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TRACT'S SECOND WIFE.
lIY.RELEN FOREST GRAVES.
"What makes you so late to-night, Tra
cy ?"
Frank Tracy laughed and reddened a
little as his room-mate, Howard Leigh,
carelessly put the ,question.
"Blushing, eh ?" pursued the latter,
with a spice of mischievous MalicS in Ilia
voice, "then of course I am to conclude
that you have been in the charming so
ciety of some young lady."
"Your guess is partly right," said Tra
cy, lightly, "but the lady is a very little
lady. To tell you the truth, I have
been spending the evening at Mrs. Wal
ton's, and playing with that baby of hers.
I never saw such a little Ilebe in my life.
Why, I could have sat for hours with that
baby on my knee !"
"Then I am to conclude that she nei
ther chewed your cravat ends nor jerked
at voqr watch chain, to say nothing of
crying!"
"Not g bit of it. She's the most per..
feet little piece of 11-sh and blood I ever
saw in my life; if I thought site, would
grow up half as pretty as she is now, up
on my life I'd .wait for her !"
"And what would Leoncite Warren
eay ?"
"Ah, what indeed ; I'm glad you've rei
called me to loyalty, though certainly Leo
nore can't very well be jeantls et my ti
ny flirtations with Mrs. IValton's pretty
baby. Heigho, I sotnetitnes think I've
made a mistake in eringing myself to
Leonore Warren. She is as beautiful as
an-dngel, and yet somehe il lv we don't seem
to be congenial."
"Bather late to think about that, I
shoullimagine, when the wedding day is
fixed, and passage taken in the European
skamer for the wedding tour. By the
way, Frank, hew long shall you remain
in Europe?"
"I can't say, some years I be'ieve.—
Leonore thinks a residence in Paris will
be deli.rhtful. I don't agree with her;
brides, you know, .are privileged to
1. e their own way. I'll tell you what,
Il •%vard, - the prettiest nink coral in Na
il,: shall he sent to hang around the ivo
i v IL-I-k of Mrs. Walion's baby."
"Frank, how fond you areofchildren !"
"You're wrong there, my boy—l am
not fond of children, generally speaking,
hut I don't know who could help- loving
that little brown-eyed seraph."
Frank took up the newspaper as he
spoke, and the conversation ' gradually
tuerged.into tfie all entrancing subject. of
polities, foreign and domestic.
„Twenty years have ebbed and flowed
in the broad channel of time, and Mr. and
Mrs. Tracy had just taken possession of
their elegant belie after along residence
abroad. It was evening. , The gilded
clock on the mantel 'pointed to the hoar
of seven, the lire burned clearly_in the or
namented grate, and the flowers in the
several vases on each side of the chimney
piece, were scarcely brighter in their hues
than the pictured blossoms on the superb
velvet carpet. Frank Tracy, who had
changed from a handsome youth into a
tall, stately man of about forty, 'stood
thoughtfully before the fire, while his
languid, faded-looking wife, reclined on a
sofa in the lustrous shine of the glowing
chandeliers. There was only one guest
present to break the monotony of the con
jugal eels-a-fete, and he was our old ac
quaintane4Howard Leigh.
"I do wish, Frank, you . - wouldn't 'keep
drumming with your Stagers on-that man
tel, it makes me-so nervous, but of course
you do not care for that," exclaimed Mrs.
Tracy, petulantly.
"I beg your - pardon, my love - ; 7 was,
not aware that I was annoying you."
"Why don't the servhut bring up the
chocolate?" pursued Mrs. Tracy, elevat
ing her 'eyebrows.
"Shall I ring and-enquire?"
"No, it isn't worth while. If we had
only remained in la belle s Caris, where the
servants understand their business."
"Then you preferred Paris as a resi
dence," said Leigh.
"0, by all means, but Frank never
could be contented there.. It is the most
absurd film of his, returning to Ameri
ca!"
"You forget, Leonore,", said Frank,
somewhat gravely, "that America is
home !"
