S'- 1....: 11 . , i MT VOLUM 7011.7N11111M1 TI-1120 • ' POTTE - It ~.. rnattSilati ar • 'Ni. 3V...,111S _ IlifiP4,hrOpyietor. .1 Ber Devoted to thts &wee of Repallideasos, the i 6. terisits of Agri° e Ite re, the' advance nse n LA( Bduestloki, in the best . goed ul Potter county. liw,ning no guide - ex apt that of Principle, it will endeavor kiaid in the wo it of more full} Preedornising oar Country.' J .- •• ; ; I ' lOrAdvertinem fits inserted at the following rates, except where spec albargains are made. A "square , ' .is IQ lines of Brevi rorB of Nonpacelltypes : 1 1 lignare, 1 inse 5i0n..::....... . ' „, A l 60 .; I square, 2or 3 I nsertions • " , ,•,.- eh subsequent insergon:less than 13 40, .. agnate, 1 year lO 001 isi ... . . .- • --- tl•iness Cards, Iyear...,. 5 00i .7.4 Xdmlnistrator's,or Executbr's Notices, aoo .;.-; moist and..l3dßoshil srotioes per 1ine.......* , 20i All transient advertisements must he paid in . - ild;sance,and no notice will be taken of adverti•ements • 'train a diatanee, utiles!, they;are accompanied by the iidiney or sati . cfac ory, reference. _ 1 . IS:IV-Joh Aldrk; fall kinds;'ciecuted with neatness 1 and d,snstch. .- . •• „ ; ' -1, JOURNAL r BITSINSS NOTICES.. flobit... Hanle Xl. II: • Clinimia. 1 , .A.ttryr nes,ol-I...an', .. i NITILLIAMSP R.T, Penn'a.- Special attentiou IVV , given to . ollection of t'ensloae, Bounty and -Dank Pay, and nil claimsagainst the National and dtate Governmen , nornif ' 1 . ... • *roe and AcO4ted Ancient York I.Vsona EULALIA. , LtiDGß'.. No. 342,+F. A. M.: j. fated Ifieetlnga on the 24 and 4th 'uedneadaya of each month. Ball, in he 3d Story of the Olmsted Block! B.C.Liattatice,S , c. - M'Sf. SHEAR, w.g. DRAKE, n - P.IITSiCIANA I nd SURGEON, offers sen-iceß to the citizens of this place and vicinity and eestresi t!, inform them that be will. promptly respond to all 411 s for profe,ssidnal servities.. Office on Main street,j over Manning's Jewelry Store.; Residence nearly op piosite the office of the Foi .5441086' Dilate:7ll-28. O. R. ELLISON, D, DRACTICINCL PHYSICIAN. Conde , sport, ra.,1 1 respeetfultyjnforins the citizens ot the enlace and 'eternity that he promptly respond to all calls fol Ttroressional set vices. Ottice on First street, first door -4;eigt of Ma residence. 17 , 4 d I - I . - . JOHN S. 31ANN, , TTOR.NEV !AND COUNSELLOR. AT 'LAW. ' • Couderlio r. u. tt, p, will attend the severai Court Vetter, Came n and McKean counties. All , bust ess mt. - mated t his care will receive prompt atten ion. !dice on_J ain street, in residence. , - " ARTHTTE G. OLMSTED, A, C ° p V i e r k: Ap V c• ..'',l- 1 / 1 .., U NRIPM E t;c I I ' t l' o }: a l l t ilt T ßi n i E.5 A W 3 (`I i trusted to his cart ;with pramptneso and . fidelity. 10111.11 n the Beyond stn-cy of the Olmsted Block. . , 1 SAM' ".AT-t vibe . !IT ISAACIBE r NSON, • 1 : AT-LAW, .Contler4port, Pa., wil l. Ibu4inese entrusted to him Mitt care Al.''.eridi . Cntirts of adjoining counl.- leond sCreet,near the Allegany bridge TTORN EY i. '1 attena to a fatel prom rttneela. %les. 0 Oka on S F. R. KNOX, ArTTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LA Sll Con.lerepo t, l'a., will attend the Oeurte in Pot, eand the adjoining counties. R dREcALARNEY, MILL, TTORN EYS I Agents fo nited States an., !Bounty, Arrears 4 n4zu.sa, AT LAW, 11Anntsuuna, Penan,-1 the Collection of Clainmagnit.st th Stnteoveroment 4 , 4 uch'ne Pensioncl t 1 fPny,&c-Address 95,,tarrisbuti N'et.A.B.Nr. M. W. McALARNEY, TEAL ESTATE and It; SUR AN CE AGENT l ib Land Bought and Sold, Taxes paid and Titlea ‘ l lnvestigated. Insures property against fire In the hest krompnnies In th Country, and Persone azair.t. 'dents In the Tra'colers Insurance Company of liar ford. BUsiness i l transacted promytly P. A. STEBBINS ot: Co., l EF P 3 : alrlinDr3G r lF?n qA o , G rls.Proviaiane,Flou,F:Cdlo, sad everything sunny kePt in a good co (Intr.,' stole. Produce bough and sold 17 29 I C. If. D IONS, IsTAERCTIAN+—WEttSVILLE N. Y., Whole sale and Irtall Dealer In Dry Goods, Farley and taldo Goods.Cl thing,fiadies DressGoods.Grneerles, Flour, Feed, Sce, Retailers supplied on liberal terms '.. - ' .C. IS. A: E. A. JONES, • 1 i A TPAICTIANT —Dealers in Druge,Stedielnes,raints, i Iti. Oils Pa+ cy, .Art.eles; Stationery, Dry Goods, , •Groterles, ' &e., nto.Street, Coudersport, Pa D. E. OLMSTED, • MEACTE.A.Nt —Dealer in Dry Goode, Ready-made clothing Crockery,: Groceries, Flour, Feed, Pork, &e., Main street, Coudersport, Pal . . . i OLIAN.4 SMITH, . r yERCHAN —Dealer! in Dry Goode. Groceries, I_ Provisio a, Hardware Queenawcre Cutlery, and ail Goode u malty found I' n a country store. ii'ol . Jr. OLMSTED, r . , , ITARDWAII.E Mercnant, and 'Dealer in Stoc4a, Li Tin and Sheet Iron-Ware, Main greet, Condit -sport, Peni.