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JAMES ALDERMAN,
Aug 30 60d Adm r
j ■n j[|frott the C"lpmbu.s Enqiliren] •
A Bcquisftian far Brai.nUiv,
’ (partly written by pote.)
,
1 Vital spark of angry flame,
I Quit, oil -quit his ugly frame !
Snarling, snapping, always lying, .
Oh the bliss of dying 1 ■
Cease, foul Nature, cease thy strife,
t And let him “wriggle’’ out of life. ‘
1 Hark 1 they ; .\ngefc say
’ let the scoundrel come fhis why !
What is it that absorbs him quite?
’Tis writing lies all day and night.
Tak£ a cork serew —draw his breath,
And Let him flutter into death.
And when this bad man disappears,
Oh take him Satan, by the cars,
A*d Mncfrflieny-’tlll thoy ring ;
- Lend him your wings afts let him fly!
HO grave, huge is Yiciory !
Death “pop” him with thy sting.
Amen.
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Thnd, aterfu.,’ Speech at Bedford
~\Vkai the aoulh U to Eipmsf
the Kndiraln.
TTie leader otThe Republican p irty
in Congress made a soeech at Bedford,
Penn., oh the 4th inst.. reviewing the
proceedings of last session, an-d ex :
plaining, quite at length, his views of
the p licy suited to the present crisis.
His expositions’ better deserve atten
tion than those of any other Republi
can, inasmuch as he lias greater power
Ito give his views effect. .
Mr. Stevens has sufficient clearness
j of logical perception to enable him to
see ihat ti.e,exclusion of the Southern
Stages froth Congress is indefensible,
if it be admitted that the Constitution
is in force now the same as it was
previous to tLe rebellion lie there
fore boldly contends that all .the con
stitutional rights of the excluded States
were ‘extinguished by the war. He
contends that the. present jurisdiction
of the Federal government over those
j States is not deiived tUm the Consti
tution but from conquest; and that
they can possess no rights under the
Constitution until alter such rights
have been again conferred by Congress
which is alone empowered to admit
States into the Union. As Mr. Ste
vens’sl whole argument hinges upon
these positions, we deem it fit to in
sert enough of his language to exhibit
the importance he attaches to them.
“The President and his squad (it
.does not deserve the name of party)
contend that the war made no changes
in the condition of our institutions un
der the Constitution. That the rights
and liabilities of all our former citizens
rebel asu well as loyalj feUiaiu unchang
ed. This exhibits a most deplorable
ignorance, or eulpable-treachery. No
greats war between acknowledged bel
ligerents ever left the condition and
fiigliljs of the parties after the same as
tjefotej iralqss if wort so stipulated hy
the treaty of potfee. The War leaves
them without compacts, without rights,
except the rights of war. When it is
ended, new treaties are to be made;
or if one party submits the conqueror
■ prescribes the futufe'l'elative condition
of the parties, without regard to their
•relative condition before the war.—
Tho- vanquished have no rights except
vs hat the conqueror gratits. This is
much more so, when one of the bcl-
ligeients is composed of rebels! You
are aware that a convention of traitors
was lately held in Philadelphia.—
Most of theta had actually borne arms
against the United States, and helped
murder half a million of our citizens.
Asew r sympathizers at the North who
ought to have been South met with
t them. They extinguished the Dem
ocratic party, and blotteu its name
j from the vocabulary of parties. No
Democratic party can lieniieforth exisd.
They laid dtwn an elaborate party
1 creed or platform of principles for this
conglomerate mass. Being tiaitors,
they of course adopted the President’s
views.
Ilera is their fundamental article, to
which all the others conform. Mr.
Raymond’s address says:
‘.*T.l e Constitution of the Uuited
’ States is to-day precisely what it was
j before the war, the supreme law of the
land, anything in the constitution or
laws of any State to the contrary not
withstanding. And to-day also, as
before the war, all powers not confer
red by the Constitution of the general
government, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the several
States or the people thereof.
‘•The United States acquired no new
power, no rights either territorial or
as civil authority, which it did nob
possess before the war broke out.”
This strange, wild and wicked doc
trine was unanimously adopted by the
conclave What ! Six millions of re
j beb who had renounced the Constitu
| tion, who had murdered five hundred
! thmisami of our eitizens, who bad
loaded the’ nation with debt and
drenched’it with blood, when conquer
| ed had forfeited no right; had lost no
jurisdiction or civil authority; and
these conquerors had acquired none,
because there was a Constitution which,
while they obeyed, protected them,
but which they had discarded and
teen to pieces by war! Was there
ever before a human brain frenzied
enough to engender such folly; or a
human front brazen enough to utter it ?
