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aPOICVIOE PRESIDE
GBN. 12011. P. BLUR, dr., of Missouri.
• . FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
CHARLES B."I3OyLE, or Fayette coney.
Fos SURVEYOROWEIt,AL
gen•WELGINGTON H. ENT, orColumbla co
. -COUNTY COMMITTEE !METING.
The 33011100171t10 County Committee will
meet at the roams of the Young Men'■ Demo.
Grata Association, on SATUBDA,Y, the 15th
day of AUGUST, at i p o'clock, A. Al. •
The attendance of - every member Is earnestly
requested, as business of great importance
will demand the consideration of the Com
mittee. R. It. TBELLIDY, Chairman.
TUT HE DEMOCRACY OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF LANCASTER. li
• In accordance with the resolution of the
County Committee, adopted at their meeting
on Saturday, August let, you are requested to
ensemble in the several wards, of the city,
boroughs and townships of the county, on
SATURDAY, the 6th day of SEPTEMBER
next, then and there to elect the usual num
her of delegates to a County Convention, to be
held on WEDNESDAY, the 9th day of SEP
TEMBER next, at 11 o'clock, A. M., at Fulton
Hull, in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose
of nominating a ticket to be supported at the
ensuing October electlo&i, composed of the fol
lowing officers:
A Member of Congress.
Four M.mbers of House of Representatives.
Associate Judge.
District Attorney.
One County Commissioner.
Two Directors of the Poor.
Two Prison Inspcctors.
One Auditor.
The township committees aro requested to
give early notice in their respect' cc districts
of the time and place if meeting for the elec
Lion of delegates.
By order of the Democratic County Com
mittee, R. R. TSRUDY,
B. J. MCGILANN, See'y. Chairman.
For the Campaign
The INTELLIGENCER will be fur
nished for the campaign at 50 cents a
copy. To• clubs of live or more at 40
cents.
" Organize! Work!!
Harvest is about over, and now is the
time for Democrats to organize for vic
tory. The good work can not be com
menced a moment too soon. Let an
efficient Democratic club be started in
every Election District in the county
without delay. Every sign of the times
points to a glorious victory and the re
demption of the nation from Radical
misrule. But the battle can not be won
without a full muster of our forces and
perfect discipline in our ranks. Re
member that Penesylvania is the battle
ground, and that the October election
will decide the contest. The time grows
'bort, and the great work which is to
be done must be commenced at once
and prosecuted with unremitting En
ergy. Then,
Organize Clubs;
Circulate Newspapers ;
Prepare for Township Mertinfig ;
Enroll the Voters ;
Appeal to the Reason of Your R.
publican Neighbor ;
Organize ;
Agitate ;
Work ;
AND VICTORY IS SURE.
Dg not wait fo• your neighbor to be
gin the good work ; but begin it yourself
—and that immediately.
The Revolution
The startling change which has come
over the spirit of our Government with
in the past three years will appear from
a glance at the present situation.
The President is stripped of his es
sential Executive power to remove his
subordinates from office, and this power
is vested in the Aristocratic Branch of
Congress. The Chief Magistrate of the
People cannot displace a postmaster or
tidewalter without the consent of a
packed senate. He is the mere puppet
of the Senate.
The, prostitution of Impeachment to
partisan purposes puts the President ab
solutely within the power of two-thirds
of the Senate and a majority of the
House of Representatives. The People
may elect a President to-day, and Con
gress may remove him without cause
to-morrow.
Congress remains in Perpetual Ses
sion, avowedly to intimidate, and if
needs be, remove the Chief Magistrate
of the Country.
The Supreme Court le shorn of ap
pellate jurisdiction over one-third of
the land, lest it may perform its appro
priate Constitutional function of decid
ing upon the validity of Congressional
legislation. Thus one-third of our peo
ple are deprived of judicial shelter
against Military Despotism. And the
precedent is established, that Congress
may rescue any Act from the condem
nation of the Supreme Court by merely
withdrawing the jurisdiction of the
Court from cases arising under the Act.
Three States are entirely without
recognized governments, and their peo
ple are prohibited, by flue and impris
onment, from participating in the Presi
dential Election, because they refuse to
vote according to the wishes of (ken-
grese.
In three more States, the very voters
to whom Congress has recently given
the ballot, are denied a share in the
Presidential Election, because the Ne
gro Leglslatdres organized by Congress,
can be better trusted to perform its
wishes.
These are some of the changes
wrought by Congress in the structure
of our Government, for the purpose of
perpetuating the power of a Party.--
A few more turns of the screw will
place the Radical Party and the Gov
ernment of the United States forever
beyond the reach of the People them
selves.
Itoratto Seymour's Letter of Acceptance.
We publish elsewhere Horatio Sey
moues letter, accepting the nomination
for President of the United States,which
was unanimously tendered to him in
behalf of a large majority of the white
men of the United States. We have no
comments to make upon this admirable
production. There it Is. If every man
In the country can be induced to read it
carefully, the election of its author by a
vast majority will be rendered absolutely
certain. Let it be put into the hands of
every citizen, that all may see the
marked contrast between it and the
wretched affair which was put forth
over,the signature of U. S. Grant.
CorontEsswhich has just adjourned, not •
withstanding the faithlessness of an apostate
President, has greatly reduced the national
expepditure:and lightened the:burden of the
people beyond all former precedent.—
,Rate Guard.
How comes it then that every dollar
of the many millions wrung from the
people' is recklessly squandered? How
does it happen that the public debt
statement shows a constant increase?
Can the ,State Guard explain?
ItErnmacew newspapers profess to
be afraid of another war, if Frank Blair
is elected. Let these cowardly creatures
compose their nerves. Wade Hampton
wont touch them, and should Lee at
tempt to invade Pennsylvania, all they
would hive to do would be to call on
Seymour again. He would be as prompt
to respond as he always was during the
rebellion. We horie these fellows will
.not go to paeking.up their household
'goods immediately after the election.—
Blair . are 'bound to win;
:tutd:then instead of . war, ;we
° shall have
buiting panne on " Let
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"A Chance To Make Money."
Undey , the,above captio thl3r l .Vo x ress
COplealhe following sen nee fro th
•
INTEMenri :
"True to th eRe I
lalature of Coti °tient da 1 to p
vent foreignertorom benat zed a
that State." I.
AndiOnnnOtta upeLt
Now, 'although 'we have not kept our
selves particularly posted in regard to the
proceedings of the Legislature of Connect'.
cut, wo are so well satisfied, both from the
nature of the case and from the source of
the above statement, that it is false, that we
hereby offer and will guarantee to any
Irlshman,k(rjnittb pr Unerican who reads
the liecifia ertanti:rr ftlieves it possi
ble for that paper to tell the truth, a reward
Leone . hundred XIQUarI4OI.- proof tha"hQ
gislature of Connecticut, either this year
or at any time striae it has' been under .the',
control of the , Itepnblicans, passed a law,
or attempted to do so, to prohibit or pre
vent the naturalization of foreignets within
the litnits of that. State. ''Many' foreign
born citizens, we have no doubt, regularly
read the Intelligeneer; and if among them
there is one that has confidence in its-ve
racity, here is a chance to make is hundred
dollars, such as does not tarn tip every
hour in the day. ' • •
We are disposed to help some one of
our readers to make the money offered,
which can be easily done. Let any one
who wishes to convict the - Express of
lying, and be paid for doing so, write to
the Editor of the Hartford Times
for a Certified copy of the law
restricting the Courts of the State
in their powers of naturalization, and
the veto message of Governor Eng
lish. The documents will, no doubt, be
promptly furnished which will show
that the Radical Legislature of Connec
ticut passed a law depriving the ordina
ry Courts of the State of the power of
granting naturalization papers ; and
that too in the teeth of au existing law of
Congress,which expressly declares that
such Courts as our Common Pleas, shall
be competent to do all that relates to
naturalization.
