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Office, Rear of R. King’s Store. 1 ltf
.1 AM E S M . LEV Y,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Where he is prepared to Repair \\ atches, l locks
and Jewelry in the best style. Particular atten
ti*>n given to repairing atchen injured in
competent workmen. All work warranted.
PIANOS TUNED AND REPAIRED.
PIMP. M’11,1,1 AM FISHER will
his SATURDAYS to Tuning
Jl§ )f ftnnil liepairing Pianos. He will
■visit families in the country, and convenient
i points on the Rail Road for that purpose. Ills
I ,mg experience will enable him to give satis-
I faction to his employers. Charges reasonable,
lie is permitted to rvf.r to President Otr.
Covington, Ga., April 8,1868.—20 if
DRS. DEARING & PRINGLE
HAVING associated themselves in Hie Prac
tice of MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
their professional services to the ci’izens of
Newton county. Tlrey have opened an ofti eon
the East side of the Square, (next door to S-
Dewald’s Store,! and are prepared to attend to
all calls promptly. They have also a carefully
►elected assortment, of the
Very Best Medicines,
and will give their personal attention to Com
pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians and
others.
■Special attention given to Chronic Diseases
At night Dr. Rearing will be found at his
residence, and l)r. Pringle at his rooms imme
diately over the Store of G. 11. Sanders & liito.
may 15, 25tf
BOOT & SHOE SHO
[would respectfully inform the citizens >v&[j
of Covington and surrounding country Jyßl
that lam now prepared to make to order G-t-
BOOTS AND SHOES
of the finest quality. As I work nothing but
the Best Material, 1 will guarantee satisfaction.
Shop over It. Kiug’s Store.
e 6 au4ly JOSEPH BARBER
H. T. n E N R Y,
Resident Dentist.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Is prepared with all the latest im
<7/ provements in Dentistry, to give sat-
J ~UUI_Lr isfaetion to all. Office north side of
bsuare, —1 22tf
JOS EPH Y. T INSL EY ,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
»nd Jewelry, iu the host Style, at short notice,
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—stf
Ceorgia Railroad
Breakfast and Dinner House,
At Berzelia. Ga.,
IT3BRSONS leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock
1,, 1 (Morning) Train, Breakfast at
■jliorzelia. All persons leaving Atlanta by the 6
o clock (Morning) Train, Dine at Berzelia, Per
sons leaving by the Freight Trains rim always
ge . good men Is. lables al * nys provided flitli
<he best tho market affords, 1
E. NEBIIUT, Prp’r
SOLOMON DEWALD,
AL nis old stand, sign of the BIG WATCH,
Has received his Stock of
Spring and Summer Coods.
I He wishes to purchase all kinds of
Produoo,
or which he will pay the Highest Market Price
*“ kAhH, or Goods.—2 40tl
E ST T I S T XT Y .
»RS. It. & ». IVOBLE, ’
SURGEON k MECHANICAL DENTISTS.
t hep!nlbi rne v Rroild Rnd streets, in
• nebuildmi known as ti,e Bell Granite, over
aa oo lnckß ( ,r P et Store, Attastv O,
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR . O . S . PROP HII T 1
Covington Georgia,
Will still continue liis business, where be intend
keeping On liaud a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concentrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts. <tc.
Ho is also putting up his
Livor Mod-lcinos,
FEMALE TOXIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, inti-Bilious PilU,
and ikany other preparations,
ty Will give prompt attention to all orders
PAimuiJLiit soricj:,
lUr.after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV
EREI). or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
CASH!
You nee not call unless you tiro prepared to
PAY CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Oct. 11, 1867. 0. S. PROPIIITT.
Dr. Prophitt’s Liver Medicine.
Certificate of Rev. M. W. Arsold, of Ga. Con.
