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VOLUME L
THE INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 48,1873.
Published Weekly at s‘4 00 per Annum
in Admnee.
Single Copies 5 cents.
THE CONQUERED BOTHER.
Furl that banner! for ’tig wetnr,
’Round its staff ’tis drooping dreary;
Furl it, fori it—it is beat;
For there'* not a man to wave it.
And there's not a sword to aave it;
And there’* not one left to lave it
In the blood which heroes gave it:
And its foes now acorn and brave it;
Furl it, hide it—let it rest.
TaVe the banner down, ’tis tattered;
Broken la its staff and shattered.
And the valiant boats are scattered,
Over whom it floated high.
Oh! ’tis hard for us to mid it;
Hard to think there’s none to hold it;
Hard that those who once unrolled it,
Now must fold It with a sigh.
Furl that banner! fail it sadly;
Once teu thousand hailed it gladly,
And ten thousand wildly, madly, ’
Swore it would forever wave—
Swore that foemau's sword could never
Hearts like theirs entwined dissever,
Till that flag would float forever,
O’er their freedom or their grave.
Fuel it l for the bands that graaped it,
And the hands that fondly clasped it,
Told and dead are lying low;
And that banner, it is trailing.
While around it sounds are wailing,
Of its people in their woe.
For, though conquered, they adore it.
Love the cold, dead hands that boro it
Weep tor those who fell before it,
Pardon those who trailed and tore it,
And, oh I wildlo they deplore it,
Now to furl and fold it so.
. Furl that banner! true ’tis gory,
Yet *tis wreathed around with glory,
And ’twill live in song and story,
Though its folds are in the dust,
For its fame on brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Rhall go sounding down through ages,
Furl its folds though now we must.
Furl that banner! softly, slowly;
Treat it gently, it is holy—
For it droops above the head.
Touch it not—unfold it never,
Let it droop there, furled forever,
For its people’s hopes are dead.
A REPLY TO THE “CONQUERF-D BANNER,” BY SIR
FRANCIS 11, OF ENGLAND.
Gallant nation, foiled by numbers,
Ray not that your hopes are fled;
Keep that glorious Flag that slumbers,
One day to avenge your dead.
Keep it, widowed, weeping mot iters,
Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers—
Keep it with an iron will;
Think not that its work is done;
Noble Banner, keep it still.
Keep it till your children take it,
Once again to wave and make it
All their sires have bled and fouglit for—
All their noble souls have wrought for—
Bled and fought for all alone!
AH klone—aye, shame the story,
Millions deplore the stain;
.Shame, alas 1 tor England’s glory,
Freedom called and called in vain.
Furl that Banner, sadly, slowly,
Treat it gently, for ’tis holy—
Till that day, yes, furl it sadlv;
'Then once more* unfurl it gladly—
“ Conquered Banner"— Keep it Mill.
LAST HOURS OF LADY JANE GRAY'
BY W. H. DIXON.
Thai day, on the eve of which Queen
Mary sat in her closet with her Spanish
rounseHor, was Ash Wednesday; nnd
Mary, on consenting that her cousin should
not live forty hours longer, called to her
presence Father Feckenham, whom she
had just made Dean of St. Paul’s and
Abbot of Westminster, and bade him go
to the Deputy's house in the tower, with
news that Lady .Tane must die, and see
what could be done to save her soul.
Feckenham, who brought down his
message of death to the Tower, was star
tled to see the girl receive the news with
a sad and welcome smile. It seemed to
him out of nature, almost out of grace.
He spoke to her of her soul; of the sins of
men; of the need of repentance; but he
found her calm and happy—at peace with
the world and at one with God. He talked
to her first of faith, of liberty, of holiness;
then of the sacrament, the scriptures, and
the universal Church. Elie knew all these
things better than himself; and she held a
language about them far beyond his reach.
With a sweet patience she put an end to
the debate by saying that since she had
only a few hours now to live, she needed
them all for prayer.