No principle in national law is clearer
: than phat when belligerents inaugu
rate a war which is acknowledged to
t be a putdic war, all the former obliga
tions, treaties and compacts between
the parties become null and void, and
Tkomasville, Georgia, Thursday, September 27, 1866:
after the war are to be renewed or
repudiated as the parties agree, or as
the conqueror decrees. If either par
ty i* utterly subdued, his life, liberty
and property arc at the disposal of the
victor.” ; 1 . ~ .
! Assuming that bis theories are of
.course correct, Mr. Stevens proceeds
to tell his hearers what Cjngress ought
to have done, We invite the atteu*
tic nos the Southern people to this
extract. lie aajyr:
“In my opinion Congress was dere
lict in another particular. I have always
held that whiie but few of the bellig
erents should suffer the extreme pen
alty of the law. yet that a sufficient
fund should be levied out of their
property to pay the expenses and dum
ages of the war. Congress, iu July,
1862, declared all their property for
feited, and directed the President to
seize it for the benefit of the United
States ; more than .ten billions of prop
erty thus became vested in the United
States. Proceedings against more than
two billions of property, including the
abandoned estates, bad been instituted
and were in progress. The President
has. restored to the traitors nearly the
whole of it. Thus has he illegally
given away half enough to pay. the
national debt. He has enriched trait
ors at the expenses of loyal men. And.
yet Congress, bold as it was, had not
the courage to reverse these proceed
ings and compel the Executive to do
his duty. I trust that our constituents
will give us more courage, so that at
the next session we may compel the
President to do his duty and execute
the laws. These are omi-sions which
I frankly confess and sincerely deplore.
But our crowning rin was the omis
sion to give homesteads and the right
of suffrage in the rebel States to the
freedmeu who helped fight our bat-’
tics/’
We quote his remarks in favor of
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.-
<L\s I said before the great issuo to
be met at this election is the question
of negro rights. I shall not deny, but
admit, that a fundamental principle of
the Republican creed is that every be
ing possessing an immortal sou) 18 C( I UJ d
before the law. They are not and
cannot be equal in strength, height,
beauty’ intellectual and moral culture,
or social acquirements, these are ac
cidents which must govfern their con
dition according to circumstances. —
13ut in this Republic tbe same laws
must and shall,apply to every mortal,
American, Irishman, African, Gorman
or Turk. It is writen by the finger of
the Almighty law-giver, ‘Ye shall have
one manner of laws, as well for the
stranger as for one of your own coun
try ; far I am the Lord your God.’
“I need not be admonished that the
support of this doctrine on the eve of
an election is dangerous, especially in
counties bordering on tbe slave States.
A deep seated prejudice against races
has disfigured the human mind for
ages. For two centuries it has op
pressed the black man and held him
in bondage after white slavery had
ceased to exist. Now it deprives him
of every right in the Southern States
We have joined in inflicting those
wrongs. How has the father of this
blameless race rewarded this prejudice
—treated this despotism ? Let the
stain 6 upon your garments, and the
gory-graves that dot a thousand bloody
battle-fields give the sad answer.
‘•This doctrine may be unpopular
with besotted ignorance. But, popu
lar or unpopular I shall stand by il
until I am relieved of the unpopular
labors ot earth. Being the foundation
of our Republic, I have full faith in its
ultimate triumph. I may not live to
see it. I may net be Worthy of such
happiness. It it is to be finally Ue
seated, and the hopes of man thus
extinguished, I pray God that, when
it happens, I may be insensible to
human misery ; that my senses may
be locked in “cold obstruction and in
death.’ ”
That there should be no doubt-as to
what lie intended to do in Congress
he has thus declared himself boldly
in favor of
CONFISCATING REBEL PROPERTY.
“Who denies that this is the law of
nations but the advocates of treason,
who deny our right to make them pay
the expenses of the war? Tley cry
out against confiscation for crime, as
if it were inhuman God will ng, I
shall try it again, and see if they do
net pay part of the cpst and damages
of the war before they help to make
our laws. 77
These extracts show the aiiimus of
the Radical party, and warn us of what
we may expect if they succeed in
overthrowing the party which now
stands face to face with them in the
Northern States. In view of the de
signs here made public, how utterly
unreasonable and unworthy of notice,
asks the Richmond Dispatch, are the
puerile'objections raised by grumblers
in the South ag.inst the phraseology
of part of the platform adopted by the
Conservative National Convention.
