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New-York tribune., 1868-08-13
REREL DENOCRACY.

The Charleston Mercury says OF Its fellow
Democrats at the South:
"Not one honest man, south OF MasOn's and Dixons
line ashamed Of the musket he bore or the sword ne
says is ashamed Of it, lies Let every honest man at
the North be of the fact that the man VINO says so
wants to swinde money out of somebody lie is KbaVe
either in the first or in the last step"
The Mobile Register improves the above text
as follows
"A good many OF Southern people are of the opn-
ion that it is bad policy for late Confeder9tes so pro
nOunced and noted as Gen. Wade Hampton, Admiral
Semmes, aud others, to take prominent part IN the
present campaign. for the reason that Radical thieves
will raise the maddog cry OF Rebel aud so i9Jure the
cause OF constitutional freedom The time for that style
of caution has passed; and the Rebel cry ike the en-
tire cause OF the Radicals is played out WIN tne meet
ing and close OF the great National Convention N
Tammany Hall, July g. we have entered upon pc "a new new
phase Of political career on the altar Oh tue new
Tammany, dedicated to constitutional liberty, was
@ad, @ Dy tne se aDd congTessioUal district in the
United States every feeling and prejudice that grew out
OF the late war. "A sacrifice TO great ana common
cause and there the lovers OF liberty from D9t OI t
late bcgerent sides casped hands and recorded vows OF
shoulder in the second war for the independence of the
States and the freedom OF the people. No men re-
ceiyed more hOpitabe and marked welcome 10 te CON
yention i'm the city and In the North than Gems. Hamp-
and Forrest and this not only from genuine adhra
ton OF the heroic characters Of these great cavalry On
GERS but order suaze and mark the truce that ad
been made between the friends OF liberty III the North
fuI prudence in policy And now, so far from advising
these gentlemen, including Admiral Semnes, not to
il we had way, would put them IN the held OF
campaign In the North ana let them speak, and canvass,
aud utter the boldest truths that they feel from every
stump in the North and West The period Tor sparrlS
has gone past We must gloves OFF now, and with pare
knuckles-ay. with mailed hands-we must up and at
the enemies OF our liberty"
We heartily second the proposition, and
propose that Gen. Forrest and Admiral Semmes
should together stump the North for their
cause and candidates. Forrest might demon
strate the Democratic love of the Blacks, when
they are in their proper place; and Semmes,
having already shed much light on the decline
of our foreign commerce and navigation, might
with confidence be expected to shed still more.
Bring them on
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

almost fabulous figure, and yet those familiar
with "tbe wirpsr say that that estimate Is Dy
mn means cyorrcrated. Various attempts nave
loon from, time tO time made to suppress this
,,ioortic evil. but they have all proved abortlve
di.loncst nolitical influence invariably proving
o,, o,,orno+cb for those who sought to purify
tbc fountain of legislative honor. But now
tLa+ Reform bill has passed that will add to
fine old constituencies large numbers of voters
Of q class peculiarly liable, from their poverty,
to the temptations of bribery, it has been felt
that some measure likely to be effective III
checking the evil is more imperativey called
for than ever; and Parliament has accordingly
enacted, as supplementary to that bill, law
providing for the more summary trial and
punishment of parties either giving or receiving
bribes at elections. The most notable feature
of the law is the creation of a new jurisdiction
for the trial of cases of alleged bribery Hith-
erto the trial of such cases has been conducted
by committees of the House of Commons, con-
sisting of five members, sitting as judges,
whose awards were virtually final; but in nine
ont of every ten cases the ends of justice were
defeated by political bias. These committees
are now done away with and in future petit
tions for inquiry into alleged bribery will come
before a Judge of one of the superior courts
of common law, whose reports to the House
are to be equivalent to the report of an Elec-
tion Committee under the old system-that is,
final The inquiry is to be conducted, not, as
heretofore, at Westminster, but at the place
where the ohense is alleged to have been COM
mitted. The punishment in the event of a
member OF the House of Commons being con-
vcted of bribery is exclusion from the House
fora period of seven years, and in the case OF the
voter it is loss of the franchise disqualification
for filing any public Office for a number of
years, or for being appointed a Justice of the
Peace. The law is avOwedy experimental. 1t
has been passed for period of four years,
which will be ample time to test its efficacy.
The English journals are warm i'll its praise,
especially of that portion which provides for
the trial of cases before a tribunal placed above
the sinister influences of party politics. How
ever the measure may work, it is gratifying to
find that the British Parliament has at length
made an earnest effort to stamp the lniQuity of
bribery with merited disgrace, and to facilitate
the detection and punishment of this unpar-
donabe treason against free government,
whether mOnarchical or republican.
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

