Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 August 1868 — Page 1
OCRAT. VOLUME 13. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1868. NUMBER 52.
PLYMOUTH WEEKLY
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UK MOCK. TIC CAMPAIGN SOXG. h hill and from the valley ! ra rhu mountain ami Ihr- plain, : It t our lio'its ascead MM From the for:' ami from the flrfld, w iio a ir Sawner wield. Yr who till the t vn ing oil, JCally, rally, Kally. tbttf. lo not Utt 'r 'hilly. Coin.?, hoth hisrh and humble ones. Freedom ealU on all haff ("-. 4'oine f r-t. aiul MM TB lowly. Hallv.for onr CMM i holy: For the land our btben BIT ne, For the righto they died to nvt usually, rally. Rally, rally. The slnvc chniii' d totlie eally Mav crouch abased, nor ilare to rlre ; Hut fiwmeii rouse their eaeffriea When threatened by ÜM horde- of power. Tin !J h.iil with joy the day and hour. The dav and hour iu next XovemlK'r Their bflled foe shall lon remember. Itally, rally. For Seymour rally. Forth Trom every hamlet sally; From the city and the villas:'. From the bn-v Selda of tillage : From tlie lake and from the rner. onn . your country to Uttlirr, ffciiif . wllnii loHew ail. Come at glorious freedom s call. Kally, rally.
Speech of r.or. Morion at Riclimond. In! , Sep if, IMir. 8 lTFIt.iK TilE lU 99 C"SiW 0YKH IT liKMEl'. I come now to speak more properiy on the subject of negro suffrage. The constitution of the United States has referred
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as wc 1k uIJ hold Canada if we were to invade it and take possession of it. JEFF. PAVIS.
tion to say that such men. just emerging and Louisiana, that policy would exclude 1 1 would gtte them time to acquire a little
Will llic People Bear the Enormous Taxation;
from slavery, are qualified for the exercise twenty out of twenty-one, giving only one property, an 1 get a little education, time of political cowers, is to make the strontr- white vote out of evcrv twentv-one male to learn mama thinor nhnnt tho siinnlpst
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As a consequence of this doctrine, Jeff. est pro-slavery argumeut I ever heard, adult inhabitants of the southern states. : forms of business, and prepare themselves I 10 m0(lern t,nies tnan 18 sccn 10 tDls couu Davis cannot be tried for treason not be-j It is to pay the highest compliment to the If you enfranchise, all the negroes in : for the exercise of political power. At tr tl,ut thö PeoPle under a popular re because he is not a traitor, not a violator institution of slavery. these states, you wili have at least twenty the end of ten. fifteen or twenty years let ! P 0 ?cvcnm'Cnt a government c:id
of the law, but the head of a government j What has been our practice for many negro votes to one white vote, and in the them come into the enjoyment of their podepcio, the ruler of a conquered province j year. ? We have invariably described work ot reconstructing the states of Fouth litical rights. Bv that time these southand we have no more power to try him I slavery as degrading to both the body and Carolins, Alabama and Florida, you would cm Stites will have been so completely fillfor treason than we would to try the gov- j the soul. We have described it as bring- hae a larger proportion perhaps thirty cd up by emigration from the north and
ernor of Cautda lor such an offence, in j ing human beings down to the level of I colored votes to one white vote. Now, I ! from Europe, that the negvoes will be in a
ak you, what is to be the effect ot that? permanent minority. Why? Because
jr Wife Fiano.
