Georgia Historic Newspapers

    (Chronicle & Sentinel.
WEBMKSDaY MWBIW. NOVEMBER 27.
f.encral Sherman’s Address.
We publish this morning the salient points j
of the address delivered by Gen. Sherman !
before the Society of the officers of the
Army of the Tennessee at its anniversary
meeting at St. Louis. There are, of course >
certain allusions and passages in this ad
dress which we cannot approve, but when
it is remembered ..'..a* jrencral Sherman
was addressing kimsmt' to his late army
associates, it may be charitable to presume
the occasion and its influences led him to
indulge in a little hyperbole at the expense
of us poor rebels. Apart from this,
however, there are many expres
sions in this addres.3 which leave
no room to doubt as to his opinions
upon the present plan of reconstruction.
It is clear that he is in perfect accord with
President Johnson, and hostile to the re
construction of Congress. A strong advo
cate of law and order and of obedience to
the constituted authorities, there seems
to be no doubt that, in the event of a
rupture between Congress and the Execu
tive, General Sherman would be found
ready and willing to sustain the latter
branch of the Government. And, in
view of the meeting of Congress and
its known hostility to # the Presi
dent, the conciliatory tone of General
Sherman’s allusions to national affairs are
not without peculiar significance. Had he
been addressing himself to a political
gathering it is probable he would have
taken strong grounds on national affairs,
of war, and to restore peace and prosperity
to the country.
Reject the Foul Thing. »
The Radical Negro Convention of Ala
bama has agreed upon the franchise sec
tion to be incorporated in the draft of the
fundamental iaw of that State. This sec
tion will be found in full in our telegraph
reports. It will be seen that it really and
to all intents and purposes disfranchises
every decent white man in Alabama. It
excludes all men disfranchised by Con- j
gress, embracing the talent, worth and i
respectability of the State. It goes furth
er and requires as a precedent, necessary I
to the exorcise of the right of franchise that
every man must swear before high Heaven
that he will never, either by word or deed,
endeavor to abrogate this bastard consti
tution or any right or privilege which it
confers. In a word, it takes away from
the white men of Alabama every right
and protection, and gives the negroes and
the mean whites unlimited and supreme
control. Marked up by the power of the
bayonet, the Radicals will fasten this in
famous fraud upon the
people of that State; but it is to be
hoped that no Alabamian, who ‘has
any respect for the past history of his
noble State, will wallow in the mire of
degradation by subscribing to the infamous
oath prescribed in the nigger Convention.
Rather let every man abstain from voting
the remainder of his life than sign his
own deed of infamy. Abjure the foul
thing, and rely upon the returning reason
which is now being manifested in the
Northern States to relieve our people from
this Radical negro despotism. The people
of the North and West will never submit
to this damnable outrage upon the rights
and liberties of a free people.
Meeting or the Rump Congress.
The Rump Congress met at noon yester
day, and, after a few hours’ session, ad
journed over until Monday. It will be
seen, even from the brief business of yes
terday, that tho same disregard of the
rights of the pooplo which has charac
terized this Congress iu previous sessions,
will be persevered ’u during the present.
I'Le outlie Teiyjessoo delegation i fruit
premme, fleovr ' Sfo : not n Radical The
that this outrageous discrimination and
persecution shall cease, and then will
come the day of retribution.
If no other good can come to us out of
this rotten assemblage, there is one in
terest at least, which, it appears, will be
decided in our favor, uud that is a speedy
repeal of tho ootton tax. Already lias tho
Commissioner of tho Internal Revenue pre
pared a’report in favor of its repeal. The
clamor from tho North and the West has
been so earnest and persistent that tho
Radical Rump will not refuse. Indeed wc
look for its repeal among its first acts,
which will be a great relief to our impover
ished and suffering people.
BrownloW. A Boston newspaper
having expressed tlio opinion that the
election of Parson Brownlow to the United
States Senate would annoy the President,
“T. W." in the New York Commercial
Advertiser, thus replies :
Our Boston contemporary is mistaken
in supposing that Parson Brownlow in the
United States Senate can be the source
of any apprehension to the President.
Whatever Brownlow’s triumphs may be,
he will find his level very speedily in the
Senate, and be as much out of place as a
bull in a china shop. Coarse, iutolerant,
brutal in speech and manner, the Parspn
will disgust his new associates more thor
oughly than he did the Northern friends
who lionized him in 1862, and who saw in
him a proof of the brutalizing effect of
slavery over all who come uuder its in
fluence.
Whereupon the Chicago Times, which
lias a way o f speaking out very plainly in
meeting, takes the kinks out of the diffi
culty as follows :
It is difficult to imagine what will make
Brownlow feel out of place in the Senate.
He is the peer in intellect, morals and
manners of the majority of Radical Sena
tors. He is not a drunkard, like Chan
dler ; nor a boor, like Wade; nor an
imbecile like Sprague ; nor an impractica
ble ranter, like Sumner. He is, in rniud,
address, in decency, and capacity as a
blackguard, a tit representative of the
principles and policy of the Jacobin par
ty. There arc some men of both parties
in the Senate of the United States who
cannot associate with Brownlow as a
brother Senator, or treat him with Sena
torial courtesy, without a loss of self-re
spect. These men are most obnoxious to
the ruling party. Radicalism demands
such Senators as Brownlow, and Hunni
eutt, and l ‘l)irty Work” Logan. T. W.
talks nonsense—which is a very unusual
thing for him to do—when he says Brown
low will be out of plaee in the present
Senate,
Another One of Them— Lost his
Carpet Bag.—The Selma Messenger of
the 17th gives an incident in the life of
Mr. Benjamin Franklin Rolfe, delegate
from Sumter to the Alabama Radial Con
vention, which may assist Mr. Harris in
his labor of preparing sketches of the mem
bers of the Menagerie. It seems that the
lion. Mr. Rolfe, on bis way to the l’iebald
Asylum, passed through Selma and stop-
I>ed at the Troup House. He invited a
friend to supper with him, and had a good
time. “About bed time,” says the Messen
ger, “he made,his reappearance in the office
when the affable superintendent requested
him to pay his bill as the baggage he had
deposited was hardly of sufficient value to
act as 'collateral. 1 Certainly, he would
i tie it; he had left his pocket-book up
the street with his friend ; would go up at
once, get it, come down and liquidate. He
stepped out and sloped. Hasn't been
heard from since, except through the
official journal of the Convention. ”
“The Messeni < r gives us the further
historical information that his baggage,
consisting of two shirts and about fifty
cents worth of extras, is at the Troup
House, and will be forwarded to him on
the receipt of four dollars. Our Mont
gomery eotemporaries would doubtless
confer a favor by bringing this to the gen
tleman’s notice.”
Some malignant says Secretary W elles
would undoubtedly be a slow fever.
Thad. Stevens' head is very sore from
editorial criticism.
November meteors—The election re
turns.
A New York paper says the new Van
derbilt is President Fldridge, of the Erie
Railroad.
H . pea Tot the Cotton Tax” 7
There seems to lie no longer a doubt as
to the repeal of the cotton tax. The
pressure which has been brought to bear
cannot well Be rc c is‘-. 1, ar/l we look for j
Congress, at an early day, to remove this 1
unjust and ruinrus discrimination against j
the great staple of the South. Fortu- ;
nately tor our people, the people of the j
North and West have taken active part in j
clamoring for its removal. The Charles- j
ton News, in referring to this matter, very .
properly observes : i: H this anticipation |
should be fulfilled, it will not be because ;
the dominant party has become a whit j
less grasping or more tolerant in its policy |
toward the South. The tax will be taken !
off only in deference to the potent de- !
maod of the great Northwest, which ha3
found thathcrgrain and provision interests
j are suffering by its operation. The South
will not raise cotton at a loss, and when
her planters turn their attention to the
' production of breadstuffs anu provisions,
the Northwest loses the n .arest and most
1 unfailing market for her vast cereal sur
-1 plus. Therefore has the Northwest willed
i that her best customers, the cotton piant
| ers, are no longer to be oppressed with
| this grievous burden; and her will must
be obeyed. •
“But come from what motive it may,
the abolition of this tax will bean impor
tant and sorely needed relief to the South.
I Her great staple, which is now, in a meas
! ure, chained to the place of its production
j by the poverty of its owners and the com
| plex character of the tax regulations, re
| iieved of'lts incubus, will at once bound
I forward to market. In the country,
j planter andfreedman, and in the city sac
: tnr -me! jobber will be gladdened at the
“We are courting the late ot iiayti ami
Jamaica; for like elements, governed by
the same general forces, produce like re
sults. This rule of nature is as irrevocable
as the law of mineral crystalization. There
is, however, a certain Radical power in
tho United States that is ever willing to
dispute a fiat of nature, provided it en
croaches upon its pet theories. One of
these pet theories is the superiority of 'the
negro race over the white. That such is
the real basis of Radical negroism is very
evident.”
The Ilerald shows that wherever the
negro has enjoyed opportunities for de
velopment, he has demonstrated his un
fitness for self-government and an ir
repressible inclination to relapse into
barbarism. liayti, Jamaica and Liberia
are cited as examples. In the latter coun
try, with all the aid of Christendom, he
lias failed to accomplish anything of value,
“and often runs eastward into his native
barbarism.” The 7/er«McallsLiberia “a
mammoth poor house,” and adds :
“But Liberia is nothing to the negro
poor house wc are establishing in the
whole Southern half of the United States.
