SPEECH- 0F , H0N..1. M scovzr.
Our Relations with the Rebellious States
—Prtsidential,kowera- - -The Great Poli
tical Law of Miter/ea. '
DELIVERED IN THE NEW JERSEY SENATE,
FEBRUARY-27TH, 1866.
Mr. President: He must- be a buoyant
philosopher as Well as the most charming
of optimists; who will deny, since the 22d
day of February, that there is vitality in the
spirit of slavery. '
It belongs to brave and creative intellects
to forget - the past, and I did not, Mr. Presi
dent, take my place upon the floor of the
Senate to-day to indulge in any historical
detail of the sad but glorious recollections of
the past four years, through which the
American Republic has struggled and suf
fered and triumphed.
,2But, sir, events which have so recently
shaken political,opinion to -its centre, teach
meto
" Be wary and mistrustful;
... The sinew of the soul are these."
And, without effort, recall the session of
_that defiant convention, which nominated a
candidate for President because lie had
never won a battle, and then with the un-
Jilushing audacity asked the world to be
lieve,that a just war was a failure, and that
"a cessation of hostilities" was demanded
;by justice, libertv.and humanity! But the
Gcd of our fathers. and not the wisdom of
man, rescued the - Republic.
• Sherman, within -a- month after the
Chicago surrender, with the glittering ba
yonets ,of his hundred thousand stamped
Mr. Vallandigham's utterances as a po
litical falsehood. The empire, of liberty
moved forward. As we fondly imagined,
the reign of peace had come to stay. The
kindest and most laving of meri—he who
was moat deeply versed in the unwritten
-laws of humanity, the trusted, the truest,
and most well beloved leader of the nation's
cause walked hand in hand with his little
ebild unguarded through the streets of
Richmond.
Not one year ago, upon that wild and
awful night in April, Booth's bullet stilled
the pulses of that mighty heart. Where
was the great criminal ? Mr. President,
he lives to-day—not the leading spirit of a
lying civilization,
comfortable in a case
mate of Fortress Monroe, and rejoicingly
celebrating the 22dtay of February, in the
year of grace IS66—not Alexander EL Ste
phens,.who saw "a ray of light" through
the Chicago Platform, and now sees another
as he complacently refers to President
Johnson as his "great standard bearer,"
and generously hopes that the present
policy of restoration may "receive the cor
dial support of every well wisher of his
country."
Elected to the Senate of the United States
by an unregenerate rebel constituency who
scorned a Constitution under whose shelter
they baselyiendeavor again to creep. Mr.
Stephens of ‘ Georgia, even promises that
the black man may "start equal before the
law in the possession and employment of,
all rights of personal liberty and oroperty;
small thanks for strong deservings ! The
Constitutional Amendment gives to the
dark-skinned citizens of the Republic a
right to be free, therefore in this you yield
him nothing.
The free black in all the States has, here
tofore, enjoyed the right toehold property,
and in Maryland he (the colored man)
voted with the whites for the Constitution
of the United States.' Then if we are just to
the VicePresidentof a dead confederacy you
yield to the black man who carried a bayo
net, or who merged his rights in the will of
his master when slavery existed, in name
nothing but the bare right to live and hold
property—if he can get it!
No Mr. Stephens, you still persist is your
denial of the rights of man, and in these
days there are more simple infidels to man
, than infidels to God. No State government
has ever been recognized which ostracised
a majority,. or any great mass of the people.
The right of the State to ostracise a great
. mass of free negroes has never been re
' crognized. If this precedent be se now, it
is for the first time to be set. When negroes
become free, they btcquie a part of the peo
ple of the nation, and to ostracise them is
to sanction a privilege fatal to American
Government.
There have been for the bondman two
hundred and fifty years of toil; for forty
years the African has been the subject of
conflict in politics, in the pulpit, and in the
Halls of Congress. Wise :men and states
xnen,-insisted that servitude was his proper
status, Congress declared by solemn reso
lution that he should no longer be talked
about. But he was talked about. He grew
into colossal proportions. The black - man
fronted the stars. God raised up (or per
mitting the use of the Devil's instruments
for his own excellent purposes), such aboli
tionists as John C. Breckinridge and Jeffer
son Davis.
By their avarice and their ambition,seek
ing to limit the ends of government to the
protection of property, and to blend the
lofty commerce of spirit with spirit into the
base bargaining of political selfishness,they
at last succeeded, against their wills, in
breaking the bonds of the slave, while they
strove to burst asunder the bonds of the
Union.
And to-day, thank God, the negro stands
-before the world a fixed figure, no longer
three-fifths of a man, but a hole man,
under• an amended constitution. Ho has
rights which a white man is bound to re
spect, and if the political Moses at the White
House is not yet out of the bulrushes there
are 20,000,000 of freemen in the North who
have twice dared at the ballot box—in 1560
and four yeArs later-to declare that some
,Moses must be found to lead the long wait
ing African through any RediSea over to the
prothised land, where he shall, find—after
ninety years of bondage—the stone of igno.
rance and prejudice rolled away from the
sepulchre. There he may walk a freeman
whom the truth has made free in the light
of a morning which breaks upon a new
resurrection of human freedom.