`a. !Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to -order, in good style, on abort notice. . .1 .. couimasponT HOTEL. I DF. GLA.SrdlitE,Vaosturrott, Cnrner of Msdn . -.and Send etreets,Coude report ,Potter Calla. A. Livery Stable le also . kept in connection with this Motel.' Dallylitaces to and 'front the Railroads. .1 Potte ( r Journal Job-Office. II AVING llttely ad.led a: fine now . aasortmentl of JOB-TYPE to our -alrmady 'largo assortme t, are are now prepared to do, all kindeof work, cheaply .ant 3 with und ': o Ind neatnoon. Ordure 'onager). WANTED AGENTS, MO PER MONTH, TO sell the proved Common Sense Family Sew ing Machine. iThis Machine will stitch, hem. fell, tuck; cord, braid, bind, gather, quilt, and embrol4cr beautifully. Price only $2O. Every Machine is.,,,xvor ranted three years. For terms address or call 15,1;C. BOWERS & 00. ;Reception irooms N 0.255 S. Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Pa. lm ,MARBLE FOR qt. .11 Monuments and Tomb-Stone of till kinds, will he furnisbcd'on reasons We l ter= and short notice by 1 • i C. Briettnile: Residence : 1! miles south lor .Copdereport,'Pa. ' on the Sinneralthoning 'Bead; or leave your orders at the Peg Othee. fefre - • D 416 'BAKER, I 11,11NSION, BOIrstTY and Wit:lt CLATICAGF:NrY ensionaprocurod for Soldiers or the present ar who are disabled by reason of wounds recoiled .orclilease contracted while in the service of the Uni ed -States; and pensions, boOntY, and arrears of pay oh. • talned for widows or heirs of those who have died! or keen killed While In, service: Ail letters if lnqu)ry promptly answered, and on receipt by mail or a smite • nient.of the ease of claimant,,l will forward t he. .cessary papers forttheiraignature. Pees in P ension eases as axed by law.•• •Refera to-Hone. Isaac Beniini, A. 0. Olmsted, Zolio.B. Mann and P.W. Knox,•lhaq IAN BARER,• JoneB 54 Claim Airent,k)oudexaport., Pa.l 11 *1•500 Per esa X e e ar ne tolsWlo o e w ur an i t su. n a g ot t : 1 2 0 be wina.Msoilines. Lome new kinds. Under 'and upper feed. Warranted ! dye years. Above salary “ar large commissions paid. The oats , machines hold In the United States for less than $4O, which are fpllv liteused. by Howe, Wheeler & Wilson, GroYer-de fld ker,l3inger & Co.. & Baohelder, ALL other oheepiros ehlnbeare Infringements and the seller or user are liable to arte,4 doe had imprisorizent.,alretilars tree. Addisris, or call upon. Shaw & Clark; Blitde ford, Yalu ae , :. 20, 1803. lawny. . ... . . .. , . . , .. .. -. • . • ' •...,._ . .. ~. .! ........,..._. . . . .. . .„ ~ , .. .z....: •0:..„..„ .. .„..,0, ......,‘ ~.,..,i ~.... ... . ..._... ,• , ~ .". .., • . ..... , . . . . .!. ~,, .• . , , • , , _ ___ , , EMI ' ii . Ed I'S E H 0.1 1 HON- JOHN S.•.MANN 1 9 !• • i sem . , 10 ;the Asbly, at Harrisburg:" • 1 1. I desire to mit ake' few remarks on this , sub ject, and Heel that I will be doing more jus tice to the °pillions' I entertain, it I state what I have to say this evening, in preference to any other time. Sir, Ido not expect by the passage eif OA resolution, that any marked effect Os to be', produced ,upon our Senators l and members iof'Congress,, who are hereby instructed and requested to listen:to the voice of Perinsylvaniti. Tbatpertion of the delega tidnliom thial State that has been loyal to the Union, hail given, evidence already that they. wilt votelright upon this qdistion, that they will sushi in the Government it. the fu ture a's they have in the past. And, sir, that portioU of theldelegafion who have.stood op posed!to the Union delegation from this State, althoUgh they once avowed the doctrine, and in upori•t, of obeying the instructions giiren! themor . resigning , have long since abandoned that doctrine as they have abait- I (kneel every other doctrine of tbe founder' of their party; drid . now they Day no more re gard fo the wishes of cue State than if it did not exist. They now look upon the decision of some caucus ' held perhaps in some garret, • to he•of More importance than the requisitions of this Legislature. I 'know that fact well, Mr. Speaker, It is not, therefore, that.' ex