The Express may want to creep out
of the offer it makes, by taking the por
talon that to force all foreigners to un
dergo the expense and difficulties of
going to the Supreme Courtof the State
to be naturalized, instead of to the Coun•
ty Courts, does not "prevent . " them
from securing their rights; but we do
not think any honest jury would hesi
itate for a moment to decide that the
Express was bound to pay the money
under the circumstances.
Any foreign born citizen can answer
for himself whether he would have re
garded a law requiring him to go to the
Supreme Court at Harrisburg or Phil
adelphia to be naturalized, as an at
tempt to prevent him from securing the
rights of citizenship. The Radical
Legislature of Connecticut passed a law
of that exact character, and the Demo
cratic Governor, James E. English, very
properly vetoed it at once.
Can the Democracy Win
As We have seen lately In the Radical
papers numerous estimates intended to
show the certainty of Want's election,
we have prepared , the following table,
giving what we believe to be a fair esti
mate of the prospects of our party in
the coming struggle. If Virginia, Texas
and Mississippi are excluded from the
Electoral College, the whole number of
votes cast will be '2.90, making 149, the
number necessary to elect. The follow
ing States were carried in Mei or 1808,
and we regard them as perfectly safe
for Seymour, as in every election held
this year, as in Kentucky, Michigan,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, and
Montana, we have gained on the vote
of last year:
California
Connecticut....
Delaware
Kentucky
Maryland
New Jersey...
New York
uregon
Pennsylvania
We must get 48 voles more to elect
Seymour, and these we can easily ob
tain from the following States. We do
not mean that we shall carry them all,
though we think it very likely, but we
do mean that it is almost morally cer
lain that of the 102 votes which the fol
lowing States cast, Seymour will re
ceive at least 48:
Arkansas
Georgia 9
Illinois 10
Indiana 13
Kansas 3
Michigan 8
Ohio of
Wisconsin 8
West Virginia 5
Nevada 3
Missouri 11
Our reasons for thinking that we can
carry most, If not all of these States,
are as follows: It has been demonstra
ted that the Democrats can carry Ar
kansas and Georgia, as it required 17
days voting in one State and 7 days in
the other to carry them for the Radi
cals by small maJorites. Large num•
hers of the negroes are Joining the
Democrats, and better than all, but one
day will be allowed for voting at the
Presidential Election. With the mili
tary away and but one day to vote, we
may count safely on G4orgia and Ar
kansas.
In Illinois and Indiana, there was no
State elections last fall, but both States
were carried by the Democrats on the
vote for Judges and County Officers.
These elections afford no perfectly cer
tain test, but we may add ttat Chicago,
which gave Lincoln 14,000 majority in
a vote of 23,000, gave last spring a
Democratic majority of 1,000, in a vote
a little larger.
In Kansas and Michigan, there were
no State elections last year, but in last
November negro suffrage was defeated
In Kansas by a majority of 9,000, and
this spring it met the same fate in Mi
' chigan by 30,000 majority, These votes
are sufficient to make these States
doubtful, to say the least.
luOhio we were defeated last year on
the Governor by 2,083, though we elect
ed the Legislature; we lost Wisconsin
by 4,764 and West Virginia by 1,281. In
these three States the majority against
us was 9,028 in a vote of 655,804. To
overcomo this majority we must change
4,515 votes, or .1 in every 146. This
change will certainly be made. The
elections held this year show that the
reaction of 1867 still continues. With
Grant as the acknowledged candidate of
the Radicals, the Democratic majority
in Connecticut was increased from 976
hi 1867 to 1800 In 1868, and the Repub
lic.an majority in New Hampshire, the
Radical majority of 3,146 in 1867, was
reduced to 2,486 in 1868. These elec
ticus took place when we had no stand•
and bearer, but Seymour and Blair have
added vast power to the tide. Oregon
gave a Radical majority 327 in 1806, but
in a vote of 22,000 that is wiped out and
we carried the State by 1,209 a few weeks
ago. Kentucky ratifies Seymour and
Blair by 100,000. Last year our vote
was 90,225, our majority 43,110. The
majority of 1868 is greater than the vote
of 1867! On the heels of this comes the
news from Montana that at the election
held there a few days ago the Demo
cratic majority of 1867 is largely in
creased. With such indications of the
counter-revolution, we may regard Ohio,
Wisconsin and West Virginia as sure
for Seymour.
Nevada and Missouri alone remain.
Nevada is little more than a county of
California, and is governed by the: ame
influences that have brought the Golden
State into line. In Missouri the Radi
cals are carrying the burden of negro
suffrage, and their defeat is almost cer
tain. In fact, so demoralized are the
Missouri Radicals, that the Treasurer of
St. Louis, heretofore a bitter Radical,
sought the Democratic nomination for
State Treasurer, so sure was he of a
Radical defeat.
We have not counted the Stites of Vir
ginia, Texas and Mississippi pasting 21
votes, in which Statis , an ;election. will
be held, and which will,goDemooratic.
Neither have we taken into considera
tion Minnesota with.a Mica malorlty
of but 6,844, nor South Carolina, which
recent eleotions have shown tote very
'cloie. Alabama. and Florldauwe could
have carried, but for the recent revolu
tionary movement of placing the choice
of electori.ln . the hands of, the Legisla=
ture. Sue. , 10tentvey 'of ti e,field Is high
/Y gratiOing,':and actioinpliett its
glOrlous promise ;let ;even , . Democrat
work, WORK WORD' - '
The Grant Cotton SpeculaWn.
The Express seems to imaeft it
ale ed# l neri4 Or .t front t e a
•• .8 e cif tt , I'. Is ' on
4
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o r part to 1., ak le inms
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(F. ey our, co ,- , ula s
rieton arl fii
,th ';. sof • . .`
Its t 'vludication o h ' adlcal candidate
for President consieVifeen extract from
a letter which it found in one of its ex
changes. This losely written letter's not
authenticated in any way. It may be
a mere forgery, and in the shape in
which it is given to the public it could
not be received as evidence in any_courly
The Maitiell tiMietteWieraro 4 Qn l
tii&ethir hafteliikaiMuitiital•yi'it'ffitils - .,
putable, well authenticated and pei
lectly.overwlielming. e %, "-' ' '' " '
The charge which has been made:
aaatflat [Birdie as ffilloivsi' . '
That his, fatker,7erpfe ,R.
with
. 1 u:-
tereff Intoan engagement a Oncin
./3 ati Arm, hy which.heatirMtedlcrtise
his 'influence it; the i ,teadquaAers of
General Grant to: promote a cotton
s'peculation,';WithiMiqo,tiiis in
fluence • be i ng regaided sufficient by
both parties to entitie:Ueltie'Griiiit r to '
one-fourth of the profits, although he
supplied "rib caplt4it'arni ''incurred' no
risk. That he performed his part of the
contract It sworn to by himself. The
permit which lie 'promised to procure '
from his son . was obtained, and
also the transportatiob which he prom
ised to secure'at the same heackparters.
The cotton was actually bought, .ship
ped and sold. , Now; if thltils all ProVen,
we can not see how any one can doubt
or deny that General Grant connived at
and abetted the speculation: If he did
not do so, why should Jesse Grant have
brought suit against certain parties who
declined to pay the proportion of profits
for which he bad stipulated? How
many such arrangements Jesse Grant
may have had with different parties we
can not tell, but the proof of one is to
be found spread upon the records of the
Superior Court of Cincinnati. The Cin
cinnati Enquirer has had a copy made
of the documents now on file in that
court, and we give them as they stand
recorded there.
The first thing to which we would
call the attention of the reader is the
petition of Jesse R. Grant, the father of
General Ulyssus S. Grant. It is as fol
lows :
TILE bUPERIOR COURT OF CINCINNATI, lIANIL
TON uutnixT, 0111 o;
Jesse R. Grant
Harman Mack, Henry Mack,l•Pet Mon
and Simon Slack, partners
as Mack Brothers.
The plaintiff ..tates that on or about the sixth
day of December, A. D. ' 1802, he entered into an
agreement with the defendants for the purpose
of partnership purchases of cotton, in the Mil
itary Department commanded by General U.
