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Ferocity in Congr ess.

The New York Times, Republican
journal, reads its party lesson for re-
garding ferocity in Congress as an element
of progress. It alludes to the favor with
the resolution of Shanks, of Indiana,
was received in the House, approving of
the murder of Maximillian in Mexico,
and to the speech of Mr.. Upton, of Ne.
braska, in the Senate, favoring a premi-
um upon Indian scalps. Itthen says:
"Eighteen centuries and half Of rule
upon Christian principles have. brought
us to this-that the newest Government
of the world, avowedly based on the most
exalted sentiments and in the face of a
people who are destined to exercise a
greater influence upon the course of hu-
man affairs than any other people that
ever existed-men are to urge the re-
adoption of the barbarous codes which
were becoming absolete before the time
of Christ. Such is the progress of which
we hear SO much. "
III says there is feeling becoming
prevalent in its party that would conduct
the Governments in precisely the same
manner as the king of Dahoney, the most
bloody and despOtlc Of all the African ne
gro tyrants.
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A Neyy Phase of RadicaIisli as
Explained by a Radical.


Honorable James Hughes, of Indiana
is regarded as tolerably good Radical au-
thority in his section. From his posi-
ton as the leader of his party in the
legislature of the State, his utterances
derive additional Importance. He has
lately had the candor to express himself
fully and the aristocratic sentiments he
avows are in striking contrast with the
professions Of liberal views to which his
party is addicted. We invite the atten-
ton of workingmen and foreign born
citizens to the following extract from a
speech of Mr.. Hughes. After declaring
that he would only agree to negro suf-
frage if his party demanded it. he said:
81 am opposed to negro suffrage, not
because they are negroes, or are black,
for those are matters of taste and preju-
dice, but because the right of suffrage
has already been too much extended and
cheapened in this country. While | am
opposed to extending the right of suf-
frage to the negroes, | AN IN FAVOR
OF DISFRANGHISING ONE HALF
OF THE WHITE|PEOPLE IN THIS
COUNTRY. Our fathers committed a
great and fatal mistake in extending as
they did the right of suffrage. All his
tory proves that there is but one interest
that is conservative and that can be safe
ly entrusted with the governing power,
and that is the property interest. When
a man is possessed Of property he has a
stake in the government, and will not en-
danger his property by unwise legisla-
/ tion or by involving the country in war.
The object of our form of Government has
been the want of strength and power in
the Federal Government. It will be i'm
possible to govern this vast and rapidly
increasing country under the operation
of universal suffrage. Our system o.
government has been materially and rad
ically changed during the war, and it car
never be restored to what it was prior tc
the war. The Constitution is not worth
the paper upon which it is written. The
first effect of universal suffrage will be tc
make the government more nearly ap
Iproach a democracy, but this cannot lasi
long. We will follow the example Of
other governments, the strife of factions
will 60 on until intimately the Senate OF
| the President will assume the control
when we shall have strong and stable
/ government. The British Gexernment il
the best government that ever existed OF
! Gods earth. and the sooner ours assimi
lates itself to the British government, The
better it will be for the country. / dc
]! mot hesitate to declare, no matter how un
popular it may be, that if the negro race
and one half of the white race had goot
masters and mistresses, they would b.
much better of, and the governmen'
! would be much safer and stronger. =
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Best joke of the season.

The Democratic State Convention Of
Iowa in session at Des Moines, We'd
nesday, adopted the following resolu-
tion:
sResolued, That the maintenance invio-
late of the rights of the States, and es-
pecially the rights of each State to order
and control its own domestic institutions
according to its judgment exclusively, is
essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of
our political fabric stands.
This resolution has been pounced upon
and denounced by Republican Journals
as the declaration Of "Copperheads, =
"rebel sympathizers," etc., etc. The fun
of the thing is that the resolution is
taken word for word from the Republi-
can platform Of 1860, upon which Lin
coin was elected President!
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ssondhol.lers a l.rl.llegea el.ass.

