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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

By unanimous vote they adopted
a declaration of principles-fidelIty
to the Constitution, fidelity to the
Union, fidelity. to the rights of
States, fidelity to the rights of citi-
zens, fdelity to the principles of civ:
il liberty-fdelity to that policy in
matters of 6uanoe and taxation, 4
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
KEYNOTE OF, THE CAMPAIGN
GREAT SPEECH OF HON. GEO.
III. PENDLRTON, AT GRAFTON,
WEST VIRGINIA, JULY 10, 1868.



Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN:
1t will be impossible for nae to make
myself heard in this Immense audi
ence, unless you keep quiet; and L
shall ask that, while l am speaking,
you will allow me to proceed without
interruption. / thank you, gentle
men, for the cordial reception you
have just given me. The Chairman
of your State Executive Committee,
who invited me to attend your
meeting to day, told me that l had
no truer friends in the Union than
I would meet here in West Virginia.
You have proven this statement
true. I came, Obedient to your bid
ding. l desired to see you, to make
your personal acquaintance, and to
return to you my thanks for the
warm and constant support of your
delegates to the National COnven-
ton. l came to show you that no
personal disappointment fingers in
my breast, or dampens, for an in
slant, the ardor of my efforts for the
success of our party; that far above
all personal considerations, / rate
the success of the principles in which
L believe, and that whoever shall
bear the flag on which those princi-
pies are inscribed, shall be found
close by his side, in the thickest of
the fight, to cheer him with my voice
and to aid him with my arm. | came
to urge upon you, Democrats and
Republicans alike, to trample under
foot every prepossession, prejudice
and passion, if it were as Gear as life
itself, and, rising to the height of
this great struggle, to remember that
we have only little life to give and
a noble, enduring government to
save.
The Dcmo' ratio Pnrty, the Party Of Lib
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
Payment I.egal-Tendcr-.

Tdeny that it is according either
to the spirit or the ietter of the con-
tract under which the fivc-twenty
bonds were sold. | say that neither
the spirit nor the letter of the law
under which those bonds were issued.
nor good faith, nor good morals, nor
exlct justice to the bondholders, re-
quire thgt they should he paid in
gold. They are payable in legal
tender, and in this opinion I am SuS-
taiBed by the resolution of the Dem
ocratIC Convention in New York,
which declares that where the obi
gatiOus of the Government do not
expressly state upon their face--or
the law under which they were
issued does nd provide-they shall
I've gaid in coin, they ought IN right
and Justice TO I've paid in the lawful
money of the Tinted States
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

Congress has usurped to itself all
power over the State governments
of the South. 1t has destroyed them.
1t has made use of the Federal Gov
eminent to destroy the States, and
now, with the inSatiate spirit of rev.
olutiOn, it turns upon the Federal
Government itself. 1t has destroyed
the independence of the Judiciary;
it has struck at the existence of the
Executive. Our fathers thought
they had solved the problem of free
government by the creation Of the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
T. EvPansiOn.

But, gentlemen. ii these measures
will not supply funds, speaking for
myself, | would expand the curren-
cy; | would correct the evils wkich
have been produced by such extra
ordinary and unprecedented c0utrac-
tiOn. The business of the country
has become adjusted to larger
volume of currency than we now
have. The demands of the South
and West require greater amount
of currency. They are beggars for
mon, y, and are willing to pay fro:n
ten to twenty per cent. During the
war, when the currency was at its
largest amount. gold touched 300
per cent, and yet upon the declara-
ton of peace, when the Southern
countTy-impovcrished as it had
been, with 10000, 900 of people, who
had been shut ont from the use Of
our currency, ready to strain every
nerve to repair the wastes of war
was opened to our business, gold
stood only at fraction over RS.
Thc:syStcm of contraction was i'm
mediately commenced, and with a
currency of at least tSTO hundred
millions less than it was then. Gold
stands today at 14l. The value Of
the cHr-ency theL was not too large
for the demands of the business of
the country. | do not believe that
it Nonld he necessary or adviSablS
to expand the currency to that eN-
tent, but if it should prove to be so,
| would not hesitate ITO restore the
currency TO the amount at which i
stood hen gold touched Fps. I tell
YOU, gentlemen. If this were done, I
would be as grateful to You aud to
the people OF the West and South as
the ,leES uf heaven to the parched
eartlaa rs the quails and mama
whie- iSOd IN his mercy vOuched
sAfad yd,ihe cbildreu 0C .IsJael iktbe
-ilder~ass Btthcs"'v-n measurCs
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01


