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THE RESTORATION OF THE UNION
.Another letter from .It/-, Heecher.
LETTER FROM REV. DR. TYNG.
LETTER FROM CART. WORDEN
OF THE "MONITOR."
Another Letter from the Rev. Mr, Heecher
On Sunday a letter was read in Ply
moutli Church, Brooklyn, New York,
from the Rev. Henry Ward Botcher, the
pastor, who is absent from home, address
ed his congregation, in explanation ot the
letter he recently addressed to Charles G.
Halpine and other general officers and
Union soldiers about to hold a met ting at
Clevtdand, Ohio, fur the purpose ot ratify
ing the declaration of principles adapted
by the Conservative Union Convention,
held at Philadelphia on the 14th of Au
gust The New \ ork bun savs:
In a letter addressed to his people, Mr*
Beeeher reiterates the views set forth in
his Cleveland letter, hut disclaims being a
Johnson man in the common acceptation
of the term, heenti*e he does not approve
of some of the President's acts and speech
es; nevertheless he favors the election of
conservative republicans to the next Con
gress, believing they more truly represent
the needs of the country in the present cri
sis of public affairs, and exp. cting tbev
will, whin in Congress, vote for the speedy
readmission of Southern States, on a basis
of peifeet harmony with the turn interpre
tation of constitutional liberty.
The effect in Plymouth C mrch when
this letter was read can he imagined much
better than it can be described It is well
known that the "Radical*' element is some
what strong in that tabernacle, and scores
of ultra abolitionists worship there. After
Mr. Botcher's letter had been read, soin.
of those extremists to.k exceptions thereto
and among others, Mr. Louis Tapped vig
orously characterized it as "nothing hut
an elaboration of his former letter," and
added '. "there is no argument in it.' This
view was embused by others, who lingered
in the pews and aisles, discnssii g the doc
ument- The conservative members, how
ever, expressed th' iitselves satisfied with
Mr. Beecher's explanation, and were glad
to believe that this letter would calm the
passions of those who were disposed to de
nounce their pastor and di-tru.-t the har
mony of his congregation, on account of
the views embodied in his C.evelaml letter.
Letter from the Hev. I)r. S. 11, Tyns.
The IIeV. Wa 1 d I'eeeh or being unable
to attend the Cleveland Convention, tbe
Rev. Dr. Tyng was invited in liis s'.ea I,
and the following is his,reply ;
SR. GEORGE'S RECTORY, Sept. C, 1866.
G'n. L 'hax. G- Mulpine.
MR DEAK SIK : My home eng'tgemanl
and personal infiifn ti*s render it impossi
ble for me to give the finm or effort which
would be involved in the journey and dtitv
yoil propose. I should be glad to give
you a liflcrent reply if it were in my pow
er. I have read with gre.it delight Mr.
Beecher's unanswerable letter, and d sire
to thank him for the fi lelity and powm
with wh eh he Inis accompli'-h> dso go.id a
work. 1 shall honor the soldiers and sai
lors of the nation it h > give th ir cordial
and united support to the sound and health
ful principles which he proclaims and sus
tains. It w.I! be a glorious result if the
people of the land unite with them in the
universal deterndnatioff'fliat Union, liber
ty, and generous interpretation and action
shall end all the controversies of the dav
in which we live, iu the immediate and
complete reconstiuction and combined es
tablbJirnent of our who e nation as one
harmonious and prospering people.
That a conquering army should desire
this seems but accordant witli the soirit of
a generous victor. That they should as
semble in a peaQeful fellowship to avow
an ) promote it is' hut exercisii g their rights
as citizens, and fulfilling their obligations
as intelligent leaders of their fellow men;
and that mini-tors of ,a religion of peace
and good will should sustain and encourage
a puipose and movement so honorable to
the nation, would appear to he the plainest
dictate of duty in the position which tn;.y
sustain, and relate us to the people among
whom they dwell.
I cannot refuse, therefore, to approve
and endorse the meeting which is proposed,
or the platform on which it avows it>elf to
standi '
\ our friend and servant, with miieh re- .
gard, STEPUEN li.TYNG.
