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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
Now You See 1t, and Now You
Don't See 1t.

The Springfield Repubzicam continues
to reprehend its aloyal" brethren in Ohio
for their skulking and duplcity in regard
to negro suffrage. It says:
Slavery having gone by the board
even the Democracy of the South con-
senting to its death-there is no living
available issue for party purposes but ne
gro suffrage. X How pitifully this
vital issue has been lodged by the Re-
publican party in Ohio everybody knows. "
They had not the perpendicular,
squaro-toed honesty" to avow their prin-
ciples, but the Republican is satisfied that
the party is in favor of negro suffrage,
nevertheless. It says:
eve can not doubt that the Ohio Re-
publicans, in their excess of caution, mis-
Interpreted popular feeling in their own
State, and that they could have carried
the people for equal suffrage if they had
been bold enough to take the true ground.
We are certain that if they should now
be defeated they would get little sympa-
thy from the Republicans of the East,
who can see no great gain in mere party
success when secured by infdelity to
principle Indeed, it might have good
moral effect on the party elsewhere if
Gen. Cox should lose his election as Gov
erncr, after his own disayowal of the only
Republican issue that remains, and the
cowardly silence of those who nominated
him."
That is it, exactly. No denying but
the Republicans of Ohio are in favor Of
this ''liying, vital issue, and if success
full will fasten it upon the people; but the
Springfield paper is in favor of putting
this "only Republican issue that remains" :"
honestly before the people. Cox and the
aelement of knavery' which supports him
now ignore the s'only ISSUE but when
the last vote is polled on the second Tues
day of October, they will swear vehe.
mently that every vote for Cox was a vote
for negro suffrage.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
The Republican Party Gone Up.

From the present signs of the times, it
is apparent that the Republican party is
pretty nearly a used up concern. It has
know what to do with the unctious ami
NAL. The firm is composed of two part
ners, each wanting to dissolve from the
other. But they cannot agree upon the
terms of dissolution, because they are sus-
picious of each other. One fears that
the other will get too much African for
his share, and the other trembling with
apprehension least he should not get
enough. Both factions are at loss to
know how to make platform, or to find
any one willing to endorse and run upon
it after the construction is accomplished.
We would advise them to try Spaulding' s
Prepared Glue, or some other adhesive
preparation, to stick the concern together,
to keep up appearances until the October
election. In our opinion the ebony idol
is delapidated piece of mechanism
that its wershippers are 10 the last stage
of galloping consumption, and are only
walking about to save their funeral e.e-
pensesi
Mr.. Lincoln glued the thing together
as long as he lived, and kept it creased
into life, but when the general war slim
ulants were withdrawn, a complication OF
diseases attacked the carcass, taaes the
chief, the functions became inanimate,
and now only few muscular convulsions
are manifest. Poor creature! once the
boasted pride ofGen. Butler Gen. Neal
Dow, Gen. Carl Schurz, Thaddeus Ste
phens and Horace Greedy, but now the
despised and almost defunct corpse Of
| General Taxation Chill Adyerfisey
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
Wisconsin Abolition State Con-
yentiOn.

. Tie Abolitionists of Wisconsin assem-
bled recently aud made their nominations
for Governor and other State officers.
Their platform contains resolution un-
equivocally demanding negro suffrage.
a resolution endorsing the policy of An
drew johnson was submitted and prompt
ly voted down. This is precisely what
the Abolition Convention of this State
wanted to do, and precisely what it
would have done if it had not been stul-
tilted by fear. In this State, as in Iowa,
Wisconsin and elsewhere throughout the
country. the Abolition party is in favor
of Negro Suffrage, and opposed to john
sons reconstruction policy. After the
State elections are over, and Congress
meets, all this will appear SO plainly that
there will be no room for misapprehen-
sion-Logan Gazette.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
Arouse, white Men, Arouse,
Give One Day to Yourselves, YOur
Children and Your Country.

