Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

rOBJUQM NIWI RtiHHian accounts of the battle in Central Asia report that the Russian arms were successful over the Turcomans, numbering 30,000. The latter fled after losing several thousands. The Russians lost seven officers and iffl soldiers kilted, and sixteen officers and 234 soldiers wounded. Another installment of 450 pardoned Communists lias arrived in France William Ringgold Cooper, an American by birth and education, formerly of the United Htates navy, but one of the most daring and successful forgers who ever operated, has been arrested in England, where he has been doing some tall work in the forgery line. The Mark Lane Express estimates the wheat crop of Great Britain for this year at 30 per cent, below the average, and that 10,000,(XX) or 17,000,000 quarters will be required from abroad to supply the deficiency. The supply of last year’s crop now held throughout the United Kingdom is estimated at 47,000 quarters less than at the corresponding season a year ago. The samples of the new crop thus far exhibited are inferior in quality. The great depression in the cotton trade in England is indicated by the fact that in the Lancashire district alone 5,(XX),C00 spindles are now stopped. In one of the manufacturing towns of that region it is reported that pauperism is nearly four-fold greater than two years ago. Dispatches from India state that the British camp at Hhutargardan was unsuccessfully attacked on the 3d of October by some independent hostile tribes of that district. The enemy was repulsed with the loss of twenty killer]. The British loss was six wounded. A Mogram from Peshawur states that Gen. Gordon, who is holding I’oiwar Khotal, is surrounded by hill-tribes: that his position is critical; and that the Eighty-fifth and Ninth Lancers, and part of the Eighty first regiment, have been sent to reinforce him. The alliance between Germany and Austria contemplates principally and chiefly the strengthening of the commercial relations and facilities of the two countlies. It is not denied, however, that it embraces, in certain contingencies, agreements for a closer union, involving both a defensive and an offensive alliance. It is said that Russian agents have been Stirling up sedition in several Gorman provinces, and are intriguing with Poles against Prussia. The reported illness of the Czar proves to be a Action. There was a big meeting of discontented land tenants at Cork, Ireland, on the sth inst. Parnell, M. P., the leading spirit in this agitation, boldly counseled physical resistance to the unjust demands of the land owning aristocracy, and d dared that robbery and op preeaion would prevail in Ireland so long as Englishmen were permitted to rule. News comes from South America of a serious Communist outbreak. It consisted iu the se.Jzuro of tho town of Bucarainanna, in New Granada, which, after being plundered, was given over .to a reiuu of terror far four days. After having flrod the place the Communists retired a short distance with their booty and intrenched themselves. The President of the State, with a small force, attacked and repulsed them, hilling several and capturing a number. The affair appears to have boon that of banditti rather than political.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICnr t. The new St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church has just been dedicated at Norwich, Ct. It lias been nine yews in courto of construction, cost <4,ooo,(Kiff, and is said to bo the finest parish church in the United Stales. The inside is finished and adorned with lavish magnificence. Costly life-sized paintings of tho finest description cover the walls, carved wooden figures fill tho raised niches on either hand, and superbly-wrought figures and scenes of holy history illumine the windows. Tho total receipts of the Astley belt pedestrian contest in New York reached <73,923. After paying all expenses about <48,010 was loft to be distributed among the eight contestants who covered 450 miles and over. Of this ihim, Rowell, tho winner of the belt, received one-half, or about <24,000. A Pittsburgh postoflice clerk named Harper, young and well connected, has been arrested for embezzling letters. His peculations have been carried on for some time, and thousands of letters have been stolen by him. Wenrt. President Hayes and party extended their Kansas journey as far westward as Fort Dodge. Tho distinguished travelers wore received everywhere along the route with hearty greetings, and speech-making and hind-shak-ings were indulged in at. all the stepping places. From Fort Dodge tho President returned to Topeka, where be was tendered a reception by Gov. St. John and the other State officers, and addressed the people from the steps of the Capitol building. Gen. Sherman also made a brief speech. From Topeka the party journeyed to Leavenworth, stopping an hour at Lawrence on the way, whore dinner was partaken of and some more speech making indulged in. Tho President, spent the Sabbath at Leavenworth as the guest of Gen I’ope, and Monday morning, Sept 29, the party turned their faces eastward. There was a halt, of several hours at St Joseph, Mo., to enable the citizens of. that place to show tlieir hospitality to the chief executive of tho nation. The eastward tourney was then resumed, and Springfield, 111., was reached the next morning. Tuesday was spent in Springfield, tho party being the guests of Gov. Cullom, and on Wednesday the partyembarked for Indianapolis, where a cirdial reception awaited the distinguish d visitors. While at Leavenworth a couple of men from Missouri called on the President. They were kindly received aud introduced to Mrs. Hayes. After expressing th* ir approbation in flattering terms of the administration, one of them asked the President, to appoint him to a little poHtoffiee jn his neighborhood. The President informed him that be would have to forward his papers through the ordinary channel, and the mau failed to get his postoffice.

The ten days’ round of festivities in honor of Gen. Grant at San Francisco were wound up on the 30th ult. by a grand reception of public-school children, at Woodward’s Garde.., which is described as the most enthusi astir: ovation the ex-President received on the Pae lie slo' e. Th rty thou rand school children assembl rl to pay h ir r sp?ots to the di tin guivhed visitoi, an !he was a’nr st buried benea’h a o s’ant si ower of bot;q eta cast b the enthu iastic youngs er-. Geo. G-a t ad dressed he throng in the folowing words: “It is a gratifying sight to witness this evidence of educational privileges afforded by this young city. The crowds gathered inside and outside this building indicate that every child of an age fit for scbool is provided for. When education is universally diffused, we may feel assured of the permanency and perpetuity of Qur institutions. The greatest danger to our

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

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people grows out of ignorance, and this evidence of universality of education is the best guarantee of your loyalty to American principles.” The Ex-President left the following morning for the Yosemite valley. Salt Lake telegram : “ A Silver Reed special reports that a party of twenty-eight prospectors, who started on an expedition two months ago, have been massacred by Indians near the eastern boundary of the Territory.” The people of Deadwood are pluckily rebuilding their town. The saw-mills iu the vicinity are running day and night without being able to supply the demand for lumber. Hundreds of temporary buildings have already been rushed up to supply the emergency pending the erection of more durable structures. The banks have reopened and merchants are displaying their stocks of goods in shanties and tents. All old cabins and shanties in town not destroyed have been turned into hotels, restaurants, etc., and homeless people are well cared for. Houses are bringing enormous rents, but price is a matter of little consideration with those who rent or buy them. Prof. John Wise, the well-known aeronaut, and George Barr, teller of the St Louis National Bank, made a balloon ascension from St. Louis, Mo., on Sunday afternoon, 28th ult., with the intention of remaining in the clouds but a few hours. Nothing ha<l been heard of them up to the Wednesday following, and it was feared the voyagers had met a fate similar to that which liefell Donaldson and Grimwood, at Chicago, three years ago, who, it will be remembered, were lost in Lake Michigan. A balloon, supposed to be Wise’s, was seen moving very rapidly over Laporte, Ind., in a northerly directon, on tho day after the ascension.

