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GOVERN-
We talce the foUoinp; extracts from mi
able ppooch dclirered i the U.S. IIoue
of Represoutstivcs onitlia ! 12th of Jan
uary last by lion. Johu W? h:ind!er of
JSew York : ; : - ?
Vet, sir, t niauitain that ibis
is, neTerthelcss, a white- man's govoru
ment; the dominion is his own, in emu
lation of the models reared by our nee.
to mark, their progress and prompt a" noble
imitation, found strewn along tb,e high
way of history, like the monuments of
Roman, heroes leftaloqg th,e Latin way to
rouse their countrymen to upeJs of daring
conquest : models for which we look in
vain in the fetish worship of the African,
or in the bloody rites of . the King of Da
homey and his brutish Arnaxons, or in the
inhuman practices of the Aztec, or in the
merciless aristocracy of the Peruvian, or
in the crude code of the cruel Iroquois
or of th.e wanderinsr Comanche.' Al
though, the enjoyment of. the benefits of
our institutions may be open to all men,
still the dominion belongs to the white
man alone Ills hs government, to be
preserved for his posterity in its purity,
snd administered with toleration and jus
tice to ail races of men who may find a
home among us. There' is po obligation
upon ns to surrender the government into
other hands, nor is there any call upon
us to shaae the honors of government
with any other race whom we may, from
motives of policy, philanthropy, or jus
tice befriend, protect, or release from
slavery. r
The fact that all but the white male
citizens are excluded from voting in the
municipal affairs of this District, the Seat
of Ooyetznaent, is a crowning proof, first,
that this is a white man s government,
and, second, that there is a idling race
recogniied in the practice of that govern
ment. "The "history of the civilization
now established in this country, which
has its centra tere, proclaims the proof.
The language a&d customs ef our people
proclaim it. The laws, written and un
written proclaim it. The organization of
our government proclaims it. - The ad
mission of fof eign immigrants of the same
race to the same rights' as those of the
original settlers in the different sections
of the continent, and excluding the negro
and the Inaian from voting in many of
the States qf the Union, proclaim it.
Our literature, arts and science proclaim
it in the names of the illustrious men who
grace those departments.
This national capitol and. the beautiful
works which adorn it within and without
bear testimony to the identity of Ameri
cas and European art,' to the homogen-
ousheas of the. w.hit&.. race, as well as to
the clase and cubreken eoanecuoa
TUG WHITE MAX'S
MKXT.
iweea i.uroFan ana American nistery j tiie rj0m;ai0n 0f Edie, the hated aristo
thc record of the yrtita race exclusively. trat rani intcriut biifot of their own
w t a w
On the majeatic and graceful colonnade at
the main entrance of this capitol, the
work of the Italian persico stands oppo
site that of Greenough tof Massachusetts.
Over the entraacg' to the Senate, the
great wrkof Crawford, tie ? son of an
Irishman, tells in marble ,llie story ot
American i ciTiuiation bow .American
liberty crowns with laurel the white bous
of her race, while the (i, Ceather-ciaetnred
savage' mourna. Over' Uie . grave" of his
people And the'desblation of his hunting
ground. Ilung- at the very jportals of
this chamber by the genius of Rogers, of
New-York, in everlasting bronse, ia the
tale"N)f suffering and" xlisappoihtment
which Coluinbus endured before his in
spiration found otteraaee in the glad cry
ot " LAua aneaa i - on the coast or fcanJ
Salvador ! Then " westward, ho 1" came
the rush ! of eastern men,t until the poet
wrote out the sublime drama of a disen
thralled race, and foretold oar Union, and
its might, majesty and power: ! ";
"There shall be snng another golden age,
" The rise of einpire and of arte f "
Not eueh as Europe breeds in her dosay
Snch as she bred when fresh and yoang.
Westward Use stiuf of tsnpirfrUteS Its way"
" The drama is not ended. 2' The German
Leutze, by the permission, and at the cost
of the A'merieaa people, haj recorded the
last great scene of this heroic play, and
the rich imnset of the Pacific coast at the
Golden Gate marks on your wal!&the
limit of. the white man's dominions-over
the flag of;; this Union in the West--" No
negro race runs in a parallel line across
thig continent in rivalry for this domin
ion: . Would that it had the spirit.-cour-age
and tenacity of will tor emigrate." I
would not mar its plan nor hinder its hitnt
after fortune. But the artist, with Ihe
ajshetic skill of ibnation,"has introduced
a aegromto this great picture-Mlie happy,
numDie companion ot tne waite mas s
progress, carrying his fiddle to cheer tiiem
on'their way. s '. ' .