But, I have asked, where is the great
criminal who menaces the life of the nation?
Be lives yet, as he has lived. during the re
bellion, corrupting the heart and animating
the minds of the men, of wham Mr. SheHe
' barger says; "They planned one,universal
. •
bonfire of the North from Lake Ontario to
'the Missouri. They murdered by systems
-of starvation. and exposure sixty thousand
z ,pf your sons, as brave and heroic as ever
martyrs were. They destroyed in the five
years of horrid war another'army so large
- that it would reach almost around the globe
in marching; columns; and then to give to
the infernal drama a fitting close, and to
concentrate into one crime all that is crimi
nal in crime and all that is detestable in
barbarism, t hey killed. the President of the
United States." But the great crime-ina/
died not with the rebellion.
- -.We think we exorcised the evil 'spirit
from New Jersey last November. That he
is utterly dead I beg leave to doubt; but he
lives in the nutmeg men of Connecticut who
refuse the negro the right to vote, and yet
impose upon him the double duties of fight
ing for the Union, and paying taxes in
red in breaking down a sla.veholder§! re
2. He lives in the swamps of South Caro
lina, where black codes are enacted creating
slii•very in fact on one hand, while , they pre
tend to abolish it in name on the other. .
3. The great criminal lives wherever in
high places men shout "this i§ a white
man's government;" and it lives and move 3.
• and hits a being wherever 'caste' flourishes
and tortures its victims with ' the remorse
. lessness of the'Spanish - Inquisition.
;Society is, simply, human natureexisting
in...combinations !sometimes natural, but ,
generally,Mtificial. It cannot be 'denied
that for half a century the Arne
- -Timm Nag= - hay!? not 'been homogenow.
,
The North might, be properly called the'
labor States, and. the South the 'lcapital
States.
With us labor tookcare of [itself; With
them habits of idleness were perfectly con
sistent with ideas- of dignity. Labor was
menial. They firmly believed in the curse,
but not the nobility or labor.
My dead, but immortal friend, Henry
Winter Davis, himself once a slave-owner
and one of the grandest and bravest soldiers
who ever fdught for the liberation of hu
manity, said of the South: It was resolved
to become a power and cease to be merely
an interest. It could be tolerated as an in
terest; it could not be tolerated as a power,
which by political coalition became the
dominant power of the Nation (the addition
of the great regions of Florida and Louisi
ana to the domain of the United States,
fired the blood of the supporters with the
determination of ruling).
It first asserted itself as a power in the
great Missouri compromise so long wor
shiped by all men as the emblem of our
peace.. Texas was its conquest. The com
promise of 1890 was the recognition of its
equality with freedom in disposing of the
fortunes and fate of the nation.
The repeal of the Missouri compromise
was its assertion, not merely that it was 'a
power, but that it had power to rule. The
war in Kansas was Its struggle to assert
against reluctant people, its right to rule.
The Dred Scott decasion was the sanction
of its most insolent claims by the supreme
judicial authority of the nation, before which
bowed every dissenting voice in the South.
It has made for itself a permanent home in
the Soulti; a home full of ' ideas and argu
ments for Its maintenance and advance
ment ;. , it seized upon and .taught the doc
trine of State rights as one of its bulwarks.
(And John C. Calhoun was the wicked
and persistent evangelist of this pernicious
idea, which when backed by the terrible
unity of Southern politicians, and the con
scienceless tyranny of executive courts, had
well nigh taken the life of American Lib
el
The Dred Scott decision inculcated sub
mission to the local authorities, so that in
case of collision the men of the South might
prefer their State to the nation. Slavery
was first wrong, then excusable, then de
fensible, then defended by Scriptural, his
torical and political arguments; then advo
cated and vaunted as the highest develop,:
mbnt of the social organization. Every
principle of human reason was confounded
in the deliberate attempt to make right of a
wrong.
It created a new theology, a new history,
a new ethnology for itself. They dreaded
the intrusive eye of freedom, tolerated it
only blindfold, and thus firmly imbued
with convictions scientifically and logically
wrought with a social system, strong in
arguments for its support, at peace with
their consciences, given over to believe a
lie, a territory equal in area to the greatest
empire in the world—filled with an ener
getic, brilliant, brave and devoted people.
educated in the idea that the State is,
supreme and could secede at - will, and that
even if the State had not that right, it could
sanction, and by its authority, which they
were bound to obey, excuse all who, under
its bidding took arms against the nation;
armed against moral reprobation by pride—
strong against the law of the land in arms,
in the sympathy of many at the North, in a
generation educated and devoted to those
ideas for which they were ready to die, they
drew the sword, throwing away the scab
bard, to assert that slavery is the true
corner-stone of freedom. Oh! monstrous lie!
