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Selected Poetry,
DARE TO STAND ALONE'
Do firm, be bold, be strong, be true,
And dare to stand alone ;
Strive for the right, whate'er you do,
'lhough helpers there are none
Nay, bend not to the swelling surge
Of. popular sneer and wrong ;
'Twill bear. theo on the ruin's vergo
With current wild and strong.
Stand for the right I lunanity
Implores with groans and tears
Thhie aid to break the festering links
That blind her toiling. years.
Stand for the. right ! Though falsehood
reigns
And proud lips coldly snee-,
A poisoned arrow cannot. wound
A conscience pure and clear.
Stand for the right-and with clean hands
Exalt the true on high ;
Thou'lt/tind warim and sympathizing hearts
Among the passers by.
Men who have seeki, and thought and felt,
Yet could not hardly dare
The battle's brunt, but by thy side
Will ever dangers share.
Stand for the right-proclaim it round,
Thou'lt find anl answering tone
In honest hlearts, and thou no more
Be dooned to stand alone I
Catechism for the Black Democracy.
CH1APt,rvit i.
Who has given the blacks the right to
vote ?
The Republican party, by using the U. S.
Army and abtsing the power entrusted to
them, have, contrary to the wishes of the
white people of tie North, and against the
consent of the Southern white people, giv.
en the right to vote to every black man in
the South, without qualification.
Are tie white people of the North indig.
nant at this action of 'he Republican party ?
Yes, and every election hold duri'ng C,ho
last year indicates that they are going to
turn them out. of office.
Is tihe right to vote, without and against
the conscht of the white people of the South,
worth much or to be greatly desired ?
No. It is worth very little and is not to
be desired at all, for it excites the white
man's prejudi3es and hatred. It is a right
duo simiply to force, and force will change
hanls, when it will be taken away.
Can the liepublican party possibly pre
vent tihe whito.people of the South control
ling this question of who shall vote, after a
lit tie, just as they please ?
It cannot. The Republican party cannot
save jnolf. It will be -overthroWa at the
eleotions at the North this coming . fall, by
the Northern people.
When, then, would the right to vote be
worth having by the black man?
When ie gets it, not by force, from the
Republican, or any other party, but by the
full and free consent of the white people
of th South, with whom he is to live.
What, then, should the Black man do?i
ie should beware of using his vote, that
has b'oen given him by the armiy without,
-the consenit of the white people of either
t1ie Noirth ov tho Souith, without any quali..
fmoation of property or education.whatever,
against their interest and his own, for it,
will create feelings of hatred and iroverige,
andi he #111l suffer byl.tin the etid.
Row then should he vote ?
Iloe hould vote with the white people he
is . obliged to work and live with, and con
ciliate their friendship and favor.
What would be thme consequence?i Would
th6y oppress him?
No, thmey have given him already every
right possessed by their wives and. daugh'.
ters and their sons tudekr t,wenty-ono years
of ngb, nd if he w6uld'skiw a confiding
spttwh he shall have beie educa
and shmal1lfAve got, a listtlo, propetr.t, he ill
al~t get wit thqis pee egsert, withoute
tu, isorder, thme right to vot9.
Why de the respootable white pe6ple' not
wish the blacks to veo at present ? - -
Because theoy e\re ignorant, and itruoate
pd, and don't understand what t,hey are d4
Ing.
D5o they propose to educate them ?
flefd.
D fo they wIekhthem to make 'money and
pi'ospert -
'They~ do.- ., -
,C~anaho .blAok man. prosperj.nden. .ad
governtiw yj
lo,1:p4 gonernmnent.s the. greM9skoti e'
* a0 gotertiment be god when h oia
don't'understand what- hey are.voting for?i
Neve'. - They will;be .simpo*sed uIIo!l y1
offio~eots *he only-wisk office.i to ttil
the people white and black -heavily, htid
then-te&l thietoney..
