Indiana American, Volume 7, Number 22, Brookville, Franklin County, 29 May 1868 — Page 1

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Crs 4n jketiratl8saL IJaaknBaiWlDr, 9 J'fl - I ' f TE Rr.: 3 0 F: G U 2 S C FJ P Tl 0 Tl i 1 , $3 1'F. r r E'.V i t ftV U aj,c v: tv 'ii" - ' if NOT PAID IX ADVANCE. No postage on.papeia .delivered within this SPEECHES AT .THE : REPUBLICAN j .JATjQNAl CONVENTION. , . : i.! rj slI .v" .;'!"(,"'- it. M 8PK.XC9 -CT J CBL,, SCHURZ, .EMIptlAEY Gentium m of thaCvncmtiunt It it difficult for sue tor fcxprtss huw highly- I p .pseciate.Tthe honor yc-u have conferred up n.öie- jbf . i jKi j appointments You will -penaU roe t offer you toy sincere tbankw. ' Thi.fi the tourth -National Convention of -the -lit publicum party. ?, The" short career of that party ha been, marked by events ,to. which cutiiiu .'generations, will point ."With piide, -admiration auJ gratitude, vl Tbe llepublicati palty was torn, inj in 4t$ veiiy infancy it erappled with the prfju. idire-uf race, wl.i.. 'until theu, teemed to r,:;!. ' the , masr-cs ,o the iLAuter.kjtu peorj. Our second onset broke ihriJugl lluit' aud carried Abraham Lin--tili iuXo the- Executive hair of this Ittj .paWtoa lh grcaitbumpion of the auti--slave cause.-- Thea came the slaveholder 4-fbe h tun aiiJ ther loyal i people cf his seuutiy. displaced ä heroism; devotion and perseverance under obstruction .and ; de iiaal whiclMway türve a glorious example teell aatiena bii eafthj.n Applause. e.fiThe resuUof the strozie; corresponded with, the great eJlrt Tue Jil'e of the jia4iiin,hai;be4B ,savcd,-lb dark i blojt of laetyihis. bcrirwipd.f.roni oqr Datianal iiliafi.4,jfCtieer4.J , Fur luiltiooa ot' .bviidwtt'ii ti.ive Jbeea riid i'rotu tho dutt. lr4 ni tbei.aiKent jdekTadatiun and iJltiri ,i(.ty thrto-&tat4fri, tbd peculiar conditiou oi... whioh , va hut recently i dirce tt lh mrin lOjdie, return to ua undor fh aiian hon?rr which i.i at hint, as it ought. to hiivo hem, real nation il eut iJeoi ot justice. univrdl liberty uod eiUal .Mhtrt.' f.VpplauTe. . I , , . ,,. w".-U thc. thiu-ta, utve hven aocoroplishrfid uudtr ltt'pubiican auspice; and with 'oijt,4nuj)jttig iu vain iclf-;UrUieuUon, it 4iuy tiui) be iidiho histjury ot the Kolpublican party is cloiuly . identified .with wwtil ntt-?mnret'- lhi-entury. -fl lftt'J j iietp iew.4 prubleois .equally -Kreut ro uu Lil'ore u. We hmet vi WV re the results which have aliady veu aCvUin jili.-licd, aud preyept uiifAVurable' reaction,' we have to to adipt the intftitutiaiii of lhi- country ti the nt order, wfj.ibius. "f he so;utiou if ibis probioia will require greater enthu-ti nsnigi'evcr devotion,' ' and renter perceti'iaiito lhüü"tLc .Viruses which lie hebind l..t f .-' j . -i It' will' require inore. It will , require that t'nlni M:iU'Mii;iii;hip which-con?ihts of cleif c iijircb'J.ajt!! of, ttie otj''Cts t lo i)btii4t4,'d ''-ahifghv- kn ssietle of thr means by whicti Uf aj oujplirh thetu. 1 1 the llet-u 1)1icao piirty; was about to ( hier upon ihe rrtMtive pi l of its miion, -il rchbeJ by one of ihe wot atrocious rriuu-s recorded in history of a man whose ln I f; t Willeas ifi Tils' appreciation "cf li ivb!wt4oitict cf th- popular-heart. Ahrahain Lincoln was struck down in the JuIliitM of hi .glory, a iid .we are lei 1- how to measure Lis by what he left behiud Uhu.O L iiiuhtt i ; rtfLd -applauds. TWif cin ioi ui time of rdilrtriKiintmciil; our, p.oucy wua thwnrtod by the very , jKan. whon in an unfortunate hour, we lad put jUotv the, road , to, powej. The it.ru t it e 'au j xi-c ü t i V 4. brau che s f t he &oATnrent wtM'piitedii'irsinstJiitTe srruther iu a fierce Mruirlo. and new dinera w.4iUwtv:icJ-therc there ouyht to hnve btrr pciTftf" THidTplier"" " U e hiT buii1 our liours of painful experience; but w hat. uf that? Are we now to Le diftuibed by -the mere appearance '?.,,S,i,iCrXr JVi irjrcipscwe advicaie juit as j;reat a they.ever were? . Is j nut tlit jiryiiy of their realization , just , lad Uhl.urülil IIVUI? 1 . -,.r-.. ........... I

trü.Lt.M ifuiht.AWwuuot tl..dfender.r,,e1"J hf rl,eJ' Uvc.done very of iutW riht. and truth, to-d.v. .a I e' Ctnileiiienj- at - ItMlf puat three to the

