Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 July 1868 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME 13. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1868. NUMBER 4." .

A PICTURE. Tax ColleHnr. Ron 1 holder, and Blaeksmll ii.

The Springfield, 111., Register presents tho following picture representing a tax collector's office, with a bondholder, and a poor blacksmith who lost one leg in the war, standing at the counter paying their taxes. The following conversation naturally takes place between the tax collector, the bondholder, and the blacksmith: Tax Collector M Now. Mr. Jaycook, we vre ready for you, sir. Your moneys and caedits show 8120,000, your household furniture, office fixtures, horse and buggy, and some other litrle Ikings foot up $3,"675 more. Total 1123,875. Deduct 1120,000 held in 5 20 government bonds, which arc not taxable, and the balance is 83.575. Your state and county tax on this last amount is 71.00. Check ! All right, sir. "Now, Mr. Bellows, I have your receipt ready. Your moneys and credits show 6950, shop fixtures and tools, 61.875, household furniture, 8750, horse and wagon, 8275. Total taxable property for state and county purposes, 83,950. Tax 879." Hellows " How is this? Jaycook'. personal property amounts to 8123,575, and he pays only 871.50, state and county t ix. while I, with less than four thousand, all told, am asked to pay 87 50 more than he?" Jaycook ' Ah, my good friend, you see my 8120,000 in bonds arc not taxable. In the country's extremity, with other truly loyal men of the- couutry, I came to the rescue with ray greenbacks. I leaned my bleeding country, threatened with destruction by rebels and copperheads, my money, and with that gratitude which becomes a grateful people, 'engaged in the interest of God and humanity,' I am exempt. Thus it should be with a mr gnanimuus and christian people." Bellows 'Aud I. in the country's real extremity, had no greenbacks to loan but I shouldered a musket and give my tody to the caur-e. a leg of which 1 left on the field of Shiluh. as encaged iu the interests; I - . . i Of God and humanity, have no tax exemn-i tion fur me. This may be all right, but I don't sec it.'' Jaycook ;- Iut you see, Mr, Bellows

mine was a voluntary uct. I could not! dollars to aid in opening a tunnel for gold have been compelled to furnish the mon- mining in Nevada the whole affair being ey. You volunteered, it is truj, but you private propety is not encouraging, could have been compelled to go." Why should it not lend money to estab Lellows '-Yes, sir, I did volunteer hah a paper mill or a cotton factory, just when my services were needed, but your as well ? Setting aside the fact, (which voluntary act was after the work was congress ought never to forget 1 that the I mm done after the rebellion was struck down! financial condition of the country venders then you felt sure that your investment aH s,cn schemes preposteroas aud unwise, was safe. The polict which exempts 'the fundamental prine'ide that the irov-

your hundreds is villainy, sir. You loaned your greenbacks worth less than sixty cents on the dollar, and are elahnins dollirfor dollar in gold, iu payment. I riskel my life and gave a limb to the cause, :.nd when I came home to my family and went to work for their support, I am made to pay full uation;.l,state and county taxes un my little possessions, while your bonds, purchased with depreciated currency, are r i exempt. 1 his nice little game of 'God j and humanity,' superfiuc loyalty and pat-; riotic disinterestedness, is downright robuer, ,ir, anu tney wiio uphold it are no better than thieves, and we of the laboring millions intend to bloek it. sir. with curl 1 T . V 1 1 . I ballots next November. We will siuk any ' luan or set of men, who stand up for i so deep that the sound of Gabriel's trump will never reach him. Do you mind that. Mr. Jaycook." Exit disputants. The Collector (solas) It strikes this individual very forcibly, that it aiu't all wind th it blows out of that bellows. Couldn't Find UM Verdict. A friend sends us the following and Vouches for the truth of tiic statement: At a recent session of one of the courts in South Carolina an entire negro jury was impaneled. A case was brought before them, the witnesses examined, and the attorneys made their respective arguments. The judge, after laying down the law and recapitulating the testimony, gavo his papers ifto the honds of the foreman, an intelligent looking darkey,with instructions that as soon as they found a verdict to bring it in without delay. Thirty minutes or more elapsed when the jury returned, headed by the foreman, and stood before the justice. As the foreman appeared to hesitate the judge inquired : " Mr. Foreman, have you found the ver dict?" No, massa judge, we habnt found'em," replied the ebony juryman. " It's a very plain case," said the judge. "Can't help it, massa, couldn't sec it," replied the ebony again. "On what grounds?" inquired the judge. u We dida't look into do grounds, niassa judge," replied tho foreman j 11 de ossifcr took u out into de grounds, but he took us into a room and locked us in, an told us when we found de verdict he would let us out. So we began to find de verdict, a.?' searched every nook, corner, crcbis, au? ebery tiog dere was in d.t room, but we foun' uu verdict do üoIIjq ob de kind dar"

