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THOSE REBEL CLAIMS!
Governor Wlltz and Senator • Elect
Itaudull Gibson, of Louisiana, on
Southern Claim* untl Aims.
PEACE BETWEEN TIIE RACER —ORIIF.R AND
CIVII, SERVICE REFORM TIIE DESIRE OF
THE SOUTH TO-DAY.
The following letter, written by Gov
ernor Wilts, of Louisiana, to a gentle
man in Illinois, bus been handed for
publication to the World. In connection
with an interview, printed below, with
Senator-elect Randall Gibson, of Louis
iana, now in this city, it may be taken
as the voice of Louisiana in regard to
the bugaboo of the rebel claims, as well
as sundry other matters of great imme
diate public interest:
STATE or LOUISIANA, EXECUTIVE I>E- )
I'ARTMENT, NEW ORLEANS,
December 21, ISBO. )
Wm. Van Foris, Sayhrook, Mr Lean County,
Illinois.
SIR: I have received and carefully
considered your letter of September 14
and the inclosed extract from a printed
interview with "Judge Southworth,"
originally from the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The words put into the mouth of the
Judge are untrue from beginning toend
in every particular—so absurdly false
that I cannot see what good they can
do to the Republicans in Illinois or
elsewhere. Vet. from personal observa
tion during a late prolonged tour in
the West and Northwest, I am more
than ever convinced that, on the part
of many, deep and bitter prejudices
are cherished against the people of our
Southern States which time alone can
cure. They may survive for a score of
years longer among the bigoted and
ignorant, although generous and intel
ligent Northern people are getting rid
of sentiments so unworthy of them as
citizens of a common country who
should be at peace in fact HA well as in
name. I must say here that people
who will believe one-half of what
Judge Southworth is represented as
having said are so grossly benighted
that no denial, no facts, no argument
can change their notions. All the cur
rent charges made agninst Southern
white men by Republican speakers and
writers are for the ignorant classes only.
These charges are easily inatle and for
the past dozen years Republican speak
ers and writers have shown great inven
tion in framing them and remarkable
perseverance in urging them. Rest
assured, sir, that the supply will always
, be equal to the demand, and that there
will not be lacking manufacturers to
furnish or political hawkers to peddle
out their slanders against the Southern
people so long as they are known to
influence ignorant voters. These reck
less and grossly untruthful charges
against us, although a thousand times
proved false, will he ten thousand times
repeated throughout the Northern
States until the day of the election.
While willing to aid in dispelling
those prejudices, I expect but little
practical benefit from any denials we
may make against political defamation ;
but as an evidence that I appreciate the
spirit which prompts intelligent North
ern men like yourself to defend us, I
will briefly comment on some of the
more common accusations.
First —The Southern people have nev
er at any time asked for the payment
of their debts, or of any portion of
them, by the Federal Government.
Each Southern Siate has now a Demo
cratic Legislature, and most of them
have had Democratic legislatures for
several years, but no resolution has
been adopted or proposed in any South
ern legislature asking from Congress
remuneration for property destroyed by
war or for slaves emancipated. No
Southern journal has set up any such
claim. For some years I have been in
immediate intercourse with thousands
of my fellow-citizens of this and other
Southern States, but I am yet to hear
the first man, old or young, urge this
doctrine or express the hope that such
debts will be paid by Congress at any
future time. Nor do they murmur at
bearing their share of the Federal debt,
the interest of which, to a large extent,
is paid out of revenues based upon
Southern exports. They desire a peace
ful, constitutional and economical ad
ministration, and this they hope soon
to have; but they seek no bounty from
the Federal Treasury and they will
shrink from no burden which such a
Government may impose.
As for Louisiana it was much damag
ed by the war, but our State was damag
ed quite as much by misrule under the
carpet baggers—to the extent of more
than $200,000,000. Under pacific ad
ministration of the Federal Govern
ment and honest and efficient home
government our people hope to repair
the injuries suffered from intruders
after the war ; but be assured that they
will not seek this reparation from Con
gress.