Can oarpet.bag yankcees '.6o can't get.the
* owest offio at th'e North9 and who conto
*here to make I14bftby and thet' 16a,e, past
fielws otote #ople Who are-to live had
- M -ro thlig d6a't Iddetidi whh't the ennu'
try needs.
How, then, can good laws be passed?i
By letting t,h0se only vota who are aa.
fled to vote, so the best and wisest men born
among us may be elected to make our laws.
OAPTER II. 1
Why are corn, bacon, sugar and flour sell
ing so high, and why are your wages so low
that you can't get much of any of them ?
It is bcoau;e the Republican party mis
governs and taxes the whole country so
heavily, and the burden falls In the shape of
high prices upon the laboring man.
Does the laboring man pay heavy taxes?
No, but. those who employ him do, and
have less money, therefore, to pay him as
wages.
Does the Republican party promise to les
sen the taxes ?
Yes. But they have had the government
three years since the war closed, and have
increased the debt of the country in spite
of their heavy t axes, which they have not
lessened. The proof that they don't intend
to di it, is, that they have had the chance
and haven't done it.
CHAPTER 1II.
Is this the first promise they have made
with no Intention of perf ,rming it?
No, they promised tle white people of t.ho
South that, if they would stop fighting and
free their slaves, they should come back
into the Union just as before, and they have
broken that promise.
How have they brokeir that promise ?
Three States, Virginia, Texas and Missis
sippi are not yet admitted to the Union, even
on the new terms they have made, and the
other soven States are admitted, not as
equal, but as unequal States of the Union.
How are they unequal?
Why, they have admitted them on condi
tion hint they shall never control the right
of suffrage, as Ohio or Massachusetts can
do.
OI[APrxR jV.
Is there any other lie that can be proved
on them.
A great many, bu the biggost lie of all
is that they fought the South to set the
black men free, and that they set blacks
free because they loved the blacks.
What, is the proof?
Why, Abraham Lincoln offered, during
the war, more than once, to guarantee that
they wouldn't set the blacks free, if the
South would stop fighting.
Who then set the blacks free?
God Alnighty, and none else, making use
of war and the passions of fighting men.
Who submitted to the word of tie Lord,
and ratified the black man's freedom in Con
vention assembled, and gave him every le.
gal protection necessary for his welfare and
happiness ?
The white men of the South, his former
masters, and now his neighbors, employers
and best friends.
Ilow, then, can the black man rise
Not by voting agnirst the interest of his
white neighbors but by voting with them,
and by looking to work alone as the mcans
of making a living, educating his family and
becoming prosperous.
OHAPTER V.
Does the black man owo his ignorance
and want of education to slavery ?
No, on the contrary, slavery has taught
him to work, which is the best part of edu
cation, for no other black men in the world
are as civilized and intelligent as he is.
And slavery has made him a christian, for
all of thfi rest of his race in Africa are
gross idolaters, utterly reprobate, fighting
with and even'oating each other. Ie should
thank God for slavery and also for his pies
ont freedom,
What, should he remember on this sub
sect?
Tihat, It was NoTrthern men who sold him
into slavery to make money by It, and that,
it, was Southern men, and especially men
from South Carolina that insisted that the
yankees should cease bringing Africans Into
this country, ad.put the abolition of the
slave-trade Ia 1808 Into the United States
Constitution ; and it was Southern men who
builtfor the Idolatrous Africans, when they
came here, churches, and paid for preacherq
for them; and Southern men who would
have gradually freed the blacks, just as
General Washington and'Thomas Jefferson,
both Southorh men, favored their doing, so
soda as it became best; to do so. The blacks
would have been -better off In th, cad, had
Sout hern mon been let alone,
Did any very great Southern man, though
he fought, f,or the South, still favor the gra.
d,qe1 eniation of the blacks?i
SYes., . Onerat Robert l'. Lee, iate Com
mandeir of' the Confederate Armies., who
whipred General Grant in every fight1 until
t,he great, Butcher brought, two hundred and
sixty .thousand men against thirt,y--six thou
sand. Learn to be proud of your own
country anid your own people;
oCfAPTER VI.
