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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1868
National Union Republican Ticket.
NATIONAL TICAMT 7 (
-- --NFOR PRESIDENT:
UIAYSs S S. GRANT.
FOR VICEPRESIDENT
SCI-lUYLER COLFAX.
_
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
=I
G. MORRISON COATES.. of Philadelphia.
THOS. M. MARS - HALT., of Pittsburgh.
Dtetnet. • District.
1: W. H. BARNES, 113. SAMUEL SNOW,
S. W. J. POLLOCK, .14. B.F. WAGONSELLE.
I. RICHARD WILDEY, 15. CHAS. B. MILLER,
4. G., W. HILL. 16. GEORGE W. ELDER,
I. WATSON P. MCGILL, 17. JOHN STEWART,
6. J. H. BRINGIMRST, 18. A. G. OLMSTEAD,
T. FRANK C. BEATON, 19. JAMES SILL,
S. ISAAC ECKERT, M. H. C. JOHNSON,
S. MORRIS ROOFER, 21. J. K. EWING,
10. DAVID M. ItAND, 2.2.
IL WE. DAVIS, M. A. W. CRAWFORD,
XL W.' W. KETCHUM. 24. J. S. RUTAN.
STATE
POR AUDITOR GENERAL OF PENN'A.
JOHN F. IiARTRANEr.
108 SURVEYOR GENLRAL.O7 pENN'A.
JACOB M. CAMPBELL.
courvi'y
CONGRESS,. Ir2D DISTRICT.
JAMES S. NEGLEY.
_ CONGRESS, 23D DISTRICT.
THOMAS WILLIAMS,
-SR ( hject to the decision of the Conferees of the
District.]
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
A. L. PEARSON.
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
d. B. FLACK.
STATE SENATE.
JAMES L. GRAHAM.
ASSEMBLY.
GEORGE WILSON,
• GEO: F. MORGAN,
JAMES TAYLOR.
M. S. HUMPHREYS;
VINCENT MILLER, •
SAMUEL KERR.
CONTROLLER.
HENRY LAMBERT.
COMMISSIONER.
?JONATHAN NEELY.
•
I SURVEYOR.
H. LI MCCULLY.
COITNTY HOME DIRECTOR.
• J. G. MURRAY.
Headquarters Republican County Com
mittee, City Hall,Met Street. Open
every day. County ComMittee meets every
Wednesday, at 2 P. M.
AYE PRINT on the inside pages o f this
morning's GAZETTE—Second Page: Poetry,
Table Talk, Miscellaneous. Third page:
_Financial Matters in. New York, Imports,
_River News, Markets by Telegraph, Rail
way Time Tables. Sixth page : Home Mar
kets, _Finance and Trade, Petroleum Mat
ters. Seventh page : A Spicy and Interesting
Letter from our European Correspondent,
Items of. Interest.
GOLD closed in New York, yesterday
at 147*.
A COrANY of "Grant Rangers," num
bering some sixty members, was organized
at Honesdale, Pa., last week. Their of
ficers are all old soldiers, and the Rangers
are to be equipped.in a style similar to that
of the famous Wide Awakes of '64. Pretty
well for that spirited little community.
SECRETARY I SEWABD returns to Washing-
ton without making the expected speech for
GRAFT andCoLFA.,7.:-, which was to mark
kis visit at Aubtiiii: The venerable Secre
tary is understood to -be decided in his
preference, but has come, of late,-to be in
different to any active part in politics.
- THE Republican Committee of Crawford
~county have condemned this nomination: of
31r. • JOHMOR for Congress, by the stout
'Tote of 82 to 13, and authorized their Chair
man to appoint new Conferees. This would
seem to indicate that he must either with
drdsr, or the'Repablicans 341' l lose the dia
l.
, pict.
Tilx "CATTLE DISEASE," otherwise known
as the "Spanish fever," is reportedjo be on
the increase in New Jersey, exhibiting, in
2 :--ztlit locality, as in Illinois, the peculiar I
lia
bility of cows to receive the contagion.