HAVING used this Medicine sufficiently long
to test its virtue, and to satisfy my own mind
that it is an invaluable remedy for Dyspepsia—
a disease from which the writer has suffered
much for six years—and being persuaded that
hundreds who now suffer from thisaunoy ing com
plaint, would be signally benefited, as be has been
by its use—we deem it a duty we owe to this
unfortunate class, to recommend to them the use
of this remedy, which has given not only himself,
but several members of his family the greatest
relief M. W. ARNOLD.
Rail Road Schedules,
Georgia RaliroatS.
E. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
Day Passenger Train (Sundays excepted,) leaves
Augusta at 6.00 am; leave Atlanta at 7am; ar
rive at Augusta at 5.30 p m ; arrive at Atlanta at 4.20
p m.
Nigitt Passenger Train leaves Augusta at 10.10
p.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.10 p m ; arrives at Augusta
at 3.00 a lit; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a til.
Passengers for MffledgeviHc, Washington and
Athens, Ga., must take the day passenger l rain from
Augusta and Atlanta, or Intermediate points.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take either train. For
Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Night Passenger Train, at 10.10 p. m.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, can take
either train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and baggage checked through
to the above places. Sleeping cars on all night pas
senger trains.
MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE, Gen'l Sup’t.
Leave Camak daily at 2.40 i>. m.: arrive at Mill edge
vine at 0.20 P. M.; leave Milledgeville at 5.30 a.m.;
arrive at Camak at. 8.55 A. n.
Passengers leaving any point, on the Georgia R.
R., by Day Passenger train, will make close connec
tion at Camak for Milledgeville, Entouton, and a!!
intermediate points on the Macon A Augusta road,
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledgeville
at. 5.30 A. M., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
11. T. Peake, General Sup’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3.55 a m. arrives at. Kingsville at 11.15 a m ; leaves
Kingsville at 13.05 p m, arrives at Augusta at 7.25
p. m. This train is designed especially lor through
travel.
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 7 am,
and arrives at Charleston at 4pm; leaves Charles
ton at 8 am, and arrives at Augusta at 5 p in.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted) at 3.50 p in, and arrives at
Charleston ai 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.30-p
m, and arrives at Augusta at, 7.35 a m.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
Campbell Wallace, General Superintendent.
Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta at. 8.45 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at 6.35
p m ; leaves Chat tanooga at 3.20 a in, and arrives at
Atlanta at 13.05 p m.
Night express passenger train leaves Atlanta at. 7
p m, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a iu ; leaves
Chattanooga at 4.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
1.41 a m.
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. B. Walker, Gen’l Sup't.
Day passenger t rain leaves Macon at 7.45 am, and
rrives at Atlanta at 2 p tn ; leaves Atlanta at 7.15
a -n, and arrives at Macon at 1.30 p m.
Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 3.10 p m,
and arrives at Macon at 4.25 am; leaves Macon at
8.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JGT'STA, GEORGIA.
ATEWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
L - anv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
Late of Mills Honse, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of tho General Passcn
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alalwima street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated the above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain guests iw»a
most satisfactory manner. Charges fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to please.
Baggage carried to and from De.pot free of charge
TOBN T P S !
('I ROW THEM LARGE AND FINS, AND
I PLENTY OF THEM.
Now is the lime to sow the Seed, but first
thoroughly prepare your land ; and if it is not
rich enough, call on us and get a reliable FER
TILIZER
Don’t neglect your own interest, by failing
to use all proper means to ensure a bountiful
tupplv of this most, excellent Winter crop—
good for man and beast.
We are closing out our
Summer stools.,.
At Greatly Reduced Prims!
Aug. 14.—SStf ANDLKriuN it HUNTER-
COVINGTON. GA., SUIT. 4, 1808.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Notes and Queries.
[A correspondent sends us the following poem
If any of ottr readers know the author, we should
he glad to hear from them. These beautilul Hues,
which must touch more or less deeply the hearts of
all of us, first made their appearance some twenty
five years ago iu the columns of an obscure news
paper published In Ttpi<ernry, Ireland. 1\ c thought
at the time, and still believe, they could have come
from noue other thou the pen of the lamented Ger
ald Gray.— Ed. Cxi. Mick.]
