Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 July 1870 — Page 2

MONDAY, JULY 18, 1870.

Dnim TS Yoorliecs.

We have neither felt nor expressed any reluctance to Mr. Dunn'» acceptance of any chance to meet his competitor, pQ.for® the people, anywhere But -we certain believe that

Voorhees' singularly

Se^MnlTunn's di^osal,' and no information as to the course will adopt.—Express.

The canvass was characterized by this policy. The Etpressapprobated it. The little Terre Haute clique endorsed it, and the canvass closed. The people went to the polls. Carter should have been elected by one thousand majority. He was defeated, and this district has been represented ever since by Mr. Voorhees. This same policy is now sought to be again inaugurated in this Congressional district. If it is, the result will be the same.

Now, what course should Mr. Dunn pursue in this particular? He has made some appointments in Monroe county, and perhapstlie.se appointments will have to be filled. But if they can be postponed without too great a disappointment to the people, we would most certainly advise him to do so and make the canvass with Voorhees through all of his appointments. Mr. Dunn can in the mean time make reappointments in Monroe, and invite Voorhees toa joint discussion there. This will be more agreeable to the people, who desire to have a joint debate. If the appointments in Monroe county are surrounded only by ordinary circumstances, let them be postponed, and let Mr. Voorhees be "bearded in his den." This will show spirit—what the people like. Will show pluck—what is admired by every one—will show that the earnest Kepublicans of this Congressional District, have an earnest man as their candidate —which every one hopes and believes.

A Paris Newspaper Joke.

The Paris Figaro recently made an experiment in advertisements which was far in advance of any which Yankee shrewdness even has yet invented. One day the Figaro appeared with a blank column, and an explanatory note saying that the article thus printed was printed in sympathetic ink, because it contained so indecent a passage that to lay it before its readers in black and white would be a breach of the proprieties. However, those who wished to read and be shocked had only to place the column between sheets of blotting paper, and iron it with a hot iron, whereupon all the indecencv would appear. Of course all Paris bought the day's issue and took it to Paris' laundry but, iron as the prurient French men might, nothing whatever apneared except the very patent fact that ''somebody" had been oadly sold.

THE contract for labor in the United State Public Stores, at New York, has been awarded at $75,000 per annum or §20,000 less than to the hist contractors

THE main factory building of the Meriden, Conneticut. Brittania Company was almost totally destroyed by fire (Saturday. Jjxm, $400,000 insurance, $375,000.

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Only as fftr back as last Saturday morning the Express suggested to Mr. Dunn that he "reciprocate" Mr. Voorhees' invitation to a joint discussion, by inviting Mr. Voorhees to "attend his meetings."

This of course was the policy which the Express desired Mr. Dunn to pursue in this particular. Not to accept the proposition of Voorhees to meet him in joint discussion, but to evade it by asking him to meet Mr. Dunn in a joint discussion. Thus, by special pleading and demagogueism, to slip through the campaign without those two exponents of the great parties getting together at all.

On Saturday we exposed this strategy of our neighbor, and showed wherein .such a course would lead to the defeat of Mr. Dunn. The Republicans who read our paper, saw at once that our suggestions were right, and that Mr. Dunn must accept this invitation of his competitor, and confront him on the stump. So decided was popular opinion in this direction, and in favor of a bold, dashing, stand up fight between these two champions, that the Express this morning, ever anxious to tack its sails to suitthe popular breeze, says "we have neither felt nor expressed any reluctance to Mr. Dunn's acceptance of any chance to meet his competitor before the people anywhere."

Well that is quite a "flop," but as it is a "flop" in the right direction, we only have to congratulate our neighbor.

But the Express says that "the whole matter is one for Mr. Dunn's disposal, and it has no information as to the course he will adopt." It is difficult to tell what course a candidate will adopt if the press, which should adopt a policy—vascillates in favor of one course to-day, and another to-morrow—suggests one thing be done one time, and at another says that it has neither "felt nor expressed" a desire to pursue that course—is opposed to all aggressive measures, and prefers, and recommends a milk and water, namby tamby campaign.

The people have not forgotten how this course was pursued in the canvass two years ago. The Express throughout all that fight was the most easy, good liatured, wishy-washy thing imaginable. Its remarkable self-complacency was never ruffled in the least. Everything went on iust as it recommended and desired. It was all sunshine and brotherly love, around that office. Long suffering and great forbearance characterized every article which from day to day appeared in its columns. Major Carter, taking his cue from this mountain of amiability, went into the campaign. Special pleading and loggerhead trickery was recommended c»nJ voumees made his appointments and filled them, flnrtor mnde his, and filled them. Voorhees—whose record was covered all over with treason to his country—slipped through the canvass without one word being said against that record. His oily tongue and plausible arguments left

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refuted, almost persuaded the people that, really, another "Daniel had come to judgement!" Major Carter, whose record was a glorious one—covered all over with heroic deeds in battling the enemies of his country—went through the canvass, and the people who heard them both at different limes, hardly knew which of the two was the greatest patriot, or to which really belonged the greatest honor for having done so much g6od for the country during the war.

