E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor.
, ttoittoo CartlO.
SHIPMAN A: CASE.
Itarnesiond Tronk makers. Shop In C. Bogen'
Store I:Wilding, Brooklyn, Po. Oak Ilan:terser, heavy
and light, =de to order.
Brooklyn, April 3, 1571.-40
I. D. SDITII
Liarinst located at J.eirmift Center. Manufacturer otatol
Dealer to Meta and Ilexes Ilasuesres. Col nrs, Whltolt
'haunt. nalldles,tt e.,6oplng,ny strict ai ten tlon.to busi
ness and 111 r dealing, to hare • liberal attain of
loOtronAge.
blsreht,
lIIIIINS & NICHOLS,
gA LARS in Drop, Medicines, Chemicals. Dye.
Paia:s, 01 Is, Varnish. Liquors, pices.Fancy
11.t.Clds, Patent Medicines, Perrnmeryand Ar•
%Wei. OrPrexceptlolls can:rally compounded...—
Weir Block. Mo n trose, Pa.
a. B. Panel.
Feb. 121,
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DR. D. A. LATIIUOP.
adralelstere Er.reruo TIIIMMAL Barns, at the Foot of
Chestrait street, Call and consolt In all Chronic.
Diseases.
Montrose. Tan. 17.12.,1t03—tr.
.1. F. SIIOE3I,IBEII.
Attorney et Law. Montrose, Pa. oMce next doorbelow
the Tarbell House. Public Aeenne,
Montrose, Jan. 17, 15:1„—no3-17.
C. E. BALDWIN,
Ai-roarer mildew:mm.on ♦T LAIC, Great Bend. Penn
eylvenia.
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B. L. BALDIVIN,
ATTOlint At j....w. MOElll'O5O, Pa 001C0 with James 6. Cara t. sq.
Montrose, Angust &I, ISM. Lt.
L 003111 - & LLSK.
Attorneys at Law, Mee Ito. ":t Lackawanna Avenue.
Scranton, Pt. Practice to tho several Courts of Lot
lento Arta Susquehanna Counties.
Ir, E. Looxts.
Scranton, Sept. Fth, 1871.—tf.
W. 1. CItOSSMOV.
Attorney at low. 0111 cu at the Conti Ilonaa. In MO
Commissioner. Orneo W. A. Cnossxon.
➢ontnse, SepL ran. tsa .—tf.
MCKENZIE, & FAUROT.
eaters in Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies and Misses
tine Shoes. klao, agents for the got American
Tea and Coffee Company. Montrose, Pa• sp. 1:70,
DR. W. W. SMITH,
porter. Rooms at his On-01111r. next door out of the
Republican printing office. Office boars from 90. a.
to 47. r. Montrose. May 3, 1071—tf
TIIE BARBER—Ha S Ha! Ha!!
Charley Morris be the barber. who cm eliare your face to
order; Cute brown. black and grizzle, hair. In his
office; jt.t up stairs. There you will od him, over
(lea's atom. below McKenzlea—linit one door.
Montrose, June 7,1871.—tt C. MORRIS.
.1. B. & A. 11. IiIeCOLLUM,
Arronxn - a ar Law Oftica over the Bank, Monty,.
Pa. Montrose.. May 10, IS7I. tf
.1. D. VAIL,
/1011301,THIC P¢mclav AND SCIIO COn. ESS permanently
located hlroself In Montrose, N , where tie trill prompt
ly attend to all cattalo his p rolhaal on with which ho may
be farmed. Igloo and realdotaco treat of the Conn
Moor., near Fitch & Wataon's °Mee.
Montrose. Fcbrnary 8„1,71.
LAW OFFICE•
?MCI! & WATSON. Attorneys at Law, at the old °Mee
of Bentley *Filth. Montrose_ Ps..
r MCC 17.1.11. 'Tt.l m. W. WATSOI.I.
CHARLES N. STODDARD.
Dealer In Boots and Shoes, Ilata and Cope. Lerdher and
Findings, Main Street., In - door below Boyd's Store.
Work nude to order. and repairing dono neatly.
Youtrose. lan. 1,
LEWIS KNOLL,
SHAVING AND HAIR DUESSINO.
!hop in tha now Posit,Mee building, Where tia RDI
he found ready to attend ail who may want anything
in his line. Montrose. Pa. Oct. la, IeGS.
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
RZYSICISN ft SURGEON, textdcrn his service, t,
the citizen. of Great Bend and viciWty. Office at his
residence. opposite Barnum Rouse, GI. Rend village.
Sept. ist.lBo.—tl
A. 0. WARREN,
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ATTORNEY 'AA' LAW.Bounty,l3aet Pay. Permian
and Ezem , on Claim attended to. Waco dr
..eorbelowßoyd'a Store; MontromPa. [An. I.'o
EIL C. SUTTON,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
fiat tact Friendrillle, Pa.
C. S. GILBERT,
.41.12.4aticori.e.c.r.
Great. Bend. Pa
1:7., El.
aagl Ott
AMR ELT;
U. El. Bizotioasckor.
Aug. 1, lel Address', Brooklin, Pa
JOUIW GUOVES,
SaMMOSLABLE TAILOR, Montrose, Pi. Steep OT Cr
Chandler's Store. Mlorders tilled in drst-entestyle.
caubsp done on short notice. and unmated to Ct.
w. w. mann,
CANDTST AND WADI 21ADMACT1THERS.—roc.
or KidRUM?, MOUtateN Pa* 3" :* 1.