i.r.i. r iv 1 1 i . i . .. .. . . . . r n m n ' ? Tsay victory will bo true to the lie-1 J1T -waMieair rartv us loiig-a.nhe ltepubliean patty isTirue toTlscff. Applause. -JLakw. Jftjive to do is, Uii.: Lei us fix -cA.aie tnk.lv -upon-th noble ends to be attained, t'.'j Klnit iour, equanimity to be distai: bed by, a ii untoward aecident. Let out passion, inflamed by the stinirinir ui;appgiutmei.iiu tui, Lour, Uowcver keen I , - . . , m . , . . . vur ftciinc ui uruii1; may uu, curry US be voud the pouudj of wdoiu aud of selfreject i.i ' The Ebings wo' hVvA fo" accömplith are so great that, whatever tho provocation may be, we ceaiily,tfin iibt afford to let jruiiiil, reaeuluiuut seduce us into coin-promL-iug our . high, iligtitty, .Whpever may be our friend, .whoejer may bocome Qflx- eoeuy Ut u stediy .ruaruh on with on unflinching determination to tulÜll all ihe!dutjcsf thut 'rest'"npon 4ns; to- sccare justice to ..tht5 ;. fvldier,' who fought our tattle; juMica to the Southern-' Union tnan.jwho, ' for thfe Uniod '"eause-iap-jlause--imperil!ed' his life .and" , fortune. Justice to the colored race, to whom we "have-promised true and ' eternal freedom. JApj;.lause. "Justice; to the "National rtditoir.who las staked Iii .credit. Applause, great and prolonged, ' ' , "Let us faithfully strive 'to , rcstoro . the hoa or of the Gjvertiuioti t; ' to crush corruption wherever we find' ;it applause I Aod cries of good inside of the party as well a iuui4thertyJ---applatt.e fan.d,t3 jilacf tTTo pifpiiC 'servieof, tlje untry iu.thv) hatiJs.of honest,' trua.'aod "capabl niea'i Applause., ? Let us, with ör)Ä;,aiishäk6n ''purpose,' work out the manifest loio of(ihe results already gainel for liberty arid equal-rights. Lei us feafiifcvJy aekoo'w'cdec that- tae mtssioa of the. Uopubliean party wiil not be ended until the greitn troth ''proclaimed in- the "Decla ratio o 'of I udepe n de q ce i n 'the fullest meaning of .the tut at aha.ll liiave ..become a liviug reality'- Applause. Yes; let jus be true td"our history, be true to ourselves', niL leardwthiMg,' .Na step .. backward -Uriwardr' is tno watchword.; Let .us sea igainthe'banncT of progress1, of liberty, of equal rights, of natipual .faith naiod to, the very top of tha: mast, ini I say to you 1 spurn the idea that the American people

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!l .i (r r.i ,7' i. .-i j A. coulJ ctr4o far fotnt themselves os to' thVuW their detitues' itlto: the 'bands of weft wbobut yetefday, aouht todeströy the Republic And who to-day stand ready to dishonor i(. -Lot4 aul ountinued pU'uAe.' ,'" '' ';' ' ' RplVVioUiVuAwiVv ni. r. i . t i i i 1 ri A t&l ft . A t ft A TAT i ' ; ,'u I. . . i i j , j .. J. . I .Gentlemen cf tin Cunt-cut ion: I tender vou tuy. nlust gratful thaiiki for the high uoiiur juu uao euuivrruu . upon wa. i l l. - .I. iv I. uj biiwjoi ins resDonMbilitrcs.of the itositiool earnestly solicit) ydur .iduleiice , aud aid..i; We ' come tojietber -witft the momentous duty'1 of eleciin' the eliiuf .tuleriof the nation whichTlcadthe World; in u then promotion of frcedool;and equuliixhtsi i Applause. indications of your purposes . and . spirit

already given assure u us, tbat you will! vf tfae Republic -not for white men, not - main tain the nolle character of the i lie- i for red men'.'cofor blacV men,' but for all pliUica party. 'We unavoidably j recall, j men (vThatV so," and ''applause') and at this'iiuio. the ('onvention of lbCO.'with j wo Supposed that tbe voice of the Ameriits profound anxieties and nlowinij devo- j can 'people, during the progress of the war