From the Sac and Fox Agency, located in the Indian Territory, there comes intelligence of a bloody fight between a party of twelve of the desperadoes who infest the region of tho agency and a party of soldiers from Fort Sill, resulting in the killing of nine of the bandits. The killing of Jim Barker and the capture of Triplet by a Cherokee Sheriff, Jesse Cochran, deprives them of a bold, bad leader and desperate man. It is expected that the troops will kill or scatter this band, as they have orders to remain two months longer in the field, if necessary. The Chicago Times reports that the market for horse-flesh iu that city continues to improve each day, the demand for all sorts of good horses being excellent. It is said that United States Judge Drummond will shortlyresign his seat on the bench, on account of Idling health. The visit of President Hayes to Indianapolis was made the occasion of a big demonstration. There was », grand industrial procession several miles in length, representing every branch of business and industry. President Hayes and Gen. Sherman, escorted by the mi itary, were at the bead of Hie procession, which was reviewed by Mrs. Hayes from a platform in front of the postoflice, and which occupied two hours and live minutes in passing The entire route was lined with people by thousands. After the procession the President was driven to tho fair grounds, where ho.and Gen. Sherman entertained the great crowd with speeches of considerable length. The distinguished party was disßolvea Indianapolis, the President and family proceeding thence to their old homo at Fremont, Ohio, there to remain a few days, while Gen. Sherman and staff went to St. Louis to attend the militia convention.

A Buffalo dispatch announces the discovery, by a diver, of the ill-fated schooner Kate L. Bruce, sunk in six fathoms of water near Thunder *bay. The Bruce sailed from Chicago with a cargo of grain for Buffalo, nearly two years ago, and until now has not been heard from. In her cabin were found the remains of some of tho crew and of two women aud a child.

There was a fatal balloon ascension at San Francisco, on Sunday, the sth of October. Prof. Colgrove, aeronaut, and C. 11. Williams, manager of Woodward’s Gardens, attempted to make a balloon ascension from tho gardens, the wind blowing at almost a gale. The balloon seemed to be insufficiently inflated with gas, and rose heavily above the buildings of the garden, soon after dropped, and scudded along at a low elevation, tearing away telegraph wires in its flight. Ina moment the bag ripped, and the gas escaped with a roar heard for blocks. Both occupants of the basket were thrown out, and fell a distance of 200 feet. Williams was fearfully cru hod, and died almost immediately. Colgrove lived some lour hours. The evidence at the official inquiry into the causes of the terrible disaster at Adrian, Mich., develop the fact that the seats of the grand stand into which the people were crowded at the time of its fall were insufficiently supported, the accident being entirely due to this cause. The Chicago banks are doing a rushing business. For the week ending Oct. 4 the clearings aggregated <34,407,500.55, against <24,5titt,484.50 for the corresponding week last year. A terrible mine disaster is reported from Bodie, Cal. Nine men were being lowered into the Tioga mine, when the engine escaped the control of the engineer, and the men were precipitated with fearful velocity to the 500-foot level, bne man was instantly killed, and all the others received what are thought to bo fatal injuries. ' Gen. Sheridan, in Chicago, has received a dispatch from Maj. Morrow, commanding the expedition sent out against the Indian chief Victoria, who, at the head of a band of predatory Utes and Apaches, has been murdering and pillaging in New Mexico. Maj. Morrow had a severe fight with the savages, gave them a sound thrashing, and recovered considerable stolen property. The number of hogs slaughtered by Chicago packers from March I to Oct. 5 is 1,704,000, against 1,710,000 for the corresponding period in 1878. It is now denied that United States Circuit Judge Drummond intends resigning. Full houses are the rule at McVicker’s, in Chicago, and the “ standing room only” sign has been shown nearly every evening during the engagement of the favorite little comedienne, Lotta, who is playing another of her pieces, “ Musette,” thia week. Lotta is no imitator, but has an individuality most strongly marked, which the people seem to admire, as the receipts at the box office during t er engagements show. After the present week, “ America’s hope,” the young aud beautiful MaryAnderson, is underlined. Boxxth. There were eight deaths from yellow fever at Memphis for the two days Sept 20-30, twenty-six new cairn being reported to the Board of Health iu the aame period. Two colored companies that have been doing patrol duty in the stricken city for the last two months have been relieved from duty ; they weie paid <3,000, donated as a gift by the Committee of Safety, who also provided each member with ten days’ extra ra’ions. Advices from Memphis continue to

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show gradual abatement of the yellowfever ep . emic, and there is every reason for hoping that, except in case of a recurrence of hot weather, the city will soon be freed from the dread visitation.

MIBOELLANXOUB GLNANINQft. The volume of railroad traffic, and its prospective increase, is indicated by the announcement that the Pennsylvania Company has con racted for 1,000 frei ht cars, of twenty t ns capacity each, being about double (ha of those now in use. Maj. T. T. Thornburgh, who was recently killed by Ute Indians, was a native of East Tennessee. He enlisted in the volunteer service during the early part of the late Civil War, and soon rose to the rank of Captain and Adjutant General, serving on the staff of Brig. Gen. Spear, who commanded a brigade of Tennessee volunteers. He was appointed a cadet to West Point in 1863, and graduated in the artillery department For the recent pedestrian display in New York Charles Rowell received <19,500; Samuel Merritt, <7,312.50; George Hazael, <4,102.50; Frank Hart, <2,730; George Guyon, <1,050 ;Weston, <1,365; Ennis, <1,072.50, and Krohnc <877.50. Rowell walked 115 hours and 40 minute-, which made his average mile 13 minutes and 6 seconds. Merritt walked 117 hours and 24 seconds, his average mile was 13 minutes and 35 seconds; while Hazael walked 00 hours and 44 seconds, and made his average mile the lowest of any, being 11 minutes and 48 seconds. The managers of the railway trunk lints voted another advance on east-bound freight. It was decided that after Oct. 13, the basis of charges from Chicago to New York will l>e ;>5 cents for grain, 40 cents for fourth-class freight and 50 cents for live hogs. The contest of the eight League baleball clubs for the championship of the United States resulted in favor of the Providence (11. 1.) Club. The record of won and lost games stands as follows : lion. Lott. Played. Providence 55 23 78 Boston 41) 29 78 Chicago 45 32 77 BulHHo It 32 76 Cincinnati 38 37 75 C evel and 21 53 77 Troy 19 56 75 Syracuse 15 27 42 The influx of gold from Europe to pay for food continues. One steamer arriving at New York last week brought <5,- 00,000 of lhe precious metal. The Exchange Bank of Montreal, j»ne of the heaviest institutions of the kind in Canada, which suspended payments in August last, is announced to resume business Nov. 3.