Upon this point, we may remark that the
Western reports dwell with especial mi
nuteness upon the'prevalence of the disease
as an epidemic among this description of
stock. In some of the afflicted districts of
Southern Illinois, it is stated that every
cow has died. The• outbreak of the disease
near New York has been followed by the
authorities in the adoption of thi most
stringent measures to prevent its spread.
ATTORNEY GENERAL EVARTS renders
official opinion that-Commissioner ROLLINS
_ had the clear, legal right' to attach condi
tions to his resignati9n, and that the act of
resignation can be perfected only by the
completion of those conditions. He holds,
therefore, that the office is not yet vacated,
and that the President is not entitled to
nominate a successor. This opinion will
no dordit be accepted as conclusive by Mr.
JOIENSON, and the
l control of the Revenue
Bureau will be retained for the present in
competent and trustworthy hands.
The Attorney General also . holds that the
present Congressional vacation is a recess
and not an adjournment, and that the Ex
ecutive action - in relation to pending "and
unconfirmed appointments must be regu
lated accordingly. These opinions are in-
rested by. Present' circumstances with a
peculiar importance; and their tenor:is such
- es not only to satisfy the' supporters of the
Republican ,pnlicy, but -to contribute in a
marked degree to the preaervation of "prat.
tical relations" between Cerigess and the
.Lxecutive. a
SHALL THE.WORK BE UNDONEt
- When the Democratic party inflicted the
curse of a Rebellion upon the country, the
people very naturally and properly entrust
ed to the Republican party the duty of re
pressing it, and of restoring the rebellious
populations to their proper constitutional re-
lawns to the Republic. The business was
properly placed in. Republican hands be
cause this party, originally organized on
the basis 'of the Freedom and Equality of
➢lan, received large accessions, simultane
ouSly with the, outbreak of the Democratic
revolt, from the large numbers of patriotic
citizens who then, and forever, abjured. a
party which, in its frantic ambition, had
brought such a crisis upon the Union. The
Republican party thus became the embodi-
merit of the idea of Federal Supremacy,
whie the Democracy degenerated into a
mar faction, supporting, by the votes of its
remaining mass as well as by the influence
te
mo l :)r less openly exerted, of its conspic
tidul leaders, the rightfulness of the action
of the armed enemies of the Union. The
Republican party were for a continued
Union, while the Democracy were against
it. The Republicans demanded the perpe
tuity of the nation as a nation, one and
indivisible, and that, whatever obstacles
should resist the complete and permanent
re-establishment of the National authority,
these should be relentlessly swept -away.
The Democracy, on the other hand, have
consistently and steadily preferred that cer
tain featnres of our pre-existing political
status should be preserved, no matter to what
extent the miseries, the perils or the crime
of the rebellion, itself might be justly charge
able upon them ? or with what, certainty the
renewal of fresh. revolts would follow their
preservation.
I~KET.
To the Republican piety, which subdued
the Rebellion, the loyal American people
committed the duty of re-organizing the -lo
cal institutions which rebel hands had shat
tered in their respective States, the popular
initruCtion comprehending but one single,
leading idea,—that of so conductinz this re
construction as to preclude most effectually
foi the future the possibility of another re
volt against the Union, in the interest of iso
lated classes, special institutions, or section-
al ambition.
Who can doubt that this duty has been
faithfully 'discharged? _The work is not
wholly completed, but it approaches its ful
fillment, and its present success already at
tests its final perfection. The last trace of the
dangerous element of Aristocracy has been
obliterated from a now purely Democratic-
Republican form of government. The last,
barriers, which hedged in a privileged class
88 the hereditary masters of an unpaid
and hopeless servitude, have been levelled
, to the common earth. The last stronghold
of philosophical treason, which fortified the
right of secession, and •therefore of rebel
lion, within the doctrine of State rights,
has been blown into fragments by the logic
of the war, and the last; as well as the most
dangerous paradox which the old Constitu
tion enshrined, that which denied the equal
ity. of citizenship among all the citizens of
the model Republic, has been reconciled into
consonance with the dictates of civilization
and the true material interests of a Chris
tian people.
