THE MONTROSE I E WHAT,
A. J. GERRITSON, Proprietor./
FOR THE DEMOCRAT
OUR AMERICAN LADIES.
BY J. T. YABRINGTO24.
Artificial beauty is gaining the ascen
dancy over the Natural, in these latter
days. •
The time has been, when we gazed up
on a lovely woman, one who was truly
beautiful and fair to look upon, we be
held that which was given unto her by
Nature by the God of Nature; but alas!
that time with many has passed, and with
many mote it is passing away rapidly, and
we fear that we shall soon have no more
Natural beauties among the daughters of
the earth. This is a sad, :but is it not
also a true thought? When we look up
on a beautiful female, with, apparently,
grace, symmetry and perfection displayed
in her every feature, possessing a fine
form and cast of countenance, attractive
on account of her "sweet face," and call
ed "good looking" by everybody, how
mach can be relied upon as real worth,
think you, in that gent of lovelinecs, corn
bining these faultless requisites in wo
mankind, nowadays? Were the truth
known, what per centum of the beautiful
women of this age would be real, genu
ine Natural subjects? , Would not al
most ninety-nine out of an occasional
hundred cases prove to be fancy and not
fact? True it is that Natural beauty and
Natural symmetry are not so common an
article in every-day life as it has been in
years gone by ; these desirable charms
are growing less in quantity and quali
ty, and becoming scarcer with every gen
eration. A 'great deal of the female loveli
ness now in existence, observable every
where in town and country, is produced
by the inventions of mankind and art.
Female beauty in our times is acquired,
made, produced and manufactured, and it
has become an art ; and it is an original
and successful art practiced and used ex
tensively by the professional chemist,
druggist, perfumer, milliner, mantauma
ker, fashioner, barber, dentist, physician
and manufacturer. The results of an ex
ternal and internal application, adminis
tering, using, and wearing of these pro
fessionals' modifiers will change any liv
ing, breathing frame of skin and bones in
to a "model fair." The remedies, compo
sitions, appliances and various inventions
of cunning, money-grasping men and wo
men, is the cause of so much " exquisite
loveliness" of femivality at the present
day. Is the statement doubted ? Then
observe and investigate for yourselves.
When you are in the company of an as
semblage of ladies and gentlemen, you
cannot but notice the handsomeness and
fairness of the ladies present (if you are a
connoisseur of female beauty), and where
you see real worth you admire it; but
when you see ball room belles looking so
tempting, and staring modest ease out. of
countenance, you arrive at the sensible
conclusion that sometimes such court
beauties are not what they are in appear
ance. Some young women possessing a
fair and rotund exterior may be unnat
ural make-ups in reality ; and,. may we
not believe that_ an artificial application
will cause naturally rough and perhaps
wrinkled faces, bands and arms, to as,
sumean aspect ofgenuine beauty and sym
metry ? Is it not possible that the shape
and comeliness of person, in certain fe
male subjects, may be perfected by an ar
tificial expansion of their naturally dimin
ished and perhaps ruined forms? Can it,
be that thestsoung ladies have come to
this through their own pride and negli
gence? -
The deception imposed upon mankind
by our fashionable prudes is quite ingen
ions as well as well as successful ; and it
requires an adept to distinguish between
the two classes. Quite young girls prac
tice the ways of falsity and deceit, thrust
ing their scheming designs upon the pub
lie, and endeavor to palm themselves off
for obedient, conformable and true sub
jects of Nature, when in truth they are
nothing but myths, fanciful, fictitious and
delusive! Row vain, ridiculous and ab-'
surd are some of the flippant impositions
inflicted upon men by this clique of fe
males, in order to secure selfish and mer
cenary ends. The effect is not enduring;
it is temporary at best. Woman's trick
ery and plotting must explode someday;
•hen it is too late to retrieve, husbands
being duped, and their birthright gone,
they will, perhaps, page the remainder of
their days, along with their deceivers, in
untold misery and wretchedness.