STROUD & BUOWN,
rats AND LIFE INSUAANCE AGENTS. AE
essiners attended to rompty, 012 fair terms.
de
Mit door north of `Montrose Hotel,. west elde of
Pabliekrenne, Montrose, Pa. [A ug.l. 1669.
EILLI3OII STEW). • - MUM= L Encrws.
AVEL.TIIRRELL,
DIALER In Drags, Patent Iledlelnes, Chemicals
Liquors., Paints, 011s,Dye :Stairs, Vanishes, Win . w
Glass, Groceries, Gloss Ware, Wall and Window Pa,
per,Stonemare, Lamps, Kerosene, lilac/drier, Oils,
rrtuites, Ones, Ammunition,Knives, Spectacles
liirosties, Fancy Goods, JeVrery. PCXDI r 4t.e.—
beln:lone orthe most numerous, extensive, and.
valuable collections of Goods In Susquehanna Co.--
Established In 1841. Itontrose, Pa.
D. W. SE.S.ULE,
7702LNELT AT LAW, once over the Store of A.
Lathrop, in the Brick Block, Montrose. Pa. taar°
DR. W. L. RICILIRDSON,
Irrsicies & sIIEGEOS, tenders his profession!'
•erelees to the citizens of Montrose and eletotty.—
once at Ws reeldenee, on the corner east of Sayre &
Eros. Foundry. (Aug. I, 1869.
DR. E. L. GARDNER,
PEITSICIAS and StrItOEON, Montrose. Pe. G/va
e.peclal attention to diseases of the Heart and
Ltd:, and all Surgical diseases. (Mee over W. B.
Dean., Boards at bearle'e lintel. [Aug.'. 180.
11:..TT BROTHERS,
- ' SCRANTON, PA.
Wholesale k Bean Dealt:min
HARDWARE; IRON, STEEL ,
'NAILS, SPIKES, SHOVELS,
TiaDER'S HARDWARE,
ga, CAOEN TERSE - NE T BAIL3PIKZ.6
dILBOILD XINING IfUPPLIES.
CARBZAVE SPAM:Mb. AXLES. SKEINS 4171,
,fOXES. Ann; ATMs and WASHERS,
itTED AffLEDE. MALLEABLE.
WSJ .HVAIB.twoICEs.
PELLGis. 6E47 sPEmBIEs. BUM < l / 4 .
Anus, -viers, sTOCKs - 40:1 DIEB,.DKLLOWB
HAMMERS. SLEDGES. MEG, de ice.
CutalLAD. AND FE. MEIN% PACIMIG
TACKLE. BLOCKS PLABTEU PllllB
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CEMENT. Lunt A GRINDIaGIMS.
17RE;TUN2INDOW CLAM:LEATH/43A FANDEIVOE'
FAIRELNIC4 gc4f4 B , . : .
Armiton. Kerett 1.4. 103. v
IMPROVE) 1101180 1
?UNITIZE UM JUNUFACTURFA
flat_ !ON/Mt 119acciend DoubleDrtro N.
Nf acidsinntianat New. York State National Prannam
ila&bona Gnat Ohio National Prern Innap, bald at Mink
/A,:lia
aid lap lannadtautda,. Kasyncad and ntrulaStiste
Ptemhmstz - - -
The g Is simple. compact, removal entirely from
the sunbeam. pid named t o a nest else, fa the
;eat pf th e maths, effectually securing fiasco grit
r
" Ae "t "operatlon can a bit el/taged instantly bran s high
speed tonne a tbhd dower, ablaut slob. thus Abate
MgUW1 , 120;414 plainsong tight nd harry aim
ns cutting apparatus is batten. No bran an d Cue
wont ..baltatta& It is beyond doubt 'the
raebludinths world. end youesn dansdupont=
ortketly ei l lablotiover7ps4looo% i
X c canmir X 6l ;• l 7lb .- 847 1898,
faro- Cakm
BILL MASON'S BIIIDA
itIIET UAW&
flair an hour till train thus, sir,
Au. a fearful dark night, too,
Take a look at the switch lights, Tom,
Fetch a stick when you are through,
"On timer , well, I guess so—
Left the last station all right—
They'll come round the curve a flyin
Bill Mason comes up tonight.
You blow Bill? Nol Flo's engineer;
Been on the road all his' life—
rii never forget the morning
He married his chuck of a wife.
'Twas the summer the mill hands struck
Just off work, everyone;
They kicked up a row in the village
And killed old Donovan's son.-
EITIZE:2I
Bill hadn't been married morn an hour
Up comes a message font Kress,
Orderin' Bill to go up there
And bring dowis the night express,
He left his gal in a hurry,
And went up on number one,
Thinking of nothing but Mary,
And the train he had to run.
