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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12

got any thing but grSsnbaoks for the
loans made toi such I'm administrator
Of government,
.G"AtexK6der smith died IN 1890. II
wbBin the. serlY- AnrfhE .lpI. 1861, that
his executors closed ND his estate.
The times were very gloomy. 1t was
doubtful what real property, q year or
two later, might fall to, in New York.
A sale was made, on what was con-
sidered very advantageous terms, Of
real estate near this city. The proper
~ was sold for a certain amount down,
and for fifty thous and dollars secured
on bond and mortgage, TO be paid
within FIVE years, any time the pur,
chases choose to pay IL. The pnrchasS
er elected TO pay off the mortgages an
1864, at n time when gresnbAcks were
worth loss than forty cent? on tho dol.
larl The nominal worth. Of the prop.
erty sold bad, meantime, more than
doubled. Its price, in gold, in which
tie transaction Was made, would be
q little less than in 1861. But the
Government come in, and compelled q
family of helpless orphans to tAks Z
~greeDbacks as R'legal tender for gold
1t compelled Thorn to take twenty
thousand dollars, gold value, for what
had been sold for ftty ihousandl
Tho guardians Of these poor orphans.
of Mr.. Smith invested these twunty
Thousand dollars of gold vklue-nomf-
nally fifty thousand, igreenbauks-ok
bond and mortgage. But the bond.
holders, with their Cycs open 10 the
fact that the Government had repudi-
Rted payment of the debts in gold, con-
tracted with that Government for
bonds to be paid in gold1 1t 10 bIt
the first step that Is hard That is at =
old proverbs: Bondholders made .
contract, on a gold basis, with n gov
ernmcnt that had just enforced .bs
principle Of paying gold dObts with
g~roentRckp. If b~tnoholdcrs did hot
have their cJ ca opon 10 the character
Of the party thoy were dealing with -
Is thoir own fault.
But this il not all! The any Ihcu.
sand green backs ofMr. Smiths poor
orphans--pGij to them when oHty
worth twenty tho uEand in gold isnoW
taxed 10 pay in gold those bonds that
WV Nou'iaSt0' W . government thbt
had already avewsd the power OF
making greeubRrkSA legal tVndsr fer
gold.
ITO reconstruct the finances Of the
country is necessary step toward n
general reconstruction, SO however
old Mr.. Moneybags may roll up HE
eyes , I the proposition, wo put il 10
the people, square-what the poor or
phans had to take for the gold value
Of their deceased fathers property
what the widow had TO take for her
gold investment in State stocks. Mr..
M~oneybags and Mr.. shoddy, and all
that set, will bAye TO take for their
loans to a Governments that, At the
very moment those bonds we're RiVcH
WAS enforcing the acceptance Of -
greenbackS only worth forty dollars
rs legal tender for the debt or one
hundred dollars.
This established custom Of tho Tar
ted States Governments Why we cell
it rightly an old way Of now @debtsP q.
ave submit this tom ofo new re-,
conHtructian' 10 tho meditation Of thoss
whose gold has already turned TO
greenbackb. Givo us Une currency for
all"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12
the ABOLITION CONSPIRACY
DESTROY THE UNION
GA
A TEN YEARS RECORD

OF
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12
VIM. II. Stewards Opinions.
THE CONSTITUTION VOID.

VIM. IL, Seward, following out the
same ideas rculcated by Lincoln,
says;
But assuming the same premises, to
Wit that all men are equal by the law
of nature and ofn"tions, the right of
property IN slaves falls to. the ground;
for one wbs Is The Sqdaf"o Of "Gbotter
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12


Whom Congress authorized the call
for 5000 900 volunteers 10 suppres ia
surrection, they were readily had.
But whom tho pervertsrs Of tho war
had resolved on revolution aud pillaee
with mn edict of emancipation, they
knew that volunteers could NO longer
bo had from the West to destroy tho
South. So they usurpod the power Of
drafting mcn-s power which DO onga
to the States only for tina call OF thOi,
militia. 1t was = void aet-snd il wac
an act Of villainy-which must. bs no
more submitted to. II must not be
tolerated that a patch Of States With
twelve Senators shall talk of making q
road swarm with mon If you give them
a motive, and then shirk their service
by buying men in other States. The
West IS not to be used again, whoa
tho time shall come again, as come it,
will Urbdnd Union.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12
The Republican, Party.
TEE PLATFORM OF PHILIPS AND CARR,
~. gON.

