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THE PERFECT MOTHER.
To th sons of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. ElisaB .
BT WILLIAM BOSS WALLACE.
Well may you your mother cherish,
For within her is enshrined,
As if by the hands of angols,
Generous heart and noble mind.
Heart that keeps her friendship precious,
Mind that sees things as they are ;
Both, fur family and acquaintance,
Making her a guiding star.
S", we wonder not that, also,
Iter's is lovely taste and graoe ;
That a dignity is ever
Royal-liko within her face ;
And that you, her sons, adore her,
For you feel, in home or mart.
That you are the hope and glory
Of the mother's yearning heart.
Nor, with such a perfect mother.
Wonder we that always you
Follow in the path of honor,
. And are manly, brave nd true.
Garlands, then, fur such a parent,
By your father's sacred tomb I
Yet, you all, with your gone brothers,
Will unite in Hravcn's bloom!
PAYING OF THE GREEN.
Am" Wtnrin' of tkt Creem."
0, Raddis, dear, did you bear
The tale that's going 'round.
That they'll pay the debt in greenbacks,
And keep the country sound?
That the moner that the lender gave us
When the bond wcri sold.
He shall take in payment back again,
And not the people' gold.
And not the people's gold.
And not the people gold,
He shall take in payment back again.
And not the people's gold?
Old Benny Wade, though he enveighed.
And stamped, and roared, and raved,
Cannot mislead the people more
The country must be aved
The Baddies on the public purte
Will uorUy lose their hold,
For its getting rather dangerous
To trut them with the gold.
. To trust them with the gold, Ac.
We'll restore again the Union,
For which the foJJiers died
The Raddics all will swiftly fall
Before the rUing tide.
We'll have a country once again.
And, before we all get old.
May hear again the jingle
Of the silver and the gold t
Of the i!ver and the gold.
Of the silver and the gold,
May hear again the jingle
Of the ilver aud the gold !
ciurs.
A question of time What o'clock ?
Signal fur a Lark pulling a Uog'a tail;
A name for a female bail club Fcrni-uinc.
Tailor'a revenge giving a customer fits.
A new way to i ay old debts Settle theut.
The voices of the nijrbt Those blesaeJ ba
bies. The lap of luxury A cat enjoying her
milt;.
A shocking thing to think of A galvanic
buittery.
The only safety matches are said to be rich
marriages.
The oldest business ia the world The
nursery buiues.
If a man's wife is well bred, he never
wants any but-her.
What herbs are the most desirable in hot
weather? Sub-urlis.
The real champions of the ring Mothers
with daughters to marry.
Why is a kiss like a rumor? Because it
goe irura mouth to mouth.
Why is Delmonico'H like home? Kecauso
it is the dearest spot on earth.
When a sportsman fires into a covey of
partridges he makes iheui all quail.
When is the best time to read the book of
nature? When autumn turns the leaves,
"Crank" says if Mrs. Lincoln sells all her
clothes, he'll call her a shiftless woman.
Why is kissing a girl like eating soup with
a fork ? Jiecruse you can't get euougti.
A young man who is desperately in love
says that be has been electrined with a yal
vanic battery.
A wit once asked a peasant what part lie
performed in the great drama of lile? 'J
mind my own business," was the reply.
An exchange wants to know if, when wo
men blush aud weep, they can be said to
raise a hue aud cry.
It is a good thing to have utility and beau
ty combiued, as the washer-woman said when
sne used her thirteen children for clothes
pins.
Two young ladies in Florida have been
court-martialed for planting flowers on Con
federate graves. Treason must be made odi
ous. 'JuIious, did you attend de last meeting
ob de debatin' s'ciety?" "Yes, sah."
"Well, what was de fus ting dat come afoa
de house?" "It was acha'coal cart,"
"Ihopethis hand is not counterfeit," said
a lover, as he was toying with his sweet
heart's fingers. "The best way to find out
is to ring it," was the neat reply.
A religion that never suffices to govern a
man will never suffice to save him; that
which does not sufficiently distinguish him
from a wicked world will never distinguish
him from a perishing world.
"I'll teach you to play pitch and toss 1 I'll
flog you for an hour, I will." "Father, in
stantly replied the incorrigible,, as he bal
anced a penny on his thumb and finger, "I
will toss with 'you to make it two hours or
nothing."