The Dean was moved, as men of his or
der are seldom moved. Convert this girl
in a day. Worn as he was in church af
fairs he knew that no skill of his would be
able, in one winter day, to avail him
against one who combined a scholar’s
learning with a woman’s wit If her soul
was to be saved —and the Father was
anxious to savo her soul—that order for
her execution on Friday morning must be
staid. With the sweet voice pulsing in
his car, he rode bock to Whitehall, and
told the vindictive Queen, with the bold
energy of a Priest, that her orders for
that execution on Friday must be with
drawn. With much ado the Queen gave
way, and the puzzled Father went back
to the Tower to resume his task. Jane
was kind but cold. She had no use for
him and his precepts in her final hour on
earth. His going to court about her sen
tence gave her pain. She did not want
to die; at seventeen no one wants to die;
but she did not like the Queen to add one
day to her life under the hope that she
would act as Dudly and Warwick had
done, in giving up their faith. That was
a sacrifice she could never make. When
Feckenham told her that the warrants for
Friday were recalled, she merely said she
was willing to die if the Queen, her cousin,
was minded to put the law in force against
her. For the rest she only wanted to be
left alone,
“You are not to die to-morrow,” he
persisted.
“You are much deceived,” said Jane,
if you think I have any desire of longer
life.”
When it was known in the Tower that
warrants were out, and that Jane would
die on Monday morr 'ng, every one be-
THE INDEPENDENT.
came enger to get some tokeu from her,
to catch a last word from her lips, a final
glance from her eye. To Thomas Brydges,
the deputy, in whose house she hod lived
nearly eight months, she gave a small book
of devotions, bound in vellum, containing
two scraps of her own writing, and a few
words by Lord Guilford. One of her
notes was addressed to Brydges himself,
in words that must have gone to his soul:
“Call upon God to incline your heart to
his laws, to quicken you in his way, and
not to tako the word of truth utterly out
of your mouth. ”
Sunday morning she spent in prayer,
and reading her book, a copy of the Greek
Testament, in which she observed a blank
leaf at the end, and taking up her pen,
wrote some last words to her darling sister,
Lady Catherine Gray, sad heiress of all
her rights and miseries.
“I have sent you, good sister Kate, a
book which, although it be not outwardly
rimmed with gold, yet inwardly it is of
more worth than precious stones. It is
the book, dear sister, of the law of the
Lord; his testament and last will, which
he bequeathed to us wretches, which w ill
lead you to eternal joy.”
When this tenderly reared girl of seven
teen was .summoned to the scaffold, her
two gentlewomen could hardly walk for
weeping; bat Lady Jane, who was dressed
in a black gown, came forth with a prayer
book in her hand, a heavenly smile on her
face, a tender light in her gray eyes. She
walked across the green, passed through
the files of troopers, mounted the scaflbld,
and then, turning to the crowd of specta
tors, ftly said:
“Good people, I am come hitherto die.
The fact against the Queen’s highness was
unlawful; but touching the procurement
and desire thereof by me, or on my be
half, I wash my hands thereof in inno
ceney, before God and in the face of you,
good Christian people, this day.”
She paused as if to put away from her
the world, w'ith which she had now done
forever. Then she added:
“1 pray you all, good Christian people,
to bear me witness that I die a true Chris
tian woman, and that I look to be saved
by no other means than the mercy of God,
in the merits of the blood of his only Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ, Aud now, good
people, while I am alive, I pray yon to as
sist me with your prayers.” Kneeling
down, she said to Feckenham, the only di
vine who Mary would nllow to come near
her: “Shall I say this psalm?" The abbot
faltered, •'Yes.” On which she repeated,
in a clear voice, the noble psalm: “Have
mercy upon me, O God! after thy great
goodness; according to the multitude of
tliy mercies do away mine offences.”
When she hail come to the lust line, she
stood up on her feet, and took off her
gloves and kerchief, which she gave to
Elizubetli Tyluey. The book of Psalms
she gave to Thomas Brydges, the Lieuten
ant’s Deputy. Then she untied her gown
and took off her bridal gear. The heads
man offered to assist her, but she put his
hands gently aside, and drew a white ker
chief rouud her eyes. The veiled figure
of the executioner sank at her feet and
begged her forgiveness for what he had
now to do. She whispered in his car a few
soft words of pity and pardon, and then
said to him openly: “I pray you dispatch
me quickly.” Kneeling before the block
she felt for it blindly with her open fin
gers. One who stood by her touched and
guided her hand tothe place which it sought;
when she laid down her noble head, and
saying, “Lord, into thy hands I commend
my spirit,” passed, with the prayer on her
lips, into her everlasting rest.
A Clown’s Sermon.