We go into this negro asylum business as
V?e go into everything else in America.
Wo set the whole Northern half of the na
tion to earning money to maintain the
negro. We make huge appropriations for
the benefit of the negro. We bury all
material progress to embody all our ideas
in the progress of the nogro. We take no
time to legislate upon our ruined com
| merce, for we are occupying every moment
for the negro. We approach a financial
panic, but try to hide it by holding before
it the negro.
“We reconstruct the South, not for the
common benefit of white and black relative
to the whole nation, but entirely for the
negro. The Radicals go so far that — vide
Ben Wade—they say that we may have a
war of caste, and even hound on the negro.
We have gone negro mad ; and the mad
ness threatens to wind up by a war of
races which, when it comes, will sweep
the negro out of existence. The nation is
not powerful enough, with all its vigor,
to stand under this negro load. We must
shako it off, or down we go to the level of
liayti, San Domingo and Jamaica.”
“.('•'ting of *!t« Clieus a"d Menas'C!’'"
The long-tnikcd ot exhibition of Pope s
circus in ! ,'..'''lingerie will take place in the
.ml,:; ;i! -of AUanla, on the ninth
formalities for several weeks. Having pro
cured an array of trained animals unequalled
by any other «how in this country, the pro
prietor feels confident that his scalawag,
African and carpet-bag performances will
throw John Robinson’s collection all in the
shade. The latter, however, not to be
outdone by his friend Pope, has proposed
a compromise, which is that both estab
lishments unite, and perform in conjunc
tion throughout the Third Military Dis
trict, taking in the Montgomery concern as
a kind of a side show. With Pope’s per
forming animals and Robinson’s clowns,
this combination could beat any- circus and
menagerie now in existence. We moan no
disrespect to the veritable showman, John
Robinson, by making so free with his name
in this connection.
Pope. —The Chicago Times thinks that
our Satrap would not have been so anxious
to explain how his allotment of election
Districts in Georgia was fair, if the Jaco
! ccs had succeeded in the late elections.
In that case ho would have wished the
Rads to suppose it was made in their
interest. But Pope cannot explain any
facts like these:
“In the western portion of the State
Pope has created four new districts, with
nine delegates. The registration shows
j 2, CSS whites to 2,458 negroes; but matters
have been so managed that the former
! shall elect in these districts only two, and
| the blacks seven, delegates; in other words,
there is to be one delegate to every 1.343
whites, and one delegate to every 351
! negroes.”
j The African Army on xnEOgeechee.
—The Savannah Republican, a few days
since, contain! lan account of the existence
of an armed military organization among
the negroes on the Ogeechee river. The
matter having been referred to General
Pope, he has very promptly, as we learn
from the Republican, ordered ai> officer to
proceed to the plantations to look into mat
ters connected with the formation of these
negro military organizations and report to
headquarters. The Republican continues:
These orders being ia strict violation of ,
General Pope’s orders, ir is to be hoped
that they will bo disbanded, and the plant
ers and their latuilies relieved from the j
apprehensions which now till their minds, i
At Last.—YYe have reliable informa- j
tion that Governor Jenkins has been or- i
dered by General Pope to hold himself in !
readiness to march at a moment’s notice.
And the on-dit from the same source is j
that a shining light from Thomas county, j
who gained some little notoriety a short 1
time since by denouncing Ben. Hill as a
“finished demagogue,” is to be his sue- I
ccsßor.
Pope will not disappoint a respectable
man in the State by either act. It was
too much to expect that he would hold
out a great while longer against the
I clamors of the hungry pack who yelped at
j his heels : or that when he did make a va
: caney, he would fill it by selecting any man
j who answered even the most modest ex-
I peqtations of those who connect worth,
; virtue and intelligence with the Executive
i of this once honored Commonwealth.—
; Journal k Messenger, 20th.
| Starvation in Columbus. The
i Columbus Sun of yesterday says:
Atone of our churches, onSunday night,
the pastor, before commencing his dis
course. announced to the congregation that
he had just been requested to make an ap
-1 peal to their charities. He stated that in
! the house ofa good Samaritan a widow
| woman lay, with three sick children, and
I the corpse of another that had died from
j actual starvation. That she had lost her
husband in the late war. battling for the
I Confederate ea. and had teen turned
out from house and home, with her sick
and helpless children.
Georgia Teachers’ Association. —
The next meeting of this body will be held
in the city of Macon,, on Wednesday, the
18th day of December next, in the City
Hall, at 10 o’cloek A. M. A number of
carefully prepared report.- from distinguish
ed teachers will be presented, and im
portant business will be transacted. All
teachers in the State are invited to attend.
Efforts will be made (doubtless with suc
cess) to obtain fair at half rates on all the
Railroads. 11. 11. Tucker,
President and cx-otjiao Chairman of Ex
ecutive Committee.
Penfield, Ga., Nov. 14, 1567.
Petition of the Citizens of Bote
tourt County, Va., foe the Suppres
sion of Armed Negro Leagues.— The
citizens of Boutetourt county, Virginia,
have addressed to General Schofield a peti
tion to suppress the se-ret meetings of
armed negroes in that county. They
say:
It i. a matter of remark throughout this
section of country that every negro is pos
sessed of arms, and that ofiate they are in
the habit of carrying these arms and dis
playing them in a manner very offensive
to the whites. On the other hand, many
of the whites are unarmed, and unless
these leagues are broken up by the strong
arm of power, we see nothing for it
but a counter organization and a genera,
arming for the protection of our homes
and women and children. The whites in
ail this country have conducted and are
conducting themselves in a quiet, orderly
manner, under the military rule which has
been imposed upon us, and we only ask
that our late slaves be required to do the
same. This is for their good and protec
tion as well as for ours. It is with a due
sense of the responsibility resting upon us
as friends to our race and of duty to our
selves and our families that we make these
statements.
Increased Taxes in Cuba.— lt was
recently reported from Havana that the
Spanish Government was about to increase
th new taxe3 four per cent., making them
about eighteen per cent, on an average.
The reason for this is supposed to be the
impecuniosity of the public treasury. The
funds are so low, says a letter from
Ilavaua, that the army and navy receive ;
every month just only what is indispensa- I
blc lor their regimental mess. The mill- :
: tary authorities are granting iouvloughs to
a portion of the soldiery, and tho greater
part of the cavalry horses have been sent
to 'ure in :he country in order to save
expem—s. The officers and men eon.plain
a i- >d deal at this, and the attempt at
! iev .It made some time ago iu Porto Rico
9 i »> «
' The abject of th —iidiere was to plus for
j the -rea.-.ury and city court chests, the
ctiuiacroiai establishments me • • - ■ '
of the wealthiest men, to take by surprise
two steamers which were lying in the port,
and to proceed with their booty to the
United States, believing that there they
would safely enjoy their ill-gotten money.
Destructive Weapon.— Says the Sa
vannah News & Ilerald , the first actual
experiments in real warfare, with the new
weapon of the French army, the Chasse
pot l isle, were • made in the fight with the
Garibaldians at Monte Rotondo. The
results were terrific, and the new arm may
be considered superior to the Prussian
needle gun, indeed, very much so. The
defeat of the Garibaldians was, doubtless,
caused by the French weapon.
There have been experiments with it of
another kind which are described in a
letter written by a French surgeon. A
man died at Strasburg of a disease of the
liver. II is body was suspended by the
neck, under direction of two surgeons, in
an operating amphitheatre. From a point
fifteen metres, or about fifty feet distant,
five shots were fired into the body with
the Chassepot rifle, and the wounds were
carefully examined. Each ball passed
directly through tho body, without deviat
ing from a straight line. The orifice where
it entered was the exact size of the ball,
but where it emerged the orifice was from
seven to thirteen times as large. Arteries,
veins, and sinews were cut. Flesh and
muscles were torn and reduced to pulp.—
Bones were shattered to a degree out of all
proportion to the size of the ball. After
passing through the body, the balls pierced
two one-inch planks, and then sunk deep
in the wall. -
These terrible effects account for the
efficiency of the Chassepot rifle in actual
conflict
The Late Election.—Official returns
from forty-eight counties in New York and
reported majorities in New York and
King’s counties, gives the Democratic
State ticket 50,283 majority.
Eighty-three Representative districts in
Kansas elect twenty-two Democrats, and
*1 ’• -ma*fvler Republicans and Indepen
dents. Forty counties give th-: following
i alts: For negro suffrage 7,5! >, against
it : ,1.14. F-i .. -suk 80,
agairis it 16,362. Fur disfranchising dis
loyalists 11,300, against it 10,268.
A dispatch to tho Chicago Tribune from
Madison (Wisconsin), dated the 16th inst.,
says : “Official returns of tho election in
this Statp do not come up to tho reports
sent by enthusiastic Republicans immedi
ately after the election. Official reports
from forty-two counties and reported ma
jorities from fifteen others show that the
Republican majority will not exceed
4,500.”
The Democrats of Minnesota carry only
twelve out of the forty-nine counties in that
State, and one of the twelve by three
majority, and another by nine; yet they
made a heavy gain on the popular vote.