Tracy - tossed - her,' Ilea and ` toc ic
refuo o a bottle bf sinehing ger
bcisbaxid turned carelessly to Leigh and
resumed the ,co nversation that-ber petu
lance bid-disturbed.
"I haven't asked yet- whether my old
acquaintances, the Waltons, are living or
dead: You have not forgotten my pen
chant for the beautiful baby ?" ,
"Oh, the Waltons disappeared ,
tong afzo
froni the current of New-York life. He
failed, or tomething—blew hishrains our,
I believe. She died of a broken heart, La
Belle was sent , l uuderstpAtp an orphan
asylum,-where sire has already sprouted
intonp
_ a gawky, red-haired woman."
Tracy was silent a,motpen't contemplat
ing upon the sad , faellity:itilli which - peo-
Pie slip and memories of
their friends in the:whirl:of largovitiesz
_ All at once the door was throws open
and two iv three, rosy littlephildren lisatind
ed into 4) 0 idcitit )
baliging on' their White litikdders; and
eyes all in a sparkle with infantine merri
ment. •
'' . s'Don't come near me, you noisy little
monsters!" lisped Leonore, waiving them
away with her snowy, jeweled hand ;
"you'll crush my silks and laces ruinous.
ly !"
•No word of reproof, however, fell from
Frank Tracy's lips, as the litttle ones
climbed on his knee and hung around his
neck. Those, children were , the sunshine
of his life; he endured his wife, but he
idolizad his children.
"Poor Tracy, it's quite plain to see that
he is not happy," said Leigh, that eve
ning, as he was taking his ease within his
cozy home circle. "That with of his is
ehough to drive a man distracted. I won
der he don't commit suicide!"
rAnd so, some days afterwards, when
the sudden death of Mrs. Tracy was an
nounced in the newspapers—ailment, dis
ease of the heart—his first thought was :
"What a lucky thing for Frank."
It was scarcely a year after Mrs. Tra
cy's decease, and the widower was sit
ting alone in his study, when Howard
Leigh was announced.
"Well, my dear friend l" ivas his smil
ing salutation, "what news do you bring
the ?"
"Capital news !" said Leigh. "Do you
know, I've just engaged a splendid gov
erness for vow. children ?"
"I am heartily glad of it ; the little reb•
els are getting quite beyond my manage
ment. They need some gentle, affection
ate female influence."
"And they will have it. This is one of
the finest girls I've seen for a long time;
she has been teaching in an academy, but
thinks she should prefer a situation in
ROW private family. She is all grace and
gentle tlignitv—a jewel of a governess !"
"I am delighted at your success.—
When will she come to take charge of
my childr'en ?"
"Thiti evening. But I haven't told vou
the strangest coincidence of all! Who'
(la you suppose she i ?"
"I'm sure I can't imagine."
"Het:, name is Agnes Walton ; she is
the same whom yon took such a fancy to
in the days of her babyhood. I can tell
you, she don't know you were an old
bean of hers, else she would shrink from
assuming this responsible situation in
your family !"
"Nonsense," said Tracy, half laughing,
half embarrassed. "But lam sorry she is
reduced to the wretched life of a govern
ess."
Nothing more was said on the subject,
and several times that afternoon it recur
red to Frank Tracy's mind. He wished
he could see her.
The gas had been lighted, however,
and the little girls were safely tucked up
in bed, after having said their prayers on
"papa's" knees, before the new governess
was announced.
"Miss Walton, pray he seated."
He saw at the first glance that the
pretty baby had grown into an exquisite
ly lovely girl of twenty-two, with soft
tender eyes like a Madonna, and sad,
qrdiering lips. Poor Agnes—she had
been so roach accustomed to rebuffs and
cold neglect at the hands of the world,
that. Mr. Tracy's chivalric .politeness af
fected her nearly to tears. He noticed it;
he observed the delicate, shy refinement,
and the timid glances from beneath her
lashes. Frank Tracy was a great physi
ognomist, and he drew his own inferen
ces from those things. After a few gen
tle questions he asked:
"But, Miss Walton, why did you leave
the Academy r
"The prim:pal was harsh and unkind
to me, and the place was noisy. 0, sir, if
you knew bow I have hungered and
thirsted fora quiet home !"
