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GEN. FUNK Y. BLAIR, Jr., of Mlrsoal.
FOR AI7DITOR GENERAL:
CHARLES N. BOYLE, or Fayette covey.
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SEMOCIIATIO STATIC COMMITTEE SWISH,
CLEARFIELD, July 14, ISO,,
lb Mc people of Pennvivania
Tim political content Just entered Into It
Mon With grave to your business
and to yoursolvos.
Tho Radical party asks a renewal of It
power and a continuance or its misrule,
Dofoatod In (ivory recant election, it now
disguisom its principles end trusts for suc
cess to the military proatigo of an available
candidata.
It offers to Urant the shadow of power,
as a price for securing the reality to Con-
Its HUCCOSH will bring you continued tills
government by a 'Radical Congness, tho
control of every department of the govern
ment by Radical thimination and the per
petuation of its iniquities, Its extravagance,
its elevation of the negro, and Its prostration
of youp business Interests.
It cams into existence to benellt the ne
gro; its devotion to his interests gave us
four years of war, grinding taxation end
three thousand millions of debt; its deter
mination to pines the negro over the white
man has for more than three years kept
society shattered, commerce paralyzed, in
dustry prostrated, the national credit, below
par and the Union divided.
It has governed us for near eight years;
the history of its ilmit administration is
written In four years of blood end recorded
in no enormous national debt ; the history
,of Its second administration is near four
years of pence, with absolute power, and a
Union not restored, IA government of the
sword, business destroyed, taxation crush
ing the energies of the people and the ne
gro vested with the balance of power.
Its end and aim is the preservation of
Radical power through the votes of negroes
and to this will be sacrificed your material
Interests, and, if necessary, your personal
rights and form of government.
Military rule oppresses the nation and
eats out the substance of lho people. It is
fit that Grant should lead the party that
maintains that rule, for his laurels were
gathered by the sword alone.
The Democratic party, placing itself upon
the Constitution, pledges Itself to strict obe
dience thereto, to the maintenance of the
government created thereby, to the supre
macy of law., to a reform of abuses, to
economy In t i dministration, to equal taxa
tion, and to Justice to all.
It antagonizes and denounces that info-
MOW' policy which, during more than three
years of pence, has over toxed the people,
has governed by the sword and lins de
stroyed tho credit of,the mitten.
Its policy to ono of thoughtful foresight,
of cautious titatesinanship; It seeks nn nrw
path; but by the lino of the written law, In
the light of experlenro, It will guide the Re
public buck to the highway , of progress and
prosperity, and will runtore to it national
credit and fame.
It promunts to youlwith pride ill eandidato
for the Presideuey: Horatio Seymour, of
Now York, n statesman and un honest roan.
Capable and pure, possessed of largo ex
perience a n d gifted with the raros.t. qualities
of the head and of tiro heart, strong in in
tellect, sound In Judgment and prompt in
nation, none mow emu Wont to lead us
back to the lotion of law end order.
Pennsylvania owes him a debt of gr,iti
turle for his prompt aid when her border
Willi attacked.
Tito WHIM are before you ; they aro,
The statesman against the mere soldier;
intelloct against Ihroo; tho law agalnnt tho
• ,
sword.
It In for you to &tomtit() which of those
Will boat will our moment, unhappy emull-
By order of thu Du:um:rally titato Co
Mille°. WILLIAM. A. WALLACE,
Chnirmun
(rant Meetings Won't Draw
The Radicals attempted to get up a
Grant meeting In Norristown last week,
and had darning bills posted nud the
loudest kind of a call In the newspapers
for days previous. The appointed eve
ning came, but the people came not.
Len than half a dozen politicians
gathered in the hall, and, after waiting
for an hour after the time set, they
sneaked off without attempting even to
organize a meeting. The sarneevenlng
the Democracy fired a salute of 100 guns
In the public square, in honor of Sey
mous and Blair, and a large and enthu
siastic crowd gathered to witness the
proceeding. Except In the large cities
the Radicals have not been able to get
up a meeting, and even then the otters
' dance has been wonderfully slim. Un
less the party- rouses Itself the Demo
cratic candidates will have nothing to
do but quietly to walk over the course.
MAT Thaddeus Stevens is honest in
his fierce opposition to the Chicago
platform, no one who knows him can
doubt. He would have been perfectly
willing to stand by the Republican party
if he did not see that it has lost all po
litical sagacity.
KENTUCKY, the State of Clay and
Crittenden, will open the canvass in
August for State officers and members
of Comgress. The majority for John W.
Stevenson, for Governor, will be an im
mense one, but still larger for' Seyinour
and Blair.,
D. Old Thad. is received Into the
Democratic party; Ben. Butler will
Want to,come.i How lOng shall the door
too:kopt open 7 The question is amnions
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MUCUS stevens On Payment Of the
'No event sincetie war, ended has
prgimefilh"
0y,.. un hhyinsatioo
the Repr#llo yoltiticianitiot lakenittii
as did the speech nude f Oy Tl(iiddeua
Steveniqn the rt*hod tt' paying the
boOdi,!2'. over,
the cotintrY in fact, thiitadical leaderli
have had only one interpretation for the
Chicago platform. They claim that it
is a pledge that all Government bonds
shall be paid, both principal and inter
est, in gold coin. Thaddeus Stevens'
bold auk; domed . '
,declaration, that he
will support no candidate who stands on
lamb a platform, - fell like a bombshell
Into the radical camp here at his home.
'Those who liate . linplloitly followed his
lead-for years cursed him openly in the
streets of this city. The remarkable
speech which wo publish elsewhere was
the subject of universal comment. We
heard no Republican who did not openly
denounce it. They evidently thought
the Old Commoner meant just what he'
said, and seemed to have no hope that
he could ever be induced to net in har
mony with the party on this important
question. The leaders were all exceed
ingly bitter agtiinst the old man.
But, with the masses of the party it
was entirely different. Working men
who had heretofore acted with the Re
publican party read the speech with
entirely different feelings. They had
no bonds, and were directly interested
in the question of taxation ; and they
instinctively felt Inclined to declare,
with Mr. Stevens, that they would not
support the candidates of any party
which " would go for liaying in coin
that which waspayable in money (green
backs), thus enhancing the debt one.
half." Those words thrilled the minds
of the masses who have heretofore sup
ported the Radical party unquestion
mgly, as If with an eleetricshocit. They
7elt that Old Thad. was right lu declar
,ng that he would vote for Seymour and
Blair, rather than for Grant and Colfax
on such a platform to they stand upon.
It may be that the lenders of the Re
publican party in this county will at
tempt to prevent Mr. Stevens from
receiving the nomination for Congress
this fall. They can not support him
without abandoning the platform on
which Orant and Colfax have volun-
tartly taken their stand, and the di•
lemma will prove to be a very serious
one, which horn of it they will take
remains to be seen. In the meantime
we commend the speech of Mr.,Stevens
to the careful study of the masses of both
parties. It spikes one half the guns
which Radicals have been bringing to
bear upon the Democratic candidates,
and simplifies the contest very much,
Tlind's Conyerslon
Never has there been so terrible a
commotion raised In the Republican
party of Lancaster county, as that which
has been caused by the declaration of
Thad. Stevens, In Congress, that If he
thought that the Republican platform
favored the payment, of the (invent-
moot Bonds lu gold, ho would go wl
the Democracy and vote for Soy n
and Blair,
The Exprois says that " Mr. Stevens
does not represent the sentiment of his
Republican constituents, who will not
be Induced by his example to support
the Democratic platform and ticket,
rather than their own." Wonderful
things are apt to happen In this world,
but who ever thought that among fu
ture events, would be recorded the fact
that old Thad. Stevens bad embraced
Democracy, and had been read out of
that Republican party which had
sprung from his own loins? And yet,
this event, it seems, has happened.