The deed is accomplished. My wife
case he should fall into our hands during j the beasts of the field We have describ-
a hostile invasion of his country; That is ; ed it as a crime, depriving the slaves of : The first effect will be to erect colored ! the negroes have no emigration nothin
what this doctrine leads to. It leads to a j intellectual and moral culture and of all ; state iro vorn men ts. Under such a condt- but ihn mtnral tncranam whilo wr lmrp
thousand other evils and pernicious things ; the gifts which God has made the most tion of things the negro would no more
never contemplated in the nature of our government. r.Ertr.t. ikbt. Another consequence which would flow from the admission of that doctrine, would
emigration from all the world, and natur-
precious. If we shali now turn rouud and j vote for a white man than you would vote , al increase besides. Thus, by postponing say that this institution has been a bless- for s negro. They would no more elect a ; the t.iir.g only until such time as the neing to them, instead of a curse j that it has j white man than you would elect a black 1 grocs are qualified to enjoy political rights, qualified him for the right of suffrage and j man. Human nature is the same, wheth- . the dangers I have becu considering tin exercise of political power, we shall er in a white or colored skin. There ' would have fully passed away. Their in-
be that we would be called upon to pay the j stutify üilr,eWe aud give the lie to those could bo nothing that would confer more ' finance would no longer be dangerous in
rebel debt, it we admit mat mc&e states i declarations upon which vre have obtained j pleasure upon a man of.that race, of course the manner I have indicated, and a con
m l i t
mere is probably no greater anomaly I has t a p:auo atj( B0V farewell thctran-
quil mind. It came on a dray. S:x men carried it into the parlor, and grunted awfully. It weighs a ton, shines like a mirror, and has carved Cu ids climbing up its limbs. And such lungs whew! My wife lias commenced to practica, and the first time f-hc touched the machine I thought we were in the midst of a thunder slonn and the lightning had struck the crockery chest. Cat, with tail erect, took a bee line for a raiticular friend rn the
sen by themselves and changed every few years should bmit to a burden of taxation without a parallel in the world. That they submitted to this cheerfully in time of a great civil war for the Bake of preserving the life and unity of the republic showed their patriotism. They were willing, too, to give the government a rea
sonable time to adjust the finances and to back fence, demolishing a shilling paue of discharge tho floating obligations arising I glass. The baby awoke, and the little from the war. But it is likely they will j fellow tr'sd his best to beat the instrument, continue to bear war taxes and expen Ii-1 but he cou da't. It beat him. A teacher
political power.
than the elevation to politic! power of a fllct of races would not ba more likely to
tin qu stio i of suffrage to the several j state. I do not propose to argue that states. This may have been right, or it question any further at this time.
were out of the union for one moment,
and were to DC regarded in me ngns oi jjCt n)e infjU;re for a imrle moment, in ; man of his own race and coior. Having harnen there than it now is in Massachu-
belligerents, it would be insisted upon at j wjjat comjt;on js Indiana to urge negro suf- secured power, they'd force upon us that setts. In Massachusetts the negroes have once that when we took them back we j frag0 n South Carolina or in any other j which we have so steadily practiced upon ' exercised political rights for twenty-five
toot tnemwitn tneir news, as wo wouiu ; state 7 Let us considcr tho position we them. If vou give them the votes they tears, and vet there has been no disturb-
will elect men of their own color. And ; ance there no conflict of races. Why? wc would have no right to blame them. I Because the negroes are in the minority.
take any otucr conquered province or occupv. We liavc, ncrhans. twenty-five
1 m w a ' w thousand colored people in this state.
may have been wrong. I merely speak of
the subject as it stauds. and say that the queatio i of suffrage is referred by the constitution to the several states. It first provided that such persons as had a right to vote by the laws of the state for a member of the most numerous branch of the ptate legislature should have a right to vote for members of congress. It then, in another provision, declares that the state may, in sny manner they may see proper, appoint or elect their presidential electors, so that the whole question of suffrage has, by the constitution, from the beginning, been referred to the several states. Now,
Most of them can read and write ; many ; yc would rather think badly of them if , They can not e'ect a man of their own col-
ot them are very lntedigent and excellent : they did not. I would ask you if the citizens well to do in the world well negroes of Hayti, or a??y other place qualified to exercise the right of suffrage j where they arc in hc majority, have ever
aud political power. But how stands the elected a white man :o office f Under Mr. work itself out. But, under the policy
matter ? We not only exelude them from , Sumner's plan, you will give them au over-1 of Mr. Sumner, wc are lo exclude twenty voting we exclude them from testifying whelwh.lniing majority iu every one of . out of every twenty-one white men iu the
or to any office, to bring up that prejudice
of race. I believe what I have stated will be the way in which the question will
At.AIXST NECRO St'FFUAOE. The question of negro suffrage is one which threatens'to divide us to some extent, and is surrounded with many practical difficulties. I reject in advance, all schemes . c i ; ii. : .vi.