The American Bondholders are priv
Iileged class--exempt from all taxation
upon their bonds, to pay the gold intcr-
est on which great drops Of perspiration
arc wrung from the laboring mans brow.
Let it be understood that the Radicals
have established an aristocracy which the
poor arc burdcncd with taxation to sup
Iport.
Let it be understood by the laboring
men throughout the country that their
masters, the bondholders, scorn them as
"poor white trash," because they have
not money sufficient to be considered
aristocrats.
Let it be understood that intelligence
is not necessary to gain admission to this
ltoadstool aristocracy; but that man is
measured by the number Of dollars he
possesses.
Let it be understood that the Democ-
racy frown upon this privileged class of
bondholders, and advocate the doctrine of
every American paying taxes in proper
tion to his wealth, whether that wealth
consists of bonds or other property.
Let it be understood that an Aristocra-
Icy in America is contrary to the letter and
Esprit of our institutions, and will be vo-
tied down at the ballot-box by the advo-
lcates of equal 1taxation-the Democracy,
Let it be understood that the Democ.
Tracy are in favor of redeeming the Aris-
Itocratic Radicals bonds by an issue Of
lgreenbacks, thus getting rid of principal
land interest, and relieving the working
land honest men of America.
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Two white Girls Rayislled by Ne
gr0es.

Mr. Proud, who farms place belong
ing to Mr.. Thomas Kim5er, of Brandy
wine Hundred, Del, on Tuesday went to
the blacksmith shop at Claymount to have
something DONE. He took his little
daughter along who had somo butter and
eggs to take to Mr.. Kimber's DWELLING
When she performed her errand she star :.
ted home alone. A dark mulatto negro
was seen to pass along the same road
about the same time. The girl passed
over path through wheat field, and
the negro came up to her. After they
had passed we'll out of sight, the negro
seized the child, threw her down, choked
and bruised her badly, and even threat
ened her life if she resisted his attempts
to ravish her. The resistance of the
child, and the nearness of the neighbors
no doubt had the effect to alarm the ne
gro, and after injuring her severely he
fled, and has not been heard of since
Tuesday evening, when man answering
his description was seen near the coal oil
works of Thompson & Co., not far from
the Brandywine railroad bridge. The
child, it is said, was 50 internally injured
by the negre's knees upon her breast
and stomach that she was sick all Tues
day night, and threw up considerable
blood. The negro escaped, and had not
been arrested up to the last accounts.
Another horrible outrage was perpe-
trated on Sunday in Christian Hundred,
Chester County.
The girl, whose name We have as yet
been unable to learn, is about seventeen
years of age, and lives at Mr.. Jackson's,
about three miles above Centerville. She
had been raised at Mr.. Jackson's, as we
believe the man had been also. Sunday
this coiored man and another went to
Jackson's no one being at home but this
girl, and after talking for little while
the other man went away, the one who
committed the outrage remained. The
! girl asked him if he was not going away
with his companion. The man said no,
and then seized her and ac complished his
brutal purpose. The house being in the
country and some distance from all 9TH
ers, the poor girls screams failed to bring
any assistance. The girl was badly
bruised about the body and breast, and
her face scratched and torn. The girl
ran ever to a neighbors and informed
them of the outrage. An effort was made
to arrest the negro yesterday, whether il
was successful or not we did not hear
Westchester Jefersonian.
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Gerretf Smith ON Our DtIty with
the soutIl--A Letter to Thad. ste.
yens.