More than this; the Republican party, ac
cepting, as one result of the conflict, the
conversion of eight millions of persons in
to citizens, have conferred upon the enfran
chised and elevated race the . right of an
equal . participation In' the 4simply Republi
can privilege of protecting themselves in
their new citizenship, by giving them a
voice in their own public affairs. Made
free, and given the right of American free
men, we may expect that they will here
after maintain their own liberties and loy
ally uphold the authority of the Union, upon
which their freedom, like our own, depends.
All this has been and still is most distasteful
to the Democratic party. They would pre
serve the old Aristocracy ; they would pro
tect and perpetuate the old class-privilege ;
they would re-establish and defend Slavery
itself; admitting the theory of secession to
be dead, they proclaim a policy built upon
that right of secession as its corner-stone ;
they appeal to the prejudices of race for the
irrevocable degradation of eight millions of
citizens, either to their old state of compul 7
. sory servitude, or to a condition in some /
respects still more hopelessly unfortu
nate,—that 'of outcasts, without the pale
of civil rights and protected — neither 'by
the cupidity of masters nor by their own
participation in political privileges: they
propose, in brief, to disfranchise and disarm
these new citizens, and to exclude them en
tirely from any part in public affairs in their
own States. .These- States were all in re
bellion; their white, populations are rebel
still, though once conquered and disarmed.
Give to them their old control of affairs,
unembarrassed by the loyal freedmen, and
their power, as States, would be again
wielded, as in 1861, for the destruction of
the Union. The new element of loyalty
nverhears them now, and, therefore it is
hateful to the rebel-Democratic spint. -
I The thoughtful patriot who can convince
hiniself that the white populations of nose
States are loyal at heart,• and that they will
loyally uphold the Union which they so
recently attempted to destroy; the citizen
who can'persutule himself that colored suf
frage is not an absolute necessi ty,or who can,
by reason or by the force of natural equity
or political expediency, satisfy himself that'
this fragment of Otizenship, ever to be most
slenderly influential in proportion to its
numbers, ought not of right, and should ilot
from policy, lie admitted to
.equal civil•priv
ileges; the citizen who, holding these oh-.
jeetions, regards them of more weight than
the revolutionary programme which menaces
the freedom of : the white ballot by
denying the rule of the majority ;
the American who ' , ready to re
ceive a' treasonable threat as an irresisti
ble argument; the loyal Republican who
can forget the immeasurable sacrifices which
this land has already made to . preserve the
National existence from the same spirit of
violence heretofore—let all such citizens ac
cept Ile Democratic prOposition, surrender
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE : THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1868.
the government to their disloyal hands,
undo the great result's 'Which Loyalty and
Liberty have recently consecrated, and
abandon the Only Republic which has ever
ordained the perfect freedom of man to the
propagandists of Aristocracy and Slavery.
Thand God !—no
, such shameful recreants
can be found among all those millions who
have been and ever will be faithful to the
principles of Republican Liberty! The hew
rebellion will be strangled in its birth, and
the Republic will march on in its Heaven-ap
pointed course toNfard the - elevation - 6nd per
fection of all the human race.
TIIE POST'S TAUNT.
MI. CHARLES JEREMY is one of the con
testants for the Republican nomination for
Mayor of this city. The Post snarls at him
as "the WELSH BUTCHER." These are all
the objections it urges against his being
made the candidate and elected: Ist, that
he is a foreigner by birth; 2d, that he is a
laboring man; and these pleas are -made
against by the organ of the Democracy
of this eitr and county !
Now, we are well aware that the so-called
Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania, as in
all the other States of the Union, are una
dulterated aristocrats in social life. Take
WOODWARD, CLYMER, BLACEIand REED as
specimens of a long list That might be drawn
up ! We knew that the Post fully sympa
thized with this aristocratic set; but we did
not think it would be so indiscreet as to say
so, even by implication.
Mr. JEREMY is a Welshman. He is not
ashamed of his nationality, and has no need
to be. Wales has given to the United States
a 'arge number of the best men in it. Of
all the stocks of which this nation`is com
posed, there is not one which possesses bet
ter qualities than the Welsh.
