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VOLUME xta.
'SENATOR COOMNG'ip,
Great Sport* at the New' York
Academy, Friday' !Wight,
Septe m ber 17111, 1,
.
[The Academy of Music in New York
was crowded to overflowing, on the occa
sion of the 'Republican Mass Meeting.
Thousands went away, unable to gain ad
mittance. -A letter *as read from Gen.
Grant expressing regret at being unable,
to be present. Hon., Hamilton Fish
was chosen elm - it - man, and introdueed
Senator Conkling who spoke at, great
length, and was . loudly applauded. , Wei
give below some:pf the salient poilip&of.
liia address
1. - W hoever is. "given greeting . and
audience in sack a presence, ought .
indeed to have 'something . worthy--:
something fit' and wise to say. In,
adequate 11, save only grateful
and rest* 1 appreciation must he
'my rettitir. We are citizens or a
Republic. We govern ourselves.
Here no pomp of eager- array• in
chambers of royalty awaits the birth
'of boy or girl to wield an hereditary
sceptre whenever death or revolution
pours on the-oil of coronation. We
know no sceptre save a majoilty's
constitutional will. • To wield that
sceptre in equal share is the duty and
the right, nay; the birthright, of every
citizen. The supreme, the final, the
only peaeefill arbiter here i h s the bal
lot-box; and in that urn . should be
gathered, and from it should be
sacredly recorded the conscience, the
judgment, the intelligence of all.
The right of free 'self-government haS
been in 411 ages the brightPdreanr of
oppressed 'humanity—the - sighed-for
privilege to which thrones, dynasties
and power have so long blocked the
way. France seeks it by forced
marches and daring ~strides. Mr.
Forster, Secretary for Ireland, tells
the.peerage of England 't must take
heed it, fall ; and . Westminster
and England Aug with dread echoes
of applause. But in the fullness of
freedom the Republic of America is
alone in the earth ; alone in its grand
eur in its blessings; alone in
5ep.25,•;9
Slay I, '79,
Fel) 27, •79
s promise's and ToadAtitles, and
therefore alone in the devotion due
from its citizens. The time has come
when law, duty and interest require
the nation to determine for at least
four 'ears its . policy in many things.
Tivo parties exist; parties should,
i
alWays exist in a
i government . of rim;
jirities - . and to support and strengith.
en the party which Most nearly hold .
'pis views is among the most laudable,
meritorious acts ok an). American
citizen ;L- and this , 4,•fi r etlier he. be in
official or in private statior. , Two
managementparties contend - for the agenient
of national affairs. One'or tb other
of
~ these two contestants' is sure to
manage the nation's concerns
_for.
some time;to come. The question is.
'Which „of .the two •is it safer and
wiser to trust. It is rrot,,a question of
candidates. A candidate, if he be an
Honest; genuine man, will not seek .
,and accept a party nomination to the
Presidency Vice Presidency orCon
gress and after he is elected become
a law unto himself. , Few things are
more despicable. than first to secure
elevation at the hands of a party,
and then, iu hopes of winning preten
tious nonpartisan applause, to affect
superior sanctity, and meanly to im
ply that those. whose support and
confidence were eagerly and deferen
tially sought arc wanting in purity,
patriotism . or some other title to re.
sheet. •The higher obligations among
men' are nut set down in writing and
signed and sealed—they reside in
honor and good faith. The fidelity
of a nominee' belongs to this exalted
class, and, therefore, a candidate of a
party is but t.he exponentof a party.
The object of political discussion and
action . is, to Settle 'principles, policies
and issues. It is a paltry incident of
an election affecting fifty million
people that it decides for an.occasion
the aspirations of individual: men.
The Democratic party is the Demo
cratic candidate, and I am against
the ticket and all its , Works.
(novll-75
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TOE GENERAL ISSUE A SECTIONAL
The general issue confronting us
in itsqlf and its bearings sectional.
rwould..and you would, itlwere not
•so, but it is so. .11 in one portion of
the country one party outnumbers
the other even by overwhelming
-odds, the fact need not be blamable
nor proof of sectional ad, , ziession.
But if in any section 'a party rains
and keeps control, not by numbers,
not by honesty and law, and then,
stilling free discussion :.rd action
attempts-to grasp the Government of
the whole country, the proceeding is
sectional, guilty and monstrous.. In
twelve States of the , liniOn the ap
proaching election is to be no more
than a farce,;unless, as has,Sometimes
happened, it,l3e turned into a tragedy.
There is to be no free .debate, no
equal rights,:no true expression in
these States; and in several States
the clear majority' is to have, no de
ciding, power—not even a chance in a
raffle such as that in which lots were
cast and the booty divided -the other
day between Tammany Hall and the
tipper-air and solar-walk Denocracy.
Senator Hampton largely promises
forty thousand_ Democratic majority
in• South Carolina, where tbe'aetual
majority is forty _thousand the other
way. In. Several Southern States
there is a large, well-known, often as
certained Republican'. majority, 'but
all Southern States alike; without ex--
.ception or doubt, are relied upon to
.count otilthe Democratic side, and to.
score 138 Electoral votes—lacking
but 47 of a .majority of. all. The
causes of such a condition, and the
consequences, if it succeeds, are mat
ters which no sane, intelligent man
put out Of iiew„andiYet he who did
cusses them must he,, told in the
coarse parlariee,of r : the day. that be
waves the 'qllocidY, shirt.', It is_,.
relief to remember that this phrai-:
;and the thing it means is no . inven
tion of our pplitics. 'lt dates to
Scotland thOe„ Centuriegf ago.' After
'a massacre in_Glinfrtlip, not so say
age as has 'stained our annals, two
hundrel and twenty widows rode'on
white rAlfreys, to Sterling Towers,
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INTRODUCTION.
ONE
s q:?* F.l '._".:,..;.q.;'"-.1.,,,,,,_:.;.
bearing each on . .