Letter from Captain W„rde.
The following letter is from Captain
Wotdeu, who fought the original Monitor
in Ilampton Roads againstthe Merrimac.
It was sent to Major General Charles K.
Graham.
UNITED ST\?IS STEAMSHIP PEVSACOLA,
NEW YORK IIARB ,R. Sept. G. MV Hear .
General: I am in receipt of your kind in
vitation of the sth instant, to ptriieibate
in the convention ot ollieers to be held in
Cleveland. Ohio, to "approve the present :
plans of reconstruction, and the President's
roli:y generally."
Be assu.7* 1 ' ( * enpra ' lJlc P ol ' c y of SU3 -1
taining the adm.nisV. ltion mee * my hcar '
ty approval, and nothing would trireme,
greater pluwre ,h„n unit-irnr i|!i
pamuns m arm. in I his effort ; ijut If. " ,
ted States when the Convention a&emfcta.
•'TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY PREEMAIfS RIGHT. *'■— Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCIv, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1866.
During the rebellion my whole heart
and soul were enlisted in the first eff.irs
toward its suppression; and now that it i
supprtesed, 1 feel it a pleasant duty to ext
tend to our repentant Southern brethren
the right hand of fellowship. Generous
magnanimity toward a fallen foe is charac
teristic of brave men. and this principle is
eminently shown in the sentiments so warm
ly and frequetilly expressed lately by the
brave men who participate 1 iu subduing
the rebellion.
Trusting that the convention, by its wis
dom, moderation, and patriotism, may
strengthen the hands of the Government
in its efforts towards reconstruction and
conciliation, and inset the views and s:p
port of all patriotic cit zens, especially of
those who served in the army and navy
•luring the rebellion, I remain very truly
yours,
John L. WOKDKN,
Captain United States Navy.
A SHORT DIALOGUE.
A Jaeobin Di-union spouter was declaim
ing, the other dav, in very vehement teim ,
about rebels and the rebellion ; and in the
course of his remarks declared he would
never consent that Southern men, who had
tiied to destroy the Union, should not be
allowed to Vote. A conservative Demo
crat, who was pr sent, asked permission to
put a few questions to Mr. Jaconin, to
which the latter assented. The dialogue
then proceeded as follows:
D nioerat —Did I understand you to say
that you would never consent to let the
Southern people vote ?
Jacobin —lso sa d and I will stand bv
that position, all the time."
Democrat—But would you tax the peo
ple ilo'.vu there, wliiie denying.thern repre
sentation ?
J ic din —\es; they tried to deslroy the
Union and should never be permitted to
vote in the Union Let them show their
repent, nee by adopting the Constitutional
amendments proposed hy Congress.
Democrat -But as I understand it, if
they adopt the Constitutional amendments,
thi v am then to be allowed the privilege of
voting ?
Jacobin—Yes ; and that is all Tight.
D-nio -iat Well, will tin y not be the
same men, alter the Constitutional amend
ment is adopted, that they were before ?
Jacobin—Of course they will.
Democrat—Very well, then ; I now un
derstand your position. You are opposed
to allowing the Southern men to vote in
the I 1 ion, because they have been rebels ;
but if th -y will adopt the pat tiz in amend
ments propo-ed 1\ Congress.you arc willing
to allow tlit*in to vote, notwithstanding tliev
have bee', rebels. So, as a m itter of fact,
if is not because (hev had b"en rebels that
wu deny them the right toto vote; but
because, they will not adopt the proposed
Constitutional amendments.
Jacobin— Il'ell, that is a view of the sub
j -cT that never struck ro before, and I
must think more about it.
" I)> rnocrat—Do you really wish the Un
ion restored ?
Jacobin—l do, indeed.
1) in<>o at—Well, how can it be restored
unless you allow the penpl • of the South all
the rights of citizenship ? Tlicy cannot bo
in the Union anil out of it at the s me time.
