The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-07-08

WHAT WILL THE DEMOCRATS 10 1T has been
asked "What will the Democracy do if We help to
place them in power?" The question is 50 well and
appropriately answered and satisfactorily sunme3
I'D by Gen. w. A. German, of Minnesota, in a late
speech that we insert the answer here:
If the Democracy get power IN the Government
thew will reduce the tariff tax o. all your tea and
what you drink and wear.
They will restore the Union, and turn over all the
Southern States expenses to be paid by the South
alone.
We will turn out and abolish ten thousand abolition
Freedmen's Bureau office-holders, and millions Of
dollars to the peoples pockets
We will bid the South support themselves and 20
to raising cotton and sugar, and We will continue to
raise produce to feed them.
We will pay the public debt in the same currencv
we pay you aud the same you pay each other and thus
save millions more in the pockets of the people
If we pay the rich in gold, we will pay you in gold
If we pay you in paper money, we will pay plehors
bondholders in paper money.
We will enact laws to enable YOU to buy your goods
where you can buy cheapest and sell where you can
get the best price.
We will protect labor from the eneroachnent Of
capital
We will leave each State to govern ITSELF limited
only by the Federal Constitution.
We will reduce the army in the South and send
them to the plains to protect the frontier and new
routes to the far West
We will restore commerce, peace and good will he,
tween the North and South.
We will reduce taxes, both State and national
We will lessen the ofice-holders, and release you
from taxation to support them.
We will enact laws inside and not outside the Con-
stitution.
We will restore peace at home and maintain your
honor abroad.
We will inaugurae a day of moderation, orderri
good will, instead Of hate and i'll WILL as LOW taught
by Jacobin politicians.
We will give equal rights to all, and grant ezda
sive privileges to none.
We will substitute calm craftsmanship for mailg
cobinism.
We will make pets no longer Of negroes at the ct
pense of the whites, force suffrage for them bs
expense and against the will of those who have created
and maintained the Government.
THE PEABODY FuND.-The trustees of tie Peaboi
Educational Fund close their deliberations in New York
Wednesday. The object of this meeting has been
chiefly to listen to the semannua report of the GEN.
eral agent Rev. Dr. Sears, of Virginia, and to make
appropriations for the next six months. DR.. Sean'n
port is highly satisfactory, showing the earnest de-
sire of the Southern people to cooperate with hetui
tees, and the progress Of the system of education
which has been devised, and is being actively carried
out under the joint direction of the school supernteH
dents of the Southern States and of the general agent
@N''S ctSh
through the States of North and South Carolina eOr
g1a, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama and Tel
nessee, comforting with leading gentlemen upon The
OBJECTS OF tins magnificent Donation and addres1s
the people OF the principal towns and cities upo The
subject of free school education He has everyBhn
been received with the utmost kindness and cordltty
In Memphis and other leading cities of the South be
has been rendered the inequalities of the respective
cities, and the prospect is very encouraging for M
tablishment of thorough system of free schools and
normal schools among the States above mentioned (
About SIS, 900 have been definitely appropriately
the trustees for the ensuing six months, and about
$4,000 in addition have been appropriated condition
ally upon the raising Of money in Cooperation byha
various communities where aid is thus given the B0d
granting aid varying according to circumstances from
onethrd to twothrds of tue amount necessary to as
tain the respective schools Particular attention has
been given to the founding of normal schools and the
commencement of system Of free school education
DR.. Sears reports the entire people Of the South 60
thuslastlc in their gratitude to Mr.. Peabody and The
appreciation Of his gift
Resolutions of coincidence with the family Of The
late Hon. VIM G. Rives, of Virginia, and expressing
the trustees sense of the loss sustained by his deat
were passed, and the Board adjourned to meet IN b'
tlmore on the third Thursday of January, 1869
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