But, pray; where were the conductors of
the Post born, and of what blood, that they
make it a matter of disparageinent to a man
that be did not happen to be born iu this
country ?
Mr. JEREMY is a butcher. He has pur•
sued that useeful and respectable calling for
many years, sad with industry, tact and
success. He is not ashamed of his business
r=sza
A genius akin to the Post once sneered
at Pittsburgh as. "a community 'made up
mainly of Tuarrry.MECHANICS ' He
thought he was smart, and displayed his su
perior quality. He only exhibited his vul
garity and want -of sense. Pittsburgh is
made up largely, if not mainly, of "thrifty
mechanics." It is pre-eminently a hive of
industry. Therein is its true glory. No
nobler population exists on the earth, than
the men who are skilled in the leading in
dustries of civilization. A score of - them
have more genuine knowledge, and are of
greater account• to the age - in which they
live, than all the, fops and dandies on the
continent.
We do not submit these remarks with a
view to having it understood that we
espouse Mr. JEREMY'S side in his contest
for the pending nomination. We hAre
taken no part in that matter, and intend to
take none. But we are filled With a larger
measure of disgust than we can well ex.-.
press, when we find any body spitting upon
men because their occupations, though
honorable, arc not reputed as genteel as
some others, or because, irrespective of
their characters and conduct, they chanced
to be born outside of the boundaries of this
country.
THE WORK GOES ON
- Allegheny county is, preparing itself to
make a good report in the autumn. Our
Republicans are wide awake, and hurrying
to the front. The organization has never
been more compact, well-devised or efficient.
We have reposed our lEzecutive duties in
the bands of competent men, who mean
business all the time, and who attend to it
with vigilant fidelity.; The rank and file,
of tiT friends of GRANT and COLFAX ' intel
ligently comprehend all the duties of good
citizens in this_canvass, of unspeakable im
portTce.as it is, and in every district and
precinct they spring with alacrity to second
the efforts of the Committees. Not less
than thirty-two GRANT and CoLFAx - Clubs
are fully organized and meeting regularly,
while a large additional number will soon
take the field. Before another month ex
pires, our banners will wave and the voices
of our advocates will be heard throughout
country and town, from one side of the
county to the other. Ate young men are
foremost in this campaign, and they mean
to fight it out until November. When they
take the affair in hand, as they are doing it
this year, old Allegheny will give an ac
count of herself better than ever before.
So, steady, b9ys ; stand by the old flag and
forward to the music of the Union !
THE CON NEL LSI' I LLB RAILROAD.
The appearance of an advertisement "to
contractors," in our columns affords a de
cisive proof that the public desire for the,
completion of the direct connection with
Baltimore, is to be gratified without neces
sary loss of time. All the needful prepara
tions have been made by the Engineers, and
the work of construction is offered to bid
ders. This means that the very important
project is "out of the woods," and that it is
to be realized as soon as the natural imped
iments are overcome. We understand that
the work now offered is in all respects de
serving of the attention of contractors and
presume that there will he a healthy com
pletion in the bids.
Tips IB S A YEAR ON WELCOME SUB
rnysEs The Democracy are rendering'
valuable aid to the friends of the Union, by
disgusting their own friends, and impelling
them to come out for GRANT arid COLFAX.
They laid us under especial {obligations in
this way at East Liberty, on Tuesday night,
where a " Democratic meeting." of about
a hundred people, half of whom were Re
publicans, managed to nauseate so many of.
that party, that one honest old Gorman who
never yet voted aught but the Democratic
ticket, "spoke out in meeting," declaring
that the Germans were not to be fooled in
that way. and that he, for one, at least, was a
Grant man hereafter- Won't the Democracy
hold another meeting in the same place ?
PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.
HORATIO SEYMOUR takes pains to declare
that, during his term of office as Governor
of New York, he commissioned 16,000 offi
cers for the service of the Union. The pueril
ity of this appeal for Union votes may be
understood, when we remember that the is
sue of these commissions was purely a mat
ter of course, in the line of Executive duty,
as much so as that of signing appointments
for notaries or justices of the peace. The
Governor deserves no credit for it, one way
or the other. Probab his own hand was
not placed to ten per ct. of these commis-
Stotts, the Executive signature being made
in regular course by his Secretary. Had
the signatures been refused, he would have
been removed speedily from his office. So
much for his empty profession of zeal for
the Union.