The decoratioo of this" chamber,- the
roof emblazoned "with American heraldry,
aad every paneljof the rotunda rici iu
the record of great things -done by white
men sometimes painted iy the hand of
"native artist, sometimeaBculpturecl by
the chiseljbf the European all relate the
same unvarying fact, that this is a white
man's government. The Indian, he
has", often been ottr,e4ual in?-wart some
times shares the glories of out "triumphs,
yrclis to thewisdotn of Penn , or rescues
te"k sturdy seaman' from Heath" to proffer
hinra'bTibe-- the negfo teverr 1 '
The garxie'6tt)ry eyery where reveals the
proud deeds of our common ancestry as a
'white-race upon these wails, from pinna
cle to foundation 'stones proclaiming the
poof of-ie -white man's sola claim to
r&le' and of his will and strength to do
ta. This 'is alT ly taaster-wo'rkmefl who
' builded better than they knew " in estab
lii hing the right pf .every workiog jnan
of their race to have, hold and enjoy ,"ex-cl-oively
for themselvea-aad their heirs
'forevertliirjjitadel ofjodiTidrial liberty,
democratie - representative - government,
and uti versa! uffiaj3. iTte filing on
tbe wU tells this tru'Ji to. this; ffeopld.
s.nit who Bpurns the' lesson it teaches
deserve the vengeance and the brand'. oft
shame truth bestows on fiinaiical inisticc
srid-falsehooJ. - Sir, I deem "the balloi,
the bayonet, tho 6tS2aagij ji5d,''itc
press the powers of the nineteenth cen
tury:' Of these the ballot is the, most typ
ical of democratic liberty "and strength.
I claim it as such for the white race
against all the world; and jealously and
zealously will I contend for its exclusive
ue. r
Mr. Speaker, the statesmen of the rev
olutionary era were not philanthropist,
nbolitionistd nor negro suffrage men.
They were practical representativesof the
white -democracy which fought out the
seven yoara' war by themselves and for
themselves, to establish a white man's
democratic representative) government to
be perpetuated in this Union. . They were
practical politicians, dealing with every
difficulty with, slred pulley and admira
ble tact. They mastered every obstacle
I'tth hard, eoujad common sense. - Thy
were not abstractionists as a b&dy, and
left abstractions to theAfew fine writers
and publicists among them. They knew
what the inalienable rights of men were,
but they never surrendered the material
advantage of slave labor to the inaliena
ble right of the negro. Why? IJecause
they knew by stern experience that the
negro did iiot himself know what his ina
lienable rights were. He had no pqlitioal
knowledge nor spirit of independence as
a race, in thfs view, independence, just
won irotn the throne, of ureat Britain by
hard blows, and in
abre Twu.rajre, and
a French ; al'iandi
.cle
than an abstract idea it was a very ui
terial thing indeed ; something to suffer
long and keenly for, to die for ; pouie
thing to claim for one's self asainst king
ly power with the sword of a hero, and to
maintain when won with the pen of a
genius, the grace of a wit, the skill of a
staVesman, and the profound learning of a
jurist. They knew all this from experi.
ence. All their wit and wisdom and
skill united to devise the laws regulating
suffrage.. Those laws exclude the negro
and recognize him as a slave. Yet the
negro had fought under the eye of Wash
ington, beside the heroes whose blood was
shed for the common weal of white and
black men in the struggle for independ
ence. It (white democracy) is not a thing of j
to-day nor of yesterday, but belongs to
the history of our race, not, only on this
continent, but throughout the world, long
before. Democracy in Europe and de
mocracy in America may not be identical
in practice nor equal in their develop
ments, but their origin is one and the
same, and can be traced by the annals of
our race running through al! the eras of
our civilization, from the Germanic tribes,
from the Gothic hordes, from the J talian
Republics, from the Saxon, the Gaul and
the Celt, down to the period of the hejrira
totof the people to America, in the sixteenth
"lantl vAVAnKt'entlt rnntnriea to escare from
T , . a. . . . f
race and color. Every European tribe,
race and nation mingled here in common
cause lor civ it and roliious liberty.
