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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1868)
Chronicle & JFeatwdL « l IfS KSDAY MORMNt.. OCTOBER3B. Joe Brown’* Last. The recent proclamation of Joe Brown, issued through the “Express Agent," in relation to th<? suspension of the l’oll Tax due the State, demands some thing more than a mere passing notice. Tho jrrcamhlt or whereas of this extra ordinary document contains the reasons which are given to the public for the im proper and partisan interference by the “Express Agent" with the tax laws of the State, and is in the following words: ff W iiebkas, It Is reported by reliable citi zens from many counties of the State, that preparations are being made to collect onerous taxes levied under authority of the Constitution of eighteen hundred and sixty-five (1865), and failing to collect, to apply the previsions of the present Consti tution, and thereby exclude many citizens from the pri vilogo of voting. It will be seen that the “Express Agent” alleges that he haß “reports" from “reliable citizens" that in many counties of the State "onerous taxes levied under the authority of the Constitution of 1865 are about to be collected,” or, failing in that,that “many citizens will be excluded from the privilege of voting.” These “rept'/rts'' do not come from lega or official sources, but merely from “reli able citizens.” Who these “reliable citi zens” are, or from what counties these pretended reports come, we are not inform ed. it is the first time in the history of tins State that the action of the Chief Executive,in a matter of such vital import, has been admitted to be based alone upon “reports” received through unofficial aDd partisan sources. Could no other reason be urged against the propriety of the so called Governor’s action,.this, in itself, is sufficient to provoke the severest condem nation from all classes of.our people. Hut in addition to the fact which is made apparent from this preamble, that no suffi cient and legal information on the subject has been received by the Express agent, we find that this threatened collection of onerous taxes is confined to particular counties and is not applicable to all the counties in the State. If the “Express agent” were honest and sincere in his at tempted action to protect tho citizens who arc threatened with these excessive taxes, common honesty would have required him to confine the operations of his proclama tion to those counties alone from which he received his “reliable reports.” This be has not done. But because bo has reports that in some counties efforts are being made to collect “onerous taxes” he suspends the collection of the poll tax in all. Common honesty, no less than a decent respect for the intelligence of' the people over whom he unlawfully rules, demanded that if tho “agent” really felt that there was danger to be apprehended from the collection of these “onerous taxes,” that his order of suspension should have been made to cover all and not confined to the mi re pittance which is levied and collected from the whole people, in the shape of a nominal poll tax ot one dollar for each male citizen ofer 21 years of age. There is no attempt to suspend any other tax than that levied on polls, lie complains that in many counties of the State the people are threatened with the collection of “ouerous taxes” and for their relief his proclamation is issued. Vet, by that very proclamation, all these “onerous taxes” arc permitted to he enforced and collected, save the poll tax of one dollar. Why, then, should the poll tax alone bo suspended ? It is clear that the reasons given by the "Agent” are assumed and not real. We propose to show why the collodion of the poll tax receives this sus pension from tho Governor, so-called. By the terms of tho Constitution, made by tho Menagerie in Atlanta last winter, of which body Bullock was a member, no one, white or blaok, is entitled to vote in this State who fails to pay “all taxes which may have been required of him, and which to may have had an opportunity of paying agreoably to law, lor the year next preeed ing the election.” Article 11, Section 111 new Constitution. We have not tho Comptroller’s report before u.r, l>..t j H ii,,,* n »t more than one-fourtli of tho negroos in the State have given in or paid their taxes. Not more than one in one hundred are liable to pay any tax save that on polls. If tho provisions of Bullock’s Constitution (just quoted) are enforced, about three fourths of Bullock’s friends will be prevent ed from voting. In this county there have been duly registered about, thirty five hun dred negro voters. Less than six hundred have paid even a poll tax. In some coun ties, with a registration of over one thou sand, less than one hundred have given in and paid a poll tax. Fvon Bullock, wiih ail his brazen-faced effrontery, will not pretend to say that the poll tax in any county of the State is “onerous” or oppressive. Tho :>oll tax levied uuder the authority of that ter rible Radical bugaboo —the Constitution of 1865—“ is only one dollar upon oaoli .aud overy male inhabitant of this State.” Aots of 1865-6, page 253. This is all that can he collected by tho State as polls, either under the Constitution of 1865 or the Menagerie Constitution of 1868. 5 The laws of the Htate, ratified and adopted by Bullock’s negro Convention last winter, permits a tax of only fifty per oent. upon the State tax, to be collected in iho several counties forcount.y purposes, and this can only be levied upon tho rec ommendation of two-thirds of the grand jury in each county, made at the Spring Term of the Superior Court. Code, Section 481. If it becomes necessary in any county to raise a greater fund than an assessment of fifty per cent, upon the State tax will bring, for the purpose of building and keeping in repair the public buildings, Court House, Jail, Ac., then, for that specific purpose alone assessment may bo made, without the recommendation of the grand jury, sufficient to raise the sutn needed for such buildings or repairs. Code, Section 468,474. The only poll tax now being levied and collected is that of one dollar, which, by law, is specially appropriated for educa tional purposes. To this an addition of fifty cents in some of the counties and in some twcnty'tive cents, has been made for eounty purposes. The whole poll tax be ing collected for State and eounty purposes is less than one dollar and a half in a ma jority of the counties, and'is never more than that, except in such where it has be come necessary to erect new county build ings. This review of the present condition of our tax laws shows conclusively that we i must look outside of Bullock's proelama tion for the reason of his suspension of the j poll tax. We do not hesitate to declare , that his sole and only reason was to euable ! the Radical party to seeure the votes of thousands of negro voters who he knew had been disfranchised by the operations of the election taws framed by the Radical : Convention. The negroes were advised by j Radical leaders not to give iu or pay taxes, i Bullock himself, we arc reliably informed, gave that advice to colored people j 0 city. In attempting to cheat the State! out of the pittance due for its protection j of the citizen in his rights of person and of property, these colored people have, i acting under bad advice, lost the privilege I of voting. Let us examine whether Bulioek has the power 10 reinstate them in their franchise privileges by ordering a suspension of the collection of the poll tax. The oath which every voter, upon being challenged, is required to take is, that ‘‘he has paid all taxes which may hair leen re- of him and which he may Ant e had an ojiportunity of paying, agreeably to taw, tor the year next preceding the elec tion." During the whole of last year, and up to the date of Bullock’s proclamation this year, every male citizen of this State Juulhu-h required to payU poll tax of one iloUai to the Slate, and durin, 7 that titni each tax-payer has had un opportunity of paying this poll tax assessteent Those only who may not have had an opportu nity of paying their poll tax, if there can possibly be such, who, from protracted sickness, absence from the State or like cause have failed to pay after having gi ttll in their tax return*, may possibly avail j themselves of the benefits of Bollock’s proclamation. But those who failed to Biakc returns— and who, having mace their returns failed to pay their poU tax, cannot j swear that they have paid all taxes which have been required of *hem and which they have had *an opportunity of paying j without committing perjury. We advise our friends in every county of the State to get from the tax books cer tified copies of all the persons in their re- ; spective counties who have’ in and ] :iaid their State aDd county taxes. There ista should be arranged alphabetically to facilitate ready lefcrouce, aod a cony j should be kept at each voting box in the ! hands of prudent and discreet men. Whenever a person offers to vote who is suspected of' having failed to pay all taxes which be may have an opportunity of pay ing, require him or them to take the oath prescribed by the negro Constitution. If any take that oath improperly, thereby committing perjury, have an officer near at hand and have a warrant for their ar rest issued immediately. The courts should decide whether Bul lock’s proclamation is broad enough to cover these cases. These courts are all the appointees of this man Bullock, and will be disposed, perhaps, most of them, to go very far in their efforts to sustain the “Express Agent.” We do not believe, however, that a single Judge in the State will decide that a man who,_ before the proclamation of Bullock was issued, had “had an opportunity of paying his taxes” and failed, and then takeg the oath which we have just referred to, will be free from the guilt of perjury. At any rzte, duty to ourselves and to u common country require that we should all do our utmost to pre serve the purity of the ballot-box. Each legal voter in the State is personally inter ested in excluding from this high privilege all who are by law prevented from exercis ing it Let none be dismayed or prevent , ed from the performance of this duty by tear ot Bullock’s anathemas. Blair on Beconstraetlon. The Lafayette (Indiana) Courier , of Sat- ; urday last, publishes the following letter j from Gen. Frank P. Blair to a citizen of i Lafayette: Fokt Han debs, Wyoming Territory, August 24, 1868.