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Assorx. uturt of uns of cwndhiaM for office, S3 each. A**ot:yc*iST ar M tsvtAtt! wn Dr.rn* lwrtr.l fr-e. hut all obituary notices will l> charged 4 cent, per line. Exorcise of Elective Franchise, Speech or Hon* William A. Wallace. Or PENNSYLVANIA, In the Senate of the I'.ntr t State, Decem ber 17, 187 S. The Snn'.o having under consideration tho resolution* submitted by the gentleman from Maine, [Mr. Blaine] — Mr. WALI.A E said: Mr. President— My views upon this resolution well un derstood upon this side of the Chamber, and the motion I made yesterday to lay the whole subject upon the table wn prompted by those opinions. The coun try is sick of political agitation and sec tional turmoil. This resolution initiates a renewal of the bitterness of party and partisan investigation that has cursed the country for years. Every bu.ines* interest in the Slate I represent prays lor rest from political agitation and for time to recujtorate its wasted energy. Tbia cannot be while the country ia aroused and shaken up by its investiga lion- based upon rumor and party ran cor is stirred to its depths in every section. I would, if I could, have ar rayed every one on this side of the Chamber in decided and open antagon ism to this reopening of the flood gates of party strife. But by nearly a unani mous vote tho Senate ha- decided oth erwise, and all that is left for us to do is to proceed with the investigation in an honest spirit of seeking for truth. No practical result can come from this in quiry. The Constitution and laws as declared by the Supreme Court settle that. The second section of the four teenth article of amendments to the Constitution is: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several State* according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of person* in each Slate, eicluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of elec tor* for President nd Vice-President of the United Stale*, Representative* in Con gress, the executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the member* of the Legislature thereof, U denied to any of the male in habitants of *uch State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizen* of the t nited State*, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebcilion,or other crime,the basis of representation therein shall be re duced in the proportion which the number of such male citizen* *hall bear to the whole number of male citi/.en* twenty-one years of age in *uch State. In the case of the United State* r*. ;< Cruikahank, 2 Otto, 542, and kindred j cases, the Supreme Court, commenting \ on this article and construing it, say : , The fourteenth amendment prohibit* a ' i State from depriving any person of life, i; liberty, or property without due process of , law,and from denying to any person within ! i it* jurisdiction the equal protection of the j laws ; but it adds nothing to the right* of , one citizen a* against another. It simply i furnishes an additional guarantee agaimt j, any encroachment by the State* upon the ; fundamental rights which belong to every j cit aen a* a mem Iter of society. The duty j of protecting all 1U citizen* in the enjoy ment of an equality of right* was originally j assumed by the State*, and It still remains j there. The only obligation reeling upon j the United States 1* to *ee that the States i do not deny the right. Thl* the amend ment guarantees, but no more. The power j of the National Government i* limited to the enforcement of this guarantee. Thi* ia the decision of a court unani- i mou* with a single exception, and he a democrat. If U>i be the law, how can we take representation from a State for what ia done by individuals ? The in vestigation, even if the facta be proved, is useless. The remedy ia by a contest for the seat, and not bv sectional agita tion. The purpose of this resolution, stated by its author, are to record frauds and outrages on recent elections in tha Konthant States and to find a method to prevent them. The newspaper pre** i* given as the authority for their exist once. The law* provide a remedy for the wrong* alleged, if they exist, by a contest for tha teat held through sueh . 1 % "EqtAL AND EXACT JtBTICE TO AI.L MEN, Of W"IIATVr.K STATE OR rXWt'AtIOX, RKLIOIOt* OR I , oMTirAI.."