against the ruling classes of the Old
World. Maryland was a refuge for tlie
English Catholics from the persecutions
cf the Protestants, and they brought tol
eration witk them ; Rhode Island was the
refuge cf the Protestant persecuted by
his fellow PrbUstant and, Puritan brother;
Massachusetts was the refuge of tho Eng
lishman from the tyranny of a political
party in, England ; South Carolina was the
refuge of the Frenchmen from the tyran
ny ot apolitical party in Jr ranee; Dela
ware is the western home of the Swede :
New York wasthe republican outpost of
the Dutch Republic in their fife-lotig
struggle for independence against the
empire of Charles V . and bigotry of Philip
II. republican colony, founded by a
republic in the wilderness of the estern
World,' to carry on the war of popular
rights against kingly power, intolerance
and commercial monopoly. , Iler people
still cling to those great dogmas of our
political faith, and stand true to the prin
ciples Of public and private right estab
lished by that heroic republic of Europe
which has defied for ages alike the raging
of the sea and the vrath of the tyrant
with fearless dignity and untiring indus
try. The history of this country is the
history of our race the white race. The
principles of our government are peculiar
to that race in contradistinction to the
African, the Asiatic and the aboriginal
American. Sir, if you doubt this to be a
white man's government, traverse once
more the prairies and staked plains across
the continent to the Pacific shore, from
Oregon to .Utah, and,- if still in doubt,
travel on to the shore of Australasia, and
ask there if the dominion of sea and land
is pot claimed and held by tho white race
against all the other sons of Adam. ; 51
. If, sir, it should ever be your good for
tune to visit romantic Old Spain, audio
enter the fortress and "palace of A loam
bra.' the fairest monument of Moorish
grandeur and skill, as this capitoI isthe
pride, of American architecture, you may
see cut in sfone "a hand , holding a key,
surmounting tEa horse shoe arch of the
main gateway. They are the three types
of s1ngth, speed and secfecj, the boast
&f ow fallen Saracen race, sons of that
i of sand, the desert, who earned the
PA ry of Islam to farthest Gades. In an
e .1 hour of civil strife and bitter hatred
of faction the Alhambra was betrayed to
Spam, to feed ancient grudge " between
political chiefs. - The stronghold of the
race!, with the palace, the sacred courts of
justice, and all the rare works of art
the gardens of ?unri vailed splendor all
that was their- own of majesty, strength
and beauty, . became , the trophies of.
another. , ,i j
The; legend of the Saracen Vexile iells
the story of penitence and sliame "j. and 16
the last raoment5of tussadjite be sighs in
the sultry desert for. tho fair homepf his
anceaters, the corgeoua Ailiambrav .' e,
too, are descended from a race of conquer
ors.'who crossed the ocean to establish the
glory of civil and teKgidu3 liberty, and to
secure, freedom i,toJtheiEiirve3, and their
posterity," ; To-day we are fsembjei jn
the, "Alhs'mVraipf, America; hereti our
citad4 ; kere our courts of highest resoTt;
cluster flici
rmu ;
asuvuiuits m i uc .American - r.e:e.
They seem - felnio.t' sacred ill" tbir yes.
No lvstile foot of forcijia' fu or dt nieVtic
traitor has tifrddoy, ..then.t, in triumph.
Above it fltxats the flag, the fn:Llem of our
Union. Thai Union "is the emblem of the
triumphs of the white race.; That race
rules by the ballot. &al! we surrender
the ballot, the emblem of our sovereignty;
tho flag, tho emblem of our Union the
Union the emblem, of our national lory,
that they may become the badges of our
weakness
iss and the trophies of another
Never, sir ! neveFTTJtercr 1
race!
SYHXEY S.HITH O.N
TAXES,
AJIEKIfAX
Sydney Smith, in the '. Flinburg Ite
view, January1, 1820,: conUtoiltedT an ar
ticle oh AtncTifea, written an unusual
thing for a Jlntish critic then in thel
kindliest spirit to this country, lie says :
f We can inform Jonathan what are
the inevitable consequences of being too
fund of p'cry : Taxes upon every arti
cle which enters into the mouth, or cov
ers the back, or is placed under the foot
taxes upon everything which it is pleas
ant to see, hear, feel, 6iuell, or taste
taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion
taxes on everything on earth, and the
waters under the earth on everything
that comes from abread, or ii grown at
homerri-taxes ou the raw material taxes
every fresh value that is added to it
uy muusiry ot maij taxes on tne
sauce wBkh peppers taanl appetite, and
the drug woih restores him to health
on the ermine which decorates the judge,
andlhe rope which hangs the criminal
on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's
spice on the brass nails of the cofSn,
and the ribbons cfthe bride at bed or
board, couchant, or Iftyant, we must pay.
