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BY J. W. BURKE & CO.
Georgia Journal & Messenger,
w. CI HKK A (0,1 Proprietor*.
'• « KKESE ’; Editor*.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1868.
LET IT HE KEKIKIL
II is time, now, to bury out of sight the
putrid corpse of that foul scheme agaiust
the life of the Nation, called impeach
ment. It has been crushed into a loath
some mass like a hissing, bloated snake.
Its authors have agaiu been rebuked and
disgraced by an honest jury from whose
verdict there will be no appeal, Nineteen
Senators, still unmoved by astorm of rage
aud hate that will cover with eternal in
famy all who have aided in its poisonous
blasts, remain true to their instincts as
honest men, and their oaths as impartial
jurors. A grutefui country that has not
yet lost either the desire or the capacity
to reward those who are true to a great
trust, will take care of their reputations.
History can not be bribed, and History
will write, in letters of light, the story of
their wisdom, their patriotism, aud their
loyalty to the Right.
We refer the reader to the telegraphic
column for a statement of the vote.
THE IIO.TIE roll THE SPOILS.
That conspicuous apostate, Brown, in
his shameless harangue to the enemies of
the country and its Constitution, recently
iu session at Chicago, struck the key note
that finds an answering echo in every Ja
cobin's heart in Georgia. “We fought for
the spoils of office; for the privilege of
plundering the people’s pockets aud fill
ing our own ; for the sweet revenge of
bankrupting a State whose citizens have
stamped us with the brand of eternal dis
grace; aud these things we must have, or
Georgia can’t be carried for your nom
inee.”
Thus Brown at Chicago, and every lean,
and hungry, and ragged adventurer and
renegade who is fearing that starvation
may force him to honest labor, licks his
chops, and grunts approval of the senti
ment. The fact is, something must be
done for the banditti. They are in ex
tremis. Their carpet sacks are shrunken
to painful tenuity. Credit is played out,
and their last clean shirt is in the hands
of the irate washer-woman, who clamors
for her “little bill.” Oil! the dread pros
pect of having either to work or steal!
Oh! the hardship of having won the
game, and not being allowed to grab tiie
stakes ! Oil ! the shame of not being per
mitted to reap the fruits of a rascality so
rich iu all tiie elements of wholesale ly
ing, cheating, and ballot box stuffing!
Oh! the horror of seeing honesty trium
phant, even for a season, and fraud shiv
ering with huuger, in filth and rags ! How
the raiders must swear, and rage, and tear
their hair! We hear their hungry jaw;**
snapping, and the chorus of their threats,
and appeals, aud whines rise like grateful
incense all over the State. We advise
them to go work manufacturing "rebel"
outrages and Ku-Klux raids. That will
divert their minds, and, may be, bring
about au issue of rations.
WILL GEN. GUANT RESIGN ?
This question now recurs to tiie honest
men of the country, as it has to the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, since Gen. Grant’s nom
ination. If lie dews not resign, lie will
afford tiie best practical evidence that his
confidence in his election is not of a very
vivid character.
There is a manifest impropriety in the
leading general of the regular army run
ning for President, and at the same time
retaining his military position. Past ex
perience lias shown, too, that there is dan
ger to public liberty in it, as well as per
sona! impropriety.
The military despotism bill places the
whole control of the political machinery
in tiie Southern .States iu the hands of
Gen. Grant. Will he have the effrontery
to use that dictatorial power which has
been put in his hands by a Jacobinical
Congress, for his own elevation? Will
he use the bayonets directly iu one-third
of the States to secure electoral votes
friendly to him? We shall see. In the
meantime public sentiment should thun
der in his ears “resign!”
A Huge Job.—The good people of Mo
bile have anew rattle, and a very big one
it is too, which they are immensely pleas
ed with. It is named Bayou Manchac,
and is in reality a project to so turn the
waters of the Mississippi by digging a levee
through the bayou aforesaid, and thus
make Mobile, instead of New Orleans, the
natural outlet of that river: h
“It is urged in behalf of the scheme that
it will virtually do away with the levee
system and so relieve the pressure of the
great river that the fears of a crevasse
need no longer exist. The capital to carry
out the plan is expected to be furnished
mainly by St. Louis. Os course, the New
Orleans papers are violently opposed to the
enterprise. The proposed river route, they
s iy, is exclusively within the boundaries
ot Louisiana, and the people of that State
will never cousent that any such danger
ous experiment shall be tried with her
territory and her streams. ‘Besides,’ it
is urged, ‘if it were practicable to divert
the Mississippi through the long and tor
tuous bayous and shallow lakes which
constitute the proposed new bed, it could
only be accomplished bp the sacrifice of all
the low lands in Louisiana below Baton
Rouge, including a larger body of valuable
land than can be found in the whole State
ol Alabama.’ Nothing daunted by these
vigorous protests of their New Orleans
neighbors, the Mobilians are actively
moving in the matter, and seem to be
thoroughly in earnest.”
A Lower Deep Htu.i,.—Washington
correspondents charge that General Grant
took a most active interest in the im
peachment of the President, and relate
wtth great circumstantiality how lie visit
ed Senator Ross Friday night before tb<;
vote was taken, remaining with him until
twelve o’clock, aud using every effort to
get from him a pledge that he would
vote for conviction. If Grant had not al
ready befouled his reputation with the
slinje of positive and undeniable falsehood
and treachery, this transaction would
damn him to eternal shame. As it is,
however, it can’t hurt him. Like Joe
Brown, and the majority of his bummers
and pimps here in Georgia, he is too
deeply dyed to take any darker tiut. We
can can conceive of no greater mistake
than would have been the failure by the
Radical mob at Chicago to nominate him.
He is their best exponent and representa
tive on the American continent. Radi
calism, in its last analysis, Is Grant.
Hwgia Sintnuil atitl Messenger.
THE OI.JU GI'AltD FOR JUNE.
The contents are as follows: Ist. Mod
ern and Ancient Ideas of Liberty Con
trasted, (by the editor,) chapter Ist. Ideas
of Government and Liberty Current in
Europe from tiie Second to the Seven
teenth Century ; 2d. Positive Democracy,
(by the editor;) 3d. Dead Under the
Roses, continued, chapters 14 aud 15; 4.
May Song, (poetry ;) 5. Astorre, ari Italian
Historical Romance, continued, chapters
12 and 13; 6th. Sub Rosa, a Maiden's
Love Story; 7th. The Negro Bureau ; Bth.
The Last Battle of Stonewall Jackson, (by
a member of his staff;) 9th. Types of
Mankind, (by Dr. Van Evrie,) No. 6—The
Negro. 10th. Bread and Sack; 11th. The
Soul's Idol, (poetry;) 12th. Tiie Book
Table, which is well covered with a most
interesting and diversified melange, and is
very inviting; 13th. Editor’s Table, which
contains the usual quantity of very accep
table matter.
