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S Dottas A Y AR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVACE. yv Y WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1868. NO 34. THE HERA LD 1$ rISuND p Y WDNESDAY MORNING, h At Nwkry-C. Y., t ga. g i AN aN.uum cr t oR PRQvIsioNS. a emmnrsiet*iwiavne a Itorioes. Psaesal Iovatatioas, Obit aadCouoanaaIeatos subeerviag private o ' ae advertienaente. - s.Vry Soberness and Truth. f, follow"ing' is an extract h from the very scathing speech of t . . K. Hill, delivered is At- c o.-tbe 23d ult :-f "ew 'bre a ords and I will n lf " as I now hope and be- o ra sal'-again have liberty G .,If er the Conetitution, ' l dal be &e with - those el r'!aA2 Oe taken advantage of e ioerpt times to-in8lt inno- a tanple upop rights, and tl hp4eseness? These criminals will y Iolig us, and most be assign- tl ed appropriate positions. What tl shall we do with them ?. Ye who -h M4 travelled through the blood b loges and 'sorrows of war for o iaking sbothiag but that the f< vsu framere of the- Constitution p btiaS your' right ; ye who a %ga:be'e taunted and reviled as n lisa and traitors ; ye who have ft disfranchised in the land of ti j= fatbers and made exiles in ft hbo e of your birth ; when ci k !'ttory- :hill come and we ai aonee more~-be free men and Y W'''gp+ss'asulted and oppressed tl able-vagabonds and reno- pi et sbiali we do -with the fr erimina s ? I would not .hurt -a p+ kie Aftheir heads, do them no gi 1:maa her -'rdeprive en dl rid t. Give them over-oh, . 0oavr the miscreants to the lA ingjaguishable bell of their own d ieseee s-. of infamy. But p; sine4Mnga you mst do for the al ~~uto~rof your children and of ti ibtiig aid for the vindica- ti fotp- honor. I affirm it ft . kit heard., It is going tl Nbe shaw of this constry and -sl A aem irrepealable than the tl lanif*the Medes anid Persis'ns..f man that dares record ti uo.te for the inequality and ei wasalage of the. Seuthe*'n States. la - and the degredation ef- his own n iep, ought ever to be .received g a&-a wieet family in Geor'gia d< 99 iin4o South.now or hereafter- c< [Saesef"vr.") - d this irule gi Saa mske now. It we have-not t< theb to-belp make the laws 4 inS QGdvenient.or fot sobiety, 1] elwe can at least pa~ss n< asfor our own hoinmes. I oi ~~o1this dya s you honor ty ~ bpuiehold~ anid *oald pre et *. UWgayeUJ good. zime for your1 t4 pity, never suffer a single se )sssgade who votes for the vassa- t< so these States, andete- dis- ti 1M'f your chiiciren and your n ?%tdarken your doore or to re speak to any member of your fain- .a . 0. (Cries of "good," "that's? .i," uhurita'h."3 You eQndemn ti oor victim to the- Penitentia ?ph.steals a horse or a hun: is.Allar, and yet these raiser, ci aMe omatures have sought to p sgimr away everything that r< gm hve or -can value. You is Mre th-e criminal who- b.as viola N the penal laws of your coun- fr "Thee miserable renegades fc ~q~'tJieIsto every law of Heav- lh .$( pf earth, and have used y mrgmeans tosell you to those a who hate you, andio placo your I Essad yar alin the powei of' n Ib.iguorant and debased. An- tl hber thing I insist shall be dont: t. A.people who will not resent al jachi foul innovations of their a: rhtare not worthy of free- oi dom. [A voice . "true.") You q have been helpless-your great ti Men have been silenced ; you sur- n ushdrsd your arms to .what you 11 -moughtwas a gallant foe ; you a - earrendered them under the as- V '*rahdes of protection, anid yet e; %!is men, your own citizens si ian of tem, who hurend vou b o war have taken advantage of -our helplessness, and of the resence of the bayonet ; they ave invaded your households, Ley have stolen your property ; iey have robbed you of your oods ; they have joified the negra nd the stranger to tax, insult nd oppress you ; and they have, ontrary to the laws of the land, )reed into dungeons and before iilitary commissions the proud reemen of- this country. You ave been poweilesa to prevent bese things. But my vow is re orded, and I shall redeem it. I nd the people willing to sustain e. Men who have trampled up n the rights of the citizens of eorgia at a time when the laws ere paralized shall feel the pow r of that restored law when lib rty is reawaked. Ye vile miscre nts of the Convention, who-stole ae money of the State to pay our per diem, I give you notice at you shall pay it back. And here is a good legal principle ere which I want you to remem er, and that is that where anumber f men band themselves together )r the commission of a common urpose, each one is responsible for -hat all the others do or get. [Tre reudous cheering.] And, there )re, every man who took a por on of that stolen money is liable r every cent tht negroes and rpet-baggers received, and we e going to. make them pay it. e constitution makers, ye men iat sprung at one bound from the mitentiaries of the country to ame constitutions for honest wople, ye men who