WASHINGTON NOTES The State Department is said to have nearly comp’eted a modification of the CushingBurlingame treaties with China relative to emigration. Tho principal feature of the new treaty is said to bo a guarantee that the importation of the lower class of Chinamen to this country shall be discouraged, while the intercourse of the Citizens of the United States with China is to be restricted to a few of the leading cities. The purjioso of the new treaty is to promote 4»• «><!<> rrviher HI merchants of the two countries on a commercial equality. The large amount of foreign gold coin in the treasury is to be recoined into <5 and <lO pieces. Of t e entire am unt < f gold in ihe treasury, but a little over <6,(XX),(XX) is of denomi ations less than <2O. The rc coinage is designed to : upply this deficiency. The official statistics collected at the various Custom Houses show that the total excess of exports over imports for the year ending the 31st day of August last was nearly <290,000,000. The Interior Department has decided that the polygamous land entries will n>t be recognized; that is, that the respective inmates of the Mormon harems may not each enter 160 acres. The following statement in relation to the closing of the 4-per-cent. loan is issued by the Treasury I'epaitment: “All accounts with depository banks, disbursing officers, Postmasters, and other officers for the proceeds of tho 4-per-cent bonds have been closed without lhe loss of a dollar. All tho proceeds have been paid into the treasury, except tho called bonds arid coupons now in transitu from the Government’s agent in London. The amount of called bonds outstanding, not yet presented for payment, is <28,971,800, all of which bonds are provided for by cash in the treasury, except <670,050, for which an equal amount of 4-per-cent. bonds is retained in the department unsold. It is believed that this amount, and perhaps more of the called bonds, will not be presented for payment within a year, and the reserved bonds will only be sold as needed. The aggregate of the 4 -per-cent bonds sold is <740,847,950. Arrears of pension claims to the amount of <20,734,507 have been settled up to Oct. 1. The average amount of arrears in each case settled is <545. The whole number of cases settled in September was 13,287. It is estimated that there are still about 6,000 or 7,000 pensioners entitled to arrears whose cases have not been settled. Settlements hereafter cannot be made so rapidly as heretofore; because of the great number of cases in which there is no title to arrears which must be examined in the search for those in which there is a title. It is almost certain that the <25,000,000 appropriated will be sufficient to cover the arrears which were due upon pensions allowed previous to Jan. 25,1879. It is said that a determined effort will be made at the next session of Congress to secure a reduction of the tax on whisky. The Assistant Attorney General for the Postoflice Department declares that letters addressed to lottery companies, or to agents for such companies, are unmailable, per se, and Postmasters should refuse to register letters when so addressed.

POLITICAL POINTS. The next term of the United States Supreme Court promises to be unusually interesting to the country at large. Most of the socalled political cases which have arisen from time to time during the last few years will then come up for argument and decision. These include suits involving the jurisdiction of Federal courts, the status of the negro under the civil-rights enactment, and the constitutionality of the National Election law. The Attorney General is busily engaged in preparing himself for the trial of these cases. The Republican State Convention of Nebraska was held at Omaha on the Ist inst Hon. Jesse W. Davis presided. Hon. Amasa Cobb was nominated for Supreme Judge, and J. L. Carson and J. W. Gannett for Regents of the State University. The following resolution was received with tumultuous demonstrations: We, as Republicans of the State of Nebraska, welcome back to the shores of America the rhampion of our Union, the protector of our nation, the hero of the great Rebellion—Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant The Washington Post prints an in-

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

terview between its editor and Gov. Tilden, in New York, when the latter said: “ I can say that I have not taken any steps to secure a lenomination by the Democratic party for the Presidency. I can also say that Ido not contemplate taking any measure to secure such a nomination, or to reject it before it is offered. I am credited with having an agent in every voting prr cinct in the United States, and with many more equally absurd devices to secure that which I do not seek.” The official returns of the late election in Maine have been published. For Governor, Davis, Republican, received 69,110; Smith, Greenbacker, 48,077; Garcelon, Democrat, 21,341. Davis lacks 808 of a clear majority over all, and therefore fails of being elected by the popular vote. The election of Governor now devolves upon the Legislature, which, being Republican in both houses, will of course elect Davis.

INDIANA ITEMS.

At Tampico a young man named Isaac Cutsinger, was instantly killed by a falling limb from a tree which he was cutting down. A building association, with a present capital of $13,000, and not to exceed at any time $50,000, has been organized at North Vernon. Gov. Williams has appointed Daniel Mowrer Trustee of the Blind Asylum, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Ristine. Otto Beanman, a New Albany boy, 15 years old, while out hunting squirrels with a musket, accidentally shot himself, inflicting a fatal wound. F. B. Rushton, while grinding sugarcane near Tipton, was kicked by a mule in the chest, iu the region of the heart, causing death in a few moments. One hundred acres of wheat, cat with a reaper, keeping six binders going, was the work of- a Scotch lassie of Lexington. She used three pairs of horses in relays. Two brothers, William and George Sappington, aged 30 and 22, were out hunting nine miles east of Fort Wayne, when William’s gun was accidentally discharged, killing George instantly. George Waggoner, aged 93, was in Indianapolis to attend the old-settlers’ reunion. He walked all the way from bis home in Beck’s Grove, Brown county, sixty miles, making the trip iu two days.