And Mary sat by the windoW
To wait for the night express;
And, sir, if she hadn't a dose so,
She'd been a widow, I guess,
For it must a' been nigh midnight
When the mill bands left the ridge;
They come down—the drunken devils I
Tore up a rail from the bridge,
But Mary heard 'em a' working
And guessed there lynx sornethin' wrong,
And in less than fifteen minutes
Bill's train it Would be along I
WI, D. LUSIL
She couldn't a' come here to tell us,
A. mile—it wouldn't a' done—
So she just grabbed up a lantern
And made for the bridge alone.
Then down came the night express, sir, ~
And 13111 was makin' her climb!
But Mary held the lantern, •
A swingin' it all the time.
Well, by Jove I Bill saw the signal,
And ho stopped the night express,
And lie found his Mary cryin'
On the track, in her weddin' dress;
Cryin' an laughing for joy, sir,
An' holdin' nu to the light—
Hello! here's the train—good-bye, air,
Bill Mason's on time tonight.
C. C. Patrnce,
THE BEST THAT I CAN
"I cannot do much," said a little star,
" To make the dark world bright;
My silver beams cannot struggle tar
Through the folding gloom of night i
But I am a part of God's great plan.
And I'll cheerfully do the best I can."
" What is the use," said a fleecy cloud,
Of these dew-drops that I hold?
They will hanlly bend the lilly proud,
Though caught in her cup of gold,
Yet I am a part of.,God's great plan;
My treasures I'll give as well as I can."
A child went merrily forth to_play,
Bul a thought, like silver Laid,
Kept winding in and out all day
Through the happy busy head,
" Mother said, 'Darling do all you can,
For you are a part of God's great plan:"
So she helped a younger child along.
When the road was rough to the feet;
And she sang for her a little song,
A song that was passing sweet ;
And her !Miler, a weary toil-worn man,
Said, "1 will also do the beat that I can."
Kneeling by the stream, I saw
Kate, the farmer's tianghther,
Drinking in her rosy palm •r• - "
Dipping up the water. -
She had thrown her hat aside,
Bare were arm and shoulOr„
Each unconscious charm displayed
Made my love the bolder.
So I slowly, tenderly,
Went and knelt beside her,
Drank with her firm out the stream.
Blushing Kitty Ryder.
And I said, "The poet tell us
Life is like a river;
Shall we not its waters sweet
Always drink together r •
Mum- years have passed ns by,
Like the flowing water;
But I drink life's stream to-day
With Kate, the farmer's daughter.
graitico and Witicismo.
—A retail grocer annoiinces, "Dolly
Warden eggs, laid to order."
—A Detroit colored doctor refused to
attend white patients.
—Arr enterprising butcher's motto
"First in gore, first in grease and first in
the stomach of my countrymen."
—A Fisherman at Selma, Ala, alio
thought lie had a big haul, pulled out a
dead negro with a broken skull.
—The new law in fassachasetts for
bidding contracts with officers of cities
has occasioned three resignations in Bos
ton.
—A pair of , golden robins, at Troy, N.
11. have hang their nest in the same tree
for sixteen years. It will soon ho time
for their golden wedding.
—A Schooner with a.crew of two men,
which had been ice-bonnd in Lake Huron
for four months, came into Port Huron
last week in good condition.
—"Stump-speeches" and "cock-fights,"
seem to bo .in order, with the Methodist
clergymen in this locality.
—So strict is the liquor law at Edger
ton, Wis., that one of the Churches re
cently bad to postpon e commu n ion services
because no wine could be obtained.
—Albert Harvey, a negro wife murder
er, was recently taken from juil at In
dianapolis to vote the Radical ticket. He
won't be hanged until after November.
_ In reference to the gale that swept the
Representatives' Chamber at Columbia,
S. C., a member remarked that it was the
first thins thatjuid passed - through the
Rause without pay. ,
Californian, who set s trap-guns to
pepper thiesing Celestials, forgot hut lit
tle orrogemeut, suld was fatally wounded
.by makiug the Arst experiment with it.
—Albs 'Lam, Thirris, an American
prima donors, now digging- at Libson, is
about to marry a .Portogese nobleman.
She will abandon opera for nursery songs.
—All the lipor shots of Nikshington
are closed 011 Sauday : The- .only place
where yonlan get a drink on tat 441 , ie
at the White House, and then it is. to
your the,
to be a brother is
KITTY.
MONTROSE, PA
What Stunner Knows
:About Grant.
The following indictment of Grant,
was delivered to the Senate of the United
States, on Friday May 81st, by Senator
Sumner, of Massachusetts.
Mn. PaastnEirri: I have no hesitation
in declaring myself a member of the re
publican party, and one of the straightest
of the sect. I doubt if any Senator can
paint to earlier or more constant service
in its behalf. I began at the beginning,
and from that early day have Never failed
to sustain its candidates, and to iiilvocate
its principles. To such a party, with
which so much of my life is entwined, I
have no common attachment; not with
out regret cau I see it suffer, and not
without a pang can I see it changed from
its original character; for such a change
is death. Therefore do I ask, with no
common feeling, 'that the peril which
menaces it may piles away. I stood by
its cradle ; let me now follow its hearse.