-Jfm.,fi, prooeuo*, and that peaceful mode of ad lust men t is, 1 Relieve, in the judgment of the oiuntry infinitely better than •weeping allegation* ba-ed upon news paper rumor* ami pswionste partisan appeals which must embitter the sec tions. Peace and law are tho methods now to be sought. Passion and parti sanship have censed to intLmie the minds of business men. Business and its carss, tho I est oration of a market for our products and the means for material growth and development in every local ity, are tho in 'a our j e tple seek. 1 -mould not enter this arena now, think ing as 1 do, save t > correct error and to vindicate so far ns I can, from my stand point a a northern Senator, the truth of recent political history. It is stated as a fact, based upon news paper rumor, that elections in the ■southern States have been controlled hv violence, threat*, and intimidations, that they have le n mnaipuiatcd by ir.tud, and that in one Stale "there was | no election at all in any sense of the term.'' If the e statements bo true it is ■mrprising that out of the whole number of Congressmen elected from that sec tion, 100 in numl-er, not more than six members have been notified of a contest I for tho seats they hold, and the thirty days allowed by law for that purjme have expired. This in itself is a com plete aud perfect answer to these broad charge* of fraud and violence a* applied to the whole section. The 1w provides the remedy, it I* largely unsought. The wrong, if it exists, is local and can not affect general results. Why raise inveetigatingcommittee-? Why arou-e sectional bitterness? Why refuse to seek the remedy the law provides? The practical sense of our business peo pie will have no more of this useless and senseless agitation. Their answer will oe. let tho laws rule, give u* rest from j political turmoil. It is conceded that ! practical results cannot come from it unless we can overthrow the constitu j tional amendment and the decisions of • the Supreme Cour', and this ought to lie I Mifhcient to end the strife. It i* not correct that thirty-five of j' the Representatives allotted t'> the Southern -State* were given them since the war hy reaaon of the negro popula tion. (*nder the Constitution a* origi- ' nally framed thrro filbs thereof were represented, and this representation of the then slave imputation *w attacked with vigor in the heated nontext that preceded the war. After the war. and when reconslruction ouue, thejo i *y of the republican partv wo* reversed, and 'manhood sutlYsg-'" t>ecame the hi'- txileth of party with them, t'nder this doctrine the republican Congress of lk2 added not thirty-five but twenty member* to the representation of the Southren State* in the Houne of Itopre. sentativea. The right, the power, and the expediency to do this and to fix unalterably the equality of the black . voter of the South and the North with the white voter everywhere wa* the leading feature of the reconstruction policy of the Senator from Maine and those with whom he acted. The fatal i error into which they fell wa* in failing to quslify the right to the enfranchised j slave hy fastening upon it an education al test. Thi* would not serve their ; fsolitical ends, and reconstruction as they constructed it has prove/1 their own political destruction. The absolute equality in fitneas for self government of the uneducated negro of the South with the trained and educated white man everywhere wa* the basis of the plan. It was unsound and false, and has returned to plague its authors- The Senator from Maine impales him self hy his arguments. Negro suffrage as a political policy, is a failure in the South, and he helped to create it. His arguments are logically an arraignment of the vicious methods of those who acted with him in placing political power in the hands of an unfit agent. The work has been done hy you, and ita resulta do not please you. What is your remedy ? To overthrow the amendments, nullify the decisions of ' the courts, and agitate until you succeed? ' Our* is to oliey the amendments in ! their letter, to sustain the decision* of the Supreme Court, end to protect by lew, by fair treatment, edu cate and elevate the blAck man until hi* cipacity i* fully tested. Your* is to take from him repreaentation, d afran chiso and degrade him. Such, at leant, ia the logical mult of your effort* and your argument*. The i*ite i* not whether the white voter of the North shall be the equal of the white voter in the South in shaping the policy of the co tntry. They have always been and are now the equal* and peer* of each Other. The legitimate and lawful In fluence that each can wield 1* a* much hi* right a* i* hi* life. Whether North or South, the brave, intelligent, and upright man is justly powerful, and he who seek* to lesson hi* power or weaken hi* influence stab* his country. It is not correct in point of fact that iho white voter of the South wield* e greater influence than the white voter of the North. The Senator from Maine gathers together whole masse* of popu lation in the North and argue* from population and not from voter*, I quote hi* word* t Take the State* of South Caroline, Mi siwippf and LouUiaaa. They tend seven teen Representative* to Congress. Their aggregate population U composed of ten hundred and thirty-fire thousand white* and twelve hundred and twenty-four .housefid colored ; the colored being near ly two hundred thousand In egee** of the whites. Of the seventeen Representa tives, then it I* evident that nine were ap portioned to these State* by resson of their colored population, and only eight by ron ton of their white population ; and vet in Ihcdbolce of the entire seventeen Rep?