W did not ourselves regard the re
marks made by Mr. Stevens as indica
ting his determination to abandon the
Republican party, since he con
strued the Chicago platform to declare
In favor of the payment of the bonds
in greenbacks, and we presumed that
the Republican party would tolerate
a difference of opinion among its
members upon the question of the
true Interpretation of the financial
plank in Its platform ; that plank hav
ing been carefully prepared sons to hear
any constßuction which might be put
upon It. It seems, however, that we
credited the party with too much toler
ante; its organs declare that the Chi
cago platform Means payment of the
bonds in gold, and as Mr. Stevens don't
believe in that doctrine, he has ceased
to be a Republican. 11 Is own home or
gan, the Express, reads him out of the
party In an editorial printed on the very
press which the old man gave it a few
years ago for services rendered. Does
It want another ?
The numeroue candidates for Con
gress, who for some years past have been
sitting around the nest like young
robins, with mouths wide open, waiting
for Providence to remove Old Thad, and
drop the plum down one of their throats,
have become excessively lively over the
recent developments. They had got
to despair of Thad's ever dying, and
were very blue nt the thought that he
would live to claim again next month
the nomination for Congress. It was
welcome news to them then, that Mr.
Stevens, desirous of noticing his peace
with Heaven before he died, had seri
ous thoughts of becoming a Democrat,
and they were unanimously willing to
aid his exit from their party Into the
bosom of t h e Democracy, since ho de
dined to go into that of I.azarus. One
of them gave him a shove In that arti
cle In the Eaprcds, another will follow
with a it Ick In the Eranthirr to-morroW,
and on Saturday In the inguircp an.
other grist will be ground.
We will recelve Mr. fiteventi. 'P
Democratic Lamp is still burning, a
so long ax it continues, the vilest sinner
may enter the fold. We will give Mr.
S. a comfortable sent, but back in the
rear, near Chief Justice Chase, another
distinguished convert to the true faith.
Senator Morton, of Indiana, will be
dropping in soon on this financial slues•
non, to keep them company. And
Ben. Butler line asked to be allowed to
enter, but has been notified that be he
entirely too filthy and moat be exolud•
ed as a Leper.
These foolish bondholders aro going
to give the "coup de grace" to the Re
publican party. It was dead at any
rate, but this financial question will
make It so weak and Impotent that It
will scarcely have vitality enough in
the coming fight to stand up to be
knocked down ; Mul as it is not a very
interesting occupation to be obliged to
pommel anything that Is so weak and
lifeless, the contest we regret to think
will be robbed of all activity and spirit,
the result being a foregone conclusion.
Rats will desert a sinking ship, and the
tide setting In so strongly In favor of
Democratic success, and theevidence of
the sickness unto death of the Republi
can party being so manifest, the stream
of deserters (ruin that party will soon
become so great as to threaten It with
utter annihilation.
If the "bloated speculators" whom
Mr. Stevens talks about were wise, they
would feel perfectly ready to take from
the Government for their bonds, the
paper money which they paid for them.
In-greedily striving to get gold, they
may fail to get anything. The, tax•
payers will not be burthened to pay In
gold their debt to the Loyal Aristoc
racy, which was borrowed from them
in paper.
Mr. Stevens has the sagacity to see
that any party which advocates tills.
gross injustice will be beaten, and us be
prefers to be on the - winning side, he
Joins the Democracy. He has spread
dismay through the party in Lancaster
county, and Die indications are strong
that many or.the rank and file will fol
low the exancple of their great leader,
despite , the expostulations orsuoh puny
Organti as heyeabouts may attempt to re•
shit the Amid.
Southern Delegates at New RIO ail
Chicago. rAi
One of the most noticeable *amp!
ofthe New .14Ork,ConventIon *as thi
air of iiAvitir7whieli marked tiro
southerp delegatiOks. .A4lnefiliody
men was never seen together 4 ThO,
vierelribstly Of purel:4l6 Saud blood; '
with here and there seek, aTeuton or a
descendant ettheXiuguenots. In digni
fied silence they sat in Convention, giv
ing to it at times the air of a Sunday
congregation in church, more than that
of a political gathering in a gaily deco
rated Wigwam. They were the repre
sentative men of their different States,
the leaders - 6f the white race; Men . Who .
had won distinction in every depart
inent'of life, And who were fully enti
tied,,to speak for almost every one of
I their race in ten States of the Union.
When the memorial of the White men
of Tennessee was read, the meaning of
these sedate Southern faces was made
apparent to the most careless observers.
These Men wore there not to concern
themselves with any of the minor is
sues which engaged tho attention of
those who were busy with the mosaic
of .platforms. To them the rights pf
American citizens abroad was a ques
tion of little moment compared with
the story of their :own outrages and
I wrongs. They came there to re
late ; to the people of the North and
to the whole civilized world the plain
unvarnished tale of negro supremacy at
the South, and to ask the aid of their
own race in throwing off this oppres
sion. It is not strange that they were
sedate even to sadness. They had suf
fered as no people ever did before. Great
as were the sacrifices made by the peo
ple of the North during the war they
did not begin to equal those of the South.
The contest was au unequal one from
the beginning in point of numbers, re
sources and all that goes to make up the
material necessary to the maintenance
of such struggle. The mourning which
prevailed in our section was universal
in the South. Few indeed were the
families there which did not lose one or
noire members In the bloody strife. The
devastation of their territory by our
armies, the sweeping away of the accu
mulated savings of generations, the en
tire destruction of their industrial system
which fAlowed 'their defeat left the
Southern people almost completely
bankrupt. The naked land was about
all that remained to them. To have
lost so much was enough completely to
break the spirit of any people of less
heroic temper.
All this they would have borne with
out =lnuring, had we kept the terms
made with Lee when he surrendered,
and allowed the different States to re
turn to their proper places In the 'Union
under the Constitution as humbled and
impoverished, but equal members of the
Federal Republic. The people of the
South have given the most convincing
proofs that they were ready to act in
perfect good faith after the war was over.
Their surrender was complete and un
qualified. No guerrilla bands engaged
in partisan warfare, and there has not
been the slightest opposition to the au
thority of the general Government
since, with bee anti Johnston they laid
down their arms.
The people of the South had a right
to expect just and even generous treat
ment at our hands. Not only did Justice
and mercy and the usages of civilized
nations demand that we should pursue
such a course, but self interest required
it. It was plainly our proper policy to
do all thut lay in our power to enable
the white men of the South tvepair the
ritva;.;es of the war. Of emery dollar
made by them we should have received
our share in the shape of tax and profit,
and with the revival of their Industry
our own would have flourished with re
newed and increasing vigor. When the
Radicals, under the lead of Thaddeus
Stevens, (who was the first to urge such
a course and its ablest and most persist
ent advocate), determined to subject the
Southern States to the domination of
the ignorant and degraded negroes, who
had just been released from slavery, they
notonly violated the terms on which the
Southern soldiers surrendered, but,wlth
deliberate and selfish purpose, they wil
fully sacrificed the best interests of the
North to passion and party necessity.
The controlling motive with them was
the conviction that with the Southern
States again occupying their proper
place in the Union, their rule would
necessarily come to a speedy end, and
all opportunity for plundering the pub•
lie treasury be lost. They carried elec
tions hi the North by appealing to the
passions excited during the war, and
blinded the people to the baseness and
selfishness, which was at the bottom of
all their revolutionary designs. Thus
the masses of the North were led to look
without proper horror upon the wrongs
of which the Southern Delegates to the
Democratic National Convention so
Justly complained.
As we have said these delegates were
the representative white men of their
section. True, there were not a few
prominent rebels among them. But
who is there in the North that would
not trust Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, In preference to Joe Brown,
of (Georgia, who was a prominent
delegate to Chicago? They were both
active rebels. Brown was an original
fire eater, and as (taverner of Georgia,
did more to preelpitato the rebellion
than any dozen inn like Wade Hemp
ton. Yet he was received with cheers
in the con von tl on which nominated
Grant. Why this favor to him and the
persistent abuse of the distinguished
Southerners who occupied seats at New
York? Does any one need to ask? Is
it not all clear at a glance? Brown con
sented to go to Chicagoin company with
negroes, and to advocate putting ten
States under the complete control of
black barbarians. Wade Hampton and
all the distinguished Southern men in
the New York Convention protested
against any such stupendous and crtml
nal folly. This was their offense—a
crime greater in Radical estimation
than that of being a leader in secession,
or acting barbarously In war.