Some years ago a clergyman was preach
ing to a large audience iu a wild part of Ill
inois, and announced for his text : "In my
father's house are many mansions." He
had scarcely read the words when an old coon
stood up and said : "I tell you, folks, that's
a lie I I know his father well. He lives fif
teen miles from Old Kentuck, in an old log
cabin, and there, ain't but one room in the
house."
EIGHTH OF JANUARY BANQUET AT WASHINGTON.
Speech of lion. XXcnry StanberryXIU
First Appearance at a Democtatic
XtleatlnjT.
We givo below the speech delivered at
the 8th of January Banquet in Washing
ton by Hon. IIknry Stanhkry, Attor
ney General of the United States :
The next regular tnt wtu "The Constitution
a compact of perpetual Union. Wb-n disturb
ed it need no reconstruution, but only the remov
al of nn olidtructif n."
Attorney General Staobcry said: Mr.
Chairman and Gentlemen 1 feel to night
something of the novelty and excitement
of a new situation. For the first time in
my life I find myself at a Democratic cel
ebration. I find myself here not merely
as one of the convives, but selected by
the- committco to respond to one of the
regular toasts. I ntii reminded of an old
adage that politic?, like poverty, some
times brines us acquainted with strange
bedfellows. I trust, Mr. Chairman, I
may escape the charge of egotism if I
take a few minutes to explain how it hap
pened that I have never been at a Demo
cratic meeting in times pat, and how it
hippens that I am hera to night. I feel
that I do not speak fr tny.-elf but fur
thousands of others whose pat and pres
ent political associations have been and
are the same uh mine. For inoro than
thirty years I belonged to the Whig par
ty, and fought iu its ranks ho long that I
was clawed as one of the "Old Guard."
I was with it in its iiuccc.ses which were
few, and was constant to it in its revers
es, which were many. I never deserted
it while its organization existed, and only
ceased to Iks a Whig when the party it
self ceased to exist. My last vote was
given to that parly in the Presidential
contest of ISGll. Then came the rebell
ion, and with it a new issue which over
shadowed all former party issue. I lust
sight at once of all former political asso
ciations and joined that great Union par
ty which saved the Republic. When
this great fact was aecmiplihed, when
the work of the soldier was done and the
work of the statesman was to be resumed,
a new question arose only less in magni
tude to that of the preservation of the
nation, and that was. in what spirit and
according to what policy the victorious
North should deal with these Southern
States and that Southern people who
have been engaged iu inurrrcctiou,
They gave up the contest and all the is
sues of the contest ; they repealed their
ordinances of secession ; they abolished
the institution of tdavery ; they repudia
ted the debt which they incurred in wag
iug war, and again asked to come under
the protection of the old flag; to be re
ftored once more to the rights and privil
eges of American citizens. It did wrem
at first that the policy of forgiveness and
restoration would prevail. It was inaug
eratcd under the leadership of Mr. Lin
co'n, and he proposed in good faith to
carry out the pledge and hopes held out
to the South during the struggle, that
the object of the war w.n not to destroy
but to preserve ; that the Southern State
had never lest their place" iu the Union,
but were only temporarily out of their
proper relations, aud that as foon as the
war was over these constitutional relations
should be resumed. IJut even before the
death of Mr. Lincoln there was develop
ed in the Republican party a formidable
opposition to that policy, and a new party
was soon formed, which held that we wag
ed a war for conquest and not for rcsfora
tion ; that we had not merely put down
an insurrection, but that we had conquer
cd provinces, not State, and a foreign
people, not American citizens; that these
States, instead of being restored, were to
be reconstructed; that as a conquered ter
ritory Congress was to legislate-in all their
domestic concerns, and if ever they were
again to become States of the Union
they wero to come in by a new title, pre
cisely as in some future day wc may
choose to make a State of the newly ac
quired territory of Alaska.