*- a|atlTr* the colored voter! had no more JJP ' \ BELLE FONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, JANUARY !>, 1ST!). voice or power than their remote kindred *>n the shore* of Hvncgnmbia or on the (fold Cont. The ten hundred and thirty live tliuii-snd white people had the *<de and absolute choice of the entire seventeen Representative*. In contrast, lake two State* in the North, lowa ntid Wisconsin, with seventeen Representatives. They have a white population of two million two hundred and forty-seven thousand— conddcrhly more 'hui double the white population of the three Southern State* 1 have named. In lowa and Wisconsin, therefore, it takes one hundred nnd thirlv two thousand white population to send a Representative to Congress, but in South Cir-lina, Mississippi and f/OUisiann every sixty thou-and white people send a Repre sentative. The first fallacy in this proportion i (he bold aiuumption that tho colored voters bad no voice or power in the re cent elections. Who gives any one au thority to say this? I* it true that the republican party |o*-e-e* an indeb a-i -bl estate in every colored voter in tho*e States? Have they no liberty of thought or right of indpjx-ndent a<-ti'n? Are their vote* not to be counted unles* they vote the republican ticket ? Such a statement a* tbi* ia utterly unwar ranted by tacts, for we all know that in very many instance* the colored voter i independent in action. I'pon the presidential vote of lnTf, in those State* the seventeen democratic member* elected bad a total of 27'-',W vote* and their opponent* had a total of 2)9,(H0 v ite*. The minority were just a* much represented as they are in any congres sional district in tho North. They voted nnd they were outvoted. How unfairly the contrast is put. lowa and Wisconsin had in H476 a voting imputa tion of 540, IBS. tif these, 296,595, rep r<-*enlitig about twelve hutched thous and people, were republican*, and 243, 503, rcjirs-senting aUntl one million people, were democrat*. If the negroes who voted for the republican candidate* in the Southern State* named are not to he counted, the democrat* who vo|e-l for their own candidate* in lo.va nnd Wisconsin ought not to be rounhwi. Tho democrats elected in the South repreent the minority there ju*t a* much a* the republican* elected u, ibe North represent the minority there. The Senator from Maine say*: The eleven Stab-s that formed the Con fid.-rate Government had by th< la-1■ u *u< a population of niae and a half miili- n . of which in round nutnbi-rn five and a half million* were while and four millions col- ored. On thin >grri|st( population seven ty-three Ropresenlalivn* in Coßgreal w, r apportionvd to those Statsw- hirty-tw i <r three of which wcr-br reason f th>- wliii. population, and thirty or thirty-un* hy "f lh<! C"lw*d population. At the rw-nt election the white ds-rnncracr of the Niuth seized seventy of the seventy-three districts, and thus secured a d>rn<cralic majority in the n-*t House "f Represen tative*. Thus it appears that throughout the States that formed th" late O.nhderte Government aiity-flve thousand whites— the very people that rebelled against the Union—amenable! to elect a It pr.-*<nta live in Congress, while in the loyal SUtes it require* one hundred and thirty-two thousand of the white people that fought for the Union to elect a Representative. Thia is a reassert ion of that already shown to be incorrect. It ignores demo cratic vote* and population North and ninita the pregnant fact that the colored voters South both voted and were count ed in making up reaulta. If negroes are voter* and entitled to representa tion, (and tha republican party has made them so,) then they are as much entitled to Ih counted as are the mi norities in any district in the Union. In every close contest sine# 1*72 their votea have given the State of iVnnsyl vania to the Republican*. They hold the balance of power there and invati | ahiy east it against the domoerate. If j the Senator from Maine will have one result he must accept the other. The j Senator aaya: The political power thus