,a spear. 'her hue-,
bloody 'shirt. The' appeal
waked Scotland's slumbering sword.
and outlawry 'and the block made the
name of Glenfruin terrible to the vic
torious Clan Alpine even to the third
and fourth generation. I am not
going to recite horrors, nor allude to
them, nor the chapter of cruelty they
fill, for to retry the issues .of the
ifitr. My purpose is quite different.
It - is to show if I can what is actually
at stake now, who and What thii con
tending forces are, how much the're
stilt may mean, and which war pru
dence and wisdom point. ,
OMURA'. GRANT'S LETTER A TEXT
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FOIL MANY SERMONS:
Yon have liStened to a letter from
one to- whom at least as much a§ to
any other,Man the nation owes its
preservation,prosperity and primacy.
This• letter, instinct with common
sense, hits the nail on the head. Its
writer generally does hit nails, rebel
lions and pretenders on the head.
He says : ►t •
This meeting should awaken the people
to the important() of keeping control of
the Goiernment in the hands of the Re
publican party until we can have two
national parties, - every member of which
can cast his ballot as judgment 'dictates,
without fear of molestation or ostracism,
and have irhonestly counted ; parties not
differing as to whether we are a nation,
but as to the policy to secure the greatest
good to the greatest number of its citi
zens. Sincerely believing that the Demo
erotic party, as now constituted and con
trolled, is not a fit party to trust with the
control of the General Government, I be
lieve it to the best interest of all sections,
South as well as North, that the Republi
can party should succeed in November.
Yours very truly. U. S. GRANT:
Lord Chesterfield said, that a letter
shows the man it is written to as well
as the man it is written by. This
letter bears Lord Chesterfield out. It
is written to General A i;thur, and
it reveals the confide* and esteem
in which the writer -heldwhim. In
formed by many sears of intimate
acquaintance, the General knew and
felt, as we knoW and feel, that he was
Writing not only to a frierid, but to
one of the most genuine, patriotic
and honorable of men.
lOW THE •DEMY)CRATIC PARTY IS CON
STITUTED AND CONTROLLED.
This letter furnishes a- text 'for
many sermons. " The Democratic
party as now constituted and control-
Ind." How, is it constituted, how
ckptrolled ? There are a vast number
Of upright, patriotic men in it—a
vast number of men who 'gave all
ando - did all- they should have given
and ddne to uphold their Govern
ment and their flag in the supreme
and dire hour of trial. A vast.num
ber who .imperiled their lives, WS .
other Democrats laid down their
lives for their country. Many North
ern Democrats who east all their
weight and sympathy on the nation's
side, after the war was over returned
to their former party associations;
.many others never did so return.
Were such DemocratS to guide and
influence a Democratic Congress and
a Democratic Administration their
party would not be •' constituted and
controlled - " as it were. Becduse such
men and- their views and interests
will not and cannot control, in the
event of Democratic success, much
grave peril arist s.
As the Democratic party f is consti
tuted, not the men of the North, not
the men who were for the Union and
the Constitution, but the men of the
South, who were against the Union
and
,the .Constitution, men whose
policy and purposes are still hurtful
to , the country, are bound and pre
destined to control a berno_cratic
Administration . and a Democratic
Congress. In the Senate and in the
House the, South has an overwhelm
ing majority of the Democratic mem
bers, and most of them are men who
led in the rebellion. Every party
measure in Congress is settled in
party caucus by a" party majority . ;
thus the Southern members hold ab
solute sway. In possession of the
law- making power, of the purse, and
and .ofthe power to confirm or re
ject treaties and appointments, the
South is also to furnish all the votes
to elect the Democratic candidates,
save only the 47 votes itilkh must be
raffled or counted, or certified, or
produced from the Northern States,
particularly not • excepting Oregon.
Should the election be close, there is
no knowing but the two Democratic
houses may find . ground on which to
throw ont a part or all of any State's
Electors. With much unemployed
leisure• on their hands, with the
danger which the Electoral Commis
sion of 1878 alone overpassed, for
that time, staring the country in the.
face, these Democratic liduseaelave
adopted no measure, to insure order
and Tight in ascertaining the result
of the Presidential election. Should .
controversy arise, and the election
be thrown into the House,. there, the
vote being taken by States, the South
would cast nearly all the Democratic
votes, Ind in the Senate' the vote for
Vice-President would come from the
same source. - In every event of
Democratic success, the Southern
end of the Democratic Party must
be to the Northern end as the loco-.
motive is to the tender, as the hni-Se
is to the cart. This is !as plain as
:`any.truth in gravitation or arithmetic.
:SWELLING OHE SOUTHERN VOTE..
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Perhaps ... this point will seem te r 1 / 4
you to challOge some attention. 'For,
the population of the Southern
States: we Must go back to the cen
sus of 1870. That count of the peo
ple was made by enumerators not se
lecte4 by Southern •Senators and
members of the House as "non-parti 7
sans" and professional. reformer*
It was made by the regular Marshals
it'nd.their deputies; and the compen
(satien:was so • adj:isted as to induce
thoreugh visitation, and, at the same
time, to guard 'against exaggeration
;of - iumbers. No imputation of fraud
`was ever cait,upon the work. Such
fp,. thing as a,plot to faliricate a mons-
Irousincrease of the population in
-one section, in order to baffle the
course of nature and the logic of
events in another—a pl t to change
the balance of power an population
f i
in fiirder to aggrandize one section
bil'establishinga false. basis of rep
resentation and apportionment, thus
robbing other sections , oftheir share
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TOWANDA, BRADFORD _ 'COUNTY, PA., t, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER: ,30, 1
in gov • rning the country, in levying
taxes, and appropriating moneyhad
noti',' at that time occurred to` the
conservative foes of radicalism., That
partieulrfr spoke in the wheel of
deviltrys"ha4 not turned. uhf the
shifty patriot of that day.' Now such
schemes seem to wax apace. We
read of producing false
* heirs " to
tYF,ones and estates, but to multiply
Edge heirs without any one to per
e;onate their), on a scale so giand as
seems now in proCess, would stupify
the integrity of a French novelist, or
anybody else, except a rthorough-
going, non-partisan conservative dis
ciple of the Demcieratic persuasion,-
wanting nothing for himsel4 but ready
to do and suffer for a white man's
, governinent with "reform" and
"change." r.
