New-York tribune., 1872-09-18
REFORM IN PENNSYLVANIA.

| DISFRANCHIsEMENT, AND AMNESTY.
Inc first large Democratic mass meeting in
rDiadolphh took place at Concert Hall on Monday
oVehlngiJohn c. Bult presiding. On taking tho ch -r
mr. buitt explained the object OF the meeting in brief
speech he said the October election Pennsylvania
was one OF signal Importance While the Industrial
iheresb OF the Commonwealth satisfactory n tho
present and 80 promising for the future there canker
eating into and threatening and destroy those
interests A the people grow In wealth, population,
| ana power, Offices Of all kinds multiply and be-
| como more valuable, aud tho control OF public
funds holds out tempting Inducements to those
| whose greed ia stronger than their in
| tegrity These and other influences OF a corrupting
teniency result in rings"-political, municipal and
legisative. They increase the taxes, sauander the
public money corrupt the governing bodies stfe tho
voice Of the people at the ballobox By various means
and spread their demorazing influences throughout the
entire community. 1t was TO give expression in
favor OF the ticket placed in the field to baltic against
| these Influences that the meeting called The uom
nation OF Mr. Buckalew the assertion Of determ
nation to break down rings" and 1t only remained for
the people Co sustain that nomination.. The Hon. f. o.
! Perrin OF Hew-rork City followed the Chairman in a
review OF tho recent elections in North Carolina Yer
mont and M1ine and general discussion Of the QIes-
| tons at issue at this time.
Gov Gilbert C. Walker OF Virginia. the principal
speaker OF tho evening, next introduced and spoke
for time, and followed by Joseph Stewart OF
Baltimore. Gov. Walker showed clearly that there
no evidence whatever that the Southern people wero
supporting Mr. Greeley in hopes of securing payment
for property lost in tho emancipation of the slaves
because they expected TO he freed the Of
the Federal debt and Federal taxation. Such results
could only be brought about by amendments to the Con
stuon, and there desire the part Of the 6outh
for such amendment and the Southern States being in
the majority have power to enact them. Extracts
from his speech given below:
THE DOCTRINE OF SECESSION DEAD.
Tho people Of vrGiniathat is the real, substantial
peope-those who pay the taxes and have an abiding
interest in the welbeing and prosperity OF the State,
more united, harmonious, aud determined in
any than they now are in the support OF Greeley
and Brown. And this remarkable unanimity OF senti-
ment cannot be ascrbed to the efforts OF leading
mas rs II flne @ rosn nd y rne up o VTg s
santay true of the entire South In fact IL has been
tiOn and will be indebted for his election In large
measure 70 the people OF the South. DO you ask the
ment at the South tor Mr. Greeeyf DO you wonder at
the strange phenomenon OF whole people rising up and
have other but this man TO rule over US, albeit
LIE was ancient political foe :" 1t may indeed, seem
and appreciated instead OF being suspected or spurned
by the people Of the North, II would be hailed
siasm. And this fact is as well known as Il is
thoroughly feared ~ tne Leaders OF te hIoh ,be
making TO mIsead aud deceive the people az to the
real significance OF the enthusiasm at the South for Lib
eralism and the Liberal ticket. For this purpose the
dying embers OF the late civil war are being rlked over
an famed info life and the most absurd desires and
impossible intentions ascrbed to the Southern people.
They have the haTdl0Od 10 assert ag by the cleo
ton OF Mr. Greeley the South hopes and expects to
achieve what it failed to accomplish by toe war But
bold assertion, without sclnta OF PROOF 10
wcpt down UPON the plains Of Xppomatox the original
cause Of the struggle went down and was entombed
with IT, The advocates and aderents OF the doctrine OF
Secession appealed to the sword rs final arbtramen
and though the decisions went against them no verdict
was ever rendered which met with more universal ae
0uieseenee This subject which had atated the public
mind at times with threatening violence from the foun
dation OF the Government. was finally and forever
settled and the people who expended their blood and
treasure in It's maintenance wl Oq the very last 70
threatening front again it Will not be on the sunny plains
of the South.
