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A., J.'&ERRITSON, Propiietor.}-
You Tat - ttorrnost inuoimukt,
"The-Veile d/PrP.Phet":UVrelled—Purl.
lenient I :Taniaiked—and the Great
' • Struggle for Liberty
Continued.
America stands to-day as she has stood
for eighty. ears, the only nation on -the
facet . Of ME the earth 'holding in 'her haOds,
as a legacy to all her children, the price
less treasures of civil and religious Liber
ty. She is the only nation under the broad
heavens which stretches forth • her arms,
and says to the poor and oppressed of the
world, " Come unto me, and share in com
mon with my native children, the rich in
heritance of Liberty I"
By great conflicts were these jewels
won, and by great struggles were they
wrested from• the tyrant's hand, and de
posited in the keeping of the national goy
ernment in trust for millions yet unborn.
On a tablet called the "Constitution of
the United States," sre written the titles
to these rich treasures, and this title deed
was placed in the archives of the nation,
with the solemn injunction from the don
ors of this great treasure to the people of
America, to guard well this tide deed of
their liberties, more precious than rubies
or fine gold. As a sentinel watches a city
through the long night, and never slum
bers or sleeps—as a mist r guards his chest
of silver and gol , o—so the people of
America were warned by their benefac-
tors to stand sentinel over thoir blood
knight '"Eternal vigilance is
the price of your freedom," said they to
their cbildren,
Thom they had delivered
from' the yoke of 'slavery. From tyrants
were the ttreasures .of freedom won, and
tyrants. were:. ever . watching to rob the
casket of its jewels and steal away the title
to them. No king half ever bestowed up
on his subjects such rich gifts—such choice
bleisings. No emperor ever lavished up
on his people such wealth and munifi
cence. No nation has ever enjoyed such
superlative happiness and peace as hourly
flow to all the people of America, from
that depository arid fountain of all politi
cal good—the Constitution of the United
S ales.
Dr. Lieber in the American Encyclo
pedia, under - the beading of Religious Lib
erty, says :
" Perfect Religious Liberty exists only
in the United States, and as tar as we
know has never existed elsewhere."
Under the Constitution of the United
States no.person can be persecuted for hie
religions belief. For eighty years the
Roman Catholics have been • as safe in
America as though the Pope sat in the
Presidential chair. The Jews have been
as secure in their religions worship in
their synagogues, as if a Rabbi, still wait
ing the coming of a Messiah, had ruled
over the land. The Quakers have been in no
more danger of being hanged on a gallows,
of having their ears cut off, or of , being
" tied to a cart's tail and whipped around
seven_ towns," than if Wm. Penn or Geo.
Fox presided in the White House. - The
Episcopalians have used the Prayer Book
and worn the surplice and gown, as free
ly as though epieclpacy was the estab
lished church in America. The Baptists
have stood in no more fear of prisons, of
floes, or of banishment, -than if Roger
Williams presided,in person as well as in
spirit over the free Constitution of the
free people•of the United States.
Equally secure are all the people in
their political-as well as religious belief.
Under the Constitution, " No person shall
be deprived of liberty, of speech, or liber
ty of the press, any more than of liberty
of conscience. All the arbitrary arrests.
and imprisomente in the forts of the Uni
ted States during the late war, were in
direct violation of the Great Charter and
title deed of Ameriean Liberty.
Who bestowed upon the people of the
United States this priceless boon of civil
and religious freedom? Who are the
benefactors of America? What are their
names, and where sleeps their silent dust?
If longing to bow in reverence before
their holy shrines,shall we go, on a pil
grimage to the ast or to the West?—
To the, North or the South ? Shall we
look to see their names inscribed on the
granite and marble moutnents raised in
honor of noble deeds among the burial
places of the New England Puritans, or
shall we look through the desolated reg
ions ofthe "proud and haughty cavaliers"
of the sunny - South, who Mught side by
sidetwith New England for the liberty
and independence of America?'The par:
ty which now rules in America point to
the land of the Puritans, and tell the
stranger, that they. - 'were the fonnders of
civil andreligions liberty in t Ataerica. , But: -
a voice froM a descendant of the Pilgrims
speaks now from the grave,: and the trav
eller to the tombs of the-nation's benefac
tors. He says, "Come not to New Eng
land, but go to Virginia and seek for
Monticello ) where rests the ot Jef
ferson; and-the marble that • speaks the
name of Virginia, Which the„
t Puritans have trodden in the dust, whose
"'soil they have drenched with the blood of
their bravest acid best, and placed the
whole State under a military despotism,
and under the rule of a serrilerseo—in re
venge! yes, Amezioans, in revenge for
the iibettkss that' Ifeiehestiitred Alpo°
you!