appropriated by southern democrats by rea*->n of the negro population amounts to thirty-five Representatives In Congress. It Is massed almost solidly and offset* the great State of New York; or' Pennsylvania and New Jersey together ; or the whole of New Knglaiul; or Ohio nod Indiana united ;or the Colorado and Oregon. The seizure ot this power is wanton unsurpalinn ; it I# flagrant outrage j it is violent perversion of the whole theory of republican govern ment. It inure* solely to the present ad vantage and yet, I believe, to the permanent dishonor of the democratic party. It is by reason of this trampling uown human rights, this ruthless seizure of unlawful power that the Democratic party hold* the popular branch of Congress to day and will in less than ninety days have control of this body also, thus'grasping the entire legislative department of tne Government through the unlawful capture of the South ern State*. If it bo "wanton usurpation and vio lent perversion of the whole theory of republican government," what shall we call the wholesale disfranchisement of tbo democratic masses north by skill ful manipulation of political power ? Indiana, with a democratic plurality or over 5,000 in 1870, sent to (his Con grea* 0 republicans and but 4 demo cata j 23,120 votea or 115,000 popula tion oould chooao a republican to Con greaa, whila it required 53,291 votea or 265,000 people to elect* democrat. Tha homa or the .Senator—New England with iu six .State*—send* to thia Con grern 22 republican* and fl democrats ; 16,691 votea or 80.000 people can elect * republican member o| Congress there, while it require* 49,321 votoa or about 250,000 people to elect a democrat. To the Senate, Now England sen da, 10 ra tal hi loan and 2 democratic Senators, ifpojl the basis of the vote of 1871 It r. qutNe 3d, 721 votes or 185,000 people to effaofe a republican Senator from I New EagUndL whila 147,963 rotoa, or — .JtSSL . 740,000 people are required to elect a democrat. The six great Middle State* —New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In dians, Illinois, and lowa—contain 3,- G50,000 voters or aiiout 10,000,000 of people, yet they have but I'd Senators a* against an equal number in New En gland for (Wt.ooo voters and about 3,- 300,000 people. These are the results of our political system, and theie is just ns much reason to find fault with it in New England as in the South. We must abide its inequalities and imper fections for the much greater good it contain*. Sweeping charge* or p triisan compuri-nn* can do no good ami must do harm. Thennlv important question is, have elections, North or South, been carried by fraud or violence ? It they have, the incumbent holding by such a title should be ejected. The remedy is by contest under the statute. Order ly methods, sworn testimony, judicial inquiry, non-partisan judgment. These are the processes the people approve. The invective hurled at the seizure of power by a solid South may be fitly answered by grouping the six great Middle State* I have named and ex amining political results there. In this CongreM (and it is worse in the next) these States, upon a total vote of 1 ,H42.- 212 republicans in IH7G, have "# i/.ad" 75 Congressmen, while on a total vole of 1.N01.341 the democracy get but 4f<. Upon a voting majority of 37.N71 tin republican* have "seized" 29 Congress men. If we add to these States, New England, we find that 2.209,431 repub lican voter* get 97 Congressmen, while 2,1(/I,2'*.K democratic voters get 52. In these twelve States 109,li"„'J republican majority enables that party to seize 45 Congressmen. If we call a democratic white voter North the equal -fa rej.uh lican white or negro voter North, and a* such entitled to equal political jxiwrr, it appear* that er.eh 2 425 black or while republican* North hate chosen oneof thc-.se 45 republican* to Congre**. "r, upon the same basis of equality, each 12.D fl |>eoj>le who ate reprcM-tite 1 by th'-*e voter* have "seized** a repub lican Congressman. <ir, if we general tzo the whole we find that in the-e twelve States 22,777 Mack <r white r publican voter# repre-etiling 113 SHJ I eople "*e;ze" a Congressman, while it require* 4ii.'i72 democratic voter* repre senting 2 Li, .A 0 people to eleeot one. Ttio fourteenth and lf t-• ntb jim ni- j in"nt* wn<" tli<> cry stuli/.