Wewant every voter ia Monroe Coun-
ty to read the following stirring appeal
1T is copied from a circular received at
this Office. It stirs like atrumpet blast;
1t is upon. iadicidual action that the re-
suit of the ensuing election depends. We
confident, that if the best men in each
township can be persuaded to devote that
time and labor to the promotion of sue
cess which the importance Of the crisis
demands, we shall triumph.
The imperative necessity of success is
apparent. Our enemies have reached that
extremity in their affairs when republican
government becomes incompatible with
their political existence. Fanaticism must
now crown its work of destruction with
absolute despotism. or perish.
The fearful consequences of political
madness are now to be seen IN monstrous
public debt exempted from taxation by an
anti republican provision;
In the enormous and oppressive taxes
In the exemption from responsibility
of public officers;
In the frauds, embezzlements and pee
ulations following in the wake of an in
hated fictitious currency;
In the overthrow of morality and the
Generalization of society;
In the disregard Of private rights and
the insecurity of life and property;
In the desperate schemes of politica
destructives to enslave the people and de
stroy republican government in the
States; II ~
In their efforts to consolidate the gene
raj government into an .overshadowins
central power, exempt from accountability
to the people;
And in the monstrous and repugnan
delusion Of negro equality, and the re
duction of our institutions to the level o.
the degraded mongrelisms of South Amer
lea, by comforting upon an unnatural ele
ment and an inferior race those ghts and
franchises which were secured by white
men, for the benefit of white men anc
their posterity alone.
We.appeal to your reason,to your sense
of justice and to your humanity, to assist
in preventing the consummation of these
schemes and policies, which unquestiona
bly, involve the destruction of that which
every good citizen values most highly
We invoke your aid, for one day for your
country; and we implore you by all the
recollections of the former glorious days
of the Republic, to consider that to yor
attaches the task of restoring purity, sim
plicity, and benefcence to the government
Of Ohio, by giving it Democratic ad-
ministration; that upon your exertion'
depends the responsibility of success oi
defeat; and that with your aid the ancien
fraternity of Democracy will march to al
assured, magnificent and hallowed tri
umph.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26-The commits
sion reassembled to day. Several addi-
tional witnesses were examiner for the
Government. DIR. VIM. Marsh testified
that he had been employed as an agent of
the Sanitary Commission for the States
of Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.-
Witness sent from Beaufort large sup-
plies OF clothing such as shirts, drawers,
pantaloons and hats, and also crackers,
condensed milk, coffee, tea and other ar
ticles of food. The arrangement for
sending the relief to prisoners was made
to Gen. Sam Jones, according to which
the goods were passed over to the agent
of the Confederate Government at the
city of Charleston. It was known in
June, 1864, that there was suffering at
Andersonville. Witness had no evidence
that the goods were received by the prisii
oners. In November an order was re-
ceived from Washington not to send the
prisoners any more supplies.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
President Johnson's speech.

We refer our readers to the generous
and magnanimous speech of President
johnson, in response to inquiries from a
delegation of Southerners in regard to his
intended policy, which We print in full on
our first page. It breathes the true spir-
it of christianity ,as we'll as of statesman
ship, and will receive the approval of ov-
cry lover of his country in the land. The
fanatics and INTERVALS, led by Thad. Ste
yens and Gen. Bob Schenck will froth and
foam and beat the air in their blind fury,
but the people will thank God that the
Presidents heart is warmed by the heav-
enly impulses of charity and philanthro-
py, and that he has taken the initiative
steps to complete and permanent pacif-
cation, instead of allowing himself to be
misled by the unwise counsel of the re-
vengeful and turbulent men who would
have the country seethe like boiling
cauldron for years to come. Nothing has
transpired during the past four years SO
fraught with hope for the country as this
speech and we believe it is the commence
ment of the new era, which all patriots
have been so long watching and praying
for. Let the President follow this mat
ter up by dissolution of all his military
courts, and restore unto us the old writ of
habeas corpus, and generations ye. unborn
will rise up and call him blessed.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
Marion BTelhorn Joins
the ssEsOyal', Party.

