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~^ T** ';^ VW'*-^~''~m*rS v ^ '" *** ' . jir , - iL- ? ' " NUMBER 24. ItoHjSoiirrAlIciBflfllTHESlTU^nifwiniiiiflwiirai^ ' T - I oral V. :- * - * We feel we cannot do jnstioetoour readers in withholding from thorn the very admirable speech of Senator Vaece delivered with temper in his own inimitable way. Henoe we malto the following evtraot containing the pith of the Senator's remarks: ?****?? Coming briefly to the real question* I ash why should the law authorising the military to bo used st the polls not be repealed, and why should the law anthorising Federal supervision also not be repealed f I tako it to be indisputably established, without further argument, that the whole subject relating to the elective franchise is placed by the constitution under the control of the States, and all that the Federal eovernment can do s? "? thai the States, as suoh, do not disorimi- i nate against any on aooount of race, oolor, i or previous condition of servitude. This is the wholo duty and power of Congress, as dcelared by the Supreme Court. When i any Republican Senator has ventured for ] one moment to abandon the lino of influm- i nialory appeal to tho sectional fooling of the oouotry, the excuses given for tho i retention of this law upon the statute book I aro illogical almost to puerility. ] Ono Senator gravely urges that it should I not be repealed because the great bulk of ? the army is in the distant West, only somo t few- hundreds being cast of the Rocky < Mountains. He tells us iu the course of a his enumeration that there are only about c thirty in the State of North Carolina, and i asks the senators from that State if they c are afraid of that number of soldiers. Pus- \ sing over the obvious fact that within thir- r ty days 10,000 could be sent there if do- I sired, [ answer that we do fear them, bo- i oause they represent the power of the United States government and tho enmity of the Republican party which wields that L power; we fear them as the Hollander fears the first small leak in the dykes which bear li back the waves of the ocean from deluging t the meadows of his homestead; we fear t thorn as the physician fears the first speck of gangrene in the system of his pationt; wo iear incru as tlo sailor Tears the piling up of the storm clouds upon the horizon, b knowing that their deceptive beauty covers t the fiorco desolation of the tempest j wo e fear thorn as the shepherd of the mountain t fears for his lambs at even the flitting of a o shadow athwart his path, for ho knows it b to bo the shadow of the eagle, the remorse- q loss tyrant of tin air; we fear them as Char- t leuiagno feared the rude wooden ships of t the Norse Vikings on their first appearance " in the seas of his empire ; we fear them as f all patiiotio Romans feared tho crossing of i the Rnbioon by Caesar, the passage of which r with arms in his hands marked him as tho s enomy of Roman liberty. r Even so we fear and believe that when an American crosses the Rubioon of bis c constitutional powers and appears at the c place of choosing our rulers, armed oither a with the sword or with illegal powers of I arrest, he thereby proclaims himself the o enemy of tho liberties of our people. A flagrant illustration of the just ioe of this fear o U in Ka fnnnrl in J4,1? ~ ?v WWMV ?U ?U? V KltVIM UlUUia ui mo a War Department directing the conoentra- t tion of troops in the States of South Caro- ? lina, Florida and Louisiana on the occasion of the election of 1876. The excuse that * these soldiers were not intended to interfere n with elections or to be placed at the polls, but onlj to be sufficiently near to keep the t peace, is not sustained by the facts of that t reign of military violence, nor will it be if I tried again. I quote from an order dated headquarters Deportment of the South, Co- a Innsbia, South Carolina, Octobor 8, 1876, j issued by General Ruger : t "Should the barracks or camp in any c case be so far from the place of voting that prompt assistance could not on oocasion p arising be renderod the .oivil officers, the j commanding offioer will so plaoe his oom* i maud, or n .sufficient pert thereof, that Ci auch assistance, if required, way he t Eromptly given. No troops, however, will s q placed actually at any poll of election, exoept upon requirement to that effect by <j ,1. a# !