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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21
THE ALASKA QUESTION.

We must regard as the hight of arrogance
the position assumed by the Senate in striking
out of the Alaska Appropriation bill the asser-
ton that, in concluding treaties requiring APP
propriations the President and Senate should
first obtain the consent of the House of Repre-
sentatives, or should make the treaty subject
to ratification by the House. Treaty" i'll the
usual sense of that term, includes only the
negotiation or settlement of existing differences
between nations, not the acquisition or purchase
of new territory Indeed, the latter is so foreign
to the ordinary treatymakiDg power that at
the acquisition of Louisiana President Jefferson,
who made it, disclaimed all constitutional
power in the three branches of the Federal
Government combined to buy territory, thus
showing that he did not conceive 1t to be even
an incident Of the treaty-makng power. And
it is not. 1t is an exercise of national sover-
eighty, which the three legislative branches
of the Government combined have the
power to perform, because the United
States are nation and the President and
Congress represent its national sOver-
eighty. But the Constitutional provision that
Congress alone has power to pay debts, or make
appropriations by which money is to be drawn
from the treasury, would be utterly nullifed if
a power that is inadequate to pay debts
could incur them, or a body that cannot
make an appropriation Of dollar could so
act as to bind the House to appropriate
a specific sum for the purpose dictated.
Evon in the negotiation of any treaty which
may affect or impair the revenue, the Ministers
of the Queen of Great Britain act subject to
" the appreciation and consent of Her Majesty's
Commons" The treaty regulating the tariffs
between Great Britain and France runs in this
form. AutOcratic and despOtic in the highest
degree as is the Government of Napoleon, M.
Theirs recently denounced the Government
for entering into the same Golden Chevalier
treaty without consulting with the popular
branch of the Legislature, to whom the En-
peror pretends to leave the power to grant APP
preparations 1t is singular indeed if our Pres
ident and Senate possess to-day powers which
the entire Government did not possess in the
days Of Thomas jefferson. 1t is equally re-
markable that while the British Queen and
Ministry must submit to the House of Com
mons any act diminishing or affecting the rev.
enue, our President and Senate may compel
appropriations of the revenue outright for
purchases of foreign territory The position of
the House is as sound as it is important. We
hope they will adhere to it. While on this
first exercise of such power we have advised
comfy, so that Russia might have no cause of
complaint on account of the usurpatiOns of
unwonted powers ny our President and Senate,
the House should insist that tho usurpation
be not repeated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

The House, yesterday, on motion of Mr.. FL
bridge who acted in behalf of Mr.. Stevens,
passed resolution giving Miss Winnie Ream
the use of a studio in the Capitol building for
another year. This motion was passed with
out the call of the Yeas and Nays, although
Mr.. Washbume of Illinois strenuously en-
deavored to have the roll called. We regret
that the resolution was not made more COM
prehensive, and that studio was not also
given to every artist in the country who might
feel disposed to make statue of Lincoln, and
to lobby among members of Congress for an
appropriation of $4,000 to pay for it. The
country has so much money on hand now that
purchasing statues of our distinguished dead.
from artists who have no reputation, is the
most satisfactory way of spending it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Gen. John A. McClernand of Illinois has been
nominated Minister to Mexico. Gen. McCler-
nand served in Congress for many years, was
q leading Democrat, especially prominent, as a
friend of Mr.. Douglas, during the troubles OF
the party, and entered the army as Brigader-
General when the war began. He was named
as a candidate for the Presidency before
the recent Democratic Convention in this city,
his friends seeking to press that honor upon
him on the ground that he had given Gen.
Grant all his brains. His services in the army
were not such as to commend HIM to the conf
dence of Gen. Grant, and he was removed from
command before Vicksburg for INSTRUMENTATION
and disobedience Of orders. His friends think
this was because Gen. Grant was jealous of his
great military reputation; but this does not
seem to be the opinion of the country. Cen
McClernand was nominated for the same mission
during the last session of Congress, but was re-
iected,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