Gentlemen, the Constitution i the text
of the sentiment to which I have been
called upoQ to respond. Let us stop one
moment to look into that sacred instru
ment, in order to Folve the question when
it arises here. The case which has oc
curred is not, in the language of a law
yer, a casus omissus ; the constitution is
not nilerit. It has anticipated what has
happened. It provides for insurrection,
whether small or trreat, whether in one
State or many. It provides for insurrec
tion against the laws of a State, and lot
insurrection against the laws of the Uni
ted States. It gi'-'es power in both cases;
the power in one case to put down insur
rection against the State by enforcing
obedience to the laws of the Sjlate, and
the power in the other case to put down
insurrection against the laws of the Uni
ted States by enforced obedience to those
laws. So, too, the Constitution gives the
protection against the foreign enemies
and the power to declare war, and as in
cidental to that, the poffer to make con
quests. Where is this instrument, pro
viding for the very remedy to be applied
where do you find , the power to put
down insurrection in a State and then to
destroy the State and hold it and its peo
ple conquered and subjugated t And yet,
gentlemen, this is precisely what has been
done, not - by a change of our Federal
Constitution, but by Congress, who must
find for every act a warrant and authority
in the provisions of that Constitution.-
The Reconstruction acts passed by Con
gress have converted ten of those States
into a lower condition than; mere terri
tories, have destroyod every vestige of
State government, and have stripped mil
lions of their people of every , character
istic that belongs to an American citizen.
Under this extraordinry legislation the
vast territory covered by these ten States
and the millions o2 unhappy people which
reside there have no more protection un
der our Federal Constitution thau if they
occupied so much territory in the interior
of Africa. ' Their State constitutions, ;
made by Lincoln and President Johnson,
are declared to be illegal, arc in fact abol
ished. And in place of them Conjrrcs
has provided a military despotism. Cer
tainly if no valid State law protected
these jicoplo there was at least a Federal
law which ought to have protected them;
for every foot of that territory and every
individual that iuhabi's it the great fun
damental law of thy Constitution of the
United States prevails in all its vigor, and
gives to every one of them every privi
lege and every immunity which it extends
to tho American citizen anywliero and
every where. With this Constitution, then,
fully in force over all that territory and
all those people, where does Congress find
its warrant for supplanting a legal State
government ? Where does Congress find
its warrant iu timo of peace to suspend
tho hnhctis rorjntf to take nwny tho ines
timable privilege of trial by jury, to re
move the civil officers of the State and
substitute Federal officers in their places;
aud, finally, to try, t condemn, to punish,
to imprison, to hang these people for civ
il offences by tho judgment of a military
court ? Where docs Congress fi?d its
toy
warrant in the Constitution of a Statuby
voters of its own creating to pass a suf
frage law for a State ? Where does it
find authority to hay who ihall voe nod
who ehall not vote in State i h-ctiurn '(
Lusily, where does it find authority to
make a new class of citizens, and to give
to that class of citizens greater right
than were ever conferred before by the
Constitution upon any class, and to t-ike
away from those nrho always enjoyed the
rights of citizenship the tm,st precious of
these rights? Gentlemen, I have been
at tho bar for nearly half a century, and
havo lecn a constant ntudet.t, not only of
the commou law, but of our constitutional
law ; and I do not hesitate to ay that the
whole of the Reconstruction acts of Con
gress, from beginning to end, first, second
and third in the series, are unconstitu
tional and void. Theso are times when
to be silent is to be unfaithful. These
limes when men must upeak out. I will
not attempt to school myself into reti
cence upon these great questions, and I
could not if I would.
And now, my Democratic friends, you
see the reason why I am here, and why
your Committee has confided in me m far
osto ask meto respond toonc of the senti
ments of your programme. It is enough for
me to know that upon the great qucations of
the day and upon the great issues that
are to be fought during this year we have
at last come together. Twenty years ago
if I had been told that the time would
come when I would take an active part in
a Democratic celebration, that the lime
would come when I should rejoice at a
Democratic victory. I could scarcely
have believed it. In those contests I
thought the Democratic party was always
wrong and tho Whig party always right.
Hut, gentlemen, the issues of those days
were not like those that are before us.
Doth parties then fought under the Con
stitution. So with this new and danger
ou party that now confronts us old
Whigs aud old Democrats under the
name of Radical. The time has come
when we must strike hands, and shoulder
to shoulder unite and fall upon the com
mon enemy or the battle will le lost. I
see that a distinguished Senator from
Indiana a few days ago, in an address
delivered in this city, before the Soldiers'
aud Sailors' Union, volunteered to give a
name of those persons who opposed the
Congressional policy, aud to state of what
materials the party was composed, and to
fix up the issues for which they wero to
contend iu the approaching Presidential
contost. As to the name he gives it under
an alias as the Democratic or Conserva
tive party, and he says it is composed of
the Northern Democrats who sympathize
with the secession aud rebellion of the
Southern rebels and a few recruits from
the Republican party. Now, if he means,
as I suppose ho does, that the recruits
from the Republican party aro those who
voted with that party in tho last Presi
dential contest, how will the honorable
gentleman explain the last election wliich
has taken place in Ohio, a State that lies
so close to Indiana that ho cannot fail to
have heard tho result ? There was ninety-five
thousand Republican majority in
that State in the Presidential election of
18G4. There was only thirty thousand
Republican majority given in that State
at the last election for Governor iu lb07:
so that there were fully forty-fivo thou
sand recruits in that State alone.