The Riot at Indianapolis, In
diana. —The Chicago Times has from
a correspondent some further particu
lars of the disgraceful proceedings at
Indianapolis, Indiana, on the occasion
of the airival of the President and
party there. The correspondent of the
Times says:
The President was introduced to the
crowd by Sol. Meredith, and attempt
ed to speak, hut the crowd would not
let him. The President said : It you
will let ms soeak five minuets, I will
—‘ (Shut up, you damned traitor, or
Pll shoot you 1” came from a voice.
‘‘Shoot the damned traitor 1” “Shoot
him “Shoot him 1” cried several
voices.) Bang, bang, bang ! went three
•shots.
A group of “Irishmen, carrying a
transparency with the motto “Irish
men welcome the President/’ were
attacked and severely beaten, and in
discriminate firing commenced, some
twelve shots being fired. A terrible
scene transpired, in which men with
torches were beaten rnd driven off by
Radicals, who were armed with clubs
and pistols.
The President, Grant, Farragut,
Custar and many others of the gentle*
men composing the President’s party
witnessed the whole affair General
Grant saw a dozen shots fired, and
remarked that it was the most dis
graceful scene he ever saw. A large
•number.of Irishmen were injured, in
cluding two who were severely wound
ed. • An organization called the loyal
league, with a tattered flag) caused all
the trouble —which was premediated.
General Grant commanded them to go
home, which ‘ they did,, all the while
swearing that the President should not
speak in Indianapolis. Bc-fore the
Radicals dispersed they had thorough
ly cleaned out the Irish clubs and
Johnson men, and had the field to
themselves. Andrew Steward, an
Irishman, wras shot in the eye, and has
since died. -Walter Rucken, an old
man, wounded in the knee, and John
Stay was shot in the hand
— ■m -m m +--
Adjournment of the FenJaN
Congress.— -The Fenian Congress, re
cently held at Troy, New York, ad
journed sine die on Sunday morning
having been in session all Saturday
night. Col. W. R. Roberts was re
elected President. P. J. Meehan
President of the Senate, and J. N.
Fitzgerald Speaker of the House. —
Gen. Sweeny was deposed as Secreta
ry of War, but no successor has been
named. His accounts were satisfacto
ry, but he was believed to be incompe
tent. Gen. O’Neii was appointed In
spector General of the Irish Republi
can Army, and Col Bailey Chief Mil
itary Organizer. It is still hoped that
Gen. Sheridan will be prevailed upon
to accept the command of the forces.
Another movement on Canada will,
the Fenians say, undoubtedly be made
during the fall if the contributions are
plentiful.
■, —~
Tho Tomato for Food.
A good medical authority ascribes
to the tomato the following very im
portant medical qualities,,:
1. That the tomato is one of the
most powerful aperients of the liver
and other organs, where calomel is in
dicated, it is one of the most effective
and least hatmlcse medical agents
known to the profession.
2. That a chemical extract will be
obtained from it that will supersede
the use of calomel in the care of dis
ease.
3. That he has successfully treated
diarrhoea with this article alone.
4. That when used as an afticle of
diet, it is almost sovereign for dyspep
sia and indigestion.
5. That it should be constantly used
for daily food Either cocked or raw,
or in the form of catsup, it is the most
wholesome aiticle in use.
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Cross Your “T’s” —It it is not
amiss to cross one’s “t’s” in writing
cHe mistakes may as in the case
of the merchant who wrote to his
agent who was cruising round the coast
ot Africa, to send him two monkeys.
Now the merchant was somewhat de
ficient in orthography, so he spelled
two, “too,” and a3 he omited to cross
his “t,” the agent with some surprisej
read the order, “100 monkeys;” At
length one of the merchant’s vessels
came to port —the deck, masts) and
riggin all alive with grinning laces.
The puzzled merchant read the agent’s
letter with still more puzzled brain :
“Dear Sir—Yours of March 10 receiv
ed. 1 send fifty monkeys. Have
found it difficult to procure so large a
number, will endeevor to fill out the
balance of your order, and forward
by next ship. Yours truly, John Smith.’
The Iron ‘Crown.— When the
Austrians recently ceded Venice to
France, they carried off from Venice
the famous Iron Crown of Lombardy,
and its restoration has been demanded
by the Italian Government, to whom
France has ceded Venetia. This
crown, although made chiefly ot gold,
derives its name from an iron band
encircling the interior, which is said
to have been made from one of the
nails driven through Chiist’s body at
the crucifixion. It was wom by Char
lemagne, the first Emperor of Ger
many, more than a thousand years ago;
was preserved in Italy through the
terrible devastations of the Middle
Ages ; and was finally worn by Napo
leon Bonaparte, who with it was crown
ed King of Italy at Milan. When
Austria became master of Lombady,
the crown followed the fortunes of the
country, aod now that the country is
again made part of the Italian king
dom, the Italian Government justly
claims the crown-
DAWNING OF A NEVA REVOI.F
TIOX,
The Radical editor of the Pittsburgh
Chronicle, in a criticism under the
above caption, upon the conservative
course of the New York Times, inter
rogates the latter as to its understand
ing of the purposes of the President.