The Virginia papers report that during
the exhibition of a travelling menagerie
and circus in a town in that State, where
there vas at the time some religions con
vocation in session, the painted jester of
the equestrian ring illustrated his own se
rioup capacity and greatly affected an au
dience in which many church members
were present, by delivering the following
homily:
“My Friends —Wc have taken in six
hundred dollars here to-day, more money,
I venture to say, than any minister of the
gospel in this community would receive
for a whole year’s services. A large por
tion of this money was given by church
members, and a largo portion of this au
dieface is made np of members of the
church. And yet, when your preacher
asks you to aid in supporting the gospel,
you are too poor to give anything. Yet
you come here and pay dollars to hear me
talk nonsense. lam a fool becauas lam
paid for it; I make my living by it. You
profess to be wise, and yet you support me
in my folly. But perhaps you say von did
| not come to see the circus, but the ani
i mals. If you came to see the animals,
why did you not simply look at then! and
, leave? Now, is this not a pretty place for
{ Christians to bo in? Do you not feel
1 ashamed of yourselves? You ought to
blush in such a place as this.”
i The sensation following a speech like
i this, in such a place, from such a speaker,
; may be imagined. The local clergy availed
jthemselves of the spirit thus produced; a
I religious revival was attempted, and a col
lection for foreign missions resulted in the
sum of four dollars and a half.
Virginia Conservative Convention.—
Richmond, Va., August 7, 7 a. m. —After
the merits of the two candidates nad been
discussed at length, and no other nomina
tions being made, the roll of counties was
called and resulted in a large majority for
General James L. Kemper, which was
greatly increased by delegates changing
their vote from Withers to Kemper before
the announcement of the vote. General
Early moved that the nomination be made
unanimous, which was agreed to, amid
great applause. The convention ad
! journed until 10 a, m.
QUITMAN, GA„ SATURDAY, AUGUST 23. 1873.
Miscellaneous Items.
E. A. Jackson, a Memphis painter, com
mitted suicide from fear of cholera.
A Kansas City mother lately flogged a
young man for marrying her daughter.
President Polk’s old house in Tennessee
is to be removed to Nashville ns a relic.
There is a young lady in Yorkshire who
is six feet live inches high and flve feet six
inches rouud.
A Princeton (HI.) girl actually died of
grief because her spring hat fell into the
river and was ruined.
The report is current in Virginia that
Alexander Hives, of the United States
Court, is likely to succeed Chief Justice
Chase.
Carthage, N. Y., comes forward with a
a woman who, at the age of one hundred
and one, jumps rope and plays at “leap
frog.” Next!
Beethoven's brother used to sign his
name Von Beethoven, land owner, to dis
tinguish himself from his less thrifty
brother, who retorted by signing Von Bee
thoven, brain owner.
The New York Star says: “Miss Agnes
Ethel is one of the most accomplished la
dies in her profession. Her wardrobe is
valued at §IB,OOO, nnd her annual income
is reported at §60,000.
A Philadelphia mantuamaker impru
dently announces that she makes her
dresses fire-proof, not realizing that her
customers wish toilettes to attract, rather
than repel their flames.
Mrs. Brown, of Burlington, Rings her
“Hush My Babe” to her infant son Wil
liam, who measures twelve months one
way, nnd ono hundred pounds the other.
She spanks him with a pile driver.
An old woman in Maine crossed over a
bridge that was marked “dangerous,”
without seeing the sign On being in
formed of the fact on the other side, she
turned about in great alarm and recrossed
it.
Commissioner Meaoham, who so narrowly
escaped death with Canby and Thomas,
thinks that the whites who recently massa
cred the Modoc captives at Lost, river
ought to bo hanged on the same gallows
with the Modocs who massacred the Peace
Commissioners.
The jury in the Woodhnll, Claflin and
Blood ease, under the instructions of Judge
Blatcliford, have returned a verdict of not
guilty. The judge decided that the news
papers were not included in obscene pub
lications in the act of 1862, under which
the indictment was drawn.
Free passes have been abolished, except
to their own employees, by the Chicago
and lowa railroad: Chicago and Milwau
kee and St. Paul; Chicago, ltook Island
and Pacific railroad, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad; Chicago and Alton
railroad; Illinois Central railroad.
An address lias been sent to President
Grant and Governor Dix by tlio Itnlinn
bom citizens, expressing the belief that
some prompt, effectual remedy is abso
lutely necessary to put down the infamous
trafic in Italian children carried on between
Italy and America, and asking that certain
laws may be framed to that end.
The Tribune, has a letter from Boston on
the political situation in Massachusetts,
closing as follows; The present prospect is
that General Butler will gain his nomina
tion through the aid of the Administra
tion and use of the party machinery, to
which he will be further helped by dissat
isfaction with Gov, Wushbnme’s course on
the liquor legislation of the State. The
same influences will do much to insure his
election, and a large accession of votes
from the Democratic party will also greatly
contribute to this end.
