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M?? ~.-__ . _ _ ' ? .. ^^^^^^ ! ^ ' ,y '-;? ' ? ^-g Ail Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligencei ?_:_'_'_;_;_-_?_| BXOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON 0. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1871. VOLUME 6?NO. 5h A RAMPANT OLD REBEL. _? The Tribune Correspondent Interviews Gen. Robert Toombs. s* ~" ?- '? I Washington, Ga., June 8. Robert Toombs, ex-senator of the United States, and ex-general in the rebel array, is looked upon as the leader of that portion of the Democratic party in Georgia that has ac? cepted none of the results of the war; the leader of those who carefully keep alive all the animosities of the struggle, and sedulously teach bitter and rebellious sentiments to their children. General Toombs occasionally deliv? ers a lecture that he has prepared upon Magna Charta, which is in reality a violent stump speech in favor of the right of secession, and against the constitutional amendments and the reconstruction laws. Thi3 is the way he con? cludes his lecture, as described by an Augusta - paper: "With his body bent slightly forward, his eye blazing, his hand raised aloft, grasping a copy of Magna Charta, he exclaimed, when you can tear the live thunder from its home in the burning other, and bind it at the foot-stool j of tyranny, then, and not till then, will I ac? cept the" situation.'' - t 1 thought it*was worth making a special! journey to so) the man who could talk like this six years aftur the end of the war. I was cn? I xiom. to know what object he had in trying to revive the fast-dying spirit of rebellion, and whether he (till expected, as of old, to one day I call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker j ?911 Monument To reach this place one I comes out on the Georgia Railroad three hours travel from Augusta, and after waiting three ] home more ut a way station, takes a train on a j branch road that runs twenty miles north from Washington. The conductor of the train on j this branch road appeared to be also mail agent, baggage-master and brakeman, and, besides these various official functions, he informed j me that he made a practice of taking in stran-1 Srs at a moderate price. Having arrived at j e depot, like all Southern railway stations j odorous of* guano, and crossed the public square, the conductor ponted out a stalwart j man with a very large head, informing me that it was General Toombs. After I had divested myself of traveling gear, in the little one story cottage of my host, Iwentbacx and introduced myself to the general. He shook hands with me and said, "Well, you have come to the I headquarterj of the Ku Klus. Let me make I yea acquainted with the Grand Cyclops,"" pre-1 seating me to a pleasant-faced man in a linen coat, having a German physiognomy. Ire marked that nothing in the gentleman's an pearance indicated tnat'ne was the chief of the I Klan. "Oh, he's as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled ship or cut a throat," the general replied, "Bit, seriously this town is Ku Elux [ headquarters. I carried this county for aeces- ] don in 1861 with only seven votes -against me, I and now there isn't a single white Radical liv-1 ing in this county. We've no use for them here." The general said that if I would walk j across the square to his office he would join J nie soon. I found in the office General Du I Boso, member of Congress from this district,} and son-in-Liw of Gen. Toombs. He told me how, through the activity of the white people, and the "moral influence1' they brought to] bear, nearly all the negroes in the county had been induced to vote for him at the late eleo I tion. He was quite positive that there had! been no intimidation or threats of discharge ] from employment used to make the negroes de-1 ?ert the Republican party. He said the Radi-1 cal Legislature had changed the election law j and provided that all the voting in each conn-1 ty should be done at the county seat) and that I ' the election should last three days; the idea] being that if the negroes were all collected to-J gether they would be led by a few "smart nig-1 gore" living in the country towns, and would j vote solid tor the Radical ticket, bat thescheme | did not work. Is s few minutes General Toombs came in. and soon commenced to talk politics. I tola him that he was "understood to represent the most ultra wing of the Democratic party in Georgia, snd that I was desirous of learning his views upon political questions. "Yes," he I said, "I am one of the red-hot kind." "What do you think of the new departure of the Northern Democracy, as expounded by Vallan-1 digham and the Pennsylvania Convention?! Shall yon support it ?" "Never, I would soon- j er vote for Horace Greeley than for any Demo erat upon such a platform. Greeley and the ] Republicans first got it up; it's their patent, j ana I have more respect for them than for such j scoundrels as Vallan digham. who wants to steal their ideas." Mr. Toombs spoke at some length in this style, declaring finally that the people of the South could never be brought to accept the constitutional amendments as final- j ities, and that if the Democratic party took j that ground they would hav? nothing to do with that party. "What do you look forward j to in the future ?" I asked; "how can you es cape the results of the war?" "We will fight you again just as soon as we can get ready," he answered; "and 1 believe We can get ready much sooner than most people^think." "You cannot seriously believe that ""the South will I attempt another war ?" "I certainly do, and I believe that I shall live to see Southern inde-1 bendence. Many of our people are losing the nope that they will see ? 