—T0 James Howes, Esq., Lav ay Eii k, Indiana— Dear Sir: I Lave received your lettor, in which you astc me if I would endeavor to have the constitu tions ity ol the Reconstruction acts tested by the Supreme Court before proceeding to treat them as null and void. In answer, 1 say that the vital principle of the Recon struction acts has already been decided to bo unconstitutional, null ard void, by the Supremo Oourt, tho whole bench concur ring, in the case ot Milligan and Bowies, which went up from the .State of Indiana on a writ of habeas corpus. In that c.ise it was decided, in the plain language of tho Constitution, that the gov ernment could not establish martial Jaw in time of peace; or try a citizen by mili tary commission or court-martial. The Reconstruction acts, so-called, stand on martial law, and noting else It is the es sence of these acts. They were prepared and put in execution in tirno of profound peace, in defiance of the unanimous decis ion of the .Supreme Court, to which I have referred, and they, and all that has been done under them, are null arid void. A etise was made under those acts—the case of McOardle, of Mississippi —and brought before the .Supreme Court; and it is well known that the court was ready to declare these acts unconstitutional, when Congress passed another act to deprive the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction, and openly attempted to intimidate the Judges by throats of remodeling the court. The Supreme Court, in another case— that of Cummings, of Missouri—decided that the disfranchisement of the white peo ple ;of ttie Southern States by an act of Congress, was a bill of attainder and an expost facto law, both of which were for bidden in express terms by the Constitu tion. Even the Radicals admit, in their Chicago platform, that the States alone have the right to decide wtio shall be en titled to suffrage withiu the States ; and yet Congress has assumed to take the right from the white people and give it to the negroes within the Southern States. The Reconstruction Acts violate the Constitution in all these particulars, and it lias been already so decided by tho Supreme Court. The Constitution says the military shall always be subordinate to the civil authoi ity, but those acts have superseded all civil authority, aud erected military governments at the South. Do yon want a decision of the Supreme Court to show that this is unconstitutional? Are those who say the military is surbordinate to tho civil authority revolutionists ? Are those who demand the restoration of the triul by jury, which has been suppressed in tho South by the Reconstruction Acts, revolutionists ? Are those who claim the benefit of the great writ of light, the habeas corpus, which is denied to 8,000,000 of our people by the infamous Reconstruction Acts, to tic branded as revolutionists ? Shall we be called revolutionists because we proclaim, in tho very language oi the Constitution, that Congress slmll pass no bill of attainder or cx post facto law ? or shall.webe Unis branded for olaiming.wlmt theConstitutioneoncedesinexpress words, tiiat tho Btat.es shall regulate suffrage for themselves ? Do we want more decisions of the Supremo Court on these points? Tho truth is that the Radicals are the real revolutionists, and have subverted the fundamental principles ofourgovernment, and converted it into a moan and malig nant oligarchy, suro to lapse into a mili tary despotism. To restore the government and tho great ...... „*• Constitution, and inherited from our an eestors is “revolution.” To execute the' will of tho people, whom tho fragmentary Rump Congress has put at defiance, is “revolution.” To carry out the decisions of the Supreme Court is “revolution.” This revolution is at hand. The people’s will, the judgment of tlio court of the high est jurisdiction, will be enforced against a usurping Rump Congress. I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant, Frank P. Blair. IMPORTANT • ORUESI'OSDENCS. Ilelmbold Ah rut of Pitrrcpont—Suh scrivtion of £40,000 for the Seymour awl li/air Campaign. The following correspondence is im portant, as it praotioally illustrates the views of thinking and enterprising mer chants, and those who have not altogether lost their love of country or Constitution as handed down by our fathers, or who have a res pent for maintaining its honor and character: 59-1 Broadway, N. Y., Oct. 14, 186S. To deluge Washington Langley, Esq , firm of Langley, Sautcrlee, Blackwell & Cos., 379 Broadway, New York : Peak Sir : When Horatio Seymour was by acclamation nominated for Pres ident of the United States by tbo Deni ocratic purty it was conceded by all parties that he was a good statesman and sound defender of our Constitution, but since his nomination I have noticed many slander ous remarks in regard to his conduct during the war. Happily, lion. A. G. Curtin, ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, has expressed himself in a most friendly man ner, remarking that the least said against Seymour's conduct during the rebellion, the best tbr the Republican party, as he would acquit him of such abuse. Now, as to F. P. Biair, I have observed in several Republican papers statements that be had no claims whatever upon the Democratic party, and to this I wouid say why not ? Was it because he fought in the army and for the restoration of the Union? lie was nominated at Tammany Hall with shouts of applause, just after proclaiming that we must have a President untram melled by an unconstitutional, oppressive and arbitrary Congress. Since the close of the rebellion I have carefully noticed the expression of Southern journals, politi cians and merchants, and find ihat aii are desirous of living in harmony and expect that the election of Seymour and Blair will be the means of encouragement and the extension of the right-hand of fel lowship, thereby evidencing a complete vindication of the object of the war and of the Constitution, and restoring the rights of the impoverished and oppressed portion in our country. Before concluding, I will address myself ; to the young and enterprising merchants | and laboring ekisse*. In the various city | papers of recent date, X l ave noticed a i eorresqiondenoe between Judge E. Pierre pont and A. T. Stewart, the substance of which was that they both desired the election of U. S. Grant for President, J udge Pierrepont tendering a check for $20,1)60 for furthering his election. Now, to the sensible reader and to the young merchant, is not this in itself perfectly explanatory of their interests, and is it not opposed to their development? Do they ex {set to be benefited? Is it not for purely mercenary motives? The contest presents a weil-defined issue between the bondholders and the ouigrprising and la boring classes, and resolve* itsejf into an oppression. Greenbacks for one and gold for the other. In this correspondence I j would not wish to assert anything against the payment of tk» debt, but the interest is exorbitant- —it eauuoc he paid, excepting | in the same currency as putohased, and whan ehis is ouoe done capital seeks other , iuvestmet:t of a more lucrative character, j thereby producing 3 revenue, and gradual- j ly approaching a gold basis. In conclu sion, permit me to tender my check for 840.CKXJ, to l>e used in such manner as you may think most advisable for tbeiurther ane« ot your views. True to our friends and kind to the weak is the Hcnioora tic doctrine advocated by Ir*i» yours. If. T. Hklmbolp, REPLY. j *L T. lUlmbold, Esq., 594 Broadway : ; Your letter ot die 4th in q t.. received, oon- I taining check for *40.000. This amount I ; 'hall use in the r. - . appropriate manner. I perused the contents of V-i Ur letter with the utmost gratification. The question is presented to the people whether they will aid in electing an administration bent on trampling the Constitution into the dust, and elevating upon its ruins a power con trolled by boodheiding aristocracy, whose motto is gold for the rich and rags for the poor, with prostration in every branch of industry, and the business of the whole country, ortrom whose inteiligent admin istration we can have one Union, one coun try, one destiny. Sincerely yours, Gko. Wasuin'uton La.nui.kv. The Klcelion. in another column of this day's paper j will be found ail the laws and rules upon this subject The places for holding the election are those fixed by law before the adoption cf; ! the Atlanta Constitution,so-ealfed. Xo new precincts have lan established, ; | and no old ones abolished. Let this be , I borne in mind by our friend?. IVho 35a> Hold Elections. Any Magistrate iii the State is a com petent election manager • who still holds a commission. Under the old law there were two Magistrate* in each election district. ’ Each of these is still a legal acting Magis- j j trate until anew election and the qualifi- j cation of a successor. The present Con- I atitntion, so-called, authorizes the Govern ‘ or to appoint one Notary Publie with the I powers and jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace in each dis trict. When so ajjpoint , ed this Notary takes the place of one of i the previous Magistrate.-. Until the j Notary is appointed and qualified loth of \ the old Justices continue in office. Mr. Seymour oa the Stamp. Vve believe that, with the single excep tion of Mr. Douglas, Mr. Seymour is the only candidate for the Presidency who has actively canvassed for votes pending the election. In Mr, Douglas’ case, the peculiar condition of the canvass—there be ing two Democratic caudidates, each claim ing to be the regular nominee of the parly —was claimed to be a sufficient justi fication lor the violation of what was then considered the proprieties of a Presidential canvass. Wc can tee no good rcasoD why the ex clusion of the candidate for tho Presidency from active personal participation in the canvass was ever acquiesced in by the people. The individual who, by becom ing a candidate, solicits the support of the people. should at all times be ready to announce hie nrineiples and define his position. This can be best accomplished by meeting the masses face to face in a public and unrestricted discussion of all pending issues. Wc are glad that Mr.Scymour has taken this view of the case and that he is now making a vigorous canvass in Pennsyl vania. Bo many falshoods have been printed and spoken against him—such perversions of his position upon the ques tions of Reconstruction and of the public debt of tbe country have been made, that justice, not only to hitn sedf but to the great party whose standard-bearer he has been made, de mands that he should meet the people face to face and lay before them the views and policy which he entertains not only as an individual Put as the representative and head of the groat National Democratic party. Mr. Seymour is perhaps the ablest and most effective popular speaker in America. His personal presence in Pennsylvania will add much to the .strength of the party there. Whenever he goes we know that lie will arouse the enthusiasm and enlist the zeal of the party to an extent not hitherto tele in the canvass there. West Virginia. While tiic Radicals have, in all their cal culations, claimed West Virginia as certain for Grant, we have classed it among the doubtfui States. At the last Presidential election it gave a majority of 12,714 for the Republicans. In the State eloetions year belore last, the Republican majority was sic thousand six hundred and forty four. Although we have not received fall re turns from the elections held on Thursday last, enough is known to satisfy us that the Democracy have made great gains, and if they have not carried the State that they can and will do so in November. Is the World a Democratic Newspaper ? Some of our friends seem to think that our comments upon the reoent course of the New York World Are hardly justified by the facts which have been brought to the light in rogard to the conduct of that paper during tho present canvass. We have as yet seen nothing in extenuation of the World's position which induces us to believe that wc have entered an improper or unfair judgment against it. On the contrary, we find in its «ol.