Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — Tammany Fireworks. [ARTICLE]

Tammany Fireworks.

Tn Democratic member* of Congreaa exhort their party brethren to make ready for the autumn election*, and urge that there should be “no time lost in the dUcuuton of dead iuuea; no manifestations of narrow or prose riptmi foeling and the Tammany managers, in announcing their holiday performance for the Fourth of July, called themselves the party of equal right*. Tammany Hall is dedicated to humorous and light entertainment*, but that is unquestionably a better Joke than it is accustomed to hear. Tho humor, however, would have been enhanced if the worthy acrobat* had called themselves the party that *aved the Union. That nobody knows much about the Constitution except those who justified the rebellion upon sound constitutional principles is a Tammany axiom; and that there will be no constitutional regime until the party which tried to destroy the government administers it, is firmly believed by conservatives of the Fernando Wood school. Meanwhile let the student of American politics, the man who is wondering how his vote should be cast, look into the Tammany speeches of the Fourth, and find, if he can, any claim that the Democratic party had any share in the two greatest achievements in our history. He will find plenty of rhetoric about radicalism, and oppression, and extravagance, and centralization, and consolidation, and the glory of the Democracy; but not one of tha orators will have asserted that the Union was preserved, and the equality of all American citizens secured, by tho Democratic party. By their fruits yc shall know them. The organs of that party call it conservative ana constitutional, as they did in the winter of 1860-01. And there is no doubt that it is Just as conservative as when its chiefs in the last Cabinet it controlled were plotting rebellion because they were defeated at the polls; just as constitutional as when its last President declared that the government could not make war upon a state. But these probably are the “dead issues ” which the Democratic members of Congress warn their friends not to discuss. Other dead issues are slavery, which these fine friends of man straggled to retain; the Fifteenth Amendment, which they opposed because it gave those whom they could no longer enslave the security ot their freedom; and the laws imposing certain disabilities upon certain classes of the late insurgents. But the Congressional caucus does not urge acquiescence in the result. It speaks of dead issues, but it also suggests doubts of the validity of the Fourteenth Amendment or the test act. It advises conformity for the nonce, because otherwise there is no hope that members disqualified by the laws will be admitted to seats. Li fee every party out of power, it would yield everything but its resolution to return, and, when, once sure of its position, its equal resolution to unsettle everything just as fast and as far as it can. In the tone of the Tammany discourses the tone of the party may be heard. Is it manly, generous, American? Is it inspired by what is best and most intelligent in the country, or by Its ignorance and passion ? Is it from Tammany Hall, controlled by Messrs. Tweed and Bweeny, who drag at their triumphal chariot wheels their fiercest opponents, now loudly cheering their masters, that the American people wish to receive the polity -of their government]?— Harper's Weekly.

Our Young Folks.—The August qumbor contains chapter VUI. of We Girls—with two illustration*; Maria dl Campobollo—a poem—by T. W. Parsons; Avery entertaining and interesting article on The Sun—with seven illustrations—by Angnstns Holmes; A Child's Song of the Brook—poem—by Henry Gillman—with illustration; Bobhit’s Hotel, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; 'Our Menagerie—part IV., Eats—by T. W. Higginson—three illustrations; “Dat ar Bill,” by Elizabeth Kilham—full page illustration; Germs of Genius—poem—two illustrations; How to Drawpart ll.—by Charles A. Barry—twenty Illustrations; A Summer Day’s Pastime, etc. Fields, Osgood A Co., Boston, Haas. $2.00 per annua; an extra copy for every live subscriptions. The Atlantic Monthly and Our Young Foils. $5.00 a year.

The Atlantic Monthly.— Tho number for August contains: Joseph and hie Friend —Part Vlll.—by Beyard Tay.or; The Englleh Governess at the Siamese Court—Part IV.—from the Notes ot a Governess In the Royal Family of Slam; The Bmden of the Day—a Poem, by Bayard Tay 1 or; Oldtown Fireside Stories: Mis’ Elderkin’s Pitcher, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; A Virginian In New England Thirty-Five Years Ago, by James Rnssell Lowell’; Tbe French Claims, by E. H. Derby: Dorothy in the Garret—a Poem, by J. T. Trowbridge; The Grand Traverse Region of Michigan, by n. W. S. Cleveland; Mr. Hardback on tha Sensational In Literature and Life; Color-Blindncsi; Half-Way: a Story In Three Chapters, by G. S. Barrow; A Kentuckian’s Share In the Coqpd’Etat, by Sydney Hyde; A Day’s Pieatnre—ll.—The Afternoon, by W. D. Howells; Ode—Read at the Festival celebrating the birthday of Margaret Fuller Oasoll, by C. P. Cranch; Some Memories of Charles Dickens; Reviews and Literary Notices. Fields, Osgood & Co., 124 Tremont street, Boston, Moss. $4.00 per year.

The Children's Hour.—The August number of The Children's Jlour, published byT.S. Arthur & Sons, of Philadelphia, is as pure, and fresh, and beautiful as any former number. To the reader we would say, take as many magazines for your children as you can afford; but whether you take one or five, be sure that you let them h&ve “Ike Children's Hour." The price Is only $1.25 a year, and your children should have it if it cost twice as much. i

Arthur’s Home Magazine fob August:—Among the Ladies’ Magazines, this Is fast taking a leading position, not only for the high character of its reading, but for the beauty of its illustrations, and the fallnessand variety of Its fashion and needlework departments. Miss Townsend’s New story, " Jacqudlni," Increases in interest with every number; while the admirable Eeries of articles on “Woman’s Work and Woman’s Wages,” show a breadth and common sense in their treatment or a difficult snbject, worthy of til praise. T. S. Arthur & Sons, Philadelphia, the publishers of this elegant periodical, are untiring in their efforts to make it the leading lady's Uagzine of the country. Price, fit a year. Godey for August.— The August number of Oodey's Lady's Hoot contains a bandsome steel-plate, entitled “ Going Home;” a beautifal colored fashion plate, and other bsbion illustrations; a wood engraving, “The Leisure Hour;” a pretty piece of mnslc, “ Bitting in the Porch;” interesting stories, sketches, latest fashion Intelligence, valuable household recipes, etc:, etc. L. A. Godit, Philadelphia. 18.00 per annum; two copies, $3.00; three, $7,30; four, $10.00; five, and one extra, $14.00; eight, tad one extra, $31.00; eleven, and one extra, $27.30. Bybry Saturday.—No. 30, for week ending July 25, contains six full-page engravings: On the Beach at Newport; a portrait of Mdlle. O nistine Nilsson; Marie Antoinette, cm the occasion of her condemnation; Jo and the Professor, from Mira Alcott’s “Little Women;” July, by Gavarnl; Blithe May Day, from a painting by J. Fettle, A. B. A. -The nsual quantity of choice reading matter, including another Installment of “The Mystery of Edwlh Drood,” la given. Fields, Osgood A Co!, Boehm, Man. $6.00 per annum.