Thg scrqoj-ljoy whips taxed top the
beardless youfli tiauagt'S his taxed horse,
with a taxed bridle, ona taxed road ; and
the dying Englishman, pouring hi taxed
medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., in
to a'spoon that has paid 15 per cent.,
flings himself back upon a chintz bed,
which has paid 22 per cent., and expires
in the arms of an apothecary, wcq has
paid a license of a hundred pounds for
the privilege of putting him to death.
His whole property is then immediately
taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Reside the
probate, large fees are demanded for
burying him in the chancel; his virtues
are handed down to posterity on taxed
marble ; and he is then gathered to his
fathers to be taxed no more. In addi
tion to al! this, the habit of dealing with
urge sums will make the Government
avaricious and profuse; and the system
itself will iufaliibly generate the vermine
of spies and itbrtBr- and, still to-we
pestilent race of political tools .nJ retain
ers of the meanest and niostT odious de
scription; while the prodigious patron
age which the collecting of this splendid
revenue win inrow into tne nanos oi gov
ernment, will invest it with so vast an in
flueace. and hold out such means nnd
temptations to corruption, as all the vir
tue and public spirit, eyen of Republicans
Let tiik Pkople Remember. The
New York Times,' a conservati Ilepubli
can orsran of marked ability, very justly
remarks: "The country will not forget
that the critical period through which we
are passing, is the result, not of tho Pres
ident s caprice, obstinacy, or ambition,
but ofthe disposition of Radicals to force
throujrh legislation looking to the estab
lishment of negro supremacy in the South
ern States. The difference that exists
between the President and Congress, have
ineir crigin in ineories at variance wita
the Constitution, and utterly lncoiupati
bla, with the perpetuity of -the Union
lne responsibility, whatever it may
amount to, attaches not to the President
who is willing to concede everything but
hi3 sense of constitutional duty, but to
those who insist upon having their own
way iu Congress, regardless ot the consc
quencc3." Clearly and plainly stated
Let the people reuieinbpr that Republi
can members of Congress, knowing the
designs of the Radicals, boldly declares
that they are legislating tor the"cstab
lishment of negro supremacy in the South
em States." ' -?A.;-
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Expensive Luxcav.-Even. the Radicals
are' coming to the conclusion that the nogro
is an expons'iTe" luxury. The Kew York
Tribune says the taxes in this country are
heavier than are or ever were borne by any
other thirty millions of people. Including
national, fctate and municipal taxes, they
amount to full $20 a year for each man.
woman and eh;ld-nough to bankrupt the
most prosperous, people. Five years ago
they did not amount to one-tenth of that
sum 'And this has all been incurred for the
benefit, ot the negro.' Taking all this into
account,; with:' the cmous' expenditure of
hte and treasure made tor his benchi,-thinking
people must conclude that we have done
and .sanctified quite as much for the negro
as iustice or humanity requires. , It'is time
now to do; something for the white man
He has boon victimized too much for the
benefit pf the negro and Radical Government
swindlers. .
The London Times announces that Mr
Peabody. ;the American banker, baa in
creased his previous munificent donation
for the benefit of the London' poor by
another ' hundred thousand making a
total of a quarter of a million poundB
Sterling. The-times says the amount of
the gift, though not per&aps taa most
. i . . . j , ? i Ji.l 5T
aamirapie cnaract;eristic, is; i iueu sum
cient, to render any expression of grati-
tuae.insignificaht.
f In -his speech 'before' the Democratic
State :Cententioa of Indiana the Hon,. D.
W.. Voorhees remarked, in regard to his
expulsion irom tjongress, xnai is remiuea
him to the society1 oi gentleffienand per?
initted hin' to choose his own eompahy
I , l .It t ii ; i j, ,1U. . . ' -. I '.'.1 f y. ,-:
fl Bdthj ITouses of.;the lowa. Legislatijre
have, passed the resolution demanding the
trial of.Gsu.-Ouster' for Laving two Iowa
bold
licnruogfreu.
around these halls
STATE SOVEttEICSXT Y.