S. Grant, the conditions of said agreement
being as follows:
Defeudants were to furnish all the money
that might, be required in the said business,
and the necessary number or men to purchase
and snip the cotton, they being allowed seven
per cent. per annum for the money so em
ployed during the time it was necessarily
used. Plaintiff, on his part, was to go with the
men furnished as aforesaid by the defendants,
to the headquarters of General Grant and pro
cure a permit lor them to purchase cotton, se•
cure transportation and such other /facilities
ns ini,lat be consistent with the usages and
intereste or the army. The defendants were to
have the cotton Hires purchased, shipped im
mediately to hew York and Bold, and the net
profits of sales, atter deducting from the gross
proceeds the necessary expenses of buying,
fee gilt and selling, except the wages of the
men furnished as atOrrisaid by the defendants,
were to be divided among the parties, in the
proportion of three-forartne to the defendants
atm one-fourth to the plaintiff. The plaintiff
In no event being liable fur any portion otiose
that m gilt be incurred. Plaintiff say that
said agreement was at once and faithfully car
ried out upon his part, and also was by the de
reutlants so fur us the purchase of cotton, its
transporta . Mu to new York and sale were
concerned, but deleudants have broken said
igrecinents In this, that they have utterly
tailed MA refused to render to plaintiff any
seCOUnt of such trauaactious, or to pay over to
10m any pot tion of his share or the profits
lathing from the same, althoueli said account
and pity meat have been repeatedly demanded
by 111: p Plaintiff daytt that under said
contracts largo amount of cotton was pur
chased, as many as three hundred bales or
tome, at au average cost of from fifty to fifty
four cents per pound, cud which was sold in
.‘etv York at such prrces as to realize a net
profit of $1••,000 or over. The exact number of
hales purchased, the precise price of such pm:-
Chase, and the exact amount of expenses and
• f proceeds of sale, fie I. unable to state, the
account of the same b lug in the possession of
the defemiants, who refuse to furnish a state
ment Of it. But the amount purchased, and
the net profits realized, are not less than as
above stated, while the same may and proba
bly will exceed the amounts before stated.
Plaintiff asks that an account may be taken
between himself and the defend •nts, and that
the deiendants may be ordered to pay over to
him such an amount as may be found due to
him from them, under the agreement herein
before set lori la, and that all such other orders
ma be made in his behalf as he may be equi
tably entitled to in the premises.
(.signed) H. SNOW,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The State of Ohio, Hamilton county, es :•
Jesse It. Grant, the plaintiff, makes oath that
he believes the statements of the foregoing pa
,n to be true. JESSE R. (MAST.
Suisse Wed and sworn to before me this 31st
day of December, A. D, 1868,
Wee. E. Joss&
Notary Public, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
[Notarial seal.'
On the back of the above petition ap
pear the following endorsements :
Jesse It. Grant 'Vs. Harman Mack, Henry
Mack, and Simon Mack, Partners as Mack
Brothers.—Action tor partnership account and
far opr-eine:and general relief. Issue Summons.
H. Snow, Attorney for plaintiff.
To the clerk of the Superior Court, eincin
nati—lndorsed.
No. 17,587—Superior Court, Cincinnati.—Jesse
it. Grant va. Harman Mack and others. Peti
tion filed Jau. 2, 18111. Charles E. C.st. Clerk,
by E. Hornuau, Deputy. H. Snow, Attorney
fur plaintiff.
Did the father of Gen. Grant deliber
ately perjure himself when he swore
to the correctness of the above peti
tion? If he did not, then the permit
was granted and the transportation and
other facilities furnished by Gen. Grant.
The Express can take which horn of
this dilemma it pleases.
But the proofof Gen. Grant'scompllci
ty in this disgraceful transaction does
not restupon the testimonyof his father
alone. In their reply to this petition
Herman Mack, et al, admitted that
they got the permit and got the cotton,
but undertook to avoid payment, by
denying that there was sufficient cause
of action, by claiming that there was no
legal consideration, and by setting up
the plan that the contract was void, be
cause contrary to public policy. Here
s what they say :
SEPERIOA VOMIT CIE C-INCIIINATI.
Hormau Mack, feSSEB, Grunt. No
And the suld defendants come and demur
the petition of the said plaintiff, unu for cause
of d• murrer say:
Fiiiot The said petition does not orate facts
imtliclent to constitute a cause of action. •
tecoxtd. The petition does not state any legal
and valid consideration tor the alleged under
taking and obligation of the defendants.
I bird The contract on which the suit is
brought Is contrary to public policy.
The defendants therefore akk. Judgment, and
that t hey may be dit.missed with their costs.
CALDWELL dr. TILDISEZ. .
Attorney for Defendants.
Indorsed—No. 17557. Superior Court Cin
cinnati. fisrman Mack et at., vs. Jesse R.
Grant. Demurrer of DePindants.
CALDWELL tt TILDES.
When the case was argued before the
Court, the Judges were unanimously of
the opinion that the claim of Jesse R.
Grant could be barred on the plea of the
unlawful character of, the transaction ;
but, as Mack & Co., had not proved the
statements made in their petition by
sworn testimony, the case was deferred
to give them an opportunity to do so.
So it still stands upon the record; and
it May be that Mack & Co., have agreed
to makesome sortof a statetnent through
the newspapers, on condition that Jesse
R. Grant abandons the suit.
Judge Storer, when the case was up
for argument, said the whole trade, as
disclosed in the proceedings, was not
only illegal, but tended directly to dis
grace the country—that it was theprice
of blood.
This transaction suggests some pain
ful inquiries. What did Jesse Grant
put in as an equiValent for the capital
of Muck & Co.? Was It not his influ
ence with his son to secure the success
of an unlawful transaction? For if the
transaction was lawful and legitimate,
why should the privilege of carrying it
on be paid for at a' high price? Jesse'
Grant, being convicted on his own oath,
of trading on Ids son's influence in one
cotton speculation, hoW can it be shown
that he did not do the same thing with
equal claims to proilt M. many others?
As he had an equivalent for capital
in his influence with - General Grant, he
could as easily be a. partner in twenty
such 'transactions as in .lone. The ex
tent 'of' mast
have been limited to the amount of their
capital,' or 'by the emount they were,
willing to rielc,':lint.leese
risked nothing,was under no such
tation in;Working tiletkoplacts he Mid'
diecovered,,Witbin tlie;nillitary,lines,nt
.his eon, which then embraced the Most.
rodbctive cotton reghMs Of the BoutM; 1
U otherspartkinis May; kept"tgnr
h •or of thieves, so that as
nown of eir transactioni
ld ave on if
fl ck .yst
b ain. *
nt l i!.zga•. up
ery Gal- ged
de c n n_ • - Be o'. city ,
convenient , point for speculations like
the one, which has been exposed. I t .
seems that he made no money by this
cotton speculation; _. did he gain the
means of retiring from . the tanning
b pe u r simal re tt i te s tr i gagVlV l
wh hilin99-tt ie LIAM. IO,9I2.U'
°9u I ? I }JP B I?, ( Y-f w,t i, l3 l 7,e •Mg hT9dOletta.
ySr ß n o s v hip eryo oo va u k ld:
h4 ve
. Fr re 4 ndored 9 lll 4ea lthi l thke sh, re ib lit s o
able that sharp Aniiineirs' men' deemed it t
1 () It t °lei/1 011 14 q,t4if!o : 4 Le/1,3 ;• 03'°
L /vq4octwi 'l otlle te ' ill:watt for nn'anawer
to thalidocumcititarp svidence ‘vief here
piiiduced find ) it ffwi l kee,'VeTY elp4r l Y
thal '!„!flGe;tekal
fritlier,cannot'he, dieposed-otby-
Xoerek >lose extr.act, from sotneLkither
Radical , betvl3paper, • which ufay lave•
ben veil easily rtiantifactuted'out' of the
;whole 'cloth er garbled, and altered to
suit the chcurnetances and the.occasion.