If we deny them the privileges secured bv
t lie Constitution, how can we demand that
tliev shall render allegiance to the Consti
tution ? If they are in the Union, tliev must
be allowed all the rights wh'cli the Consti
tution and the Ufiion secure ; if thev are out
of the Union, "they are to us as a foreign
and an alien people. •
Jacobin—There is, I mnst confess, much
force in what von say. Though I have
called myseff a Radical Republican, I still
am a friend of mv country; and if I find I
am wrong, I am not afraid to correct mv
error ; and there are a good many Repnbli
cans who feel as I do, though some are, 1
am afraid, a lit tie unreasonable. lam glad
we hive had this conversation, for it has
suggested to me some new thoughts. Good
day, neighbor.
• Democrat—Good day. Democrat as he
walks off, soliloquizes, "I don't believe that
man wdl vote the Jacobin ticket. S>une
tlrng is up when Republicans begin to talk
as he does." . f,
Senator Wilson says the earth was
Hfii-d a thousand ieaguns nearer heaveir
when slavery was abtdished. Itus ' a pity
fi\r him that he didn't ride with it. for he
would have got nearer the "better land"
than he will ever get again.
fjgF For five vears the Jacobins boldly
putclaimed that any opposition to the Pres
id'*nt was disloyalty." At present, they be
lieve that everybody is "disloyal" who
don't denounce him.
The negro Fred. Douglas, and The
odore Tilton, editor of the New York /"
depestdent , walked aim inarm in the Phila
d Iphia disunion parade, and were cheered
by the radicals. What white mechanic or
laboring man would Mr. Tilton associate
with en such familiar terms?
Geary's central organ has never yet pub
lished one -of his speeches. Why don't
& "" ••••'* York speech, as printed in
it copy . ' '' let the
Forty's it nf rai<J
pAopju hear what that' Ruffian"j
to say ? H| .•. £.. |
THE INDIANAPOLIS RIOT!
MAJ. GEN. CUSTER'S LETTER!
White Men Brutally Shot Down.
Abolition Slirioks tor the Negro—Wo La
ment for Murdered White men.
RADICAL HATE for the IRISH.
General Grunt witnesses the Massacre and
informs the President.
READ! READ!! READ!!!
A .Letter from Major Gen. Custer—
the Indianapolis Disturbances.
Special Dispatch to the New York limes.
CiNclNSAii, Ohio, Sept, 12 1866.
To Gen. S. Meredith,
DEAR SIR: In compliance with your
request and to correct misrepresentations
already published, I give you the follow
ing statement of what I saw relating to
the disgraceful riot which oecurre 1 in In-
I dianapolison the evening of the President's
! reception at that city. 1 had returned to
my room from the supper table, where 1
I had left the President aul iimst of the par
ty. The streets about the hot* I aero
densely packed by the crowd waiting to
see and near the President. Loud and
continuous calls were made for Johnson,
"Seward, Grant, Fat ragut and others. I
was sealed in the window of inv room,
which \v:rs hi the second sterv of the Bates
House and imme-iiati ly overlooking the
crowd in the Street. Several hundred
torch s and transparencies borne among the
crowd rendered toe scene as light as mid
dav, so that 1 coriM sec and distinguish the
faces ot every per*on in the? crowd below.
I am tlius minute in detail in order to
prove, to you that I could see all that was
transpiiing. Nothing of a disorder v char
acter occurred until one of the Marshals
ol the day was Seen making his way on
horseback through the crowd to point
where torch-bearers were located. After
apparently receiving directions to lhat ef
fect, they began to move off in column.—
fhis was the signal for an attack bv the
crowd which was begun hy knocking down
torches and transparencies with club--, and
in some instances wresting them fr~m the
hands" of holders. Tnis continued with
out resistance for the space of probablv
two minutes, although several in the pro
cession had been struck and beaten over
their heads. A rush was finally made bv
the crowd, and several torches forcibly ta
ken from the procession ami the handles
used as weapons agains those in the proces
sion. The transpiirerrcv bearing the mot
to " Irish- Americjii Citizens Welcome the
I'resid lit of the United States," seemed to
he s special object of attack, and was seiz
ml and altcmtcd to be trampled under feet.
