Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. ■- .4 RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

THE INVESTIGATIONS.

THE POTTEB OOMMITTEE. ~ MAJORITY REPORT. On the Ist, Mr. Potter, the Chairman, submitted his report which whs adopted by a vote of six to three, the adirniativo votes beinu caatby Democratic members, the negative by Republi can members and Gen. Butler being absent. Tbi Republican members announced that they would submit a minority report. The following is a briet summary of the majority report: The report note forth the difficulties atteiMinii an investigation of a conspiracy which tuis been succeiwfully carried out. and whicn resulted in plnoiwr the successful paitliu lower. It admit. that life confessions of dissatisfied conspirator, are entitled to little credit, but points to the fact, that about the essential features of the election and canvass in Florida and Louisiana there is m substantial dispute before the committee, the Republ.oans calling no witnesses in Florida and few in Louisiana. It dismisses the testimony of Anderson, Mrs. Jenks and others, and professes to deal with the case upon the general and con trolling facta alone, the report is divided int three parts indicated by the sub-beads below. FLORIDA. The report cites the law for the appointment of Presidential Electors and the canvass of th< votes, and claims that the Tilden Electors, having received a majority qf thovotis east in th< State, were thereby necessarily entitled to he de dared elected, and that the Canvassing Board by rejecting without warrant of law abortion ol the votes so as to show a majority for Hayes, unlawfully counted Tilden out. The repor then recites the judgmentof the Supreme Court, deciding that the Hayes Electors were not elect cd, nor entitled to cast the vote of the State, anu that the Tilden Electors were, and al-o the judgment of the Court in the action brought bj Drew, the Democratic candidate for Governor, to obtain a recanvass where the Court directed a recanvasa, and decided that the Can vassers in refusing to count the votes cast had defrauded Drew and unlawfully seated K tear ns. The Legislature of tne State thereupon directed 11 recanvass of the Electoral vote in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court, the J udges of which were Republicans, and the rccanvaas showed the Tilden Electors ehosen. '1 he Governor then issued his certificate to the Tilden Electors as the true Electors, but the Electoral Commission refused to consider the judgment of the Court, the action of the Legislature and the certificate given bythc Governor in favor of the Tilden Electors, and held that it could not take notice of any action by the State after the 6th of December. The report recommends a law providing that when there is a dispute as to who were the real Electors of any State, the judgment of its Court of last resort, if certified to Congress before the meeting of the two houses of Congress to receive and count the Electoral vote, ahull be conclusive as to the right of the disputing Electors, and which vote from the State shall bo counted unless the two bouses of Congress shall other-' wise agree. The claim of the Republicans that they were entitled to the vote of the state byreason of fraud is declared untenable. It then contrasts the conduct of the visiting Republican statesmen with that of Gen. Barlow, whose fidelity to all his obligations, and integrity, independence, fairness and truth the report especially commends. The report gives a list of all persons connected with the election in Florida who have been appointed to office. LOUISIANA. In regard to Louisiana the report discusses at considerable length the powers and duties of the Returning Board; the false census of the colored inhabitants; the assumption that color necessarily indicated political predilections; the numerous instances of . false registration; the Republican charges of intimidation; the facts in regard to the negro vote as indicated by the testimony; the manufacture of affidavits and protests; aud the outrageous action of the Returning Board in arriving at conclusions so diametrically opiiosed by facts. The reports st 1 ten that the Returning Board would never have so outraged the people but for their encouragement from visiting statesmen and the support which they and the troops gave them. It refers briefly to the alleged bargain by which Hayes, who had 8 000 votes less than Packard, got counti <1 in while Packard went out, and mentioned Sherman's offers to prove intimidation, but points out that whenever the committee offered to receive it the evidence was not produced, and they were met by some sham excuse for not producing it; how they had examined many of the witnesses that were before the Returning Board, who, in almost every instance, recanted and explained how they came to make their false affidavits in the first place, and how such statements as they made before the Returning Board were totally unfounded. In regard to the Sherman letter, the report simply states the facts as they stand, showing that a letter was actually written and largely influenced political action in Louisiana, whoever signed it, and drawing attention to the attempt in ti e interest of Sherman by Mrs. Jenks, whose husband and brother are employes of the Treasury Department, to induce the committee to produce a forged letter. A long list of persons connected with the Louisiana election, who have been appointed to office, is given. THE FOBOED CERTIFICATE. Treating of the forged Louisiana Electoral certificate, the report tells how the Vice-Presi-dent, having refused the first certificate, the Republicans secretly manufactured another, antedating it, and made it in paper and printing to resemble the one previously made; how, having very little time to prepare it, and it being impossible to get all the Electors to New Orleans to sign it within that time, it became necessary to forge the signatures of two absentees; that thus there were put to the triplicate paper eighteen forged signatures, which were attached on Dec. 2) in a small upper room in the State building, then in charge of Conquest Clark: how the making of thia second certificate was concealed until it was produced before Congress; how, when it was referred to the Electoral Commission, it was not read, but ordered to be printed, and the Electoral 'Cdnimissidh were served with two printed copies of the forged certificate perfect in form, and no copy of the genuine, but the defective certiiicate; how after the Commission had given its decision, the record of the Commission was changed so that the forged certificate, copies of which were really before the Commission, was suppressed, and the record made to show as if the genuine defective certificate had been considered and passed upon-, now this was not accident, but design, and that itrnot only appeared in one of the published records of the proceedi»zof the Electoral Commission, but in both, although made months apart, how the Republican managers were informed by Kellogg that there was something wrong about the second certificate, and new all the way through there lies the thread of a design to impose a forged certificate upon Congress, and then they suppressed it, so that if discovered, the record might show as if it had never been .produced. The burlesque (John Smith) certificate the report regards as a part of the same fraud, its object being to mislead and draw off attention from the forged certificates. It then calls attention to the fact that all persona connected with the forgery have been appointed to office and the suspicious circumstances connected with the appointment of the same, mid particularly the charge that Kellogg land Clark. l.Jjis private Secretary, were privy to the forgeries. The report calls attention to the danger of Returning Boards, and the greater danger of controlling elections and protecting Canvassing Boards by Federal troops, and above all to the crowning danger with which the country is threatened by reason of the enormous patronage centered in the Presidency, which makes the Presidential office so great that in order to control it the grossest frauds and violations of law may be expected on the part of those who desire to profit by that patronage. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE. The report concludes with finding that full effect was not givenq to the Electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana; that Noyes, Bhurman and others encouraged this result; that the second' certificate from*-Louisiana was forged as to two. of its names, Kellogg aud Clark being privy to it, and that Tilden and Hendricks received a true majority of the Electoral votes, and wore the real choice of the people at the hut Presidential election.

