Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 October 1876 — Page 5

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OO per year $1,00 for six montli« $2.00 for3 months. The V/EKKI/V OAZKTTE i» Issued every Thursday, ami contains all the bent matter oft IK: nix daily issues The AVEKKI-Y GAZWTE is the. lartreat paper printed in Tetre Haute, and.fc BO I for. One ««Iy per year, $2. srx months, !jl? three months, 50c. A' subscriptions must le paid for in advance. No paper discontinued uuti a 1 thc-ari-cariigMfure paid, UB!S« Jit the the expense oj tli'. proprietor. A fai mo to notify a discontinuance at the cnl of the year r.iil be. -considered a new engagement. •Atitirc-tB atl letter*.

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T»c Administration of Gen. Grant commands our fullest confidence uud appreciation [Indiana Kepublicnn Platform.

Tbe voters of Die Eighteenth Ahbijm District ou^ht to esteem it an Iionor anfi a priviilegetn elect Samuel .J. Tiidcn to tiie i-ogisin. tare, He tins shown liimse'f to be a eonsci•eatittus, efficient foe to corrnption. We appeal to every Republican vitu ami work for him, and to do

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jnake this appeal—beeansa he is an ltonest Democrat.- [New York Times, Nov. ft, 1875.

"Anil thus it is that the great name, the great authority of the Republican party ill its jiatiomil capacity, is being used this very moment to uphold tbe atrocious system of Government wVtich this country ever saw. A |iarty •which cannot live anil prosper unless it be supported-by-corruption a party that cniinot -prosper unio#H it be supported by a revival Of the old iv.•«' fading, anil by tearing open again the. wounds from which tho peopleof tli« United Ktntes lnv.ve bled ao long such a party when is has come to that, does not deserve to

Srliurz four years ago.

"G.overnor Tilden has won his reputation as a reformer, mainly by the prose-

questioning tiis motives, but readily admit that prosecution to have been an enterprise requiring considerable cour age, cirfiuinspeation and perseverance, for which he uhould h-ave full credit. Should he be elected President he will undoubtedly eject from tiieir places,andif possible, otherwise punish all the dishonest officers now in tlve service." Car Schitrz in his Chicago speech, September 7, 1870.

IN another column of this is-.ue will be found a summary of the speech delivered last night at Indianapolis by "Blue Jeat»6" Williams. It is a sensible and kindlv effort.

TJIF. readers of the GAZETTK will be reported to learn from a letter of the Mayor of Savannah that the peopleof that city are no longer in need of public health. 'J he yellow fever has alrnos entirely abated.

THE following hit is a good one if it is on a "distinguished" Democrat. It is a paragraph in the Norristown Herald: "Gen. McClellan is announced to take the stump." It remains to be. seen whether he can take even so gentle a thing as a stump without calling for reenforccments. lie should use strategy, and dig a trench all around the "stump" before lie ventures to take it.

AT the time it was published, ,the GA_ HKfTU doubted that story of an Indiana having laid a monster egg, Vyith the legend, Tilden and Hendricks on it, in red letters. We have changed our mind. Jt was, it must have been, true. No other theory will account for the big Democr tiic rooster that was hatched out last Tuesday.

CARL SCIILKZ had an interview on Wednesday of last week, with' President Grant. The interview took place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York City. It is difficult t* understand this interview between two sworn enemies. Has Schurz changed his opinion of Grant Does he still believe that he has proved the necessity ol Civil Service Reform, by demonstrating how bad our present system is?

AT Cainboy South Carolina^ i'. was a party of unarmed and defenceless whites that was fired into by a mob of negroel armed with muskets. Three of the whiles were killed and they only escaped wholesale slaughter by precipitate flight. This is a case of patriotic murder altogether right and proper, we imagine in the eyes of the Campaign Mail. Undoubtedly the Republican "bail" organ will suggest the propriety of the partyhaving a jollification meeting over this great Republican victory^

STRENGTH OF THE NEQRO VOTE. The negro vote of the United States numbers about 879,^00 and is distributed among the several States as follows: Ai abama *0,400 Arkansas a. 1U0 Culloruia....~.~ 7W Couucoticut. ... 1,700 Delaware *k«K) Florida I '00 Georgia....» —91,100 Illinois 8,20° Indiana Mtw Io a 1,100 Kansas Kentucky JM"® Louisiana w,JU0

