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BITTIjEK FOit iiA »('Of S£. Points Font Him Great Wpeeeh at Fannett Hall--Ijeadii>£ If aHacnuMettN Republicans Join Butler. [By I'elegrurh toibe New York Herold ] Boston, August 28, ’BO. General Butler lias placed hints If squarely on the Hancock platform, and announced his intention of faking > stump in favor of the election of the hero of Gettysburg. He has also officially stated that he is not a candidate for any office, elective or appointive this year. The meeting m Fanueil Hall, at which these declarations were made, was large and enthusiastic, and was composed of men representing all shades of political opinion. There were Democrats, Greenbackers, indeperitent Republicans, straight Republicans, and men on the political fence. On the platform were such as Isaac Hull Wright, representing the Fanueil Hail wing; General A. F. Martin and A. A. Haggerty, representing the Butler Democracy; Albert Palmer. John 1. Baker and Andrew J. Hall, representing the Butler republicans. Palmer presided, and made a ringing speech, in which he declared squarely for Hancock. His arraignment of the party with which he has acted for twenty years, was one of the most scathing invectives in the history of politics in this state for a quarter of a century. GENERAL BUTLER’S ADDRESS. “By a wise provision of the constitution the people are called upon at every recurring period of four years to pass solemn judgment upon the policy, integrity and efficiency of the administration of the government in the past and to choose and appoint those who shall administer their government in the cuming like period. If change of policy or administration of government is needed it can only be attained at a Presidential election. Under our system of elections, practically, the people must confer their power upon one or two men only, as the supreme executive head of the nation. No third person can be suported for President with any result save in the nature of a protest against the nominee of the conventions of the two great political parties. There is, therefore, no more solemn duty- imposed upon any patriot than to determine which of the two candidates represents more nearly his convictions upon the greatest number of the measures and principles of govern merit All history teaches that long continu antes in power breeds corruption in the administration of governmental affairs; that corruption always seeks perpetuation. and fears change of administration lest its wickedness be detected even if not punished. * * * ' «■ * * When any one of my Republican friends desires to' put to me a political question which he deems unanswerable, he asks, ■ How can you act with the Democratic party which undertook to break up the Union which you fought to sustain ? ’ The trouble with your question, my friends, is that you have forgotten the history of your country. A portion of the Democratic party undertook to secede from the Union, and thereby broke ui> the Democratic party If the Democratic party had undertaken to brake up the Union it shurely wood have been broken up. Does any sane man not blinded by partisan prejudice doubt that without prompt, vigorous, loyal, C'i’i i"j<teous and patriotic action of the masses of the Democratic party that it would have been impossible for the Republican party to have preserved the Union ? Boo’ at the rank and file of our armies ! They were as largely recruited from the Democratic as from the Republican party. For correctness of this assertion let me speak of my own knowledge. I marched to the (I ul 1 with a New England division containing 6,000 men, and there could not have been found 500 men in that division who had ever voted any other than the Democratic ticket. They came back voting for the Union for which they fought, and they have been voting in

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' the same direction since, and will con--1 tinue so to vote with the Democracy for Hancock, by whose side they fought. THE COLOR LINE. Can the Republican administration protect the Southern colored man in ail his rights, and will they so do? Since the war closed, for sixteen years the Republican party have had absolute control of the executive department, and, until the last congress, of the legislative department of the government, and most of the time by a two-thirds majority. Has that party given protection to the negro in the sense which . they put the necessity for doing so beI fore the people? Their very campaign ! cry is an admission that they have not 'so done, if at the end of sixteen years j they claim that they must be continued !in power four years longer that they . must do it. how long shall we, who have some convictions as to the misconduct of tiie party in other regards as well as in this, put up in all other shortcomings of the Republican party, ' in order to fulfill their promises, so ofie 1 I solemny made, and reliueously broken. PROSPERITY FROM ON HIGH. The only other reoson given why the Ripublican party should be continued in power is the present prosperity of the country, which, they do notexplain how, it is due the legislation or administration of the Republican party. Is this claim a just one? Every business that could not be effected by legislation or administration is ' prosperous. The Almighty, in his beneficience to us, has sent us the largest crops, of all kinds of provisions for a series of years we ever enjoyed, and at the same time also provided a market for the surplus of those crops, amounting in a single item to nearly 200,000,000 bushels of wheat in Europe by the failure of the harvest there. Had the Republican party anything to do with that? Yet the agriculture prosperity is claimed for that party. The balance of trade in our favor was due to that excess of export over import. Is that due to the Republican administration ? —— — — Which Ih the statesman? m Ihe Evening Ilerald, Fiie, Pa.i In New Orleans, on the 2l)tl of November, 1867. General Hancock issued ■ his famous order in which he said: “The great principles of American ■ liberty are still the lawful inheritance ’ of this people and ever should be. “The right of trial by jury, habeas l corpus, the liberty of the press, the I freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons and the rights of property must be preserved. Free institutions, while they are essential to the prosperity and happiness of the people, always furnish the strongest inducements to peace and order. These ar? words of wisdom and true I statesmanship. They mean voluinns. Compare them to Garfield’s expression during the electoral count of 1876. He saidi / ■We have the army; we have the navay: we have the treasury, and we have the executive. If you had such cards wouldn t you play them ? Could such language emanate from a true and patriotic statesman . — II ■» —-— Geas. Sherman’s teller. [Fr >ni the New York Sun.] A dance at the corrspondence between Gen. Sherman and Gen. Hancock in IS7G reveals the reason fori Gen. Sherman’s desire to conceal it. It throws a broad light upon the events of that time, in which several historical -facts of the most startling char- . acter loom up into their just proper-1 .ions. It indicates clearly that the Re- , publicans were determined to go any . length in resisting the will of the peo-: pie. expressed at the polls ; that a conspiracy was formed, embracing not only the political criminals who had managed the several frauds in detail, but the President, the Secretary of War, and other members of the Ad . ministration, who were ready to bolster fraud with force; and that the General