'tebiloh' in their day, but they are training their children up to tako j tip the work." General Toombs talked in the most bitter way against the Republican party, ] which he denounced as composed of thieves, I robbers and prison convicts; "There is not an honest man in the Radical party id Georgia," he said. He accused the Northers Republicans of sending down the worst kind of rascals to plunder and oppress the South. He maintain ed that this class of men were purposely select on to abuse and impoverish the Southern peo-1 pie. He would not admit that the Republican party as a national organization had any hon-1 ?sty or patriotism, and the hard names he called it, and the sins with which he charged it, would fill a column. I asked if he thought any considerable number of men in Georgia agreed with him in desiring a renewal of the war, and in still hoping for Southern indepen? dence. "Two-thirds of all the white men in this State and in all the South are of this way cf thinking," he replied; "and if you will go into the country among the planters, you will -find what I say is true. In the large towns the .editors and business men talk differently, but they know nothing of the sentiments of the people." . Later in the conversation General Toombs spoke of the civilization of the South as com Sired with that of the North and of Europe, e bad traveled, he said, over much of the world, and had seen no higher civilization than that of Virginia and Georgia. The civilization .of the North was far below it. He thought the agricultural population of New England the poorest class 01 people he had ever seen. I replied that the agricultural people of Georgia and South Carolina were the poorest people I bad ever seen, and thereupon a discussion arose as to what constituted a nigh degree of civili , ration, the general declaring that it did not consist in packing people together as thick as hogs in a pen, which, he said, was the North era idea. He thought a thiuly settled country, where people had room enough and did not in? terfere with each other, and where the laboring class was owned or controlled by the land? holders, was the highest type of modern civili? zation. I changed the subject, and asked if he thought immigration desirable for the South ? "No/* he replied, "we don't want Northern men to come here; lei them stay at home where they belong. This is our country, and we want to keep it for ourselves and children. If people who call themselves our conquerors insist on coming hero against our. wishes, they need expect no welcome from ns. We will have nothing to do with, theim" General Toombs spoku with great bitterness of the reconstruction acts and constitutional amendments. The pa-ty that passed them were liars, he said, for they pretended to be? lieve in self-government, and at the same time would not give the South any liberty to regu? late her own affairs, bot ruled her first by mili? tary officers and then by a horde of Northern thieves .sent down here to hold the offices and tyrannize over the people. "Why can't you let us alone ?" he went on excitedly. "If your idea of government is not a lie, stay away and let ns manage our own affairs. We don't want to have anything to do vrith you. We had the satisfaction of killing more than 200,000 of you, and if my advice had been followed the war would not hate ended nntil we had killed more." Once upon the Bubject of war, he went on to argue the right of secession, to de? nounce the North, and to call the Union army a horde of mercenaries, marauders and thieves. It was clear that the war had taught him no lesson, and that his feelings were as bitter as when the contest was at its height. He finally got upon the subject of tho present State Gov? ernment of Georgia. Gov. Bullock, he said, had stolen $10,000,000 from the State for him? self and his friends. The bonds tbe Radicals had issued would never be paid. It amused him to see the Wall street bankers buying them at 80 or 90 cents on the dollar, when they were not worth a copper. No man here would give a dime for a bushel of them. He hoped Bul? lock would forge a lot of them, and give the New York Yankees all they would take at any price. It was a way of foraging on the enemy that he liked to see. Not a dollar of the debt contracted since the war would ever be paid. He gave an entertaining description of the the character and antecedents of the prominent Radicals in the State, and would not admit that there was a decent man among them all. Most of the members of the Legislature, he said, never ventured to go back to the counties they pretended to represent, for they knew the people would hang them if they did. The two members from the neighboring county of Lin? coln had never been there siuce they were elect? ed, in 1868. As regards negro suffrage, that he thought an unmixed evil. A great lump of ignorance and vice had been made part of the governing class. He said vice because the negroes were all thieves. They were like animals, and would steal anything they eaw that they want? ed, as naturally as a hog would break into a potato-field or a dog would seize a piece of meat