Nebraska 140 Nevaua 0 Niyr Hampshire 100 New, Jersey S.B00 New York 9,600 North Carolina 74,100 Ohio 11,600 Uiegon 60 i'euiiByiiania 11,000 Uhoiic Island 950 %outU Carolina 76.000 Ten nest ee 8,t00 Texas ltt,loo Vermont 170 Virginia B8,itu0 Wisconsin 40* Went irgiuiu S,3u0

Maryland.,-...." 81,»W vMaabachuaetts... S.oOO •ftlitlugau

Miuneeota Mississippi -90,700 Missouri J1,M

Total 879,110

A NEAT THINB IN D06S.

following a sample pf Repub can public expenditures: .f (Form 8.) I Appropriation for inprorencnt and care

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The United States (for sundries), Patrick. Sween-v, Dr, 1S73. Sept. 30.—For board and care of dog for July, August -and September thiee months, at -$10. Application: used in place of watchman $30 00 (Receipted as abowe.J Paid by check No. 328, dated Sept. .30,1S72, for $41, on Treasurer, Washington.

I certify that the above account is correct and just, the articles to be (or htve been) accounted for in tviy return for the third quarter of 1872.

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Major of Engineers, l7. S. A. We need scarccly add that the blooded animals who drew the conveyances, appear to be exceedingly voracious and well clothed. The traveling Expenses of foremen and overseers were not defrayed from the contingent funds, as everywhere else these men received their mileage 'ike any general of the army.

TAc. OFFICIAL BOCU SHOPIn all the time included in the following statement, not a 'rce has been set, a trifling amount of sc eiage was defrayed by a sepcrate appropriation, the work was confined to the dumping ot, earth and, according to the vouchers, the fol lowing has been paid oti the account. Fiscal year 1S71-1S72 nothing Fiscal year 1S72-1S73, 13/137 cubic yards'dumped, costing 5° 'X1 Fiscal year .1873-1874, 26,076 cubic yards dumped costing 3,519 97 Fiscal year 1874-1875, 25,899 cubic, yards dumped, costing

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Fiscal lyear 1875-1876, 41,110 cubic yards dumped, costing 4,933 20 Add to tiiis cost of removal of two old lodges from Capitol grounds to these grounds So-) 00

Expended $14,212 01 All these items are taken from the official, vouchers except th cost of the dump during last fiscal, which had been inserted at

cut ion of tho Canal Ring in the State of! prices. This item will show the New Yojlt- I wiJl not follow others in

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Babcock's estimates, and

margins he has for corrupting the public

service. So, it appears, that flowers for the Pres ident's family cost the country over $14, 000,0d in four ars, and three times as much in the last year as in the first of the series.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Governor Chamberlain, of south Carolina, deserves a good coat of tar and feathers at the hands of the people over whom he attempts to rule. He claims to be the lawfully elected Goverror of South Carolina. As such he has the earnest sup port of all who voted for him and also of that large class who will alwavs support the constituted authorities. If he cannot keep the peace in the state, the fault is his own, solelyIf he cannot perform the duties of the office to which he was elected, and for which he is paid, he ought to have the manhood to throw up the job, or in the language ofBrooklyn, "step down and out." Inordinary business affairs, if a manager or foreman who proved himself incompetent, if he did not resign ol his own volition, would be unceremoniously kicked out. This weak kneed Governor has not even tried to do his duty. During the whole summer and fall, he has been traveling through the North, idling away his time at watering plaoes, in imitation of his great exemplar,'{he master muddler of the age, Ulysses S. Grant. In reference to this southern question one thing is noticeable. No Democratic Governor ever whined around the White House asking for help to attend to his local government- That cowardly curse has all been monopolized by the Carpet bag Republicans, who have held office. But the whole end and aim of the movement is to find an excuse for sending troops to the State to perpetuate a rule which thus notoriously and shamefully advertises its inefficiency. The troops will be careful to hold the white rebels while the blacks shoot them. The Campaign Mail ought to have a man on the ground. It would be fine sport for him.