*Is there not another lie which the Repub
lican party palm off on the blacks almost as
as greatras-tbe one Jost.exposed?I
Yes. They tell the blacks . they used the
Arvmy.to glio themi the right, to vote (for
which, rpmiqmber, the Northern people arc
.goA0gIo0Augs them out,of office) from kind
Verty f w4ros It,. dhop -6rakf'ered the
white people 11 bavgaing g get IGI of terms
that they never heard,.of Miah% hey agreed
to stop lighting, esig'No tpprteegth Con.
et4t,ionei 4gedpge$),,,A$ Aadu,p noion.
of~ giqrg thep blck cle righ~0ipoe, Bunt
when&e.een o. the Squ4Jh res his,new
bargain, apd .stqd, "go never agreedfo drop
fi6hting on those terge, aqd we won'ggcee
to them either.". 4hmy thyen, ~ou,igallqe'
and hatred against the Southern whites,
and to make the blacks their enemies, If
they could unaoeed in their hataful purama
and to keep the offices of tho government
in their own handq, put the Snwat under tie
army and give blacks the right to vote.
Will it help them tI us to have risked a war
or races, which has only been prevented by
the prudence and1-1 forbear.ance0 of ihe whites ?
No. It has ruined, hem, and they "have
fallen themselves into the pit that they have
made."
C1APTEI Vii.
Can (lte Republican pirty fulfill .ome of
the promises they are now tin tking to the
blacks ?
No, they promise what they have no pow
er to perf'ri, simply to get your vol es.
Would t hey perform other of their promtis
0s, if it bec!ie their interest not to do so ?
No, they atre utterly faithless, and that
was the reason thio white men of the Souilh
wished to get rid of tdhei and left tie Union
when Lte Republican party got possession
of the governmuent. They will prove as
false to tho blacks as they have proved to
the whites of the South. And :they will
fix a plan for ruining the blacks if they can
get oftice or make money by it. Don't trust
them.
CIAPTFn Vill.
How long has the. Republican Legislature
in Columbia been in session, and how much
money have they spent already ?
They have been in session twice as lonq
as .ho forner Legislatures of the State,
have passed only five unimportant bills, and
have spent four tines Ilie ioney on them
solves.
When the Stale was rilh, what was the
pay of a mctuber of the Legislaturo ?
Three dollars i (lay.
Now that th,3 State is pioor, what pay does
a Republican Legislature take -
Six dollars a day.
Who is to pay ?
The taxpayers of the Slate. But the
laboring black man pays it. in the end, for
lie gets lower wnges in consequence.
Why (10 the intelligent, white people of
the South and the greater part of lie white
people of the North wish the success of the
Democratic party?
Becatso they are tired of bad govern.
ment, high taxes, dear food and a scarcity
of (lie 1omfort-s of life.
WIhat will the Democratic party give the
country 7
Good government for all, while and black,
peace between tho whites and the blacks
forever, low taxes, cheat) clothing, higher
wages, and abundant f9od.
C-HAPTER IX.
Who founded the Democratic party?
Thomas Jeflerson, the immortal, the au
thor of the Declaration of Independence
and for eight years the President of (lie
United Stnes.
Did Ito wish to free the blacks ?
IHe did, and set free his own slaves.
What. did lie thiik the great danger the
black man had in store for the ruturo?
le feared diat the black man would
refuse to act with the white man lie is
obliged in livn with, and if so. he said, it
was certain that the whites would iu the
end drive theni out of the country as they
had done the Indians bofore them.
Did the Indions at first outnumber the
whites, when they began to come from En
ropo to this country ?
Yes, butt in spite of that the white inen
killed many of them and drove tho rest out
of the country.
Do the blacks outnumber the whites ?
No, there are threco whites to one black,
take the ten Southern States roundl, and.
immigrants are coming ever-y day, and if
the blacks attempt force, they will all act as
one man against them, And the twenty
five millionus of whites at the NothI will
help the whites against the blacks because
they are of tIhe same race, and have not the
same good-feeling for the blacks that their
former masters have,
Is it not of importance then, for the black
man to keep the friendship of his former
master ? .