* lion of ultra rrpul'licmi thought u to reconstruction. They di<J not seek to operate on indi vidual* but upon fk.vtos. Th"te ws* no ihooirht lli'i of poni'hing organized roiuiiiuniitn for llir iniolwit of a sin le locality. ami tin? safeguard invoked the only Mia that could la" a(l without thedi*?ruc i<m of our form of government, The plain term* of these amendment* and toe decision* of a to ' publican Soprani# four! tforcon are now attacked bacMiw under them rc "N-nstruction ptnve* to l>o the daadnt kind of a dead failure. Thejr will not reach and rover, and they never were intended to reach and cover, sporadic cane* of fraud or violence. Such caaea ran only le met by the specific reme dies j?u in by law, and State* cannot le ] punished by lose ol representation lie cause of alleged violence in one district | in Ixmitiana and alleged fraud* in two j in South Carolina. It would be mon strous to {>anth a Stale either north or •outh by depriving it of representation because negroes failed to register them selves or to pay taxes, or because of ir- i ; regularities in the election board*. ! Suck i* not the remedy for r vil* of tbla j sort. If it were, we of Pennsylvania ' might be fearfudy punished. In the ; recent election there fraud and bribery ran riot and thou**n<U were disfranchis ed for non payment of taxes. At least two contest* are already inaugurated for | seats in the House of Representative*, one of winch i* based upon the corrupt hoc of money, fraudulent and illegal vote*, and the u*e of forge*! tax receipt*. | while the other re*t* upon the charge j ,of wholesale bribery and corruption and intimidation of white workingmen. The republican*, {tolling "k'J.Ott* vote* upon the congressional issue against ojsg.uyi democratic and 111,' SO national votes, have "seized" eighteen out of the twenty-seven Congressmen returned to the new Congress. With an actual majority against them of 110,000 they ' gr*p two-uirda of the congressional delegation. This is {tartly the result of an infamous apportionment, but it ia much more the result of skillful nianip illation of the political situation, of the unscrupulous u*e of enormoaa sum* of money, and of the disfranchisement < t masses of democrats for non-payment of taxes. No such political domination has over existed anywhere as now dom inatea and controls the republican or ganisation, and through it the political [•ewer of that great State. Bold, dar ing, and defiant, they tolerate no inde pendent thought. They wield their or ganisation a* one man, and the end with them justifies the means, ft*teen thousand white and black republican voters In Pennsylvania are sufficient to elect a Congressman, but it requires 44, 000 of their opponent* to do so. If we carry It still further end look to the In ner machinery of State politics it is worn. Forty-six senators and rcpresen• tallves in the Legislature are given to the city of Philadelphia. Upon tbe vote of 1576 there were 77,000 republi cans and 62,000 democrat*, yet in the recent election the republicans "seise" thirty-sevaa senators and member* and the democrats get nine. It requires £,• $6B democrats to elect a member of the 1 Legislature in Philadelphia while 2,081 republicans are enough to elect one. This too i" under the forms of law. But ' a much graver wrong was perpetrated 1 at the same election there under tbe forms of law and through the use of ' money. There were in that ciljr at y|P I''' _ „. M least 1111,000 voter* of both jtolitical par tie* who hod paid no taxes for two years. By our constitution no man '-an vote unless be has paid n tax within two years, and such payment mn*t be made at lenst one mouth before the election. The republicans through their organisation paid for thou-and* of these tax-receipts in bulk for distribution , among their people, and when election day came I bey equipped every republi- i can voter, white or black, who had not paid his taxes with one of them, whictr, by the law, was prima fane j roof of pay ment. The- democrats had no money for this purpose cave in one congres sional district, and by rea-on {if tit it inability to do what the republican* had 'lone it is believed that at least white democratic voter* weie unable to vote. The republican managers gave the m<t stringent orders to their elec tion officers to reject every vote not fully cqui|>|>ed with tax receipt* and they placed at every Jioll deputy mar sbals of the I'nited States, many of iheni of the most disreputable charac ter, who were ordered to arr**t every one who could not fully come up to 1 their standard. So desperate is this management and *o obedient to it* or ders is the legislature of the Slate that the common law right of the sheriff to ap|*oinl deputies was taken from him by express statute U-t he, being a dem ocrat. should aid in protecting the right* of white democrat*. Arc not these, denial* and abridgment of the right to vote, *o fully guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment, if the interpretation contended for by the Senator from Maine is correct? The negro voter was