*w»«»; daily, much to confirm aud strengthen our first convictions. In its issue of the 21st inst. it reports iu full a violent, unfair arid abusive speech of John Lathrop Motley, delivered in Boston tho night before, in which tho speaker de nounced not only the National Democratic candidates but also made a fierce attack upon the New York platform of the party. In the same issue of the World in which app. ars Motley’s speech, we find a flatter ing editorial notice of his partisan har angue, in which the editor exhausts the vocabulary of complimentary epithets in his fulsome praise of this ultra Radical demagogue. The World also persists in its disorgan izing and treacherous advice for the with drawal of at least one of the Democratic candidates. It makes uo concealment of its opposition :o Gen. Biair. It pushes its opposition to this gentlemaq.so fer as to permit the wicked and malicious falsehood of F irncy in relation to the recent speech of Gen. Blair i > St. Louis to go before the country in ali die Radical papers without denial or correction, when its editor knows that Gen. Blair never made the declaration with which he is charged. Telegrams from Washington state that S. L. M- Barlow, of New York, ono of the principal owners of the World, has been plotting with and writing letters to certain sore-headed politicians in that city, who are known to be in tho Chase in fluence, urging that such outside pressure should be brought to bear upon General Blair as wili force him to resign his posi tion on the Presidential ticket. It was the personal influence and activi- I ty of General Biair in the Republican ! Convention of 1868, which defeated Mr. j Seward at that, time, and secured the nomination of Mr. Lincoln. J The friends of Seward attempted to | purchase Blair’s influence and withdraw his p position to that gentleman by offer ing to him the position of second on the ; ticket if He wouid aid in securing Seward’s | nomination, which he contemptuously rejected. This accounts for Seward’s hostility to Biair, but does not’ justify the 1 World’s opposition. ! The Baltimore Gazette, a leading Dem ! ocratic organ in the middle States, in com menting upon the recent course of the World, repeats what we said last week in | relation to the pernicious influence of that ; paper. The Gazette says : “The New York World has unquestion : ably done more harm to the Democratic party than have all the hssaults of its ad versaries, Its recent blundering repudia i tion of the Democratic candidates is by no means its only offence. It has for months ; past been doing incalculable mischief by making for the party uncalled for apologies ! and lame explanations. It has seemed to j regard the canvass as one in which success i was lobe attained by trickery, and not a persistent maintenance of principle. Ac cording to it, the Democratic platform j means nothing: Mr. Blair’s letter means ! nothing, and Mr. Pendleton's financial i views mean nothing. It is alarmed when any of these subjects are plainly and vigo • rousiy discussed, and proceeds straight way to dpqionstrate that negro suffrage is an' accomplished fact, and'that the State Dovernmenls in the South would not be intertered with by the Democratic party. ! In (act the sole object of the World all along has evidently been to catch Radical j votes by trying to make the principles of j the Democratic party assimilate as near j lv as possible to the Chicago platform It wants merely tc win. It desires td j cure for the Democratic party the power ! and the patronage of the Federal Govern ment. It is not much concerned about wba: may happen afterward. It would to i secure Mr. Chase’s election, enter, we be lieve, into any compromise which would 1 leave the Southern people forever under I the control of the unconstitutional govern ments which have been framed for them i and under the pressure of enactments 1 '.Viiidi compel them to concede the social j as weii as the political equality of the j black*. $0 far as the people of Maryland ‘ are Concerned It is certain that they care nothing for this can:, ass, except insofar ;as i: -voices the reatorariuu af the South : ern -cites to their just and undeaUble ! rights under the Constitution. They arc ! not yet quite prepared to concede that I the South is but so numb conquered terri- I tory, and until they admit tfcis they de- i maud that the | opieof the-Southern States i shall be suffered to govern themselves as ! heretofore. The vast majority of the peo- ! pie of this State are earnestly bent upon preserving, as far as in them Ties, the aiyil ’ liberty and the Constitution left to us and to our fellow-countrymen, by oar fathers, and they care not to listen to any other terms. On this i-'sue they plant them ee 1 ves. They accept all the responsibilities ot that position, and by it they are pre pared to stand or iall,” Cos Ron Trices. The following is from Wm. Boyce & Co's, circular of the 10th instant: Wc would call particular attention to our summary of the week’s markets in Liverpool and New York, as, in our opin ion, it foreshadows the course of those markets untii the hulk of our crop is count ed, and Europe fairly in stock. It will be noted, that instead of this market taking its tone from that of Liverpool, the latter market has depended on New York. The extremely icw point to which the stock of American descriptions has been reduced is sufficient explanation of toe anomaly to which we have called attention. Great Britain must have American cotton, and that, too, without delay ; to obtain such supplies a fair inducement must be held i oat to shippers and agents, and such in -1 ducements ■ must be made by higher ! prices there or lower ones here. The movements of Liverpool for the past month have clearly shown that, if compelled, they will rut) op prices there to afford the necessary margin ; but if, on the other hand, we ran be induced to lower our reale of prices, Liverpool will keep j following us down to 3* low a point as we i see fit to establish. Last year a similar course of action gave to Europe half our crop at or tinder 10d., indeed a very -arge proportion under 9d.; and there is nothing to prevent a similar movement this season, if the cotton producers of America sec fit to thus accommodate the cotton consumers of Europe. It may be that trade in Man chester is unfavorable, that the mills ot Lancashire are making no money, but while consumption continues at present, England must have cotton, and it remains with America to say whether the_ ruling price shall be 7d. or 104 d-» for _it is from this country that the next six months’ stock of Europe mu“t be drawn. The amount of Surat cotton now due, and over due, in Liverpool anu London is very large, but it may be remembered that the time in which this Surat cotton is to be consum ed, before anymore is finable, is very long, and that the stocks cf these descrip tions bid fair to be reduced to an even more pitiful handful than last season be fore the arrival of the Bombay shipments of January and February. The Egyptian crop has a similar sea-on to our own, but it seems rather absurd to place much reliance on a crop that has never yet given Great Britain an aver age consumption of 6,000 bales per week. The same remark applies to the crop of Brazil (season excepted), for although the consumption of those varieties in bales, is comparatively heavy, it must bo remem bered that the weight of the bales is only about 175 lbs. a piece. In speaking thus strongly on the general position of cotton, we are influenced only by a desire to pro tect our planting friends from the appre hension of a repetition of last year’s panic, when the idea prevailed so extensively that the production ofother countries could and would depress the prices of Americanfar be low the cost «of production. We maintain now,as we have done throughout.tbe season, that planters can, if they will, maintain prices at the ports that will pay them tv nty cents at home; yet wc repeat what ! we have weekly reasserted, that if the daily receipts are to be forced off at best prices, we can decline as low as we did last year ; and thus, when the planters have parted with their crops, advance to famine prices, to the great emolument of middle men, and tho discouragement of our farm ing interests. While we speak thus strong ly of the ability of farmers to obtain good prices for their crops, we would vrarn them against hoping for the famine prices of last Spring ; for without some now unforscen event occurs, such prices could only be ob tained by inducing, through abnormally low prices, an undue consumption of cotton between now and February. The late, Elections and the Presidency. ADDRESS OF THE TAVIMASY HALL GENERAL COMMITTEE. The following is tbe address of tha Tam many Hall General Committee of Now York: ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY. The Democracy of the city of New York, represented in the Tammany Hall General Committee, congratulate the Democracy of Pennsylvania and the West ern States upon tho spirit and indomita ble ODcrgy evinced by there in their recent contests, which are but the preliminary skirmishes to the great national battle to be fought next month. We congratulate them upon the great advantages won. Those advantages would have been full triumphs' if it had not been for tho expenditures of a vast corruption fund, calculated miffidns, collected npt only from the placemen and office-holders of the Radical Congress, but also from tho combination who have been depreciating the revenues of the Government by illicit manufactures. Even this corruption fund would not have resulted in preventing the preliminary triumphs of the Democraey in the State of, Pennsylvania if it bad not been for the arbitrary acts of Radical in spoctOTTT, tn direct Al-01-tolieuce of too Courts and in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, in refusing to receive the votes of our’ naturalized fel low-citizens. The votes of the naturalized citizens who were denied the right of suffrage in Penn sylvania, because they intended to vote with us, would have been more , than enough to have given us victory at the late election. We are glad te hear that our •friends there Lave determined that the votes of our adopted citizens shall bo re ceived at the coming election. But the corruption treasury of tho enemy cannot again be successfully used under the vigilance of the Democracy. The colonizers sent by the Radical Com mittee of this State must remain here to contest, though in a ■ v.'