Let us look at his practice! In April,
1863, the New York egislature passed a
'•prosy-vote" bill, enitbling the citizens of
e Union armies, to
the State, absent in
ions by voting in the
This bill, obnoxious
it was to Copperhead
I :, Governor SEYMOUR
participate in the ele .1
camp or in the field.
in its essential idea, as
sympathies everywhi r
i l e pressure of his oc-
found time, even in
cupation in "commi:si Ining 16,000 Union
officers," to veto, and did veto it, on the
24th of April, '63, on he ground of its un
constitutionality! The State Senate, IC
ceiving the lett, message, the same day
adopted a resolution characterizing the doc
ument "as extra-official and unauthonz
It appears, therefore, that Gevenior SEY
MOUR could cheerfully commission and send
off 16,000 Union officers to distant service,
provided that their yotes should not count
during their absence, against him and his
Copperhead "friends," the New York riot
ers, draß•sneaks and asylum-burners.
All which affords a faithful illustration
of Democratic professions and Copperhead
practice. Let the Boys in Blue think about it!
THE DEBT OF PENNSYLVANIA*
The Republican governinent of the Com
monwealth have made a reduction of four
and one-third millions of dollars in the
public debt since the close of the year 1860.
The annual taxation has been reduced
during the same period to the amount of
one and one-third millions of dollars. The
Democracy made the debt and the Repub
licans are paying it. The Republican policy
which accomplished this was inaugurated
in the midst of the rebellion, and has been
faithfully pursued. No Democratic State
Government in the Union can furnish a
parallel to this crowning proof of Republi
can-ability and success' in the financial ad
ministration of public affairs. Let every
Republican voter of the State invite his
Democratic .neighbor's attention to these
facts, as they are officially slated in the an
nexed correspondence:
UNION REIVIILICLN STATECENTRiL COYUITTEE
Rooms. No. Its Chestnut street, Phitadelphia,
August AL Pita:
General Julia F. Hartranft, Auditor General:
DEAR Sin—Please furulili me at your earliest con
venience with such official information as may
be In your possession relative to the following
quest:ollft:
First. How much was the total debt of the State
January 1, lane? _ .
How much was the total debt Januaryl,
.150$?
Th?rd. To what extent during this period has tax
futon been abated or renealeo?
Furth. What amount of extraordinary expenses
have been paid by the State during toe period?
'Very respectfully, yours. tiALUSIIA A. Unow.
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.
HARRISBURG, August 6, IS ES
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lion. O. A. Grote. Chairman, he.:
DEMI Slit—ln answer to your of the 4th instant,
it annex statement of public debt at the close of the
441.5 cal year 1.560. and at this date.
:Total State debt N0v.,30. IMO $17.9r0.847.50
'Total State debt August 1868 33,631,637,47
Of tbls latter amount the interest Is stopped on
651,641,13. and the amount red , emable on presenta
tion, the funds being on hand for Its payment.
The tax on real and personal estate has been re
duced as follows:
. .
Ihe net amount charged to the coun
ties annually from_ PIS_ to 1e65, wa5.51,657,314,33
The net amount chargeable to the coon-
ties annually for ma, ltird, and IaGS.••• 31 3 = 19
.Annual reduction 111.34.1,0r2,0
Extraordinary expenses to a large amount have
been paid during these years for military services,
the items of which yon will Lind in the annual
reports from this office lrom July 18¢I to 1867 in
clusive. Respectfully yours, J.F. H
Aud ARTRANFT.
itor General.