.The Radiealx now prwlaim'tho doctrine of
State SWeutigiity a treasonable here? v.- "TVe
show below what the vorj' men who ara fore
most iu this declaration said on the sul.ject
a few years ago :
Senator Henry Wilson's record ou thi
sul'jeet c;l'ar and em phatie..- lrj. a letter
which he wrote February U, 1855, -to Ves
pasian Kllifi, l:o said : ,
I fully recognizo the dottrine of Stato
Uights in its applicattoa to slavery as well
as to any other matter of public ooncern.
Tjie A'irginia and Kentucky Resolutions of
-703, in the ninin, as I think, correctly set
forth that doctrine. -
In a debate ia tho United States Sonctoon
a bill to protect officers noting under author
ity of the United State, February 23, 1855,
(eoe'app. Globe, vol. 31. 2d sess., 33 Con
gres, pago 2C3.) Mr. .Wilson said :
I recognize tho doertno of State Rights
in its application to slavery as vfvll as to
other inattera of public concern. I -will
stand side by side with my Democratic
friends in vindication of the Virginia and
Kentucky resolutions of 1798-''J'J, vrhich
they have indorsed.
Senator Ben Wade, of Ohio, in th5 same
debate (see same book, page 213 said:
I am one of those who at all times believe
iu the wisdom, the constitutionality, and the
propriety of the Virginia and Kentucky
itesohitions of 179s$-'tt'J. I ground myself
upoathese resolutions, and standing upon
theta5ifenounee this bill as a violation not
only of the spirit of those resolutions, but as
an attempt to trample upon tae rrgnts oi tne
States.
Again, at page 214 he sajs ; ;
Who is to be the Judge of the violations of
the Constitution of the United btates by the
enactment of a law? Who is the final arbi
ter, the General Government or the States in
their sot reignty? ; Why, sirs, to yield that
point is to yield up all the rights of the
States and to consolidate this Government
into a general despotism.
Again, one of these Senators said :
Legislatures everywhere are preparing for
a legal and constitutional resistance. Aye,
sirs, the State of Wisconsin has taught you
a lesson, and it is only an incinient one.
1 tea the Senator that mv State
believed it unconstitutional, and that under
the old ircima and Kentucky resolutions a
state must not on!y he a ludjre ot that, but
of the remedy in such a case.
In the subsequent Congress Senator Ben
Wade made another well-studied and care
fully prepared speech, in the course of which
he said :
Dut Southern gentlemen stand here, and.
in almost all of their speeches, speak of the
dissolution of the Union as an element of
ever v argument, as though it were a peculiar
condescension on their part that they per?
Tll.t t TT i . , . 1, U-.f ,
miueu we u nion to sianu as an. tnev ao
not fl -interested in t.4ieHiH"thi3 Union
If it-really trenches on their rights If it
eiiuangers tiieir institutions to eu-ii an ex
tent that they cannot feel secure under it
if their interests are violently assailed by
means of the Union I ara not one of those
who expect that they will King continue un
der it. I am sot one of those who would
aak them to continue in such a Union. It
would b doing violence to the platform of
ine party q wnicn 4. teiong. tie iiuvt;
adopted tho old DeclaraUon of Independence
as the basis of our political movement,
which declares that any people, when their
uovernment ceases to protect their rights,
when it is so subverted irons the true pur
poses of government as to oppress them,
have the right to recur to fundamental prin
ciples, and, if. need be, to destroy the Gov
ernment under which they live, and to erect
on its ruins nnother more conducive to their
welfare. I hold that they have this rich
I will not blame any people for exercising
1 1 1 1 - it r.. i i 1
it. vmcnever infi imm iiib qoniinency nns
come, i certainly snail be the advocate 01
that same doctrine whenever 1 find that the
principles of this Government have become!