Hon. THAD. STEVENS Dear Sir: You
are reported in the New York Tribune as
having recently said on the floor of Con-
gress.
ut is now held by one Of the most
liberal and enlightened gentlemen in the
country Ct mean Gerrett Smith) that We
should even pay portion of the damages
inflicted on the rebels, and pay portion
of the rebel debt"
OF course. you do not mean that It is
| literally SO. My often-repeated propo-
sition is that Government lend or give
moneys to the South to help her to an
upward start from the depths Of her pow
erty and desol alton. By what logic you
are able to construct from the letter Of
this proposition your figure of speech is
for you, not me, to explain. am truly
sorry that it is in your heart to hold up
to ridicule my reasonable proposition.
You are too old and too intellectual to be
making such concessions to passion and
prejudice. There are two reasons why
the North should be glad to help the
South. First, the South is poor--yery
poor, and the North is rich-very rich.
Second, the North is largely responsible
for the fathers of the South in making
this land of slaves; and in our own day
the North has gone with the South ia
lupholding and extending slavery. Until
THE breaking out of this war, every Con-
Igress was for slavery. The repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise was the work Of
North as we'll as of the South. So, too,
was the enactment of that internal Fu-
gitiye Slave Act, which even the good
i Abraham Lincoln was compelled By the
pro- slavery sentiments of the North as
we'll as the South to enforce SO vigorously.
] With comparatively few exceptions, our
/ Northern colleges, theological seminaries,
and political and religious parties were
on the side of slavery. The commerce
of the North was emphatically in the In
lterest of slavery.
4 In the light Of such facts, it surely
lcannot be denied that the North made
herself largely responsible for American
slavery. But the war came of slavery,
and the poverty and desolation Of the
South came of the war; and, hence, to the
same degree that the North was respon-
! Isible for slavery, is she responsible for the
war,and for its ruinous results to the South.
i You call my sympathy with the South,
and my desire to have the North help her
asickly humanity l call 1t simple hon-
testy. If my neighbor and join in GET
ting each other drunk and ne IN his iren-
zy goes to tearing down my house, and
II, in self defense, demolish his, | am not
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RpA very nice gentleman, haillng all
the way from Massachusetts,, and sub
scribing himself w. FL. Boyiugton, re-
Gently married an excellent young lady
in Gibson County, Indiana. Last Satur-
day night, his former wife, whom he de-
serted in Canada, made her appearance
and raised an energetic panic in the fam
lily. A marriage certificate was duly
presented, and the scounarel wentto Jail
at Princeton, in default of $500 bail.
So much for trusting to newcomers,
without inqalring into their anteccdents
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A Desperate Young Man.


A dispatch from Chicago tells the fol-
lowing:
A young fellow came here from Lou
isiana with ten thousand dollars, last
week, to marry girl to whom he had
long been engaged. He lost his AN at q
gaming table, and tried to drown himself
in the river. but was rescued. he then
went to hotel, ordered two bottles Of
wine, laid his revolver on the table, and
wrote TO friend stating that he had kill
ed himself The friend rushed up there
and found him dead--drunk, on the floor.
He had apparently intended to kill him~
self while under the influence Of liquor,
but took too much. Drink saved him.
i
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inimical to the Constitution and the Uni
on. It will be sadsday for our party
when soldiers find 20 better work than to
prowl over the battle field of the past,
and dig up. the slain, The country wants
peace, and rest, aud harmony,and justice.
These men want distracted country that
Office may be gained. They would make
America a Mexico, peace would be sent
to sleep with Turks and infdels, aud In
stead Of Union, they would '.he woefull
est division make that ever fell upon this
cursed earth.
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Hon. G. L. VALLAND1GHAM,

Whose name towers high as one of the
most determined opposers of the Reyolu-
tionary schemes of the disunionists now
in power-one Of the victims of Aboli-
tion tyranny and mob violence during the
rebellion--a man firm in the advocacy Of
the Right, and equally as determined il
opposition, to Tyranny and Usunion, will
be here.
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saThe following is the text of The

B1@The following is the text of the
joint resolution authorizing the extensions
Of the mail steamship service:
That the Postmaster General, be here
by authorized to extend and improve the.
mail steamship service to Japan and
China, authorized BY act Of February,
9th, by establishing regular male con-
nections with such other seaports in Chi
ma and Japan, as wiAi in his judgement.
promoted the usefulness and efficiency
of the mail service established by said
act, provided, such extensions and i'm
tproyements of service are made without
additional expense to the government.
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MA Thurlow Weed tells how and wi