proportion than the Republican, yet, whom an
officer called on him and offered to raise
regiment of Colored volunteers, he answered
"My dear Sir have too high regard for the coOred
man. and for the dictates OF humanity 10 send him Souh
to be butehered"
He seems to have had premonition OF
what Gen. Forrest would do at Fort Pillow,
and naturally feared that this might create an
unpleasantness in the Democratic National
Convention of 1863. If so, he greatly over
rated the saueamishness of his Democratic
brethren.
Coy. Seymour was in this City just before
the breaking out of the Draft Riots OF July'
1868, left for New-Jersey the Saturday evening
before, and returned the Tuesday after their
outbreak How he acted in those Riots, we
have already considered, as well as his Fourth
of July Grafton whereby they were preceded
and 1--WE believed melted. We never heard any
one dispute that he was correct in addressing
the rioters as "My friends That every one
of them who could vote, with many VINO
lawfully could not, had voted at least once
for him at the preceding election, we canho1
doubt
The people of New-York were called upon 10
review his conduct in the premises at the cleo
ton which soon followed; when his party was
beaten by nearly 10000 majority, in spite of his
10000 majority the year before And there
was never a more righteous verdict.
In the succeeding election, Q8640 Mr.. Sey-
mour was again candidate for Governor, and
was run out by Mr.. FentOn, whose majority
was considerably larger than that of Lincoln
over Mcclellan. This made three times (Out
of five trials) that Seymour has been rejected
by the People of our State. The Presidential
Election now pending will make four.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

We get fresh proof every day that the real
leaders of the present campaign, on the Demo
cratic side, are the same men who led the
Southern wing of the Democracy into the war,
led it all through the war; and would like to
lead it into another war, in case they should
be defeated next November. Gen. Grants adj
veTsaries now are the same men he faced on
the Rapidan and the James. Last week, Wade
Hampton, fresh from his labOrs in NewYork
in nominating a fgure-head for the Presden-
tial canvass, made q speech to the Democratic
Association in Baltimore, and told his friends
why Maryland was especially dear to the South
ern heart. 1t was not that Maryland and Car
DINA stood side by side i'll the war of the Rev
olutiOn, that the soldiers of De Kalb fought
shoulder to shoulder with the troops of Marion
and Sumter and the best blood of Maryland
was shed at Camden, and COwpens, and
Eutaw "There are still r0rmer rea-
sons" said the Rebel General, "why !
should make my acknowledgment for l
remember that when / was soldier in the
" glorious army of Northern Virginia, the sons
"of Maryland swept across the borders, and
"again stood side by side with South Caro-
" lima in the great contest for liberty" And
Gen. Hampton plainly announces that this
" great contest for liberty" is not over. The
South has rested from the battle only to re-
cover its breath, and submits for while to
the rule of the Republican majority, not be-
cause it esteems itself conquered, but because
it believes that 4" to create trouble or raise
"riot would injure tho Democratic party"
From which it is fair to infer that as soon as
the Democratic party has been placed by the
November election either above or below the
reach of injury, Gen. Hampton means to raid
once more over the Northern fields, with the
sword in one hand and the slaye-whip in the
other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

~ Fine Arts, CoIored Men as Agricultural
LabOrerS, MericO, BOStOn--A Letter from Or
Special Correspondent, Treasury Frauds, Iht
Ashburn Murder, Death Of an Albany Jelceler,
College CommepcemeRts, NardI Intelligence, Vel
come to NeOc- England Teachers from the South,
Secession Flag In Sacramento, Wheat in
Western NelC- York, Political and Souls
Libertu mag be found on our second page this
morning; Stray Notes. The Fifteenth Ward Poi
sORiRg Case. The Alleged Homicide ia LaurenS-St,
The Late Excursion Disaster, Pardon of WIDOW
Catherine McArdie The Courts, The Money and
other Markets are on the third; Ne,0 Publicd-
lions on the srth and Real Estate, Shipping IN
teIligeRce, The Neic- York Cattle Marked Market
Reports, The Recent Tragedy IN Buffalo, and
other matters are on the seventh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21
HUNGER IN POLITICS.