It must either prove that the above
- record of the Superior Court of Cinclti
nail does not exist, or account for the
damning evidence which is there set
forth. .
,•Oar Financial Plan
, The .Densocratio 'Financial Policy is
extremely ,simple and unldei
stOd:.' It Alia - bra* objeptsi :the
payment ,pf the, five•twenty bonds in
greenbacks f and , the taxation of Gover
ment bonds like other property.' We
do not now prOpcse to argue the justiOe
of these measures, as the people are fa
miliar with the reasons for and against
it but to consider their effect.
The Five-Twenty Bonds amount, in
round numbers, to Fourteen Hundred
Millions of Dollars, constituting the
bulk of our National Debt. They bear
six per cent interest in coin, being
Eighty Four Millions per annum. It
is perfectly plain that the payment of
these bonds in paper bearing no inter
est, will relieve the country of this an
nual tribute. The Democracy propose
to apply these $84,000,000 of gold to a
yearly reduction of the principal of the
debt. At the present price of gold, 145,
they would annually liquidate more
than $120,000,000 of the greenbacks
Issued for the five-twenties, thus dis
charging that entire branch of the pub-
lie debt in less than twelve years.
We also propose to subject the re
maining Government bonds, the sixes
of 1881 and the ten-forties, together
amounting to about Seven Hundred
Millions of Dollars, to the average rate
of taxation borne by the other property
of the people. As from their nature
these bonds cannot be reached by local
assessors and collectors, they must be
taxed by the General Government. By
this operation we expect to save at least
$10,000,000 of gold annually to the
country.
The foregoing results are obvious to
every understanding; but we are met
with the objection that
.a large addi
tional issue of greenbacks would greatly
depreciate the currency. Our experi
ence of Radical mismanagement of the
finances, which in three years of peace
and prosperity, has advanced the price
of gold from. 125 to 148, teaches us the
force of this objection. But $300,000,-
000 of greenbacks could be at once sub
stituted for the National bank notes,
which would save the Treasury $18,000,-
000 per annum in gold, without adding
a dollar to the volume of the currency.
Beyond this point we should feel our
way with caution. But it remains to
be seen, and is extremely doubtful,
whether the depreciating effect of a
large issue of currency would not be
counteracted by greatly reducing the
drain of gold from the country to pay
the interest of foreign bondholders.—
Reform in the expenditures of the Gov
ernment would also contribute tocheck
the tendAlicy of gold to advance.
But it would always be within our
power to limit the depreciation of the
currency, by allowing the holders of
greenbacks to fund them into Govern
ment obligations, payable in coin by
instalments without interest. The lat-
ter would at once acquire a fixed mar
ket value under which greenbacks
could not depreciate, without passing
into them by conversion. It is demon
strable that the bonds of our Gover
ment, payable in gold in 'ten equal an•
nual instalments without interest,
would at this day command a larger
per tentage of coin in the markets of
the world and our own Eastern cities,
than the present lawful money of the
United States.
The question then presented to the
people by the Radical and Democratic
Financial systems is this: Shall we
continue to pay interest on our National
Debt for all time to come, without any
hope of reducing the principal; or,
shall we take the money we are now
paying for Interest and apply it to the
payment of the principal, thus insur
ing the liquidation of the debt within
the lifetime of a generation? Voters
will make their choice between the two
policies. If they regard the National
Debt,- with its attendant consequences
of universal and inquisitorial taxation,
as a National Blessing, they will sup-
I port the Chicago Platform, if, on the
I other hand they consider the National
Debt and its effects as a National Curse,
to be speedily and honorably removed
at the earliest possible day, they will
support the New York PlatfOrm.
INSTEAD of adjourning sine die, Con
gress has taken a recess until the 20th
of September,
, and its members have
signed a paper requesting the Chair
men of the Radical Electioneering Com
mittee of the Senate and House, of
~R.epresentatives to 'call them together
on that day, if necessary. This shows
how coMpletely the Governii2entcif the
United States has degenerated into a
party machine.
ou this subject the Constitution 'de
clares : ''The Executive power shall be
vested in a President of the United
States of AmeriCa. HeMay,on extraor
' (Unary occasions, convene both Houses
(of Congress), or either of them." But
the Radical Congressmen have trans
ferred the power of convening them in
Extra Session to their Campaign ,Com
mittees. They might have made a more
simple and comprehensive arrangement
by passing over the President's veto a
Joint Resolution, vesting the Executive
power of the Governmentin the Chair
man of the Radical Campaign Commit
tee of the Senate, and directing him to
be treated as President of the United
States I
Who Wormooth Is.
Warmouth, the blatant fellow who
has written a letter to President:John
son, demanding that a large number of
troops be Immediately sent to Louisiana,
was a bush lawyer without practice In
Illinois when the war'. began. Ee en
tered the,army, brit was dismissed from
the service by General Grant for "Iyilig
and conduct unbecoming an officer and
a gentlman." 'He went to Reim Orleans
and "uuder the rule of BUtler managed
to do considerable `
.petty stealing„
secured .the Radical nominatLon i::for
Governor and was elected : pie, , l;ilkyrits
and negro votes. ' ' • .1:
Senator Harris, of Louisiana,-who is
still in Washington; -eontradiete 'racist.
emphatically- the lying letter 'orlhis
dirty mirpit•bagget;' - 'ald &elates ' that
the State is in a peaceful condition, mid
that there is Dn.,hisraassid
41/1.47.,f0rPEi•
„ .
THE real question rilE.l not i.so I much
-whether the negroes and carpat , haggers
'are to y . ule the Sonthi bat whetheil they
'are to- rale Vs. Already there is t)valye
Of thige 1611 lakithea 1r the 'Renate 101
thiriy;thrigtOti the lapse. Are tiity
That'isthe question.
.T. opment of the New Impeachment
Ilojeet.
_ .
medlately after arrivi s ft I
Ifi 4 •n, before thrOw f ,
pet•bag Cong a \ w
1 33
eoted by the neg ' of th So
e. a caucus and pre dne.t.4 l
~,"":'•'' achmentag reeillentl,ohn
he Northern Radicals being very
'US to get home, were not prepared
to sot on the matter at once, and the
affair was postponed. It was, however,
given out in Radical circles, and tele
traVil=l,ltri-inet
I ' !_o.llUsdebst ihe_Gov.-
61"/91tlyat refusal
ow:ply %vim the :demand would . .be
,regarded as :new cause' for impeach-
,
Atit 04P th 4 494°P. 9C.toot wwas!?
mA'ae 13 : 13.tate, of liouWans Seemed( to
1,134.:3.1n. 'a Perfeetly 2peacbflil •cmidltion.
There had been no rdmors of violence.
freedmen
etplentlyon_
.. the plantations, with a perfectly good
feeling'.betWeen: them - and ' their 'em
ployers; and the ; trops were said to be in
a very promising condition. How then
was,the pretest that more troops, were
rimeded to be originated?
He who would suppose that the Mid
teals could be for a moment deterredby
so
• alight an obstacle, has not studied
the history of the past few years to any
purpose. It is the easiest thing'in the
world for them - to get upreporteof rebel
outrages, 'Such things haveheen man
ufactared,in plenty whenever partizan
necessity seemed to demand them. It
only needs a slip of paper, anit t pencil
in the hand'of some unscrupulous Rad-
cal rewspaper correspondent to manu
facture any amount of first class horrors
to order. Had there been time for doing
so, we have no doubt Radical newep'a•
pers would have been filled with ac
counts of murders of negroes by rebels,
as a preparation for the letter of Gover
nor Warmonth, ( a very significant
name, by the way,) which was pre
sented to President Johnson, on Wed
nesday.
A full synopsis of this document ap•
pears in another column of our paper.
