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I-RIDAY SEPTEMBER 15.
1876.
WHY H EMOCRACTS ' SHOULD NOT
EE TRUSTEE.
tor the following reasons Democracy
has do claim upon the loyal people ot
the nation for their support or confi
dence r
li It:encouraged the dangerous her
eof States' Rights, and educated the
people of the South to rebel agaiust
the Government;
2j It refused, when in power, to talce
steps against the threatened disruption
ot the Union, and permitted the rebell
ion to assume formidable proportions
w"hea prompt action would - have crush
ed it in its inception.
3. By its oft-expressed sympathies
for the rebel cause during the prosecu
tion ot the war it held out falge hones
to the Confederates, and thereby pro
longed the conflict at the expense ot
hundreds of thousands of lives and
millions of treasare,
4i When victory was about to crown
Our efforts to preserve the" Union it re
solved 'in national convention that the
war was a failure and demanded that
it should cease.
5. Since the close ot the war it has
placed every obstacle in the way of an
Iionorable and peaceful adjustment of
the questions growing out of the abo
lition of slavery and the ehanged cou
dition of affairs incidental to the close
of an exhaustive war.
6. It opposed in Congress, and in the
several State Legislatures, the adoption
of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fiE.
teenth amendments, and failing to de
feat them, has continued its opposition
by teaching its followers in the South
that they are not bound to obey or respect-theni.
7: It has approved, either by silence
or open defense, the outrages committed
by the Democrats -of the South on those
who differed from them in political opin
ion. 8. It repesenU the worst element ot
society, the ignorance aud vice of the
North and the disloyal sentiment' of
the South.
9. Its return to power .would tend to
destroy, our credit by adding to oar al
ready heavy debt c'aiuns of doubtful
character growing -oat of the rebellion,
and pressed for payment by Democratic
influence.
10. It is the same old party that was
driven from power in I860' by an in
dignant people, whom it attempted to
Jjetray.- It is false in everything that
constitutes an honorable organization,
d is uaworty of trust or confidence.
For the reasons given it ought- not to
be trusted by the American people.
REFORM :
The chances of reform coming out of
an old leader ot Tammany- Hall, one
dyed in the wool, are so small that the
finding of a black bean in a barrel ot
white ones by a blindfolded man would
be-certainty in comparison. When
Tweed is chosen rector of Trinity
Church, and John Morrfssey-is found
traveling with Moody and Sankey, we
shall- look for reform from Samuel J.
Tilden. Tammany is rotten, and the
politician who got his diploma in that
school has no business in these times at
the White House.- The people don't
w&ct him. 1
. UNITY OF ACTION.
The one all absorbing question before
the country is, "Shall those who saved
the nation continue to govern it?"
Every other- question is or should be
subordinate to this one; The currency
issue can be settled within the party.
To throw away a loyal vole on a third
party is to spike a gun under fire of the
enemy." We shall- need- every vote,
and we call upon loyal citizens every
where to join hands and work together
until' the Government is safe in the
lisr-Us cf its friends. Then side issues
will be in order. , ' ' -,
e ISochettep Democrat remarks :
VI.?u Thos. A. Ilendricksgivesanote
s. cays he never dates lL He
.j'i Idieve in dates. He thinks it
i r to 'Ide graJually along toward
:-; . -.f j raising no fake hopes in the
I'l"..:-! t f Lis creditor."
"REFORMER" SAMMY.
Slippery Sammy Tilden, in 1862,
made oath ?
I SOLEMN! y svear that my income
from all sources is only $7,118 to a cent.
In T865, three years after, Slippery
Sammy Tilden slightly contradicts his
first "swear," as follows :
I swear that I received $20,000 as
counsel tees from the Alton and Terre
Haute railroad bondholders in the vear
1862.- : 3
Proofs that Sara! Tilden made the
oaths as above quoted are indisputable.
It is plain to even the average intelli
gence that Sammy Tilden is a perjurer,
and entitled to a cell in the penitentiary,
Will bis money save him 't
"I am sorry that I laid down my
arms) in 1865 ; I am in favor of re-enslaving
the negro, and, if that cannot
be done at once, my idea is to adopt a
plan which will bring about such a con
dition of things. . I would deprive the
negro of educational privileges; I would
pay him low wage ; I would prevent
him from acquiring real estate; I would
deprive him of arms, ammunition, stock,
and agricultural implements."
