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Year: 1868




MIDSIGHT-Thore is something az
beautiful as sublime in tho hush of
midnight. Tho myriad quiet sleepers
laying down each their life burden,
insensible alike to joy or sorrow
helpless aliko-the strong man as tho
infant; and over all the sleepless Eye,
which since the world began has new
or lost sight of one pillowod head.
Thoughts like these come to us in our
wakefhl night hours with an almost
painful intensity. Thon eternity on.
ly seems real and every day life IA
BILE. But morning comes, and tho stir
and hum Of life chase these thoughts
away as the sun dries up the dow
drops, which, like our thoughts, per-
formed their reviving mission Gro
they departed.
Year: 1868

When you hear Radical talking
about the people of tho South wanting
TO renew the war, just ask him what
General Grant meant when he wrote
this to tho President;


81 am satisfied that the mass of
thinking men of the South accept the
present situation of affairs in good
faith. The questions which have
heretofore divided the sentiments of
thepeople Of thetwo sections-slavory
and State rights, or the right ofStates
to seoede from the Union-thoy regard
as having been settled forever by tho
highest tribunal-arms-that man
can resort to"
Year: 1868

The outrage and murder Of white
women by negroes in the South have
become an almost daily occurrence.
Radicalism has not only made the ne
gro equal before the law, but above
the Law, if they will vote the Radical
ticket and aid The Grant party in dis
franchising white men.
Year: 1868

Every workingman is taxed TO help
pay three hundred and sixty-six thou.
sand dollars a day TO support stan.
ding army in time OF peace. What
use is made Of the armyY To force
negro rule upon white men in the
South, preparatory TO adopting the
same policy in the North Was there
ever a people thus insulted and out
ragged by political faction
Year: 1868

Every man in the North who votes
against negro suffrage would be dis
franchised in case ho were 10 remove
to tho State uf Arkansas, under tho
provision Of the miscogenation Con-
stitution forced upon the people Of
that State by "triangular piece Of
steel" This is the Radical idea Of a
free government.
Year: 1868

This precedent is of fearful import.
We are told that the Constitution OF
the United States has been changed,
in respect to the representative basis
of the States that the rule which we
received from its trainers, allowing
the States to be represented in pro
portion TO the relative number of thoir
inhabitants, has been modified by tho
introduction Of new principle, which
reduces the representative basis OF
any State that will not allow the right
Of suffrage TO every adult male, Of any
race, color or previous condition.
We know that some States can limit
and regulate suffrage and not lose any
part Of their Congressional represon-
tation, and that others cannot do so.
When we come TO inquire how this
change in n uniform and equitable
rule of tho Constitution has boen
brought about, we find that il has
been effected by Legislatures erected
by direct Congressional interference
and the exercise of military power,
and that the primary object of that
interference was TO compel the adop-
ton of this amendment, in order TO
make the nnrestrained suffrage of ne
groes as perpetual as Federal power
can make Il.


THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OPENS


THE DOOR TO FURTHER CHANGES ron


PARTY PURPOSES.


II, therefore, this amendment is a
valid part of the Constitution, the
precedent has put the Constitution at
all times within tho power Of Con-
gress to bring about any changes in
Il that political party may choose
to propose. For in what respect were
the Southern States "rebep States in
March, 1867, or in what sense could
they be so denominated that might
not be made applicable at any time TO
any State Of the Union Every
Southern army had laid down It's
Year: 1868

If the object of adopting platform for a
presidential campaign is not to keep pace
with the progress of events, to conform to the
logic of existing facts, and to find in the ac-
tual situation the elements of success, what
rational purpose can this periodical ceremony
subserve? If that is not the theory upon
which party, through delegates assembled
in national convention, formally declares
principles and policies for future observance,
then what is the use of such a declaration?
For what purpose do delegates Of party, in
national convention, confer in relation to the
emergencies and questions of the day, unless
to agree on propositions which shall be both
relevant and adequate to those questions and
emergencies? If such is not the Office and
the philosophy of platform, periodically re-
modelled, then the periodical announcement
ofa platform is a stupid aud vapid mummery,
a barren and inconsequentid superAuity.