"My dear. Miss Walton,"
he said, smil
in‘g, "I commissioned my friend,, Howard
Leigh, to find a governess for me, but I
am in mnch more need of a wife. I think
you would suit me in that capacity. Will
you accept of the home as a permanent
engagement, and me as the encumbrance
thereof?"
Agnes looked a moment into his kind
eyes, and placed ber little hand confiding.
ly in his and said,'"l will !"
And tho concluded 'their extremely
brief courtship. Yet when Frank told
her of the many years be had secretly
worshiped at the shrine of "Mrs. Walton 's
pretty baby," she didn't think it so very
strange after all.
- Thus it was that Frank Tracy married
hi& beautiful second wile, and the little
instead ofa governess got a mamma,
whOm little Minnie confidently informed
her sister, "she liked a great deal better
than the old mamma who was' always
afraid of having-her hair or collar disar
ranged, while new mamma liked to have
her daughters hug and kiss her."
And HoWard Leigh was satisfied that
his friend had married the right 'person
at last. •
•
The papers inform us that " one . Josept
Merrick, of Lowe!), Mass., got drunk a
few days since and tried to swallow a
large piece of tripe without Mastication,
which ; resnited n i -his being chOked to
death !" SOMething . like that happened Co
the jtad.ipats,. / , Oat : tangdrimlc i 9n - power,
they tried to swajladthe ne,go Aole, and
i
itioko'; r go
death. • •
UM=n
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, NOV. 19,1867.
On his return home from Europe,
Judge Wood ward was received by a large
concourse of his fellow citizens, at Wilkes
barre. On bthalf of the people, Gen. E.
L. Dana welcomed him as follows :*
HONORED SlR:—This large concourse
of your fellow citizens and fellow towns
men, have assembled this evening, to give
you a cordial welcome home. It would
be far more . gratifying to Wein, as I doubt
not it would be to yourself; could they
come forward individually, aqd grasping
you by the hand, express each for himself
hid pleasure at your safe return, his con
gratulations that He who rules the sea
has conducted you safely " to the haveu
where you would be," and restored you
to your country and your friends. As
such greeting is however impracticable
with this large assemilage, they have
commissioned me in their names, in their
behalf and iu their presence to bid you
welcome.
They desire to evince by this public de
monstration, their respect for you as the
Chief Justice presiding over the highest
judicial tribunal of Pennsylvania, a tribun
al comparing favorably in learning and
ability, with any in this or other coun
tries.
Your discharge of the duties of this
high office has received, as it merited, the
unqualified approval both of the profes
sion and of the people, and your re-elec
tion for another term, except for your de
clinal ion of the honor, would have been
effected, probably, without opposition.
Your telloW citizens further desire to
bid yon welcome as one of themselves, as
a friend and neighbor, in whose happiness
and advancement they find occasion of re
joicing, and in whose sorrows and recent
bereavement they deeply sympathize.
They desire, however, more especially
this evening to give pet welcome and
greeting, as their member elect from the
1101 Covgro,siocial Digtr;ot of Ponnoylva
nia. They have come here to-night to
ratify and confirm the new relation be
tween themselves your constituents, your
principals, and respectfully yet confident
ly to claim you as their representative
and accredited agent.
For mouths pastindications, feeble at
first, but increasing in force and signifi
cance, as events rolled on, gave promise
to the friends of Constitutional govern
ment, that the great mass of conservative
people were carefully scrutinizing the
conditim. and future of our country, that
such scrutiny would be likely to result in
essentially modifying the policy of the
dominant party, in curbing the revolu
tionary excess of radicalism, and in revo
king the authority of those who bad
abused the trust committed to theiri)kand
who, in the struggle for place and the per
petuation of party supremacy, bad forgot
ten the vital interests of the common
weal.
