Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 September 1868 — Page 1

4 i n VOLUME 14. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1868. NUMBER 1.

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Plymouth Democrat. THURSDAY, SEP. J8j A FEW OF WESTER VELT'S LIES. John L. Westervelt has numerous barefaced lies that lie is telling to those who go out to hear him at his school hoase appointments, a few of which are as follows: Lie No. 1. He says that the expenses ot this cornty amount to eleven thousand dollars more than those of St. Joseph connty. Lie No. 2. He says that the thirtytwo thousand dollars reported as the amount of county revenue in this county, does not include the building fund tax, while the truth is that OTer ieven thousand dollars of that amount belongs to said building fund, and the actual expenses of the county for the year ending June first was $22,583 G8, including $1,433 32 paid for an addition built to the poor house of the county ; including also 8070 10 paid for bridges ; including also 3599 00 paid on an old order given many years ago to keep up the county library ; all of which arc extra expenses, and amount in the aggregate to 12,702 42, which taken from the common or ordinary county expenses reduces them to 819,881 20. But to say nothing of these unusual though necessary expenses, he lies to the tune of about 810," 000 00. " Let us pray." Lie No. 3. He says that the people of this county pay more taxes than they do in St. Joseph county. The tax of St. Jo, county last year amounted to over 90,000 00, and the duplicate of Marshall for the same year amounted to a little over 884,000 00. Lie No. 4. He says that the treasurer of this county gets more for collecting the taxes on our duplicate that the treasurer of St Jo. d oes for like service in that county. "While he ought to know that the treasurer's fees are regulated by law and he receives his per centage on what he collects. anl no more. Lie No. 5. ne says the building fund money cannot be accounted for, when the truth is it can every cent be accounted for, and is mere safely secured fhan any note or mortgage he holds qgainst any of his debtors. But wc are tired of enumerating his falsehoods, and will simply say that we

have not yet ncird of one truthful statement that he ha made La his speeches. He is, in plain l ingual e, an old falsifies slanderer, rc'igious hypocrite, political demagogue, und constitutionally a h(2. and all 1Ü3 statements want to be received as coming from jast that k:nd of a man. G 01X01 TO TO TE NEOR OES EARLY A. YD LATE. The Hon. Mr. Tyner, at Argos the other day, during his harangue to the negroites of that vicinity said that they were going to vote the negroes early, late, and often, so we are credibly informed. A few years ago ho would have denounced any democrat fur accusing him of being in favor of negro suffrage, a3 a vile slanderer, liar aud scoundrel, like Schuyler Colfax did during a recent shtssi He denied in the most positive terms that he was in favor of nc gro suffrage. He den'.ed it with quivering lips and trembling voice and upraised hand in the seminaiy. grove at this place, and almost the first important measure he gave his support to on his return to congress, was the bill giving the negroes the privilege of voting aud being voted for in the District of Columbia. Since then he has done everything in his power as speaker of the house to extend those privileges to the negroes of r II the southern states, and also stumped the state of Ohio to "ivo them the same privilege there, and would to-day force these same damnable and de grading dogmas upon the people of the state of Indiana and every other state in the union, if he had the power, and he is now asking for more power that he may give the ncro more effective service. Ho votes and docs all he can to give negroes the privilege of voting and holding Office, but he has sworn to lo all he can, in whatovcr positiou 4 e nr.y be placed, to keep down the foreigners and Catholics of this country. He is in fuvor of support ing hzj, worthless negroes at the expense of the laboring white taxpayers of ihe country, llo is in favor of taxing the poor and letting the rich bondholder go free He thinks greenbacks good enough for widow, orphans, crippled soldiers aud common people, and amid had catcrja for fcond holders. How can any sensible white laboring man, and especially a foreigner or Catholic vote for Sttek a candidate? TriE RepuLhewn of last Thursday whimperingly admonishes ns that " kind words never die," and, consequently, that harsh onas may not, and tor us to beware of rashness. This IS all very nice in a Sunday school point of view, but if wo are to be lectured on the uhc of harsh language, wc would prefer that the lecturer be free from the faults he condemns in us In the same number of the R I'liran in which tho above lecture appe? we find the expression. God-fornaken, hclldesorviog democrats." Jt is a pity that democrats will persist iu applying harsh terms to the republicans, as they are very Under, sonsitivo cusses, on whose delicate fiaua grate lur;-h,v unkind wnr,U n.ru.t

AUDITOR OF STATE VS. TREASURER OF STATE.

