Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 June 1868 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

PLYMOUTH. INDLANA, THURSDAY, JUNE $5, 1868. VOLUME 13 NUMBER 43.

AN ELOQUEflTADDRESS. To 'lie H liite IVmtN- oU li South, Hum! nn! 'tl, who Loe tin I'rt'Mi'iit i'oiiNtltution of the I ii it l Males and ? I ii ion of I lie lau s I In rt uiukr. Wo, the white people of Russell county Alabama, iu the presence of Almighty God, and invoking to our aid his holy name, do, unto all our suffering brethren uf our 1191 dowu-troddeu south, and to all our mpathiziug brethren of the power" ful and tritiniphant north and west, truthfully oe!are our leading principles, no through our representative men, but iu vr own proper persons, with our own free voices, and from the inmost depths of our bleeding hearts. We hcaVtify loVe and honor the constitution of the United States, and the ucion of the states thereunder. We rccognize'no rule of action opposed to that noble in'strumeut. We recognixo every part andparcel thereof, as it now stand.. Its lead ing and cardinal axioms and maxims, descended from the great fatlieTF, arc as deaT to us ai the accents of our mother tongue, and more prized than our propertied inheritances. The noblest mouumeut of the lUth century, it indeed embodied the result of the wisdom aud exporiencc of the departed ages, as well as of the departed generations. " Time's noblest offspring was " then M his last." Still, still the noblest often iutated, never equaled ! In their great wisdom, the fathers loft it tho undoubted right of each state to regulato within its own borders, tho right of su'Tragc, the qualifications of its owu judges aud jurors, and of its executive of ticers. In like manner, it defined with sufficient clear MM the rights of federal suffrage, of federal representation, and the MUSifieatMM of federal official portion. Uut, i specially, iu their great wisdom, (aud the fathers had botli read and acted liistory), they left it as a check upon rash aud prcsumtuous innovation, that no change should be wrought iu their goodly works without the free and full consent of a constitutional majority of the .täte. To avoid tloe rrpre dons by the federal

gorernwteat which, in tieir wisdom they anticipated igkt U attnnpted by fool-1 and t n.atics, or knaves, thev were oxpF " it :l'..r the writ of hlris corpus sho nevf r be suspended, except (taring t! lending of a rebellion or an invai n, not I boa uoless public safety required i' ; and th it no bill of attainder or ex poi-t facto law should cv r be pavs't d ; that no person should be convicted of trensou except in Lpcn court, and that even treason should t work forfeiture of proport j , txt&pt during the life of the person convicted. And to avoid the honiVjle crime of kidliipj.!.. and ecrct vi'.lenee by luilitary ind civil officers of the said federal government, which had been practiced by such fficerfc in some d.vpotic monarchies, under j refenct. of a prftut public neeessity nfld ol the inamed character of the public mind, fhey were equally explicit in dcclnri:r the riirht of ail aeeuseJ to au impai -tial jory trial, atnl to be informed of the nature aod eaOJM ti the at-!ttsati , and to be eoofroatod with the wiiMsaea inst them, and also, as preliminary to arrest to t lie oath of some accuser In fine, the safeguards of liberty were complete; for if the truth be told, the great fathers were Ml only great heroes, great lathes, great patriots and great statesmen. but they were great lawyers, and however lamcutahle to some, great and unrepentant rebels. And they took great care to prevent the excesses which malignant faction, possessed of the reins of government might be digposed to perpetrate against the unsuccessful faction, which was stripped of all power. They had heard of and well knew of the bastiles and Irttrcs de cachet, used then, as now, by the mean spirited and base, All the old states were children of the great rebellion, their cradle was rocked in the storm, aud their lullabies were the cannon'i roar. They had once been submissive and loyal provinces , but had they Dover been rebels, they had never been states states, free, sovereign and independent and equal. But Alabama was no child of the rebellion. She waa the child of the constitution and of the union of the states theroundcr. Under its provisions nearly a half century ago, under a congress not then suicidally maimed in its members, nor disordered in its mind, but full and complete iu its numbers, as in intellect, she was admitted to the happy sisterhood (happy, had they only known their own happiness), and her constitution the same in ;ubstance that it now is, was adjudged republican in form. We may safely say that no persons of upright character or discerning niind (excepl when lrünk by party excesses) have ever doubted its being republican in any constitutional sense, or its being conformable in every particular to the United States constitution, as that instrument now stands. This free, noble and republican form of government, from our education and habits is most acceptable to as. When, eight years ago, the southern people sought 1 dissolve thc bands which had bound them . . lriiliT tili form til fill, nurllmrn .in.) .n.,,1