Ne Thurlow Weed tells how and why
he quit the Radical Company. He says:
"We were weary and disgusted with
the men who had risen, in discordant and
disturbed times, to the management Of
public affairs. 1t was day of small,
cheap men-the saplings and hoop poles
of party-throRn to the surface in a
storm. Our State Conventions were con
trolled by secret leagues whose manipu.
lators lay around Albany during the win,
ter, dispensing Offices and debauching the
Legislature" SC.
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Ma During the war Radicals abehe

sa- During the war Radicals abeheld
with great satisfaction" the burning Of
Democratic printing Offices, and the trans
portation of Democrats to loathesome
dungeons, for denouncing the war as be.
ing for the elevation of the Negro and
not for the restoration Of the Union.
Were not those Offices burned to .ht
ground, and those men imprisoned, fol
fearlessly giving utterance to the truth?
Look atthe second chapter of the Rad
ical programme Negro Equality-anc
ask yourself if the war was for the Union
or the Negro.
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PLANS have been accepted for the great
bridge over the Mississippi river at St.
Louis, and the work will commence at
once. Three years viii be required for
building it, and the cost will be near S5,
000, 600. It will not Interfere with nav
igation, will contain a double railroad
track, street car track &c. It will be
one of the most splendid bridges in the
world SO the papers Of St. Louis say,
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na- The supplemental Reconstruction
Bill to organize He'll in ten States of the
American Union will be found on our
outside.
The President, by the provisions of the
bill, is shorn of all power, the same be-
ing transferred to the commanders of the
five military Districts Of. the South.
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Hon. JAMES R. MoRRIs,

Whom the Democracy of Monroe know
to be able and fearless in argument and
denunciation of the folly and wickedness
of the corrupt demagogues now in power,
will be present in behalf of the Democ-
racy.
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New York, July 22.-The Herald S
New Orleans special says: Late advices
from Vera Cruz state that the body of
Macmillan will be delivered to the Aus
trian legation. The remains are now on
their way to Vera Cruz. There is no
truth in the report that foreign eonsuls
had been molested.
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MONDAY. June 10, 1867.

DlUNDA1, JUHe ~, IoUI.
Ny DEAR SIR: | have received your
invitation to be present and address the
citizens at Woods6eld on Thursday, Sept.
IL. 1t lis little difficult in these chan
ging times to say what may or may not
be done at day SO fas distant; neVerthe-
less, if life and health continue, I shall
be with you then. Very sincerely yours,
GEo. H. PENDLEToN.
Hon. JAS. r. MORRIS,
Woodsfeld, Ohio.
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The following judges were "in harmo-
ny with the political sentiments " Of their
times: Pontius Plate, Judge Jeffreys,
Lord Ellcnborough, and Fouquier Tin
vile, and these are tho kind Of Judges
the Radicals want in our day. Do the
people agree With them?
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The Democracy of Monroe County re-
cognize the above acts as the inevitable
results of the teachings of Radicalism.
White man, guard well your daughters
if you would save them from the rayish-
ing clutches of the Radical party's dusky
pets.
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R1 Senator Henderson-so a Wash
ington letter writer says-has come to the
conclusion that if our Indian difficulties
are not speedily adjusted, they will run on
to such an extent as to involve the coun-
try in an outlay of between two and three
hundred millions of dollars, without ac-
complishing anything of practical good
He is equally assured that in this, as in
almost all other cases, the whites are the
aggressors. 1t is a great pity that Mr.
Henderson's opinion was not held by
enough ether members OF Congress to
put stop to the war now waged for the
mere benefit Of spectators.
Has Senator Henderson come TO any
conclusion in regard to our Southern diff
foulties?
It is great pity that the Radicals in
Congress donos think it necessary to re-
lieVe the oppressed people of the South
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DAYTON. ONO. June 18. 4

DAYTON, UHIo, June I0, 81.
Hon ]. R. Morris, Woodsfeld, Ohio:
Ny DEAR SIR have Just received
the invitation conveyed by you,to address
the Democracy of "GLoRIoUs OLD Mon
ROE" on Thursday, September IL, 1867
and, God willing, I aoiH be soith goa then
and there, Very truly, &c.,
9. L. VALLANDIGHAM.
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MThe Negro of 1867 is

The Negro of 1867 is
a Man. And the Democracy
even of Monroe County like
the Rebels of the south) will
yet be forced to recognize DEM
oeRArIe doctrine. MARIETTA
REGISTER, Radical.
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Radical Legislation.