The New York convention cannot afford to
ignore any subject of public concern associated
with the existing state of things, il it hopes
to organize the Democray Y as a live party in
practical relation to the exigencies and the
opportunities of the present hour and of the
impending future. Some Democratic jour-
nalists have inconsiderately advised that the
convention should evade an explicit declara-
ton in regard to financial policy; and some
have still more incOnsiderately proposed that
it should maintain silence with respect to
negro suffrage, contenting itself with the
doctrine of remitting the general ques-
ton of suffrage to the States. To go
into the presidential campaign with nothing
to say about negro suffrage, would be very
much ike attempting to play Hamlet with
Hamlet left out 1t constitutes the most dis
tinctive feature of radical policy, and IS
looked to as the fundamental element here
after of radical power. The Democrats can
not, therefore, combat the radicals without
confronting this question. If they fear to
confront it, they might as we'll decline the
battle. If they are to fight the battle with a
resolute purpose to win, they must be pre-
pared to deal with this question explicitly
and decisively. And they must be prepared
to deal with it according to facts as they are,
not according to facts as they might have
been or should be. They must resolve to
meet it from the standpoint of reality, not of
abstraction; from the basis OF history, not of
Utopian speculation.


These conditions accepted, it is next neces-
Year: 1868

sary TO consider whether the success of the
Democrats in the presidential election would
be better subserved by position relative to
negro suffrage that would, in effect, relin-
quish the negro vote in the South 10 the
radicals, or by one taken with the design of
securing share of that vote for the Demo
cratic candidate. Southern Democrats admit
that the brunt of the contest will fall upon
the Northern Democracy, and they have also
generally expressed willingness to concede
to the latter the introduction of such features
into the, common platform as they should
deem indispensable to success. Now, Demo-
cratic leaders at the North well know that if
the contest is to be decided in that section,
there is no hope Of Democratic victory
except in large increase OF the Democratic
vote by the accession Of certain voters who
have heretofore acted with the other party.
They also well know that they could
not safely count on the accession
of these voters-a class of Republicans who.
opposed to radical excess and profigacy, have
yet favored the policy of Incorporating some
form of negro suffrage in the basis of recon-
struction-if the Democratic party should be
committed by its platform to touncompromising
hostility to negro suffrage at the South in any
degree and in any form.


But suppose, on the other hand, that the
convention cannot rely exclusively upon
Democratic strength in the North, and that it
admits the necessity of disputing the cleo
toral votes of six or seven Southern States
with the radicals. How is this necessity to
be satisfied without adequate measures to
secure the support of negro voters to the Dem
ocratic ticket? And how can measures to
that end be adequate on behalf of party
known to favor the unqualified disfranchise-
ment of the very voters to whose aid it was
compelled, in its distress, to appeal? What
follows as an essential prerequisite to success,
whether the contest is to be decided in the
North by accession from the other party or
in the South by dividing the negro vote with
the radicals, can scarcely fail to command the
attention of the New York convention. The
condition is the same with respect to both
sections. The position on the suffrage ques-
ton that will most conduce to swell the DEM
ocrstic ranks in the one, will most conduce to
take votes from the radicals in the other. We
speak simply of the question of success by
means which are available in the actual situa-
ton. The question of fundamental principle
and theoretical policy, abstracted from time
and circumstance, is quite another matter.
Year: 1868

The death of l.. Warren Noise, which oc-
CURED yesterday at his residence in Jefferson
City, the result of a combination of chronic
disorders, removes one of the most marked,
gifted and brilliant men of an illustrious
epoch of this State. The deceased was a
native of Charleston, but came when young
man to Louisiana, where he continued to
make his home up to his death, in the 57th
year of his age. lawyer by profession,
and as such rarely acute, adroit and
successful, he was still more distinguished
in the politics of the State as leading mem
Der of the Democratic party. In that sphere
for many years, his ability and influence were
always conspicuous, and his service to the
Democratic cause invaluable on the stump or
in caucus. He was in the State Legislature for
q series of terms, and was universally ac-
knowledged to have been the best speaker of
the House which that body ever had. During
President Pierce's administration he was for
a while United States district attorney
but resigned on account of a supposed
slight from Attorney General Cushing,
connected with the government prosecution
of the New Orleans postmaster. He was sub
sequently attorney general of the State, and
under the Confederate government circuit
judge. Notwithstanding his positive qualities
of character, and his incisive manner of
speech, few men were personally more win
ming and popular than Mr.. Noise. In his
private and domestic relations he was ire
proacbable. He leaves large family who
may be assured of the sincere sorrow of this
community for their bereavement
Year: 1868