WE ARE GROWING OLD.
We are growing old —liovv the thought will rise,
When a glance is backward cast,
Oil sothe long remembered spot that lies
Iu the silence of the past.
It may be the shrine of our early vows,
Or the tomb of early tears ;
But it seems like a Cir-oIT isle to ns,
In the stormy sea of years.
Oh ! wide and w ild are the waves that part
Our stcqis trom its greenness notv\
And we miss the joy of many a heart,
And the light of many a brow.
For deep o’er many a stately hoi k.
Have the whelming billows rolled,
That steered with us from that early mark —
Oh ! frieuds, we arc growing old!
Old in the dimness of the dust
Os our daily toils and cares—
Old iu the wrecks of love and trust
Which our burthened memory bears,
Each form may wear to the passing g azu
The bloom of life’s freshness yet.
And beams may brighten our latter days
Which the morning never met.
But oh ! the changes wc have seen,
In the far and winding way,
The graves in our paths that have grown green,
And the locks that have grown gray!
The Winters still on our own may spare
The sable or the gold ;
But we see their snows upon brighter hair,
And, friends, w e are grow ing old!
We have gained the world’s cold wisdom now,
We have learned to pause and fear,
But where are the living founts whose fjow
Was a joy of heart to hear ?
We have won the wealth of many a clinic,
And the lore of many a page;
But where is the hope that saw in time
But its boundless heritage ?
Will it come again when the violet wakes,
And the woods tlicir youth renew ?
We have stood iu tlic light of sunny brakes
Where the bloom is deep and blue;
And our souls might joy iu the Spring time then,
But the joy was faint and cold;
For it never could give us the youth again
Os hearts that are growing old!
The licit. Jefferson Dnvis In England.
AVe copy from the London Standard, of the
Bth instant, the following article on the arrival
in England, of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, ex-
President of the Southern Confederacy. It
pays a deservedly high compliment to Mr.
Davis and tho gallant soldiers who fought bo
nobly to sustain a cause which was dear to
them. It will well repay perusal:
The arrival in England of the late President
of the Confederate States has naturally excited
much interest and attention. It could not be
otherwise, considering the deep and anxious
feeling with which men of all parties and of
opposite sympathies watched for four long
years the progress of the American struggle.
To the enthusiasm of that political sect which
makes a species of religion of its devotion to
the negro and its abhorrence of slavery, Mr.
Davis was during those four years the repre
sentative incarnation of political and social
evil—the leader of the last effort of the failing
cause of tyranny in its conflict with the spirit
of progress and humanity. To an opposite
class of minds he was the representative of the
cause of law and order against the anarchical
and democratic tendencies of the age; the
chosen champion of a people, who, from tho
peculiar time and circumstances of their strug
gle appeared to be maintaining the critical and
decisive contest of the old order against the
new, of aristocracy against democracy, of lib
erty against the despotism of majorities, of
Conservatism against political chaos and social
revolution. In the opinion of not a few of
those who dissent most strongly from the pre
valent worship of ‘‘the nineteenth century,”
the interest of the South was the common
interest of all monarchical and aristocratic
societies—of all orders whose position rests
upon settled law and ancient tradition, as
against the leveling temper of American De
mocracy.
“This by no narrow hounds was circumscribed,
It was tho cause of chivalry at large.”