Second —lt is charged that Southern
voters are kept from the polls by
violence. In December, 1879, an elec
tion was held in Louisiana for State
officers, members of the Legislature,
Sheriffs and looul magistrates, and at
the same time a new constitution was
submitted for ratification. More than
one hundred and fourteen thousand
votes wore polled, of which the Repub
lican candidate for Governor received
41,000. Colored voters in great num
bers supported the Democratic ticket,
which was elected by a majority of
more than thirty thousand, while the
constitution was ratified by a vote of
S"i,os. r against 20,483. The constitution,
framed by a Democratic hotly, was thus
supported by 13,000 Republicans or
more. This fact alono is enough to
show that the election was peaceful
ami orderly. 1 never knew of an
election, here or anywhere, more en
tirely fair and quiet. There was no
violence at or near the polle ; there
wero no threats of violence made be
fore, during or after the election; there
were no arms shown at the polls; no
laborers were discharged or threatened
with discharge for exercising their free
choice. < >ur system of legislation is
thorough and fair. Our laws require
polls to be located for the greutest
convenience of voters. The votes of
colored men are solicited by the candi
dates of all parties, and they vote, as
do voters elsewhere, according to their
personal or political preference. Note
this: Our Constitutional Convention
in 1879, over which I presided, was in
daily session from April 21 to July 23,
or over ninety days. Two-thirds of the
delegates wero Democrats. In all that
time no measure, resolution or ordin
ance was proposed or thought of for
taking away, abridging or modifying
the right of suffrage of colored citizens.
Without a dissenting vote the conven
tion adopted an article (No. 188) declar
ing that " No qualification of any kind for
suffrage or office, nor any restraint upon the
same, on account of race, color or previous
condition, shall he made, hy law." That
declaration, made by a democratic
body, was ratified by eighty five thou
sand voters, and it is now a part of our
fundamental law.
Third —The charge is made that the
| negroes are cheated out of their wages
and are made to work for the whites
without pay. There is as little of truth
as of common sense in this charge.
When labor is plenty and the demand
limited wages are low; but labor is in
demand throughout the more product
ive regions of the South and fair wages
are regularly paid for it. Taking the
year through, colored laborers get more
than twice the average wages paid in
Europe and quite as much as are paid
in the Northern States. They are
i adapted to the rlimate and familiar
with Southern crops. Reing unre
strained in their action, they go where
they can get the best wages and where
they are most needed. If ill-treated
: they do not return to the same employ
j *r, but that seldom happens, because
! few planters are so unwise us to drive
j away the laborers on whom they de
j pend for making and securing crops.
: While perfectly at liberty to emigrate
1 to Kansas or elsewhere, not one in
every five hundred of them has gone.
Those who were cheated into the
" exodus" movement are either coming
home or anxious to coine. You know
that they have the same natural attach
ment for the land of their birth as
white people have. They are providing
themselves with home comforts, and
now that they are less misguided and
deceived by mischievous political ad
venturers and agitators, they are con
tented, and steadily gaining ground.
In a word their white neighbors uro
honest, and their relations with them
are universally amicable. They have '
learned that they were greatly damaged
by the bad government and high taxes
of the carpet-bag dynasty, and they are
fast finding out who their best friends
uro.
Fourth —lt is charged that the people
of Louisiana are neglecting the educa
tion of children—of white children to
a great extent and of colored children
altogether. We must admit that the
enormous looses resulting from the war i
and the damages, equally as great, re
suiting from the intrusive radical State I
and local misrule and spoilation, have j
left the people of LouiiiAna too poor to i
compete with wealthy States in free
public education. Rut what are the j
facts ? Refore carpet-bag State rule here j
we had a free school, seminary and
university fund of about a million and
a half of dollars, represented by bonds
on which the State paid interest for the
support of public schools Rnd institu
tions of learning. Under the carpet
baggers, the whole of this fund was em
bezzled, squandered, diverted to had
uses or frittered away. Yet our Con
stitutional Convention of 1879, a Demo
cratic body, declared the original fund
to be a debt due by the State and made
the State Treasury perpetually charge
able with the payment of annual inter
est thereon for the benefit of public
schools, the seminary and university.