the action of the President In response to
Gov. Warmoths application for military
aid to sustain the new State Govern
ment in enforcing the laws, there remains no
doubt that the Executive branch of the Gov
enment recognizes the validity OF the work OF
Reconstruction accomplished by Congress. This
course on the part of the President will receive
the unqualified praise of every lover OF liberty,
union, and peace. On a very vital pont-in-
deed, on nearly the whole issue which has
separated the President from Congress-it re-
stores the harmony between the Legislative
and Executive powers, and goes very far to
assure the peaceful solution of the long and
vexatious problem of Reconstruction. Disre-
garding, as he himself has done, the issues
now past, a grateful people will thank him
heartily for his course, and trust that he may
carry it out TO the end.
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

vice and crimef Why is the business OF Chl-
cago confined to forwarding the rude products
of the soil, and receiving in exchange manu-
factured goods, instead of first manufacturing
the former into the latter on the spotY Why
are the farmers of Illinois confined to the three
or four crops, such as wheat, corn, beef, ana
pork, for which they can afford to pay the
freights to distant markets, when, If manufac-
lures were introduced to the extent that they
are in Connecticut, every farmer might take
his choice of hundred crops, because his ultl-
mate market would be iii the adjoining village
and all he could raise would be consumed
thereP
The early solution of all our national finan-
cial difficulties lies in the single question:
"How soon can the American people stop
spending more than they earn, stop sending
"abroad mortgages on the national revenue
"and OH their railroads and canals, in exchange
"for foreign manufactured goods, and go to
"work and manufacture all they want to use
"and more, and earn enough surplus to pay
"off the national debtp We have now
81 900 600 900 of national and railroad securi-
ties pawned among the mOney-enders of
Europe, on which we pay an annual interest
of S9OOOO,OOO. This keeps all our securities
below par and gold at an exorbitant premium.
The remedy consists in that diversiticatlon OF
industry and development of manufactures
which will enable us as a nation to live within
our own resources, and to earn what we use be-
fore we spend it. The West is making some pro-
gress toward this diversifcation of industry,
but it is advancing too slowly. The people,
with all their energy, are not keeping pace with
their opportunities. They have eighty wooen
factories. Let them put up the other nine
hundred and twenty. They need thousand.
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

1t has usually been supposed that, during the
dark days of the Salem Witchcraft, it was the
Rev. Mr.. Paris who hung other people but it
has not been generally known that he was hung
for sOrcery himself The World, however, which
is very learned World, and knows so much
that it can afford to spend most of its time in
correcting the mistakes Of its neighborS, is good
enough to inform us that the Rev. Mr.. Paris
was executed in Salem for witchcraft. This
discovery will be startling to poor Mr.. c. L.
Upham, the accomplished historian of the
Witchcmft DelusOn, who has just published
beautiful edition of his work, revised and en-
larged, and who says in it that the Rev. Mr.
Paris Spelled by The World Paris removed
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