\ CoHyENTIOSER on A SPREE.-William
II. Andrews, the mulatto delegate from
Isle of Wight, having obtained, in a fool
iSh if not drunken moment, leave of alb
Sonce for one month, on Friday morning
bired a hack with which to 60 to the depot.
When be had reached his destination be
was deaf to the request Of the negro hack
driver to "fork over''; whercupon that in-
dividual threatened him with the law.
This SO nfurated the framer Of the law
that he drew pistol and swore by his
soul be would put hole through his ever
lasting internal improvements. A police
man came up, and was about TO carry the
indignant law maker to the cage but that
parsonage begged so hard, pleading liquor
as the cause of his misdeeds, and promi-
sing to leave the city, that he was let oft.
Year: 1868

that he has laid the country under obligations which
Sn @ never repay Tor the service me, ne h ~ a.
Ihed @ yet TO lay the country under greater oDgtuons


~ a give us an administration so temperate 10 vese
oa passion so free from magn influence, so wise IN t


seecon OF men, forbearing in the carrying out OF ne
t tnat we shall see dated from nus so
wash WASHINGTON himself-lGreat appausel a man who ir
than this wisdom of taking counsel of wise men, ant
making his personal decisions reflect the wisdom Of al
plause IL Gen. Grant sits the head OF Government
there is not one single workingman this nation
Is not one poor emlgrant who comes here, there is
one dusky creature that by his pine knot candle read
his spelling book that will not feel that he safe hs


is secure For Gen. Grant the President; that Repub
lican party which Is the party Of the common people, the
party OF universal sufragehe Is the President
party and every creature IN these years will know tha
the power Of the Government and the power OF EN-
lighened Christian public sentiment win be in favor
the greatest liberty and the greatest security to all ZAP
plause WHO'S his antagonists lnprvate hfe gentleman
simply most respectable but most amIabe most es
mable man OF polished and winning manners; mar
against whose private character no person that ever
heard of brought shadow OF reproach; man whose
faults lie wholly in his public administration GOV. 5ey
is not man of ideas He is not man Of victorious
sees the Tsht bath and he though all men try to lead
him follows alone to the victorious end He Is neither
aged by the who are gathered about him. without


record in the war, or bad record stained as having
10 be the man sacrifice the fruits of an era OF liberty
The General must be the for these times oi hDerty
and promise The warrior is the best statesman, inc
General is tho best civilian The man OF deeds Is the
man under whose admnisration TINS nation VIZ t res.
before this American people, one radiant with all tho
elements OF true liberty, and the other rerogressiye
looking back toward Babylon and Egyptlf with these
two men candidates, the one representing az that Is
young all that is free, all that advancing al that IS
true aud noble and the other retr0gressye tmid time
serylng-f with these candidates before the American
peOpethe people that carried the country through
should lose faith in democracy But lose faith IN
the common people Tns people are going to complete
the work they baye begun. lApplausel They are dls
cerning, they know both measures and men, and what
ever may take place in the City Of New
or IN the City OF Brooklyn. believe that ere four more
week, shall have rolled away the voice OF thus nation,
speaking scarcely less sublime than the thunder OF that
voice that sounded from Sinai whit less sublime ha
that voice which sounds either shore OF this continent
the voice OF the multitude Of the waerswn declare
for liberty impartial unyersal-for Liberty and .tof
Grant Tremendous cheeringI
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, April 22.-The Second Con-
troler Of the Treasury has furnished the Paymaster
General with the following opinion:


The President has referred to copy OF the opinion
OF the Attorney General dated April a. 1865 upon the
pay Of retired officers under the laws OF August 1861
Iuy T. 1862 and July ~, 1866 The Interpretation and
effect OF the 32d section OF the astnaed act formed the
subject OF my you OF November &c 1861 ia which
decided that an officer OF the regular army, retired
for wounds received in battle, retires with the
full rank Of his command when he received the
Wounds When assigned 10 duty by the Presi-
dent he goes on duty with the full pay and allowances OF
his grade IN the army the grade he may have held In
tue volunteers at tile time the wounds received for
which he was retired The Attorney General holds In
effect that when retired officer is assigned TO duty II Is
duty appropriate 10 bis retired grade; that II major
In the Rebel army held the volunteer rank or command
Of Major.General when be received the wounds for
which he retired DC would. when assigned to duty,
be entitled TO the fun pay and allowance OF Major
General on the active list The opinion Of the Attorney
General In the premises having been required by the
President you requested 10 consider ssupercedng
my decision OF Nov. rs, lSo7.'
Year: 1868

OuAOA lACus


MEssRs EDITORS If there be a reproach
to the Republican party South, it is that the
claims of those all the time true to the
Union are often overlooked, while Others,
but recently and suddenly converted to its
, political faith, receive all the consideration.
This is the constant reproach of parties.


There are men in our midst who have al
ways been for the American Union-oppos-
ing secession, rebellion, war-sufferIng by
constraint the loss of property, and almost
every thing save honor and patriotism, yet
who arc not known in the distribution of
Office or places of trust or where the honor
and dignity OF the nation are to be consulted.
The country is quite full of such persons as
thus described, and so full as to have raised
the question: Is it right to forget our true
Union men in Offering premium for dubious
changes think not. rfT-s.& p9al


My attention has been called to the sub
ject by the many queries, why has our
townsman and well known citizen, L. P.
Odds, ESQ.,, remained so long unnoted in this
connecticut A gentleman every way
Southern-every where respected for most
exemplary morals, manners, and intelli-
ence mo one probably in the South .ex-
ceiling hlm in point of general information,
science. art literature e-the three great
tests-anh yet hundreds, all over the land,
meet with national recognition, while he. in
his pure patriotism and unpretending
scholarship and other merits, passes on un-
complainingly. Though willing and ready
to distinguish the ineiits of new men, new
corners into the party, as Republican 1
must enter my dissent from such departure
from what can but seem 10 all right and
proper. UNION.
Year: 1868

This gentlemen is proudly and gallantly
bearing aloft the Republican banner ON the
stump in this District, and by his energy
and gentlemanly learning is making valus-
ble acquisitions to our ranks. We call upon
Republicans throughout the District to be
on the alert. Rebels and traitors, aware of
the utter rout that awaits them for the
Presidential ticket, are straining every nerve
to defeat our gallant candidate for Congress.
We understand that some of the wire
workers are advising their minions to swap
off in the race and to offer vote for Grant
and Colfax in return for one for Rogers.
Republicans, Grant and Colfax do not need
the votes of traitors, and We call upon all
good Republicans to spurn these offers.
We trust that no Republican will be caught
in such trap. If there be any such, we
have tile consolation of knowing that he
will incur the just Indignation of all loyal
men, and be the laughing stock of the
creatures who deceive hina. Republicans,
we have an ample supply of votes, for Grant,
,Coffax and Deweese, make no compromise
of any kind with traitors, but in the Ian
guage OF our great leader demand an .sun-
conditional surrender
Year: 1868

If the blood of the martyrs be the seed of
the Church, ''then the blood of the Union
Republicans now being shed by the Confed-
crate Democrats of the Southern States, will
assuredly fertilize the soil of liberty, and
produce crops of votes for the party of free
dem
Year: 1868

This term which used TO be quite common seldom heard Why
sol Lets Once upon time al bats ae and one


good another When KsoI went business be-
dandy tiHg his eraat threw bis whole improved
the lining. then Tie shape then the finish now every part
fashionable hat reflects bis ss person owning Knox hat would
soon give himself away part with it, sny that KSoxs
corner Is always crowded With customers
Year: 1868

The Fourteenth Article being now 4
part Of the Constitution, Maryland and
Kentucky must either give the negro a
right to vote, or be contented with a
proportionate reduction of repsentation
in Congress. and the Electoral College,
when re-apportionment comes.
Year: 1868

ea The Evening Journal, of this city,
combats in part, our position on congress-
and railway legislation. The article in
question is candid and not wholly illog
ical; yet it misses one link in the chain
of argument, and as consequence,
reaches false conclusion. We do not
care to point out its fallacies in detail,
but rather content ourselves with giving,
in proof that our position on this sub
ject is correct and important, an instance
drawn from Tennessee experience.


