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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-16
Coy. TiIden,s Letter.
Murat Halstead's Saratoga special to the Cincin-
natl Commercial

|
natl Commercial.
One who has seen Gov. Tilden's letter
| in print says that it will make between
| four and five columns of matter in the
New York daily papers, and that two
thirds of the space will be occupied in
discussing the financial situation and
| presenting the remedies for the disabili-
ties under which the country is suffer
ing. The Governor not only asserts his
hard-money doctrine, but proceeds to
show why he is a hard-money man, and
enters fully into the subject in an ele-
mentary and scientific manner. He
urges the Importance of making the re-
turn to specie payments speedy and GER
tain, and details the principles upon
which he would operate and the methods
that he would adopt. His great finan-
cial restorative is economy and retrench-
ment; that a large portion of the reve-
nues of the Government may be reserv-
ed for the payment, in the first place, of
the legal tender debt. The Governors
strong point is that a return to hard
money will not PROSTATE industry, but
revive it, and that hard money is indis-
pensable to good times. In the presen-
tation of these views it is said the Gov
ernor has not only been elaborate and
simple, but very forcible. He prides
himself upon his requirements as a stu
dent of finance, and thinks the occasion
auspieious for the instruction of the
country, and that he has a great deal to
perform in improving the occasion.
When last seen Gov. Tflden was at
work over his proof-sheets, filling SEN
fences and fussing over phrases. 1t is
said to be his habit in preparing matter
that he regards of consequence. One
of the undetermined things was whether
zboT1Id Ia T11ado tn cinorIo
term The Governor is not personally
disposed to say much as to the single
term since Washington, Jackson and all
of the two-term Presidents were doc
trinally believers in single terms, but
the friends of Gov. Tilden are disposed
to attach some Importance to the single
term paragraph of Hayes, and they
counsel a similar or stronger declaration.
1t may interest all concerned to hear
that Gov. Tilden is extremely confident
of his election, and that he speaks with
perfect assurance of his power to carry
New York State.
In the meantime the contest within
the Republican party wakes warm.
Several primary meetings have been
held, and delegations from a few coun-
ties have been returned. The opponents |
of COnkling claim cheerful measure of |
success, and are confident that they will |
carry portion of the New York dis |
tricts, and decisive preponderance in
the country. Conkling is, however, as
they say, fighting for a funeral. This
is crisis in his history. If he is beaten
now, he loses his reelection to the Sem
ate. If he succeeds, there can be no
doubt the Republicans of the State will
be at disadvantage 1t will be, | think,
the interest of Tilden to help Conkling
in the Republican primaries, and secure
the nomination of Cornell.
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Concluded from lst Page

OF sectional contentious and in re-
spect to our common schools, have
only this to say, that in my judg-
ment the man or party that would
involve our schools in political or
sectional controversies is an enemy
to the schools. The common schools
are so far under the protecting care
of the people than under the control
of any party or sect, that they must
be neither sectarian nor partisan.
and there must be neither division
or misrepresentation of the funds for
their support.
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HIS OPINION OF TLDEN.

1t will be seen. gentlemen. that /
am in entire accord With the plat
form of the convention, by winch l
have been nominated as Candida e
! for the Office of Vice President of
the United States. Permit me in
conclusion to express my satisfac-
ton at being associated with a cam
didate for the Presidency who is
first among his equals as represen-
tatiye of the spirit and of the
achievements of reform. In his of
fetal career, as the executive of the
great State of New York, he has in
a comparatively short period, re-
formed the public service and re-
duced the public burden so as to
have earned at once the gratitude of
his State and the admiration of the
country. The people know him to
be thoroughly in earnest. He has
shown himself to be possessed of
powers and qualities which fit him
in an eminent degree for the great
work Of reformation which this coun-
try now needs, and if he shall be
chosen by the people to the high |
Office Of President of the United |
States, believe that the day of his
will be the beginning |
Of new era Of peace, purity and
prosperity in all the departments of
our Government.
l am, gentlemen, your obedient
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
TO the Hon John A. McClernand,
Chairman, and others of the Commit
tee of the National Democratic Con-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-16
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.

