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The Republican" Party.
Salmon p. Chase's Opinions.
IN FAVOR OF NEGRO VOTING. &c.

IN FAVOR OF NEGRO VOTING. &c.
Salmon P. Chase, twice elected Gov
ernor of Ohio, and was Mr.. Lincoln's S
Secretary of the Treasury, and now
Chief Justice, was presented with a
silver pitcher by the negroes of Gin
cinnati on the 18th of May, 1876
In response to the presentation, he said:
In what have done / cannot claim to
have acted from any peculiar considera-
tion of the colored people as a separate
and distinct class in the community, but
from the simple conviction that all the
individuals Of that class are members of
the community, and in virtue of their
manhood, entitled to every original right
enjoyed by any other member. We feel
therefore, that all Legal Distinction be-
tween individuals of the same communi-
ty, foundedin any such circumstances
as color, origin, and the like, are hostile
to the genius of our institutions, and in
compatible with the true theoryof Amer
lean liberty. Slave,y and oppression
mast cease, or american liberty must per-
ish.
In Massachusetts, and in most, if not
all, the New England States, the coIored
man and the white are absolutely equal
before the law.
In New York the colored man is re-
stricted as to the right of suffrage by a
property qualification. In other respects
the same equality prevails.
I embrace with pleasure this opportu-
nifty of declaring My disapprobation Of
that clause Of the Constitution aohich de-
nies to a portion of the colored people the
right of Suffrage.
The Democracy makes no oinquiry about
the color of the skin or place OF nativity,
or any other similar circumstance Of con-
dition. Iregard therefore the exclusion
of the colored people as a body from
the elective franchise as incompatible
with true Democratic principles.
Mr.. Chase, in the speech delivered in
Cincinnati, from which we have already
quoted, as above said:
Fer myself I am ready to renew my
pledge, and | will venture to speak in
behalf of my co-workers, that we will
go straight on, without faltering or wa
vering, until every vestige Of oppression
is erased from the statue books--until the
sun, in all his journey from the utmost
eastern horizon the mid-heaven, till he
sinks behind the western bed, shall not
behold the footprint of a single slave in
all cur broad and glorious land.
Mr.. Chase speech at Pontiac, Mich
igan; in 1856, thus stated the issue, or
rather his conception Of the issue, be-
tween the parties:
Task you to take sides and decide
where you will be. eff the Lord be
God, then serve him: but if Baal, then
serve him." IF slavery is right; if cap
ital ought to own labor; then go for the
doctrine openly. If you believe that
freedom is the right Of man, then join
the party which has inscribed on the
folds of its banner, "Freedom through
out the Counhy's soidc donaainp'
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Horace Greeley,s Opinions.

ALL DISTINCTIONS OF COLOR UNJUST.
Now, let us hear from Horace Greeley,
''the chief cook and bottle washer" in
the Chicago Convention, whose efforts
there brought about the nomination Of
Lincoln. As far back as the 18th Of
January, 1861, Greely thus spoke In his
Tribune:
We loathe and detest all laws which
give or withhold political rights on ac-
count of color. ga mans man for
a. that, and ought to have the full rights
Of manhood, whether his ancestors were
Celts, Goths, or Hottentots, whether his
complexion be ebony or ivory. x x
All constitutional exclusions of any class
from the polls, the jury-box, &c., because
of color, are aristocratic; unjust, and in
famous.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE STATES
THE REAL OBJECT AIMED AT.
Horace Greeley, in the Tribune Of
July 17th, 1854, in reply to letter Of
James e. Birney's, acknowledges that
he will be in favor Of abolishing slavery
in the States Gas soon.as practicable"
Admit that abolition in the State is
what all men ought to strive for, ard it
| is clear to my mind that large majority
are not prepared for this, and the practi-
cal question is this; shall we politically
attempt what will certainly invozce as IN
defeat and ffailare9. or shall we not rather
attempt that which a majority are ripe
for, and thus, by our consequent triumph
invite that majority to go further? Shall
we insist on having all the possible
eggs now, or be content to await their
appearance day by day? The latter seems
to us the only rational, sensible course.
We care not how fast Messrs. Birney &
Co., may ripen public sentiment in the
North for Emancipation, we willaid them
to the best of our ability; but we will not
refuse the good now within our reach out
of Difference to that which is as yet un-
lattainable. Mr.. Birney's "ultimatum
may be Just what he sees fit; zoe haze not
proposed 10 modify or nseddle soitb Ii. We
only ask that he shall not interdict or
prevent the doingof some good at once,
merely because he would like to do more
good, as we shall, also, whenever it shall
become practicable.
NoMINATEs FRED. DOUGLASS FOR CON-
GREss.
Again, in 1855, we see him proposing
and urging the nomination for Congress
of that notorious negro, Fred. Douglass
Just listen to him:
Among the candidates put up by the
Convention of the Liberty party at Uti-
ca,on Wednesday,is Mr.. Frederick Doug
lass, of Monroe county, who is nominated
for the Office of Secretary of State. With
respect to ability, better nomination
could hardly be desired; but we confess
that we should regret to see Mr.. Doug
lass elected. His proper place is not a
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THE WHITE MANS TICKET
Free NegrOisnl.