Mr. Sumner than proceeded to review
the origin and history of the Radical par
ty, and of his connection with it, quot
ing liberally from his speeches, and con
tinued :
Once country was•the object, and not a
man ; once principles were inscribed on
the victorious banners, and not a name
only. It is not difficult to indicate when
this disastrous change, exalting the will
of one man above all else, became not
merely manifest, but painfully conspicu
ous. Already it dad begun to show itself
in personal pretensions, to which I shall
refer soon. When suddenly, and without
any wasning, through the public press, or
any expression frdm public opinion, the
President elected by the Republican par
ty precipitated upon the country an ill
considered and ill-omened scheme for the
annexation of a portion of the island of
ST. DOMINGO
in pursuance of a. treaty negotiated by a
person of his owirbousehold, styling him
self aid-dc-camp of the President of the
United States. Had this effort, however
injurious iu object. been confined to or
dinary and constitutional proceedings,
with proper regard for a co-ordinate
branch of the government, it would soon
have dropped out of sight and be remem
bered only as a blunder, but it was not.
So strangely and uniteconetably was it
pressed for mouths, and appliances of
power, whether at home or abroad, now
reaching into the Senate Chamber, and
now into the waters about the island.
Reluctant Senators were En:Ailed to its
support while treading under foot the
Constitution in one of its most distinc
tive Republican principles. The Presi
dent seized the war powers of the nation,
instituted foreign intervention, and capp
ed the climax of usurpation by menace
and violence to the black republic of Ray
ti, where the colored race have commene
ea the experiment of self government,
thus adding manifest outrage of interna
tional law to manifest outrages of the
Constitution, while the long-suffering Af
rican was condemned to new indignity.
All these things, so utterly indefensible
and aggrieving, and therefore to be
promptly dhtvowed, found defenders on
this floor. The President, who was the
original amhor of the wrongs, continued
to maintain them, and appealed to the
Republican Senators for help, thus fUlfill
ing the eccentric stipulation with the gov
ernment of Baez, executed by his Aid-de-
Camp. At. last, it Republican Senator,
who felt it his duty to exhibit these plain
violations of the Constitution and of In
ternational leiv, and then in obedience to
the irresistable promptings of his nature,
and in harmony with his whole life,
pleaded for the equal rights of the black
Republic, who declared that he did this
as a Republican, and to save the party
from this wretched comflict—this Repub
lican Senator, engaged in a putrotie ser
vice, and anxious to save the colored peo
ple from outrage, was denounced on this
floor as a traitor to the party, and this
was done by a &hater speaking fur the
party, and known to be in intimate rela
tions with the President guilty of these
wrongs. Evidently the party was in pro.
cess of change frOm that generous associ
ation dedicated to human rights and to
the guardianship of the African race.
Too plainly it was beomiug the instru
ment of one man and his personal will,
no matter how much lie set at defiance
the Constitution 'and international la*,
or how much he insulted the colored
people. The President was to maintain
ed at all hazards, i and all who calledthem
in question were to be struck down. In
exhibiting these autocratic pretentious, so
revolutionary-and unrepublican iu char
acter, I mean to be moderate in language,
and to keep within the strictest bounds.
The facts are ithilispstable, and nobody
can deny the gross violation. Of the Con
stitution and of international law or the.
insult to the black Republic, the whole
case- being more reprehensible, as also
plainly more unconstitutional and more
illegal than anything alleged against An
drew Johnson in his impeachment.
Believe me, siri I should gladly leave
this matter to the judgment already re
corded if it were not put on issue again
by the extraordinary efforts radiating on
every line of officers to press its author
for a second term as President, and since
silence gives consent all these efforts are
his efforts.. They .become more note
worthy when it :is considered that, 'the
name of the candidate thus pressed -has
become a sign of Aiscord; and not of con-
cord, dividing, instead of uniting the Re
publican party, so that these extraordina
ry efforts tend directly to the disruption
of the party, all of which he witnesses,
and?again by his ?silence ratifies.. "Let
the Party split," op the President; "I.
will not renounce, my chance of a second
term." The extent of this personal pres
sure and the-subordination of the party
to will of an individual, compels us to
consider his pretensions. These, too, are
in issue.
ESIDENTaL PUTESSIONB:
".0n what meat doth this, our Cmsar,
feed," that he shoUld assume so much ?
No honor for sickly in war can justify
disobedience to the Constitutional and to
km, Nor can it afford the least apology
for any paschal iminnnity; privilege .ot
kcenee is dill Posi4ont3il once. A
, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1872.
Preeridetiitinnit turn into a king before it
can be said of him that ho can do no
wrong. He is responsible always. As
President lie is the foremost servant of
the law, bound to obey the slightest man
date. As the elect of the people, he owes
not only the example of willing obedience,
but also of fidelity and industry in the
discharge of his conspicuous office, with
an absolute abnegation of all-self, seeking
nothing for self, but all for country.