crn people, it was from no dissatisfaction whatever with its spirit and purport, which iudeed, they trausferred to their own adopted federative form, but from a conviction that ideas outside of that spirit and that purport were about to control the central government and submerge the rights oi the states, and cxtra-consti-tutionally sap the foundations of an institution which was confessedly within their separate control. When the mill'ious of southern white people, woo had been up to that time sustained by the then ever faithful and loyal black people, grounded their arms to the moic numerous forces of the federal government, it was only on the oft-renewed promises aud pledges of its congresses, its presidents and its generals, that they its congresses, presidents and generals would be true to the dear old constitution, nor make any absurd pretence to curtail any of the constitutional rights of the southern states. In fhc inception of ttie tocfet lamentable sectional war there was very great divergence of southern opinion and feeling. During its eontiuuance southern feeling almost altogether, and very greatly southern opinion, was cemented by the blood of our heroes and patriots, and by tears and prayers and self-sacrifices of our matrons and maidens. Some divergence of opinion however still remained. Hut at the termination of the blooody and cruel, but heri.it! drama, the south, ever chivalric, surrendered her separate nationality, and tho arms by which she sustained it, as frankly and sincerely aud unreservedly a? she had wielded the latter heroically, bravely and admirably. Having by the aid of these free white people, so promptly and unanimously given, secured thus much, the federal congress 'vwhose mutilations, however, selfinflicted, we all deplore) has thought proper to usurp the provin ce of defining aud limiting the right of suffrage aud monopolizing all the functions of the southern state governments, and has established m on ar chial and aristocratic forms of irov-

eminent therein, with twe obvior object i uf compelling a portion of the subjugated whites, by thc pressure ol bad and oppress-j , lrc rtnftents, o unite with the mass j lfi 111 uf newly emancipated negroes in excluding from judicial jury and suffrage, as well a from legislative ;md executive duties, and a laost iva.nero'Us whrrc 'class, for no other criminality than that ascribed to them of uniting in sympathy with the whole vast MM of southern white people. This numerous excluded clavs comprises, in a Vöry lar-c proportion, the most houored, beloved, refined, intelligent, just, reliable of the southern white race. The newly elevated and subs' ituted class to perform these most important and delicate duties is composed off a savage African race, developed, of course, greatly beyond their nationalities or wild tribeT-. oT A ric'.i ; hut ludicrously arid ridiculously incompetent' and also not suitable associate ami companions lor a refined race, in the i erformanee of these important duties. This -la.-s of people, fro more, or hardly more than the Indians of a superior race, j is admitted to those duties iu the north ! . . and srest, where it has been much longer free ami partially educate I Thc object of both the inclusion and the exclusion is to brutalize and vulgarize our temples of j justice, and to prevent a full expression of the thought and sentiment, the intellect and heart of tho southern white race in federal and state legislation ; to destroy our whole social as well as political fabric, and to brand as felons the loftiest brows and purest hearts of Christendom. Such is the propositioD, couched iu that extraordinary production of thc nineteenth century, known as the 14th so-called amendment of thc federal constitution, and upon which a portion of our white peoplo are in effect and substance called to vote, mid gleaming bayonets and flashing ensigns, aud dusky, unconscious mobs, directed by cunning and incendiary pale faces. Wc, the white people of Russell county, Alabama, met in council, propose to give our answer, and put it on record for ourselves and our posterity; but as we propose not to give the verdict of passion, we deem in not inappropriate to refer to some important considerations bearing on this subject, beforo we record that answer. It has been insisted on by persons isolated in thc southern, but more numerous in the northern states, that wc should ratify the so-called amendment, not because it was just or right, or in any way proper tobe passed, but became tho conquered have no rights beyond those which the members of a self mutilated congress, iep - resenting the conquerors, " may " to use! the curioUi language of some rather pom pous members of that body" vouchsafe' te grant." To this it were sufficient an swer that even the reconstruction acts al lowed each selected and registere 1 voter, it he is allowed to at all, to vote on either side of this question, without incurring any specinc penalty. Again, it might be nnwered that tho creat anxiety manifest .od to obtain thu semblance oven of a pop L.i . olar vote in its favor clearly shows that I was by cunning and fraud that they le