It was becoming obvious that the as
sumption of un warranted power, whether
by Congress or by the Executive, would
be no longer tolerated. That the maxim
" inler alma , leyes silent" was no longer an
excuse for usurpation. The clash of arms
having ceased, and all occasion for their
employment removed, it was time that
the supremacy of the laws be re-instated,
that their voices be heard and their man
date be obeyed. It was equally obvious
that great questions were awaiting solu
tion, that high interests were neglected,
whilst minor subjects obtained undue
prominence and received exclusive atten
tion. The hour had arrived when integ
rity and statesmanship were demanded,
were promised opportunity of employ
ment and the prospect of achieving im
portant results.
At such an hour, in such a condition of
the public mind, the Convention of ;Sep
tember met to select, in accordance with
Democratic usage, a nominee from the
12th Congressional District to the forti
eth Congress of the United States. In
connection with your ()Kt], the names of
gentlemen of high social and political
standing, of tried ability and integrity,
were presented to the Convention, yet
impressed by the considerations to which
I have referred, called upon by the de
mands of the hour, without your knowl
edge, without solicitation on your part,
against your then entertained wishes, in
your absence beyond seas, an absence to
be prolonged beyond the close of the can
vass, you were selected with an enthusi
asm and unanimity unparalleled. A con
test of some bitterness, conducted with
great energy and vigilance by the oppo
sition, watched' with intense interest in
other districts and in other States, result.
ed in your and out success.
In selecting you for this position, the
electors of the District claim that they
"have deserved well of their country."_
In presenting themselves to receive you
to-night , they do , not for a moment in
dulge the assumption that in their choice
they have conferred upon you eitherbon
or or reward. It was with no pprpose of
rewarding your past services that you
were selected, nor was the idea enter
tained. that, your-.election to- Cungreis
wined in itself add to your: wide and 'well
earned reputation. Higher consider:l.-
, than ftheseind aced the ,choicei
Your fellowloitizene, who for .more than;
thirty years have known and observed'
Reception of Judge Woodward.
you in social and public life, recognizing
your commanding abilities, your matured
and large experience as a statesman and a
jurist, have assigned you Flo this position
for their own and the public good. They
have placed an office in your hands not as
an honor but as a solemn trust and duty.
They are not here to-night to claim re
wards or consideration or influence for
having given you their support and their
suffrages. They are here to urge your ac
ceptance to the duties to which they have
voluntarily named yen. They make their
appeal to our patriotism, they plead the
wants of our common country, its cry for
help and your ability to aid it. Persua
ded that you will sink' personal conven
ience and considerations, and acquiesce in
the call thus made upon you, we beg
leave to assure you that you will enter up
on your duties untrammeled by pledges,
with freedom to pursue the course your
judgment and conscience shall diet Ste—
. in addition to the commAdinginflu
, ence which your known abilities will se
cure, you will alsp possess the influence of
a representative of the people in its true
and primitive sense, as one voluntarily se
lected of them and by them. And in your
consols their presence will be felt; in your
words theirs will also be heard.
We cannot credit that public virtue is
so far lost that a consideration like this
will be without force. It has ever been
the fond dream of philanthropy that again
as in some distant golden ago 'of the past,
the time would come when office would
seek the man rather than 'man the office.
But when since the days of the illustri
ous patriot whose honored name you bear,
until now, has this dream been realized?
I dare not detain you and this waiting
audience longer than to remind you that
although chosen by the electors of this
district, other districts throughout the
State, in their present stinted representa
tion, have hailed your selection with a
pleasure only equaled by ours. Nor is
this feeling confined- to Pennsylvania
alone. T6o frionfiß of cogstitutioual gov
ernment everywhere, in every State, unite
in the greeting we this evening give you.
In addition to this , vast surrounding sea
of upturned faces, lit up by the lurid glare
of their torches, you have other constitu
ents not of this fold,who equally look to you
as their champion in the conflict of the
Constitution with fanaticism, of order un
der the laws with revolution.