One of the American virtues is a love of fair
play, and it is a marvel to us that the South
ern obstructionists do not see what irremedia-
BILE damage they are inficting upon their own
cause by their oppression of the en-
franchised blacks. A correspondence pub
lishcd this morning between Major Gen.
Howard and a number of Mississippi
freedmen shows that i'll at least one of
the unreconstructcd States the chivalry have
not yet discovered that their right of property
in the colored people has been swept away by
the war, and that it is no longer the duty of
the negro to think just as the white man
thinks and to act just as the white man bids
him. We had already been assured that the
four or five thousand majority registered
against the new constitution in Mississippi had
been obtained by the grossest intimidation.
Now we have direct proof of the facts. 1t ap-
pears that numbers of freedmen have been dis
charged from employment because, in defiance
of the wishes of their masters, they had per-
sisted in voting the Republican ticket; be-
cause, in word, they could not forget who
had stood their friends through long and
terrible war, and could not help perceiving
who were their determined and lifelong enc
mics. The Mississippi planters hold out to
their hands these alternatives: subjugation or
starvation. Vote if you will, say they in
effect but if you don't vote as we wish you
to- you shall be driven from our fields, and
turned out of your homes, and your wives and
children shall perish of hunger before your
eyes. In one sense this despotism is worse
than slavery; for slavery, if it had not justice
to support it, at least had the statutes; while
this terrorism is upheld neither by right nor
by law
Suppose, for moment, that the mill Owners
of Massachusetts or the irOn-founders of Penn
sylvania were to organize such system of OPP
preston over their operatives; how long would
the country endure it What chance would
the party which such men supported have of
winning the favor of the American people
And is it any worse to tyrannize over a Yankee
workman than poor negro field-hand9 The
wickedness and cowardce of such despOtsm
increase in exact proportion with the weak
ness and ignorance of the victim, and sooner
OF later the nation will awake to realization
of the dastardly nature of such conduct, and
will visit it with cOndign punishment. Every
vote gained for the chivalry in the South by
these starvation tactics will be oyerbalanced
by five votes which we shall gain from the
honest and fair-minded Democrats of the North
For every freedman whom the ex-slavehold-
ers frighten from the polls five Northern Demo
Gratis will be impelled to abandon the party of
intimidation, and vote for the champions of a
free balot-bOx and equal rights for all. Misss-
sippi may defer her own restoration by such out
RACES, bat she cannot check the triumphant
progress of Republican liberty, and in the end
she will be the only sufferer from her own
crime
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