General Nathan Kimball, treasurer of state, and candidate on the abolition ticket for re-election, stated in his speech here on the 22d ultimo, that the state debt had been reduced to about three millions of dollars. T. B. McCarty, auditor of state, in his report to Gov. Baker, gives the following ' as tne indebtedness of the state: Five percent, certificates of stock $3,751,23 33 Six percent, wi.r loan bonda 237.000 00 incenncs i niTonmy Donau School fund bonds 3 aSS 8 ! Old internal improvement bonds 353,000 00 Total debt ... $7,776,903 IS Here is a very large prevarication out between thse republican office holders. It is no quarrel of ours, but we are inclined to believe the stafemeot of McCarty, from the fact that it is most reasonable, and then it is made officially. We would not like to say that General Kimball had falsi- j fied about four millions seven hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and three dollars and fifty-eight cents' worth, but it looks that way. An ex-army officer has a scheme for the introduction of the velocipede for the rapid transmission of infantry. A man in Ohio got tired while blackberrying, slept upon a railway, and his friends had to do the rest of his u burying " for him. Jeremiah Carhart, the inventor of the melodeon, died a few days since in New York, leaving a fortune after enduring adverse circumstances for many years. Furnished houses in the city of New York reut at from $200 to 8400 a month, and unfurnished houses at from $800 to $900 a year. If we redeem the five-twenties in greenbacks, shall we not still have to pay in gold, dollar for dollar, on every greenback? Yes; but the interest will be saved; and here is the strong point of Pendleton, Butler and Stevens. In'the interest alore the sum of the principal of the British national debt has been paid, perhaps twice over, but it still remains tho sa.ae. During the seventy-three years previous to Lincoln's election, the total expenses of the gevcrnment amounted to 81,400,000,000. During the three years of radical noaen sincn the eins. of tho rothe cxpene hag bccn i;GOO,000, nan - j-h :. mm nnn nn 000 of dollars. That is 6200,000,000 more in three years, than in the whole seveutythree years before the rule of the thieves now in power. The average annual expense cf the government before the rule of the Grant party was a little more than nineteen millions, whereas now it is over five hundred and thirty millions. Such is the luxury of Mongrel rule. The Philadelphia Ay? gives the following instance to show the sympathy ot the radical press for the negro : A brutal negro murders his mistress in t Iiis city, is tried, and sentenced to death, and the radlorn press howl for executive interference. In our city prison :s a poor, deceived, ruined white woman, under sentence of death tor killing the offspring of her shame ; yet these radical journals have uo word of sympathy for her. The negro, first, last and always, is their motto. The Tribune, April 8, 186$, printed r Mack's" Wadiington letteiyreporting President Johnson as saying to him that Grant had been in the executive mansion so druok that he could not stand ou his legs. The Anti-Slav ry Standard for the week ending April 11, 1808. printed an article signed by Wendell Phillips, charging Grant with drunkenness. The Independent for the week ending January 31, 1808, printed Tilton's own telegram from Washington about the presidential candidate 11 occasionally seen fuddled in the street." In the Free Religious Association, (Comeouters' convention.) held in Boston, May 28 and 29, 18(18, Wendell Phillips, in a spoech, said : " Imagine a republican candidate for tho presidency the most popular man in America who cannot stand up before a glass of liquor without falling down." The radicals have found another straw to cling to, in the case of a son of the late Stephen A, Douglass, who has recontly made a speech in favor of Grant and Colfax, somewhere in North Carolina. Aside from the indiscretion cf a beardless boy, who may live to repent a youthful folly, the case is well illustrated by an incident in the life of James B. Clay. This gentleman onco wont into Indiana to attend a political meeting, where he was announced to make a speech. On his way he fell into a conversation with a Hoo sier companion, which soon turned upon politics. The result was that the Iloosier told Mr. Clay that he could not "talk politics worth a cent." M Do you know who I am ? " asked Mr. Clay, drawing himsalf back with a mixed expression of suporior dignity and injured innocence. A reply in tho negative induced Mr. Clay to announce himself as " the son of Henry Clay, of Ashland, sir." " Well, I swear ! " was the astonishod rel?ly " who'd a thought that tho stock