The same convention appropriated the
State poll tax, never leas than $1 per
capita, exclusively to public schools.
Our State tax is limited to six mills and
of this one mill is for educational pur
poses. The interest on the proceeds of
all public bonds granted by the United
Slates, and all future grants, bequests
and donations to the State, and all
vacant estates falling to the State by
escheat, are devoted by the constitution
to the same purpose. In addition to
these sources ot support for schools
each parish is authorized to levy a tax
for the public schools therein. Funds
from all sources are equally distributed
according to the number of children
of designated age and they are employed
impartially for colored children as well
as white. There is, moreover, an in
stitution, the Southern University, pro
vided for by constitution and statute
exclusively for the education of colored
students. Let these facta apeak for the
slandered white men or Louisiana!
The foundation of a thorough school
system has been laid again over the
ruins of that which the carpet baggers
destroyed. If left at peace and favored
with prosperity our people will complete
and perfect the edifice. The cause of
universal education has many devoted
supporters all over the state and it is
universally encouraged hy all classes.
Schools for colored children are open
every year in all sections for a period as
long ss the funds will permit, and their
instruction Is everywhere favored and
nowhere opposed or discouraged.
In conclusion let me assure you, and
through you all who are interested in
our welfare, that Iho white people of
Louisiana expect for themselves and
their descendants to remote generations
that the colored people and their de
scendanta will be with them un fellow
citizens and a* joint occupants of the
land, and that therefore wo desire to
sen theiu improve in every respect cal
culated to make them intelligent, hon
est, peaceful, law-abiding, thrifty and
prosperous.
Tho foregoing statement may correct
erroneous impressions elsewhere than in
your town and county. You are there
fore at liberty to give this letter any
circulation or publicity you may deem
proper.
I have the honor to ho your obedient
servant, Louis A. WII.TZ,
Governor of Louisiana.
TIL K REIIEI. CI,AI MS, REVENUE REFORMS AND
TIIK CIVII. SERVICE.
Senator-elect Randall Gibson, of
Louisiana, who is at tho New York
Hotel, said last night in reply to a
World reporter's question about Gen.
Hancock's letter on the alleged "South
ern claims"l cannot commend that
letter too highly. 1 endorse every
word of it. Such an expression from
General Hancock was called for and
was properly made, but had the Repub
licans understood how absurd it was to
make an ado over 'rebel claims,' they
would have chosen some other subject.
There has never been any talk in any
part of the South, so far as I know, cer
tainly not in J,ouiiana, about making
any claim of any kind against the Gov
ernment. The mere idea would have
been laughed to scorn. I do not sup
pose a single sane ex-slaveholder in the
South lias ever indulged a hope of com
pensation for the loss of his property
by the war. It was the penalty of war.
If the South to-day had tho privilege
to determine by vote whether or not
payment should he made for tho freed
slaves there would be an overwhelming
majority in the negative. The result
would be not merely a matter of honor
but of self-interest. There were only
350,000 slave-owners in the South before
the wur—a very small proportion of the
total voters. Twenty years have since
passed and the negroes also are voters.
Uf the slave-owners themselves few
would vote for such an unjust payment.
The men who have grown up and ac
quired property since slave times would
not be taxed for such a purpose and the
negroes would vote against it. Thus if
the matter were left to the decision of
the South no 'rebel claim' would he
paid, and so those people at the North
who pretend to be a alarmed have even
less cause for alarm than they thought
tliev had. When it is added that the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitu
tion effectually bars such claims, that
j General Hancock, if elected l'resident,
I would veto them if presented to him,
| and that no Southern Congressman who
' would vote lor tlu-ni would meet the
' approval of hi* constituent*. I think
I the subject is disposed of. Really, the
| 'rebel claim' erv was so absurd thai it is
a sad commentary upon the degree of
intelligence attributed by some North
ern Republicans to the people that it
had to be put down."