Judge Perkins on the Negro Question.^ Editor

the

Indianapolis

in •mini, require cision."

Journal:

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the Democracy to tight the coming political battle on the ground of opposition to negro suffrage. will make-it as brief as possible 1. The negro is not an inhabitant of our country by his own act. White men brough him here in chains and retained him as a slave. 2. The negroes are men—human beings and, according to the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal and with an inalienable right to liberty and, according to the Bible, God made one blood all the nations of the earth. 3. At the commencement of the late civil war there were from three to four millions of these negro men in the

South

ern States, mostly held as slaves. 4. On the 1st of January, 18G3, Mr. Lincoln, as a war measure, made the slaves freemen by proclamation. 5. In the same year the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted, prohibiting their being again reduced to slavery.

G. This is the amendment: "Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except l'or the punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, orany place subject to their juris diction." 7. In 1866 following, the Civil Bights bill, the 14th amendment to the Constitution was adopted. This is the first section of the amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." 8. In 1868-9, the Fifteenth amendment was added to the Constitution. This is it: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

This last amendment is the most complained of by Democrats but, after the previous amendments, this one became right and proper. It is a perpetual guaranty to the States of Republican governments, which guaranty the judiciary can execute.

The original Constitution of the United States ordains that: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government-"

The Southern States, as reorganized by President Johnson, presented themselves to Congress with constitutions of government based upon the white citizens of those States ftlone, being, in some of the States, not much more than half the number of citizens. Those constitutions did not create republican governments, and hence, fell under the jurisdicton of Congress for reconstruction. A republican government is one under which the adult compos mentis male citizens, not disfranchised for crime, have the right to vote and hold office.

This definition is taken substantially from the report of the Democratic members of the committee in Congress on the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island in 1843-4. The report was made upon a memorial of Rhode Islanders asking Congress to give that State a republicrn government, and was drawn by Edmund Burke, of New Hampshire—a very able man—was con™:elLLu ^te^'^Kflhe'other Democrats on the committee was supported by all the Democratic members in Congress, and was made the text-book of Democratic stump speakers in the Presidential campaigli of 1844. I sustained it as a Polk elector then I continue to support it now as a private citizen, because it is right. The report says: "All the power which Congress possesses over the subject matter of the memorial is derived from the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution which has been before cited. That provision guarantees to each State a republican form of government, and stipulates to protect each of them against invasion, &e. This provision of the Constitution vests in the Congress of the United States a supervision over all the Ktate Constitutions so far as the ascertainment of their repul5lican character is concerned, and when those constitutions do not provide for a republican form of government, which, in addition to an outward popular organization, the committee understand to be one which exists in the consent of the people, and over which they have control, it is the duty of Congress to set it aside, and to recognize and enforce one which possesses this republican character." Again says the report: "On this point the"committee differ with the President (John Tyler). They hold that when the casus foederis arises which demands the execution of the constitutional guarantee to the State, the author of the Union, charged with the execution of that guarantee must deliberate and decide. They must decide whether they are called upon to guarantee a republican form of government adopted by the people of the State claiming the guarantee, or to perpetuate a government which is not, or has ceased to be, republican. The section of the constitution containtliis stipulated guarantee, ex vi tcrtliis deliberation and de- I

Such was unanimous Democratic doctrine in 1844,upon which Polk waseleeted. This Democratic report not only defines a Republican Government as one in which all the adult male citizens are voters, but it goes further. The Committee say: "They believe that the right of suffrage is a natural right, not a constitutional right, which attaches to man, independent of the accident of birth, or fortune of which right he can not be divested, except by usurpation or force." A government which excludes a large number of its citizens from the right to vote is an oligarchy.

The negroes, then, being "citizens, have the right to vote. State governments depriving them of this right are not republican, and it is the duty of Congress to cause such State governments to lie reconstructed with a republican form.

All this lias been constitutionally done, so far as the States of the United States are concerned, and the negro man is a voter constitutionally and (the Democrats said in 1844) by natural rights. To oppose his right to vote is now to oppose the Constitution, to oppose the republican government, to deny the Declaration of Independence, and favor the return of the negro, in effect, toward slavery. The negro, in fact, votes without disturbance, and associates with the whites in daily labor, in carriage rides, in barber shops, in menageries, and in kitchen and dining rooms, and why he may not in voting I do not see.

A word as to the bearing of the amendment upon State rights. There is much misrepresentation upon this point. No amendment has been made not justified by the original constiution, and none but what is in discharge of an obligation imposed by it. It says that the United States shall guarantee to each State a republican government. Now in discharge

If obligation the United States have rw. amendments to the National viz, the Thirteenth,

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The third takes away the State right of establishing an oligarchy of race. The amendments compel the States to continue to keep their governments republican.