To the Hon. John A. McClernand,
Chairman, and others of the Commit
tee of the National Democratic Con-
YentiOn.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

had no idea 1t would when he wrote It, and yet
every word in that letter was an expression of
his honest convictions. 1t Is so much easier,
especially for towards, to strike man when
he is down, and there are SO many towards in
the country, that we are not surprised at the
blows that have been directed at General Bel
knap. 1t is an easy matter for gentlemen who
desire to make political capital, as we'll as to
make it appear that they are very righteous,
to say that Belknap robbed the soldiers, when
the sworn testimony before the court proves
that not cent more was charged by the post
trader after the Marsh-Evans contract than
before. 1t is an easy matter for the political
banditti to charge that Belknap was thief
and a rascal long before he went into the Cab
met, but the sworn testimony of such men as
Associate Justice Miller, Senators Allison,
Wright and a score of other respectable wit
nesses proves that he was a man of excellent
character. 1t is an easy matter for
the man whose living is in politics
to charge that Belknap was an official
scoundrel whose every act was corrupt and,
infamous, but the truth is that six months of
searching investigation on the part of COM
mittee politically opposed to him, in order that
they might furnish material for additional ar
ticles of investigation which the Democratic
House reserved the right to offer, amounted to
nothing, and no additional articles were pre-
ferred. 1t is easy for the cheap newspaper
writers, who imagine that italics and small
caps are arguments, to say that Belknap is
guilty villain, but the truth is that after an
exhaustive hearing of the evidence against him
the Senate of the United States, sitting as a
court of Impeachment, voted to acquit him, the
best lawyers in the Senate voting "not guilty"
We wrote no vindication of Belknap, but we
did express the belief that the trial was farce;
that the Senate had no jurisdiction in the case;
that it was political trial, and that because
it was such the General was placed at disad-
vantage, and anybody is welcome to make all
the political capital they can out of that letter
or any other position taken by this paper.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

ness of all the Democratic pretenses of re-
duction of appropriations, and the exact
effect of the twelve appropriation bills that
have emanated from this Congress in the
eight months and half they have been in
session, as compared with the reduction Of
expenditures made last year by Republi-
can Congress in less than three months. He
showed that the Democratic House, with
all its boastings, had made no greater re-
ductions than the Republicans had last
year, while, on the other hand, the Demo
cratic House heralded its intentions to re-
duce taxation and had not reduced it
single dollar. 1t was one of the most fin
ished productions of the age-conservative,
forcible and conclusive. We shall refer to
this subject more fully tomorrow.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

AT SHELBYvILLE, INDIANA, February
), 1868, Thomas A. Hendricks delivered
what has since become known as his great
"war Speech in which he declared that
he never had advised any one to enlist in
the Union armies because he did not intend
to enlist himself, &c. War speech, for
eooth. But full report Of it has been re-
printed, which shows that in discussing
the question of the authority of the Gen
eral Government to arrest deserters he
said:
"If anv -oung men have left their companies
to come home without authority, they have
done an unfortunate thing, because they have
not acted in accordance with law. So that you
cannot fight the battle at issue in your neigh
borhoods. You must act in accordance with
law. II anybody, horerer, comes into yOur
neigtborhoodS ritLom lar, and propose to take
anybody array by force, that is matter without
lar, and you had best attend to that, gentlemen,
at once" Shouts of "We'n attend to them,
old fellow."1
Further on in this same speech, alluding
to the subject Of a compromise of the issues
of the war and to Mr. Lincoln's emancipa-
tion proclamation, he said:
Nv nat the next TWO years Will orlng ABOUT
do not know. There is one course for us to
pursue, and that is to do our duty. l have
hopes that this war will not last very much
longer, and that there will be some adjustment
consistent with the honor Of the Government
and the Union of the States. I am ready to
compromise at any time. am ready to say to
the people of the South, Come in again and
we will secure to you your constitutional rights,
and, if you desire them, additional guarantees
If there is any man who desires to continue
fighting and spending the peoples money and
lives, do not sympathize with him. l should
like TO see these States brought together in
convention again, and settle upon a mode of
adjustment. l do not know whether we have
q Government that will do it or not"
And this is the man the Democracy have
chosen to fill the second office in the gift of
the American people!
National Republican., 1876-08-14