The planing and saw mill of Stroup & Uottermau, at Waldron, was burned by an incendiary fire, not long since. The machinery was damaged and a large amount of lumber burned. . The loss will exceed $6,000; no insurance. The pressure of 25,000 or 30,000 bushels of flaxseed forced out one of the walls of tho new oil-mill erected by I. & P. Evans at Indianapolis, a few days ago. Fortunately all the employes escaped into the street, and the only damage is from the loss of seed and the wall, amounting to $6,000. This is the noccmd orcoivlt’llt vs Lll6 KI II (I occurring to this firm, the old mill having caved out. Mrs. Fecker, of New Albany, a highly respected lady, was attacked by a highwayman, the other night, while she was unlocking the front door of her residence on returning from market, who demanded her money or her life. Not responding immediately to this demand, she was struck in the temple by the highwayman and knocked senseless, and her pocket-book, containing sl9, taken from her.

Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church held its fortieth session last “week at Mount Zion. There were in attendance fifty ministerial and thirty-four lay delegates, beside quite a number of visitors. Rev. J. H. Luse, of Indianapolis, was re-elected President of tho conference, and was required by a vote of conference to travel the conference district during the ensuing year. The next session of conference is to convene at Brown’s Chapel, in Hancock county, on the first Wednesday in September, 1880. APPOINTMENTS. First District. —J. H. C. McKinney, Chairman; Greenfield, E. H. Moles; Sugar Creek, J. H. G. Prim;Union, to be supplied; Pleasant Hill, S. J. Jones; Greensburg and Friendship, J. H C. McKinney; Tanner’s Creek, J. P. Williams: Morristown, Wm. Stockinger; Madison and Liberty, to be supplied; Laurel and Duck Creek, to be supplied. Second District.—T. E. Lancaster, Chairman; Muncie, H. M. Boyer; Muncie Mission, T. E. Lancaster; Anderson, J. C. Miller; Hartford, L D. Richman; Yorktown, 8. Lineberry; Jonesboro, J. M. Langley; Pipe Creek, G. W. Boxell; Jalapa, 8. M. Shumway; Salimony, D. 8. Boswell; Wabash, E. Conn; New Haven, M. Gustin; Spencerville, H. Stackhouse; Kendallville, F. M. Hussey. Third District—D. W. Evans, Chairman; Groveland, H. Harrell; Milledgeville, to be supplied; Frankfort, J. W. Loder; Michigantown, D. W. Evans; Medaryville, W. G. Callahan; Grand Praitie, N. M. Douglas; Mr Olive, 8. M. Shumway; Burlington, T. Baily; Yellow River, J, 8. Sellers. Fourth District— B. M. Clark, Chairman; Antioch, White River, to be supplied; Monroe, to be supplied; Worthington, B. M. Clark; Richland, J. Hughes; Calvary, R. W. Ruthledge; Guthrie, M. H. Adams; Winslow, to be -supplied; West Union, A. S. Baker; Prairie, W. H. Fisher.

Public-Debt Statement.

Following is the public-debt statement for Oct. 1: Six-per-cent, bonds <283,681,350 Five-per-cent, bonds 508,440,350 Fonr-and-a-half - per-cent. bonds 250,000,000 Four-per-cent bonds 737,157,050 Re unding certificates.,.. 3,688,900 Navy-pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds <1,796,967,650 Matured debt ...» 29,674,720 Legal tenders <" 346,742,426 Certificates of deposit... 31.215.000 Fractional currency.... 15,747,503 Gold and s Iver certificates 19,132,750 Total without interest < 412,837,679 Total debt <2,839,480,049 Total interest 22,501,082 Cash in treasury 234,778,679 Debt less cash in the treasury Oct.l, ’79. <2,027,202,452 Decrease during September 2,563,752 Decrease since June 30, 1879 4,803 CUKKENT LIABILITIES. Interest duo and unpaid < 4,189,523 Debt on which interest has ceased... 29,674,720 In'erest thereon 1.358,79!) Gold and silver certificates 19,132,750 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 31,215,000 Cash balance aviilable Oct. 1, 1879.. 14 (.207,886 To'al ...< 234,778,679 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury < . 234,778,679 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in lawful money— Principal outstanding 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 969,352 Interest paid by the United States.... 48,712,450 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 12,848,480 Balance of interest paid by the United States <0,863,969