This expression, doubtless uttered in
all sincerity of heart and purpose, is
peculiarly characteristic ot a certain
class of Southern gcatlemen(?) and poli
ticians, and are the words of Hon.(?)
Zebulou D. Vance, Democratic candi
date for Governor of North Carolina.
He is an unwashed, unregenerated Con
federate Democrat, and the sentiments
alluded to having been made in a pub
lic speech to his favorite constituents
were uproarously applauded.
CIRCUMSTANCES ' ALTER CASES.
We notice that" our Democratic ex
change now cannot speak in too extra v
ag3ntpraise of that great warrior, Gen.
eral Sigel. It hasn't been long since
they were calling him "that little
Dutch demagogue," and like expres
sions. But now, since he has announc
ed himself as a Tilden man, they see
him in an entirely different light. As
Sigel holds a $30,000 Democratic office
in New York- he can't, ot course, con
scientiously support the Republican
nominees this clatter ! ! !
During the present session ot Con
gress there were introduced in the
Howe of Representatives 4,105 bills,
and 164 joint resolutions, and in the
Senate 1,045 bills and 25 joint resolu
tions, making a total of 5,150 bills and
189 joint resolutions. Of this number
the following were passed : Public acts,
176 private acts, 151 ; joint resolu
tions, 23 ; whole number, 350.
Says the wise Louisville Courier
Journal: "People who talk much ex
pose their teeth to the air ; evaporation
of the saliva ensues, and tartar collects
on every tooth. In a few years the
teeth of a talker becomes defective, and
he (most frequently she) goes howling
to a dentist. Who says there is not a
punishment for every idle word ?"
Hendricks is in favor of inflation be
cause a return to specie payment would
render the payment of the rebel debt
impossible. The plan of the campaign
is evidently for Tilden to hoodwink the
hard-money Democrats while his Indi
ana friend tickles the" Confederate ear
with a paper straw.
Der DernoJcrat, ot Davenport, Iowa,
the only German daily in that State,
has come out for Hayes and Wheeler.
Der Democrat left the Republican
party four, years ago, and since that
time, until within the past few weeks,
has been looked upon as a staunch De
mociatic sheet.
"Read Tilden's letter and then read
Hayes' and 660 the difference between a
statesman and a thingumbob. Boston
Post. It Tilden is the man we take
him to be, he will send no more money
to the paper that calls him a thingum
bob." When Kilnatrick threw this conun
drum at a Pittsfield audience, "What
was Tilden doing in the dark days when
Hayes was si ton 'der to shoulder with
the army boys?" a boy iu the crowd re
plied promptly, "Wiping off hid chin."
It is said that since the publication of
n;s epistie, jvir. i mien has tfid to
drown his sorrows in an injudicious
manner. He defends himself by quot
ing, "The letter killetb, but the spirit
maketh alive."
Tilden has an important answer to
lay before the public in October, viz: to
the swindled stockholders of the Terre
Haute railroad. .
Nine times out of ten, it you ask a
Democrat what he thinks of Gov. TiF
den'e letter, the answer will be : "Well,
the fact is, I have not had time to read
it carefully yet."!
Judge E. D, Culver, of New York,
who supported Blr. Greeley in 1872
will soon take the stump for Hayes and
Wheeler-in that States
There is anxious inquiry in certain
quarters to know what enthusiastic' De
mocrat mean by crying; "Rah for Til
den and-Ten-drinks."
The orthodox Democratic beverage
has a new name. They call it "usu
fruct", now.
A good guess at a
Mrs So-and-so.-
tailor's name
THE IMOB 131 THE 1IABT.
BT MH3, V. t. TOWKSKND
She was a stern, hard woman 1 But far
away op a great many pairs ot winding
stairs in her heart was a door, easily passed
by. and on that door was written Woman.
Dickens.
And so it is with the drunkard. Far
away up a great many pairs of winding
stab's in his heart is a door, and on that
door Is virltteit man, and we must knock at
that door, once, twice, seven times ; yes,
seven times sevenf that it may open unto us.
John B. Gowjh.