iion iu uoeriy, sua. us, f niu-iamc retance of ihe.waer of LauI .'tendered by slavery, and ; accession. u Applause It now seems cleur .to us that (iod thu ruled our counsel. j lie; made our. declarations of principle maoly aud sincere.! lie gave us Lincoln for resident. Treiuendous cheering J (Jod send:us iiku wisdom to-1 day.'" AppluuKe. lie tented . u in a manner and to an extent which tlio liveliest imapnation could not: have anticipated. Posterity, we hope,. will decide that wo uiet the-text with the spirit worthy a free people' CouutlchS tredSUTtt. and three, hundred thousand lives offered up, were (evidence we were wolciunly iu ear vtl. . We ottersd our lives aui. our property, but it i was not eOouiih.. We laid our prcjunicesj ofi räch end clas upe .the'ullar, and the cnii!.(:iuumeMi that we. at Itsaat .dobervtid succcf redoubled our ' tiere. i .'I he sutuc high resolve r ik to-day , a nd the houot uioii of this country are ready - lor equal and even greater caori&ces, if they be indispensable to the dedication of this continent tu liberty and ) .eq'iall rights. . Applause. We learned the ürst lesson w hen we found we must. .make all ineo.free and cjll the: tu the buttle ult..n We learned tho fccond le-poa when we found we mut still tijovo ou and g'f? impartia'.ly, to all men a place ia tlm .(juvernment wet were endeavoring to rr-Mere. . Great applauas. tt no a c-ie;ir un.ui jcJiieB.i c j'ir-etou on people will understand; und no; . iogeoious ,dci;e, no words, can ubcoro or avoid f.issiii by-. all j.eronul 'and . temporary controversies working ! ia. perfect couti--dencellut the American people will delight in the end, we feel sure ut triumph. .1 he power cf n nutiou of forty millions - must be just to the claims of . the poorest workiog man, of whatever race, to recover even und just wu't'S. : Its majesty must bo felt wherever the - hum blest loyal mail appeals anlinst personal violence and - opprextion. hears. Kvery dollar, uf . the national lielt the blood of a foldier.U pledged for. Cheers. Kvery buud, in letter aud spiiit, must bH u sacred i as ; a soldiei'a grave. (Cheers ) We must i .w in and . we . i-hull wiu. ill isJhe oldf right of liberty,' eqUali ty and fraternity agaiunt oppression, cubte aud arUticrucy, ll ia the. old- fght to make the world better "with uiulice toward none,' and with eharity . lor u 11." (Loud upplaue.) : AV'e .ioay ' halt fir a moment or change direction, tut the good nun aiwtaVM vt,itt t,ll:iiltl v. fiirunril It im I - j - - related, und wbethcr truu or tot, tbe incident ij well invented, that ob the evening: of that awf ul battle of . the WildernecH, when tie legions of-the Uuiou tinny had fought all U iy by . fjith rather than by night iu the la on led bruah.that some man . L- ...1 I ! .... 11....... 1..... L .....I n - - - ( liOug Con?d )h w.orJ, ?"d V" 1 klu B0,1 ",,l.r c.puting in aaytog we shall accept htm in purum as our loader. .(Loud fheering.) Ihtukiiig vou BL'sin. , hrartllv. !r honor eoulcried, 1 1 a wuit , the further pleuHiiro of the Convention. (Applause.) ,' G E N t It A L' T A L M K It 'S S P K T C ti . Mr. I n ?; t itn l itn((r.ntci of the lie j i. ; .... . ........... ... publican ..(bnm.ion: 1 attcuded this Cuit veotiou to witness Hint observe ita earnest action, without auydfsposition on my part to contribute tö the volume of words that usually attend assemblnges'liko this. As you will see,' I buve ouffied iu a 'great measure' the estimate that young men place "upon tiieie speech.' (Liüghter; applause, aud crie of 'Good.") -Years-ago, when trie reat' questions lelore -the country were mattcis of argumeut' and rtelibcr- ! tion; I'endeuvored as1 best Iconldto con tribute tny'bh'ire to their peaceful solution. In lSdl. it Was received,, b'y apportion of the people of tho country; that tbe prcblems of the hdur would be ' settled in a more stern and dcoisive' manner. : In my W3y, to tho extent of uiy power, I contributed to the settlement of thoso probJems. (Apjlaujo)' Ii seemed to me at j . 1 1 .. . 1 . 1 , tue cioso 01 tue War, ana it seems to me now, that the matter ia dispute between the different sections of. the country were settled upon the' battle-field, and all that I ..... 1 . .i . Lave desired since thut time is 'that the logic ot the battle-flold should be recognized, knd ,the 'decisions Ibcre made sliould be "carried Into effect.' '(AppUur-e.) Years ago, iu the beginning-'' uf-tho con troversy, ihe question ie question - wa -whether" men ' f,'lV? ' irnlio ' should bo speak.' P'-valued freedom ;- of in all parts' allowed to speech, not much speech,-but' free speech'. uaunier and apptau-je.; htUt I commanded no large share of tho popular gift, 1 did insist that: they th-tt. loved speaking should -be allowed to do iL'' It'wus denied Hot oriJyMri the South, but in many districts ip the Nortir.' At that time it was insisted. not onlj that men ' should ' speak- as they please and for themselves, but that ! ruen sboald worlc ' fof themselves. fAn y s. , ft 1 .... piuuse ; ; i Deueve mat white every man should be arioed' to1 speak ''freely, " and apeak L for1 himjelf, that' all tnen'ihoöld be allowed to act! I freely and - for them

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clvc!; h&t every than. hould Le illywc to own hiti)?elf. " lie iihould be allowed t

own,' not ouly filmcelf, but to own lis own i wife and. Iiis own. children.' .Äpplauae.) ap-'il'his question has been . decided ly 'the rgünient of the sw'ord, and, not' only" Vas th"1 reat fundamental essential' doetrihe

ehtabiitthed, but.it was alfö 'settled as cooclusivelv as any nuc.stion CoiilJ be' settled. that hereafter, men ahould not' 'onlv .'bo 'free in their pwti persons: but thev, should oe aiue tree ana .equal te oro me laWJ . .. . i ' . j ..... 1 everywhere in tins vieul ' Kepuunc (Hp " t.laipM-nii.l thn UuU nt th Rptnihlican

iiartyi to-day. is riot "to'.'dUeuAa ' thet)r'.tswant ""J oj intake as to the issues to nle but to ak praciifal' effect to the' irreal decided in this contest. . )Ve'tnean' to