A (duomy Picture.

The Xew York Tribune, of the 13th : ult., paints the following gloomy picture : I The reduction of our debt has ceased. The last renort adds ten millions to its total rand, while this is probably factitious j it is clear that there has been no diminutioa since the 1st of January. The reserve of coin in the treasury has already begun to decline. It has exceeded , one hundred millions net; it is now but ! seventv millions in excess of the outstanding gold certificates. This is to be dxawn down directly by the payment of eight millions of Mexican war debt, thirty millions of interest, ind, probably, seveu millions of purchuasc money for Alaska. It is not probable that there will be fifty millinr.s ofpnin im Am Tmnri on the 4th of July next above the amount deposit cd tW bv nrin nwnPN ad bnknrnd 1, v I there bv r.rivate owners ar.d balanced bv , . c . c i -j ;f ! cm Id fort menua nl nenosit. And It IS I morally certain that the debt will be heav" ier four months hence than it is to day." We presume that the foregoing statements are about correct. Yet what steps have the radical party takcu towards retrenchment and economy? That other able republican paper, the Now York Time, welt remarks : "Everybody knows that upon the evo of an important election rival parties vie with each other very briskly in promising reforms. In this sense the presidential I campaign may bo said to have epened al ready. The republicans are in power, and can at once inaugurate these great reforms. They may not be able to thoroughly accomplish all of them, but they can do enough to show that arc earnest and sincere in promising them. They have the decided advantage of their opponents iu this respect. They need not respect. They need not rely on mere promises they can give practical proof of their purpose to carry them effect. Let them not neglect to take advautage of their opportunity." How have they taken advantage of the opportunity to " inaugurate great reforms" and "give practical proof of their purpose ii jr . ) y aaf 10 wrJ inem ,BW 4 . a m will let tue same repub Hcaa piper tell: u The fact that congress, under present circumstances, fa willing even to entertain proposition to lend fifteen millions of - ernmeut should confine its action rigidly to matters in which the public interest in directly involved, is violated by the bill iu question." In every direction, congress has increased iustcad of reducing the expenses of the government. In the face of a steadily increasing debt, Gen. Grant recommended the keeping up of a large standing army of 51,680 xneu, beside the miscellaneous and reserve corps, and an increase of thirty-three and one-third per ceut. in the salary of the officers, and congress bows subservient to his will. Millions after millions arc Pncnt to feed and clothe the Umw mmmm. mJt .1. :n J uv jS vi inv; f-uuill, W UU UvTVI 1 1 1 will work a? long as they can get along without, and to pay the salaries of frcedmen's bureau agents. Reeocstrsfetion costs hundreds of millions of the people's money. The huge tylly of impeachment has taken a big pile out of t lie public treaaarj. And ho we go, from bad to worse, everyday squandering the national funds and increasing the national debt. Is it not time for the people to pause and think, and seriously ask tbemsslves how long we can stand this state of affairs? When and where is it to stop '! Let not tin honest yeomanry of the land deceive themselves. These extravagances, corruption and wasteful expenditure of the people's money never will stop as long as radicalism holds power, but will keep increasing every day. The fresh batch of lauk and hungry cormorants that reconstruction is throwing into the senate and house will fasten themselves like leeches upon the public treasury, and suck the very life blood of the uation. The only hope of the country lies in the installation of the democratic party in power, Then extravagance will cease. Then corruption will be throttled. Then tho wasteful ex penditure of the people's money will be stopped. Then economy, retrenchment and reform will bo installed as the ruling principles, and the old .ship of täte placed on the old beaten pathway, with the constitution as the chart to guido her, will ail on to prosperity, peace and union. A lady who has a son at school has forbidden him to play at the " national game," for fear ho may be prematurely balled. A correspondent, boasting of his wife's many excellencies, says she is beau-ti-ful, duti ful, youth-ful, awful, and an armful.