MINORITY REPORT. On the afternoon of the 3d, the minority of the Potter Investigating Committee presented their report. In it, while testifying to the equitable and generous spirit which characterized the decisions and rulings of tho Chairman, they announce that they dissent from the views in the report of the majority, both as to the pertinence of the same to the investigation and to the conclusions expressed upon the testimony taken. -When the Florida investigation whs begun they had offered a resolution that the alleged frauds on the ballot box, as well as those charged upon the Canvrssers and returning officers, should be examined. This was voted down by the majority, although it was a matter of notoriety that both kinds of charges were made. While acknowledging fha unfairness of the decision, the minority yielded and conducted the investigation in accordance with the wishes of tho majority. But they were surprised, and desire most emphat.cally to dissent from the action of the majority in affecting to report for whom the vote of Florida was given after they had refused to examine both sides of that very question. /. • TS * bIBPSTOHVa. While their work was in progress a publication wa» made of the cipher dispatches. The character of the revelations made the inaction of the minority appear singular itr this case, but they quietly waited to see what course the majority would feel it necessary to take. They had learned that (the majority treated these disuatcheaaa a separate matter of investigation •Itnd report. They could not so regard it. A report upon the frauds of Florida with the ciphl* dispatches omitted would be lire the play of “Hamlet” with Hamlet left out. The* facts were too notorious to be lell out, and. therefore, they dissented from the method of making up the report suggested l<y the other side. The majority report that they would have preferred to ait with closeddoots, but yielded to the wish of the minority. Thia was true. They thought the same also of the cipher investigation—that publicity was necessary imd public Judgment is just. Upon the cipher-dw--1 atqh investigation the minority report that they present their views under the disadvantage of not possessing any indication of what the views of the majority will be.

