smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

trial of the Constitution. Ii the President is
tbe Constitution os he himself thinks, and as
Mr. Eyarts will argue, then this is the trial of
the Constitution. But as the defense have ne
elected to prove, as they might have proved by
Gen. Thomas when he was on the stand, that
the President is the Constitution, ana Us I'D the
absence of such proof there is very general
belief that the President is not the Constitution,
there must be general conclusion til'lt tne
President, and not the Constitution is on trial'
There are other reasons why we demur 10 MI
Evartss assertion that it is the Constitution
and not the President, that is on trial. t S
well known that on his Western tour the
President left the Constitution a great many
times in the hands of the people. The Consul
tuition seemed to he a troublesome quadruped
which he made his journey to Chicago eX-
pressly TO give away Now, as there Is no
evidence that it ever found It's way back 10
Washington, and as there is positive proof that
the President did get back, from the great rolt
and commotion he has kicked up ever since,
there than he no doubt that it is the President
and not the Constitution that is on trial.
Nothing is more natural, however, than that
Mr.. Evarts should mistake the President for
the Constitution, and the Constitution for the
President. We will try, however, to point ont
some differences between them, which may
enable Mr.. Evarts to distinguish one from the
other hereafter. The Constitution has been
ratified by all the States and by the people. Mr.
Johnson has never been ratified by any
thing but the bullet of an assassin. the resou-
tions of pie-bald convention OF traitors sy-
cophants and whisky -smugglers at Philadelphia,
and by his hired counsel OF whom Mr.. Eyarts
is chief. The Constitution requires that the
President shall be impeached and removed for
dsobeying the law. The President claims that
all impeachment is revolutionary, and that the
law-making power should be turned out OF
office when they disobey him. The Constitution
is open to amendment. The President is not.
I'm fact, we see only one point of resemblance
between the Constitution and Mr.. johnson,
viz: no sooner will Mr.. Wade enter the White


House than the Constitution will be promptly
carried out, and so will Andrew johnson. We
beg Mr. Evarts to weigh these points well and
see if he cannot by an overwhelming cOncentra-
ton of all the rays of his luminous understand
ing upon the single question whether Andrew
johnson and the Constitution are really one
and the same thing, be able to detect
some actual difference between them. Should
he do 50 we know he will have the
candor ito retract his statement, doubtless
made in the utmost sincerity, but under dis
astrous misapprehcnsion of the true parties to
the casc,) that the struggle is between Congress
and the Constitution instead of between Con
gress and Andrew! Johnson, and that the Con-
stitution has employed him TO defend 1t from
conviction and removal.
Year: 1868


read and another report be burned II IS
clearly impossible to exercise such censorship
and we feel certain that not one of the excel
lent gentlemen of the Union would Willingly
undertake il.


Admitting however, for the sake OF arsu-
ment, that the thing is possible, and were pfac-
ticable, there is another serious point III the
plan operates as proposed, it necessarily estab-
fishes a vast monopoly. For the exclusive
privilege of paper and book peddllng on the
railway and steamboat lines OF the country
there are men, we doubt not, who would give
million of dollars year. The Companies 40
now in some degree, make monopoly OF such
business, and such lines as the New Ork Zen
trail and Erie sell the privilege for large sum.
If this new Company succeeds, the publishers oi
books and papers will be comparatively at their
mercy. and travellers will find their choice OF
reading restricted to such literature as may have
received the Unions approval. Suppose an
extreme but quite possible case: That the
Union should prohibit Democratic paper, or
a Roman Catholic magazine, or Wilkie Col
lins novel, or an illustrated journal OF the
Fashions, with its low-necked pictures; where
is the remedy? We do not suppose they
would do so, but they might; and that would
be tyranny not to be borne in land OF free
opinions At the least, they would naturally
seek TO promote their own views, else why the
society ? And we must say, judging from their
prospectus that these views are much too mar
row for the broad field they seek to mOnopo-
lie.


There are many very excellent men WHO
have equally excellent ideas, and to entertain
such opinions privately and promote them IN
the comparative seclusion of domestic life, is
right and proper But it will not do, in this
country, to use monopoly of time and place to
force their peculiar views upon the whole peo-
pie. Railways and steamers are common to all
mankind The Presbyterian and the Atheist
are alike protected in the quiet use OF Their
privileges. Neither Tom Paine nor Jonathan
Edwards has right to Obtrude his peculiar


ideas upon his neighbors; nor has either the
right to dictate TO the other what books OF
papers he shall read. 1t is better to leave the
whole matter to the common law, and the
common sense of the people. If the worthy
| gentlemen Of the Union can effect anything III
the way of eevating taste and improving
morals by legitimate persuasion, well and
good; in so far they have our best wishes
But we cannot see the prOpriety nor the justice
of permitting them, no matter how excellent
their motives to enjoy the monopoly of fur
nishing reading to millions of readers.
Year: 1868