He asks.’ “Do you understand Mr.
Johnson to have resolved, should the
Republican preponderance be perpetu.
ated iu Congress, to disregard that as
the true Congress, and recognize the
Southern members, and such of the
Northern and Western members ns
will go with them, as the true one ?
and if he has formed such n purpose,
what do you think of it V’ He remarks
also : “There is a growing concern in
the public mind in reference to this
matter, and the people, are becoming
Elaruied.” •
In its reply the Times repeats its
note of warning of an impending re
volution, and argues that if the South
ern States and districts in the North
ern. States sympathizing with them,
sufficient in numbers to constitute
such legal quorum, should elect Rep
resentatives to the House, whilst the
Radical Northerners who do not be
lieve in the right of the Southern
States to representation, should send
their Representatatives, claiming that
they constituted tho House of Rep
resentatives in Congress, then the
President would be called upon, as the
Chief Executive of the nation, to recog
nize one of these bodies as the lawful
ore. .
Ho must send his message to one or
the other and must sign bills passed by
one or the other; It cites the law of
Congress approved by the President in
U 62, now upon the statute books,
which, provides “that from and alter
the 6th of Match, 1863, the numbers
of the llouso of Representative of the
Congress of the United States shall
be two hundred and forty-one ; and
the eight additional members shall be
assigned one in each to Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, lowa, Min
nesota, Vermont, and Rhode Island.”
This gives Cougress 241 members,-
and by law, a majority of the whole
number, or 121 members, constitute a
quorum. And tho Times says : Sup
pose that members elected from the
Southern States should meet in De
cember, 1867, and be.enough, added
to Northern Members who believe in
their right to representation, and who
would meet with them to constitute a
quorum, and suppose the Northern
members who do not believe the South
entitled to representation, and who
would not meet with, them should
meet by themselves, constituting less
than a quorum of the whole number.
The President must treat one or the
other as a branch of Congress, clothed
with the power of making laws, and
tho other as having no such authority.
And, continues the Times, there can
be very little doubt, in view rs his
known opinions on the subject, that
President Johnson will recogni’ze the
numerical quorum —the body which
contains a majority of all the members
—as the only body authorized by the
Constitution to make laws for the Uni
ted States. With the case thus stated
and taken in connection with the un
qualified assumption of the President
that tne Southern States are still with
in the pale of the Union and have
never been out of it, the consequence
necessarily follows that he will send
iis message to the larger body, and
will sign the bills it passes, if concur
red iu by the Senate. But the Senate
as at present constituted, politically,
will doubtless refuse to recognize the
arger body and affiliate with the
smaller. The Senate, therefore would
take a position antagonistic to the
President in such a case. The Times
says in this connection :
Here, certainly, is danger of a colli
sion of authority. We have foreseen
it, and have warned the country of it.
The Radicals have foreseen it, and
have been preparing for it. They
lave not Concealed their purpose, in
such an event, to appeal to force, and
rouse the country to another conflict
of arms, It was with direct reference
to such a contingency that Gen- B; F;
Butler was last winter maile comman
der-in-chief of the militia of Massa
chusetts. It was for the purpose of
preparing for this that a bill was
brought into Congress last winter call,
ing on all the Northern States to reor
ganize, discipline, and arm their mili
tia, and proposing to take from the
President control of the arms and
munitions of war belonging to the Uni
ted States, and to distribute them
among the Governors ol the Northern
States.
“Radical members said openly on
the floor of Congres that they intend
ed to be n ady for such a conflict of au
thority when it should arise—that
the negroes of the South should be
prepared and armed for it also; and
that the President and bis Cabinc, and
everybody in CoDtress who stood by
him, should be driven headlong into
the Potomac. And it was a foresight
of this contingency, and a desperate
desire to attach the commanding Gen
eral of the Armies of the United
States to their scheme, that prompted
Thaddeus Stevens in Congress, and
their organs through the counity, to
nominate Gen. Grant so ostentatiously
for the Presidency, and to invent and
ciroulatc so industriously inventions
YOL. VL-No. 39.
and rumors of his hostility to th*
views and policy of President John
Son. Their machinations failed. Gen.