General Gibson further said that the
•South hs no schemes of any kind on
hand. She discovered by the result of
the war that, as an enemy, the North is
too strong for her, and she wants to be
in the Union for her own safety and
comfort and honor and glory, and un
der tho protection of the Constitution
her people wish simply to pursue the
avocation* of peace. Said General Gib
son ; "I have received as high honors
as my State and city could jmssihlv con
fer upon me. lam provided for in ad
vance for nine years- in Congre** until
I*B3, and then in the Sonnte until 1889
—and I think that I may speak for
Louisiana, if not for the whole South.
My views have alwnys been freely ex
pressed and they were well known in
my State before the honor* referred to
were conferred upon me. I atn a hard
money man and am opposed to repudi
at inn in any form. I voted in 1876
against the repeal of the Resumption
act and Louisiana approved my con
duct. I am in favor of reforms in tho
tanff in the direction of free trade, but
they should be made gradually and
carefully, never to the destruction of
interests that depend upon protection.
In the matter ol the civil service I
think there should be a reform accord
ing to the Jeffersonian idea, office
holders who have discharged their
duties faithfully, without prostituting
their positions to further political end*,
should be retained in office whether
they are in harmony with the victori
ous party or not. Kvery change- in the
fortunes of parties should not he made
a signal for ihe change of all the hold
ers of office. When General Hancock
is President I shall vote in Congress in
accordance with this view."
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The Tradition* of the Father*.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, tho Demo
crntic candidate for the Governorship
of Illinois, is happier in hi* replies to
interruptions tlmn is John Sherman.
In the midst ol hi* recent speech at
Duquoin a colored man in the crowd
wanted the speaker to tell what he
meant by the constitutional doctrine*
Htid traditions of the Democratic party.
Mr. Trumbull took *omc pains to give
the information, and closed by saying :
"Now then, what we mean by going
back to tho traditions of the fathers is
going back to economy, to simplicity
in the government, to an honest admin
istration of its alt'nirs to rescuing the
government from the hands of the
plunderers; and the traditions of the
fathers means that honest, simple,
plain government of equality which
was announced by Jefferson that all
men aro created equal and endowed
by their creator with certain inaliena
ble rights among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. | Loud
and continued cheering. J And you, my
colored friend, I drafted the constitu
tional amendment that made you free
[renewed cheers and waving of hats],
•nd more than that, after that constitu
tional amendment was adopted and you
could not £et your civil rights —there
were laws in the Southern Htates that
would not allow you to go where you
pleased, and to make contracts and en
force them—this hand drew the civil
rights bill that protected you in your
oivil rights. [Renewed cheer.J And
. . Vi '•
now 1 suppose you will allow some man
to come along here to Duquoin and say :
'Oh! these Democrats want to enslave
us.' Who made you freo? Humner
and Chase and Greeley—were not we
the men that did it'.' And every one
of them you came out against, misled
by the falsehoods and slanders ami lies
of parties that go through the commu
nity und charge upon the Democratic
party that they want to re-establish
slavery. Nobody but a fool would be
lieve it."
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Garfield and the TarilK
HIS ItKCORD IN CONG REM ON THE
HUIMKCT OK FREE TRADE AND
PROTE< TION.
From lli llnrrll/iirK Patriot.
The Republican politicians have
been most unfortunate in their selec
tion of issues for the presidential can
vass. In the first instance they un
dertook to make their campaign on a
revival of the sectional question with
the bloody shirt as their battle-flag.
The defeat in Maine sent them to the
right-about and they have chosen to
light with another battle-cry, the an
cient slogan of the wings, a "tariff for
protection." But their inconsistency
and insincerity in this attempt to re
vive an old issue are so evident that it
is plain they have blundered ugaiu.
They cannot ask nor expect the confi
dence of the people in their pretense
of favoring a tariff for protection with
a candidate for president whose whole
record is but a testimony of his de
votion to free trade principles. We
reprint below the record of General
Garfield in congress on the tariff ques
tion and challenge the Republican
pajiers to deny its correctness :
TEA AND COFFEE.