Its true character and real design
might readily escape the notice of
the casual reader, but when scrutinized
even slightly it betrays the infamous
plot which is concealed beneath it. This
blatant Warmouth says, "in many sec
tions there exists no protection for the
citizen in the Courts." Why not? Is
not Lodisiana reconstructed? Has it
not a negro Legislature in session, with
a negro Lieutenant Governor to assist
Warmouth? Is not all the power of the
State, civil and other, in the hands of
the negroes and their white allies?—
What class of citizens is it for whom
there is " no protection in the Courts."
It cannot be the dominant and govern
ing class surely. So we must conclude
it is the white ex-rebels; at least that
would be the natural inference.
But again, says Warmouth,
are shot in the woods, &c." What men
are shot, and by whom? Where is the
proof that anybody has been shot "in
the woods" or elsewhere lately? We
have seen no reports of such things
even in Radical newspapers, and we
more than suspect that Warmouth de
liberately lies about the matter. "And
no steps eau be taken to bring the of
fenders to justice," continues he. Why
can no such steps be taken? Is not the
whole power of the State In the hands
of Warmouth and his party? If there
is a failure to bring offenders to justice
the entire responsibility rests with the
existing government. Either the sys
tem is unfit for the purposes of govern
ment, or the officials are neglectful of
their duty, or else Warmouth lies, and
no such outrages have been committed.
He and his Radical supporters, North
and touch, can take their choice of the
dilemmas. "A judge refuses to go to
a certain court." Why? Did he start
to go? Did he make any attempt to
discharge his duty? If not, is he ex
cusable?
This Warmouth Governor states that
he " has uo doubt 150 murders have
been committed within a month and a
half past." That is a round estimate
we suppose—a Yankee guess. When
and where were they killed ? Why
have the Radical papers said not one
word about the wholesale massacre?
Who were the victims? What was
their color? Can any man believe such
a statement? Is it not too much even
for Radical credulity to swallow with
out gagging?
Again, says Warmouth: "There
seems to be a settled determination
among their men (what men ?) to drive
away all Union men, and influential
colored men, so as to terrify the masses
and dictate how they shall vote." Here
we get at part of the plot. The freed
men are likely to repudiate the carpet
baggers and the incendiary negro agita
tors, and to vote with their employers,
as they did in Mississippi. It is to dra
goon the negroes into voting for Grant
that thesecavalryreglments are wanted,
and.the President is to be impeached
and deposed by the votes of carpet-bag
Senators, if he refuses to furnish troops
for that purpose. A very nice plot in
deetN
But Warmouth continues his asser
tions, all evidently baseless, and net
one of them proven. He says there is
"a secret organization throughout the
State called K. W.C., founded expressly
for persecuting the colored
. people and
precipitating a conflict between the two
races." Why, not give the name in
full ? What do K. W. C. stand for? If
Warmouth could learn that there was
such an organization, that it's initials
were K. W. C., what was to prevent
him from giving us the full title of the
concern ? Is it not evideht that he is
lying?
Again, he says " it was the deliberate
intention to assassinate the Lieutenant
Governorfrind speaker of the Hons'e for
deciding clueStions,obriOxitnis to them,".
Why didn't the.Y. do
. it ? What Ina
dered ? If his government be as power
lees as he says it is,' Whirtiouth and a 1
his offiCials might be assassinated any
day in the week, and, if the K. W. C's
be as ferocious' as he represents, we
wonder that a single Radical officer is
left alive in Loulsian'a.
But "secret military organizations
drill openly at night in the streets and
halls." ' Wbit an absurd lie! Jug
think of secret military organizations
.drilling open/yin the streets and halls
of New. Orleans. Yet this Is a- specl
men of Warmouth's truthfulness.
Surely we need not follow this report
any further. rt bears on its face every
mark of falsehood, and is put together
in so bungling ashape that the most
untrained mind can detect the ridicu
lously absurd statements In which it
abounds., It is only worthy of notice as
the-development-of a desperate plot to
enable the Radicals to get up another
impeachinent trial. The President can
not send troops totonislanaortany such
statement, when to all appearance there
is no, disturbance,•and not the slightest.
danger of any, nnleas ills gettenlip.by :
the rec , ollitiOary,Radle:als,theniselves.
Yet, ,-he discharge bie
-11tity.iii the> premisek; there is little
doubt that he.will be again tried on
trninped'up . ChargesbefOrea;.Sepate
- which the carpet-bag adyentUreis from
the Southern States told ?votes entiugh
ho convict him even: in- the absence of
all'proof: • . ' •-• •
Thiktsuch an. attempt will,be.made'
.'we regard! 10 absolutely: certain. This.
ictita'df theliouldiehailegislatUre, and;
this letter 0 1 6TititrivAigare the ' battle
`pry steliattia:neli iMpeitehrtient. How
fastaud,how far the, Radicals will go
:with the:echeinarelnains to-be seen.
The
the eutitge '''conaurt4ted
at c *tra . Session :,:iiippleniber4
or it; may .be deferred nntil . after 'the
Presidential election.: That the Rtuil-
• .1.2 9 1868*
• ,
cabs will abandon .their
_cherished de
e do not belie* - Nothing can
-
the_ wl_Vrf.fry i a the dfingea .
„ nt'ils *s' overSehji.••
. ,
d at +, e 9Dtaing efirtioilp. t 1
)0.
rge Ise e of- e National Debt Iq
4
' 41' lb, e-` , - , -' 4 4' A r- ' ,
• Thh orals merit of the publics
debt has just been published.
It showsan increase, during the
month of July, of THIRTEEN MILLION,
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT
TRAFl3#•NertiVy E,IDDIDAND AND
NiNErY• •••••• ED DOI;LANS; AND 'NINETY-
THREE CENTS.
'Whitt lieloine of all - the ' money
'raised by "taxation?
How has it been squandered.?, \ .
To frhtit.purposealias it beertapplied?
. 7 The debt lizo3 constantly increaled'for .
months. , ill • •
Ia tha ; to' continue 7
Are . the ; :people be taxed as they
now are for all time do come; and never
to see the• debt; reduced or paid off?
When will we see economy Peacticed
by the Government?
When will some wisefinancial system
be adopted?
How long are we to endure the rule
of the'set of thleves and public plun
derers, who are expending all the.money
wrung from the toil and sweat of the
masses, and conetanty increasing the
debt?
The people are asking themselves
these questions?
There can be but one answer to them.
Not until the Radicals are turned out
of power will there ever be a change.
Let the tax ridden messes.s remember
that. when they.go to vote.
Presidential Elections in the South.
The Express undertakes to defend the
infamous attempt which is being made
td abolish elections by the people In ten
States of the Union. With brazen ef
frontery it sustains theaction of the
Florida Legislature in taking it upon
itself to choose Presidential electors. It
even goes so far as to attempt to argue
that Legislatures elected a year ago can
express the choice of the people of the
Southern States for President, more
truly than could the people themselves
at a popular election held in next No
vember. Wears glad to see the Express
pursuing this course. There may be
a email minority of its readerssufficient
ly bigoted to accept its unconstitutional
and revolutionary doctrines, but the
majority must pause with a shudder as
they see the lengths to which radicalism
is leading them. Whatever else they
may be led to sanction, we do not be
lieve the rank and file of the Republi
can party can be induced to regard with
approval the abolition of popular elec.
tions. They know that the ballot box
Is the last resort of freedom, and will
abandon any party which proposes
to abolish it. They know too that
to sanction such an outrage In Flori
da is to encourage its adoption else
where. They know that the same thing
might with equal propriety be done in
Pennsylvania as well as in any South
ern State. The masses may for a time
be led astray by passion, but they are
still jealous of their liberties; and, at
the coming Presidential election, the
Radical leaders of the Republican party
will find themselves held to a strict ac
countability for their repeated assaults
upon the most sacred rights of the peo
ple. Their action in Florida will be
remembered and avenged. Every voter
in every State of the Union will feel
that he has a direct and personal inter
est in preserving the freedom of the
ballot box, as the best gift to himself
and the richest legacy he can transmit
to posterity.
The Issue
This contest will decide whether our
Government shall remain a Constitu
tional Republic, or degenerate into a
Congressional Oligarchy, to be followed
by Military Despotism.