THE following extract is taken from the news colums of the New York Sun. It shows the mildness and tolerance of the blacks in the North. It is especially commended to the Campaign Mail, whose timorous soul is tilled with fears, thct the blacks in the South may not be permitted to exercise the elective franchise. More eyes and less mouth is needed by the C. M. The Sun says

Scrgt. Wells and a squad of policemen of the Fifteenth Precinct marched to the hall of the Colord Men's Central Tilden and Hendricks Club, at 167 Bleecker street, last evening, and prevented a repetition of the outrages perpetrated on Wednesday evening by negro Republicans. The mass meeting that was adjourned on Wednesday on account of being broken up by a mob, led by men employed in the Custom House, was had last evening. The hall was packed, and hundreds could not get inside. A gang of Custom House negroes were there, but they were kept quiet by the police The meeting was the largest gathering of colpred men that has been held in the city in years. Col John Taylor, who served in a colored regiment in the war, and was especially commended for bravery, presided, file said: I came to this meeting expecting to have my head broken by the Custom House roughs but I am not to be deterred by threats, and I am not coward enough not to perform my duty. There are hundreds of colored men in this city who are going to vot the Democratic ticket. Why? Because the Republicans have patted us on the backs just to fool us. They got us to put our money in the Freedman's Bank, and swindled poor whitewashers, bootwasherwomen, and waiters out of hftrd tmrnijag* Now we know the Dena

HAYES'S CCKitKT0 CIVIL SERVICE CORRUPTION.

Hayes pretends, in 111s leucf of acceptance, io favor a ci\il service reform Heaven knows such a reform is needed. All men confess and see the need. But Haves to-day is profiting immeasurably by a colossal corruption of the civil service, unmatched in the history, of any government on the face of the earth. He profiting by it. lie consents by his silence to have it go 011.' lie will neither have the will or the power hereafter t„ punish those dircctiy guilty ol it. Were he to accuse the corruptionists of theis crime in violating the law of Congress which forbids the levying of corruptionfunds upon the public employes, then the heads of department and all the leader who are raising millions of money in this unlawful way would rise up and sav "What! you protest You have pu lite "moie by our crime than an other man :'in the land. Will you presume to pun'ish us.$i We get four years more of pow. «"er and chances to plunder if we ''succeed. You get the Presidency and a salary of$2oo,ooo.''

THE TERRE HATJTE WEEKLY GAZETTE

ocrats are our best friends. Ex- Coroner Young said: "I was advised not to come to this meeting because there would be a row and I might get hurt but that made me all the more anxious to come. The Freedman's Bank swindle is illustrated by a little story. There was once a man who stole a pig. The evidence ag?inst him was complete and the Judge charged the jury to find him guilty. The jury retired, and after an absence of two minutes, brought in a verdict of not guilty. "This is a strange verdict,' remarked the Judge. 'No it is not verv strange,' said the thief, 'for I gave every man on that jury a piece of 1 he pork.'" It is just so with the bank officers who swindled* the frcedmen. They did not get. punished because those who should have brought them to justice had apiece of the pork."

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From March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1861 the entire net ordinary expenses of the government amounted to $1,581,706,195.34. From June 30, 1S61, to June 30, 1875 fourteen years of Republican rule, the net ordinary expenses amounted to $5,220,250,759.35 and this is exclusive of the public or war debt that is, fourteen years of Republican rule cost the government. more than three times as much monev as the whole cost of the government from 1789 to 1861, a period of sev-enty-two years. But it may well be said that the ordinary expenses of the government during the war were necessarily increased. That is true, and to make the comparison fair, let us take a period of ten years since the war and we wish it to be ne in mind that we are now speak ing of the "net ordinary expenses" of the government, exclusive of the interest paid on the public debt, which amounted to $1,000,000,000, and the sum paid on the public debt itself, which amounted to many hundred millions more. From March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1861, the expenses of the government—embracing a period of more than seventy-two years, covering the war of 1812, the Indian wars and the Mexican war, and the purchase of Louisiana, the great northwestern Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California—amounted, as we have already shown, to only $1,581,706,195.34. The net ordinary expenses of the four years of Johnson's administration was $1012,420,202.14 six years of President Grant, $1,021,813,950 making in ten ten years of peace the enormous sum of $2,034,233,412.14, being nearly one-third more than all the expenses of the government for seventytwo years from 1789 to 1861, including the war of 1812, the Indian and Mexican wars and if you add to the ordinary expenses of the six years of President Grant's administaation the' amount of principal and interest paid on the public debt, it will amount to $4,008,438,461.82 that is, more than two and a half times as much as the entire expenses of the government from March 4, 1789,10 June 30,1861.