.'V. effort, the .Em pire State. The gallant Democraey of Philadelphia have redeemed their city IVom Radical despotism, and we receive with confidence the dispatches, that with a fair election and pure ballot, which they are now likely to have, they will be victorious by a largely increased majority, in the decisive battle of next month. Our brethren in Ohio have contcuded against the heavy majorities of fanaticism and Radicalism. They have struggled gallantly. They have fought an honest fight- The votes which were cast by them wore their own. The unscrupulous enemy filled Che Northeast coimties of Ohio with carpet-baggers and colonizers from the strongholds of Radicalism of the adjoining States. Thousands of negroes voted, in violation of law aDd the overwhelming de cision of the people in the election of last year. But the Democracy had made won derful gains. Victory in Indiana was almost within our grasp. By fradulent canvassing our foes gain the State, but by less than 1,000 majority. Our brethren there send us word that the Democracy of Indiana will give an increased vote next mouth. Indiana has virtually repudiated the Radical can didate on the national ticket. Democrats of New York ! In our State the contest of the Democracy is for the majorities we will give our great chieftain and statesman, Horatio Seymour, and the gallant soldier of the West, General Frank P. Blair. The Radicals, already alarmed at the determination and vigor of the Democracy of Pennsylvania and the great*West, ap preciate . that the great decisive battle is notyet won. The Democracy of the Empire State, proud of her great statesman, Horatio Seymour, are no less proud of the gallant soldier of the West-, who, by his energy and bravery, saved his State from rebellion, and who fought at the head of his corps in j the battles of the Southwest, and in all those upon the great march “from the , mountains to the sea.” The Radicals, conscious of the unrelaxed ! vigor of Democracy in Pennsylvania and ! the West, and their own rapidly decreas ; ing vote, endeavor to inspire their waver | ing ranks and to demoralize the advancing , Democratic columns by silly stories of di | vided columns. We are united. We believe in our j cause. It is the cause of constitutional liberty, of persona! rights, of fraternity of | States, of an economical Government, of I the financial credit of the nation, of one : currency for aii men, rich and poor, of the political supremacy of the white race and the protection of white labor. The Radicals of Pennsylvania and the j Western States have placed another piank in their platform. It is to prescribe the vote of naturalized citizens. In their de- j spotie policy to control our country, they j j gave the suffrage to the negro race of the j Southern States, and have exiled white 5 labor. They boldly proclaim that their laws and policy shall protect the negro and : oppress the naturalized citizen. Their next step will be to bring the Southern ne- ! i gro North to vote down and compete against the white laborer. Rally, then, for our national chieftains j and our national policy t * * * * j Is not the pending contest pre-eminently one of capital against labor, of money against popular rights, and political power against the struggling interests of the masses? Only two weeks for contest remain. Let. therefore, every friend to constitutional righto, every sympathizer with the struggling white laborer, every ally of fair play to the naturalized dtixan. and every foe to municipal oppression, relax no effort to secure a tremendous majority for our electoral ticket, representing the honored naumn of the patriotic statesman Seymour, and the gailant soldier iiisir, boadediby Slocum, the veteran leader of Sherman » foraes. and the State ri-krt bearing the name of our fieilc w-civ-, and universal favorite John X. Hoffuai,. The,managers of the Hudson River Rail read are making good progress on the grading of their third track, which has dow become a necessity, in order to move the immense number of trains over the road. OIK NEW TOEK COKBESPONDBSCE. DC ttl h lafh D f m ]?-atic Leaders-AffiUar j aJO notij Suffrage t . € j without Southern i tTI ~ A ne *-Pectoral System-The L&xZ'n Politicians-The i niemjad Democracy full of fight. New York, October 18, IS6B. Ldiiors Chronicle & Sentinel: It really does seem as if earth and hell "were leagued against the Democratic party, As though it was not enough to ave he powerful cohorts of Radicalism, ' a.'ed by a venal press and the. whole | mono,, power of the country against us, our vety leaders must hoist the white flag at both ends of the line. Simultaneous with the Worbi s proposition to immolate our candidates, a proposition, I may say to jou, that is utterly scouted by the northern Democracy, there come tidings that the Georgia and South Carolina Democratic State Committees are out lor negro suffrage. How this move is looked on here you may see from the following extract from the leading article yesterday of that bitter Radical paper the Post. HAPP\ EFFECTS OF THE LATE EJECTIONS. “ 'Howsure the election of General Grant 18 bring peace and security to all parts of thei country may be seen by the effects, ali eady displayed, of the elections of last Tuesday. On the I3th of October, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania cast Republi can majorities. The news which has so comically disorganized the Democratic i leaders here, was telegraphed the same l night to the Southern States. The next! d*yM-h e 14th, only confirmed the news of.i the Democratic .overthrow. On the. i(>th, i while the World here was demanding that j Seymour and Blair be cast aside and new j men put in their places, the Democratic I leaders in Georgia and South Carolina met 1 together, and this morning wo hear by '' telegraph that, first— ; “ ‘The Democratic Slate Contra! V xeculive 1 Club unanimously- adopted tho resolution I presented by Wade Haiaynn, endorsing J Lee’s etter to Rosecrnns. The sense of the \ Club is decidedly in favor of qualified negro suffrage. An address to the people will doubtless be issued In a few days.’ ” And second: “ ‘ The Democratic Executive Committee ol Georgia published the following to-day : s * * » - “ ‘Resolved, By the Centra! Committee of the Democratic party in Georgia, .* * * that wo acquiesce in the pr*ser,t status of the colored race among us, and will protect that race to the full extent of our power in the exercise of the right of suffrage, secured' to them by tho Constitution of the United States and amendments thereto, and the Constitution and laws of this State.’ “No better argument for supporting Grant could be found, bj’ any patriotic man, any one sincerely desirous of peace, order, anil the maintenance of law, than tho speedy action ol these Democratic committees.” If it could be supposed that the above extracts represent the true sentiment of the South, it would be-tiine for those wh are trying to fight her bqttlo to fold the arms. But it is not bo. On a iair vote the people of the South would repudiate these time-serving committees by an over whelming majority. Negro suffrage is not peace and the people of the South know it if the politicians do not. It would contra vene tfie universal experience of history to suppose that two unequal races can live in a condition of harmonious political equality. It never has been done ; it never will be done; it Cannot‘now be done. The present attempt to do it lies at the root oithe present distressed condition of the South,and as long as the effort is continued 1 just so long must its inevitable concomi* ! taut, distress, be fair. It may be a bad thing to have a. large proportion of the inhabitants of the South destitute of the ballot, but it. is a worse thing to have them in possession of the ballot. It is* ’idle to talk of qualified negro suffrage ; if it is to be recognized it mast be recognized as universal. The only argument ibr it at ail is thaGthe negro is as fully entitled to it a* the white man; and if this be ad mitted, as those committees admit it, then every negro is as fully entitled to it as every white man. If you break down the great distinction between the white man and the nigger,you can’t keep up the little distinction between this nig ger and that. Moreover, this idea of ren dering negro suffrage harmless by controll ing it, is fallacious. Something can be done here and there in this direc tion, but aa a general rule, it will bo like all other class votes and go for itself. If you say you can make the, negroes see that their interest lies in back ing up the whites, you must remember that men are singularly blind to their own interests, and that every conceivable mo tive before them to beat down Radical despotism, the great States of Ohio, In diana and Pennsylvania have just pro nounced in favor of high taxes, wholesale political thievery, ifnd the perpetuation and payment in gold of the accursed debt. More than this, when you speak of con trolling votes you mean when you come to tho root of tho matter — buying votes ; not • necessarily with money, but by employ t meut, favorable laws, or what not. W hen you «ome to this, the weal thy'aud powerful North win outbid tbe weak arid impov erished bouth £uf- at least, a full genera tion. If the negro vote gets regularly’ into tbe market, they will outbid you, mark incf every time; and in this “controlling” view of the case, as in every other, your absolute safety lips in an utter and persistent,refusal to acquiesce in negro suffrage. It cannot outlive these revolutionary times with out your consent, and if you weakly yield this consent in a belief that you can control it, you will be most terribly de ceived. But there is stiii another view of the case to consider. It is said that the negroes are so rapidly decreasing that they will soon cease to be a formidable voting element in the body politic. That the poor creatures are being emancipated off the face or the earth is indeed true, and if our present system of voting was to con tinue ad infinitum there would be some force in the argument just given. In the course cf a few years it might come to pass that they eould not carry a single State in the South in a State or Presidential elec tion. in the course of a few years more they might not be able to carry a single Congresional District. But suppose that our electoral system, is altered so as to suit the new theory of representation by which mi norities are represented, would they not then be still powerful and remain powerful as long as there was so much as a mere numerical handful of them alive ? To il lustrate this, let me explain the new theory. Lat us suppose that. there are 60,000 white and 40,000 negro voters—loo,ooo in all-in any given State, and that, there are five candidates to be elected. Under the present system you can see that the five white candidates would be elected by a ma jority of 20,000 votes. Under the pro posed system tho first step is. to divide tb ' whole number of votes, 1005,000, by t. number of candidates to be chosen, ... which gives, as the number necessary to I elect a candidate, or the quota, as it is called, 20,000. The election is then held and results,, say as follows: ynmi TICK3T- i sse&q t.