The suggestion now is that the
census-takers of 'lB7O under .'counted
their neighbors. Paid by the head
and by the mile, not by the day, it is
now allowed they . cheated them):
selves; they neither . traveled nor
countd, nor charged for doing it.
There were "carpet-baggers," too
many of - them in the south ; their
States were Republican, they had
their ambitions and motives for in;
creased political numbers and power;
there was not the remotest danger of
any direct tax; and yet, with noth
ing to gain and everything to lose,
they wrongefl and swindled them
selves for the sake of beir.g dishonest.
This all may be) It is the only way
of accounting for the awkward, won
ders of the census now progressing.
I . - cannot be called ingenius, because
it is plainly the , only possible expla
nation and it limps badly. .14.:eu
counnils may sit on these
recent fabulous census . revela tions, i
but men will still wonder how 43 per
cent. was'added to the population.of
a State- in_ ten• years, during which
time•she received exactly 1717 foreign
emigrants—a fact established:,-with
out the aid of any census. Such an
increase of the population anywhere
would crop out s in unnumbered direc
tions.. Production, cOnsurnption,
buildings, tilled acreage, railway
, postal ' returns, immigra
tion, would tell the story of such
growth. Whether these tell-tale
tests, which cannot be smothered,
sustain 'or demolish the pro Posed
count in the Southern States will in
cidentally appear further on, it your
patience will endure.
I was speaking of the population
of the 11 States, now 12 by Me di
vision of Virginia, which seceded '
from the Union, and now constitute
the .chief power of the Democratic
party. In 1z470 it was—white y 7,-
(167.213 ; black, 4,179,222 ; total, 11,-
•24n,435. The total was 29 per c;ent.,
or-three-tenths of the ; population of
the United States. The whites were
one-sixth of the whole population of
the;_country—th,e blacks one-ninth
';The Democratic majority in ail these
42 States' represents about six mil
lion people, or . 15 per cent. of our
whole people. If to this number be
added, : all the people of these States,
of whatever color, then they repre
sent not more than 7 per cent. of the
industrial, commercial, tax-paying,
property interests of the country, the
other States:of the; Union representing
93 per cent.
REBELS CONTROLLING THE NATION.
Let us See how much national con ,
trol is in the; hands of 'the south,
scant as it islri numbers and interest.
Upward .of cio riAmbers, sit in the
House of Represeiitatives'-nnd in the
Electoral Colleges, by reason of
counting the ;whole celored'popula
tion as citizens: with ) full political
rights, equal iii all things to the
whites. This is a double wrong and
double robbery, to just the extent" to
which the freedmen are hindered or
defrauded of their rote and their
voice. To what extent this is true
.the election returns clearly show.
This representation, based on stifled.
rights, is in plain vioiition of the
Ccinstitution and of common honesty
but there it is,
and there it votes and
speaks in the Nation's:councils.
The 16 lately slave States (includ
ing Delaware, Maryland, Kentu6,ky
and Missouri, which did not secede)
have :;2 Senators. Thirty-nine is a
majority of the Senat4lf so that the
south needs, only seven Senators
from the other States to make a ma
jority of all. ' She will never fail to
get thernif seven northern Democrats
are. there._ There are 12 there noiv.
In the House of Representatives
there are 293 members.' A majority
is I#7. The south has 105 members,
lacking only 4.1 of 'a majority of all.
The Electoral) College • consists of
369; a majority is Iss The south
has 138, lacking only 47 of a majori
ty. -Consider the sway these num
bers have. .In the Senate there are
28 committees, and committees' not
only prepare, but virtually control,
legislation in 'both houses, and this
twust be so more and mare as the
houses-and lmjsiness grow larger. Of
these 28 confmittees the south has
the chairmanship of 17, and the con
trol of all. The southern Chairman
ships are- of impOrtant committees.
Dela Ware, with 110 . ,00fi'people, about
as many as the city of Cleveland,
Ohio, or a single rural county in
New( ' York, has the Chairmanships
of the Committees of Priveleges and
Eleetions and of Finance—both very
imp l ortant committees. The great
State of New York, with five million
peck*, and her enormous interests
end tax-paying, has for her Nmo
-eratie Senator - the Chairmanshii) of,
the! committee on Patents.' West
Vitinill has the chairmanship of the
Co mittee on Appropriations, which
holils,the purse-strings of the cottiltry.
Thft;eat State of Pentisylvan4 has
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'tare Chairmanship of the Revisi n of
LaWs, a committee whose ;bus ness
Was finished years ago— . Vir inia
,irsicthe Chairmanship of the C... - Vit.
fee on Pensions, Georgia V' tom
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Poi(' Road's,i; Missouri of C aims,
Sort Carolina of Railroadsl iid so
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of all the working committees: e This
is true in this way: On ever Y com
mittee there is a majority of Demo
crats, and of these a majority in all
cases consists of the Sonthern Sena:
tors,
The same conditions prevail in the
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House. There, are 42 committees
The Chtiirmen- of 22, are from the
South. AU the committees are so '
constituted that the majority is Dem
°cystic,- and the majority , more
than half IS Southern.
During the two years while this
absolute power in both Houses has
been so lodged, the existence of the
%%Act power and the -approach of, the
Presidential canvass have suggested
urgent reasons for "going slow."
Many expected' bills have not been
introduced, many that have ;beenin
troduced have not been "pressed,"
some that have . been ' pressed" have
run against such obstinate opposi
tion as to secure present- postpone
ment or some motlification.- But
whenever the hour strikes that the
veto poweils in Democratic hands—
put, there by southern votes—what
ever the "solid" caucus . decrees will
be written.