The Southern delegates to the New
York Convention all knew that there
was a short path to Radical favor. Wade
Hampton and all Ills colleagues have
long been aware that the Radicals stood
ready to receive them into full fellow
ship, to pardon all their past offenses
and to remove all bars to their holding
office, by a special act of Congress, the
moment they consented to advocate ne
gro supremacy. Because they did not
choose thus to degrade themselves and
their race, they are denounced andvll
- by Radical newspapers through
out the North.
We honor these men for the stand
they have taken, and a vast majority
of the people of the North feel just as
we do. The self degradation of such
original secessionists as Joe Brown and
the few others who follow him, is only
calculated to excite.the contempt of ev
decent white man in the North, The
Southern States wererepresented in the
New York Convention by high-toned,
honorable white men; lu the Chicago
Convention they were represented by a
mongrel crowd of negroes, carpet-bag
adventurers, and a half dozen original
secessionists like Joe Brown, of Geer
gin. Let the people judge between the
two. We do not fear the,vordict.
THE Radical journals boast that the
entire British press favors the 'Grant
ticket. It is only a little'while ago that
these same Radical journals were howl
ing that the British press " sided with
the rebels." It does not occur to theie
paper that possibly . the British pre
encourages rebellion and Radicalism he
eituse both tend to the disruption of the
Union.
Tame tale , of a forty Moot-long. black
snake'in Tennessee is discovered to.be
'the "continuance" of the Freedmen's
13nreau.
Abuse of Union Soldiers annihilation
V o of Bebelk
_ tailloalperpagge nuke its WO \
alone eery Won *ldiot:WWl
not sdy to ustaii nek**stlpieo44
in illSoutN , and , * sulfport‘eafri in
they esigfof ,foraing negro equel4-
uppn. the pecideptihe Irhe ifief
ment any one of those who led our
armies to victory has the manhood to
denounce the usurpations of Congress,
and to demand the restoration of the
Union for which they fought, every
radical fdAor.ln the map , : le ; found
opeiiiVg ih abuse Of iilm. The Most oP
probrioaeNithets are laesped. unspar i
. -
fngly aikagoli. Their services and
wounds qinlht for, nothing, unless they
apirgady to unite in approving all the
misdeeds of the corrupt and revolution
ary cabal who control the Republican
party. All the foul terms which can
be galleied ha the kennels of radi
calism, are unsparingly applied to
Conservative soldiers the moment
they see IR to separate them - --- -
selves from the desperate set of design
ing men, who have up to this time kept
the Union divided, in order that they
might carry out their selfish designs
and enable their plundering parasites
to fatten upon the public treasure,which
is wrung from the toil and sweat of the
tax ridden masses. No epithet is too
vile, no term of obloquy too bitter, to be
applied to the soldier who has the man
hood to insist that he fought for the
Union, and not for the purpose of sub
jecting the white people of the Routh
to the justly hateful domination of a
horde of barbarian negroes. Many are
the Union soldiers who have found
themselves thus assailed.
What a contrast to this do we witness,
when some red-handed rebel is
mean enough to turn against his race.
The vilest rapscallion in • the South,
the most remorseless and blood thirsty
wretch among them is hailed as a hero
and a patriot the moment ho declares
himself to be in favor of maintaining
the supremacy of the negro over his
own race. That is sufficient to wash
out every crime of which they may
have been guilty, and all who thus de
grade themselves are at once received
Into bosom companionship with the
lenders of the Republican party. Then
they are flattered In unmeasured terms.
Their deeds of blood are vaunted as acts
of heroism, and their obstinacy in re
bellion is characterized as the courage
oneness of men of the loftiest character,
the whole vocabulary of fulsome praise
is exhausted in extolling their virtues,
and the Radical newspaper press la fill
ed with cringing flatteries of the despi
cable creatures.
Never was there a more striking con.
treat thnn Is exhibited by Radical Jour.
nals in their abuse of Conservative
Union soldiers, and their unbounded
adulation of such selfish and mercenary
rebels as have consented, for• the sake
of Mlle° and gaiu,to degrade themselves
to an equality with the negro. Thu
spectacle which is thus presented by
leading ltepnblican newspapers isa most
disgusting one. It is enough to rouse
the indignation of every true soldier in
the North. The gorge of all decent
white men rises at It involuntarily. It
is an exhibition of meanness which has
never had a parallel in the world before,
a descent into the very lowermost depths
of degradation. Such a course must tell
with powerful effect upon the gallant
and heroic men who made up the rank
and file of the Union armies. They are
as generous as they were brave, and they
can not help but despise the dirty rebel
wretches, who for selfish purposes are
willing to be ruled by negroes, and to
set the ignorant black barbarians up in
authority over all the white people In
ten States of the Union. For such rebels
as Wade Hampton, the high hearted and
heroic Union soldier can entertain that
respect which brave and honorable men
always accord to a vanquished foe. The
quarrel of the Union soldier with those
whom he met in the shock of battle is
ended ; and all that any true soldier
would or could ask is that the terms of
surrender accorded by Grant and Lin
coln be faithfully observed. If the Rad•
icais suppose that the Union soldiers
will vole for Grant when he willingly
becomes the tool of Thad. Stevens,
Charles Sumner, Washburne, Forney
and the rest of that desperate gang,
whose sole object Is to force negro dom
ination upon the South, in order that
they may continue to plunder a tax
ridden people, we can tell them they
are much mistaken. Iu the coming
contest the Union soldiers will vote as
they fought, to restore the Union and
to preserve the Constitution—not to ca•
tabliBh negro supremacy in the South,
I and negro equality in the North.
ALL the talk about the formation of
a third party, with which the Radical
newspapers have been guilingtheir read
ers, turns out to he mere bosh. All who
are opposed to the usurpations and cor•
ruptlons of Congress, aro uniting heart
ily in support of Seymour and Blair.—
The letter of Senator Doolittle speaks
the sentiments of multitudes of Conser
vative Republicans In every northern
State.
The Bureau.
'that n fatuous and costly swindle, the
Freedmen's Bureau, Is to be discontin
ued after the let of January next. If it
can be dispensed with then, why not
now? Does any one need to ask? It is
still needed for the very purpose which
led to its creation. It is to be used to
manipulate the negro vote at the com
ing Presidential election. After that
the Radicals agree to abolish it. Ifßad
loam cost the country nothing It
would be Insupportable, but it requires
millions every day in the year to keep
this recklessly extravagant party alive,
and these millions are wrung from the
sweat and toll of the laboring white
man. Bondholders, negroes and the
carpet baggers who have overrun the
South and seized upon the offices, pay
no taxes.
UfErt.E\'s Tribune, Forney's Prcim,
and other leading Radical journals pub
lish the remarkable speech of Old Thad.
without a word of comment. His en
dorsement of Pendleton's platform and
his declaration that he Is ready to sup
port Seymour and Blair on It, has
struck the Radical journals dumb. No
wonder.
Never too Late to 3tend.
"For while the lamp bolds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return."
So says the good old Presbyterian
hymn, and the hymn is right In it,
there is more truth than poetry, The
venerable Thad Stevens, Republican
leader of the Rump House, is apersonal
illustration of the great spiritual truism
which it is supposed to embody. Grown
old, as Ire is, in Radicalism, he has had
the pluck to give notice that he cannot
be expected to support Grant and Col
fax on the Chicago platform. No doubt
advancing years and increasing infirm
ities have admonished the old man that
his last acts should be In accordance with
the best interests of his country. He
has done much evil and ought to make
some amends. We are glad to see that
he is disposed to do so.
RATS desert a sinking ship. So Thad
deus Stevens, keeping a look-out to the
future, deserts the Radical platform.
It was made of rotten timber; and is
utterly unseaworthy,...as Old - Thad.
knows.
THE Chicago Tlmds says Gen. Blair
is a teetotaler, and h'as been for years.
He doeti'not drink adrOp of intoxicating
much for an atrocious Radi
pal calumny. And yet Radical tempor
al:m*4.o called,'Nvill vote for Grant
in praference.