DIsFRANCHIsEMEST AND AMNESTY.
The same policy which dictated Acknowledgement
withheld amnesty and to-day protests against "shaking
banda across tho bloody chasm," conceived In hate and
selasb ambition and nurtured solely for the perpetra
ton OF partisan power its results to the material inter
ess OF the South have been disastrous than even
the four years Of actual war wherever the Congress
ocy triumphed, wherever States were rad
icoised and the government organized and controlled
by the ignorant negroes and their corrupt allies "r4g
anarchy aud corruption followed az inevitably as nght
tnows day Taxation in some instances, was Increased
TO such extent as TO almost piohlDli proIuetS; si
state debts were contracted beyond the possibility OF
pavment And what have these States 10 snow ior TINS
enormous increase Of the burdens OF tne people nave
they any great public improvements Any organized
ydd ySIodhd ~ ANYTHING conducive TO tile happiness, the
aIvancement or prosperity Of the peoplei Have these
advantaGes accrued to these people which alone
instify the increase OF the public burdens and war
rant the expenditure OF the public treasurer What
have the Caronas, Georgia. Florida, or any OF these
states TO exhibit for their doubled, ueDled anu quad-
SInIed taxatiop but bankrupt treasures and dshon-
ored credit The tale of wrong and suffering,
Of robbery REGULATION and crime, whch tnese people
Have endured finds parallel III history IDer ndus-
tries have been paryzed their prosperity stlnsu ug
treasures robbed, their rights OF properly anu a.
liberty invaded and yet the vampires VINO iatonsd DY
their dstresses are the Jealous 81 ts d sum
mort But not alone by robbery and corruption have have
these Radical State goyerhmenoS neso nt and de-
rem OF the administration, earned the contempt
testation OF the people. Ihey nave ianSu W r
administer % Ie hrnnSht themselves and public authority
INTO contempt but they have peImiIteu !. hot eieoui &
aged lawessness and crime Disorder andYiolence are
he egitimate fruits OF weak and corrupt governments
and wherever tLey nave occurred. "a tno Sout e. @ or
raceabe directly indirectly to the lheelehcy OF con
anc of the local state authorities, and yet there 10
not ono OF these Radical state GoYefhneHts, thVuen
Hncy which has reeeiyedthe aid ana cOuntehahee
Of this Administration
LIBERAL MOVEMENTS.
The Liberal Republican Club OF Easton,
| POM waa addressed by Mr. A. 7. Drinkhouse on the
10Th inst after which officers OF the marching company
| were elected
The Liberals Of Carbcndale, Penn, held a
iroe and enthusiastic meeting on the 1ith inst speeches
Ing made by Stephen J. Meany OF this city and G.
smith of CarbOndale. Mr. Meaney spoke st ftS'on vi
| Monday evening. -.
Tbe Liberals of the XIIth Pennsylvania Dis
trio, composed Of Luzerne and susquehanna Counties
met at Scranton yesterday, and after several inorhi
| bhlots Stanley WOODWARD OF WilkeSoarre was uianl
| nIously nominated for Congress
On Monday evening the Greeley, Brown and
Dscbert Campaign Club Of the Twenty-sixth Ward Of
phadelphia raised large flag bearing 'he name OF the
80 rbe meeting was organized by the election OF
Tn Minfon as President, after which speeches we're
JONI JONI ny Horace Wilbut Col Robert p. Dechert, aud
| cant l.. W. Powers.
T. q Bowman OF Cory, Penn, the Grant
Ddiaate for DelegateatLarge to the Constitutional
| -,.ontion has challenged John Pope Hodnett OF
(,,T,,o voung Irish speaker of some prominence In
ne West 10 political discussion at the Opera House,
Corry next Tuesday MI. lOuhett has lhaue ses