He was an old man. Not so old
either, fur the wrinkles that marred
his cadaverous visage were not the au
tograph that Time's fingers have laid
there, and the hand that placed upon
the low table the well-drained glass
did not tremble so with the weakness
that age v duces ; yet very old and very
wretched looked the sole occupant of
that narrow room, with its red curtains
and its floor stained with tobacco juice,
and an atmosphere abundantly seasoned
by the bar-room into which it opened.
A hat (it must have been intended tor
one) half concealed the owner's un
combed locks, and unmistakable evi
dence of familiar acquaintance with
"brickbats and the gutter" did that
same hat produce. Then there was a
coat, out of whose sleeves peeped a pair
of elbows in rejoicing consciousness that
they "could afford to be out." Add to
these a pair ot faded pants, aud you
have, reader, the tout ensemble of the
wretched being who had just commenc
ed his daily potations in the only grog
shop he was allowed to frequent. , And
yet the wretched, friend less creature that
sat there, half stupefied with the effects
of his uioriiing dram, had a heart, and
far up many pairs of winding stairs in
that heart was a door, easily passed by.
and on that door, covered with cobwebs
and dust of tune and sin, was written
"Man !' But nobody dreamed ot this,
and when the "temperam e men" had
gone to him with the pledgo,and promis
ed him employment and respectability
if he would sign it ; and others ( well
meaning men, too, ) had rated him
sounmv tor ins evil ways, ana ne nad
turned a deat ear to aii these things,
and gone back with blind pertinacity to
his cup again, every body said that Old
Billy Strong's case was a hopeless one.
Ah ! none ot these had patiently
groped their way up the heart's wind
ing stairs and read the inscription on
the hidden door there. But while the
unhappy man sat by the pine table that
morning, the bar-keeper suddenly en
tered, followed by a lady with a pale,
high brow, mild, hazel eyes, and a
strangely winning expression on her pen
sive face. The old man looked up with
a vacant stare of astonishment, as the
bar-keeper offered the lady a chair, and
pointed to the occupant of the other,
saying :
""That's Billy Strong, ma'am," and
with a lingering glance of curioisty, left
that gentle woman alone with ilio as
tonished and now thoroughly sobered
man.
The soft eyes of the lady wandered
with a sad, lingering expression over
old Bill's features, and then iu a low,
sweet voice, she aked :
"Am 1 rightly informed? Do I ad
dress Mr. William Strong?"
Ah ! with the? words the lady had
got further up the winding stairs, nearer
the hidden door, than all who had gone
before her.
ld Bill, as he danced down at his
shabby attire, and actually tried to hide
the e;bow, which was peeping out far
thest, for it was a long time siiice he
had been addressed by that name, and
somehow it sounded very pleasant to
him.
"I am glad to meet j-ou Mr. Strong,"
said the lady. "I have heard my father
speak of you so often, and of the days
when you and he were boys together,
that I almost feel that we were old ac
quaintances. You surely can not have
forgotten Charles Morrison ?"
"No ! no ! Charlie and I used to be
old cronies," said Bill, with a sudden
animation, aud a light in his eye such
as had not been there in many a - day,
except when rum lent it a littul bril
liancy. Ah ! the lady did not know, as per
haps the angels did, that she had
mounted the stairs, and was softly feel
ing tor that ouseen door, so she went on:
"I almost feel as if I could see tiio
old spot upon which your homestead
stood, Mr. Strong, I have heard ray fa
ther describe it so often. The hill with
its crown of old oaks at the back of
your house, and the field of golden
harvest grain that waved in front.
Then there was the green grass plat be
fore the front door, aud the buge old
apple tree that threw its shadows
across it, and the great old-fashioned
portico, and the grapevine that crept
around the pillars, aud the rose-bush
that looked iu at the bed-room window
and the spring that went shining and
singing through the bed of mint at the
side ot the house."
Old Bill moved uneasily in his chair,
and the muscles around his mouth
twitchtd occasionally ; hut unmindful
ct this, in the same low, melting tones,
the lady kept on :
"M any aud many were the hours,"
so father would say, "Willie and I used
to pass, the shadow of that old apple
tree; playing at hide-and-Feek or lolling
en the grass, telhng each other the won
ders we would achieve when we became
meu; and when the sunset laid its
crown of gold on the top of the oaks
on the hill, I can see Willie's mother
standing" jn the front door, with her
white cap, and check apron, aud the
pleasautmile that always lay around
her lips, and hear her cheerful voice
calling, Come boys, come to supper."