But, sir,
that corner-stone on which they
sought to raise a new empire, now lies
crumbled and shattered at the feet of
advancing freedom. Shall that shaft be
hewn—that architrave be laid again?
The empire is dead, but, alas! slavery
lives. Its cat-like step walks the courts,and
its Judas Benjamins still live on this side of
the Atlantic.
Its Janus-face and its iron hand encased
in a velvet glove, are •softly found peepin g
over the cushion of Northern pulpits, and I
have beard gentle prayers, whispered in
words worthy of Sydney, the sweet Secre
tary of Eloquence, in thanks to God for
having "converted the Southern heart to
loyalty." Marvelous conversion ! Slavery
dead! My God ! No, Sir ! No ! Clasping the
Bible with handcuffs, and festooning the
cross of Christ with chains, it murders in
cold blood one President at Ford's theatre
on the anniversary of the fall of Fort Sum
ter, and on the the anniversary of the day
that gave birth to the Father of his Country,
at another theatre in Washington, slavery
endeavors to clasp its collar around the
qierk of another Presid‘nt, while Sunset
Cox of Ohio, with graceful mien gets ready
a rehearsal of his new play, entitled
"CiESAR AND MOSES,
OR,
CROSSING THE RUBICON!
IN A BASKET OF BULRUSHES !"
During the performance Vallandigham
hangs out his flag and fires a hundred guns!
The people do not say "amen." But let as
turn to a more agreeable picture; for if we
count time by heart-throbs, these have been
long and weary days in which we have
watched the flank movement of a pro-sla
very army with banners, readily recogniz
ing a new foe with an old face.
We turn from the "nervous man to the
men of nerve." But when 'we behold the
able and courtly Fessenden, and true
hearted Sumner, whose fidelity to principle
is to-day, the marvel of two worlds,. we
sigh as are forced to the conclusion that J. C.
Breckinridge, a - refugee and a traitor,is sup
posed to have more power in this Govern
ment than Maine or Massachusetts. But,
Mr. President, I propose to return to the
consideration of the resolutions before the
Senate. There never was any jar or discord
between generous sentiment and sound
policy. Nature never says one thing and
wisdom. another.
.And - when I advocate an enactment by
Congress which will give to every soldier
twenty-one years of age, who has served
his country since April 14, 1861, the right to
vote, without regard to color, I believe
such a law would be sanctioned both by
good sense and by sound policy.
I may be met by the objection that the
Constitution is silent upon the question of
suffrage, and that this question ought to be
left to .the, States themselves. But the Con
stitution puts the badge of inequality upon I
no one. And shall we? Under the general
powers of the Constitution, I believe, that
right is clear.
That policy which would call the black to
i
our aid n putting down the rebellion, and
then turn him over to the charity of the man
whom he fought against, and .who once
owned him, must be founded in inequality,
injustice and in infinite meanness.
you did not wish to have the negro
hereafter to enjoy the rights of a man, why
did you bring him on the battle-field?"
When he could - relieve us from an im
pending draft, we did not stop to discuss his
right to political privileges then. "If he is
their and your equal (and Thomas Jeffer
ion said the measure of the black man's
talent is no measure of his rights) on the
battle-field, in the service of the country, he.
is and should be at the ballot-box, and if he
is not your equal on the battle-field, then
you have cheated the United States, to the
injury of the national cause, to save your
selves from service."
But above all. this question' is not purely
a question of justice and humanity. We
are bound by Articles IV., Section 4 of the
Constitution, - to guarantee to the South a
• Republican form of government. Congress
has imposed not conferred this paramount
There cannot in the nature of things be ,a
loyai•majority in the eleven. States in rebel
lion - where, you exclude the nameless
martyr's of East• Tennessee, there was found
no single man to make head against 'a revo
lution which very soon, in the !South, was
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ied by the men who originallyi:opposed it.
I tell yon, Sir,'there is nothineehope"and
everything to fear from . these States, of
which Carl . Schurz, the _President's ap
pointed agent, says: • - •
- The loyalty of the masses and moat •of
,the leaders of the Southern 'people; con
sists in submission to, necessity. There is,
except in individual instances, an entire
absence of that national spirit which
-forms the basis of true loyalty and patriot
ism.
"The emancipation of the slave is sub
mitted to only in so far as chattel slaveryin
th eold form could not be kept up. But al
though the freedman is no longer considered
the property of-the individual master, he is
considered the slave of society, and all inde
pendent State Legislation will share the
tendency to make him such.
"The ordinances abolishing slavery,
passed by the Convention under the pressure
of circumstances, will not be looked upon
as barring the establishment of a new form
of servitude."
Alexander H. Stephens may say on the
22d of February, as he did at the inaugu
tion of the rebellion, "My only hope is
founded in the virtue, the intelligence and
the patriotism of the American people."
Statesmen sometimes use words as
counters. But if he means to describe, as
doubtless he does, the people with whom he
lives, what have we to expect of unregene
rate rebels whose average civilization is
that of the middle ages, and who believed,
or assumed to believe, that the laws of war
justified starving 66,000 Union prisoners
till they died at Andersonville.