sired to commit to wnat they dare not enact, and knew they had no power without our aid to enforce either inside cr outside of the constitution. Again, we deny the accuracy of this statement of the publio law, even outside of the constitution. It proves too much. It proves that the self mutilated congress may abrogate all contracts between man and man ; may dissolve and prohibit the marital relations ; and prohibit the worship of Almighty God; mutilating all of God's fair creation in order to reproduce itself, it might people the earth with Calibans, and each as their poetic prototype of Shakspcare's Fairy Land. or enthrone a naked prostitute as Goddess of Keason, like their historic prototype of Gallia's famous fever fit, when she u got drunk with blood to vomit crime." Perhaps some senatorial favorite might be found to enact the Deity; perhaps the Impersonation of the moral, religious and refined character of the more numerous house, the chief manager himself, might condescend to illustrate the high priesthood, and present a fitting incense to her shrine a new edition of the republican marriages of carrier,the Frenchman, and be himself the Austrian hero no longer. We have no church of Notre Dante, but close by the Potomac's waters are the burial grounds of Washington and the heritage of Lee. No ! this is no public law of civilized nations rather of the savage, the outlaw, the pirate. Hut concede the public law the question is not of the absolute authority of congress, but of our own voluntary votes, Next in order and most potent to the imagination, is the bayonet argument, that cor.gress will contiuue oVcr us the military governments, to toiturc us by the oppressions of bad monarohial governments into the acceptance of negro supremacy and white ostracism. Now, no government, which has ever yet existed ver an Anglo-Saxon race, has ever yet existed as thoroughly despsed as these bastard and mongrel monarchies a species of Asiatic satrapies, This niueh wc freely admit. We hate these mongrel govern-