>' /J??u " < So it Moms that the discretion as to i whether the law should be violated or not j was vested io a deputy marshal I Id faot, they were so illegally disposed and used iu t a hundred instances. The President, as ' appoars bv the order of Oenoral Towosend I to general Emory, dated October 27,1874, I seemed anxious to have the troopa placed at the polls without the appearance of doing i so. In that order ho propounds a physical i problem or oonundrum to General Emory, wVkfr 'that officer had to givo up. He i ays : "Canare* points be selected near polls where attempts to overawe vote re, likely to reenlt in Hots, may be tpade, and troops stationed there a day or two beforehand f It would not bo desirable to have soldiers at or ... >L. n /-."J tw HCUf fcUD u? C#U./CCC UJ ITIH* itory interference, except to eecure voter* their righitto vote, thoultl be avoided Not to "keep the peice/'mind you, but to secure voter* their right to vote ! Now, thie wee ft hard problem-?to place troops yo far from the polls as to avoid all appearance of Interference with the elections, and yet so near as to actually interfere by securing all mcu in their right to voto. Quod at dc _.r. -wi/ij?it was too rnuoh fbi common boom and pouusoa honesty.? All these orders show ? palpable and shameless* determination on the pari of the Executive to control both the elections and the counting of the votes of Presidential electors, as well aa the or: ganiaation of State governments. *the manner in whioh the troops were shifted about frota one to the other of these three States, on which the Presidential election depended, exhibitatho animus of this infamous transaction a manner so plain that the wayfaring maU, though * Republican, need not err therein. But the President tells us in his veto message that there has been no interference during his administration, and promises that thore shall be none. So we aro to take his royal promise to respeot the people's liberties and not to have them seoured by law 7 Here is tho promise of one President of the United States, and one who stands exooedingly high in Rcpublicon estimation, dated November 10,1876, tojGeneral W. T. Sherman, Washington, District of Columbia : Instruct Qeneral Auger, in Louisiana, ind Qeneral Ruger, in Florida, to be vigiant with the forces at their command to preserve peace and good order, and to sco hat the proper and legal boards of canvaslers are unmolested in the performance of heir duties. Should thcro be any grounds >f suspicion of fraudulent counting on either itde, it should be reported and denounced at mce. No man worthy of the office of Prcsdent would be willing to hold the office if sounted In, placed there by fraud. Either >arty can afford to be disannointpil in ?!"> esult, but the country cannot afford to >are the result taiptcd by the suspiciou ot llcgal or false returns. U. S. Grant." On the same day the following telegram 3 also forwarded to Gen. dherman : ' Tho President thinks, aud I agree with iitn, that it will be well for you to give to he Associated Press his telegram and mine o you, referring to affairs now in the South. J. D. Cameron. "Socretary of War." Of tho vast open-jawed and cavernousicllicd nature of this promise [ have not | be heart or the time to discourse. I shall ontent myself with imitating the discre(on ot Mr. Rodman, who, returning home nc night full of tax-paid and fearing that lis speech would betray him to the many [uestions of his wife, for a long while maiuuiucd an obstinate silence, until at length, o end the matter, be solemnly remarked, Mrs. Rodman, you know I am a man of ew words, and now I am plumb done talkng." That subject immediately became e? adjudicata. I am done talking on this ubjcct so well calculated to make an Amcican citisen blush. The arguments made by the opponents f these bills, especially those of the veto acreages, strike me with a good deal of iinaxement. To illustrate their absurdity, et us frame them into tho semblance of aathematieal propositions, thus: I'mfyntitinn. Fir ml Thrrwm* """"" ^ - ..?T. ? .?vv? VH??-?AUV ?ivup? f th* United States are two thousand miles way od the frontier and oould not be used o control elections if they w. re wanted.-? Senator from Maine. The troops could not be to used if they rere here, as th? lav forbids it. I promise Ct to use them.?Tho President. Henee it is revolutionary and dangorous 0 liberty an1! the purity or elections to pass his bill forbidding auoh use of troops.?Q. C. D. Corollary firat.?The necessity for troops t the polls to secure fair elections is in proportion to the squares of the distance of heir present looation, ?. e.t the greater the listanoe the greater the neoeaaity. Corollary aecond.?Tho necessity for the presence of troops at the polls is also in proprotion to the legal inability to use them f they wete present, sod if tho President 1 determined not to nee them at all to eon-. rol elAflilona. iKaa tkn nuiiAsol^ kdiMUed 1 beolute. ..'i -' t >, . Corollary third.?The revolutionary end langeroua character of a law consiata id the aot that it ia useless, there being already d exiatenoe laws sufficient to effect the par* ?oee. Scholium.?Id the above it i9 aaaamed ixiomatieally that the terms "liberty" and 'purity of eleotion" are ayoooyaioua with ;he tern "Republican party." [Prolonged laughter.] Proporition Second : Theorem.?The right of citixens of the United States to vote shall not bo donied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude; 8EC. "2. Congress shall have pcwlr to enforce this article tyj appropriate legislation. The fifteenth amendment nnntad h? the ?"T*r 1 -r- ~V President. The Supreme Court, in the United States against (jruikshsnk, end in Mjers w. Happeraett, bare declared that the only right guaranteed by this amendment is the right that citisens shall not be, discriminated against on account of raoe, color or pravi.ous condition of servitude. Hence "nations legislation to provide safeguards for free and honest elections is necessary, aa ezperienct has shonn, not only to secure the right U rote to tho ouiYancntscd raco at tho South in the large ciUasof ifcgflKttfe."