Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 10 July 1868 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. OFFICIAL PAPER Os THE COUNTY. DECATUR, IVIMAVA. FRIDAY, JUDY 10,1868. ~ DBMOCRATIC_STATI! TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, T. A. HEADRICKS, of Marion. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, A. P. EDMUERTOA, of Allen. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, GENERAL REUBEN C. KISE, of Boone. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, JOSEPH V. BEMUSDAFFER, of Franklin, FOR TREASURER OF STATE, JAMES B. RYAN, of Marion. FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, NOAH S. LAROSE, of Cass. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, M. A. O. PACKARD, of Marshall. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN R. PHILLIPS, of Davies. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, SOLOMON CLAYPOOL, of Putnam. DISTRICT TICKET. FOR CONGRESS, ROBERT L.QWRY. F<>n CIRCUIT. COJ’RT NfcO&ECUTOR, JrOS. SS. DAILY, of Wells. FOR JUDGE COURT COM. PLEAS, 20TII DIST,, DAVID STUDABAKER, of Adams, FOR COMMON PLEAS PROSECUTOR, F. IBAUCH, of Huntington, FOR STATE SENATOR, O. 11l RD, of Allen, FOR REPRESENTATIVE, J. R. ROBO,of Adams.. COUNTY TICKET. TOR TREASURER, JOHN MEIBERS. FOR SHERIFF, JAMES STOOPS, Jr. fOtl COMMISSIONER, IST DIST., GEORGE LUCKEY. FOR COMMISSIONER, 3a D DIST., JOSIAH CRAWFORD. FOR LAND APPRAISER, ANDREW BARKLEY. Tbc National Democratic Convention. The Convention met at New Tammany Hall, July 4th, and was called to order by August Bel mont, chairman of the national democratic centeral committee, at ten minutes past twelve o'clock. — Mr. Belmont welcomed the convention to New York, the bulwark of democracy, and to the Empire State, ■which redeemed herself from radicalism last fall by 50,000 majority. He felt confident of the overwhelming success of the ticket and platform, for it is to the American people our appeal lies and their judgement will be just. They will remain no longer deaf to the teachings of the past. — They will remember the days when North and South marched together shoulder to shoulder in the conquest which gave us the golden empire on the Pacific. They will reinember the days when peace and plenty reigned throughout the land, when we had no national debt and the tax-gatherer was unknown throughout the land, when the credit of the United States stood higher in the money market of the world than any other, and they will remember with sorrow the downhill of the democratic party in 18Gl,fbr with it came that fearful war, bringing mourning and desolation to our land, to nearly every household, cost the lives of a million of our citizens and left the laboring whites of the country impoverished with debt. They wi.l remember that after the fratricidal war was over, when the bravery of our army and navy and the sacrifi ces of the people had restored the Union and vindicated the supremacy of the law, when victor and vanquished were equally ready to bury the past and hold out the hand of brotherhood and goodwill across the graves of their fallen comrades, instead of restoring the Southern States to their rights, instead of trying to wipe out the miseries of the past by a magnanimous policy, dictated alike by humanity and sound statesmanship and so ardently prayed for by the generous hearts of the American people—the radicals in Congress, ~ elected in an evil hour, placed the iron heel of the conqueror upon the South. Austria did not dare to fasten upon vanquished Hungary, nor Russia impose upon conquered Poland, the ruthless tyranny now imposed upon the Southern States by military satraps, invested with dictatorial powers that override courts and assumes the functions of civil

authorities, while the white popu- . lation are disfranchised or forced to submit to test-oaths, alike revolting to justice and civilization, • and a debased and ignorant race , placed in power to rule the destinies of that country. These men have usurped the Amotions of the executive and judicial powers of the government and trampled upon the constitution. To carry out these schemes our army and navy in a time of profound peace is kept upon a scale $200,000,000, preventing a reduction of the national debt and imposing upon our people an unnecessary and exorbitant system of unequal taxation. The same party are again before the people asking for a continuance of these evils. Gentlemen of the Corfvention, your country looks to you to stay this tide of disorganization, violence, and despotism. It will not look in vain when, in next November, the roll shall be called; when state after state shall respond by rallying around the broad banner of democracy, on which, in the future as in the past, will be inscribed our undying motto : “The union, the constiution, and the laws.” Mr. Belmont then nominated Hon. Henry L. Palmer, of Wisconsin, as temporary chairman, who returned his sincere acknowlments in a few brief remarks, when he introduced Rev. Dr. Morgan, rector of the St. Thomas’ Church N. Y., when prayer was offered up. Mr. Geo. Cook, of Ohio, moved that tbc rules of the house of representatives govern this body.— Erastus Brooks said there were many who did not recognize the rules of the present house of representatives. McCook said he would not have offered the resolutions, had he not known they had not dared to charge them. A voice—that is the only thing they have not changed. The rules of the democratic convention of 1864 were finally adopted. E. O. Perrine, of New York was appointed temporary secretary. A call of States was then had and a committee consisting of one from each State appointed on credentials and the same on permanent organization. A resolution was moved and adopted, to read the declaration of Independence. A committee of one from each State on resolutions was the appointed.