- .n-T. . Voteß. l ■ ‘ Voted. For candidate A d'OtD i For cftcdMatiF -i n CY>O ”, Ji SS,(X,O| •• - “ “ 0 560 01 •• “ H... j.; ■oo D M.ooft| " ” l ,35,010 “ “ E 4-000 J •• “ J ..aj,ooo Divide the highest vote ‘on the white | ticket by the quota and you get tKrjjf ns the number of the candidates that (he ! whites are entitled to. A similar process with the negroes gives them two cgitdi | dates, the highest being in all cases taken i 6n each list, so that the successful candi j dates will bo A (white), F (negro), B j (white), G (negro), and C (white), the of -1 Abes being given according to their irn j portance in the order named. Should it i happen that the highest vote on either : ticket is less than the full party vote it is j divided by the quota, and, if the fraction jbe over a half, one whole number is j added to the number of candidates I already obtained by the division. Thus, | suppose the highest white vote was 59,635 j and the highest negro vote 38,621; dividing j by 20,000, the respective results are, white candidates 2.98, negro candidates j 1,93, or 3 and 2 respectively as ! above. With this as the result of! j the proposed electoral system in a State j 1 election, let us see how it wouid work in a | Presidential election. As things now are we vote by States, irrespective of the ! majorities in these States If Georgia 1 were to go for Seymour by 1,000 majority ; her electoral vote would be counted for i him, though South Carolina might go by 3®,000 for Grant. _As Georgia “has nine 1 electoral votes and South Carolina but six, j it is evident that Seymour s majority in the electoral college from these two States j would be three, though the popular majority against him would be 29,000. ! In the new system it is proposed to do ! away with the electoral coliege and elect I the President by a direct vote. In this ! case it can be seen that a heavy negro ; majority in one State would entirely wipe I out aggregated light white majorities in | several States,_ as may be shown by sup- | posing an election to result thus : WHITE. KEGHO. Elect.fr'X j&cctoral Hijortty. Vote. Xiyrity. role. GenreiJ l.« 0 s S. Cwtl'n*....ao.dft, { Carols*. lO.ftjO S is.ooo Tex*e S, f W 6 _ Alabama.... 4-W0 8 ilajarltj 2.0U0 A-, 5.0C0 5 35.000 37 £ Sljjority 51 You will thus see that, while with our preseat system South Carolina ean only count six* in the new system she could, by . a heavy negro majority, actually obliterate the white voice of her sisters, and not only i obliterate that voice, out put a negro vojee in its stead. That this new system, such as 1 have roughly described it, will be adopted I have bo ucuLt. It ht-; its in tricacies and its novelties, but the great : fact that it makes every vote count, will ! carry it through. Once let it be in action and if you have weakly yielded to had ad visers and acquiesced in negro suffrage, for it cannot outlive those revolutionary times, let me repeat without your consent, you will find that suffrage a leaden weight to i crush you to the earth for years and years 1 to come. The tendency of the North is j powerfully toward this new system ; the • President has already recammeiided.it to Congress in his message of June last, and as soon as the > reseut canvas, is over it will rise to be a living issue. These keen, long-headed, shrewd who arc at the head of the Radical party, have seen it coming for some time back, and as its result will be to beat down the technical majorities on which they now subsist, they are seeking to ward off the blow by making up in a negro vote the white vote which is row powerless against them by reascaof dis franchisement and other hums of politi cal muzzling, but will then be set free. Their desperate attempt to force an adop tion of negro suffrage by the South has no other explanation than this, and it is per fectly.amazing, yea it is absolutely appall ing, to see men who call themselves Dem j ocfatß, and have been put in positions of I trust and confidence by our people, delibe rately walking into the trap. To acquiesce in negro suffrage is a blunder so enormous that it mounts into a crime. _ It is the sell ing out, for a temporary and illusive peace, of the young men of the South to a life time of turmoil, mongreiization and politi cal impotence. It is useless to talk of a further rejection of negro suffrage being a continuance of strife. There is no strife so great as that which perpetuated negro suffrage will bring in its train. It is idle to argue that not to accept it is to exaspe rate the North. W hat can the exasperated North do that is comparable for a moment to the introduction into tho body politic of barbarians whose grandfathers baked and ate one another in Africa not an hundred years ago ? But tlio North will sand armies ! Let it send ’em along. Military government is better than nigger govern ment. Military government is too dear to last, and will have to be withdrawn if established. Negro government is too heavy to be borne; and yet, if recognized, Cannot be got rid of. There is no evil that the rejection of suffrage can entail that is not, of necessity, a transient evil, and none that its acceptance brings with it that is not as permanent as it is galling. The temptation, doubtless, to accept it is very great, but no ruan ever yielded to tempta tion but he lived to curse the day. Peace is very sweet —there is something in the vt vy sound of its name that is soft and caressing as the strains of a wild Kolian harp—but.perpetus.ted negro suffrage is not peace. Perpetuated negro suffrage will discourage immigration; deter capital; drive cut all who can get away and make the once beautiful South a hell upon earth for the unfortunates that remain. There is no such thing as taking it with a quali fication ; it must be taken as universal if it is taken at all. It is idle to speak of con trolling it; if it is made permanently valuable wealthy Northern Radicalism will outbid impoverished Southern Democracy every time. It is a fond delusion to sup pose that in this or in the next generation “the race will die out.” Concede it the ! ballot and it will hang for fifty years as a ' mill stone about the South’s neck. What then is to be done? Never con v’it to it, never acquiesce iu it, never ad mit at any time or in any way- that it is other than the illegitimate child of force and fraud, living only as long as they live and destined to die the moment they cease to be operative. This is a rugged and a thorny rpad but Liberty’s at the end of it. The battle is a hard one but it is a consola tion to know that all the wealth, all the power, all the glory of these Radical ty ants, all the Pennsylvania elections they can win, all the Grants they can elect, are powerless to capture that impregnable for tress—your consent Treachery may un dermine it, cowardice may throw open its gates, but force can never carry it by storm. The behavior of the Northern Democ racy since the late elections has given me an admiration for them. They have dis played a degree of spirit that is wonder ful. For eight years they have been reg ularly beaten and yet • their will is so good that in response to the World's pro posal there has come up a terrible cry of indignant denunciation from every side. Nor are they going to bo con tent with mere denunciation. The' pres ent leaders are to fake back scats and men who know what Democracy means put in their stead. In Pennsylvania, out of a total of seven hundred-thousand votes, the Radicals only won by some nine thousand, showing that a change of forty five hun dred votes would turn the scale. In Indiana the Democratic gain on last election is .13,000. In Ohio the Radical vdte is cut down 8,000, and in the Congressional elec tions seven Democratic? Congressmen arc gained. This is not such a bad exhibit considering that the Radicals cheated most infamously and that the Democracy had not only the Radicals to fight but the United States treasury to boot. It Is'felt that it is not a bad exhibit and the Can vass will be vigorously pushed, despite, of defection at the North and panic at the South. Tyrone Powers. • Spirit of the Sow* York •Press STILL PANIC- STRICKEN. The. “ World” has anothorMouble-leadc'd .sensation article, iu ii..: same spirit ns tne previous one/,—but. this time calling upon Gov. Seymour with more directness than before, to resign, or to say something, that will be equivalent to a change of base. Thus, we are told,- — “A stateman upon whom a nomination is thrust, violates no obligation of honor in retaining his individuality, and giving free utterance to his independent judgment— especially when tho safety of the party de mands such h service. Saving witnessed tho results of inferior leadership, it is his duty to bring back thecanvass to the mod erate and proselytising ground on which it was his original wish to place it. * * * Governor Seymour can now aid us much, but Gen. Blair can aid us far more, in a different way, by a chivalric action superior to all eloquence.” As might be expected, all this is grist to the Radical mill, and the following extract shows how the mi l 'is going; (From, the Tribune.) The World still insists on deposing its candidates. The Chairman oh their Na tion;*.! Committee says it .