TUE Mum; R.F.Punucalis of Kentucky
are deserving of high honor. In the face
of overwhelming majorities against them,
in every political canvass since the break
ing out of the rebellion, they have kept a
steady front, maintained their ranks - un
broken and, never losing, have slowly but
constantly gained in numbers, so that their
organization is larger and more powerful
how than at any former period. They gave
to LINCOLN 27,786 votes in '64, to BARITES
-33,939 votes in '67, and to BAKER, at the
election last week, a vote which will equal
and probably exceed that of last year. The
reported "Democratic gain" this year comes
entirely from last year's "third party,"
made up of Democratic and Conservative
malcontents, who gave then 13,168 votes.
This nu.nber, added to the 90,225 votes for
the regular Democratic ticket (11E - tx) in
'67, will explain why their journals claim
this year a total vote' of 114,000. The!, re
suit, therefore is more encouraging than
otherwise to the Kentucky Republicans,
since it shows their real strength to be un
impaired by nil the adverse circumstances
which, In that State, make it a work requir
ing nerve and high principle, to uphold the
cause of tile Union. And they should be
honored accordingly.
"We understand the Republican County Commit
tee have ordered ten thousand extra GAZETTES for
consumption in this county, which accounts for a
whole page devoted to extracts from supposed
speeches of Southern men before or during toe re
bellion. These are heldont In proof that the z‘outh
ern people deserve the halter, and should be treated
to a little more grape. Let us hare peace.":—Post.
Our contemporary does not tell the truth.
We have said neither directly nor by infer
ence that the "Southern people deserve the
halter," or that they "should be treated to a
little more grape." All we have done is to
let Southern Democrats and Northern ones
speak for themselves in our columns. What
they threaten in way of "halters" and
"a little more grape" for citizens who do
not fall in with their ideas and purposes
our readers are now able to judge for them
selves. We art "for peace;" but finding a
large class of influential . Democrats re
solved on renewing the war in case their
party shall be beaten in the approaching
Presidential election, we thought It well to
spread the evidence before the people.
"That's what's the matter."
TUE men who marshaled rebeldom In the
field are now marshaling the Democracy for
the ballot•box.
Tan Richmond Enquirer says
"Abolition having beephwan accemplished fee'.
the Radical party proposes to make the negroes.
both those who were slaves and tlit”e wko we re
known as free lit ernes ',fore the iate 'war, equ
with the whit.s all over the country, North as well
as tooth and e‘perially in the South. Then, it is a
negro equality party. And it the negro Is the equal
of the white man, the two have a legal right to In
termarry. Bence the Rtulical Grant rarty is a Sits
cegentt let Party. Miscegenation will reduce the
whites inevitably to the level of the neg rots, whose
native wo-ship is the adcratlon of repthes and the
practice obscene rites and cannibalism in all its
horriole details. To this complexion must we come
at last—we, the once proud Saxon race—if General
Grant and his party are to prevail."". . .
In 1800—the year before the rebellion
broke out—according to official reports, the
number of Demoeratic voters in the South
ern States bore an almost exact proportion
to the number of mulattoes. --We neither
affirm nor insinuate that these two facts bore
to each other the relation of cause and effect.
All we aver is that "miscegenation" existed
on a broad scale in the Southern States be
fore the blacks were made voters or even'
obtained their freedoin: cannot
refrain from suggesting that in the times
cwhen this half-breed population mainly
grew,up, Republicans did not live in the
Southern States; the Democrats effectually
persuading them to stay away, by means of
tar and feathers, hempen cords and other
cognate arguments.
Surely the Examiner has not already for
gotten that within The last two mouths, in
its own city, was buried a half-breed of such
eminence that a concourse of most respect
able white people attended the funeral ; nor
that this offspring of "miscegenation" was
the bastard brother of General LEE, com
mander of the Confederate armies. - -)Then
such families, with Slavery in fall vigor,
bear such fruit, it is folly for them or their
apologists to prophecy what may happen
in consequence of Universal Liberty.
But Slavery, even in its days of greatest
strength, interposed no obstacles to mar
riages between blacks and whites, Col.
RICTIARD M. JOHNBoN married a colored
woman, and the Democratic party, with a
full knowledge of the fact, elected him to
the office of Vice-President. What Slavery
did was to reverse the law of all civilized
countries by providing that children should
follow the condition of their — mothers.