— The convention then adjourned to 10 o'clock Monday, for the purpose of allowing the members to participate in the celebration ofthe Fourth. Monday’s session. The convention was called to order at 11 o'clock, and prayer offered by Rev. Wm. Quinn, of New York: Gen. Geo. W. Morgan, of Ohio, moved that the delegation from the working men’s convention be admitted to seats on the floor. Agreed to. The Hon. Heister Clymer, of Penn., from committee on permanent organization then reported Horatio Seymour, of New York, as President, with two from each State as Vice-Presi-dents and E. O. Perrine, N. Y.; M. M. Strong, Wisconsin; V. A. Gaskill, Georgia; F. M. Hutchin son, Penna.; and Robt. P. Turney, Illinois, secretaries. The committee recommended the adoption of the rules of the National Democratic Convention of 1864. The report of the committee was adopted. Mr. Seymour was then introduced amid cheering and applause and addressed the convention. We give a brief abstract of his remarks: “Gentlemen of the Convention.” I thank you for the honor conferred. In a great degree we are strangers and view the subjects that now agitates the country from different stand-points; our session must be brief and we must act without delay upon these questions.— It is our duty to restrain all exhibition of passion and to refrain from unkind suspicions. Men never met under greater responsibilities. We wish to lift c off the shackles of bad laws and crushing taxation that now paralyze the business and labor of the land. I trust our actions will show we are governed by an earnest purpose to help all classes of our citizens. Avoiding harsh invective, we should fix the public mind upon the questions to be met and solved. Let us leave the past and confront the perils of the <lay.[cheers] We are forced to meet the resolutions of the late Republican Convention. They congrat- , ulate the people, the tax payer, , the laborer, whose hours of toil are lengthened by the growing costs of the necessaries of life upon their reconstruction policy that i has brought these evils upon us i by a costly military despotism used to enforce a corrupt system of bureau agencies. In one resolution they denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime.— Why did they put upon the statute , book of the nation laws which invite the citizen who borrowed coin to pay in debased paper, and 1 wrong him out of a large share of I bia claim ia violation of the most

■ solemn compact? [Loud cheers] I If repudiation is a national crime, is it a crime to incite the citizens of this country thus to repudiate their ’ individual promises. [Applause.] • Was it not a crime to force credit- ■ ors of this and other states to take t a currency, at times worth no more k than 40 cents on the dollar, in ' prepayment for the sterling coin r they gave to build roads and ca- • nals which yield such ample ret turns of wealth and prosperity.— [Applause.] Again, they say it is due to the laborers of the nation 1 that taxation should be equalized. 1 Then why did they make taxation unequal ? Beyond the injusi tice of making one class of citizens pay for another’s share of the costs of schools, of roads, of the local laws which protected their lives and property, it was unwise and hurtful thing. [Cheers.] It sunk the credit of the country, as usurious terms are always hurtful to the credit of the borrower. — They also declare the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is so to improve our credit that capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now pay, and must continue to pay so long as repudiation is threatened or suspected. Then why have they used full $500,000,000 of the taxes drawn from the people of this country to uphold a despotic military authority and to crush out the life of states, when, if this money had been used to pay our debts, capitalists would now seek to lend us money at lower rates of interest. But for this covert repudiation our national credit would not be tainted in the market of the world. [Applause.] Again they declare that of all who werefiiithful through war, none arc entitled tchMHfe especial honor than the braqMrol diers and seamen —their widows and orphans arc the wards of the people, a sacred trust bequeathed to the nation’s care. They pay to the married men, the widow and orphan a currency sunk one quarter below its rightftil value. Is there no covert repudiaton in this ? Again they say foreign emigration should be encouraged, developing as it does the yealth and power of the Republic, by a liberal and just policy. Is this emigration fostered by a policy which so swells the cost of living, that forces men to toil to meet these exactions ? The time was when we could invite the European to share with us the material blessings of our country under a government that administered laws through a judiciary and kept the bayonet and sword under due subordination. — We could point with pride to a written Constitution that secured to the humblest man the right of property, of person and conscience. Is emigration ■ encouraged by trampling that Constitution in the dust, treating with contempt and shackeling the judiciary and executive, giving the world to understand that political and civil rights are destroyed ? But the crowning indictment is in these words: “That we recognize the great principles handed down in the declaration of Independence as the foundation of the general Government, and we hail with gladness every effort toward making these principles a living reality in every inch of American soil. If, within the limits of any of the states of this union, an