On the 7th of July, 18G<i, General
Garfield delivered a speech iu the
house of representatives at Washing
ton, in committee of the whole, in
which he endorsed the tariff system of
Great Britian a* follows :
"Mr. Garfield. I desire to call the at
tention of the committee to two or
three points which have a hearing on
Giis subject and to give the reason why
I hope we will not reduce the duty eith
ier on tea or coffee. In the first place
it i* the genius of our whole system,
and the experience ol the government
ha* approved it, that the best way of
tubing revenue j* to inij>o*e duties on
the fewest possible atticles. Twenty
five years ago in Kogland there were
more than 1,400 different article* on
which duty wa* imposed and now they
have been so reduced lhat upon five
articles more than half the revenue of
the country is collected. In Kngland
in iStl'J $354,000,(XX) of revenue w-re
raised, and of tliHt sum $189,000,000
were derived from five article*, namely :
fermented, malt and spiritous liquors,
and tea, coffee and tobacco and sugar
in their various forms.
"I say th*t these five article* afforded
the government of Great Britian sl*9.
(XXt.tXX) of it* revenue, the total of
wtnch was $154,000000. Thus almost
two thirds ot the revenues were raised
from five articles, and two of the five
were coffee and tea. Twenty-two mil
lions live hundred thousand dollars
were raised in <treat Britian in the year
1 865 on tea alone, and the consumption
ot that article i* steadily increasing in
that country. It is now two and seven
tenths pounds per capita of the popula
tion, whereas iu this country the con
sumption, though increasing, ha* reach
ed only one pound per capita. I say
then that we have no article which the
experience of all financial nations shows
can Letter bear the duty without re
ducing the consumption than tea.
"Furthermore, this i* one of the few
article* on which wo can levy a duty
without duplication of taxation and
without directly involving other inter
ests. It is a simple and plain question
of revenue. There is r,o other article
into which it enters as an element."
t'mgrrational Globe, Part 11', nation
39 th thngrcss, pp. 3057-3058.
The idea of those who favor a pro
tective tariff is to levy duties on such
products of foreign countries ns are
also produced in this country rather
than on products like tea and coffee
which have no place in American in
dustry. The British system is exactly
the opposite and for that system Gen.
Garfield contended in the speech from
which the foregoing quotation has
been made.
In 1861) General Garfield was elect
ed an honorary member of the Cobden
Club of Kngland, an association or
ganized for the purpose of disseminat
ing free trade doctrines throughout
the world.
On February ID, 1872, the propo
sition to place tea and coffee on the
free list was again made in Congress.
The protectionists favored the propo
sition because tea and coffee are not
produced in this country and because
desired to raise revenues from
articles in the production of which
our people compete with those of for
eign countries. Therefore all the
members of congress from Pennsylva
nia, including lion. W. D. Kelley,
voted for the repeal of the duties on
tea and coffee. General Garfield voted
against the repeal.— See Congressional
Globe, 2 d session, 42d Congreu, pari
11. p. 1118.
FOREIGN COAL.
On the 13th of March, 1871, the
following joint resolution was passed
by the House of Representatives :
"IU it enacted, etc.. That from and after
the passage of this joint reeolution no
tax or duty shall be levied or collected
on foreign coal."
On the passage of this resolution
General Garfield voted aye.— See Oon
greuional Globe, Part /., 42 d Otm
greM, p. 83.
During the debate in the House ou
the above bill, March 10, 1871, Geo.
Garfield said ;
,
"But I desire to auk gentlemen
whether, considering the odium that
the whole tariff he* to bear in conse
quence of this duty on coal, they think
it wino to perpetuate thin tux, which ia
of no little value either to the whole
country or the treoaury. I think it un
wiae to continue thin duty on coal and I
am therefore in favor of iU repeal.''—
Gongreuional Globe, Part /., Id ttxtion \'l>l
(Jon;/ret*.
The Hon. W. I). Kcllcv nml till
other member* of Congress in favor of
protection voted against thin joint res
olution repealing the duty on coal.
FOREIGN IRON, lrn .