And there can be no doubt that the fall of the
South gave an impulse and encouragement to
the progress of the Democratic spirit through
out Christendom greater than any it has re
ceived since the French Revolution. To a
much larger class than either of these two
extreme parties Mr. Davis is simply the chief
and representative of a lost cause, in which
millions flf Englishmen felt a strong and earn
est sympathy, which they believed to be the
cause of constitutional right and substantial
justice, as well as of national independence and
public liberty, and whose fall they still regret,
lie is tho defeated leader of a gallant but
unfortunate people, whose heroic struggle
against overwhelming odds elicited the reluc
tant admiration of their enemies, and excited
tho warmest interest among multitudes of
mhn indifferent to or ignorant of the original
merits of the quarrel. lie is the
tiro of the nation which for four years, asser
ted its independence against armies fourfold
greater than its own; which, with half a doz
en cruisers, almost swept from the seas the
commerce of a power whose naval force was
Second only toour own ; which without money,
without foreign trade, blockadod by sea and
land, held its own during that long period
against a foe possessed of boundless resources,
and lavishing them without stint; which
fought to the last in a spirit of chivalrous
courage and generosity, never provoked by
its sufferings into ■'savagery, or exasperated by
outrages into cruel retaliation; and which,
after its surrender, commanded as inueh ret'
cretiee by its patient fortitude and loyal accep
tance of the inevitable, as during the struggfo
it had excited admiration by its gallantry aftd
endurance. Mr. Davis comes to us the
representative of Virginia and her sisters in
Struggle and suffering ; as*the commander-in
chief of those armies which under Leo and
Jackson, Johnson and Beauregard, achieved
so long ■ a series of extraordinary though
finally fruitless victories ; ns the chosen chief
and finally the long-suffering martyr of the
1 cause for which Lee and Johnson fought, for
which Stewart, Stonewall Jackson, Morgan,
Cleburne and Ashby fell.
It is in this capacity that he chiefly calls
forth the sympathies of Englishmen ; it is not
as the enemy of ttic North, nor as the repress
cntntivC of Secession, least of all as the cham
pion of slavery that ho is welcome to as. It
is the chief of the ‘Southern armies, the head
of th Southern people, the statesman
whoso wisdom, skill and tenacious
courage we learnt during that arduous strug
gle to appreciate and admire — tho suffering
prisoner of Fortress Monroe, the exiled patri
ot, who was so heartily cheered on the quay
at Liverpool, and will be cheered with equal
heartiness wherever lie appears before a crowd
of Englishmen.
It would he a most unfortunate as well as a
most unjust interpretation of the reception
given to Mr. Davis if it were understood or
represented in the North as a demonstration of
hostility to the present Government or Consti
tution of the United States, or of ill-will to the
conquerors in the war. The Americans should
remember, in the first place, that we have
nothing to do with their political feuds, now
that the sword is no longer invoked to decide
as between nation and nation. We have no
concern with the existing relations between the
North and South, or with the antagonism be
tween Democrats and Republicans; nor can
we, in our treatment of distinguished Amer
ican, be expected to take cognizance of the
exclusion of his State, or of the order to which
he belongs, from Federal privileges or civic
rights. To us the South is now a part of the
Union; in Mr Jefferson Davis wo welcome a
citizen of the United States. It would be most
ungracious on our part to assume to take notice
of the fact that this citizen is proscribed and
disfranchised, or that the people with whom,
in his person, we sympathize are not really
represented in Congress or admitted to the
Union. There can, therefore, be no affront to
the United States, as a whole, in courtesies
shown to the hero and martyr of the South.—
And our sympathies with the Confederates in
th - past, as with the weaker and defensive side,
being notorious, it would be merely contempti
ble on our part, and certainly would be no
compliment to the good sense of the American
people, if for fear of offending them we were
now to pretend to have changed our views and
repented our feelings. We accept, as the South
has done, the result of the war. without pre
tending any more than she pretends, to be
ashamed of a cause -which was gallantly sus
tained. because it was finally unfortunate. In
receiving with a cordial welcome the chief
representative of that cause, we are doing
honor to the dead rather than to the living—
are expressing our sympathy with tho heroism
and the misfortunes of the past, not with the
resentments of the present or the possible as
pirations of the future. And if it be the case
Mr. Davis is more warmly welcomed than a
Northern statesman of equal eminence would
be—if we should greet General Lea more
heaitily than his victor—Americans are suffi
ciently akin to us to understand how much
more strongly greatness in misfortune appeals
to our affections than greatness in triumph; to
remember, moreover, that the conditions of the
conflict gave to no Northern chief a chance of
such distinction and honor as the Southern
leaders have earned by their heroic struggle
against adverse fortune—by skill displayed in
creating resources out of nothing; by victories
gained against unparalleled odds; by the
courage that never quailed before the darkest
prospects, and an endurance that never broke
down under the heaviest load of labor, anxiety
and calamity. These are the achievements
and the qualities that wo honor in Jefferson
Davis; nor, in honoring him and them, can we
be said to do wrong or discourtesy to those
who were onoe his enemies, and are now his
fellow-countrymen,
Letter from Gen. John B> Gordon.