AZ Marion Melhorne, ex7j. p, and cor
respondent of the Logan Gazette, being
Sin much pain from excessive loyalty
preying on his vitals" aud government
bonds on the brain" concluded to join
the American nobility, and suggested the
matter to his wife, by name Elmira. The
following is a part of the discussion
which ensued. The reasons he assigns
for his determination are much the same
as those which Influenced Judas Iscariots
elsewhere to turn traitor to their party.
In reply to his Elmira, Alexander says:
at never shall be said that the under
signed, (having formerly been j. p. of
much ability and ,distinction) allowed an
aristocracy to be erected under his nose,
and him left out in the cold to be frozen
companion of few honest principles, and
OF whole lot of bamboozled fools. No
my gentle Elmira, they shan't come that
I | will go in for niger votes with the
widest enthusiasm; 1 will proclaim that
the African is the noblest work of God
two hundred per cent; that he is as good
| by nature and darned sight better by
practice than white folks, and that one
small vote piece, which won't cost a cent
ought to be conferred thereon by CRATE
fool country. Who cares for habious
corpses? It amt of no account. 1
wasn't good enough for loyal men, and il
was too good for copperheads. Poor ole
hoss let him die. Hic jacet old habious
How are you writ of liberty? Hail new
Civilization hail new Government bonds
and other obligations of the Government
hail beauteous African, and Shoddy Ar
istocracy! Hurrah for Salmon P. Chase
and Henry Ward Beecher. and Secretary
Stanton, and Gen. Cox, and Dunn ..Piatt
and Jim Walker, and Yves. Woodley, auc
Tinker's big black dog, and
l"Columhy, Columby, to glory arise.
The Queen Of the world and the child of tn,
Skies" like
Here Elmira sprung to her feet, and
throwing her arms round my neck, ex
claimed with much warmth, says she;
Why, Squire, what do you mean? I car
not bear to hear you talk so. You GER
tainly amt in earnestI
90 an, eoyS L, Vo JOlueu IuS odI
nest" party; I've sold out; I'm loya
demagogue; I've concluded if the people
are bound to be used till they're use up
that I will help to do it,and get my share
of their substance.
Oh dear! oh dear! observed Elmira
have lived to see this dpyl What'll his
tory say? And oh, what'll you have t.
I say for Yourself on the great day?
AS for history, says 1, with dignifet
and aristocratfc air, if posterity hain't go
more ability than the present generation
of babbling blockheads and puritanica
nose whangers, don't care katydio
what history may say to them. AS fo
the religious aspect of the case, I turnet
infdel when I turned Abolitionist,says /
The bond argument was too much for me
that put me. under conviction, and tn
idea of being an aristocrat and having m.
taxes paid, by the peor, converted m
i body, breeches and intellect"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

LOYALTY COME TO GRIEF.-Rampant
loyalty does not seem to pay outsin Wis
consin. About year ago party of
strict loyalists in Green county, in that
State, took it into their heads to con-
vince of the errors of his ways neighbor
of theirs named Stevens, whose political
sentiments differed from their creed
Stevens was put through a vigorous
course of rail exercise and other enter
tanning performances, to the huge delight
of loyal leaguers and their kidney, Ste
vens stood it like law-abiding citizen,
and thed appealed to the law for redress.
He entered a suit against the leader ofthe
gang which had maltreated him, before
the United States Court at Milwaukee,
and the jury awarded him FIVE thousand
dollars damages.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
Questions for Conservative Repub-
Eicans.

Are you in favor of negro sufrage2
If not, do you intend to vote with a
party whose leaders and candidates are in
favor Of it?
Are you in favor of equal taxation?
IF so, will you vote with party whose
leaders and candidates are in favor of es
tabl;shing moneyed aristocracy exempt
from taxation?
Are you in favor of repeating the four
dollar Communication law?
If so, will you vote for the men and the
party who enacted it?
Are youin favor Of honest sTreasurers
of State2
Ifso, will you vote for the candidate
of party which has never placed man
in that Office who has. not deserved the
Penitentiary for his enbezzlement?
Reflect a little, and then vote conscien-
tiously. 49,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

EFF Cox should be elected Governor, his
party proposes to exhibit to the people Of
Ohio free show, of which the following
are few Of the leading features:
ScENR LA poor man on his death
bed; an officer driving off the last COW
from his wife and crying children to be
sold for the four dollar commutation tax.
SCENE IA big fat wench crowding
the wives and daughters ofspoor men
from the sidewalk into the mud.
SCENE 3.-Mid-winter. and the poor
mans children working in their bare feet
to raise money with which to pay the rich
mans taxes, while the rich man looks on
with his thumb to his nose.
SCENE IA group Of american 40
bility consisting Of
The Duke Of Two Millions,
The Earl of One Million,
Lord Hundred Thousand,
Baron Fifty Thousand,
Ten Thousand, Esquire.
SCENE 5.--Grand ia bleaux of negro ju-
ries, negro judges and negro officers gen.
orally; their white boot blacks in the back
ground.
The whole to conclude with the scream
ing farce of .Miseegenation, or Niger a
Little Ahead"
This delightful entertainment will be
exhibited free of charge in all parts Of
the State. The enormous cost of getting
It up may be estimated by every man
az he pays his taxes.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