The caucus will be controlled by
those who repres3nt less than-one
.seventh of the people of the Union:
1 have said, also; that they represent
not more than one-fourteenth of the
producing, commercial, industrial,
tax-paying, and property interests of
the country. Let me prove this by
the official figures. of the Beareu of
Staistics
1879—Customs duties. $137,250, 4 -
018. Collected at Southern ports,
$,145,505.-
This is 11. per Trent., or one-six
teenth part(
1879—Intlernal revenue. $116,848,-
221. Paid '-by 12 Southern Stites,
$20.332,464:
This is 17 per tent:, or one-sixth
part.;,
Since the war Ohio has paid more
internal revenue than all the late
Confederate States united. So has
Illinois. New York! alone has paid
nearly twice as mulct. 4f custo3ns
duties were added, 'the comparison
would be more striki4 still.
Our domestic co ntnerce exceeds
our foreign commerce twenty fold.
Railways move 90 per cent. or it . In
1870 424 ; 014 freigllt cars carried
`this traffic. Of these cars "the late
Confederate States i,mlsloyed 41,248.
This 7 145, per cent., or one-four
teenth mrt:-
In 18'0 the tonnage of vessels en
gaged itilint:ernationat traffic•was 2,-
678,057 tone'. The late Confederate
States employed 242,540 tons. This
is 9 per cent or one eleventh part. , ..
In 1879 (to .June 30, 1880) our ex,
ports were $845,633,595 . . The South
exported $188,629,717, This is 22-1;
per cent., or_two-ninths part. Of this
84 per cent. was cotton, and the New
York Cotton- Exchap,ge reports that
very little'of it was Ooved by South
ern capital. All thrit.tame north W 23
handled by northerXcapital. That
exported directly *al moved mostly
by northern and foreign capital.
In 1879 (to June 30,-1889) our im
ports hero $667,953,302. The south
imported $15,934,34. This is 23
per ceht., or one forty-third 'part.
Exports and imports :together
were $1,503,586,897. The share ,of
the south was
,$2"4,564,108. :;Thiti is
13 3.5 per cent., or one seven hO.
In 1879 (October 2) banWh;ans
were $578,503,097:k Loans of south
er banks, $46,360,01/7. This is .5 per
cent., or one-nineteenth.
In 1879 (October 2) State and Na
tional bank_circulation was 8314,103,-
223. Southern banks, $2.1,478426.
This is 71 per cent, or one-thirteenth.
In 1878 six month, ending May 31,
latest returns) deposits in savings
banks were 8873,135,817. In south
ern banks $2,527,423. This is four
tenths of 1 per cent., or one two
hundred and fiftieth part.
- In 1879 cost of railroads in the
Trnited - States was $.4,166,334,922.
Cost of southern railroads, $354,274,-
979.• This is 131 per cent., or one
seventh.
The latest returns show weight of
mails carried on railways was 5.51,-
370,158'.pounds. On southern roads
94;3'4,853 pounds. This is
cent., or one-sixth part.
In 1870 our manufactures were
$4,232,321,142. Southern portion
was $277,7'20,637. This is 61 per
cont., or one-sixteenth part.
In 1870 produCtion of mines was
$ t 52,598994. Of southern mines $4,-
996,042. This is 3i per cent., or
one-thirty-first part.
From June 30, 1870, to June 30,
ISSO, the'number of immigrants who
came to the United State was 2,812,-
177. Of these 2,662 came to south:.
ern • .Atlantic ports, and 47,239 to
ports or the Gulf of Mexico, making
fo'r the whole south, 49,901. - This is
1 77-100 per cent., or one-sixtieth.
The latest report of the Commis
sioer of Educational states the total
income for public schools of the
country at $86,978,101. The south'
paid for public schools $8,336,797.
This is 9 142 per cent., or one-tenth
part. This item is presented here
because it belongs to the industrial
interest..
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Looking into this mirror ofi.lthe
country's business , we see impartially
and exactly reflecte d the respective
proportions-and features of the two
seetions..',„.By analysis and .n erage
we ;see that production, in ustry,
commerce, capital and reven i e are
found one-fourteenth in one section
of the country and thirteen-fourteen
ths in the other 'seetions, i
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team), OLTY, AND DEVILTRY.
The vot e of Georgia were 'regis
tered' 'before the election in 18e6.
The white voter's numbered. 95,393,
-the colored 93,458. . 'f:
In 1876 the whole Republican vote
einr4eit Waa . 50,446,. Only two year!
later the. whole Republican vete
counted was 5,257. Pretense!' have
been .inadi that the - freedmen ef
Georgia do not care to vote, and
often vote the Deniecratic ticket.
Only relil the; savage: laws of Geor
gia, under the Option of vagrancy and
prison'• management, and then learn
of their sickening, beastly administra
tion, and human hi.ture will tell you
that the freedmen_of Georgia do not
support the Democratic party, but
would cast it out if they could.
In, 1876 the Republican vote of
Louisiana wan 77,1'71 i ' , i , Two years
afterward the Republi n votedisap•
pearad from the election returns.
Yet in. 1867 In the" same State, the
registry of voters - shalred 45,199
white! .sotera and 84,431:c010red
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voters and In 1876 the registration
showed a Republican majoritY, of 22,-
314.-- In North' Carolina, in 1876,
the Republieo vote -east was 108.-:
417, , At the:, next 'Congressional
eliction RepOplicap votes searcel)
appeared in fife count. in Alabama,
in 1872, the Itepablicans cast 90,?-72
votes. They elCeted i five of the seven
Representstives'. to Congress and the
Legislature by &large. Majority. In
1876 68430, _Republican totes were
counted.'—ewo year later whex a
Goveinbr and members of Congress
were elected, not a Republican vote
was counted. In South Carolina the
registration
,showed that the colored
voters outnumbered, the whites by
32,724.. 1n,1872 Grant received 72,-
870-49,587 majority. EVery Con
gressional disttiCt elected a Republi.
can. The Legislature was Republi
can by, 95 majbTity. .1876 the Re
publican vote east wa5:91,870. Only
two years afterward; When a Govern
or and Ottngressmen were elected, all
the RepUblican votes counted in the
State were 213.