During the first session of the
Thirty-eight Congress the tariff on
pig iron was rained from SMI to 8!) per
ton. On j>age 3:112, part IV. of the
Congrewional Globe of 1864, .June 27,
we find .lame* A. Ourfield voting to
reduce the proposed tariff on railroad
iron from eighty down to sixty cents
per hundred pounds, and on the final
vote on raising the tariff his vote is
not recorded. On the reduction of t la
duty on railroad iron he voted in op
position to every protective tariff man
in the House, including such men a*
.Judge Kcllcv,'i haddcus Stevens and
General .J. K. Moorhead. In 1870
the duty of SO per ton on pig iron was
reduced to 87 jar ton. General Gar
field voted for the reduction. In
1872 a bill making a reduction of ten
per cent, in the duties on wools, iron
and steel passed Congress. This bill
provided :
"That on and after the Ist day of
August, 1872, in lieu of the duties im
posed by law on the article* in thi* sec
tion enumeiated, there shall be levied,
| collected and paid on goods, ware* and
merchandise in this section enumerated
and provided for imported from foreign
i countries, ninety per centum of the
! several duties and rates of duty now
imposed by law upon said article* sev
erally, it bring the i ntrnt of thil section to
I i educe twitting duties on taul articles ten per
i centum if surh duties, that is to say :
• ••*••
't n all wool*. * * * *
"On all iron and steel, and on all
iron and steel, and on all manufacture*
of iron and steel, of which metals, or
j either of them, shall be the component
part of chief value, excepting cotton
| machinery."
The vote of Genera! Garfield on the
! passage of this tariff bill on dune 6,
! 1x72, will be found in the Congres
; slonal (Hole, Part V., 2d session 42d
< "ongrc-s, p. 3,652. It is recorded yr*j.
Thus it will lc seen that General
i ' iurficld voted in favor of every re
j duct ion of the tariff on foreign iron
I during the last six fern years.
VIEWS ON FREE TRADE.
In a debate on the tariff question in
1 the House of Representatives, on July
j 10, 1866, .'sJtl Congress, General Gar
field said :
"I am willing a* a compromise to
favor the reduction of the proposed
duty on railroad iron, and I presume
the committee on railroads will agree
i with me in this. I think we should
also reduce the proposed duty on salt
: and I have no doubt in several other
particulars we will reduce the rate of
| duly."
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens replied with
this question:
"Why not come out honestly and
accept the pror osition of the gentleman
from lowa | Mr. Wilson, who favored a
tariff for revenue only] which is a much
more ingenious one?"
To which General Garfield respond
ed that
"Against the abstract doctrine of free
trade as such very little can be said. A*
a theory there i* much to commend it.
But it can never he applied to value*
except in time of peace.
On April 1, Ix7o, the following de
hate took place in the House of Rep
resentatives between General Garfield
ami Hon. W. D. Kclley of Philadel
phia ?
"Mr. Garfield : As an abstract theory
of |>olitical economy free trade has
many advocates and much can be said
in its favor; nor will it be denied that
the scholarship of modern times i*
largely on thnt aide ; that a large ma
jority of the great thinkers of the pres
ent day are leading in the direction of
what is called free trade.
"Mr. Kelley: The gentleman says
that no man will deny that the tenden
cy of opinion among scholars ia toward
free trade. I beg leave to deny it. and
do moat positively. The tendency of
opinion among the scholars of the con
tinent is very decided towsrds protec
tion. This is strikingly illustrated by
the recent publication in six of the
languages of the continent of the vol
uminous writings of Henry 0. Carey,
and their adoption as text books in the
schools of Prussia. 1 think the gentle
man's proposition is true of the Knglish
speaking people of the world, hut that
the preponderant tendency is the other
way." See Appendix to Congressional
Globe, 2d session, 41st Congreu. p. 268.
A Democratic .Methuselah.
MCMJ. naowNrixi.n, aotn 101 VKARS, MAKES
A HANCOCK SPEECH.
From Iti* PlillsiMphls limn.
An interesting meeting was hold
by the Democrats of Monroe, Fayette
county, on Saturday night last. Col.