eu nppreseirc tu mo sucuua vj ttuicii i ue-
i , i 11. 1 1 i t n
lang, that a tree people ought not lender to
endure it. You -will not then find me back
ward iu being the advocate of disunion ; but
that contingency never having come, 1 have
never yet opened mv mouth in opposition to
the Union. I never entertained a thought
disloyal to this Union. But I say, 4br
Heaven's sake, act, not talk. I am tired of
this eternal diu of "dissolution of the Union"
which is brought up on all occasions, and
thrust into Our faces, as though we, of the
North, had some peculiar reasons for main
taining the Union that the Southern States
have not. I hope the Union will continue
forever. ; believe it may coutinue forever
I see nothing at nrosent which' I think
should dissolva it ; but if the gentlemen see
it, 1 say again that they have the 6ame in
terest in maintaining this Union, in my
judgment, that we of the North have. " If
they think they haye not, be it so..' You can
not forcibly hold men in this Union ; for the
attempt to do so, it seems to me, would sub
vert the principles of the Government tinder
which we live. . ' .
" An examination" of the Congressional de
bates ; during that period, as well as then
political history of the New England and
and some of .the. North-western States, will
show that not only Mr. Chase, but Sumner,
and other prominent' leaders of the present
Republican party, were advocates of the
right and duty of State resistance, claiming
the right of a State to judge of tho constitu.
tionality of ; Federal laws, and if they be
lieved them to be unconstitutional, the duty
of resisting their execution in whatever mode
the State in its judgment might decide upon.
Mr. Seward was too cunning to put his opin
ions in too plain language, - but the debates
of Congress show that he gave aid and en
couragement to the Stats-resistance senti
ments of Wade, Wilson' and Chase in's the
debates referred to. Wilson and the Massa
chusetts Legislature, and all the Northern
legislatures, then under Abolition influence,
advocated- and accomplished nullification,
while Ben Wade,: by speech and otherwise,
endeavored to organise armed resistance to
r ederal authority m the State 61 Ohio.
; These men now, for , base party, ends,
would, in the language of Ben Wade ''tram
ple upon the rights of the States" , . r
A' Yield up all the rights of the States, and
consolidate this Goverhm,ent into a genets!
despotism. . ;;." ; ; ;'
; ; Sometimes society- gets tired of a man
and lianas him. bomctimes a man gefc
tired of society and hangs himself. 1 Bad
rale that don t work both ways.;- -
S T ! !. V E ?i CKOI-'OHtC V I? ft E?VC-V
I T1E LAI50EtIti 31A.SSES.
On no clans of the r-emmunity clo the
vibrations of trade, prof! jced by a fluctu
ating currency, operate so oppressively as
upon tho laboring masses. Their wages
are the last to rise when trade prospers,
frnd the first to fall when it is depressed.
The real value of the wages tTicy receive
consists not in the nominal price, but in
the value cf the price. They may receive
great nominal wages, and find their Jabor
unprofitable. To illustrate if a marl re
ceives twelve dollars a week under a pa
per currency, as the wages of his labor,
and it costs him twelve dollars a week to
support himself in consequence of en
hanced prices produced by that currency,
it in clear that his industry is not eo well
rewarded !S it would be if he received ten
dollars of a specie currency, and was ob
liged to expend only eight of it to sustain
his existence,
Ail the protection the laboring classes
ask of the Government is to give them a
currency that shall be sound and stable ;
for then they know, that since money is
the measure" of the value of their labor,
they are sure their iqdustry will reeeive
its just compensation. They know that
they shall not be obliged, as they now
are, to pay enhanced prices for the neces
saries of life,, as the currency is progress
ing in a course of inflation, while their
own wages remain stationary, or lag slug
gishly up the ascent; and that they shall
not be pared down by contractions of the
currency1 and be obliged to receive de
scending wages, while they continue the
payment of prices that submit slowly to
the power or depression. The laboring
men of this country have not been unin
terested witnesses of the action of our
system of paper money for the last four
years. They have seen it expanding and
contracting, the currency, raising and
lowering the prices of all vendible com
modities, and elevating or depressing the
wages of labor at its pleasure j overtask
ing industry, with its demands when mon
ey is plenty, and subverting it wh?n it is
scarce ; concentrating in the hands of the
one hundredth and fiftieth part of Ihe
population of the country, and eighth
part cf its whole wealth ; enabling, by th
power pf monopoly, the privileged few,
without labor, to amass fortunes at the
expense of the unprivileged many. These
things the laboring men have seen; and,
more than all, they have felt the mighty
power of the system to draw off, into the
capacious reservoirs of associated wealth,
almost all the profits of their" industry.