This was a very carnival of fraud,
cruelty and deviltry. Voting p'aces
in - Republican regions had been es
tablished 25 miles apart, and the Re
publicans of South Carolina do not
ride by night
,nor by day—they go
on foot. They - are - poor and ignor
ant; but they .know"what emancipa
tion meant, 'and . they. know what the
ballot-box means, they know which
side they.prayed for : and fought for
in the war,4 they know which side
they would vote for in peace.
Vorceand tissue ballots took care
of the election of 1878 in South Car
olina.: It was testified before a-Com
mittee of the- Senate that one man
put about 700 • votes into the ballot
box. • This makes politics one of the
sciences,". much more certain_
thin the dice or lots with which otll
ees and nominations were raffled off
here the other day. In Mississippi
more than half the population is col
ored. Every year until 1874 the Re
publicans had a majority hi all elec
tions. In 1876 the'Republican vote
returned was 52,605. The nest year
it was but 1,168,. and the year after
2,085. In all these States klie
..Re
publican vote, and even Republican
committees d newspapers, have
been utterly suppressed.
Alabama has just held an. election.
The Greenback candidate for Presi
dent went there and realized the em
barrassment or the 'bull who butted
against a .locomoti4: The whole
proceeding was a shameful wrong,.
and Mr. Weaver says. that the en
forcement of the national •election
laws is the only thing which will
make a fair election possible. -Ar
kansas has just voted Arkansas,
where, until recently, Republicans al
ways elected Members', ,of Congress
and Legislature ; - where; at the last
Presidential election, 38.669, Repub
lican votes were cast, and wherenow
in no part of the. State ,does the Re,
publican vcite, , ,appear Repudiation
and Democracy prevail. mightily. .
I repeat here as I have said, in the
Senate; when the Government was
taken by r the throat and thicat9ned
with strangulation unless the elee
tion were stricken down; that
the Democratic party would haVeto
day no majority in - either - house of
Congress, except for elections domin
ated and decided by violence and
fraud.
ILL-GOTTEN TIMED BADLY USED.
What use is made of all his ill
gotten poWer? One of its cllietuses
has been the I F ,repudiation of honest
debts. Every ; Southern State. hut
Texas has lately. repudiated,: its obli
gations. This aggregate repudiation
of State and municipal- debts
amounts to about $300,000,000.• In
1872 the debts of Southern States
were $242,500„000. Now these States
recognize and; pay interest on only
$53,978,945. A. large part even of
thials unpaid and funded interest.
On' , $20,000,000 interest has been
sealed down to two per cent. Wheth
er the residue of debts are also to be
foresworn is now en open issue. •
Is there excuse or palliation• for
this ? We are told so. What is it ?
It is that " carpet-bag Governments"
contracted these obligations. One
difficulty with this excuse, and not
the only one, is that, it is not true.
The anti-war debt, contracted before
the "carpet-bagger " ever visited the
South, eithe' with knapsack or "with ,
out it, was $90,000,000. No part of
this debt has been paid ; a large Part
has been repudiated. The "carpet
bag Governments" paid the, interest
on it regularly. •
The increase of debt since the war
was largely for public improVements..
But the most,damaging fact for this
excuse is that all the alleged illegal
issue of bonds charged upon the car
pet-bag GovernMents put together
deck not equal the sum .repudiated
by Georgia alone.
What are we - to think cif men and
communities who go into wholesale
repudiation as gayly as the trouba
dour touched his guitar? When Mr.
Weaier 'brought .forward in the
House of Representatives a bill to
issue "fiat money,'.' and make it a
legal tender for all debts - public and
private, man after man from the -
,South ' : openly declared that, :if the
word "private" were stricken out he
would Vote - for the bill.
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They. had no objection to. , paying
off public debts with chaff, but pri
vate debts thei thought should be
p~did. in mondy.' ,
State debts are sacred above na
ttonal obligationi in Southern ethics
`,—a "sovereign §tate " is of higher
essence than thh Naticik, find this
was the standing defensti in rebellion
for " going with tlictr-States," 144;dre
over, State arid Muidicimil.OMig.atiOns
'are for home purposes. flf-OrTdir own
State; faith and credit is fiat , inviolate
wittf-Sdlithern leaders,',What4ln their
hands *bald . be -ihe fakf of obliga
tions Which are the mean's, Pie cause,
the memorials of their defeat I _
.But we are told, General , Hancock
would watch tliem ! An angel might
watch a tiger fa child: might attempt
to divide a beefsteak 'with a blood
hound; might lie down' with
a lion, but the lamb, w Auld lie i n side.
The peril of. Democratic ascendancy
In all Ake branehes of ilk Govezn
tnent .Is deeper rooted 'than any
measure within the scope of existing
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public questions. Statesmen abroad
talk of "the balance of power, " 1 - and
of "changing the map of 'Europe."
These saying's mean not muelf more
than might easily occur here.-.-.
The resolution admitting texas
to the Union in 1845 provide(' for
erecting out of Texas four addLional
Staics. The area and popplation are
'both sufficient. The area is 274,000
square miles, the population a 4 l mil
lion and a half. Such . a proceeding
.would' add eight to the number`of f
Southern Senators, and add to the
Southern poweOn the Electoral Col
lege. From New. Mexico and other
Territories, whose traditions and pre
judices have descended from, Slave
holding influences, several new St..tes
may also be made. Schemes exist,
not in embryo, but far advanced, to
obtain a-" slice of 31exito." Cattle
stealing on the Rio Grande border
has been and is - a fruitful occasion
for incursions into Mexico. Special
cavalry iegiinents of unusual size
have been raised ind stationed on
the •Texan frontier. It is , an open'
secret that not long ago' much exer
tion and alertness - were needed .to
keep - us out of another Mexican war.