I should be happy to refer to the cheer
ing indications which reach us from all
sides, that a brighter day is dawning. A
secondary purpose of the meeting to-night
was to rejoice, not over defeated oppon
ents but over the triumphs 'of our cause
and our principles already secured, and in
the fifospect of those anticipated in the
future.
The clonds which have shrouded us da
ring these long weary years are breaking
away, the bow of promise begins to form
its arch upon the receding clouds, resting
its eastern extreme upon Maine, its west
ern upon California, with the Keystone in
its place, and New York and New Jer
sey soon to add their segments. A little
more light, a little more sunshine, and'
clearing up of the mists are needed to
complete the ancient symbol of promise,
and to give assurance that we shall not
soon again be visited by another deluge.
Fellow citizens, I have the pleasure of
introducing to you your Representative
elect, the Hon. Geo. W. Woodward.
JUDGE WOODWARD'S RESPONSE.
My Fellow Citizens—Friends and Neigh
bors as I prefer to call yon—Ever since I
set foot Qn my native shores, on my re
turn frodra hasty tour of Europe, I have
been overwhelmed with expressions of
sympathy, confidence and affection.
As soon as I landed in New York, and
all along my route homeward, and here at
home, my fellow citizens received me with
so cordial a greeting that they mitigated,
as far as it conld be mitigated, the heavy
affliction which had just fallen upon my
family, and to which your eloquent spokes
man has alluded so touchingly. And this
demonstration to-night, following and rat
ifying my election to Congress, whilst
was absent from you, is another emphatic
expression of popular confidence.
Gentlemen, for all the great and unmer
ited honor you have done me I thank you.
And throngh you I desire to return my
hearty thanks to all the Democratic peo
ple of the 12th Congressional District. I
wish they were all before• me new, that I
might. make my grateful acknowledg
ments .to every man of them in person.
I want to be a little more precise is my
acknowledgments, and, before I forget it,
I improve this opportunity to say, that I
have long considered myself under a great
debt" of gratitude to the people of Luzerne
county. More than 40 years ago I came
amobg, thent o a stranger Tstripling, and ,
they adopted. me as a son. Theygave me
whatever of professional reputation and
rewards I gained. They first introduced
nui to the Pennsylvania,. Rutile ,by, send
ing me to sit in
,the .CopstituOotial, (..:;oa
venticop .by, 'iarger ;; Fnajcirity . ,,thati any
other member-of ttuit Convention bad re
ceived.; and from .that day to tbia,they
have never had aaopportnnity recora a
vote,. in ;MY favortilat.t4g:Ovq.-40t Fe
cotge4,44 7,; .
:haslet vote
against me. jk , voice in the crowd. -
"that she will never do.") No matter what
the office, whether 'Judge of the Supreme
Court, Governor of the Commonwealth,
or member of Congress, this county has
always sustained me with a hearty good
will, and I am proud to make this public
acknowledgment of her generous confi
dence.
My relations with the people of Susque
hanna county Imo been less intimate,bnt
I used to practice law to some extent in
that county, and among her very intelli
gent people I had many personal and po
litical friends.
IL gives me great satisfaction to learn,
as a result of the late election, that while
a majority of the people of Susquehanna
are still joined, like Ephraim, to their
idols, it is by a diminished majority,
which, it may be hoped, will grow small
by degrees and beautifully less, until it.
disappears altogether.
I have been thus distinct in alluding to
my obligations to the people of the 12th
district because out of these grows the
plain duty to accept the trust tow im
posed upon . me. lam bound to erve a
people who have so long honored and
sustained me by their friendship. And
therefore, though I did not desire the
nomination, and sent home a declination
which I understood was published in the
papers, and though I would have been
glad if one of the several very respecta
ble citizens whose names were before the
convention had been preferred to me,
yet since it is the will of the sovereigns
that I should go ,to Congress, to Congress
I will go, and will represent you to the
best of my abilities. If it involves any
sacrifice I make the sacrifice cheerfully
for such a Constituency. A people who
have done so much ,for me have a right
to demand the best I can do for them.—
If therefore you are not satisfactorily rep
resented iu Congress it will be because I
cannot represent you. The best I can de
shall be done.