WATL,prd . Thad. want tp 4e run ea
:the Dernneratio candidate for Congress
thl fall .? • That is a question Ige wonyl
)14,6'0' tqtv,e Answered.
; Radical T Tenth and Decent
t' The charge that Gen. Grant hilt gen
firmed drunkard is mfrd,,e onTtlit
Radical autharitijindlienrcrtiflejoii
nals derive their jnformation ,On this
question chiefly fttim suchsourci3e. The
N. Y. Independent, a Radleal relighite
tewspaper, says "Grant has laWy'beeti
een unmistakably drunk in the streets
of Washington ;" (the titzti,Stavery
Standard, Wendell Philips' paper, the
.Revolution and other sheets of a similar
character, have made the taupe charge.
Ithe N. Y., 2)4144; note very lang 80,
declared that Grant had been seen in
the -Ezee,utive Mansion "so drank
that he could hardly stand on
his *legs." Wendell, Phillips ' de=
claredin a apeech' that Grant "cannot
stand up before a battle without falling
.down." For republishing these state
ments, made by leading Radicals and
repeated by them in so many different
shapes,'Democratic newspapers are de
nounced in the most abusive terms by
`.their opponents. We are charged with
violating decency by giving currency to
these emphatic charges of the very men
who are now supporting Grant, because
by his election they hope to secure the
Atioption of their favorite design of
making the negro the master of the
white men in the South, and the equal
of white men in the North.
But what is the course of the Radical
journals which are railing at Demo
cratic editors for repeating the charges
made by leading Radicals against Grant?
How have the Democratic nominees
fared In the hands of these advocates of
decency? No sooner was Horatio Sey
mour nominated than some Radical liar
started a report that insanity was hered
ltary In his family, and that it was from
fear of being overtaken by such a calam
ity that he was disinclined to accept the
nomination. The falshood has been com
pletely ex ploded,and on the bestauthor
ity it is declared that there never was
even a taint of insanity in the family of
the distinguished statesman who Is our
candidate. Yet not one of the Radical
journals which gave currency to this
base lie has had the manliness to retract
it. And, as if to offset the wall estab
lished drunkeunes of Grant, General
Blair has been charged with intemper•
lance, The New York Sun, n leading
Radical journal, has had the manliness
to do justice to the Democratic midi
date for the Vice Presidency in
this respect. It says he is a strict
temperance man, ono who does not
drink a drop of intoxicating liquor.
How many of_the small fry of Radical
papers have had the decency to retract
the falsehood which they started? So
far as we have seen, not one; and we
venture to assert that they will not do
The truth is the Radicals feel that
they have no chance of success if the
people fully understand the great and
vital political Issues of the day. This
accounts for the lies In which they are
so recklessly indulging. The most im
probable stories aro being put forth by
Radical Journals from day to day, but
they aro, after all, only confessions of
weakness. The Democratic candidates
can laugh at all such weak inventions
of the enemy. Tho present campaign
will be ono of Intense activity. In every
election district the real issues will be ex
plained from the stump, and the people
are ready and anxious to hear. The hard
common sense of the masses will decide
the contest. They will not be influ
enced by prejudice or passion, but, with
the independent spirit of American
freemen, they will examine the claims
of parties and candidates. liellevin
that an Intelligent disposition to vote
understandingly prevails among the
people to a greater extent than was ever
before known in the United States, we
believe that Seymour will be tri
umphantly elected. •
The Workingmen.
The following resolution was adopted
unanimously by the National Demo
cratic Convention, on Thursday, July
9, 1808 :
Resolved, That this Convention sympa
thizes cordially with the workingmen Li"
the United States in their efforts to protect
the rights and promote the interests of the
laboring classes of the country.
The Democratic party is in full sym
pathy with the workingmen and they
with it. The laboring classes through
out the entire country are turning for
relief to this great political organization
which always stood up so manfully for
their rights, by whomsoever they were
assailed. The workingmen of the na
tion will elect Seymour and Blair In
spite of political tricksters and bloated
monopolists.
DOES the New York platform favor
repudiation? Thad. Stevens declares
that it Is Just right on the bond ques
tion. What have the magnates of the
Republican party to say In reply? We
anxiously await their answer to the
" Old Commoner."
/No Irish Need Apply.'
.1u ono of the Radical newspapers of
Chicago the following advertisement
appeared recently:
" Wnwrno.—lci a respectable colored
family, a white woman to do general house
work. Apply at No. 73 Carroll street. No
Irish need apply. L. JORDAN."
We have no doubt the negro who pen
ned and paid for the advertisement is
loyal to the coro ; and wo take it for
granted that his hatred of Irish is as in
tense as was that of the Radical candi•
date for Vice President when ho took
the infamous oath of the Know-Nothing
Order, at South Bend. Indiana.
No foreign born citizen who has any
respect for his race or a particle of man•
hood about him, can vote for Schuyler
Colfax.
THE doom of the Democratic party
aro still open, and there is room for all.
Now is the lime for those who desire to
see the country restored to its former
prosperity and happiness to step into the
ranks. Read Thaddeus Stoyens' speech.
SINCE Sumner has failed tosecure the
election of a negro Senator from South
Carolina, the earpot•baggers being' too
sharp for Sambo, it is understood that
numerous black and white Radicals in
his own State desire that he should use
all his Influence to secure the return of
a negro Senator from Massachusetts. It
is said he has received letters from two
prominent negroes who are anxious to
take his place. If he is sincere in the
views expressed in his letters he will of
course yield to the desire of the ad-
vanced men of his party. We know no
one whose place could be so well filled
by a negro, unless it might be Thad.
Stevens.
The telegraph, under date of the 14th
announced that Generals Grant and
Sherman were at Fort Leavenworth,
and also, that a levee was to be held, to
which " the citizens generally were in
vlted." Grant went from Washington
to Kansas without being noticed. It
really seemed as if the people shunned
him purposely. It remains to be seen
whether they will go to see him when
specially invited to do so. No Pres
idential candidate was ever so treated
In this country before.
THERE is a dispute whether General
Grant drinks. There is a dispute
whether he smokes. There le a dispute
whether he swears. There Is a dispute
as to his principles. There is a dispute
as to his name. What is there about
him that is hldisputable except his de
feat in November?
HE Radicals are shouting loudly
over the fact that the Democriitic plat
form and candidates are assailed by such
English newspapers as the London
Times. When were these Journals ever
pleasea with anything that promised
good to the United States? Have they
riot always heen against us? The fact
that the. Pemocratic party is assailed by
the organ of the British aristocrats, only
. .
snows it Is right;
OLD THAD. MgI,THE [BONDS.
Ire Endorses tho Balmoralla Platform.
\ : ^
IFlMauPinust issivporillere.
• • '•x;
Rad4o Leeture. 4 .•
Tattil•riality to Ili itoid
boldeis
the Law
And Prodoceo a Profound limitation
IgThe,bill for funding the publicdebt being
under discussion; our representative, Thad
dens Stevens made the following remurka
lile vigorous ski. ,
lifr. Stevens, of PerineYlvania, declared
himself in .favor of a funding bill which
should reduce interest:' If no perscin chose
to fund under it no lama' was rlone ; if any
pollen did:Choose to fund at a lower rate of
intereatithe then Government would profit
by it. .He thought, however, that the lowest.
rate of interest 'should be four per cent.
Ho did not think they could got money
cheaper. He thought it the duty of the Gov
ernment, with the accumulating gold, to
expend one-half of it in redeeming the five
twenties in 'advance of their falling due;
after they fall duo no one could object to
their redemption. He had understood the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rosa) to say
that the bonds should be paid, according to
the New York platform. What was that
platform?
Mr Ross.—To pay the jive twenties in law
ful money.
Mr. Stevens.— What do you call lawful
money.
Mr. Rosa,—Greenbacks. That is your
doctrine and mine, you know. [Laughter.]
Mr. Stevens.-/ hold to the Chicago plat
form, and as I understand it on that point,
to the New York platform, that those bonds
shall be paid just according to the original
contract,
A Member.—The law, Mr. Stevens ac
cording to the law.