The Old Guard from now to Novem
ber will be more valuable than ever to
Democratic readers. As tiie political
topics discussed will have a close relation
to the great and grave issues before the
country, every Democratic voter should
get the work. Single copy, 25c.; one
copy, one year. $3. Van Evrie, Horton &
Cos., publishers, No. 162 Nassuu street,
New York.
“ Wanted to Know You Know,”
How much it cost to buy the votes of that
squad of the banditti, who went to Chi
cago from Georgia ?
Rumor has it that all of them but
Brown and Blodgett were eager to sell out
on any terms, and snapped at the first bid.
The two busy B's held them back, though,
and with the coyness an oid baud affects
to whet tiie appetite of the bidder and
make her battered charms more market
able, played virtuous till a respectable
offer was mude. Trust them for that.
Tiie hungry stay-at-homes who, of course,
are interested in the divide, ought to hold
a meeting and pass a vote of thanks to
B.and B.
A Candid Confession.—The editor of
the La Crosse Democrat asserts that Bout
well told him iu Washington City, a few
weeks ago, that impeachment was “a po
litical necessity—a piece of political strat
egy, which if unsuccessful ensures our
defeat in the Presidential contest!”
The Condon Orchestra gives the follow
ing illustration of the principle of varia
tions as transferred from music to pdftry :
To be, fiddle—or not to be, diddle—
That is the question, de rol de dol day,
Whether ’tis nobler, doodle—in the mind to suffer, poodle—
The sings and arrows, noodle—of outrageous fottune,
foodie—
Or to take arms, kafoozleum—against a sea of troubles,
kabooz earn—and by opposing end th :m, ti roodle, ti
roodle, tl roodle, ti ray.
More’s the I’ity.—Old Brownlow is
not dead, but is getting better. As we
predicted, the acquittal of the President
lias acted like a tonic upon him, Tiie
devil is evidently giving him one more
chance to get hung.
Dr. Willard Parker, of Boston, has a
professional income of $35,000, which is
said to be more than that of any other
American physician.
The Leisure Hours of a “Man of
Prayer.”— The World’s Washington cor
respondent tells how some of the Beast's j
spies engaged in tracking the steps of ifie
anti-i in peach m on t Senators, mistook their
men. One senator, a violent impeacher,
after a long chase, was by mistake, run to
earth in a house of bad repute. Spy ;
slipped up stairs aud peeped through a,
door, and there sat his man, “with a hot- :
tie of wine, several glasses, and three dam j
seis in Black (.'rook costume.” Tiie Sen
ator thus caught is said to be a “man of
prayer.”
♦ ♦ ♦
Good! Good! Good!—While that old
murderer, Juarez, was striving to over
throw tiie only decent government his
country ever had, certain Radical mer
chants of New York were very liberal in
furnishing fiim supplies and war material,
taking liis bonds iu payment. They now
want to realize tiie cash, but Juarez “can’t
see it,” and pays no attention to their
clamors. He ignores them altogether, and j
these Radical shoddies are, with much
blasphemy and gnashing of teeth, “going j
to see about it.” We hope they will have j
a good time in the sight. The squeal of ;
a Radical whose pocket nerve is pinched
is very shrill, but to the ears of honest
men is most delicious music.
More Removals from Office.--The
Southern Opinion says Mayor F. Wilkins,
has been removed from his office at Co
lumbus, Ga., by order of Gen. Meade, as
have all tiie Aldermen. Marshall and
Deputy Marshall of that city. Capt. Wm.
Mills, 16th Infantry, U. 8. A., is appoint
ed to (lie Mayoralty, Joseph E. Webster,
Revenue officer; Thomas M. Hogan,
Postmaster; Geo. C. Hungerford, Walter
11. Johnson, aud Johnson W. Duerare
appointed Aldermen. Thus. Grier is the
new Deputy Marshall.
Easily Answered.—The Richmond
Dispatch, commenting upon Brown’s Chi
cago speech, says:
The facility with which Brown has
passed from a violent secessionist to a
“dyed-in-Uie-wool” Radical is so wonder
ful, that one feels curious to know what
he will do next.
For the information of our cotemporary
we answer : Fill 1 1 is pockets with plunder,
and glut his hate against the people who
took him from the duug-hiil of obscurity,
and then, when that pays no longer, aud
Radicalism is on its way to the gallows,
try and sneak back into the Democratic
party.
Mutiny in the Camp.—“E” writes
from Washington to the Baltimore Ga
zette as follows:
“A gentleman who is connected with
tlie Banking and Currency Bureau re
turned here yesterday from a business trip
in the West, aud reports the Republican
party badly divided. In Cincinnati he
found ail the leading Republicans indig
nant at the assaults which had been made
on Chief Justice Chase, and many of them
openly declared their purpose to sustain
the Conservative ticket, regardless of who
might be the nominee in the New York
Convention. They said they agreed fully
with the Chief Justice that the time had
come for all lovers of constitutional liberty
to hand together against the Jacobins.”
* ♦ ♦ v
Caught a Tartaj*. —Among tit. wit
nesses summoned before tbe Beast’s in
vestigating committee on Monday at
\\ asbington, was a clerk from the Treas
ury Department. Upon being sworn, the
following dialogue occurred :
“Have you known of any subsciptions
of money recently in your department ?”
“I es, sir, large amounts.”
“How much ?”
“1 have heard of subscriptions as high
as a thousand dollars.”
The managers swelled with expectation
at the proposed development, and asked
eagerly—
“ For what purpose ?
“Why,” said tlie clerk, “to carry the
New Hampshire election for the lie publi
can party i"
The committee at once collapsed, and
agreed to ask that witness no more ques
tions -
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1868.
THE NEW VO UK CONVENTION—I l S
DUTIES.
Never in tlie history of the country lias
the action of a political convention been
looked to with the same interest that
awaits the action of the Democratic Con
vention to assemble iu New York on the
4th of July next. The postponement of
the a-sembliug of this Convention until
oh'T the meeting of tiie Convention at
Chicago and the action of tiie Senate on
impeachment, was full of wisdom. It
now remains to be seen if the Democrats
will avail themselves of the great advan
tages which the folly and blunders of t heir
opponents have given them. That Con
vention should survey tiie whole ground
with coolness and deliberation, and post
poning all other considerations, should
bend all their energies to the sole and
great work of rescuing the country from
the hands of the destructives, and saving
tiie Constitution from further pollution.
It is a noble work, worthy of patriots and
statesmen, and should invoke the wisest
heads and coolest judgments. It will be
no time for passion or prejudice. Tiie <e
casiou iises above all personal and party
considerations. A great country is to be
saved, and a noble Constitution to be re
deemed. To such a duty none but patri
ots and statesmen are equal; and we trust,
with ail our heart, no other spirit will find
its way into the Convention. Tiie aspira
tionsof worthy and deserving men must
he postponed to another time, if necessary
to tiie success of the cause. It will be no
time to talk about [laying debts of grati
tude or gratifying personal preferences.