3 -
In 1884 Garrison predicted that the
american Slave System must inevitably
perish from starvation
Let US examine the facts:
In 1900 the West India Islands expor-
ted II, ,oo0, 900 pounds of cotton, and the
United States 1888, 1893 pounds.
In 1888 the West Indies emancipated
their slaves.
In 1910, just seven years, the West In
dies exported only 866,157 pounds of
cotton, while the United States exported
743, ,941, ,O61 poundsi
Does that look as though, they were
starving to death in the United States2-
Does it not look more like free Negroism
starvation in the West Indies?
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Gen. Grant had issued an order to dis
trict commanders forbidding the reap.
pointment Of any deposed State officers.
Nine army sugeons have died during
the past three weeks, most Of them from
yellow fever. s
Fort Lyon, on the Arkansas river, is
about to be rebuilt at acost of $700, 900,
and will be one of the fines. forts in the
West.
A marriage between the Princess
Louisa Of Sweden and the Crown Prince
of Denmark is arranged on the part oil
the two royal families, but the final de-
cision is to be left to the prince and prin-
cess themselves.
Our minister at the Court of Berlin,
Mr.. Bancroft, is being treated with nm
exampled courtesy. On Wednesday, in
company with Count Won Bismark, he
dined at the royal residence in Potsdam
enjoyed three hours conversation with
His Majesty, and was afterwards driven
baek to Berlin in the royal Goa ch, accom-;
panied by the King himself--a distin-
gulshed mark Of respect.
A serious riot took place at Montreal
ION the occasion Of nominating members
for Parliament. Thomas Darcy McGee
was hooted from the stand and prevented
from speaking. The military were called
out; who charged upon the mob, and the
casualties are reported as being severe.
The candidates had all to be guarded to
their homes by two squadrons Of troops.
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sea- The Radicals, in this county, last
year requested us to insert the name of
their candidate Cor Judge in few hun
.dred Democratic Tickets; but we failed to
see the advantage to be gained by the
Democracy and respectfully declined.
Look out for trickery Of that kind this
year. Men who will vote to enfranchise
Niggers will work to deceive the people.
Watch theml
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member of the State Administration at
Albany, but as member of Congress at
Washington. For the former Office he
possesses no qualifications that might
not be found in other gentlemen, while
for the duties O. a representative at Wash
ingtOn he as particularly gifted. As an
orator and debater he possesses both the
force and the grace of Virginia gentle
man Of the old school and one of the
first families, to which great depth of
conviction, and resolution worthy of
the best days of the Republic, add a
persuasive and magnetic charm not often
left in the Federal Capitol. We trust,
then, that the friends of Mr., Douglass
will not persist in urging his election to
the Office for which he is nominated, but
will make every preparation to return
him to Congress on the very first yacan-
cy in the Monroe district.
BURN THE CAPITAL RATHER THAN FALL.
Now hear Horace Greeley thunder
forth his revolutionary advice to the
Black Republicans in Congress, when
the Kansas Nebraska bill was pending:
We urge, therefore, unbending deter
mination on the part of the Northern
members hostile to this intolerable out
rage, and demand of them In behalf of
peace, in behalf Of freedom, in behalf of
justice and humanity, resistance to the
last. Better that confusion should ensue
better that discord should reign IN the
national comcils-better that Congress
should break up IN pild discord d-aay, bet
ter that the Capitol itself should blaze By
the torch of the incenaiary, or fall and
bury its inmates beneath its crumbling
rains, than that this perfdy and wrong
shall be finally accomplished.
ABUSE OF THE STARS AND STRIPES.
The hatred that Horace Greeley and
the men who sympathize with him, have
for the Union of WASHINGTON, is we'll
illustrated by the following song which
appeared in the Tribune of June 18th,
1854, and even now not condemned by
Mr.. Greeley, who, in acknowledging, in
the summer of 1863, that he published
it, intimated no objection to the senti-
ments It contains:
ODE TO THE AMERICAN FLAG.
All hail the Haunting Liel
The stars grow pale and dim,
The stripes are bloody scars,
A lie the vaunting hymn.
1t shields a pirates deck,
1t binds man in chains,
1t yokes the captive's neck;
And wipes the bloody stains.
Tear down the Haunting Liel
Halfmast the starry fag--.
Insult no sunny sky
With hates polluted rag
Destroy it, ye who canl
Deep sink it in the wavesl
1t bears fellow-man
To groan with fellow.slaves.
Furl the boasted Liel
Till freedom lives again,
To rule once more in truth,
Among untrampled men.
Roll up the starry-sheen,
Conceal its bloody stains;
For in its folds are seen
The stamp of rustling chainsl
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SAN FRANcIsco, Sep. 5, 1s67.-CaIi-
fornia sends greeting to all Conservative
citizens of the East, having elected Hen
ry H. Haight, Governor, by many thou
sand majority-following in the footsteps
of Connecticut, and improving upon her
example, The Legislatureis is Democratic,
and the State is thoroughly redeemed
Two Congressmen are elected, and the
third is believed to be. Let Ohio join
the column. sss 3l1s
JOSEPH P. HoaE. Gin.
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Five dollars in greenbacks are
equivalent to three dollars in gold.
Five dollars in gold are equivalent to
seven dollars in greenbacks.
Doyou see where the shoe piuches the
Bond holding Radical when you talk Of
paying him his interest in greenbacks at
par, instead oe gold at 40 per cent.
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The Proposed Change in the Stafe
s Constitution.