Reciting the allegations of Tilden and Ma agents that ths Returning Boards of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina were honeycombed with fraud and corruption and their efforts to establish the truth of these allegatioua, the minority ss’i tlie publication of these dislatchra showed oonclu.ively that the very moa who had been loudest in their denunciauons of the tribunals before whom they had failed had themselves endeavored to corrupt with money those very tribunals. At that moment accusations ceased to be the assertions and opinions of honest men and became the slanders of foiled and beaten suborners of corruption. The country which had lieeik,deceived by the apparent earnestness and honesty of Tilden and his agents began to realize the intense hypocrisy of all that Marble had written And Pelton circulated. Thia fabric of alleged fraud thus fallen was what the report of the majority is endeavoring to build np again and upon the old foundations. When the parties, to the attempted bribery were put upon the stand they were foroed to admit the receipt and transmission of criminating dispatches, each and all of them. Col. Pelton, whine appearance before the committee was really pitiable, seemed to have been selected to bear the largest share of the burden. Mr. Manton Marble occupied a different situation. He bad, prior to October. 1878, taken a conspicuously high-toned position, and had otherwise conducted himself loftily before mankind. He could not, therefore, avoid an attempt to preserve himself. It was not for him to take hold of the position of Mr. Smith Weed, that it was right to use stolon goods from robbers. Nevertheless, tfie committee had two propositions to buy the Florida Returning Board in his own handwriting, two replies of Pelton and his own rejoinder. These he was obliged to admit and also to admit the substantial accuracy of the translations. His explanation of the two iaoriminating disK itches which the committee had, and a poesie third one which the committee did not know, was that he sent them as danger signals. The burst of contemptuous laughter with which the audience greeted this explanation Mr. Marble will probably never forget. The evidence that Tilden was ignorant of these transactions was limited to the denials of Tilden and Col. Pelton, and that the latter should endeavor to save his uncle upon whom be was dependent was natural, but the idea that a penniless man living in the house, and sitting at the very table of his wealthy uncle (Mr. Tilden), should have conducted negotiations involving such large sums without a word or a hint to the man most deeply interested or to anybody-, could not fora moment be entertained by candid men. If Col. Pelton's story be true, be must be removed from the category of knaves to that of fools, but the man who conducted the campaign of 1876, as acting Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, was not a fool, nor did Mr. Tilden, after the election, center all his interests in the hands of a fool. Mr. Tilden's denial was of course to be expected. Precisely what the arrangement was by which Mr. Tilden was kept ported as to the doings of his agents and yet lett in a condition to make a general denial, it he was so left, the committee will probably never know. Against these denials are set all the facts and circumstances of the case. After a further elaboration of these facts and circumstances, the minority say they are driven to the conclusion that if Tildn had told he knew of these transactions, they would have been in possession of material to form an undisputed judgment. In respect to South Carolina, the minority declare that the testimony- of Dunn, uncontradicted, clearly shows that Smith Weed was play ed with by shrewder men than himself, for a puopose entirely proper, and in a manner entirely justifiable. As to Florida, Woolley bad not been called, and Marble had probably not given the full facta of his attempt In respect to Marble’s statement, it amounted to this: A man told him that a man told him that a third man told him that the Canvassing Board could be bought This was not to be considered with his preparations for bribery, but it is all the evidence he vouchsafed. The truth was that all this clamor about fraud was made because the canvass changed the “ face of the returns.' ’ Now there was nothing sacred about the "face of the retunft.’’ The very existence of the Canvassing Board implies that the “ face of the returns" are not a safe guide or a final arbiter of elections. In Florida the face of the returns gave but ninety-one majority to Tilden on their most favorable construction. The fast that the final count gave the State the other way surely could be no ground for charging corruption without other evidence. As to whether there was any Republican dispatches similar in character to those of Tilden's agents the report says there is little evidence on which such an inquiry can be founded, but from the first there has been going on a kind.of unsuccessful shadowbunt for some dispatches supposed to be destroyed. This subject is closed as follows: “We cannot close our comments on these dispatches without expressing at least the hope that here after the country may be spared the spectacle of the hypocrisy which is involved in the literature of fraud written, by men who made ready to bribe."

FLORIDA. In reference to the election in Florida the report says: "The Democratic party|was composed m tbe main of native white voters of Florida. On one side was arrayed the Northern emigrants, many of whom were Union soldieirs, and the lately-enslaved colored men. tin the other side were the former masters. Confederate soldiers or contributors to the lost cause; and if Florida elected Tilden Electors, the colored men must be won to their support, and we desire most emphatically to deny that it was even attempted by peaceful methods. Resolutions of Conventions for Northern consumption were passed, but fraud and violence were resorted to and even death inflicted. We assert that the supporters of Tilden, to carry that election, did resort to the most open illegal voting, fraud and personal violence. After reciting the duties of the Returning Board, the report goes on to criticise the conduct of the Florida Board. Threats of personal violence, it states, were made against a member of the Returning Board by Democrats, and he was followed by armed m< n at night to his house from the sessions of the Canvassers, and a distinguished representative of the Democratic party endeavored to influence Tiia action by an offer of money. The minority say most emphatically that among all the men of Tallahassee while the beard was in session in the interest of Tilden, including those bearing gifts, among all the supporters of tbe Tilden Electors in Florida in attendance, including-those who threatened assassination with the aid of private detectives who, in consultation with the majority of the committee, have been hunting for testimony, no one liss been found to testify tea fact bearing against the honesty and fairness oA the Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers of Florida. The attack on Gen. Noyes ig denounced as unwarranted, there being no evidence that he held any questionable communication with any of the State Canvassers as to the result of tbe Florida election. Adopting the rule contended for by the majority report that the Canvassing Board could only canvass county returns by aggregating the vote appearing upon their face for the rcHpcotive candidates, the Hayes Electors had forty majority. Following the rule laid down by the Supreme Court, they had iOO majority. Purging the county returns of fraud, according to the decision and advice of the Democratic Attorney-General, they had 9U) majority. LOUISIANA. In writing of Louisiana affairs attention is paid to the “Sherman letter.” The majority report, it states, fails to report explicitly whether the testimony sustained the charge that such a letter Anderson and Weber swore had been written. They (the minority) emphatically declare that it does not, and that the palpable perjuries of both the witnesses named justify a feeling of deep disgust that they should be treated as capable of creating a serious attack upon the character of a man who has borne a high character in the service of the country for five and twenty years. The affidavits before the Returning Boarda, alleging fraud and violence, were considered, and the making of them justified. Concerning the alleged spurious Electoral certificate, the report adm.ts that two of the Electors were absent and their names were signed by other parties, and that this made the certificate spurious, but they claimed that the spurious certificates and returns were not considered, as Che records of the Electoral Commission clearly show. The report concludes as follows: “ We regret, therefore, that the result of the investigation, in Which the taking of testimony continued till the last day but one of Congress, and is still incomplete, must Irma report,that, in obedience to the directions of tile House, a great mass of evidence has accumulated, which can neither be considered nor acted upon by Hongreas, and the advantage gained by the public in the daily consideration of it, upon which the minority insisted, is the only matter of profit to any."