They take away the State right to do wrong. S. E. PERKINS.

INDIANA NEWS.

A bonded warehouse is talked of in Evansville. Hon. Henry S. Lane lias returned from his trip to California.

Senator Revels will speak at Richmond on the 21st. Rev. James Hill and wife have gone to California. They left Evansville a few days ago.

The prospect for a large corn crop in all parts of the State, is quite flattering, as we learn from an exchange.

A band of Gipsies are annoying the people in the neighborhood of LaFayette by milking cows, stealing chickens, &c.

A girl in Kosciusko county lias just sold her hair for $200. She is to be married and wants the money to set up housekeeping.

The old settlers had a meeting near Fort Wayne a few days ago. Quite a number of the old folks gathered to talk over the past.

A man named Hugh Murphy stabbed Samuel Robinson atQ.uincy, Owen county, a few days ago. The wound will not prove fatal.

GustavusTrabner has been absent several days from his home in Paoli, and his friends know not where he lias gone. It is feared that he has been murdered for his money.

Some scoundrel for spite attacked the horses of T. H. Arms, who lives in the edge of Benton county, adjoining Warren and chopped them so badly with an axe that one will certainly die.

The wife of Jno. O. Stewart eloped with a man named Lockwood from Olney, 111., and is now in an eating house in Vincennes where she receives the attention of Lockwood, who is an old man, and has daughters old enough to marry.

A widow lady in New Albany gave a feast a few days ago to a number of her friends, it being the celebration of one of her sons' 22d birth-day. The meat served upon the occasion was enjoyed by ail, being the flesh of a fat dog.

A railroad to be called the Fort Wayne and Pacific Railroad is talked of. A meeting of prominent railroad men was held in Fort Wayne a few days ago to take the matter under consideration. It is proposed that it shall run from New London, Ohio, to Omaha.

A raving maniac made an attack on a policeman at LaFayette last Friday, and but for th'e great strength of the policeman would have put an end to his life. The maniac was armed with a hatchet and a knife, and inflicted several wounds on the policeman aforesaid.

The Fort Wayne

jDemocrat

says: A

little child about two years of age, daughter of C. Corneille, residing near the French Hotel, died on Wednesday last from poison. The family had been using patent paper fly poison, for the extermination of flie.s, some of which the little girl obtained while alone in 'ul" in eating a quantity sufficient to cause her death. As soon as it was discovered, antidotes were administered and physicians called, but all to no avail.

The Gosport Independent says: "Last Saturday afternoon about five o'clock, Mrs. Mary B. Evans, aged sixty-five years, who resides about three miles east of here, went to a neighbor's house for the ljurpose of lighting her pipe. Being told that there was no fire in the house, she was directed to a large log heap which was on fire some distance from the house. In stooping down to get a coal she lost her balance and fell into the red bot coals, and was not discovered until her clothes were nearly burned from her person and portions of her body burned to a crisp."

Loss of Life in Modern Wars. In a recent speech by Mr. Pease, M. P. for South Durham, he remarked that in a very instructive volume lately published in France, a careful estimate (compiled from authentic documents) was made of the cost in lives of recent European wars. The Crimean Avar was stated to have cost 784,900 lives: the war in Italy in 1857, 45,000 in Sehleswig-Holstein, 3,500 the American war, 800,000 the Prussian war, 45,000 Mexico and China, 65,000— making a total, between 1853 to 1866, of 1,750,000 lives and those were men in the prime of life, men who ought to have been useful and productive citizens. And besides all these, there were the maimed, the halt, and the blind, who were scattered over all the nations of Europe. Sucli were the effects of thirteen years' war in the nineteenth century. M. Leroy Beaulieu, in his •lRec.lierches sur les Ouerres Contemporaries" (the work alluded to by Mr. Pease), supplies some very curious statistics about the cost of war.

It is really surprising to see how much money is spent for every man killed on the field or sent away to die of his wounds or of some sickness of the camp. The thing was done with comparative cheapness in the Crimean Avar where a vast number of men were got together at close quarters. Between the Russians and the Allies there were more than three-quarters of a million men killed each of them at the price of £133. On' the other hand, the maximum of cost was reached in the American civil Avar. Each one of the 800,000 deaths (though this is a small estimate, Ave should im-

agine) Avas purchased by an expenditure of £3345. The belligei-ents in South America did the horrible business more cheaply, not spending more than £900 potman. Small

Avars

The Danish

are generally costly.

Avar

extinguished 3500 lives

at an average cost of £2000. The campaign Avliich ended at SadoAva must be reckoned, considering its brief duration, to have been expensive. Every life cost nearly §1500. It is a strange policy which makes civilized societies expend Avhat Avould be a comfortable maintenance to three or four men on the destruction of one.