Since Andrew johnson has deliberately vio-
lated law of Congress, with whatsoever
purpose or intent, if, through any considera-
tions he should now escape conviction, the
Senate would virtually proclaim to the nation,
and to all future generations, that the provi-
sion of the Constitution for the Impeachment
of President is dead letter; that President
cannot be impeached for the violation of any
law which he himself assumes to be uDcOn-
stitutioDal that as it is possible for President
to assume any law to be unconstitutional that
as obnoxious to him, or that may stand i'll the
way of his perverse or ambitious designs, so
the President may violate any and every law
without danger Of impeachment; that all future
Presidents, therefore, may understand that on
setting up the same pretext they become vir-
tually irresponsible to the people; that the
Presidency, therefore is a deSpoGsm, and that
we are living under a monarchy. But let us
look at the opposite alternatives BY the con
viction and deposition of johnson it would be
Year: 1868

We trust the Senate will listen to the voice
of the country, and not allow members like
Garret Davis to precipitate six months more OF
CAB" upon us when the Senate retires for
discussion. 1t was ill-advised to permit the
Managers and counsel to take their own time
in speaking. One speech opening and closing
on each side would have been enough. To
crafty The vanity of these men, week OF
precious time has been wasted.
Year: 1868

Trade has been moderately active
only, for the season, during the week.
and prices of domestic cottons have had
a dropping tendency. Everything has
been waiting for the end OF impeach-
ment. The Senate has damaged the
spring business, to q greater extent
than Washington politicians are proba-
bly, aware of, by their hesitation in
voting on a verdict, to conciliate or
oblige a few timid Republicans. Until
IL could be certainly known whether
Mr.. johnson would be permitted to
remain ten months longer in the White
House, or be thrust out, and honest
Ben, Wade installed in his place, there
was an indefinable apprehension that
something might happen to disturb
the course of business and unsettle
commercial values. Merchants hesita-
ted to stock up for the season, until
thew positively knew what was going
to happen; and Jobbers have become
impatient, and some of the leading
houses, in the hope OF stimulating pur-
chases, have put down prices in some
styles of goods cont to cent and
halt yard. But the reduction did not
have the desired effect. It would have
been better to wait patiently the result
of the trial. Manufacturers agents
evinced more courage and patience,
and there was no corresponding change
as to prices in sympathy with the job
bers. At the present price of the raw
material, goods cannot be manutactur-
ed and sold at present prices without a
ss.-IndepcIident.
Year: 1868

THE New York Tribune is assured
that a Democratic son of Senator
Trumbull had quietly made bets
through third parties by which he ex-
poets to win IS, COO by his fathers treach-
cry. Itwould be no more than fair he
should divide with the old gent.
Year: 1868

INview of the fact that the Democ-
racy of New York furnished no small
number of the votes by which James
E. English was reelected Governor of
Connecticut, it is certainly quite appro-
pirate that Mayor Hoffman should
have gone to New Haven by special
train to attend the ceremonies of his
Year: 1868

Any one who sends Us an order for Five
(ol Axes, at ono dollar and a half each,
with the cash. will receive one extra, for
nothing.


We Will put our Axe alongside of any
other make and prove II the best finIkhed
half inches.


We have made Axes for ortwenty-two years,
anu wont yield the palm in shape To any
manM1actuler, and yet confess that a sucker
patent shaper The circular bit and contInu-
Gus edge makes the samo labor produce
twice as much effect.
Year: 1868

The market opened very dull this
morning, but under a good demand the
prices of last week were fully sustain
ed, and the market closed moderately
active, though there were a consider
able number OF live stock left unsold,
the most of which will be taken to the
surrounding country and sold 10 gra-
Ziers
Year: 1868

As every expression of opinion upon
the cotton crop of this year is Of interest
to our people, we make place for the fol-
lowing "talk on cotton" from one who
Is evidently thoroughly informed upon
the subject of the staple. According to
his facts and figures, the price Of cotton
is not likely to fall to the low rates spec
ulstors are trying to make US believe
will rule before the close of the year. On
the contrary, he suggests that figures
will be higher than an average of 25c
per pound for middlipg:


To the Editor of the Liverf ool Mercury:


Gentlemen: Judging from the un-
settled and fitful state Of The cotton mar
ket, 1t might naturally be supposed that
the supply available for this next year
was likely to prove greatly in the excess
of the necessities of consumers. / think
that an examination of the position Of
matters will entirely dispel any such
ideas.


AT this period last year the fzvoIite
crop figures varied from 2.600, 900 to
:, ,000 900 bales, and yet every advantage,
5oth as regards weather and labUT, the
actual yield, excluding cid 65ttou, did
GOT prove much, if any, over 2, 400,5G2
bales.