: doctrines , entalnisteti upon . the buttle ' field (applauoe) not for the loyal men .alone, nut for the North, not for.th-Voutht 1 but lor men every wbrJlthln the' limits m;u at tue cloe oi trie war, Heetueu 10 in 'dfcate that,' hereufte r',' thcro.'wuuld ' no I'difficulty, that llicsc doctrines would I'd accrrited at Iruxf liv thn lii-T.nLlirnn 'rurtv i?ix uionths ago, whiie men iupiedhat there tcmalned any further , bbf.rructi.otis to the execution of (he popular will, ' that we were it ll to struggle on in vindication of these great, principles. We had triumph ed uutiiig the war at the Presidential elec tion of .'b'4; at the cloo of tho war in f'ihe gteater conflict of 'b'C,.wheti Juhnsön "appealed from. Congress to tho people, ,'and the people reiterated their "ydetert.itnatipn that these gteat doctrines should bo hereafter American doctrines everywhere. (Cheers) Tho public voico.wos ppoken iu language not to be misuudeptood. It was UJ'Jl(led then that every, li.au . vho accepted l lie name of Kepublicau, recognized these great essential doctrine',, and that they were hereafter out t.i be resale at least by members, of the IU publican, pa'i ty. There wasbut one thing then in the pathway of the pe'n'pte.', Id 'd4, by one of tjiese signal blunders, which seem like dispeo satious of the Almighty in his wrath, we elected Andrew Jphpson ,Vica President, Thoughtleea bieu tnay characterfze it,asa blunder,, but thoughtful men may wonder whether hat we deemed mistake, rwas not a. judgment of, the Aluiighly, jiiÜictiid tijiou the country, fur sotuj bin, ,,' Certainly, i except toe War ItrCH DO curse c.vuld , be heuvier .than' tho "'election ;,of Andrew Joliiisou. Iu 'UG, the distinc issue was pieseuteil to the American, people, whether that curse bhoulJ." Le"' rt luoyjed. . ,'The people of Illinois, by a m'njvi ity unheard of in our history,' inetrueted thfir.KepreHen'uli Vi-a uiioii lli:it (ini-i.li.in Tnu-n (.tu.L-A ! out: Kausas spoke out: other VtHtea' spoke out, lor this question. . Thorp .,.w vM possible room for mistaking the will pf the people or the country. Ihero was. tut one way by which all the depurtmcuts, of Goverumeut could to brought into, harmony, ; f , y: j ,;, . , A 1 1 . . T . . . 1. .1 a ueroann was. mauo ia . ntircacu - wie l : i ... t !.,: i r :i . i r. : . . -.- 1 resident, .but it has failed.; ll is not lir iuu ft e . iiui'vacu t-iiii. me to spuk of (he reat ialons; ; ol. f that fail - ure. It is enough for me to deploro that result.; The removal of Auirw; Johuson was demanded by the national safety. We may talk about it, we may dispus it,.ns jiidieial or a political question, but aS a qucstiyu ,of common t-ctiso, - it ,is , (hat Andrew Johnson etood jn . thq way of the peace of the country, end - ought to have , been, removed. , ; (Prolonged cheers.) Impeachment is thu. substitute of modern civilization .for old fashioned resistance aud decapitation. . That, is all there is ,of , it., (Cheers, and .tries ,uf "Good, good.") ' In old times, .niiioug barbarous people, when tho tuler flood, in the way of, the people, they took off his head . i In America, under tue influonee of civilization aud Christianity, when the ruler stands it) the pathway of. the principles and prosperity of the; .couutry, it is ; by impeachment - that - wo take ! off his political : bcad,: ; (Cheers and liht:l,ill.il t Vi.A fr, nt i Ail . ft . . a e , i i . it i. . , . i oorrowcu iroin a roiice i..ourr, nave no application here. It ia enough that the interests of millions of Atuciicao jieoplo duinandtd that this .obstruction should be taken out of tho way, and i: ought to bavin been done. (Cheer aud 'Good.') . Or, to use a luwyer phrase, Mr. Johnson ouht to have been indicted. , He bhould huve been charged upon tho .common Courts, conieted and removed.. ,M r.i PresidtjU "and gentlemen of tho, Conveution-.there .remains for us but this remedy. . Impeach-1 meiit is a liiilure. . , , I here li a tribuual that cannot be corrupted. ,'M ,.. . . , ,. A voice What of Truinhull?" (Cric& Of '"Good, good' aud.a bias.) General 1'almer I leave that man to that tribunal of which P am 'about to q-eak. (Good, gtxid.) There is a fributml that eatitittt bi corrupted. '! (Cheers ) We proposer at this Convention not 10 Indict men, but to again submit these preat questions to the American people for their decision. (Cheers Uiuhtl riuhth ' - IVe expect to summon the old anti-Mvcry men, who have struggled on1 amid . the storm and the-sunshiuo, nmid persecutioq and sneers; the men' who stood by the flig , . . .... of freedom when niny of us -' were ! 'halt by the way.. We exteot'to ask them to go again totho bUlot box and deposit their votes for the right, - ('.Jhcers:)- We expect to place at tbe" hem! 'of the' Goteminent the great Captain who hmvlcd tlie armies of the Republio through ; the war (cheers); and we except to auinmorr those 'gullant soldiers who followed him down to the Mississippi; who wera present at Vicksburg; and' we expect t' summon those gallant men who-saw tha 'flag us it ascended Missionary llidge, and witnessed' tho flight of Bragg and his host, expect to s-ammon ilioe who miVched from Atlanta to the sea; and thoso who so many ' . ...I.J H' . L . Richmond, and af last saw tho: rebel fla" years siruggiea oer wen 1 asuington and go-down upon the Appomattox, AVe-'tA"-' jifci 10 iininiua au mote to rany: un-aer the flag of the great Captain, and we etpect then a vo(o whijh hall - placet 'those qucbtious where theyiwUl be disturbed bo