One after another the big, warm,
b'essed tears came rolling down old
Bill's cheeks. Ah I the lady had found
the door then.
. "I ws8 always at home at Willie's,"
father would say, "and used to haye my
bowl of tresh milk, and bread, too, and
wheu these disappeared, Willie would
draw his stool to bis mother's feet, lay
hia head on her lap, and she would tell
us some pleasant story ; it might be of
Joseph or David, or of some good child
who afterwards became a great man,
and then she would part Willie's brown
curls from bis forehead, and, in a voice
I can never forget, Bay :
"Promise me, Willie, when you go
out from your home into the world and
its temptations, and your mother has
lain down with her gray hairs to sleep
in the churchyard y onder, promise, my
child, that the memory ot her prayers
and counsels shall keep you from all
evil ways?"
"And Willie would raise his head,
lift his blue eyes to his mother, and an
swer : 'I promise you I will make a filt
rate man,: mother,' and after he had
said his evening prayer, we would go,
happy as birds that nestled iu the
branches of the apple tree, to rest ; and
then just as we were sinking to sleep,
we would hear a well kuuwn foot-tall
on the stairs, and a laving face would
bend over us to see if we were nicely
tucked up. 'It is a long time,' father
! would say, after a pause, 'since I heard
from Willie, but sure 1 am that he has
neve fallen . into any evil ways. The
memory of his mother would keep him
from that.' "
Jtapa rap, rap I went the words ot
that lady at the door of that old man's
heart. Creak, creak, creak! went the
door on its rusty hinges : (angels ot
God, held ye not your breaths to lis
ten ?) The lady could only see the sub
dued man bury, his face in his hands,
and his whole frame shook like an as
pen leaf, as she heard him murmur
amid childlike sobs :
"My mother, O my mother I"
And she knew the tears that were
washing those wrii:kled cheeks were
washing out also many a dark page in
the record of old Bill's past life that
stood against him ; so. with a silent
prayer ot thankfulness she resumed :
"But there was one scene my father
loved to talk about more than al! the
rest. It was of the morning you were
married, Mr. Strong. 'It was enough
to do one's eyes good,' he would say,
'to look at them as they walked up the
old church aisle, he with his proud,
manly tread, and she, a delicate, fragile
treature, fair as the orange blossoms
that trembled iu her hair. I remember
bow clear and firm his voice echoed
through the old church as he promised
to love, protect and to cherish the gen
tle being at his side, aud I knew he
thought, as he looked down tondly up
on her, that the very winds of heaven
should not visit her too roughly.' And
then my father would tell us ot a home
made bright by watchful affection, and
of a dark-eyed boy and fair-haired girl
who came, after a while, to g'adden it ;
and then you know he removed to the
West and lost sight of you, Mr. Strong."
Once again the lady paused, for the
agony of the strong man before her
was tearful to behold, and when she
spoke again, it was iu a lower and more
mournful tone.
"1 promised my father previous to
his death, that it ever I visited his na
tive Slate, I wou'.d seek out his old
friend. But, when i inquired for you,
they unfolded a terrible tale to me, Mr.
Strong. They told nie of a dark-eyed
boy who left his home in disgust amid
despair for one on the homeless seas ;
of the gentle and uncomp aining wife
who went down, with a' prayer on her
lips fbr her erring hn-band, broken
hearted to the grave ; of the fair-haired
girl they .p'aced by her side in a little
while. Oh ! it is a tad, sad story I have
heard of my father's old friend."
"It was I! I killed them !" said old
Bill, in a voice tilled with emotion, as
he lifted up his head bom his clasped
hands and looked' upon the lady, every
feature wearing such a look ot agoniz
ing remorse and helpless despair that
she shuddered to behold it. Wide open
stood the door then, and the lady
hastened to pass in. A small fair hand
was laid gently upon old Bill's arm,
and a sweet voice murmured :
. "Even for all there is redemption,
and you well know in what manner. In
the name of the mother who loved yon,
in the t;ame of your dying wife, and of
the child who sleeps beside her, 1 ask
yon, will you sign the pledge ?"