we offer them in money. AS against tie Gov
eminent they have no claim, for, as Mr.. v mt-
ney well said. if the rights of a settler were
paramount, the Government could never have
a lighthouse station, a fort or an arsenal. The
plain facts are these: Government gave the
Valley to the State of California on the ex-
press condition that it should be set apart for
uses of public pleasure ground, and that no
settlement should ever be allowed in it. Cali
fornia accepted it with full understanding of
these conditions. Spectators are trying to
make the State break the contract. We are
very much mistaken in Congress if it shall
permit this violation of the vested rights Of
the whole people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Admiral Raphael Semmes, who made a
speech at a Seymour and Blair ratification
meeting in Mobile about a week ago, was also
careful to identify the Democratic party with
the Rebel and Secession party, and to assure
his hearers that he regretted nothing in his
past course Except few trihing failures), and
pmposed no change of feeling or conduct for
the future. He was willing to renew his ale
glance to the old flag provided" Seymour and
Blair were elected, since that event would give
him all he ever fought for. The value of the
gallant Admiral's allegiance will be appreciated
by all who remember how easy he has found it
hitherto TO change it. AS q condition sine qua
non. however. Of his making new promise, he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Secretary Seward has formally announced the
ratification, by the necessary number of States,
of the Fourteenth Amendment to the COnstitu-
ton of the United States. He doubts the right
of the Democratic Legislatures of New
Jersey and Ohio to withdraw the assent of their
respective States after it had once been given,
and declares-such withdrawal of assent being
invalid the Fourteenth Article to be part
of the Constitution. The new article is en-
bodied in the Secretarys proclamation, printed
in another column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Mr. Julian, the advocate of the two squat
tiers who are trying to set their private interests
against those of the people of the United States,
in his answer to the letter we published the other
day from Mr. Whitney, deals in general asser-
tons and declines to touch the main point at
issue The number of acres in the Valley is
of small Importance actually, and has only been
referred to for the purpose of showing that the
amount of land which the State of California
not having the right to dispose of a square
foot of it-proposcs to give these squatters is
out of all proportion to the amount of avail
able land contained in the whole Valley. The
true question is, whether two men, or two
hundred shall be able to defy the people of a
whole continent, and whether the State of Cali
fornia shall be upheld in her attempt to break
a contract deliberately entered into, with the
whole Union.
We have no doubt that Mr.. Whitney speaks
truth when lie says that one of these squatters
moved into the Valley only month before the
Valley was coded to the State by Congress.
Mr.. Julian does not directly deny this, although
he means us to so understand him, but it is
equally q matter of Indifference with the ques-
ton of the amount of land in the Valley. And
even supposing-whch the facts will not war
rant us in d0ng-that these men arc honest
settlers, and that under the customary law
they have a right to the land which ought to
be respected, we do not see that the case is
altered Respect the right, we say; acknowl-
edge their claim, but let them acknowledge the
claim of the nation. and accept the equivalent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

The Ku-Klux Khan democratic murderers)
have cleared large numbers of the colored men
out of Maury County, Tennessee. The exiles
have focked to the capital and demand pro-
lection. We see no other means of protection
against this system of murder than to secure
an Administration at Washington which will
give protection and peace to all classes by
enforcing the laws and Furnishing assassination
for political reasons as a crime.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

We understand that a resolution will be Of
fered to-day, in the House, giving to the in
genuous and doting correspondent of The
World, commonly known as 81. B. S." a room
in the Capitol as studio for the preparation
of those magnificent letters, conversations, dis
patches, and invectives which have so long been
the glory and the pride of that enterprising
but slimly circulated newspaper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

AS the canvass increases in interest, the
value of The SENu-WEEKLY TRIBUNE is en-
HANGED as political organ. Let our friends,
and the friends of Grant and COlfax, begin
with this mornings issue, and scatter it broad
cast until the close of the campaign. If this is
done, Seymour and Blair will come out of the
contest the worst beaten men who ever figured
in National politics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21
Smustmrnis, It,

BgoApwAY THEATER.-'This Evening at g.
Flash Of Lightning"
BRYANT's New MINSTREL HALL, lammany Build
sr Fourteeuth.sL adjoining Academy Of MS Evening
Much Ado About Nothing Love among Ae ho'eS bAnt'
MnslrelA
C,vr,,, P.pK GARpEN-Seventh-ave and Fifty
Evening The0dore Thomass Popular Garden Con
tefts Bxt Gala Night
Ntn1o's GARDEN-This evening at S, Ofonbacli's
arhe Beu Mile Mile Lambei6i Grand Partisan Ballet
Tro0pe
OLYMPIC TuEATER-1his Evening at s." Hurnpty
DumutvT G. I. FOX. Mdlle Sangsh.
WAIAcKs-1his Evening at S."LOttery of Life"
John BrOughan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

The bill granting further protection to Amer
can citizens abroad occupied most of the time
of the Senate yesterday. Several members made
sneecbes butno vote was taken. The Electoral
College joint resolution was passed over the
Presidents veto by vote of % to 8. The bill
reducing the Army and Navy was considered
in the evening session. Two new Representa-
Gyes were sworn in by the KOuse-Mr. Israel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