Rut this is not all. To these forty-five
thousand must be added twenty-six thou
sand more who voted against the Repub
lican party at the same election upon the
vital question of universal suffrage; so
that we havo here somewhere about sev
enty thousand recruits in one single State.
And more than that, the recruiting force
is still in full operation in that State, and
every day is adding to its swelling num
bers. I have not time to enumerate the
well known results in other States which
have recently held elections. We know
that recruiting offices have been opened
in California, in New Jersey, in Pennsyl
vania, in New York, in Connecticut, and
even in Massachusetts; and that, in fact,
the recruiting service is now in full oper
ation all over the United States, and, that
tho people are coming forward with the
same alacrity to vote for the restoration
of tho Union as they did to fight for its
restoration. Now observe, gentleman,
that Senator Morton says this new party
is composed of just three elements tho
Northern Democrats who sympathized
with rebellion, the Southern rebels, and
the recruits from the Republican party.
Of course, we must drop out the South
ern rebel element in considering tho re
sults of the election in the Northern
States, leaving onlyj according to Senator
Morton's classification, tho Northern
Democrats who sympathised with secess
ion and the recruits from the Republican
party. Now, if the Senator is right,, and
only a few; recruits left the party, the fif
ty thousand anti-Republican majority ; in
N vr York must have been almost alto
gether carried by sympathisers with se
cession. Surely the Hon. Senator could
scarcely mean this unless, indeed, he, too,
means that not to vote tho Republican
ticket is to bo a rebel and secessionist.
Tho honorable Senator, however, docs
not stop with giving a name to tho new
party, and with stating its component
parts ; he is kind enough to make up the
issues upon which it is to contend in the
approaching campaign. He says theso
issues will be, First, the payment of the
rebel debt; second, payment for emanci
pated slaves; and third, pensions for the
widows and orphans of rebel soldiers.
I do not know by what authority the hon
orable Senator undertakes to make a platform
for a party to which ho docs not belong. He
is certainly very capablo of making a plat
form for the party to which he belongs, but
fails to tell us what the platform of the party
is to be. The platform which he projects for
our party could not command a corporal's
guard in any one of the Northern States. It
is upon snob issues as these that tho great
popular reactionary movement was begun
last fall. The issues of 1 807 will be the is
Kiies of 18GH the Constitution as it is, the
limitation of federal power within thejufet
and well defined limits of the Constitution ;
civil law instead of military law; free elec
tion and constitution framed by the peorde
of the States and not by tho people of other
States, whether in Congress or out of Con
gress. A Plea for Mean Men.
A sennible correspondent of the St. Louis
Republican makes an able plea for mean
men. Hear him :
The good fellow for a lover, the mean man
for a husband. The latter will rob all crea
tion to supply his household, the former will
rl his famify to accommodate hi friends,
(iood felluw, all love ; man fellow, all busi
ness. One takes his wife to the opera in a
four-horsy carriage, tho other ride triumph
ftntly in a street omnibus. The good fellow
ncvir can b cross to anybody but his wife,
for fear of making himsclt unpopular, the
niMin man is so sour with all the rest of the
world that he has not one particle of ill-tcm-pcr
to spare at homo. Mean man seldom gets
"salubrious ho is too mean. His wife is
never jealous. She knows all other women
hate him, ix-:aue hois mean, aud she rather
likes it. She laughs and grows fat.
(JooJ fellow drinks; too kind-hearted to
refuse, fr he loves every body. Good fellow's
wifo pale and emaciated, decrcpid with care
and full of sorrow ; mean cuss' wife hale
and hearty ; fat, red-faced and weighs a ton.
Mean itifti in office arc tyrants : good fellows
ar tol. Bth are evils which t'ie great
er? I prefer the tyrant; I prefer a firm man,
adhering to one opinion, over a weak man,
struggling to catch the opinions of the mil
lion. One may involve a nation in misery
during his term of office ; the other will sow
the eed of trouble that are interminable.