It were better for such women that
they had passed their lives in single bles
sedness and died old maids, than to have
caused such anguish of body and soul.—
The man thus defrauded may well be led
to exclaim, "the brazen image in the form
of a woman, unto what shall we liken
her ?" Ah, woman, woman! thou wert
the first, and undoubtedly will be the last
deceiver
The various artificial decorations,adorn
ments, beautifiers, compositions, materi
als, trappings, ornaments and appendages
required by our modern belles of fashion
able society., for advancing their social
and matrimonial interests, are too numer
ous to men tion
. in general detail, but by
the habitual and constant employment of
these several agancies of art among our
fair ones (so realized by personal skill and
attention from their artful handiwork)
may be made to order innumerable beau
tiful creatures on short notice. Among
these indispensable prerequisites needful
to the fashionable lady's toilet and ward.
robe, we may notice paint, powder, rouge,
balm, ac., for beautifying the complex
ion ; henna leaf, for coloring lips and nails;
antimony upon the eyelids, pastel upon
the eyebrows, for shedding a lustre ; wigs,
false hair, waterfalls, rats, mice, head
ilresses, etc., for adorning the head, be-
Sides the various colorers, dyes, tonics,
ctitnpers, for dressing the hair, crimping,
frizzing, &c.; perfumery, washes, lotions,
essences, fancy soaps, lx-ushes,dentrifices,
&c., for sundry purposes; patent inven
tions for developing the form, besides nu
merous auxilliaries, subsidiary to the toi
let and wardrobe.
The true characteristics of woman :
beauty, grace, form. How often is her
beauty, paint—her grace, affectation—her
form, falsity ! Queen Fashion is leading
and governing many our ladies beyond
discretion, and a due sense of reason,mod
esty and moderation. Methinks I can im
agine how the Oriental women appeared
in the olden time, who were endowed by
Nature with pure and incomparable gra
ces ; and how the Wise Man must have
gloried in his hundreds of wives, princess.
es, tic. in their original beauty and sym
metry of character and person, in their
matchless splendor, unequaled graces and
simplicity of charms. King Solomon no
doubt thought that simplicity itself was
indeed a great Natural eharui in woman
kind, and personified female beauty. Of
all the works of God's creation, we are as
sured that man is the most noble, and the
grandest; and as woman is the counter
part or help meet of man, she is his com
panion, and the twain are, therefore inev
itably the very first in His works of sub
limity, grandeur and excellence.
Why, then, will women ruin and waste
their natural substance, and pander their
heaven-born gifts for worthless imitations?
The worth and worthiness of the true
subject. of Nature is without a precedent
in the annals of human economy, and be
'yond the legal estimate of the inconsider
ate and disobedient.
To the daughters of Eve who regard
and obey the laws of Nature, exemplify
ing a conformity of National rites and cus
toms,,give such the respect and merit de
served. They should be commended, eu
logized and referred to as examples of
obedience to the Natural laws of the Un
iverse, worthy of imitation from their com
peers.
All honor, then, to the true and virtu
ous woman who lends a good example to
the world with consistency, above and
without reproach.
There are women who were originally
endowed by Nature with the attributes of
intrinsic beauty, prepossessing features,
unenviable form, and ineffable graces, but
unmindful of their , bestowments, sought
to improve them with the machinations of
art, and are now void of grace, beauty,
form and loveliness.
Carbondale, Pa., Feb. 1808.
A Knowing Youngster.
Some of our readers may be aware of
the•fact that mothers, when riding in the
city cars, accompanied by their tender off
spring, invariably -decline paying for the
latter, and usually look sour at the con
ductor if be insists upon the half fare.—
We witnessed a scene in a Tremont street
car a few days ago, that caused us to
smile in a subdued manner, while some of
the passengers roared with laughter.
A lady, accompanied by a bright little
boy, was called upon to pay her fare.
" You won't charge fur the lad ?" she
asked.
" How old is he ?" asked the mod ue-
tor.
"Ahem ! Well, about'three and a half
years old," was the response.
"Five and a half, more like," yelled the
young hopeful, and be told his correct
age.:
The mother paid his fare, but she blush
ed as she did so.
Children and fools always tell the truth.
—Winter, which strips the leaves from
:wounds us, brings to our minds the lux
uriant summer;.so does old age rob us of
our enjoyments, only to enlarge the pros
peat of eternity before us.
Every vice Seas spinet Nature.
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1868.
From the Laneanter Intelligence,
Reasons why the radical Congress
Should be Impeached and Removed
by the People.