A few days ago Gov. Brownlow called
an extra session of the Tennessee Leg
islature for the twofold purpose Of de
vising ways and means to check the
outrages of the Ku Klux Klan, and ex
tricate the State from its present com
plications with various railroads Pre-
vious legislatures believed the State
competent to form a sort of partnership
with these companies, and that it would
be for the public interest for it to do so;
but now it is found that the good sought
has not been obtained, while the opera
ton has seriously compromised the
credit of the State government. The
immediate cause of trouble is the failure
to pay part the of coupons of railroad
bonds which recently fell due. The
State being to a certain extent involved
in the bad faith of these companies,
caused fall in the Tennessee bonds.


The real cause of the failure in ques-
ton is not easily come at. One party
claims that it is due to the speculations
or neglect of the officials. However
that may be, the debt itself is computed
at about thirty five millions. The npshot


of it is that the State will find itself in
possession of railroads which it is utter
ly incompetent to manage. A few have
already fallen into State control and
proved bills of expense. Missouri had
similar experience not long ago. and
was glad to sell its claims and seperate
itself entirely from railroad corporations.
It would be better for Tennessee to pay
the bonds and give away the roads than
to run them; but it need not do either.
Private corporations stand ready, no
doubt, to buy them, if thrown upon the
market.


We hope the day is not far of when
States will know better than to go into
the railroad business, but will leave the
railway corporations to transact their
own business, subject to the common
law and the national laws-Chi. Com.
Year: 1868

mitted myself in asserting to their
views and wishes, that they consider.
ed it decided thing that | should joir
the family. But appearances promised
well, and as there was no object in de.
lay, agreed TO take up my residence
with the family at the commencement
Of the following week.


I When arrived in my new quarters
Mrs. and Miss Green were alone; but
in the course of the evening the young
lady told me that they were expecting
the next day to receive most agreea-
bic couple, Captain and Mrs. Bed
ford, friends of a friend of theirs,
who wished to pass a short time in
town; "And," she added, sit would be
SO nice, as then they should have the
benefit of gentleman's escort to any
place of public amusement, and she
was sure | should like both the bus
band and wife"


The next day Captain Bedford and
his lady duly arrived. Mrs. Bedford
had been handsome, and dressed
very well. He was quiet aud polite.
We saw little of them during the day,
as they told us they had many friends
in the neighborhood, with whom they
were anxious to spend as much time as
possible, but they always came in most
punctually to dinner at six P. NJ; after
which we played a rubber, or / was in
yited to go to the piano, being some
what proficient in music, as was also
Mrs. Bedford, so that our evenings pass
ed pleasantly. After fortnight's res
idence / began to think myselffortunate
in my selection of a home; the only
drawback was, that as Mrs. Green kept
but one servant, the attendance and
routine of household arrangements was
not SO well apportioned as l had been
accustomed to. / observed, also, that
Miss Green was not always to be found;
that she had many hOusewifeIy duties,
and was not above rendering assistance
in the kitchen, for sometimes met her
early in the morning in an underlined
costume, scarcely assimilating to the
lady who was to share our social circle
in the evening.


10 be Continued. ..-
Year: 1868

Que vote and contrary pig was
the means of the declaration of the war
with Great Britain. Two neighbors,
having adjoining farms in Rhode Is
land. got into dispute about the, dep
relations Of pig belonging to one Of
them. They went to Law about it, aud
on tho day United States Senator was
to be elected by the Legislature they
were obliged to attend Court. One Of
them vas a member of the Assembly, >
Hartford Conventionist and opposed to
tho war. His vote would have elested
an anti.war Senator, but in consequence
of his absence war man was chosen,
and war was declared by one msjoritJ
in the Senate. It Is further rslated
that this member Of the. Legislature
vas elected BY one vote.