Atlanta Ga., August 17, 1868.
Messrs. IF. IF. Screws , Jos. Hodgson and A.
11. Moses — Gentlemen : Yours of tho Bth
iustant is received. My heart is with you, as
would be my hand and head in action and
council on the day you designate if a multi
tude of public and private engagements did
not absolutely forbid.
You understand the momentous character
of the issues before the country. No hyper
bole can exaggerate them.
Why is the whole country so aroused? Why
are we at the South and the great masses at
tho North enlisted in this campaign ? Why
do we seo the “White Boys in Blue” uud the
white boys who wore “the Grey,’ the soldiers
of the North and tho scldiers of the South,
the men who recently confronted each other
in the war, now moving side by side with
looked shields under the tame banners ? The
reason is obvious. They have now a common
enemy.
They surrendered secession and accepted
Union under the Constitution. Tho soldiers
of tho North enlisted to fight secession. They
and those who gave their money and sons to
the army, believed its triumph of tho Union
and the Constitution. The Constitution is tho
only bond of this Union. Upon this all are
agreed. There can bo no other bond of union
under our system. Yet without a blush, with
out a pang, tho oracles of Republicanism—
this common enemy—in utter scorn of respon
sibility and in utter contempt of public opin
ion, proclaim and pructioe a policy of tyranny
“outside of the Constitution.” Hence the
South fcclsshe has been deceived ; while many
at the North, who supported the war, feel
that they have been defrauded of the just
trophies of their triumph and cheated out of
their blood. A® sequences of this “outside”
legislation have followed a series of wrongs,
each of which has been the parent of a whole
blood of evils and oppressions.
“Disunion” has been perpetuated in viola
tion of the implied terms of the surrender
against the manifest wishes of a large majori
ty of the people, of both sections.
Taxation without representation, at which
Saxon Liberty turns pale because it has al
ways been the portent, the precursor, hitherto
the banner of bloody revolutions; this shame
less outrage has been perpetuated by this
common enemy, not only without authority,
but without the condescension of apology.
The open coronation has been made in the
face of day, of the military over prostrate
constitutions, and all the old sacred institu
tions of civil liberty, the substance, the es
sence, the very definition of despotism.
Ten States of this Union, like captive mon
archs of antiquity in old Rome, have been
made to march before the chariot; while
the Federal Executive and Judiciary, repres
entative of tho rout, have been dragged at the
wheels of this triumphant tyranny.
They have evinced the same reverenoe for
the Constitution of our Fathers that Caligula
did for the Roman, when in contempt and de
rision of the people, the haughty monarch in
vested his riding horse with the dignity of the
consulate over the prostrate neck of that once
proud people. Even when they have used
some of tho simulated Constitutional forms,
such as’elections, to perfect the schemes, these
have only been the sheath of tho poniard that
they might give the fatal stab to liberty with
more cunning security.
To crown all and cap the climax of these
enormities they have made a recently servile
race the political superiors of the educated
classes of the South, and now by the vilest
tools of party to shape the prejudice and in
crease the hatred of this race] against the
whites, by representations, which they know
to be false, and thus to provoke a war of races,
which they know to be imminent.