-shan't'bo..done. The oracle itself speaks : Mr. Seymour in forms us from Utica (after conference with the Committee) that if Frank Blair ieades he will too, and be giad ofthee; auce. Mr. Pendleton’s home organ, the Cincinnati Enquirer, supports the World’s demand. So does Mr. Johnson’s* organ, the Na tional Intelligencer, A few other influential papers join in, but the great majority of them follow Brick Pomeroy’s lead," and yelp in chorus against any change. The South gives up the struggle. Practically the Democratic journals everywhere do the same thing. Their mingled tones of rage and sorrow and disgust, their quarrels and their recriminations, and their ac- of defeat—are they not all to be found in other columns ? Road “The Democratic Pout," and see hotuthe treason of the World has unmasked the condition of the enemy’s paiup. {Herald.) The proposition for a ehangeof theparty ticket has had a terrible effect throughout the party camps, equal to that of an ex ploding bombshell in the midst of a picnic. Five hundred thousand dollars expended upon Republican campaign documents and stump speakers, would have been but a bagatelle in behalf of the Republican cause, 'clopflared with this blast from the Dem* •' .-.ratio trumpeters of Washington and New Yotk. _ (The Democratic journals throughout the country, so far as we have had an op portunity to observe—with few and insig nificant exceptions—all scout the World s proposition to “surrender.” Their senti ments find vent in such expressions as these:) llartjjrd Tones. HIE “sensation movement. The controlling minds of the World do not seem to be well settled in political con victions. The gentlemen are much inclined to support the Democratic party, but do not always succeed in doing so. Whether the 4th of July Convention made the strongest nominations tUat possibly could have been made, is apt now a question to be_ discussed. Horatio Seymour’s name united thu Convention and the party; arid in the future the Democrats, in victory or defeat, will marshal their millions of voters upou the principles of the Constitution; and they will act with the Conservative Union men in good faith, and win great victories, not for the special benefit of any man or party, but for the welfare of the Union. _ We are marching to the polis now to sustain principle. Ret no Democrat no Union map—baiter, but nutting with ail who oppose the Sadicsis and their danger ous work, go forward steadily and firmly. vV hen the Radicals, with two millions of j dollars, 1 can barely cam* Pennsylvania, and are virtually defeated, in Indiana, they ' cannot long hold power in this country, j Indeed, elated with the meagre victories, '■ they have already commenced in the great , cities a quarrel over the spoils, and there j are heartburnings among their discordant elements. The “Oswego Palladium" says : “The course taken by the New York World but confirms the opinion xsf the leading Democrats of Oswego county, that that paper secretly desires the defeat of the Democratic party in the coming elec tion. The H'orbi sfiall not accomplish its purpose. Its defection and treachery wilt but the more perfectly arouse the great party which is tc-day battling for the life of Constitutional Government, and now that the enemy in our camp has been dis covered, we shall be able to defeat him and ail his miscegenations. Democrats, stand firm 1” The -V. r. Tuna. This journal was never so happy. As if taking the “ World ” articles for its text, it devotes a column to “The Distracted Democracy,” another to “The llandwrit- , tog on the Wall,” “The fright apd doom j or the Democracy,”--another predicting that "New York will g . for Grant and ! Go.iux by at least half the majority of Gov. Fenton over Mr. Hoffman in 1866,” J her- are accompanied by a kali lauatkr article appealing to the Republicans to pus,, on the work,” —as "the certainty 0. victory does not absolve them from the uUty of doing ali that can be done to make it, decisive, etc, etc. (Was there ever so confident an entmicr w chickens before they are out oi the shell r) riutAcnrxa ratines. Tne Sun ’ thinks it all wrong for Ministers of the Gospel to be preaching politics on Sunday. It says: -he Sabbath is a day for the rest not only oi the body but for the soul, and this rest cannot be attained unless those exter nal faculties of the mind which are busied with wees day affairs are suffered to re rnstin quiet, and the more interior powers wcich take hold of sp’ritual things are brought into activity in their place.” But alas, the Sun —iu the very same article, further on—is also in favor of ministers preaching politics on Sunday, thus,— The real trouble is that clergymen, instead of meddling too much with politics, are too indifferent to them. They allow to pass unrebuked the false idea that a na tion is not as much bound to do right as an individual, and that while a single citizen, may not lie, or steal, or rob, a multitude of citizens organized into a pol iticai party are exempt from ail such restraints. If our clergymen would only pay more at tention to instructing us in our politiea duties, and we were'to profit by their in struction, politics would be much less dis reputable than they are now." Gen. B. Forrest. Ills Speech at Jackson, 11 cat Tennessee, October 14. I read daily in the newspapers published in the Western States many vulgar tirades upon myself, in which I am stigmatized as a coward, butcher, traitor, and disturber of the peace, &c. 1 am aware that in times of political excitement, many editors, especially those at a safe distance, consider themselves justified, for party purposes, in making statements they know robe un founded and untrue. To men governed by such motives 1 do not address myself. I am a husband and a father, and I wish, if I have nothing else, to leave to my family and friends a good name. lam not insen sible to the good opinion of my country men, and as many well-meaning men may read, and, without investigating, credit these charges, to such I address, myself, and claim a hearing, it matters not where, they live. As to being a “coward,” I have met Northern soldiers in fifty pitched bat tles—say nothing of skirmishes —not one of whom will be found base enough to en dorse that eulumny. To the same tribunal L appeal to confute the charge of being a “butcher.” 1 well know that they cannot state a single instance in which I, at any time, in the midst of battle or otherwise, ever stepped across the legitimate bounds of modern civilized warfare. This will answer the charge of “butcher.” But as that charge is most generally coupled with the battle of Fort Pillow, about which many false reports have been circulated, I have this to say: that I have twice de manded a court of investigation, so. that the truth may be known ; if there be any base enough to repeat the slander, know ing this, it be those who only act upon tho maxim that “a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth.” As to being a “disturber of the peace,” and desiring to renew strife ia the land, mo man has gone further, done more, or would do more to prevent such an occurrence. I know something of war and its consequences, and knowing them, would do anything to prevent a recurrence of such calamities short of dishonor. The people of the country, outside of Tennessee, know but little of the disturb ances which we have bad. to contend with, and the cause of them. There has been foisted upon the people of Tennessee by the aid of the blaok population and the base men which war Las thrown upon the surface from other Status,, a half crazy, malicious, evil-minded, corrupt old man fora Governor, who has Dot the confidence or respect of five thousand intelligent white men of the State. Ho well knows that his own chance to hold on to office and position is to disfranchise every decent white man in the State, 'and for party’s sake to uonvul-e society by war and discord. With this object in view, in’a time of pro found peace, when the laws were in full force, when courts are open, laws admin istered and executed, and every man iu the land, black and white protected, to bring about strife, the evil-minded Gov ernor came out with a proclamation, the substance of which teas, that every rebel was a Ku-klux, and that all Ku kluxes should be shot down like mad dogs. Know ing that tho base object of the movement was to embroil our citizens in, war and bloodshed, I, with others, with uplifted hands, implored the Legislature which he had convened not. to pass the Militia bill; that it was unnecessary, and calculated to nrodneo »'’<’*■«. >■'* That my course, end, and object may not be misrepresented, I refer to wlwit I and others said on that occasion. With these facts before tho public, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than that I have been grossly maligned, and my mo tives misrepresented. In spite of these remonstrances, the Legislature has passed the Militia bill, and our doughty Governor is out with a proclamation calling out the militia. If it is possible to prevent a con flict, knotting the object of it, I shall use my best efforts to do to. With this dis claimer and vindication I might properly close these remarks but for the oft repeat ed charge of being a traitor. As this false charge is becoming historical, I l eg a patient hearing in my defence', and in de" fence of those with whom I have acted. [General Forrest here recites the acts and doings of the abolition party—the war on the South and against the Consti - tution before the war of the rebellion—and proceeds:] At this point arises tlw gravest question that wag ever prenentcd'to the considera tion of mortal man. It is not who struck the first blow, or fired on Fort Sumter— that’s a school boy’s argument, beneath contempt. It is this; Who, or what party, tons it that arrayed themselves, and with them a majority of all the. people in the Northern States , against the people of the South, against a plain letter of the Consti tut ion, in violation of their oaths? I have | placed before you their speeches, their legislation, their acts, running through forty years, the decisions of the Courts, that there might be no door of escape. Can those be disputed ? If they cannot, vis, the Constitution in my hands, backed by truth, I again approach you, and ask how dare any living man call me “traitor,” when the men who plotted the destruction of the Union, now occupying high places, ! have from their own months furnished the proof so plainly, that every man In every land, “though he be a fool,” can under stand. Look back, consider over fhese speeches, read them, reflect on them. Can imy honest man be at a loss to conclude that these abolition leaders have educated themselves to the point of taking an oath to preserve the Constitution, and then like Sumner, after calling upon God to witness the truth of what they say, “not dog:; enough to obey the Constitution in all its j parts?” Having brought themselves to this point, were they not false to their oaths, their God, their Constitution, and with it tbeir country? Again, being ready - to set aside their oaths, were not the bar