ni cuiuuu;uiuu, us iucjf ui a nupi uununuie, j voting we exclude tnem irom tesiiiyiug wlieiwheimtng majority in every one ot out of every twenty
whether upon this continent or sny other iq the courts of justice ; wc exclude thorn ; these states, and you will give them I southern states, and bring forward colored continent. We have no right to insist j fr0ro our public schools and make it V0- I the political power of the south. That I voters to fill the places of those excluded, upon colonizing the negro. He is an lawful and a cr me for thear to come into j they will exercise that power by electing The inevitable results of that policy would American, born in this country, and he j the state of Indiana at any time subsequent mcn 0f their own color, is absolutely cer- be to establish colored state governments, has no other country. When he desires j to 1850, No negro who has come bio tain. Believing that human nature is the and a colored balance of power in this to emigrate he has a perfect right to do j our state since 1850, can make a Tafid Lime under different complexions that republic, a thiug whioh I th iuk most de-
Cw, ...,b.w,u r""" j coniraci ; nc cannot acquire uuc toa piece ; tue negroes arc not differently constituted I sirable to avoid.
his own volition, l believe the time will : 0f laud, because the law makes the deed from ourselves, and that titer have like .... ....
come wnen every man in tne country, , VOICj. and every man who gives him em- passions with us we annot doubt how
it has been proposed by some to avoid the white or black; will have the right of suf-1 payment is liable to prosecution and fine. ' this power will be exercised.
operation oi una provision exc.uu.uj; ir&ge, and mat sunrago snouid not uepenu . i scnt out the 28th Indiana colored rcginiembcra of congrers from the southern upon color; that there U nothing in that ment? recruitc, with great difficulty and at . ! 1 .? Ä.1 1 11 1 1 .1 I T . XI 1- I
states until auch time as they shall ineor- , which sould make a distinction. I believe
some expense. It has been in the field
Some will Bay that if the? can find culor-
Settlng Tjpe by Electricity. Among the many wonderful evidences
tures years after peace has been established? Over three years have elapsed since since the war ended, and the taxes amount to more than four hundred and sixty millions of dollars a year a larger sum than that raised and expended by the most costly monarchial government in the w.rll. It is monstrous. The people arc becoming restless aud disgusted, and will certainly seek a remedy either in a change of their public servants or in repudiation of the deb1. Unless abler and more honest men be elected to congress mcn who will see the necessity of economy, and have the courage to cut down ail unnecessary expenditures and
bring them to something near like what they were before the war it will not bo long bafore we shall hear significant end deep muttering! of repudiation from one end of the country to the other. The present Congress is without ability to grasp the subject of national finance and taxation, and is withal recklessly extravagant in making appropriations for all sorts of things and jobs, Even when it took off about a hundred millions of taxation this was done for the benefit of manufacturers, and for the manufacturers of New England especially, who are but a
porate negro suffrage in their state consti- j that in the course of years every man, two ?Mry It has fetgfat well on many north, to go to the south and fid every of-
lunuu.. , w oj v . .. - ..... r " "--v. , . ... . i occasions anu won me nigu opinion oi oin-
you ort of your seats until such time as ; South Carolina, will come to enjoy politi
the täte from which you come shall J cal rights
amend its constitution so as to provide for
of the ingenuity of mankind is the machine
ed men qualified, all ridit. Thero arc I for setting and distributing type. This is
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cr.oimh colored men of education in the ' so perfected that ttiere has been printed 1 mmmn P" ol u,c community, ine peo-
abook containing 24,903 ems of solid 1 P'R generally will not feel the reduction.
