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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-11

business, without other ambition tnan 10 10
his duty, without clap-trap parade OF puncomoe'
the same genius for affairs OF the greatest
moment which he showed in organizing
and leading the most efficient armies OF the
war, and the same unerring Judgment III inc
selection of men which have hltherto distih-
guished Grant, will, with his unbiased patri-
otism and Indomitable will and energy, secure
MS lust such pure and economical admInistra-
ton a. the platform demands We believe ne
will Justify this platform. And, on the con-
trarv WE believe that while HOratio Seymour
could not possibly give us better admnistra-
ton than Andrew JOhnsOn's, consistently with
his platform and pledges, it would be In his
mower to make it far worse one, as man
who il both wicked and weak when intrusted
with power is always more dangerous than
one who il merely wicked. His exhibition OF
executive incompetency during the draft riots
in July, 1868, alone cost the City OF New lOrk
many lives and many millions of dollars, ana
the nation much more of blood and treasure
If we would have economy in the Govern
ment, let us avoid further displays on the
larger national arena of Mr.. SeymOurs talents
for firing the mob and letting loose the tor
nado of murder, riot, and massacre.
That plank of the NewYorll platform which
demands that the debts of the nation should
be paid according to their letter and spirit Is
no Quixotic excess of honor. Many OF the
bonds were issued when no other currency than
gold existed All the Five-Twenties were issued
or authorized before it was dreamed that this
camor for paying them in deprecated currency
would obtain to dangerous proportions III was
not stipulated in any acts authorizing these
loans prior to the Ten FOrties that they should
be PAYABLE in gold. First, because no other
medium of payment was thought Of and Sec
ondly, because no other medium of payment
would have complied with their terms. They
call for the payment of dollars" and "dOl-
"larr is plainly defined by the statutes of the
United States as "A coin of n certain weight and
finencss. No act Of the United States has ever
made a greenbacli dollar, or anything more
than n note promising to pay dollar. 1t Is
declared lawful money! and " legal tender
" in payment of debts;' but none of the Five
Twentes are payable in lawful money" OF
legal tender" They are all expressly pay
able in dollars :" and hence the Democratic
platform, in declaring that bonds payable in
dollars shall not be paid in dollars" but
in deprecated paper notes, or promises
whether of the United States, or Patagonia,
or John Smith Is population both of the
spirit and the letter Our platform is pervaled
by a tone of carnestneSs and sincerity i'll the
language in which it vindicateS the national
faith which shows that it means what 1t says
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MISSISSIPPI.
premature.