Sf.rious Charge. —The Columbus Sun,
of yesterday, -charges, with an offer of
competent proof to sustain the allegation,
that one Thomas Gilbert, a Radical dele
gate to Pope’s Convention, is the first man
in the South who ever offered to assassi
nate Abraham Lincoln. It says:
The facts are these: At a meeting of
the citizens of Chattahoochee County, be
fore Abraham Lincoln had taken the
Presidential chair, and previous tp the
secession of the State of Georgia, this
hoary-headed old reprobate submitted to
the said meeting a proposition in writing,
offering to arm and equip at his own ex
pense one hundred men, to proceed to
Washington City and to kill Abraham
Lincoln. He supported his proposition in
a violent harangue, charging his more
moderate and humane neighbors with a
want of patriotism and courage. These
facts wiii be fully attested by some of the
most prominent and respected citizens of
the county of Chattahoochee.
Something about Grant’s position lias
at last leaked out. “'lack,” the Wash
ington coirespondent of. the Cincinnati
Commercial, says Mr. Eldridge, of Wis
consin, told him that Col. Hillyer, former
ly of Gen. Grant’s staff, now a Federal
office-holder in New York, that he heard a
conversation between Gen. Grant and the
President some time ago—the only time
he ever heard them -talk politics; that
Grant seemed to be very earnest about it,
and briuging bis hand heavily down upon
the table, said :
“Mr. President, demagogues may talk
as they please, but this is a white man’s
Government, and none but white men
should have voice in it,”
The Blodgett Case.
Yesterday morning, on the assembling
of tue United States Circuit Court, before
the Court was opened, the grand jury
came in, when the Judge said he had sent
for them to inquire if they desired any in
structions. The foreman asked if the
present grand jury could take cognizance
of any matters that had come before the
former jury, of which some of them were
members. The Court said that it did not
kuow judicially that the former grand jury
had anything before them, but asked the
District Attorney as to the matter.
Colonel Pitch made some remarks, after
which the Judge read the law to the jury,
and told them that any matters which the
District Attorney might bring before them
must be considered according to the .evi
dence now adduced.
Hon. Henry R. Jackson, of counsel for
Foster Blodgett, asked the Court to in
struct the jury that they had a right to
call the accused before them. The District
Attorney objected to this view.
The Court, after looking into the law,
stated to the jury that their duty was to
make diligent inquiry into ail matters
brought to their attention and make pre
sentments accordingly. It they thought
the ends of justice would be subserved by
calling other persons than those whom
the District Attorney presented, they had
a perfect right to do so. The law says
that the accused may be before the grand
jury* The Court had no advice to give on
tlus subject, as it was entirely within the
province of the grand jury. They were
selected as men of intelligence, their duties
were important, and he tad no doubt they
would discharge those duties faithfully.
They must go in what they honesriy and
conscientiously believed to be the right
way.
The grand jury then retired, and the
ease of BlodgettJwiD be commenced de novo,
the jury hearing the testimony from the
beginning, just as if no previous investi
gation had been commenced. — Savannah
Advertiser, 21st.
The Turkish Government has just had
an iron paddle gunboat launched at Glas
gow. The vessel is of 1,030 tons burden,
is very fast, going twenty-one miles per
hour on her trial trip, and is armed with
live Armstrong guns.
Speech from General Sherman.
ITeies of a Soldier on. the. Political Situa
tion —the Past an dour Present and Future
Obligations — who was Responsible for
Slavery and who should suffer the conse
quences.
General Sherman delivered the oration
to the “Society of the Army of Tennes
see,” at its annual reunion at St. Louis,
on Wednesday night, 13th inst. He took
a general survey of the leading military
events ofthe late war, in which the “Army
ofTennessee,’ was e ngaged, and inciaen
ta.,y made allusion to the political condi
tion of the country, which will be read
with general interest :
i. nave been often raked by fellow-soldiers
when troubled by the reports of the dis
turbed condition of things at the South,
whether after all, our labors had not been
in vain ? M hether we might not again
be called on to repeat the scenes of 1863
and 1864 ? Or whether the rebels, defeat
ed in battle, might not, in the hurly-bur
ly of time and politics* regain tbeir “lost
cause,’ and tbeir lost pride?
On these points I feel no great solicitude,
but whether I can convey to your minds
the same conviction, I will not say. His
tory rarely goes backward, and events in
the past are usually as real as the granite
rock on which we now stand. Surely no
men ever had a more glorious cause than
we. And never, in my judgment, did war
so completely fulfill its natural ofime.
When we laid down our arms and each
man returned to his chosen vocation, no
armed rebel remained to question the na
tional authority, and if perfect subordina
tion and tranquility have not resulted, we
must look for the cause in the nature of
things, or in the civil administration of our
Government. The former lays within my
j province, but the latter is not a fair topic
; of discussion for the soldier, who is sworn
! to obey the laws of his country, duly
j enacted, arid the orders of his superiors.
! . That questions of great interest should
i have resulted from our war was to be ex-
I pected, such as concern the rights of
| States, and r ; richi. • izetothorciu.
Qn thes. . . former
yq
; • : .. t .no ni ; . •; '.he ek -r
j too i iu", an shot; leave to other- an
: equal rn bt, b au - : 5. mind that more is
room for don! . a*., < :i ~t men may dicer,
anu diner tviueiy, but
when a conclusion is once arrived at by due
course of law the subject is no longer an
open question i'or discussion, but should be
submitted to simply because it is the law of
the land. Each and every one of you can
recall periods in your own history, when
you supposed those in authority were
acting wrong; but by a patient, silent dis
charge of your own clearly defined duty,
you saw these doubts and confusions clear
away like a mist cloud, and reveal to you
the truth triumphant. So will it be in your
civil experience, when a similar acquies
cence in events will produce the same result.
But for a more comprehensive under
standing of these important questions, we
must turn from our limited experience to
that of others recorded in history.
Dr. Draper, an eminent American au-
thor, has likened tho growth of a people
•or of a nation to that of the human body,
and has shown that its intelligence and
political development are governed by
natural laws us clear of demonstration as
those of any physical science.
He also likens our system of government
to that of the sun, which first in the be
ginning was a mere confused mass of nebu
lous matter and force. By natural opera
tions, a condensation ensued ; ana one
after another, with mathematical precision,
orb after orb was cast off from the revolv
ing mass, andafamily of worlds, the solar
system, arose.
Round tue central sun those obedient
worlds, with ail their servile satellites,
pursue their courses. There was no hang
ing back in the movement, no vagrant,
wanton wandering, no revolt.
Through unutterable ages this union
was, as now, an exhibition of inconceivable
energy, mathematical precision, paramount
and predominating law.
Ho further pursuesthe comparison, that
inasmuch as every atom of matter has its
just influence in the system, so every State,
every county, every man, woman and child,
and every conceivable human interest, has
its just influence under our system.
But, unfortunately, man, in the inai- \
vidual or in the aggregate, is not a mere
passing subject. Though endowed with a I
vitality capable of infinite good, he is liable
to wide abberations which often lead him
astray, and he is brought back to his true
oroit by a slow process, or by a sudden
shock such as war.
I need not attempt to apply these prin
ciples to tho history of our own country,
with which you arc as familiar as I am, but
will simply recall to your memories that,
in the beginning of colonization, slavery
cm this continent was universal. Fertil
i !a?i .sand rich mines a I e vided everywhere,
ami t-.i ulsory slivo labor resulted, as a
ir-.t'.ter . b-iny.ivst, not coniUMtl to the
colonies of Em-'- id aic.av, not to those of
France, Spain, I’or: ngal, Sweden or Hol
land. Asa geaei 5 rale, the coloni
sisted as far as they wore able to do, but
they were always overruled by the mer
chants and proprietors abroad, who de
manded quick and large returns for their
money invested.
As early as 1761, a hundred years before
our civil war, Virginia, under the influence
of Richard Henry Lee, attempted to stop
the importation cf slave,s by a prohibitory
duty, but her action was vetoed in England.
In South Carolina a similar attempt was
made, with a like result. In Georgia Gen.
Oglethorpe began bis colony for the express
purpose of limiting the extension of slavery
in that direction. Still later, at the time
of our Revolutionary war, the sentiment
opposed to the institution of slavery was
nearly universal, so much so that the slave
trade was prohibited after ] 808, and the
word slave was not written at all in our
Constitution.
Slavery would surely have been extin
guished in this country by a gradual and
natural process had not other causes come
into play. It was found that the soil and
climate of the Southern States were admi
rably adapted to the growth of cotton. —
The power of steam was discovered and
applied to machinery of all kinds, especial
ly in Old and New England; and Eli
Whitney, of Massachusetts, invented his
cotton gin. These created an immense
demand for the staple, and seem to have
changed the whole current of public
opinion. The invention of the cotton gin
did more to fix slavery upon us than any
amount of prohibitory legislation, or any
amount of anti-slavery agitation ; so that I
always felt that both Old England and
New England had much to do in fastening
slavery upon us as a people, and should
have a just share of responsibility for its
baneful result.