Let tiie Convention with sincerity and
earnestness go to work to secure tiie
election of good and true men to the
highest offices of tiie Republic—men whose
election will secure a return to constitu
tional government, give peace and quiet
to the country, safety and security to per
sons and property throughout tiie land,
and thus bring our distracted country
back to its former days of prosperity. We
repeat, it is a noble and glorious work,
and well worthy the best efforts of the
best men in tiie laud. How can all this
be accomplished ? In no spirit of dicta
tion, but with an earnest desire to con
tribute what we may to the success of so
good and great a result, we offer an an
swer to this inquiry.
We believe that all we propose can lie
accomplished by the Democratic Conven
tion at New York, if wise counsels rule
the hour in that body. A platform and
candidates is the work before them. Tiie
first lias been furnished by the Chicago
Convention and tiie action of the Radical
party since tiie close of the war. Beneath
the glittering generalities of the Chicago
platform we find the real issues of the
Radical party. That platform presents
their party as the advocates, apologists
arid defenders of all the frauds, iniquities,
outrages and vi jltitionsof the Constitution
committed by that party, and which has
involved the country in almost hopeless
indebtedness; which grinds down our
people with a weigiit of taxation; which
threatens universal ruin, and is fast redu
cing tiie jieople of ten of tiie Slates to tiie
degraded condition of vassalage to their
former slaves. Antwjontsnx t > these wrongs
aifd outrages Is platform enough for patri
ots aud statesmen. .Such antagonism in
volves tiie repudiation of fraud and cor
ruption, tiie integrity of a violated Consti
tution, the restoration of a distracted
country to peace, quiet and prosperity, a
renewed brotherhood, and, in a word, a
return to tiie better and purer days of the
Republic. There is work enough for one
campaign, work in which all good men
can unite with a hearty good will. The
issues here presented overshadow all oth
ers, subordinating the minor questions
growing out of our financial troubles to
he one great and paramount duty of re
deeming and saving the country. The
campaign should be opened, carried on
and concluded in an aggressive warfare
upon Radical rule and policy. Our oppo
nents have voluntarily assumed the posi
tion ; let them defend it. Our policy is
aggressive; theirs must be defensive-
With the advantages which the folly and
madness of the Radicals have given us, if
we lose the victory tiie fault is our own.
The inquiry we proposed involves tiie
further consideration of who shall be the
| nominee of the New York Convention
; It is with no purpose of departing from
j the rule of conduct which the .South, with
great unanimity, has prescribed for itself,
—of leaving this question to be decided by
tiie North.—that we enter upon this dis
cussion. We fully realize the fact that,
ias the burden of electing tHe next Presi
dent will rest upon the shoulders of the
Northern Democracy, they should have
tiie selection of the candidate who will be
most acceptable to them, and with whom
they can most certainly succeed. Still
we feel assured that our Northern friends
will listen kindly to our counsels, and, wt
doubt not, act wisely upon our sugges
tions. Ii is in this confidence we write
prompted by no other feeling than ai
anxious desire to en-ure the success of oui
cause.
The candidate, then, should be one who
can he most certainly elected, and who,
when elected, will command the confi
dence of those who are now struggling to
save the country from Radical rule.
Ist. Our candidate must command the
undivided support of the Democratic
party. Division in our own ranks is cer
tain defeat, and while the personal prefer
ences of all cannot he gratified, the choice
must fall upon one to whom no portion of
the party will be so opposed as to refuse
him their earnest support.
2d. Our candidate should also command
the confidence of that large class of con
servative men who have identified them
selves with the Democratic party iu this
great and vital struggle for the preserva
tion of the life-blood of the republic. We
speak of tbe class represented by such
men as Doolittle, Dixon, Brooks, Prentice,
and others, and of whom that sterling old
paper, the National Intelligencer, may he
considered the organ. To enter upon the
contest without the cordial union and co
operation of these two classes is simply to
court trouble and insure defeat. But is
success certain even with these elements
cordially united iu the struggle ? Candor
compels us to admit that though the pros
pect is fair it is by no means a certainty ;
and it is, therefore, the part of true wisdom
to draw to our support any and all other
elements which will strengthen our force
and increase the certainty of success. 1 lie
Important inquiry is, to what quarter
shall we look for such additional support?
At present the favorite idea with our
prominent men is to court the military
element, by the nomination of some
prominent and acceptable man from the
ranks of the army, and iu this connec
tion, the name of that gallant and patri
otic soldier, General Hancock, has been
most prominently mentioned. Let us say
at this point that the South is prepared to
give him a cordial support. It is, there-
MACON, GA., TUESDAY. JUNE 2, 1868.
} fore, iu no spirit of opposition to General
Hancock that we suggest that, so far as
i le S°°d, ft'ue, worthy, and intelligent
: men of tiie country are concerned, they
will support the man of their choice,
I without reference to his military status;
j and so far as the floating mass who are to
be caught up by the pomp and glitter of
j military glory are concerned, they have
already been caught and caged by the
j nomination of Grant at Chicago. \Ve
| must look to another and more reliable
source for the support of our cause aud
| candidate.
Where shall we find it? There were, in
! the old Whig party of tlie North, a large
number of men who were drawn to that
| party by tiie conviction that it was tiie
parly of quiet and safety. Having no in
| terest or sympathy with tiie bitter and ex
j citing struggles of mere party contests,
and believing that tiie Whig party was
under tiie lead of wise statesmen, like
Clay and Webster, whose policy, if carried
| out, would give protection to persons and
j property, and security to the best interests
| of tiie country, united with it, and as long
, as it lasted gave to its candidates their
1 confidence and support. When tiie Whig
party went under, this class of men—
whom Mr. Webster used to cal! “the solid
men of Boston”—were carried along, more
by association than by sympathy, into the
ranks of the Republican party, and have
at length unconsciously glided into the
ranks of the Radicals. The very reasons
and convictions which originally led them j
into the Whig party now appeal to them
to retrace their steps and seek association
with the only party and men who adhere
to tiie great doctrines of constitutional
rigiit, which, in tiie days of Clay and
Webster, commanded the support of good
men of all parties and sections. Tiie class
of men of whom we now speak cannot !
continue in the ranks of the Radicals.