It Is of the utmost import ance for it Is
only by gaining his friendship and favor,
rind by voting and workig with hIm to
restore good government, that tIhe black
race can prevent Itself fro'm being gradually
or perhaps forcibly and at once driven out,
of the country or exterminated by the-bayo
net, the bullet ani the sword.
What, thea, Is It the -highest wisdom of
the black man to do ?.
To accept the fienodly offer of his for-mer
mnastors at once, and thuns to help In restor
ing good governimenit, lighter taxes, higher
wages, cheaper clothing and more abtundant
feod, In shot pence, happiness, prosperity,
power and glory to his suffering country.
OffAPTIIR X.
What is the special doctrine of the Demo
or-atic oreedl that a black man should think
about and ponder?
It is Itat minorities have rights that must
be respected, that the weak mnst bo pro
teoted by tlhe laws of the land, It believes
in checking the power of the party that
happeos to get the majority, so that It can
not and will not .oppress the minority and
the weak.
Does the Republican party respect mino
rIties and the weak ?
No ; they will not admit those who. don't
agree with them to Congress , no matter how
regularlyoeoeted, and -General Grant, now
candidate for PresIdent, declaredi last year
in a letter, that the wIll of the majority
ought .tp be the law of the land ; which
means that minorities and the weak shotild
have only sueh rights as their opponents
choose to give them.
Isn't that a dreadful doctrine ?
It is; for ibannamaa sin who 411'r from
the majority to persecution, and itI was to
Prevent such 1persecution, th".1;t lhe United
States Constitution a-id Stale Constitutions,
limiting the power of njorities, were made.
Is the lilack man, abo,o Pill, interested
inl tho success of the party that stands up
t'r tho rights of the wes4 and of ninori.
ties ?
U reatly so, because lie i weak and in a
minority,of three million tr thirty compared
with the white men, and tl.kugh a party of
wh ie mi ni mty seem to be on hi, side niow,
lot th-kt party succeed in etablishing the
rule o (General Grant, that the majority
should do0 as they please, and the cor.se
(Ittence will be that, when circumnstances and
patrties change as they surely will, and very
quickly too, id tihe mnajority gets fiercely
tirted ayahmt tie black tin, there will be
no hope for him whatever. It is, t herefore,
his highest, wistlom to support. the party
which snys, minorities atid the weak have
rights, rights as dear to them tas life, and
their rights imust and shall be respeeml.
Th,3 champion of the rights of' tle weak
against (ihe strong, of minorities ngainst. ina
jorities has always been the Democratic
party.
How Popular Sentunonts Surge in the
. West.
The following account of a mass
meeting at Columbus, Indiana, fur.
nishes it pretty fair criterion of the
Democratic enthusiasm throughout
t-he West :
INDIANAroi.Is, August 12, 1868.
DEMOCnATIC MASS MEETING AT COLUDI
Bus.
The Democratic inass mecting at
Colu.ubus, to-day, was, by all odds,
the largest and most enthusiastic
meeting that has been held in the
State since the opening of the canvass.
Thie largest estimato places the nuima
ber in attendance at 15,000. The
procession of wagons wa.s five miles in
length. There worq_more than ascore
of wagotns fati"fully decorated, con
taining from thirty to forty young la
dies each.
The railroads brought large delega
tions that did notgo in the procession.
Three hundred white boys in blue,
with two bands of music, went from
this city. The boys were dressed in
uniform, each earrying-h staff with an
-Am terican flag. The-ro wore fully fI
teen hundred persons from Brown
county, with one hundred and eigh
teen wagons. There were delegations
from all quarters until Columbus was
filled as it never was before.
Inl a word, no political denionstra
tion in this part of the State has over
approached it either in numbers,
character or enthusixsm.
The mecting was addressed by 1Ion
D. S. Gooding and Senator HeDdricks,
but it was impossible for but a small
portion of the crowd to hoar the speak
ers.