In IA special dispatch from Washington
to the Cincinnati Enquirer, July 22, we
find the following beautiful specimen of
the result of Radical legislation:
aSome weeks ago special agent Of the
Postofice Department reported to the
Postmaster General that he had detected
frauds which were perpetrated by the
Postmaster at Greensburg, Indiana, and
that the Postmaster had admitted that
his book entries had been changed, &C.,
&c. Upon this showing, the Postmaster
was suspended. When Congress met the
facts were certified to the Senate, and a
new Postmaster was nominated. The
Senate rejected the nomination and under
the Tenure-of-ofice Law, the old Post
master is reinstated in Office. The Post
master General notified the reinstated of
.6cer of the action of the Senate, and add
ed: '.You are respectfully requested as a
favor to the Department to use as little
of the money of the Government, and
make as few false entries as possible
Is not the above evidence sufficient
that the legislation Of Radicalism is moth
ing more nor less than granting license to
their followers to rob the Government Of
its revenues?
The people are daily informed bythese
honest CD Radicals that charges of COR
ruption against their party are Cooper
head lies manufactured for political cap
ital.
Fraud, corruption; robbery are the raj
lying cry of Radicalism. How long will
the people endure such state of affairs?
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The following letters from the above
named gentlemen were received in reply
to letters addressed them by the Hon.
JAMES r. MORRIS, and we feel assured
their perusal will cause Democratic hearts
to rejoice with exceeding great joy:
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THE national ,DEBT.-George Fran
els Train, in the course of a late speech,
touching on the National Debt,said athat
we had a grand exhibition of fire works,
and mortgaged our farm to pay for it,
That the so-called wealth of the farmer
consisted in having his boy in the grave
yard, and seven thirty in his pocket IN
excbasge. He said that to pay off the
debt in thirty years we must raise ten
thousand million dollars IN taxes, making
the rich richer and the poor poorer"
a-Congrcss adjourned on the 10th
inst. to November 81.
Is anybody sorry2
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B@The Jacobins in power must be
handled without gloves in the revolution
now n progress throughout the United
States.
They parsue the outspoken coufae,and
it viii not do for Democrats to adopt.the
amilk and water policy Of allowing them
to make reckless assertions, which they
cannot possibly shbstantiate, without fur
nishing the proof, easily obtained, of pro
wing them falsiiers and enemies to the
prosperity and we'll doing Of the Ameri-
can people and Union.
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CoLUMBts. June Is. 1857

Hon., James R. Morris, Woodsfeld, Ohio:
DEAR SIR-Yours of yesterday con-
tanning an invitation to me to address the
people at Wcodsfeld on Thursday, Sept.
II, has been received. Iaccept the inyi-
tation with great pleasure, and you may
rely on my being with you. Yours tru-
ly, A. G. THURMAN.
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Woodstield. July 30. 1867

etsAlunion Of hearts, union Of hands,
A union that none may sever;
q A union of lakes, union of lands,
ts The AMERICAN UNION FOREVER. ~
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The pemooraey arc in Favor of
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET


= For Governor,
ALLEN G. THURMAN,
of Franklin.
Lieutenant Governor,
DANIEL S. UHL,
Of Holmes.
Treasurer of State,
sss g r q LT0N,
s of Crawford.
Auditor of State,
JOHN. McELWEE,
of Butler.
Attorney General,
FRANK Il. HURD,
Of Knox.
Supreme Judge,
THOMAS M. KEY,
Of Hamilton.
/ Comptroller of Treasury,
WILLIAM SHERIDAN,
of Williams,
Member Board Public Works.
LRTH UR HU GHE ES,
Of Cuyahoga.