A Lawyer’s Crime.
An old English barrister, Henry Weight
man, driven by want, stole a valuable law
book from the Inner Temple Library and
sold it. The theft whs traced to him anil
when he was tried for the offence the jury
found him guilty, but recommended him
to mercy. He then said:
“I rise to ask your Lordship seriously to
disregard the generous recommendation to
mercy by the jury. I desire no mercy. I
know my doom is fixed. I have no wish to
go again into the world, I believe your
Lordship lias power to sentence me to five
years penal servitude. I court that, sentence
I cannot suffer more than I have suffered, I
have gone for weeks and months without a
dinner —living upon bread and tea. I
have sold the coat from m'' back, the shirt
from my body, to supply my daily wants
but I never have been charged, I have
never been guilty of dishonesty. On the
shelves of Inner Temple Library there are
books of which I am the author, and which
I presentd to the Library, of more, value
tliun the odd volune which has formed the
subject of the charge against me. I have
done all that mortal man could do to ob
tain an honest and honorable livelyhood.
The character I have maintained as a man
of honor being now cut from under me. I
can never associate with gentlemen; and
I shall be only too glad if your Lordship
will inflict upon me the full meed of pun
ishment in your power, in the hope that
before the extent of it has elapsed, I may
find in a fellon’s grave that repose which I
vainly sought in the pursuits of life”
The Judge, said he would disregard the
plea of the prisoner against mitigation of
liis sentence, and in addition to being de
barred he was sentenced to six month’s
imprisonment.
A wretched little boy, ten years old, rag
ged and almost barefooted, drifting along
the streets of Detroit one day recently, was
asked where his fathar was. “Dead.”
“Your mother?” “Bunaway.” His interlo
cutor expressed sympathy, and observed
that he must feel lonesome. “Not a bit of
it; there’s goin’ to be the bigest circus
here next month yer ever set eyes on!”
The annual income of the Paris theatri
cal fund is uo'y about §16,000.
[From tho Louisville Conner- Journal.]
Administration Economy.
Over the District of Columbia nnd
Washington City the Administration holds
undivided and unobstructed authority.
Its power there is absolute—moral, politi
cal and physical. It is immediately under
the thumb of the President, within the
shadow of the White House and of the
Capitol. To suit tlic pleasure of the Ad
ministration, some time ago the form of
its municipal government was revolution
ized and a new-fangled local government
set up ou the ruins of tho old one, which
had been in existence since the days of
Washington. Mr. Cooke, a special friend
and favorite of the President, noted in
Administration circles for financial ability,
loyalty, and enthusiastic double-and
twisted piety, such as would gladden the
heart of godly Dr. Newman or holy Parson
Harlan, was duly installed Governor of this
precious model of Republican government
with a capital R on the banks of the Poto
mac. Not more did the unctious Sancho
I'anza rejoice when the good Duchess ap
pointed him Governor of the island of
Barrataria than did Mr. Cooke when, by
the grace of the Administration, he wuk
made Uovernor of the national capital.
Sail Marino, the little Republic of the
mountains of Italy, which has been in ex
istence for twenty-two centuries, is always
named with that, reverence which antiquity
inspires. But Governor Cooke’s republic,
a very Hercules in its infant cradle, was to
command the reverence and admiration of
the world by marvelous ability, statesman
ship and purity, while the dew of the
morning was yet upon its young brow. In
order that so much moral and intellectual
worth might he inclosed in a casket suita
ble to the jewels within, a grand scheme
of public improvements was at once insti
tuted. Avenues wore to be laid out,
streets graded and paved, sidewalks con
structed, sewers dug and fountains mid
statuary erected in such numbers as to rival
the richest cities of Europe, which had
been accumulating their treasures and or
naments for centuries. Laborers swarmed
in the streets; the pick, spade and lioe
were seen at every corner, and heaps of
brick and hewn stones helped to make the
capital no bad reproduction of the Tower
of Babel. But pavements, streets and
other public works are not made for noth
ing, as those who live in cities are aware,
and in this instance the capital did not
prove an exception. The property-hold
ers began to murmur. Never mind, said
Governor Cooke, it is a more trifle. The
improvements went, on, and the tax-payers
clamored. Hold still, said our Sancho
Panztv, wo are working with wonderful
economy. Dr. Newman stood up in the
pulpit of the great Metropolitan church,
held up liis perfumed handkerchief in his
oily fingers and blessed the Lord that an
honest man governed tlic district, and Par
son Newman responded w ith a lusty Amen!