Nearly a hundred thousand of the civi 'officers have been taxed from $1,000 down to $30 a head. In every part of the land, government officers, clerks, etc-,

are

drawing their 10-cents a mile, while traveling to and fro making politicaj speeches, attending flag-raisings, organizing clubs, and drumming up Republican voters, all at the public expense, all to the total neglect of their public duties. Hundreds of special revenue officers get four dollars a day and mileage from the Custcm Rouses to run about the rural districts, and work for Hayes, the pretended friend of Civil Service Reform.

An army of inspectors, supervisors, deputy marshals, post-office agents and route agents, are enlisted in the same service, all drawing pay from the people's pockets for this merely partisan service. Scores of clerks at Washington are folding and sending off (•campaign documents," the officials at the Government Printing Office printing them, the political appointees in the navy yards, Cabinet officers and heads of Departm« nts "running the machine' All there are certainly "public officers who betray their official trusts." That is the language of the Republican platform. Will Hayes undertake to follow up and punish them. The same platform "rejoices in the quickened conscience of the people concerning political Affairs." Will Hayes* conscience ever be quickened enough to be "swifts thorough and unsparing" in the prosecution and punishment of thece men, if they should ever succeed in electing him?

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COUNRY.

On Saturday the GAZETT? asked the Campaign Mail to specify some of the 'best inteiests of the country," which the GAZETTE, according to a sweeping statement in the C. M. the day before, was trying to destroy. The C. M. answers as follows:

It is not to the "best interests of the country" that the Dem»cratic party should come into power in 1S76.

This is too general for practical purposes. It is mcrelv a repetition of its original statement. The Campaign Mail should learn that to repeat an asscition is not to prove it.

The GAZETTE inquired if the fact that the Democrats had reduced the expenditures of the Government was a destruction of the best interests of the country. To this the C. M. made answer as follows: "This assertion is far fetched and can not be substantiated."

The Campaign Mail, we regret to see is very ignorant of current political history, and the way in which the government business is transacted.

If the C. M. will pay close attention, we will give it some information, ofwhich jt stands very greatly in need. 1 he heads of the different departments, send to Congress each year, estimates of the amount of money they severally think will be necessary to carry on their respective departments for the ensuing year. The oncy cannot be ap propriated without an act of Congress The committee on appropriations in the Democratic House gave these estimates a careful investigation and reported appropriation bills aggregating over $60,000,000 less than the estimates of the departments. These bills were pass ed by the House. The Republican senate refused to.concur in them. Conference committees were appointed. A compromise was effected. The appropriation bills which finally passed both Houses, werfc in round numbers, $30,000,000 less than the estimates of the de partments. The estimate of the late Mr. Belknap, of malodorous reputation, wr.s reduced between six and seven millions ot dollars. This whole business is a matter record. The ignorance of the C. M.— if it is ignorance, and not wilful misrepresentation—is inexcusable.

The GAZETTE and the Democratic part}' are not trying to clasp hands with their "Southern brothers across the bloody chasm." They are trying to clasp liands with their unrepentant rebel, Democratic brothers of the South over the dead bodies of Southern Republicans or over the accomplished fact ol the^ disfranchisement of the negro Republicans of the South. That's the kind of clasping hands "with our Southern brothers," the Campaigh GAZETTE and the Democrats ofthe North and South propose.

When the C. M. asserts that the GAZETTE is trying to "Clasp hands with un. repentant rebels over the dead bodies of southern Republicans or over the disfranchisement ofthe negro Republicans ofthe south" it talks, not to put too put fine a point on it like a gibbering idiot. What the record is of the hydra headed combination editing the Campaign Mail the GAZETTE neither knows nor cares. One thing however is certain, and that is that not a person connected with the Campaign Mail was more earnestly in favor of the vigorous prosecution of the was, as long as there was any armed opposition to the Government of the United Fti'tfs than I the editor of the GAZETTE. We not only accept each one of the amendments to the constitu tion but were actively in favor of them during their passage through Congress. As to negro slavery we were abolitionist* by inheritance. All the issues raised and settled by the war, met our earnes support. The Campaign Mail can neither controvent these facts, nor shall it arrogate to itself, all the credit belonging to the passage of those measures. Its in" sinuation that the GAZETTE would bet parly to the making of "dead bodies" on of "Southern Republicans," or would take any part in disfranchising the blacks, is false, in fact, and very mean spirited There is as lit le of the assassin about the GAZETTE office, as about the Campaign Mail. This recklessness of accusation ill becomes any reputable newspaper. The C. M. should mend its manners and its morals. The fact that it is a campaign sheet, is no warrant for its bringing a respectable business into disrepute.