/" the morbid sentimentalism OF New-Engiahu.
We wonder for how many years respectable
men like Mr.. Reed will continue to talk after
this fashion, without seeing or suspectlng Vllav
all the " sentimentalityr is upon their side, and
all the hard practical, naked common sense
against them. "Why," argues Mr.. Reeu'
should negroes vote in South Carolina wheh
" tbev are not allowed to vote in Pennsyl-
"vania ~ and he puts this query with an all
of confidence which indicates that he considers
il TO be an end of controversy. lie does hoI
comprehend that this question is sufficiently
answered by putting another, viz: " why doh
negroes vote in Pennsylvania This view
of the case never dawns upon Mr. Reeds mlnd'
although in general it is a very good MIND III
deed He takes it for granted that because
certain class is swindled in Pennsylvania IL Is
therefore perfectly righteous to swindle H. ior
instance. in louisiana He wants injustice
uniform and equal all over the country
Not satisfied with this absurdity, he intlmateS
that PENNSYLVANIA will be so indignant at ilnu-
ing that negroes vote in South Carolina, while
she does not allow them to vote within her
borders, that she will first have " convulslonS,'
and then-secede! Why, pray, hasn't she
seeded before Negroes have been voting IN
number of States for many years-in some
of them ever since the Revolution Fray,
how has sensitive Pennsylvania managed TO
bear it ITO bear it, when she found "herseH
(to use Mr. Reeds language0 "A perpetual
"partner with the negrOn Still she went on
voting, and sometimes some OF her free and
enlightened, and fastidiOus Democrats so far
Overcame their feelings as to be able to vote
three or four times at the same election Oc-
casionally even white voters are not the eX-
elusive poSsessors of every virtue under
Heaven.
Mr.. Reed is an able and an honorable man;
he, therefore, talks very plainly, and ayows that
if the Democrats carry the Government one OF
their first acts will be to take away the Right
Of Suffrage, which has been formally and un-
reservedly bestowed upon the Freedmen. We
like plain talking, even when we think that
man talks absurdly and Mr.. Reed speaks
plainly enough in all conscience. He would
take away a privilege conferred by national
law and guaranteed by the national honor,
from what he is pleased to call Z" an alien and
offensive race" His frankncss seems to us to
be quite superior to his craftsmanship In the
course of not over long letter he has managed
to predict a revolution in the South, reyolu-
ton in PENNSYLVANIA, and revolution in the
Treasury. Two of these, according to his own
showing, would be the result of Mr.. Seymours
election, and only one of them-the Pennsyl-
vania "cOnvulsOn us threatened by the cleo
ton of Gen. Grant. On the whole, we think
that we prefer the "cOnvulsion.n
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The World has a "most extraordinary rumor'
that Gen. Grant is about to decline. We can
assure our cotempOrary that Seymour has
played out" that dodge. Gen. Grant never
loved Office we'll enough to decline it, in view
of recent developments. The lady who, "vow-
"ing she would neer consent, consented" was
no prototype of the captor of Yicksburg and
of Lees army.
BY the way: The World may not have under
stood that the $4,000 left at the st. Nicholas TO
be bet on Grant is to be lost in case Grant is not
elected, if aIire and of course will be lost in
case Gen. Grant should decline. So, if there
be any goose so green as to put any faith IN
The Worlds canard, he has now a chance to
prove afresh the old saw that A fool and his
money are soon parted"
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The. Democratic party are beginning to smart
under the consciousness of their stupidity in
not nominating the only candidate who had
any power to aid their cause or courage to
carry out their measures. For whatever of
political capital they have they are indebted to
President johnson. Having thrown him over
board they cannot complain if he discharges
the duties of his Office, during the remainder Of
his term, in a manner more in accordance with
the laws of the land and the dictates of pru-
dent and really conservative craftsmanship,
than with their revolutionary platform. The
instructions issued by the President through
the Secretary of War to the military COM
mander in Louisiana, amount to recognition,
by the President, of the validity OF the Recon-
stucted State Governments, and, by inference
Icpudiate the Democratic platform, which de-
nounces them as unconstitutional and void.
The proclamation of the validity OF the AlNth
Amendment tended strongly in the same direc-
ton but with the palmer evidence afforded by
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The Alabqma Legislature has passed bin
allowing negroes to have access TO railroad
cars, steamboats,, and other public conveyanccs.
AS such conveyanceS at the South could hardly
be run without them, and as they have full ac
cess to the platform of Democratic mass meet
ings, two of them having addressed Democratic
meetings yesterday in Georgia, along with Bat
Ter and Wade Hampton, we trust this new evil
dence of Radical usurpation and negro suprem-
acy will be received with some charitable
allowance by the Democratic party. To make
the thing even, let the Alabama Legislature
pass an act giving rebels equally free access
to all public conveyances. They might even
offer to pay the fares of some Of the latter to
to the State line.
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The " Y. World, probably impelled by the
impending publication of Brick" Pomeroys
rival Democratic sheet, finally comes ont and
ndorses Wade Hampton's speech as "one
(which does honor to the American character
This puts The World upon the platform OF
Gen. Hampton. Our readers will remember
that Gen. HIampton's platform means revolu-
tion, and that he received assurances in New
York that if eyer the Democratic party gained
power he would be assisted in the work OF
carrying it ont. With such leaders as Frank
Blair and Wade Hampton, who are SO power
full that they compel the conservative element
of their party TO support them, what patriot
can hesitate to help in bringing peace 70 the
country by voting for Grant and COlLaX.
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13
extreme.