9HB PLATFORM OF PHILLIPS AND oARRI-
-, SON..
The Constitution OF our fathers was
q mistake. Tear it in pieces and make
. better. Don't say the machine is
out Of order 1t does what it's trainers
Intended-prote.t slavery. Our claim
is Disunlon, breaking up Of the States!
] have shown you that u work can
not be done under our institutions
Wendell Philips.
This Union is a lie The American
Union is an lmposture, a Covenant
with death, and an agreement with
He'll y 4 X ~ l am for it,
overthrow X y 4 Up with the
Gag of Disunion that we may havo II
free and glorious Republic OF our own
and when the hour will have arrived
that shall witness the overhr row of
slavery m. Lloyd GDrrison.
AGAINST THE SOUTH.
No man has a right to DO surprised
~ that this state Of things. l. is just
what we [Abolitionists and DisuniOn
ists] have attempted to bring about
1t IS the first sectional party ever or
gained IN this country.
1t does not know Its face, and calls
itself national but it is o national
it is sectional. The Republican, party
is a party of the North pledged against
the South Wendell Phillips.
MOULDING PUBLIC OPINION.
Again, Garrison, in his Liborator,
sAid still more explicitly
The Republican party is moulding
public sentiment in the ri5ht direction
for the specific work the AbohtioniSts
are striving TO accomplish, viz Tile
Dissolution of the Union, ant the Alb,
clifton Of slavery throughout the land,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12


She solemnity oftho occasion draws
over our hoads that cloud Of d~isdnion
which RfwayS" arises whenever The
subject Of siavery is Rgitatcd Still the
debate goes on more .ardently, earnest
ly and apgrily than before. 1t employs
now not merely logic, %reproach, men
acc,r ctort'a6d defence, BUT SABRES,
RIFLES AND CANNON. DO you
look. through this incipient war quite 10
the end, and see there peace, quiet
ami harmony on the subject of~sIsNery ?
1fso, pray enlighted me and show me
how long the way is which leads to
that y \ \ 4 4
RECOMMENDS DIsUNIoN.
After showing that this agitation
will lead TO wal between the North
aud the South, Mr.. Seward suggests
to the Pacific States that then would be
their time to'withdraw from the Union;
be continues:
Is Then the free States and slave States
ofthe Atlantic, divided und warning
with each other, wauld disgust the free
Slatrs ofthe Pacific, and they would
have abundant cause and justification
for withdrawing from 4 Union pro.
ductive no longer Of peace, safety and
liberty TO themselt cs, and no longer
holding.up the cherished hopes OF man
Kind, f.' t":
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12

Still later in 1860. at Boston, he bold
~ proclaimed;
What II commentary upon the his
tory of man is the fact that eighteen
years after the death Of John Quincy
Albums thu people hav, tor their stand
ard-boarer Abraham Lincoln, COnfrs-
sing the obligation Of the higher law
which the Sage If Quincy proclaimed
and cohtending for veal or woe, life OF
death in the lrrcpressihlc Conflict be.
tween freedom and slavery. l desire
only Ia say that we are IN the last stage
OF the conAict before the great tri.
umphant inauguration of this policy
into the Government Of tho United
States.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-09-12
HE TAUETs THE SOUTH.

Following in the same strain, Mr..
Seward, IN his speech in the Senate,
Apl g., 1856, joered the South with tho
tar ming that she should have
no Pepose, but that rifles and cannon.
wopld take the place of words. Hear
'himS - 49, "''rN%F4NN' fLft
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Amnstnltnts.


AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBnIoN-Day ana Even
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New-York tribune., 1867-10-04
BIsMlRCK,S NEJV CIRCULAR.