A RICH OLD MAID—$80,000 STUFFED

IN BEDDING AND FURNITURE.

From the Jludson Republican, Oct., 12-

A spinster named Emma Cornwall, died recently at Tower's station. Upon examination it was found that the deceased had $80,000 in bank stocks and United States bonds, and the farm, valued «t $20,000, made up her wealth. The bonds and stocks were found hid away in old trunks, in dress pockets, stuffed in rolls of carpeting, in bedding, and in fact the search for her possessions was one of surprise. Thousands of dollars would be found in the moat inconceivable places, and it is not positively known but that a snug little fortune is now concealed in the house. Whether this theory be correct or not, is safe to conclude that the heirs kel well satisfied with the search.^

For the Foreigners.

Most Interesting and instructive Reading for Irishmen and Germans.

Peruse, Ponder and Promptly Puncture at the Polls.

John M. Wilson, of Salem, Massachusetts, one of the leading Republicans of that state, and a warm supporter of Haves, made a speech a4 a public meeting there which should be read by every foreigner in the land. If that does not convince them that the Republicans are in sympathy with Know Nothingism pure and simple, nothing can. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Wilson said: "In the heart ofthe foreigner beats not one single noble impulse—not one sin gle throb of patriotism. He is 60 brutish and degraded that he has to sympathy for anything but cabbage and lager' beer, potatoies and buttermilk, or some other abominable outlandish dish, only fit for hogs of the street or pen. -Some tell mc that many foreigners are intelligent ves, intelligent. How in the name of Almighty God can they say it? Look at the Dutchman smoking his pipe, and if you can see a ray of intelligence in that diitv, slovenly face of his, show it to ne. Look at the drunken, bloated Irishman, with hie rot-gut whisky bottle in his pocket, and he drunk and swearing and reeling, and shew me in that polluted face, one spark of morality, intellect or education. The idea is perfectly absurd—it i6 preposterous. "We must change the laws ofthe land and prevent these ignorant paupers here from voting and holding office. They are a set of unprincipled aad unworthy men, who congregate in and around our large cities and villages, and live by stealing from the Americans. Would you have the American citizen to 6tand back, and let a bloated, rcd-visaged, drunken brute of an Irishman vote instead of yourself? See the wretch as he approaches—his knees knocking and the slobber of tobacco juicc running down his jaws as he comes, you hear him hurrah for "Dimocricy," and here he comes fresh from the bogs, ju6t one year ago, and wants to vote—and if he should happen to get knocked down for his impudence, a great cry is made about it by old line demagogues. I say it is right, let them stand back. Again, you iee a lop-eared, wide-mouth, mulletheaded Dutchman coming up just from 6ome hut in the land of K.rout, with the foam of beer sticking in hits horse-tail whiskers, and his brea smelling of garlic and onions to kill a white man 300 yards, and before he can sav anything in the world but "Dimocrat," he must vote and that vote counts as much as yours or mine. This is outrag eous and abomnible These foreigners that have carried elections for old liners, will have to learn their places. They have no more right to vote than the brutes of the field, and have not half the sense of a good New Foundland dog and God knows, when I am a candidate for. any office, I would tell these vagabonds and paupers, that I did not want their votes, and if I am a candidate, 1 hope to God I never will get them.

The Army of the Tennessee.

They hold an Enthusiastic Meeting at Washington

Unveiling of the Statue.

McPherson

Washington, Oct. 18.—The tenth annual meeting of the society of the army of the Tennessee was held thismorning at Lincoln Hall. About 125 members were present with a large number of spectators General Sherman, president of the society, calling the meeting to order, said, that to-day was set apart more especially for the unveiling and the dedication of, and for the unfurling of the banner from McPherson's monument, but previous to this, there would be several hours for the transaction of business pertaining to the society. The meeting was formerly opened by Rev. Mason Noble ol the U. S. Navy and the committees were appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing /ear»