SUPPLEMENTARY MAJORITY REPORT. The majority of * the committee, speaking of the cipher dispatches, says generally that the Western Union Telegraph Company seem to have exercised duo care in respect to the preservation and privacy of their dispatches, and the theft and publication of certain dispatches did not seem to be their fault. At the same time they could not but suspect that Orton, President of the company (since deceased), who was an earnest and active Republican leader. forwarded dispatches in custody of the company to the Republican Committee of the Senate rather than to tho Democratic Committee of the House. He had also shown his bias by allowing certain of the dispatches to be withdrawn. On the examination of the Indiana dispatches, in which Mr. Z. Chandler was asked by Mr. Tyner to “ appoint two Indian agents," one could see bow very naturally the telegraph officials should have failed to recognize these nost improbable cipher dispatches to have any concealed meaning, but regarded them rather an corrupt dispatches. That they could recall them sowell was’a credit to the efficiency of the compuny. andsuugeets that nothing in the protection of disiiatohrabv telegraph would be gained by transferring that busmens to the Government. It was not for tho com mittee, however, to suggest whether anv legislation was required to prevent private telegnuns from being purloined or exposed or for their production in proper oases. Considering the whtchfnl, competent and intelligent partisan custody of the dispatches for fourteen months, it ’ was to be expected that’ nothing would come to light not wanted by the parties in charge, and it would have been too much to expect that any messages reflecting seriously on the conduct of the Republican party Would lai found among these bundles. The translations of the cipher dispatches disclose negotiations on the part of certain near friends of Tilden, after the election, to secure the Electoral votes of the Blates of South Carolina and Florida. 1 hese iiersoni seemed to have apprehended that the Electoral votes of those States, which they believed belonged to Tilden, wonld be declared for Hayes, and to have regarded themselves as Justified in endeavoring to defeat this corrupt and fmndwlewt action by submitting -to the payment of mopevs which they were

Informed the Canvassing Boards demanded by way of blackmail. The cummittee did not in any way justify their action, and considered it a gross wrong. But these negoliaUous ware not authorized by the National Democratic Committee. nor any iiernon entitled to speak for them. AH persona who had been connected with the neentlaiiona, so far as the committee had secured their testimony, declared that in no way were they authorised by Tilden, whoso particular friends they were, and Mr. Tilden had himself voluntarily appeared to corroborate that statement on oath. No charge from any source whatever had at any time attached to the nams wf Mr. Hendricks.