Under these influences cotton became a
power in the land. It was proved ar
rogant and claimed to be king, it dictated
its terms, and threatened war unless its
imperious demands were granted. It
claimed the right to go where it pleased,
and to extend itself over lands, such as
Kansas and California, not adapted to it
or to slave labor at all ; and at last it re
belled and sot up a government of its own
wiiose very corner stones were cotton and
slavery. Nothing on earth could justify
! sueh a rebellion, and I only mention these
facts in the past to show that others than
| the people of the South were partially
responsible, and should share the natural
consequences of their own acts.
And 1, born of Connecticut parents,
bearing ia affectionate remembrance the
virtues of my honored ancestors, and yield
ing to no man in admiration oi‘ the in
telligence, refinement, industry and thrift
of the people of New England, do honestly
believe that they, in common with ali the
great North who shared in the original
causes and enjoyed a large part of the
profits resulting from cotton and slave
I labor, should be charitable and liberal in
the final distribution of the natural penal
ties.
If slavery, then, was the real cause of
our civil war, or even the pretext for it,
and if children must inherit the sins of
their fathers, even in the third and fourth
generations, then none of us who trace our
c hain back to the earlier days of- this Re
public can escape this mathematical ai.d
philosophical conclusion; or, in the
language of Dr. Draper:
“Guilty, then, both of us in the sight of
God, let us not vex each offer with mutual
crimination, but bear our punishment with
humility.”
How has this punishment be en partitioned
bv the result of the war? We of the
North have to mourn the loss of fathers,
brothers, sons and friends, and are burden
ed with a vast national debt, binding on us
in fact, in law and in honor, never, I hope,
to be questioned by any honorable man in
America till every cent is paid.
Look to the South, and you who went
with me through that land can test say if
they, too, have not been tearfuny punished.
Mourning in every household, desolation
written in broad characters across the
whole face of their country, cities in &.-nes
and fields laid waste, their commerce gone,
their system of labor annihilated arm de
stroyed. Ruin, poverty and distress
everywhere, and now_ pestilence aueing
the very cap-leaf to their stack of misery:
her proud men begging tor pardon and
appealing for permission to raise mod for
their children: her five millions of slaves
free and their value !ost to their former
masters forever. How any Southern gen
tleman, with these facts, plain and paipable.
everywhere staring him in the tape and
recorded forever ia the boox history,
can still boast of his "Lost tause, or
speak oi it in language other tiiaa shame
and sorrow, passes my-understanding, and
instead of being revived, I know that their
“Lost Causa” will sink deeper and deeper
into infamy as time more xeeniy prooes its
hidden mysteries and revexu them to the
light of day.
Now that slavery is gone, and gone for
ever, with its unhappy wrecks left behind
and ail danger is passed, if any set of
again appeal to war wbn they have courts
to secure’ their rights and redress their j
wrongs, I would trust Mr national destiny
again to those grand old national laws
which raised our county through the long, i
tedious vassalage of ‘oionization ; which '
carried us safely throph the ordeal of oar
Revolutionary war ; cade our flag famous i
ou the high seas in 132 ; led our conquer- |
ing armies to the gatp of Mexico in 1847. I
and has borne us gloriously through four !
years of as hard war as ever tested the J
manhood of any peopE
Let us renew, as fa as lies in our in- \
j dividual person, tha system which Ban-' 1
! croft tells us guided or lathers before the
revolution ; “the syseiu which combines
and perfects the symbolic wisdom of the
Orient and the reffotive genius of Greece;
the system confori ing to reason, yet
kindling with enthiiiasm, always hasten
ing reform, yet alwijs conservative; pro
claiming absolute quality among men,
yet not suddenly abolishing the unequal
institutions of socieir ; guaranteeing ab
solute freedom, yon involving inexorable
restrictions of duty ;(in the highest de
gree theoretical, yet n the highest degree
practical; awaking the inner man to a
consciousness of his lestiny, and yet adapt
ed with exact haruony to the outward
world ; at once divme and human. This
: system wa3 professed in every part of our
widely extended cotntry, and cradled our
! freedom.”
With such a spirit pervading all our
country once _ more—with our population
increasing tliirty-th:ec per cent, every ten
years; with our national wealth develop
ing in even a greater ratio; with our fron
tiers pushing pack in every direction; with
farms and villages and cities rapidly cover
ing our vast nationaidomain; with mines of
gold and silver and iron and coal pouring
out wealth faster than over did the cotton
fields of the South; with forty thousand
miles of finished railroads, and other
thousands in progress —can am one doubt !
our present strength, or caieuiate our ]
future destiny?
If our friends at the South will heartily l
and cheerfully join with us in this future
course, I, ior one, would welcome them as
I our but r tcr.r superior,. and lend
I children, tL/Vk cling to he dt«d past
ouO ~!• ui, their ay to the coming future, I
j would only call tacit -.ttentioa to th'*' wave
: of i"migration that las swept over our iand
: front tue Atiac; 3 to the Pacific and must
j turn back ;u.d I v South. Th-»y may op
pose, but thu.t opposition >. 1.1 boas wild
as it was for them to try and stop the Army
of tho Tennessee which swept the length
and breadth of their land. The next war
of Northern invasion will not desolate
their land, but will fructify and regene
rate it.”
Fears of Another Negro Outbreak—lnsur
rection Sit liayti Confirmed.
New York, November 18. —The Herald's
Kingston (Jamaica) special of the 18th
inst. says there is fear of another negro
riotous and revolutionary outbreak. The
Parish of St. Thomas, in the east, is
threatened on the present occasion, as in
the case of the former rebellion. There
are as many as 400 negroes disciplining
themselves m military practice, and are
ready to take up arms. The Protestant
Rector of Sfc._ David Parish has been
already admonished by the leaders of the
colored force. A. great panic exisle all
over the Island in consequence. The Gov
ernment is on the alert.
Several shocks of an earthquake were
experienced on the days of the 14th and
15th inst.
The Herald's Havana special of the 17 tli
says: “We have an announcement that
St. Domingo City has been destroyed,
probably by an earthquake. I have tele
graphed lor details which I shall forward
at once.”
The news of the insurrection in liayti is
confirmed. On the 12th of October the
scone in tho legislative chambers was very
violent, and the language used of the most
threatening character. It all arose from a
motion made to relieve Montez, whuisina
Cape Haytien dungeon. The members all
spoke in his • defence. It is stated that
j President Salnave became so audacious as
I to secretly incite a rabble of women and
boys to attack the House of Assembly.
This they did amid loud voices for Salnave
and cries of “Down with tho Assembly,”
hurling at the same time bricks, bottles,
sticks, etc. The dwellings of many were
stoned. The American Consul was fired at
but escaped unhurt. A unanimous pro
est of the Diplomatic Corps has been pre
-1 ented against such sienes, and demanding
f the government to see to it that the like
.00s not occur again,
and —“mea-
THAI!. STEVKXS.
——
ms VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL CONDITION
OF THE COUNTRY.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Washington, November 15, 1867.
Your correspondent paid a visit to
TANARUS; .. tit evens to-day. Ilow;: , .. ui
unarm chair, and Wilson, of lowa, Chair
man of the Judiciary Compiitte.
present. Time has made fearfiit ravages
on tho “Old Commoner.' v’. . is tut a,
wreck ot his form - seif, xw claimed,
however, bo qaLe well, and said he was
last recovering his strength, but tho lustre
of his eye was gone, and it seemed to re
quire an effort to keep himself from abso
lutely sinking into stupor. Occasionally
his eye would brighten as some bitter
reierence to Copperhead escaped his lips ;
then the fire would die out, leaving him
the appearance of a dying man.
His memory seems to fail him, and he
would often press his bony fingers across
his face in the effort to recall his wander
ing thoughts. Frequently, after these
pauses, he would repeat what, he had just
spoken, apparently unconscious of having
uttered them before. In the course of his
remarks Mr. Stevens said the country had
never produced a political party of such
strength as the Radical party, and that it
was destined to control the Government,
with, perhaps, occasional interruption.
The next House of Representatives, he
thought, would be Locofoco, but the
Radicals would soon regain their ascend
ancy. Stretching Lis long arms and
clinching his fingers, he said: Thera is
the mighty Northwest, which will never
yield ; those men are ready to fight bears,
wolves, catamounts and the devil, or, what
is next, the Loccfocos.
In speaking of the effect of Congression
al action in the South, he said the Repub
licans in those States have placed them
selves on a foundation thatcan’t be shaken,
and they will stand with us shoulder to
shoulder, and the Republican party will
be like a great brcachy mule between two
horses, if they don’t pull with him, he will
pull the guts out of them.
Mr. Stevens said, if he was about to die
—an event ho did not liko to contemplate,
and which lie would like to put ofl' two or
three years longer—heVould wish to have
some hearty friends to come and counsel
with him, “for,” said he, “wo have a deep
interest in the affairs of this world and can
have none in the other, and we must do
our, work here. ” .
Continuing his discourse, he said the
only danger to the Republican party was a
dissension among themselves; but this
ought not to be allowed to divide and
weaken the ranks; but if they re 1 used to
pull in the harness, he hoped the Repub
lican wagon would pass over their bodies
and break their necks.
_ Referring to the Presidential nomina
tion, he said tiie movement was prema
ture, and the Republicans should see their
way clear before discussing the question.
He declined expressing bis opinion of
Grant, but it seemed as if Forney were
looking to. availability in their candidate.