oscillate from rand jury rooms with charges of tjary-rpon you up to legislative ),?ls and other high places in 'the 5d, I serve you with notice to a.y that the money shall be re iidd with interest. And you who re depriving the people of liberty, ireatening and conspiring against eir lives--(hold me responsible >r what I say)-I tell you that )e day is 30ming when the Judges all be in'the-prisoners's box and ie persecntora shall be clamoring r mercy. - "Thou shalt not take~ de life or liberty or property of a tizen except according to the Lws of-the land arid by the judg; ent of his peers," is the first and reatest conmmandmnent in liberty's ecalogue, and upon it all the ott.er >mmandments hang. [t was iven as a eoRcession from power >the people more than six hun red years ago at the political ;oreb of Ang}o-Saxon history, and a man from that day has violated e disregarded .it who was not a rrant or a traitor, or both. [Great iee's.J lNo man in English his iry ever trampled upori tbese scred rights without being -called > ccounltd Wicked men have e power now; they have bayo. eta to protect them, and they el they can insalt and oppres pth inpiinity forever. The Terrible Counter-Reo lution Approaching." - The New York Herald is be )ming alarmed at the drift of the opular current, and is getting sady to abandon Grant. In its sue of Saturday last it says: The figure's as they come in -om Kentucky, are mounting up >r the Democratic majority. The st returns, which we~ published esterday, set down eighty thou mnd majority for Stevenson, the lemocratic candidate for Gover or and these returns represent 2e country districts, from which~ 2y come in slowly, and will prob. bly show larger gains, according a they are received. The result f' the June election in Oregon was uite as rerriarkable an evidence at the people are awake to the iultifarious mischief which the ladical party has wrought int its dmmistration of the govern ment, 70 cannot, therefore, shut our yes to the direetion of these raws which show how the wind lowsm The 'Rennhian majo-it.y F in Oregon in 1866 was 327; the Democratic majority for member c of Coneress (the solitary one who < represents that young State) was, , at the election of the first Monday | in June, 1868, 1209. Here was a i gain of the anti-Radical party of t over fifteen hundred votes in a voting population of about twen- e ty thousand. Taking these two r States as an example, we will find u that the people are not abandon. ing their hostility to the wanton ) and dangerous policy of the ruling e faction, which during three years L of peace has increased the national c debt and kept up war prices and t war taxation. The Kentucky r election has taken place since the I Presidential nominations of both i: parties were made ; and yet so far l; from the nomination of the Radi- v cal convention strengthening the t back-bone of the faction, or the n nomination of Seymour and Blair l3 weakening the spinal column of n the Democracy in that State, they Ii have turned events the other way. e These results are but the early in- l -dications (the skirmish fire as it d were) of the great revolutionary a battle which is about to open. If b the other State elections which t are to come off~ between this and b the Presidential contest in Novem ber should happen to give like in dications of popular hostility to the Radical usurpations and cor ruptions, who can tell but that the nominees of the Chicago Con vention may be overwhelmed by the weight of Radical mal-admin istration since the rebellion was p wound up by General Grant that r they have to carry on their shoul- a ders? If we .look at .the fact~s t which confront the people when - they come to vote, we find that c taxes to the amount of three thou- f sand millions of dollars have been imposed upon us. We find that the national debt .has tirely new d body of people, a majority of whom j are destitute of even the rudiments it of-education, and are less fit for . the exercise of the right of suff rage than any corresponding pop ulation in any country of Christen- , dom ; if, irn4eed, there is any other a population of a distinct race, situ- t ated in the midst of the intellige~ht j and educated Caucasian races, and i with'- which the negroes of our e Southern States can be.compared- t Govcrnments that ai-e thus based upon the most ignorant and de- a graded class, that class being an inferior race and being made by a the disfranchisement of great num be-s of the superior race the actu al holders of the political power, can possibly accomplish nothing but mischief. -The scheme could not have originated in any other ~ motive than a design to obtain the ( politieal eon trol of those States in ~ the elections which relate .1.o the t offices of the Federal Government. t The idea that the blacks needed t protection against the whites has been honestly entertained by the ~ masses of tha people of the North, t whose erroneous