Then came dark tales of the “Washing
ton ring,” which was making enormous
fortunes for its members by swindling the
people as neatly and as recklessly as ever
the notorious Buss Tweed did. Sheppard,
one of the magnates of the ring, became
restive under the fearless attacks and dis
closures of the New York Sun, and tried
to have its editor seized and dragged off to
Washington city to bo tried for libel by
the Police Judge of Cooke’s little pro
vince. The damnable plot failed, owing to
the interposition of a United States Judge.
In all probability the unpleasant fact now
staring the ring in the face, that their
wholesale frauds and speculations would
bo freely ventilated and commented on by
the independent newspapers of the coun
tay, has brought them to a sudden and un
expected halt. They have been putting
forth, at intervals, for months past, decep
tive anil garbled statements of the debts
incurred under their management, but the
truth had to come out at last. Our special
dispatches from Washington show the de
plorable embarrassment in which Cooke
and his ring have involved the tax-payers
of the capital. The certificates of indebt
edness, according to the dispatches, foot
up fifteen millions of dollars and upward.
The approprirtions and floating debt of
the Board of Public Works count up a
million and a, half more. The projects yet
to be carried out, by the original plan will
increase the whole debt to §25,000,000,
which is more than eight times the whole
debt of Kentucky, Indiana, California,
Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, and
more than three times that of the wealthy
State of Ohio. The managers of this
grand scheme of improvement and bank
ruptcy now admit that they have involved
the property-holders in a debt far beyond
their means to pay, and the Governor and
liis satellites talk openly, it is said, of sur
rendering their model government as a bad
job—an elephant which they cannot man
age. What do the people say of this infa
mous mismanagement and oppression of a
community which was not permitted to
elect its own local rulers, but was overawed
and overslaughed by the power of the Ad
ministration and by the votes of a swarm
of negroes imported from Maryland and
Virginia to vote Administration pets into
office? The tax-payers of the capital may
be relieved in part by a Congressional ap
propriation, but this would only be trans
ferring the fraud from the tax payers of the
capital to tho tax-payers of the wholeA
country. Asa piece of consummate rascal
ity and swindling, it is one of the Admin
istration’s master-pieces.
A Western man, who failed to got a mail
contruct, says now that is all owing to tho
fact that he was not with Mosby during
the war.
Does General Grant Drink Too Much ?
[Advance, Chicago, May 17.1
There can lie no impropriety in men
tioning what every ono notices at, once
who looks into his face for the first time
for several years, that his bad habits are
making their mark on the President. The
ever present cigar and tho occasional
stimulants, whose natural effects may have
been somewhat neutralised by tho active
outdoor experiences of the army are tell
ing on him in the sedentary life of the
White House, Such self-indulgence is
fatal to that dear-headed, pure-blooded
condition which lie owes it. to his high of
fice to maintain; and it is right of every
citizen to speak of it and protest against it.
[Tlic Advance, Chicago, June 12.]
The Watchman nnd Reflector says the
Advance has made serious charges against
President Grant’s private habits, and wants
to know whether it. speaks “at random.”
To which we answer that it is not, in the
habit of speaking at random, and that
these con scarcely be characterized as
“private habits.” That the President
smokes too much everybody knows; that
he uses intoxicating liquors is also no se
cret. We hold that the country is en
titled to better service than the President
can possibly give it when ho is drugged
by an incessunt uso of tobacco. And we
need not say that we believe that any man,
be ho President or private citizen, who
drinks liquor at, all drinks too much, while
of all men the Executive of this nation
should be the last one to take the risks
which one who has been in past years an
inebriate assumes when ho drinks a single
glass of liquor. It is a little thing to ask
of the man to whom the reins of this
great Government are entrusted that ho
should t ike ns much pains to keep a clear
head and a steady hand as the pilot of a
Cunnrd steamer, the competing crew in a
boat race, or the pugilist in training for a
prize fight is expected to. We may add
that one of the President’s staunchest
friends at the East has written, thanking
us for the criticism to which the Watch
man and Reflector refers.
[Milwaukee News, June 15.]
“It won’t do,” was the cheerful decla
ration of a loud-talking, active Republican
at Elkhorn, to the venerable Senator
Samuel Pratt, who liad come up there the
other day to attend an old settler’s festival.
“It won’t do, I tell you, Uncle Sam,” said
the speaker, “to try to lie out of Grant’s
being drunk at Geneva. We all saw him
drunk. Half the country saw him drunk.