provided with a tax receipt pan! for by the men who claim to own bun North and South, and the white man, too poor to pay hi* taxes, wa* driven from the jxills. Federal authority intrenched itself on the elec tion ground in the room of the official whom cominoM right and ancient cu-tom places there, and the democratic party jelled at that ebctirin but 53,<<*> vote* against more than fi2.000 polled in I*7o. Would it fie just to deprive Pennsylva nia of her fait -hare of repre-entalion in ' Congrnas by reason of there deed* of unsrropuloua fatidical managers? The remedy for these wrongs must come through the wrath of an outraged jreo pie. It may come tardily, but it will conie surely, t >ur wrong* come tifton u* in the full blare of an intelligent north ern sentiment. Their authors have en ] joyed immunity so long that they think the )>eop|t will alwata submit. Party title and sectional hale are invoked to mainta.n and per|>etuale thedi-gracaof an intellectual and proud peoj.le. This ■•* the tocsin that i* sounded for the term* of tbi* resolution. This t* the 1 !ea*t to which the northern jx-ople are ' invited. The condition of the South is infinitely better than it was tire years *go. Fewer o4rage, le** of violence, more of normal and lot* of abnormal I condition cotae to it year bv year. The wrongs complained of by this reo -: lulion are located in the Mates in wlych carpet-bag rule lingered last, and we hear of none in the States longest under | control of the white man. \N e nu*t 1-e ■ content with our progress, until we can fully tt the capacity of the negro for ' elf government. It will be time enough when he shall have utterly failed to oome up to the standard of ca|acity to initiate the process foreshadowed by thee resolutions. The jieople North and South want rest from political and sectional agita tion. Ikismea* relation*, business in terest*. and business success can grow j only when such rest is given them, i Would you diridcasolid South ? Would vnu reconstruct your party there? Ce*M> to persecute and begin to help them;apf>cal to administrative ques tions. Arouse the cupidity of their loader* by aiding them in material progress and internal development. Make it. the interest of their people to act with you. Loose the band* of sec linnal prejudice that bind you. and aid by every constitutional |>ower in recon structing their highways and opening to your own jieople a market tor their manufactures. May we not recognise the fact that |>olitical reconstruction ha* failed of it* primary purpose, but , that business reconstruction and nut ' lerial progress are the aim* of the South and the interest of the North and that ; those whose principle* and practice fob j I w the jMtth that lead* to these will be esteemed the beet friend* of Uitir whole j country. j Mr. fcmtsK. Before the Senator aita ■town I should like to ask him a single j question ; I did not want to interrupt j him during his speech. If there i* this ' great tyranny that has held Pennsylva nia in ita, ruthless grasp and ruled that | State so mercilessly in the interest* of j the republican party, how doe* the i Senator, a loading democrat, happen to be on this floor? Mr. Wsti.sca. Mr. President, there always comes an earthquake when the elements become convulsed. An earth quake sent me here; nothing else could in that State. (Laughter.) Mr. Blsixb. And the Senator is still in a state of eruption, {laughter.] Mr. Waiui-i. The Senator trom Maine with his incisive questions and magnetic bearing prevails upon the Senate to sympathise with him ; but I beg him to understand that whila in that great Slate there may be .two ban dred thousand "stalwarts who look to him for leadership, who sympathise with him, there arc one hundred and fifty thousand men of his party who do not sympathise with the attacks upon the section with whom their business interests are connected, but who will follow him if be will point • path to restoration of business interests to a poop!* suffering from deprivation of employment, starving for th* moans of TKK3IS: #1.50 jwr Annum, In Advance. livelihood, seeking a market for tbeir manufactures ; ami just such men aa the Senator from Maine theae people look to for leadership in that path. Mr. I'reaiderM, I am almut aa serimi* a Senator who deliberately on thia flr>or attacks the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution arid the decisions of the Supreme fksurt—a republican Su preme'.'our t—rnicie thereunder, which in their very term* deny tbo right to take representation from a Slate for the cauxes alleged in thi* reaolution, and undertake* to initiate an investigation, wh eh investigation rnuxt inevitably le fruitless and powarlesx to bring