American citizen, stung by a sense of his wrongs, should publicly and truthfully denounce the men in power because, in the very language of this declaration of independence, they have erected a multitude of offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance, he would in all human probability be dragged to prison; or if, in the indignant language of our fathers, he should exclaim: “They have affected to render the military independent or superior to the civil power, they have abolished the free system of English laws, and established herein an arbitrary government,’ —for the offence of asserting these principles he would be tried and punished by a military tribunal. [Great cheering.] Having declared these principles they put in nomination a military chieftain who stands at the head of this system of despotism. And to-morrow he who should be bold enough to utter the words above quoted from the sublime declaration, though he lived where the ashes of Washington are entombed i he would be dragged to a military • prison, yea though he uttered them t upon the grave of the author of • the declaration of Indejiendence. From this outrage there could be , no appeal, and the Republican canI didate for President has accepted ; a position which makes a large share of our people dependent on t his will. In view of these facts i can there be one man in this convention who can let personal am--1 bition, passion, or prejudice turn him aside one hair's breadth in his efforts to wipe out these wrongs. - Can we suffer prejudices growing : out of past differences to hinder us from uniting now with all who will I act with us in serving our common 1 country. We iqeet to day to see f what meuures can be taken to at vert the dangers which threaten u»

and relieve the country from the burdens and evils of bad government and unwise counsels, I thank God the strife of arms has ceased, and that once more in the great convention of our party we can call through the whole roll of States and hear a response from each. Time and events in the great cycles have brought us to this spot to renew and reinvigorate that constitutional government which nearly 80 years ago was inaugurated in this eity. — Here Washington swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. And here we as solemnly swear to uphold the rights and liberties of the American people. Then as now a great war devastated our land. Then as now there was a longing in the breast of every patriotic heart for the blessings* of good government and the protection of laws and sentiments of fraternal regard and affection among the inhabitants of the States of the Union. When this government was inaugurated in this city in 1789, there were glad processions of men and manifestations of great joy by the people. To-day in this same spirit this vast assemblage meets. They are filled with the hope our actions and policy will bring back the blessings of good government. It is among the happiest omens that those who fought bravest in our late civil war are foremost in these demands that there be peace in our land; that the passions of hate and malice no longer linger in no man’s breast. In the spirit then of George Washingto and of the*patriots of the revolution let us take steps to reinangurate our government and start it again on its course to greatness and prosperity. May Almighty God give us wisdom to carry out our purposes; to give every State of our Union the blessing of peace, good order and fraternal affection. Mr. Seymour closed amid great applause. Various resolutions were then offered and refered to the proper committees, among them one from the nation labor convention favoring the payment of public and private debts with greenbacks and received with cheers; one against the further grant of public lands to private corporations, and asking for their distribution to actual set tics; one in favor of female suffrage, from the woman’s suffrage association, which was received with laughter. The chairman of the committee on credential reported full delegations present from all the States and territories; those from the territories and District of Columbia were admitted to the floor but not permitted to vote. The convention approved the President's amnesty proclamation. A motion was then made, which carried, that no nomination be made until the platform shall be adopted. A communication was received from acommittee of the soldiers* sailors convention in session in the city, who were waited upon by a special committee and invited to come upon the floor. The committee was headed by the flag carried by Sergt Bates and received with loud cheers, the delegates rising, when they took their seats upon the platform. Gen. Slocum, chairman presented the address of the committee to the convention.— We have room only for a brief abstract It returns thanks for the privilege of the floor, and presents the address in the name of 2,000 delegates representing every state and territory in the union. They assert the crimes committed under the name of republicanism and loyalty are not less than those offered by armed resistance to the government during the war. The party in power has destroyed the equality of the states to have their constitutions framed and laws enacted by ignorant negroes, while it denies them the right of suffrage in the north. It has attempted to influence the highest tribunal of the land with threats, denounced in unmeasured terms and threatened personal violence to members of its own party because they refused to perjure themselves at the behest of party. It has removed political disabilities from the most violent and malignant rebels during the war, since became the sycophants of their party, while it persecutes those who were true to the flag during the war, but are unwilling to be ruled by their emancipated slaves. It has denied official positions to hundreds of veterans during the war, disabled by wounds, foisted in partisans of its own, having no claim on the government, many of whom fortunately for the government have become inmates of penitentiaries. It has placed the general of the armies beyond the control of the president, to whom the constitution makes him subordinate, and has indicated by his nomination for president and the light of recent events that the electoral vote of the southern states shall be cast for him through force and fraud. We solemnly declare our convictions that the free institutions of our country were never in greater jeopardy and we look for the deliberations of the convention now assembled with the greatest anxie-

