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. . 'TW$ow,Yo)rk Herald concludes its
OOmmtnt* on the action of tho Convention
of-follow*:
'- ^>?/^??^Hjd0,eement of (lie course of Pres'
Ident Johnson and the measures of his nd- I
. (ministration, ia oquivocation. The financial
legislation and tho jobs ot Congress
\ . ' are no?*bown up with the strength and
earnestness that the should have been, nor
*re the danger* to the financial interest of
./' the country, which will follow n con tin/
Vance of jheir financial policy, pointed out
with sufficient force and clearness. A
.r.v ' much stronger case could have been made
- '";v'von (bis subject, for it is one of the weak-1
eatpoinls of the radicals, aud is . equal in
~ . . "^Importance to their efforts to prevent tlio
" to ration of the country. It is a ques
- lion that the people of the North will real.
. .,:,;;>:J?e.quicker than any olher, for it is being
^ brought home to them every hour in the
"J- Nothing would suit the radicals bet\
>' >V^, * tdt than to divert the iesue from this point.
the pubiio have the records of Con*
gross and their efforts at usurpation and
cifil war before them. They now are presenvi,
ted with the proceedings, tho address and
> v "the resolves of this first gathering, growing
*. ~ ~ ooi oC the uprising of the people in sup
; port of the Union and the Constitution.
J\ : v-' j To them these records are submitted as
tb?-gre?t jury of the republic, for their
' deciaiob'ftt the approaching CorgroMional
* elections. Let the movemeDt whiah bas
o auspiciously commenced, bo followed
V up With a vigorous campaign, nud we have
- Vv no.feara of the result. It will work out a
p- V.'.f ' revolution, peaceful,-yet effective and lasting."
No person con longer doubt that the
; - central State?, commencing with Pennsylvania,
in Qutoher, will overwhelmingly repudiate
the radical usurpers of tbe present
' . poi^resa.--;
^rhp'NAw York jVfin.v nnr*
v *- - v\.
, T!iey dticlnre distinctly in favor of Ihe
' rjgbiof tlie South to be represented in
Congress, and make* that the main feme of
? ; _ U*o fell catnpaigu. We wish that they
had made a more explicit declaration
iS-v '? ; ^ai?Wt Ihe enforoiemout of the lest oath,
bat that could hardly Iiavo been expected
. >;i under all circutnsiauccs.
W*4hiuk tboy acted wisely in adopting
vlh? ri?olqt?ona touching slavery, the na'N
tiqnal debt, nnd (be Confederate debt; the
. - ' Sooth will tbqs bave ail opportunity to put
* ~ ' ^ ^ ^ abuird suspicions that tbey deyJUnSI
rf^rio rfl-?tablwb alaTfiiy and to repudiate
V-Z ' ' >- fh* Mlinnnl dnlil. Whiln lhoo f??.1 a no.
mm ??owrtrcncMf *bout contribatiog to
4h* pnyiuentof a debt which was contracted
' - v r?J. v- fat thair overthrow and ruin, iho Southern
.ft v\- ? ; - v A-' . -r \ - _ - x
1 . *' |*?pl?,;feel and 'know that the honor aud
. faith of tbo nation are pledged to its pajxuent;
-and not one of them would vote to
. Afl tbe debt contracted by
. - ^Mja not a Man in all
t '. ( ^JEknlb wfoa ha#' fiver .thought. for an
the United
.'frf? " c^c,ad?s ?? "fiwi?? f?i^
7 'JmIN**:****. **" V** ?f
> : - TU? graat body or
^Vv- Unpeople i>f the Scutb.^vetoet, through
~ v ' tb&b- dtefegatas, and h#*a-mad* a publio re
,oaW8lof firtandahip, with mutual atteetaijont
of Ofrf#3fc?caan4 atfaeco. The two
- great amotions ard no longer at variance;
" ' dwaniouiata as'
"- 7 : jq&pid' di?mamber ilia' comity
'- '.' JJa?on ^ataumb?r its .ml*-'.
.Wom'iog.tha
- '** dtber words
r?7ernineut is to be
3L" : io tho.: United 8 tut as TKar*
but one opinion, in the minds of men
whoso opinions are not warped by partisan
feeling. It is strictly loyal throughout,
true to the Union, true to tho Constitution,
and true to liberty. It declare emphatically
that tho Union is indissoluble ;"that
4ao State or Convention of States has tho
right to withdraw from the Union.' There
is not a word in tho platform that can be
constructed into n palliation of tho rebellion,
nnd, in endorsing this feature of it,
tho Southern delegates renounced the
right of secession, now and forever. Tho
seventh Rnn'inn nf tlia ?