FLAG. PRESENTATION. Presentation Address of Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton, to tlie White B05 H ta Blue, Indianapolis, August 18, 1868.

The democratic ladies of Indianapolis having procured a magnificent silk flag, the presentation to the White Boys in Blue took P,ace at the Metropolitan thea tre, in the presence of a crowded house. The meeting was presided over by Judge Perkins' and 8Peoches were made by Hon. prethe sentation address, on behalf of ladies, was made by Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton, who has for many years charmed the publie with her exquisite songs and prose writings. The State Sentinel says: As Mrs. Bolton, Indiana's most gifted poetess, came forward, the most profound silercc foil upon the audience. The hum of c nversation was stilled, and every ear was strained to catch the words of the presentation address as they fell from the lips of one who thinks only in melody. Although not poetry, it was yet a poem full of the inspiration which has made its author famous. It was as follows: General Love I am commissioned by the ladies of Indianapolis to present to you, and through you to the Union White Boys in Blue, th's beautiful banner. It bears on a field of azuro a cluster of thirty -f even stars, representing the thirty sev en states of our glorious Union. These sister states sit enthroned on broad valleys and lofty mountains ; some laving their feet in the waves of the Atlantic, some listening to the roar of the gray Pacific, some shivering in the pinewoods of the icy north, some crowned with orange fiowsrs ia the sunny south. With these greai geographical and physical differences each one has its own peculiar capabilities, its own especial needs, its own unalienable rights. Internal laws suitable to the good go eminent of one state would make dissatisfaction and confusion in another. Domestic policy which grows out of the necessities of one section, might impose on another burdens too heavy to be borne. Each state is a commonwealth and has the right to make its own laws, under the constitution, guaranteed to it by the magna charta, which tho finger of God has written on the heart of humanity. A f :w years ago some of these stated, hot-headed and inconsiderate, found cause of offense and withdrew from the Union. They staked their all on a cause which they believed to he just and right. They fought bravely, but they were defeated, their armies overthrown, their banners trailed in the dust. You, who wore the blue won the glorious laurel, the gratitude of your country and proud mention on her roll of honor. But was this the sole aim and object you proposed to attain through that long struggle for victory that fearful sacrifice cf human hopes and huuian life? Was it for this that a million brave men left their wives, their children, their homes to encounter the privations and per ils of war? To make long marches, thro mud and mire, to spend weary days in the driving rain, sleepless nights on the sold snow, to meet wounds and death on the battlefield? Was it for this that trombling hands and loving hearts girded the sword on sons and husbands and sent them forth with tears and blessings to rally round the old flag? Was it for this that our country was covered with mourning and lamentation for her dead sous? For this that soldiers' widows and soldiers' orphans excite our love and sympathy throughout tho lengtli and breadth of the land? Nay, there must have been a grander incentive, a higher, holier motive to such action, n hat was it? A hundred thousand living Soldiers would reply, "We fought to preserve the Union." And if the dull, cold ear of death could hear; if its still white iips could speak, they would answer from a hundred thousand graves, "We diod to preserve the Union." In the presidential mansion, in the halls cf congress, on the field of mortal combat, tho general government pledged itself to preserve the Union. And it was this most solemn, most sacred pledge that nerved your arms, and strengthened your hands, and strengthened your hearts through all the trial, a'l the suffering of that terrible war. Has the government redeemed this pledge? Are tho ten conquered states re stored, to the Union? A: e they rcpre sentcd in our national legislature, by men of their own choosing? Are they allowed to elect their own rulers at home, to make and administer their own home laws? They arc paralyzed by political disabili tics, governed by usurpation and denied every right of American citiaenship? Let the facts answer. When the war was ended by their en M uuu i'uica .vuiini-nnti to our arms and to our terms, they held up their help less handd and appealed to their conquer015 for jmrOffJL ThCYbMnn.-hf,