any auch result. I am a tout an serious in my charges, surely, as ho it in the initiation of auch en investigation thia. We of Pennsylvania have initiated con teste alleging intimidation and fraud and bribery, and they will be settled lefore the tribunal created in the other House. The Senator, on the contrary, alleges intimidation and violence and fraud, r.!id ho usee a power that has no right, that can in no way apply a reme dy, that is not given the authority in any form to correct the wrong. It is a bmtvih fulmm if it be done. We, on the contrary, whose voters were intimi dated— I re " ->ert what I have mid whose voters were bribed —and I re as sert what I have said—whose voter* were deprive! of the right of suffrage hy being driven away from tbo |stl* 111 maso-n because tbey had not paid their taxes when the republican organisation had paid taxes lor masses of black and white voter*— Mr. I t live. IV.t did not the law re 'piiro the taxes to Im paid ! A Mr. WJU.I.ACE. Certainly. I atu complaining of the law; it is guard. lam simply coti.| icom; UN of motley in the way in *m used, the purchase o! tax in hulk to cjuip a black voter awl drive awav a white voter from the y.oU in the city of Philadelphia. That *• what I complain of. a denial and abridgment of the right of * ittr.jf.-, ff you please, hut not such a <l. tiial cr such an abridgement of the rirfitt if sutfr-ige a* tinde, either the Cuimi'a tion or the law* can depriue the (lw of Penn*} Irani* of any winkle nm.'*!' in her representation in the other H'. And here I coioe hack to the j..rot to which I direct attention, to.t trim proceeding is utterly frit'tie**; t.iat n can result in no good; that tue i* *-. declared on the statute in tWe <'. institution. and by theS ipr m>-Owr , demonstrate* that if all ihia —•re pa-e -en no result can come wvr ydi el agitation, sectional turmoil. >i*|i<aiMa of employment in business; watte rt the other lire, the line of app-at t taw, to a contest under the pern of tW House, be taken, all the ro.g u we shown, every thing can t<c iua>ie puies.;. and right and law can prev.ut. Tii . what thi people want, urdeHy me in ods, appeal* to law, swout u-iur*jtty, non partisan judgment How Secretary Sherman I urxeanrd the Itondcd Itrtl. ' , Few* lbs FhfiwMplWa T m-i When the Timtt aaid that Swrstwy Sherman had f<eeti steadily ni ' the interest-hearing ilebt oi toe I'niisd States and that he harl fwm, ing the laws that he might pluck ibe feather of resumption for his cap. the organs rushed to hia defense and nbw ed, to their own saUsfsciion, that the Timrt was all wrong and that the fcb-o retsry was all right. Uey cwu ! now he induced to apeak out and ex plain again, to their own satisfaction, if ibis little sum in subtraction M out our tectly performed ; TiHI Usl-t tswrlms Isiswl In mis. Jts sr i. tsjs Fi.ra.rnj** j Ttflsl <VU, tssnsf IsMsS la SIR. iss usr? i. irs— —— i sw.sn.au tamwa* is AstU. Iwartsjt Intsrasl is cats ajhQIS l.et us anticipate the that tbey will offer. It is ib- aoe*# l hat they ma-is t-ofors -t si itsr ta il ease is only apparent; tha I the sixes have teen railed, and the money wn the Treasury to jwy for them. Irnfm). ■lid not the Secretary Inmarlf tor tU first tune incorporate into the January statement this explanation in (inter to anticipate objection 7 lint there were called bunds one and unpaid u the Ist ot -lanuary, Ix7B, just as ibetw w re <si the lat of January, IX*'J. bet us we* how Jhe statement* compare: i IsM as which inters*! Sss iron J. J*a- S use, t. tr* fnjuun IlMit kb whirh iutsrssl ho< 1.1. 1 4. Jw n t. is; aun 1-eaa than a million mot* of called sixes out on the Ist of January, 1878. than on the Ist of Januaiy, IX7&. Tkss explanation will hardly do. It throws us lock to the farts in lit* owe*—that the f.inded debt of the United States on Wednerdiy last waa f53.913.53D greater than it was one yewr before. ViHy millions of tbia increaee waa con feaeedly to get coin with which to la tum e, lor wbioh wa paid a tonus to the |Sy dicate of about one million. Hut on what pretext ha* the remaining tkirty thrwe tniilion been issued 7 Too xAxrCtounCoamo."dlaaMd ing of the Cabinet last week, It aa 4a cided that Secretary Kvart it to ftfmm formal negotiations with lha Qanos ment of China for a modification of Aa Iturlingame treaty, with a view of uw> siricUug unmigiwiton from thai inatay. Tax net profit* of threw wwkhuihw coinage waa go>7o,t>oo, which Aa Mat bureau banded over to tha TMHR aa Thursday of last week. Tbia mm 9* margin over alt expenwa of tba.aaaag|at between the actual value of ailear taJf and the nominal *•!• utanp4 emwat ' it by A* United Slate*. ' '' NO. 2.
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