'To iudge by the excited language or the
semi-otiicial papers Of France, the French Gov
ernment has been stung to the quick by the
Circular of Count Bismarck on the Salzburg
Conference Nor is this to be wondered at.
Though calmly and cautiously, the Circular
very distinctly reaflirms that the great object OF
Prussia is to consolidate the German nation,
and openly dares France to prevent II
f she can. Throughout the interesting
diplomatic war, which since the battle
of Sadowa has been going on between
France and Prussia, it has been the uniform
habit of Bismarck to point TO the ultimate
consolidation Of Germany as his aim, while
Louis Napoleon has constantly changed his
language and left his own partisans in the dark
as to whether he would renOunce his opposition
to the union of the South German States with
Prussia or enforce the maintenance of the
Peace of Prague.
The occasion for the Circular is stated by
Count Bismarck in jocuar way. He. in
union with the whole world, and undoubtedly
upon the ground of good correspondence, had
been of opinion that the interview of the two
Empcrors had political character, and related,
in particular, to the question OF German unity
He, of course, was bound officially not to dis
credit the assurance given by Austria and France
that the two Emperors only met to shed tears
together on the sad fate of Macmillan. The
way in which he expresses his gratihcahon at
the pacific intentions Of Austria and France
will not we dare say, add any to the small
number of believers in the declarations oi
Austria and France.
In the second part of the circular, Bismarck
expresses his JOY that France has had the good
sense not to meddlc in question which does
not in the least concern her. The cOnsollda-
ton Of Germany, hc strongly insists, Is
matter to bc discussed and finally to be
decided upon exclusively by the North German
Confederation on the one hand and the South
German States on the other Prussia ha,
entirely refraned from exercising any pressure
upon any of the Southern States. in order to
hasten the time of consolidation, bat when
finally the South German allies will OF their
own accord propose closer national union, no
foreign power must undertake to prevent IT,
The Circular of Bismarck expresses, we be-
lievc the unaltcrable resolution OF Prussia.
The same sentiments have, on recent occasions.
been pronounced by the King and the Crown
Prince of Prussia and the Grand Duke OF
Baden. and Count Bismarck himself, in very
emphatic manner, has repeated them in the
North German Parliament The great question,
therefore, which will decide peace or war IN
Europe is the attitude of Louis Napoleon. His
course will, of course, he shaped by circum-
stances He would gladly precipitatc war il
his prospects OF success were good; but lac will
pause, We believe, ere he engages in wal
against the whole German nation.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-04

pass it over in silence. The man N.ao prefers
an inferior judge of his own faith to n's'-
class judge of any other faith, Is fool OF t'.,
first water. We are not going to inveigh
against Judge SharswOod, the Democratic can
didate. He may be the glass of fashion and
the mold of form--he may he one OF the very
ablcst and best men in the Keystone State
but the canvass is in such position that men,
whether willing or not, represent ideas. Ii
SharswOOd succeeds, the exultation will be not
over the choice of the man, nor over the sue
cess Of the Judge, but the air will be vexed
with the Mutations of the JohnsOnized De-
mocracy over the success OF My Policy"
This we deprecate
And we most cordially hope for the success
of Judge Williams, because he is not only our
lawful standard bearer, but by the vote east for
this, the only State ticket, will the political
standing of Pennsylvania be assured. If the
Democratic candidate shall be successful, the
great and impOrtant-it may indeed, he said In
some sense the controlling-intuence OF Penn
sylvania in the national political arena Will be
counted as being against Congress and the
measures of the National Legislature for re-
construction, and in favor of President john
son and his views. How strong an influence
will it have upon the elections in November In
the great State of New-YOrk. What shouts Of
exultation and triumph will be echoed and re-
echoed from one end of the country to another
if Pennsylvania has given majority Tor the
Democratic candidate on the State ticket.
What new life and energy will be infused into
tho unrepentant and unreconstructed Rebels OF
the South if the telegraph shall announce to
them a Democratic victory in Pennsylvania
IL will be the sole cause of rejoicing which
will be heard of after the election, should the
Democratic candidate be elected, that he is a
Democrat, and of the straightest sect.
Friends in Pennsylvania You attach vast
importance to the action of Your State. AS
"goes Pennsylvania, so goes the Union,' is an
old and generally truthful saying. Yet we ar
IDENTIFY hope the Keystone State may go right
next Tuesday, and that the Union may follow
the excellent example. The hours for work are
few; let every man be up and doing, and there
can be no reasonable doubt that, if proper ex-
ertion is made, we shall record on "Wednesday
morning grand victory for the right side.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-04
THE PENNS ELECTION.