"I will," said old Bill, and he brought
down his hand with such force on the
pine table that its rheumatic limbs with
difficulty maintained their equilibrium,
and then seized the pen and pledge the
lady had placed before him, and wheu
hi returned thei to her, the name ot
William Strong lay in broad,, legible
characters Upon the paper.
There was an expression, ludicrous
from iW intensity, ot curiosity on the
bar keeper's physiognomy, as the lady
passed quietly through the "shop" af
ter her long interview with old Bill,
and the expression was in no degree les
sened when a tew moments after old
Bill tollowed her without stopping, as
usual to take a "second glass," and tie
never passed dtfer that threshold again.
Reader ot mine, if you are ot those
whose true, earnest souls bear ever
about them one great desire to benefit
their fellow-men ; it your heart is yearn
ing over some erring brother man, whom
yon would gladly raise from the depth,
of degradation aud misery, and point to
the highway of truth aud virtue, re
member that somewhere in hia heart
must be a door,' which, when rightly
applied to, will open unto you. See to
it that ye find it.
Aa Indiana man has just been neatly
scalped by a stroke ot lightning, and he
speaks ot it as a very wigged perform
ance. It is suggested that the display of
coffins at the Centennial must be intend
ed tor the special benefit of deadheads.
They pretend to have a yc ung lady
in St. Louis so kind hearted and lazy
that she will never beat an egg
It is announced as a historical fact
that the only sweet-meats iu Noah's
ark were preserved pairs 1
A difficult lock to pick One from a
b&Id head.
Troubles, iike babies, grow bigger
by rrarsirjg-
: Condensed Lightning.
N. J. Central R. R. stock is increas
ing in value.
The Canadian rifle team arrived at
New York on the 8th.
Weston's foundry burned at Hing
ham, Massachusetts, on the 7tb. Loss,
$25,000.
Four Indians were hanged at Fort
Smith, on the 8th inst., for murders.
Carl Schurz addressed a large crowd
of Hayes and Wheeler Germans at
Milwaukie, Wis., last Friday.
Layou's sash and door factory at Cin
cinnati was destroyed by fire on th 8th.
Loss, $50,000.
A wedding witnessed by 7,000 per
sons took place in the Exposition build
ing at Philadelphia, last Friday.
Francisco Peralta on the 9th inst.
made the attempt to ride, at Cincinnati,
100 miles in five hours on 20 mustangs
Johu Berthmon, a German aged 18
years, was kicked to death by some
companions, in Chicago on the 7th inst.
Crcok is ou Hart river; considerable
sickness exists among his command, and
the troops aro considerably discouraged.
Gen. Thomas II. Rurgar , has taken
command of the Department of the
South, with headquarters at Louisville
Kentucky.
A resolution was offered at the meet'
ing of the railroad ticket agents, at
Atchison, to reduce the faro to Phila
delphia: Tom Allen published a card on the
8lh, stating inasmuch as it was impos
sible f'r him to get fair play iu this
country iu a prize tight, he retires for
ever from the prize ring.
Gen. Ben. Harrison addressed an au
dience of 6,000 near Evansville, Ind.,
on the 8ib, in an able, comprehensive
speech, touching briefly all the questions
at issue between the political parties.
Four iTundred people are giving cha:e
to the Northfield, Minn., bank robbers.
Gov. Himsbury offers a reward of $1,
500 fbr their capture.
The Halifax crew has been author
ized to challenge the London crew, both
now in Philadelphia, to row a three
mile race tor $4,000, or a five mile race
fr g6,0Q0, at St. Johns or Halifax,
Eightem, the Oak's Corners mur
derer, was hanged in Canandagua at
Friday. lie made a speech accusing
Webster and Mrs. Crandall of having
committed the deed for which be su
fered.
The Radical negro rioters in Charles
ton, South Carolina, fired into the arm
ory of the Washington Guards on the
the 8th. The fire was returned, and
no one killed. The rioters threaten to
have a torchlight procession.
The reduction iu naval appropria
tions will cause a deficiency of $1,000,
000 in the pay ot officers and men ac
tually in service.