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i.ii JHi cd kUioro in our Imtory.and. age. , (theera.l to ICentlerueo, I have said to you that 1 have Lno fondness lor words, t for the sako ,of wördas, 1 trust your corn mitteo are. pre paired t report resolutions for, jour consideration which ahall.baye .no uu certain Bound. (Prolonged applause.) ' Let us tuako n is.ue just os cleur and distinct as the. starsVpon the;flas;". so distinct tbat uppri this pelitio! ßht weoan do as we did upon the battle-field; when we saw the j: 'i i - CUr.t UIIU OiripiB, wo, aiiow ii.cio wer friends I there. Jet us have a distinct. clear, well defined platlorm. - I do not make Ulysses S. CS rant President of the United States .Tspplausel, ."as", . you did Abraham Lincoln in 'Ü Ii an J let me beg you eot t( .offer . a coritiuue4 pernctual temptation and rewaid to the hands of the assassin, thut'his life may be taken.' Let roe beg ibaj you don't make a Vice Pres. jdent 'whose, character will offer a temptation for the assassination tfCirant. (Applause and cheers!) We want him to live out fi,ur years; and if )ho country demands his services, wo desire his re-election. , If the country shall then ' prefer some other -public man, we wish that he may rctiie and livo to a good . old age, io the enjoyment of the constant a fleet ion of bis countrymen! If the 1'altimore Convention had not made a mistake io 'C i'r' Abrnharu Lineolu would to-day tiave been' at Washington (applause), ready on the 4th ofareh to extend the hand of welcome to'U. S. Umht. ' That hand is 'at rest forever. Let u$' take warning by the past. ", Let us place the flag in the bands of none but'truo 'aud well tried iiicii. (Applause.) BROWN OF GEORGIA. Mr.' Cohway, of 'LaV said: I suppose that it irf part of the settled policy of the llepubliean party, to, day, to have the S6ulh come into the Convention' Union end foremost laughter but we have andUer marked event ot moment. ' There Is with us to-day; In full part and full fellowship, one of the foiiner Governors, in the days of reLclliob, ol 'one of the rebellious States, w ho has since become reconstructed, applau-e. and has proved himself iu lire irue os steel, a genuine liepublican und in full fellowship with the llepubliean puriy: 1 mote that ex-Gc-v-fcrlior Jitsoph E. Urown, of Georgia, he in vited to sy a lew words. iremendous opp! iu.-e,' and cries of Iirown, Urdwn. ' 1 The Chuir It is hard y tiecessary to put a motion' which has such & reception! Wrll'Got. Miown address the Conyeution? 1 Gov, Brown Mr. Chairman: As it has I ten announced that the cniutnittee' will l o rey'dy to : report in a few minutes, I think . "Mc"1 .?G. n'PrTcr Vfr'MlVa enuF into any Uiscussion ot too (iuestious "ViHveJ, and I could not do justice to mvtclf (t my section if I should speak without time to review1 to some extant the qucs tions Involved. I-'do 'not wish to intrude upon the proceedings of the Convention i i i - M . i . . ' ti ' i j L UUJ 'cie, as n as ueen wen re'uaraeu. a r t l .". i' i i - rt i. t.i j T .-I ., n 7 L 0 . . , 7Jc'rs of ,arplau.-e,1 I was an original se cessionist laughter, and that's a frank and oped confession, and is good for the soul. t 'lies' of '"platform,"-' "platfvrm," amid O I S V - ' . : : 1.. - 3 . . - 1 11 wmeu irowu auvjnccu 10 lue siage.j .The Chair '-Gov. Brown, of Georgia, gentlemeu.," ' Tremendous applause. Mr. Brown Mr. President 'and gentlemen bf the Coiicntioti . ' A voice "Tell your experience." fAp"p!uuse and laughter. ' . '.Air. Urown As -1 remarked, before I left liiy scut, I was' an original secession ist. 'I' was born in South Carolina. Growing up under the influence and teachings of that master of intellect, Calhoun, then in tho full glow of his meridan, I early embraced hir State Ilights doctrine, and supposed that I as sincerely and religiously believed that they were correct as you believed that the opposite Was sound. Por years before th'c'unlortunatc struggle we have just passed thiough 1 foresaw that the ijsuo' which divided the North and South must ultimately be settled by the sword. There was no common tribunal ol judgment which either side would resprct. If the Supreme Court decided the question bearing on this great i.ue, the party ngarust whom tho decision was made refused to abide by it, because it regarded il as political.- While Mr. Clay lived, that great man, that great pacificator Cheers and 'great applause, we were able to avert this great issue, hut .Mr. Clay'was called from the fijld of his influence. Webster land Calhoun slept with their fathers, and when the storm again arose there was none who oould pour oil upon tho troubled waters' ami btop the dclugo. "Secession was tho'rcsult. I went into it cordially us a Spates' riahts man,, and I stood i by it as Ion-; -us there was any chunoo to Biistain it.. j When thö President of tho - Co 11 federate States abandoned the great States' Ilights doctrine (bat we commenced on and agreed upon, I ; differed from hitn. When he adopted his consciipt measure, which gave him entire control of; the whole army of tho Confederate States, and of every officer in thoT army an error, sir, you did not commitI took issue with hitn... But. wo went through the struggle. I wili not attempt now to renew- its Iiis tory; but wo of the South, fell you of the North were conquerors; and 1 think I had sen.se enough -at the end of the trug glo to k'noivv when I was whipped. Cheeis The President of. the United States, after the surrender of Gen. Johnston, ordered my arrest add imprisonment. 1 After toy release,' your Courts were opened, and 1 was left free to -act. I felt then that the timo hsd coaio when 1 hould make my choice between this land and this Government and (uma other land with some oth er-GovernineuU .1 still love my own native tadir-eheer and cries of '-GoodV and, -with your construction of tho Constitution, established by the-sword, I still fiefcr! tbe; Government of the United States to 'anv other organized.! under the firmamcntft i Cheers. 1. The natural inquiry lien was, what ia my interest, 'aud, what my duty.; 1 .believed it was in y inn