The whole expense Of the Govern
ment of the United States for four
years preceding the war was two
hundred and tifty-Six millions of
dollars. These eight hundred and
twenty millions do not include the
interest upon the public debt. If
this he added the expenditure of each
one of thesr three years will amount
to at leastSfOur hundred and thirty
millions of dollars. The taxation of
the year 1866 amounted to five hun
dred and ninety millions OF dollars.
The taxation of the last year Of Mr..
Buchanan's administration amounted
to eighty millions of dollars. The
expenses of the War Department
during the whole of, Mr.. Folks ad-
ministration, including the Mexican
war we're ninety millions FIVE huls
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

And when we ask the reason, We
are answered by the declaration of
the Republican Convention, at Chica-
60, that the bonds must be paied in
gold, according to the spirit and let
ter of the eoatEsct, by a declaration
of its President that the debt Cf the
bondholder is as sacred as the grave
OF the soldier.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
r. Y. SCATTER.
MERCHANT TAILOR,

UToULD respectfully inform hise cid friends 4,
wv and customers, and the public general IA
ly that be has removed from Sharon and SET lM
tied in Canton, where he will continus the
Merchant Tailoring Business,
IN eli It's various branches. Having an experience
Of nearly thirty years be feels confident Of his abi
ity TO give satisfaction TO all who may favor him
with their patronage-a liberal share Of which be
solicits from the pablo.
Having resided and carried on business In Sharon
for many years respectfully refers 10 the citizens
Of that place and vicinity.
SHoP on West side Public Square-ons deer
HsrthT Richards
Aug. -. rs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
of "a Restored Union.


The convention which sat in New
York was an august assembly. 1t
was the true council of our party.
1t embraced our best and purcst and
wisest men. The roll of the States
was called, and not one was without
Il representative. The roll of the
districts was called, and not one was
missing. The doctrine of State sui.
clde was not recognized. The dissO-
luton of the Union was not acknOw-
lodged. Every State was invited to
be present, every State accepted the
invitation. Every State selected
such citizens as she chose; and thus
it happened that North Carolina and
South Carolina and Georgia and
Virginia sat as in the days of the
Revolution, in fraternal council with
Massachusetts and New York and
PENNSYLVANIA and New Jersey; and
that Hampton and Preston and For
rest sat side by side with Steedman
and Morgan. The convention was
the sign and the symbol and the
prophecy of q restored Union and a
harmonious people. 1t rose to the
dignity of its high duty. The eyes
of the world we're upon its proceed
ings-greater than the Holy ALI
ance, which su6jugated peoples and
divided empires-its mission was to
enfranchise the people Of our own
race, to restore the union of our
States, and to maintain the institu-
itions of civil liberty. For the first
time in their history, the American
people realized that free government
was in danger, and that the fate of
the Republic trembled in the balance.
They had been taught to believe
that freedom was indigenous to our
soil-and, shutting their eyes to the
teachings of all history, shutting
their eyes to the facts connected
with our revolution, they had hug
ged to themselves the delusien that,
whatever the storm of faction or
passion or revolutionary fervcr, lib
erty al least was safe. They had
awakened from tie dream. As they
sent delegates to the convention,
they charged them, as the Dictator
Of old was charged: "See to it, that
no detriment happens to the Repub
hc."
The PlaIfsrm.
By unanimous vote they adopted
a declaration of principles-fidelity
to the Constitution, fidelity to the
Union, fidelity. to the rights of
States, fidelity to the rights of citi-
zens, fdelity to the principles of civ:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
l'bpsicians.
nfs. HARVEY & DIVINE