AYhat are we to dot Endure 1 That 16 the
great virtue wc must continue to practice
until the magnanimous millions at the North,
who feel outraged by these wrongs, shall right
them at the ballot-box. We have borne much
—we have much to do now—particularly you
of Alabama. But let us exercise the extreme
of self control, abstmin from violence and un
due excitement. Radicalism lives upon ex
citement. It is a great speculator in the pa
thetic. It attempts to deceive and madden
the honest sympathies of the North, by get
ting up a spectacle of blood, just as the Mata-
of the Spanish bull-fight goads and mad
dens the noble animal to bis death, by waving
beiore him the object of his special aversion—
the blood red scarf. Let us endeavor to dis
appoint them. Let us not visit upon the heads
of the unfortunate and deluded negro the sins
of the bad white men who teach him to aban
don, hate and insult his best friends.
Let us be kind and forbearing toward him
still—remembering that he is beguiled into
the commission of outrages by unscrupulous
demagogues, all over the South, who are now
persuading him that if the Democratic party
triumphs, it will rc-enslave him. I repeat, let
us be kind and forbearing. We may thus
avaid collision. Os this, however, I am not
sanguine, for the Radicals among us are intent
upon it. Blood, not truth is their capital in
trade—excitement and passion their only am
munition in this campaigh—and we must not
permit them to get up a row, blow out the
lights, and then in the confusion of false is
sues, escape the just judgments of the long
suffering Southern, and indignant Northern
people.
I am, gentlemen, with high regards, yours
most truly, J. B. Goroon.
On The Brink—Are We Abont To Be
Plunged into a Revolution?
All recent movements of the managers in
the Republican party point to the conclusion
that the purpose of tho leaders in that party
is to inaugurate Mr. Grant in the Presidential
office against the will of a majority of tho
American people. The disfranchisement of
so large a majority of white men as to give
the political power iu tho Southern States to
Ethiopians and carpet-baggers was the first
bold movement in that direction.
The act declaring that the electoral votes
of Virginia. Mississippi, and Texas should not
be counted was intended for that and for no
other purpose. AYhat difference could it make
concerning the assumed right of Congress to
deny to thoso States representation in the
Senate and House of Representatives whether
their electoral votes were counted or not ? It
has not even been pretended, in any quarter,
that it could make any difference. Certainly
it could not. If it had been supposed probable
that those States would cast their electoral
votes for Mr. Grant, no jacobins iu the whole
list would have thought of denying their right
to vote for President, or could h»ve been per
suaded by any argument to favor so outrageous
a position. It was simply and only the, belief
that they would vote for Mr. Seymour that
caused the leaders in the party to say their
votes should not be counted.
The suggestions from the Jacobin directoty,
or “Congressional Republican Committee,” m
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AVashington, to the black-nnd-tan legislatures,
that they, and not the people in the Southern
States, should appoint the Presidential electors,
was another move toward the same object.—
It was caused by apprehension in the Jacobin
mind to which recent information from the
Southern States has given rise—apprehensions
that after all the time spent, and efforts ex
huusted, and armies emploped, and public
revenue squandered, to reconstruct the South
ern States so that the Jacobin party could
count their votes in Congress and the Presi
dential election, tlicir schemes will fail unless
they can prevent even the voting negroes and
carpet-baggers that have been elevated with so
much trouble to the station of ruling class,
from appointing the Presidential electors.
The applications of the carpet-bagger offi
cials for arms and ammunition mean the same
thing. They mean the enforcement of official
power against tho authority of numbers—of
the minority against tho majority—or might
against right. They mean tho giving of eleo
toral votes to Mr. Grant by overpowering the
will of the majority.
Tho recent declarations by prominent Re
publican candidates in the Northern States
that, should Mr. Seymour receive a majority
of the electoral votes, his inauguration will bo
prevented by the power of cannon and bayo
nets, is simply an expression of the same par
tisan purpose—the purpose to inaugurate Mr.
Grnnt in the Presidential office against and in
spite of the will of the majority.