i c e m k.t j 6tf x.e law s t tcreht am my choice . to. remain ., m .this roust Government. If .lremsinod here I seek an amnesty of the Government for the puhi,, aou must asit its protection ior tne future.', If it yielded that, I, waa in honor bound to return to my alltgiance and make a good, citzen if I could.., (vrics of good, good, knd cheeis. " Ilence i have advocated every measure 'from that time until this f. for rice nstructtott. Applause. When the President of the Uuited States proposed his p.lan, I advised our people to' accept it," because we had to follow, 'and we bad no power to uegotia'te with hirq. He did not call Congress' tbgether. When Congress, which had legitimate .'control of this question eb,eers and. applause, proposed the Constitutional Amendment . to the SoQthem States, I.adviscd such friends as sought my advice. upon the, question, that it wan Letter to avftfj but. the feeling was so overwhelming against it that no voice could sustain it then. There was but one iUue in it, and that' was the suffrage question', and that 'Congress left with the irjtatcs to, .fictile for, themselves. If we voted the . black .race, we wight counttbem,, in.öpr represeutioo.,1 If , we refused to voto theui, uo could cot count them. , That' was right, . Cheers,- great applause, cries of right.- . Wth rcTerence to Federal debate, there was no question. There was but one other important question,-that was this provision that disqualified me and others from holding office that were now" jiving.-, I, and -others like me, will soon pass lrutu the stage, .aud if we did not, there are others, and better men to take -our places. Therefore, tn.mj judgment,, we 'acted very injudiciously. What followed?'1 Supplemental' reconstruction. I advised on the passage of the first of these acts that we should accept, it. At that time it would have been easy for me, who, without vanity! I ' may say I had some popularity in my" State, aud hud four times been elected its executive," and might bare retained it,.' to have courted, popularity, but duty , dictated a different course I . followed it, and bare received the hearty denunciations of my people, or a' largo portion of them for having done so. I have been denounced as an enemy of: my race, and a traitor to the cause which has wrought so much evil, t do not think so. .1 thiuk' my course more honorable than that of the tnau who was a ret el and SDUtihf the same amnesty that I received, aud the same protection from the Governtient thst l received, and then stays in its bosom prepared to s'ini; it wl eii;' opportunity offers., rüood! poodl'' and applause. When I lought, I fougl-.t you oponly.'and boldly! i When I sui rendered, 1 surrendered io good faith; and when I took the oath, I took it 'with a purpose religiously -to tbserve it. '-By my theory' and I had been taught that it was a true one-sokliiy 'rrimarv alletunco wai to the State. 1 'Then I had formally taken an oath to Support the Constitution of the Uuited States, I understood it to hind me only whc,n my State remained in tho Union. .'But she withdrew, which I believed she had a right to do for just cause, according to the. necessity of the case,lof which .she must be judge, ;I-did not feci that I had .violated that oath when I. went with my State. But the oath to which the President of the United States bound mo "was.' very 'different. I was sworn to support, not only the. Constitution, bot the union of the States. , Applause. . When I did that I abandoned the doctrine' of secession,' for I cannot support the union of States and encour age secession from the Uniuu. Cheers. ;J. The.Virijinia' iud 'Kentucky resolutions that included (he docitioe, as I under stood them, have ' always been the very platform upon .wh'u-h tho Democracy had stood. , But when theplutforui was knocked from under. the feet of my party, 1 bad nottung left to take hold of. As I understand, the 'doctrines ' of ,-Democrucy were State, sovereignty aud the right of secession. The sword has established a different doctrine, aud henco it .is that I am no longer bound by allegiance to the Pemocratic party. The Hatuilfouian and Wchstcrian construction of the Constitution has been .'established by the sword. I have acquiesced iu thut. t 1 find the He publican party standing on the platform, to-dayL lhat'has been abandoned by the Democratic party.' '-Cheers. I; kuow this is very .iiuipopuiur ) dociiico in. the South, but I believe it is ti tie, doctrine. But, let tue teJl.jo.Mi. President and geuttemen, thattthcra.are--) many white m-en in the South; there are large numbers of original 'Democrats; there are large numbers of. oriirrual aecessionists in-the South, who, to-day, stand as firmly by the Bepubliean party, aud will support the great captain ot the age General Grant. (Great applause.), Our Democratic "friends there havo opposed ' negro' suffrage and denounced it as an outrage upon manhood and upon poiiety, and yet iti the lato elections there, the negro who voted tho Democratic ticket was- really, a very respectable fellow (laughter) and a white, man who voted the llepubliean ticket wus a scalhwug and a traitor. (Cheers and . laughter.), . They toll 'us there, you jcstabliah negro: ; supremacy in the South. . , JS'ot o rijot so.., While we grant to the colored pcoplo all their lights, civil and political, wo do not expect them to be our masters.' Much as you have seen iti the papers o-n tbaj subject, it is not South. i In .the State ot Georgia, Tor, instauco, whero, those who are included within the constitutional amendment, and who will be voters, although they have no right to hold office under our Constitution, come to the ballot bor, there are L'O.OUl) majority of, white uieu there. , W'o have the advantage in education and experience. We claim that we have the superiority of, race. Tell mo not then that the black; people of Georgia can rule, when, they are iJü.OOÜ in the minority, and we haye all these advantages. 1 This is said .with . a view of prejudicing the , Republican, party- North rand South.' It is not true in other States, even where the blaeka are in the majority. If Our whito race actprepprly io this mat tor there will.be ipo, difficulty.,. ...Juat ink conciU"iou ic.:iue jaj, wuio we itaie a,