I . J . .1 . . .. ul .""- 1 1UCU 15 1OT lT,e VCT mas wej Date thc Uuitcd Statos constitution, and 6 jTj ' IVl I Oil Ul V aespise mem Decause tney administer a cauting oath of religious adowhat their mission is to destroy, their daily occupation to insult. We hate them because they hate thc writ of habeas corpus, so dear to the ÜuUed States constitutiou. We hate them because thev hate the freedom of speech and of trfc press, so dear to the United States constitution, but so absolutely incompatible with mongrel royalty. Wo hate them because they hate thc principles of law, which requires the oath of the accuser, the specification of the offence, the confrontin g of the witnesses with the aeensed principles so dear to the Ünited States constitution. We despise them because they nurture and reward the spy. the secret informer and sycophant. We hate them because, themselves, adopting the inquisition and star chamber modes of trial, they hate ju ry trials on thc baifa of tue constitution. We despise them, because they seek to viliste and debase the upright course of jus tice, by striking from thc jury box thc most intelligent, humane, houorable and expericucud white uieu, aud substituting iguorant negroc. Thc comparison between these governments of new creation (in America) f.nd cur glorious old constitution, does iudeed present a shocking contrast. It is the indecent, gibing and loathsome Satyr in place of the beautiful Hyperion. All this wc cannot deny, but we reply that thc disgrace is temporary and is not oursv but that of the enemies of the United States coDstitution. Ilaving, however been compelled to alinit thc leading characteristics of these mongrel monarchies as institutions, it were ungrateful (and iDgratitudc is no trait af thc south,) not to allude to the exceptional caso of one distinguished officer, who, invested with despotic power, signalized his bright and brief career by his sedulous respect for thc constitution and the Jaws, and by his generous courtesy to those who bad so lately been his, toes, the foes only of the battlefield. The officer Las conquered more southern hearts than could have been won by a hundred battlefields. This officer, by his course among us, has compelled the respect of thc south. The south feels bound to render its grateful testimony to thc magnanimity of Hancock. The argument, then, of the bayonet amounts not to much. These afflictions j n thc fchape of governments will cither orow 1Qt morc vigorous, more rational, 1 an( enlightened consistent forms of grand "upcria! monarchies, or be broken down - , an1 beat a swift retreat before thc power legions and cohorts of constitu tional liberty. Wo can be worsted by no aoge, except tnat wlucb, by purporting 1 f" 00 degrades our personal ,,onor or that wh,ch permanently, , trough rattd Änd fce, debases thc fed ruI con,?tittioD- - ' e aTc heretofore endeavored to state - ''he question before us explicitly, and ! i e n j- w it -Mpped of all disguise . Wc think we un I ! . JL ' ' f ' I 1 1 1 F ' ?-' ' i - rstand it We have oudeavorcd to re

ply io the strongest arguments yet adduc-1 ed In favor of a southern vote for the so-1

chlled amendment.

It rony not be inappropriate now for us supercilious Pharisee. Uur "good Samar- . . ... . . , , ip, j . i ii -i , tue most illustrious citizen ever born in to consider who we are, and of what race , itan is he who would give us civil and'.. , , . . . , . . ... .. ,n -r. ... , . i the Uld Dominion, fertile as that pleasdescended, to whom this question is put. j constitutional liberty, it is liberty ! glo-! . , , . ... r , u -- . , , . r , ... , , ant land has been in neroes ; m r could We, southern whits people, though tern-1 nous, thrice beautiful, constitutional lib-' ,.r ,. . , , ., , ,.,,....., ! - vu i mi j Licorgo ashmgton himself have wished porarily enslaved in höndage, cannot, with- erty . Give us liberty, and we will an i . " . . . . . . . r . ' 1 ' , , . . . . , I tliat the college erected to his honorshould out being oblivious of all history, be blind aanual . tribute pour into your national " . , . .a . 'er n y I have a worth icr 1 'resident than the one to the fact that we come of a stock tot cotters, :ar greater than you cau collect; , ... . . . , . ,...,, . ... who quietly entered upon his duties a ignoble, nor mean, nor cowardly, nor slave with all your bayenets. 1 his liberty I . ' d i ? m. r.- , . Li i iv i I i short time ago. The new I'rcsident is born. The Washingtons and Jeffersons these equal rights are oflereo, aud. so I ... . , . . . , , i ,r , w . . i , , (i , h j , f Li istl11 W lIie Prime of manhood, though and Madison8, the Marshalls and Rutledir- far as wc know, oiTercd only from the I , , ,. , , , , , t . ... ' . ,, j . - , .already his head and beard are gray; he

whose speech was of molteu lava, the An-; erat ! The democrat theD, is our geed drew Jacksons and Stonewall Jacksons, ! Samaritan . But are we so jealous of the whose swords were swords of fire, all honor of that name that we would narrow sprung indigenous from the loved land of j our thanks to the people of that party desour birth and adoption, aud were of that j ignation ? Nay, God forbid ! "A rose by