Grant's .Few Order.

II'dq'us Army of the United States, Washington', May 6, 1868. Sir: Your letter relating to the order of Gen. Grant, dated Oxford, Miss., Decembcr 17, 1802, expelling Jews as a I class from his department, is before me. Ycu arc doubtless aware that Gen. Grant has 7cv, either by himself or by the aid r fr!cuas attempted to defend any militarJ U,UCI uwn tuc service seemed at the time to require. However, as mjr name is attached to it as assistant adjutant general, it may not be improper to state that at and picvious to its date, our military affairs were in a most critical condition, and Important movements were transpiring, ficn. Shcr1 . - - mm mm alt mm (.f T Ivi.i -II .1 n us """"B vroam at Gen. Grant Was moving steadily against Pemberton at Grenada, keeping up appearances of immediate attack to di 1 ll vert hiis attention from Sherman ; and in cooperation with Grant, Podge was moving south from Corinth. The success of Grant's plans depended in keeping the enemy in ignorance of his real purpose, namely the surrender and capture of Yicksburgh by Sherman ; and it was therefore of the utmost importance that every avenue of information to the enemy should be closed. The most stringent orders had previously been published, forbidding persons going or coming through our lines, limiting traders to certain boundaries, and prohibiting the passage of coin south, or the payment of it for southern products. Persistent violations of these orders by persons principally of the Jewish race, were the subjects of constant reports by many of Geu. Grant's subordinates, some of whom had even issued orders expelling them from the lines, but which General Grant had promptly revoked. ieports of the same character were also received from other than military sources. At length, on the evening of December 11th, 1862, (the date of the order,) the mail brought from "Washington a lar'j-c number of complaints, officially referred to him by the general-in-ehief of the army, against this class of persons, for violations of the above mentioned orders. The General fcif . on reading them, that some immediate action was demanded of him. ile realized to its full extent the critical condition of military affairs, and judged, whether wisely or uu wifely, that to meet tbe exigency action must be immediate, thorough, aud iu a form not to be evaded. The order yon refer to was the result. It was written and telegraphed to his subordinates without revision, leaving ill persons not justly amenable to its terms to be relieved on their persoual application. The idea that it was issued on account of the religion of the Jews cannot be eeri ously entertained by any one who knows the General's steadfast adherence to the principles of Amerieau liberty and relig ious toleration. Vef respectfully your obodient servant, John A. RAWUNG8. To Lewis N. lcmbitz, Esq, Louisville, Ky. It has been said in extenuation of Gen. Grant, that the famous "Jew order" was not issued by him at all. but by ono of his subordinates, without his authority. Hut this letter of his chief of staff dispels this fabrication, and shows that Grant was himself the author of the order, and iu so great a hurry was he to have it en forced that he had it forwarded by telegraph to all his subordinates. The excuse given by Gen. Rawlings for issuing this order is paltry enough, showing Grant to have been governed by passion instead of reason. Jews no doubt were troublesome, but so were Christians, aud so were women j and there would have been just I much sense iu his is.suiug orders expelling al! Christian! aod all women from his lines, as in expelling ail the Jews. Gen. Rawlings says iu his Dembitz letter that Grant's order is left to "all persons not justly amenable to its terms to be relieved on their individual application." The chief of st-iff must have a singularly defective memory to make such a statement as this. Here is the language of the order, couutcrsigucd by ltawlings himself : "They (post commanders) will see that all this class of people arc furnished with passes and required to leave; tmd any one r laming dft r such notification will . urrintnl and hrtf in confinrnu nt until an opportunity occurs of Bending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permits from these headquarters." It will thus be seen that if ono of these expelled Israelites should return for any purpose whatever, ho was to be arrested and held in confinement till he could be eut outside of the lines. TTow, under raeh circumstances, could these people bo l licved on their personal application? Mow could they ma,e any personal application for relief if they were arrested and plaeed in confinement tho moment they ente red the lines, as required by the order? The truth is the order was an outraTO m one, showing its author to be a weak, passionate man, ready to take ad-

vantage of a snppoeed popular prejudice against Jews to perpetrate an act of tyr-!