To-night there was a torch-light
procession, fireworks and speaking.
The whole country and neighborhood
are in a blaze of enthusiaism, and a
largely increased Detmocratio majori
ty is conceded by all. Hundreds of
Republicans have signified their in
tention to vote with the Democracy.
If there is any meaning in the size
of demonstrations and the enthusiasm
of the people, the Democracy must
swoopl Indiana by a large majority.
Tno Repub>lican meetings generally
are coimparatively small and devoid
of spirit.
At a grand shooting-match at Amelia
Springs the other day, as we learn from
a letter in the Petersburg index, the
prize for t.he best shot was a beautiful
iced eake, and the worst shot w as re
wardedt with a pretty ttLle dloll baby.
The contestants for the cake Woro as
follows:
Misses Mattie and Emma Rahim, Mrs.
S. S. Cottrell and Miss Nannio Cottrell,
Mis hon Horn, Mrs. McClerland, Mrs.
Hf. Bodeker, Richtmond ; Mrs. Wonzel
and Miss Lou Morris, Amelia counaty ;
Mrs. H. W. Burton and Miss Annie
Ta ppcy, Petersburg.
TIhae best shot wats made by Mrs, S.
8. Cottrell, Richmond ; the second best
shot was made by Mrs. Fisher, Rich
mend ; the third best shiot was made- by
Miss Ei. Rahm, Rtchmond; the fourth
best shiot was mado by Miss Annie Tap
pey, Petersburg.
The cake was awarded to Mrs. S. S.
Cottrell, wvho very generonsly dividedl it
among the "shooters /" The~ prize for
the worst shot (the doll) was awarded
to Miss Lou Morris, who received it,
with
"Modest, graceo
And b,htshing face."
The trial ofaskill afforded much amuse
ment for the ladies, and all were delight
ed with their efforts, whlich certmly de
servo,credit. Thio cake was presented
by Mr. Zimnmer, of Richmond.
OUT.AGR fly A Nzono--A. TRAIN
FULL ,Y PASSENGERS FIRED INTO.
On Friday last, while the train on the
North Carolina Railroad was passing
a station between Se,lma and Raleigh,
it was fired into by a negro. TBro
shots wore disobasged at the passen-.
get coach, and passed through the
car, but struck no one. The thin at
geo time *as crowded with delegates
add others returnite from the Demo
oratio Convention in Raleig.- Wil
minat$on Journal
Yankee Pedagogues,
For nearly one hundred years the
Southern States of the Union have
been the El Dorado to which the
greedy adventurers of New England
States have cast longing oyes, and to.
ward Nwhich their footsteps have been
directed when forced by the fear of
starvation to leave the ungenial cli
mate and sterile hills of their native
States They caie forth to sell to
our people the negroes whon they
found they could not work with profit
at home; they kept the slave trade
open eight years after Virginia wished
it abolished, and wore busily engaged
during the whole time bringing car
goes of negroes from the coast of
Africa for the Southern market.
Slavery having at length boon abolish.
ed with then, because it was unproita
ble, they forthwith became ranting
abolitionists, and sought to.steal from
us the property for which we paid
themi our money. Our country was
overrun with the emmissarics of aboli
tion societies. They came as clock
peddlers, clock cleaners, vendors of
patent miedioines, drummers for North
ern merchants, sellers of patent wash
ing machines, clothes wringers and
churns, agents for oatch-penny patent
rights of all kinds, but principally
and most hurtfully as schoolmasters
and school marms. Along with the
smattering of an education obtained in
the free schools of the North, where
they sung grammar and geography,
and Webster's dictionary and section
al histories of the United States, they
imbibed all of the bigotry and intoler
ance, and craft and double-dealing
transmitted through the "Pilgrim 14a.