pect by the p.ssage of these resolutions that we arc to ails :it any votes in Congress , but, sir, Ii desire .heir passage because the' ex-. pressten of truth always has its effect upon the people, arKthat it is by the expression of such truths as are contained in this resolution that the decre'es of thb 'people as to the man ner iii Whith ibis government is to be recon strueced are t be executed, , And, sir, 'I am not anxious in regard to the passage of these 1 ,resphitions because I have any:doubts as to 'the fibal result upon this question. Men may faltei 4 ' this 1 Vegislature may become timid, Congress mayi falter and the President even may fdll front his high estate; but,Mr.Speaker, the purpose p l f the loyal people of the United ,States will'he executed in this country. They !are Mitrehingjou with; such force as not to be, 'resisted ; and he who gives any car to the sounds aroma him hears the march of free tat n 'bowel di I s ty,. Sic, their purpose will be e.4.ecuted l l and that purpose is that this broad'land; avert acre of it, from ocean to 1 ocean, from , the lakes to the gulf, I shall be I deditated as the home of freedord, jastice and humimity 5 that here there shall pc no longer oppression nor oppressed, master nor slave: And if it mult come to that, tlft people l,, will exec 'to this decree in spite of the resident and loongeer. I have, therefore. ‘11) Misgiv fings' no anximies, upon this subjee . "John Erin's soul is marching on," and So is the grea, heart of the American people, I have no doubts upon that qtiestiOn and l ino fears.' I ainjentirelyi and wholly hopeful pan that question, and do not ask the passage of this resolution bleat se I : have any hopes that it, will I affect any votes in the Congress of the , United States; but, sir, as the circle which is made. by the 1 perle thown into still water is smolt at first an I gradually widens until it rear es' the farthest shore, so does the ex pression of truth produce a' limited circle at firstwhich Widens and widens until, io the language of some enthusiast, its effects reach to the tartheat shore Of time. Sir, it is the expilession e l f these truths that is to enable the people to carry out their purposes. This is one of did "appointed means of grace? by whidii the people are to, execute their decree. NOW, sir. Wha't is the truth - asserted in this resoMtiou 9 should hot be admitted into full fellciarship uhtillthey have'given certain guar antdes that tie debt whigh they have created in cattempting to, destrly the Government shalt not be !paid by us, and until we are se cured in (*Just fruits of the result of victory. Skid take issue with the gentleman Who oc cuped conatderable time here in asserting thaf this reSolutiort was not necessary because the people b'ave accepted with honest loyalty the Mild and generons policy of the president. I undertake to say; that the Southern States have given km evidence of 'honest loyalty— nonU,whaterr. I say that the !applications' that have come up, from those rebels for par 'doidand 04 they may be restored to power and! to their former possessioni, have been malty' , and not far between,; but I submit that there has been no expression by any public man in the Soutbkno eipression byiin t , public cen vention in the South- 7 no expression by any 'I newspaper M the South represeating rebels, : l by which any 'confession of krrotig or injury: to the GoveYnertent o' the United States has beehlmade+not a syllable of it. Prom the beginning to the grid of these negotiations for, getting back Into [power, they,ha.Ve nowhere made a single; confession that they have done any tirrong,,ll True, they say they have, failed in the war ; they are sorry they did not sue ceeill; they ,r e eanquered ; theylask to be re,. stood to poi er,hut they nowhere acknowledge. theethey eT r did wrong to thel Governerfent of, the Unite, States, or that they are'.sorry for the: rout e Which they pursued. •We are asked to foa ive. i I take' it forgiveness will i be id time va en'it is asked for. On the con- trary, so fa' froth confessing that, they are guilty of hi;ving' done Wrong, they use such languagea! , 1 this. James R. Campbell, td the. Convention celled to - form e, State CO& stiedtion for! South Carolina, in addiessing thaticonvention, Paid': I ' "I believe that when our votes are admitted into Comptes, if We are tolerably wise or gov rued by a moderate iihave of common' sense, we will hutie our owe way. lam speaking now not to . be , reported. We' wit hare pur own way yet if we are true to Mir seNeii, We know the past, we know what tii Lobo ourffetore. Are wo not in a conditi nto accept what we cannot heti, t Are we not in a condition where It is the port of I wisdom to wait and give what we care notineold giving?