Returns from all the counties but one III MIS-
sissippi, received from Democratic sources, re-
duce the Democratic majority to 7O17. Thirty
six counties are reported to have gone Demo
cratic, and twenty-four Republican. If Gen.
Giem makes thorough investigation OF the
means employed in securing this result, he can
hardly avoid declaring null the votes OIL ten
or twelve counties, thus reducing the Demo
cratic vote from ten to fifteen thousand, ana
giving a respectable majority for the Constr
tuition. The Mississippi Pilot says:
The voting population of whole counties is known to
structon--by popular fury on the part OF the Demo
Gratis which has parallel III the history OF eieco LIZ
state out OF the Union against the popular Will ana
plunged it into ruinOus and devastating war OVoIou
the Constitution have been set upon by these whlte
Democratic Committees and had their registration pa
pers taken from them-Democratc votes put INTO the
certificates the voters marched up In erowds 10 w
polls and mate 10 rote me DeiaocTdt'c ncEe me Whe
committeeman hdndiRg he UOeS in 10 NE registrars mem
seires This outrageous system is Lown to have Deea
practiced at least dozen counties OF TINS state, ana
n s i'm those counties where the Democracy nave IOeu
up those splendid majOrities OF which they Doast
What solemn mockery TO call such an OUTRAGEOUS ,cg n
children after being compelled to vote against their own
convictions OF right and duty
To show the means employed to carry some
counties, gentleman writing from COrlnth
says that in TshOmingo County
The X X KS were out every night previous to and
dnug the election visiting every cabin and threatening
death TO every one who voted the Republican TICKET IN
several precincts OF the county. Not coored man maze
his appearance aud at every box white men were paced
near the polls demand how every man voted STATING
always that they intended making list for publication
This mas already been DONE and may result IN violence
10 MANY who voted the Republican ticket. The
Democracy have flied the country with terror, ana
oya men are not allowed TO express their sentiments
anything It here than IN 1861 when the people
were run mad with secession.
Yet even here every fourth man, who voted
at all, voted the Republican ticket. Says the
writer:
II was almost all mans life was worth 70 vote FOR
the Constitutions and hundreds that wanted 10 vote iOr
IL were keut away from the polls entirely or forced 10
vote against their convictions OF right
There is hardly doubt that if the people
had been allowed free expression of opinion
the Republican majority would have reached
$4,000
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Mr. Cattell's bill to provide for a temporary
issue of loan certificates, so as to redeem and
retire the outstanding compound interest notes,
was brought up in the Senate yesterday, and
Mr. TTumbull presented a substitute for it..
Without disposing of either, Mr.. Edmundss
bill to exclude from the next Electoral
College those States which have not been
reconstructed was taken up. After long
debate, which consumed all the afternoon and
evening, a substitute for the bill was passed
Yeas, %; Nays, 8. The Deficiency bill was con
sidered in the early part of the session of the
House Mr.. Stevens tried TO have an amend
meDt inserted, increasing the pay OF Govern
ment clerks, but it was rejected. After disposing
of some bills on the private calendar, several
reported by the Military Committee were taken
up. among them the bill reducing the army
An amendment of Nh. Batter. which provides
for the mastering out of all majOr-genera3 but
three after Jan. /, 1859, was agreed to. Before
considering all the amendments the House adj
iOuTncd.
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mond, called at every station for Rebel cheers
for the triumph of their friends in New-York.
Right well we had reason to know, before we
got him out, that Stonewall understood matters
far better than did those loyal Democrats who
voted for Seymour to secure more vigorous
prosecution of the War"
Friends of Grant and Colfax in our State I!
we entreat you that have not yet organized for
the campaign to do so at once, and those who
hare organized to send good men to rouse to
like action the Republicans of nelghooring
towns. Let us have a Grant Club IN every
township, ward, and village; let us begin at
once to make the efforts requisite to insure
success Let us be prepared to assure our
friends on the 1st day of August, that we
have at least One Thousand working Grant
Clubs, and we shall be sure that our State is
destined to swell the Electoral majority for our
candidates and our cause!
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The beautiful safety Of dOctoring and tink-
ering resolutions was lucidly set forth by Mr..
Richardson, in the Democratic Convention
when he said: 1--WE shall commit some mis-
"take, we shall indorse some doctrine tina,
ave cannot defend on the stump, if we pass
" all resolutions that seem TO read right when
" read before the Convention" We submit
that the platform was most judciously manipu-
lated and received the very last touches in
the Committee, and if any honest man can say
that it seems to read right or can make it,
by any emphasis or vocal infections, platform
"to be defended on the stump or anywhere
else, we recommend him to give Public Read
ings Of the document, and achieve thus
miracle of elocuton. We don't believe even
Mrs Kemble could take the rascality out
of it,
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cred by his explorations of the Constitution
that though State has no right to secede
nobody has the right to prevent it, might re-
tnrn TO the Cabinet as Attorney General.
Raphael Semmes the gallant commander Oh .he
Alabama, would be rewarded for his services
to the cause of our merchant marine by Dehg
made Secretary of the Navy. We have some
doubts whether the post of Secretary OF the
Interior would belong more properly 10
Howell Cobb or Brick Pomeroy. The untimely
death of the lamented j. Wilkes Booth limits
the choice of the new Administration for Post
master General, and the sudden decease OF Capt
Writ renders the selection for this vacancy
still more embarrassing. There would still
remain the first-class diplomatic positions, but
the discussion of these would at present be
premature,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-11