The Secretary on going West neg
lected to leave authority with any one
to sign requisitions in his absence. It is
probab'e that nearly a thousand tf
these cases will accumu'ate before his
return.
The Hawaiian treaty is likely to give
the United States trouble, because Ger
many, Russia and France will claim,
under the provisions of the treaty of
amity, commerce, and navigation, and
entry free ot duty. -
The Porte will not agree to an arm
istice. Wheal is slightly dearer in the Liv
erpool market.
A dispatch dated the 8th says the
Servians still hold Alexinatz.
The powers are still urging the Porto
to agree to an armistice.
The Turks are accused of tiring on
an ambulance as soon as the red cross
is seen. ' ' '
Hideous stories are told of Turkish
cruelties. Rape and the roastino- of
victims being common.
Austria has decided not to interfere
with the Russians for espousing the
cause of the Servians. "
The ship Arbitrator from New Or
leans to Liverpool, foundered at sea on
the 23d ult. Total loss $350,000.
Orders have been issned that any
Servian who mutilates himself to es
cape military duty shall be punished by
death or imprisonment.
The Spanish Cabinet have decided
that while no manifestations offensive
to the Catholic Church will be allowed,
a proper respect tor Protestant churches
shall be enforced.
. A Madrid, telegram 6ays ; Wm. M.
Tweed and his cousin Wm. Hunt were
arrested in Port Vigoon, on board the
Spanish merchantman Carem. Tweed
was traveling under the name ot Secor.
Both prisoners were lodged in the fort
ress.
It was evening. Three of them were
killng a cat. One of them held a lan
tern, another held the cat, and the third
lammed a pistol into the cat's ear and
fired, shooting the man in the hand
who held the cat, and the one with the
lantern was wounded in the arm. The
cat left when it saw how matters 6tood,
and that , ill-feeling - was being eagen-dered,
Admission Day will be observed
through California as a holiday.
The California Mining Company has
declared a dividend of $2 a share.
J. J. Gardiner, formaly city survey
or, fell dead iu San Francisco on the
8th. ' :
Three new cases of smallpox and
three deaths reported iu San Francisco
on the 8th.
Wm. Jones, post master at Mokelumne
Hill, Cal., has beeu arrested, charged
with forging a postal order for $25.
lie denies the charge
Mrs Lillie Newton, grieved at the
death of her husband by smallpox,
comitted suicide in San Francisco on
the 8th inst., by taking strychnine.
Ira P. Rankin and others brought
suit in the U. S. circuit court against
J. W. Ford, insurance commissioner, to
test the State law prohibiting eastern
and foreign insurance companies from
doing business iu the State except under
certain restrictions.
Birch Bay is Bettled mostly by Ger
mans. . (l '
Sheep raising on Spike Island is the
chief industry.
Indians are the principal oyster trad
era in Olympia.
The crops on Fidalgo Island will be
abundant this year.
The potato blight has affected the
crops on San Juau Island.
The Blakely saw mill has shut down
for a few week's clearing.
Thad. 1 Iantord has bought a half-in
terest in the Seattle Intelligencer.
The corkscrew piece of land on the
Duwamish valley is to be bridged.
The hull of the steamer building at
Tumwater for the P. F. Co. is finished
, Snohomish loggers are getting dis
couraged at the low price given for logs.
II. L. Yesler is being tried at Seattle
for violation of the real estate lottery
law.
Renton town plat has been filed by
Messrs. Smithers, Morris and Shattuck.
There will be 100,000 bushels of
grain shipped from the Snohomish flats
this season.
It is thought that all the snags can
be taken out of the Puyallup river "a
far as ten miles from its mouth for $500.
The Indians on the Lamrai Reserva
tion are busily engaged in catching
dogfish.
The new schooner Premier made the
run to San Francisco from Coos Bay iu
48 hours last week.
The Enterprise says: "The wheat
crop in thU county will not average
over two-thirds of the usual crop
Wheat throughout the county will
average about fifteen bushels to the
acre. Oats and barley about 25 bushels
per acre."