ficc there; and I have no doubt they stand
The right to vote carries with it the
negro
uffragc." This is one way m right to hold office. You cannot say that
which to avoid the foree of the constitutional provisions.
cers who had seen it. Wc got credit on
our stats quota for every man who went out. Yet, according to the constitution and laws of Indiana, more than one half
he must vote only for white men for office. of the men in that regiment have no right The right to vote carries with it the right ; to come oack again ; and, if they do come
There is another plan, and that is the I to be voted for. When that right is con-(back, thej are subject to prosecution and thecry which icgardfl the state as being j ferred, you can make no discrimination, I fine ; and any man who receives them or out of the union, and holding them as no distinction againt the right to hold of- emplcys them is also liable to punishment.
conquered provinces, subject to the juris-, fice, and the right to vote in a state carries Now can Indiana, in this condition with : ,er flf congress and eenators ami iud vs J" -ff 111.- ! 1 A . M ! , 1 . . ., 1 , -1 . 1 '",
aiction ot congress, iiKc unorganizeu icr-1 witn II tne rigiit to vote I3r president and twenty-nvc tliousanrt colored men in Berja the supreme tourt, &e. Very we'll;
matter, or 34,255 cms of leaded matter,
The effect wiil be merely to increase thf profits of the manufacturers. Had the
I tax on tea, coffee, sugar and other articles
re ady to do it. Here we deny to them which was both Set and distributed in six almost every right, except that of mere h mrs and thirty-nine minutes by the ma-
nersonal liberty and it i In in riHnAia and chine. This is trulv wonderful, but the of Prirac necessity and general use among ;
. , r . . . , . . i i i . l t r the lahorin nr plo e;oq 1 in fn rrroo t It- r,l mmaA
wonder uocs not stop nere. Jv means oi n b'1"";
ome other of the northern states: and
when you present to them the proepect of holding the highest offices in the gift of the people of the sovthern s.afes, rest assured they will embrace it. They will have colored govornors and colored mem-
has been introduced into the l ouse. He says he is the last of Napoleoa's grasMi army, lie wears a huge moustache, looks at me fiercely, meils of gariic. and goes by the name of Count Puu-Hwaw-ncver-come-back-again. He played an extract de opera the other nigh.. Heran his fingers through his hair twice, theu grinned, then cocked his eyes up at the ceiling like a monkey hunting flies, and then came down one of his fingers, nnd then I heard a delightful sound similar to that produced by a cock roach dancing upon the tenor string of a fiddle. IUiwn came another fit.ger, and I was reminded of the wind whistling through a knot-hole in a her-coop. Ho touched his thumb, and thought L was in an orchard listening to the distant bray
ing of a jackass. Now he ran Iii fingers along the keys, and I thought of a boy rattling a stick upon a store box or a picket fence. All of a sudden he stopped, and I thought something had happened. Then came down both fists, and oh Lord! such a noise was never heard before! I thought a hurricane had struck the house and the walls were caving in. I imagined I was in the cellar and a ton of coal falling about my head. I thought the machine had
i bursted. when tho infernal noie stopped,
and I heard my wife ejaculate; Exquisite!" "What the deuce is the matter!''' I inquired, "Why, my dear, that is La SomaambntaT1 D-Somnambula!" thought I; and the CouDt rolled np Iiis sheet of paper. He calls it music; but for the life of me I cannot make it look like anything el;e but a rail fence with a lot of juvenile niggers climbing over.