Whilst I..may well distrust my ability
to serve you acceptably, I can be at no
loss about the course you would have me
pursue. You have elected me to fill out
the unexpired term of your late noble
representative, the Hon. Charles Denison,
and have intimated thereby that you
would have me walk in the path illumin
ated by his clear intellect. lam to fin
ish his unfinished work. And however
unable I may be to do it as well as he
would have done it if life and health had
been spired him, there can be no doubt
what the work is. His opinions on pub
lic questions were known and read of all
men. The restoration of the dissevered
States to their places in the federal Un
ion—the committing suffrage and all oth
er local and domestic questions, which
the constitution does not expressly con
trol, to the free and unconstrained action
of the several States—the strict subordin
ation of the Military to the Civil Power
of the country—the admission into the
two Houses . 'of Congress of such loyal
white representatives as the States may
send by a due exercise of suffrage, uncon
trolled by federal bayonets—the restora
tion to the people of their constitutional
currency of gold and silver at the earliest
day the business of the country will bear
it—the adjustment of all revenue laws
upon such a basis that public credit may
be strengthened, revenue increased, and
taxation lightened—the revival of trade,
industry, and commerce throughout our
wholdcountry, and to this end the culti
vation of a fraternal spirit of amity and
concord between the States and the peo
ple of the States—these were the great
objects for which my predecessor longed,
and toiled and suffered,
and which it will
be my duty as it will certainly be my
pleasure to promote.
And my fellow citizens, let me say that
these were the ends for which the Gov
ernment was instituted. I take my stand,
as Mr. Denison did, beside the Constitu
tion of the United States, and I say let it
have free course, and it will pour out
blessings upon all the people of the land.
Of passion and angry crimination we
have had enough—enough of jobbing and
self seeking---enough of mere party strife
—it is time the substantial interests of the
country should have attention. This
wide continent cannot be governed by a
military despotism which tramples upon
the rights of white men in the interest of
the negro race. The founders meant no
result so preposterous—posterity will
never-pardon_us for prostituting our insti
tutions to stiekunworthy ends. The ne
gro is an object for our kindest sympa
thies, and should be protected iit, all his
natural and civil rights, bat let hum nev
er be set up to rule over the white man.
Since the days of Ham he . has proved
himself unfit for this, and it is madness,
the madness of Bedlam, to attempt it in
a country like ours. But if the States
can be left to the enjoyment and exercise
of their just rights, prOtected and foster
ed, `but not oppressed, bytbe Federal
Governmnet,,the whole continent we in
habit will not'prove too wide a theatre
for the 46elopernent of the principles of
, i
An:Aerie:An liberty, add the im gidation of
man
' cannot Set bounds to th social hap
piness ;and material proliPprit of our pec.
plc. ly - e„eliall, teconio, - th, py . of the
whole.,earth, and' Al cn
welco e 'while Wen
front- . itgar(eiii atbe - tli'hii to' share
l i* . tis Shot hitid of the - tee, .ntd genie
§f,t4e
,:bi:ave ; . , .., . :,
VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 47.
My friends, whilst the general "mind
plea to which I have edverted were ve4'
dear to your late repieseptative and_wete
emphatically endorsed by' yotir_ election
of him three several times ..to Coegreith
and therefore are most worthy to — gaide
my steps, I beg you never to forget how
powerless I shall be to enforce -them.—
De not expect tee mach of :your repre
sentative. Remember the- small minori
ty to--which be will beim:4=4le over
whelming aurl talented majtYritt. that
have poseeeition L of both_llousea . of Can
a-rem. It is not for any one- man of par
ty of men to . correct'siittr social and politi
cal disorders. The remedy must • come
from the people themselves through the
ballot box. And I rejoice with you that
all the late indications are auspicious. My
eloquent friend has referred to the late
elections in terms which stir the heart
like a trumpet. I trust that New-York
and New4ersey are not going to part
company with California, Ohio, and Penn
sylvania, but that they will come up to
the rescue of our institutions from medi
tated degradation, and assist in the Oa
rious work of restoring them to the true
foundation of the constitution.