ty, feeling that on its action de-j pfinds oar future prosperity. We' believe there are half a million of I men who served in the union army ' and navy opposed to the party in power, and another half million of men who have heretofore acted with them who are now viewing their acts with alarm and anxious for a change of administration.— With a platform reviving no dead issues and looking only to the arrest of existing evils, with candidates whose fidelity to the constitution and country cannot be questioned we shall cooperate with you in the coming campaign with an enthusiasm and confidence that will bring victory and salvation to the country. The address was received with cheersand incorporated among the regular proceedings. A resolution was then offered to proceed to nominate which after considerable debate and considerable parliamentary skirmishing failed to carry when the convention adjourned until Tuesday morning. abstractJsf platform adopted. Ist. Restoration of the States to all their rights under the Constitution. 3. Amnesty for past political offences and the regulation of suffrage by the people of the several States. 8. That ths public debt where the law under which it was issued does not expressly provide to be paid in coin to be paid in the lawful money of the Unitod States. 4. Equal taxation of all property according to value, including government bonds and securities. 5. One currency for the Government and the people, the labgrer and the of-fice-holder, the pensioner and soldier, the producer and bondholder. 6. Economy in the administration of the Government. 7. Reform of abuses and expulsion of corrupt men from office. 8. Equal rights and protection for naturalised and native citizens abroad. “ The friends of Mr. Pendleton were able to secure their platform, but ic seems were unable to effect his nomination.— He led off with the highest vote, and on the Bth ballot received 156 J votes, but on the 18th ballot the three highest candidates stood as follows: Haucock, 1674; Pendleton, 70$; Hendricks, 70; which closed Wednesday's proceedings. Tammany Hall. The new Tammany Hall just erected and in which the National Democratic Convention was held, is one of the finest buildings in New York. But, imposing ns is the external appearance of this great structure, it dwindles almost into insignificance when the inte rior is reached. The principal hall measures 100 feet square: is 51 feet 6 inches from floor to ceiling; and and has sitting space for 4,000 persons. It is furnished with the most perfect taste, the frescoing and gilding being in excellent style, chaste, but elegant, and entirely free from meretricious effects. Among the prominent decorations are two colossal bronze figures, Hanking the stage, serving as can dclabra, and supporting 60 gasjets. The special decorations for the hall, and which are not permanent, have been erected by the Tammany sachems, at a cost of $20,000. Upon the north wall of the hall, facing the delegates, are the coats of-arms of 37 States, lieautifully excuted in oil. In the midst of these coats-of arms is a canopy of blue satin and gold fringe, enshrining a marble statue of Washington, surmounted with the motto, “Pro Patria.” All a round the walls, the house is tastefully draped with the national flag. The front of the building is also to be decorated with flags, garlands, evergreens, and emblems. The street in front of the building is spanned by a immense arch, ornamented with evergreens and flags, and having a span of over 100 feet, a height of 50 feet. This is called the “Arch of Tri umph.” ‘'Onward, right onward, Into the Valley of Death, Rode the Six Hundred.” But larger, by hundreds multiplied into millions, than the doomed band who rode to swift destruction in Tennyson’s poem, is the great cavalcade of unhappy men who are rushing to untimely graves followed by the gauut spectre Dyspepsia. This is all wrong, and should cease. Plantation Bitters, the great Stomachic Pain Killer, cures Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Headache, Vertigo, Dullness, anti all symptoms of kindred character, as if by magic. For Languor, Lassitude, Great Weakness and Mental Depression, they have a most wonderfull effect. A Western widow, handsome ' and learned, manages a large farm, and she raised last year 1,000 bushels of wheat, 1,200 of corn; has a large stock of hogs, sends fat cattle to the New York market has abundance of flowers, apples, pears, strawberries and currants, keeps up with current literature—docs not want to marry. It is supposed that when the new radical Arkansas Senator, Rice, gets his seat, he will be made Chairman of the Committee on Widows' and Orphans, since he ' confesses to having gambled away five thousand dollars belonging to a widow and her children, and therefore is no doubt familiar with the subject

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