? w. VMV ^/Kimwi ui| nuiuu i?"
lates to the question of slavery, gives tho radicals
no ground for fault-finding upon that
point. It declaros that 'slavery is abolished
and forever prohibited, and there is
neither design nor purpose on tbo part of
the Southern State* that it should ever be
re-estnblisbed upon the soil or within the
jurisdiction of the Southern States.' This
language puts the South upon an unmistakable
record with regard to slavery, and
leaven no foundation for cavil on the part
of Northern men. The status of tho freed
men, as declared by this platform, disarms
criticism : 'The enfranchised slaves, in all
the States of tho Union, should receivc.
in common with nil their inhabitants, equal
protection in every right of person and
property.' What more than equality with
with the whites, in respect to tho rights of
person and property, can the freedmen expect
? They must have the ballot, it may
be said. Tho platform makes no objection
to that, but it declares that all tho States
have tho constitutional right to prescribe
tho qualifications for the elective franchise
?a right which has never, until recently,
been disputed. The platform also declares
that tho Government is under no obliga
lion to and never will assume the rebel
debt; the national debt, however, roust be
held snored and inviolable ; nod that 'it is
the duty of the National Government to
recognize tho services of the Federal soldiers
and Bailors in tho conflict just en
ded.'
Tho Richmond Times, after objecting to
one or two of tbe declaration of principles,
adds:
After a long civil war, which was waged
with unusual ferocity and vindictiveness,
ww cuuiu nut imvo expeciea greater unanimity
of sentiment than that which mark
ed the late Convention. We must submit
to some difference of opinion with our
friends, or bc-oroe the sport of the revolutionist*
and the vassals of the freedraen.
If tho principles of tho conservative
party are acceptable to the Northern people,
we shall very soon be restored to all of
our political rights.
In spite, therefore, of the character of
some of the resolutions, the people of the
South have every reason to congratulate
themselves upon the complete success of
tbes ftrdt National Convention which has <
! Kaati tiolil fA? ?5v rIM?a ?
wvm muim ?v? ui? j vnio* AUO ^USUiUQ VI
oar delegates waa a most embarrassing
: one, but the policy of retisence end caution
wbb so obvious that we rejoico they
did oothiDg which was calculated to pro- i
duce dissension.
An officer who greatly distinguished
himself in the wars upon our frontiers was
once asked to sum up the dnty of a soldier. 1
His reply was, "To fight the Indians."
Until their grasp upon Our throat is relax- 4
ed, we shonld regard all conventions, plat- '
formaatd addresses merely as weapons for
l:?! -f ? - -
iuo uoiiiuiiiiua.'Oi radicalism. VYQeu ttlftt *
party is routed and put to the sword, -we 1
will hang op our bruited armor aadgteat- >
!y Improve and libertUiM dur platform ?f <
principle?. - i
Avarice.?One of the beat illt?iration 1
of avarico wo over heard of ia tbafc con- j
tioaed in ofd caricature, which repte- ^
aonta Old NjoV cnrr^Dg au old rauer down
hit regions, wtd while on the way th* .
gripm is njaking proposition* to bia rnajes- ;
fJ H>;?gypyjW!M'
WEARING OF THE GREEKThe
following is the celebralod song
which has created ?uch intense oxcitotnen t
throughout Great Briton, and for tho incorporation
of which in his piece, Mr.
Bouroicault's play of "Arrah na Pogue/'
bad to bo withdrawn from tlio London
stage:
Oh 1 Paddy, dear, and did you hear
Tho newd that's going rouud,
The Shamrock is forbid by law to
Grow on Irish ground.
No more St. Patrick's Day wo'll keep,
The color can't bo Been
For there's a bloody law agaiu3t the
Wearing of the Green.
I met with Napper Tandy, and ho took
Me by the hand,
And said, "IIow's poor ould Ireland.
And how does she stand i"
Sho'u the most distressful country that
Ever you have seen,
They're hanging tneu and women there
For "Wearing of the Green."
Then, since the color wc must wear is
England's cruel red,
Sure Ireland's sons will ne'er forget the
Blood that they havo shed,
You may take the Shamrock from your hat,
And cast it on Lhe^sod,
It will take root and flourish there.
Though under foot is trod.