one of these machines, located in the large
newspaper offices in theprieipal cities, aud
connected by telegraph with the eapitol, the reporter or operator can set type himself, the machine standing in New York
or New Orleans, and he bein" in the capi- ducing taxes will be of advantage only to desiring the defeat of the democratic nora
or abolished, the people everywhere would have been benefitted. That would have been lessening the burden of taxation in a
way to be felt by every workingman's I The reason why the IJritish journals
family. But the late acts of Congress re- are almost unanimous in predicting and
tol. Or itistead of getting type he may
ritory; saying that congress has the power j members of congress, and for all federal borders, to whom she denies suffrage and AQd g appose they do send eolored senators produce a matrix by operating a series
a few manufacturers. Congress began at
the wrong end. It is of no use, however,
for calling conventions in these states iust I nfTifr The rirrVit of nflrftmi hainat eon- nnlitiril nnnnr nnrl iImm! nil riril rid-Mc i . .- . T .
0 j - I - - r D- d I"""" r""" - goo representatives to congress, l nave no as ia the territory of Dakota, and may J ferred in South Carolina, fur state purpo- j with what face, I say, can Indiana gf j doubt you will find men in the north who prescribe the right of suffrage, and determ-!ses, under our constitution, ai I have be- j to congress and insist upon giving the I will be willing to sit beside them aud will
meswho shall vote m electing delegates j iore pointed out carries wan n tne ngu i rigUt ot suttrage to tho negroea IB) tne not think themselves degraded by doing j which a stereotype may be cast ready for to these conventions, just as in the tcrri-, to vote for president and Vice-president j southern states? If her congressmen ask po. p have nothing to sav to this. I am ! the press in a few minutes from the time
i ; that it may then dererminc ; and members of congress. to do this, they will naturally be asked iu Limply discussing the political effect of it. i the speech M delivered, or th 3 action had.
of arms and levers having type attached, to rC(3uce t1ie taxcs wl,i!e the xpendi-
and made to strike upon a suitably prepared and moveable plastic surface from
tures arc so enormotts, for that will only bring a depleted Treasury and bankrupt
tory of Dakota
whether it will accept ths constitution offered, as might be determined in the case of any other territory. I will not stop to argue this question at
length, but I will say this, that from the ; right to vote, without distinction of color , whether they ought to have these rights. jsuch etatc you cau-t gj tic 1110st M
Ia regard to the question of admitting turn, what have you done with these peo-1 cvcrv stato where there is a colored whatever it may be. Speeches would still I Government in all departments and
the freemen of the southern states to vote, pie in your own state? lou have had jte goverjment, a negro fur supreme while I admit the equal rights ot all men, ' thcin for many yeara. You have long had ! judge, white emigration will cease. There and that in time all men will have the an opportunity to make bis issue as to I WJ he no more White emigration to any
beginning ef the war up to the present or race, I jet believe that in the case of j Their mental aud moral condition i much time, every message of the president, every ! four millions of slaves jut freed from j superior to that of the great mass of freedproclamation, every state paper and every bondage there should bo a period ot pro- men in the southern states, act of congress, has proceeded upon the b ition and preparation before they are What have you done f You have done
have to be reported by short hand, simply because no one could either write them or set them up as fast as delivered. The composer having the short-hand notes bc-
dent anti-slavery man in Wayne county, j fore him, could theu set the type from who will go and locati in a state th:t has 1 them upon tho machine at a distance, or, a colored state government. You will ab- if required, the short hand notes could be
solutcly shut off at once, and effectually, ! translated as is now done, for the tele-
inces for prc&ident aud vice president. c:m be found in the fact that $169,000 in gold left New York a few days ago to pay interest on the bouds of the United States held by British aristocrats. In the event
(Jovernment. The first thing to be dune of the election of Grant, this state of afis to reduce the expenditures two handred j faire will be continued; but if the tax millions or more. The whole cost of the j payers, or, in other words, the people,
ex- decide in favcr of Seymour, the allies of
pensc, independent of the national ddt, j the radicals in Europe will be compelled
to take the same kind of money the laborer receives as remuneration for the sweat of his brow.