riers of the Constitution, the only protec- I tion to the weak, broken down ; and can any man, if he has any discrimination,iook over what these leaders said and did, run- : | ning through a period of twenty-five years i —in Congress and out of Congress—doubt i that they, being in power, were ready to i execute the declaration made by John Quincy Adams in 1843; “Abolish slavery* I even though it should bring with it dis union, civil war, destruction and ruin to ; five millions of men, women and children |in the South.” You call mo “traitor;” I turn to the mirror which your own history furnishes.' * * * In defending our selves in our country, in our Southern States, we levied no war on you; mark that. You oall us traitors, whilst traitors are in power. The passions of the people, excited to turn off public attention from | themselves, and prevent -scrutiny into their I manifold derelictions, this party, rais | ed the mad-dog cry of “rebels, rebels,” I - “traitors, traitors.” But when the histo- - i rian in other days, lifted high above the | passions of the hour, with no motive but to subserve truth—weighing all things, turning to the Constitution in all its parts and history, then turning to your leagues, y -nr newspaper editors, your legislative j tots, your qggiecsioas—the disunion, dis loyal, and Constitution condemning speech es of your leaders —will say, these are the ; Benedict Arnolds and the Catalines who ( banded together to destroy the Union. ! These are the traitors. Turning another’ paga—looking : nto the events of the war! and ail that has been done anee—the j Rec-ooitruetion measure?, the impeachment of the President, the acts of persecution ; against the Southern people, he will say, i notwithstanding tho Crittenden resolu- ! : dors, which were passed when they werc | shaking with fear, after the {jattig of Ma ' nassas, those leaders are cowards, for none j but cowards oppress a fallen people, who ! htiye surrendered and given up their arms. Jri'that same page he will also write that this plea of upholding the Union, coming from such mm, was not the real cause of the war, hut to free the negroes, put thepo i littcal power %ri \keir hands and disfran chm tike whites, in this war, with the , whole power of the Government at you baek, with five to one in men, means, and j measures, with importations from abroad, i you have succeeded in doing that for which j thp war was waged—freed the negroes, ' ; which has created a vast debt that i ua- I demining the prosperity of the country. | I wish to be understood. I, with my j ' brothers in arms, have surrendered, wc ; have given our paroles. That l mean to keep in spirit and in Idler, and so docs i every honorable soldier who did likewise. 1 W hi'e I say* tins, I must say [ have dene nothing but what I believe light, and under ! similar circumstances would do . again. 1 ; wish also, to say to the soldiers ir. blue, be j they whom they may,' to every man of them, while you and I may differ as to the causes and justice of the war, that I have no cause of quarrel with you; bo*ween us the tomahawk is buried, and here is my hand in friendship to each and every one of you, who did not forget you were gett ’tlemen as well as sdidiers. As efforts are made in the Northern States to misrepre- ; sent the conduct of the Southern people, ; wim regard to their former slaves, with regard to peace, and with regard to the Northern people, I beg leave to make the following statements : fit have no feeling of unkindness to freedmen. In seeking their freedom they have only done what every human being similarlgsituated would do. Being free, there is not a man, woman or child in all the land who loould rein slave than, or one of them, if they could, We now see that our system of culture with large plantations was wearing out the country about as fast as we could open it— ruinous to every interest, and that slavery, in that respect, was an evil. In having been dispossessed of slaves, we are relieved of a heavy responsibility. Our newspapers are now teeming with appeals—--in which I concur—urging every owner of large plantations to cut them up into small farms, and invite citizens from other States and from other countries to,come among us and live- So far from opposing 1 the settlements of people from the North ern and Western States, we desire them to come among us, above all others, with out regard to their abilities. Aud wc now say to them, if they will dome, wc will wel come them, aid and protect them, and, if necessary, defend them to the death. There will he no necessity for that, how ever ; they will be as secure as they were in Ohio and elsewhere. If any of them will come to me, I will take them by the hand, show them farms that they can pur chase at one-fifth the prices asked for open plantations in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania or the New Euglaud States—quite as productive as the lands they leave, in a better climate, on or near railroads, and convenient to market. If they do not credit these state ments, try u=. There is one eias3 of popu lation wo do not want —the low, base, vul gar, lying, thieving men, who come among us to get office that they may plunder. Having no merits, no qualifications, they seek to get office at the hands of the ignor ant freedmen, and as tho best way of do ing that, they try to array the freedmen against the whites. To . ueU men we aay keep off; wc don’t wart you. There is another class we do noi -• ; f the abolition party, see : her.; to live j upon us and ntisreprcM . s ns The , ffort. miking to cause the for them y ■.• pie to Mice: that we are still rebels, f aneuiing discord and another war, is wrong. If the people wit! only think, th y will th mselvcs sec that it rfdse and without foundation. Impoverish; and by the war, by the failure of three crops, there is nothing we so much need as peace, well kuowing, if there is war, or even strife, that wc shall be' plunged deeper and deeper in ruin and distress, When they tell you otherwise, don’t credit their statements, they are untrue. All we want is peace, equal laws, our rights in the States and in the Union. While the Radicals are in power we see no hope for that ; therefore we desire their overthrow, believing, if that is not done, that civil liberty and free government will be lost to u-: forever. Proclamation by the President. NOVEMBER TWENTY SIXTH TO BE A DAY OF THANKSGIVING. Washington, October 13.—.% the President of the United States of America a Proclamation. —ln the year which is now drawing to it;, end the art. the skill an„d the labor of the- people of the United Slates have been employed with greater diligence and vigor and on broader fields than ever before, and the fruits of the earth have been gathered into the grana ry aud the store house iu marvellous abun dance, our highways have been lengthened and new and prolific regions have been occupied, iye are permitted to iiopo tho long protracted ’poiiiical and sectional dissen sions are at no distant day to give place to returning harmony and fraternal affection throughout tho republic. Many foreign States have entered into legal agreements with us, while nations which arc fax off, and which heretofore have been unsocial and exclusive, have become our friends. The annual period of rest which we have reached in health and tranquility, aud which is downed with so many blessings, is by universal consent a convenient and suitable one for cultivating' personal piety and practicing public devotion, I, there fore, recommend Thursday, the 26th day of November next, be set apart and observed by ali the people of the United States as a day of public praise, thanksgiving and prayer to the Almighty Creator and Divine ltuler of the universe, by whose ever watchful, .merciful and gracious providence clone, States no less than families and lncllvKluai men do Use and move and have | their being. In witness 1 have hereunto set my hand aud caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the ciiy of Washington this twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independence of the United States the ninety-third. By the Presi lent, Andrew Johnson. Wm. H. Seward, See’y of State. FROM WASHINGTON. The Arms for Arkansas—Telegram from the Governor of the State —A Private Speculation Spoiled—Arrest of Ohn stead, the Defaulting Disbursing Clerk of the Postotficc Department—Contract for Stationery—Chief Justice Chase — Admiral Dahlgrcn and the Ordinance I Bureau. Special Correspondence of’ the Battinwrc Gaxtle. Washington, October 19. -The follow ing telegram was received by the Secretary of War to day, and immediately transmit ted to President Johnson: Little Rock, A:k., Oct. 17, 1808. J. M. Schofield, Secretary of War: The arms purchased for the State were destroyed by an armed band df men in the Mississippi river. Tho boat, v-:,- captured and the arms thrown c'.vr’ioard. Much .excitement exists here. From " in ... possession lam sati. ' shJatice to the laws : f - ,i . . u*d, in which event the United {states fV-.r- * s here would be entirely inadequate order. [Signed] Powell Clayton. Governor of Arkansas. It had no doubt been antieipared that ! this dirt- -h would bs sufficient t an immediate order from tho President t'.>r troops to bo sent into Arkansas “to pre serve order. The dispatch was aim well calculated to make political capital for the Radical party, and altogether was “a good - hit. ’ ’ The President, however, aft or read, ing the telegram carefully the second time quietly remarked, “J am unable to under stand wny parties who contemplate armed lesistapee to thciav.u should throw arms into the river.”. It is understood at the War Department that the arms did not belong to the State of Arkansas, as stated, - but had been purchased bv Governor C!av-J ton and Senator MacDonald, of that State, ; -on private speculation, their expectation ! being to induce tbe State authorities to j purchase the arms from them at a hand- j some advance. The facta are to be fully ! j investigated by the military authorities, j The arrest of E. B. Olmstend, late Dig | bursing Clerk of thePostoffice Depart merit,, !is announced in r telegram to day from ! Richmond, Va., addressed to the Beerr tary of the Treasury. It is understood the Postoffice Department has had no herd in i securing the mr-rst of Ohnsioad, as that I office was amply secured against any no-- ! sibie loss. It was believed the Depart ment thatOlmstead would return and settle his accounts with the Government and pay up any balance which might be found due The contract for supplying stationery to Congress heretofore been given to Id established firms, who “understood the - ropes, as the saying is, and who court ■ command political influence, In award* j ing this contract today Mr. Mcl’hc, on, i Glerx of the House, divided it among ; severe! business hou.