Mean men for high stations ; for financier
ing ; for building up empires ; for keeping
them up after they are built; for success in
all things. Good tellows for $abbath-cbiol,
for chief engineers of cwing ocicties, for
dancing parties and billiards. Keep them
away from th funds, for, though too honet
to Heal themselves, they will let cverybodf
cle iteal. Keep them out of office, and, if
possible, keep them single. The other will
steal, perhaps, but be is too mean to let any-
bdy tUe have a chance, and it is easier to
endure one than rnanv.
The Currency Queatlon.
Several votes have been taken in tho
Congress of the Northern States, since
that body has been in session, which if
they are indicative of any policy at all,
would show that it is the intention t3 com
pel the national banks to withdraw their
circulation and wind up their concerns.
Having always been of the opinion that
these institutions, if permitted to multi
ply and strengthen themselves, would be
a curse upon the nation, we have been
pleased to see such a demonstration
against them.
It will readily be admitted, however,
that this circulation should not be called
in, without preparation to expand it in
another dircctiou or by other means. A
large quantity of United States bonds will
become due and payable in a short time.
These arc not the bonds about which the
controversy is now going on as to whether
they shall bo paid in coin. On that ques
tion thero is no dispute. They arc paya
b.c ;n the currency of the realm. These
bonds of course now form no part of tho
circulating medium of the country.
Now what wo propose is this: let
greenbacks bo issued in sufficient quanti
ties to redeem this class of bonds as they
becomo payable. This would put in cir
culation, if we remember aright, over
$1,000,000,000 of government currency,
which would fill tho placo now occupied
by tho currency of the national banks,
and prevent tho financial disaster which
must take place, if their notcaare sudden
ly withdrawn, and nothing prepared to
fill tho vacancy. '
This method docs not increase the lia
bilities of government at all. It is only
the issuo of ono form of indebtedness to
supersede another form ; greenbacks in
circulation would then represent what are
now bonds in money vaults. In this way
we should escape a heavy amount of inter
est, which wo are now compelled to pay.
The bonds draw interest the greenbacks
would bo without.
We presume it will not be claimed that
it is any more damaging to the country
to have a currency in the promises of the
Government to pay in circulation, than to
havo similar promises laid away, in - bank
vaults and speculators' strong boxes, while
the holders lurnish the circulating medt
um and make whatever profit they may
be able upon it. Tho Government is the
responsible party in both eases. , .
When this change in the currency has
been made, tho bonds paid, tho green
backs in circulation and tho notes of the
National Banks retired, if thero is not
sufficient currency to transact the bnsi-
ness, ot the cauatry, let the Government,
and not speculators, furnish tho deficiency.
It is useless now to attempt to return sud
denly to a specie payment. Such a
movement would crush out tho business
of the country. ' We are in such a condi
tion that a return at once to the real Na
tional currency, would be fatal. :The next
best thing is to give U3 a currency as far
removed from the influence of specula
tors as possible; Peoria' (11V?) Democrat.
Pendleton for President.
Wo commend the following sound logf-
ic, which wo clip from the Occidental and
Vanguard, to the consideration of those
weak-kneed, timid, cowardly Democrats
who prophesy defeat, unless we select a
military, nait-anU-half, policy, milk-aod
water political nondescrmt for our stand
ard bearer in the approaching Prcsiden-
tial contest. Read, timid admirers of
shoulder-strapped political hybrids :
"By telegraph we learn that Hon.
Geo. II. Pendleton, of Ohio, has received
tho endorsement of the Democracy of
est v irginia, uiiio ana Indiana, through
their State Conventions, as their choice
for Democratic Standard bearer at the
next Presidential election. These are
the only States that have spoken, but
from present indications we think there
is but little doubt that the entire West
" iiiiiu uuuuv maw wju CM lire t e
and Northwest will present an unbrok
front for him at tho National Convei
en
Conven
tion. Supposing this view to be correct
it would appear that his nomination is
almost a foregone conclusion. It is true
that the names of other gentlemen have
been mentioned in connection with
the nomination, but this has been done
by a few warm friends and admirers
while nothing has transpired to show
that they arc the choice of the masses of
tho partv m any State.