„ That Ilr:lCampbell spoke according to the sentiments of the prevailing peliticiansis at tested by aPrivate letter received from 'a Gov ernment officer there who is so situated as to knew the real condition of things. • I 'read extracts only : . - • • ~ ll,The'speoehes in convention and Legislature are doubtless known to you, and tho `,'aulmus" pervading all actions ofitbese bodiei, Mr ' C mpbeit expressed it exactly. teL us do what we nave to, as little as we orelobliged to, gee into Cougreem somehow, and rims pay off th e som two e. , One or minor metiers 'ln this connection i;mentioo aaahowieg how the ourrentaipte. `AL The lectier ,foroitembera_tif, #onvantfen: %itti September. - The favoritke in , ,every eitntested ease were the most proniinat In Secession procein' Mans of the past years. The majority of them did not take the mu:musty oath. 1 • 0 e bet;otea to the; f'hiticiples of Ihqo qh6 the Dissokiintio l t? JoUalitg, gjiet:o4Pe QlO We*. COUDERSPORT, POTTER 'ICOUNTY,. PA., TUESDAY. MARCH 27, 1866. '2 Not even the prospect mate g a avorable ' 6 f recognition In Congress cotild secure the election of any man tainted with Unionism, in opposition to any candidate thoroughly established as an opponent to .the Government In past time. , j I That, sir, is the language of the. South. "Let us. I'do what we cannot help doing, in order that we may, gain by 'diPlomacy .and v,otes in Copgress what we did] not gain by bur fightingi" Not a single man in South Carolina and not a man -in the South whose feelings and prejudice's are in favor of the, Union are per mitted to get into those conventions: That is the kind of loyalty thatis manifested through out the; South, and the representatives of that section, Whose hands 'are yet dripping with the b/ood, of our brothers and who are unre pentant of their crimes; are asking get into Congress,' and these gentlemen on the Other side are so kind-hearted that they are begging and using all the means in their power to enable these unrepentant rebels, covered from bead to foot with the best blood of the North, to get, into power. That, is the fact with I regard to these rebels in the South. For all their crimes and murders, the mecca ere at Fort Pillow, the starvation of our pris otters, the poisoning and murdering of our brothers by wholesale—for all these crimes not a word of repentance] has yet conic up from there—not a single ] word. Sir,ll am unwilling to sit in council' with such men 5 I am unwilling.. that my representative in the - National Legislature shall] sit in council with these murderers of my neighbors and friends; and I invoke the loyal people of this country, lily the memory of the fate of those heroes, by the memory, of the butchery at Fort Pillow, the starvation of our prisoners and their tor ture by slow process arid s py every means to which those men could resort—by.tha'mem ory of all these things, Ijinvoke the people and .I invoke this Legislature to adopt the memorable words of our, patriotic President, Andrew Johnson; when be said that, "treason is'a crime to be punished "5"; from which the logical conclusion is that unrepentant traitors are criminals deserving of a halter and the 011ows, rather than seats of power and trust B the way, sir, these gentlemen talk a great deal to idle platitudes about supporting An drew Johnson 5 but they heve never yet put themseves on record in favor of any one of his measures. I test them upon that one, ] that he 'hits time and again repeated and avowed !thattreason is ai crime to be pun ' ished. 