John Quincy Adams, . a son of the sign
er of the Declaration of , Independence, in
his," Lives of Madison and Monroe,"says :
' 4 In 1784, Thomas Jefferson introduced
into the Virginia Legislature, a bill for
the establishment of religions freedom.—
The principle of the bill was the abolition
of all taxation for the support of Relig
ion; or of its Ministers, and to place the
freedom of all religious opinions wholly
beyond the Control of the Legislature.—.
The principle that religions opinions
are altogether beyond the sphere of
Legislative control, is but one modifica
tion of a more extensive axiom, which in
cludes the unlimited freedom of the press,
freedom of speech, and of the communica
tion of thought in all its forms."
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,
aided by Gen. Washington, and George
Mason, and Wyche, all of Virginia, were
the statesuleti who succeeded in engraft
ing this article in the amendment to the
Ctalstitutio'n ; "Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of relig
ion, or prohibiting the free exercise there
of; or abridge the freedom of speech or of
the press."
Now, what does Mr. Adams say about
Puritan Massachusetts? He says:
" An amboiitative provision by law for
the support of teachers of the Christian
Religion, was prescribed by the 3d article
of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution
of this Commonwealth."
Jefferson's principles were at war with
the laws of Massachusetts, and the Minis
ters who were supported by those laws
were at, war with Jefferson and the De
mocracy of the United States, which de
manded religious liberty for all. Now,
bow long did- it take Democracy to be
stow religious", freedom on the people of
Massachusetts, and abolish taxation upon
all denominations to support, the Puritan
ministers? Mr. Adams says:
"An amendment adopted in 1833 by
the people of Massachuseets has given
their sanction to the opinions ofJeff,rson
and Madison, and the substance of the
Virginia statutes for the establishment of
religious freedom now forms a part of the
Constitntion of Massachusetts."
For fifty years after religions liberty
was established in Virginia and in the
Constitution of the United States, Massa
chusetts clung to the right of compelling
ad denominations within her borders to
support ber Puritan clergy. The same
Puritan hierarchy was not overthrown in
Connecticut until 1817; and from that
day, a • woe 'and a - Curse has been pro
nounced by the Puritan clergy and peo
ple against the Democracy of the United
States.
The struggle of arms between them has
ended, and th 6 Democracy of the South
has been placed in the chains of Puritan
slavery ; and when the fetters are firmly
bound, with no chance of release, then,
Americans of the North !—yon who still
cling to Washington and Jefferson, to
Madison and Mason; the Puritani , m
which pronounced death upon Cathol:cs
and Quakers who dared to touch New
England soil, which banished Episcopal.
ians, and Sued and imprisoned Baptists,
witl have .the power and the will to bind
you also in slavery.
What a Working Nan Thinks.
In a recent speech, John A. Bingham, a
member of Congress from Ohio, exclaim
ed, "Thank God there is no such thing as
equal taxation.."• Upon this a Montpelier
man, not formerly a member of the Dem
ocratic party, comments as follows:
" Of course Bingham and his party rep
resent the bondholder, who has his hors
es, carriage, his wine parties, his plate,his
bonds.
lam a working man. I have my din
ner pail, my tool chest, and my hard
palms and tired bones at. night, and my
hasty breakfast in the morning., 4 lean
purse, and a tax receipt.at the. end of the
year.
When quarter comes the bondholder
cuts off his coupons, and draws his inter
est, and thanks God there is no such a
thing as equal taxation..
- I draw out my purse and pay my rent.
When the year is gone he counts up his
gains, rustles his bonds and, has a wine
supper. And When the year is gone, I
look at - the greet robber, the tax receipt,
Igo to bed with an aching , heart, to
dream of ' Democratic times, light and
equal taxation.
The - bondholder does nothing. ;He is
supported. -
„;,,I pay State taxes.
'"pay county taxed.
pay villigelaxes.
-4-pay< town
high Way tattetii
I pay revenue taxes.
1 pay -taxes frin everithint.
I pay taxes!to support the riegroa,
I pay taxes 4o rapport Congress.
•
I pay taxes to support. , the &Teta
meat.
• ay .taxes to support ttuibondhold
ers,lwho pay 'no taxes for any:purpose
whatever..