Benjamin Brownfieid, a wealthy farm
er, aged 101 years, presided. There
were six vice presidents on the plat
form with Itini, whose united ages
reach 609 years. Colonel Brownfieid,
in opening the meeting, said:
"Providence has been very kind to me
in prolonging my life and blessing me
with health and strength. I have lived
to be 101 years old. This is a great age.
In my earlier days I took an active part
in politics. I have mingled with your
fathers and grandfathers and great
grandfathers on occasions like this in
daysJong gone in the past. 1 voted
for Thomas Jefferson fcr president ia
1800, Wa had the same question up
then that wry have now, whether this
wan a Government of unlimited power
or a government of a few simjile func
tions expressly granted by the cofitj.
tution. Mr. .Jefferson contended that
the great MaM of t)i jtower* of run
government remained with the state,
while Mr. Adam* and hi* party "in
tended for a strong central government
to override the htate government*. J
never missed a presidential ejeetion. I
voted twice for Jefferson, twice for Mad
ison, twice for Monroe and (lire,, time-,
for General Jackson. I voted for Van
Ruren and also for I'olk, Ca, Pierre
Huchanan, Douglass, McGlellan, Sey
mour, Greeley and Tilden.and J hopeio
live to vote for General Hancock, and
a* the reault of rny long experience j
would advise you to vote for him Ue,
The vice president* were: .!■ im
j TrttUtinan, fM yours; Colonel .Jaini.
| (Jttrdner. H(i; .lame* fSnyder, *■'>; I.
M. < 'lawsoti, *2 ; Ceo. Morri-on, -■ ],
I and Thomas Soman*, *l.
s:*!£!>.
"I never turned, received or agreed t , rr
rriee any slock of iff t'reJit M<M\tr or r
the I rir'/n J'acijir Jtailroad nor or /
dend* or profit* anting from either of then ."
So swore .lames A. Garfield, January I }.
1873, before the Poland investigating
| committee.
1 Ihe (Committee, a majority of them
I Republican*, unanimously reported th-it
j he did receive ten share* of Credit M
j hilier stork—that he received ha]
ance of dividends after paying for ho
j stock.
" This sum was paid over to Mr. G ,r
| field hy check on the Sergeant at arm
i and Mr. (jarfield thin undcrstooil (hit .
' uas the balance of dividend* after paying • r
j Am stork.'*
Unit l/etfer.
.Fuilgr Hlack sa\ that 'ieneral Car
field agreed to take the < red it Mohiher
j stock, "and did actually take dividends
j upon it." This was the statement
which General Garfield himself m.vin
to him. "Fearing that his politusl
I friend* might influence him to depstt
s from it, 1 wrote him, beseeching h.rn to
stand fast upon the defense he had
I made to me, hut hi* party would not
i let him." The Republicans have been
fond of quoting Judge PJark. Will
I they now produce the letter alluded to
I above 1 It is in General Garfield's per
sonal possession, and if it does not
prove that he confessed privately fit*
which he publicly denied under oath, he
j will not be slow m publishing it.
GRANT i* now doing what no other
j ex-President ever did before, acting
' chairman of political meeting*, fie
j did thi* at Warren, <ihio, lust week,
HO I in one of his fl*he of wisd
j said in his speech ; "There is not a pre-
I cinct in this vast nation where a Iemo
crat cannot cast his ballot and have it
counted as cast." This ws* said bv a
man who. in Novemlier, 1870. sent a lot
of partisan scoundrel* to Louisiana,
where they fraudulently fixed up the
election return* so that the democrats
in that State were not permitted to hare
their ballots "counted a* cast." but
were shamelessly robbed of that right,
and who, as President, took care to con
eentr.ate in and about Washington
enough soldier* to enforce the outrage
of the Returning Hoard at the joint of
the bayonet, and to j.ut a man into the
Presidential chair who bad never been
elected. Could brazen imjiudence Mir
j>ass Grant's present professed devotion
to the sacrednes of the American
ballot."—( '■amhrta freeman,
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
(Kighth Xor mat Srhoot District,)
LOCK IIAVEX, CLINTON Co., PA.