The radicals in Congress are now busi
ly engaged in an effort to depose the law
fuily elected President of the United
States. The charge which they bring
against him is one to which no criminality
attaches. He has done nothing more
than all his predecessors in office have
stood ready to do whenever the necessity
might arise. That the President of the
United States bad the right to say who
should constitute his Cabinet, was never
questioned until the present Congress be
gan to usurp the powers of the executive
branch of the Federal Government. The
present seeming conflict of authority does
not spring from any attempt of the Presi
dent to overstep the Constitutional limit
of his powers, but from a deliberate de
sign on the part of a revolutionary Con
gress to arrogate to itself entire control
of the other co ordinate branches of the
government, which were created and de
sign dt) continue independent in their re
spective spheres. While Congress will
seek in vain for any act of the President
which would even justify censure, that
body stands before the country convicted
of the grossest political crimes and the
most reckless outrages upon the rights
and liberties of the people. It is Con
gress and not the President that deserves
to be impeached and removed. An enu
meration of a few of the infamous acts of
the men who are the leaders of this most
infamous Congress will suffice.
Having been engaged for years in stirr
ing up the sectional animosties which cul
minated in a gigantic civil war, they pro•
fessed to be waging the contest for the
sole purpose of restoring the Union.
When the war was over they deliber
ately proceeded to violate every pledge
they had ever made to the people.
Fearing that a restoration of the Un
ion would deprive them of power, and of
an opportunity to plunder the public treas
ury, they proceeded to devise means for
keeping the Union dissevered.
After denying the right of any State to
secede, and waging war upon those which
attempted to do so, they turned round and
declared those States to be out, of the Un
ion; thus admitting the right of secession,
and conceding that the rebel leaders were
correct in the theories by which they de
luded the Southern people into rebellion.
Despite of the perfect willingness, and
the clearly expressed desire of the South
ern people to return to their allegiance,
and honestly to discharge all the duties of
good citizens, they have deliberately pre
vented them from so doing.
Finding no authority for their conduct
in the Constitution of/ the United States,
they have proceeded with reckless auda
city to violate its most sacred provisions,
and now openly boast that they are " ac
ting outside of it."
They have not only refused to admit
to their seats in Congress men elec
ted by the people of the South, but. in
more than one instance have ejected Sen
ators and Congressmen legally chosen by
the people of loyal States, in order that
they might make sure of the two third
majority necessary to carry partisan and
unconstitutional acts over the veto of the
President.
Having thus strenittiened their hands
for the commission of evil, they have de
liberately stricken ten States out of exis
tence, and reduced them to a condition in
which their citizens have not even the
rights belonging to the population of our
unorganized territories.
They have overturned the lawfully con
stitutes] governments of the Southern
States, subverting the civil law, breaking
down the courts of justice, and setting up
over their people the most absolute and
oppressive military despotism.
After thus enslaving the white men of
the South, they proceeded to disfranchise
them, and to transfer all power to a horde
of ignorant and barbarian negroes ; thus
removing the control of those States from
the wise and virtuous, and placing their
destinies, and to a great extent the desti—
nies of the nation, in the hands of the ig
norant and vicious.
Finding their negro allies unfit to es
tablish or maintain any form of govern
ment, they have kept a large standing ar
my in the South to support them, at, an
expense of nearly one hundred millions a
year, which is paid by the toil of North
ern white men.
They have maintained the negroes of
the South in idleness, through the agen
cy of the Freedmen's Bureau, in order to
be able to control their votes.
W hen elections occurred they have kept
the polls open for days; and if enough ne
gro votes were not polled at the end of
the appointed time, have reopened them
to permit the requisite number to be Made
up by importation and other fraudulent
methods.
They have encouraged the negroes to
believe that they are entitled to the lands
of the whites, and to expect the same to
be divided among them.
Through the baleful agency exerted by
them, the industry of the entire South has
been completely paralyzed, and that rich
and productive region, which formerly
furnished the great bulk of our exports,
and was the chief market for our manu
facturers, is entirely impovariabed, and
made to hang like an incubus upon the
balance of the country.
By their infamous attempts to main
tain power at any risk, the commerce of
the North has been almost annihilated,
our manufactories have beet. closed, mul
titudes of laboring men have been thrown
out of employment, trade of all kinds has
been crippled, and our resources have been
dried up, just when most necessary to en
able us to recover from the losses occa
sioned by the war.