He did not think an intelligent qualifi? cation for suffrage would remedy the evil Reading and writing did not fit a man for voting. The Paris mob were intelligent, but they were the most dangerous class in the world to be trusted with any of the powers of government. A property qualification was ?hat was necessary for a stable government Only those who owned the country-should govern it and men who had no property had no right to make laws for property-holders. He said thero was no harm in the negroes voting as long as the whites all belonged to one party, but the danger he feared was that the whites would eventually divide into two parties on State is? sues, and that a party would be formed, com? posed of the lower classes of white men?the dangerous, irresponsible element?and that the negroes, by natural affinity, would join that Earty which would then be in the majority, and eing able to control the State, would then at? tack the interests of the landed proprietors.? The Radicals have been greatly mistaken in counting upon the negroes as the basis of their Sarty. "The negroes, now that they are satis ed there is no danger of being re-enslaved, will vote just as their employers tell them.? They can't afford to do anything else. They are attached to their old homes, nnd have no money with which to move and find new ones, and they will not risk being discharged by voting against the planters who biro them. Two-thiras of the negroes in this county Voted with the Democrats last fall, he said. I asked if, when the golden age of Southern independence came, which ho bo confidently expected, the blacks would be reduced to slavery again. He thought not, and said that slavery would have gradually died out if se? cession had been successful, because it would soon have ceased to be profitable. Only in cotton culture did slave labor pay, because cotton is a crop that must be worked 365 days in a year. Corn requires but 40 days' labor, and wheat but 20; so thero was no profit in feeding a man and his family a whole year to get his labor to raise corn or wheat. There never was any question of morals connected with slavery, he said: it was only a matter of profit or loss. I was glad to find that, on this question, General Toombs had made some prog? ress in his opinions during the past ten years, and that he no longer expects to have that roll call at the foot of the monument. General Toombs characterized the Ku Klux as the nat? ural protest of an oppressed people against tyranny. Madame De btoel, he said, had de? scribed the Russian Government as a despot? ism tempered by assassination. Although he did, not say so in explicit terms, ho let it be clearly inferred that he considered tho recon? structed governments of the Southern States as despotisms tempered by Ku Kluxism. The conversation lasted an hour, and was much of tho time a discussion which I consid? ered more acrimonious than courteous on tho part of General Toombs, ns he was the aggres? sor and assailed the Northern people, their habits, customs, ancestors and character with oxtreme violence. Half an hour aftenvard wo Earted. While strolling about the town I met im on his way home, and cordially invited me to tako tea with him, Bomewhat to my sur? prise. We walked up a narrow street bordered by handsomo white houses, with pretty door yards, and turned into a lovely garden filled with roses in bloom and many varieties of blossoming shrubs and ornamental trees, through which a long path led ur> to the high pillared piazza of a fine house. He presented me to his family in a pleasant room, filled with Sictures, books, and other object* of taste.? 'nee at home the manner of the General changed at once, and instead of the bitter po? litical partisan he became tho genial host, and talked in the most entertaining manner of his travels abroad, of his residence in Paris, of EngliBh politics and statesmen, and of the fu? ture of the continental nations. Speaking of home affairs he said that all of his old slaves came back to him when ho returned from Eu? rope in 1867, and that his coachmau was the j same man who drove his carriage when he was a Senator at Washington, ami that the man's grandfather was his grandfather's coachman. An hour passed in the most agreeable manner; and when I took my leave I should have con? cluded that the General had, in our first con? versation, amused himself by astonishing mo with extreme views he did not really entertain, had I not heard from many sources t)f his vio? lent reactionary opinions. He is a man of striking personal appearance. He is six feet in height, with a powerful framo^a head some? what resembling that of Daniel Webster, in its unusual size and in the great height and breadth of the forehead. Ho is a rapid and brilliant talker, and has a memory that seems to lose nothing that he has ever seen, heard or read. His knowledge of history is especially thorough, particularly of all the efforts aha struggles for liberty that the world has known ?the most glorious of all these struggles being, in his opinion, the Southern rebellion. He is a man that it is easy to see would be a leader wherever he might be placed, and his influence in Georgia is admitted to be great . Horace Greeley ok the Production of Cotton.?Mr Greeley, in his" late Address at the Houston Agricultural Fair, says: I am not young as you see; yet I cannot re? member a time when the South did not affirm ? and deplore an excessive