And now, as We regard the career of
this candidate we find, to our amazement,
how little it accords with this simpin re
quirement: Bring it to the touchstone,
and it fails. Not only are Constitution
and law disregarded, but the'Presidential
office itself is treated as little more than
a plaything and a perquisite; when not
the former, then the latter. Here the de
tails aro simple, showing how from the
beginning this exaulted trust hits dropped
to be a personal indulgence, where palace
cars, fast horses and seaside leiterings
figure more than duties; how personal
aims and objects have been more .promi
nent than the public interests; how the
presidential office has been used to ad
vance his own family on a scale of nepot
ism, dwarfing everything of the kind in
our history, and hardly equaled in the
corrupt governments where this abuse
has most prevailed. How in the same
spirit office has been conferred upon those
from whom he had received gifts or bone
fits, thus making the country repay his
personal obligations; how personal devo
tion to himself rather than public or par
ty service, has been made the standard of
favor. ow the 'east appointing power,
conferred by the Constitution for the gen
eral welfare, has been employed at his will
to promote his schemes, to reward his
friends, to punish his opponents and to
advance his election to a second term;
how all these assumptions have matured
in a personal government, semi-military
spirit, being a speaks of Cresarisin or per
sonalism, abhorrent to Republican insti
tutions, where subservience to the Presi
dent is the supreme law; how in main
taining this subservience he has operated
by a system of combinations, cnilitarv,
political and even Senatorial, having their
orbits about him so that, like the planet
Saturn, he is surrounded by rings. Nor
does the similitude end here, for his rings
like those of a planet, are held in position
by statellites. How this utterly mire
publican Cmsarism has mastered the re
.publican party and-dedicated the Presi
dential will, stalking into the Senate
Chamber itself, while a vindictive spirit
visits good Republicans who cannot sub
mit. How the President himself, uncon
scious that a President has uo right to
quarrel with anybody, insists upon quar
reling 'until he has become, the great
Presidential quarreler, with more quarrels
than all the other Presidents together,
and all begun and continued by him.
How his persual followers
Back"him in quarrels
I nsu l ts o w 10.3minIts. .
and then, not - departing from his spirit,
cry out with Shakespeare:
'We will have rings and things and tine array,"
And, finally, how the chosen head of the
Republic is known chiefly for Presidential
pretensions, utterly indefens'ble in char
acter, derogatory to the country and of
evil influence, making personal objects a
pursuit, so that, instead of bencficient
presence, he is a bad example, through
whom republican institutions suffer and
the people learn to do wrong. Would
that these thing could be forgotten, but
since, through officious friends, the Presi
dent insiifts upon a second term, they
must be considered and publicly discussed.
When understaod nobody w:11 vindicate
them. It is easy to see that Cresarism,
even in Europe, is at a discount; that
"personal government" has been beaten
on that ancient field; and that Caesar,
with a Senate at his knees, is not the fit
model for our Republic.
Unrepublical; personal government is
autocratic; it is the one-man power ele
vated above all else, and is, therefore, in
direct conflict with a republican govern.
meet, whose consummate form is tripar
tite—executive, legislative and judicial—
each independen i t and coequal. To com
prehend the persoual government that
has been installed over us we must know
its author; his picture is the necessary
fnintispiede. Not as a soldier,' let it be
borne in mind, but as a civilian.. Eicept
in war it is not known that our chieftain
had any experience as a civilian until lie
became President. Nor does any parti
san attribute to him that doable culture
which in antiquity made the same- man
soldier and statesman. It has often been
said that he took no note of public) af
fairs, never voting but once in his life, and
then for James Buchanan. After leaving.
West Point he became a captain in the
army, but soon abandoned the service to
reappear at a later day as a successful
general. There is no reason to believe
that he spent this intermediate period in
any way calculated to prove him a states
man. One of his supporters, my col
league, Mr. Wilson, in a speech intended
to commend him for re-election, says:
"Before the war we knew nothing of
Grant. He was earning a few hundred
dallars a year in tanning hides in Gele
na." By tho way he passed to -be Presi
dent. And such was his preparation to
govern the Great Republic, making itsiir
example to mankind.
TE.STINONT OF TIIE . LATE 'EDWARD 31
STANTON. -
Something also must be attributed to
individual character, and here I express
no opinion of my own. I shall allow
another to speak in solemn words echoed
from the tomb. On machine Washing
ton at the opening of Congress, in De
.cember, 1860, I was pained , to hear that
lldr. Stanton, late Secretary of War, was
in failing health. As I entered his bed
room, where I found him reclining on *a
sofa, propped by pillows, he reached out
his hand, already clammy cold, and in re.
ply to my ‘ inquiry , " How are you?" an
'
swered, waiting for my furlough." Then
at once, with singular soleninity; he said,
"I have something to say to yon." When
I was seated, he proeftded ivithont one
word of introduction : "I know General
Grant better than any other person in thri
country can know bim. It was my linty
to study_hini, and I did oo night and day,
when j saw him and when - I - did not "see
him; and now I tell you That I know
He cannot govern this country." At last !
after some delay; occupied in meditating
upon his remarkable words, I , observed,
" What you say is very broad." "It is as
true as it is broad," he replied promptly.
r added, "You tell this Tate; why did you
not say it. before his nomination ?" He
answered that he vas not consulted about
the nomination, and bad no opportunity
of expressing his opinion upon it, besides
being much occupied at the time by his
duties as Secretary of War, and his con
test with the President.
I folloti.ed by saying, "But you took
part in the Residential election, and
made a succession of speeches for him in
O'io anti Pennsylvania ?" "I spoke,"
said he, i‘ bat I never introduced the
name of General Grant; I spoke for the
Republican party and the Republican
Cause.