ofFnR THEIR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
I % the public.
i-. Divine having given special attention to
Operative Surgery. and having performed many Of
the higher operations hopes to share literally the
public patronage in this department. All diseases
of the Eye, and all Surgical Diseases of Females
will receive his particular attention. nov3 'GG
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

am party man. | avow it, but
not, | trust, in any narrow or secta-
rian sense. am attached from con
viction to the principle S of the Dem
ocratic party. | have studied its
history from the foundation Of the
government. In the States, | have
found it to be the party of liberty
and progress. In the Federal Gov.
ernment, | have found 1t to be the
exponent of that fundamental prin
ciDle of the Constitution, that all
powers which are not granted are
reserved" 1t has been the consist
cnt opponent of consolidation in the
one system and of excessive admin
iStration in the other. 1t has been
at once the firm supporter OF the
rights of the States and of the just
powers of the Federal Government.
In every vicissitudc of our history
it has app cared to direct us with its
wisdom, aud to eXtricate MS by its
courage; and to day it stands as it
did in 1898 and 1899, under the
guidance of Mr.. Jefferson, pointing
us to the path OF safety, which is
now, as it was then, the Constitu-
ton, the path of maternal harmony
and peace.
Tac New York Convcntiou, the symbol
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08

THE charge of ow-Nothingism
against Mr.. ColfaX has received refuta.
ton from the highest authority among
that class of our citizens most concerned
in the matter, the Boston Pilot, the or.
gan of the Irish Catholics of New Eng.
land, and ofa whole country. The Pilot
says: A correspondent of ours at South
Bend, Ind, Thomas McGrath, who is
not a politician, says that the charge adj
yanced against Schuyler Colfax of hav-
ing been sworn into a Nnow-NothiDe
organization in 1852 is not true. He
further incloses to US an extract from a
speech of Mr.. Colfax, at South Bend.
July 80, 1868, relative to this very charge.
to which the Speaker responds thus
You know it is a falsehood; you know
that never in my public life, from the
to the close, in any year.
month, or day, have have I held any
other doctrines than that principles and
character, not birthplace and creed,
were the true test for official promotion.
Men who may resort to forgery may sign
my name with their felonious fingers.
for forgery is a felony. You here know
that there has not been an election for
the past twelve years that L have not
gone to the polls, not with closed ballot,
but an open one, and voted for men OF
foreign birth, and who worshiped at a
different altar from what did myself
Here is the only place where | will an
swer that calumny; let it be buried in
the tomb, where are buried caiumnies
and forgeries like it, in the graves Of the
past
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08

For man who is thoroughly in earn
est, farming offers grand field for efforts;
but the man who is only half in earnest,
who thinks that costly barns, imported
stock, and nicely rolled lawn are the
great objects of attainment, may accom-
plish pretty results, but they will be
small ones. SO the dilettanti farmer,
who has smattering of science, whose
head is filed with nostrums, who thinks
his salts will do it all, who doses his
crops now to feebleness and now to an
unnatural exuberance, who daudles over
his lamentations while the neighbors'
oxen are breaking into his rye-field, who
has no managing capacity, no breadth of
vision, who sends two men to accomplish
the work of one-let such man give up
all hope of making farming lucrative
pursuit But if man, as we said, be
thoroughly in earnest, if he has the
sagacity to see all over his farm, to sys-
tematize his labor, to carry out his plans
punctually and thoroughly if he is not
above economising, nor needless of the
teachings of science, nor unobservant of
progress otherwheres, nor neglectful of
such opportunities as were the Yale
Agricultural Lecturers-let him work ;
for he will have his reward. But even
such a one will never come to his "four-
in-hand, ,"except they be colts of his own
raising; or to private concerts in his own
grounds, except what the. birds make.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
The Reign of Terror in Arkansas.