In the States now represented in Congress
we rely upon the educated intelligence of
the people, and not upon such blind ser
vility as that which followed without ques
tion the great Satrap of Slavery till he was
captured among the swamps of Carolina, a
fugitive in women's apparel.
And what can be said of the patriotism of
a people who hunger and thirst for the ruin
of this Government they have done so much
to destroy, a government they have despised
and reviled for four years, and now seeking
its protection ? they blot from our language
the word mankind, which enriches it—a
word that never passed the lips of Plato,
Aristotle or Socrates. Shame on such pa
triotism which tells us, "Come take away
these 4,000,000 of God's creatures and expa
triate them or they shall suffer extermina
tion at our hand in the coming 'war of
races.' This is the same spirit that said to
Tristram Burgess, 'Td-day, to-day let New
England be blotted out.' "
Sir, this is first a question of right. Then
it is a question of power. It is first a
question of morals (for the forces al
ways go with the virtues), then it is a ques
tion of salvation. We are to choose whether
we will have a friendly and a Republican
government in eleven States lately in rebel
lion,or whether the old oligarchy shall come
back into the Union, governing themselves,
within a year of the time they pursued us
with fire and sword, and more than this,
come back with the privilege when aided
by discontented partisans in the North, of
governing us. lam not an alarmist. Bat
1 have lived among the younger leaders of
the rebellion and in the Southern States. I
know, their temper, and much as I hate
their injustice, I have still a livelier con
tempt for that hypocrisy here, which,
under the thin guise of a love for the "re
stored Union," eagerly waits to strike hands
with the men who headed the rebellion at
the South, when they say with a terrible
show of, truth,
"Once more
Frect the standard there of ancient right,
Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge
And it has come to this, Mr. President,
and I speak that I do know when I say that
this question of suffrage has become a ques
tion ofs-20s and 7-30 s. Southern Senators
and members of Congress will never vote to
pay the debt created in subjugating them
unless you add their debt incurred in the
effort to subjugate us. We need the vote of
the colored men, and in strengthening the
bands of the party of reconstruction it is the
right intention, not the philosophic judg
ment, which casts the votes. In the South
ern States we absolutely need numbers as
well as intelligence. But lam met by the
objection that the States are in the Union,
and must regulate these questions for them
selves. If we grant that there is vitality in
the rebel State governments; and second,
that they have a right to regulate the ques
tion of suffrage, then our nrgument is at an
end; but we make no such admission. A
"State" is defined to be a "body politic." .3
Government, "the persons who administer
the law." Well, then, the body politic
cannot go out, and has not gone out of the
Union, but since the Supreme Court, the
recognized arbiter of conflict between a
State and Federal authority, by the voice of
all its judges, has unanimously declared
that from the 13th day of July, 1861, a civil
territorial war has existed between the
United States and the Confederate States,
since such war bas‘existed, the State Gov
ernments—the persons who administer the
laws ARE outside of the pale 'Of the Consti
tution, because they become belligerents and
enemies of the United States. These State
Governments) then, have ceased to exist.
Their suspended animation will know no
revival. • They ceased to exist in law when
they renounced the Constitution. They
ceased to exist in fact because such govern
ments were expelled by force of arms.
If the President of the United States
counts heads and calls that the people, he at
once takes the power from Congress, for it is
the joint action of the House of Representa
tives, Senate and Executive which consti
tute Congress,
and places it in the Execu
tive, where it does not properly It
That point has been ably put thus: I ask
that gentlemen will go and read that great
argument of Daniel Webster in the Rhode
Island case before the Supreme Court of the
United States, where he met this semi-re
volutionary attempt to count heads and call
that the people, and maintained, and so the
Supreme Court judged, when it refused to
take jurisdiction of the question, that the
great political law of Americans that every
change of government shall be conducted
under the supervising authority of some
existing legislative body, throwing the pro
tection of law around the polls, defining the
rights of voters, protecting them in the ex
ercise of the elective franchise, guarding
against fraud, repelling violence and ap
pointing arbiters to pronounce the result,
and declare the persons chosen by the people,
and we say greatly to the honor of the
American people, it would take him to 'the
going down of the sun to enumerate the in
stances in which almost every Constitution
in the United States hai been changed, with
out one ever having been changed by a
revolutionary process, notunder the eyes of
law, • not guided by pre-existing political
authority. • He maintained it to be the great
fundamental principle of the American Gov
ei nment that legislation shall guide every
political change, and that it assumes that
somewhere in the United States there is
always a permanent organized legal author
ity which shalt guide the tottering foot-steps
of those who seek to restore governments
which are disorganized and broken down.
We have then, Mr. President, governments
disorganized and broken down. What will
we do with them?