•
I shall vote for equal tatetioNi sod
down With the Intrty who : “ Thank God
gist ibere is no Mat thing ss equsrtiliz*
tinn,"
MONT4O,SE, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1868
WashblunDonelly—Grant.
Mr. Donelly, once of Philadelphia, and
now Gf Minnesotti, has had his character
very fully repairealrom some damage it
sustained in a farnq quarrel with his bro
ther Radicals. Attorney.. General Brews
ter, of this State, has endorsed his charac
ter for truth and veracity. Iu "my two
papers, both daily," the following has ap
peared. The Press copies it from the
Daily Chronicle :
"The special committee:appointed by
the House of Representatives, to investi
gate the charges against the Hon. Ignati
us Donelly, of Minnesota, by Hon. E. B.
Washburne, of Il inois , made a...speech
yesterday afternoon, the substance of
which appears in to-day's Congressional
proceedings. It will be seen that Mr.
Washburne retracts the first accusation,
charging Mr. Donelly with corruption na
a member of the House, and oleclines to
substantiate the other, relative to the
causes which induced him to leave Phila
delphia. We congratulate Mr. Donelly
upon his complete and triumphant vindi
cation. We have known him for many
years. Long before he left Philadelphia,
his native city, where he always sustained
the best character, and in whose High
School he graduated wi h distinguished
honors, be. was regarded as among the
most prominent of her young men ; and
his remarkable career in Minnesota has
been a source of satisfaction and pride to
thousands who knew his rare talents, and
who predicted for him a most brilliant fu
ture when he took up his home in the
great West."
Knowing, now, how reliable his testi
mony is, we may as well recall what came
from a source so worthy of confidence.
He says Washburne owns Grant—carries
him in his breeches pocket. We repro
duce Mr. Donelly's remarks :
"There is a simple explanation which
is given out in my district, and is one of
the great arguments why they should
send the distinguished gentleman's broth
er to this House—that he owns General
Grant ; that he carries Ulysses S. Grant in
his breeches pocket. We had Gen. Grant
up in Minnesota, and of course the dis
tinguished gentleman from Illinois was
with him, and when General Grant was
serenaded the gentleman from Illinois
stuck his head out of the window and
thanked the crowd, and when they rode
in an open barouche together and the
crowd hurrahed, the gentlemen from 11-1
linois laid his hand upon his heart and
bowed his profound acknowledgments.
The people out, there were in great doubt
which was Grant and which was Wash
burne, and they came to the conclusion
that the quiet little gentleman must be
the fourth class politician, and that the
pretentious, fussy individual must be the
conqueror of Lee. [Laughter.] Old f esse
Grant, it is sail, remarked on that occas
ion, "'Pears to me that Washburne thinks !
he owns 'Lysses, but he don't own me—
not
by a darned sight." [Laughter.]
There is a proverb chat a man is known
by the company he keeps. Much more
is he known by the man in whose pocket
he is carried. It is of vital importanCe,
then, to the public to know who and what
the . man is who has in his pocket the Rad
lea' candidate for the Presidency. This in
formation we have from the truthful, reli
able, well endorsed Radical, Dunelly. Ile
says of Washburne :
" If there be in our midst one low, sor
did, vulgar soul, of barely mediocre intel
ligence, one heart callous to every kindly
sentiment and every generous impulse,
one tongue leprous with slander, one
mouth which is like unto a den of wild
beasts giving forth deadly odors, if there
be here one character which, while blotch
ed and spotted all over, yet raves and
rants and blackguards like a prostitute, it
is the gentleman from Illinois."
This is the man who "carries Ulysses
S. Grant in his breeches pocket."
DIRT CfIEAP.-II is said votes were
largely purchased at the purely moral
Chicago Convention. A friend of Wade
went to one of the Florida delegation and
asked him to support Wade. The
Florida delegate wanted to .know what
Wade would do for him. Why, says he
if I go for Fenton I can get my expenses
paid to the convention. A delegation
&bat one State composed of fourteen, in
which were three negroes, it is reported,
were sold out for $1,400, negroes and all.
After two ballots another party steps in.
to the field, and paid for five of those
fourteen votes $250, and they voted on all
subsequent ballots just as he wanted
them. Isn't this buying and selling the
African ? at, low prices too ?
"He Never Saw Grant Drunk."
Wilson, of Massachusetts, sometime
since wrote a letter to a too inquisitive
temperance friend, in which be stated
that be never saw Grant drink ardent
spirits. Senator Yates, (a regular drun
ken soak,) after reading the letter, a short
time since, turned to a friend and re
marked: "Joe, there's a heap of people
who never saw me drink ardent spirits,
but I don't think it would do me the least
bit of good for thel to'ea7 so." Joe go.