The attempt failed, and the bearer resist
ed by using his transparency as a club. This
was the s : gnal for a general attqek
hy the crowd. At this moment the first
shot was fired, and as an offort has been
made to attach the blame and responsibili
ty <f this disgraceful procee J ing of lh it oc
easioti upon innocent parlies, and being in
possession of facts which enable mo to fix
guilt where it belongs, I hereby state that
I plainlv saw the man who fired t''e first
shot, ami saw him at the moment he fired,
lie was one of the attacking party belong
ing to the crowd, and his aim when firing
was directed into the procession and ap
parently at the bearer of the transparency
referred to above.
This was ;t signal for other shots, and it
was not long before a dozen or so shots
were fired by the attacking party that any
was returned by those belonging to the
procession, when a single man left the pro
cession, stepped into the open space which;
had been cleared by the firing, and deliber
ately aimed and fired twice at one of Ihe
mob, who was some twenty yards distant,
and who was still,firing toward the torch
hearers. This closed the disturbance tor
the time being. The facts as I have re
lated them, were witnessed by Mr. Spof
ford. of >ston, Mr. McGinniss,of Chicago
and two ladies, all of whom are members
of the President's party, who were in my
roont at the time Gen. Grant also wit
nessed them from another window, and in
formed the President of what he had seen,
a few moments after it transpired. After
the President returned his room, facing
the balcony, the crowd again assembled in
front, when another disturbance arose, —
1 was standing with the President in
his room, when 1 heard two or three shots
fired; I looked out of the Window just in
time to see a man fire a pistol at, another
standing near him. The wounded man
fell and was soon after picked up and car
ried into a drug-store on the lower floor.
No more shots were fired. Gen, Grant,
after twice appea ing on the balcony and
•requesting the crowd to disperse and go
home, induced respectable persons to do
so. About 100 or more of the roughs and
thugs of the city, and who probably began
at d upheld the not, remained in front of
the hotel, indulging in vije epi hets until a
late hour. To use the word of S-cietarv
Seward on that occasion, the loyal inhabit
ants had retired to their horses, while the
disloyal remained in the street.
G. A. CUSTER.
The undersigned,eye witness of the riot at
Indianapolis on the evening of Sept. 10, do
hereby bear unqualified testimony to the
accurate end truthful description thereof
contained in the foregoing letter of Major
-7" T'STEO. R.SPOFFQRI). W
JNO. MCGINNIS, Jr.
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TBRMS, S2.QO FUR ASfSTDK
THE ELECTIONS IN 1866—PAST AND
TO COME,
Those who have paid much attention to
the ebbs tind flows of public sentiment, as
exhibited in popular elections, have al
ways remarked the affinity between the
diff rent States and observed that the first
results in the beginning of a year are gen
erally good indications of those that are to
come. Ever since 1840 this peculiaiity
has been the distinguishing feature
of our political campaigns. In fact, the
elections that commence badly for a party
keep growing worse and progress in that
direction to the end of the year is a sort of
geometrical progression.
It is in yiew of this fact that we have
every thing to encourage us in the aspect
of the tiroes. The first important election
was in Connecticut. The Jacobins.there,
from having a majority of 10,000, were
down to 600, and it was only by the most
tremendous exortions that they were saved
from titter defeat.
Then Come Oregon and Nebraska, where
here were the closest contents, and in
each of which the Jacobin majority was re"
duced almost to zero. Kentucky was next
on the list. In 18C5 she wes about a tie
between the parties, but this year she goes
40,000 Democratic. This glo-ious result
is responded to by a Democratic triumph
in the distant Territory of Colorado, whose
settlers have recently met there fn>m all
States.
Democrats may rest assured that it is
no accident that causes this series of Dem
ocratic victories and gains. Neither is it
owing to local causes, for they would not
be likely to happen in so m any and differ
ent parts of the country. They are caused
by a wide spread of dissatisfaction with the
course of the Jacobin majority in Coa
gress. This dissatisfaction will be more
strong!) marked and developed in the
eh ctioiis yet to come off. In all the gieat
States thp Jacobins will lose in the same,
if not greater ratio than they have in Con
necticut, Oregon, Nebraska, Colorado and
Kentucky, fu all ot them they will be
beaten. The hand writing is on the wall.