lofty blood and lineage which we claim as our own. Nor can we forget that Hampden's and llale's and Bacon's and Burke's and Chatham's and Wolf's, great names, are all compatriot with our own, and ShaksrleaTe's language is our mother tongue. Of us, of this Caucasian race, of this lofty lineage, and heroic language liueage aud language of the free born, the free "spoken, fend the dauntloss it is demanded of us to vote, that the venerable sire shall be able in his last death agony to recollect that it was his own petted boy whose vote stigmatized his hitherto honored gray hairs; so to vote that the young and ardent genius, eager in the pursuits of honorable ambition, shall feef with poignant mortification that it was his own father, whose vote stigmatized the child he had dandled on his knoc?, as too infamous to receive thc appropriate reward of hisbright mind. In all history, wc It now of no demand by victors made upon the vanquished, so cruel ! so infamous ! so stupid I The white people of Alabama havo once responded iu that expressiva and loathsome silence appropriate to such a disgusting theme. They may again be called upon to respond in louder toue?, and we explicitly and distinctly declare that, however the question may be guilded, wc will, with ! one voice, answer, No ! no ! a thousand I times no ! Wc will not ourselves become he executionars of our own brethren. We will not degrade our temples of justire. We wc will tot ourselves debase our whole social life. ior will we with "iir own hands trace obscewe imagery, iu place of what toe august fathers wrote on j thc statel' edificc of the fcdcraI constitution. If the dirtv work has to be done let it be done by those who love, not by those who loathe, auch vile obscürit'y. The atrocity of thc proposed act ought to be our justification to the whole world, for our not acceding to it; but a farther reason may be found iu the fact that those who would force this proposition through, by the aid of thc bayonet, must be of that class whom no treaiy and uo pledge can bind. Sordid clf interest alone can govern them, and our acceptance of these degrading terms would be only the neees?aVy preludes to impositions not more morally degrading (for that were impossible) but more physically onerous. Ever attendant on the mongrel republics, as ou thc mongrel royalties, would be the hireling bayonet and the saucy ruffian: It might be peace, but it would be such peace as llussia gives to the Poles, for still ' silence reigns at arsatv. It might be contentment, as the English Crown ives to the Emerald Islo, for still the Irish convict mouuts thc scaffold, crying, "How sweet it ia to die for one's countrv." j . 2so; outside of the Uuitcd States con stitution dwell the outlaws and pirates, enemies of humauity and of refinement and of justice. Inside of the constitution alone, if anywhere, is safety to be found. Honor, truth aud virtue arc there, within those sacred boundaries. Wrc have great reason to believe that a large majority of the Americau people are still attached to that sacred instrument, and are willing to wrest it from the robber bands who would destroy it. Aud here, while desirous of doing just ice to all men, snd facing ourselves of all old party divisions, truth and candor com pel from us thc gratsful admissiou, that in the north aud groat north-west thc ban ners of civil and constitutional hbertand of huinauity. aud of civilisation, atid of heartfelt reconstruction, arc chiefly upheld by strong and patriotic hands who have chosen to iuscribc among their folds, in the highest colors, the naiuo democrat. Ou thc subject of party names and bauners, the south is iu uo condition and iu no temper to bo criticised, When the wayfaring iiian in thc Scripturos fell among thieves and oil was poured on his wounds by ono styled a "Samaritan," lie did not, that We are told, reject the proffered kindness because of thc previous re proach put upon that name. Let the north and west carry out what are now ayowod as democratic principles equal rights of all the citizens, equal rights of all the states, the putting dowa tho upstart royalties, the putting up again the white republics aud the south will blossom as the roec. We ihay in some s?nse. be paupers ; wc are no meadioanti. Wc waut uo demoralizing public aims; Wc

desire, if we can, not tobe the vict'ms of public robberies. The oil poured on the