Mr. Pendleton is a gentleman of fine
attainments, distinguished ability, and
irreproachable reputation, whilst his
Democracy is unimpeachable. With such
a standard bearer as him the Democratic
masses would proudly and enthusiastic
ally enter upon the campaign with the
certainty of succc&s to stimulate their
exertions. There are other trentlemcn
who would be acceptable to the people,
but, unless we mistake the popular feel
it.g, the nomination of no man will be
satisfactory vcho is not knovm to he
Democrat. Wc want no military leader
whose prioeiples and sympathies are
againt
: . 1 i . i .
us out wuose amtuion to be
President exceeds his honesty of purpose.
In our judgment tho idea which seems to
be entertained by certain politcian, that
success depends upon the nomination of
a military hero, is entirely erroneous.
The people are sick and tired of military
rule. They have had enough of it dur
ing the last six or seven years, Heaven
knows, and they are well aware that the
laurels won by Generals on the field of
battle years ago will not extricate the
country from iis preent deplorable and
alarming condition. The Southern States
must be restored to their proper relations
with the Government, the ruinous taxa
tion that oppresses the country must be
materially reduced, and a hundred other
importaut questions must be settled. To
do this will require eminent statesman
ship. Starred collars and strapped shoul
ders will not do it. With all due defer
ence and respect for honorable officers,
the necessities of the times demand that
a civilian and statesman should guide the
helm of State. It is an error to suppose
that military furor will materially affect
the result of a Presidential election. No
attempt to manufacture uch excitement
will succeed. It is true that Harrison
and Taylor rede into power on such a
tide, but the times have changed. The
country when they were elected, was in a
state of profound peace and unbounded
prosperity, no danger was menacing, no
vital questions divided parties, and con
sequently there was little need for tho ex
ercise of profound statesmanship' to con
duct the government safely and prosper
ously. The people entered into those
campaigns in a frolicsome mood knowing
that the elevation of those military he
rocs would not endanger the country. It
is different now. There is too much
stern reality confronting them, too many
imminent perils surrounding them to ad
mit of dangerous experiments, or clap
trap and tomfoolery. In the approaching
campaign the people will be terribly in
earnest. No log cabin or hard cider songs
will divert them from their fixed purpose
to save tho country from the dangers into
which radicalism has plunged it. To suc
ceed, then, the Democrats have only to
nominato men in whose statesmanship and
honesty the masses have confidence, upon
a good, sound, Constitutional platform.
It they fail to do this and attempt to steal
radical thunder by nominating a lladical
in diguise simply because he is a military
man, and placo him upon a doubtful plat
form, defeat will and ought to overtake
them. The fight, to be successful,, must
be made for principles. No scramble for
spoils will command the support off res
pect of the people.
hie jiONDnoLDEUs. it is some
times said that it would be gross in
gratitude to the men who came for
ward and loaned their money to the
government in its hour of need. They
did not send their sons to the field to
fight ; they did not furnish supplies
for the army ; but they loaned their
money, and for what ? For the fifty
per cent they could thereby make on
their money. Hence no gratitude is
due these men. They came forward
to make money, and finding the Gov
ernment in a tight place, drove an
exceedingly hard bargain with. Uncle
Sam! Finding a customer is, necessi
tious circumstances, they took advan
tage of them just as usurers almost
always does. ' v .... V;'
Transplanting' Trees.- An exchange
furnishes the following advice, which it
recommends to thoser persons who have
occasion to transplant trees-: "In taking
up a tree, it should be so marked , as to
secure its setting out in the same position,
Thus the north side may be marked with
chalk beforie' work is commenced! ,Ii the
side which is exposed to the, north is turn
ed toward the south, the heat of tho sun
is too greatl and it 'dries up and loses its
vitality.
The Important Question Before
the Country and Its ftolntlon.
Shall this great and proud republic be
governed by a negro balance of power ?
That is the important question now be
fore the country, 8hall thirfy.five mil-
lions of the Caucasian race -the highest
tvpc of mankind be ruled by a few mil'
lions of ignorant negroe?, who are the low
est in the order of human beings, and
who are scarcely removed from barbarismf
Such a proposition would seem incredible
were it not supported by facts. Some
may doubt even whether such a mon
strous idea would be seriously entertained
rr anv rrttf i fatinn artrl motr ThinK
that we state the case to broadly. There
is, however, no exaggeration ; it is the "
well known nurnose of the radicals to
perpetuate their power, if possible,
through the votes of the Southern ne
groes. This has been their policy all
along. The reconstruction acts of Con-
gress, uisirancnising a large number ot
whites and enfranchising the blacks ot
the South, were passed for this purpose. .