BUTLER'S REPORT. In his report upon the investigation, Gen. Butler, who dissented from the conclusions of both the majority and minority of tbe committee, concludes that in 1876 there was no full and free election by the whole body of electors of the State of Louisiana, and that the Electoral vote of that State ought not therefore to have been counted in favor of either candidate for the Presidency; that if any legal election was held in Louisiana, then the majority of the votes actually cast in the State were for the Tilden Electors and for Gov. Nioholls; that in case tbe vote of the State is counted at aR the votes of the “bull-dosed parishes.” as they were called, were within the fair and just exercise of the jurisdiction of the Returning Board, to be rejected in the proper exercise of tneir judgment, with the exception of some few (lolling precincts not mater-al to the reeult; that in parts of the State other than said bull-dozed parishes, where a full campaign was made by both political parties, the majority of votes were cast for Packard for Governor, and a portion of the Tilden Electors, leaving two or more Hayes Electors elected; that such a count and return would have given full expression to the will of tbe people in such parts of the State as were not affected by coercion and violence in favor of Packard, and against two or more of tbe Hayes Electors, which wonld have given the Presidency to Tilden, as would have oeen themase if the whole vote of the State had been rejected by both houses. . The declaration by both houses of Congress that under the circumstances the State of Louisiana should not be counted for either candidate would have been the beat possible reeult to tbe country, because it would taught a lesson to ovenealous partisans that elections cannot be carried either by force and intimidation at the polls or by fraud iq returns so as tq avail the successful candidate; and if so carried by either the votes would be rejected by tbe final counting tribunal. On the contrary, under the riding of the Electoral Commission, if they are accepted as the governing law, every encouragement is given to reckless, strenuous partisans to carry their States either by force or by fraud; that the Electoral Commission, as constituted, has afforded no practical solution of the Constitutional difficulties attending the fount of the Electoral votes in disputed Staten, and that an exigency again arising like that 01 1376 will surely lead to revolution; that the appointment of the Electoral Commission was wholly beyond and outside of the Constitution, and its determination ought to have no legal force or effect; that the appointing of Judges of the Supreme Court upon such political formation had done great harm to the cause of justice by impairing the reverence that the people have always j ustly had for the integrity of the decision of that Court of causes between party and party, and in undermining the popular estimate of the stern impartiality of the Court, that in all questions it will do equal and exact justice under the law to every citizen, and in view of ita ill-succese the experiment ought never to be tried again. '1 he result has shown that it is against public policy, and tends to bring the elements of corruption into political methods of action, to send semi-official partisans of large political influence on one aide or the other, or both, into States for the purpoee of controlling or advising either in regard to bow ita Electors shall vote, or to advise as to the manner in which the votes of States shall be returned and counted; that the oounting-in of Hayes was obtained by a series of gross and unjustifiable irregularities and frauds, which cannot be too strongly condemned and reprobated; that, if any title to the Governorship of Louisiana resulted from the late election in that State to any one it was to Gov. Packard, who was legally elected, duly qualified and inaugurated, and had the right to the support of the General Government against domestic violence and insurrection, bv which the State and himself were equally deprived of their just political rights; that the act of Hayes, as President of tbe United States, in appointing and sending the MacVeagh Commission down to Louisiana for the purpose, and the instruction to act under which it was sent, was an act wholly unauthorized by the Constitution, and not within the power or scope of the Executive, and especially reprehensible, as ita purpose and motive was to carry out a corrupt political arrangement, and compact on his part made by his friends, with his knowledge and acquiesence and consent, the fruits of which he is still enjoying without right and against the law; that there neither is nor ought to be any indefeasable title to any executive office which cannot be reached, re-examined, and decided by proper proceedings authorized by Congress to be taken ana heard ultimate!' before the Supreme Judicial Court.

A Warning to Vipers and Copperheads.

The debate upon the merits of Jefferson Davis’ loyalty,which was unwittingly precipitated upon the Senate by Gen. Shields’ amendment to pension all the Mexican volunteers during the rest of their lives, was only an incidental feature of the closing scenes—a sort of side-show to the principal performance—but it none the less serves to exhibit how boldly and brazenly the Confederate Brigadiers have come to the front, and with what malignant complacency they hurl their treasonable utterances into the face of the loyal North. If any Uniop man had predicted in 1865 that in 1879 an exRebel Would rise in the United States Senate, and not only eulogize Jefferson Davis, compare him with Washington, pronounce him a patriot and lover of his country, but declare he occupied the same position with him upon the rights of a State to secede, as did Mr. Lamar, and that a conservative Democrat would advocate placing him upon the roll of honor as a pensioner, as did Mr. Thurman, the prophet would have been laughed to scorn. But the event has happened and the disgraceful spectacle has been witnessed.

One after another the Southern Brigadiers rose* in their places, with the encouragement of Northern doughfaces, bidders for the vote of the •'Solid South,” and poured out a flood of passionate rhetoric in eulogy of the " Lost Cause,” justified the right of secession, reaffirmed it with -fresh malignity, cracked their whips at loyal men as they did before the war, and, with brazen audacity, began the old work of attempting to bully And browbeat the North. Their audacity, however, did not pass without rebuke. One old Hon was roused, and his savage reply dazed the Brigadiers, who, flushed with the possession of place and power, had evidently fancied that they could flaunt their treason with impunity, and that the old spirit of the North had cooled down in the long years that have followed the close of the war. The reply of old Zach Chandler to the bullying, roaring Rebels around him is one of those brief, vivid, terse, incisive utteiances which are only struck off at white heat, and contain volumes in sentences. It was like the sudden blast of a whirlwind or the crush of a thunderbolt, and its effect was best shown by the failure of the Rebels to reply to it. As a speech which ought to be preserved by every man in the North, we reproduce it Mr. Chandler rose and said:

• " Mh. Phwudent : Twenty years ago I, in company with Jeffenon Davia, stood up in thia chamber and with hiin swore by Almighty God that I would support the Constitution of the United Staten. Mr. Jefferson Davia came direct from the Cabinet of Franklin Pierce into the Senate of the United States and took the oath with me to be faithful to thia Government. Daring four years I sat in thia body with Jefferson Davin, and raw the preparation* going on from day to day for the overthrow of thia Government. With treason in his heart and perjury upon his lipa he took the oath to sustain the Government that he meant to overthrow. Sir, there wan method in thia madness. He, in co-operation with other men from hia acction. and in the Cabinetof Mr. Buchanan, made careful preparations for the event that was to follow. Your fleets were scattered wherever the winda blew and water wan found to float them, where they could not be used to put down a rebellion. Your armiea were scattered all oyer thia broad land where they could not be nacd in an emergency. Your Treasury wks depleted until your bonds bearing 6 per oent, interest, principal and interest payable in coin, were sola for eighty-eight cents on the dollar to pay current expenses, and no buyers. Preparations were carefully made. Your arms were sold under an apparently innocent clause iri an Army bill providing that the Secretary of War might in his discretion sell such arms as he deemed best for the interest of the Government to sell. Sir, eighteen years ago last month 1 sat in this hall and listened to Jefferson Davis delivering his farewell addrawtjl. in ferwuag tai what- our Constitutional duties to thia Government were, and then be left and entered into a rebellion to