SPEECH OF HON. THOS. A. HENDRICKS,

OF INDIANA, Delivered at Eaton, Ohio. Fellow-Citizens: I need not remind yon that during the years following the cloee of the war your minds were disturbed by the most profound anxiety for the public welfare. There was no more work for the sword. Overcome and disbanded, the troops of the South had returned to their homes. Acquiescence in Federal authority was complete and universal. Yet yon feared that the reconciliation might not be thorough and perpetual; that dangerous causes of alienation might still remain. But compelled, and perhaps content, to 4w*at as you did trust—the possibility of fraternity and union to the wisdom of public policies, and to the good sense and patriotism of the people; and, notwithstanding the follies and crimes of some, and the wicked demagogjsm of others, arousing dangerous passions that were sleeping, I feel assured that your reliance upon yourselves and your fellow-coun-trymen will not fail you, but that fraternity and union will grow with the growth and strengthen with the strength of the country. You were also solicitous for our material welfaie, because of the exhaustion caused by and following the tremendous struggle. The production of our important and great staples could not be maintained in quantities sufficient to meet the demands upon our resources. Our embarrassment and the hindrance to production were greatly augmented by the unfortunate policy of reconstruction, whereby for awhile the relation of the States to the Federal Union were confused and confounded, and the white and black races were involved in distrust, hatred, and strife. The mad policy and passions of the times excluded capital from an entire section of the country, and disturbed labor in its employment. The direct, the inevitable, consequence was that our foreign trade was heavily against us. May I state the facto as an illustration ? During the two years and eleven months from July 1, 1865, to May 31, 1868, our imports, valued in our own currency, amounted to <1,597,410,055, and our exports, under the same valuation, amounted to <1,411,(.89,195. During that period of two years and eleven months, after the close of the war, our purchases exceeded our sales abroad by the enormous sum of <186,000,000. 1 suppose that balance against ns was met largely by sales of our public securities abroad, but during that same period, we exported over »nd above our imports of gold and silver <183,077,691. I then thought, and to expressed the opinion, that our future prosperity must depend upon an increase of production and more advantageous foreign trade; that, when our sales should exceed our purchases abroad, our financial difficulties would rapidly disappear, and we would soon stand upon a specie basis, and that to such end we wanted peace, reconciliation, and harmony. I thou lit, and said that a statesmanship worthy this country and adequate to the necessities of our condition would seek every opportunity to foster and increase lhe production of the staples that command foreign markets. And "I ventured the opinion that “ an increase of 20 per cent, would turn the balance of trade in our fa aor, and the current of gold toward our own shores, and contribute more than any enactment of Congress to an early- resumption of specie payment. ” I need not remind you, for it cannot lie effaced from your memories, that no beneficent change in policy or administration took place, but that in 1869 aud thence to 1873 and 1874 the sympathies of the administration and the policies of Congress were altogether favorable to those who le et needed favor, and hard upon the masses, who have the Durdens to carry. The changes in the public contracts were such as made the obligations harder aud the burdens heavier, save only the provision for a reduction of interest. Favoritism, extravagance and corruption pervaded and poisoned the public servicej and went unrebuked and unchecked. Unnecessary and extravagant expenditures burdened the people with oppressive taxes, and withdrew large volumes of currency from the channels of trade, and added to the evils of contraction. Finally, in the fall of 1873, the evils of vicious administration and of unequal and unfair legislation culminated in a financial panic and disaster that struck and paralyzed all the business pursuits and useful enterprises of the country. At once the people realized the extent and magnitude of the calamity. They abandoned faith and hope in the Republican party, and trusted to themselves for the recovery of lost prosperity. Promptly and earnestly the work was undertaken. Eighteen hundred and seventy-four became a memorable year. A Democratic House was chosen, charged with the duty of retrenchment and reform. In evety household an economy was adopted more rigid than ever before known. Labor was active and diligent to the utmost extent of possible employment The results are now seen and realized. Individual economy, practiced everywhere throughout the country, had the effect to reduce our purchases abroad as follows: From 1873 to 1874 the reduction was <74,729,868; from 1874 to 1875 it was <34,400,906; from 1875 to 1876, <72,264,245; from 1876 to 1877, <9,418,065, and from 1677 to 1878 the reduction was <14,271,594. The economy; of the people in 1878 as compared with 1873, in the consumption of foreign goods, was about <200,000,000. During the same period the diligent industry of the people so increased our agricultural productions, and such was the condition of the foreign market, that our exports for sale abroad in 1878 were <172,369,139 more than in 1873, and in the year 1878 our exports of merchandise exceeded our imports by the sum of <257,796.964. It is a striking fact that in ' 1873, the year before the Democratic House was chosen, bur purchases exceeded our sales abroad by <119,656,288, and that after three years of Democratic control of the House the figures were reversed, and, as I have said, the exports in the year 1878 exceeded the imports by <257,793.964. The balances against us in 1872 marked the increase of our indebtedness, and the figures of 1868 indicated its reduction. Our exports of merchandise during the years 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1878 exceeded our imports in the sum of <508,449,536. I am not able to give accurately the excess of the present year, but I suppose it is safe to state it at <240,000,000, making <748,449,236 for the five years named. In these statements I rely upon the tables-prepared by Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress The effect of the favorable condition of our foreign trade upon our supply of gold and silver is shown in the fact that in 1873 the export of specie exceeded its import by the sum of <63,127,637, and that m 1878 the excess was only <3,911,911. Our favorable foreign trade has not only turned the current of specie toward our shores, but it has caused the return of large volumes of public securities that had gone abroad to meet the balances when they were against us, thus reducing the export, of gold to meet the accruing interest. The effect of a foreign trade during the past five years, favorable to us beyond all aud brought about by the economy and diligent industry of the people, hat been to increase our supply of gold and silver and to make it permanent and reliable, and to make the resumption of specie payments a possibility. Mr. Sherman claims for himself the credit of resumption, and that the policies of bis party have given us assurances of better times. I have made a summary of events that passed within your own observation tn aid you in passing upon the fallacy of that claim. What had he or his party to ao with resumption? How have they conty-ibuted to a return of prosperity? In the winter of 1875 Mr. Sherman, as the representative of a party caucus, reported and urged the Resumption bill It became a law by the vote of all the Republicans, and over the vote against it of all the Democrats in Congress. Who now claims for that measure that it facilitated resumption or in any degree alleviated the calamities of hard times, or that its tendency was to place the business of the country upon a firmer and surer foundation? Is any man so credulous as to believe that resumption, permanent and reliable, could rest upon borrowed gold? “Public confidence and financial stability cannot be made to rest upon borrowed gold.” When trade and commerce gave assurance that the supply of ths precious metals was permanent and would constantly increase, then confidence became established and the paper currency took its place by the side of gold and silver. You all now know that resumption has come of trade and commerce, the result of foreign balances in our favor, and not at all because of any Congressional declaration or requirement. The resumption c’ause was properly denounced by the St. Louis Convention as a hindrance to | resumption. It was as well a hindrance to prosperity. It was a terror to capital, and i stood in the way of the employment' qf labor. Our money, paper and coin, is now of equal