them in their former rights, and let them j

sit down again in the shadow of the old flag. She was pledged to do this before all the nations of the earth, and they believed that she would keep her faith. They expected that she would reach out her great arm and gather erring ones to her bosom with tender pity, saying, u These ray children were dead and are alive again, they were lost and are found.'' But she forgot her promises ; forgot that the nierciful 6iian obtain mercy ; and instead of pursuing a course plainly indicated by the voice of humanity, by the precepts of our religion, and winning the hearts of the people, by kindness, and clemency back to their old love, their old allegiance, she adopted a'cofd, cruel policy that widened the breach, defeated the end and object of the war, and closed every avenue to reconciliation and peace. And, now, when the land is wasted and the people beggared when they sit in sack cloth and ashes in the midst cf their ruined hopes, in the desolation of their ruined homes; when delicate women and little children are perishing for bread , and strong men dying in despair, congress proposes to send hordes of half savage men, low and brutal by nature, coarse and degraded by circumstances, armed with weapons and invested with power to rul. and reign over their former masters. The spirit of war followed our first parents from the garden of Eden. It has left the imprint of its bloody baud on ev ery nation through all ages, over the whole earth. Tho victor has always spoiled the vanquished. But it was reserved for a christian land, in the broad light of the nineteenth century, to impose on a conquered and kindred people, oppression, outrage, cruelty that has uo uaiuc in human language, no parallel iu the world's history. Union White Boys in Blue: As freemen, citizens of this great republic, you have a sacred trust to keep, a hoiy duty to perform, for which you arc responsible to God, aud to posterity. The dark cloud lowering in our political horizon is ominous of ruin to your highest interests, to your fondest hopes. Let no man deceive you, let no sirou voice lull you into idle security. Th re ia danger. Watch! And while this banker expresses to you the sontiments cf the donors, let it remind you that "eternal vigilauce is tho prico of liberty." Your organization proppses to interpose its strong arms and bravo hearts peaeoably betweeu mad radical legislation and suffering humanity j proposes to bind together again the severed links of our dear old Union; to lift up the bowed heads, strengthen the weak bauds, and bring peace and comfort to the perishing. We trust and believe that you will bear this banner forth in the cause of truth, mercy, human rights, till its broad folds are upborne by shouts of victory not on a blood-stained battlefield, amidst the roar of cannon, the groans of the dying, but on that holiest of holy ground, where freemen seal their principles and opinions with their votes. Thero let it wave over the grandest triumph evor won by good and true men over powers of darkness, brute force and moral madness. id that God may lead you forward wii.li singleness of purpose and purity of intention to this great end, should be the prayer of every man who loves his country, loves his fellowman aud expects to .render to God an account of his steward ship. The Greenback Issue Tbc Gold Swindle. The Chicago Tribune, a bondholding organ, puts the following questions, which will be answdred in their order : N 1. What greenbacks does it propose shall bo used to pay the five-twenty bonds those now issued, or a new batch to be manufactured for that purpose 1 " They can be paid with tho greenbacks now in use, and by the retiring of the nationai bank circulation supplying its place with greenbacks, without adding a dollar to its circulation. This has been shown by Mr. Pendleton in his Milwaukee speech, lie said : " Now, gentlemen, I maintain that the 5-20 bonds should be paid as far as it is possible to do so, without inflating tho currency beyond a safe and just point. And it is my business now to show you how rapidly that ean be doDe. Tho unliquidated debt of the United States consists of greenbacks and claims which have not been adjusted, and amounts to 800,000,000. It pays no interest. " Three hundred and thirty-eight millions of these bonds arc, by the report of the secretary of tho treasury, deposited today as security in the vaults of the treas ury. Three hundred million? of bank paper is issued on the strength of these bonds. Now, gentlemen, I maintain that this circulation ought to be called in ; that these bonds ought to bo redeemed with legal tenders, which will tako tho place of that bank circ ulation. Applause "What would be the effect of this? The $1,700,000,000 of interest bearing