Hence, if a white man married a colored
woman, and had children by her, failing to
execute a legal act of emancipation in her
behalf, he could sell those children in open
market, or they could be sold by his credit
ors and the proceeds applied in payment of
his debts. These possible facts have not,
-yet passed from the remembrance of the
world.
THE. Locum. frankness with which• the
rebel Democracy of the WADE 'HAMPTON
school \ are proclaiming the revolutionary
gravitation of the party toward the "lost
( with
fills the Northern Copperheads
Iwith profound apprehension. The indis
creet exposure of their plans. by their
elated Southern confederates, arouses the
most intense indignation in the loyal States,
and the Democratic leaders are limp with
the cold sweat of despair. They; implore
the rebels to be siletiti* least until after-the
election, or the party WiWentirelk,be - rtined.-
Their Southern friends have l'dried up? ac
cordingly, but it is too late. Enough has
already been revealed of the Democratic de
signs, and of the inevitableyesult of a Dem
ocratic victory at the elections, to, ruin
that party beyond the possibility of redemp
tion. They have furnished shot enough for
Union guns to blow their rebel Democracy
hopelessly to pieces. So, boys, fire away!
THE JEWS AND GEN. GRANT
DAVID ECKSTEIN, Esq., of Cincinnati,
enclosing‘to a journal of that city the sub
joined letter from B. WOLF, Esq., of Wash
ington City, remarks that it Is worthy of
the careful perusal of every Israelite. Mr.
E. also adds :
I am the more induced to ask you to pub
lish this excellent communication, inas
much as it coincides with a conversation it
was my privilege to have with the General
during his recent visit to this city. The
latter was of a character so entirely satis
factory to me as an Israelite, that I am quite
sure it would have been quite sufficient to
relieve all reasonable members of our sect
from embarrassment on this subject.
Mr. WOLF'S card is as follows : -
To the Editor of the Boston Transcript :
In the Boston Post of Wednesday an article
appeared headed "Grant and the Jewish .
Vote," signed by "Max." I do not know
who Max is; whether he is an .Tsraelite,or a
Mohomedan, not being material; but to his
conclusions I entirely object, as being ille
gal, erroneous and decidedly anti-Jewish.
No one, even the General, denies that the
order was proscriptive, but in one sense
not uncalled for. The General never meant
then, since, or now to proscribe • the Jews
because they were such, but simply to ban
ish from his camp the Lazzaroni who infes
ted it. Unfortunately the order was ill
worded, but that is no reason why Ameri
can citizens should be betrayed from their
allegiance to principles, and,turn toaparty
that advocates the reverse of what is right
and true.
I protest in the name of enlightened Ju.
deism against this dragooning system and
continually harping on tbe 'old ancient
grudge.'
We are not Jews in any political sense.
We are what is of far more value, Ameri
can citizens, and es such can and will vote
for the candidate of our party, be that
Grant or Seymour. We are not living in
England, Poland or Holland. The ages of
persecution have passed into oblivion, but
the lessons taught have not been lost, for
we know that here,
free as the air we
breathe, we can worship God according - to
the dictates of conscience, that we owe no
allegiance to class, and that the fostering of
prejudice and the accursed spirit of exclu
siveness that have marked our race should
cease and forever, being detrimental to the
development of free thought and true pro
gross.
Accursed will:bifthe day when Jews as
a class commit the unpardonable crime of
becoming sectarian iu their politics, Know
nothings among Americans. If such thing
should come to pass, I wish to place my
protest on record, for no matter how much
of an error General Grant or any one else
may have committed, I will notforget what
I owe the country that has fostered and
protected me in the exorcise of free thought.
I will not forget that if oppression and
prejudice have overtaken us, they were
mainly attributable to the very sectarian'
spirit that is here sought to be perpetuated.
You, Mr. Max, or any other Israelite,
can, in „your individual ; capacity as Atneri
can citizens, vote and speak against Gen.