Mr. Pike.—The spirit and letter of the
contract.
Mr. Stevens—What was the law ? That
the interest should be paid up to a certain
time, at six per cent. ' in coin. After the
bonds fell due they would be payable in mo
ney, just as the gentlemen front Illinois,
(Ross,) understood it; just as he, (Mr. Ste
vens,) understood it; just as all understood
it when the law was enacted ; just as it was
explained on the floor a dozen times, by the
Chairman of the committee on Ways and
Means.
. -
IF HE KNEW THAT ANY PARTY
IN THE COUNTRY WOULD. GO FOR
PAYING IN COIN THAT WHICH WAS
PAYABLE IN MONEY, THUS EN
HANCING THE DEBT ONE-HALF, IF
HE KNEW THERE WAS SUCH A
PLATFORM AND SUCH A DETERMI
NATION ON THE PART OF HIS OWN
PARTY, HE WOULD, WITH FRANK
BLAIR AND ALL, VOTE FOR THE
OTHER PARTY. HE WOULD VOTE
FOR NO SUCH SWINDLE ON THE
TAX-PAYERS Ob"THE COUNTRY. HE
WOULD VOTE FOR NO SUCH SPECU
LATION IN FAVOR OF BONDHOLD•
RES AND MILLIONAIRES. BE RE
PEATED (THOUGH IT WAS HARD TO
SAY IT) THAT EVEN IF FRANK
BLAIR STOOD ON THE PLATFORM OF
PAYING ACCORDING TO THE CON
TRACT, AND IF THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE STOOD ON THE PLAT
FORM OF PAYING BLOATED SPECU
LATORS TWICE THE AMOUNT
AGREED TO BE PAID TO THEM, AND
OF TAXING HIS CONSTITUENTS TO
DEATH, HE WOULD VOTE FOR
FRANK BLAIR EVEN IF A WORSE
MAN THAN SEYMOUR WAS ON THE
TICKET. [MUCH EXCITEMENT AND
SENSATION.]
Mr. ltoss—Vie Democratic doors arc still
open, and the gentleman Can be taken in.
What a Republican Sald.
A prominent Republican of thle city
said to us to-day, " this campaign is
damnably mixed up. Stevens, in his
late colloquy with Ross, has clearly lu-
timated, if not positively expressed Lis
disbelief in the Chicago platform, and
his approval of that made at Now York.
There is no doubt that upon which Sey
mour stands is the more manly of the
two. In it there is no attempt made at
equivocation but in that upon which
Grant stands there is evident desire to
have it read to suit both those who ad
vocate the payment of the United States
bonds in coin, and those who would
pay them in greenbacks. I shall look
further into this question, and if I be
come convinced, as Mr. Stevens seems
to be, that the Republicans aro playing
" fast and loose," I.shall certainly take
that step proper to him who would vote
as a man and not as a politician. Ste
vens should, to be consistent, vote the
Democratic ticket."
Evidently the caldron is boiling,
men are thinking and a mass of Repub
eau voters aro ready to break loose from
their old party ties and Join the party of
the people.
Fon CoNaitss.—Old Thad Is suggest
ed as the Democratic nominee for Con
gress. As he seems willing to support
Seymour and Blair,. and endorses the
New York platform, his name can be
preseited to the Democratic Conven
tion; but as his conversion 1880 recent,
he will doubtless be required to prove
his faith by his works during a few
years of service In the ranks as a pri
vate.
Thurlow Weed's OpWon
'Pte Radical newspapers generally
appear to think their readers have no
sense, and that it is only necessary to
abuse the Democratic candidates. Thur.
low Weed, the shrewdest Republican
politician In the country, entertains a
very different opinion. He says, In the
New York Commercial :
"Governor Seymour Is not to be beaten
by being called a copperhead, or Frank
Blair to be distanced In the race because he
is called a revolutionist. Ridicule Seymour
as some RepubllcauJournals may, hole the
most popular umn in the Democratic party.'
The small fry of Radical Editors,
whom Greely so aptly styled "narrow
minded blockheads," would do well to
make a note of Mr. Wood's remark.
Grant's Economy.
The Radical papers are publishing
huge puffs of Gen. Grant's economy,
but have not a word to say in regard to
his recommendation to increase the pay
of tho immense crowd of idle army offi
cers one•third. That would raise Grant's
salary to ovcr thirty thousand dollars a
year. Would that be economy? Wo
leave the tax ridden masses to answer.
THE Radicals nave started into the
present campaign so weak from an utter
want of any popular principles upon
which to conduct the pending contest
that they have been forced to resort to
the most reckless system of lying ever
known in political annals. Wo see In
this the assurance of their complete
defeat. Long before the campaign is
over every one of the falsehoods which
they have promulgated against the
Democratic candidates will be nailed to
the counter, and the party which thus
attempts to find shelter in a refuge of
lies will be left exposed In its naked de
formity to the jeers and scoffs of all
honest men. With a proud conscious
ness of the strength of their principles
and candidates, the Democratic party
goes into the fight determined to win,
and with a full assurance that victory
will crown their efforts.
IN TROUBLE—Republicans, to deter
mine whetter greenbacks are money.
Formerly no man was loyal who didn't
believe they were ; but now the Chica
go platform intimates that they are not.
Old Thad says they are ; the loyal bond
holders say they arn't. The people
agree with Old Thad ; and the people
do the voting.
No sooner were Seymour and Blair
nominated than the Radicals In Con
gress took stops to prevent the counting
of any Southern eldctoral votes which
might be cast for them. This shows
what they expect. They have no hope
that Grant can be honestly elected, and
are preparing to perpetrate a frtud of
the most outrageous character, if neces
sary; but the people will save.thorn all
that trouble by giving to the Demo
cratic candidates so large a majority
that there can be neither temptation nor
excuse for such rascality.
OLD THAD endorses Pendleton, Bey
moor and Blair. What honest Repub
limn can hesitate to follow when 12
thus boldly leads the way?
A SPECIMEN BRICK,—AII the magis
trates elect in Shelby county, Ala., are
negroes, and not one of them can read'
or write.
Magistrates who can neither read nor
write are in perfect keeping with those
who sustain the Radical mode of Bea
construction, right or wrong.
.
Why tha IMMO *MOO the Radicals.
The Rltdhatda"til the North have been
POrriughtY dlegtpsCed with theli newly
found allies thenegroes, ever stoop he
Mt ppi e4eotibri; Some of the More
sanatine of 4htiza have tried hard to
Persuade theirieedVes that the conduct
of the darkies why owing entirely to
coercion on the part of the ex-rebels.
Others have professed to believe that
frauds were committed and the ballot
boxes tampered with. All such conjec
tures are effectually disposed of by-a
letter to the New York Timer', a leading
Radical paper. The writer from Oren
.
ada, Mississippi, under dattiOf July 4th,
says:
ThlEiresult, produced by the voting of
the negroes with the Democrats' and Con
servatives, has astonished and greatly ex
asperated the Radicals, who were sanguine
of controlling their action. They vent their
disappointment in fierce charges of fraud
and intimidation. That they aro fallacious,
in a general sense, a personal examination
in several of the counties where it is, alleg
ed, enables me to ruisert. In this, Yollo
busha County, the negro and Radical vote
showed 1,800 majority, while in the election
the majority against the Constitution is
over 1,100. This is a county that it is claim
ed should be thrown out, and Gen. (Mem,
the District Commander, has been so urged,
but the Commandant at this point, Gen.
Ponnypacker, officially refutes the charge,
and asserts that every poll was free to all
to vote as they desired.
The real cause of the action of the negroes
can be found to have grown out of the many
outrarres inflicted upon thorn by unscrupu
lous Freedmen's Bureau agents and mer
cenary business adventurers, added to the
violent manner in which the various gar
risons almost invariably treat them when
off duty, and, in fact, while on duty too, as
whenever called upon to check any breach
of the peace by them, they manifest a desire
to exasperate the negroes to that resistance
which will cover rough treatment of them.