A letter from Arkansas, written by a
member of Congress from that State,
contains startling picture of the situa-
ton there The writer says: IAN
alarming state of affairs exists here in
Arkansas that necessitates the assemb-
ling of Congress on the day designated
A reign of terror exists in many parts of
the State. County officers are being
driven from their homes. Courts, while
dispensing justice, are dispersed by
armed men, judges are forced to take
refuge in the woods to save their lives,
and Senators and other influential men
in various parts of the State have been
assassinated in the highwaysand byways,
while in some counties an open state of
insurrection exists. Congress never made
a greater blunder than in adjourning
without placing in our hands the means
of protecting ourselves" The Little
Rock Republican of the 4th inst, an
nounces that an insurrection exists in
CIaighead County much more formida
bic in character than that which lately
existed in Conway County The Re
publican declares it to be the first cut
cropping of a formidable movement in
behalf of the new rebellion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
The Monk Rn.le

The man that stands by himself, the
universe stands by him also. 1t is re-
lated of the monk Basic, that, being
exeommunicated by the Pope, he was,
at his death, sent in charge of an angel
to find fit place of suffering in hell, but
such was the eloqnence and good humor
of the monk, that wherever he went he
was received gladly, and civilly treated,
even by the most uneivil angels; and,
when he came to discourse with them,
instead of contradicting or forcing Linn,
they took his part, and adopted his man
ners; and even good angels came from
far to see him, and take up their abodes
with him. The angel that was sent to
find place Of torment for him, attempt
ed to remove him to worse pit, but
with no better success; for such was the
contented spirit of the monk, that he
found something to praise in every place
and company, though in hell, and make
q kind of heaven Of it. At last the es-
corting angel returned with his prisoner
to them that sent him, saying, that no
phlegeton could be found that would
burn him; for that, in whatever condi-
tion, Basic remained incorigibly Basle.
The legend says, his sentence was remit
ted, and he was allowed to go into heav-
en-, and was canonized as a saint EN-
erson's Conduct of Life"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
Farm for Sale

THE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale his farm,
l. in Goshen Township, Belmort County, o.,
two miles North of Burton's Station, on the
Central Ohio r. r., ~ miles South OF the Ma
tional Road. 2l2 miles Southwest of MOrristown,
and five miles Northeast of GAINESVILLE, con-
tanning 400 acres of very rich alluvial soil
mostly in grass. About 40 acres of which is
choice bottom land and the balance well adapt
ed to grazing and agriculture. Fine springs OF
never-failing water in every field. Two Orch
ards of choice fruit, five veins of Coal underly-
ing the principal part of the farm, with good
spring-house within three rods of the kitchen
door, together with all necessary out-buildings,
such as barns, stables, &c.
This is one of the best stock farms in the
County, and large proportion of it well adapt
ed for the growing of vines
will sell the farm on reasonable terms
For further particulars, call on the undersign-
ed residing on the premises, or address me, at
Morristown. [jal6l JAMES TALLMAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
To Removc the skin from Peaches.

Every one knows that there is great
loss of pulp in pairing peaches with a
knife; TO obviate which an exchange
suggests the following method of treat
ing them. Make lye as strong as pos
sible of wood ashes and soft water. Fill
a kettle with the lye, and when boiling
rapidly, drop in twelve oreighteen peach
es and take out again almost immediate
ly, and immerse them in a pail OF cold
water. Take one in your hand, and you
perceive that the rind will slip off en-
tirely, leaving round beautiful yellow
ball; throw it Immediately into another
pail, of pure water, and so proceed till
all are done. This process will not in
jure the flavor of the finest peach, and
once tried, the old fashioned way of peal
ing with knife will not be again adopt
ed. If the lye is not strong enough, put
into the kettle two dipperfuls of clean
wood ashes. This is an excellent way
to rid small onions of their jackets pre-
paratory to picking them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08

THE Atlantic Ocean has been the sub
ject of. Investigation by Mons. Savy,
whose observations on the density and
saline qualities of that ocean and on its
currents, have been published in the
Paris Monieeur. The density, it is stat
ed, varies regularly from pole to pole on
the same meridian, minimum being sit
uatsd at the equator, and the maximum
between the parallels 40 degrees and so
degrees north latitude. Between go de-
grees north latitude and the North pole
the density again diminishes, and it is
surn1ised that the minimum exists at the
pole. The observations in the Southern
hemisphere do not show a elimination
of density below go degrees, but it is sup
posed that further Investigation will
prove that the same rule exists in the
Southern as in the Northern Hemis-
phere.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
The Road TO Fortune--Whaf the Coun.
fry Eeeds-The True Field for founs