The President has designated Mr.. Edmund
Cooper of Tennessee to be Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Mr.. Cooper was during a
portion of last year Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, and afterwards private secretary to
Mr.. johnson. His connection with impeach-
ment is too well known to hazard the opinion
that he will be confirmed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

We publish elsewhere a communication from
an eminent citizen of Cincinnati, respecting
revenue frauds in Ohio. 1t places the recent
speech of Mr.. Pendleton, in which he de-
nOunced the corruption of an Administration
he was pleased to call Republican" in very
curious light, and we commend it to the atten-
ton of Democrats generally, and in particular
to Mr. PendletOn's own special friends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Our Mexican correspondent gives in another
column an interesting account of a visit to the
mining region. Part of the journey was made
by railroad--a great improvement in Mexico,
and guarantee of the approach of a better
era in the history of the country. The mining
region itself is one well fitted to enlist our
profound interest. Full of immense resources,
it awaits the energy and the capital OF the
foreigner to develop them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

The President has sent to Congress num-
Der Of nominations for the places vacant He
is naturally and properly anxious to have these
positions filed before Congress adjOurns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Henry NJ Watts of Pennsylvania has been
nominated Minister to Austria. Mr.. Watts is
a gentleman of large wealth, who lives in re-
tirement in Philadelphia, and has not taken
any prominent part in public life, but has, we
believe, always been a faithful member Of the
Democratic party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

demands that the Southern States shall be re-
stored to all their old privileges" including,
we suppose, the privilege of bullying the North
and the "niggers,r and that the colored
people shall be reduced TO subordinate
position as the inferior race" by which he
means that they shall be starved if they vote
Republican ticket. These trihes obtained the
Admiral purposes to abolish tariffs and taxa
fin,n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Gen. William S. ROsecrans has been nomi-
mated Minister to Spain. Gen. ROsecrans's histOry
is part of the Rebellion. He served with dis
tinction in command of large armies, and, al
though an unfortunate officer in some respects,
his career served to commend him to the con-
fidence of loyal men. HIS nomination is COM
pliment to the Army, and we trust he may be
confirmed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

John L. Dawson has been nominated as Min
lister to Russia. Mr.. Dawson was born in Union
town, Penn, in 1885, served in Congress for some
years; was District-AttOrney for a short time,
under President Folks Administration; and is
Appointment Democratic politician of the extreme
ephOOI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

President johnson yesterday sent to Congress
his veto of the Electoral College resolution. 1t
was promptly passed by both Houses, nOtwlth-
standing the objections
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

The English courts have recently been called
upon again to protect copyright in an American
book. 1t seems that while Dr. Holiness
Guardian Angel" was publishing in The At
ldntic Monthly the author resided for time in
Montreal, and having thus become entitled to
an English copyright, caused his book to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

G. Lash of North Carolina and c. c. Bowen of
South Carolina. The Electoral College resolu-
ton was passed over the veto-Yeas, 1874;
Navs RI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

A resolution has been offered in Congress in
reference to the settlement of certain accounts
"Of John A. Dix, Richard NJ. BlatchfOrd, and
"George 0pdyke." What accounts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Gen. Gillem telegraphs that the Mississippi
Constitution has been defeated by over seven
thousand majority. Only one Republican men,
Der of Congress has been elected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

c. c. Cox, of Maryland, has been nominated
Commissioner of Pensions, and William l..
Wells of Michigan Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-21

Neh1|alork Daily Gribmor&,
TUESDAY, JULY 81, 1868.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-10-14

believe that even Moses NJ. Strong
himself, after listening TO Mr.. CAR.
PEsTER, in such a speech as he made
at the City Hall on " edn ,sday even
ing would be convinced of the error
of his ways and abandon the idea OF
misleading the people by misrepresen-
tatlon and perversion of facts and fig
ures. There were a few Democrats
present, and we believe they left the
Hall with the honest conviction that
the party to which they were attach
ed has already been led too long By
unprlncipled and designing men who
thirst for the spoil of Office led them
TO disregard the best interests of the
people and the country.