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ft WHOLE NO. 335 hi bard fight to make in Georgia, if you will give us tbe fruits, of the, victory we have lately won in a desperate .fight, we expect Ito'carry (Jcorgia for General Grarit. (Great ("applauve.) We have elected tor : Gover nor; - We nave adopted our: Constitution, and. elected a .large majority of both branches of . the General Assembly. Yet our.Governor is oof inaugurated, our Legislature Is not called together. .'We desire that Stevens' bitrpthat passed, the House bf lleprcseitatlves'; the ) other' day, 'be slightly amendedjn the Senate and then passed. The amendment we desire,! one to allow Governor Bullock to convene his Legislature on ten days', notice. Do that, and they will adopt the Constitutional amendment; Then let them' elect Senators, and receive us into Congress and give us the control of the State Governtment and its patronage wtj,;h we Jought I for and won and must have if we are to succeed in this coDtest. (Great applause.) V BPEEcn of OE?r. w. U. OtBSOX. I am hero to-night to say to you, as a son of Ohio, that 1 am in favor of moving at once ou the enemy's works, shouting Grant and Colfax, right or wrong, until victory perches upon our standard. (Cheers.) : , .' Fellow citizens for by that nanie I have a right to greet you, whether you hail from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois or any other State we have to-day in the city of Chicago elevated our banner, upon which we have written the names of Grant and Col(ax, and under that banner we propot-e to march to victory, to glorious and certain victory, in next November. Do you say amen? (Cries of "Amenl" and loud applause.)';' ' :' " 11 "" - 1 The llepubliean party ' of the United States was the creature of necessity, not of choice, and with the strength cf a giant it has' fought the baitle of the age, , and to-day points to a' nation saved froin1 re rellion, and a union preserved from 'dissolution, as tho trophies of her triumph, (llenewed applause.) I thank God to night that I belong to that party, and that you belong to that party that' trampled upon'the shackles of 4,000,000 slaves, and alt earth gives back the echo 4'hail to America,' and the course of her caiecr is still to be 'Onward and upward.', ' ' . Fellow citizens, we, had a contest to-day not over Grant, but we had a little contest over the candidates for the Vice Presidency. We presented to the people of this country assembled in National Convention the name of Benjamin F. "Wade, of Ohio. (Ldud applause.) Is there a man bero that don't like hitn ' .(Cries' of ;,No.") ; ; ; ' 1 There i not n man here that does not admire1 his course. ' 'Why, for nearly eighteen years he as stood like an Ajax in the midst of iniquity, fighting the powers of. eurfh and bell, aud thank God, to day he has triumphed. . ' Fellow-citizens, this country is my country, this country is your country,:and this Government is vian't Government; and I come to night to sav to you that the'State of Ohio, with her thirty-one votes, will indorse Grant and Colfax to the tune' of thirty thousand majority. (PiCnewcd applause.) . ' ' ' Fellow Cilizetis: This is no time for speech-making, for we have come together to-night lor the simple purposo of letting you know that we feel good all over. (Vociferous cheers.) ; ' ' .. ,-: ' ' " You know that I am a Buckeye and you might naturally expect that 1 feci a little Ijealous, but I do not. - Old Ueu Wade un tnecd the endorsenjentof this country. Thank God be is endorsed in the history of the past, he will bo cherished in the memory of the living his name belongs to history, and' Ohio with 240.000 freemen stands ready to write. ''approved' upon the back of Schuyler Colfax. (Cheer?) Beat it if you. can. ' . " , When' Gcncrkl Grant, at Port Gibson, Miss:, rode along the lines, the army broke fortbin cheeis at the triumph they had gained. Said General Grant: "Soldiers.'l thank you; you have done good work to-day; you must do better work to morrow." To-night I ay to you that you have done a good work to day, but you must do bet. ter work next November. I now propose three cheers for Grant,' Colfax ' and victory!' (Loud and long continued cheers.) . ' , ' ' speecu of' aovEnon lane. , I am here, to-night, that I may mingle my - congratulations with yours on this juspicious occasion of the meeting of our National Convention. , I am hero in behalf of Indiana tu thank you for your cordial and, noble indorsement of her son, Schuyler Collax. . We have a platform of principles upon our banner that will oiake il flash and gleam over the wholo country. 1 have been attending National Conventions for. twenty -fi ve years, bull oeveraaw a more enthusiastic or patriotic assemoiy than the one that met hero to-dy. , -Lata pleased to speak to you of Chicago. I love your city;, it is seated iu queenly robes, and will bo the future emporium oi tbe jaa . W II I commerce ot tho West, lou aro caiieu upon to decide between the two respective parties. We present tdyou General Grant. It has been said that the President and Vice President have been selected irom Illinois and Indiana. It is not so. G-encral Grant is selected from the United States of North America. Where is Grant's home? Where is it to-night? It is in the free, brave hearts of the American people. At tho toot of every Uag-utaff bearing the emblem of our nationality and our. glory, there is the home , of U. S. Grant. No local question has anything to do with . it. Pattioiistu knows no geographical boundaries. ' The man who is loyal and (true is our man, wherever lie uvea,, u no is me enemy that you will now,,, have to meet? IM. . .. .1 L - I...... ! I I... Ay are iiiose wnuip uur uujs, in uiue triumphed over lopg since. Indiana is true to the Union and to the llepubliean party. Again, I thank you for the honor vou have done our State. Tho leaders of the peace party are the same men who det . . . . r -1 -' I ciarea mal me war wa a luwure. a uey a failure. have been conquered once, and wo wild do i 11 agaiu. k cuppose wuaso auu uis recusau