Ca to the remark.
Radical Political News.
The Radical plan of manufacturing news
ought to be familiar to all. We append a
specimen. The Savannah, Georgia, Re
publican says that "on Saturday last we
received the following dispatch from Phil
adelphia :
"To JOHN E. HAYES, Editor Republican :
Please telegraph to Press to morrow
(Sunday, 17th,) a short dispatch of the
feeling in your city on the reception of the
news from Washington to day. I will re
ciprocate if you desire. Answer.
JOHN W. FORNEY, Jr.,
Managing ed. for Phil's Press."
Agreeably to this request the editor
transmitted the following:
" SAVANNAH, Geo. May 17, 1868.
"The telegrams announcing probable
acquittal of President received with joy,
by Conservatives. Radical office-holders
and office seekers disgusted and alarmed
at the news. Intense anxiety prevails
among all classes to hear final decision,
while it ,is generally conceded by both
parties that the President will be acquit
ted. The patriotic and unselfish course
of Fessenden, Grimes and other Republi
can Senators has'had a most salutary ef
fect upon minds of the ultra Southern peo
ple, and will prove beneficial to our whole
country. JOlllr E. HATES."
, •
Of course the above did not snit the
dead ducks, and accd`rdingly the follow
ing was substituted :
44 SAVANNAH, Ga., May 17
"The news announcing the probable ne
quittal of Andrew Johnson was received
with joy by the rebels. The Union men
are cast down and alarmed ; they fear the
result. The so-called Conservatives of this
city are more outspoken than ever, and
we can look for an early expression of
their views and feelings, in a manner pe
culiar to the ultra Southerner. From all
parts of the State comes word of the re
joicings of the ex-rebel soldiers. The per
tidy of the Republican Senators will cause
many a Northern man in Georgia to re
turn home. To stay here has long been
scarcely possible. Now no Unionists will
be allowed to remain. Intense excite
ment prevails everywhere to hear the fin
al decision, but it is generally conceded
by both parties that the cause of Jeff Da
vis has this time been triumphant."
The Press does not deny the above
facts ; but when exposed indulges in abu-
Sing Mr. Hayes.
Lots of such forgeries will be commit
ted this year in aid of Grant's doubtful
cause.
Use of the Dictionary.
The reader may discover by the follow
ing extract, that it would be possible to
write a technically grammatical sentence
which would almost be unintelligible. The
words below can all be found in the dic
tionary, and all are grammatically used ;
and yet, the thing is as hopelessly dark as
if written in Cherokee. It is an amusing
illestration of the fact that one may write
English, or speak it, and still use an un
known tongue. The letter purports to be
a note from an author to a critic.
" Sir—You have behaved like an impe
tiginous scroyle! Like those ingninate,
crass sciolists who, envious of my moral
celsitude, carry their nugacity to the
height of creating symposically the fa
cund words which my polymathic genius
uses with überty to abligate the tongues
of the weetless ! Sir, you have crassly
parodied my own pet words, as though
they were tangrams. I will not coarcer
vete reproaches—l would obduce a veil
over the atramental ingratitude which
has chamfered even my indiscerptible
heait. lam silent on the foscillation
which my coadjuvancy must have given
you when I offered to become your fautor
and admincle.
"I will not speak of the lippitnde, the
ablepsy, you have shown in exacerbating
me—one whose genious you should have
approached with mental discalceation. So
I will tell you sir, syncophically, and with
out supervacaneous words, nothing will
render ignoscible your conduct to me. I
warn you that I would vellieate your
nose, if I thought that any moral diathro
sis could be thereby performed—Wl tho't
that I should not impignorate my reputa
tion by such a digtadiatioa.
"Go! tachygraphic scroyle! band with
your crass, inquinate fautors—draw oblec
tations from the thought if you can, of
having synachronically lost the existima.
tion of the greatest poet since Milton,and
drawn upon your head this letter, which
will drive you to Walker and send you to
sleep over it.
"Knowledge is power, and power is
mercy—so I wish you on worse than it
may prove an eternal hypnotic."
For an entire solution of the aboVe
highly interesting missive, the anxious
reader is invited to amuse himself an hour
or two with 'Walker or Webster's una
bridged.
- A DONKEY PErrrroN.—The Ronse
Committee on Banking and Currency,
have before them the petition from citi
zens, of Montgomery county, Pennsyi.
vania, praying that. the likeness of Chase
and Fessenden be stricken from the na
tional bank notes and currency.