value and readily convertible, and we indulge the hope of better times in spite of the Resumption law and of ita kindred party devices. All along the pathway of that measure are strewn broken fortunes and ruined enterprises. Do you believe our country needed to have been the scene of a financial and commercial panic? Our lands are rich, our people intelligent and industrious, and the world’s markets have been open to our products. Yet the panic did come; and its continued and terrible hold upon the country for the long period of five years, in spite of the greit effort of the people, showed that its causes were to be found down deep in bad public policies and in maladministration. I may not state what sufferings it in - flicted, nor what hopes of happiness lie buried amid its ruins. May I give you an illustration? When the war was over, was it not a most obvious duty to reduce the public expenditures by a rigid economy? It was not done. From 1865 to 1875 the expenditures continued enormous and extravagant Then the Democrats came into power in the House, and at once established the fact that the public service could as well and efficiently be administered with an annuil reduction of <30,000,000. At their first session, that was the reduction. Now, please tell me, had that reduction been commenced in 1865, and continued for eight years, and until 1875; had <30,000,000 of the texes been left hncollected, to circulate in the channels of trade, giving life and energy’ to business and commerce, do you believe there would have been a panic and such financial disaster as covered the land with ruin? Reform in that one particular would have saved us. Mr. Sherman tells you that prosperity is nowcoming, and that he is its author. You and .1 are, then, mistaken in supposing that economy on the part of the people reduced the purchases abroad It was not the diligent labor of the people, the riih lards, the abundant rains in their season, and the great crops that enabled us to supply the extraordinary foreign demand, such a demand, indeed, as we never knew before. Mr. Sherman did it It was his tears of sympathy over the suifferings of the people, and not the rains falling from the clouds, that moistened the earth and caused it to yield so abundantly. Never was claim made ‘so bold and brazen, and yet so false. To him and his party we reply: You squandered the public money; you continued extravagant appropriations; you hindered production by promoting the strife of sections and the hatred of races; you legislated for favorite interests and against the people; and now, when the rigid economy and diligent industry of the people, and propitious seasons, and a favorable condition of the foreign market, combine to give us better times, and to gladden us with the nope of returning prosperity, you can not claim merit or support. The equality and convertibility of our currency is iu spi'te of the hindrances of the Resumption law, and we cherish the hope of better times, in spite of the evil influences of bad policies and maladministration. The great difference between us was that we insisted upon reaching specie payments by an increase of the precious metals, and you l>y a reduction of the paper money—by contraction. You provided for your policy m the Resumption act, in violation of the pledge made to the country in the act of June previous, that the legal-tender notes should not be reduced below <382,000,000. Under your policy resumption was impossible short of universal ruin, for contraction injured production. It was a Democratic demand that remonet - ized silver and provided for its coinage. It was a Democratic House that modified the Resumption law and stopped contraction by the act of May 31, 1878, which forbade the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel or retire any more of the legal-tender notes, a nd required him to keep them in circulation. The remonetization of silver (over a foolish veto), and the protection of the legal-tender circulation, and our immense crops North and South, and the great demand ’abroad have brought all classes of the currency to par and give promise of returning prosperity. The contest in which you are engaged is characterized by reckless accusation. Wby charge the Ohio Democracy with a purpose to inflate and depreciate the currency?" They have been and still are opposed to contraction. Is that inflation? They demand that treasury notes shall take the place of national-bank currency. For that do you dare attribute to them a purpose to issue bad money? Is it the banker that gives credit and character to the bank bills? Nay, you know it is the Government’s obligations pledged as security that gives them favor and currency everywhere. That security withdraws, the bills become as worthless as falling leaves of autumn. Is the security less if the issue and the promise be direct from the public treasury, and not through the medium of banks? Have the bank bills not been always at par—neither above tor below the treasury notes, and that only because they were redeemable in treasury notes? The demand for treasury notes as a substitute for the na-tional-bank notes is a demand for money always ’and everywhere of equal value. But pleise observe that in the platform in which this policy is asserted the Ohio Democracy demand that the issue of treasury rotes shall be regulated by legislation or constitutional provision, so as to secure the greatest possible stability of vclues. Can you find no good motive for the support of this policy? In deciding upon its merits is it not to be considered that in any possible view the substitution will save to the people and their treasiuy over <lO,000,000 every year? And you and I cannot be indifferent to the fact that the enormous wealth brought by the national banks une'er harmonious management now seeks to control the politics of the countrv in defiance of the will of the people, flease tell me how it was that in this State, but one year ago, the Chairman of the Republican State Committee did venture to demand of the banks money to control the election. Is it not enough that enormous sums of money are raised for each election by the detestable practice of taxing the immense army of officials? Must there be added contribu tions from the profits made upon <400,000,000 of bank capital? When these t.vo streams unite to corrupt public morals, the party in power will be secure in its hold upon the’patronage and treasury of the nation. It need not th n again resort to returning boards, and the attendant crimes of perjury and forgery. The anxiety ot the Ohio Democracy was reasonable; it became a patriotic sent me: t when here, and against themselves, the banks were calls 1 upon for money. Who blames them, that in such a crisis they bend theeirto he teachings of Jackson and Leed his admonitio to guard well the rights and liberties of the people when the banker is found in league with the partisan? His admonition was the expression of anxiety at a consolidation of wealth inconsiderable as compared with the enormous millions now under harmonious management. What say you to tho cry: “A solid North against a solid South?” Is it not. the cry of hatred, of separation, of treason? It should startle ns as a “fire-bell in the night.” None should u ter it who love a united country better than partisan rule. Leave that cry, my countrymen, to those who seek wicked gains, and who for gain would barter the love of country. Party policy made the attitude of the South inevitable. You Republicans would despise the men of the South did they not resist you. You established and sought to maintain over them the worst Government in the world. You first taught the colored men to distrust and hate them, and then to rule them. You gave the ballot to the colored men and took it from the whites. And you placed the colored people themselves under the control and management of adventurers. Thus the control of public affairs came into the hands of bad men,'who were in no way identified with the people or section, aud were strangers in sympathy and purpose. The public good ceased to be the object and purpose of government Plunder of the people reigned supreme. The increase of State indebtedness became frightful Taxation threatened to swallow up not only the earnings but the accumulations of the people. Men contemplated approaching ruin with horror. At leng h large bodies of colored voters turned against the demoralization and misrule, and State after State was recovered, reclaimed, restored. The restoration of the Democratic party in those States became indispensable to the recovery and protection of popular rights, the security of property, and the welfare of labor. Political union for protection and safety against plunder and ruin made the South a political unit, and at once the price of wages and the price of lands advanced, and valuable productions increased. Is there any man among you whose hatred toward the South is so malignant that he would tear down the present authority and restore the vampire Governments of ten years ago? Your fears aud prejudices are now addressed because of the character of the representation in Congress from the South. You are told that in a large degree it is made up of Brigadiers from the Southern army. Is that disagreeable to you ? Then perhaps you will find comfort in the fact that the evil will decrease as the years roll by. The older men will pass away, but I dare not say that the young men who will take their places will be more agreeable to you. I think they wiil not be. Bnt the offense to you is not that they were Brigadiers. It is only that they are Democrats, and stand in the way of the partial aud unfair purposes of your party. You