The people of Kentucky and Colorado
have changed no more than will the men
of the Ohio, Indiana, U'inois, Pennsylva
nia and New York. The Democratic col
uinn, assisted by its conservative allies and
other parties, is inarching resistlessly to
victory.
ORGANIZE.
The first duty of the Democracy at the
present time, says an Exchange is organiza
tion. .Victory will not come tor the a?king.
Wo must labor for it, we must organize tor
it. It will per/eh.upon onr banners at the
end of the present contest, if we me vigor
011 sly and per>everingly the appliance of
triumph. Our opponents are roused to
frenzy at the idea of being displaced from
the positions of which they have made
such profitable nieieUandize. They will
put forth every, effort to overwhelm the
Wcsideii't policy, and to carry their meas
ures of consolidation, confiscation, disunion
and tt e demai of all civil rights to the
stat S anil the men recently iu rebeLion.
We must organize, we repeat, if we ex
pect success. We must meet tlie great
questions of the day on the arena of diseus
stou. We must extend the circulation of
Democratic newspapers. H'e must ibrtu
Democratic clubs iu every township, village
and school district throughout the land.—
The engines we must use are the press
and the slump, and we must use these with
a power, a perseverance, and an energy
never equalled by us iu any previous cam
paign. Our caqet: demands it, an imper
iled constitution demands it, an uurestor
ed Union di man Js it, and the rights oflbe
Stales demand it. Organize! ORGANIZE!!
ORGANIZE!!!
JACISON AND JOHNSON. —The Philadel
phia Age. under the head of "Strauge Co
incidences*' furnishes the following facts
in the lives of the two Tennessee Presi
dents's
"Andrew Jackson was bora in North
Carolina, emigrated to Tennessee, and was
elected President of the United Slates. -
During his Administration the oppoMtion"*
were wonderfully exercised because he dared
to remove men from otfiee who opposed the
Government. Andrew Johnson was also
born in North Carolina, emigrated to Tenn
essee, and is now President of the United
btates. The opposition are just now won
derfully exercised about his removing men
irom office who arte now opposed to 'the
Government.' "
Philadelphia was the only city in the
Utiiori whfose municipal authorities refused
to extend hospitalities to General Jackson
on his visit to the West, and Philadelphia
is the only city whose municipal authorities
refused to exteud hospitalities to Andrew
Johnsbn on Ais v isit to the West. But the
people of Philadelphia turned out en muSse
to welcome Andrew Jackson, and by a de
cided Vote at the polls sternTy rebuked the
mun<cipal authorities for their contempti
ble meanness. The people of Philadelphia
also turned out en masse to welcome An
drew Johnson, and will admin ster a rebuke
to the present municipal authorities at the
ballot box. Strange coincidences some
times happen in thris wicked world of ours.''
i . i- i >
•. -j :
By resolution the Brown low-Geary con
vention thanked Theodore Tilton, Fred
Douglass and Miss Anna Dickinson fpr
speeches upoa "manhpod suffrage."
■it fciUAIS thl.q*..
VOL. 6 NO. 8.
An Intended Fraud tbat Will Fall,
The following is from the Pittsburg
Commercial , a Geary organ:
'•J W. Porney, and other Radical lead
ers in Pennsylvania have procured from
the War Department a list of deserters
from the army during the war, from that
State numbering STXTY THOUSAND, AND
PROPOSE TO CHALLENGE SUCH OF THEM AS
SHALL OFFER TO TOTE THE CONSERVATIVE
TICKET, and prevent their exercising the
elective franchise."
Observe. Of these sixty thousand, they
propose to challenge ONLT those who
•shall offer to vote the Conservative ticket'*
—that is for Clymer end the Democratic
nominees. All other?, of course, are to
be allowed to vote—provided they cast
their votes for Geary. If deserters have
no right to vote they will be committing a
fiaud in permitting deserters to vote for
Geary. The above is a clear confession
that the Disuriionists intend sillier to un
justly deprive men ot their votes, or to
commit fraud by accepting illegal votes for
Geary. They are certainly capable of do
ing either or both.