There is not the slightest ground kr
assuming that larger quantity can be
gathered this year; while, OF the other
hand, there is the positive certainty that,
with an early frost, the yield must prove
considerably less. The "bears" will
doubtless make the most Of the fact that
the receipts at the American ports during
the first three months Of this season are
likely to prove largely In excess OF last
year, and that they will try to induce
people 10 believe that this fact indicates
that the crop will be much larger one
than the last, but moments reflection
must at once dispel any such theory;
for, independent of the fact that the re-
ceipts are no indication Of the actual
yield as a reference to the cotton tables,
showing the weekly receipts before the
war, will clearly show there are many
reasons why the receipts during the
early part of last year were unusually
high, amongst others, I may mention
the prevalence OF yellow fever at New
Orleans and Texas, and the operations
of the Cotton-tsx Collectors.


Turning TO India, the future does not
look promising. All the authorities are
unanimous in stating that smaller area
Of ground is uUdsr cultivation, while it
is notorious that the weather during the
sowing season was most unpFopitious,
especially in the Northwest provinces,
where it is questionable il the damage
done can be partially repaired so that
there is clearly nothing in the position
OF the growing crops to cause the slight
est alarm to holders OF cotton.


Let US look to our available supplies.
Ga the Is b of September the stocks of
cotton in all Europe were ss follows:
Year: 1868

learned their capacity for violence and
wrong, you have tested the strength OF
their organization, and discovered the
weak points in your own.


With the experience thus gained In
the school Of adversity, we will go for
ward to victory.


The enemy are yet to be taught that
outrage and fraud, violence and wrong
cannot be perpetrated with impunity
they have yet to learn that you are nei-
ther dismayed nor dsmoralizsd, and that
in the pursuit OF the right you know no
such word as fail.


Accuse the people once more for the
conflict. Bring to the polls every DEM
OcrGtic vote. For right and justice give
back right and justice. For outrage aud
wrong, return the full measure of swift
retributiOn.


The work to be done is no holiday
sport. 1t is the last battle for the saliva
ton of the Republic, the preservation Of
the Constitution, and the supremacy Of
your race.


Work and fight as men engaged in
such Gauss should work and fight.
Year: 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
Year: 1868

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
Year: 1868

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.
Year: 1868

The dinner given on Saturday evening by the
press of the United States to Mr. Charles Dickens
was something more than an ordinary compli-
ment from the members of the profession to
the foremost man of their craft To those who
sat around those brilliant tables, it seemed not
so much a testimonial to the genius of sue
cessful author as tribute of personal regard
for the characters with which that genius has
improved and delighted us. When Charles
Dickens took his place at the board, many
dear old friend sat down with Us unseen and
it was hard not to imagine that we were cheer
ing Sam Weller, Or r-hobnObbing with Tom
Pinch, or laughing with Mark Tapley, or gazing
into the beaming spectacles of Dlr. Pickwick.
The cordial greetings were interchanged not
only between Mr.. Dickens and the two hundred
of his admirers whose invitation he had ac-
cepted, but troops of those delightful people
who live only in his books seemed to be there
with him, and the Misunderstanding, the toasting,
the waving of handerchefs, were quite as
much for them as for their genial creator. And
so, amid lights and flowers, and the breathings
of delicate music, and the laughter of many
voices, the evening passed merrily away, as if
in the society of friends whom we had long
known in fancy but never met in the flesh.


The admirable speech in which Mr.. Dickens
acknowledged the compliment paid him will
undoubtedly add q great deal TO his personal
popularity in America, for it was just such
speech as Americans particularly like to hear


1t was frank it was cordial, it was generous;
and as for those old darts of ofiense which
have ranked so long in the wounds of few
of us, he drew them out with deft and ten
der hand, and salyed the injury with the unc


tion of little national fattery. We do not
know that he was under any obligation to do
this, but we are glad that he has done it, for
we would have him leave none but warmest
friends behind him here, and we trust that
when the ship bears him away the American
people will wish him with entire unanimity
God sreed and long life and happiness.
Year: 1868

What is Conservative We ask the ques-


ton with some interest, because we notice
that Mr. A. Belmont, banker, and Chairman
of the Democratic National Committee, has
issued an invitation to all Conservatives to
join with the Democrats in the next Fourth
of July Convention in this city. Chalk we
understand TO be chalk, and cheese we have
good reason for believing to be cheese but that
chalk is cheese. or that cheese is chalk, we stand
Year: 1868

The brokers of this State who buy and sell
real estate and other property on commission


petition the Legislature to let them alone. In
other words, they ask to be allowed to charge
for their services whatever may be agreed on
by the parties; whereas, a clause in the Revised
Statutes restricts them to a specified percent
age, no matter what the difficulty or value OF
the service Believing this reasonable and right,
we trust the Legislature may do what they ask.
Year: 1868