Before I answer that question I shall
summon one to whom - public law is less in
debted, but who wrote a:century later, that
Vattel may reiterate with• more precision,
that
"A civil war breaks the bands of society
and government, or at least suspends their
force and effect;it prodpces in the nation two
independent parties; who considering, each
other as enermes,acknowledge 'no common
• judge. • Thesetwo parties, therefore, must
necessarily be considered as constituting', at
least for a time, two distinct societies."
Need 1 appettito Riqueltna who deelaree
that "when a part of a state takes hp arms
against the government, if it is sufficiently
strong to resist its action; - arid :to constitute
two;parties; of equally balanced forces, the
existence of ciyil war is thenceforward de
ter Mined. If the conspirators against the
government have not the means of assum
ing this position their _movement does not,
pass beyond a rebellioE. As true civil war
breaks the bonds of society by dividing it in
fact into two independent societies, it is for
this consideration that we treat of it in in
ternational law, since each party forming as
it were a separate nation,both should be re
garded as subject to the laws of war. This
subjection to the law of nations is the more
necessary in civil wars since these by nour
ishing more hatred and resentment than
foreign wars require more the execution of
the law of nations in order to moderate their
ravages."
In God's government as well as in every
wise human government . the enforcements
of obligation are'coupled with and insepara
blelrota the enjoyment of rights. With
'what show of reason can people administer
ing governments in place of those extin
guished by war claim the rights and powers
of a State under a Constitution which they
have for four years scorned, divided, des
pised, rejected?
After destroying that army which I have
said in solid column would nearly reach
around the globe, they would modestly ask
the conqueror for leave to submit, for their
own approval, the laws under which they
desire to hold their property and enjoy
every right undisturbed, as if there had
never been any rebellion. Dare we trust
implicitly that these men will with cheerful
resignation come back under a flag which
they hate, but which we lovp, ten thousand
times better than ever, because every stain
on its sacred folds has been washed white
in the blood of the brave?
And when I contemplate the solemn ques
-1 ions of the hour, when I stand astonished
at the indecent haste with which red-handed
rebellion pleading most piteously of its new
born love for the Constitution; and when I
see men in high places "wincing under
Southern thunder," just as we have winced,
and wincing yielded, for eighty-seven years,
then I begin to tremble for my country.
It is no solace for our fears that Mr. Alex
ander Stephens so recently said: "Should
all the States be brought back to their prac
tical relations under the Constitution, we
shall have left the essentials of free govern
ment contained and embodied in the old
Constitution untouched and unimpaired."
If they get back on their ;own terms, they
themselves have predicted that the next
war willbe inside of the Union for Southern
rights.
I may be excused from trusting too far
these gift bearing Greeks! I fail to discern
that candor in the late Vice President's care
fully prepared oration spread upon the jour
nals of both Houses of-the Georgia Legisla
ture,which so touchingly turned the periods
of his last and most eloquent plea for the
Union of our fathers in 1660.
I would recall to:his mind his Milledge
ville letter in which he said more than four
years ago: "If everything else has to go
down let our untarnished honor, at least,
survive the wreck." Sir. Southern - honor
did not survive the 14th day of April. it
becomes us to meet these questions without
passion, but with that courage which is
often the loftiest prudence. The supreme
hour for the nation has struck.
If we are just and fear not, we can touch
the men so eager for the power they
voluntarily abandoned, that 'Conquer
ing may prove as lordly and complete a
thing,
"In lifting upward as In crashing low."
If the conflict which is to decide whether
the neat:* we have won by the sword is
worth having aad has come to stay, if that
conflict must come, let it come. Let it come
now, for with God's help and man's fidelity
we will never, never be recreant to the trust
sanctified to us and to the world by the
valor of the dead, and dear to us all by the
sacrifices made by the living. We cannot,
we will not, we dare not omit to do that
which the safety of the Union require=
The statesman is never regardless of conse
quences. But the man who it true to him
self and just to others accepts all conse
quences which follow the discharge of
public duty. As fortftnyself I belong neither
to the party of Cresar nor Brutus. America
will never be cursed with a Dictator, and
assassination does not thrive since the days
of the Roman Senate. We are engaged in
a conflict of ideas nobler and more far
reaching than the clash of bayonets.
If Congress does not give us Manhood
Suffrage we will have an Amendment to thP
Constitution prohibiting representation
except upon the basis of those who are enti
tled to vote. The deep throbbing of the
popular heart cannot be balked in its pur
pose. If Ido not live to see it, my children
will live to see the day when no man shall
be ostracized or deprived of his political
rights on account of his complexion. A
democracy and an aristocracy of sentiment
and manners I can understand. But a
Democracy of Laws which compels the able
bodied to bear arms and pay taxes, but pro
hibits the able-minded from having either
vote or voice in the policies which control
them is a monstrosity in legislation, a false
hood in politics, and a sandy foundation for
a Republic.