He thought impeachment had died out,
but his ov, n opinions were unaltered ou
the subject.
He said he would avail himself of the
first opportunity to present his confiscation
bill, for he was determined to put the na
tion to a vote on it; and he declared em
phatically that there would be no modifica
tion of the Reconstruction Acts ; that the
party would not take one step backward,
lie said that there was no doubt that the
Senate would reinstate Stanton, but
thought likely that he would have to re
sort to legal proceedings, which he said, is
the right way to adjust wrongs if a fellow
didn’t want to use his fiat.
Mr. Stevens declared his intention to be
present at the opening of Congress, arc
said that Congress would shape the course
of legislation.
Tiie Sultan’s Seraglio. —The present
Sultan has greatly restrained the seraglio
in all its branches. He has not only cut
down his late brother’s household, but has
restricted his own. He gave anew ex
ample of having a head wire, and the
number of his wives is limited. He pen
sioned off his brother’s widows and
servant, taking over some of the servants
at reduced wages. To one distinguished
eunuch, it is related, he offered £4OO a
year. This the distinguished individual
indignantly refused, affirming that he
could get more in a respectable family.
The Sultan said : “When I offered him as
much yearly as my brother gave for him,
I thought 1 had made a liberal offer ; but
as he is not satisfied, let him go. ' The
scandals of the late reign are at an end.
There are no bonds of first, second and
third queens. The new Sultan mother has
refused to take her whole income or allow
ance. The civil list charges are paid regu
larly, and no Christian tradesman specu
lates at the exnense of the Saltan s wife.
If the Saltans‘have set the example of
polygamy, the imperial princesses have set
that of monogamy. The diu Niters of the
late Sultan were allowed to marry the
handsomest young men they and,
when married, the young men • ire made
princes to suit them ; but these imperial
I .eng since laid down the law
that their husbands shall have no other
wives. Tiie Egyptian princesses, who
have large fortunes, try to main tarn tae
same law, so that fashion is now setting in
that direction.
Forney's Grant flag is styled by the New
York limes a flag of distress.
Tho Speeeh of the lion. George H.
Pendleton.
We copy from the Charleston Mercury
the concluding portion of the speech of the
lion. George H. Pendleton, delivered on
the 30th October last, at Madison, Wis
consin. We beg leave to ask the perusal
by all our readers of this- speech, and
especially of that portion of it which re
lates to'the Democratic party, and the Con
stitution of the United States. Our read
i. ers will recognize some of our old fogy
: ideas brought cut here with great power
„;:J eloquence. There are some cringing
worshippers of physical power who can
never comprehend the spiritual power of
truth. They, therefore, support wicked-
ness because it exists. There are others |
who resist wickedness because it exists,
and strive for the ascendancy of truth, and
the triumph of righteous lie-s. Os such, is ’
Mr. Pendleton; and the late elections in j
Ohio prove how powerful his efforts have
been to save his State and the United j
States from the vortex of despotism and
ruin the Radicals had prepared for both.
Mr. Pendleton was the candidate for the
Vice Presidency on the ticket with Gen.
McClellan for the Presidency. They were
elected by the bona fide votes of the
country, hut were beaten by fraud? at the
elections and in the ballot-boxes :
1 will not stop now to Analyze the Re
construction Bill. The news we receive by
telegraph day by day, and the information
we have of the acts of the Military Com
manders, within the last two or three
months, relieves me of any necessity of
that kind. Wo hear that in one State of
the Union a Military Commander has for-
bidden the Legislature to meet until he
by general order shall authorize it to do so.
And in another State the trial by jury is
to be suspended until the sheriffs shall
agree to strike from the jury lists the j
pines, [( A- i ; a: another State
r- Governor v>h • elected by 50.000 j
votes, is to be ; r .crs«detl. and in his place 1
is to 1 : put hi*- competitor, who received
hut 15,000 votes. And still in another
State civil officers shall not give their
• itrom. o f pri; dig to newspapers which
: a ■’ ougrns- :'. .. a ,in:» t;L
Reconstruction. And if you will read the
letter which was written by General Pope
from his headquarters in Alabama to Gen.
Grant, in Washington, you will see that he
says there arc, in all of those States, men
who address their fellow-citizens as I am
addressing you, in opposition to the policy
of Reconstruction adopted by Congress, he
advises that they shall be arrested and
put in prison, or banished from their
homes.
But later and still further in this work
of Congressional reconstruction, ifyouread
the papers of this morning, you will dis
cover that there is a committee now sitting
in tlic city of Annapolis, Maryland, to de
termine whether the Slate of Maryland
has a “republican form of government.”
1 here is also a similar committee sent to
Louisville by the Congress of the United
States, to determine whether the persons
elected as representatives from that State
are loyal men. [Voice, “they will send
one to Ohio next. ”] There might have
been some danger of that, my friend, if we
had not been quite so successful in Ohio.
[Laughter and applause. ] I think they
will hardly attempt it in the present state
of reaction in favor of' free principles, to
put their feet upon the neck of the proud
people of the Buckeye State. [Enthusiastic
cheers. 1 When you ask any Republican
member of Congress why they passed these
acts, they do not point you to the Consti
tution of the United States. No authority
for it can be found there. They do not
point you to the principles of our Govern
ment. No authority for it can be found
there. But they do, as Mr. Stevens
does, when he tells us, that Congress is
acting noon a lav/ that is outside of, and
higher than, the Constitution of the United
States. He tells us, that “these laws seem
to be in accordance with the will of tho
nation.” [A voice, “A lie.” '‘Turn him
out. ’ ’ “Throw him out, ’ ’ and confusion. ]
Let that gentleman have his say. We
Democrats believe in free sp'ecch. [Ap
plause.] The onlyobjection I have to his
speaking, is that both he ana I are trying
to talk at once, and that we cannot do it.
I know that he will be quiet until I get
! through; and then I will give place to him,
so that he may have his talk.
“hi accordance with the will of the na
tion !” _ Where will you find the will of
the nation, except in fundamental law and
in the written Constitution ? This pretence
of the will of the nation is no new thing.
We know that this pretence is false. We
know that it is against the judgment of
every honest whiteman, and’every intelli
gent at s he Sou‘li Wo know that
. t :,u v. di of every i»• •• at,
mservative supporter of ;he
■ : :t the " ow
i \t 1 ibev. A ol dl those honest
who lovi If. . rly, m.i who
•v des
potism. [Applause. J
“The will of the, nation 1” Why, in
1799, when Napoleon had ascended the
consular throne, and usurped the supreme
authority, he put to death everybody who
insisted that his usurpation was not in ac
cordance with the will of the nation. In
lSs2whon Prince Napoleon threw around
the French Republic his coup d'etat, ho
also sent into banishment everybody who
would not agree that usurpation was in ac
cordance with the will of the nation.
And if you will go back in French his
tory but a few years, you wiil find that in
1794, Robespierre was the master of the
French Government. He ruled in the
Assembly. He was powerful in the com
mittees and the tribunals. On the 27th
of July, he sent to the guillotine, in Paris
alone, forty men ; as he had done on each
one of thirty days preceding. And, when
he was called to an account in that assem
bly, which he had so often ruled, for this ter
rible massacre of his fellow-citizens, all
bathed in blood he exclaimed, “it is the
will of the nation.” Tallien called him to
account in the Assembly for his cruelty,
and the cry of traitor resounded through
that hall. Ho was impeached that night,
and, on the third day, he himself was be
headed on the guillotine, amid the joys
and execrations of the nation, whose will
he pretended to represent.
But why, my fellow-citizens, is ail this
n&u wrought at the South? Why is it
that all civil government is destroyed
there? Why is it that “life, liberty and
property” is held in the hand of a military
dictator? Why is it that the Constitution
of the United States and the principles of
free government are entirely abrogated
all through the Southern country? If any
Republican does me the honor to hear me
to-night, if he is an honest man who is
inclined to give a candid answer to this
question, I will pause if he desires to re
ply. [Pause.]
Why is it that there is an entire disloca
tion of civil government at the South ? It
is because the Republican party is enforc
ing negro suffrage upon the Southern
I States; and the reason for their doing so is
; because they believe the negroes will vote
i with the Republican party. [Cheers.]
i And when I say they desire to enforce
! negro suffrage at the South, I do not
j mean what tftat means here; do not mean
j what it would have meant in Ohio —I
| mean they intend to deliver over the whole
I political power ot those eleven States to
S the negro race. They intend to eaf'ran
| chise Sl'o,ooo men who arc just released
* from labor—to put them in power in these
: State.-. —to enable them to make Senators
: and Representatives in Congress— to fill
the public places in those States—and to en
able them to enact laws to govern themselves
: in those States, and you in your federal
: relations in the United States. I tell you,
1 gentlemen, this is an attempt to convert
the white South, which has been governed
i by men of our own race and civilization,
I into a black South, which shall be govern
|ed by the negro. [Loud applause. ]
And why is this ? New England un
derstands this matter. The inducement
: for it is the belief that the negroes will
vote with the Republican party. If it
! were certain that the negroes would vote
with the Democratic party, these gentle
men w°uld not be in favor of negro suf
; frage. _ I go further. If they could be
: assured of controlling those Setes by
! means of the white-vote alone, they wouid
- prohibit negro suffrage. New England
I believes that with these States she’ can
afford to lose—as she sees she soon will
; lose—some of the Northern States. De
! spairing of using the white man, she turns
|to the black man. She sees in him the
means of-power. She s ;s reflected in his
; face the perpetuation of tariffs, one hun
dred per cent, dividends, exemption of
bonds from taxation, the enjoyment of pro
fit and power in office, the harvest of
capital, the hey-day of New England
| Puritanism. Agriculture may weary of its
burdens ; labor may become restive;
Northwestern men may become disgusted
with fanaticism, and believe that Sunday
laws and prohibitory temperance laws are
unwise and tyrannical ; but New England
soothes them for the moment by an appeal
to their philanthropy, and prepares for
these events by securing a vote to the ne
groes, and the_ negroes to herself. [En
thusiastic cheering.;
But, gentlemen, how long is this dis- ■
graceful spectacle to last? How long is j
this Government to exist in its prec-ent j
disrupted condition, in order that the Re
publican party may maintain its power ?