NEPOTISM OF THE PRESIDENT
Insituting upon re-election the Presi
dent challenges inquiry, and puts him
self upon the country. It is important
that the perSonal pretentious he has set
up should be exposed; that no President
hpreafter may venture upon- such ways,
and no Senator presume to defend them.
The case is clear as noon. Two typical
instancesiin opening this catalogue I sel
ect. Two typical instances, nepotism and
gift-taking, officially compensated, each
absolutely indefensible iu the head of a
Republic, most pernicious in example,
and shorting beyond question that sur
passing egotism of pretension which
changed the Presidential office into a
personal instrumentality not unlike the
trunk of elephant, apt for all things
small as well as great, from provision for
a relation to enforcing a treaty on a re
luctant Senate, or forcing a re-election on
a reluctant people. Between these two
typical instances I hesitate whichlo place
formost, but since the nepotism of the
President is a ruling passion, I begin with
this nnilOubted abuse.
One list makes the number of benefici
aries as many as forty-two, being probably
every person known to be allied to-the
President by blood or marriage. Persons
seeming to speak for the President, or at
least after careful inquiries, have denied
the accuracy of this list, reducing it to
thirteen.. It will not be questioned that
there is at least a baker's dozen in this
category: Thirteen relations of the Presi
dent billeted on the country, not one of
whom but for this relation Ship would
have been brought forward, the whole
constituting a case of nepotism not un
worthy of those worst governments where
office is a family possession. Beyond the
list of thirteen arc other revelations show
ing that this strong abuse did,-not stop
with Mid President's relatives, but that
these relations obtained appointments for
others in;their circle, so that every relation
became i centre of influence, while the
Presidential family extended indefinitely.
Only on6President has appointed relatives
anti tha ti was John Adams, but he found
public opinion, insptreu oy Llle example
of Washington, so strong against it that,
after a slight experiment, he replied to an
applicant, "You know it is impossible for
me to oppoint my own relations to any
thing without drawing forth a torrent of
obhquy." The judgment of the country
found voice in Thomas Jefferson; who in
letter written shortly - after he became
President, used these strong words: "Mr.
Adams degraded himself infinitely by his
conduct: on this subject." But John
Adams, besides transferring his son, John
Quincy Adams, from one diplomatic place
to another, appointed only two relatives.
Pray, sir', what words would Jefferson use
if he were here to speak ou the open and
multifarbus nepotism of our President?
GIFT-TAKING
r pass to gift-taking, which, with of
Presideo, has assumed an unprecedented
form. Sometimes public men even in
our eontitry have taken gifts, but it is not
known that any President befoie - has re
paid the,patron with office. For a publiC
man'to.take gifts is reprehensible. For
a President to select Cabinet counselors
and other officers among those from whom
he has taken gifts is an anomaly in re
publican annals.
Mr. *liner then drew n fine contrast
between; the conduct of Washington, iti
this resp&t, and President Otani, and
continued :
- The case of onr President is exception
al. Notoriously he has taken gifts while
in the public service, some, at - least, after
he had been elected President, until "the
Galena tanner of a few hundred dollars
a year," '((to borrow the words of my col
league, M V. Wilson, one of his supporters,)
is now rich in homes, laud and stock
above his salary, being probably the rich
est President since George Washington.
Notorimisly he has appointed to his
Cabinet several among these "Greeks
bearing gifts," without seeming to see the
indecoritm, if not the indecency, of the
transaction. At least two, if not three
of these Greeks, having no known position
in the It publican party or influence in
the country, bare been selected as coun
selors in internal affairs and heads of
great departments rf government.
Again do I repeat the words of our
Scriptures, "A gift doth blind the eyes of
the %mei : 7 again the words of Washington,
"If I accept this should I not henceforth
be considered a dependent ?" Nor does
the casti of the first Secretary of State
differ In:Character from the other three.
The' PrOkident; feeling under personal
obligation to Mr. Washburn° for import
ant support, gave him a complimentary
nomination, with the undstauding that
after cohfirmation he i3hould forthwith
resign. cannot forget the indignant
comment of the late Mr. Fessenden, as
we• passed out, of the Elenate Chamber
immediately after the . conflrmation.
"Who," eaid he,"ever heard before cola
man ninitinatet Sexretaryof, State merely
as a coinPliment?"
ASSAULT TIIE TREASCIIT.
First in time, and veiy indigenous in
charactet', was the k'rendential attempt
against ono of the sacred safegnards of
the TreaOry, being nothing less than the
"act to restablish tha Treasury Depart
bent." i'llero WaS an important provision,
that norson appointed to .a•ny offlw
instituted -;pe by tbe act "shall directly or
indirect!) , lie concerned.oeinteres :interested in
carrying on, the bnaineatt or trade or coin
tierce, and any person ao ofending was
declared guilty of a high misdeamer, and
was to forfeit to the United States 83,000,
tkrem oval from oflice,and forever there
after, to-be incapable cif any of
fice under the United States."' 'Vreni the
beginning this statute has stood unques
tioned, and yet the President, by a special
message, asked Congress to set.it aside so
as to enable Mr. Stewart, of New York,
already nominated and confirmed as
Secretary df the Treasury, to. enter upon
upon the duties of ollice.