addiction of her peo? ple to cotton. That eminent scholar and states? man, Hujh S. Legare, alluded to it as a venera? ble grievance, thirty odd years ago. Before as well as since every one remonstrated with ev? ery one against the fatuity which impelled Southrons to plant so much cotton, exhorted all to retrencn and reform, and then slide away to plant a few more acres than ever before.? For generations, it was reiterated *s an axiom that cotton culture depended on slavery; yet slavery is dead, and we produced nearly one million ton of cotton in 1870?more than in any former year, with the exception of i860. Yet, in this year of grace, 1871, we have the old cry from millions of throats?"Plant less cotton I"?and I presume with tho old result. The army-worm, the boll-worm, may diminish the cotton crop; expostulation, I.judge, will not. I know no more striking illustration of what St. Paul terms "the foolishness of preach? ing" than this incessant yet fruithless clamor against growing so much cotton. Doubtless the remonstrants are right, as re? monstrants are apt to be. But, after two gen? erations of incessant deprecation, the passion for cotton planting seems as intense and per? vading as.ever. The owner of a thousand ara? ble acres, after hearing all that is to be said against it plants almost exclusively cotton.? Tne poorest negro, who owns and rents a dozen acres, puts in his field of cotton, and takes his chance for bread. He has endured less preach? ing on the subject than his old master but, had he been lectured from infancy on the madness of cotton planting, he would have planted all the same. And this for a most obvious reason. Cotton is money and is power. Cotton is of such mod? erate bulk in proportion to its value that it bears' transportation far better than wheat, com, or fruit, or vegetables.7 It endures tropic suns and arctic fl-osts without injury ; it neither molds, nor rots, nor rusts,* nor purifies, He who has cotton to sell does not quake at the foot? steps of the tox-gathertr, and can generally look the sheriff square in the face; How to Make a Place Prosperous.? There can hardly bo a greater sign of prosperi? ty in a community than a disposition to help one another, to lift a little when a neighbors wheel gets stuck in the mud. I knew of a place where a man's barn, with all his winter s stores of grain and hay was consumed in the night. Immediately all the men of the country side mustered and hauled up timbers for a new barn, and then a big raising came off. After that the sound of twen? ty or more hammers was heard until tho whole was shingled and sided. But their deed of kindness was not done yet; one and another offered to tako a head or two of his stock and winter them for him, thus greatly reducing his l^ss, and assuring him of the more durable nches of brotherly love and neighborly good? will. No one can compute in money the value of one such example. of noble liberality in a community, especially in its influence upon the young. Where this spirit prevails there is sure to bo progress in ? place, even if all im Erovements are in their infancy. People will ko to come and settle in a place which bears si h a good name. Now, if you desire to see your place a grow? ing, popular one, do what you can to show yourself a good neighbor, especially to those who need a little extra help. If a man starts a tin shop or a blacksmith shop in your place, don't harness up and drive off five miles to buy your pans and get your horses shod, just because you have been in the habit of doing it. Patronizo tho new-comer, when yon want anything in his line. Speak encouragingly to him, and well of him to your neighbors. Little words of approval or censure go a long way, and when onco you havo spoken them, you cannot call them back. Help the sick, especially if they are poor, for poverty and illness are indeed a heavy burden. Perform all acts of loving charity which fall daily in your path, remembering who it is that has said, "Ye shall in no wise lose your re? ward." ; A Brave Deed.?A fire occurred at Find lay, Ohio, commencing about half-past three o'clock of the morning of the 26th ult. An ice-house and two stables were destroyed. A thrilling incident of the fire is thus related by a correspondent of the Cincinnati CbmmerciaJ: In one of the buildings three kegs of powder were stored; when the fact became known the crowd began to run ; but not so with a young man named Harry Erb, who seeing that unless the powder was removed from the burning structure a terrible loss of life and property would result, sprang forward, and crying, '?Stand back; there is powder in here, and I am going to fight it out," rushed into tho burn? ing building. For a moment ho was lost from eight, but in a moment reappeared, bearing in his arms two kegs of powder, which wore soon in a place ofsnfety, but the third still remained. But Erb did not count the cost. Again telling the crowd to stand back, he pushed his wav into the flaming mass. As he passed through the bnilding the flames wore leaping and hiss? ing all around; denso masses of hot, black smoko almost blinded him, but nothing stayed his purpose. Before ho reached tho object of his search tho keg had caught fire; yet, with? out seeming to notice his terrible danger, he picked up the powder and carried it from the building. _ ? Some men aro strangelv sensitive. They will get drunk, ravo about the streets, yelling like savages, go