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it tDt ttjvar, (IS tie,) ee toirtioa.... ..ft Ja )Mrt, tw crila.t...,.,..... 1 M .Bl IdUirt. Din l-trlUii t tS All alquat iarartioai, jr nux....... TIAF.LT.' ' Onaaolomn, ebaefeabU ;jrter,'L......$T$ Thre-artf- of - . - , 60 Ooa-halr of a ooln. . St t$ OD-qnrtr .T rcluain 38 o 13 IS TrDilct a4rtrtUBitaU sacsid ia all I pAlaforla Ktnauc. Ub1 fiAT titular tin Ii tfrt'.Sti la Baad d lo. advertltunt will V .DblUbd aatll erdered oat and ebarjed aeoordicj!. 1 .T "' " J . . . Senators get up'a third party, what will its epitaph Iq? I wilLteU joui I utdr wL-at I ai htgua fur.'1 Youru'iTreseBUtWes In Uox'Jress have impeached Andrew Johmon, and y&ur Senators have'failed to convict him. Let us lewveUu in iti the hands' of their constituents. '1 regret what those Scaaiors have dobe. :They can'ijever fcutlive the Main attaching to them. , 1 leajve you of Illinois to d'jul -with your Senator and I leave you f-Iowa-tp dca.1 ,wjth yours. I hope these Senators bad good motives for what they did, but as God ia ilj joJge; I can not imagine any.. However, tbe i.e publican putty Owes less to leaders than does anyparty that baa ever existed. Its triumphs are due to the .people,', arid ia their hands all i-i safe.., The hour . uf4trial Is on us, and we must go fjttTi.snd stiad erect and true, and oer usw iTru'eaui the rainbow" of tote and trVmife.4' 1 " " Tho Mystery of Editing.: :5i BY llt.NDV WAUD BECCHER, The world 'af larc do not 'under'sf au a the'myaterivs bf a newspaper; andaslnla. watch, lbs hands that arc t-cea are but pas sive instrunif nta of the prirgs,whii;b.a,rt never seen; so. to a i.cwst-ai er. the most worthy causes ot its piosL-etity are often least obseivei or 'knowii': '' V!ho ust ecta the benefit whieh the tT derives froai the enterprise, the- igilance,- and -the. watchful fidelity, of ..the. publisher?; -. Who pauses to thiuk how much of the pleasure of reading is derived firnn the skill and eare of the priutct? 1 We feel ihe blemisHei of pritttiog, if. they tiist, but 'sclioli obseive the cxtellcncics.' , ' ,- jj B L.t Wc.Cit a, l.cajty dinner, bat -do not think of the farmer that, raises the uateri als thereof or the cock that prepares ihein with infinite pulus and skill. But -a cook of ,vvctubks, meat, :pab.try,' and. infitiite bonbons, has a -paradisical Qr-e in com parisnu wiih au edtioi!. liefere him pass all the' exchange newspapers'.'' ' lie is to knew all their i-oniei.ts, to:iriafk tor othre eyes tho .matter that tcqnirvs atteetioa. Iiis scissors aie to be xh it, and vlip- with incessant industry ull the little, items that together foiui lare an iuterest in the news 'department.' 'Tie passes in tcnew, och wie,' every: täte -in tho'lUalou through the newspaper, lens. ilc.looLrf across the ocean and sets strange, land, aud, fiilh'wii'g the sun, be searelts all around thii' world for material. ' It "will require hut one moo i 4 for the resderfo take in what two houiV. saic,k produced. By him are . read the u.auuterirts . that swarm the etliee .like tiic in July. It is his frowit that dooms them. 'It is bh hand that condenses a whole page into a tint. It is h'vs discreet aterun' that restricts, sentimental obituaric- that give poets twig ou which to sit and sinir their hrtt lays. And the power behiud the thionc. in newsapers u iu higher ; places, i&si'metimes im porta ut as the throne iulf. Correspondents, (Hcufcioual or regular, stand in awe at the silent power which 'has the last glance at an article; aud may rend ft forth in glory or humility And, in hört, as the body depends upon a good digestion, so the health of a newspaper depends upon that vigorous digcstiouN which goes on by ; means of the editor. '-5 - Ought they" not to be hontrtxl? 'And since little Jame attend tleru, ibey 'should at least have iheir treuture t-ianluita mul tiplicd. From that daik'and.dUmal dei). residence ihcy arc at length tiai.sla'tedV How to Know (he Ages of Hortet:'1 The colt is boru with'twelre griudcri. When four front teeth. have made their appearance, the colt is twelve days old; and when the next four come forth, it is lour weeks old. ' When tbe corner teeth appear, the eolt is eight mouths old; and when the latterbave attuit.td to the height cf tbe front teeth, it is one year old. The twe year-old colt has the kernal (the dark sub,stance iu the' middle of the looih's crowu,) grouud but of all the front teeth!' In' the third y ear, the middle front teeth are being shifted; aud when, three -yea'rs old, these aie substitu'ed by the horse teeth. The next four tieth aie, shifted in the fourth )ear, and the corner teeth io ihe Stth. At six ears the kernal ia worn eot of the lower middle ft out teeih, and The bridle teeth have attained their full growl Ia. Atscveit ycats, a huok has Iceu loriued on the rt rut T teeth of the t'l prrjaw; the kernal teeth next at the middle front la worn out, and the bridle teeth Ixgiti tu wear nil. At eight ) ears of age, the kernal is worn out of all the lower front teeth and begins to decrease in ihe uiddle upper front. In the ninth year the'kcinal hat wholly disapj eared loi in the upper middle front teeth, the hook on the ccrucr teeth has iu crease J in b'zc, and the biiJle teeth loe their points. In the tenth jeer, the kernal is worn out of the' teeih, next the middlo fronts of the "pper jiw, and in the eleveuth year iVe kernal has emiiely vanished fretu the tor ii er Ueth of the same jaw. At twelve years old, the crowu i fall the front teeih in ihe lower jaw, ,ha "become tiin.gular, and the'brmle teeih are much vorn down. "As the horsu adlaii cesin age. ihe'ums shiiok.away trout the teeth, which, consequently, leteue a louj; narrow appearance, and tlicir kei uU have become metamorphosed into darkish poiut, giy hails increase iu the forehead, ovtr the eyes, aud the thiu azurnes. tU forni of au augtc. Americau Agricul turalist. . . , -:. u A Stitch in Time The latest noveltj in sewiug mai-bines is one that follow the thread of au argumeut, -i' An Irishmau,' liesh from' II item ia, caught a bumble bee iu his ban!, seppos ing it to be a huniming.bird. "Och," Le 1 cxclaiuivd, "bow hot bis iut t ,. A chap who was told by a elergytuaii vn "remehiLer Lot'a wife," replied thali hn hid trouble enough with bis owniwitLuut rcuiciu oeriug oiocr uieu a

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