designate the time and place for the next meeting and to select an orator for that occasion. The note was read from the Private Secretary of President Grant, saying it would give the latter great pleasure to meet again and take by hand such of his associates of the army of the Tennessee, as may be pleased to call upon him at nine o'clock,Thursday night The invitation was accepted, as was also the invi:ation to visit Mou it Vernon tomorrow. Letters of regret were read from Gov. llartranft and Gens Pope. Dix, Wright, Newton, Augur, Townsend, Commodore Ammors and others Gen. Sherman said he had received a teleoiam from Lieutenant Gen. Sheridan, requesting him to give his best love and undying respect to society. Genera Sheridan was unavoidably kept at Chi-1 cago by public duties, but his heart was present with the society. A letter was also read from Governor Hayes, of Ohio, regretting that important public duties prevented his attendance. Gen. J. B. Hood, who commanded the confederate army against the army of the Tennessee, and who was a classmate of McPherson. sent a letter of regret that he was unable to accept the invitation to attend this meeting, but expressed his sincere admi ration of McPherson for his noble qjalities. A letter was also read from Col. W. R. Boggs of Virginia in which he said between McPherson and myself there always existed the warmest jierson alities, although in the late civil war we were nat"rally on different sides. It never for a moment suspended our personal relatives and mutual friendship. A satisfactory report was made on the subject of the McPherson monument in Washington from the dis cussion which followed it appears that the monnmcnt will be erected over McPherson's remains at Clyde Ohio. Subscription* for that purpose having been made, Gen. Bullock^presehted in a few remarks which were received with much favor, a large wdjiandsonely ereected photograph of the late Gen. McPherson. The society then adjourned to attend the ceremonies of the, dedica-

tion of the monument. At 1 o'clock the column was formed, under the command of Major General Dsvi3 Hunter," Chief Maishal. consisting of mounted police. Fort McHenry band, several companies of military, marine corps and band. The orator of the day was Gen. Logan. The committee of arrangements was present, and many civil officers, and also officers ot the Tenessee and navy, and invited guests, the veteran club, officers, soldiers and sailors who served during the late war. The procession made a fine display. The ceremonies at the monument were as follows:

Prayer, music, on behalf of monument committee, General A Ilickenlvoper unveiling of statue by sculptor. Lewis F. Rcbisso with Major General's sp'rte of music and artillery, oration by General John A. Logan, music.

JOLLIFICATION.

Summary ofthe Speech Delivered by Blue Jeans illiams at

Indianapolis Last Night. Indianapolis, October 17.—The democrats celebrated their virtory to-night with a salute of canon, grand torchlight procession, bonfires and a fine display of fireworks. Mr. Williams, the governorelect, who arrived this afternoon, was escorted from his hotel to-night to the tate house square bv the Williams guards and other companies, bearing torches, where speeches were made by Mr. Williams, Gov. Hendricks and others.

The lollowing is a summary of Williams'speech: My Fellow Citizens—I neither sought, lesired nor expected the nomination to the office to which I have been elected. It was the free will offering of a great people, which I appreciate in the highest degree. The people have approved and endorsed that nomination by tnv election. I feel thankful to them "for ft, and will labor to make them the only return in my power, the only return which they will accept—a faithful discharge of the duties of the office. I have had a. long and important connection with the legislative departments of the state, and it is gratifying to me to know that in the fierce political contest through which I have passed, and in which scarce anything has escaped examination, no fault has been found with, not even a criticism of my legislative record. After the close of that legislative service, it is very giatifving to mc to receive froWi the hands of the people the highest elective office of the State. While I express lhe highest appreciation of the honor which has been done me, I would not utter one word or sentiment in the spirit of exultation. My lull understanding of the responsibilities I am to assume as well as the proprieties of this occasion, make it improper for me to indulge in such a speech. During the contest I have been the object of political and personal criticitm, yet I wish to assure you I come out of the struggle with kind" feelings toward all, and no personal or partisan bitterness will embarrass me in the discharge of the duties of that high office as the representative of the whole people. My fellow citizens, I congratulate you upon the result in Indiana, in respect to its influence upon the national contest now pending. By both parties and bv the people of other states it has been felt that the result in Indiana would have great influence in every.section of the country, upon the presidential election, and as the national rf suit involves, as I believe, considerations of purity of the government, econmy in expeditions, and the fraternal relations between great nations. I am greatly rejoiced that the state which has been my home from youth up, has thrown her great influence upon the side which I believe will promote the honor of our country and the prosperity and happiness of the people.

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