If it had been a small crowd of only two or
three hundred people we could have brass
ed it out nnd lied it down, Uncle Sam;
but there were thousands there who saw
him drunk -so drunk that he couldn’t walk
straight —so drunk that he hud to be helped
to the cars. There were too many of ’em
snw it, Uncle Sam; we can’t lie out of it.”
Such talk in a crowd is not calculated to
help the President along in the good
epinion of the Walworth county people
who hoard it.
A Peep into a Modern Prison.
In the confession of Hollohan, the Bal
timore murderer, who is to be hanged in
August, he says; “In the Maryland peni
tentiary, when I was there, some of the
officers were good men and others were
cruel tyrants, to resist whom is torture or
death. The wotd of a prisoner is never
taken against that of an officer. Any offi
cer, by making complaint against a man
can have him Hogged. When women are
flogged they are stripped, and a man does
the whipping. In one case when I was in
the prison the matron complained of a fe
male convict, who was stripped, and tho
first blow on her back was so heavy that
she fainted, when the officer laughed, and
said he had knocked her down the first
pop. George Gill was a young fellow,
against whom one of the authorities liad
an old grudge. Whether that had any
thing to do with his punishment I know
not; George was sent from Howard
county for some offence; ho was put in the
can house; thirty days is always given to
a convict to learn a trade; either George
could not make cans fast enough or good
enough, or he used too much solder, and
he was literally whipped to death; ho was
whipped tliirty-eight times on the bare
back in one month, getting five, eight or
ten lashes with a heavy cat each time; tho
lashes were laid on his back as hard ns a
strong man could lay them; he would come
back to the shop with his buck all lace
rated and bleeding; sometimes ho was put
in the dark and cold cells overnight; when
a prisoner is whipped there is no record of
how many lashes Ins received; all that is
jiut down is one black mark against him
When Geo. Gill was on liis death-bed, he
named two officers, and said, “they have
killed me.” Another prisoner who was
tortured until lie died, woe J. Perce.. If a
prisoner is found with a newspaper in his
possession he is punished with from eight
to thirteen lashes on liis bare back. Of
those who were terribly punished when I
was in the penitentiary were Reddy Jones,
Harrold, Pat. Ryan, H. Scott and Sher
man. When grand juries or visitors go
through the prison they don’t see below
the surface.
A Dutchman getting excited over an ac
count of an elopement of amarried woman,
gave his opinion thus; “If my vife runs
Pvay mit anoder man’s vife, I shake him
out of his breeches if she be mine fadder!”
“How old ore you?” asked an English
railroad conductor of a little girl whom ber
mother was trying to pass on a half ticket.
“I’m thirteen at home but in the train I’m
only nine and a half,” she innocently
replied.
Ohio Democratic Convention.
Columbus, 0., August 6. —Tho State
Democratic Convention assembled at the
Opera House this morning. All tho coun
ties arc represented; some by largo dele
gations. S. J. Hunt, of Hamilton, was
chosen temporary chairman, and made an
earnest speech, predicting an active con
test during the coming campaign and the
future greatness of the Democratic party.
He wanted the cry to go abroad that ‘ ‘the
Old Guard dies but never surrenders. ”
After the appointment of committees tho
Convention took n recess for dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Democratic State Convention re
assembled at Bp. m., and effected a per
manent organization by selecting W. 11.
Bell, of Muskingum, chairman.
THE PLATFORM.
Tho following platform was adopted
with cheers:
Resolved, That the Democratic party
seeks to revive no dead issues, but stands
by its principles, which are suited to nil
times and circumstances. It supports the
Federal Government in all its constitu
tional authority, and opposes nullification
and secession. It defends the reserved
rights of the States and people, and op
poses tho centralization that would im
pair or destroy them. In order to main
tain nnd preserve these rights it insists
upon the strict construction of the Fed
eral Constitution. It resists all attempts
of one department of the Government to
usurp or destroy the constitutional rights
or independenco of other departments. It
opposes nil interference by law with the
private affairs or business of men, not re
quired by the public peace or safety, aud
advocates the greatest individual liberty
consistent with public order.
It believes in the capacity of the people
for self-government, and opposes all prop
erty qualifications as conditions to the
right of suffrage or eligibility to hold
office.
It favors liberal laws for the naturaliza
tion of foreigners.
It insists upon equal and exact justice
to all men.
It opposes all monopolies, and denies
that it is within the province of the Gov
ernment to legislate for the benefit of par
ticular classes at tho expense and to the
detriment of the rest of tho community.