The Mobile Tribune having printed, as extracts
from this journal, paragraphs which never sp-
peared in it, embQdying sentiments which We
abhor, we saw fit to brand them as forgeres
and require their justification. Our Mobile
namesake reterates his naked assertions, and
says:
In regard to the expression that he had declared fo
spikDg the Negroes did not read this opinion IN THE
IPBUNE 1t circulated very generally IN the news
papers Of the South a the beginning OF the and az
that the sentiment had been really promulgated by IHE
TRIBUNE and its denial at this late day will be subject
OF surprise TO all whO for the last eight years have be-
leyed that the sentiment was really uttered by that
paper 1t was regarded Of those attempts at Wit
which occasionally distinguishes our cotemporary;
for nobody really believed that the very
humane and very enlightened but very errac propre
tor OF The TRIBUNE seriously recommended the spng
OF the negroes But have stronger proof than
ms declaration that the opinion not uttered The
charge made by the Southern press and his simple
denial will not relieve him from the responsibility which
attaches to such sentiment"
We beg the Mobile man not to undertake
to relieve as from any sort of responsibility.
We prefer to be excused. "At the beginning
"Of the War;" quite number of passages, pur-
porting to be from this journal, were forged at
the South and widely circulated through the
Rebel Press. They were intended to fire the
Southern heart" and probably had the de-
sired effect One or two of them duly reached
us, and were branded by us as they deserved.
If they had not been, they would still have
been Rebel fOrgeres, intended to aid the cause
of Disunion. There are ample files of The
TRIBUNE and for any sentiment that was ever
expressed therein, day and date can be gwen
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13
The Ivth Article of the Democratic Plat.

The IVth Article of the Democratic Plat
form demands
FquaI taxation every species Of property including
Government bonds and other public securities
This is the old Democratic cry for idlfect
taxation on real estate, lands and houses, OF
which Horatio Seymour has always been an
advocate The Convention thought the speed1
est way to set the current of public opinion
running toward reputation would be to levy
all taxes directly on lands and houses, l. e. on
fixed capital, instead of on business and income.
But are the farmers and property-holders
anxious to be driven into reputation by tax
ing equally the principal of property that earns
nothing or one per cent and property thai
earns two hundred per cent? 1t is the most
unequal taxation possible, and would drive any
country into reputation that should resort
N IL
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The Charleston Courier recommends the Rebel
officers of the South to use little more
strategy in their efforts to beat Gen. Grant.
It desires them to moderate their political
speeches, for fear that their extravaganza OF
statement" will iDjure the Democratic cause
in the North. We shall probably have
Hampton, Cobb, and TOombs for the balance
of the campaign as quiet as cooling doves.
But they cannot escape the record. Gen.
Hampton has shown us, whatever the Rebels
in the South and the COpperheads in the
North may say, that they mean but one thing.
in case they gain power; and that is-Rerota-
tion No trckery can shrOud this issue, and
no amount of easy rhetoric can deceive the
American people. There is but one question
Peace or War. Gen. Grant leads one column,
and Gov. Seymour the other. We have but
two parties in the country, and both are IN
earnest.
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13
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New-York tribune., 1868-08-13
AMERICAN CHIVdLRY.
ITO THE EDITOR or THB TRIBUNE !