They can have no sympathy with such
men as Thad. Btevens aud Butler, the
recognized leaders of the Radicals. Their i
whole nature revolts at the association, •
and they only want an opportunity to ally
themselves with the true friends of the
Constitution. Wo must remember the
long aud deep-seated opposition of these
men to the Democratic party and have
some respect for their prejudices, and
whilst we would not purchase their co
operation by tiie sacrifice of our own prin
ciples, we do feel tnat it is due to them,
to ourselves, and the great cause of consti
tutional liberty, that we should use every
honorable means to secure their co opera
tion and thereby render certain thesuccess
of our cause. That there are a large and
influential class of such m<-n in the coun
try we have the most gratifying assurances
—but the sco|»e of this article will not
admit of an enumeration of them. Os one
evidence of the fact we must not fail to
speak. It is the position in which such
men as Chief Justice ( base, Me-srs. Fes
senden, Trumbull and their associates
have been placed by tiie brutal conduct of ;
the Radicals, in first demanding the con
viction of tile President upon false charges
of “crimes and misdemeanors,” and their j
subsequent denunciation‘of their own best }
men for voting their honest convictions, j
against the deiusuds of party necessity.
The very efforts of the friends of these dis
tinguished men to bring into the field a ,
third aud ' ‘••Hfrtjrfff'- irfEftKft 4
the restless anxiety of the honest then off
that party to cot loose from an association
which carries with it the taint of foul pol- ;
lutiou. Now we say, let the New "5 ork
Convention meet thi- demand of friends
of tiie Constitution, by tiie nomination o f
a candidate whom all can support, without
the sacrifice of principle or self-respect by
“»y-
Can such a man be found? We thin*
he can—and indeed would hope there are
many. In no spirit of partisan advocacy,
we mention the name of Mr. I-1 llmokl, as
the man in our judgment who would most
certainly command that united support j
for which we plead. One thing is certain,
if the Democrats would come up to his
nomination and support in a body, his
election would be a certainty, and every j
man familiar with the life and character j
of this distinguished man, would feel
assured that in his hands the Government
would he faithfully and honestly admin
istered. Mr. Fillmore was au Old Line
, Whig—we were a Democrat of the strict
est school, but would unite now in pro
moting his election with a most hearty
good will. AY hat say our Democratic,
Conservative, and Constitution-loving
friends?
Blodgett in Trouble. —We are “deso
lated" to hear that this exemplary citizen
j came to great grief during 1 1 is late visit to
i Chicago. He was arrested at the instance
of a brother Radical, uamedCranglecharged
! with mobbing him, the said Crangle, eight
| years ago at Augusta, when abolitionism
! was not popular at that place, and furtber
| more with having spat in the face of,
kicked, aud beat tiie said Crangle—all of
j which the irate C. thinks worth about
| SIOO,OOO, and which sum he proposes to
| squeeze out of tho said Blodgett by Illinois
| law. l’iie Chicago Tribune, of the 23d,
which reports the case, don’t say how it
j was finally disposed of, except that 8., not
being able to give bail, “remained in the
bands of the Sheriff.” We hope the jser
| jured wretch is now in jail.
His Last Calumny.— Ananias Brown, j
iu his speech at Chicago, traveled out of |
his way to utter this uncalled for, aud j
wicked, and meanly vicious slander j
against the Democratic party of the j
South. He said that, “having surren- j
dered the doctrine of secession, he could j
not now ally himself with the Democratic j
party, which still sustained it.”
When it is borne in mind that the State ;
Convention of Georgia, called in 1805, dis
tinctly, and without a dissenting voice, re- |
pudiated the doctrine of secession, and
put in the Constitution then formed, a
clause most solemnly recognizing para
mount allegiance to the Federal Govern- j
ment, the meanness aud infamy of the i
lie will be plain.
Who is He?— Mr. John B. Etze is re
ported as having the honor, with the I
“now-you-see-him and now-you-dou t see- j
him,” Mr. G. G. Wilbur, of representing
this 4th Congressional district of Georgia
in the Chicago Jacobin Convention.
Never having heard of the gentleman be
fore, we would be pleased to have some
information of his antecedents. \V e judge
from his name that he is of Teutonic ex
traction, and we are quite satisfied from
the company he is in, that he is oi the
genus hummer, and is alter a slice of the
spoils. Who the are you, anyhow,
Etze, and what office are you after ? Let
us know, so that we can have it ready for
you.
Glad to Bee It.—We are gratified to
observe the increased size, and generally
improved appearance of our cotemporary,
the Rome Courier. It ricliy deserves a
wide circulation and a generous patron
age, for its faithful and fearless stand for
the Right. Success to it!
CAmitlON OF in: EE AT.
'it ? this morning ought to give
every honest mau in the country an extra
appetite for his breakfast. That infamous
wretch, Stanton, has left the War Office,
thus confessing, on the part of the con
spirators whose willing tool he has been,
utter defeat in their plot against the Pres
ident. It is not often that we have such
welcome intelligence on two consecutive
days, as was flashed over the wires yester
day and the day before.
Too Far Off. —The negro Radical organ
at Augusta, finds itself too far off from Bul
lock at Atlanta, aud will soon move to tiie
latter place. How tho buzzards will quar
rel over the carcass when all get there !
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1868.
THE NATIONAL SEUT.
We of tiie South not holding many of
the bonds that compose this debt, are not
supposed to care very much about it.
Still, as we are to be called upon to pay
our proportion of it, a brief statement of
tiie different descriptions of these bonds,
their teraui of payment, when payable,
etc., will not be wholly without public in
terest.
In the first place, it is a singular Tact in
connection with these bonds, that none of
them designated in official
terms by the government when issued,
but were christened by the people, and
the names thus applied to them have been
adopted by each succeeding Secretary of
the Treasury in bis reports.
There are about twenty different forms
of notes, bonds, certificates, etc., repre
senting The debt, but owing to the adop
tion by the government of tiie consolida
tion plan, the largest portion of it is repre
seated by the 5:26 bonds. From the .St.
Louis Times of the 24th we quote what
follows:
The total debt is $2,639,612,622 38, and of
ttiis amount, the secretary puts down sl,-
666,378,291.80 as debt bearing coin interest.
This latter item is made up of $214,464,-
400 00 of live per cent, bonds, $283,077,-
150 00 six per cent, bonds <>f IKSI, $1,424,-
365,660 00 six per cent. 5-20 bonds, and
some old twenty year bonds issued during
the Mexican war—-now nearly due- -
amounting to $21,973,641 80. The secre
tary merely gives the figures, with the
rates of interest, and states that it is pay
able in coiu. Now tiie five per cent bonds
above mentioned, are in fact, the 10-40*
the most unpopular loan ever offered by
the government, owing to the low rate of
interest, and yet it is the onJp loan author
ized by Congress, ot which tiie principal
ami interest is by law made payable in
gold. These bonds take their name of
"ten f inks” from the fact that they are
payable in forty years, But the govern
ment reserves the privilege of paying them
in ten year-, in gold; hence the name
“ten-forty.” The next Item of gold inter
est bearing bonds is the sixes of Is,si.