My soul expands to the altitude to which
its Divine Author intended it to expand
when I contemplate my country, often baf
fled arid often defeated, but finaily triumph
ing over all her oppressors. In the eye of
my mind I behold the granite base from
which rise the pillars of Constitutional,
Republican and. Universal Liberty in
America. The foundation is broader and its
pillars more beautiful by far than the
Grecian Parthenon, upon whose snowy
tront the sunsets of two thousand years have
left their golden stain; and upon this granite
rock, baptized in the blood of our best and
bravest, will be written by each succeeding
generation,in letters of light,that imperish
able truth of history: THERE Is NO POWER
WITHOUT JUSTICE.
FLOUR, MEAL, SQUASH.
APPLE, BUCKWHEAT,
&0., and will Strain
PRESEILVES,SAIICSS, &c.
A REAL FAMILY composr.
In the KITCHEN it is the right thing in the right
place. No Household-would be without it after a sin.
gle
It ila al.
tri the only Sifter now in use that gives satisfac
tion. Every Sifter is warranted to give perfect satis
faction.
E. SPENCER.
Factory, No, NS North SECOND Street, PhEada,
State and County Bights forEale on easy terms.
Wholesale Trade supplied on reasonable terms.
Samples sent to any Address on receipt of V. to. rfe22
.13.01.14.1:1114.
ORNAMENTAL HAIE
19EANUFAOT 6O RY .
The Wien and 'we anertment
Wig*, Toupee; Long Hair Braids stv
Olurbh Water-fall; Vietcrine;
settee, Illuive Seams for Lodi.;
airriosa LOW= thew ,easciwbere. tat
909 fIRESTNIIT sum". •
DICNLED RERRING.-soeoarrela%Bay - orakdand , 4
A. Herring, in store and far Bale by B. A. BOWER &
0:10 Deck Street Wharf.
Money on it Sinpll
6111NCLit
PATENT
TIN SIFTER
AND
STRAINER.
Invaluable for
use In al:
wnere Strainer
Sieve is required. It
rut
UtQUCOBB.
RICHARD PENMAN'S_
Ale, Wine and Liquor Vaults,
439 Chestnut street,
PEULADFT.T'BIA.
Establlefied for the Sale of Unadulter
ated Liquors Only.
Special Notice to Families!
Richard Penistan's
Celebrated, Ale, Porter and Brown
• - Stant,
Now so much recommended by the Medical Faculty
for Invalids.
$i 25 PER DOZEN,
(These Bottles hold one Pint.)
The above being of the very best quality, it must be
admitted the price is exceedinglyLOW.
It is delivered to all parts of the city without extra
charge.
Brandies, Wines, Gins, Whiskies, dko., &a.
Warranted pure, at the lowest , possible rates, by the
Bottle, Gallon, or Cask.
CHAMPAGNES of the best brands offered lower
ban by any other house. •
On-Draught and in Bottles,
PURE GRAPE JUICE.
This is an excellent article for Invalids. It is a sure
curator Dyspepsia.
HAVANA CIGARS
OLIVE OIL,
PICIELES, SAUCES,
SAEDMES, dcc
London and Dublin Porter and Brown Stoit—Englimb
and Scotch Ales. delYtta
BAY BUM,
HEIR MAJESTY]
CHAMPAGNE,
i'lsl PROW!'ET., BOLE
WOW—The attention of the trade la solicited to
:dlowing very choice Wines, &c., for sAl i kb e l .
JOSEPH F. BU ON, No. UR South Front
above Walnut:
MADETRAS—OId Island, 8 years old.
SHERRIES--Campbell & Co., single, double and
triple Grape, E. Crusoe & Sons, Rudolph, Topaz, Meg
Spanish, Crown and F. Valletta.
- PORTS—Vallette, Vinho Velho Baal, Danton and
Rebell° Valente & Co.. Vintages 1826 to 1556.
CLARETE.—Crize Fils Freres and St. Estephe Chat,
ca tt Larainy.
VERMOVIH—G. Jourdan, Rrive & Co.
AftECA.T—de Fron
CHAMPAGNES —Vitt Irrony, "Golden Star,'
de Venoge, Her Majesty and Royal Cabinet and .other
ftmerite brands.
WHISET.--Cholo3 lots of old Wheat, Bys
and Bourbon Withal - . for sale by E. P. MIDDLE•
TON. 5 North 'FRONT Street. - DIE
svz.mractimmitaytoi :Al
BWIS LADOl t rty
/DIAMOND DEALER & JEWELER,
vv ATCIIES. JEWELRY k SILVER WARE,
WATCHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED.
16._ 802 Chestnut St..Phila.
Has lust received a large and splendid assortment of
LADIES GOLD WATCHES,
Some in plain cases, others beautifully enameled and
engraved and others inlaid with diamonds.:
Purchasers wishing a handsome LADY'S WATCH
will do well to call at once and make a selection.
PRICES MODERATE.
ALL WATCHES W ARRANTED.
Also a large assortment of
Gentlemen's and Boys' Watches,*:
In Gold and Silver cas..t. Anti
RIGGS it BROTHER,
Yom .
CHRONOMETER, CLOCK,
AND
WATCHMAKERS,
No. 244 South FRONT Street,
More constantly on band a complete assortment o
CLOCKS, ibc, for Baßroads, Banks and Counting
Houses, which they offer at reasonable rates.