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know this to be true. It does not offend you that Brigadiers are now in the Cabinet, in the Federal courts and in high offices of Government. They are of your party, and you are content. But if there be an evil of which yon have a right to complain in this matter, it is found ih the constitution itself. Yea, Lack of that—in the principle of popular representation. It is because under the constitution each. State shall choose its own Senators, and each district shall select its own Representative thatwe find the houses of Congress constitut id as they are. If we are to have a free republic, thou each S’ate and district must be absolutely free it its choice, and without any restraint whatever. Will von mon of Ohio allow New Ergland, or the Gulf States of the Pacific slope, to question your elections? Because your delegation in Congress may be unfriendly to some measure greatly desired by one of those sections, are you to be called to account? Shall it be regarded as a cause of offense, or as a ground of antagonism against yon ? Because Ohio will not suppoitwbat she lieiieves to be a heresy in doclr.ne, or a corruption in measure, can another State, or section, in the spirit of our Union, assunn a hostile attitude towatdher? As you are true Union mon, answer me that question. For four years the Democrats have had a majority in the House, and yon say that the South has controlled that majority, and therefore yon will array the sections in hostility. The step you propose is too responsible. You cannot take it It is toward renewed strife and disunion. Let me assure you that yon have been misled; that the Democrats North and South constitute one party, and that within the organization neither section dominates the other. But please tell me to what do you object? What measures has the House adopted that were partial toward the South or unfair toward the North? The payment of Southern claims, that had grown into a giant evil and national fraud, has been checked and almost entirely suspended. The public expenditures have been reduced, so that the saving in the four years of Democratic control, as compared with the prior four years, exceeds S]CO,OtJO,COO. The saving to the State of Ohio is nearly S7,(XX),(XX), and to each Congressional district nearly $-350,000. The saving each year has been more than the average annual expenditures during the administrations of Adams and Jackson. What does the reduction of $30,000,000 in the yearly appropriations by Congress signify? It means that in the public expenditures there shall be economy and honesty. It means that that much money shall not be collected from the people, bnt shall be left in the channels of trade and commerce, there to stimulate business and enterprise, and to give employment to labor. Will you bear in mind that these great reductions have been made over the opposition of a Republican Senate and administration ? A Republican House demonetized silver; a Democratic House restored it. The silver money now flows into the channels of trade and commerce, and, like red blood in the veins and arteries, gives life and strength. For a while there was the curse in the Federal courts of juries organized for partisan verdicts. That was through the law permitting the test oath. A Democratic Congress repealed the law, and now the juries may be of “good and true men.” Of these four leading and important acts, do you condemn either? Would you again open the doors of the treasury to trumped-up war claims, in favor of trumped-up loyalty? Would you drive honest economy out of our temple of legislation and restore extravagance and the waste of S3O,(XX),(XX) each year beyond the needs of the public service? Would you degrade silver again and declare itnolmoney? And would you again humiliate and degrade the juror, compelling him to stand among his fellows with stooped head as he takes the testoath? If you ■would not reverse any one of these great acta, I demand your approval, and that in respect to them you say to the Democrats in Congress, from both North and South, “well done.” We want the troops taken and kept away from the polls. We want the elections to be free and fair, and without the corrupt influence of Deputy Marshals and Supervisors. In the name of fair play we demand it. The Federal election laws were adopted as party machinery. They serve no good purpose. Their only design is to keep the party in power. Do you know what occurred at Philadelphia at the last Presidential election? That city is under absolute Republican control, and is known far and wide for the corruption that rules the elections. I believe the courts, prior to the last Presidential election, struck off above 20,(X 0 names from the register of voters, upon evidence that they were false and fraudulent. It was not enough that the city was under party control. Resort was had to the party advantages under the election laws. Seven hundred and seventythree Deputy Marshals, and 3,332 Supervisors were appointed, at a cost of $41,170, The city was peaceful and quiet. Why, then, were four regiments of party brigands placed in rule over the people when they went to vote? The Republican Marshal of that district, under oath, said they were not needed to secure a fair and free election. The outrage, under the pretense of law, was far greater in New York. The vilest characters wereappointed Marshals and Supervisors. Thousands of voters were arrested for no crime and without warrants. Fright and terror prevailed, and large numbers of voters were thus kept from the polls. Do you desire this to be continued ? For party advantage do yon ask that our elections, heretofore free, shall be placed under such partisan machinery? Are the people, in going. to vote, to be placed under fear of unlawful arrests ? Shall clubs be held over our heads as we vote? The free American voter is a noble spectacle. Erect, bold, unterrified, he exercises the right of a freeman, and the power of a sovereign. When he shall be made to crawl in the presence of Supervisors and overseers, the end has come to that liberty of which we have been so proud. I said we demand that the troops be taken and kept from the polls. I would rather die with the ballot in my hand than that one of them should strike me with his sword. Let us be at least as free as the subjects of Queen Victoria. Popular rights have advanced slowly in England, bnt surely, and have never been pushed backward. So," when it was settled that the trooper should not lord the voter; should not strike him nor jostle him, nor even stand in sight of him when voting, it was settled forever.

The legislation that provides for the use of the troops at the elections is a blot upon onr record that must be effaced. At the called session of Congress the Democrats labored faithfully to remove every hindrance and obstruction in the way of fiee and fair elections. They were opposed at every step. They passed the bill-*. The President resorted to the extraordinary power of the veto to save the party machinery. On what side of the issue do you stand? For or against free elect.ons? Do you not enjoy the s : ght when the men of the neighborhood are assembled at the polls? All are there—old friends and new friends; old men and young mat; .tome to cast their first and some their last ballot. They argue and debate; they joke and laugh. It is election day, and that revives old memories, and many a story of the early settlement is told. Some old gent emen are telling about their first votes, that they were cast for Jackson. Just then a smooth-faced lad offers his vote and it is challenged. The debate and the story stop. All attention is given to the question of the vote. The old men consult. 'they compare their recollections—when the parents were married and the child was born. Some are very positive, fer he went to school with their own tJoys. It is soon settled, and the right decided. And so the day goes on until in the evening the window is shut down upon the ambition of all the candidates. Upon such elections, and upon such men our institutions must rest At the next election a shadow is over the scene. The Deputy Marshal and the Supervisor are there as the paid agente and bull dozers for the party. Why are they arresting men and dragging them away without warrants? No crime has been committed and there is no disturbance. It is to excite fear, and thereby keep men from voting. The law of force and violence has taken the place of local self-government Good cheer and confidence among the neighbors is gone. Anxiety, distrust, and hatred have taken their place. Do you justify the vetoes? The bills were carefully considered by Congress, and, after great deliberation, were passed. They involved no question of constitufionalpower on the part of Congress. For nearly 100 years the elections had been free from Federal supervision. It was not questioned that Congress had the power to repeal the offensive laws. It was a question of judgment and discretion, and that question Congress decided by the repeat Such legislative discretion belongs to Congress and not to the President. The veto power was given not to defeat and destroy, but to protect and preserve; to preserve tho constitution from invasion, and te protect the rights and powers of the Executive from legislative encroachment “It is not a sword, but a shield.” The men have tanght as this who made the constitution. And it is in accordance with usage almost uniform. I think the people of this country will never consent that the President may defeat the popular will as expressed by Congress, merely because it does not agree with his individual wish