It will decide whether this shall re•
main a White llan's Government, or
one-third of its powers be exercised by
au inferior and brutal race.
It will decide whether the National
Debt shall be ,paid within the lifetime
of a generation, or continue to blight
the prosperity of the country forever.
It will decide whether taxes shall be
equally distributed, or real estate and
labor bear all theburthens of govern
ment.
These are questions of liberty, se
respect and property. To solve them
satisfactorily, Democrats should work
as they have never worked before.
Every leisure hour should be devoted to
rousing your fellow Democrats, and
reasoning with rational Republicans.
The signs of the time are auspicious
and promising, and if every Democrat
performs but half his duty, we shall
achieve a crowning victory, and liberate
the country from despotism, negro su—
premacy, debt and taxation.
A Reason Why Grant Should Be Elected.
A Radical paper in maryland enu
merates several reasons why it thinks
Grant ought to be elected, and at the
head of the list it puts the following:
Because it would blot out the last rem
nant of the curse of slavery, and forever
establish the doctrine that' all loyal men
are entitled to equal, civil and political
rights.
All who desire to make negroes their
equals will vote for Grant ; all who be
lieve in the superiority of the white
race should vote against him. If he is
elected, negro equality will be speedily
forced upon all the States by act of
Congress. There can be nothing more
certain in the future.
Leaving the Foul Party
At the last meeting of the Seymour
Club in Media, Delaware county, this
State, J. M. Borrell, Esq., who had been
elected Secretary of the Grant Club at
that place, signed the roll of the Demo
cratic Club, renounced all connection
with the Radical party and made an
eloquent speech in favor of the election
'of Seymour and Blair. Many other
' changes haveoccurred in Media. Hon
est men'are " coming out from among
the foul party" all over the State, and
'in October there will be a general stam
pede. The doors are still open.
THE negroes of New York are to hold
a 'Convention at Utica on the 6th of
October. Horace Greeley is urging
them to organize•thoroughlY. He says
there are from fifteen to twenty thou
sand negroes in the State who are en
titled to vote under the property quali
fication. Query? Have the Radicals
been dividing their stealings with them,
so as to swell the number of black
voters?
IN this the hour of their despair, the
Radicals are begging Irish votes. There
is not a man of that race who will not
remember how his countrymen have
been assailed by this party; how its
speakers have openly declared their
purpose in enfranchising the negroes to
.be to counteract - the Irish vote. The
Irisikhave good memories, and they will
all resent as an insult the appeal which
the Radicals make to them• for support:
TEE Democratic Watchman, publish•
,ed at Bellefonte, says:
"Wiihin a+rcircle of five miles from this
place, we have the names of fortrthree
men who have- all their lives voted with
'the opposition,. and who are earnestly ,
Working for the success of Seymour and
.Blalr."
Similar changes are going on all over
the country, and'the downfall of rail-
calista'fe decreed.
WHY should Richard It ce, who work
by the, day for a living, and who hae
house and lot worth say $lOOO pay more
taxes than John Doe,who is ;worth DlX
teen times as much and has his money,
in goveinment bonds ? That is the
question for laboring men.
i t
'tsar.
W I O4OOMIO-.kiave.
Take down . Vlate l and pencil,
voter t anji.oyp ' the Thoueeptil
11101knye R vagancechait
4 ,
squan d Bill t4Or. They have
gorio to , e gra
~
st , of spendthrifts'
foAtian ano,,,Atrilnlie can restore
diem. -:. hevahhileisve paid SeVen
Hundred Millions of yo ur Debt; but
the money has, vanished; and the debt
remains. Copy from Mr. Wells' Apolo•
gy for Radical Profligacy the following
expenses of last year :
Civil Val, $53,000,000
Navy, 25,775,000
1 Enlneeilinreau, 8,/32 1 000,
Bo u g ut ie, 4 l, l ~,, , 1 , .. i . , amp ( )
Freedmen's Bureau, , i • - , 8,215,000
Reconetruction Expenses, ) .1'1,800,000
• ;,,5184,635.004
Novin make these . Items , what. they
ought to be; • viz: /' ' • ' -
Oivil List,- •
Navy,.
Army,
Engineer Bureau,
Bounties,
Fieedmeia'a Bureau,
RebonSthietion,
You find the difference • $1.48,635,000
Add: subsidy' to National
Banks $18,000,000 gold,
currency value...
Tax. on bonds, $10,000,000
gold, currency value,
This amount the. Pemocracy propose
to save you every year. See how nicely
it corresponds with the whole yield of
Internal Revenue taxes, which Mr.
Wells states for last year at $193,000,000.
We may have placed some figures
low in our slate estimate of corrected
expenses, but these under estimates
will be more than balanced by Mr.
Wells' under statements of actual ex
penses. He puts the cost of the Freed
men's Bureau at least $19,000,000 below
the true figure. He manipulated the
Army and Navy Expenditures to suit
his purpose. But we have shown
enough to prove that the Radi•
oath have literally thrown away the
whole Internal Revenue of the Country.
The proceeds of the Income Tax, of
Licenses of all sorts, of Taxes on Occu-
pations, of Stamps, of Taxes on Liquors,
Tobacco, Legacies, Successions, and the
endless catalogue of Impositions that
torment us from the cradle to the grave,
and pilfer our estates after the grave
has closed over us, are all dissipated by
Radical Extravigance and Corruption,
and leave no trace behind.
The Electoral Vote of Alabama
The following despatch will be read
with indignation by every patriotic
American citizen:
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. B.—The House
to-day rejected the Senate bill by a vote of
43 to 32, authorizing the Legislature to
count the electoral vote of the State. This
afternoon the House reconsidered its action,
and passed the bill by a vote of 48 to 10.
The Speaker and others protested against
It as anti-Republican and opposed to the
genius and spirit of liberty.
Afraid to trust even the negroes to
vote for Grant, and being sure that a
majority of northern electoral votes will
be cast against him, the Radicals will
make a desperate effort to perpetrate
gross and outrageous frauds. But, they
will do well to remember that the peo
ple are in no mood to submit to further
usurpations. That Seymour will be
fairly elected we have no doubt, and
then the people will see to it that he is
inaugurated.
What ins Congress Done to Relieve tho
People ?
In making a feeble apology for, the
constant Increase of the publio debt the
Express says :
It is because Congress In its desire to re
lieve the people of their burdens as far as
possible, has perhaps gone farther than it
ought to have done in abolishing and re
ducing the taxes, that there was not a large
reduction instead of an apparent increase of
the national debt.
How far did Congress go " in abolish
ing and reducing taxes ?" It reduced
nothing except the whiskey tax. It
abolished nothing except the taxes on
Yankee manufactures. That it did at
the dictation of New England Congress
men, and against the earnest protests of
such papers as the New York Tribune.
While doing that, Congress took good
care not to reduce the tariff, so that,
there being no competition, the Yankee
manufacturers were able to keep up
prices at the old rates, thus pocketing,
with their already vast profits, the
amount they had previously paid In
taxes. That is the way a Radical Con
gress relieves the people. How do you
like it farmers? How do you like it
working man 2 If it suits you vote for
Grant. If you want taxes reduced and
abolished you must vote for Seymour.
Five Hundred Dollars
The following item we have seen in a
Radical exchange, credited to the Ex
press of this city, and on Saturday it
appeared as original in the editorial
columns of the Examiner::
HOW DID HE VOTE.—li is mooted ques
tion how the colored delegate to the New
York Convention voted. Can't our neigh
bor, Andrew Jackson Steinman, of the in
telligencer, or Isaac Ellmaker theater, tell ?
Was he a Chase or Pendleton " nigger,"
which? We want to know.
Now, just to put an end to the circu
lation of that lying Item, we hereby of
fer to pay $5OO to any one who will
prove that any person not of pure white
blood ever went as a delegate to the
New York Convention. We will also
pay $5OO to any one who will prove that
there were not quite a number of gen
uine negro delegates in the Convention
which nominated Grant. Who wants
the money ?