'Has any one of their speakers in this Ifouse or in the Senate charaber, where a de bateihas been, going on for three or four days, has a single one of those speakers stood upon the platform ot Andrew Johnson? Not one of them ; and there is not a] newspaper in the leyal States representing their party that puts them on that platform—not one of them. They dare not say that treason is a crime to bb punished or that's single traitor ought to be hung. And] I say they have not put them selves on record In favor of a single measure of Andrew Jblinsens._ I test them upon this great prindiple, that.treason against the United States is a crime that must. be pun ished, and I challenge them to show where .st single 'Democratic convention has endorsed that principle. Take another question of equal importance. Take the gteat measure the administration of President Lincoln,' which has been adopted President Andrew Johnson—the Constitutional iamendment to abolish, 'slavery throughout the United States. That was a measure of Andrew Johnson's. What your record upbn that question? Against it—every man of you—against it everywhere, at all times, and until it has been made the lacy of the land. And so upon every other measure ,of Andrew', Johnson's. You talk abcint sustainiug Andrew Johnson ; but when it, comes to endorsing his measures, we find that you never sustained one of them— not a single one. It is then. to say the least, rather cool for them to come in and talk about. supporting Andrew Johnson and being his friends. Come up, gentlemen, if you propose to be his friends, and step,upon his platform ; I endorse now, bven though. it may be pretty late, endorse his doctrine that treason against the United States is a crime to be punished. During tha war—all through the war and up to this time—a period of five years, not a man of you has ever spoken of secessionists as traitors-or as crimin_als you talk' about se cession as being very odious. lhat is true enough. But the gentleman from Alontgom • cry allowed it to leak out why they were op posed to secessio - . it was because thereby a larger part of the Democratic party seceded away from them. And that is the bnly cause for regret, tbst they have ever expressed ;'..not that the South seceded from the Government of the United States, .;but that they seceded from the Democratic party. And, .sir, it was well said in the Senate of the United States that every gun fired against the eoldiers of the Union was fired by a Democrat. From the commencement of this war tol its close, every gun fired against the Union was fired by n Democrat. Sir, the gentlemen have in vited this discussion. I did not propose to name their party or to refer to it; but they invited it when they challenged • this investi gation, and they should have the .full benefit of it at all times, here and elsewhere. In the first place, they ought to weep in, sackcloth and ashes over their errors, acknowledge their. faiths like honest ;men, and then come in and as patriots sustain the Government but so long as their misdeeds in the North and in the South are unrepented of, they should be dumb, It is 'alleged that President Johnson is sat isfied with the "honest loyalty" of these rebels down South. I take it that that is not ac cording to the ,record. How comes it that he holds every one of these rebel States under the bayonets of the army of the United States? Hciw comos it that he is compelled to use the bayonet. dovin there in order to maintain civil law? It is true that in pursuance of his instructions Provisional Governors have been appointed td, go Fern those States, but yon know,lsie, nd:itery 'than knows - perfoetly well that if these bayonets were withdrawn there Is not Southern State that would not on the instant present and entirely different state cif tbings from that which is now pre sentedt And,.sir, 'the ver fact tbat he still bolds those States under tie control of mar tial laW shoWs,ithat he doesl not believe they are loyal.. If he believes tiey are , loyal,, then 'what Its the, -meaning of this last order of General Giant? • 'Not Only -are all, the .acts I and clechirtitions of Sonthern rebels - arid ibeit; newspapers and their conventions, but th: official ante of the President of the United Statei and his eonirnander-in-ebietare en ? tirely opposed to the assertion of the gentle man. Why it was only; on, the 12th day of January, 1/66, when Genera Grant issued this. order ;[General Orders, No: 3.3 - - ' " = 1 . Wan DEPATilitietrr, ' ADRISANT GENERAL'S ORME. . WAsantertorr; J anuary 12, 1566. , To protect persons`againet imProper civil mitt' andpenalties in the late rebettiods States.