There is much bitterness existing on both
sidos,and the negroes at first vgarding them
as both deliverers and protectors, now deem
them their worst foes. These things have
combined to cause this abused race to turn
to their former masters for advice and
guidance in all things, and produced that
mutual confidence which, beyond all else,
the most effectively conduces to the future
prosperity of the South, that prosperity be
ing dependent upon Its agricultural devel
opment, and that upon such a creation of
confidence on the part of these freed people
in their late masters mi will induce a gen
eral return to labor. Thus evils are real
izing good which will redound to tile mu
tual advantage of those most interested—
the planters, and those upon whom they
are dependent for labor.
Calling for Negro Senators.
Tho Philadelphia POBe, the most ably
edited Republican paper in the State,
commends Charles Sumner's letter
which calls upon the Negro Legislature
of South Carolina to send at least one of
their own race to the U. S. Senate. It
says:
At n time when many !ten calling them
solves Republicans hesitate upon the ex
pediency of giving the colored man a vote,
and quite ignore his eligibility to public
office, it is inspiriting to hoar the noble ut
terances of Mr. Sumner in his letter to a
member of the South Carolina Legislature."
That Is a clear and unequivocal en
dorsement of Spinner's proposition.—
Th . .) Poet Is logical In its arguments.
The silliest fools In all this land aro
those Republicans who scoff at negro
equality and yet continuo to act with a
party which Is pledged to that as the
grand cardinal principle of Its political
life.
AN eminent Uerman surgeon claims
the discovery of a device for making
the leech an indefinite blood-taker.—
When the reptile is nearly full a small
noision is made in his side, through
which the blood flows freely, and the
animal keeps on sucking till ho "ex
hausts the subject." There is nothing
now In this. It is the precise process
by which the Radical party has man
aged to drain the Treasury and the
pockets of tax-payers ever since that
party fastened upon the public purse.
When the party bad nearly surfeited
itself with spoils, fresh openings were
made to inspire a more vigorous suck
ing. Brigadier-generals were manufac
tured by hundreds; cant/Ram were
more numerous than the armed men
that sprang from the teeth sown by
Cadmus ; new departments were created
expressly to furnish salaried places for
the Loll; bureaus abounded with all
sorts of perquisites and pickings ; every
means has been devised to draw the re
sources of the country. If this nearly
gorged leech does not drop off next
November, the plundered people will
pull it off.
Row Grant Is Received
We clip the following from the New
York Tribune:
LEAVENWORTII, July 16.—Gone. Grant
and Sherman and party arrived here this
evening, and proceeded at once to Fort
Leavenworth, where they will remain until
Saturday, when they will leave for Denver,
via the Kansas Priellie Railway.
That Is the way Grant is received
everywhere. No crowd assembles to
witness his arrival and not a cheer has
greeted him on his western tour. All
the interest which the masses may have
felt in the soldier has been turned Into
complete . disgust since ho consented to
become the mere tool of a set of selfish
and designing demagogues, who only
support him because they expect to use
him as a means to ennoble them to con•
ttnue to plunder the public treasury.
The people do not want to look upon
Grant as he goes aboutwoaring the fet
ters of Forney and Washburne—still
less aro they disposed to vote for
The City Treasury.
Thu City Auditors have complete(
the laborious. examination of the
accounts of the City Treasurer, and
found thorn all correct. This morning
the big safe was transferred to the cum
tody of Mr. Rialtsecker and the large
balance in the treasury has been
promptly handed over to him. Wo
trust that the Miss Nancy of the Ex.
prcaa, and all the other women of the
town aro satisfied and are sufficiently
delighted that the city monies aro In
Republican keeping until the next elec
tion. If Mr. Ricksecker succeeds in
keeping his accounts as clearly and cor
rectly as has Mr. Wentz, ho will have
reason to congratulate himself upon his
ability as an acqountant.
IY GREENBACKS.—The City Tratell
ror has handed the balance In the Treas
ury to his successor, In greenbacks.
Borne of the old women of the Repub
lican party had thought of demanding
that it should be paid In gold, but the
speech of Old Thad. demoralized them,
and the Treasurer was graciously al
lowed to pay In the currency which he
had received.
Let as have Peace.
Let us have peace, said Grant in his
letter of acceptance; and Radical Jour
nal echo the cry, let us have peace.
Congress has been all powerful since
the rebellion ended, and instead of dis
banding the army and giving the coun
try peace, it has continued to tax the
people more than a hundred millions a
year to keep up a military despotism In
the South, and to prepare the way for
Negro supremacy. How can we ever
have peace with the white race thus
outraged In one-half our country? It
is folly to expect it.
FprptEy's PITO Ilan Been forced to
recant one of its lies already. It does so
in the following ungracious style, the
assertion about any negroes being in
attendance on any Southern delegation,
except as servants, being as untrue as
the report of their presence in the Con
vention, which the Press is forced to
take back. But here is what it says:
In response to an inquiry as to.whether
there was a "negro delegate" in attendance
at the New York Convention, we are ena
bled to say .neon the best authority that
several colo:ed politicians went to that city.
in company with delegates, one of whom is
still there. None of thorn appeared in con
vention as delegates, but one Was said to
have been a delegate elect from Tennessee.
BEN WADE bore testimony to Grant's
illness for President by the following
remark :
"Whenever I spoke of the great ques
tions of the day, he (Grant) Immediately
commenced to talk horse.".
BUTLER swears that the Chicago plat
form means greenbacks; and G reeley
swears that it meaps gold: Who shall
decide when two such prominent. Rad'.
calplars disagree?
GOVERNOR NETROIIR AND TUE NEW
17i • YORK RIOTS.
Chlo,4lt7ltt Vindication
It la unnecessary for us to deferal.Gov
ornor Seymour; fronttho bitter attacks of
his opponents. That service has been per
'formed by members of the Republican
party. We need not trust to hearsay or
doubtful expressions. Their vindication of
him has become a part of the official re
cords of the country, and no one can dis
pute or explain it away.
Hon,, peon°. opdykc, a prominent Re
publican, Was Major ) or the city of New.
York during the time of the riots in 18133.
Helm also a member - of tho'State Conti;
.tutlonal Convention. In the , course of the
debate onthe Government Of Cities, a groat
dettl'wre; said about the 'ltaly Yoik riots.
rn the' course of tho ffiscussioni Mayor'
Opdyko spoke as follows. We take the ex
tract, from the official ;epode! 149 Debates:
Opdyke.—Governor t;3oymour arriv
ed on Tuoaday morning, and came to my
rooms at tho St. Nicholas lintel, whore ho
' remained With me during the entire riots,
except that soon after bib arrival honceom.
panted me to tho City Hall, where it was
not possible for us to • acoompllsh any good,
as the riots were going on in the upper part
of the city, and most of nil the murder - sand
devastations of property, Woro in that part
of the city. But many ev4 disposed per
sons bad gathered about the City Hall, and
the newspaper offices were threatened. My
friend from 'Kluge [Mr. Sehumaker] could
not have extended his views verythrfrom the
stops of Cityllail or ho would not have staled
that the mob were so peacefully disposed.
Ho might have seen, by extending his via
on, many scenes like this; peacebio color
ed men crossing the Park or walking along
the streets attacked by crowds of assailants
and fleeing for their lives.
Mr. Schumaker—l only spoke of the time
when Governor Seymour was there.
Mr. Opdyke —Perhaps at that very mo•
ment there might not have been anything
of that kind. But immediately after he was
there, those scenes did transpire, and on the
same day a newspaper office, fronting the
City Hail, was attacked. I now come to
the point of toy advising the Governor to
address the crowd. I shook my head when
my friend from Kings [Mr. Sehumakerl
made the remark. And, on reflection, while
I have not the slightest doubt that I con
curred in recommending it, I am quite Bur°
that others suggested that be should address
the crowd. My colleague, Mr. Hutchins,
who was present, now informs me that my
recollection is correct. But the torten in
which he should address them, or what
words of endearment healmuld use [laugh
ter] I certainly had nothing to do in sug
gesting: nor had 1 any !rhino in framing
the speech ho made to them. Ito left very
soon after, in a carriage with some friends,
to go where the riots were taking place, and
then returned to the Ht. Nicholas Hotel,
whore ho remained during the riots. It
was not until the military under Gen.