RATHER HIGH!-The Bondholder has
a princely interest on his money. Those
who hold the 5-20's are now receiving,
counting their interest in currency, over
10 per cent. They are exempt from tax
alton, which is about 4 per cent. more,
which added to the ten per cent. makes
IA per cent, or s14 on every hundred
A person that has $4,000 in real estate is
taxed about 5000, while the Bondholder
who has that amount invested in 5-20's
draws $500 interest and saves the 5000 in
taxes, making clear gain of 500. The
party in power tell the people this Is
right, and they will continue it if contin-
ued in power CTclevale Democrat.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
N e w s ITE M s !.


The Comptrolle-s Of the Treasury has
decided thatin order to entitle discharged
wounded soldiers to the whole of their
bounty, the wounds for which they were
discharged must have been received dur
ing the term of enlistment which they
were serving out when discharged.
On the 25th ,an ordinance declaring the
act Of secession null and void, was passed
by the Alabama State Convention. The
subject of the State debt has been referr-
ed to a committee, which will report in
few days. q f@4F
A Washington dispatch states that the
rush for pardons is not SO great as usual.
Among late applicants, is Walker, late
Secretary of War Of the Confederacy, the
man who sent the dispatch to Beauregard
to fire on Sumter. Sssiass
The South Carolina Convention has
refused to allow: negroes to form part of
the basis of representation. - see
Gov. Perry, of South Carolina. has is
sued proclamation ordering officers with
in the district of Charleston to forms a
part of the basis of representation.
The Concord, Mass, National Bank has
bsen robbed Of bonds 20 the amount of
Is2S5, 900 s...,.se
About one thousand applications for
clerkships have accumulated at the Treas
Jury Department. ~
Connecticut did not owe dollar at the
outbreak of the war. 1t now requires
S666,000 to pay the annual interest on
her bonds sra s,.zssi tses.'.s er..s
The insurance on the property destroy
led by the great fire in South street, New
York, exceeds 81, 800, 900.
Not less than dozen persons have fall
len from windows in Cincinnati during the
present summer-half Of whom died in
consequence Of their injuries. In most
cases, drunkenness is said to have been
the cause.
| Information has been received Of the
death of two missionaries in Turkey
Rev. Edward Dodd and Rev. Homer Bart
lett Morgan. The former died of cholera
and the latter of typhus fever.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
LATE NEWS.


New York, Sept 22.-The Tribune's
special says The State Department are
in receipt of voluminious dispatches from
our consuls' at Constinople, Smyrna, Port
Mahon and Barcelona, giving further in
formation of the ravages of the cholera
in various parts of Europe. The. reports
from Constantinople are most alarming,
the deaths from the disease having reach
ed the number of 1000 per day. At
Smyrna the epidemic was checked some
time since, but it has broken out afresh
ard is spreading to a frightful extent.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
From the Ohio Statesman.]
BOndhOIders' FeStiyai--Speech of.
the Hon. Mammoth Bondh OIL
der.
bio Statesman.l