Eaton of Connecticut is the man 10 see
things with what you may call historic eye.
He said in the Democratic Convention that
after the conclusion of the civil war all was
"gloom, all was darkness, all was desoatiOn.'
This is the light, so to speak, in which Mr.
Eaton says the Connecticut Democrats viewed
the finishing and the fattening of the Re-
bellon. We have no doubt those gentlemen
felt very much conquered and used up by the
Rebel catastrophe, but Eaton is the first Cop
perhead frankly and plainly to confess what
his feelings were upon that momentous occasion.
The surrender of Lee made him gloomy, but
other people had different emotions, except
when the Copperheads of Connecticut had their
dstresses dssipated by judiciOus distribution
of New-York dollars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-11

Let no innocent voter be so unsophistlcated
as to suppose that it makes particle of diff
ference whether Seymour or Pendeton or
Frank Blair OF Wade Hampton had been chosen
as the nominee of the late Convention. No
matter what double tongued utterances Mr..
Seymour may deliver, were he President he
would necessarily select his Cabinet from the
prominent members of the Convention to whom
he is specially indebted for his nomination
Foremost among these would be Clement L.
Vallandigham of Ohio, who seconded his NOM
ination on behalf of the Ohio delegation, and
from the first worked for it and against PEN
dleton. Vallandigham, in view of his rank as
hero and martyr of the peace cause during
the temporary subjugation of the Democratic
party, ought to be Seymours Secretary of
State. George II. Pendleton would undoubt-
eddy be his Secretary of the Treasury. A por-
ton of his Cabinet should be selected from the
Southern States, and probably no appointment
would be more in harmony with Mr.. Seymour's
views than that of Wade Hampton or
N b. Forrest or Gen. Beauregard
for Secretary of War. Jerry Black,
ur, Buchanan's Attorney General. who discQY-
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APE YOT EE1OTP

The States of NEw-YOEK, NEW-JERsET, and
CONNECTICUT have recently gone against the
Republicans. We lost Connecticut on local
issues in the Spring of 1867, and other reverses
followed quickly thcreupon. Connecticut Is
the only State unless it be Oregon that we
have lost on reasonably full vote and she
can be carried for GRANT and COLFAX. There
are at least Three thousand Of her Republicans
habitually absent from her soil rs masters of
vessels, commercial agents, &c, sc, who will
make point of coming home TO vote at the
next Presidential Election. Very thorough,
systematic work is required to carry her; but
that work will be forthcoming. We only ask
that an efficient Grant and Co,faX Club be
formed in every township and if possible, at
every village, within the next few days. There
should be no delay for the State can only be
carried by a concerted determined, persistent
effort We hope to hear that the State Com
mittee has taken the ncedful steps TO have
every township and ward organized for the
canvass by the close of the present month.
Engsh's majority of last April can and must
be overcome See TO it, friends that it is
New-Jersey is by many supposed to be strong
" anti-Republican but that is an error. Look
ot her recent votes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-11

One of the most significant ratification"
meetings held since the nomination of Seymour
and Blair was that of the Central Chase Asso-
citation of New York. On the night of the
nomination they met and resolved in substance,
that whereas they had for a time been dis
pleased with Repubcanism, and had hoped in
Democracy, and whereas, with the adoption of
the platform and announcement Of the nomi-
nations the scales had fallen from their eyes,
and they could now see as far into the stone
fence as anybody, and whereas they felt dis
inclined to butt against it, therefore they would
vote for Grant and Colfax. These are very
sensible resolutions and we believe tue Central
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Smnstmtnts, &c.