wounds of the south is not the dole of the any other name would smell as sweet." We fully aud equally thank every other friend ; but for less than constitutional liberty of the citizen and the constitutional equality of the states, we thank no man. Every other basis of reconstruction is roten to the corel Every other hope is delu sion and folly. Your present army, as applied to the pacification of the south, is one of the most ererious and extravagant follies for which a generous peoplo were ever called to pay taxes. It ig three yeasa sincfe the war of secession finally and forever terminated. Reconstruction needs an army ; but of how different a kind from that now costing so much. Shall we suggest the proper kind of army ? Fill it with the most numerous regiments aud battalions, and all the ranks well filled. How shall you arm it 1 Plows and harrows, axes and cultivators of thc most improved invention and of all varieties ; these shall be the substitutes for thc bayonet and small fire arms. For the cannon now used you may plant the steam engine and workshop on every water fall. And every species of fruit bearing seed will be more efficacious than gunpowder. How it shall bo officered may be well inferred, and who shall be its sappfers and miners. Bring on this army ; unlike thc present one, it shall cöst the public treasury notTiinr;. AVe fear not its numbers, nor, though wo migtit desire to limit its colors, would we circumscribe its nationalities. Greek and Hebrew, English, French, Scotch, Irish or German, or by what name so ever called, thc grand white guard of civilization shall be welcome to carry out a genuine, not a simulated reconstruction. It were indeed a grateful task to portray the rich blessings derivable to the whole country lrom thc most immense white immigration into the heart of this most gcui.il land. Hut we are not permitted here to dilate on this most graceful CT! theme. Our arrangements must conclude as it began, with thc far more melau 'choly refrain of thc ueftly enslaved. All tattered and torn is Virginia's old historic legend, broken her shield, her arms are reversed, aud shattered is her spear. Prostrate and iu chains is all our snuuy lurid. Co ffards strike us, and outlaws give us law. liut in lib owu good time it may please Him, iu whose hands are the destinies of all nations of thc earth, to cover us with the shadow ot His wings. Even now perhaps, behind a frowning Providence, He hides a cheerful face. But to gain his favor wc must use ouly the weapons of truth and integrity. Perhaps our Heavenly Father is testing our faith. Terhaps if we are only brave and true, true to him and true to ovrselves, He will yet release us frciu our sad captivity, as Ho saved the brave and true Dauiel from out of the liou's Jen. And now, fellow-citizeus, south, north, aud west, whom alone wc address, friends of thc constitution as it now is, and who execrate the use of fraud and force in auy desired changes, and who execrate also the villainy of thc change hofo proposed, Or commanded, wc have dono. How imperfectly our task has been performed, none cau be more ready to declare, than ourselveg to admit. Our hearts arc laid open before you. We arc a small, a rural and an undistinguished community, and it may seem presumptuous in us to eeck go wido an auditory as may be implied iu the scope of our address ; but be assured that our ambition flies not herein farther forth to all the world, nor ou inoro soaring pinions, than fly our love and gratitude. "Asi:oa sharpeneth iron, so is a man sharpened by the faco of his friend," And "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.'' Brave voices in the south have elevated and ennobled our courage ; generous voices in the north and west have gladdened our hopes. We, too desire to utter some words responsive, to breaths Sonie notes in full accord with the music of thc constitution, so melodious in our cars. Our very hearts leap to our brethren with thc salutation, "AU hail, and prccioui thanks for what you have done and are doing." Choose your party leaders; they shull be our own chieftains. Select your party banners; we shall uufuM them around our own hearts. You will not despise nor deride our humble greeting, and our heart ofleriug. S. If. Strono, Geo. D. I1ooieu, Ii W. Ma utain, JkSSEK WlI.KKnsON, ., N. 1). tJt Kiutv, Committee of the white peoplo of Husscll couuty, Ala. ' A. J. .1 on es. President, 1. B. VYADDEI.L. Scc'v.