thers" and their Puritan descendants by
the Father of Evil himself. For years
ihese people, whose ancestors fought
Indians for the purpose of capinring and
selling them into slavery-who passed
the Blue laws-who burnt witche., and
were guilty of crimes from which the
savages o! Ashango land would have
recoiled. were prmritted to pract ice their
msidious and diabolical arts on the slaves
of the Sotith, and to poison the minds of
the children whom they taught, with
the accursed doctrines of puritanism and
abolitionism. They came in hordes
scarcely a neighborhood could be found
without its Yankee schoolmaster or
melanni .sumr r"- A.)ir panpla, nsoinrnilly
gen0erous, mn 11d not suspecting that others
could be.guilty of what they scorned,
fuiled to perceive the harm that was
being done by these people, and it was
only a few years before the war that
their tricks wore discovered, and their
number seisibly diminished in the
South.
The war came and whatever harm it
did, it brought us relief from this post.
The school masters and school marms,
who had done what they could to stir up
the hostility between the sections which
culminated in the war, gathered what
they hind gotten here, and, like wild
geeso in spring, took their flight North
ward. We were relieved of their pre
sence for four years, and feel duly thank.
ful for the dispensation of Providence
which vouchsafed to us that much. But
the war came to an end, and in an mn
credible short space of time schools of
male and female pedagogues made their
appearance. A new field was opeoned
to them. Slavery was gone, and the
little negroes must be educated; they
must be taught to sing through their
noses, the rtudmnents of an educa
Lion.
By dint of hard begging they raised
some funds in tho North and entered, as
was their "dooty," on their "labor on
love" with much alacrity. All went of
swimmingly for a while'; their sable pu
pils were taught singinig, and they sang
their a-b abs and a listtle grammar and a
modicum of geography, and "Rally
ro,und the flag" and "John Drown's
body lies monmdering in the clay." Their
parents were industrIously taught mean
while that their former masterb, are their
deadly enemies ; that they must neglect
their work, when they have 'any to do,
and attend political meetmngs; that they
have no friends on earth but Yankee
schoolmasters end schoolmarm i; that
they must vote the. Radical ticket al.
ways and elect carpet.baggers and the
meanest specimens of seal lawag4 to fill
all the offices in the land, their build
iings, which were used as school houses
in the day time, were at night the ren
dezvous of' loyal leagners and scurvy
scoundrels'seeking to got ofice by gull.
ing the mnegroes into voting for t,hem.
'When there is a prospect that the
fpnds given them by Northern societies
for fulfilling their "dooty," are about to
be exhausted, some of them, with a do.
gree of impdidene which approaches
Bubbimity, ask to be -permitted to tar
our people to raise funds to pay him and
his colleaguies for stirring up strife be.
tween us and our former slaves. It
amounts to that. We have uhnown that
they have always been the direst ene
mies of Southern peop e. They do not
egre a fig for the negro. What 'they
want iiu money. Their greedy soul.
long for it', "as the hart panteth after the
water-brook." Will our legislators
gratify them iynpifting free schools?
Wll our.Qiyc opgo ahead of the
Elak;roo a grn to Washburne
the'dearest wish of his life-to put hia
foot into the cIty treasury ? .If they do,
then he will chuckle over their simplci
ty I . pli
There Is no such sentiment as grati
tuden thaebreat da Yaa1,.. p.a..
g-gue. "The world is their oyster."
Kindness shown thet is not appreciated.
The sacred rights of hospitality are dis
regarded, and the common decencies of
Ie are unknown to thoin, or set at
naught. Why, when one 'of thon is
purimitted to accompany a par.y of ]a.
dies on an excursion to this city, where
tey are received hospitably, andi mark
ed attention shown then, he goes back
and fills two columns and a half of his
local paper with nisrevresentations,
perversions and abuse 1
Congress Caught in its Own Trap.
The fourteenth Constitutional
Amendment, now declared to be a
part of the Constitution of the United
States, seems to decide the manner of
voting for electors for President and
Vice-President in a very summary
muanner.