These bonds, unlike almost every other
issue, have no limitations or reservations,
but are payable absolutely, according to
their tenor, twenty years from 1861. They
are the first long bonds tliat werei-sutd
after tiie beginning of the vt ar, and owing
to their absolute conditions of payment,
they are tiie favorite in Eumpean
markets; but unlike tiie 10 40s, the law
provides only f r the payment of the
intirist In coin, leaving the principal to
be settled in 1881. The next aud most
important item in the list of gold interest
bearing bonds is the 5-20*, the amount
represented by this item, being mm *-than ■
half of the indebtedness of the United i
Ktates. The first issue was in 1802. under '
ttie a '.isc/e» of Jay Cooke, who "->*>.»
bta !• iii tsa,-J r.:-*. !a. J2.Df.-m.
aud; siPs'-ofTi he commissions At the
time of their issue, it was published prob
ably in every newspaper in the United
.-states, the “Confederacy excepted,” that
these Loads were payable, principal and
interest, in gold. But tins statement was
entirely on the authority of Mr. Cooke,
for the law under which they are issued is
silent on that subject, but expres-iy pro
vides tliat the interest shall b paid in
gold. It is true that the statements of
Mr. Conks were not contradicted at the
time by the secretary of tiie Treasury, but
that fact is of no weight; the secretary,
lieing a mere executive officer, can neither
make nor unmake law, and therefore tiie
final adjustment must be upon the basis
of the law under which the bonds are
created. These bonds take their name,
like the l(J-40s, from the dates of payment
and the terms of redemption reserved by
the government, being payable in twenty
years, but redeemable in five years, at the
pleasure of the government; hence the
name, 5 20s. It will be seen that under
the reservation clause all the bonds issued
in 1862 might now be called in by the
government and redeemed in lawful
money—to-wit, “greenbacks,” or national
banknotes; and ill's policy is strongly
urged by the advocates of an increase of
our paper currency and reform in our pres
ent onerous system of taxation.
The next great subdivision of thedebt is
the debt bearing currency interest, which
amounts to $260,375,930. This is composed,
first, of compound interest notes, over two
hundred millions of which were issued in
1884-5 ; but there are now outstanding only
some $46,000,000. These notes have three
years to run, with six p* r cent, interest,
compounded semi-anfaually, but not paid
until maturity, and were made a legal
tender for tbeir face value. The most im
portant item of the currency interest hear
ing notes is .tiie 7-30s—peiiiaps the most
popular loan sold by the government. —
These, two, were placed on the market by
Jay Cooke, after an ineff ctual attempt on
ilie part of the government to do it. They
bad to employ the old agent, and this time
lie made no misrepresentations. The notes
were issued in 1864 aud 1865, iiad three
years to run, with interest at the rate of
seven aud three-tenths per cent, per an
num, payable semi-annually in currency,
ami convertible at maturity at the option
of the holder into 5-20 bunds. Os these
notes there were sold some eight hundred
millions; hut the first series having fallen
due last year, and the Treasury depart
ment having been engaged for several
months past in converting the two remain
ing series, tiie amount outstanding has
been reduced to about $lB-5,000,000 00, all
of which will fall due next month and the
month following, thus rendering it very
important that holders of 7:30s attend to
converting them without delay, as it not
presented for conversion on or before the
day of maturity, they will be redeemed in
legal currency, and the premium on the
5:205, which would otherwise he received
in their place, will thereby be lost. It will
be seen that the name seven-thirties arises
from the fate of interest. The remainder
of the currency interest indebtedness is
made up of $23,000,000 00 six per cent, cur
rency bonds issued hy the Pacific railroad,
and $26,000 000 of three per cent, certifi
cates, which are held exclusively by the
national banks as part of their reserve
fund, and are convertible into lawful mon
ey atany moment on presentation at the
Treasury.
The next subdivision ot the debt is j
termed " Matured debt not presented fur
payment.” This division is made up of
odds ami ends, and represents several dif
ferent forms of treasury notes which are :
now obsolete—sticli as coupon legal ten
ders; six percent, gold notes, payable to
order; one and two-year legal tenders,
bearing live per cent, interest; demand
notes, <fee., none of whicii are now in cir
culation. There is also comprised under j
this head compound notes and 7-30s due
last year and not presented, together with
certificates of indebtedness hearing no in
terest, Texas indemnity bonds, &c., &e.,
the whole amounting to $7,905,283 04.
The last subdivision is “ The debt bear
' iug no interest;” and under tills head we
have the UnitedTßtates notes, or “green-
I backs,” $356,114,727 ; fractional currency,
$'32,588,689 94, and gold certificates of
j deposit, being for coin actually deposited
! in tbe treasury by individuals for safe
keeping, $17,742,000, which completes the
: grand total of over twenty-six hundred and
i thirty-nine millions of dollars due from t lie
! government to the people of this and other
countries.
To offset this there was in the treasury,
in gold coin, $106,909,658, and in currency,
| $32,174,136 82, leaving the actual debt,
I less cash in the treasury, $2,500,528,827 50.
CALL FOIt A STATE CONVENTION.
, From the resolutions appended, it will
be seen tliat the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party of Georgia
have called a convention of that party, to
assemble in Atlanta on the22d of July, for
the purpose of consultation on matters of
general interest, and, if necessary, to nom
inate an electoral ticket for President and
Vice President. We heartily approve this
action, and we urge now our brethren of
the Press, and our fiends everywhere
throughout tiie State, to see to it tliat a full
attendance is secured. We can carry tiie
State by 20,000 majority for the New York
nominees, no matter who, if an active and
earnest canvass is inaugurated in time.
There lias got to be thorough organization,
though, to start with, and afterwards
a stirring enthusiastic rally from one end
of the Stale to the other. Bushwhacking
and still hunting won’t win,however much
certain old fossils may say to tiie contrary: !
Macon, May 28, 1868.
The Central Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of Georgia met to-day,
pursuant to a call of the Chairman. The
Secretary being absent, A. W. iiee.-e was
appointed Secretary pro tarn.
The following resolutions were proposed
and adopted :
Resolved, That a State Convention be
called to be held in tiie city of Atlantaon
tiie 22*1 day ot next July, to be composed i
of delegates to be apj»oiuted without re- !
gaid to number by the Democrats and Con- '
servatives of the several counties of this
State for the purpose of consulting upo-i
such quest! jus as may he presented for
consideration, and in the event that tiie ;
Stale shall he admitted into the Union, I
and permitted to vote in tiie Presidential
election, also to nominate an electoral i
ticket to be run by tiie Democrats and j
Conservatives in tiie ensuing election for
President and Vice Presideutof the United
States.
Resolved, That we recommend that each
county siiaii be entitled to doubie the num
ber of votes that it lias Representedves iu
the Legislature under tiie new Coustitu
fi" !. E. G. Cabamss, Ch’n.