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paid to the bankers for bonds which they have deposited. Cheers. " Now, then, suppose you take this $20.000,000 of interest which is saved, and add it to the 48,000,000 million which these gentlemen say they can pay from the current revenue, and you Miave $63,000,000 year by year, aud if you convert that sum into greenbacks, at 140, you have 3100,000,000 a yoar, and if this is appropriated as a sinking fund, you eau pay the whole debt off iu less than fifteen yoars, without adding one dollar to your taxation or one dollar to the circulating medium." Applause. This is upon the supposition that the expenditures of the government are not reduced, but are maintained upon their present monstrous basis. With the democracy iu power, their reduction one half is certain, and the payment of the debt would be correspondingly facilitated. Wo may and do sty that the currency of the country could be very profitably increased, with benefit to its business and industrial interests Money is now too scarce and interest is too high. The whole south is destitute of currency, and hundreds cf millions of dollars are neceseary for permanent improvements whioh have been destroyed by tho war in that section; Without too great an inflation, millions cf new greenbacks could be issued to advantage and bo employed in taking up the bonds." We now give the second question of the Tribune : u 2 Does it advocate an increase of taxation to procure greenbacks with which to pay the bonds ; or does it propose to obtain them by means of the printing press ? " Our reply to the first questiou necessa rily answers the second, which is but a repetition of it. Its remaiuing questions arc as follows : " 3. Is not a greenback an order on tho treasury to pay the bearer as many dollars as arc expressed on its face, and does that mean gold dollars ? " 4. In what way can greenbacks be redeemed except in gold 7 " 5. Would the debt be paid by giving the people greenback orders on the Treasury in lieu of bonds ? "6. Would not tho government still be in debt as deeply as before its notes called bonds were changed into orders ou the treasury called greenbacks? " These questions aro superlatively foolish. The five-twenty bonds and there are now nearly two thousand millions of them bear interest at six percent , or 120,000,000 in gold annually, which is equal to 8103,000,000 in legal tenders. The greenbacks bear no interest. Which is the easiest paid, non-intorest bearing greenbacks or interest paying bond: ? The interest alone that we pay on the bonds would redeem all the greenbacks in fifteen years. But if the debt is kept in bonds, the payment of that iuterest would not reduce tho debt one cent ! Supposo the editor of the Tribune had a debt of $100,000 bearing interest at six per cent., and he was enabled to change it into a debt that did not call for six thousand dollars a year interest, would he consider himself as greatly in dobt as he was before ho made the change ? Having thus frankly answered the interrogations of the fW&KJtt, will it in return respond to these questions ? 1. If the five-twenty bonds aro payable in gold, why was it not expressed in the law authorizing their creation, as it was in the ten-forty bonds? If the editor of the Tribum: should draw two notes, one payable expressly in coin, aud the other not containing those words, would he consider the latter tho same as the former ? 2. Legal tender greenbacks have been declared legal by the courts, and have I been used to discharge all private debts contracted in gold before the law was passed. Why should the' not be equally good to discharge debts of the government that were contracted in greenbacks when they were worth but fifty cents on a dollar, and which were not expected to be paid in gold P 3. Is the bondholder entitled to different or better money than the farmer, mechanic, laborer, soldier pnd pensioner receive for their debts, au I, if so, will the Tribune tell the reason of the distinction ? 4. Would the bondholder be badly troated who lent money to the government when legal tenders were worth fifty ceute on the dollar, if he should now be paid in fogal tenders woith seventy cents, he in the meantime having received thirty per cent, iu gold (worth lbrty-üve por cent, in legal tenders) in the last five years, together with entire exemption from state and local taxation, 5. If it is repudiation to pay the fivetwenty bonds in tho name money whii'li everybody else takes for their debts, what was it when the republican legislatures of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio paid the interest on their state debts, contracted in gold, in legal tenders? G. Is it good policy to put off tho paymen j of the national debt for twenty, thirty or forty years, until we have paid it two, three or four times over in interest and then have to pay the principal at last y 7. Why should not the bondholder pay his school, road and police taxes like othsr people; and why should they bo a.sesed.