Grant maintained, and still maintains
his personal independence.
Xbc Rada lit Phiiailrlpliiii..
’ One cannot read the detailed rdport®
of the Radical disunion convention,
lately in -session at Philadelphia, with
. out mingled feelings of amazement,
horror, shame, grief and amusement.
Are these fellows crazy, or are they
more'knaves than fools ? is .tho instinc
tive query of every one.
From the proceedings of Thursday
the following gems are reset :
A BLASPHEMOUS sc-exe.
i The Convention met at half past ten.
and the Rev. t)r. Newman, of New
Orleans, yesterday elected Chaplain*
opened the proceedings with*prayer.
After invoking the Divine co-cpera
tion for the removal of all prejudices
growing out of race or color, the re
verend gentlemen dwelt a little on the
subject of reconstruction as follows .
“Save us, wo pray, from partisan influ
ences. Save us, we pray, from outside
pressure.’’ This was a gentle hint to
Providence to call off the dogs of Con
servation who are trying to Bai'ft’ the
Radical Southerners out of their„con
victions. Then Mr Newman called
the Lord's attention to the President
in this wise ; “Hear us, we beseech
thee, for our nation at large. Deliver
us from the rule of bad men —[Cries of
Amen] —and especially from him who,
through satanic agencies, has been
raised to authority over us —£yells of
Amen} —and who, abusing that au
thority is endeavoring not only to take
the life of the republic, but, our per
sonal liberty. [Shouts of “Amen/’}
Great God, interfere. Arncns till i
seemed as rs the roof wouli fall ]’ Oh.
make bare thine arm* and save us from
his ruinous policy [umens, and cries of
“Yes, Lord/’] from the bad counsels
of the bad men who surround him. [A
delegate, in an audible voice,” “Yes,
Lord, Seward and Weed, and'all them
hounds.'*] \Ye beseech Thee to dis
cover to the American people the base
hypocrisy of that party that sustains
him. [“Amen/’ louder than ever, in
eluding one from Ben, Wade, who wai
on the platform. Oh, send a spirit l’i;our
Thy throne to arouse the American
people in this tremendous hour>m.
[Amens from all parts of the hall.J
So arouse the clergy, the men who are
thy representatives, who are to declare
the eternal principles of religion and
political justice, that they, in
may arouse their flocks to the dangey
which threatnes them. Save them, oh
Lord, From the ravenous wolves ihjit
would devour them. So pour out Thy
spirit that the women and children in
the land shall be aroused to a sense of
duty, to a sense of sympathy, in this’
grand struggle. [Amen.] Now, hear
us, and answer us. Preserve Thy.
servants before thee; have in Thy
kind care and keeping their beloved
families, far away, and grant that in
all deliberations wc may be guided to
right conclusions, and to such conclu
sions as shall overthrow the policy of
our enemies •, such conclusions as shalt
advance religion and civilization ; such
conclusions as shall redound to Thy
glory. And to the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost, we will ascribe everlast*
ing praise, world without end. Amen.’.
Having said this, Dr. Newman took
his seat, and a disposition to applaud
was manifest throught the audience..
■ ■■ • < -A . *. .
Them Good Old Daze—As
for B) Josh Killing*.
How i dew long (once in a while) for’
them good old daze.
Them daze when there was more,
fun in 30 cents than there is now in 7>
dollars and a half.
Them daze when a man married
145 pounds of woman, and less than 0,
pounds, awl told, of anything else.
llow i dew long for them old daze
when edukashun consisted in what a
man did well. 5
Them daze when the Jcakuns wu.i
as austere as boss reddish, and raenis
ters preached to men’s souls instead of
their pockets;
Them daze when politicks was the
exception, and honesty the rule.
Them daze when lap dorgs and we
nusses wun’t known, and when browi
bread and baked goose made a good
dinner.
Them daze when a man who wan’t
bizzy was watched, and when wimmen
spun only that kind of yarn that was
good for the darning of stockings
llow i dew long lor them good ob 1
daze when now and then a gal bai?
was called Jerusha, and a boy wun .
split if be was called Jerrymier.
And ye who have tried the fethers
and fuss of life, who have had the.
codfish of wealth without sense stuck
under vure hoze, cum beneath this
tree and long for an hour with me for
them good old daze when men wen
ashamed to be fools and wimmen weic
afraid to be flirts.
N. B. used to make a milk
punch in them daze that was handv to
take.
•- ....
The Emperor of Brazil has signifi
ed his intention to make the tour of
the United States at an early day. He
is an intelligent and estimable man
I though we believe African slavery is
i still tolerated in his dominions.