They have arranged and are engaged in
enforcing a system of taxation, which
draws the bulk of the vast revenue neces
sary to support their extravagant wasteful
and revolutionary policy from home pro
duction and the necessarief of life, laying
a flirect tax upon over sixteen thousand
articles including almost everything which
supports life or lightens labor.
While thus laying intolerable burthens
upon the laboring classes, and the men of
moderate means, they have exempted the
securities of the rich bondholder from all
taxes, thus creating a favored class of
those who are most able to bear the
weight of taxation.
They have established a system of Na
tional Banks, to maintain which costs be
tween twenty and thirty millions a year
of the money wrung by taxation from the
toil of Northern working men, and which
is without any compensating advantages.
They have recklessly granted millions
of acres of the public lands, which should
be reserved as homes for the people, to
rich railroad corporations and other gi
gantic monopolies.
They have doubled the salaries of mem
bers of Congress, increased all the expen
ses of the government to the most. alarm
ing extent, encouraged frauds of the most
gigantic character, plundered the Nation
al and State Treasuries by a systematic
system of official stealing, and debauched
and corrupted all legislative bodies over
which they have had control until the na
tion and States have been alike thereby
irredeemably disgraced.
To enable them to carry out their infa
mous and ruinous schemes, which they
confess are being conducted entirely "out
side of the Constitution," they have un•
dertaken to deprive the executive branch
of the Government of the Constitutional
powers rightly belonging to it, and have
assailed the Supreme Court of the United
States.
To day, while the nation is suffering
under the disastrous blows already in
flicted upon it, by an usurping and trea
sonable Congress, that body of reckless
and selfish partisans is devising ways and
means for deposing the lawfully chosen
President of the United States from pow
er, in order that they may exercise, un
controlled, all the functions of tho Gen
eral Government.
In the elections of last fall a majority of
the people of the North impeached this
Congress, and condemned its infamous
and treasonable acts. To day a much
larger majority of the people of the north
stand ready to defend the right. On one
side is despotism and treason as persona
ted in a corrupt and usurping Congress;
on the other is liberty and the form of
free government bequeathed to us by the
fathers of the Republic. We would coun
sel forbearance, but should it become ne
cessary for the people to do battle for
their liberties, we know very well who
would win the victory. This revolutiona
ry Congress which now advances with
seeming boldness to the commission of
desperate outrages, would speedily be no
more known, except to be damned to
eternal infamy on the pages of history.
Let the men who control it take warning.
After them with a Sharp Stick.
The defeat of the Impartial Suffrage
amendment in the House of Representa
tives, at Harrisburg, on Tuesday, excites
the ire of the Philadelphia Morning Post,
(radical,) which speaks as follows of the
radical members of that body. Every
honest man in the State will coincide with
the Post in its estimate of the "poor char
acter of the lower House :
The Hon. John Hickman has made a
brilliant fight in the Legislature for Im
partial suffrage in Pennsylvania. That he
failed is dishonorable only to the republi
cans who were false to the established
principles of their party. Of all the mem
bers from Philadelphia but one had the
courage and consistency to vote for the
republican platform. 'l'his shameful :mos
tacy is another proof of the poor charac
ter of the lower house. The Republican
party will fail, and it would be a disgrace
should it succeed, if it cannot choose bet
ter, braver, and bonester men to make its
laws. Yesterday's work is a Democratic
victory won for the enemy by cowardice
and desertion. •
—Since last year the Democracy have
gained 1,200 in Troy, 500 in Rochester,
304 in Rhinebeck, 300 in Lansinburg, 280
in Elmira, 250 in Utica, 217 in Vobey,
150 in Millerton, and, also in Yonkers,
Corning, Batavia, Amnia, and other
towns in New York, "too numerous to
mention." Thus are th'e impeachers being
rebuked by the people !
—lt was no doubt infamously proper
for the Rump impeachers to select
ham, the managers of Mrs. Surrates,mur
der, as chairman of the impeachment man
agers.
The Armless Artist.
Ctesar Ducorent was born in Lille,
France, January 10, 1806. Born as be
was without arms, what was there for him
to do, even in this busy world/ Each
foot had four toes, but he early learned to
use these to advantage. When very
young, he could with ease throw a ball,
cut with a knife, and draw lines on the
floor with chalk, and could even cut fig
ures on paper, with his mother's scissors.