home, boat their wives, turn thoir children out of doors, resist the ofticora who arrest them, pay a fine before the court, and having made themselves as notorious as possible, will slide around to the editor and beg him, with tears in their eyes, not to bring dis? grace in their families by mentioning the little affair in the paper. ? A cross old bachelor suggests that births should be anuounced under tho head of new music. ' For the Anderson Intelligencer. The Free Common School Systeitn. Mb. Editor : That the political redemption i and salvation of South Carolina, as remarked in a previous article, are, at this time, suspen? ded upon a general diffusion of education Among the masses; that our relations as a State to the Federal Government, under the Recon? struction Acta of Congress, In the practical application of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendmonts to the Federal compact between the States, render universal education an im? perative necessity which cannot possibly be evaded with impunity, are propositions, the truthfulness of which; must be apparent to every intelligent mind that has only, taken a bird's-eye view of our lamentable, perilous sit? uation I That under the old regime the impor? tance and absolute necessity of general intelli? gence among the masses were not by one-half as essential as at present, from the fact that none save the educated, property-holding class were permitted to tike any active part in the affairs of the State; or what amounted to the same thing, none save those in possession of a certain, weil defined property qualification were admitted into the legislative department of the State; that, notwithstanding every while man, whether "to the manor born," or natural? ized foreigner Was privileged to exercises the elective franchise, yet in the exercise of this privilege he was restricted to a cerlain class for whom be should cast his vote. Now, sir, whether this was or wai not the wiser and better policy, compared with the present, we will not stop to discuss; but there was one thing connected with this system which gave it a redeeming quality which should not be overlooked. However anti-republican this system may have appeared, theoretically considered, yet in the practical operation of the Government, in the absence or universal intelligence, it served as a safety-valve to pre? vent ignorant, corrupt and irresponsible legis? lation. Now, as this salutary restraint has been re? moved by the Reconstruction Acts Of Congress, despoiling tho State of its constitutionally guaranteed sovereign right, in that of being its own judge in deciding who Bhould vote and who should be eligible to be voted for; and as these Acts necessarily compel us to accept uni? versal suffrage, and what is still worse, univer? sal- eligibility to office, whether that office belongs to the legislative, executive or judicial department of the government, hence it be? comes us as lovers of our ancient common? wealth to adopt some other expedient to coun? teract ot prevent corrupt, dishonest and irre? sponsible legislation. And as it is an axiom in morals that it is always the wisest and best policy in the prosecution of any contemplated object, so as to insure its certain and speedy accomplishment,- to make use of the means under our control that are the most likely to bring about this accomplishment; therefore, notwithstanding we are well satisfied that the enfranchisement and eligibility to office con? ferred upon the late slaves of the South were unconstitutional, unwise and premature, yet these privileges have been conferred, and no doubt irrevocably, too ; therefore, it behooves us as good citizens to adopt at once, without any delay, that kind of policy which is the most available, and the most likely in iris na? ture to counteract the evils now liowing in upon us through Federal aggression and usur? pation. The only alternative left us, in our humble; opinion, may be announced in one short, imperative sentence: South Carolina, educate the masses 1 The reply at this point, no doubt, will be? Why, sir, your premises seem to involve tho advocacy of tho education of tho negro. You are right, sir; this is the iuevitablo conclusion to which we are driven. And let it be dis? tinctly understood that-we take this position exclusively upon the ground of expediency? . as a political necessity, as a self-defence against Federal encroachment, as a safety-valve against carpet-bag legislation and scalawag spoliation; Ana taking the moral axiom as a political touchstone in this case, that self-preservation is the first great law of our being, then if it can be shown that the political redemption, salvation and final preservation of the State of South Carolina depend upon tho education of the colored race, then we may very logically conclude that our position is impregnable, and that we shall be able to maintain and hold it against all comers! Now, gentle reader, if the aphorism be true, and who doubts it, that the very idea of a Gov? ernment by -tho people pre-eupposes and neces? sarily involves the idea of the education and intelligence of the people?that the two are inseparably connected?that the first cannot possibly exist where the second is wanting? then it follows as a self-evident truth, that a Government liko that of South Carolina, where the second essential is unquestionably wanting, cannot possibly exist, because the ignorance of tho colored