MEssRs EDIToRs:-The Bondholders
held grand jubilee at Aristocracy Hall,
in this city, on the 18th inst, at which
Hon. Greenback Millionaire presided as
President, and Mr.. Wholesale Defalcation
acted as Secretary.
To the toast-"The American Bond
holders-the only true representatives of
European Civilization in America" the
Hon. Mammoth Bondholder responded as
follows:
FELLOW BoNDHoLDERs:-We are a
power in this Government. We own
thirty hundred million dollars in bonds
and greenbacks. It will take over one
fifth of all the property of every descrip-
tion in the United States to pay us these
debts. We own one horse in every five;
one acre of land in every five; one fifth of
every homestead in the United States, and
to secure the payment of these, we hold
mortgage on every farm and every article
of property in the United States. [cheers.
More than this, Brother Bondholders:
This vast wealth goes scot free of taxa
ton. We ride over the public roads and
we pay no road tax. We send our chill
dren to the public schools and we pay no
school tax. We are protected in our per-
sons and property by the State county,
township and corporation officers, and yet
we are untouched by taxation for their
support Ye Gods, can the nobility of
Europe boast of more? prolonged
cheering, and cries Of "Go on.
Brother Bondholders, we do not work,
neither do we sweat, yet we have millions
who toll and moisten the soil with their
daily sweat, to pay the interest on our
bonds We have them in our power
Last week 1 invested $100,o0o in bonds,
plicate for taxation, and loaded the taxes
of that amount upon the broad shoulders
of our noble farmers, mechanics and re-
turned soldiers. By rising one hour
earlier and working one hour later they
can easily pay their taxes, our taxes and
our princely incomes on our untaxed
bonds besides. Vociferous applause
The invalid soldiers and soldiars wild
ows have the impudence to complain that
SOC year is not sufficient to feed, cloth,
fshelter and educate six helpless children
whose fathers bones are bleeching on the
country's battle fields, and that if the
bonds were taxed the pledges made to the
soldier when he left his home, that if he
fell his family would be reared and edu-
Gated. could be fulfilled.
Brother Bondholders, listen to no such
entreaties. The Government had the
right to draft the right of the poor man
but it had not the rightto seize the prop
erty of the rich man. Property is worth
more than life. We stand on the terms
of the contract forced out of the Govern
ernment in its necessities by our power
and patriotism We now demand tn,
s'pound of flesh and the blood with it, i
it enslaves them all
| Here the meeting was disturbed BY
some "Boys in Blue" who were standing
by the window with me, and who declar
ed they didn't want their wages for the
last four years taxed out of them again tt
pay princeiy incomes to untaxed stayat
home patriots, and in the confusion thai
followed I became INVISIBLE.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
From the Plain Dealer
HURRAH FOR GEN. MORGAN.

I.
Rurrah for General Morgan,
The White mans nominee!
He is opposed to "negro suffrage,"
AS honest men should be.
Hurrah! for General Morgan,
A patriot brave and truel
Stand by hirl laboring white man,
For he will stand by you.
Hurrah! for General Morgan,
A soldier to the eorel
Hurrah for Right and Freedom,
And the Union evermorel
Hurrahl for General Morgan.
friend of the "boys in bluel'
Vote for him patriot soldiers,
For he's the man for you.
Hurrahl for General Morgan!
the White mans friend shall rule,
And defeat the Abolitionists
Of the negro suffrage school.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

B0- Alexander Marion Melhorne,o the
Logan Gazette, says the Republican party
has the political deliriun tremens from
inordiDalc use Of rotsgut principles.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
ns~ The estimated cost of the monu

D9 The estimated cost of the monu-
ment to Mr.. Lincoln, to be erected in
Springfield, Illinois, is two hundred
thousand dollars, and the. sum thus far
contributed toward it is fifty thousand
dollars. OF this amount the city of Chi
cago has furnished total of precisely
two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and
fifty-seyen cents.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04
What the Abolition Legislature
Did.

The Abolition members of. the last
Ohio Legislature repealed the Democratic
law that Withheld the privilege of voting
from persons having yisable admixture
of African blood in them. Each Demo-
cratic member voted against its repeal.
Let tie voters consider this fact before
they vote against the candidates of the
Democratic party.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

sg A large delegation of citizens of
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Tennessee, and Virginia, waited on the
President to assure him that his recon
struction policy is approved by the people
of those states.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

"THE REcoRD."-ssWho made mulat-
tos voters in Ohio?'' A "Union" Leg
islature, at its session in 1865, by the re.
peal of the act of 1859, prohibiting per.
sons having a distinct and visible admix.
ture Of african blood from voting, and
Furnishing Judges ofelections, with heavy
fines for taking the votes of such per
sons. sas
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-10-04

THE Commissioners appointed to treat
with the South Western Indian tribes at
Fort Smith, have concluded their negoti-
ations and been uniformly successful.