He early became a good penman. From
this he passed to drawing, and naturally
enough to painting, the wide space be
tween his great toe and the next enabling
him to grasp his brushes firmly. At the
age of thirteen his progress astonished
Watteau professor at the school of de
sign in Lille, who received him as a pupil.
Only three years later, he took the first
prize for a drawing cf the human figure
from maul e. After this he pursued his
studies in Paris. He was of a lively tem
perament, and when in conversation be
became animated, be was in the habit of
gesticulating with his legs, as other per
sons do with their arms. Some one has
described a visit to his painting room
which is interesting:
" Across the whole extent of the can
vas ran, with incredible agility, like a fly
upon the wall, the stunted trunk of a man,
surmounted by a noble head; with expan
sive brow and eye of fire; and wherever
the apparition passed along the canvas,
he
left the traces of color behind him. On
approaching a few paces nearer, we were
aware of a lofty but slender scaffolding in
front of the canvas, up and down and
across the steps and stages of which climb
ed, and crouched, and twisted—it is im
possible to describe how—the shapeless
being we had come to see. We saw then
that he was deprived of arms; that be had
no thighs; that his short legs were close
ly united to his body; and that each of
his feet wanted a toe. By one of his feet
be held a palette—by the other a pencil;
in his mouth also he cart ied a large brush
and a second pencil. And in all this har
ness he moved, and rolled and writhed,
and painted, in a manner more than mar
velous 1 A voice musical; grave, and so
norous, saluting us by name, invited us to
be seated. Then: the aparition glided
down the whole length of the scaffold to
the ground, advanced, or rather rolled
towards us, and with a bound established
himself on the sofa at our side. We
watched him with interest, and had a long
conversation with him. He told us be
had been born without arms, and bad
been a painter ten years, and was now
making money by his art. He used his
feet with almost as much ease as people
do their bands, holding his palette in his
left one, and his brush in the right, as tho'
all his toes were fingers, changing them
with the most perfect acility, and even
thrusting his foot into his pocket, as an
other man would his band. He wrote his
name for us with great rapidity, and well,
and told us he shaved himself."
'The prompt discharge of General
Thomas by the Radical Judge, in Wash
ington, before whom he appeared, is a pos
itive acknowledgment of weakness on the
part of radicalism, and so it is- universally
regarded by the country. The radicals
have placed themselves in an awkward
dilemma. Yesterday the Baltimore Sun
said, with great force : "The logical de
duction from the action of the Court in
discharging the prisoner clearly is that.
General Thomas bad ;committed no offense
in acting as Secretary of War, and, if he
had not, then the President bad commit
ted no offense in appointing him. While
the decision of the District Court has that
effect, it can only be received in logic and
in law as a decision that General Thomas
had not committed the offense for which
he was arrested. Hence, we may ask for
what is President to be impeached ?"
—When Abraham Lincoln violated the
Federal Constitution, assumed doubtful
powers, usurped nodelegated authority,
and trampled ruthlessly upon the rights of
the people, the Rump Congress passed an
"indemnity act," to legalize his doings, so
far as they could and to prevent those
who had suffered from banging him to
punishment under the laws. When, how
ever, President Johnson undertakes to se
cure a legal decision upon an act passed
by a partisan majority to fetter him in his
authority, the Rump Congress undertakes
to throw him out of office. Such are the
different faces of radicalism under differ
ent circumstances.
—On Saturday last Mr. Leggitt, a con•
servative member of the Virginia black
and tan menagerie refused to vote on the
clause which disfranchises " rebel" pa
rents and children for performing acts of
kindness for each other during the war,
remarking that he had a " contempt for
the proposition" and " for the whole es
tablishment." About fifteen minutes
thereafter he was expelled, by a vote of
yeas 54, nays N. Freedom of opinion
and speech seems to be as distasteful to
the Digs as to their radical friends.
LEAP YEAR DiALOEFUE.- - " Miss, will
you take my arm ?"
" Yea sir, dud you too."
" Can't spare bat the arm." replied the
old bachelor.
"Then," replied she, " 1 shan't take it,
as my.motto is, go, fix whole Bogor nothing.
I VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 12.
The Democratic - State Convention did
its work well and faithfully on Wednes
day. Every county was fully represen
ted, and thousands of Democrats were in
attendance from all parts of the State.