There is one point not precisely political
which ought to be carefully considered by the
people of Pennsylvania next Tuesday. They
are to elect a Supreme Court Judge, not as we
do here in New-Nork for three or four years,
but for the extraordinary term of ID years
practically, for life The longer the term Of
Office, the more important the event and the
more wcighty the responsibility of the voter.
In minor Offices where we can shift from
year to year, the matter may be comparatively
trivial made so by the insignilicancc of the
official, and the brcyity of his term. But here
is an extreme case; the character and direc
ton of the Supreme Bench of the second State
in the Union is at issue; whoever succeeds
in reaching that most honorable position, re-
mains therc-death only interchangeable half
the voters who made him judge arc i'll their
graves.
We do not propose a criticism Of personal
fitness, nor do We rcpel it. Henry Williams is
the regular and hOnOrcd nominee of the Re
publican party, and we most ardenty hope
and work for his election. Whyi Because he
is true, loyal, able, thoroughly qualified man !;
because he is the unanimous choice OF the
party, and therefore represents the govern
mental policy and the local issues for which
we humbly labor. OF his fitness there can be
no question not born of malice. He is in the
prime of life, with mental faculties in full
vigor; he has had sixteen years experience upon
the bench; he has had an unusually thorough
judicial education and training; he has been
one of the ablest and most successful lawyers
in the State his breadth of information in the
studies of the profession is most extraordinary,
reaching not only to the common questions of
the courts, but running into all the special in
quilies likely TO come before the bench that
he ought so soon TO adorn. His character for
uprightness, integrity and high morality is be-
yond question. lie has the respect, confidence,
and esteem of all who know him. His decis-
ions and rulings during the sixteen years he
has been upon the bench have commanded
very general acquiescence; and even when ap-
pealed from they have been in large major
ity OF cases affirmed, often with very marked
expressions of approval from the court above
which has frequently been satisfied to Affirm
the judgment solely for the reasons expressed
by the judge below.
We deprecate the entrance of partisan feel
ings into any canvass for judicial officers. This
case would be no exception were il not That
the other side force it upon us. Democrat
knows no compromise; party infuses his whole
being, and no act that has not partisan sig
niicance meets his approval. Therefore, the
Republicans of Pennsylvania, who desire to
elect for their chief judicial officer n man of
rare ability and most fitting requirements are
opposcd-not on the ground of their candidates
fitness, but because he is not an old bunker
Jacksonian dyed-n-ihc-wOo Democrat.
Ii Lhis were the only question, VIC might
New-York tribune., 1867-10-04

The New-York Democracy met i'll Conven-
ton yesterday at Albany. Mayor Hoffman was
temporary chairman, and made carefully
devised speech, of which the principal points
were the amount of Federal debt and taxation;
the odousness of the Excise law; and the
declaration that the national debt must he
discharged according to the letter and
the spirit of the bond. Horatio Seymour
was made permanent President, and
also delivered a long speech, taking like
ground to Mayor Hoffman as to the payment
of bonds and charging that the main portion
of the taxes went to the support of the policy
of crushing out the Southern States. lie
warned the Senate not TO go too far in Its
usurpations lest the people should be tempted
to crush il out but omitted to say just how
that was to be accomplished.
The Tammany delegation was admitted as the
properly authenticated representative OF this
city, but Mozart was offered complimentary
seat upon the floor, aud took it, Without
making any nominations, the Convention adj
iourned to this morning Homer A. Nelson OF
Dutchess will probably head the ticket put III
nomination to-day. The platform will be OF
the usual Democratic kind.