But how comes it there are SI±TY THOU
SAND deserters—more than ONB IS SIX of
all the Pennsylvania soldiers in service,
during the war ? Because ALL THE ER
RORS AND BLUNDERS OF FRY'S CORRUPT
PROVOST MARSHAL BUREAU HAVE BEEN
HUNTED UP; and because at LEAST THIRTY
THOUSAND NAMES OF DEMOCRATS AND CON
SERVATIVE REPUBLICANS, who were never
in service ; never drafted ; who w eerff f un
der and over age, and otherwise not liable
to draft or service HAVE BEEN ADDED by
the Geary managers - m order to OB
STRUCT and EMBARRASS and try to
DEPRIVE THEM OF THEIR RIGHT
TO VOTE!
But this whole scheme is a deliberate
fraud. There is now no legal way to de
prive an alleged deserter, or even a deser
ter, of his vote,' The act to disfranchise
! deserters has been decided by the Supreme
Court to be unconstitutional, null and void.
Therefore pay no regard to their HUM
BUG LIST, and insist upon and secure
for every man qualified under the Consti
tution and Election Laws of the Common
wealth the inalienable right to vote. Those
lists are more waste paper, and every elec
tion officer, who rejects a deserter's vote
will be liable to be arrested anil fined, and
al>o to be punished in damages and costs ia
a civil suit; and every judge or inspector
who dares to violate his oath and .reject
sucli votes, must be prosecuted and pun
ished to the full extent of the law.
FREEDOM ILLUSTRATED.— A colored G*R T
of IG, a refugee from Alabama, has been
kept tor two and a half rears in a state of
slavery in Chicago by Mr. Taylor,"" half
clothed, compelled to saw all the wood, do
pll the washing, of his family of ten,
without pay, to sleep in a cellar, forbidden
to go out, frequently beaten, and on' one
occasion, w|si got away, badly whip
ped.
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The Pittsburg, Penn., Gazette (Rad)
declares, with a tear in each eye, that "it
is no longer a secret that in Pennsylvania
the C Conservatives are co operating as ab
solutely with the Democrats as in New
York."
X-&~ The abolition law-breakers and
traitors just now are worshipping Thad*
Stevens. We know nothing wicked in
worshipping him, for he is not made in
the image of anything in Heaven, on earth
or iu hell. In feature, form, ideas, sentH
ment and aspirations he is unlike anytbiag .
the world ever saw.
The Jack Hamilton-Douglas Convention
resolved to wear i mourning badge daring
thirty days for the "martyred Dostie." It
is supposed that it will consist of,i crash. *
towel with crossed razor strops worked in
wool, surmounted by the raotto—"Nety
Orleans, July 30 —a clean shave."
The New York correspondent of thfe d
Philadelphia Ledger says: "Rev. -
Ptecher's letter in support of the Presi
dent's policy is making a greftt noise, and
it is more than probable it will lead to a
rupture in Plymouth church of a very serU *
ous character." ...
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Washington was once interrogated by b?fc
fiicnds, after he had voted at an
las to whom he had voted for. His reply .!*
was characteristic of the great man. "Gen
tlemen," said he, 44 1 vote for principles*
not men," Our people should adopt tliit.
rule next October, and recollect that every >
vote ca&t for Geary and the disunion ticket
is one against the Union, the Constitution
and the laws.
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An exchange remarks that two *
das-es of onr fellow-citizens are at this time
laboring under great difficulties. It
to the political portion ot the clergy and
the offiee-holdeis. Those loyal quails who
used to pray three times a day for "Thy
servant, the President," are neglecting that
duty wonderfully, and have actually taken
to praying for the Rumpers. while the of— ,
j freeholders are praying alternately, not
know ing actually whose hands they may ;
fall into.
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XW Vote for Clymer.
lib!mm £ a