Without violating the Vonstitu
tion or transcending the us'ages of
the Republic," at .least seven- new
States could impbrought in, and in
the case of some of them a ter.V plau
sible case could be made. The pro
ject would — become a high 'party
measure- Its success would assure
complete Democratic ascendency •in
the nation for a generation at least.
It would put the Government not
merely in the hands of the Demo
cratic, l l!tirty, but of the Southern
Demoeratic Party.
Why-should not this be done? Who
and vvh - at,,is to prevent it if the Dem
ocrathii:Party is elected ? The North
ern wing , could never resist the
-Southern wing in Congress were
-these iiew States brought for
ward for admission: The North
ern wing never could, never will, anti
never can withstand the pressure of,
the , far strong er Southern wing.
Gravitation a nd arithmetic - . make
such resistance itiipossible, just as
pound cannot outweigh a ton, just .1s
one man cannot outnumber a regt,
merit, The past-is pitiful in its ward. :
ings Despite - pledges
and .Ncrrthern indignation, Northern
iterriocrats united in voting down .
the -Wilmot proviso in order to make
California a slave State; united in
.voting for the Fugitive Slave' law ;
un4ed in the mighty perfidy -which
overthrew the - Missouri compromise
in order to fasten slavery on Kansas
and other - States, and united inr,de
feating the Homestead at
the behest of the Southern majority.
Mr. Van Buren at last, like Mac
beth, would "go no further ,in this
bloody business," and politiCal de.'
strnetion was his reward. Mr. Doug
lass at last made a braVe stand
against sectional aggreSsion, and Le
was hunted to his grave. Caucus is
king, aid the avenging angel is hard
ly more-inexorable in decree or more
tuierringLin retribution.
AYTACKING THE JUDICIARY. ,
One of the main bulwarks of the
Republic IS the. Judiciary. The courts
of justice are unwire, conservator,
citadel. The Supreme Court is the
final arbiter of many momentous con.
troverSies. This great tribunal is
very obnoxious to Southern leaders
in Congress and out. Itr is in their
way. It , does not always decide as
they think. The halls of 'Congress
rang last year with Assertions, utter
ed With passionate vehemence, that
the 'laws for protecting elections are
unconstitutional. - Soon afterward a
.ease on the docket c4 . ' the Supreme
, Court, involving the validity of these
laws, was. reached. and the court de
cided them valid. A Register in
Bankruptcy not long ago overruled
the Chief-J ustice on the construction
of a statute, and so it oftens happens
that the court is not able orrecall,
dite enough to get at: the ." true in
wardness" and profound depths of
the law as understood on the bus
tinge, where the niponshiner thrives
and te fire-cater reigns. Mutterings
deep- and loud, breathings of dire
longings to " go for" the court. bare
for l years been gathering in volume
In the House of Representatives
fig two or three years this feeling
has now and again found harsh voice
in useemly sinister words. Not only
Kentucky, through the Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Knott,
but Missouri, North Carolina, and
other States, assistol, I regret•Nto
say, 'by a representdtive from this
City, have uttered language, gross
and calumnious of the courtospers
ing - its integrity and its decisions.
"Mere drivel," "plausible sophistry,"
"packed partisan, and demoralized,"
" packed. tribunal " decisions to be
observed " pro tempore , " only,
"dirty work of its masters;" "made
a political decigion to order," "fiery
indignation . of. inflamed :people."—
these are some O l f the buffetings to be
foundin the
,Ctmgressional Record,
delivered sometimes from carefully
written speeches; and sometimes re
ceived, the Record says, with " loud
applause."
'• To What does - all this pave the
ivay . ? The- Congrii,ssionol Record
gill inform - 7 you. On the 2,lith of
'January; 180, Mr. Manning, of,Mis
sissippi—a State well - .known to be
jealously sensitive to the pure ad
ministration of, justice and the rigor
ous Punishment of crime--especially
hideous, cowardly - m,urder and , taas- . .
mere—introduced :a - bilrfo place 12
new• additional .fudges - on • the
.Supreme Bench What an easy,
effectual, and withal plausible, dis
position- this. would make of the
court:. Increased business would be
such an innocent excuse--the court
could sit. by. sti.rens. for some pur ,
poses and meet in Banque . -fey all
large ptirposes when State sovereign
ty, and State rights - amendments to
the 4 Constitution and .cotton taxes
and,-the like are at the stake • The
bill:passed to a Second reading, and
was referred to a committee, whose'
Chairman a few days afterward came
into-the Muse and- denounced the ;
.court, find .said a majority of the,,
present J.Rdges,were "hOpelessly lost
in a For the pres Ont it Would,
be prernature and bungling .to pass
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close ,Northern State. let the
Democrats elect: their • President, or
rather their party—Mr the party is
running—and-who will say - this bill
will not aid ; its *ay to the statute
book.. Yiti daff all say whatesort of
Jndges the'lf> niw ones would. he.
But rid *new, !awls_ needed ;':natUre's
law, and- the statutory' limit of_ ege
. at
which Judge 4 may !TUT, will, during the'
next four years , vacate at least fora:facets
on the Supreme Amick. . These four ap
pointments will decide the political „com
plexion of the court. With what Judges
would the Dt mocracy fill, them 2
The Circuit and District Courts are
ob
'noxious also. They aro still more. eas34:
to deal with. Like the Judges of...tbe Sd.i'
preme Court; 'these Judges hold- their
places during good'behavior, but legible
_tion, as has often been seen in States and
in the 'Nation, hasways - to plow around
this stomp. Abolishing a circuit or dis
trict, or adding to it another, takes his
seat out from.inider a-Judge and gets rid
.of him filially ; lie is legislated . out."' •
Thus th'e whole jaicial establishment
of the Republic- is at the disposal of the
slaw4naking potror. • .