anny and injustice. Is such a man fit to be entrusted with the presidential office ? Who, professing an unpopular faith, or belonging to an unpopular race, would be safe under such a ruler ? Coiiprrcsstosiiil Suffrage; We have shown how southern states are made by congress, and how states and municipalities are administered by military governors and freedmcn's bureaus, but the end is not yet. If, says senators Sumner and Yates, congress imposes negro suffrage upon tho south, why not upon the north ? Surely, why not ? The question is well put and comes from the right quarter, albeit it is a direct kicking over of the Chicago platform. Mr. Sumner lately j made a speech in favor of congressional enactment of universal suffrage, and Mr. ' Yates, of Illinois, followed in tho same direotion, urging for the right of congress to impOM conditions of admission upon states, and of the perfect control of that body ever the question of suffrage in all the states. He said senators who voted for the omnibus and Arkansas bills had committed themselves to this principle We quote : " If they had tho right to control the suffrage in tho states of the south, "they had the right to control it in the states of the north, and there was no possible evasion of this point, Congress had the right to enforce by laws a republican form of government in every state of the union, whether admitted or to be admitted. This power is vested iu congress by the constitution, and it requires congress by laws necessary aud proper to carry into executon that power." Yates and Sumner thus both assail the Chicago platform, which says expressly that loil " states are not to be interfered with by congress. There is deception, we thus see, upon this question of suffrage, as there is upon the debt, the currency, the tariff, equal rights, and other questions. The people who choofe to be deceived, can be, but those who choose to discern the signs of the times, cannot fail toco npreheod the rottenness of the radical platform, and the fraud practiced by those who made it. Having spoken of this deceptive platform we give a striking illustration of the cheat: Resolution reported by Mr. Thompson and adopted at Indianapolis, February, !0, 1GS: " Fourth The public duV, made necessary by the rebellion, should be honorably paid, and all the bonds issued theretore should be paid in legal tenders, commonly called greenbacks, except when by their express terms they provide otherwise ; and paid in uch quantities as will make tho circulation commensurate with the commercial wants of the country, and so as to avoid tho great inflation of the cur-ency and an increase iu the prico of gold." Resolution reported by Mr. Thompson, and adopted at Chicago, May 20, 18GS : M Third We demuuee all forms of re pudiation as a national crime, aud the national honor requires the payment of the public indebtedness in the utmost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad, not only according to the letter but the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted. " Mr. Thompson was once an old Henry ('lay whig, and We must know how his old friend would scoff and scorn such a twofaced record as this. A. V. Exprtn 11 Comk Down." Wo were much amused the other day, by an anecdote of a certain secretary of a governor, several removes back from the present chief magistrate of the Empire state. Like most subofficials, to whom some " pressing" final process is committed, he had an itching palm, while at the same time it would not be exactly safe to show his hand too opeuly. On one occasiou he had been waited upon by an impatient party interested in two important bills which had been passed by the legislature, and, with sundry others, were awaiting the governor's signature. " lid you place my bills beforo his excellency?" asked the party of the secretary. ' N-n-n-ot yet," said he; (he had a slight impediment in his speech; "n-n-ot quite yt ; the ( J-g-g-overnor's v-vcry bu1 1 .1 . 1 1 1. x sy. i-oy ine i-uy, w-wnai was u-uauie of the Sa-tttan that g-got up into a tree when our .Savior was w-wa!king along that w-way?" " Oh, you mean Zacchcus?" "Y-ycs, that's the m-man; W-well, do you r-recollcct what was paid to him?" 4; Certainly ; 1 Zacchem-, come down.' " " Kxa-actly; yc-cs, 4 come down!' I was thinking of that y-yestcrday when you c-callcd but I couldn't remember the name ! I ho Iii n t was taken , me party "came down" accordingly ; and when ho next called his him. signed bills wore ready for A grand daughter of ex-President Tyler will start a boys' and girl' literary paper at Montgomery, Ala.

AMNESTY. Proclamation by tlic President.