My friends, since I last had the pleas
ure of meeting you, I have taken , a hasty
look at foreign' countries. The popula
tion of Luzerne county has always been
Bo largely compounded of Germans and
Irishmen, and I have had so many warm
personal and political friends among them,
that I confess to a desire, long felt s to see
the countries from which so many of my
fellow citizens emigrated.
I went through the most part of Ire
land and never saw a more beautiful
countfy. But it is sadly mis-governed
and 'the laboring classes are sorely op
pressed. They fe el that their only reme
dy is to come to this country. America
is to them what the promised land was to
the Hebrews and I verily believe a grand
exodus would occur if the multitude were
not too poor to pay for the passage. The
root of all their evils is in the fact that
the 600, 000 farms, in Ireland are owned
by some 20 000 landlords. To' pay the
annual rental, equal to about 7i dollars
per acre of, our money, to support the
church of their choice and to pay church
rates for the support of the National
Church, on a soil though naturally good,
now much exhausted by long culture, is
to subject agricultural labor to a bttrthen
too heavy to be borne. And here is the
cause of all their discontent. - It is not
that they are a turbulant, a disorderly or
a lazy people, but they are oppressed by
landed aristocracy, and no Fenianism
or other revolution is going to re ieve
them, for that aristocracy is backed up
by the overwhelming power of the Bra-,
ish Government.
In Germany the case is very different.
There the land is well divided among the
people, taxes are light, no church rates
oppress labor, and besides an excellent
agriculture in general, they have an enor
mous grape culture which makes every
landholder however small quite indepen
dent. Our friend Judge Reichard assur
ed me that for fifteen years there had not
been a failure of the grape 'crop, and that
the people in-all the little German villages
which are scattered thick through the ru
ral districts had paid off the mortgages
on their homes and had money's at inter
est. Still however, the population is re
dundant. There are more people than
there are acres. And the best thing the
surplus populati on can do is to cotue to
this wider and newer country. ThkGer
mans have peculiar' claims on Pennsylva
nia for Willliarn Penn found, upon actual
experiment, that they made better colo
nists than the English and promoted em
igration societies at Frankfurt and other
German cities, and under the stimulus
thus given to emigration, Germantown
now a part of the city of Philadelphia,
was first settled and large portions of
those wealthy counties that lie around ,
and net to Philadelphia. How the de
scendants of these emigrants impressed.
themselves upon our Pennsylvania
msti
tutions is shewn by the great number of
'
of Governors and other public function
aries whom they have contributed to the
public service.
Thus, then, whilit I saw much to ' ad
mire in both Ireland and Germany I saw
what need there was for an open door to
this country, and I am sure our true poli
cy is to encourage immigration. We
I• have room enough to spare and if we can
make our political institutions as attraetive
as our soil and our climate we can aug
ment our populat ion and our national
wealth by a ratio of increase hitherto nn ,
precedented. But if we insist on thrust
ing the negro into equality With the Ger
man and the Irishman we shut the door
against one of the sources of our future
prosperity.
Pardon me, my friends, I detain you too
long. Rene Wing my most grateful ac
knowledgments 'far this' reception and
for all the honor you have done mei - I:bid
you, each and all, good night.
MOB negroes are true Radi
cals. " Higher law" is their rule of con
duct. In Richinoud they have ; formed
what they ca 1 1 , .. Vigilance Ocfmaiinciy, dud
have - notified several.
4 : veyy
white men, to leavohe city * Ines*l,l)oy ,
' 4 had Spoke'? agemist 'their": friend Kr.
Ilithicutt." 'the torecieue famba !
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