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■ of the army, while fully appreciating the enormity of the crime in hand, was if not an active participant, at least a passive instrument in the hands of the others. It shows that had he been 1 ordered to clear the halls of the two i Houses of Congress, arrest the members, and shoot or hang, for ebstruct- > ing tlie Electoral Fraud, he would have ! passed the order down to his subordi- . nates without a moment’s hesitation. It shows—what Gen Sherman habitually and profanely denied when that 1 infamous work was in progress—that a force of regular troops had been gath- ■ . ered at Washington ex tress’;/ to serve • the purposes of the conspirators ; that the General fully appreciated the ex- ' tent of the crime against liberty and 1 law’which that fact implied ; and that he anxiously desired to return them to the stations from which they had been 1 taken without exciting the public attention. e wish now to record only the facts as th -y appear in this confes--1 sion ; comment will be necessary if the I American people retain any part of the • spirit tyhich animated their forefathers. Gen. Hancock held that there were limits to a soldier's obligation of obedience. Gen. Sherman held that there were none, Gen. Hancock believed that a soldier was not bound to obey an unlawful order ; that is, an order which his superior had clearly no constitutional right to give. Gen Sherman believed that he was bound to obey any order that came through the regular channel ; and we are to infer that if Grant had passed him the word, he would have shelled the Capitol while Congress was in session as readily as Dr. Trobbiand, following the same docI trines, pitched the Louisiana LcgislaI ture into the street. A (iIIiAXCE AT l-OIATBC!*. Mr. Editor: Some three weeks ago it was impossible for one to find a member of the Republican party who : was willing to say that Porter would recieve anything short of* 10,000 ma- ! jorky. One week ago the honest ones : would softly acknowledge that 7,000 ■ would be enough. Yesterday I noticed j that the supporters of Porter only I claim 1,600 ’of a majority. What they will claim next remains to be ■ seen, mt is it not reasonable to suppose ! that the party which acknowledge ! such a change in public opinion in the j last three weeks, will, within three weeks more, acknowledge yet more of a change ? Os course they must attribute the change in their talk, and claims Ito a change in public sentiment. If I they do not account for it in this way, - they stand convicted of indulging in bragging. This is the coward’s game. Now, if they claimed 10,000 of a majority two weeks ago. on what grounds did they make such a claim? They only completed their poll of the state a, day or two ago. Before they made ■ such a poll they guessed at the result, and bragged of it. Hence, take it as you will they have carried an a cowardly game, and now they are reaping the reward. Why. Mr. Editor, the Republican party is as desperate to-day as the extremists of the Calhoun school were in 1860. If I were a Republican I should be desperate too. They have seen all their darling schemes for the perpetuation of their power fail, or come back on them with redoubled | force. They enfranchised the negro, oppressed the South, piled thp state debts of that region mountain high, and what is the result? They solidified I the South, they drove the intelligence iof that entire section into one party. ; They loosened the very slight hold I they ever had gained in any portion of i , • I that country. They expected great results from the passage of the supervisors law. They thought to practically to disfranchise enough of the democratic party to admit of republican success. What was The people saw in the law 1 the entering wedge with which to split our republican form of government.