When the law can keep the blade* of gras9
From growing as they grow
And wheu the leages 111 Summer timo
Their verdure dare not show,
Then I will change the color
I wear in my cabeen,
Cut till that day, please God, I'll slick
io wearing ol the Green!
But at last, tlio color Bhould
Be torn from Ireland'a heart,
Her aona with sliamo ami aorrow from
The dear old soil will part;
I've beard wliirpers of a country
That liea beyond the aen,
Wherpi ich and poor atand equal in
Thelightot Freedom'a day.
Oh I Erin, must we leave yoo, driven
By the tyrant's hand f
Must we aalc a mother's welcome irotn
A strange, but happier land,
Where the cruel croas of Engluud'a
Thraldom never ahnll be seen,
A r. A I At " * -
r*uu wuciii, iiiunn uou I we'll live and die,
Still weariug of the Green!
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
THE OBEAT CORNFIELD OF THE HOBTHWE8T
WHAT IT WILL PRODUCE.
The great cornfield of the Weal is now
ia its bloom and beauty. If nothing happens
very extraordinary between this and
October, there will be the greatest and
beat crop of corn ever grown in the United
States. No one corn crop anywhere
in the world can comDBt? with it Mo}??
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goto, is so common a plant with us?so
much a matter of course?that wo do not .'
put half it? true value on it. There i'b no
plant on earth equal to it, in the countries
where it is produced. It is (he wealth of
the Ohio Valley, whose thickening ^population
gather from it gold ahd silver faster
and easier than any mines can produce
them. This one consideration makes
the value of Indian corn much beyond
any common estimate. Tbis is tho variety
of ila uses. Let us take a few samples*
The cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
and Baltimore, as well .as other cities,
derive all their animal food from the
West; but every ono of the millions of
cattle and bogs .are fattened on Indian
corn/ So, tod, those million* of people,
both negroes and whites, who eat only
oorn bread. So, too, there are millions of
people who use whiskey, directly or indirectly;
bat whiskey is made of Indian
joro. Then there are milliou* of animals
supported in winter both by the grain ' and
the fodder of corn.' If it were necessary
We coold make all oar molasses from oorn.
[n one word,thefe is no plant which can
be pdt to ao -many owe as} oorn. ' Then
there is no plant really moro beautify.
|wii
insr tassels.its wsviov is Wtmt. it
one of Iba most beautiful objects of the
poge table world. Suppose aome docr?> of
Wri?tl>?J0Ko1W-j
AqiM. **: '.
P* tfa*J ofc-Ae *00aotry Wosld b?
mar'-fatf: WUttoO* vrtm
each one with thirty, bushels of corn. A
bushel of corn contains sixty pounds of
solid gr ain. Now supposo the crop eighty
millions of bushels (and this year it will bo
more), nud you have a3 the season's crop
four thousand eight hundred millions of
pounds of grain ; beside?, as much weight
in fodder. It is almost inconceivable in
magnitudo just for the Stale of Ohio. If
you reflect that wheat averages but littlu
more than onetbird as much to tho acre,
and containing no more pounds to
t t. ? * > ? ? -
mo vuauci, jou see mai u iaiis tit?r snort,
of corn ia its positive utilitarian value.
It is true that by tbe very fact
of its l?iS3 production it is higher in
price, but when you como to bring
wheat down to every day uses It is
inferior in variety and value to corn. It
may be distilled. It may bo fed to cattle,
but the inferiority of its production per
ucro is in this climate deoided. In a high
northern latitvdc the advantage might bo
in favor of wheat. Let us now turn to the
corn statistics of the United State, and see
how wo are advancing in thia wonderful,
plant. Tho statistics of the nrodiiefirm 'nf
corn in lha United States for tbe last twenty-five
years nro 83 foliows, viz.:
Buslhels.
In 1840, total crop, " 377,'o31,875
In 3 830, total crop, 502,071,104.
In I860, total crop, 830,451,707
In 1806, total crop (estimated),
1,030,000,000
Tbe increase being at tbe rato of 4 per
cent, per annum, tbe fcggregnte crop of
18GC will be over one thousand millions of
busbeh I Estimate this at sixty cents per
IiiirIi^ nnrl nonnoii*q if fai? ahm ?1?a
vvvv.1 ?t JWU V?IU IIIC ICCUing
power of this enormous quantity of
Indian corn. Three or four y'cars ago
corn was so abundant in Illinois that
it was used for fuel. The chief uso of
corn is the production of carbon in
the animal stomach, and this production
can be enrried on in the stomach of almost
nil animals from the feathered biped to the
uuf?albered biped, man. As wo see, however,
dally, before us, it is chicfly applied
to cattle, bogs a?d horse?, and certainly
wo must consider this w n wondorfu'ly luxurious
country, whero our domestic animals
command food fit for the <)?\?tie?t
man.