race preponderates over the intelli? gence* of the white m the proportion of three to two! And, mark you, the ignorance of the negro is two-fold worse than the same degree of ignorance in the white man, because of his late relation to the white man. It is not in consonance with the laws which govern the human, mind for him not to be distrustful of his late master. Hence, we find that they are not in sympathy with the men from whom they have been lately freed; and designing dema? gogues, taking advantage of this circumstance, feigning themselves to bo tl oir best and only friends among the white race, have, using the negro's ignorance as an instrument by which to promote their own personal interests; robbed both the colored and white man 1 Yet we may and do practically ignore these vital and momentous lacta, closing our eyes, as it were, to prevent sceingjtheir appalling and ruinous consequence ; yet wc cannot avoid feeling their disastrous results, which are al? ready upon us, extorting our vory life's blood, pressing us down under the iron heel of the despicable, petty despot, robbing us daily through irresponsible, corrupt legislation, le? galizing a continual and ever-increasing spolia? tion of onr hard earnings, to go into tho un? fathomable pockets of irresponsible and un? principled carpet-baggers and loathsome and thievish scalawags. And all, all through ignorance 1 for it is contrary to human nature to think otherwise. Think you that if tho negro clearly understood tho situation, that his interests and ours are identical, that he would vote, as ho has done, to inaugurate and perpet? uate such an infamous reign of seoundrelisin as that which exists at present in our once prosperous and happy State. No, never 1 For man, whether ho belongs to tho white or Afri? can race, is always, as a general rule, governed in his actions, in regard to secular matters, at least, by that whieh he supposes will tend to enhance his own interest. Honco, we have a solution of the great enigma?why it is that the negroes vote for the Radical party. They have constantly been told by the unscrupulous, corrupt members of this political organization in this State?and the negro; in consequence of his ignorance, bolieves it?that their late mas? ters ^are their enemies ; that they are only waiting for some fortuitous, lucky move upon the great political chess-board to put them back into bondage; that the Democratic party is only another name for the Secession party ; that they, the Radical party,' the only friend to tho colored man, fought and whipped the secession or war party?the two being, accord? ing to their vocabulary; synonymes?for the I express purpose of giyifJg the negro his free* dorn; and that should tho colored man vote for the Democratic party he would be voting to forge the chains of his own bondage. In out next we will notice some of the ob? jections offered against educating the negro.' W. H. Townville, S. C. What Horace ?reeley Knows about theKu Klnx and Thieving Carpet-Baggers. On his return to New York, Horace Greeley wos honored with a reception, a( which the ven? erable philosopher and sage delivered an ad? dress upon his experience in ;;he South. He alldded in no very flattering terms to the Ku Klux and Thieving Carpet-baggers, and as "all the world and rest of mankino?' will desire to know his opinions upon these prominent topics of discussion in the South, we make the fol? lowing extracts from the speech: THE KU-KLUX. But I have been asked: "Arethereany Ku Klux down South 1" [Laughter.] Yes, Gen? tlemen, there are. They didn't come ur to me and tell me that they were Ku-Klux very often. [Laughter.] They didn't undertake to perform their delicate operations upon me. I should have had very much more respect for them if thoy had. [Great laughter.] I am moved with profound disgust when I think .of these men, covering themselves up with second .rate calico, masking their faces, arming themselves to the teeth, and riding around to the cabins of poor harmless negroes, dragging them from their beds, and whipping and maiming them until they are compelled to swear they will never again vote the Republi? can ticket. I hold that to be a very cowardly Erocedure as well as a very base one; and I old it to bo the duty of the Government of the Union to oppose with all its power and all its force every such execrable procedure as this. Do yon toll me that those men are liable to the State laws for the assaults and batteries they have committed? I don't doubt it; but I say they are also in substance and purpose traitors to the Government, rebels against its authori? ty, and the most cowardly, skulking rebels ever known to this or any other country. [Ap? plause.] I hold our Government bound, by its duty of protecting our citizens in their fundamental rights, to pass and enforce laws for the extirpa? tion of the execrable Ku-Klux conspiracy; and, if it has not power to do it, then I say our Government is no Government, bat a sham. I therefore, on every proper occasion, advo? cated and justified the Ku-Klux act. I hold it especially desirable for the South; and, if it does not prove strong enough to effect its pur? pose, I hope it will be made stronger and strong? er. [Applause.] Why, fellow-citizens, these very men that asked me if 1 saw any Ku-Klux?these very men have themselves read tho returns of the election in Louisiana, when that State, with 80, 000 Black majority on its