- 1 Military division and department commanders,' whose commands embrace or are composed of any of the Late rebellious States, and who have pot already, done's°. will at once issue and enforce orders pro.l teoting from prosecution or snits in the State, or mu nicipal courts of such State, ail officers and 'soldiers of the armies` f the:United' Stales,. and all-persona thereto attached, ortn. anywise 'thereto belonging ,1 subject to military , authority; charged with offences for acts done in their military capacity,. or pursuant to.orders from proper military authority, and to tiro; tect from suit or prosecution all loyal citizens, or peri sons 'charged ' with offencess done against the. rebel forces, directly or indirectly. during the existence of the re bellion ; and all persons, their agents and mil plots, charged with the occupancy of abandoned land or plantations, or the possession and custody of any kind of property whatever, who occupied, used { possessed or controlled the same pursuant to the or-. der of the President or any of the civil or . inilitary departments of the Government, and to protect them from any penalties or damages that may have been or .y be pronounced or adjudged•-in said courts in anyf such cases ; and also protecting colored per. sons from prosecutions in any of said States charged /-, with offences. for which white persons are not prose cuted or punished in the same manner and degree. By command of Lieutenant General Grant. , I E. D. TOWNSEND, .Ass't Adjit Gen. lir. Spea!icer, that order sweeps away frinn all the courts of the South all !power over the s e questions. Has the. President • confi dene in their loyalty? i Why, sir,' he here dirctlY protects from (disloyal courts and fruit disloyal officers • thci - loyal men in those Stales by !the power of ;the bayonet. And tha order was issued on the 12th day of last Jazi l uary—the very day upon which this reso lutiol n was ,introduced . into this House. If the PreSident finds it necessary to direct the mil itaiy power to sustain the operation of all the l civil courts in the South as as against these P peraonsland to annul their decrees, to stop their processes, to declare their judgment in valid, it shows that Andrew Johnson holds in thel hollow of his hand all the power .of those eleven States, or did hold it on the,l2th day of !anuary last, five months after this war wa said to have been closed. Well, sir, he did! that simply because of these attempts to proSecute these officers of the United States in their attempts to put down the rebellion. , Efforts were making all over the South on I the part of these disloyal courts to prosecute , the officers and agents of the Government evrywhere,and the Pt esident,by his_bavonets, I puts a stop to all theseproceedings. And Gen eral Grant, too, has said that the war in the I Sohth has not ceased. Well then, they can not be loyal States ; there ICannct be loyal communities there if the war is still going on; and this order of Gen. Grant's shows that for ali'military purposes it is still going, on. And I he has said so directly. He has refused to withdraw the troops. He WO' said that he 'I will withdraw them just as soon as the peo ple of the South have given evidence that ' they will execute the laws ; of the land in an orderly and loyal way. He has said that; and now, instead of withdrawing the troops, he issues still more stringent orders for their activity tend energy, and for the protection of loyal men. There is another point in the gentleman's speech .to which I desire to reply. It is one that has been assested all over the South,t and repeated by every rebel in the South and by rebel sympathizers in the North (and Which shows their disloyal sentiment); it is a charge "which has been constantly made against the poor and oppressed people of that section, who have had to work all their lives, for a peck of corn and a pound of bacon per week, and clothes not tit to coverany one, but who have become free. ' The charge is that those people are guilty of laziness, im providence and licentiousness. I know noth ing about that last charge. The gentlemen probably know more abOut that than we do. However that may be, I Say that the first two allegations in this charge are false. They the blacks Of the South, are not idle ; they are the only working people in all the South; they are the only industrious people in all that land ;1 and -they have been industrious all the tim, under great proiocation to be otherwise,l } under great temptation to be idle. They have been industrious from the time of their freedom up to this time, whenever they could be. Sir, I speak from my own personal knowledge when I say they are the only in dustrious people in *hat part of the South through which I