Lot us next consider the portions of
the United States where Indian corn is the
stnplo, in comparison with othor grains :
New England, New Yortc and New
Jersey, 38,948,890 bushels.
Vo nnclrc QnJrt ^7! ?
tuuiu) iuuijioiiu, iycidwnrc, v ir#
gioia, North Carolina and South Carolina,
126,908,240 bushels.
Georgia, Florida' Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana,. Arkansas and Tuxa?, 147,425,-72C
bushols.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri,j Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas, 550,627,043
bushels.
The enormous prepond orance of Indian
corn in the central West is liere obvious.
But we should remark that the States of
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and
Kansas bare produced but a very email
portion of this, and that* in fac\ half tbo
Immense crop of Indian corn grown in tbo
United States is produced in the Valley of
the Ohio and Missouri. No doubt tbo
main oauseof this is climatic, but does not
depend op tbe most southern climate. It,
depends on a combination of warmth humidity
and limestone, which is nowhere
found iq such a combination,as in the Ohio
Valley. Indian oorn is grown^in France,
Italy, the West Coast, jtarts of Asia,"
but nowhere i& there a climate adapted
to it BO good as that of the Valley of
the Ohio. . -
We should remaik bere, that maize
(Indian corn) is an' American plant, and
it frotrtd almost seem from the historical
and collate mil evidence to be *' natijre of
tbis very regionof country. 'Df. ^Fioke;iog.
in his 'Races pY Man'?a most taloa^lo
,woik~~Ray? 'that the plant most
cultivated in aboriginal A daarica ls the
mate?, or Indian corn. If it ehall^pfoVe
foreign, there is but one refute PP?V to Jte.
ihtfcdoctioo-rtbai
er maqifoet thax from the Jo?U, ?k*enee ^t
the plant, mr'***
plant; but in America it was cultivated i
everywhere by the aboriginals, and found i
on tho ruins of its ancient monuments.
Maize, llien, is American, and wo may
hero say that if America lmd nothing but "S
its own plants, it would have not only all i
that was necossary to good living, but i
nearly all that is luxurious and beautiful I
in the productions of the earth. i
STAY L&W8.
To the Editors, Legislature and People
of South Carol inn.
The Legislature will soon bo convened
for tlio purpose of modifying our District
Court system, po as to meet the requirements
of the legislation of the late Federal
Congress. It is the design of a strong
influence in the State to U3e thi3 extra
session for the purpose of pasting laws to
dalay or hinder the colleotion'of debts. I
wish, briefly, to state the effect of the attempt
to curry out snch a design.
Such laws cannot bo made valid without
an amendment of the Constitution of
the United Slates. Lawyers who say otherwise
are badly informed or widely mislead
the people. ,
Our present distress is owing, not bo
much to tbo devastations of war and
emancipation as to ibe shock given to our
credit by the passage of our lato stay law.
Otherwise, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, with millions seeking investment,
would not refuse us on a credit.
This is not opinion but fact. The merchants
of these cities say eo. They are
alarmed nt the animus of our legislation,
and it will require at least one regular session
of our Legislature to pass, without an
attempt at the passage of such laws, to
restore commercial confidence. No law
has ever been passed, interfering with the '
laws of trade, that has not produced evil J
and harm to those intended to be benefit- '
(' J
ted. There are cases where the prevention
of the collcotion of a debt would be almost 1
a moral crime. There are others where '
f
the sacrifice of a debtor's proporty would
be an act worthy of Skylook. A.u honest
public opiuion will regulate the arm of the 1
law in these oases. Why is it that now 1
with Sheriff's armed with sundry fi. fa's, '
very few levies are made? '
The agitation of the subject of the stay J
laws holds our falso hopes, and prevents
crecrw and debtor from conpromiaiog.
..>11 ia. not U'jg that creditors, as a genor- T
nl rnta dflsitrn tJii : * 1
? , --?a- ?- -^-flgiion 01 ma oiRimt;
they desire to have tbem soared, which, '
being done, (hey are ready to granv ?vny i
reasonable indulgence., . ?