They now begin to feel the solemn truth
of the declaration onee made by Mr.
W ebster : " That of all contrivances for
f-Yiea!
aung tne laoormg classes 01 manxina,
none have been more effectual than that
which deludes them with " paper money.
It is the niot -effectual cf inventions to
fertilise the rich man's field by the sweat
of the poor man a brow. fNevr lork
News.
A Modern Destkuctionist
William Biighy,' a member
from tins State, is a model reconstruction-
ist, and out-radicals all tlrfe Radicals of
the land in his views. Me even goe3 so
far as to argue, in effee that he has no
right to a seat in Congress, and that Cali
fornia or any other State has no right to
a representation in Congress. Lest it
shall be thought we misrepresent the hon
orable gentleman, we will particularize
more fully. It is made the duty of Con
gress to sea that each State is protected
in K republican form of government; and
it is generally conceded that a State which
lias not a republican form of government
is not entitled to a representation in Con-
r-n -n . til V II
gross lne Livil liignts bill maKes au
native-born negroes, as well as white,
Chinese, etc., citizens of the United
States. The Hon. Higby declares that
no State u Constitution is Republican in
form which ! excludes any portion cf its
loyal citizens " from the . ballot-box.
Hence, Massachusetts has not a republi
can form of government because she ex
cludes from "the ballot-box ail eitiiefiS who
cannot read and write ; Pennsylvania has
not a republican form of government be
cause she excludes from the ballot-box all
citizens who are black, and all white cit
izens who have not paid a certain tax;
California has- not a republican form tif
government because 6ne excludes irom
the ballot-box all citizens who are black.
In short, hone of the States1 have a repub
lican form of government, for on one pre
text or another all exclude from the ballot
box some portions of the eitizens of the
country, by making other tests that of cit
izenship the test ot Btrftrage : and there
fore none of the States are entitled to a
representation in Congress. To act con
sistently with his own doctrines and pre
cepts, Higby should move for his own ex
pukion from the House, on the ground
that California, ! not haying a republican
form of government,' is not entitled to a
representation there. By the .way, man;
people are so uncharitable as to think that,
whether entitled to representation or not,
this State, with one or two 'exceptions', is
very badly represented in Congress. She
certainly is yery badly represented by
men who, in effect, contends that she is
not entitled w representation.! a. r. Gall
OrJAKRErikG. If anything in the world
will make a man feel badly, except pinch
ing his fingers in the crack of a door, it
is unquestionably a quarrel. No man
eyet fails ..to' think less of himself after it
than before. It degrades Ijim in the eyes
of others,' and,1 what is WoraS, blunts his
sensibilities On the one hand and increases
the power of passionate irritability on the
other. Th& truth 13 the' 'more peaceably
and quietly we get onflie better for our
neighbors. In nine cases out of ten, the
better course is, if a man cheats you, quit
dealing with himj if he ia abusiyg, quit
his company j and if he slanders you, take
care to'iiye so that nobody, will believe
him... Nq. matter wao h,e,is,ror how ne
misuses you, the wisest ' way is to let him
alone j for there 'is nothing better than
this cool, calm and quiet way of dealing
with tho. wrongs we mcet,ith.j- .. .,,
ofxtJongresj
A Kauai's Drxfrfptlon of th
ireiSfcMt.
The Hon. John D. Baldwin, Member,
of Congress from Massachusetts, writes
the description of Andrew Johnson and
his late speech. Baldwin is of the Sum-ner-StevcriH
stripe in politics.
What the President said is
before the country. How he said it, my
poor words may fail to tell. For the first
time I stood near and looked closely on
the man. In the course of an eventful
life I have seen many men of wilful pow
er and force, bat never before ; have. I
looked on one so thoroughly embodying
the evil spirit of revolution. It will not
do to underrate Mr. Johnson. ITe is ter
ribly in earnest and withal most vin
dictively cool. A thoroughly paced dem- ;
agogue, his inconsequential logic, his egor
tism, his repetition?, his thorough belief
in himself, and his popularity, are all el
ements of strength when he faces such
assemblages as w ere arrayed about him
yesterday. Andrew Johnson is an able
man ; how able, I never realized till yes-;
terday. All results are involved in his
policy. Had he a Cabinet as able and as
desperate, the dire results which the near
future would bring could hardly be named
now. We stand on the yerge of firey
strife, to meet which the country should
gather its strength and gird np its loins.