Jay Tuttle h3s gone to San Francis
co from Coos county to try to interest
capitaliot owning property in that part
of Oregon to aid in constructing a te'e
graph line from Empire City to Rose
bur.. The Coos county Record says : Par
ties on Coos Bay, at Gardiner and
Scottsburg, are urging the propriety of
and endeavoring to raise money to con
struct a telegraph lii.e from Drain's
station on the O. & C. R. R.f via.
Scottsburg and Gardiner City to Coos
Bay.
EGGS-ACTLY.
In speaking of the Massachusetts
law, making it necessary that a " dozen
eggs weigh one and one-half pounds,"
Max Adeler says : " We approve of
this. The hens have too long had their
own way in this way of laying eggs,
aud they have constantly defrauded the
public. It is high time this outrage
was crushed, aud : we are glad that -he
Legislature ot Massachusetts is going
to do it. If free American citizens are
to be imposed upon with impunity by
debauched and corrupt chickens, the
government for which William Penn
fought and John Hancock died, is a
disgraceful failure. Hereafter Massa
chusetts hens will either have to lay
two-ounce eggs or emigrate. The peo
ple will submit to their tyranny no
longer. They have borne the yolk un
til it has become unendurable, They
denounce the present prices for present
eggs as eggstortion, aud hens they de
mand a reform, with the determination
to draw up this chicken bill and pullet
through the Legislature.
Lost
paint. -The buttons from a coat of
National Republican Platform.
When, in the econmv of Providence,
this land was to be purged of human slavery
and when the strength of government of
the people by the people and for the people
was to be demonstrated, the Republican
party came into power. Its deeds have
passed into history, and we look back to
them with prlJe. Incited by their memo
ries to high alms for the good of our conn
try and mankind, and looking to the future
with unfaltering courage, hope and purpose,
we, the representatives of the party iu JNa
tionnl Convention assembled, make the fol
lowing declaration ot principles : .
1. The United States of America is a
Nation, not a league by the combined
workings of the National and State govern
ments under their respective institutions.
The rights of every citizen are secured at
home and protected abroad, and common
welfare promoted. .'
3. The Republican party has preserved
these governments to the hundredth anni
versary of the Nation's birth, and thty ,v
nowembodimentsox the great truths sp,i -at
its cradle, "that all men are t'ai ;.
equal ; that they are endowed by t5
Creator with certain unalienable rlghta.
among which are life, liberty and Hkj pur
suit of happiness ; that tor the KlUirmen
of these ends governments have been Insti
tuted among men, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed."
Until these truths are eheerfully obeyed.or,
it need be, vigorously enforced, the woi if
ot the Republican party Is unfinished.
3. The permanent pacification of the
Southern section of the Union, and the free
protection of all its citizens tn the free en
joyment of all their rights and duties, to
which the Republican party stsrnds saeretl.'y
pledged, i The power to provide for the en
forcement of the principles embodied hi
the recent Constitutional amendment in
vested br those amendments in the Congresa
of the United States, and we declare it to
be the solemn obi fgatlon of the legislative
and executive departments of the govern
ment, to put into immediate and vigorous
exercise all their constitutional powers for
removing any just causes for discontent on
the part of any class, and fbr securing to
every American citizen complete liberty
and exact equality fn the exercise ot all
civil, political aud public rights. To this
end we imperatively demand a CongreM
and a Chief Executive, wbose conrage atxi
fidelity to these duties shall not falter until
rheae results are placed beyond dispute or
recall. ,
4. In the first act of Congress signed by
President Grant, the National Government
assumed to remove any doubts of Us pur
pose to discharge all just obligations to the
public creditors, and "solemnly pledged Its
faith to make provisions ut tbe earliest prac
ticable period for the redemption of the
United State notes in coin." ComraertUl
prosperity, public morals and national cred
it demand that the nromtse be fulfilled by
a continuous aud steady progress to sped
payment.
5. Under the Constitution, the President
and heads of departments are to make nom
inations for office, the Senate is to advise
and consent to appohitments.and the IIone
of Representatives is to acense and prose
cute faithless officers. The best interest ot
the public service demands that these dis
tinctions be respected; that Senators and
Representatives who may be judges and ac
cusers, should not dictate appointments to
office. The Invariable rule in appointments
should have reference to the honesty, fideli
ty nnu capacity or rite, appointees, giving
to the party in power those places where
harmony and vigor of administration re- "
quire its policy to be represented, but per
mitting all others to be filled by persona
selected with sole reference to tbe efficiency
to the public service, and the right of ail
citizens to share in the honor of rendering
Eiithfiil service to the country
6. We rejoice in the qnickened conscience
of the people concerning political affair,
and will hold all public officers to a rigid
responslhility, and engagn that the prose
cution and punishment jf all who betray
official trusts shall be swiit, thorough, and
unsparing. .