A. N. HAI 11, A. M., Principal.
r PHIS SCHOOL, aa at present con
-I stltwtad. ofTr. lbs wry l-r-t tart lip for pro
fr*,lonsl and Chum*! Irarnlnf.
Building. •)*< ton., lantinr sad ma modi so, n,n
plMelr boated by .team. ssll T-ntiiai*!. and fun -s
el * 'lb • ts-uiilifu! ,u,| 1} <.f w.tet.e.ft u
mr, • *
Uirstt.-s healthful *nd e*i of art am.
Surrounding sr-narv nn.urpaa.ed
etprtleawd, slolist, and alls*
IMsi Ipllns. firm and kind, uniform and Utormnih
Kl-na. m -dsrat*
taar'h ' r,BU * *"* k dadurtion to tboaa pr apart ng to
Student* admitted at any time.
Coarse, of .tody preami-ad by bs Stat, I. Mod, I
Mitifir r rl*raUiry. 111. Klstnsntary. IV. Sc..
ARrrscv roratcs
I. Acmlemlr. 11. OmniuTnal 111 Mtudr. IV. Art.
Ths Elementary and Mentis. more* are !•>>-
Wsncmal. aadtOrdeuls granatin, therein we,,,,
HI pinna, mo fern as tbe folb.a.ng mrreH.mdlnc d,
grew Master of tbe Klemenu. and Ma* In ."tl.e
Scdencea. t.ta-lnate. In tl.e „,he, nonme. rem!..
thVriinm alUlanenn. Ico-d by
,* Th * Praf>lnoal (mr- ore liberal, aad are Is
*r '—t rolleci*
The State require* a higher order of ritlr-nehn.
Tbe tine, demand It. I, km
of thi. arhonl In
Hfd"l.*mllMT. , ** rh * r * for h " "''• Ih..
rood p*rp*s thn*e nhr. deal re in Imn-nre their
time and thrdr talent., a* .indent. To all each it
prt.-ml.aaa '■ derelojgng their ponera and atmndar-t
opportnnitlea for eell-pald Uhnr ItC.r
For ratalogna and tern, nddreea the Frtncirml
a. ** ~ oaas or Tat .raa.
stnrkholder* Troeten~J 11. Xnrton. M B i It
Beat, Jacob Rmnn. R. M. Mr hford, Samuel t brteL A
N Rani-, Ik O. Cook, T. C. HlppU ST O Kie.l...
" Mt<Wmlck. W. M KH'
State Trwteee-linn. A. O CnrUn, Hon M L ISM
°* J ~—* Merrill, It.. n W lllmn fetclet J O
C Whaley.B. Miller Mmnrmtrk. Keq " ,C
orrtcni,
SMI 1.1. t H McOoRMIOK. tWretarr - T?
THOMAS TAKni.KV. Trreenrer. -
PATENTS.
|>ATENTS procure! ujton Invcn-
I tlnna. No Arroasti'. Pm is Attr.sra. (btr
llonae teas rateblMted In ISSB. We flle CAVXATS
ami obtain TRADK MARKS. PKSIQN CATRNTS Ac'
I NVENTORS
"*. * f Fr I near Hon. aith yonr own
lfrn|*t4*n of It. fiif our o|4nU>n h ki
No Armiit'i rats t suna p.trsr ts Sms-nnn. Owr
Bm>k of In.tnK-ti.m. dr., " I low fn hwiTM P.rsst. ''
f'" free nn requew ; also aaanple rnples of tlt. *nu.
nc K*t .i*e, the Inrentnra' Jonmnl
A. P. I.ACKI , /\ifsf Affonwy*,
*•* F St_ near Snlent (MWr*. WMHnglm. B t
( RAHMAN'S HOTKL.
\X Oppoaila Cunrt llotne, RRLLRFUNTR, PA
TERMS H tf. pRR DAT.
A |pood Uverv attarhed. J_,J
For Sale,
i FARM (XioUining Filly Acrcx,
VH7m TWTBRTORX
1- ? *"-BI>IQ end oat bnlldlnp Title gnJ.
Inquire of A. J. * T A URlwf
Vhtanrllln, Centre osoaty, fs,