Letter from Senator Tlumbull to Gov.
Koerner,
WASHINGTON, May 20, 1868.
Gov. G. Koerner
MY DEAD, SIR: Your telegram, and
also your letter of the 17th, were duly re
ceived. I thank you for the letter and
the kind spirit in which it is written. No
words can tell you how pained I am to be
compelled to differ from you and other
life-long friends. This will be, my first
letter in reply to numerous ones received
on the subject of impeachment. At first,
nearly all my letters were in condemna
tion, but within the past few days, per
haps, half are in approval of my course.—
In the midst of the storm of abuse and
misrepresentation poured forth by rash,
reckless, and in many instances, unprin
cipled politicians, I thought it idle to at
tempt to reason with them. I feel sure I
am right, and when the passion of the
hour subsides, that I shall be able to
satisfy all reasonable and fair-minded men
that it was my duty to decide according
to my convictions, whether they agreed
with my political friends Or not. I was
just as well aware before voting as now,
that Andrew Johnson was odious to the
country, and that probably ninety-nine
hundreths of the Republicans desired his
removal; but to have convicted him of
high crimes and misdemeanors because
the party demanded it, when in my
opinion he was not shown to be guilty of
them, would have been monstrous. If
the prosecutors have the right to dictate
the verdict and judgment, the trial is a
farce. No President who disagrees with
Congress will hereafter be permitted to re
main in office, such a principle is to ob
tain—oi, to state the case more accurate
ly,
a majority of the House of Represen
tatives, when two-thirds of the Senate
agree with them politically, may at any
time remove a President. That the Re
publican party has a right to demand the
conviction of the President is' 'horrible,
and the sense of jtstice of the nation will
revolt at such an idea when the passion
of the hour subsides ; yet I have received
numerous letters and telegrams telling me
that the Republican Party demands the
removal of the President. I do not be
lieve it, unless the tribunal appointed by
the Constitution to try him believe him
guilty of some crime or' misdemeanor
with which be stands charged. I think I
am right in coming to the conclusion that
no crime or misdemeanor j ustifying im
peachment was made out in the ease ;
but if mistaken in this, I must, of course,
take the consequence of my error ofjudg
ment, but to charge it is a betrayal of the
party is cruelly unjust. What is the ad
ministration of justice worth when deci
sions are to be made, not according to law
and justice, but at the dictation of a
political party, or even of the whole peo
ple. In newly settled countries mobs and
part:es of regulation sometimes take the
administration of justice into their own
bands, but who ever beard of mobs even
requiring courts to execute their decrees.
The stories about corruption or improper
motives influencing any Republican to
vote against conviction are, of course,
false. All the pressure, and it was very
great—more than you know of—was on
the other side, as an investigation, if ono
is ever had, will show. But for outside
pressure I think no such vote as thirty
five could have been obtained for convic
tion on the eleventh article. tiaaleac_a.
copy-trf my—uptnltiff.
Very truly,
LrMAN TRUMBULL.
Phenomenon on Lake Erie.
The Dunkirk (N. Y.) Union of the 15th
nit says :
"On Tuesday last we were out upon the
lake and witnessed a singular p4nomen
on. A heavy fog bank lay just beyond
the horizon for hours, sluggish and almost
snow white, seeming to be about fifty ft.
in depth. The fog was so thick that ves
sels in it could only be seen by the tops of
their masts peering above it. At 2 o'clock
p. m. this bank of fog began moving to
ward the shore with great velocity, keep
ing its body and density like a cloud, and
moving along about 20 feet above the sur
face of the water. The length of the bank
must have been some six miles. As it ap
proached the shore the two ends moved
faster than the middle, shaping the mass
into a horse-shoe form. This cloudpassed
rapidly to the highlands, and was follow
ed by a strong north wind. The strange
and beautiful sight was witnessed by
thousands on the lake and on the shore."
fgr Our Irish fellow-citizens have good
cause foipride in the details of the storm
ing of Magadala which have just been re
ceived by mail. It seems that the brunt
of battle and hardship was borne on the
plains of Abyssinia, as it has been borne
in so many other fields by the Irish
soldiers of the Queen's army. What
that army would be without the recruits
it draws so freely from the Emerald Isle,
we need not stop to conjecture.