The section two of the amendment
is as follows:
"SECTION 2. Repreentativos shall
be apportioned among the several
States according to their respective
numbers, counting the whole number
of persons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed. But twhen the
right to vote at any election for the choice
of electors for President and Vice-Presi
dent ofthe United States, representa
tives in Congress, the executive and
jud icial officers of a State, or the mem
bers of the Legislature thereof, is do.
nied to any of the malc inhabitants of
such State, being twenty-ona years of
age and oitinans of the United States,
or in any way abridged, except for
participation in rebellion or other
oritme, the basis ofrepresentation therein,
shall be reduced in the proportion, which
the number of such male citizens s/all
bear to the whole number of male citizens
twenty one years of age in such State."
The plain conclusion is that if in
any Stato the election of Presidential
electors is taken out of the hands !of
the people and placed in the handsof
the LOgislature, the whole number of
citizens in the State, not members of
the Legislature, will be excluded from
the basis of representation, which
would give the Stato no more than
one-handredth part of one ropresenta.
tive or vote in the electoral college
instead of the number to which she is
now entitled. It is to be hoped that
the Congressmen from Florida whose
btate haA already pase a law giving
the elettion of Presidential electors to
the Logislature, will at once resign
the seats to which they have no right.
[Charleston News.
THr CaIrcAL. STATE oF AFFAIRs
IN LouIsIANA.-An informal meeting
was held last night, 15th inst., in the
Governor's office between prominent
members of both parties. 3oth con
ceded that danger of collision was
imminent. The Democratio gentle
men expressed the opinion that the
best and only way to insure peace was
to stop the system of aggressive and
oppressive legislation now In progress;
that the Democratic and Conservative
elements of the country expootod to ao
complish nothing except in a legal
and constitutional way, but that It
was unwise and improper for the State
Government to defy the sentiment and
wishes of the people ; and that if the
Governor would throw himself upon
the people they would sustain hm,
adit would not.be necessary to resort
to force for the preservation of the
peace.
Governor Warmouth stated lhe was
authorized to say on behalf of the
Repulicns hatthere was nothing in.
oesnwih they can do or concede
which will not be done to sciuro har
mony. IHo promised that measures.
(not of party politics) Qbnoxious to
the citizens willbe modified. HIe said
he was in earnest in desiring to scure
the welfare of all, and preserve peace
'and good order.
Another meeting is to be hold in a
few days, when it is hoped some p rae
tical illustration of the mutual desiro
for harmony will be presented.
The moedecraze Riepublicans (unfor
tunately b'ut few In number) concede
that the system of legislation hereto
fore arid now pursued is calculated to
create strife. The Democracy say the
preservation of order is what they
most earnestly desire, and that It6tests
with the Republicans.
THE "WAR Foa THEG UNZON."-The
war'for the Union seems to have paid
some of Its heroes. A correspondent of
the New Yor Mn, writing from the
IWest, says:
"We see men who wont into the army
AS lieutenants, so poor their neighbors
had to contribute an outfit to them, now,
daishing about in fiea carriages, and pos
sessed of fine es'ses. They never had
more than a captain's pay. We all
know that they stole all over and above
that. And the other day our county
treasurer eloped to Canada wih anotlier
man's wife, lHe was a brave soldier,
and a good, steady fellow, until he be
came tiMasurer. He mighjt have fled'
with no end of waves to Utah, or to the
devil, but unfortunately for himsself, an
investigationa of his books~ brought out
the "act that he sought to make the
public pay for his private gratiiekns,
and o the Indigriant public tomok after
him.and procured his arrest?"
I his ben ascertained that some' la
dies osa paint as all fiddlers do roein.Jto
aid them1 in draw a bean.
Horace Greely.