This man is no weak- Buchanan, and he
means to crush Congress or be crushed.
Mr. J ohnson is a man of stalwart mould.
Just above middle stature, he is so broad
shouldered, firm set, and deep chested, as
almost to seem below it. lie has a large
head. It is a compact home for hisjery
will and brain. : 'His face is marked 6tron"g
oval outline, powerful nnderja well de
fined but rather sharp chin; a wkte,
straight mouth, full flexible lips, skin
coarse in texture but firm, complexion .
swarthy, hair coarse black, streaked with
gray, a nose small at- the - root, but full
and large at the nostrils, which expand
and lift as he speaks, broad roomy fore
head, beetling bushy eyebrows, be-.
neath"hich are a pair of the coldest, ha
zel gray eyes I ever saw in a human headj
these are the outlines of Andrew Jonnson.
Ilia voice is clear, harsh, powerful and
penetrating. When he seems speaking
with most excitement, he is evidently the
coolest man in the world. I watched him
with the awakened interest of one who
felt the magnitude of the crisis the speak
ing was ereating, and am convinced that
all he said was weighed and measured,
and meant to bring about c&itaiq results.
When the tumult of applause whichgfeet
ed his strongest denunciation ' and most
violent attack was surging around, those
cold eyes and that crafty ; smile could be
seen calculating the entire scene and its
accessories. '
Tbe President and Eanrna? Sag
gestlve or liia Assassination..
e Chicago republican, (Kad.,) in
lading to that portion of the President's
speech, in which he declares the speeches
of Sumner, Stevens and Phillips are sag--gestive
of assassination, says: " Mr1. John-
son may dismiss his fears; he has passed
the point of danger." . - " The
spirit that moves men to strive for the
protection of the poor, the lowly and the
weak, is not the spirit that incites the
murder." History denies the truth of
the last pargraph quoted It was the class,
who professed to be actuated by that yery
spirit, in the French Revolution, that
committed the atrocious murders of that
memorable period.' They were the fanat
ics and the pretenders who' aimed at
power, united, that did the bloody work
and aU for the protection of the poorr.
the lowly and the weak, as they professed.
With Sumner declaring the President
an obstacle to be removed AThadL
Stovens denouncing him as an " usurper
Wade proclaimed him " a rebel at heart f
I'hilhps associating his name with Uurr
and Arnold," and the New York Tribune
calling him "dictator," what other con
clusion could the President arrive at than
that such suggestions were suggestive, and
intended to be proyocative of . assassina
tion ? Simply because the President pre- '
ferred his way of preserving the Union
and restoring harmony, to that of these
men who denounced him. Al hat was the
whole of it. He was not aiming at power
for himself. "He '-was refusing power
despotic power that Congress was forcing
on him.-;.
Why the Negro was Hung.- The
Knoxville (East Tennessee) Whig, in
speaking of the late lynching of a negro
in that place, who had murdered an old
Union man, Colonel Dyer, says : I
It was not until two hours after the
murder of " Colonel Dyer that there was
any appearance of a mob or purpose to
mob the murderous guard; and not thea
until it was known that he was not under
arrest, and it was currently reported and
believed throughout the city that the
negro would escape. The fact known to
the people that twa or three cjjiBnl had
been murdered, in East Tennessee by
colored soldiers, without provocation, and
that the murderers escaped unpunished J
created the belief thai' such would he the
ease. In fact, when the nob collected
Captain Abdill's office and demanded the
negro, this officer told . them that he had
instructed the negro to get out of the way.
When the mob learned this they menaced
Captain Abdill with threats of hanging",
on the charge that ; he . was accessory t
the escape. . They then demanded that
Captain Abdill should, seek him. , This
he left them to do with persons who went
with him', burreturned with the informa
tion' that his search' was in Vain.. - The
mob then hunted up the negro and, hang
bim. .-'A? ' -V . . ' A:A:-'T-
' Boswell complained 0 Johnson that the
noise of the company the 'day before made
his head ache. " No, sir it was lib the
noise that made your head aehe ; it was
the sense we put in it,? 'wW Johnson.
' Has sense that effect upon the hea4.
inquired; Boswelt A 1 Yes, sirAwis the
reply en heads that are not used to. hj,