpet
bag" Senators and Representat Iveafrom the
Southern States, that Howard Introduced
his bill yesterday, nominally providing for
a termination of the Bureau on the Ist of
January next but in reality putting all
power In the hands of General Howard, the
Commissioner of the Bureau, and saying,
in so many words, "that the duties and
powers of Commissioner of the Bureau for
the relief of Freedmen and Refugees shall
continue to be discharged by the present
Commissioner of the Bureau." This, it
will ho seen, proposes to keep 'Howard at
the head of this swindling concern, con
trary to the will of the President, and•it is
also provided in the bill that he (Howard)
shall have the appointment of all assistant
commissioners, Ac, In short, it proposes
to "run the machine" under Howard until
ho thinks proper to put an end to R.
John Lelsenrlng, Eng,
At a meeting of the Board of Managers of
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Corn -
pany, held last week in Philadelphia, the
resignation of the Superintendent and En
gineer of that corporation, John Lelsenring,
Esq., of this place, which was tendered on
the 15th of April last, was accepted at Ins
urgent solicitation. The Board evidently
took this step with much hesitation, in fact
it would seem that it would not consent to
relieve Mr. Loisenring from duty at all un
til persuaded that It could retain him in Its
interest in another capacity. Hence, with
the acceptance of his resignation, commen
datory resolutions upon his withdrawal and
an appointment us Chief Engineer in charge
of the construction of all new works, were
offered him by the unanimous request of
the President and Board. This high but
well deserved expression of the estimation ,
in which he is held by the Lehigh Comnu
ny, is a fitting testimonial of appreciation
of the vast and valuable service he has ren
dered It.
Mr. Leisenring entered the Engineer
Corps of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company when but a youth, and in 1859
was elected to fill one of the most impor
tant positions in its gift. His operations
since have entitled him to rank with the
first: civil engineers in thiscountry. Among
other arduous labors in which he success
fully engaged was the rebuilding of the Le
high and Susquehanna Railroad and its
various branches, which were almost en
tirely swept away by the great freshet of
1861. He now retires to an easier but not
less responsible position, with health im
paired by incesszent labor, but respected anti
honored as tbo constructor of ono of the
finest railroads In the United States.
Platole Angels
The Tionesta (Pa.) Bee gets off the follow
ing:—ln a neighboring village lives a fam
ily who recently emigrated from Pithole,
and which contains, among other members,
two little girls, Annie and Minnie, aged re
spectively four andeightyears. One night,
a short time since, as her mother sent An
nie to bed, she told her to be a good little
girl, go to sleep, and the angels would come
to watch her all through the night. Little
Annie's sleep was as sound as the nature of
the case would admit, her tender flesh be
ing a rare feast for the miniature snapping
turtles that infested the bed. The next
morning when her mother came to take her
updie gave the following, opinion:a the
ang els :—...ldothera don't likethernangels.
I'don't want them to web:Mikitymote, they
bite me so ." " mother I Mother I" ex
olainied Minnie, "I know what kbad of
an
gels them is ; them is Pithole angels."