Brown, who was second iif commend to
lien. Wool, wan united to the police force,
that they succeeded in withstanding and
repelling the rioters, who outuumbeied ten
to one the organized force against them, I
also urged the police commissioners to arm
their force. They said they would not do
so without the sanction of the Governor. 1
offered to bike the responsibility of making
the requisition for the arms and furnishing
them. But they declined it.
When Governor ,S'eymour arrived, he very
cheerfully and promptly acquiesced in the
suggestion, and gave requisitions for (inns,
which were taken to the police hendquar
tore; but as the military strength wits in•
creasing, it turned out there was no occasion
for the police to use them, though they
could have been mod very effectively it an
earlier stage of the riot. I moan to be en
tirely just to Gov. Seymour in regard to his
conduct during the continuancoot the riots,
though Ito has not been just to me, Prior
to the riot he made a serious minroprosenta
lion of my ofllelnl conduct lu a message to
the Legislature, of which I asked n public
retraction. He very frankly and promptly
gave a verbal retraction, with II promise of
giving ono for publication. After patiently
waiting week lifter week, and month after
month, during which time that promise
was more than once renewed, but never
performed, I abandoned the Wort. It his
never been performed. But I have this
to say of Gov. Seymour; ha ,wee
surrounded during tho riot by many bad
advisors—scores of them—on seine occa
sions I think there were one hundred in my
room—most of them urging him to exert
his influence to withdraw the military re
sistance to the rioters, and to endeavor to
quiet thorn by moral suasion.
In opposition to thorn, nearly every city
official, all of whom, except myself, were
democrats, earnestly counseled otherwise,
and indignantly condemned the advice that
he was receiving from his more numerous
friends. And while I thought, sometimes,
he was vacillating, and disposed fo interfere
in a manner which, in my judgment, wbuld
be disastrous to the best interests of the city,
it turned out that my apprehensions were un
founded. Ho never yielded to those bad
counsels, but, TO THE END, STOOD
FIRM. EVERYTHING 'THAT IT WAS
POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO DO WAS
DONE,TO AID IN THE SUPPRESSION
OF T HE RIOTS. At my instance ho gave
requisitions for arms to scores, and even
hundreds of private citizens, whose ware
houses or dwellings were threatened. lie
did not hesitate in a single instance, when
ever I vouched for the respectability of the
applicants for arms. On one occasion, I
think it was Wednesday afternoon, a con
ference was to be hold among the officials
at the police head quarters to determine on
the line of action And defense during the
afternoon and evening. My friend Mr.
Hutchins, was there at the time, and will
confirm the truth of what I say.
Governor Seymour came in with at least
twenty of his political and personal friends,
and among them several gentlemen who
were very much excited, because, as they
declared, the troops under the command
of General Brown, In the Twentieth Ward,
were shooting down innocent and peaceable
citizens, who had congregated from more
curiosity, under the excitement that was
existing, and that they were not rioters et
all. General Brown asked if they had not
been firing buildings and barricading the
streets. They answered in the nffirmative,
but said It was lu self defence. The Gen
eral replied if this was not rioting lie did
not know what was. These gentlemen
urged that Governor Seymour should
recall the troops, and they pledged them
selves that they would disperse the crowd
by peaceable means end moral suasion.—
The friends of Governor Seymour were ur
gent Lind he should exorcise his military
authority as (Foyernor of the State and
commander-in-chief, to make (Jon. Brown
withdraw his troops. 'The Governor very
properly felt, I have no doubt, that lie had
no authority to interfere, at all events he
did not Interfere.
'rho police commissioners also Joined in
urging Gen. Brown to withdraw his troops.
I was the only ono to counsel Oen. Brown
to turn n deaf oar to tiny such advice, be
cause all history proves that the only way
to put down a riot es formidable in its pro
portions us this, was to shoot It down. He
replied with several expletives which I will
not repeat, that I need not give myself any
uneasiness, that whatever the Governor, or
any friend of his, or any one else might
say, no troops under lila command should
ever retire before a mob unlesadrlyen back.
That spirit and determination of General
Brown had much to do in inspiriting nll in
authority to old in resisting the force of the
rioters and in putting them down. Though,
on many occanionfr i llovernor Seymour was
, advised to interfere, ho never did interfere,
AND HIS CONDUCT DURING THOSI
RIOTS MET MY ENTIRE APPROVA I
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The New York Evening Pod, a lead
ing Republican Journal, thus denounces
the present Inequitable tariff which a
stupid Radical Congress forced upon the
country : •
"The precut tariff obliges tho American
people to pay in all cases double, and, In
some cases, nearly tripplo, the cost of the
cull—for what? 1, or revenue? Not at all,
but by way of " protecting," that is to say,
favoring' the American malt monopolists,
and enabling them to make the people pay
double and tripplo the proper and natural
price for their salt."
Olvino It Up
The N. Y. Sun, a Republican paper,
says
The causo or the Republicans In thlsStele
some to-day simply hopeless, and our con
clusion, looking calmly and Impartially at
tho whole question, is that the Democracy
must carry New York In spite of every
thing.
That Is a candid admission, and the
same may be said of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and enough of Northern
States to ensure Seymour a majority of
electoral votes.
THERE are various reports DB to why
Grant was sent out of Washington, and
forced by his radical keepers to retire to
the privacy of his farm near St. Louis.
One rumor is that ho has so given him;
self up to his unfortunate habit since
his nominatiou,•that his removal from
the public notice was absolutely neces
sary to prevent the most damaging ex
posures. This is vouched for by well-
Informed residents of Washington. If
true it is a very sad thing indeed.
Tun Radical journals of this State are
not only denouncing Governor Seymour
as disloyal, but some of them are abus
ing tho soldiers sent by him to the de
fense, of Pennsylvania in its hour of
greatest peril. Sonic of the editors who
are engaged,in this disreputable busi
ness were fleeing in•wiid. terror when
these troops marched to the defense of
their abandoned homes. Such is Radical
gratitude to the soldiers.
ThE Grant and Colfax Club in Hun
tingdon Borough has ceased to exist,
died from pure inanition; Here is an
indication of the coming-'fate 'of the
Radicals. Before ZTOtatrithey will
give up the strugeelniiii r Op*. •
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' , LETTER FROM MEL:DOOLITTLE.
Alto linty.ot Couservativo incjpnblicans—
Wh D y is a tinction of P arty , Mon
Shoul Witbontd
Rapportßlain Seymour and
WASHINGTON, July 13, 1808.
0. IL °grander Seq.. Dcusvillt .Pcs :
DEAR Stu: tam in receipt of your letter
of the 10thinst.,in whieb,speaking for your
self and a number of other Conservative
Republicans of your town, you express a
"sense of disappointment and regret that
no better, names had.rbeen, offered by tho
Democratic party to lead the oOnservative
and patriotic masses 'of the people to vic
tory, and the Radical Republican party to
deserving and merited defeat. As a gen•
Haman and a statesman Mr. BoyMbur holds
our .respect, but as a Peace Democrat we
are Indisposed to vote for hint;" and, you
are pleased Mas s y, that, if my name, among
others, had been pl ace at the hoed of the
ticket, "all wont have gone well, and vic
tory would have boon certain." You desire
my opinion upon the situation and " the
prospects of a third party."
I thank you for the confidence thus re
posed in ate, and shall not shrink from the
responsibility of stating frankly my opin
ion.
I do not think the organization of any
third party !swine, or can work any practi
cal good to the grout mune In which we are
engaged. In the very nature of things,
whoa great principles are at !Stake, there
aro, end there can be, but two elfective
Illlcal parties. "Ile that Is not for me, is
against me," In politics as well as to o
Is a truth upon whielt every wise
man is compelled to act.