Gentlemen, it L not a question of party—
i : a question of moral suasion—not a
question of country —it is a question of
: liberty and civilization. Ido not profess
to be more unselfish than other men, but I
say to you in all the sincerity of my heart
; that I' would rather the Democratic party
I should be kept ouc of office for the rest of
i my natural life, if thereby we could induce
j the Republicans to restore our (Junxtitu
! tion, invigorate our Union, and give us
everywhere the principles of free govern
ment.
I had occasion not long since to arraign
the Republican party, and its policy, as I
have been doing to-night, and an able and
influential Republican paper published in
the neighborhood in which I live, said,
“what remedy docs Mr. Pendleton pro
pose? He exhorts us to stand by the
Constitution of the L nited States : but we
do not know exactly what he means by
that. Gentlemen,"There is exactly the
difficulty. They do not now know, and
they never did know what it was to “stand
by the Constitution of the United States.”
[Laughter and cheers.] They know what
j it is to be faithful to their prejudices—
| faithful to their whims—faithful to their
party interests; but they never knew for
I one moment what it was to be faithful to
the Constitution of the United States.
In 1820 they opposed the establishment
of the Missouri Compromise line. In 1854
they opposed its abrogation. In 1860
they opposed its rc-cr ictment.
In 1546 they refused the use of State
jails aud State magistrates to execute the
Fugitive Slave law, on the ground that
the return of fugitives was the duty of the
Federal Government. In 1850 they re-
I fused to vote a more stringent Federal
law, on the ground that the return of
fugitives was the duty of the State Gov
ernments. In 1556 they passed personal
liberty bills, on the ground that the State
should not assist the Federal Government;
and in 1861 they repealed all laws on the
subject, on the ground that neither State
nor Federal Government should execute
the Constitution. [Cheers.]
In 185S they had possession of thtq State
governments; they magnified _ States’
rights, adopted the resolution of ’9B and
’99 at their conventions, exalted the idea
of confederation as-pgainst unity, and pre
pared to array the States in armed conflict
with Federal authority. In 1862 they had
possession of tho Federal Government;
they denounced State rights, called the
Kentucky resolutions treason, and have,
as far as is in their power, by mere brute
force, as well as by legislation, reduced
and degraded the State governments.
1 Applause. 1
in 1859 yiey declared'‘that no war could
be right, and no peace could be wrong ,” j
that it the South desired to change their ,
political relatfc,.;- and form of government, j
their right could not be denied. 1 .1862
they declared that •be Ulaity of our sal- j
vation wa.- “ft' -ri ■ ..nmttriratiufc id !
war.’
In Icon they d<
of the country required the restriction of
suffrage, and that the German, and Irish
and Swede ought to be disfranchised. In
1567 they declared that the interest of the
country requires its extension, and that it
must be given even to the negroes.
In 1859 Mr. Chase, then Governor of
Ohio, asserted : “We have rights which
the Federal Governmen must not invade ;
rights superior to its power, on which our
sovereignty depends ; and we mean to as
sert these rights against all tyrannical
assumptions of authority.” In 1867,
General Hayes, who, I am sorry to say, is
elected to be Governor of Ohio, asserts
that the States have no sovereignty what-
ever. . .
In 1864 they asserted that the President
had power, by [proclamation, to emanci
pate four millions of slaves. In 1867 they
deny that he has power to remove a mem
ber of his Cabinet. (Cheers.)
In 1862 party purposes required them
to consider tlie Union unbroken. In Lou
isiana the Federal Government had posses
sion of New Orleans alone. They admitted
Hahn and Flanders to their scats as Rep
resentatives from their State. In 1865 it
had possession of every foot of the State;
these same men presented themselves as
Senators and they are rejected because
the State of Louisiana had ceased to exist.
[Cheers.]
In 1862 they desired to create West
Virginia—they must have the consent of
the old State —they elect Gov. Peirpoint
and a legislature, and take their law as
tho solemn act of the State of Virginia
assenting to its own dismemberment. In
1866 they set up a military government
over Peirpoint and his legislature, on the
ground that, prior to his election, secession
hail destroyed the State. [Applause and
cheers.]
In 1861 and 1862 and 1863 and 1864 and
1865 and 1866, during the war, and alter
the war, they admitted Representatives
from Kentucky, and now they reject them
until a committee can inquire whether
Kentucky has a republican government.
[Cheers.]
in 1863 they established military com
missions in Ohio for the trial of citizens,
and, by their judgment, sent them to
death or exile. In 1866, the Supreme
Court, by an unanimous decision, declares
these tribunals illegal and their sentences
void. In 1863 they vexed us with many
oaths, and in 1866 the Supremo Court
refused to administer them. [Loud ap
plause.]
For this they have threatened to im
peach the judges, and they have actually
reduced their numbers.
In 1801 they appealed to the patriotism
of the people, and raised immense armies
to maintain the Constitution and the
Union. In 1865 they preferred to continue
the war rather than make peace on the
basis of maintaining the Constitution and
Union. [Applause.]
And, to-day, calling themselves, with
ostentatious hypocrisy, the Union party,
they would prefer to recognize the inde
pendence of tho Confederate States, rather
than restore the Union on the basis of the
Constitution. [Loud cheering. ]
They have held and abandoned every
theory of government and every political
opinion.
“ In the short spaceof one revolving moon
Was statesman, poet, fiddler and buffoon.”
[Laughter.]
They proclaim loudly that, the Constitu
tion docs not exist either in theory or prac
tice in ten States of the Union ; and their
most trusted and abloleader, in the full
ness of his contempt for that instrument
and for the few Republicans who are will
ing to obey it, declares in his own choice
language that “some fragments of the old
and broken Constitution stick in their
gizzards and trouble them of nights.”—
[Laughter.]
Gentlemen, this is the charge we have
always made. They do not understand
what it is to stand by the Constitution ; and
it is for this very reason, as we assert, that
they have ciothcd our land in tho mourn
ing of civil war, destroyed our form of
government, broken down the guarantees
of liberty, and loaded us with this enor
mous burden of debt and taxation.
And yet, my friends, standing before
you to-night, believing that I love my
country more than I love my party; that
I would be willing to sacrifice for its inter
est every opinion, and prejudice and senti
ment that 1 might have ; 1 can only say to
you again, as 1 said before, stand by the
Con.-titution. [Loud cheers.] It is the
present remedy for all our wrongs. It is
the panacea for all the ills under which wc
labor. Stand by the Constitution. Do
not seek to change it,. Do not seek to
amend it. Do not seek to evade it. Obey
it. It was good enough for your fathers.
It is good enough lor’ you. And if you
obey it it will be good enough for your
children for a hundred years to come.
[Applause and cheers.] One hour of just
administration of she Federal Government
would restore the Union. One hour of
just administration of the Federal Govern
ment would reinvigorate our nation, and
restore the harmony that wc before en
joyed. _ [Cheers.]
I think I am justified, my friends, in the
hope that you. will soon be able to place
that Constitution upon that point of honor
and power to which it justly belongs. But
you, who arc Democrats; you who profess
to revere it, I charge upon you, do not
consent to its abandonment or disruption.
Carry it about with you. Let it he with
you in all your walks of life as a living
presence. Carry it to your homes; read
it toyour wives; teach it to your children;
put it upon your family alter, that when
you bow down your head in humble prayer
it may be there, exalted near the majesty
of God himself.
Do these things, and in time you will be
able to raise it up to a place of power, as
the brazen serpent was raised ur» in the
wilderness that the plague might be stay
ed. Do it and you will be able to raise it
j to that place of honor, even as the r.rk of
; the covenant was raised, around which
all the unseen legions of the Almighty
kept watch and ward that he who touched
it with an impious hand should die. [Ap
plause.]
I know that the blackness of darkness
is all around us. But I tell you, my
friends, that the print; oles of the Constitu
tion are the ark of our safety in the midst
of this flood. It may be tossed upon the
watery wastes amids; this darkness for
many days, but it wiil settle upon the
mountain top at last; the sun will shine,
and the dove will leave it never to return
—now as then the emblem of purity, and
liberty and peace. She will seek to re
build her habitations in the scenes of her
former life.