Arr GALLERY. No. Si5 Broadway-Day and Eve
png.-"The New RePubiGof Emancipation"
BROADWAY THRATER-This Day, and Evening at
g." Flash Of Lightning" } X Mortimer Miss Blanche Grey
BHYANT's NEW MINSTREL Hall, Tammany Build
ing Fonreepthst adonnp Academy Of MuThs Eyenug-"A
lask Of Jersey Lightning" Bryanfs Minstrels
CENTRAL PARK GAEDFN-Seventh-ave. and Fifty
eghhsThs Afternoon and Evening at 2IheodOre Thomas
Popular Garden Concerts
NImO'S GARDEN-This Afternoon AT 1.-"Once
Too Often" This Evening 7,.-"Tae Whefawh" ParsenHe
Ballet Iroune
JoNEss WOOD-This Evening.-The AriOn and
LieierlrlHz Concert
NEW TAMMAMY HNLI-TO-mOrrOw EvenIng-Sa-
cred Promenade Miss stockton Harry saudersOn Graiua
tn Regiment Band
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening at S.-"Humpty
Dumpty7 g. L. Fox Mile. Saugal
TERRACE GARDEN-This Evening, at s." Grand
Concert" Carl Bergnaun.
WAIIACKs-This Evening at S.-"Lottery Of Life
JOhn Bro1glan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-11

In this State in the face Of two signal de-
feats on this question, every Republican mem
Der of the late Constitutional Convention re-
corded his vote in favor Of Impartial Suffrage,
after a full and earnest debate and it was
thereby incorporated in the New Constitution
now awaiting ratification by popular vote.
Two Democrats also voted for it; the rest
against 1t.
We submit these facts to the consideration
Of Col Vance, whom We assume to have been
msinformed and incapable Of deliberate false
hood. 1t concerns himself much more than us
that he should take an early opportunity to
retlact his Misrepresentation.
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NOT so SIR
Ex-Gov. Vance of North Carolina, in his
Union Square speech, thus grossly misrepre-
sented Che Republicans

Ex-Gov. Vance of North Carolina, in his
Union Square speech, thus grossly misrepre-
scented The Republicans
Ia EVER Southern river shall Negro Suffrage
But a NeU England for that's too close 70 bum
fGreat laughter and applause They preferred Negro
Suffrage nj long range II they could have the Negro 10
vote m south Carolina all we'll but in Michigan, New
York and the other Northern ana western olaes they
declined 10 grant him tho favor
As Gov Vance was once soldier, though In
a very bad cause, we trust he IS not wlliui,
deliberate liar We will, therefore, assume that
he is laborng under a hallucination, and pa
tently set him right as to the facts:
New-England is a collective name given to
the six States of Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, and Yer
mont. In each of these. except Connecticut,
Blacks vote, and have long voted precisely as
Whites do: their Suffrage laws making no dis
tincton on account of color. And Blacks have
recently been chosen to responsible posts in
Massachusetts, and in some instances have been
the regular Democratic candidates, receiving
the Democratic vote
In Connecticut, the strongly Republican Leg
isature of 1885 Chosen the day after the fall
of Richmond passed a Constitutional Amend
ment. enfranchiSing BlaCks-that Is, aboIshing
all distinctions affecting the Right of Suffrage
founded on Color. That Amendment was
necessarily submitted to the People at Spe-
cial Election held Oct 1st of that year, when II
was voted down, as follows:
Faual Sufracc--Yes .......g-zI7 E0........33.i51
Majority against BLACKS voting ........C ,272
OF the 27,2l7 votes for Equal Suffrage, no in
telligent person will deny that at least 912OO
were cast by Republicans; while of the antag-
onist vote not less than $1,000 were those of
Democrats the $50 having been cast 10y the
hungry dogs who eat the dirty pudding of
Johnsonism picse have generally since gone
openly over to the camp where they belong.
1t would be unjust 70 Connecticut to say that
she voted down Impartial Saiirage. Ireland
voted it down. Some ten to fifteen thousand
votes were cast by Iishmcn on the question
at least % in every 100 of them against I'm
partial Suffrage AS they mainly live in cities
and villages their vote was polcd out ut this
special election much more fully than that Of
the natives.
Now as to Michigan, New York and other
" Northern and Western States" Only leave
the question 10 bc settled by the Republicans
OF those States, and, If We don't carry Impair
tial Suffrage by a vote of at least four to one,
we will agree never 10 name the subject again.
But. with every Democrat and Rcbcl-sympa-
tliiser voting against tho Blacks il only takes
about one Republican in every ten or fifteen
to vote them down. Thus was Impartial Suf
frage recently defeated in Ohio. in Kansas, in
Michigan. and barely in Minnesota. But no
State has ever taken a vote twice Oh this
question without cyincing substantial progress.
Witness
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Chase Association represents hundreds Of thou.
sands of the drifting and undecided vote, from
whom we shall soon hear the same response.