A. W. Reese, Bec’y pro tern.
file Admission of <l*•- Smiilierii Males.
I pon this subject, tiie Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
Radical) under date of the 23d inst.,
writes as follows :
“ The general question of bringing iu the
Southern States lias been a good deal de
bated among Republicans for the last three
or four days. Gen. Grant and Mr. (Mifax
both favor the speedy admission of such as
have complied with the reconstruction acts
and can present acceptable constitutions.
T here are some persons, however, who
profess to believe the true interests of the
Republican party will behest subserved
by making haste slowly in this matter.
The unanimity with which restoration
bills have been put through the House
may, it is believe 1, be taken as a general
iuuieati >n of the feeling in tiie Senate. :
It seem> pretty certain that the Senate
will finally agree with the House iu order- i
iug anew election iu Alabama, but tliat {
the oilier reconstructed .-tales will be ad
mitted before July.”
Par Nobile Fkatbdm —Radical “re
construction” in Arkau-as lias raked up i
from tin- very dregs of the party iu that
State two rich specimens of “trooly loil"
vagabondism, as its representatives iu the
Senate of the United Stales. One of these
men. Rice, has written himself down in
black and white a thief, a gambler and a
swindler; white his colleague, McDonald, ;
is proven t*» have bought corn from the
Government at eighteen cents j>er bushel,
aud flour at $3.50 per barrel, and alter-
Wards »ul(i the Ktum cs.ni „ U»c wmic
flour L'lok f . the t .ovcrhmen“ar .s<* -per •
bushel and 534 ja-r barrel ! Arkansas to ,
the front!- She can certainly boast two
Senators whom “ perjury will not hurt
much.”
Stanton's Letter to the President
—The following i> hangman Stanton's
letter to President Johnson, written upon
tiie occasion of ins vacating the War
Office:
War Department, >
Washington, May 26, isos. >
Silt —The resolution of the United States
Senate of the* 21st of February, declaring
that tiie President lias no power to remove
the Secretary of War mid designate any
other officer to perform the duties of that I
office ad interim, having this day failed to
be supported by two-thirla of the articles
of impeachment preferred .against you by
tin* House of Representatives, 1 have
relinquished charge ol die War Depart
ment, and have left flit same, and the
books, archives, papers and property in
iny custody as Secretary of War, in care
of Brevet General Townsend, the senior
Adjutant General, subject to your
direction.
(Signed) E. M. Stanton,
Secretary of \S'ar.
Another “Court Organized to Con
vkt," met in Atlanta oti Wednesday, to
try Mr. E. D. Cody, of Macon couuty,
who is charged with the killing of a Fed- i
era! soldier at Wurrenton, on the noth of
April last.
TEKItIBLti TKAtiEDV AT MAH'
Ml tLI.VILLt',.
Makshaia.vii.le, May 23, ISGS.
Messrs. J. W. Burke «& Co.—
Gentlemen A terrible tragedy occurred
here yesterday morning about 3 o’clock. — j
Mr. W. C. Staley shot a freed man by the
name of Henry Wheeler. It seems that
Wheeler had a child hired to Mrs. Staley,
the mother of Wm. C„ and went out to j
see Mrs. S. very early In the morning, to !
lake his daughter away, and while there |
said or done something to cause Mrs. Staley
to faint, or go into spasms. Mr. S. came in j
just at that time, thought that his mother
was dying, and learning that Wheeler
was the cause of it, pursued him to the vil
lage, and uponcomiug up with him struck
him with a whip, whereupon Wheeler at
tempted to draw a pistol, when Staley,
throwing his whip down, commenced
tiring at Wheeler, shooting the contents
of two revolvers as quick as possible.—
Wheeler walked about fifty yards and fell,
his pistol going off as lie was falling. He
was shot in two places in the hotly, and
through the thumb, one of the balls going
entirely through him. He died last night
about half-past nine o’clock. Staley gave
himself up, anti underwent an examica
ution before the Magistrate yesterday, who
admitted him to-bail in the sum of SGOOO,
but when parties went last night to re-ar
rest him, lie could mit he found.
I have written you hut a orief sketch of
this horrible affair, which has cast a gloom
over our usually quiet village.
Yours truly, J. A. S.
A Millionaire. —David li. Harrison, a
; bank-note engraver of this city, has re
cently been apprised of the fact that lie is
sole heir of a fortune equal to $14,000,000
| in United States paper currency, the lie
quest of his uncle, formerly an East Indian
merchant. The fortunate legatee is seventy
years of age, a resident of Harlem, and the
head of a large family. He has been for
many years in theemploy of the American
Bank-Note Company, and was heretofore
in very moderate moneyed circumstances
—New York Times.
It isa matter within our own knowledge
that Mr. Kvarts 10-t more than thrice the
annual income of any ordinary lawyer by
attending the impeachment proceedings ;
in other words, that lie declined business
vastly more renmnerfitive for the sake of
conducting Mr. Johnson’s defence; and,
moreover, that Mr. Kvarts has received no
fee whatever for conducting it. This is a
fact which Mr. Evarts would not conde
scend to state himself, and one which we
should not be at liberty to mention had we
learned it from him.— New York Nation.
The Kiitht Mail in the Might Place,
j Ex-Governor Joe E. Brown, of Georgia,
; has at last landed \Vfiere he properly be
longs—in the meanest, most corrupt and
unprincipled party the country lias ever
produced. He turned up the other day in
the itadical National Convention, at Chi
cago, as the representative of the negro
interest of the State from which lie came
accredited. In a speech which he made
before the Convention he informed that
illustrious body of knaves that lie was au
original secessionist, but that the thrash
ing which lie had received had cured him
of all such heretical notions, and tliat he
was now prepared to exchange greetings
with those who bad thrashed him.
Joe might have been an original seces
sionist in sentiment, but if these were his
principles, he did not make much of a
display during tiie war. His efforts ap
peared to be chiefly directed to embarrass
ing ttie Government,and keeping as many
of tiie men of Georgia out of the army as
jiossible. Indeed, it was his proudest
boast tiiat he iiad kept a large number of
men out of tiie army who would have been
compelled to take tiieir places in the ranks
but for bis efforts and opposition, and he
claimed iu his public speeches, when he
was running for Governor, that he was
entitled to tiieir votes for this exemption.