had an opportunity of pass-I \ing. Since the last election, I made a little trip down through Virginia to Charleston, and I affirm that in the city of Richmond and in every village and along every road I tray eled,\ they_ were the only men in the South at Woric. ' They cannot load or unload a ship or a Itivo-horse Wagon without the aid of these despised colored man; at least they de not do ,it. \ They cannot run a railroad nor keep one in repair without those colored men ; and tbese are, the only men to be seen at work anywhere r either at the wharves, unloading ships, on the few buildings undergoing re pairs, carrying the hod and sometimes laying the brick, or ; upon railroads, keeping the track in repair, wheeling coal for the loco motive and somctinse throwingit on the fire. There were not more than two white laborers on any train 'that I Vas i on anywhere in the South. And, sir, they are doing intelligent labor down there ; ,they. are showing consid- Srable capacity for progress rind imprOvenient. On one•occasion I walked Ithrough themar- Eket, house of Charleston_ And .I saw ,there a ;large number of poop/0 selling meats andveg etables and other products needed \ to supply the wants, of such a city, and I noticed that most of these people engaged in selling these articlei were colored. Impelled by a feeling of curiosity, I started back and went through .the market housisfor the purpose of counting the white men thus engaged; and outof about five.or six hundred men and women there engaged in sripplyiug the city of Charles.' ton with something to live - upon, there there were just ten white people, "all the rest black, and the, blacks being the most intelligent, genteel 'and well behaved. Those people silP plied the'city •in ;all its provisions. They built their own" boats, went . nut upon .the water and brought in the best 6sh to be found. And,l affirm .. to•Aly . that the white, people of chtirlestob'svbrstiievis ti:i" death iii two weeks f'Pe 'take' thel'eMotied'peopteout 'Of that iplrj4;'..anlit believe;Ahia: may -be 7 said-.with., lequal truth of all the °the) cities of the South. 1 i I will just here mention an instance which Came under my own observation,, that of a small colored boy less, than t*elve years of Age,rarboul I met in the City of Charleiton. It le not a mattes of much consequence, but may be taken as 0, straw to. elucidate a fact. In conversation with this boy, while he was Vitally blacking my.boots, I asked' him: "My boy, how much' can yon make a day at that I kind of work ?" Skid he, "I can,make from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a half gen erally over a dollar." ,"Well, doyob work at that all day ?" , "Ott, Ino, I stop at half-past eight and go to school." "Do you go to schOol every day ?" "Every day except Sat urday ; then there it no school." Now, gen tlemen,-there is a;'little black - boy making one dollar.a' day by bard labortind improving 1 the hOurs of leisure by hard study. I ask you, Mr. Sinker, s how many little boys in Harrisburg, under twelve years of age, yam their dollar a day before half-past eight and then go to school'? I eimzly refer to these facts.as showing the ohmmeter of this slander that is repealed day ft6r day upon this sub ject;riTv and any man :14:r goes down South among them will see t at it is a slander, for he will not see any (ether people there •at mannel labor. And, sir, I assert, in spite of the statistics read • last nigitt in the Senate, i that a majority of these people about Rich- Mond, Charleston and other places are mu lattoes. I do-not care what the census says ; the eye at a glanceestablishes the fact of their paternity and proves beyond question that hardly one-fourth of them are entirely bleak. I , Now, with that state of facts exisiting atthe South with no evidenee.whatever to disprove the allegation that the late rebels want - to get control of the government kgain tor any other purpose then to accomplish r, 1.1 - iat which they failed to accomplish by' their bayonets—with that purpose apparent, the question arises as to how we are to treattbem. Thatis the clues tion that comes np to-night before this Leg islature ; it comes up heibre the people clothed in differentlanguage and moulded into di :lerent forms ; lqut the one ourpOse and the one idea is, what is to be done with unrepentant trai tors? How are they to be treated? 