?The . .?*** jru"k^ tho said ucgro within them3 ig of tbp. Constitution, and discrimination al/^o^some^^^^od the said white nan was about to vote or hod voted the Ropubliono ticket, that being the truo meaning and interpretation of the words "race, color or previous conditio^ of servitude." . Corollary third.?It follows necessarily that if a New York repeater vote the Domocratio ticket five times in one day he beconies likewiso the great Slat|of New York (including the Senior), or, ? convcrso, tho groat State of New ibrlt bodbmes the repeater, and by so ho discriminates (tho Lord knows hap") against the right of somebody (the LorU knows 'Jho) to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude; and the.only avenun opened up by which this guarantee can .bo enforced is to send in the aruiy and Jonnny Davenport. [Laughter.] Scholium ?The "previous condition" referred to in the foregoing is that of Repubcanism, and implies also present condition; that is, being Republican. Scholium tecond.?Enforcing the- right to vote by soldiers is not an "interference with elections." Scholiun third.?This doctrine of "discrimination" docs not apply to the State of Rhode Island, where a white man's right to veto may bo freely abridged on account of his present condition of irnpccuniosity. Proportion third : Theorem.?"The practice of tacking to appropriation bills | measures not pertinent to such bills did uot prevail until more that forty years after the adoption of the constitution. It has become a common practioe. All parties when in power havo>- adopted -it. The public welfare will be promoted in muny ways by a return to the early practice of the gomoMat and the true principles of legislation."?The President. Hence the practico of tacking legislation to appropriation bills having been practiced by all parties for nure than fifty years, it should be immediately abandoned when disagreeable to the President or invenient to the party, its antiquity not being sufficient to justify it, [though greater than the period of its non-use. Corollary firit.?It follows, therefore, that tho practice of using troops at the polls, which did not prevail for more than seventyfive years after the adoption of the constitution, should now become of general and indispensable use ; fourteen yoars being amply sufficient timo to legalise it, and it being now absolutely necessary for the preservation of the Republican party. Scholium.?For the purposes of the next Presidential election fourteen years of mili tary interference are equal to seventy-five years of free and unrestrained elections, on the well-established principle "that circumstances alter oases/' (The Lawyer's Bull vt. Parmer's Ox, 1 Webster's El. Spell.) N. B.?It is said oo high authority that the Secretary of War and the Secretary of State onoe held this problem unsound, but were coerced into assenting to it by party necessity. But quien sabe I [Laughter.] So much for the absurd deductions which may lo logically drawn from the premises containedin the veto messages and the arguments of Senators. Now, Mr. President, why should not the peaoe at the polls and the purity of elections be intrusted to the authority, the virtue and the patriotism of the States, where ftlritfe our ftalmfrwNOn* teJ' * T*-a? the States ere' unable With their eivil machinery to preserve the peace f They have inviriably proven abler in the past, except _ > i_ a -- ID CHWI VI BUCH ununuai TIOItQCO S9 IS COD* templated in the constitution?article 4, section 4. Are they uov.iijing ? Surelj they are willing to preserve their autonomy and perpetuate their own existenoe. Are they corhipt f Surely, if their inhabitants, as citixeos of the States, arc too oorrupt for self-goverpmoat, it is not possible that their virtue should be improved and their corruptions oease the moment they are invested srith authority by' the United States. On the contrary, there is always found lets of responsibility., and mora of oorrnptionr in aggregated than in separate communities.? How can n oorrupt Stato officer become an ifcoorruptiblfe Feoeifct officer f To suppose that the States are either unable, unfitting or too oorrupt to bold \ peaeefa! and boa est alaatioaa is to declare unmistakably that the people therei of are capable aetf-goyerumout. "Let each Senator', here written on his brow i what he thiuka of the republio," said the Senator from New York, quoting the I old Roman. So nay I. Let eaeh Senator I say for himaelf what he thinks of his State; > are ite peoplo Incapable of self-government; ) of choosing their rulers peaoeably and hon, cstly ? For one, 1 can My with anspeakaV > ' _ # f , ?.? uriuu ana with absolute truth thai th< i peonio pf the State of Boat hi Carolina, wb< lent me here, are able, vimag and virtqow VnShgh |q fulfill these and all the other'high functions of free government; that thej have ever done so sieee the keel* of Rsl igh's ships first graiM npoo the white sanja of her shores, and, God homing them, thpV and their children win continue to do i to, if not destroyed Woontralisatibn, no til chaos shall come again. It i* with extreme saadma that I bead any other Senator ^ mat# that it is not so with fcie people.