Washington, Julv 3. Whereas, In the month of July, Anuo Domini, 1861, in acceptiug the condition of civil war which was brought about by insurrection and rebellion in several of the statas which constitute the United States, the two houses of congress did solemnly declare that the war was not waged on the part of the government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation nor for any purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or the established institutions of the states, but ouly to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitution of the United State", and to preserve the union, with all the diguity, equality, and rights of the several states unimpaired; and that, as soon as those objects should be accomplished, the war, on the part of the government, should cease ; and, WheretuJ The president of the United States has heretofore, in tho spirit of that declaration, and with the view of securing ior it ultimate and complete effect, set forth several proclamations, offering amnesty nnd pardon to persons who had been a'jd were concerned in the r.fore named rebellion, which proclamations, however, were attended with prudential reservations and exceptions, then deemed necessary and proper, and which proclamations were respectfully issued on the Sth day of December, lSöo; on the 26th day of March, 18G4 ; on the 29th day of May, 18G5, and on the 7th day of September; 18G7 ) and, )Itcres, The said lamentable- civil war ha3 long since altogether closed, with an acknowIedgiLont by all the states of the supremacy of the federal constitution and of the government thereunder, and there no louger exists any reasonable ground to apprehend a renewal of said civil war, or any foreign interference, or any uulawful resistance by any portion of tho people of any of the states to the constitution and laws of the United States; and, Wharea$t it is desirable to reduce the standing army, and to bring to a speedy termination militaiy occupation, mart'al law. military tribunals, abridgement of the freedom of speech and of the press, suspension of the privilege of tbe habeas corpus, and of the right of trial by jury, such encroachments vipnn our free institutions, in time of peace, being dangerous to public liberty, incompatil le with the individual rights of citizens, contrary to the genius aud spirit of our republican form of government, and exhaustive of the national resources; and, Whertat It is believed that amnesty and pardon will tend to secure a complete ami universal establishment and prevalence of municipal law and order, in conformity with the constitution of the United States, and to remove all appearances and prostitutions of a retaliatory or vindictive policy on the part of the government, attended by unnecessary disqualifications, pains, penalties, confiscation?, aud disfranchisements ; and, on the contrary, to promote and procure complete fraternal reconciliation among the whole people, with due submission to the constitution aud laws : Xoic, there w, b- if hnoivn, That I, Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, do, by virtue of 'he constitution, and in the name of the people of the United States, hereby proclaim and declare, unconditionally and without reservation, to all and to every person who directly or inaireelly participated iu the late insurrection or rebellion excepting such person or persons as maybe under presentment or indictment in any court of the United States, having competent jurisdiction, upon a charge of treason, or Other felony, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, or of adhering to their enemies during the late civil war, with the restoration of all rights except as to slaves, and except also as to any property of which any person may have been legally divested uudcr the laws of the United States. In testimony whereof, I have signed these presents with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independeneo of the United States of America the ninety-third. ANDREW JOHNSON. Wm. II. SlWAEO, Secretary of State. mpmm What is it that is wanting in the democratic party, and which they seek outside brains, or honesty, or loyalty ? Furniij. If the democratic party needed brains, would they take (Jraut; if honesty, Butler; if loyalty, Jack Hamilton? Vha. A'JC. Wales and hi wife attended the Ascot races lately. A confectioner advertises broken hearts for 13 cents a ponnd. Tilton says that Yates is " ono of the noblest spirits in tho senate." Tho proof of this is 11 fourth proof." k

Colfax's Know .Xothiiigim

The New York Tribune, with great vc-

hemence, denies the knownothingism of , ciar.u ,n positive terms ,uat me iuSchuyler Colfax, We are astonished that diana PubllpaDS werc ln r"vor of FW philosopher Greeley should exhibit such the bonds with greenback. It apignorance of the political history of his pears' tllilt the CCDtral cn" protege, but we think it wilfull. Schuy-! represents a faction in its party upon ler was one of the leaders of the bigoted ; that astior. The New York ZVhUa, of and proscrhptive know-nothing organiza- a reccut date' nlaius lowing intel-