ITO THE EDITOR OF IIiB TRIBUNE
SIR: Alas! where is our chvalryY While in
the earnest and faithful discharge of his duty to
his country, in the prime of life, Abraham Lincoln
the good, the honored President of this great
nation. was assassinated Universal gloom was, by
this calamity spread over the land North and South
alike mourned. Every house was draped in black,
expressive of the deep sense of the loss sustained
Then the American heart was true to itself-Gnd the
trorld honOred il! Steamer after steamer brought
messages of sympathy from afar until every country
had respected the memory of the departed What
mockery must not this American demonstration seem
if the soul of the departed has known the insult, the
persecution that has been heaped upon his widowed
wife! More criminal than the assassin who took
from her the husband of her youth are the men who
have reyiled her. ARd not a man IN NE nation has
come forward to denounce the cowardly and gross
attacks this detenseleSs woman. Men OF America.
where is your Chirdly, Once the widow of your
MdrtTed President, il should have been your pride
and duty to protect her. She would honor such
generosity. You have permitted the grossest assaults
To be made in the papers by men whom yOu would
not permit TO cross your own thresholds. They have
entered the sanctuary of her private life, and de-
graded her IN The presence Of hG chlldrR and not
voice cry shame Gradually sinking under
her many trials her physician ordered her to go TO
Europe for the benefit of the trip and change Of
scene and it required all her strength TO rally
sufficiently TO do Again TheUGSbmg'On star, ul-
provoked. heaps upon her coarse abuse. lt is too
much-She sank under these repeated trials, and was
too i'll To sail Men OF Imericd, will you permit this
longeri Let the memory of Abraham Lincoln be
honored in the respect You pay 10 his widow and
children. Az AMERICAN WOMAN.
[The pointed reference above to the American
Press oblges us to say that Mrs. Lncoln's re-
grettcd appearance before the American public
in connection with dresses, &c, was not Who'll
ly the fault of the journals which commented
thereon-it was partly her own. We believe,
however, that her mind was iniurously affected
by the murder of her husband, and that much
which has given pain to the American People
is Justly attributable to this circumstance.-Edl ]
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The passing of the new Parliamentary Reform
bill has been Immediately followed by the
enactment of measure for the punishment OF
corrupt practices at elections. The evil of
bribery in English elections has grown into
such formidable proportions, the profuse cx-
penditure Of money to get returned to the
House of Commons has become so general,
that as a rule none but men of the greatest
wealth can aspire to a seat in Parliament. As
matters stand, the chances of a candidates sue
cess depend infinitely more upon the length of
his purse than upon his merit and capacity.
An estimate recently made Of the outlay of
money by candidates at the last general cleo
ton in England fixes the sum total at an
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13

The Republicans of Hudson County, N.J., are
invited to attend the dedication of the new
Wigwam in Lafayette this eCeniRg, when
addresses will be delivered by their candidate
for Governor, John /. Blair, their Senator,
Frelinghuysen, and by Horace Greeley. This
is their first general rally Of the canvass, and
the members of all the Grant Clubs Of jersey
City are expected to report in person. Let 1t
ne seen that New-Jersey is awake,
New-York tribune., 1868-08-13
mo- rnE coLoRrD pEoPLE oP NEwYORK.

FRIENDS: In the death OF the Hon. Thaddcus
Stevens, NJ. c. OF Pennsylvania, oppressed humanity
throughout the world and the colorcd people OF the
United States in particular, have sustained vcgy great
loss one that they should by 10 illy pass by
Mr. Stevens was one OF the little band with The iae
Hon j. r. Gddirgs aud others, who stood finn ana
faithful mid fire and storm, advocating Universal Liberty
and Equal Rights all Men, and lived 70 ;hc Negro
free in America Is not some special honor dac 10 tho
memory of such man. particularly from the coiored
pcoplel Let have public meeting without delay
and let none who know how value the debt We owe
such "a he was fail be there, and there carly LetH
be such gathering viii not disgrace the people OF
color and let 10 be testimony 20 nations and TO tho
living statesmen OF MS class that we are grateful
people. Respectfully. ROBERT ELLIS
No 50 WO0Se-St, w.
call for public meeting is open at Mr El.ss'
Come and slgu IL.