The platform is a strong onef and is brief,
plain, practical andlto the point. Not an
issue is dodged, but every one is met
squarely. It will be acceptable to the De.
mocracy, and will be ratified by an im
mense majority at the polls in October
next.
The nominations of Hon. Charles E.
Boyle for Auditor General, and Gen.
Wellington H. Ent for Surveyor Genera
will meet with universal favor. Both are
young men, and Mr. Boyle has digit'.
g,uished himself as a member of the Leg.
'Mature from his native county of Fay.
ette. His example is a good one for the
young men of Pennsylvania to imitate.
But a very few years since he was aJour
neyman Printer; at intervals he studied
law, was admitted to practice, and is now
one of the rising lawyers of Western
Pennsylvania. He has ability of a high
order, is a fine speaker, and what is best
of all, is a thoroughly honest man. Char.
ley Boyle will make one of the best Audi•
tor Generale Pennsylvania has ever had.
Then there is the gallant Ent, who won
his stars by merit, bravery and gallantry
on the field of battle. His reputation as
Commander of the 6th Pennsylvania Re.
serves auy soldier would be proud of.
General Ent is a native and resident of the
glorious Democratic county of Columbia.
He comes of good Democratic stock, is an
able lawyer, and is one of the fineststump
speakers in the State. His name will be
a tower of strength in the approaching
canvass.
Boyle and Ent are the men chosen to
carry the Democratic standard to victory.
It behooves every Democrat to buckle on
his armor. The campaign can be com
menced none too soon, and we trust the
County, Ward and Township Committees
will lay out the work, so that all can pot
their shoulders to .the wheel at once.
We want no laggards. Victory is within
our grasp, and it must not be lost by su
pineness or lethargy.—Readeng Gazette.
A young farmer lirely married to a
beautiful and intellectual lady, after the
honeymoon had passed, was pained to ob
serve that his young bride looked
thoughtful at times, and appeared to suf
fer much from ennui. Thinking that this
might be caused by the absence of female
companions, he induced several young la
dies, relatives, to make his house their
borne, in hopes, thereby, to render her
completely happy. This arrangement hail
not the desired effect. His beloved, they
apparently joyous and cheerful while con
versing with him, as soon as the conver
sation lagged, relapsed into a melancholy
mood. Surprised at this, he fell to pon
dering the cause, and came to the conclu
sion to send to New York for a piano, to
be forwarded by the first ship bound to
Natchez, Vicksburg or Grand Gulf. Well,
the musical companion at length arrived
and a splendid one it was—of beautiful
mahogany, ornamented and polished to
the value of a five hundred dollar bill.
And then it discoursed such ravishing
melody, as the snowy fingers of theyoung
bride pressed the keys. The young far
mer was in raptures, and congratulated
himself on having procured the identical
one thing needful to his angel's complete
felicity. Poor man! be paid but a poor
compliment to his amiable partner 's
in
tellect, if he thought she could contedly
pass her leisure hours in strumming over
a pino forte I
He was mistaken. Though music bath
charms, like love, it is not the only desid
eratum in the world ; for while it pleases
the ear and touches the heart it ministers
not to the mind ! The lady seldom cour
ted Apollo and her husband had the mor
tification of feeling that he had not yet
made his domicil a paradise to " her he
adored." At last, to solve the riddle of'
her discontent, be asked if she did not, at
titres, regret having entered in the mat
riage state.
" 0, no, indeed," she replied with great
earnestness, "never for a moment have I
been other than your happy wife; but
sometimes—"
" Well, sometimes—what, dearest 7"
" If I must tell you then—sometimes r
regret that you do not take the newepa•
pers. Papa takes half a dozen I"
Let every young husband, who loves his
wife, and would keep her happy, and thus
preserve an amiable temper, remember
the ease here cited, and steadily avoid tliu
error pointed out.
A goverment detective, who has been
engaged in investigating the nitro-glycer
ine story, reports to the military author--
ides in Washingtob city that the glycerine
was ordered by a New York house of*
Canadian agency, and that the article in
question had never been in the United
States.
So much for the radical pretence that a
plot was formed to blow up Congress I
—The war is ! Ivan between the Sha
goon and the Daice h raging with
great fury.
The State Convention.
Lamentable but Important Fact.
The Nitro•Glycerine Panic.