Yet at that very time he was professing
ihe most unbounded devotion to the Con
federate cause. His insincerity and dis
honesty, however, were so apparent that
but fewol'auy party confined in him, and
although he succeeded in retaining the
Gubernatorial seat he was generally looked
upon with suspicion. He was the head of
that party, which, after involving the
Southern States in tiieir difficulties, pro
posed to sneak back into the Union arid
escape tiie responsibility of their own ac
tion under a system of what they termed
; separate ,-State action, which, being ex
plained, meant simply tliat the Confeder
j ate Government was an illegal orgariiza
| tion with which tiie Government of the
United States could not make terms, but
that tiie Slates separately being sovereign,
the United States could recognize them
; and receive them back into the Union.—
After allowing themselves false to the
government of the United Stales and as
sisting m withdrawing their Slates from
I it, they found themselves in danger, by
i tiie uncertainty connected with tiie result
j of the war, and, to savy their own treach-
I eruns and worthless homes, they proposed
: to abandon the States with which tbev
were associated, crawl back like whipped
curs into tiie Union, and leave the States
which they had thus betrayed to light out
the unequal contest by thems«lv«*. Jw
Brown was a prominent member of tiiis
band of traitors. Whether they were trai
i tors in the first instance in advising their
people to withdraw from the Union and
; strike a manly blow for independence is
not tiie question, but.tliat they were trai
tors when, after doing this, they proposed
to abandon their sisler States and make
their ow n terms to escape punishment, no j
truthful man can deny. It was the basest !
and most cowardly treachery, and should j
not be forgotten.
But Joe Brow n was not satisfied w ith
this exhibition of his want of principle, !
and seemingly anxious to increase tbeodi- j
lira which was already attached to him,Tie
was swift when the war closed to indorse
every measure intended for tiie humilia
tion and mortification of the people among
w hom lie lived, aud to iJiu and .-ueli as
followed his lead may be attributed much ■
o tiie oppression which has been visited '
upon tiie Sombern |*fople, and under ’
which they have groaned for the last three <
years. The prompt sanction w hich lie j
and those who acted w ith him gave to :
every policy for their oppression, and bis i
zeal in earryingoul those policies induced !
the authorities of the Government to be
lieve tliat any and everything it could
attempt would be quietly endured. He
had been one of the leaders of the people
in tiie rebellion, and was supposed to know
their seutimeuts and the extent to which
their manhood had been whipped out of
them. _ ‘ ,
it.uh-u> itwin* **• *
uts adh -,.)«* io the IVieiol authorities, or
the right" ot interacts of the people »
had so long trusted nim and clothed him
with political honors. He was providing ,
for Joe Brown, aud other considerations ;
were subordinate to tiiis. It mattered lit
t e to him if his whole people were ruined j
provided he was protected and cared for. j
His first efforts were directed to showing
the Northern people that he was, since the j
fate of the battle had decided against him. t
thoroughly loyal, aud that he was entitled
to their confidence. By the terms of the j
amnesty proclamation In* was included in 1
one or more of those cla-ses which re
quired special paid »us, and perhaps an
act of Congress, to reiease him from tiie i
liabilities which had been imposed ui>oii j
him. A thorough paced demagogue, and !
utterly unscrupulous, lie labored for iiis j
individual reinstatement to civil rigiits, [
in order tliat lie might t*e once raoie in the j
line of promotion to office and political
honors. To this end lie made tiie most
contemptible and abject surrender of his
former political opinions, shamelessly con
fessed that lie liad been au unworthy
traitor, and vilely licked tiie dust at the
feet of those whom iie believed could alone
promote Ids ambitious aspirations. To
I show ids zeal he united himself with the
negro and carpet-bag party, assisted iu the
; overthrowing of the constitutional gov
j ernment of his State, labored for the dis
' franehisement of better men than himself,
and no doubt exulted when lie found the
State of which lie had been so long the
honored and trusted executive handed
over to negro rule.
He is an illustrious specimen of that un
principled class of while men in the South
who, lor tils basest purposes and for per
sonal aggrandizement, united with the
carpet-baggers who poured down from the
North to get control of the negro element,
and ride upon it into power. Cold, selfish,
unscrupulous, and utterly regardless of
every interest not personal to himself, he
lias pursued his shameless course for the
last three years, until he at last finds him
self in a national convention of the vilest
enemies of his State and section, in close
affiliation with them, and ready to second
any new infamy for the oppression of his
people which they may concoct.
No other public man of equal promi
nence in the South has made so shameless
a display of his vileuess. Probably no
other will. And it is gratifying tc know
that tiiis unprincipled demagogue, in his
efforts to conciliate, for his own benefit,
the enemies of his section, has so thor
| oughly exposed himself to the people upon
whom he can alone rely for political pro
motion, that he cut himself off from all
i hope of ever again rising above the sur
! face. He has etlbctually overreached him
i self, and must now retire to tin* obscurity
; of private life, covered with the infamy
} which his dastardly perfidy has properly
! brought upon him.— Lou. Courier, Nth.
Tin; Worm! Is All Lost '.’—The New
Orleans Picayune of Thursday'says : “The
I cotton or army worm has appeared al
ready in different and widely separated
parts of this State : in the Felicianas, some
; distance to the East of the Mississippi
River, in St. Landry, far West of it, and
in Rapides, on Red River. It is reasona
ble to suppose that all other regions where
| tHe larva* of the moths were deposited last
| year will be likewise visited by the worm
| this year. We regard it peculiarly for
i tuuate that it lias shown itself in May, so
: that our planters may at once proceed to
; fortifying themselves against the loss
! which will ensue from a continuous effort
|to raise a full crop of cotton. \V e would
not advise any to plougiTtip their cotton
j when it still promises well ; but do not
plant a single missing spot unless with
i something else than cotton, and if any
j field has gotton so ‘in the grass,’ and the
! cotton so backward and poor as to be a
| ‘desperate chance,’ that of resuscitating it,
I make up your mind to save the grass and
not the cotton. Make the bay whenever
I the grass is in the proper stage to be rich
i and nutritious, and save it, even if other
1 crops need attention at the time.”
Radicals Cheap.— Democrats either
have a vast corruption fund, or it doesn’t
cost much to buy a Radical vote, ft wasn’t
long ago that we bought the President.
Then we filled the Philadelphia Conven
tion with purchased delegates. Previous
to that we bought three Henators—Cowan,
Doolittle, and Dixon. Now, in order to
acquit tlie President, we have bought
seven more, if the Jacobin newspapers are
to he believed. Radical Senators must He
cheap when a party can buy up a round
dozen in the course of a year, and have
plenty of money left. It’s a good deal
1 cheaper, and fully as sure as electing them.
YOL. LX., TsO. 13.
'l'll *5 I*I.ATI « > H.SI.
Resolutions of the Ration'd Republican
Convention.