ILLEGAL 3IILITARY "RING" AT THE 'ES-
ECLITIVE 31.1.7i510N
The military spirit which failed in the
effort to set aside a fundamental law as•if
it were a tmnscient order was more ,sne
cessful at the Execbtive Mansion, which
at once assumed Me character military
headquarters. To the dishonor of the
civil service and in total disregard of
.precedent, the President &mounded him
self with officers of the army, and sub
stituted Military forms for those forms of
civil life, detailing for this service members
of his late staff. This Presidential aro -
tension, Which is co..tinned to the present
time, is the more unnatural when it is
considered that there was at least three
different statutes ie which Congress has
shown its purpose to limit the enjoyment
military officers in civil service. Now,
the Blue Book, which is our political
almanac, has under the head of Executive
Mansion, a list of secretaries and clerks,
beginning as follows: "Secretaries—Gen.
T. F. Dent, Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. 0.
E. Babcock," when in fact there are no
such officers authorized by law. Then
follows the Private Secrectary,Assistant
Private Secretary-and Executive Clerk,
authorized by law, but placed below those
unauthorized.
ATTACK ON 011 f KR DEPAKTIIENTS
Mr. Sumner then proceeded to show
that the President had subordinated the
War Department to the General of the
Army until John A. Rawlins asserted the
constitutional rights•of the office, and said
"check to the King."
Kindred in character was the unpre
cedented attempt to devolve the duties of
the Navy Department upon a deputy, so
that orders were to be signed ""A. R Borie,
Secretary of the Navy, per D. D. Porter,
Admiral," as appears in the official journ
al of May 11, 1869, or according to
another instance : "David D. Porter,
Vice-Admiral, for the Secretary of the
Secretary of Navy." At the same time
occurred the effort to absorb the Indian
Bureau into War Department, changing
its character as part of thu Civil Service.
MILITARY INTERFERENCE AT ELECTIONS.
Then followed military interference in
elections, win the reported use of the
military in aid of the revenue law, under
circumstances of doubtful legality, until
at last Generals lialleck and Sherman
protested—the former in his report of
October 24, 1870, saying : "I respectfully
rrnrat the recommendation or my last
annnal report that military officers should
not interfere in local civil difficulties, un
less called out in the manner provided by
law ;" and the latter in his report of
November 10, 1870; "I think the soldiers
ought not to be expected to make indi
vidual arrests or do any act of violence,
except in their capacity as posse corn
itatus, duly summoned by the United
States Marshal and acting in his perional.
tresence," and so military pretensi, in
vading civil affairs was arrested.
PRESIDENTIAL PRETENSION' AGAIN.
Meanwhile, the same Presidential usur
pation, subordinating all to himself, be
came palpable in an another form. ft
was tßid of Agustin Adolphus that lie
drillenis Diet to vote at the word of
command. Such at the outset seemed to
be the Presidential policy with regard to
Congress. We were-to vote as he desired.
He did not like the Tenure-of-office act,
and dnring the first month of his admin
istration his influence was felt in both
branches of Congress to secure its re
peal.
PRESIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE IS LOCAL
Emma
. In this tyrannical spirit, and it: the as
sumption of his central imperialism he
has interfered with political questions and
Party movements in distant States, reach
ing into Missouri and then into New
York, to dictate how the people should
vote. Then manipulating Louisiana
through a brother-in-law appointed 'Col
lector. With him a Custom-House seems.
lesS a place for the collection of revenue'
than an engine for political influence,
through which his dictatorship' may be
maintained. Authentic. testimony places
this tyrannical abuse beyond question.
New York is the Beene, and .Thomas
Murphy, Collector, the Presidential Lieu
tenant. Nobody doubts the intinutetbe
tween the President and the ,Collector,
'who are bound to each, other, by other
ties than. those of. seaside neighborhood..
Offices in the Chstom-honse were openly,
bartered for votes in the State Convention.
Here was intolerabhc tyranny, with de
morlization like that of , the slave market.
But New York is not the only scene of
this outrage. The Pre6dential pre tention
extends everywhere,- nor Is it easy to
medsure the arrogance, , of corruption' or
the honest indignation that it quickens
into life.
,llr.Sumnet again •referretl to the San
Domingo job, and closed as fellows •
With sorrow unmistakable have I made
this exposure of pretensions; which, for the,
sake of Republican institutions, every
gOod citizen should wish expunged from
history, but I have ,no alternative. The
President hiniself -insists upon putting
them in issue. Ho will not allow them
to be forgotten. As a candidate for re
election," he - invites; judgment, while
.partie,s acting in his behalf make it Aso
lutely necessary by the brutality. of their
assaults on faithful Republicans; nnwilling
to see their party, like, the Pr6iigenttal
office, a personal perquisite. If his parti
sans arc' exacting, vindicative and unjust,
they act only in harmony with his own
nature ? too truly represented in. them.
Their is not a ring, whether military or
Senatorial that does not derive its charm::
ter from himself, Therefore, what the.*
do and what they say must.be considered
as done and said, by She cheiftain they
serve; and hsre is anew manifestation of
that sovereign egotism which no taciturn.
VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER '24.
ity can cover t!p, a new move for inquiry
into its pernicious influence.
TILE UUEAT PRESIDENTIAL qtraliBELER.