Tbeliillic Dcbt-'Striking III us tratlonfi. The statement of the public debt pub-1 lished August 1st, 18G8, confesses that the amount ofthat great national blessing foots up 2,523,534,480! These figures represent an amount of indebtedness that few men can comprehend. Its immensity is barely within the bounds of human cal-1 culatiou, and would prove appalling to a ,

nation of Rothcuilds, Bariigi and Peabodys. It stands upon the ruin of the constitution, amid the crumbling pillars of the American republic, a monument of radical misrule, incompetency, villainy and despotism. While it represents the price of our national ruin and degrcdation, it is eloquent of national bankruptcy, intolerable and eternal taxation and of selfish subjugation of the poor to the rieh. The tax gatherers, of whom it is the fertile parent, arc now busy Eft every street, : lane, highway, and byway in the land ; j and are so disastrous to the prosperity of. the country as the seven plagues were to ! which Tharaoh was compelled to succumb. They pay taxes for The hat on your head, The boots on your feet, The clothes on your person, The food you eat, The tea and coffee you drink, The pot it is cooked in, The cup you drink it out of, The implements on your farm, The tools you work with, The paper you write on, The pen and ink ycu use, The papers and books you read, The furniture in your house, The gas or oil you Lmrn, The coal vou consume, Thy stove you burn it in, The match you light it with. The medicine you take, The tobacco you smoke, The pipe you smoke it in, The dishes on )Tour table, and All you eat off them. Those of our readers who deal in money ; and who arc in the daily habit of inspect ing piles of greenbacks may bo interested with tho following illustrations, which wc find in the Frankfort Yeoman: The highest mount aiu in the world is a peak of the Himalaya mountains, in India, which roaches the altitude of 28,178 feet, or a little less than five and a half miles. The public debt of the United State, according to th official statement of the secretary of the treasury, amounted, on

the first of the present month, to the sum L nd the call was most generously auswerof 82.523,234,480. Now let ft, for illus-Lj xhe people all over the land subscribtration, suppose this debt to be one dollar ed to thc uati0nal Lau. Wherever a dilbills, and piled up before us. Do you im- iar was to Spared it was invested in aginc it would reach " mouutaia hight " ? SCveo-thirties aud five-twenties. Not the Let us see: ridi and onulent onlv. were the nurchas-

Allow one hundred notes to the inch, and we have its hight to be To be 25235..,44 . . . .inches ! or ; 2,102,045.... feet !! or 700,981 yards!!! or 398.. .miles!!!! or, if the notes were ot the denomination of $100 each, instead of 91, we should have a pyramid of money reaching about four miles high ! whilst the highest mountain peak in North America, (Mount St. Elias, in Russian America), is but 17,900 feet, or less than Si miles. Still further : let us suppose thc debt to be in silver instead of notes, and estimating 81G to the round, we have a weight of debt amounting to iust 157,720.905 pounds, or 9,857 car loads (at 10,000 pounds to thc car), which would make a train of cars 5G miles in length, allowing but thirty "feet to the car. But let us illustrate a little further ; and suppose it were necessary to take thc silver dollars from the miut, employing porters for that purpose, requiring each man to carry forty pounds. In that case it would take about 4,000,000 men, who standing three feet apart would make about 3,000 miles long; and marchiug at the rate of three miles an hour, it would require about forty days for this debt burdened army to pass a given poiut. And the task of couutmg the debt, in silver dollars, would be one of almost endless duration. Let us see : A man commencing August 1, 1808, and woikiug ten hours each day, and counting sixty dollars each minute, would accomplish the job A. D 43GS. But there arc other illustrations of the magnitude of thie great " national blessing," which can not fail to arrest thc attention of farmers, to whom the following is addressed : At 32 prr bushel, the public debt represents 1,201.707,245 bushels of wheat, or 37,853,017 tons. To transport this amount in two-horse wagons allowing one ton' each would require 37,85:1.017 wagons and 75,700,031 horses, tiivc oach loan 30 feet space, and you have a cavalcade which would encircle tho globe. Bnt wc tire of these illustrations, as we do of everything pertaining to radical rule, which, in a brief period, has covered the land with ruin and crowned their work with immortal infamy by a muui- : mcat. of ,1,lt whirh" wh,c, hW th" 1 v"