What, thou, is the great and paramount
'ague? Whet is that great and , unpardon
able wrong for which the Radical party Is
now arraigned and should be ovorthrown7
It is subslantially this;
In violation of the Constitution—hi viola
lion of pledges made and often repeated,
front thu first battle of Bull Run to the end
of the war; pledges to the North to get men
end money ; pledges especially name to the
Democracy to get their support In the field
and In the elections; pledges meth( to the
South to induce Mein to lay down their
allegiance, and pledges to foreign powers
to prevent Intervention—lit violation of all
these solemn pledges, upon which we In
voked the blessing Of Almighty God upoii
our cause, and by which alone wo gained
strength to master:the rebellion—in viola
tion or the natural awl Inalienable right (,r
the civilized men of every Slate to govern
themselves, and in violation of the clear
provisions of the Constitution which leaves
to each Slate for Itself theriglit to regulate
suffrage, title party has, 'without trial by
er post farts laws, disfrenchisad n ireds
of thousands of the most intelligent of their
citizens, and has forced open ton States owl
six millions of our own Anklo-Sexon race
the unlveritui and unqualified HulTrago of
seven hundred thousand Ignorant, end, Ili
UM mein, halt civilized negrots.
Title Is the groat wrong for whleh that
party is arraigned at tho bar of public judg
ment, and for wide!! It should be .5°,1 -
thrown.
To amimurninelo that grout wrong, they
have abolished all civil govereatent nod
civil liberty, even In these ten States ;
They hero ostablislied live absolute mill
Cory dompotimins, wherein all right% to Ilfe,
liberty, and property, are 'subject to the
will Mono man;
They have Item the Union divided
They have prey tinted rho restoration el
Industry;
They have kept down tho credit of the
Government, during three years of p e nce.
to a point so low that, to (lie slismo of every
American, tho six per cunt. bonds of 'he
United States sell for only 73 in gold, while
the bonds of Druzli, bearing only f o ur iii.r
vont. interest, bring over UV In gold.
'They ituve oncronolled upon the Just
rights of the .Executive ;
They have threatened the indepentleiwe
of Ow Supreme Court;
They have unjustly, and without valise,
impenehed and put upon trial Llio President
himmolf, and, by every species of denun
ciation, end oven by threats of HM1411..11111-
lion, hey° endeavored to force the Sinai,'
to convict hint, in order to pitieo in the ex
volitive chair one who will use all its power
to commitment that gigantic wrong against
the Constitution, aganistour plighted faith,
ligainst elvlllrntlin, and inninint our own
raze and kindred.
Tito Convontion Now,,York ;net for rho
purpose of orgnnlzing to overthrow the
party lit power fur this groat wrong, mid
to restore the Union and the Constitution,
and the rights of thin Stales mad of nil the
States under it. Now, I do not say the
nominations made at Now York ore the
very best that could have been motto for
that purpose.
Thu eletnonte to be organized into a vie
torious army wore four-told. To use n mil-.
Miry figure, there were four army corps to
ho organized into 0110 grand army
First. Tho great Demoorallo Corps :
Second. Thu War Democratic Corps
'Third. 'rho Conservative Roptibllee
Corps:
Fourth. Tho Civilized Southern Corps.
Tho first, or Democratlo Corps,
was fully
organized, with ranks well filled, but not
in sufficient numbers to socuro the victory.
There was tho War Democratic Corti.,
which supported Lincoln in 1811.1; but wlt
In consequonce of the great wrong
mentioned, wee ready to sever itself from
the Radical Army under General Grant;
and there was the Conservative Republican
Corps, of which you are pleased to spottic of
Inc as a leader,
who. for the same reasons,
were ready to join rho Grand Army, std
do all in their power to bring success to
Our cause.
Tho two last are rho recrultimr corps.
They hold the balance of power. As a mat
ter of polloy, had the that office boon given
to a chief of (ho ono or of the other, It would
have made our victory moro easy, if not
certain.
Everybody knows that the result of this
contest Is to depend upon the importunt
question, whether we shall be able to !v
-omit those two corps lunuillolent numbers,
and carry them to the hearty auppoi C. of
Mr. Seymour. If wo can, victory is Wllll
us; if we cannot, victory is against us.
In my Judgment, It Is our duty to (1,, so,
Tho very life of the Constitution is ItIVOIVI.iI
and, with it the rights of the litotes mud the
liberties of rho people.
I cannot hesitate ono moment ; wy judg
ment is for it; my wholo heart is in It. So
far from relaxing, wo should redouble our
offorts, Boar In mind that the war wits
ended throe years ago, when a now era Was
opened in political affairs; that Mr. Sey
mour Is a mini of high character, of unques
tioned patriotism, of great ability and ex
perience, wholly with us upon the living
and paramount issue ; and that, it (ducted,
ho will make a most able and dignified
President; and certainly uol'ounnylvunlai,
will forgot that, but for his promptness and
energy in forwarding the forces of New
York to Gettyablirg, that great
bottle might Intim boon lost awl
Pennsylvania overrun. While In Gen
oral Blair wo have a civilian and ti
soldier whom. prompttions end indonaltulde
resolution seized Camp Jackson end saved
Missouri from secoasion; who always sussd
among the foremost of the war Republicans,
in council and in the llold, whit') lho wur
lusted ; and, when it was over, will, 11111011 g
the first to demand that for which the war
wan prosecuted—the Union of the Minh,s
under tho Constitution, with their rights,
equality, and dignity unimpaired.
Lot Us 1111110 for II viotory I Let as hove
peaco—it peace which onmos not from a vl
oluted Constitution, and the denpolinut ,d .
the sword, but n peace which comes front
a restored Union and the supremacy aren't.
stltutional law, by which Mono liberty Is
mecum!. Respectfully, yours,
J. It. DOOLITTU•
New Facto pm Democrats
At the Presidential election of 1801, Mr.
Lincoln, by suppressing the Soldiers vote
cast for General MoCiollan and bryarowing
into the Western States; several Moorland
Now England soldiers who voted for Min,
(most of them voting avo or sig
managed to obtain a majority on the popu
lar vote of 411,281.
At the last gonaral elections In the MUM.
States tbo Republican majority was only
46,010, including Illinois and Indiana,
which have not hold a general eleetion
mince Mt° fail of 1860, and crediting Nilo
with a Ropublinan majority of 3, 08:1,w Melt
was obtained by the ropublican candidate
for Governor,
though at the canto election
the Democrats defeated negro warn() by
60.000 majority and elected a majority
the members of the Legislature.
In 1804 the clumgo of 205,641 votes would
have elected General McClellan over Mr.
Lincoln ; In 1808 it requires tho ohmic° of
but 28,450 votes to gip:lto Horatio Seymour
the electoral votes of tho States which were
carried by Mr. Lincoln..
In tho taco of these figtiros is not the aloe.
Lion of Seymour and Blair as certain ns le
to mof*ow's sun to rise Democrats wit
please bear these figures in mind.—N. 1.
World.
governor Seymoor's Endorsement by Sec
rotary Stanton.
To those Radicals who are In the
habit of condemning Gov. Seymour for
not being "loyal" In the tato war, we
commend the following from Secretary
Stanton, written to him in the midst Of
the war, when ho was Governor of New
York :
WAIL DNPARTMENT, ii
WAsIIINOTON, July '27, IMLi.I
Doit.u.Sint I cannot forbear • expressing
to you the deep obligation I feel. for the
prompt and cordial sapportyou have given
the government In the present emergency.
Thu energy and patriotism you have exhib
ited I may ho permitted personally and or.
Malty to acknowledge, Without arrogating
any personal claims on my part to sue
service, or any service whatever.
I shall bo happy to bet esteemed your
friend. EDWIN M. STANTON.
His Excellency, Horatio Seymour.
NINETEEN negroes, one hundred car•
pet-baggers, and Joe Brown, the rebel
Governor of Georgia and the founder
and supporter of the Andersonville
prison pen, were members of the Chi
cago Radical Convention which,nomi
noted U. S. Gront. Of COUrlle , every
soldier 'citizen will be drawn, towards
,
the Radical nominee by this; fact.. How
can a Union soldier vote for • the war
Governor of New York, Herittio Sey
mour; against the candidate of the rebel
Governor, Joe Brown, the founder of
the Andersonville prhion? ' •
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W3tamiog National Bank, dbattat
barns; Pa.,'on BaturdayAngad
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