Any presentment of the President
would be imperfect did at not show how
shio ungovernable personality came forth
iu quarrel, making him the great Presi
dential qtfarreler of our history; as in ne
potism, sift-taking officially compensated,
and Presidential pretensions
. generally.
Here again he is foremost, having qUar
reled not only more than any, other
President, but more, than all the others
together from _George Washington to
himself. His own Capnet the Senate,the
House of Representatives, the Diplomatic
Service and the Civil Bersice generally,
all have their victims.
DUTY OP TUE APPUBLiCA.N. PARTY.
Here I stop. And now the lineation of
duty is presented to the Republican party.
I like that word. It is at the mandidate
of dutyAhat we must act. Do the Pre*"
idential pretensions Merit the sanction
of the party.? Can Republicans, without
departing from all objections, whether of
patriotism,recognize our ambitious Ore=
as a proper representative? Can we
take the fearful responsibility of his
prolonged empire? I put thesequestions
solemnly as a member of the Republitan
party, with all the earnestness of a" life
devoted to the triumph of this party, but
which I serve always with the conviction
that I gave up nothing that was meant
for country or mankind. With nie, the
party was country and mankind,but with
tae adoption of all these Presidential
pretensions the party loses its distinctive
character and drops from its sphere.
Its creed cases to be Republicanism
and becoines Grantiam; itsmembers cease
to be Republicans, • and become Grant
Men ; it is no longer a political party, but
a personal party. - Far myselfasay openly
I am no man's man, nor do I belong to
any personal party. One term for Presi•
dent.
Where Does the Gold Come From f
This question has never been 'satisfac
torily answered by geologist& They . Can
see as far'into a millstone as anybody, bet
where the great depot or quarry, from
whence the gold comes that has been
rasped off in particles and thrown 'tow- -
ards the surface to be rolled in :the Enid
by the action of running water or caught
as prisoners in quartz rock wile that
was either held in solution or in the con
dition of pulverization,is the problem.
Occasional such enormous 'nuggets era
found, quite solitary, it seems to. Indicate
they were broken off from a large • MUM
somewhere and driven away in a torrent
of gravel whose onwarthapwar force was
iristable till it inet with counter cur
rents. •
That old theory which anpposed• tLe
precious metal was existing in combitut.
Lion with others in a gasebus . form and
occasionally preetpitated. by electrici4
into lamps which worked their - way like'
moles from the interior through strata of
the earth's compact crust, is new %lite
obsolete. An impression isgaining &dye.
cafes that gold does actually exist in great
bodies,somewheri,eot very fardown,from
whence fragments and particlea are grad-
redly brought up- by aquatic -agency.
Tine gives a more reasonable explanation
of the confusion of gold in small- parcels..
all over the globe.
Conversational power is a gift of birth.
It is men's nature to talk. Words -flaw
out incessantly, like drops from .a spring
in the hill-side—not because they are
solicited, but because pushed out by ati
inward force that will not, lie still—We .
have known persons whose tongues • ran
from the rising of tbe.sun until the going
down, of the same. One sentence ran
into another as continuously as one, link
is an endless chain tookliold in another
link. We always marveled whether they
do not wake up , of nights and. have a
good talk all to themselves, just for the,
relief it would give them. :From this ,
treme there is every degree of modified*:
tion until we come to thiioPposite extreme
in which men ,seem • almost unable,
tainly unwilling to utter , , thekr, ttionghts:
Sonie men arapoor in simple langague.
They hate thoughts enough, but- the
symbols of thought. words—refused' to
present themselves, or come singly . and
stingily. Others are silent from -the
stricture of secretiveness. Others are
cautious, and look before they speak and
before they are . ready, the; occasion ' ham
passed. • • • •-'
Ia regarno language itself, the habit
of reading pure English, and- of employ- .
trig it every day, is the best drill for a
good taker. People always. act more.
naturally in their everyday clothes than,
they do'when dressed` up for Sunday; !Ma
the reason is that they aro .oancoascaras
hi the uther. It is so m speech ;- one'
allows himself to talk coarsely and Tut.
early every day and out of comapny, be,
will, most assuredly hada not easy to talk
well in Company.
- Jliibit is stronger than intention, and
somewhere the common run of speech will
break through and betray you. , To con-.
verse well at some times requires that
yon shall. converse well , at all times.,
Avoid on the one side vnlgaristn,all street
colloquialisth; even' when they aro not vi.
clone ; for byword's and slang sentences
amuse only while they aro new. As soon
as they become habitual they corrupt you*
language, without`, any. equivalent. la ,
amusement. 4
On the other extremeiaroid maniloquent
and high flown langnago• of any kind.'
Nothing is more tedious than a_ grand'
talker. Everybody laughs at a pompom!
fellow, who Inge into his conversation big
words or nedantlo expressions. The best
lairruagelh the world is that which is so
eiinppto'audtransparent that no one Mks
of t words you use, but only -of the
thoughts or feeling which they, express.—
Beecher. ,
'—Somo of thelargest steamboats burn
eight hundred tons of coal crossing the.
Atlantic ooein.
• --The continnons dry' weather in Cu.: .
ba has increased the sugar crop eight per_
cent, •
CouversaAfon.