overthrow the Government that ha had sworn to support. I remained here, sir, during the whole of that terrible Rebellion, I mw our brave soldiers by thousands, and I might almost sav millions, as they fmitted through here to the theater of war. I saw their shattered ranks returning. 1 saw steamboat after steamboat, and railroad train after railroad train, brintfiiw tack the wounded. I was with my friend from Rhode Island (Burnside) when he commanded the Army of the Botouuic, and saw oiks of legs and arms that made humanity shudder. 1 saw the widows and orphans made by this war. and heard them wail and mourn over the death of their dearest and best Mr. President. 1 little thought at that time that I should live to hear in the Senate of the United States eulogies Upon Jefferson Davis, living, a living rebel, on tbe floor of the Senate of the United States. Sir. I am amased to hear it; and 1 can tell the gentlemen on the other side that they little know the spirit of the North when they come here at this day, with hravado on their lips, uttering eulogies upon him whom every man, woman, and child ill' the North believes to have been a double-dyed traitor.” In this brief speech Mr. Chandler has compressed, in addition to his characterization of Jefferson Davis, the history of the treason which he championed; the conspiracy of the rebels; their infamous plots while in the Union and making protestations of loyalty; the progress of the rebellion and its close; and ho emphasizes it with no bluster, braggadocio or threat, but with the simple, significant warning that they do not know the spirit of *he North when they publicly bestow their eulogies upon a man whom “ every man, woman and child in the North knows to have been a double-dyed traitor.” The North is slow to move, but when it does move the result ought to be known to the South, if they can learn anything from bitter experience. The North is anxious for peace and a fraternal feeling between the two sections. Knowing its strength, it is ready to make concessions, and it has already conceded more for the sake of peace than has ever characterized any Power victorious over treason in the history of the world. After having pardoned the rebels, After having restored the right of self-government to them, after having readmitted them to office and allowed them to take their old places where they plotted the overthrow of the Government, after having withdrawn the army from their section upon their solemn pledges that all classes of people should have their rights under the laws of the States and the Constitution of the United States, it has seen them deliberately violate those pledges and disfranchise an entire race, and has only protested. It has seen them persecute and murder Republicans, and has only protested. It has seen them desecrate the ballot-box with open and unblushing frauds, and coolly and complacently defy the National Government to enforce the statutes protecting the elections, and it has only protested. It has seen Democratic Representatives taking seats to which they were never elected, by virtue of a partisan majority, and it has only protested. And now, in quick succession, the South has poured in its claims demanding compensation for its effort to destroy the Government; has attacked the army with the intention of crippling it, if it cannot destroy it; has assailed the few remaining safeguards of the ballot; has threatened to stop the necessary supplies for running the Government; and finally has the effrontery to proclaim and reaffirm the right of secession in Congressional debates. Mr. Chandler’s warning is a timely one. It represents the sentiment of a majority of the Northern people—not alone of Radical Republicans, but of thousands of Liberals, many of whom have voted with the Democrats for the sake of conciliation and harmony. The South is treading upon dangerous ground. It mistakes the temper of our people. It may raise a storm if it crowds too closely.— Chicago Tribune.

Blind Partisans.

The Potter Committee have made their report, and the Democratic corpse, that has been carried over the same old bridge until the planks are worn away, is again lugged across on the stringers, borne upon the shoulders of the sorrowful statesmen who compose the majority of the committee. There was really but one point in this renowned onslaught on a dead issue that needed attentive examination, and which really interested the American people; that was the charges regarding the attempts on both sides to purchase the Electoral votes. It started with an attempt to involve Sec’y Sherman and other visiting statesmen, and the charges were fully investigated, every facility being afforded for the examination. The result was a full vindication of every Republican from the President down. Then came the charges against Mr. Tilden. They grew until, by the exposure of the cipher dispatches, the guilt was traced not only to his most intimate Democratic advisers, but to his own household. It became impossible to deny or escape the fact that, from the home of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency had gone out offers of bribery, propositions to - purchase the votes of electors for the purpose of Elevating Mr. Tilden to the Presidency. The guilt was Mr. Tilden's, or his nephew's, one or both, and the question was, which should bear the odium. There was little hesitation. To convict the former would be to cast still greater disgrace and obloquy on the party; to saddle the crime on the nephew would only leave suspicion of the uncle's complicity in place of positive proof, and so the scape-goat was saddled with the shame and turned out; but not into the wilderness. Oh, no! He still remained in the uncle's household, and in the uncle's employ, his only task being to carry round the obloquy, which his distinguished relative was too cowardly and the Democratic party too selfish to assume. All this has come before the Potter Committee, but do they mourn over the shame, and denounce tho would-be sellers and buyers of American honor P Not at all. They do not even condescend to deprecate this scandalous and nefarious attempt to rob freemen of their votes.