=The Radical method of guaranteeing
a " republican form of government" to
States of the Union, consists in taking
the ballot out of the bands of white men
and pntting it in the bands of negroes,
and keeping a standing army to orusb 006
complaint. . • .. -
IVOLUME XXV NUMBER '26
There seems to be a difference of
opinion between the Tribune, the life of
the Republican party, and the , Chieage
platform builders, on the question of suf•
(rage. Greeley believes, if the, ignorant
millions of negroes'of th'e South are ett•
titled to the elective franchise; then thir\,
intelligent, "educated thousands in the
North" are. We are willing to'let,these
nigger worshippers settle this, question
among themselves, but in order to show
the difference of opinion between the
platform builders and the Tribune, we
copy the second plank and the. Tribune'g
comments thereon :
[From the Platform.]
The guaranty by Congress of equal suf
frage to all loyal men at. the South was de ,
mended by every consideration of public(
safety, of gratitdne, and of justice, aud .
must be maintained ; while the question of
suffrage in all the loyol States •properly
belongs to the people of those States:
[Prom the Tribune.]
Republicans in all the States bad• fief,-
ter make up their minds that there can--
not be two policies in the party at once—
one for the North and one for the South,
We cannot give the ignorant maligns of
freedmen in the rebel States the ballot,.
and at the same time refuse it to the ed
ucated thousands in the North. If we at•
tempt such a jugglery we shall find out
that we have not cheated the negro but
ourselves.
It is unnecessary for us to comment on
these two extracts, as they merely prove,
what we have often said before, 'that the,
Chicago Platform means nothing or any
thing, just to suit the customer.! It is al
regular catch penny concern intended to
deceive the people, and made of such ma.'
terial that every stump speaker may twist
it to slit the audience he is addresiing.—
It is unworthy the respect. or support of+
any intelligent, straight-forwatd, well.
meaning person, and will do more toward;
defeating Grant, than his own reticence,
and horse talk.
Colfax Imitating Scott - ,
Would-be Vice President Colfax, has
several very soft spots ip his head, mote'
in fact, than we had supposed. The idea
of a man who has been Speaker of the
House of Representatives for several years,-
edited a country newspaper, and been a
Know Nothing leader, undertaking to
play Gen. Scott's "rich Irish brogue and
sweet German accent" blarney on our
citizens, is amusing. Mr. Colfax. says in
his letter of acceptance—" Our whole peo
ple are foreigners or descendants of for
eigners." And after enumerating this
wonderful phenomena of spontaneous com
bustion, he talks of protecting them
abroad and welcoming to our Shores.—
Now this is all very well as far as it goes,
and we have no doubt it would go furth
er but for the undeniable fact that'in the
year 1854 Schuyler Colfax was one of the
leading members and pillars of the Know'
Nothing organization at South Bend, In
diana, and sworn not to vote, not to give
his influence for any man, for any office
in the gift of the people, unless he be an
American born citizen, and in favor of
Americans ruling in America. Not only
this,_ but he took the other dark, lantern
oath that When elected or appointed to
any official station conferring on him the
power to do so, he would remove all for
-eigners-from'bflice or place, and in no ,
case appoint sech to any office orplace in.
his gift. Which shall we accept-rCol.'
fax's oath as a Know Nothing malignant,
or his profession now, when a candidate o
for an office that has a tew more foreign
born constituents than the South Bend
Congressional district
Alarming Increase 'of the National
We learn from the published sta t ement
of the Secretary of the Treasury, t hat du
ring the Month of May the public debt
was increased nine millions, seven hund
red and twenty-two thousand, nine hund
red dollars Is not this alarming ? Just
think of it ! In time of peace, the debt to
increase at the rate of nearly ten ,millionti
of dollars per month.
Besides this, over $77,000,600 ib bonds
bearing gold interest were issued in place
of debt bearing currency interestt. Add--
ing the premium on gold, and this in fact
adds over $30,000,000 to the actual debt;
making a total increase of our I:inhlio bur
den of $40,000,000 ! Such are the results.
of Radical rule. How do the people like .
it?
HE TOLD TOO Muca.--When Thurlo
Weed was before Ben. Butler's 4npeaoln ,
ment Committee the other 'day, on an
effort to draw.-from him some admission
as to the tampering with. Senatois as to
the President's acquittal, Butler atiked:—.
" Do you know of any money contribut
ed for political purposes?" "I do, sir; I
helped to raise $30,000 not long ago tor
such - a purpose." (The ears °lithe come
mittee pricked up at once.) "Val wilt
state what use was made of it ?"
was used," replied' Weed, "to enable the,
Republican to carry the New liainpshire
election." It is unnecessary to `say that
Weed was permitted.to go out NNr.tithe
apple blossoms.):
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