Pull down the monuments of our departed
braves erase the inscriptions which commem-
crate their patriotism burn the trophies worn
upon many desperate field! reduce to ashes
the records of the War Department cast into
the sea the archives of the Navy For it i,
the opinion of Gen. C. NJ. Zulick Expressed In
the Soldiers and Sailors COnyenton) that we
"should bury in forgetfulness all symbolisms
"and memories of the lamentable war with our
"Sothern brethren There was, it would
seem. no patriotic side in the Rebellion, &C
cording to Zulick. We were both right and
neither wrong 1t was d kind OF sham-hght
It was like two parties of boys stoning each
other on Saturday afternoon. We went into it
to get rid of national ennui. We fought out
of sheer caprice. We killed because we loved
one another. A beautiful bloody joke while it
lasted. but one which we might as well forget
The people of the loyal States are not unfor-
giying-it would be even bad policy for them
TO show themselves to be sO-but at the same
time they are not ghouls or laughing hyenas.
They are not ashamed of anything that they
did during the war; on the contrary, they are
rather proud of much that they did, and Zulich
GEM had better speak for himself. If be has
any trophies, he is at liberty to burn them.
To begin WITH he would show more consistency,
we think, by dropping the handle to his name.
PRAY. why does he continue TO call himself
Generals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-11