They-decline to even express regret over tne affair, and go through their long report without so much as alluding to it. This is the sort of document that the American public is requested to give ear, to. Those are the kind of disinterested statesmen whom the people are expected to look on with admiration and respect. —Chicago ter-Ocean.'-—The Utica Herald is responsible for the following rat and clam story: “.A New-Berliner bought two dozen elams last week", took them homo, and spread meal on them. The next morning he found that thirty-two rats, in search of meal had been caught by tails and toes ■by twenty-three clams. The unoccupied clam must have bossed the job. One clam had three rats. Ohs of our most estimable citizens may be thankful for th« introduction of Dr. Bull’a Cough Syrup, for its timely use has saved his life.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The close observer, if he knows what a farmer does with his leisure hoars in winter, can in some measure predict his success in the busy days of seed time and harvest. . —Never trv to beat a colt into doing a thing; or, if nervous, he may turn out a vicious horse, and if stupid, he may'become stubborn. Remember that by patience and gentleness he can be got to do anything that will not hurt, him.— lowa Stale Register. —Boston Baked Beans.—For family of six or eight persons, take one ouart of beans and put to soak over night. In the morning take half or three-quar-ters of a pound of salt pork and4}alt a cup of molasses, put with the beans into the bean-pot, cover with fresh water, put the cover on and bake slowly all day —add hot water as often as required. —lt has become the fashion to spread ourself out over more land than one can cover without becoming too thin; and the disease has just as strong hold on Simpson with his forty acres as it has on Livingston with his thousand. Too much land for the amount of culture; too much for the amount of manure; too much for the amount of care, thought and brains expended.— Col. Scott. —Baked Bread Pudding.—Break stale bread in small bits, to fill a pint bowl, put it into a quart of warm milk; when it is soft beat it fine, add two well beaten eggs, half a nutmeg grated, a bit of butter the size of a large egg, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, with a teaspoonful of salt; a teaspoonful of lemon extract is an improvement. Bake one hour in a hot oven. You may add raisins if you like them. —Egg Mince Meat. —Take six; hardboiled eggs and shred them very fine; take double the quantity of beef suet, and chop very small; wash one pound of currants and dry them; the peel of one large or two small lemons chopped up; six tablespoons of vinegar, sweetened; a little mace, nutmeg and salt, with sugar to your taste; add a quarter of a pound of candied orange and citron, cut into thin slices. Mix all well together and press it into a jar for use. —Snow Pancakes.—Four ounces of flour; a quarter of a pint of milk; and a little grated nutmeg; a pinch of salt; sufficient flour to make thick batter, and three large Spoonfuls of snow to each pancake. Make stiff batter with four ounces of flour, a quarter of a pint of milk, or more if required, a little grated nutmeg, and a pinch of salt. Divide the batter into any number of pancakes, and add three large spoonfuls of snow to each. Fry them lightly, in very good butter, and serve •quickly.

How Great Hogs are Fattened.

Carter and Southard have reduced the business of pork-raising to a science. The former, intent upon taking the palm, started off with thirty-nine hogs. Upon twenty-seven of these he bases his* hopes of success. Of the original number several have been killed. In January three of them came so very near choking to death that the farmer grew frightened and slaughtered them. They weighed 798, 817 and 738 pounds, respectively. The hogs entered for the prize have had the very best of care. There are just two events in the lives of such hogs—sleeping and eating. They are too fat even to waddle. They never wake up, except to eat, and that process over they again stretch out upon clean straw in their separate pens. These particular hogs of Mr. Carter’s were too lazy even to feed themselves, and. indeed, even if they were not, they could not see their food. For weeks they had been in total blindness. Like the average hog of no particular distinction they all had eyes, but three inches and a half of genuine fat kept them closed completely. The feeding process is one of interest to both hog and spectator. The farm hand rolls up boiled meal into round balls and forces it into their hogships’ mouths. The hogs grunt and swallow and keep it up until they are perfectly gorged. They are kept in a stuffed condition on the best of meal, and all that is asked of them is to grow fat. Southard has not killed yet. He began the year with twenty-nine hogs, all Jersey reds, but his pens now contain but twenty-three. There they were, lying around, grunting and puffing, and with snouts pointing upward in search of air. Their eyes could not be seen, and it took strong fingers to pry away the masses of fat so that the hidden organs of sight could be opened out. The blind, helpless masses were shaken by loud breathing, and occasionally would give vent to a snort, but they seemed entirely unable to getupon their feet.— Burlington (N. J.) Letter to Philadelphia Times.