The Road to Fortune--What the Coun-
Men.
The following article from the New
York Shipping List is full of suggestive
ness to young men, ,andlwe commendit to
their consideration, earnestly advising
them to follow out its ideas:
''The proportion of agricalturists in
the United States TO the total industrial
population was, in 1910 siXty-five per
cent; in 1850, sixty-three per cent, and
in 1860, fifty-five per cent The dispro-
portion is much greater at the present
time. In 1859 the wheat crop was 49,
104, ,924 bushels, and the total population
about 81 ,O00, 900; in 1866, 175, 900, 900
bushels, and the population 81, sos, ,SS5.-
Iu 1850 wheat sold inNew York at 81 IS
and 81 "a, in gold, per bushel, and in
1866, 81 SO and 81 20. AS in agriculture,
people, in proportion to the aggregate
population, engaged in the various
branches of manufacturing industry at
the present time than ten years ago, and
this falling off in the productive force
of the country has produced its natural
res sult-namely, an eHormo Us increase
in the cost of everything We eat, wear or
see.n
There can be no doubt that the dispIo-
portion of producers to consumers, here
pointed out, is quite as potent an eie-
ment of high prices as deprecated cur
rency and an extreme rate OF taxation,
all of which grew out of the late war.-
One of the worst characteristics of our
is the growing disposition
of our young men to exchange manual
labor, such as agricultural or mechanical
pursuits for the lighter occupation of
city life, Notwithstanding the fact that
the former are quite as respectable, and
far more productive of happiness and
certain Of leading to competence, than
the latter. All eXperince goes to show,
that whoever would secure to himself
wealth or even the common comforts of
life, must labor for them, and, in modern
times, perhaps, more than ever unremit-
tingly. All substantial results come from
labor, which is, in fact, the philosophers
stone. 1t is generally recognized prin-
ciple cf political economy, thet agricul-
ture and mechanicalindustry is the basis
of all prosperity-that without agrlcul-
tural and manufactures, commerce can
have no occupation. In the light OF this
truth, it is strange that sol
class of the rising generation
aim to live by their wits, who should
turn their attention to the farm or the
work shop, which afford better oppor-
tunity for cultivating the principle of
thrift, domestic sentiments and every
habit that imparts genuine character to
life, or makes life itself a gift worth hav-
ing. For every man in mercantile pur-
suits, who, from small beginnings attains
a position of opulence, there are, proba-
bly,, scores who wind up the vicissitudes
Of long life of toll in utter failure. The
source of England's prosperity is her
agriculture and manufactures, in which
she shows better philosophy than is
displayed by our swn people.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
AN EASY METHOD TO HAVE HEALTH,

AN EASY METHOD TO HAVE HEALTHY
FRUIT-TREEs.-An experienced fruit
grower, who posse sses beautiful orchard
near the Niagara River, Western New
York, has used one simple method with
great success. He takes lye from leached
ashes, mixes little grease with it, heats
it quite warm, and syringe throws it up
into all parts of the trees, branches and
trunk. 1t will effectually kill all cater
pillars, all kinds Of worms that are either
infesting the tree in nests or running over
the bark. Trees treated in this manner
were exceedingly healthy, beautiful, and
vigorous in appearance, possessed a
smooth, glossy bark, and bore the best
apples of the country. The remedy is
easy and cheap.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
Paving Horses.

Some time ago a correspondent from
Stark County asked for some means to
prevent horses from paving in their
stalls. The Western Rural says it may
be prevented by fastening a piece OF
chain Is inches long to the foot while
the horse is in the stable. If the horse
is in the habit of raising both feet, fast
en- a chain to each.
If this is sure remedy it can be easily
applied by slipping small strap through
the end link of the chain, and buckling
it around the limb of the horse beneUth
the fetterlock joint. The benefit of this
from the chain striking the leg when
the foot is thrown forward for paving,
and the heavier the chain the better, we
should suppose.-[Ohio Farmer.