In the same proportion that Greeley
grows lugubrious, the Democratic journ.
als become eager and animated. The
1World darted upon its antagonist the
minute he slank away, and expedited
his retreat withi a vigorous vis a tergo-.
a terrible fire in the rear. Alluding to
Greeloy's discomfiture, it says:
"We are neither pleased nor sorry
that the Republican leaders have at last
a realizing sense of their weakness and
naecurity. Activity will no more savo
thein than supineness, so it maitters lit
tLie whether they prosecute their cam
paign in a sanguine spirit of confidence
or With the spasmodic energy of despera
tion. In fact., everything they have
done for the last ten months is a syip.
tom of decrepitude, but most of all the
nomination of such a inan as General
Grant. Why did they go out of their
party to nominate hint? Simply be
cause their party had so sunk in publio
confidence that. they had no hope of sue
cese with any of their old leaders. But
the nomination of Grant has not helped
them. III every election which has
been held since it was determined on,
the party has lost ground. And now,
after elighting all their old leaders for a
neophyte, and found that he is a weak
candidate, they begin to feel the necessi.
ty of casting aside all that is most char
acteristic in their policy. Observe how,
in the following paragraphs, the 2i.
bune attempts to befog and shift the is
sue :
"'This is the real and only question,"
says Frank Blair. 'It is idlo to talk of
bonds, greenbacks, gold, the public faith,
aid the public credit. Wo rnust have
a President who will execute the will of
the people by tranpling into dust the
utisurpations of Congress knoton aa the
reconstruction acts. I wish to stand be.
fore the convention upon this issue,
but it is one which embraces evrythina
else.,
"Frank was entirely right; this is the
real and only question ; thisi does em.
brace every tiling else. Shall the con
stitutional amendment, now solemnly in
corporated in the foundation of our law
remain? For this amendment is the
Congressional plan of reconstructie.
'rhO subsequent measures were adopted in
order to secure the success of the amend
ment; and now that the amendment has
become a part of the onstitution, and
is proclainied by the iecretary of the
State, the military bills are of no further
ef'ect ; they pass out of existence. Mili
tary rule at the South, in all the States
which have adopted the amendment, is
at an end. It was never intended to be
more than temporary. and its aim having
been accomplished, it ceased.
"The real issuo now before the peo.
ple, that which they must decide at the
next Presidential election, is.-Shall the
fourteenth amendment stand as a part
of the fundamental law of the land ?
"Out of the general wreck of the ro
ccnstruction acts of Congrees, the 2W.
bune deems it neeless to try to save any
thing but the new constitutional amend
ment. It therefore represents the sta
bility of that amendment as the chief,
and, so far as regards reconstruction, the
solo issno of the canvass We will not
stop to remark on the dishonesty of this
representation; our object is merely to
call attention to the groat 'change of
base' which the fears of the 'MWbune im'
pel it to attemp'.. There is noting in
t.he 'fourteenth amendment' which for
bids the exclusion of every Southern
negro from the ballot box. If thoy are
excluded, the States will have proper
tionally fewer representatives in the
lower branch of Congress, but the
amendment permits themi to regulate the
elective rranchiise as they please. Tile
fact that the Tribune tries to retreat to
the position its party occupied before the
reconstruction acts were passed, is a
significant indication of thleir great un
popularity, and such a confession of
weakness as we did not expect from thlat
quarter,"
Ruarons or WAR.--The New York
cOIrespondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger, writing Thursday, says :
Large purchases of hay have
just been made in this market, on
acoount of the French Government.
This fact, together with recent heavy
purobases of horses for the same party,
and the enormous accumulation of
bullion in the Bank of France, (equal
to $25,000,000 in gold, now, is look
ed upon by not a few of the 'longest
heads, In Ainancial and business cir
olos here, as indicative of a coing
war-notwithstanding the Emperor's
protestations that the empire Is ~eace,
Private letters from inte igent
sources, on the other side, fall in with
this expectation. They sy thero Is
much dlssatlsfaction of a poUUcal
character beginning to nanitet ftaelf
in veryv unmistakable foring aefeng
the masses, (though the public Jour-.
nals are silent on the subjects and that
the Emperor, to avert tiptela at
home, may deem i6 politic toAget #p a
war with his neighbors. That, we
are assured, is the certain drift of all
his late movement.
Somebody calls courtship p
with twoi mates an'd no paptina To
frequently the purser doma
craft. ~
Spain i nta
ed condition of the country Is
to dia troos result., and a Anan~i
orsaatioipated.