The latest dispatches from Gen. Napier ex-
press fear that, during the approaching rainy
season, the communication of the English army
with the sea-cOast will be frequently, if not
wholly, interrupted. The General, therefore,
requests a heavy remittance of treasure before
the setting in of the rainy season. This season
is likely to be the greatest obstacle to the sue
cess Of the expedition which has yet been
oncoupfarp1
Year: 1868

dents declarations of intent in his course WIN
the Tenure of Office act and Secretary otii-
ton. Mr. Wilson made an exhaustive argument
on the general question of the relevancy Oh
such testimony, and the Senate steadily reluSeu
to admit it, by votes, Oh the average OF tnree
to two. Some further testimony was taken'
Postmaster-G eneral Randall testitying, as to the
Blodgett removal, that it was made by himself
in accordance with "the law of necessity
and without any action on the part of the
Presidents aud after a final effort to get in the
Cabinet construction of the Tenureof- Office
law. the counsel for the President announced
that his evidence was closed. The arguments
will probably occupy the whole of this week
Year: 1868

The Democracy were defeated in
old Jackson by l6 majority, and
Negro Suffrage was gloriously de-
fcated by 10 majority. Now is the
time for Che noble Democrats to raj
" for the interests of the poor white
men. BE sure that those ia favor Of
high taxes do not gain on that
majorityl Vote the whole ticket
Year: 1868

This township done nobly last
Fall-28 Democratic majority We
hope the good lovers Of true princi-
pies will bring US 80 this time. Work
hard till the polls close Get out
every man! Vote early.
Year: 1868

In came Brown last Fall with "A
greatly surprising every
body Democrats work from now
till the polls close, and see you
can't send US so this year against
the higher tax on what they eat
and wear! NJ
Year: 1868

Well did the American and Irish
voters of Wiikcsville do;last Fall
26 majority against Know Nothing
Radicalism Let them come in
with at least 555 next Tuesday night.
Let every man in the township go
and vote to pay the bonds in green
backs and subject them to their just
share Of taxation! Never scratch or
trade. Get your Republican neigh-
Dor to vote for change
Year: 1868

dividual agency, but there is no doubt that among the most vigorous forces in the ele- vation of the character the Weekly Press had been Household Words and All the Fear Round; and since the beginning of the publication of Household Words, the periodical literature of England has been born again. MT. Chairman, the obligation that, in the name of the Weekly Press, I wish to express to our guest, is for his ex- ample of high fidelity and of honorable pride in his profession of letters His ca reer illustrates what Charles Lamb called the sanity of true genius. He has never de- based it to unworthy ends. H. has shown us that 1t is not @ denizen of Bohemia on-

 y, but citizen of the world. Ho has al- ways honored his profess1an by asserting its dignity in his own person. If Dr. John son was content to wait humbIy, hat in hand, in Lord Chesterfeld's ante room; if Sir Walter Scott-he, of all men!-was proud to preserve the glass out of which George Fourth drank his toddy; the late reporter of the Morniny Chronicle, when the Queen invites him to the Palace to amuse her company, respectfully replies that he cannot come as an actor where he is not welcome as guest. In that spirit of com mon respect for noble calling upon whose roll are written the best beloved names in history, calling of which the technical Press whether daily or weekly or month ly or quarterly, is but department, let us take the hand of our friend at parting. Wherever he may be, whatever fate befall. his name will be kind of good tidings It will always have a pleasant Christmas sound. Old Ocean, bear him safely overt English hedges, welcome him with blos- soms of the May! English hearts, he is ours as he is yours! We stand upon the shore; we say farewell; and, as he sails away, we pray with love and gratitude, may God bless him!
Year: 1868

nave. aided this result are satisfied with their
eSploit and their prize, those who resisted In
the name of good faith and pubic decencY GER
talnlv ought not to complain. 1he advantage
Pa,ned by this defiance OF the sense OF Republi
cans thl oUghout the country Is apparent onlv;
tn real success IS with those who, with moth
ing 70 Paiu personally, aud in the face OF an
overwhelming puolic opinion, were willing TO
stand by their PRINCIPLES II only to protest
against the outrage that was done to them.
General Butler brought in'o the canvass style
unknown 10 the present generation IN Massa-
chusetts the manners of the plantation and the
morals OF the police court, the effect OF which Is
doubtless as surprising to hlm as 1t will be to
the country at large. But great as his n ne
dIa'e success has been here, it will, in the face
Of the courageous protest made against him,
give h,m little prestige before tribunal where
such agencies are estimated a. Their proper
value, and where, as he has already learned by
an experience which would nave b en- numilIat-
inc to ahy other man, personal triumphs are
less easily won,