Robert E. Lee. Vnm tlx- London Haily TaiegfMB. At Lexington, iu the state of Virginia, 1 1 1 1 r-. . la n .IT rr. n 1. V ' .. - t) . m m rC

has long been accustomed to command; he is familiar with hardship as with fame has slept for months amid the woods of j Virginia, and lias. crossed thc RappahanI nock northward at tL: I:Vad of a victorious army ; he has proved aliice by good and evil fortune, aud whether when threatening the federal capital, or when surredering his sword to a federal captain, he has borne himself like a man noble alike by ancestry aud by nature. The descendant of lS Light Horse Harry " has doffed the gray uniform for thc garb of a peaceful professor, nor can we own that change is a degradation, even for Robert E. Lee. There is a difference in thc mode of action, ut no alteration in the object, which is simply to render the best service he can to his native state! To that single aim he has never once been unfaithful ; and he will still pursue it, we may rest assured, With thc old hign enthusiasm, tempered by a cautious brain. Throughout the war uothiug more remarkable than Lee's personal influence the manner iu which he impressed every one who approached him. That men with Jackson's purity and eagerness, or with the debonnairc and graceful valor of" Stewart, should appreciate the illustrious qualities of their leaders, was only natural; but even the humblest soldiers iu the ranks felt, though they may not have been able to express, the moral power which Lee exerted. The war was iu all conscience sanguinary enough ; but there would have beeu a very carnival of carnage, a dev&si outbreak of men's fiercest passions, had the southern leaders been of different temper. Gallantly as the confederates fought, wc mmc not forget that their armies were often composed of somewhat questioDabh: material; but the volunteers, With all the instincts of 'bravery which seldom deserts a dominant class, had likewise many of them vices which are Inevitably engendered by the possession of arbitrary and lawless power. Accustomed to the uuchecked license of authority, the slaveholders might perchance have been ready cuough to give the war a character of internecine hatred ; and it was eminently due to Robert E. Lee that thc courtesies AVid humanities of civilitcd warfare were, on the whole, observed. The gentle nature of man never degenerated into weakness; with a high hand he could restrain excesses, and admirably did he exercise his power. There are no purer pages iu the history of the civil war than those which relate to the invasion of Maryland aud Pennsylva nia, at a time when the temper of thc southcru people was sorely tried. Btifch qualities as he displayed could not tail, iu thc long run, to win the regard of a mauly and affectionate people, and while we flud that he was beloved like a father by all I those Who shared his immediate perils, we have not forgotten that when the victorious veterans of the north were marching home through Richmond, they burst into a splendid shout of euthUsiasm as they recoguized, gravely contemplating them from a curtained window, the familiar form and face of Robert E. Lec. Who It ii i It the Capitol. The capitol of the United States, as it stands, is the Work of many persons, of whom but two or three are noticeable. Dr. Thornton made the first design, said by Washington to combiuc grandeur, simplicity and convenience. The architects retained but two or three features of Thornton's design, aud preferred one by Mr. S. Hallet. B. II. Lathrobc, of au enterprising Maryland family, begau to rebuild the capital after the British burnt it. It was thirty-five years after thc laying of thc corner stone beierO A completed uatioual capitol existed iu America. Johu Quiucy Adams Was the fbst. of our presidents who ever sent a messago into au entire capital building. In like niau-het-the extension of the capitol has already occupied eighteen years. Washington laid the corner staüe of the old, Web ster of the new capitol. The Rruuelleschi of the house is Thomas U. Walter, .the Ghiberti ot it is Thomas Crawford. There are three names, therefore Hallet, Walter, Crawford with whom are associated the merits of the capitol. Walter is incomparably the national architect ; he built thc Gtrard collego at Philadelphia, aud on that building and the dome of the capitol his fame will last. From thc Boston Post, the priucipal demooratie paper in Now Kugland, dismisses the Chase moveincut with the remark: " Whoever is nominated for the presidency by the democratic convention, we feel pretty sure, will be nominated upon a democratic platform, promise support of democratic principles, or he will not receive the democratic vote of the couutry."