It therefore opposes the system by which
a large portion of the profit producing
wealth of tho country is exempt from
taxation, and demands that all constitu
tional means shall bo used to remedy this
injustice.
It insists that our tariff laws should be
framed with a view to revenue, and not to
tax the community for the benefit of par
ticular industries.
It recognizes the evils of irredeemable
enrrency, but insists that, in returning to
specie payments, care shall be taken not
to disturb the business of the country or
unjustly injure the debtor class.
It appreciates the benefits conferred by
railroads, but opposes all combinations
by railroad companies to prevent compe
tition, and thus enhance the cost of trans
portation.
It opposes all laws that give to capital
any advantage over labor. 1
it requires honesty aud economy in
every department of the Government,
Federal or State, and it condemns cor
ruption, whoever may bo the guilty parties.
It is in its very nature, and as a neces
sary result of its principles, a party of
progress, and supports all measures of re
form or improvement that are sanctioned
by justice and commanded by sound prac
tical wisdom.
Resolved, That the wealth of the coun
try is the product of its labor, and the
best use of capital is that which gives em
ployment and liberal wages to the pro
ducing classes. Hence, every just meas
ure that tends to protect them from op
pression, and improve their condition
and dignify their calling, deserves and re
ceives our sympathy and support. And
that wo cordially recommend tho conser
vative resolutions adopted at the recent,
National Labor Convention at Cleveland,
favoring arbitration and co-operation.
Resolved, That, although always consti
tuting a large majority of the American
people, agriculturists have never demanded
of the Government, State or Federal, any
special privilege, have never infested the
halls of Congress or Legislature with lob
byists and rings, but on the contrary have
suffered under discriminating and unjust
laws until forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue. We hereby pledge our sincere and
honest efforts to obtain for them redress
of grievances and equal and exact justice.
Resolved, That the public lands should
bo severally reserved for actual settlers
who will dwell upon and cultivate them,
and that wo will continue to denounce and
oppose, as wc have always denounced and
opposed, all gifts of such lands by the
Government to incorporated companies.
Resolved, That the greatest danger to
free institutions is the wide-spreading cor
ruption that threatens the utter destruc
tion of public virtue. When Credit Mo
bilier frauds pass niipuniseed, when those
engaged in them arc elevated to high of
ficial positions, when seats in the Federal
Senate arc notoriously purchased, when
vast sums of money are corruptly employed
in popular elections, when an army of of
fice-holders, with the sanction of the Gov
ernment, uso their official influence to con
trol elections, when bribery of Custom
House officers is an established usage,
when rings of pluudwrvra urn the recipi
ents of millions of money appropriated
for public use, when official defalcations
are of sucli frequent occurrence as scarcely
to excite attention, wheu Presidential par
dons relieve defaulters from mental pun
ishment, and Presidential appointments \
reward Credit Mobilier and salary-grab
bing Congressmen, and when a Congres
sional investigation is generally a white
washing affair, it is not strange that men
begin to lose confidence in free institu
tions, aud that the fame of tljfgreat re
public is tarnished throughout the civil
ized world. To remedy these evils we in
sist that the receipts and expenditures of |
the Government shall be diminished; that
its patronage shall be curtailed and all
useless offices abolished; that it shall cease
to usurp functions to which it has no title;
that official miaConducttand fraud and cor
ruption in elections shall bo rigorously
punished, and that publio virtue shall be
upheld, and the want of it condemned by
the united voice of the people.
Resolved, That we condemn without re
serve the late act of Congress granting ad
ditional salaries as unjust and unjustifi
able, and demand its immediate and un
conditional repeal; and we denounce every
member of Congress, ■whether Republican
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or Democrat, who supported the law or
received and retuinoil the money procured
thereby. And we especially denounce the
conduct of President Grant in using the
influence of his high position for its pas
sage, aud whose official signature made it
a law.
Resolved, That the act of the President
in setting up by the bayonet a govern
ment in Louisiana not chosen by her peo
ple, and having no title whatever to rulo
over them, was a flagrant violation of her
rights and of the Federal Constitution.
Resolved, That every department of the
government, being in the hands of tho
Republican party, they are justly respon
sible for the evils and wrongs in legislation
aud administration of which the country
complains.
Resolved, That under the time-honored
Democratic banner, with this declaration
of principle* inscribed on its folds, we en
gage in tho conflict. And we earnestly
appeal to patriotic men of every class,
without regard to party names or past dif
ferences, to unite with us on terms of per
fect equality iu the struggle to rescue the
government from the hands of dishonest
men, and redeem it from the flood of cor
ruption which threatens its ruin.