7. The public school system ofehe several
States is tins bulwark of the American Re
public, and with a view to its security am!
permanence, we recommend an amendment
to tlte Constitution of the Unfted States for
hidding the appropriation of anv pUbiie
ftnuls or property for the benefit of any '
schools e-r institutions under sectarian con
trol. ;
8. The revenue necessary for current ex
penoirures and the obligations of the publio
debt, must be largely derived from duties
npon importations, which, so far as possi
ble, should Be adjusted to promote the in
terests of American labor, and advance the
prosperity of the whole country.
9. We reaffirm our opposition to further
grants of the public lands to corporations
and monopolies, and demand that the na
tional domain be devoted to tbe free uses of
the people. -
10. It is the imperative duty of the gov
ernment so to modify existing treaties wiih
European governments that the same pro
tection shall be a (forded to the ad)pt-I
American citizen that is given to the native
born, and that all necessary laws should bo
passed to proteeS Immigrants, in the ab
sence or power iu the States for that pur
pose, .
11. It Is the Immediate duty of Congress
to fully investigate the effi-ct of the immi
gration and importation of Mongolians up
on the uiomf and material interests of tbw
country.
12. The Republican party recognizes wit ft
approval the substantial advances Tvcentlv
made toward the establishment of equal
rights for woman by the niauv Importune
amendment effected by Republican legis
latures, iu the laws which concern tbe per
sonal and property relations ot wivts,
mothers and widows, and by the appoint
ment and election of women to the superin
tendence of education, ot charities, and
other public truts. The honest demand
ot this class of citizens for additional rights,,
privileges, and immunit ies, should be treat
ed with respectful consideration.
13. The Constitution confers upon Con
gress sovereign power over the Territories
of the United States for their government,
and in the.exercNe of this power it in right
and the duty ol Congress to prohibit an-i
extirpiite in the Territories that relic ot
barbarism, polygamy ; and we demaud
such legislation as shall secure this end and
the supremacy of American institutions iu
all the Territories. .
14. The pledges which the nation has
given to her soldiers and sailors man ho
fulfilled, and a grateful people will always
hold those who Imperiled their lives r
their country's preservation In the khidb. i
remembrance.
15. We sincerely deprecate all sectional
feeliugs and tendencies. We, therefore,
note with deep solicitude, that the Dotwo
cratlc party counts, as its chlel hope cfn.
cess, upon the electoral vote of a' unin-d
South secured through the efforts of tin
who were recently arrayed against the ra
tion, aud w invoke the earnest attention
of the country to the grave truth th a
snccess thus achieved would reopen section
al strife, imperil national honor and human
rights.- '. . - ' :
18. ! We charge the Democratic par v
with being the same 1 n character and spit tt
as when it sympathised with treason; with
making its control of the House of 'Repre
sentatives tlte-triumph and pportui.i:r cf
the nation's recent foes; with readers" -and
applauding in the National Oifiul t t
sentiments of unrepentant rebellion ; w
sending Union soldiers to tbe re:r, .,.
promoting Confederati soldiers to the f, r ;
with deliberately proposing torej rt;.
the plighted faith of the government ; v . j
being false and Imbecile upon the ov( r-' .
owing financial questions ; with time . .
the ends of justice by Its partisan mi . ( 1
sgementawl obstruction of invest': ' !. -with
proving Itself, through the p, s . , .
iu ascendancy in the Lower llon-e .rt.;
gressi. utterly incompetent to tdm;,,;
the government, and we warn the ,-,
against trusting a party thus alike t ; .
thy. recreant and Incapable.
1Z. The National Admlnt.-.tra' lot (.
commendation for its honoratl.i wrr,.
the management of domestic arj t
affairs, aud President Grant de"v
continued hearty gratitude of th A r
people for his patriotism and i,t- t
services In war and in peace.
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