convictions have t thus fu.rnished thie politicians with e a pretext; where we should all ~ have seen and admitted that the a best protectors of the blacks in t their new condition of freedom E were those who had always lived C with them, who were born on the a same soil, who best understood ~ them, and whose strongest inter- ~ est it was to raise their condition ~ as fast as it could be raised by ~ prudent and honest legislation. C No good has yet been done in the relations of the two races by the interference of Congress. At the ~ same time the state of things which I has been produced, politically, is ~ deplorable. A race of adventu- ~ rers f.rom the North, of the worst type of' politicians, appropriately t dubbed in the political slang of C the day as "carpet-baggers," are assuming the most important offi- ~ t ces of' those States, and are swarm; ing into Congress as representa tives of the Southezn people ; while the Legislatures of the new negro ~ govenmens ar comosedofa ,he least intelligent, the least apable, and the least honest f the white race, with an inter nixture of blacks, most of whom annot read or write. The new overnments, too, are started with he fundamental condition, im osed by their constitutions and nforced by the terms of their ad aission into the Union, that the niversal -si ffrage shall never be hanged. What a future, then, is efore those States! Bound for ver-if the scheme is capable of asting-to an irreversible and un hangable condition of society, hat condition being that gross ig orance and absolute poverty shall old more political power than ateliigence and property; that %ws shall not be made by those vho are best but shall be.made by hose who are least, qualified to lake them; and that no man shall old office or cast a vote who does ot first take an oath that he be eves in the political and social quality of races on which the and of Heaven has stamped in elible marks of relative inferiority nd superiority which have always een developed and always opera ed whenever they have been rought in contact. The prospect is melancholy nough. One thing, however, ap ears to us clear, whether the 'one arty or the other prevails in the pproaching Presidential election, t is, .that this condition of'things a the South cannot continue. It 3 a kind of legislation that is im rracticable for any but a tempo ary and fictitious purpose. It is scheme which may possibly give he electoral vote f . the recon t~ructed Statest o -tie RepulbTicani andidates; but as the basis of the uture polity and condition of civil ed States, it is too manifestly a -iolation of the ordinances of Provi ence to remain long in operation. )aniel Webster once said-speak 3g of the impossibility of intro ucing African slavery into a re ion where it was excluded by the 'resistable forces of climate and oil-that it was useless to re-en ct the laws of God. it.is worse ban useless to legislate against is laws; and that it is one of His iws that educated intelligence, xperience and virtue shall goverl he affairs of this world is certain. Speople who so shape their laws s to reverse this conmlition of our ature will find that there is a law bove them stronger than they an frame. Montgomery Legislature. A flutter was caused in the Ala sama Legislature on th.e 11th. lovernor Smith sent to the Sen. te, where it originated, a veto of he bill authorizing the Legisla. ure to cast the electoral vote of he State. Governor Smith says : After most mature reflection, I ,m forced to the conclusion that he bill is wrong in principle, and hat it would be a dangerous pre edent in a Republican Govern. rent. As my judgment does not .pprove the bill, it is.my constitu. ional duty to return it to the ienate with my objections. It annot but be~ regarded as remark ble, that the first Republican 2egislature convened in Alabama hail, in the face of the principles f its organization, which every epublican professes to hold dear, eny not only to the colored but o the white man, the right by is vote to indicate his choice for ,President and Vice-President of he United States, and take the natter in its own hands. What seuse can there be for it ? It is are party expediency ? If so, en it is an abandonment of prin. iples, or an acknowledgement hat the material out of which he Republican party is composed, anpot be truisted. In other words, is.to say that the colored men vill not do to be trusted. This etion of the General Assembly will be rear-cedr na atil mne r.. markable, when considered in connection with what seems to have been the almost unanimous opinion of the late members of the Republican party of Alabama. It was declared by. most of them, and so presented at Washington, that a large majority of the voting population of the State were in tavor of the new Constitution. This was as much as to say that the Republican party- .as in a large majority in the State ; for it is well known that none but Re