Tho many indications pointing to this con
clusion ought not to he overlooked or lost sight
of. They are portents too serious to be trifled
with. They are omens of evil that no soph
omorical subterfuge can disguise from the
people who will pause to think. The will of
the majority, expressed in the lawful way, is
the highest possible law in this, as in every
other republic. To prevent the lawful ex
pression of that will, with intent to defeit it,
is to defy and override that will itself. It is
treason of the worst character. It is revolu
tion pure and simple.
Let it he generally understood that tho
Jacobin party, assisted by bondholders’ gold,
intended to defeat the will of the majority by
fraud and force, and it will need no further
political argument to assure a majority for
Seymour and Blair in every State in the re
public. And there is no disguising the fact
that the movements and declarations of the
leaders in that party clearly indicate such a
purpose. —Chicago Times.
From the Boston Post.
Mr. Pendleton’s Speech.
In his masterly and statesmanlike speech at
Bangor, which for breadth of view, an intelli
gent appreciation of public affairs, and a phil
osophic understanding of the character and
working of our Government has no superior
among the purely political efforts of the time,
Mr. Pendloton remarked, with solemn truth,
that this is “the supreme hour of our fate” as
a nation. “We are engaged,” he said, “in no
scramble for office. We are stimulated by no
last for power. This struggle touches tho life
of ou r confederated system. It will decide in
the far off future, the destiny of our country.
If our opponents succeed, we shall have, first,
unity (not union,) then despotism, then revolt,
then separation, and then—whatever God, in
his wrath, may inflict. If they fail, we shall
have the Constitution obeyed, the Union main
tained, liberty enjoyed, prosperity abounding,
peace everywhere, and all the glories of our
past career will he but as the early bud com
pared with the blooming beauties of the full
blown flower.”
The solemn significance ot this contest has
not been overstated. What we have to meet
in the form of usurpation, consolidation and
tyranny, we already have a chance to under
stand. The problem has lost its mystery.—
We see the yawning gull into which all that
is dear is threatened to be thrown. The road
on which we set out, that is the very one
which we are asked to follow; and, experience
testifies that it leads straight to destruction.—
Look at the long list of Radical measures, pre
texts, schemes and legislative inventions, by
which liberty and money are both snatched
from the possession of the people. Why these
Commissions, Bureaus, Military Courts and
Governments, Amendments to the Constitution,.
Reconstruction laws outside the Constitution,
and plans for arming the negroes-against the
whites ? For nothing but to perpetuate Radi
cal power. Nothing of the sort is required for
I the proper administration of tho Federal Gov
ernment in the South. Nothing of the kindia
demanded for the pacification of the people, the
restoration of fraternal feeling, or the renewal
of constitutional relations. These things are
so many devices, conceived and framed in the
interest of Radical supremacy. That party
simply seeks to keep the negroes uppermost
politically, because it believes it can control
their votes. And for such a reason the people
of tho North are taxed certainly two hundred
millions a year more than they ought to be,
and will in all likelihood continue to be so
taxed as long as there is anything left froiu
the results of labor to be sweated into the ser
vice of this usurping party.
Why are prices still so-high, taking one
hundred millions a year from the industry of
the laboring people of the country? AVhy ar*
there not full crops of cotton, rice, tobacco and
sugar, from the productive Southern States t
Why is there so slow a home market for tho
products of tho AVest, and no commerce for the
merchants and shipowners of tho East ? Whj
to this general stagnation and half-palsy to
added a system of high taxes, the practical
diminution of wages by the enhancement of
prices, and a genoral cost of living and govern
ment under which the whole country groans f
AVhat is the necessity of wringing from the
people nearly sixteen hundred millions of dol
lars in three years, w hen so moagre a share of
it has been devoted to the reduction of the debt.
The same party that is respDusible for such a
state of things, stands arraigned for its efforts
to corrupt and destroy our republican system
of government. If it is entrusted with a
longer lease of power, we shall soon have
neither property or liberty. It is a leech that
has fastened upon the vitals of the Republic,
and will destroy its life, unless its own is de
stroyed first. When such a crisis has arrived
for a nation, it is indeed the hour of its fate