IT was 2. B. Vance, the present Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of North
Carolina, who first inaugurated the brutal
system of Junior and senior reserves" for
the Confederate armies. He was then act
ing as Governor of the State, having been
elected by the votes of Union men and true
Conservatives, who were anxious to put
an end to the "war between the States. "
As soon as he was elected, however, he
joined the JEFF. Davis oIigarchy at Rich
mond, and became fierce advocate of a
continuance of the war. He sent sixteen
yearold boys and gray haired men, totter-
ing with the feebleness of old age, to the
front, an act which has been aptly charac-
terized as "robbing the cradle and the
grave"
National Republican., 1876-08-14

THE attention of the reader is specially
called to the letter printed this morning
from Vicksburg, Mississippi. The author
is one Of the most prominent, reliable and
trustworthy citizens in the State, and the
questions he Diseases are of such grave
importance as to merit the attention of the
Department of Justice and the deep solici-
tude Of the people. The insurrectionarY
and rebellious attitude of the State OF
Mississippi, already rendered notorious by
the most shameless deeds of violence for
political gain ever witnessed in this coun-
try, it appears, is now to be supplemented
with no less infamous record, covered
with the forms of lawful proceedings and
the sanction of constitutional authority.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

At the beginning of the present session
of Congress q great deal was said about the
temporary absences of the President and
other officials from the seat of Govern
ment, and Mr.. Blackburn, of Kentucky,
had the impudence, or imprudence, to di-
rect an inquiry to the President regarding
it. The answer @ to that inquiry de-
veloped the unexpected fact that Demo
cratic Presidents and other Democratic
officials were accustomed in those happier
days of the Republic to spend a greater
portion OF their time away from Washing
ington. 1t seems now that this Demo
cratic precedent is being taken advantage
of by the House, as more than sixty mem
bers of that body are absent on leave and
nearly twenty without leave. OF these
absentees the majority are Democrats, and
it is to be hoped that their number will
not be swelled by accessions from the Re
publican ranks.
National Republican., 1876-08-14
HON. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS
Will Address tile People of Jackson and
adjoining Counties at
SEYMOUR, IND,
On WEDNESDAY, SEPT. IA, 1864, at 10
O'CLOCK

Let all who FAVOR PEACE, all
who desire to be FREE from the
death-grip of this UNANIMOUSLY wicked, i'm
beetle aud tyrannical Administration, its arbi-
trary and illegal arrests, and its drafts and
CONSUMPTION laws, by which peaceful citizens
are dragged from their homes and all the en-
dearments of domestic life, to butcher and be
butchered, COME OUT and hear this advocate
of peace and reunion. Come in wagons, come
on horseback, come by railroad and on foot.
Bring your neighbors, and especially your Re-
publican neighb0rs, who are seeking for the
truth. Bring your baskets well filled with
something TO eat. Other able speakers will be
in attendance. Ladies especially invited. If
possible, arrangements will be made with rail-
roads to carry at HALF FARE.
AUGUsT %, 1864.
jackson Union" Print.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

SAN RANDALL's S newly developed enmitY
to the District was made more pointed than
ever by his action last Saturday in virtually
defeating the Senate bill making provision
for the support of the District government.
In short, he proved himself to be an OBJ
structionist of the most unreasonable kind,
and the result of his course will undoubt-
edly prove detrimental to some of the vital
interests Of this community. But then
Sam is a Democratic reformer and must be
allowed to have his way, even if he re-
forms the business of the country into the
ground
National Republican., 1876-08-14