‘N. B. Particular attention paid to the repairing o
tine Watches and Clocks.
FANCY GOODS.
PAPIER MACHE GOODS
PAPIER MACHE GOODS.
TARTAN GOODS,
SCOTCH PLAID GOODS,
A fine anortment of Papier Macbe Work Tables,
Writing Desks, Inkstands and Scotcn Plaid Goods,
Just received per the steamer "St. Gearge," too late for
Christmas sales, suitable for Bridal Gina, dic., will be
sold low.
ISAAC TOWNSEND,
House Furnishing Stare of the late JOHN A. MUR
PHY,
922 CHESTNUT STREET,
JaMtn Below Tenth street.
GLASSWARE.
PHILADELPHIA
Window GLASS Warehouse,
BENJAMIN H, SHOEMAKER,
AGENT FOR THE
FRENCH PLATE GLASS
COMPANIES.
IMPORTER Or
English, French and German
Window and Picture Glass
And Looking Glass Plates.
MANUFACTURER OF
American Window, Picture and Car GZass.
Oknamental and Colored Glass.
205 and--207. North Fourth Street,
fe2S-8m Pair...u:oatenae.
ItitiLLINA R.Y.
Mrs. .161,...13i1i0n,
323 and 331 South Street.
LLi,- has ahandsome assortment of SPRING MU,-
LINRAY; Misses? and Infants' Hats, and Caps,
Silks, Velvets, Crapes, Ribbons; Feathers. Flowers,
:Frames, ' mhs-41Q
AND CO. ‘' s t 4
NiTALTS T RIEZ,
mbk.t.-thui
•- • at; 3• ; as Fs 0, 6 zt:salF.: :it • c
Brazieee Copper, _Nana, Bolts And . Ingo Copper.t
. eanstantlY on hand and for sate by ECECITICY'WW I3O B
iF 00,083 diOntb liirkarrEn.
RETAIL DRY GOODS
H. STEEL & SONG
WELL OPEN THIS MORNING,
2 case of
CALICOES,FAST COLORS ,
At 12 1-2 Cents.
Yard Wide Chintzes, 25 cents.
Extra Quality yard wid., Chintzes,llllC.
4'eases yard wide double purple Chintzes. e
floyies' very best quality. •
At slower price than they have sold for the List font'•
years. A great bargain.
Bleached Muslims, 20, 25, 31,37 and 40c,
4-4 Unbleached Mullins, 25, 28, 30,31, 33C.
5-4, 6.4, 30-4 Bleached Mullins.
New styles Lancaster Ginghams, 312 c.
Best quality line English Ginghams, 3731,c.
Domestic Goods of all kinds, at the very loweet whole
sale prices.
60 pieces striped Silks, $1 25. 25 inches wide, a great
bargain.
Nos, 713 and 715 N. Tenth- , St.
mhs-at
vein' iiptit‘ 311 DV
1866. Spring In , portation. 1866.
•
E. ff. NEEDS
Has Just. opened,
1,000 PIECES WHITE GOODS,
In PLAIN. FANCY;STREPED PLAID and
Figured Jaconets, Carabrics, Nainsook, Dimi
ties. Swiss. Mull and other Muslim, compris
ing a most complete stock to which the atten
tion of purchasers is solicited as they are of-
I fered at a large REDUCTION from last SEA
SON'ie PRICES.
100 pieces SHIRRED MUSLIMS for Bodies.
,100 pieces PIQUES in all varieties of style and
price from sec. to 51 50.
goo PARIS COFFERED SKIRTS, newest
styles, of my own importation. -
om-towns:loft izasmog4k,--.01
fr.tehi OLD BBTABLISH_ED CsrweP CLOTH
BroRE.—J,4II9 & LLB invite the attention of
their friends and others to their large stock of season
able goods, which they are selling at greatly reduced
prices.
Superior Black French Cloths.
Sunerior Colored French Cloths.
Overcoat Cloths, all qualities.
Black French Doeskins.
Black French Cusstmeres.
Mixed and Plain Cassimeres.
Fancy CAssimeres. of every description.
Scotch and Shepherd's Plaid Cassimerm-
Cords, Beaverteets and Satinette.
Plain and Neat Fl red Silk Vestings.
Bieck Satins and Fancy Vestings.
With a large assortment of Tailors' Trimmings;
Boys' wear, &c., for sale, wholesale or retail, by
J A 'NfleA & J,FF, y •
No. /1 North Second st., Sign of the Golden Lamb.
ELAS:DELT , FOURTH AND ABOH, have
.EJ Just replenished their assortment of
STAPLE HOUSEHOLD GOODS,
And are now fully prepared to supply families with
GOOD .11 - ÜBLFSS, BY THE PIECE,,
GOOD SHIRTING
GOOD TABLE LHCENS.
GOOD BED TICEINGS.
GOOD WHITE FLANNELS.