tion. In 1S54 he was nnwillin- that the intelligent farmer, although he came to this country to make it his home, aud identify himself with our people, should vote until twenty years' probation, or hold any office under the American Government. The Tribun of a late date denies that Colfax was a know-nothing. It says : "The last charge against Mr. Colfax is the following, in the Washington Constitutional ( 'mon of June 17 : The following is an extract from a letter written by Schuyler Colfax: 'I once registered a solemn oath never to vote for a foreign-born man for any office under tha American government, and to remove all foreigners, aliens, and Roman Catholics from office whenever I might possess the power to do so.' Who was this letter written to, and vlori? No one can answer, for it is a e base coinage." In 1SÖ4, f.t Bonth Bend, Colfax was initiated into a know-nothing lodpo, and there registered the following oaths : "FIR 1ST DIXiUEE. "In the presence of Almighty God and these witnesses you do solemnly promise and swear that you will not vote, nor give your influence for any man, for any office in the gift of the people, unless he be an Americanborn citizen, in favor of Americans ru'ing America, nor if he be a Hornau Catholic' "second deorfe. "Iu the presence of Almighty God and these wituesses you do solemnly aud sin ccrcly swear if it mav be legally done, you will, when elected or appointed to any official station conferring ,i cn M r . on you power to do 0, remove all foreigners, aliens, or Roman Catholics from office or place in your gift." These were the obligations of Schuyler, lie swore not only to proscribe a man on account of birth, but also en account of

his religion, lie not only pledged him-! 1 self by a solemn oath to vote against any kn- In l ebrntrj last the renubliman of foreign birth, or a Catholic, but W j vention, "amid the widest 4i,rt,i i l c ! enthusiasm, ' declared that "all the bonds even remove those thus designated from J. . re- ..... n i l- t 1 .1 i issued for the public debt should be paid office ii it could be accomplished through I . , 1 1 . - a m, . J in legal tenders, commoulv called xreenhis agency or influence. Ihc letter of1, n ,r . i i .i rr i r I backs, except when, by their express terms, I A t:IT to tVlllf-h flirt I r il .uin rufora toic m

T, , j iüo. It may be conven- j ... , , I the friends of Colfax to not a "base coinage." ient iust now for i ii . iii -ii ; make that impression, but he will never 1 . 1. .. 4l i. 1 "I 1 il 1 ., deny that he registered the solemn oath to which he refers in his tetter. Iu 1854 Colfax ould proscribe intelli gent white foreigners for the accident of binh and the exercise of the "natural right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences," and now he votes and lends his influence to the degraded, ignorant and heathenish I negro, incapable of appreciating the obligations and duties of freemen, the ritrht of suffrage. Why was Colfax fo bitterly opposcd to foreign born whites in 1854, and in favor of depriving them of the franchise of citizens ? And why is he now in favor of giving the southern negro all the rights and privileges of white citizens ? Why does he discriminate in favor of the blacks and against his ovrr. race? Party considerations prompt him. lie is governed by party prejudices and hates. lie wishes to elevate tiic nerro and degrade his own race to gratify party rancor. Ho would put the intelligent whites under the foot of the negro because (hey do not th'k and act with him politically. The same intolerant spirit that controlled him as a know-nothing in ISÖl, influences him now. Free speech and free press and free opinion he would trample under loot to secure the triumph of his party and his own aggrandisement. lie would rejoice to sec the sceues of the bloody Monday in Louisville re-enacted, if necessary to overcome his political cuci mics. He was ready to put the foreign born underfoot in 1854 becauso he did not sympathize with the whig party, and he now hugs the negro, if not H degraded as his progenitor, just about ready to rci lapse into barborism. because he . hopes through that agency to control the political destinies of the southern states, and continue radical rule and supremacy in the federal government. We assure the! Triburo- that Schuyler Colfaa was a knownothing and OM Of the leading members of that oath bound and secret political organization iu Indiana. The eharge is not a "base coinage." Every vote in Indiana in 1S.")4 knew that Colfax "had registered a solemn oath Lever to vote for a foteicn bom man for any OBCC under ths American government, and to remove all foreigners, aliens and Roman Catholics

whenever he might possess tho power to i g00d general he would make a competent do so." As he was then he is now, in i anJ gafe 8tategmaD. The rCASO01Dg fcj principle and sympathy. He would be the , . . A. . . same prescriptive know-nothing to.dav ; sound and conclusive, and the American that he was in 1854, if the foreign born ! reorle woold be S11? of a 8reat fü,,J lf citizens were a unit against tho radical in this momentous state of national affairs, party, and would advocate, as he did when j tney pa,s hj tried and experienced states-knoW-nothingim was a political power t t he hcad (he government the removal of the political rights nnd privileges from the forcigqer which the a who &Jmitfi bls utter r9mJ democratic party secured to hini.' and ignorance of governmental affairs.