publicans iavored the Constitution, and even some of these opposed it. If the party is as strong as it has been supposed to be, then the ne cessity of party expediency does not exist. But, even if it did exist, E would we be justified in resorting to it? As much as I desire the election of Grant and Colfax, I am unwilling to become a party in behalf of that desirable result to a scheme which practically de nies the very principle for which these standard=bearers stand pledged before the country." The message created a warm discussion, and caused much bit terness. Mr. Coon strongly urged the defoat of the veto, and said the object of the mon who were sustaining the Governor in this matter was to get. up a war ; if tho war must come, let it come. And 90,000 freedmen of Alabama would give the opposition a belly full of war before it was over with. He would stand by the Republican party in Alabama in the war, and victory would perch on its banners. Jones replied to Coon, and told him that his re marks were revolurtionary, but tI-at' tre wanted war, he could have war, and the war would last until none of his sort descrated the soil of Alabama. He said that he was a Republican, but when war is talked about, and Alabam ians are to be slaughtered, he would be found on the side of his own people-those in this bright and sunny but oppressed land, to whom this country 'and the gov ernment justly belonged. He said he could raise a squadron of town boys and whip out anything the gentleman from Ohio could bring out against him. He coufd marshal' 20,000 colored men to follow the banner in defence of Alabama, and Alabama's colored rmen of intelligence knew carpet baggers ~were not their 'friends, and that a squatter would desert in the hour of peril and need. The debate was conducted alto get her by the Republicans-threre beingr not one Democrat in the Senate. It is not likely that the bill can become a law over 'the Governor's veto. The Legislature will probably adjourn to-morrow. The followving catrd, from Mr. Jones, will appear in the morning papers, Jones and Coon are both Republican Senators . SENATE -CHAMBER, August 11, 1868. Having been denied the privilege of repeating in the Sen ate Mr. Coon's incendiary remarks in the Governor's office, on the morning of August 11, I hereby publish said remarks. To the best of my recollection he said, to the Governor, that he would not leave here until some measure was adopted for the protection of those whom he calls loyal men ; that if any UJnion man's blood was spilled in Dallas County, he would lay the houses of Dallas County and the city of Selma in ashes. W. B. JONES. WANT OF REsPEcT.-"When a stranger treats me with want of respect, " said a Philosophic poor man "I comfort .myself wvith the reflection tbat it is not myself., he slights, but my old and - shab by coat and hat, wvhich, to say the truth, have no particular claim to admiration. So', if my hat and coat choose to fret about it, let them; -bun it is nothing to mue" Honorable Courtship. We heard a pretty incident t< day, which we cannot help rcl ting. A young lady from th South, it seems, was wooed an won by a youthful physicia living in California. When th engagement vs made the doctc was rich, having been snece:st' at San Francisco. It had nn existed many months, when 1 an unfortunate investment b lost his entire " heap." Th event came upon him, it shoul be added, just as he was about t claim his bride. What should i do? Why, as an honorable an chivalrous young man, as he is. b sits down and writes the youn lady the partieulars of the unhapp turn which had taken place in hi fortunes, assuring her that if th fact produces any change c feeling toward him. she was r< leased all the promises she la made to him. And what does sh do, the dear, good girll W hi she takes a lump of pure goc which her lover had sent her i his prosperity, as a keepsake, an having it manufhctured into a-rin forwards it to him with the follo%i ing Bible iuscription engraved o the outside. "Entreat me not to leave the< or to return from following aft% thee , for whither thou goest will go, and where thou lodgest will lodge ; thy people shall be m people, and thy God my God where thou diest I will die an there will I be buried ; the Lor do so to me anc more also, aught but death . part me an thee." The lover idolized his swee heart more than ever when I received this precious evidence < her devotion to him in both stori and sunshine, We may add the fortune soon again siniled upo the young physician, and that h subsequently returned to the Sout to wed the sweet girl he love< and who loved him with such a undying affection; Young lad, who read the Bible,:as the heroir of this incident seems to has done, are pretty sure to mal good sweethearts and b e t t c wives.