WE REGRET that We cannot give more
space to the able speech delivered by Mr..
Lynch. of Mississippi, in the House on
Saturday. 1t was full of convincing argu-
ment respecting the infamous outrages com
mitted..by the color line whipper-snappers of
the South, and proved by solid facts
and logic that Mississippi was wrested from
Republican control by the Democrats
through a virtual disfranchisement of the
colored race. 1t was a reply to Lamar's
speech. and can be written down as full
answer
National Republican., 1876-08-14

lstence.
Mr.. Randall, by his untiring and persistent
efforts to be unfair and inconsistent in the con-
ference committee on appropriations, has
earned the undying soubriquet which has re-
Gently been given him of "Inappropriate Sam"
Ha Ia. Another little scheme of economy.
1t is said that the man who named his son
"John Wilkes Booth Hamilton" will be paid
by the ex-rebel House his salary as clerk to
the Ways and Means Committee for the full
session. That's right, gentlemen. 1t is in
your line of business. The payment of rebel
claims are, and that is the claim of rebel.
Mr.. Lynch, of Mississippi, delivered an elo-
quent and forcible reply to Mr.. Lamar's speech
on Saturday. 1t must have been chagrin in
tensifed to the ex-Confederate chieftain, after
proclaiming that the colored race was unfit
for the privileges of the elective franchise, to
have such a thorough excoriation from the
hands of one of the leaders of that race.
Some miserable and ungenerous journalist
has started rumor rejecting unfavorably
upon our bright and rising young vocalist,
Miss Abbott, and in answer to this mean
attack score of prominent gentlemen and
ladies calamity came forward in her defense,
and in a pithy card to the press deny the
allegation, and would evidently like to skin
the "alligator" alive.
Mr.. Lynch, during his speech in the House
on Saturda y, said of the Democratic party
'They are willing to subordinate all other
questions to the one great object of Demo-
cratic success. They are willing to subordi-
nate all other questions, without excepting the
honor, the integrity and the plighted faith of
the nation. They only ask, Give US the Dem
ocratic party; that is what we want. The
sole objective point with US is to get the Gov
ernment into our hands and let US get our
fingers on the purse-strings of the Treasury"
Yes, and to day one hundred thousand hun
CRY, anxious, impatient ofice-seekers are
success, and waiting, waiting for the ship to
come in.
The wheels of progress still revolve, and
Congress is to adjourn at last-Wednesday at
the latest. Happy Wednesday. Welcome
adjournment. Goodbye mud-slingers. Wei
come political legislative rest to the dear
people. Farewell vain and tricky investiga-
tors. Welcome relief from the continued
blunders of Democratic House; thrice well
come. And, again, farewell, oh mighty dirt
hurlers. Thank God, long farewell. Yea, a
long farewell to schemes that blacken what
ever they touch; to utterances that make 10y
atty blush to parsimonious meanness that
makes the acts Of whte-livered misers bright
in its presence; to rebel bills for paying rebel
debts; to the army of Confederate soldiers
camped in the left wing of the Capitol; to bill
ious Ben Hill and Estate Rights Tucker; to
the inappropriate Randall and the felicitous
Cocks; to these and to all others of the ex-
Confederate and doughfaced mob that has
made this the longest, most expensive and
most disgraceful session ever inflicted on the
American people, we say again, farewell.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

THE Democratic candidates to be Presi-
dental electors in North Carolina are all
lawyers. The farmers, merchants, busl-
ness men of all kinds and the workingmcn
are entirely ignored by the aristocratic, tar,
heel Democracy, and the honors of the
party are showered upon the heads of Sc
lect few
National Republican., 1876-08-14
MOBILE, August $, 1876.
8 HAYES AND WHEELER LEGION
OF NOZZLE COUNTY,

THE SPEECH of Senator Window in the
Senate on Saturday was q statesmanlike
effort and as thorough an erposs of Demo
cratic trlckery in the matter Of reform as
anything could be- As chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate
he gathered in small space the outlines
and details of one Of the most searching
analyses of the financial situstion that could
possibly be made. he showed the shallow
National Republican., 1876-08-14
General Belknap.