Grant as much as you please,—that is one
of your inalienable. rights ,and privileges,
but forbear Co use it in a religious sense. ,
I know Gen. Grant and his motives, have
corresponded: with him. On thie very snb
ject, and assert unhesitatingly that he
never intended to insult any honorable
Jew; that ho never thought of their reli
gion; that the Order was simply directed
"against certain evil-designing persons
who respected neither law nor order, and
who were endangering 'the morale of the
army." Gen. Grant is not the - only man
who, during the war, committed wrongs'
against the holiest rights. __Fremont, Burn
side, even the lamented Lincoln; were not
free from them ' and Congress had to legal
ize, subsequently, acts performed against
the rules of law and justice; but the emer
gencies of the time made them necessary,
and an Anglo-Saxon race, ever ready to de
fend their principles, suffered these wrongs
because_ they were necessary to the pre
servation of the Republic.
Having lived in Washington for the last
six years, I know how many of our people
were indifferent to the cause, .and how
many only cared for the spoils. This they
had, however, in common with other per
sons, and I took every occasion to defend
my race- against cruel aspersions and un
called-for-prejudice, but yet I cannot shut
my eyes to the fact that hundreds infested
the campirlvho were spies, bloi..kadn-run
ners, Ike., who, owing no allegiance to the
Government, having ever a passport near,
endangered the army, laughed at army
.regulations and orders, and when caught
attempted to bribe their way to freedom.
This was a state of things
,highly demoral
izing, and the General, in a moment of just.
indignation, in an hour of great peril,
issued this order, never contemplating any
wrong against honest, patriotic Jewish-
American citizens. ' •
The order never harmed me—never
harmed any one, not even in thought, ex
cept those whom we as Jews despise, and
hold in contempt.
It would be perfect folly to suppose, for
a
moment, that the Jews have found in '
Grant another Titus, for he is fully aware
of the noble deeds performed by thousands
of Jewish privates, and hundrOds of Jew
ish • officers, during the late *lir and I
know that some of his warmest ' friends,
even in Washington, are Jews. ; The bug
bear of what he may do, when he becomes
President, is childis - h. He will do his duty
as the law and the will of the people,
through their chesen representatives, pre
scribe; no more—no less.
This great love, all at once exhibited by
the Democraticparty or any other party,
this great tolerance prated about by Chris
tians for Jews, is simply absurd. We are
not TeN - Y - S, except to God; we are to the coun
try what Mr. Smith, Jones, or Brown are
citizens. We seek no tolerance from any
one, in this age of progress and I ennobling
humanity. Tolerance is for slaves not for
Anlerleans. S. WOLF.
BosTon; August 6."
"A Dlrron Jaw" writes to the — Journal
of that city: "I feel it. I have heard from
my Jewish friends that no honorable _Jew
would vote for Grant. I have only to say
that those who make use of such language
are very ignorant, for as far as honor is
concerned, more honorable Jews will vote
for Grant than dishonorable ones. There
are men of my faith who,l am sorry to say,
deserve nothing better tan order No. 11.
I for one, as a true Israelite, can give my
Note to ie interest of my country, and
therefore must. put in my vote for the man
who saved the country, and that man is.
Ulysses S. Grant. I" ave seen an article is
the Cincinnati Enquirer from a„Jew in this
city, who signs his name in full.; He is the
only Jew in the State who,opens such a wide
mouth against Grant. But things are
changing. Remember, we will 'show them
in November who. Ulysses S. Grant is I"
TILE Worcester Sp y has prepared the fol
lowing epitaph to be used next November
Here Lies,
Without hope of liesurrection,
All that remains of
AMERK:AN DEMOCRACY,
fAeely so calle4.)
Hls appalling crime was to hase,sacriliced-
A Million Lives.
• -And Many Thousand Millions of Treasure
• In &en dish struggle to perpetuate
The accursed system on •
Arsiesig SL.A.VEILY.
• in thevresence of thlionc enormity_
/t• Yrould be rackete.ry to ti:aer
• Tne name of any .
• VIRTUE.
IT IT SAID that Seymour has causeu.rs -
committee to follow Elf-Blair, and stop Milk,.
from making more speeches or Writing morg:
letters., Seymour is said to have given
way to the suspicion that Blair means to kill •
him off with his letters and speeches.
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