ought not to be over a hundred million's a year Indeed, it ought to be less. Two hundred aud fifty millions revenue is ample. Yet wc see it was over four hundred and sixty millions last jcar. This is the great question for the American people now to consider. Aud iu the coming Cm-
hypothesis Lhat no state could accede from brought to the exercise of political power, j nothing. I ask you what would be the 1 all emigration from the northern state?. ! graph orerator, and then set up telegraph- grcssi0nal elcctlons thc7 should take care
the union ; thai once in tho union, al- ! Let us consider for oue moment the eon I moral strength of any politician presenting land from Kurone too. whenever that event led. In the latter case the same labor of I tllut tne mcPc rcckieS9 aml cxtrava-
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., .i , i .i ... Irani memoers oi ine present v ougress - i the operator that now sends the message h 1
would put it into type ready for the press, thus dispensing with the time and labor now required to write out the message and set up tho type. This seems to be the next great step in
i the electrical progress of the age : and
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ways in the union. Mr. Lincoln, in every ! dition ot thec people in the southern these questions in congress? I ask he W hall happen. Thus they will remain perproelamation, wen on the principle that ftatcs. You cannot judge of the general any member of congress, from Indians. ' maneotly colored states in the tOjBth. The this war was an insurrection a rebellion condition of the frcedrucn and negroes who has not made the issue at home, can ; white men who are now there would reagainat the constitution and laws of the upon the plantations by what we hear of present himself nnd urge the right of c m- j move from them, and would not remain I'nited States ; not a rebellion of states but the schools established at Hiltou Head, I grass to enfranchise the negroes in the under such dominion, a rebellion of individuals, the people of j Norfolk and other places, where a few en- j southern states F It may be said there aro Very well, say some; that is all vory the several southern siates, and every man I thusiastic and philanthropic teachers are only a few of them in Indiana, and it is well, if we can get them to go there. But
who went into it was personally and indi- instructing tho uegroes. I have no doubt not important. But if the few who arc let me say that in such ca?e tho colored 1 there is nothing to prevent i ts being done
viuuauy reaponsioic mr nis acts and could many oi tnem are maKir.g rapid progress, here nave a right, moral or natural, to the states would be a balance of power i.i this at once
not shield himself under the action or au- I but these are only as one in many thou-1 franchise, when yoi refuse it to the fsw I count;y. i ak is it desirable to have a thority of the ntate. De Went on the j sands. Ninety-nine out of every hundred j you refuse it to all. When you refuse it colored state government ? I say it is not. principle that every ordinance of recession of the negroes in the south live no planta- to tw inty-tive thousand, you violate sound ! It is not, for many reason3. Oae reason and evejy act of the legislature of the tions, and you cannot judge of the condi- principles just as much as if you refuse it is, that such states would continually cou-
rebel states in that direction wo3 B null ity, tion ot tho great mass bjtwjsa who hv2 in , to five million. I tall you these northern stitute balance of power. They would
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ua.;uusuujuuuai auu voiu, naming no legai tne towns. lou must consider tne conforce or effect whr.tevcr; and that a? thesa dition of the whole mass. What id that
states were according to law in the union, ; condition ? Perhaps not one in five hun- just to their negroes at homo.
states can never command any moral force be bound together by the Strongest tie
on that subpot until they shall first bo j that ever binds meu iogether--the tie of
I the
now come to tho consideration question ot the admission
of of
point of view they had no power to affect j sistence on the employment they receive the sondition of a state in the union. Eve-Jfron? thorn. Look at their condition. As ry proclamation and every act of congress,'! said before, only one in five hundred
have proceeded upon this hypothesis.
color and of race the tic of a downtrodden and despised race. As three hundred thousand slaveholders, by a commou tie, were able to govern this uatiou for a long time, so four millions of people, bound together by a much strongor tie despised by the whole world as thev huvo been
I will read from a speech Mr. I would constantly vote and aot together.