Congress said the people must not control our district elections. A member of the house of representatives represents his district —not that of some other man. What has a Georgia congressman to do with electing an Indiana rerpesentative ? Should the outgoing member help to pass a national I law to effect the election of his suc‘cessor? The people of this eleventh district elect theircongressman in their own way. He represents the eleventh district in /mown way. And the party which would attempt to control the election of congressman by national employees will very quickly find out that the people will admit of no outside interference in the conduct of their district, elections. They attempted to nominate Grant, considering him a st 'ong man—-one willing to carry out any system of Federal interference in local matters that the managers might see fit to inaugurate. The people rebelled. They threatened to bolt the ticket if the expresident was put on it. In desperation the leaders labored, and acknowledged that they had gone too far. As a compromise, Garfield was brought out. This nomination would split the party almost as effectually as Grant’s would have done, unless some man of a different school were put on with him. Hence the nomination of Arthur. An old saying is applicable. “Out of the frying pan into the fire.’’ Circumstances over which the party had no control nominated the republican standard bearers, and by such nomination the party is made to uphold the two men most conspicuous as representatives of republican corruption, because these are not only politically smirched, but some of their private acts are notoriously dishonest. The people now see a corrupt party represented by men personally unfitted for office. Is it no wonder that the party brags. It is desperate. It is nearing defeat. Its own actions have brought about its downfall. It is tottering toward its grave. The next gale that sweeps from the forests of Maine must carry to the cars of the doomed band the death knell. But there will come on that same blast a word of cheer to patriots. Then will Democrats know that freedon yet lives, and that a monarchy cannot be given life within our territory. Agate, j Decatur. Sept. 13th. 1880. ' X EVA GitEAXIXGK. BY RUS-TI-CUS. The sick are 411 convalescing. G. AV. Bryan lost an infant child last Friday. Oh yes. Bro. W illiams, just put your bead out of the window, and take a peep at our pole and rooster. Rev. Bishop Dwinger, of Fort Wayne dedicated the new Catholic church in Jefferson township, last Sunday. A young man by the name of Piatt, had his foot nearly sawed off ot Joe Hendricks mill last Saturday. Uncle Johnny McGriff was terribly frightened last Saturday. When the pole was raised he got behind John Goff’s house, and peeped around the corner. “He said he was auful feard somebody would git hurt.'' We would suggest to that widower, when he goes to Buffalo again to see that widow, not to enquire after her heal th-as he did before. Thomas Jefferson (we would like to add Andrew Jackson) Cook cut, and with Democratic assistance raised a . pole 75 feet high, last Friday evening. [ Last Satuaday was the day set apart j by the Democracy of W abash township to have a little rally ami pole raising, i and the Hon. John E. Neil was secur- - ed to speak to the citizens of Geneva j and vicinity on that occasion. The committees that were appointed on the I different order of business had every- I thing in readiness long before the time arrived for raising the pole. The people began to put in early in the day, and about ten o'clock the delegation from the north and west halted at the

north part of town until the delegation from Bryant, numbering about three hundred, marched up ami were joined by the two delegations, they then marched through town, out to the grove headded by the Geneva Bras.-; Band, and commanded by A. B. Tullis, marshall of the day, when they were ordered to-break ranks, get their din.mrs and be ready to raise the pole at one o’clock. One o’clock found the boy.-- < r -wiled around the pole anxious for the words “hoist away,” to be given by our millunt commander N. P. Ileaston.au d it came, and when it did come, it was not Jonir until the old Democratic emblem >d erect, with an attitude of 1-j feel, with a large hand near the top that is to guide us through the right. Unon which stands a large cock ready to crow in November when victor crowns the Democratic party, bv th election of Hancock & -.uai'sh. ;!■ ■ m . Vice President of the United Suites. Mr. Hale came forward with 1 u 16 which was run up about 75 feet, when it began to float- in the biee.ie, it almost made the hair stand on each and every true patriot’s head to think of the noble cause for which it was floating. -V infield Congleton says that if we do elect Hancock they will count him out as they did Tilden. Mr. Con gleton is a representative Republican, and i: is well to make a note of the threat and acknowledgement. R . ... Money can be had in sums and on terms to suit borrower. Apply at the Burt House Thursdays on and after Sept. 23. 1880. 6ws C. N. Haskell. Lost. On Monday last the undersigned lost a pension draft, ' somewhere on the streets of Decatur. The draft Calls for $30.00 payable to the loser. Any one finding it will greatly oblige the owner. P. O. address Decatur. Ind. Abel Johnson. S-Si.ssoiution of JPartwer.-G.ip. The firm of Hoover & Auter, millin’ ers and dressmaking, have this day dissolved by mutual consent. Mrs. Hoover retiring. Mrs. \uter will continue in business, having removed the stock of goods to the store room of Mr. Edington, immcdiatly opposite the old stand. Miss Auter herewith returns thanks to those who have favored her with their patronage and hopes, by fair dealing and good work, to receive a continuance of the same. I'he dressmaking will be carried on as usual in a room on the second floor. Respectfully, Mrs. D. A. Auter. Decatur Sept. 14, ’BO. ts. i o the Township Trustees. The Road Tax Lists will be ready for delivery by the middle of next week. G. Christen, Auditor. JYULJ. W. Place has just received several new styles of candies. Call and sec them. £-<■■■’’Fresh Oysters at J. IV. Place's. notice important. All persons having an open account, with 1. Strass are hereby notified to call at the fancy store and settle the same.' Mr. A. J. Hill lias the accounts. Bw. L Strass. SO Ehiggies and Sleighs. Taylors 25th sale at Sheldon, Alien county. Ind., Tuesday. Sept. 25th at 10 a. m. sharp. Carriages. Buggys. Side Bar. “Queen of the West ’ (a new style) and Spring Wagons. Also a lot of Buffalo Sleighs, (the finest.) All warranted. Sold on six months time. All invited. Music by the Hoagland Band. Organ and vocalist. Refreshments during the day, and closing with an entertainment in the evening. 2w, J3T*You oan g«l fresh oysters ’ey the ean or dish al J. W. Place'a.

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