Uo 'Shall the National Debt ho raid f The following article from a standard radical eastern journal, shows conclusively tnc interpretation put upon the national democratic and radical platforms by the eastern portion of the radical party. We republish it entire in order that oar friends 0f the opposition, who labor under the dcIusion that their platform talks " green-

backs," may know how such heretical individuals are regarded by the M far down" etsters : One of the most important issues which depends upon the pnv-idential contest is the payment of the United States bende. It ii well that every man should fully under.-tand the difference between paying our debt, principal or interest in coin and "lawful money." The Chicago platform says : " The national honor requires the payment of the ftional indebtedness in tue utmost good faith to ail creditors at i0mc and abroad, not only according to tbe letter, but the spirit of the laws under wkieh u was contracted." The democratjc platform on the other baud states that "where the obligations of the government do not cxprcsily state on their face, or the law under which they were is.sued does not provide that that they shall be paid in coin, they ought iu right aud justice to bo paid in the lawful money of the United States." When the laws were enacted by congress authorizing the different bonds that were issued, it was the intention of that body that they should be paid in gold. In all the debates upon the different bills, tho idea of paying them in gold never was mentioned. The government had always payed off its debts aud discharged all its obligations in gold not its representative in worthless paper. This was so well understood that it was not cousidered necessary to mention explicitly that tbe payments should be mady in gold, for no one dreamed that they would be paid iu anything else. The country was trcatened with ruin, and could only save itself by raising n,oney to Carry on tne war j and that the large amount needed might be raised speedily, every inducement possible was offered the capitalist to take up the government paper. Meu wore appealed to by ever entreaty to do what they could in this way to help their cjuntry. We were not sure of our success in the field, and if the rebel c:iu.-;e should triumph the country couid not pay its iudcbte Jnese. 'j It was iu the dark and uncertain iftfBfa of the struggle that the money was culled for, -r j r - k ers of these securities, but the middle and poorer classes, who were moved more by their patriotism and love of the old flag than any desire for gain and remuneration. Their response to the demand of the country saved it from dissolution and destruction. Our agents were dispatched abroad, and foreign capitalists were induced by the high premiums offered to invest in the American loan, but they did it with the understanding that they should havo their money back, with its interest, in gold, and if that had net been tbe understanding, wc venture to say, hardly a dollar could have been obtained abroad. Our national faith has been plighted in this matter aud there is only one course to pursue' Kvcry dollar must be paid iu gold. The policy of the democrats of paying off the debt in greenbacks is not only repudiation, but robbery, llvcrv person who holds a bond ot the government f will be robbed of what rightly belongs to I him, and every mau who advocates this I repudiation doctriue is as much a thief as !; though he put his hand in his neighbor's pocket and took away his purse. The $ honor of the country and tho honor of us all demand that we shall vote down this foul scheme which would be as disastrous to the nation would have boon thc tri umph of Jeff. Davis and his conspirator- I Get nß Id ( Mass.) (wo tte and Cuurirr' The Hon. Sat. Clark, of Wisconsin, has been visiting Council Bluffs, aud has bought several lots in that city. Robert W. .Johnson, formerly United States senator from Arkansas, and (len. Albert Tike, the poet, lawyer and journalist, have associate i together at Wash ipgtoa iu the practice of law aud the prosecution ot claims agaiust the government. lheladvof a prominen eiUata of Alban', who has often been upou tho Hudson above the state dam rowing her own canoe, has ordered a splendid paper shell boat of the manufactures at Troy.i She is a Cue oarswoman, and means to, preserve health and strong! h ly the iovV exercit. Providence has a colored boy aged thirteen years, who for a lew crnts will tako a mouthful of ulnss, cl ew it p,. nnt swallow it. He says he the buinru --iore he wan