German Sentiment.
The negroizing constitution of Vir
ginia, which is not submitted to a vote
because it is certain that it would be
voted down, provides that no man shall
hold office or sit on a jury , unless be first
swears that he accepts " the civil and
political equality of all men." The Ger
mans of Richmond, at a mass meeting,
•
expressed their opinion of thet. phomi
nation by the following resolution:
Raolved, Thatwo, proud of bur German
desc nt, scorn with indignation the vile in
sult offered to us in the attempt to degrade
us to a condition of political and social
equality with the negro race, scarcely
dragged out of the mire of slaver, and that
we consider the endeavor of subjecting the
white people of the South to the domination
of a half civilized and inferior race or men
an abominable crime against the life of the
nation. •
What German in the North will vote
to fasten such degradation on the men
of his own blood in th% South? He
who would do so must be perfectly lost
to the brave and generous spirit which
actuated the heroes of the Father Land.
Who Made Up the Armies ?
The Harrisburg Telegraph in reply
ing to some remarks by an ex-rebe
named Williams says:`
Unfoitunately for the argument. of Mr.
Williams, about as many of the rebels who
fell in battle against their country were
killed by bullets fired by Democrats as by.
Republicans.
Here is a clear admission, from a
paper which has constantly denied it,
that there were as many Deitocrats as
Republicans in the Union armies. They
fought gallantly to preserve the Union','
- and, now that the war is over they are.
doing vigorous battle against the Radi
cals. who would keep, it divided and
make the negro supreme in the South.
Not only the DentoCratio soldiers, but
thouiands who Were Relinblionns
, will
refuse to support Grant or such a. plat
form. • • •
• Tars Harrisburg qctte Gtiarit Says :'
While at the head df the War,Dejpgrt.
meat, Grant reduced not only, the'rank
file of the army, bat be lopped off every
military eipense which was useless, • •
Here lea plain edinission,• from high
Republican authority, that the , army is
not to be redhCed if Grant is, elected it
'is to be kept at its present else, and -to
continue to cost , the taxpayers one huh.
'dred and fifty million, dollars year HO
long as the Radloals rule. Let the over.
burthened masses make a note pf: thpt,
and remember it rhea they go to vote.
159,00,0 Negreest
The EllOllOlllll have introduced a new
element' into Amexican politics in the
forth of 740,000 negroes. In shaping the,
destiny'of the country these negroes ar e
to neutralise the votes of three quarters
of a atfpion of Intelilgent white men t,
Inthe 'game of national politica, the
military satraps, bureau agents and
itinerant demagogues who manipulate
this negro vote, will play out their mei,
conscious black counteisagainst an equal
number 9C An gloSaxin firemen. These
negroes will wield (inbludinfz Tonnes
see) twenty-two votes in tlieSenate and
fifty-eight votes in the - House of B.epre
!iiintiOlves of the United States,. The
Sepatoia from the Negro States willout
numPerSenatorarepresenting two Oar&
of the white poiilation of the Union.
The . Represeptativett from the Negro
States will , outnumber all the Repreaen
tatioVes of the great Commonwealths of
New York and Pennsylvania.
These negroes will not only exert the
political influence accorded to their own
numbers, but will also wield the influ
ence belonging to the entire white pop
ulation of the South. The Radical sys
tem of white disfranchisement gives
the negroes an absolute majority in
most, and a practical majority in all of
the Southern States. The negro ma
jorities will therefore speak not only
for themselves, but for the whole popu
lation of the South.
' P,000,000
5,000,000
10,000,000
• 1,000 000
Nothing.
do
,536,000,000
27,000,000
15,000,000
90,635,000
This system of Negro Suffrage and
White Disfranchisement is not levelled
at the Southern whites alone. It is
mainly intended to bind and muzzle the
white freemen of the North. It is de
signed to secure the election of Presi
dents by Negro Electoral votes. It le
meant to procure majorities in Congress
by Negro Congressional votes. It is in
tended to give the Radicals an apparent
and artificial strength by counting no-
groes in the popular vote of the coun
try. In tine, it Is specially contrived to
perpetuate the rule of the Radical fac
tion, through the agency of negro votes,
against the will of the majority of the
whites of the nation. Freemen of Penn
sylvania, will you kiss the rod and wear
the yoke prepared for you ?
Southern Electors
The Express still tries to defend the
outrage which the leaders of its party
have perpetrated by abolishing the
popular form of election for President
in Southern States. It refers to the case
of South Carolina, as a precedent to
justify the negro legislatures of Florida
and Alabama in determining to cast
the votes of those States for Grant,
without the customary intervention of
the people. But it forgot to state that
the Legislature of South Carolina, which
cast the vote of the State for President
and Vice President, were always elected
with especial reference to that very
matter. In voting for members of the
Legislature, in the years when Presi
dential elections occurred, the people of
South Carolina had a full opportunity
to express their choice for President
and they did so. The South Carolina
Legislature, therefore, represented the
will of the people.
The system was, however, objection-
able, and it was never endorsed or de
fended by the Democratic party. It
continued to exist because there was no
disposition to coerce the State Into the
adoption bf the better system which
prevailed elsewhere. But the Radicals
made this very thing an object of their
fiercest assaults. They denAinced it as
anti-Republican, contrary to the genius
of our institutions, and In violation of
the spirit c,f the Constitution. How
then can they successfully defend their
present action ?
The negro legislatures of Florida and
Alabama were elected before Presiden
tial candidates had been put in nomi
nation. That question was not brought
before the people of, those States.
They never had an opportunity to ex
press their preference for the candidates.
By what right do these legislatures
dare to deprive the people of their
rights? We may be told that they are
not prohibited from so doing by the
Constitution of the Uuited States. But
would the people of Pennsylvania per
mit the legislature of last winter to as
semble at Harrisburg and deprive them
of their vested right to vote at the com
ing Presidential election? Yet that
would be no grosser outrage than has
been perpetrated in Florida and Ala
bama.
Such is the infamous action which
he Express undertakes to defend. Will
he people of the North sanction such
revolutionary action? Not they. Thou
sands of honest Repnblicans will spurn
the party which thus violates the most
sacred rights of the citizen. This piece
of bold and bare-faced usurpation will
lose Grant multitudes of votes. The
people already see and feel that the
only safety for the country is to be
sought in a change, and that change, so
much needed and so ardently desired,
will be brought about, to a great extent,
by the quiet votes of Conservative,
thoughtful and patriotic Republicans.
And these men will find the strongest
reasons why they should vote for a
change in such arguments as tho Ex
)ress offers.
Eight Tears Ago and Now
Eight years ago the Republican Na
tional Convention which nominated
Abraham Lincoln adopted the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, That the people view with
alarm the reckless extravagancewhich pre
vades every department of the Federal
Government ; that a return to rigid econo
my and accountability Is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder of the public
Treasury ov favored partisans, while the
recent startling developments of frauds
and corruptions at the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of administra
tion is imperatively. demanded.
In the eight years which have elapsed
the Radicals who control the Republican
party have run up a debt of $3,000,000.
000, which, instead of being diminished
is beinglargely increased from month to
month. It now takes more than eight
times as much money to keep the gov
ernment running as it did eight years
ago. And now it must be truly said that
the people do view with alarm the reck
less extravagance which pervades every
department of the Federal Government;
they are shocked at the systematic
plunder;.stunned at the atattling 'de
velopments of frauds and corruptiOna;
and they not only Imperatively demand,
but they mean to have an entire change
of administration.