From the Burlington Gowa) Hawk-Eyc.I
The Hawk-Eye doesn't propose to feel bad if
the letter from Its editor, published in satur-
days issue, in which he expressed his opinions
in regard to the Belknap impeachment case,
doesn't meet the views of all who read it. lie
National Republican., 1876-08-14

ABsENTEEIsM seems to be a growing
disease in the ex Confederate House.
National Republican., 1876-08-14
of New York.

Persons lsavirg the city during the sum-
nser months, and ,oishing to be iTfornsed Of
matters transpiring at the city Of Wash
ington, can ka0e the DAILY NATIONAL Re-
PUBLICAN mailed to their address, fires of
postage, at the foEIo,O!ng rates, payable in
National Republican., 1876-08-14
New Publications,

''Harper's New Monthly Magazine" for
September. For sale at shiilington's, Four
and-a-hah street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest
National Republican., 1876-08-14

AMONG the recently discovered or un-
earthed incidents and records of the war
is the following notice of Hendricks
Democratic mass meeting, held at Seymour,
Ind, September IA, 1864. 1t appeared in
handful form, and was circulated by the
authority of the Hendricks managers in the
counties alluded to:
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING.
National Republican., 1876-08-14
BUILDING MATERIALS.
nm TfGiSFif1taiil1 xRTifICixI sToNE FS1G CoMPISI

l. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Is prepared to supply, at short notice, Thing for
different colors; Fountains, Lawn Ornaments,
House and Lawn Steps and Platforms; houses
fronted; cellar walls and flooring cemented to ex-
cude dampness; kitchens and areas cemented and
III " inptrioS or NY, ya anu sur stha
work executed for which Portland Cement Is
adapted. Our Portland Cement becomes in a few
days superior to any of the marble natural stone
In common use, and Is an admirable imitation Of
either marble or stone; Is more durable and in
cresses Its crushing resistance with age Its beauty
is unquestionable.
jason ass Louisiana avenue.
National Republican., 1876-08-14
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.

Senator Window and Representative Lynch
furnished to the Republican party on Saturday
two of the best campaign documents in ex-
istence.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

THE annexed letter, from reliable citi-
zen Of Mobile, Ala, describes in brief the
manner in which the Democracy carried
that State at the recent election without re-
sorting to their accustomed methods of vio-
lence and murder. Knowing the writer
personally as We do We do not hesitate to
Youch for the truth of his statement:
H'DQ's HAYES AND WHEELER LEGION
OF MOBILE COUNTY,
MOBILE, August 5, 1876.
SIR: The frauds and intimidation practiced
by the Democrats here yesterday were really
astonishing from their perfect audacity.
They had determined not to attack the
negroes, as riot would but strengthen the
Republicans North. They simply adopted this
course, viz When a negro offered to vote they
failed to find his name on tn registration lists
he would then Oder to register This was re-
fused on the gre und that he had dlreHuy regis
tered. So between the inspector, who could
not find the name on the list, and the register
ing officer, who would inOt register him be-
cause he was already registered, the voter
could neither vote nor register. The law says
that voter upon being challenged must be
identified by two persons known to the inspec-
tor. This even was evaded by the inspectors
demanding two ,rtitc men to identify, who, oil
course, could rarely be found. Hundreds of
colored meu remained all day at the polls and
in the rain, and had at last to see the polls
closed without having voted.
National Republican., 1876-08-14

Mr.. Randall, by his untiring and persistent
ference committee on appropriations, has
earned the undying soubriquet which has re-
Gently been given him of "Inappropriate Sam"
National Republican., 1876-08-14
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National Republican., 1876-08-14
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National Republican., 1876-08-14
SPECIAL NOTICES

NNO~ONON[D0O~|~N-<N<N<
eN~ SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN AS
- soCIATION.-Tbis association will meet on
TUESDAY, 18th instant, at O'Clock p. m, at
Clark's Hall, 40 Pennsylvania avenue. Interesting
reports, speeches and campaign songs are prom
sed Other associations and all Interested In South
ern success are cordially invited.
CHAs. MURPHY, President.
T.,
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ter goods, to call and examine the stock, l as
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out goods If any reasonable offer is made. This
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