-.Louisville Journal. MAKING LOVE WITh UMBRELLA -A certaiin dramatic writer, bein caught in a shower of rain, too refuge under the portico of a han some dwelling in New York. A soon as he bad taken the positio a window was opened, and a lovel female face appeared, w h i e seemed to beam with symipath and anxiety. She sCOml retire< and sent him an umbrella by servant. He fell at once despei ately in love, and thinking fror her anxious looks-that the feelir, was recip)rocated, he called oinh the next morning, sent up his canc and gave into her own hand a ver; costly umbrella he had parchase in place of the old and shabb: one-he had borrowed, and the wound up all by making a pr< fession of love. The young lady without even noticing the exchan~ that had been made, perceivin how her act had been misiniterpr< ted, naively replied :"I feel it t be my duty to undecieve you', sil At the time of the shower I wa anxiously expecting a gentlema who is, I confess, very dear to m< who wished to see me in privat< and my only motive for sendin you the umbrella was to get yo off the steps." The love that has naught br beauty to keep it ill good conditio is short-lived, andi subject to shis ering fits. Small boy, on tip toe, to his com panions-"Sha, stop your noise all of yoi. " Companions-"H{elk( Tommy! what's the matter! Small boy-We've got a new baby it's very weak and tired ; walkei all the way from heaven last night must not he kicking up a ros round here now. " The Japanese nev-er kill birds. Wright's Bill, To close up the affairs of th'. Bank ofthe State of South Carolina, e authorizes the Governor to take d possessioli of all the rea land per n sonal assets, books of hountsa , Setc.of the Bank of the State, toseti the assets, at public auction, and place the perusIIal iotes, bonds, t in the hands of the Attorney General forcolection. Thatoffieer e shall pay over the proceeds of his e collections into the Treasury of d the State. but no suits shall be en o ter"ed for the recovery ofcolfater:ts, c which are considered worthless by d the Governor and Attorney-. C General. All bills of the Bank is. sued prior tQ the 20th Decether, y 1860, which were filed in the C'oW s of Equity prior' to June 1, , e under the order of-that Courtr are )f to be funded, and on their su ' render, at the Treasury, bon4s d running twenty years and bea-ri c interest at the rate of six per eent" per annum. payable semi-an.nualy, are'to be given in exchange there n for. For the payment of these d bonds, the faith and credit of the State is pledged. No bills wbiek - were not so filed are to be funded a but may be taken as a discount or set off in all suits brought by the e, said Bank, in payment of all det r mands due to it. The Act of De-. cember 21, 1865, and the 16th. Aeo; j tion of the Act ratified December y 19, 1812, and all acts and parts of acts which render the bills of sidr d corporation receivable in payment d of taxes, and all other debts due if the State, are repealed by thg d bill. - t- MONTGOMERY, August 12.-The e Legislature took a recess, at6 p.m. - yf' to meet on the first Monday ~iai u Novem-ber. No action was taken on the Governor's veto of the. bitf u authorizing the Legislature fo cast the electoral vote of the State h and it remains to be disposedi of on re-assemblinT in November- s n the day before the Presidentia election, The new State Con, e stitution provides that a regisatra e tion of voters shall be had bef'oe - ec every general election. The .Sen 'r ate to-d]ay passed the registratia bill, and the House laid it on the table, s The yotug rnen of the city are gfiring a salute, in honoe of the 1adjournment and departure.of th9 Legislature. " MOBILE, August 12.-The Dem~ - oera'c mass -meeting and torcI' light procession, Ias6 nighi~ was the gran~dest and most en -thusiastic wiftnessed in this city a for years. The whole city na brilliantly illaumin ated ; over3,0 fpersons . in the procession, , in. e luding many -colored. Ab-ie sieeches were made by Gen. Bat ti,Hns. John Forsyth and C. 0-. SLangdon: Good order prevailed. >A DvANTAGES OF ASOCIATION Bee TWEEN THE SEXEs.-What makes -those men who associate habitually. "I with women superior to others.f e What makes that woman who ii gacc-usto med to an air of ease in the company of men superior to her sex in (general ? Solely because she is in the habit of a free, grace 'ful and continual conversation Swith the other sex. Women ia Sthis way lose their frivolity, the ~faculties awaken, their delicacies gand peculiarities unfold all their U beauty and captivation in the spirit of in tellectual rivalry. And the men lose their pedar+ic, rude, t declamatory or sullen manner, nThe coin of the' understanding and the heart is interchanged continually. Their asperities are rubbed off ; their better materials polished and brightended, and 'their richness, like fine gold, is wrou gh.t in to finer workmanship, jby the figure of women, than it ever could be by those nmen. The ironl and steel of our character are laid aside, like the harshness of a warrior in a time of peace ari4 RAseCyltV.