"t Tür Catena Victory. There arc two-facts which make the democratic victory in Galena, Illinois, more crushing than it otherwise would be. Thc first is that the radicals made an unprecedented effort to carry the city, held big meetings, imported speakers fr m abroad, hired Tjands of muHC, Mid the placed Grant's name and picture at the head of their tickets. In the fccoinl place, there are some two hundred voters of (la-

lcna, democrats alincit to a man, who follow thc river as pilots, stcambcatmcn, aad flatbeatmcn. At the last session of the radical legislature of Illinois, the dy of election was changed from March, when these democratic river men arc at home, to June, when they are absent on the rivor, hoping thereby to secure a radical ssc cess. Yet, despite all these untowaid cii cumstances, the democracy carried the rity by the largest majority, ever given ! Honor to the people of Galena! Thc home of Gen, G rant repudiates him. A pretty candidate for tLe presidency truly, who cannot carry his ownlätfn ' Willie IioH Iu Blue. H'dqur's Union White Roys in Blui, Indianapolis, June 17, 183S. Thc executive committee announces thc following arrangements for delegates, and all soldiers and 6ailors who wish to participate in the national convention of conservative soldiers aud sailors, to be held in Cooper Institute, New York City, July 4th, 1SG8. The Indianapolis and Cincinnati railroad to New York and return, ?20. Tickets good from June 25 to July 15. Rellefontaiue railroad to New York and return, 820. Tickets good from Juoe25 to July P, Tue Indiana Ceutral to New York and return, 820. Tickets good from June 2-3 to July 10. The time on tho Rellcfontaine and Central roads may be extended if so, notice will be given. Certificates will be given to all conservative soldiers who wih to attend the convention, on application to General John Love, indianapclis. Headquarters of the Indiana delegation will be held at the Saint Nicholas hotel, John Love, Chairman Executive Committee. A correspondent wishes to know whether, in case Grant shall be elected . president, he can constitutionally retain thc office of general. The constitution is silent upon this precise point; lut to hold the two positions at the same time would be contrary to thc spirit of that instrument. In the clause forbidding members of congress from holdiug, at the same time, any civil office uuder authority of the United States, aud which forbids any person who holds any federal office from becoming a fcicuiber of congress. tli3 spirit of the constitution is shown ag being hostile to the holding of two federal offices at the same time. It M also provided that the president shall receive for his services a cou.pensatiou, and ''lie sliall not receive within that period any other emolument from the I nited States, or any of them." Here agaiu is an indirect expression by the Constitution that a man cannot at once be general aud prcsidtut. The office of president is superior to that of gcuera!. It is nowhere ten iu the system of promotion, in this or any other country, that a man is raited from a lower to ahiher office without lea TIM a p O vacancy in thc former. Thc captain who is mado a major is bo longer a captain ; but there is a vacancy which is left by his promotion. Ia fine, it is contrary to thc spirit of the constitution, aud, therefore, unconstitutional, that a man should occupy at once the offices of prcsideut aud geueral. Chicago Tirr. a There was a fellow in Arkansas w I . was suspected cf. sheep-stealing. At last a planter riding through thc wooda per ceived the suspected individual cmergo from the woods, aud, after looking around to see that uo one was near, walked up to a flock of sheep and knocked over tho largest and fattest. At this nuuneut tho planter rode up, aud conlioutiug the thief, exclaimed : "Now, sir, I've got you. You cannot get off; you arc caught right iu the act." "What act?" iudiguantly inquired tkl thief. 44 W hy, sheep-stealing," wae the einphai ic reply- . 4 44Sir, you had better mind how you BhargO a res py; table , American citizen with such a crime as sheep-stealing," replied the pcuohant for mutton: I ' "Now, sir, will you deny that I saw you kill the sheet- ? " "Xö, sir," was tnc answer, 4 and I'd do it agaiu under thc same ciucuuibtaucca. I'll kill anybody's sheep that bites me as I'm going peaceably a!ong thc road. "What's the matter, mv dear I ' faid a Wife to her faishaml, who had' sat tof halt au hour with his face buried in hn hards, apporojitly iu gerat tribulation: k'Oh, I dontknow," said he. "I have felt like U fool äff HaT.M "Well," replied the wife, consolingly, "I am afiaid you wijt never gt any better ; you look tbo very picture of what you feel."