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ineir nomc are on the plantations ot Sumner rocently made at a state conven-' aud their united vote would constitute a these men, and they must depend for sub- j tion iu Worcester, Mass., extracts omit- j balauco of power that might control the
thoir standing could not be affected : drcd 1 may say oue in a thousand can by the action of the people that the peo-! road, and, perhaps, not one ia five hun-
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pi'i oi incsc states were personally respon- dred is worth live dollars in property of i negroes to the r,ght of suffrage. I sible for their conduct just as man is to any kind. They have no property, per- will consider moro particularly the plan the commission of murder, and to be sonal or real. Thoy have just come from j of Mr. Charles Summer, a man of great
treated as criminals just as the authori- bondage, and all they have is their own
ties' thought proper the the people of a bodies.
state ean forfeit their rightd but that so far as this action is concerned in a legal
ability and one whom I consider a very
oure man
on
Mr. Iuchanan started out with the propsition that this waa a rebellion of states. He said we could not coerce a state! Our reply was, we have nothing whatever to do
that can read many of them, until within the last few months, never off the plantation most of them never out of tho county in which they live and were horn, except as they were driven by theslavo driv-
with states ; we will coerce the people of ers. Can you conceive that a body of men, the states, holding every man responsible J white or black, who have been in this contor his conduct, idition, and their ancestors before them, This was our answer to Mr. Ituchanan. are qualified to be immediately lifted from I'pon this hypothesis wc hire jut put 'their present state into the full exercise of down the rebellion. But it is now pro- political power, not only to govern them-
ted. In other words, Mr. Sumner's proposition ii this : That all persons who havo been connected with this rebellion shall be excluded from the right of suffrage and from all political power for an indefinite time, and that tho uegroc3 of the rebel states shall be enfranchised and havo full and equal powers conferred upon thorn. That is Mr. Sumner's broad proposition. t am sure I have staled it fairly. Let us consider for a very few minutes what would be the result of this policy. If you cx-
lude from the right of suffrage every
government of the nation. I submit, then, however clearly and atrouglj we may admit the uatural right of tho negro I submit it to the intelligence of tho poople that colored state governments are not desirable; that they will briug about results that are not to be hoped tor; that, dually, they would threat on to briüg about, aud, I believe, would result in a war of races. Now tbo questiou comes up, how can this thing bo avoided, and yet confer upon the negro his rights ? Well, if 1 had the
power, I will tell you how I would avoid it
posed by somo tint wo shall practically j selves and their neighbors, but to tako man who has been concerned in the rebel-j I belic7 it will be the Way in which it
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aumit taat ine lomuern states uiu seacie pari, iu tue government ot tue i ni'i .i that they did go out of the union that States Can they be regarded as i&telii the work of aeceadion was porfeet, wa- gent or independent voters? The no accomplished that the atateg are out of stateiueot of the fact furnishes tho ans' the union, that a government d farto to tho question. To say that such men wa established, aud that wc now hold J and it ii no fault of theirs, it is im; Jthese states as conquered provinces, just their misfortune, and the crime of the n i
lion, you will except, perhaps, in the states of Tenuessee and Louisiana eicelude twenty out of every twonty-oue rhitc men in tho southern states. That
(.rani's Trial Tri 1 Speech
National AirairM. At St. Joseph, Missouri, on Thursday, Gen. Grant, accompanied by his poor relation, Dent, aud by Gen. Sheridan, made
an important and lengthy address upon national afFairs. Wo give tho oration in full, arranged under appropriate heads : CHANT'S A N N I'.NTIATION OF HIS POLICY. 1 return you my sincere thanks for this hearty reception. HIS OPINION ON nECONriTHl'CTIO N. I havo boon traveling for two weeks, every day. WriAT HI THINKS OF FINAACK. And most of tho time at nijht over mountains. NEURO SUFFRACK. Visiting this western country which I am now seeing for the first time. GLORIOUS FUTl'ttF, OF OUR COI VTIir. I am fitigued, weary, duty, and unable tn address you. A MAONI FM'I.NT PEHOIt ATTOV. 1 thank you, but i cannot apeak to you
this evening. At this point the eloquent gontleraan ooncluded his exhaustivo and convincing address, and the audience dispersed, deeply impressed, no doubt, with ths greatness of the orator.
left at home to cultivate potatoes, which
they may understand better, and that fresh and more capable mcn be scut to Washington. Xrw Yrh Herald.