GOOD FHCE BLANKETS.
GOOD D t - st - AsZ NAPIMCS
BUFF NARspirr.T ES QUALTS.
PINK M_ARSPirt
FINEST AZSD LARGEST WHITE DO:
IRISH RIRD-El.a, AND SCOTCH TOWELINGS.
NEW LOT OF BRILLIANTS. MA RSRTIJ ES, &C.:
SPRING STYLE CHINPZE, PERCALES. &r.
Lwn: TT 4 r.r & CO., 2.6 South Second street.. would
E
invite the attention of the Ladies to their stock °S
RI:LES, and recodimend them purchasing now, as we
have no doubt pf their having to pay a much advanced
Moire
ext
Colored Moire Antqu
price for m'n mones, th and the coming spring.
Black Moire Antiques.
Colored Corded Silks,
Color 'Fora. de Soles,
'titla ed rk Corded Silks,
Black Gros Graines,
Black Taffetas,
Black Gros de Rhinee,
17. B.—A fine stock of Evening Silks on hand.
50_CENT BLACE ALPACAS.
:M, 7o and 4 , superior A Ipacas.
tTI 00 Wide Black Wool,Delaines.
1 50 for finest r. wide Black Cashmeres,
12 for new Spring Sb rdes Wide Wool Delaines.
ew White Piques,Rrilliantes, Cambrica, Plaids, rix;
Heavy Nursery Diapers, some extra wide goods,
Fine Towels : 40-cent Towels- a bargain,
n, and t 5 Napkins are much under value.
Richardson 's Heavy t hitting and fine Fronting_
Linens.
COOPER & OONARD,
S. E. corner IN; inth and Market streera.
B_A FrRE WHITE MOHAIR GLACE, with a SIM
'X finish , Just adapted for Evening Dresses.
4-4 White Alpacas.
White Irish Poplins,
White Wool Poplins,
Pearl Color Irish Poplins,
White Opera Cloths.
White Cloths, with Spots;
Scarlet Cloths.
ID virrt,t TT ALT tt CO.. 28 South Second sip
J I
Harris
caas ST im OK eres ES . & WOOD.
. French rim.c.gimeres,
Mixed Cassimeres,
Slack. Cassiineres,
French Cloths,
Cloaking Cloths,
For the best City trade. :Oil Arch street, second door
above Seventh.
PLENDID TABLECLOTHS.—Jest received, a few'
S
sets of the very finest
DAY k.sE. TABLE CLOTHS,
with Napkins and Doylies to match.'
Also, a few pieces of WIDE IRISH AND FRENCH
S.bEETINGS, thellinest imported.
SHEP: ARD, VAN HARLINGEN eh ARRISON,
Importers of Linens and House Furnishing Dry
mh3 St Goeds, No. lOCS Chestnut street.
GEO. JoHENE.ELS,
Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets g .
FURNITURE WEE ER OUSE
A Large Assortment of
ROSEWOOD DRAWASG ROOM FURNITURE,
WALNUT DRAWING ROOM FURNITURE,
WALNUT DINING ROOM FURNITURE,
WALNUT LIBRARY FURNITURE,
WALNUT HALL FURNITURE,
ROSEWOOD CHAMBER FIYRNITITRE,
WALNL'T ANTIQUE FURNITURE..
Prices are as low as the quality of the work will - )
admit of
GEO. J. HENEELS.
mh2-1m Late of Nos. 809 and $ll CHESTNUT St.
4...).151...kcit).
_.... 1
The Cheapest Carpet and Furniture
Warehouse in the City.
eARFETs.
OIL CLOTHS.I,.
_
MATITNGS,
WINDOW. SHAMES,. ~ . 7.
and a general assortment of Honsehold Furniture. i
H. R. LEWIS,
1434 MARKET STREET, ;1
fel9.3mb First Furniture Store below 15th,:loNver Bide ,
_.... .j
RAIR RESTORATIVES.
133E?„Se. -- 31 - KA..;
INFALLIBLE HAITi RESTORATIVE-l i r
This is no Hair Dye. J
REASONS WRY THEsED. EUREKA SHOULD BE-,';
It will cleanse the scalp, and thereby promote the-1
growth of the hair.
4.1 the bah is dry, stiff and lifeleqs. It will give it
softness and lively yonttoul appearance. -
If the. hair is becoming thin. weak and falling oft, !M•.
will restore its strength and beauty. •
the hair Issray 2 22r becoming so, it will restore It-t -
•
It is free from all Impurities or poisonous druM
. 'lt ierio hair . dye, but au infaillble restorative, anVi
will do all thetas promised; aten used by tbedirections.:s
BOLD; WILOLESALE AND RETAIL. BY p
lit()ktEßT t'LSI.I.EM Sole Agent,
n
NO. 25. Bitrth_Fi'fth, between Chestnut aria S. Louis
Agent for Pennsylvania, DI OTT & 'North ,
BeCond street, Pi:Wads. J , 18 th,s,tti3Ma