1 nder Which King A low days ago the Indianapolis .( r-

I 3 M 3 . L.1 iL. T "S" Sli " I'uls fcrent face upon the matter. It says: c 'ihc den ocrats oomplain that the financial plank in the republican platform is not sufficiently clear and strong. They may be able to see its force more distinctly by listening to the speeches and newspapers of the pfttttr. Even in the western states in Illinois, Indiana, and everywhere else they have taken the most decided ground against any form of repudiation, and in favor of maintaining the national credit by redeeming the nitionp.l bonds in the curreuoy of the Wcrld. Our Indiana correspondent writes that Hop. Mr. Orth, who has been nominated for congress, delivered a speech to the nominating Convention, denouncing repudiation in whatever shape it might be proposed, iu unmsasurcd terms, and declaring emphatically that, if his constituents expected him to vote for any measures tending IB that direction, he would refue to represent them in the hal'.s of congress. We are glad to sec that the republicans arc everywhere expressing themselves in such terms ou this vital issue that the democrats can not remain in doubt as to the position of the party." The national bonds are to be redeemed in the " currency of the world," eh P That means iu plain English that the national debt is to be paid in gold. And the republicans an everywhere so expressing themselves on what it regards a vital isuc, that there can no longer be any doubt as to the p vdtion of the radical party upon that juestion. Even that blub!cr r' w0?0 onty qualification for the - U,JW Mm a rre, In his speech accepting a ronomiuatiou for congress, emphatically de- . clarcd to his constituents that to vote for any measure even tending iu the direction of repudiation, such as paying the 20s in leoubacks, for instance, be would refuse to represent themi Virtuous Orth ! The they provide otherwise " Now they in- . 1 .... sist they must be paid "in the currency J 1 3 of the world," or K"'d. How do you like " J t ... ... ,.i . .1 ..l l: .... 7 Ai -: 1 ! Ulill, l: 1 eeil Ulv N. UUUUlitalic . Mill OU r J side with Orth & Co. upon 60 vital an is sue Well i iu The Columbus .Journal, the state organ of the radicals of Ohio, commenting on au article in the Cincinnati Gaztt favoring the appointment of Hon. William S. Groesbecl; as secretary of the treasury puts the following reply : "The Cincinnati Gaz-tt- favors the i scj lectiou of Wm. S. Groobock for secretary of the treasury, because he is an hone.t man. The presiding elder of the saetho dist church of this district is an honest man, and yet wo are uot quite ch ar that ho is just the ii!uu to select for secretary of the treasury. Our principal book-keejer we bclicvo to be an honest man, and yet, becuusehe manages our accounts satisfactorily, we i do not insist that he should be chosen to ! take charge of the aeeoinita of the United States government. Henry Ward BeeC&V cr is an hottest and able man, but his pre eminent fitness for the position of secretary of the treasury has uot hituciid occurred to any one. We are not aware that because a mnn il a good lawyer, a fine theologian, or a fine Greek scholar, that he is necessarily a great financier. Evidence of ability in one direction is not evidence of ability irf fill directions. A first c!as maon would not probably make a first c'äfS ssrgcongeaeral, and an able lawyer might be found wanting iu the position of secretary of the navy or secretary of the treasury.'' Now, let the Journal apply its reasoning, which is clear aud well put. to the case of Gr en! Grant. That paper and the whole radical press coutend that he is a great General, but does the ovideiicc of his ability in that direction furnish evident of his ability as a statesman ? If we were engaged iu war, his cxpe. ione rrfifi foceeae in former eoafiicts might j entity thai government to employ him at the heaa' our armies, but as no sane man would go to a stone mason to have a pair of boots of shoes made, or to a lawyer to lay the brick on his house, so it kouIc'. be equally as ab surd to presune that because a mtn is a