At a Democratic meeting in Fayette
county, Ohlo,last Saturday, the princi
pal speakers were Judge R. M. Briggs
and Col. John M. Connell. Both these
gentlemen haveberetoforebeen staunch
Republicans, but they, cannot sanction
the usurpations, the corruption and the
unparalelled extravagance of the Radi
cal Congress which styles itself the
Government. All over the country the
same thing is going on, and everywhere
many of the more honest Republicans
are pledging themselies to support Sey
mour and Blair. Grant will be beaten
worse than Scott was, if there is no
abatement in the tide of popular feeling:
A Grave Charge Against Radical 13tate
In ,another column of this, paper will
be fo'und a communication charging
that the State officers at Harrlsburd
have been cognizant of, and parties to a
gross fraud In awarding the contract for
furnishing the State with printing pa..
per.. The party from whom we receive
the communication In a position that
enables ;him, to ionic. the' truth
of the: charges, he - maltea,•:, , ,and , the
pronrietors of three of 'the Republican
newspapers of that city have the Same
means of information.- We "exixen't'
them to denounce the droBB outrage In
•
terms as strong WI those fused_.by, our,
correspondent. • H
,tvo '
Forney , s Preen bag the following spe-
cial despatch from Washington:
"A private telegram from Lieutenant
Governor Gleason, of Floridkdated at Tal
lahassee, and received hero to- day, announ
oes the fact that the Legislature of that
State has passed an act providing for the
election of Presidential Electorw, by the
joint ballot of the two houses ottbe'Legle
iature in joint convention. This example
will doubtless be followed by other South
ern States, and perhaps by all of them. It
bibtbeen recommended by many: leading
Republicans, and is accepted as the safest
method of ch oosing Electors lonian States.
. It is possible that a considerable por-
tion of those who have heretofore acted
With the Republican party may vote for
Grant, in spitecif tech outrages as are
contemplatedliy Its leaders, but we are
confidstit that thousands of them, will
refuse to support any party which thus
boldly undertakes to prevent the people
of ten Rata from voting at a Presi
dential election. They will remember
that to recognize such a thing In Flor
ida, is to break down all the barriers
which would prevent its being done in
Pennsylvania. If it is to be tolerated
in the South, we could not say one
word in opposition to it here, and Gov
ernor Geary might call the Radical
Legislature of last winter together, and
have a precisely similar law passed any
day in the week.
If this republic is to endure, the peo
ple must stamp out these bold attempts
at usurpation. Should Grant be elected
by such means, the Radical party will
never yield Its hold upon power, and
we might as well consent to the crown
ing of a King of their choosing at once.
We would then be spared the mere
mockery of elections.
lion. Thos. E. Franklin Declines to be a
Candidate for Congress.
Hon, Thomas E. Franklin has writ
ten a letter, addressed to some one in
West Earl township, declining to be a
candidate for Congress. It is very evi
dent from the whole tenor of this letter
.that Mr. Franklin regards Old Thad as
an insurmountable obstacle In the way
of all Congressional aspirants. Ho takes y
occasion, while praising Mr. Stevens in
rather extravagant terms in a general
way, to denounce his financial views
very sharply. He says :
" Mr. Stevens' views on the subject of the
terms of payment of the public debt have
been known for some time past not to be in -
accordance with the opinions of the great
body of his Republican constituents, nor
with the true principles of public policy as
understood by every person who has devo•
ted soy attention to the subject of finance
and Is desirous of sustaining the credit of
the government ; and to be opposed to the
resolution on that subject contained in the
Chicago platform which is expressed with
suthclent clearness for every ono who wish
es to understand it. The tone of Mr. Ste
vens' late speeches and letters Indicate that
the Infirmities of age have not been without
their effect upon his memory us well as
temper."
Changes In Ohio
(Mien.
The Florida Presidential &laden.
Immediately after the above denun
ciatory remarks, Mr. Franklin with
seeming inconsistency, proceeds at once
to eulogize Old Thad. He concludes
by taking rather a gloomy view of the
political situation, and virtually con
cedes that the Democratic party will
win In the coming Presidential election.
He says :
"Our foe is well organized, and inspired
with the desperation of his position. It will
require all our energies to achieve a tri
umph."
You never spoke a truer word than
hat in your life, Mr. Franklin.
Another Candidate Decline!.
The following letter, apparently from
a sound Republican, was picked up In
the street last night. As the writer ap
pears:to be a very frank and candid man,
we publish it as a curiosity, in these
days when all politicians have learned
that " language was not Invented to
conceal our thoughts." At any rate It
Is In singular contrast with the letterof
another would be Republican Congress-
man published In the Express a day or
two since:
LANCASTER, August 11th,
Dear Sir : As I have been importuned by
many of my friends to become a candidate
for Congress against Mr. Stevens, I think
it necessary to state the reasons which pre•
vent me from offering my name to the peo
ple for that position.
First—lt would cost from ton to twenty
dollars to advertise, and us cash is very
scarce with me at present, I cannot afford
to fool away that amount for nothing.
Second—Though it would suit my incli
nation first-rate to go to Congress, and, us I
must confess, it would be in perfect har
mony with toy Interest to pocket the Balmy,
yet us I am very sure the Old Man would
beat mo out of sight next Saturday when
our names would come before the people,
I have concluded to make a virtue of neces
sity and wait patiently till Thad. is really
defunct, before I, like the ass in the table,
presume to kick, oven under pretense of
friendship, at the dead lion.
And lastly—As for telling how Mr. Ste
vens and I have stood together in many
political battles, and enlarging on the great
respect I entertain for his great talents and
immense services In the way of reconstruc
tion, I will do nothing of the sort, because
every body knows I hate negroes end de
spise poor vailte trash, and for this reason
a discerning public would be very likely to
rule it at its true value and consider It
nothing better than bosh and humbug.
Yours truly,
Negroes In Public Schools
In New Haven, Connecticut, ample
provision has existed for the education
of the negro population. School build
ings costing $20,000 have been provided
for them, and gradedschools conducted
at public expense. This did notsatisfy
the Radicals ; so they passed a law fore•
ing negroes and white children to attend
school together. The same action may
be expected In Pennsylvania, and else
where throughout the North, unle'ss the
the Radicals arc defeated at the coming
elections. So surely as they succeed the
fanatical leaders of the party will en
force their Ideas. Let those who doubt
remember what has been done within
the last seven years.
Newspaper Changes.
The Washington .Express has chang
ed owners, our friend Jonah D. Hoover,
Esq , Marshall of the District of Colum
bia under President Pierce, and ifs
brother, A. P. Hoover Esq., hays
bought It.
The Daily Express is to be enlarged
and otherwise improved, And ameekly
edltiOn issued. To such of our readers
as want a Washington paper we would
commend the Express. We are certain
that the talent and energy of the par
ties who now control lt, will make It a
first•olass paper In all respects. Success
to them.
Andersonvlllo Prison.
That distinguished delegate to the
Chicago Convention, Joe. Brown, rebel
Goverpor of Georgia, the wretch who
founded the Andersonville prison, in-:
tends to have the concern fixed up tui a
place for holding negro Grant meetings.
Over the entrance will be posted, in
large letters, Grant's order to Butler to
stop the exchange of prisoners, which
was the sentence to a horrible death of
thousands of the nation's bravest and
best.
News from the Florida Legislature.
TALLAIIASSE, Aug. 3.
A bill passed giving negroes every•privi- •
lege of whites on all railroads.
A similar bill relating to hotels was
troduced, and will probably pass,,
Florida is ambitious to eclipse Ala
bama and Pennsylvania. The latter
States only give Negroes the privilegee
of whites in railroad cars. ButTiorlda
is geleg .to. seat Negroes at her hotel
tables, 'and lodge them in :her hotel
chambers. Whites who winter in Flori
da for health or pleasure must hereafter
prepare to pot and bunk with negroes
and negresses.. By the bye, these luxu
rious preparations for our colored breth.
ren suggests the propriety •o'( disnon-
Batting that Bureau.
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4, High Priced Itoq.
A special telegram to the Phi 4410..
phis Poet says: -
The TrMut') Book to the Memo* pt
President "Lincoln, got up by Sobret*s-
Seward, has been printed at a Mirt to me
Government of a 37,80 it volume,' A vary
,large number has been printed and it saw
willho sent ovary government and natitokbw
allty in tho staid. • • ~ 42Y'`•
No auoh book as thl.t !?( I , o !!*vajbliated
hi the *odd, . ":"