Our Legislature, if tboy close the ,
courts and leave the orbnioal court* open, 1
will thereby leave tb^ Judge* ia a pkMltlon '
which will onable then), aa honest Judges, \
to declare alt laws delaying or. hindering '
the collection of debt*, 'repugnant, to the 1
Constitution of: the United State*.' To <
close the civil court*, then all oourU most 1
! be closed;- What' follows? Gen. ^
Grant's order : 'Tho United States milita- '
ry will have cognizance of all crimes and *
misdemeanors, without regard, to the color, J
of the. parties J' Liberty ha*' , already '
gone, this will take away her shadow* now 1
leftus. >' #? J
Suppose, however, the civil courts to bo (
closed, what then f The Freodman'a" Bu- 1
reau will coiled the debts owing to freed? <
men,- What follow*! The white raau will '
tranfer bis deed claim to ft negro I1 Thie ja not
conjootured?it Was done in one D!b- ,
trict, lo aom o ox ten t, before the annulllDg
of tholato.atay law. . . t:
Againsuppose the hands of creditor* j
whb are eitizeos of lb* State, to be tied ; !
then creditors, who are citizen* of ether '
Sutei^ fnbtf't lima Alut.'V ?hioa?
exceed $500, will fine in the TJoit$d *
bj ? poMe of. &dy*I J
' " 1 rL.'n
stay la^a' tiro, as ? general rtile, popalarityBoefeer?,
or those V.ho owa more (ban they
expect to colloct from tbei rdebtore f
I pity the mad reduced to poverty ; by
the late war, and can sympathize with bitn
in bia itrugglcs, even where, fn "hia extremity,
he dcairds to stay the hand of j oat ice;
but great is my contompt for the lawyer,
or well-informed man, who, for a little
popularity, will delude bia ' fellows and
ruin his country?for it is too true that
our honor and our crodit arc all that aro
left us; take lb em away and we are poor
indeeJ. . .
Let public opinion ?tone, and fear not
V?fk Knnr-Kortr* AP ?UA ? *
? -?6 ?v?. wi nm [iwor ueoior Demg
%old out of bouse and homo.' I ask -whoa
and in bow many instances in our State,
from its earliest history, baa a maa and bis
family been sold out of bouse and homo
and turned out of doors by bi3 creditor,
unless the debtor connived at it himself,
in order to take tho benefit of the Insolvent
Debtor's Act, or where the debtor
wae fraudulently making way with or
screening bis property t
LAISSEZ NOUS FAIBE.
THE REQB0E8 AT BEAUTOST. 1
A correspondent of a Pennsylvania paper,
who ban bad his eyes opened writes
homo as follows;
"All the strangers here, with few except
tions, seem to think or care about>is making
money. They wero'advenlurera who
followed the army for that obicct.and that
they seem doterminod to effect When I
look back upon old timet, my heart sickens
at the oonlrast. ' The North called the
the South, if not lavage, yet half civilized,
What sort of thing.is this that is comet
As to tbe negroes formerly among them
Lhefb was almost unknown?cqraing apd
> wearing unknowU?bagging unknown.
Now. all is as commoh as the airyq^
i>reatbo. Formerly nobody thought of faa?
lening their' doors at night? p<>w~but
poor creatures* I am tnlly scrry for them,
Fhey are beginning to understand matters
?and Yankees. I do Botesy they deire to
return to slavery,-thouglt t have met
many that would be glad to ' do eo; thefir
liMrta ata tiifninnr (n tVinlr AM nlutaM aftU?
their families,**,after all, their best friends
and most to, be depended on. They are
learning what a poor hireling's freedom is
in the hands of grjtspfng "Bosses.". ' Those
on many, if not on nil the plantation*,
owned by, or leased-by (ho Government to
Incomers'are now living on credit the
goods sold Item at, at least* bondredpttr
*?ot?and all their shares , of the oottah
th^^to make, they are to give dp 'It
four to aix cer*v,jer pound. Some 6# U#
yoasqbmit
to. qh|6 the old
DAtf *?/> ni\f I1L>aM watIt. /a* me Itiafcitilt mflf
J vm mv yv? i??v w wwiw >v?
tmd get another hom*, and that tta? 'Bota*
kftittra ?eetn\ gM/ wfrpftfrtjit
hem m noK MlUngttehUu^S plJlg- : '
o$ Uwia. h;?w|F'
jreveat going any further in lonn^but I*.
$al or Yeokee canning <Jan g?t tfcroogfe,
&mgam *'
md itv short they wi|i "know wh?t slavey
a-with.^ YflPgeaQ^^y^.
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