The following is the platform in full
adopted by tbe Chicago Convention :
Ttie National Republican party of the
I United States, assembled in National
Convention in tile city of Chicago on the
j 20th day of May, ISO*, make the following
declaration of principles:
Ist. We congratulate tbe country on the
assured success of the reconstruction policy
j of Congress ns evinced by tlie adoption in
a majority of the .States lately in rebellion
I °f constitutions securing equal civil and
political rights to all, and regard it as the
duty of the Government’to sustain fbo-e
; institutions, and to prevent the people of
such -tates from being remitted to a state
!of anarchy. [Cheers ]
2d. The guarantee by Congress of equal
| suffrage to all loyal men in tbeSoyth is de
i man (led by every consideration of public
safety, of gratitude and justic , and mu*t
| be maintained, while the question of -uf
lrage in ail the loyal t-tales proj t rlv be
longs to the people of those .States.
[Cheers. J
2d. We denounce all forms of repudia
tion as » natioual crime [prolonged
cheers], and the national honor requires
the i ay men t of the public indebtedness
in the utmost good faith to all creditors
at home and abroad, not oniy according
to the letter but the spirit of the laws
under which it was created. [Applause.]
4th. It is due to the labor of tbe nation
that taxation should be equalized, and re
duced as rapidly as the national faith will
permit.
sth. That the national debt, contracted
as it has been for the preservation of the
Union for ail time to come, should be ex
tended over a fair period for redemption,
and that it is the duty of Congress to re
duce tiie rate of interest thereon whenever
it can honestly be done.
oth. That tiie best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is to so improve our
credit that capitalists will seek to loan us
money at lower rates of interest than we
now pay and must continue to pay as long
as repudiation, partial or total, open or
covet, is threatened or suspected.
7th. The Government of the United
States should he administered with the
strictest economy, arid the corruptions
which have been so shamefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew Johnson call
| ioudiy for radical reform,
i Bth. <Ve profoundly deplore the untitne
j ly and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln
and regret the accession to the Presidency
iof Andrew Johnson, who hu- acted
t trekch«rtMiely to Hie people who eiecut u
j him, and ttie cause he was pledged to
i support; has usurped high legislative and
j judicial functions; has refused to execute
the laws; ha* used his high office to in
i' duce other officers to ignore and violate
the laws; lias employed his executive
powers to render Insecure tbe property,
peace, liberty and life of tiie citizen*: h.,s
denounced the National Legi*lature a*
unconstitutional; lias persistently ren
ted by every measure in his power, ever v
proper attempt at reconstruction of the
.States lately id rebellion; has preverted
tiie public patronage into an engine of
wholesale corruption, and has been just y
impeached for high ernues ami misde
meanois and properly pronounced guilt y
tiiereofby the vote of thirty-five Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other Kuroj ean powers, that because a
man is once a subject he Is always so,
must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, a.* a relic of the ietidal
times, not authorized by the law o nations,
and at war with our national tumor and
independence Naturalized citizens ought
to be protected in ali (heir right* of citi
zenship, as though they were native born,
and no citizen of the United Slates, natu
ralized or not naturalized, must be liable
to arrest and i in prison men t bv any foreign
power for acts done or words si>okeu m
this country, and if arrested and impris
oned it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in his behalf.
itJLll. in Skil wt\r> worn fAilKful in
Ulfc'H «*tf »»'-« w *“•. then- «-«•
iiued to more especial Honor mao tiie
brave soldiers and seamen, who endured
tbedrartisbips of campaign and cruise, at 1
imperilled their lives in the service of their
country. The bounties and pensions pro
vided by law for those brave defenders of
tiie nation are obligations never to • e for
gotten. ;he widows and orphans of the
gallant dead are the wards of the people—
a sacred legacy, bequeathed to tiie nation's
protecting care.
11th. Foreign emigration, which in the
past ha- added so much to tile wealth and
development of the resources and increase
of power to this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be foster
ed and encouraged by a liberal and just
policy.
12tit. This convention sympathizes with
all those oppressed people who are strug
gling lor their rights.
The President—The resolutions are be
fore tiie convention.
Mr. Spencer, of N: Y. — I move the re
port be adopted. I believe it evinces gre.-st
cate, and is pre-eminently wise and truth
ful. It presents . lie articles of faith of ti e
Union Republican party of the country,
and the great majority of this convention
is anxious and willing, in my judgment,
to vole upon the platform, and as discus
sion, in my judgment, wouid have no
other effect than perhaps to place a dot
overall i, or to alter some word or sen
tence, leaving tne 'sentence substantially
intact, I make this my motion, and eail
for the previous question. [Good, j
Mr. Cochrane—l rise to a question of
order. The previous question- is not
moved for by a majority of our delega
tion.
Tiie President—There is a rule of the
convention that a call for the previous
question must come from one delegation
and l e sustained by another.
Mr. Cochrane —I move you see that, in
the resolution respecting irnpeacbmeut,
after the words “properly convicted by
thirty-five votes,” tiiere be inserted the
words, “and improperly acquitted by nine
teen.” [Great applause and laughu-r.j
General iseburz 1 am in favor of ibe
platform as it stands, [t beers.] I only
want to move two additional paragraph-,
which I think 1 should have ttie unani
mous consent of the convention to oiler.
1 move to attach to the second resolution
tiie clause, “in relation o tiie right of suf
frage for the colored race.”
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Rhode Island
called for the previous question.
The President —ediall the main question
be now put? [Cries of “yes, put the ques
tion.]
The Chair stated the question on Mr.
Cochrane’s amendment.
Mr. Cochrane—Upon my individual
responsibility, I should suffer that amend
ment to remain. My delegation, how
ever, have unanimously appealed to me
in their name to withdraw it. Ido so.
[Cheers.]
Cotton.— The quotations of the Liver
pool market are now just about the same
as those of May last year. This fact will
serve to show" planters that it is not
entirely safe to rely on high prices next
whiter because they are high this spring.
The tendency of the market is now con
tinuously downward. The quotations, we
believe, are now about 2| lo 2]d. lower
than tiie highest of this spring, received
a few weeks ago This represents the de
cline in gold ; it is between 0 and < cents
per pound in our currency.
Still we do not think that a crop in this
county, no larger than those of* last year
and the year before, will find prices as low
in Liverpool us they were last winter. If
we make this year a crop of only two mil
lions or two millions and a half of bales,
the commercial world will be apt to regard
a yield of about that amount (having been
repeated three years in succession) as a
“full crop” for the United States under
our changed condition. And stability in
Ihe supply, with three yearss’ experience
furnishing a reliable basis for estimates,
will go far towards checking great fluctu
ations and preventing the arbitrary con
trol of the market by speculators.— Co'.
Enq., 27 th
Dissatisfaction Among Radicals.—
i Great indignation existed in Philadelphia
on Thursday with the Radicals in refer
ence to the overslaughing oi the various
candidates for the \Tce-Pres.deiiey tb
side of the Alleghames A pr.minei
Radical, in the presence of the wn
dieted that k if lie wa/uomin
-000 majority <> * ‘ ouV entioti on Jui.v
ated at the f * Philadelphia would
• 4 ’- for any one nominated
| the Democrats.- Washington JS&res*.