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and preference. It would enable him to stand in the way of all reforms, and to defeat wholesome regulations of the public service. It is intolerable that the will of one man may defeat the will of the majority of Congress, upon a question of judgment and discretion. And it becomes indecent and an outrage upon public rights, when the power is exercised io continue party machinery that is used to de feat free and fair elections. Coming in as the present Executive did, it would seem that he should wear the robes of office modestly. He and his countrymen know that he was not elected. Full 300,0CX. majority of the popular vote was against him, and a decided majority of the electors duly chosen.. In his promotion, by agents and agencies the most detestable, the rights of the people were defied and trampled under foot. Must that be followed by the repeated defeat of the w ill of the people in the exercise of the veto? On what side will von stand? I appeal to yon stand for free legislate n, and against such an abv. se of a constitutional power; to stand for free and fair elections, and against all party supervision for corrupt ends. My countrymen, are you prepared for a material change in our system of government? We are in the habit of speaking of it as the best Government in the world. Our fathers lived under it and were prosperous and happy. Under it we have grown to bo a numerous, rich and powerful people. A large class of partisans are now dissatisfied with it. They want a stronger government I suppose that is a general tendency. It was so with the Jews when they asked a King. The proposition to change our institutions fills mo with great anxiety. Ido not want to see the States broken down. I fear for our liberties when all the powers of Government shall be concentrated in a central authority. We have loved the States. They have been to us home governments. They protect our persons, our characters, our children,-our property, our homes and our graves. In their courts our wrongs are redressed and our rights vindicated. Under their guardian care and support our free schools exist, and our highways are constructed and maintained. And by their authority “justice shall be administered freely and without purchase; completely, and with out denial; speedily, and without delay.” Whoever advocates the rights of the States and the importance of maintaining them is charged with holding the doctrine that the Union is but a compact, and that the States may secede at their pleasure. That charge is one of the means used to prepare the public mind for the overthrow of State authority Now, I wish to denounce it in the most positive manner. In the light of the constitution there is no conflict of authority between the States and the United States. Each is sovereign within its sphere. The United States is a Government, with its powers defined in the constitution ; entitled to the allegiance of every citizen, and having the right to enforce, against each individual, obedience to its authority. The constitution of the United States, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof, and the treaties made under the authority of the United States, are the supreme law of the land. Each State is also a Government, to which its citizens owe allegiance, and possesses the right to enforce obedience to its authority. It has all the powers that properly belong to a free State, which have not been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the States by the constitution. Each State is a member of the Federal Union, and has no right to secede therefrom, nor has it any right to disturb the harmony of that Union. To promote the Union, and to seek to make it perpetual, is the duty of every State, as it is of every citizen. Speaking upon this subject to the people of my own State, last year, I said: “It is not true that our Government is weak and incapable of giving us the most complete protection. If we but maintain the authority of the Federal Government, as defined and limited by the constitution, and preserve the States in the enjoyment of their rights accord ing to the constitution, and in the absolute control of their domestic affairs, and if our laws be so honestly administered as to command the approval of the people, our political structure will become the strongest in the work! In times of peace it has been over the people to protect and bless them, and in periods of wig it has been adequate to every necessity and emergency." Upon this I would desire to speak more earnestly than upon any other subject whatever. Upon the tariff, the revenue and the banks we may make mistakes, and afterward recover the lost ground. But in respect to local self-gov-ernment any mistake is a disaster. In respect to that, lost ground is never recovered. The power that is strong endugh to tako from us the management of our domestic affairs; to wrest from our neighborhood and county courts and juries their rightful jurisdiction ; and to strip the State Legislatures of their legitimate authority, is powerful enough to hold and keep them. Already great additional powers have been given to "the Federal courts, and I have seen parties go away from tl.o a e courts stripped of lands, and chattels, and homos Le the overwhelming costs and expense, when the matters in controversy could as well hava been settled in the local courts w.tiiont impoveii hing either. Every consideration affecting the rights and welfare of the citizen requires that we maintain our system of government with all the rights and powers unbroken and intact

Is the time ever to come when the disturbances and bloodshed in the South will be attributed to any other cause than political passion? The influences that produce crime in other localities exist to a like extent in that section. Ambition, avarice, jealousy, revenge, drive men into crime everywhere. But you assume that they do not exist as evil influences in the South, and that men are false and cruel only in the midst of political strife. I appeal to your own consciousness that you aie a a good andtiue and honorable men, then, as ever. Crime should be denounced and punished, whatever the circums'ances. whether commit ted in the midst of political excitement, or in stealth and secret. I make no apology for it. But when it is attributed to Democratic principle or to Democratic organization, I denounce the falsehood of the accusation and the meanness of its author. The great and leading sentiment of Democracy is equality and justice, and crime cannot spring from such a source. If Dixon, of Yazoo City, was killed to prevent his candidacy for place, it was more than a local outrage. But if he and another candidate came into a controversy, and the killing resulted without such purpose, then the homicide belonged to the locality, like any other case of grave offense. Yet Northern prejudice has been appealedjco and excited about it as a political case. His character, if correctly described, was not such as to excite a personal interest and sympathy on the part of good men anywhere. It is stated, that he had been tho author of a number of deaths, and killed one man fiom Indiana because of his political associations. If you will make a note of the crimes committed in the North, as reported every morning in the enterprising newspapers, you will be shocked at their number and enormity. May I refer to one case? It occurred in your own State. It was reported in a special telegram to the Chicago Touch on the 15th of this month.’ The town of Westerville Is in the county of Franklin, near by your capital. Henry Corbin kept a hotel and saloon in that town. His business as a saloon-keeper was offensive to a class of partisans quite numerous. I understand that he had the lawful right to prosecute his business under the laws of the State. But they did not like the laws which gave him that right. On the night of the 14th of this month, while a number of persons were sleeping m the hotel, at a late hour, kegs of powder were placed in the cellar, and, as is supposed, immediately under the room in which Corbin and his wife and three small children were sleeping. The powder was ignited by a fuse leading from the street. The explosion shook the entire village, destroyed the hotel, an 1 in{ured some of the parties, especially Corbin, >adly. Can you conceive a crime more stealthy, treacherous and cruel? The purpose was to destroy an entire family, and the passion that prompted it was hatred of the liquor traffic and of the laws that permit it. The probable death of the innocent mother and the babe at her side, and of the two little boys Bleeping in the trundle-bed, was contemplated by the murderers with malignant pleasure. Now, what think you of the “ powder plotj 5 of the stealthy steps, and of the horrible explosion in the night-time as compared with the Yazoo homicide ? But shall Westerville be made a type and representative of Northern society ? Shall our civilization be brought into judgment by tho powder plot, and the humanity of our people be brought into comparison with the cruel'v of the wretches who would murder sleeping children? Let us judge of one another fairly. Let us strengthen and not .weaken the bonds that hold the people of the United States together. The Chinese keep grapes a long time fresh by cutting a hole in a pumpkin, cleaning it out, and, after filling with I ripe fruit, replacing the cofer.