CALIFORNIA QUICKSILVER.—1The total annual supply of quicksihrer from California is not far from 50,000 flasks, or about 3,000,000 pounds. This is used in metallurgy, manufacturing, and art processes. The largest quantity is used by the gold miners in the amalgamating process at the various mines. A considerable amount is used by manufacturing chemist® in preparing calomel, 'blue pill,' mercurial ointment, and various mercurial salts and plasters. The Chinese make fr°m quicksilver that beautiful pigment vermilion, which is so largely employed by painters and colorers in all parts of the world. It is singular that this people are able to prepare a chemical compound from quicksihrer Avhich is superior to, and which commands a higher price than the same salt produced in Europe and the United States, where the arts are carried to the highest perfection. English and American vermillion. as found in the market, is far inferior in brilliancy and quality to the Chinese.

Goods are lower within ten years.

$10

?0STSB

WIRE.

NEW JERSEY WIRE MILLS. MS:XK¥

Wire Mill, Newark, New Jersey.

REFRIGERATOR.

DOIN'T WASTE MONEY

On a poorly made,

IMPERFECT, UNVENTILATED ICE CHEST, OF FOREIGN MAKE,

When, for the same, or less price, you can procure one of

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AMERICAN REFRIGERATORS,

WHICH

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ManuTacturer of

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All kinds of goods made to order for median ical and manufactured purposes. All goods sold at manufacturing prices.

BETWEEM FBAIfCE AMI) PRUSSIA!

LOOK OUT FOR A RISE IN GOLD!

Still Greater Advance in Dry Goods!

From France and Germany we draw immense supplies of almost all lands of Manufactured Goods. THIS WAR WILL STOP A MILLION OF SPINDLES.'

DRY GOODS MUST BE HIGHER

Ever on the alert, and believing from the first that War was inevitable, we hare been quietly purchasing very largely of such goods as would advance the most This enables us to announce

IVO

O'UR

"ANCE "ANCE

We Stand by Those Who Have Stood by Us!

True to their interests, we do not propose to advance our prices a single cent until all our stock is exhausted.

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!

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Agents lor all tha Principal Manufactureis, *d3m 49 AVest Fourth st., Cincinnati

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English, Swiss and American move-

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Watc}ies

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J®weled Levers, extra fine and supev! ?15: to $200 Gold ones. we nave just commenced making a very fine American AVatch, full Jeweled, lever, chronometer balance, adjusted to heat, cold and position Heavy Double Cases, equal in appearance and for time to a Gold Watch costing 82d0.

We charge only §25 for these magnificent watches. All our watches in huuting cases, gent's and ladies' sizes. Chains, SI to §8. Also, all kinds of jewelry, equal to gold, at one-tenth the price.

We are now making jewelry of the California Diamonds. These arc real stones of great brilliancy and liardness.and can not be distinguishad from the genuine stones, even by good judges.

CLUBS—Where six Watches are ordered at one time, we will send a seventh Watch free. Goods sent by express to be paid for on delivery.

Call or address, OROIDE WATCH CO., No. 93 Washington street, Boston, United States. Price It issent free. Id3m

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IF HAS BEE N"DECLARED

AXI) A

CUSTOMEMS

THAT, FOR THE PRESENT, THERE WILL BE

IN IN

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PRICES! PRICES!

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CARPETS of all kinds away down. Thirty els. up.

Sulendid 12-4 Honey-Comb Quilts only Sl.«. Handsome Fringed Towels, all lmon,cc u:h. linos of Black Aiicl Coloicd feilKs. PnnTlns Grenadines, Dagmar Cloths, Shawls, Lace Points, Hosie ... Teans and Cassimeres, White Marseilles, Hickory. Denims and Checks, Table Li Fu"sol"-uicl Sun Umbrellas, &c., &c., all new and bought with (.'ASH since the

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Manufacturer of

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Super Roy a and Imperial, Colored Pester,

Cover and Label Papers, Envelopes and Blotting Paper

Book, News and Wrapping Papers,

Of our own manufact ure, all of which we otto at the lowest market price. Samples nr

sent free of charge.

CARD STOCK.

Our stock is from {lie best Eastern manufacturers, and will be found equal to any made in the country. Particular attention is called to our large variety of

Favorite Blanks and Bristol Sheets,

which embraces all the desirable grades in use. We have the largest variety of sizes and qualities of any house in the West, and our arrangements with manufacturers enable us to sell at Eastern prices. Customers will find it to their advantage to examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere.

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W~~~ T-t-r"

LACE POINTS

we will

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and Napkins,

great decline.

PAPER.

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We sell only GOOD Goods.

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And sell at prices to SUIT THE TIMES.

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89 Main Street,

Between Third and Fourth Sts.

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