In order that our readers may see the
nature of the proposed Radical negro
suffrage change in the Constitution of
Ohio, we give the section that it is de-
signed to strike out, as compared with
the substitute they want in:
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sG The Radical says: "This contribu-
ting to keep up cripples paid while the
war was going on, but it's all over now,
and I'm satisfied with my record in the
affair. I'm sound and we'll, while my
poor neighbors are diseased by cold and
starvation; let it go SO; al my time is ta-
ken up watching the money market; my
Bonds are good in the market for pre-
smium of 13 per cent. on the dollar, gold
interest on the coupons and exempt from
taxation. Go away cripples; you don't
|payp
Soldiers, remember these braggarts at
the ballot-box on Tuesday, the 9th day
of October.
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Constitutional Amendment,

B@The Radicals will no doubt dis
tribute counterfeit tickets with the hope
of decreasing the Democratic majority in
Monroe Gounty. Arrangements should
be Immediately made throughout the
county to defeat the success Of such ras-
cality. Watch out for every kind Of
trickeryl
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The Democracy

OF Monroe County think White men are
capable of governing America, conse
quently will vote ''Nol" on the Unconsti-
tutional Amendment to the tune Of
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aOuf eyes behold the glory IT.
Of the coming of the Lord;
he is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He has loosed the fatal lightnings
Of His terrible quick swerd,-tsE
And Truth goes marching on"
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Democracy.

Give US country ruled by intelligent
White men ''for the benefit of White
men and tLeir posterity forever," and we
will rest content.
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nA- The recent fight between Aaron
Jones and Nike McCoole, for the cham-
pionship of America, resulted in favor Of
the latter, after thirty four rounds. The
fight took place on Saturday last, ,28 miles
from Cincinnati, and lasted only 26 min
utes. Jones was badly punished, and
McCoole escaped with hardly scratch.
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The question will be on the substitute
this fall. Aose who are against it, and
for white suffrage, as at present, viii vote
aNo!'
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The Democracy Do It Again!
..Losaltya Rib-Roastea and sick.
aour ewes behold the glory

Another Wave in the Turning Tidel
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Majority for White mems interests.
seA- Place no reliance whatever in re-
ports circulated by the Radicals on the
eve of the election. They are only made
for political effect, and have not the shad-
ow Of truth for their foundation.
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RadicaIisIll.