The bitter feeling to the President, the
the threats of imneachinir bim. the scur
rilous abuse of him, and all the legisla
tion to humilate him and his office and to
take away bis power, grew out of hi
opposition to this atrocious policy of the
radical. The benighted Africans, just
emancipated from slavery, and not know
ing their right hand from their left, not
knowing what a vote meant or what they
vote for, have been given power with a
view to deciding the Presidential election;
and the destiny of the republic. The
intelligent whites of our own blood and
race in the South have been placed un
der these barbarians, and the fairest and
and richest portion of the country is
turned over to desolation, with the pros
pect of frightful starvation, demoraliza
tion and a war of races. And this is alt
done for no other motive or object than
to keep the radical party in control of
the government.
The spouting of radical orators and
emissaries about equality, the rights of
man, the poor negro, and all that, is
sheer hypocrisy and claptrap. These
raaicais nave reiusca 10 give ice
suffrage to the few negroes in those
Northern States where they had the
vote would be of little consequence com
paratively, while they are doing their ut
most to make the ignorant and degraded
blacks of the South a controlling politi
cal element in the republic. Who ever
heard anything more inconsistent or mon
strous ? Such conduct seems like insan
ity, and could hardly be credited were
there not examples in history of a simi
lar character. The Jacobins in France
shed rivers of blood in the name of hu
manity and equality, and the Puritan an
cestors of our Jacobins of the present
time were not less cruel and prescriptive
in the name of religion and truth. The
radical revolutionists of France set up a
strumpet as representing the Goddess of
Reason and committed the foulest deed
under the pretention of progress and a
higher philosophy. It is the same in all
countries and ages under revolutionary
radicalism, whatever form it may take.
It is so now with our nigger worshippers
and radical revolutionists. Passion r fan
aticism and political ambition bav sub
verted reason Everything must give
wnv bpfnrft thir intnlprant inins- ? Ffr.
the glorious institutions handed down to
ns by the ather3r this white man's gov
ernment, so full of glory and happiness
in the past and the future of our grand
republic, perish for the sake of an irra
tional and impracticable theory. That is
the policy of the radical republicans. ;
That is the cause of the trouble between
the President and Congress. That is the
great issue before the country the issue
to be decided in the next Presidential
election. X. Y. Herald. "
The Refinements f Political.
Cruelty. The Richmond Enouirer. is
discussing the barbarities practiced by the
rsorth on the bouth, ra the light oxhisto-
ry it says truly, tna? tae eaueateet ana
refined people ot ten btates, a race or
the highest Caucasian type, are first dis
armed, then tortured by the cruel sus
pense of two years of insult, and then
placed at the mercy of the negro Here
we have deliberate legislation to ssouxgV
and curse ten States, through, the very
means by which insurrection blighted
Hayti. There, the work of exterminating
the whites began with the knife and
torch; here, tho act of Congress- takes,
the place of the brutal passions of an in
ferior race. The crime of the Hayti ne
groes was slight compared to that of the
sanctimonious and Radical Puritan-
There the blacks were in a vast majority,,
and they destroyed the people of another
race. Here, the lladical, as "a matter
of policy" not from an ungovernable'
ebullition of savage ; passiondooms to
degradation and utter ruin, a people of
his own' color, and seeks to place the heels
ot the negro upon the neeks of the de
scendants of those who shared with him
the dangers of the Revolution. He not
only labors to complete the ruia of the
present generation, but he wishes to make
the South, for centuries to come, a vast
negro empire, where the white man must
be the helot of the black. Is it strange
that against a crime, so vile the North
i u : j; i. " j . a j
suouiu nsu iuuijuaui. auu. omragtu, or
that the Southern people should .prefer
death to such a fate 2 . i; -
In Maine the railroad carry clergymem
free of charge,: end Indians at half price
Niggers are carried free,, and ride in the
iitwia ;iu nuu ma auvubus wiu vfcuct iuu
'heads, -
. . ... i :'- v u.:
Bennett, senior, is three-score and elev
en, and is worth three millions. -Bennett,
junior, is one score old, and is worth-less.
. A man was lulled at ivirKenaaii,unio,
while trying to get his dog off the rail
road track. Ti e dog was saved. - The
man leaves a wife and seven children.'
To prevent dogs from going mad ia
Angust cut thnr beads off in July.