- fq uses to which we are subjecting^^^n^ And did you ever think that all this means, in fact, the failure of the civil authority, that our liberties arejdeclining more and more as wo employ force ? Sir, in the uses to which we put the soldiers I am reminded of whut I read about tho bamboo in Asiatic countries. It is said that the natives do almost everything with that wonderful arborescent grass. When young oud tender it is made into houses and boats, astronomical instruments, ornauiontal work, yards of vessels, aqueducts, rain-clonks, water vriiews, ienco-ropes, chairs, tables, hats, aud umbrollaa, fans, pipes, cups, shields, toolhandles, lamp-wicks, paper, knives, and a hundred other things. In this way it seems HI In addition to their legitimate business as defenders of the country, we have niado of tbcm Governors of States, legislators, organ iters of Legislatures and judges of the election and qualifications of the members thereof, judges of law and equity and of the crimiuul courts, policemen, sheriffs, marshals and deputy marshals, revenue officers and still-house hunters, managers of railroads, controllers of churches and of schools, justices of the pcaco, supervisors of election, mathematicians to sec u fair count, protectors of wituesscs, fosterfathers of returning boards, and, above all, as Republican propagandists. Iu the language of the sewing machine compnnics, "no family should bo without ono," [laughter,] this Republican political bamboo. Is thero not great danger ? Does it not indicate the decay and the disuse of the civil arm of the law, which is the natural and only safe protector of our liberties ? Let us, sis, discard ibis miserable bamboo policy and cease to mako the Suldier our political maid of all work. Mr. President, it seems to mo thai the position of the Republican party iu refer enco to tho use of soldiers and supervisors at tho polls, on the pretense of preserving the peace aud securing free elections, is the most remarkable one that reasonable men ever assumod. It may bo formulated thus : Tho elections shall be free if wo have to surround tbo polls with bayouets ; the elections shall be according to the laws of the States if we havo to overawe the civil magistrates and State officials by an exhibition of power; the elections shall be pure if it takes Davenport and all the convicted criminals and occupants of all the dens of infamy in oar great cities to tonnage them ; inspections shall be unforced and without the appearance of violence if a battoy of artillery has to be trained on every ballot box in the land; and lastly, tho election shall be fair if wo have to arrest without warrant, and imprison without bail, nutil the elections aro over, every man who effers to voto the Democratic ticket. The speeches of Republican Senators mean this, the vetoes of the President mean this, and they mean more than this, Mr. President. In effoct they say that unless we can use the army at the polls we will let the army dissolve; we will leave our forts and arsenals uogorrisoned; we will strip tbo frontiers of all protection, and let the men, women and childreu of that border country be sla jghtered and scalped, and tbo unchecked savage extend his barbarous sway over all that land of promise, once more I remitted to its ancient wildness. We will ?I*. J* fkU. - -*** y? ???-? ] Democratic membeft of Cony ess, who offered us the monej to support this army, as the authors of this disaster. AH these things will we do rather than loeo our chances to oount in the next President, and we will cover the facts and obscure the logic of the case by reinflnming the bitter prejudices of the war in the hearts of our constituents ! Can it be poeriblo to do this? Is there to ha no end to passion , no restoration of reason ? We shall see. I confess that I do not believe these absurd methods of dealing with the American mind can niuoh longer prevail. I rogard thorn aa the desperate efforts of a sinking party, and I bolieve the people will so regard them. I have been muob touched K? iHft vtrniitM i?iv?n iM K? the other side that we were raining oarselves in trying to repeal these la^rs. The kind-hoarted Senator from Miohigsn notified us frankly that if we persisted we would go down in to the waters of oblivion to rise no mote forever. He did not cvon give us a ohanoe at the general resurrection ? [[Laughter.] It seemed to distress him.? and if I thought it was true prophecy, I would flreely mingle my tears witn his al the contemplation of so dire a calamity.? Candor compels me, however, to acknowl edgo that I cannot rociprocato his charity , If I thought the Republican party wev< > standing upon the brink of a precipice, bo* ) neath which soothed those cold watcm of ? oblivion, instead of warning them,,| pledge I you word I would try to induoo them ' to stop over the edge?in fsot, I might lend them a push. ?Laughter.] At.least I I should feel aa indifferent abouj it as tuo ( lodger at an ion did, who was awakenod in c the night.when the meteors were falliog, and told Chat the day of judgment had come. ' Well, well," said HO; testily, "tell the land-lord about it; X only a boarder."