The Farmers of the Future.

Who are to be the farmers of the future? Where are those who will occupy the old homesteads? Who. shall be the best farmer “in our neighborhood?” By far the largest portion of the future farmers are already on the homestead. The young men and boys living on their father’s farms are the candidates for the worthy position of “ best farmer.” Some one amongthemwill. outrank all others. Why r Because he was born so? No! not by any means. Simply because he will make himself the best. Young men who desire to stand well among their fellows, or who are ambitious to stand above them, have the encouraging fact to spur them on to attain such a position, and to bear always in ipind, that there are no farmer geniuses born to the position. The highest rank awaits anyone who will grasp the prise; and who shall succeed in acquiring it, depends solely upon the efforts made by each. Furtnei more, the actual position each will assume, will be proportionate to the energy and perseverance put forth. Now, these two words, energy and perseverance, need not scare anyone. They don’t mean overworking oneself and complete exhaustion. On the contrary, they prevent any such suicidal practice, or wasteful habit. One’s strength and powers must be held under LWatrol—husbanded, and a check administered now and then, or else “energy;” or otherwise “perseverance,” will not be able to hold out.' They exclude frantic and spasmodic exertions which do not promote advancement, but, on the contrary, very greatly retard it. ’ How shall these two qualities be apKlied to make successful farmers of the oys and young men? Well, if you have not begun the application already, start at 6nce. Lay the foundation now. And let that foundation be thought. Keep one word always in the front and on the right and left, above and below you, until your whole expression and personality shall indicate it. That word is— Whyt You are sent to plow

afield a certain way—think, “WhyP” You harrow it once. It is not enough. Yoa are sent the second, and even a third time over it. Think, “WhyP” You cultivate a crop first One way, then another—"WhyP” The cattle must lie regularly watered; your father says: “You attend to it.” Think while doing it T -“WhyP" The feed, must be changed. “WhyP” The plow must bo sharpened. “WnvP” In snort, white cultivating your father’s field, cultivate the field ot thought in your own mind. Do notask “WhyP” think “ Why P” Solve for your own self each problejn as it appears, and it may occur that you will bo able to answer “why” to many difllculies that confront and confuse older heads around you.. Fiyst, then, lay the foundation of your future success upon a deep and broad " WhyP’ Do not be mere machines to perform the routine only of the work assigned you.— M. Oakey, in Rural New Yorker.

The Cancer Hospital, at Aurora, Ill.

Dr. F. L. Pond’s hospital In this city, the largest institution in the United States, especially devoted to the treatment of this particular disease, is full ot patients from all over the Union. These patients, both male and female, are of all ages and'conditions, and afflicted with every imaginary form of this frightful disease in “all its stages—but a visit to the hospital, the other day, convinced us that all of these sufferershave implicitfaith In the skill of Dr. Pond, and those whose cases are most critical only regret that they had not availed themselves of his services before suffering years of worse than useless treatment In other hands. The most perfect system, good order and neatness Is apparent everywhere; the Doctor makes it a point to personally look after the care and comfort of each patient, and the smile of gratitude with which he is welcomed in every room is evidence that his efforts in their behalf are duly appreciated. Each succeeding visit to the Aurpra Uanccr Hospital more fully Impresses us In the belief that it is the most admirablyconducted institution of the kind in the country, and that its energetic and skillful proprietor is doing a wonderfully-successful work in the relief and cure of persons afflicted In this direction. The hospital is full of- patients—arrivals and departures being of almost dally occurrence. At the hospital, his powerful electrogalvanic battery is in excellent working order, and frequently proves of inestimable value in the removal of monster tumors without drawing blood, and the performance of other difficult and dangerous operations. Scrofula and skin diseases of all kinds are treated with success by the Dr. Send for information. — Beacon. In Saxony, where the cold water system is carried out in large dairies, an apparently effectual plan has been hit upon for preventing the milk “ turning” suddenly in tempestuous weather. A thin, iron-wire chain is passed through the milk-pans, the ends of which are kept constantly in the cold water. Dr. Fleischman, of Baden, testifies to the practicability of this method, for, he observes, authorities on the subject maintain that milk is less sensitive to the electricity of the air than to the temperature that surrounds it more immediately. The fact that milk kept in enameled or tinned vessels is less liable to sour in hot weather is thought to speak well for this new theory.

A weekly return of London pauperism shows that on the last day of the third week in January the total number of paupers was 87,391, of which 44,440 wete in Workhouses and 42,951 received outdoor relief. Compared with the corresponding weeks of 1878 and 1877, these figures show an increase of 3,787 and 2,482; but as compared with 1876, a decrease of 1,596. The number of indoor 'paupers was, however, 7,140 greater than in the corresponding week in 1876. The number of vagrants relieved on the last day of the week was 592, of whom 455 were men, 119 women and eighteen children under sixteen. A barber’s apprentice is an under strapper.

Doctors Gave Him Up.

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Fashionable Foolishness.

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