With courts revolutionized to conform
to reactionary nations and deeming, preiti-•
dices, and interests e what may be the fate
of-questions affecting "cointrirce arming
the several States,'!. revenue, ,bank and
legal-tender curreucY,: -the taxation of
Government bonds, -the/Currency i 1 whiel
these bonds are payable, civil-rights acts,
election laws, claims growing tint of the.
war, claims for refunding the war tax on
cotton, the late aineudrnents, and many
other grave niatters„no man can-predict.
BOURN* . lI,kTIIED OF TIM AT
The army, ttoc?, is envied—its " offense
s is rank." Less - than four lines of the Re
vised Statutes are all that denies commis
sions in the Army fo men who, educated
at the country's cost, and presented with
their country's'swoid, drew that sword
against their country's life. A bill' to re
peal these four lines is tmw pending in
the Senate, already .passed to a third
reading op the sidid Democratic vote.
On the Vitb of February last, Mr.
kell, of Maryland, was relieved from the
Operation of this est lusion, and a Senator
from Arkansas - movid as an amendment
its total repeal. The yeas and nays were
demanded, and 36 SenatorS, every Demo
crat who was present, voted yea.. Ohio,
New Jersey; • Pennslb : lniaf: and New
Xork contributed . their ' fiirrioeratic rotes
to ,the Southern proposition of " reform."
Stihsequently the mover and all conclud
ed to 'reconsider and drop it t ie amendment
—a sagacious conclusion iu a "Pt esiden
tial vear." ' •
Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, moved in the
Hotise the repeal of this safeguard to the
At my as a rider to an apkoprlation bill,
but it rvoi huddled out of sight on a point
of order-r--1 judicious point iu a ?llresi
dentilkil year." • 'The Democ; - atic ma.p_irity
put in the Army bill a provision that offi
cers now in the Army - might receive ad
vanced rank and pay if they would retire
—a benevolent, thoughtful, provision cer
tain-IY. tHtit-if a - body • of Army officers
could thus he coaxed out of the service,
there would be sti many vacancies to be
filled, and tilled by the President, by and
with the advice and eontrol of a DeMor
erratic Senate.: r ,When this free-will offer
ing was presented a cry arose about "gift
bearing Greek..," and other ungracious
symptoms were manifested on the Repub:
liean side, and so brevet Muk and brevet
pay stand over. at least till the session of
Santa CI Us.
31eanw hire the Army has been reduced
to a skel .ton, and 'Whenever a -scare, a
pretense, a speck of war on -the 3lexicaii
border o elsewhere can be . discovered or
invented,i the Army. must be iucreased
and f 111 0: up. Filled up by whom? That
depbtuls in the approaching election. If
Gaitield ud Arthur are choset, by Union
men—m4always for the Union to the
cote. If lianeock and English and the
Demecrati9 patty get in, by men - . who
" went to, their States." Confederate
'soldiers wetild - flock 'to. the standard of
military ; as well as of civil service reform,
and flock in a fervor of magnanimity and
devotion,' ready to let by-gones be, 133, -
giums,.and to forgive the "usurpations
of Lb:coin" and the "unconstitutional
coercion of sovereign . States." j WhY•
shouldn't they?
Who would be warranted to assert that
a confdderate Soldier was false or immod
est in professing patriotic intentions while
seeking - lank in the army of the'Repnb
lie ?No man ought to a(ssert it, and yet
all fair men would agree that, other
things being equal, preferments in the
A: my should be given lothose who fought
in that Army : wither than to those who
assailed it in the dread extremity of the
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Nation's life.
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The present tariff and revenue laws are
.decmed very bad by• the dominant ele
ment of:the Democracy. They want lo
change them. They will change.. them
radically Whenevert r the way is : clear.;
There is a whisky 'rebellion now id sever
al Stattr.s, and the officers of the law aro
Powerless to suppress it. In Alabama the
law is resisted, and the prokess of the
courfs destroyed and defied. Recently a
warrant was issued for the arrest of one
Prenton, charged with such an offense.
A Deputy. Marshal went with a posse to
excuto the warrant. In hiti repart to the
Marsharhe says Pronton assembled froth
15 to 50 armed men, and set them and
the law at defiance. When cautioned to
dissis : Prenton replied, "When Hancock
is pie 'ted this damned foolishness will
IttoP.'
~.
. Thl,
thing to stop, thus piously predict
ed,* i,thosollectiOu of the tax on i 'frisky
—th t middle beverage So sacredto the
;Deli ocratic heart, sio grateful to the Dent ,
ocratic stomach,* so nourishing ; to
I petnocratieprinciPies. The lawls defied
in
t
rkansai, and tyre Officers apply to'llic
Go ' erner for the use •of the arms c;i' the
United' States loaned to Arkansas, and
the,tlovereiv replies that he dare not per
mit ilie arms to be used, because if, he
.
sbfitird; and i s moonshiner should he kill
eikaie ;would-have to leave the State.
Itiliashiligten raised au army wifen ho
i
,was President, and marched at its head
a.,:put down such lawlessness ; and he
AA • toe army in Pennsylvania three
months after it was, put' down; .to see it
/did not get up again: NoW, thera'are ;22
• Others of the United States in Alabama,_
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ME
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NUMBER 181
end 37 hi . . Arkansm, and a fibarred
inure sheitihl to'efther:
the country would not: be big enough to
hold tbe noise. ,Ilanceek'n Order;
wouldleip Mom the Denicmatieseabbard,
and we Would bear bow "the - military
maid be always subOrtlinate'to the civil
Tower,". and bow "the- courts are open. y
"Thean-obnoziona -lawsi Ste marked for
tfotortii"- and "change" wbeeelei the
Democratic hand ein , reach thelb.
prrirmikTnE•coNstiruninl.r.
. The. recent 'ainendmentil .- to- th'e
Constitution and the' laws made in
pursuance of theM are 'objects of an.
abated .Democratlis' wrath--a wrath
going to such excess as to compel
the belief that free fraud in election
is deented the only adequate, means
iti
to party success . -'fhe amendments
of freedom, lispecially the thirteenth
and fourteenth, were, established in_
tire Constitittion against _the most -
Assperate opposition the Demiaemey-'
could-make. As thei gainesi per
in States which,lhad already7.'ratille'd
them, in-impotent passion the fare .
was enacted of formally reieindiiig
and withdrawing the; irrevoettple
as
isent whibh had: been finally given.