registers, was made to vote for Seymour and Blair by more than j 80,000 majority*; counties which had 8,000 ne? gro voters alone giving three, two, one, and in several instances no votes at all, for Grant and Col fox. Now, friends, you and they know per? fectly well that this result was secured by ter? ror and by violence; by telling those Black men, "You shall vote for Seymour and Blair, the enemies of your fundamental rights, or you shall not rote at all, or you shall be killed." That was the way Louisiana was made Demo? cratic in 18G8; and that is the way that I trust she wiil never be made to vote again. There? fore I uphold and justify the Ku-Klux law. Fellow-citizens, the Ku-Klux are no myth, al? though they shroud themselves in darkness. They are not flitting ghosts; they are a bane? ful reality. They have paralyzed the Right of suffrage in many counties throughout the South and have carried States that they ought not to have carried; but they are not the only ene? mies to Republican ascendancy in the South. THE THIEVING CABPET-BAGGEB8. There is another influence equally injurious with theirs, and a great deal more detrimental to tho fame and character of the Republican party. I allude to what are known as the "thriving carpet-baggers." [Applause.] Fel? low-Citizens, do not mistake me. All the Northern men in the South aro not thieves. The larger part of them are honest and good men, soino of whom stay there at the peril of their lives, because thoy believe ic to bo their duty. Next to the noble and true women, who havo gone down South to teach Black children how to read?nobler there are not ou earth than these, whom a stupid, malignant, dilapidated aristocracy often sees fit to crowd into negro hovels to live> not allowiug them to enter any white society because they arc teaching negro children?next to these, who rank as the no? blest women in the South, are the honest and worthy Northern men, who, in the face of so? cial proscription and general obloquy and scorn, stand firmly by the Republican cause. The public is often heedlessly unjust. Let a Government have 10,000 official subordinates in power, of whom 9,900 aro honest and true men who do their duty fai thfully, while hardly 100 are robbere and swindlers, tho public will hear a great deal more al>out the 100 robbers than about the 9,900 true men. The 100 stand out in the public eye?they arc alw .ys doing something which exposes them to tb) scornful gaze of the multitudo?while the honest and true men pass along silent: and unobserved, and nothing is said, very little is thought of them. All attention is concentrated upon tho 100, who are defaulting and stealing, and forging, and running away. Well, gentlemen, the thieving carpet-baggers are a mounful fact; they do exist there, and I have seen them. [Laughter.] They are fel? lows who crawled down South in the track of our armies, generally a very safe distance in tho rear; some of them on sutlers' wagons; some bear cotton permits; some of them look? ing sharply to see what may turn up; and they remain there. They at once ingratiated them? selves with the blacks, simple, credulous, igno? rant men, very glad to welcome and to follow any whites who professed to be the champions of their rights. Sonic of these got elected Senators, others Representatives, some Sheriffs, some Judges, and so on. And there there they stand, right in the public eye, stealing and plundering, many ot them with both arms around negroes, and their hands in their rear Sockets, seeing if they cannot pick a paltry ollaxoufc of them; and the public looks at them, does not regard tho honest Northern men, but calls every "carpet-bagger" a thief, which is not tho truth by a good deal. But these fellows?many of them long-faced, aud with eyes rolled up, aro greatly concerned for the education of the blacks, and for the salva? tion of their souls. [Great laughter.] "Let us pray," they say. But they spell pray with an "o" and, thus spelled, they obey the apos? tolic injunction to pray with??t ceasing." ... Fellow-citizens; the time has been and still is, when it was perilous to. be known as a Re? publican or Abolitionist in the South, but it never called the bliish of shame to any man's cheek to be so called, until these thievi?gjcar pet-baggers went there I [Applause.] They ?ot into the Legislature; they went to issuing t?te bonds; they pretended to use them in aid Of railroads aha other improvements. But j the improvements were not made, and the bonds stuck in the issuers' pockets; [Laugh* ter.l That is the" piiy of it. "Well," somesay, "you have just such thieves at the North." Yes, we do?too many of them i [Applause.] But the South was already im pbvefished?was bankrupt:?without money; without thrift, almost without food; and these fellows went there robbing and swindling when there was very little to steal, and taking the last ten-cent shinplaster off of the dead men's eyes. They wore recognized by the late aris? tocracy not merely as thieves but as enemies;'"* Says Byron's Greek minstrel: "a tyrant?bnt our masters then Were still at least tfnr countrymen." Thus we record the men who annually rob us at Albany, at Trenton and at Harrisbiirg. They do not carry their plunder out of the State when they get any.