? ^Laughter.] And now, Mr. President, if .the breath l-was aboutleave my body, ?a^l was permitted to say1 bnt one word as to what my country most needed, that word should be, first \ Rest from strife, rest from sectional couflict, rest trom sectional bitterness, rest from inflammatory appeals, rest from this constant, most nnwiso and unprofitable agitation, Rest in all lands and in all literature is used as a symbol of the most perfect state of felicity which inaukind can attain in this world and the next. ''And the land had rest," said the old Hebrew chroniclers in describing the reign of their good kings;: ''and his rest shall bo glorious," says tho prophet Isaiuh in foretelling* the coming of our Lord, whjn Kphraim should have ccascd to envy Juduh and Judah should have ccascd to vex Ephraim. Heaven itself is described as rest?a .weary arc at rest."? people of God," saith the apostle. "Dan kon.ot give this rest to our people ? I know, Mr. President, that those from whom I cotnodesire it above l heir chief joy. The excitement through which they havo passed for the last twenty years, the suffering and tho sorrow, the calamity, publio and private,. which they havo undergone have filled their hearts with indescribable yearnings for nai tional peace, for a complete moral as well: | as physical restoration of the Union.? There is one policy, and but one, to effect this object, and that is the policy of conciliation, of restoration, so steadily pursued by the Democratic statesmen and people of the North. It is the only true statesmanship for our condition, tho only genuine remedy for the hard times with which we afflicted. Nature everywhere teaches it, aud her thousand agencies, silent and mysterious, constantly inculcate it, even as day nnto day uttoreth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Cross this noble river which flows by our capital and* soarch for the battle fields of blood-watered Virginia. You scarce can find them.? Dense lorcsts of young saplings cover all. the hills aud plains that were so lately swept burc by marching and eucamping armies. "For there is hope of a tree if it. bo cut down that it will sprout again, and the tender branch thereof will not cease." Waving seas of wheat cover the open fields so lately plowed by tho bursting shells while charging battalions met in deadlyshock ; and green grass has so covered the lines of intrenchment as to give them all? the seeming of tho cunning farmors' ditches. Restoration is nature's law. Let us imitate her. God of all mercy and grace, may not theso gaping wounds of civil war i be pcr?mittod to heul, if they will f Heavy Manuring Pays.?A paragraph from the New York Tribune refers to spots of clny soil, heavily manured thirty years ago, yielding far heavier in wheat, this year than other portions of the samo field. This may bo observed on almost' every old farm, and on all kinds ef soil.? We know a field of light sandy or gray land, that, without manure, will not yield a bale of ootton to five acres, and yet there is a spot on it of perhaps half an aero, that yields at the rate of a bale to tho acre.? About forty years ago tho land was. cleared and Bottled. It was creek hammock, and the spot which still yields so handsomely i* where the settler had his barn, stables, and) cow-pen. Mr. John G. Dekle, of Thomas county, told us of a similar instance on his large spot appeared "uT histoid*,"on4a fcnt ol sandy loam, where, more than twenty years ago, a large number of oattle were penned every night. These facts indicate that heavy manuring will pay; that once thoroughly done it will last for many years, if not for a lifetime.?Southern Fttrmer'* Monthly. Baked Beans are prepared in ir.any ways, from the elaborate Boston stvle down to that adopted in Connecticut, as the easiest and most practicable. Take small white beans; soak them overnight; boil them an hour, having drained the water off twice during that time, and having supplied its place with cold water well salted. Then put them in a baking dish (with a piece of salt pork in their midst). It should bo about four inches sauare and its top carefully cut into fine plaids with a sharp knife. Cover the beans with water, and bake three J or four hours in a moderately-heated oven. I1 ? ?j -ee ?. 4uoig m * uiivap, Bliupw, HUU VUICIBDI way to euro sore baoks and old sores of any kind. Take whito oak bark, peel the rose i or ontaide off, add water, and boil it down til! it is as black as ink. Wben cool, add to a gallon of the bark extract two oances alum. . Wash tho effected part two or three tinea * a day until cured.