-es, tLu> netting a t 3-joq. example to all GoveruiEjr.t officials' having control of public contracts. Chief Justice Chase will return from the South m time to be present at the opening of the Supreme Court on the first Monday in December. Thia would seem to indicate that Mr. Tbv.v- is to have no trial in November. Such Las been the inti mation before given out in high official quarters, and published in thro correspond ence. There Gone remarkable feature abont the return of Admiral Dahlgrcn to the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy Depart ment worthy of note, at, a matter of pre cedent. lie waa sent temporarily to Charleston at the beginning of the rebel lion, but was not detached from the Bureau of Ordnanpt ; nor has lie ever been formally do:ached —although subse quently in command of the South Pacific squadron. He is again in charge of the Bureau- Fooled Buxeqca. —We learn that his Honor Judge Clark, of the Southwestern Circuit, on’Thursday last, a: Americas court, after two day:-,’ argument, decided the Relief Law. recently passed by the Lev I.;;.’;,: > unconstitutional and voi-L — Columbus. Sun. Gmiora! Frank Blair, in response to many invitation-, has made a list of ap pointment-, to speak at various places m Missouri up to the day of election. W rniHRAWN. — The telegraph advises , u that the Oregon Legislature withdrew it? ra.dicatiou of the Fourteenth Consti tutional Amendment. IllE OCTOBER AMS KOVJffIBER ya TIO.VB. Democratic Addresses. ADDRESS OP THE PENNSYLVANIA DEM OCRATIO STATE COMMITTEE. Democratic State Com. Rooms i 901 and 903 Arch Street ’ 1 , Philadelphia. *’ [ 1 o Vie Democracy of Pennsylvania • You have fought a good fight. , You have polled a larger you than ever S ’ t SVe re ? UCCd ! h ?r Kad if 1 majority of Phoo by nearly oue-lialf, and have nroverf the immortality of your principles and the vitality of your organization. Radicalism has carried the State bv means of the grossest outrages ; by open ly and corruptly buying thousands of voters ; by driving from the polls foreign born citizens regularly naturalized many Fears since; by rejecting tie votes of thousands who were legally made citizens in toe Lourt of Nisi Prius ; by violating and trampling upon the seal of that Court —a recognized symbol of the law ; by de terring legal voters from approaching the polk through threatened penalties for im aginary offences; and by the despotic and unscrupulous use of power by election of ficers in Radical, districts. Under the specious charge of fraud upon your part, Radicalism has perpetrated the vilest frauds. Thousands of voters have been colonized, paupers assessed and voted, repeaters hired and voted five times in Radical precincts, returns of election altered and manipulated to suit their own purposes, and fradulent naturalization pa pers issued by the ream. In the contest just closed you have learn ed their capacity for violence and wrong, you lave tested the strength of their or ganization, and discovered the weak points ia your own. With the experience thus gained ia the school of adversity, we will go forward to : victory. The enemy are yet to bo taught that ! outrage and fraud, violence, and wrong | cannot be perpetrated with impunity; they i have yet to learn that you are neither dis- I inayed nor demoralized, and that in the pursuit of the right you know no such word as fail. Arouse the people once more for tho conflict. Brinp to the polls every Demo cratic vote. For right and jnstiee, give back light and justice. For outrage and wrong, return the full measure of svrift re tribution. The work to be done is no holiday sport. It is the last battle for the salvation of the Republic, the preservation of the Consfi ; tuti.m, aud the supremacy of your race, i Work and fight as men eu.aged in such ; a eiii.r-o should work and fight. By order oi' tho Democratic State Com ! milice. William A. Wallace, Ch’n. To the Democracy of Ohio: Rooms of the Democratic 1 State Executive Committee, \ Columbus, October 19, 186S. J Without pretending to deny that the results of the recent elections are injurious to the best interests oi' the country in the defeat of local tickets and many patriot! Democrats, a oarelul survey of the field’ shows us that there is uoihiug in those re sults to justify despondency or excuse any relaxation of the efforts of the Democracy in behalf of the cause of justice and con stitutional liberty, for which they so nobly struggled in Ohio. Although beaten by a small majority in a poll of over five hundred thousand votes, the result shows that the Democracy have gamed between ten and fifteen tkoui-aml votes 6n the State ticket, while the enemy have been unable to maintain their strength of four years ago, and have, in addition, lost no less than four Congress rnen, and their successful candidates' have such meagre majorities as to justify the most strenuous efforts to carry their dis tricts at the November election. Iu the Presidential year of ISO 4 the Democracy polled eighteen thousand more votes at the November election than they did at the October election, and were then beaten over fifty thousand. A similar gain this year will give Ohio to Seymour and Blair —those last tribunes of the people and of freedom. The means and energies of the enemy, and their facilities for the perpe tration of fraud, corruption aud coloniza tion were exhausted in their desperate ef forts to carry the October election, and will not confront us in November. These lawless impediments removed, the three great States of Ohio, Indiana and Penn sylvania, which cast more than one million five hundred thousand votes, will be re deemed, and the flag of tho American Democracy still maintain its supremacy as the standard of liberty, honesty and justice throughout the world. No cause is lost that involves such gi gantic interests, and ia sustained by such a myriad of pure, patriotic and indomitable men. The scale of many a battle huabeeu turned at the moment the enemy wa’i most exultant. History is full of examples showing that the liberties of nations, and civilization itself, have boon preserved by a ga! ant and onergetic struggle, made at a darker time than the present is for our country. The cause needs but the un wavering courage, the indomitable will, the tiroicss energy, and the pieeplefts unce such as the Democracy displayed in the recent, and in many a previous con test—to secure its final triumph. These qualities you are now called on to exert by every consideration of patriotism, boner interest and hope—the peace of our country and the liberty of our posterity. We implore the gallant workers and voters of the Democratic party to keep, right on with the work which has gained so 1 much under such adverse circumstances, anudisdaining the counsels of l. aridity or the indifference of despair, comiuue the struggle till the last hoar of ihe 3d of No verifier, in the discharge of asolemu duts, the reward oi which will be the re-lcmp tion of our country from despotism, ami anarchy. Maintain and perfect your organization. (-ountenance no shrinking. Get out every voter, Repel every assault, Expose and defeat every fraud. Rally every man to the polls on election dav. And never despair while a ray of hope remains, to illuminate, or a plank to stand on. bight in this spirit, the two weeks yet remaining will serve cot only to retrieve a ten porary defeat, but to achieve a perma nent and tiiumphuut success. iiriri<'edj E. F. Bingham, • • • W ebb, Secretary. Chairman. The Rice Crop.—A correspondent of the Georgetown Times eays in the issue of that excellent journal of Thursday last, toe rice crop of Georgetown and Santee • has been put down at from 10 to 12,000 ! tierces it will not roach 6,0;-.). Since first October there have been but two clear days, jhe weather has been coi l anti ramy with Fast winds and high ti lm—.. great deal of rice has been wet in the field —over ripe rice is beaten down by tho heavy ram. Rice on the stubble is floating arid cannot fee got in; rice hurriedly stacked to save it, is sprouting—week banks have given way and breaks are causing great de struction. It is believed that the ' last two weeks have already damaged one-fourth of the crop, which, as usual, b tailing thorv Y°‘ ri bad work ami heavy stealing Th- June nee was pushed forward by G )f . bet summer and has been badly d-magi and by the Ards. H nearly fiostw-'mid male the c.opa very short one and lie ;:-r no ci-~ oumeianees can it go beyond Hat of last, year, wmch was 5,000 tierces. ! Gone Into Retirements,— Ben. Wade | announces he ha.-, gone into retirement, i «e made a speech at Cincinnati Saturday - afternoon. ±t wau a long and tedious j speech, showing less brilliancy than any j one would expect from the student of i Mother Goose, and loss adherence to fact i than the admirer of Caesar’s Comments I t 0 possess. The speech was a jimi-y fabric of aouso and unsupported a* seruon, witu pot a tissue of argument, and notun honestly taken or directly sustained point. It was oven worse than the speech es ; -'Oid Ben used to make before his re tirement, and we fear be must have taken to eating grease. He fumed about rebels and VS'ado Hampton, abused Seymour, Went out of his way to say mean things aoont McClellan, and said a few huif xiear ted words in favor of Coifax, the man w ho had beaten him. The pleasantest part of bis speech waa where he announced his withdrawal “forever from politics and position.” Peace go with him! —Albany Argus. Disgraceful--,u the y.thorL,,- Chnsht Church, Battaday,rome gvntleiucu who were straggling through the woods, at a little distance from the speaker’s stand, discovered in a clump of bushes, a large number of muskets stacked and apparent ly guarded by some negro "women. We learn that there were sufficient arms for 150 men. The negroes had evidently come to the hustings armed, for what purpose is net known. It- v. >oid room that these poof, ic have been led on to this by some fird-brands among them, and even at this late day they fear to attend a political meeting of their own instigation unarmed, though what they fear i dificult to see. • Such lawlessness is greatly to he depreca ted, and should be discountenanced by the more influential leaders of tho party. It ran result in no good ; it may lead to Woo; (.-Red. Charleston Courier. Information Wanted.—Any informa tion m regard to Francis M. Hood, u Cm.- federate soldier who was captured near Atlanta, Georgia, and carried to Camp Chase, will be thankfully received by his father at Lafayette, Alabama, postofSee. The missing man is about five feet nine inch-..- high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and about twenty-five years of age. Exchanges wili confer a favor upon an olii man by copying the above notice.