- . These fellows do! The South was not merely beaten in the late contest, she was profoundly astonished by the result. Her people have not fairly got; over their amazement at their defeat; and what they, see of us, are these thieves, who represent the North to their jaundiced vision, and, rep-" resenting it, they disgrace it. ? They are the greatest obstacle to the triumph and permanent ascendancy of Republican principles at the South, and as such I denounce them. [Ap? plause.] The Story of an Old Political Song.? The announcement of the death of John Grei ner, the Whig song writer of 1840-44, has called up some amusing reminiscences frOm the veterans of that day. A writer in the Cin? cinnati Comviercial furnishes the following: It seems that one of the objections to plac? ing Frelinghuysen on the ticket with. Henry Clay was that they couldn't make his name rhyme in the political songs, which in those days performed so important a part in a Presi? dential canvass. Some of the Ohio delegaters replied that there would be no difficulty about that; they had with them a man equal to any rhythmetical emergency. (Jreiner was hunted up, and immediately dashed off a song, the re? frain of which was: "Hurrah! Hurrah! the country's rising, For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen," set it to an air; and presently sang it in public; There was a rush to the stand were Greiner stood for the copy, those wanting it being Whig editors, who were present to report, proceedings; Greiner looked around him. Not liking the appearance of the shambling, carelessly-dressed applicant nearest him, he handed the copy to one of more impressive appearance. It turned out that he had refused. his song to Horace Greeley and given it to the editor of a country newspaper. The song, however, soon found its way into all the Whig papers. and campaign* song books; and there are doubtless thousands of men, then mete boys,- who have a clear re? collection of the vigor with which the burden of the song quoted was shouted at the great Whig gatherings of that year. J.' M I r ? A Northern Editor's Opinion.?The ed? itor of tho Geneva (N. Y.) Qazctte belonged to an excursion party of editors recently visiting Virginia and North Carolina, and from his notes of travel, we extract the following: * So far in our journey we have not met a sin^' gle "rebel" who does not in good faith and ill all sincerity accept the issues of the war, re-, solved in his own mind to stand by the Union and yield implicit obedience to tho* constitution" and laws. They complain of nothing but the" political ostracism ot their leaders, and even in that respect bide patiently the time when a sense of charity and justice shall impel our rulers to declare general amnesty. They one and all desire Northern men to come among them, to purchase and settle npon their lands, and by their energy, experience and capital, help to develop the natural wealth and resour? ces of this favored clime. Lands are offered very cheap?for from |3 to $60 per acre/ ac? cording to improvements?lands that will pro? duce all crops and fruits peculiar to the North* and others that flourish only in this milder latitude. Still, tobe frank with Our readers, we advise them?be they farmers, tradesmen, professional men, mechanics or laborers?that if they are well circumstanced at homo, en? gaged in business that aflbrds them sure remu? neration and reasonable profit from year to year, are* blessed with good hc?lfhV and'sor ronnded by peaceful, kind and genial neighy bors?to remain where they are?to migrate nei? ther to the South nor West?but if determined upon a change, wo believe the South offers greater attractions than the, West in cheap farms, a healthy climate, and intelligent, re? fined society among the white race. Charity is not Selfishness.? It is not Charity to give a penny to tho street medicant of whom nothing is kuown, while we haggle with a poor man, out of employment, for a mis? erable dime. It is not charity to beat down a poor seamstress to starvation price; to let her sit in her wet clothes sewing ail dav; to deduct from her pitiful remuneration if the storm de? lays her prompt arrival. It is not charity to take" a poor relative into your family and make her a slave of all your whims, and taunt her continu? ally with her dependent situation. It is not charity to turn a man who is out of work into tho streets with his family, because he cannot pay his rent. It is not charity to exact the ut? most farthing from the widow and orphan. It is not charity to give with a supercilious nir and patronage, as if God had made you, the rich man, of different blood from the shivering recipient, whose only crime is that he is poor. It is not charity to be au extortioner?not though you bestow your alms by the thousand. Modern Dictionary.?Distant Relations ?People who imagine they have a claim to rob you if you are rich, and to insult you if you are poor. Belle?A beautiful ffreless insect, without wings, whose colors fade on being removed from the sunshine. Heart?A rare article, sometimes found . in human beings. It is soon, however, destroyed by commerce with the world, or else becomes fatal to its possessor. Marriage?The gate through which the hap? py lover leaves his encbatftea regions, and re? turns to earth. . . .. Death?An ill-bred fellow who visits people at all seasons, and insists upon them immedi? ately returning his call. _ ? To make a fashionable bonnet, take a Eiece of straw matting the' else of the two ands, regardless of shape, place it en the top of a stump, the size of the head, and set on i*/ The "latest style" will be the result