If a candidate f.r president of the United States is of notoriously inten nerate habits, is it wrong or in any wise improper for a newspaper of the opposite party to state that fact? If prominent newspapers of the party cf which he is a member have given testimony upon this point, ought not the people to bo informed OOaOSrnioej stud) testimony ?
in El i nc nt aasig si The finest thing that George T. Prentice ever wrote is this inimitable passage: It cannot bo that earth is man's only abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a bubble cast up by the ocean of eternity to fiat a moment upon its waves and sink ino nothingness. Else why ia it the high and glorious aspirations, which leap like angels from the Stemple of our hearts and are forever wandering unsatis-
fieJ. Why is it that the rainbow and the
cloud come over us with a beauty that is not of earth and then pass off and leave M to muse on their loveliness? Why is it that the stars which "hold their festival around the midnight throne," snd set above the grasp of our limited faculties forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory F And finally why ia it that bright forms of human beauty arc present-
If in hours, uot of delirium, but of in
temperance, which made him regardless of led to view and taken from us, leaving the
doceucy, he committed a scandalous act of
filth, indicating that his love for whisky,
aud the effect it has upon him, unlit him for the duties of the exalted office to which he aspires, does not a due regard for the public welfare demand that the tact should be published ? Why did the Jacobins nominate a man for president whose history furnishes facts repulsive to honest men, and frön which they turn with loathing ? Considering that he is a candidate for the prosideney, ia propriety violated by the narration of those facts, or by the facts theinst Ives 7 Ought the people to know the character of the man who expects to receive the votes of what is now the ruling party in the nation for tho highest office within its gift f ni l. .a w a v--
j'icau to tne tacts, jaeomns. is mram
Tho forcsroiui: is not a burlesciuc. but a
will be ultimately worked out ; fori be- oorroot r aport 0f what , -cn , ( j rant nctua v
lieve the time will come when these rebel Ly itl his ch at 8l Josoph.
thousand streams of our sffeetion to flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts? We are born f"r a higher destiny than nn mf that of earth. There i a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spnud out before us like tho islands that slumber in the ocean, and where the beautiful beings which passed beforo us like lhadjws, will stay forever in our presence The principal newspaper support of the Atlantic cable comes fn m America! The sums paid for e.ible raesnacta for a year, show that the American press paid exactly ten times the amount accredited to the BogUsh pres.. the latter publishing only the briefed and BSCSt meagre items of news from this side, and the former in-
Ulysses Grant a drunkard, and has he j du,inf in fH q-rts of public proceed
committed scandalous acts when intoxicated ?
The radical party since the New York
statos will confer upon tho negroes tho fiht of suffrage. If I had the power I
will be about tho average. In somo, the i would arrauge it in this way; I would nomination is in a similar condition to the dieproporttOI would be greater, but we j give these men. just emerged from slave- boya ve.il. It hasn't exactly died, but it may safely say, that omitting Tennessee J ry, a period of probation and preparation ; has "kind o'gin out.''
A prominent member of the republican party, and an officer in tho internal revenue, is serving out a term in the New York penitentiary, where he SMI consigned for stealing. Tho senate refuses to qualify his successor, so his salary fcoea on snd it costs him nothing to live. That
chap will have pretention for the i nited : The sssnwsshssj j alt on the side of the des-
ings from every )rt in Knroj.e.
Graut has uo policy, and has never yet boon committed to an opinion. Yet Anna Dickinson says he has sn "Indian baby record." Trot out that Indian baby! Let it be aired and its reeord ventilated ! . - i rant's fricndi say that he ahun pnb lie demonstrations. That's a mistake
States senate when he gets out.
onstrations.