'are they to be clothed with power ? Are they to conic into C'ongress and impose their decrees upon loyal:men ? Why, sir, I take it there cannot be two opinions upon that matter on the part of loyal men , and hens() theories, - sugges tions, resolutions, amendments and, proposi tions are made with a view to avoid this diffi culty. And from among them all, Mr.C,hair maii. a remedy will certaiuly be found ; for I tell these ;,,rentlernemthat unrepentant traitors are not coming baCk into Congress. That Is a fact settled by' the decree of tile loyal Atoerican people. 4 1'hey are not coming b a il:. The gentleman says admit such es can take this stringent oath ? I would answer, we had oaths years ago, but they were not of mu , b avail. John C. Bree,kinridge, with an oath 11 upon - lips to susenin and defend the Con stitutin of the United States,'remained in the Senate 1 1 of the United - . States !Ong after he be carne traitori and There like a traitor and a town do .as- he was:wormed out of the Gov errune t its secrets and carried them over to the enemy. Now, what is the use of swearing sndli a man as that? Why, sir, we hate 4- , ready sworn , a trOjority of these men. A majority of these leading traitors have already been in the service of the lovernment of the United States, and they have sworn as sot-. emnly as men could swear to support,to main tain and to defend it ; but they paid no more regard tc these oaths than they did to the merest straws that floated upon the wind. Are we to trust them again ? Why, if we do, we shall be even more foolish than children who never put their fingers in the fire and get them burned more than once ; ours have been burned already. Now, let us provide some safeguards, * and what better; safeguard conid we have! than are proposed in this resolution. It simply proVides i for - loyal governments in the South, and proposes that when those gov ernments in the south become loyal they shall be admitted into full harmony and fellowship with other States. ! , 1 - _ _ One of these resolutions is; somewhat more specific than the• others, Ind I I-efer to it simply because it touches a little more closely this question of the rights of the colored people. We deem it to embody a necessary safeguard--"security for the future." It is proposed by the bill (No' 9) that we shall re quest our members of Congress to insist upon the concurrence of Southern members in a change in the Constitution so as to provide that no person shall ,be excluded' from giving testimOny in( is3r court on account of color that there shall be no distiuction in any State as to the right to acquire, hold or dis pose.of property, nor :innthe making of con tracts,' nor in the punishment of any kind of offences on account of race or color. We say this will be an efficacious remedy; that it Is one that baS been tried and which, instead of injuririg the South; wilt exercise a benefi cial influence in j that section. It will- cause South Carolina to'compare in population, in Iniprovements and in wealth with Massa chusetts •and it, will' Make Virginia, once the first Statee in the Union, again the, equal of Pennsylvania. It would clear the forests of the South, set their 'Machinery in Motion and apply , to their utmost extent the material powers Of that section ; and thus the South would be changed intoa prosperous anlllhappy /country. As to the effect which this: kind of treatment would hare upon the country I would call the attention of gentle men to an authority, that I 'presdme they will' accept 011thrit point i nitrael, that the proper treatment of the colored peop le Of the-South will haie a beneficial effect upon the condi tion of that section. That is the point thdt I make here, that so:far from these, resolutions being offered in. any spirit ofenmity or hatred toward the mouth, they are offered with the honest) purpose of benefitting the Sotithera people.: And they would benefit 'them. , Le/ me call xour attention to' what has taken place in other State: by the adOption °Mese principles. , I refer yon to,,a late letter of one Georgia' 11: pendleton. I These' gentlemen over, here, ',presume, will remember him ; I think he was talked of at one time as a can didate for the,Vice Presidency. , , Why he did not succeed cannot explain cn any other hypothesis than that tie was a prominent ex ponent'of the 'ideas' whiCh Wive be - erreso per : sisterito ablf"adtMeated in the • othe'r Tionse; and tO-lonie extent; in this ; ,Ttreliede that-was th'e'