The nomination of Governor being next
iu order, Win. Allen, of Ross, was sug
gested and received with long-continued
cheering. Allen was then nominated by
acclamation, after which three cheers
were given for the nominee.
MR. ALLEN’S BHTLY.
The following is n telegram received from
Mr. Allen in answer to one notifying him
of the nomination:
I accept the nomination nnd desire the
convention to accept my gratitude for it.
I accept it because the convention, ly be
stowing it, expresses the belief that I may
be of some service in promoting the suc
cess of tho great Democracy upon whose
success, and upon that alone, rests the
prosperity, liberty and happiness of the
American people. AVm. Allen.
The convention adjourned.
[From the Hannibal (Mo.) Courier.]
A Wife Worth Having.
A gentleman who resides a few miles in
the country announced his intention of
coming to the city to get a few of tho nec
essaries of life. His good wife, who evi
dently reads the papers anil knows what
is going on, furnished her “old man” with
the following memorandum, recognizing
the fact that “these men are so stupid”
and always forget what they are sent after.
But here is the seasonable list of necessa
ries, which, thongh not in strictly clerkly
form, is nevertheless to the point, and
well calculated to make au impression ou
the mind:
Get a pound of tea.
And don’t forget to go to Brown's drug
store and jget eight pounds of copperas
and a pint of carbolic acid.
Get a dollar's worth of loaf sugar./
Bring a dozen lemons. f
If you have a chance you hod better
| bring a liuthel of lime.
We ought to have a pound of ground
miifitgrd and some ginger.
Get a gallon of coal oil and a demijohn
of whisky. Be particular and don’t get
tin til mixed—have.the coal oil put into the
can, and the whisky in the demijohn.
If you see a nice piece of calico you
might bring me enough for a wrapper.
Go to Orynski’s and get a bottle of his
blackberry syrup.
The flour is out.
Be careful and don’t drink any well
water while in town.
Be sure and get a bottle of Hamlin’s
cboiera cure.
Wo ought to have a dozen knives aud
forks for the kitchen.
Go to McCfleeiy's and get a bottle of
Dr. McCabe's blackberry brandy.
Don’t bring any greeu thing home to
make the children sick.
Don't forget the coal oil nnd the demi
john, and be sure nnd keep them separate.
Go to Clieever’s nnd get a bottle of
syrup of blackberry and ginger.
Get a pint of cognac brandy.
Keep away from them nasty ponds un
less' they are filled up.
If you see any good disinfectant bring
some home.
Get a few pounds of, crackers and rice,
and some oatmeal.
If you sen the doctor ask him to give
you a prescription to cure cholera.
Be careful and don’t break the demi
john.
Johnny needs a pair of shoes.
You had better call at the drug stores
nnd sec who bus got the best cholera medi
cine.
Now, don’t forget any of these things,
and keep this list iu your hat where you
can find it.
Come home early.
About four o’clock in the afternoon
the man with tho memorandum might
have been seen going out Broadway with
all his horse could draw, his roeknway re
sembling the hospital supply train of an
army corps. If the cholera ever goes out
in that direction it will meet with a warm
reception.
Did Not Know its Use.
One of the stories goes that in the last
American Congress there was a member
who was noted for his extreme filthiness.
He never wore a white shirt, and a paper
collar on his woolen shirt would last him for
weeks, but the worst of him was that be
would never use a pocket handkerchief.
He sat between two very elegantliightoned
Georgia members, wbo tried many says to
avoid liis nosul pecodilloes, but in vain.
At last they hit upon ft plan they
thought would do away with the nuisance.
They purchased n dozen very large white
handkerchiefs, did them up in paper, ad
dressed them to him, and laid them on his
desk. Both the members were in their
seats, anxious to see how their friend
would receive the present. When he came
in, he picked up the package, tore it open
and began examinig the handkerchiefs.
Soon he turned and said:
“Look here! Did you fellbws git any of
these things?”
They replied that they had, that they
were part of the perquisites of members,
and that all the members hud received them
that morning.
“Well,” says the member, “what are the
darned things for?”
They explained, and were in high glee
for a little while, but imagine their disgust
when, after he had examined each piece of
muslin, he said:
“Oh yes, them is just like what my wife
uses sometimes.”
And, as he said it, he took a large offi
cial envelope, put in his handkerchiefs,
put on his wife’s address, franked it and
threw jt into the mail bag.