This was dune in Indiana and „New
Jersey, and Mr. Tweed did it in I New
York.
FrOm-first to :last, the organs of
the Detnocrats have dechired r tlic*
amendmenti illegally carried—ille
gal. because Democratic States that
were orit fighting were not in to vot‘i...
They never yet have said or admit
ted that the amendinents: were legal.,
ly adopted. They did gay, in. Na.
Convention, in 1822, that they
oppOSed reopening question set
tled by ' s . the amendments, and-. they •
did say, in 18; 6, - that they' would.ae
eept theft; ;- but that they were legally
valid they have never said...
The :amendments are constantly
and flagrantly 'defied in more than
ffalf the 'Democratic States, and have
been for years. The laws enacted
under - them have - - been denotineed
.in - every forth, - and denounced as.
null and void, even since-the' Su
preme court; has salemnly - .flecided
otherwise.. " It Was to get rid of these
laws that the revolutionary plot was
laid last year to stop ;the- wheels of
uOvernnient, to close . thiPcotirts - and
post offices, and put out'jhe beacon
lights on the sea and: on the .lakes
idess- a repeal .was yielded. 'With
a thoroughbred.. Democratic --Presi
dent. whatever May; happen 'in - form:
.to the amendments,-they will become
wore a dead letter than a quickening
spirit, and the laws made to enforce .
them - will, he swept lilie t leaves before : -
a gale. Should -tlieK be swept
away, and should the spirit which as
sails them in-the South, and which
called them into being, -coritintfe to
rage; m ildew will ?olio* in the wake:
When Lincoln issued hi§"-prOcla
mation of emancipation, men and
women its this - city :were 'maddened
-
by.being made to believe that the
slaves . set free would swarm ~to the .
North, crowd out White !abort. and..
cut down its wages. The - draft riots
were largely incited by this: Wicked,
insane pretense: Throughout the
North this was the: appeal
.to the la
boring man, and Many. members:
Congress who had supported. Lincoln
were defeated at the- ensuing, elec-.
tion. - Vainly we pleaded for, reasen. -
We,said no, men do. not tIY from lib
erty: they fly from slavery and
wrong. Events have vindicated the
logic of freedom. • .
Once more I repeat' the. argument•
and the WArnina.- • The black man
wants to remain e by.the graves his
fathers ' but let perSecutions• go on,
and!, the story of Pharaoh and of
will be repeated. .
An exodus ; not of a few despairing
spnls, but a real. exodus,r'will is gin,
4fcpriiing7 Sotithern fields of the
hipais that ; should and Woulil till
them, end bl'inging to thetNortli and
the West a population• not inured to
Northern climes, - and not:adapt eil..tO
psefulnes4nd advantage here; which,
fairly .treated, would come from them,
in the South.
The. national - banking - systein is
:inothUr, eyesore t 6 , the. opposition.
Nitional ConVentions -have de
nied All i tipoWer of Congress to author
ize banks. By votes an'l specebes.
in Congress, by declarations of con-
Ventions and leaders, by, studied-,
arnendments - offered to• the billy un
der which - the national debt has been
refintded, the national banking sys
tem etas been struck wherever a blow
could be. put in.. This fahr . .c of
banking is now i&wrought not only
with the business of the country. but
with the maintenance . of specie- pay-' ments- T -it Stands a lion in the Path - 4
of .fiat money, intlation, , Land all' the
train orlinaneial hetegies• which Os ,
sess the 'Democratic mind, especially
in the South. In unnumbered ways,
direct and indirect, this vast interest
is constantly exposed to the action .
of Congress. ~
The Cineinnati' Convention, seems
to have felt. the need of a little cau
tion on this point when it nominated
Cdr. \
Ponolish for Viet?. President. • 1.1,1
is - President Of a National Bank
They ! nominated a Union - . General as
a blind toillie soldiers and a bank of
ficer as a blind to'-the hankers: -Evi
dently it, is thought the • Northern
Demoeraticiteam - drives better w.ith .
blinders. But even blinders do not
always answer. In
.1864, after sol--
.etnnly asserting,Juit when the
rebel
lion was gasping its last,' that the
war for the Union was a failure, the
Democratic Convention, -at, ,instign
ition coming then from the- sheltering
'refuge Of the Canadian shore,. the
sante instigation. which 'prompted a
like expedient trio*, putlip a 'Union
General. That General did not issue
order No. 40 in the midst of laWless.
ess and butchery, which civil .att;;
thority could not arrest.. No, he is
suedi orders arresting the Legislature
of Maryland, a State which had not.
seceded, and he issued orders pro
claiming martial law arta suspending
the !MVOs corpus. at election time,
and placed soldiers as Super Visors of
the poll& But even, with- such a
Union General. the disguise' was tco
thin. .
SE,,EKINd TO I'LUNDEEt' irtn•TßEiSUltl*
•
• ar claims upon the lreasufy
have been and Will be a subject fruit
ful of much agitation. I fun moved
toizrefer to it by the wholly ground
less.
assertion in regard to it uOw
ing the rounds or party, journals.
The fashion of this asseAion seems,
to have been set by Mr.."-Randall,
Speaker of the !louse of Represents.'
fives. - Mr. `Raridall is one of the
ablest and moat intelligent, as he is
one of the itcost kourageoni, men of
his party, and I speak of him with
much respect. 3n several speeches
he has taken up the matter of •South
ern.o, .always to : say that they
Arvt lry, -, thp fourteenth ainend ,
Merit t Constitution. It puzzles
me S 0 -.
11olv so discerning a- man ,
can liavf: fallen into such' an error.
The proceellings over which he pre-.
sides constantly , refute the amnion.
In therourteentit amendment stand
t 1 corrrtriott rtniartt rAcizq
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