RadicaIisnl.
Give us country ruled by Niggers and
the Military, and we will rest content.
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neA-Dr. J. II. Jordan, IndianapoliA
Ind, says: 81 have known Dr. Strick,
lands Pile Remedy to be thoroughly Tess
ted in numerous cases during the past
year, and with perfect success in every inr
stance. And SO it is with his Remedy
for Diarrhea or Cholera, and his Cough
Balsam. They are all genuine and pure. 7
sep3m1.
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saLAt the polls is the proper place to
examine your tickets. Every ticket in
favor of White mans Government will
have on it.
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Boston is to have an hourly delivery
Il letters.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

Ysses sstsia :.-z..- =. ...i.. q
5 Ss.fs 80 For Governor.
.',ss = ALLEN G. THURMAN,
rasssssa 4 Of Franklin, sa
"a - q lieutenant Governor,
ssas esBANIEL s. u HI
LIZ .;,g. Of Holmes.
,saaslss yssae Treasursr of State, a6e a.s
Epmssisis sG'. FU LsTlO,N, Ia
80 assE of Crawford.
-. s Auditor Of state. .s
JOHN MqELWEE, <
sissel s of Butler. j
/. Is 8 . Attorney General,
g & s,..s M FRANK Il. HURD,
-soq NV haa a0f Knox.
lisaaeW b Supreme Judge,
sssssR THOMAS M. KEY,
of Hamilton.
l.,a Comptroller Of Treasury,
as WILIIAM SHERIDAN,
So - Of Williams, s
Member Board Public Works.
IRT d UR H UGHES,
sss wos of Cuyahoga.
u4i~ f5sfssioe sA-l-- Fs 81
a.. < For State Senator,
WILLIAM LAWRENCE,
ss5asfs Of Guernsey.
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s@Cohablting Equality is the equal
ity sought for by the wool-loving Radi-
Gals. Nothing short of that will satisfy
their cravings for the Niger. Then
they can say;
/" 'Tis sweet to know there's an eye Will mark
our coming,
And grow brighter when We come.n
Oh, how sreea Dinah in the yard
surrounded by a half-dozen little half
bred Radicals.
-~s~1.-
s@-The revenue collected by the Gov
ernment is to pay gold interest on Radical
Bonds.
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CONSTITUTION, ART.
5 SEC. l, Gas it is.)
Every white male
citizen Of the Uni
ted States, of the
age Of twenty-one
years, who shall
have been a resi-
dent of the State
one year next pre-
ceding the election,
and of the county ,
township, or ward
in which he resides
such time as may
be provided by Law,
shall have the quail
ifeatious of an elec-
tor, and be entitled
to vote at all elec-
tions.
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yellow FeYer.

5ALyEsTON. TExAs. Sepfember b.
The yellow fever continues unabated.
Dr Rowe Army SURGEON i verrS Inv -
Dr. Adams Medical D;ractor has bsen
taken = with e Ii the m fever General Potter Is
thought to be improving.
fieueral ~Hriffin'S only child and ifs
nurse were es taken l.,a !, last nish1s Hs bss :
telepranhed for nermission tor +, remove the
headanarters Of the Fifth District 10
Galysa.on -
Snsak;no of The uellow fever n Cal.
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What pictured The exhibit shows
that from the date of the eimpartial"
plan to the present their exports have
fallen off s25, ,155, 600!
The Negroes have abandoned the plan
tations, sugar mills are rotting to the
ground, buildings in ruins, and the worth
less Negroes are utterly incapable of
bringing order out of their degradation.
White mon! the Radicals invite you to
the same feast of ruin and degradation
in America. They implore you with
tears in their eyes, and 5-2O's and 7-3O's
sticking out of their pockets,to cast your
ballots to make America second Hayti.
Make the Negro your equal, politically,
and you will very soon see him elevated
to places of trust by the Radicals, and
then look out for the ruin of our country.
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Interest on the Ten-Forties.