I do not despair. I thick I see all
around us signs of the coming day. “Sqr
row endureth for a time, but joy cometh
in the morning.” Progress, eternal pro
gress, is our cry—ever press onward !
Progress is the destiny of our race
“And from the sky, serene and far,
A voice fads, like a failing star,
Excelsior.”
High as the Eagle when he takes his flight
to the sun ; high as the stars when in
their • course they are circling the ever
silent regions around the Eternal Throne ;
high as the sout of man when freed from
this clay it seeks through chaos the joys
of the skies, in the home of its Father and
its God. [Tremendous andlong continued
cheers. ]
Prentice accuses an editor of gross flat
tery for alleging that the legislators are
human.
Mrs. Yelverton’s dress ic said to be ele
gant but simple.
A sufferer says that where there’s a will
there’s always a way—into chancery.
From Mexico and Havana.
Particulars of the DtKvtry. of Maximil
ians Remains to Admiral Tegethoff- !
Mexican Politics—Revolutionary Move
ments in Hayti.
Havana, November 18.—The French
steamer Panama has arrived hero to day
from Yera Cruz, witli dates to tho 15th
inst,, from that port, and to the 10th from
Mexico city.
Benor Romero and suite had received
quite an ovation on landing at Yera Cruz.
Admiral Tegethoff had received the re
mains of the late Emperor Maximilian
from the Mexican Government. The ne
cessary papers, authorizing the Admiral
to assume the care of the remains and
permitting them to pass the revenue aud
port officers without undue inspection or
delay, have been handed to Admiral Tege
thoff, aud ho was expected to leave the
capital with his precious charge for Yera
Cruz on the 11th inst., where the Aus
trian frigate Novara would be ready to
convey them to Austria.
A grand banquet had been given by the
German Club of the capital to Admiral
Tegethoff. There were one hundred
guests at the banquet. Baron von Mag
nus toasted the Admiral. The Prussian
Consul proposed the future prosperity of
Mexico as a Government and the welfare
of its citizens as a people. Baron von
Magnus, in the course' of his remarks,,
stated that he had done all that he could
in favor of every German in Mexico, and
was only sorry that he had not been able to
do more. Admiral Tegethoff, in the
course of his speech, alluded to the navies
of the German nations, and expressed his
wish to see them always harmonious in
peace and united in war. The banqueters
did uot break up till midnight.
The newly elected members to Congress
arc already arriving at the capital. As
yet what the policy of the opposition mem
bers will be is not, known. Gen. Eseobedo
was still at the capital. It was reported
that a division of General Escobedo’s army
was also going to the City of Mexico, and
quidnuncs were on the alert to know where
fore. The amnesty proclamation had at
length been issued. It mitigates to a very
: great extent the punishment of imperial
! prisoners. Monsieur F. K 1 u was release
! from his confinement at night, but he w
; too late lor the regular conveyance, and
I an extra train had to be hired to . envoy
! him. U . left Mexico in the French sream
r J ■ as y’ •■. Gren A. Von
i ne'&r Maxi
milian's Court. i—'• «.,* ris s.til ' 'ld
as a prisoner, although the amnesty proc
lamation sets the Prince Salm Salin free.
Various reasons are assigned for this dis
tinction made against the Padre.
The Treasury was reported to be empty.
A conducta of three hundred and fifty
thousand hard dollars had- arrived at the
capital from Morelia. Another of one
million of hard dollars had started from
the capital for Vera Cruz on the way to
Europe. All sorts of kidnapping was be
ing practiced on prominent and wealthy
persons of.all ages and sexes to extort ran
soms. This was principally the case in
the rural parts and suburbs of the cities.
Torture and even assassination were
threatened to make people swear secrecy
as to who were the parties to whom these
ransoms were paid. Vigilance committees,
however, were organizing to put a stop to
the proceedings around the capital. Mr.
Plumb has been well received in Mexican
diplomatic circles and is quite popular
among all classes. There was quite a
mystification as to the proposed visit of
General Banks, and people were asking
whether he was coming to buy Sonora or
Chihuahua. On this subject one of the
prominent journals had come out in favor
! of a union between the two republics.
President Juarez was reported as not
having yet come to any determination on
the subject of renewing the concessions to
the Mexico an l Vera Cruz Railway con
cern. The old managers of the road,
Messrs. Crawley & Burnett, had arrived
from England on business connected with
the railway. The first week in November
was spent principally in festivities. There
were bull fights at the capital. The mem
bers of Congress elect from Yucatan left
Sisal on the 10th instant for the capital
via. Vera Cruz. The French Consul at
Laguna had been re-ealied. He had gone
to Jamaica. A gold medal lor President
Juarez had been presented by the citizens
of Pan Francisco. Vera Cruz had sent aid
to the sufferers by the hurricane at Mata
rnoras to the amount of SIO,OOO. Gov
ernor Martinez had arrived at the eapital
on important business.
Wc have news from IV . o Rico up to
the 13th inst. It is rumored that St.
John’s will be made a free port.
The treaty with St. Domingo has been
annulled and the Ilaytien Minister has re
turned. Revolutionary movements are
rife, and Dominican forces are reported
already on the Ilaytien frontier. The in
tended issue of bonds to the amount of
$600,000 is unpopular.
The Alleged Sinking of Tortola.
— Havana, November 18. —Neither the
British Consul nor any other party here
has received any particulars of the alleged
sinking of the Island of Tortola and drown
ing of ten thousand inhabitants. There
arc only rumors of serious disaster by the
hurricane of the 29th of October, but no
definite facts, and the reports are evidently
greatly exaggerated.
[Note. —We learn that a private letter
from Tortola, written on the Ist inst., has
been received in this city, making brief
reference to the hurricane which swept
over the island on the 29th of October, but
it makes fro mention of any general loss of
life. The writer states, however, that the
family of Sinclair Bryant, residing magis
trate, at “Roadtown,” as the settlement
at the harbor is called, were drowned, and
also, that during the storm a fearful fire
broke out, \jdiich destroyed many houses.
It is just possible that a second hurricane
may have occurred subsequent to that of
the 29th of October, but it is not probable;
and it is incredible that the British Consul
at Havana should have no advices upon a
subject of such large interest to tho British
Government, if there was any more than
“rumors” at Havana. There is good
reason, therefore, to hope that the stories
of disaster have been greatly exaggerated,
to say the least] — N. Y. World. "
man-ww— ■■
The Fenian Trials.— London, Sun
day, November 17. —The Fenian prisoners,
Halpin, Warren and Costello, when
broughtup before the Special Commission
in Dublin, yesterday, for the last time, to
receive their sentence, were asked by the
Court if they had anything to say why the
penalty of the law should not be imposed
in their cases. They replied by making
strong speeches, in which they reiterated
their protests against the jurisdiction of
the. Commission, denied the legality of
their trial without a mixed jury, and
claimed that, as citizens of the United
States, they were entitled to the protection
of tho American Government.
The Court then sentenced Warren aud
Halpin, each, to fifteen years, and Costello
to twelve years imprisonment.
Many think that the sentence of most of
the Fenians who were recently convicted
in Manchester by the Special Commission
will be commuted to hard labor for a term
of years, or to banishment. Allen, how
ever, whose offence was worst and present
ed the fewest claims for mercy, will proba-'
bly, for sake of example, suffer the ex
treme penalty of the law at the -time speci
fied in the original sentence, namely, No
vember 23.
The Manchester Observer says there is
no hope of .reprieve, or commutation, for
Goulu and Larkin, and they will be exe
cuted with Alien on the 23d instant, ac
cording to the terms of thdir sentence.
—
The Communication Concerning
Congress. —The National Intelligences
says that the communication in its columns
on Friday last, over the signature of “H.
S.” was the production of a New England
Republican who has won a reputation as a
constitutional lawyer. It says the writer
is a gentleman of fine legal and literary at
tainments, connected with a totally differ
ent department of the Government, and
without any collusion or consultation with
the Attorney Generator any of his sub
ordinate officers. This article maintained
that tho additional sex. v> > of the Fortieth
Congress is illegal and unconailtnrional,
and that the validity of 1 acts would not
stand the scrutiny of an he; ost Judiciary.
The authorship of this rtiele wa3 at
tributed to Attorney Geneial Btanbery,- as
the details were similar to his and the
sentiments contained in it were believed 'o
be those entertained by the learned At
torney General. The Intelligencer sets at
rest all doubt as to the position of the
President and Cabinet upon this matter,
for it distinctly states that the opinion ex
pressed in the communication is identical
with that heretofore arrived at by the
Attorney General, and is entertained by
the President and ail his cabinet adviser:,
The Holy Father has paid a visit to the
Garibaldian prisoners confined in Fort St.
Angelo. They all feli on their knees as he
entered. His first words were: “Behold
him whom vour general calls the vampire
of Italy. It is against me that you have
taken up arms. And what do you see ? a
poor old man.” He then walked about
among them speaking to one and another :
“You, my friend, have lost your shoes,
and you your shirt, and you your coat, and
you your hat. Ah, well! I shall see you
are provided, and then I shall send you
away to your own homes ; only I shall ask
you first, as Catholics, to make a spiritual
retirement for my sake. You know, my
dear friends, that it is the Pope himself
who asks this of you.” When he left, the
prisoners thronged around him and
begged his blessing.