The Republican National Committee held
full business meeting in this city on Thursday
and commenced in earnest its work in aid Of
the election of GRANT and COLFAx. Its cen
trail Office here will be opened within few
days, where friends of the cause from all quar-
ters are invited and expected TO call and re-
ceive as well as impart information of the
progress of the canvass. The Committee IS
composed and organized for work as follows:
WILLIAM CLAFLIS Chairman Boston Mass.
WILLIAM T. CHANDLER secretary, WasninBton' D. T.
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
william Clalin. Boston. Mass.
" PARK. North Benn9s ts Vermont ,,,,.,o,,,
Horace Greeley New-lOrk.
b. r Cowen. Beliaire. Ohio.
Marsh Giddings, Kalamazoo, Mich.
wrsTrn z. HS5SgTE da. SSst'iTTHn'
Cyrus NJ. Allen. Yincennes, Indiana
l. b. Taylor, Omaha.
SOUTHERN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Headquarters. Atlanta. e-orsi
NJ H. southworth New-Oreans. La
John II. Caldwell, Lagrange. Georgia.
b. f. Rice Little Rock, Arkansas now at Washington,
PACIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Headquarters Francisco
GeorGe,C Gorham. san Francisco, CAL now at wash
Charles f. De Long. Virginia City Nevada
The Headquarters Of the Central Executive Committee
will shortly be established at NewYork City. For the
present the Chairman Secretary, and members Of the
Committee may De addressed as above.
The following Is list OF the and address Of the
full Committee:
ALABAMA-James p STOW. Montgomery.
AEKANsAs-B +. Rice. Little Rock.
CkLIFOKNIA-GeO. &. GOrham, san Francisco.
COLORADo-Danel Witter. Denver.
CoNNECuCyT-H. II. Starkweather, Norwich.
DAROrA-Gov. Newton EdmundS. Yanktou
DELAWARE Edward c. Bradford Wilmington.
DIsr OF CoLUMBIA-Sayles J. Bowen. Washington
FLORIDA-S. b. ConOver, Lake City.
GEoRGA-John H. Caldwell, Lagrange.
IDAHO-J. G. Henley.
INDIANA-Cyrus NJ. Allen, yncennes.
IowA-Josah Tracy, Burlington
KENTsCKY-Alan A. Burton. Lancaster.
LoUIsI,NA-M IL southworth. New-Orleans.
MAINE-Lewis Barker StetsOn.
MARYLNND-Charles c. Fulton. Baltimore.
MASsACHusETrs-WilliGm Cal'in. Boston.
MIcmGAN-Marsh Giddngs Kalamazoo.
Ml,sssIrrI-A. C. Fisk, Vicksburg
Observation-Disclosures L. Loan, -. Joseph.
MoNTANA-Lesters Wilson. Bozeman City.
NEBRAsKA-E. h. Taylor, Omaha.
NEyADA-Charles L. DE Long. Virginia City.
NEwHWrsHIRE-William L. Chandler Concord (at
NEw,jERsEr-James Gopslll Jersey City
EEwYoRK-iIorce Greeley, New York.
NORTH CARoLINA-Wiam Sloan, Charlotte.
OHIo-B. H. Cowen, Bellare.
OREGoN-H. ". Corbett. Portland NOW at Washington
PENNsrLvANIA-Wlhain IL Kemble, Philadelphia
RHODE IsLASD--L. B. Frieze. Providence.
South CARoLISA-J. IL. jerks Charleston
TENNEssEE-William b. Stokes. Liberty Tennessee now
at Washington, ID. c.
TENS J. J. Hamilton II plb3 Austin n..,.
VIRGINIA-Franklin stearns, Richmond
WEST NIRGlNlA-S d. Harms, Parkersburg
WIsCONsIN-Dayd Atwood Madison
We venture to suggest to friends of Grant
and Colfax that the Treasurer of the Commit
tee is William Clahn Boston, Mass, and that
contributions to its funds according to the
means and liberality of the giver, are exceed
ingy desirable.
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TRIBUNE CAMPAIGN SHEETS.

TRIBUNE CAmIAIGN OHEEIO.
THE FIRST NUMBER contains Senator Morton's
Speech on Reconstruction, delivered in the
Senate, Jan. ., together with the Speech OF
Senator Williams on the same subject.
THE SECOND NUMBER contains the, Speech Of
Gen. Sickles at NcwHayen, Feb. 20, the
Speech of Senator Morrill, of Maine in the
United States Senate, Feb. o, and the Letter
of Speaker Colfax to the Indiana Republican
Convention.
THE THIRD NUMBER is in German. 1t con-
tains the Speeches of Senator Morton and Gen.
Sickles, and the Letter of Speaker Colfax
Price of Nos. !, 2, and 8, single copies, two
90 Copies, Postage Paid. ....-.95 cents.
100 Copies, Postage Paid ISL
500 Copies, BY EXPRESS.....s4
1000 Copies, BY EXPRESS.....S7 so
THE FOURTH NUMBER contains Full Report
of the Proceedings of the REPUBLICAN Ma
rroNAL CONVENTION AT CHICAGO, with the
Platform of the Party, and the Letters Of Ac-
centance of Gen. Grant and Schuyler Colfax.
THE FIFTH NUMBER OF THE TRIBUNE CAM
PAIcS SHEETS contains the Life OF GEN.
GRANT. with Portrait
The Fort DOnelsOn Correspondence with Gen.
Buckner in fac sinile.
The Life Of scUVYLER CQLFAx, with P0R-