A warran. has been issued from the
Treasury Department for the sum of S4,-
317,065 80, in coin, in payment of the
interest due on ten-forties up to the 1st
inst Washington Dispatch, Sep. 2.
Taxpayers, read over the above care
fully, and make calculation Of the nun
Der of hard days work yeu have per-
formed to pay Radicalism FOUR MIL
LIONS THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND SIXTY
FIVE DOLLARS AND NINETY
CENTS IN GOLD.
Is it any wonder that Radicals grow
wealthy, when poor men pay the gold in
terest on their Bonds, and on which they
are exempted from all taxation, but on
which poor men labor to pay?
The Radicals tell voters that currency
of greenbacks would ruin the country,
when they know tits the only remedy to
prevent its bankruptcy.
Make your own calculation on the
above gold interest at 42 per cent, the
present quotation of gold in the New
York market, and you will be astounded
at the pile of greenbacks the Radicals
pocket by the transaction.
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EIayti.

In 1890, Hayti was in State of pros
perity, with population of 100000, of
which 3S,S6G were whites and 28, 37Ofree
negroes; the remainder were slaves.
In 1898. the freedom of the Negroes
was decreod, and the grand experiment of
"impartlal freedom" commenced. In
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4 address slb orders and letters,
Tie SprilacE Democracy ~ ii

6sizI Is aais4ssde MONROE County,
eli xaioaiq iebaed .i3sl M ID ONO.
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THE ABOLITION CONSpIRACyI
DESTROY THE UNION;
OR,
A TEN YEARS RECORD

OF
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Glad Tidings From the West!
THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION.
Glorious Response TO Con-
necffcut!
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THE S1ASDERER.-The following point
cd and well-timed words from an exchange
are commended, because Of their correct
ness:
sIn the tongue of the slanderer there is
no music; his very breath is poison. And
truth to say, the long-sufferng down.
trodden South has had much caune within
the last two years to deplore the existence
Of slanders and slanderers. A miserable,
pestilent tribe of broken down demagogues
known to their political patrons as
smendicant Southern loyalists
made widespread pilgrimages through the
North, for the sole purpose Of securing the
personal advantages of Office. 10 this end 9l
they have traduced our people socially,
morally and politically. No tale was too
n1onstrous to tell concerning those whom
they glibly called rebels-no lndlgnltles
so GREAT as those imaginary ones to which
the rebels had subjected them. Though
the fiction circulated by these medlcant
loyalists were outrageous in their charac-
ter the Southern people would have re-
carded them as ''the idle wind which they
Tesnect not. but for their obvious effect
on Northern public sentiment. 1t was
not nc the bare fact that our people were ira
duced which gave edge to the calumny.
but the graver fact that the falsehood was
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child to the teaching of another, should
continue to manifest an affectiohate in
terest in his improvement, by cohstant
inquiry and encouragement.
2. The supplying of young persons,
while absent from their homes, with need
less money, and the pormi ission to ontiact
debts, ia to be reprobated, as tempting to
sinful prodigality, and multiplying the
dangers of contracting habits of vice.
g. The proper authority of teachers
must be firmly sustained by parents
a. Every young person should be in
formed by his parents thathe must give
diligence to profit by his studies, or else
must be. compelled to make himselfusetul
to society by actual labor in some humber
sphere.
And last, an unworthy parent cannot
reasonably expect the teacher, against
the current Of his wrong example, to form
his son into a worthy man.
r. i. LEE,
r. l.. DABNEY.
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OLrNG "A VENrRLooU1sr.-A physician
says he was going down the Mississippi
some months since, on steamer (engines
were upon the deck) and be sauntered In
that direction to see the working of the
machinery. Near by stood man appa-
rently bent OH the same object In a few
moments squeaking noise was heard on
the opposite side Of the engine. Selling
the oilcan, a gigantic one by the way, the
engineer sought the dry spot, and to pre-
vent further noise of the kind, literally ap-
piled the contents of his can to every joint.
All went OH we'll for while, when the
squaking was heard in another direction.
The oiling process was repeated and quiet
restored; but as the engineer was coming
quietly around toward the spot occupied
by the. doctor and the stranger, he heard
another squeak. This time he detected
the cause Of the difficulty. The stranger
was ventriloquist Walking directly up
behind him he seized the astoDished Joker
by the back of neck and emptied the con-
tents of the can down the spine. ssThere 7"
said he, II don't believe that engine will
squeak again."