It is some time since General Sickles
made a speech.
Cincinnati has a ghost that sets fire to
houses.
Two young ladies made a sensation in
Hartford the other day by promenading in
hoopless costume.
Presidential Election.-H all the
southern states nr? admitted v- full
electoral vote will be 317; absolute majority
required, 109.
Revolutions never go backward, and the
present one Will progress steadily, bringing
in under the Conservative banner other
plates, and conforming by increased ma
jonties those that have already cut adrift
from liadical rule.
No ..°“ e > y- ia *<» be presumed, will deny
l - a ‘* oV ‘ I Pg States are absolutely and
hopelessly lost to the Radicals for the next
x residential contest, viz: California, Con
necticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and
, Ohio, ihey poll 119 votes, leaving 40 to
, insure an-absolute majority. With pres
ent prospects, can there be any doabt but
that they can be readily obtained? In
diana and Illinois give 29 votes. Will not
both of these States wheel into line ?
When wc see in one year a change of
15,000 in the Radical majority in Massa
chusetts, may we not even hope for that
fossil State, and still more so for New
Hampshire aud Maine ? Then there are
several of the Northwestern States who
undoubtedly will cut loose from Radical
ruiewithin the coming year, and it will be
impossible, with all their hardihood of ac
tion and defiance of the Constitution, for
the extremists to negroizo ail the South
ern States, so that some of them will not
undoubtedly vote for the Conserva
tive candidate. Though it will take
some time to reform the Senate, the Radi
cal rule will bn destroyed in the next
House, and all power for further mischief
taken from them. Let us, then, be thank
iul for the bright skies above. We have
an abiding conviction that the Republic
sav ed. — Na tional In telligencer.
. Tiie Hon. J. M. Boris.—The following
incident is described as having lately oc
curred on one of the ferry boats that ply
between this city and Washington, the
actors being the Hon. C. M. Conrad, of
Louisiana, formerly a member of the
L nited Status Senate, and at one time
United States Secretary of War, and during
the existence of the Confederate States a
member of the Confederate Congress, and
the lion: J. M. Rotts. Mr. Conrad was
sitting talking to the stewardess, who was
?. when h° was
approached an J Mdr sA by Mr. B<
but responding to the salutation by an un
roeogtiizing stare, Mr. Boti.« said, “Don't
you know John M. Botts ?” “No? re
plied Mr. Conrad, “no l ' i I want to.
Not, however, because e- .Ilia, he did
during th ' v?s.. out fc. : : ft since
the war.’ Mr. Boils .. . ru t
and walked away, remarking, sottdvoce, i
wasad-—d foci for speakingto him first—
Alexandria Gazette.
Abyssinia—Cruelty of King The
odore. —The lnt” a, nows from Abyssinia
develops King Theodore in a stiil more
bloodthirsty aspect. lie had made an ex
pedition to the small ’’slauds of Metrata,
in tho Lake Tana?ar, t put every inhabit
ant to death by fire ; then he made a trip
to Hag, a flourishing town in Foggara,
seized fifteen hundred peasants, placed
the m in five large houses and burned
them alive. It is said there is now not a
single man, woman or child alive between
Debra Tabor and Emfras, on the borders
ofDembea. In the camp his Majrty lias
been pursuing the same game. Having
heard that two thousand of his troops
wished to desert, he had them surrounded
by the others and their throats cut like
cattle, the mothers, wives, children and
nearest relatives of the men being pistoled
by the soldiery. Two hundred aud ninety
five chiefs of districts have had their hands
and feet cut off, and have been left to
starve.
A Matrimonial Item.— The New Or
leans Bulletin, of the 25th instant, contains
the following:
“A foreign gentleman, of some literary
pretensions, who has fought at least one
duel on account of his partiality for tho
fair sex, is said to have been captured, and
will be led to the altar by a dfckhkig widow
of seven husbands, not yet forty. Hus
band No. 1 died in a foreign land; No. 2
breathed his last in 1849, here in the Cres
cent Cily ; No. 3 lived till 1852; No. 4
died the year following; No. 5 lived till
1857 ; the year following the death of his
successor, No. 0. was mourned by Bereaved
widow; No. 7 lived almost to the close of
the war, dying in 1864, since which time
the widow has been lonely, though enjoy
ing a fair share of worldly goods. No. 8,
that is to be, has our best wishes for
health, happiness, and “may his shadow
never grow less! ’ ’
Political Caucusing in Richmond. —
We learn from Richmond, Va., to-night
that considerable political caucusing has
been going on there since the arrival of
Chief Justice Chase, who will remain in
Richmond till after the 25th instant. A
number of prominent politicians from
various portions of the State are there,
and it is stated that Chief Justice Chase is
in favor of such a modification of the
Radical programme as will exclude negroes
from holding office, but favors universal
suffrage. This will probably bo accom
plished by making ten years’ citizenship in
the United States a qualification for hold
ing offices. It is also said that their
caucuses will fix upon a candidate for
Governor of Virginia. Governor Peirpiont
has declared that he is not a candidate for
re-election.— Wash. Dispatch to the N. Y.
Herald.
Grand Celebration.— There will be a
grand celebration at Atlanta, on Friday
night, by tlielaithful, of tho recent victory
at Savannah by Brown, Blodgett and
Erskine, over Colonel Fitch, tho United
States District Attorney, in the case of tho
United States vs. Foster Blodgett, for
perjury. The city Council of Atlanta
have offered twenty acres on which to hold
the meeting. The car pat sack bummers
and blubber-lipped niggers who have come
down from Brownlowma to run for office in
Pope’s odorferous Convention, will bo on
hand to. hand round the hat, and urge
their claims. The “Sentinel on the Watch
Tower” will sing his celebrated campaign
song, “Hot Coilards,” and Bro. Gaskill
will laise that good old tunc: “Wc’s
gwine to Hebbin, a reelin’ and a rockin’.”
—Macon Journal & Messenger.
Genrrals Sickles and Scott Mus
tered Out. —On Saturday last Special
Order 495 was promulgated, wherein, by
direction of the President, Major General
Daniel E. Sickles atri Brigadier General
R. R. Scott arc: honorably mustered out
of the military service of the United States,
the order to take effect January 1, ]B6B.
General Sickles still retains his rank as
Colonel of the 44th regiment of United
States infantry. General Scott, lately on
duty in the Freedruen’s Bureau, was simply
a volunteer, and is out of the service en
tirely. General Sickles was the last Major
General of volunteers to be mustered cut.
A case of' prematurehtermenthas taken
place at Sainte Eutrope, in the department
of Finistere, which has created considera
ble sensation in the locality.- A girl of
twenty-five, named Pbiloroene Jouetue,
having died, ax was supposed, from cholera,
and there being much alarm about the
disease, the interment look place seventeen
hours afterward. When the gravedigger
was about to throw earth over ilie cMin,
he distinctly heard several knocks from the
interior. Me immediately went to the
church for the minister, and a surgeon was
also sent for. On opening the coffin itwas
found that the cloth which bound the head
was much tumbled, from which ic is sup
posed that the head had been tossed about
violently. The same thing occurred with
I the linen which covered the feet. The
| heart had not entirely ceased to beat, but
| the surgeon could not restore animation, so
the body was soon afterward reinterred.
| Several persons are said to have heard tho
noise in the coffin. The head had certain
ly moved lrorn its position.
The London Shipping Gazelle says that
Mr. Reed, chief constructor of the British
navy, has designed a vessel intended to
carry COO-pounders and plates 15 inches
thick. He purposes furnishing her with
engines which will drive herat-tho rate of
14 to ] 'i knots, and if the Admiralty
should approve his plans, and direct the
work to be proceede : - ith, t.y lß6y Eng
land will J.O: -s. 111: - . ini
• ble to the aniilcry of the present
day, and capable of collectively annihilat
ing every war vessel now afloat. Mr.
lleed seems to have been at last-converted
to (Japlain Cole’s system, for this, his
new ideal man-ofwar, [combines the best
features of tho turret as well as the
broadside.
Sore Throat Gargle.—As this is the
season when sore throat is prevalent, we
publish the following for the benefit of
sufferers : Dissolve a small piece of alum
in sage tea, then mix a little honey. One
or two drachms of oak bark, in six ounces
of'boiiing water, and use the liquid after it
becomes cold.
An entertaining book of sporting gossip,
recently published in Lopdon under the
odd title of “Sportascrapiana,” gives, in
the words of Captain Horatio Ross, the
secret of the remarkable preservation of
his fine physique to a late period in life.
“I attribute it,” he says, “in a great
; measure to having always kept myself in a
j state of moderate training. I have always
; lived well, and for many years have drank
I nothing but light claret, one bottle per
■ diem; out I have never omitted, wherever
j I was, whether in town or country, whether
the weather was fair or the reverse, to
walk regulany eight miles, and generally
twelve miles, every day of my life, unless
I had an opportunity of going out shoot
ing. Ihaveaiso, for a good many years,
been very particular in taking a sponging
bath of cold water every morning.” And
now, at sixty-five he can walk his fifty
miles, at three and a half miles an hour,
without fatigue ; and he is still the best
rifle shot in England.
Forney has two papers already, but the
people wiil further equip him—with his
walking papers.