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Year: 1868




Do you suppose that the disease
you have planted Ia the South will
not some day extend to the North
and destroy the whole political
system


Would go0 submit to such gall
ing injustice as you are forcing
upon ten millions of your country
men?


Have you repudiated al the prin-
ciples of the men who gave you q
country and q Constitution


Do you realize that the policy of
your party must inevitably lead to
bloodshed and anarchy?


Have you no conscience? no
sense OF Justice ? no honor?


Are you SO blind that you cannot
see the consequences Of what you
are doing?


Do you not know that the whole
system must suffer from wound
Ia one of its parts


Do you feel no remorse when you
see men of your own race tTampled
on by black barbarians and reflect
that you are the cause of it,?


Are you prepared to sacrifice
everything for the perpetuation Of
your own power?


Was it to build up d negro de-
spotism, supported BY bayonets,
that you made war upon the South,
and many of you sent your sons
forth to kill and be killed?


Was it for this you created the
enormous debt that has paralyzed
the industry of the country?


lis it for this that you ask the
people to pay five hundred millions
a year to the tax -gatherers


How long do you suppose the
government can exist with one
third Of its people writhing under
an irresponsible tyranny, and the
other two-thirds upholding the ty-
rants 2


It should not Be necessary to
put these questions to Radicals,
for they must occur to every mind
that is capable OF thinking. We
know they viii not be needed by
the mass of fanatics who cannot
stop to think, but we ask the men
who say they are not fanatics to
ponder and reflect. It is time they
did. liz they do not turn aside
from their present course the
course ON which the chariot Of
Radicahsm is madly whirling them
they wiil bitterly rue it before
long. They viii sec their own hber-
ties gone, their rights trarnpled,
their property threatened, and pos
sibly even their lives endangered.
It viii then be too late to mend.
Now is the time to reflect and re-
form, and we again ask honest Re-
publioans to- consider our questions
and be guided by the answers their
cOnsClenOes may give.


lfetF0D0lSt0n Record.
Year: 1868

white citizens were deprived Of
their right to vote solely because
Flournoy knew they would vote
the Conservative ticket, If allowed
to vote at all.


Some Of the negroes had not
been well trained. "A few managed
to reach the poll with Democratic
tickets. When a ticket Of this kind
was offered, Flournoy would tear
lit up, tell the voter he had been
fooled, and supply him with the
right document. " Flournoy's viii
was the law. He would not allow
a negro to answer a challenge from
the Democratic managers. He,
accepted, rejected, sanctioned or
disapproyed without any reference
to any authority but his own.
This went on for two days. The
Radical managers then concluded
that the Democrats associated
with them were nuisance. This
conclusion was followed by the ex-
pdlsion of the Democrats. They
were told that they hadn't no
business in there, no how, and If
they wanted to spy round they
could peep in through the winder. "
They were then elected, and the
trooly loil voters had no further
annoyance.


The correspondent Of the Tines
sums up as follows:


The registers, their deputies, and all
their slb-oficials, seemed to take it for
granted that every white man who Of
tered to vote was a rebel, whom it was
the patriotic duty Of all loyalists to
browbeat and insult, and If possible
prevent from voting. Every objection
made by a Conservative manager, every
rennonstrance, and every request were
promptly decided against him The
insolent dictation Of the Bureau clerk
was the fundamental law, and it was as
idle to invoke the real law on the regu-
lations of the military authority as it
would be to attempt to keep Thad Ste
vens inside the Constitution. The re-
suit, as may be easily imagined, is the
election of two negroes to the Legisla-
ture to represent this county, OF whom
neither can read word nor write his
name Of the sons and other relatives Of
this Flournoy to fill several county Of
fees; and majority for Bullock for
Governor, and this, with clear white
majority of over two hundred in the
county, ii the registration lists were
fair.


Z have described the election at this
place with minuteness, because / saw
what describe, and because. from al I
can learn, the same scene was enacted
at every poll throughout the State,


We have quoted quite enough to
show that the Georgia election was
one of the most outrageous, I'M
blushing frauds ever perpetrated,
and we have taken for our authori-
tY a writer whose position IS IN the
ranks of the Reconstruction Party.


And now we would address few
words to members Of that party in
tAld I4AIbls


Radicals, whether leaders or fol-
lowers, do you indorse the fraud by
which Georgia has been made q
loyal State Ia the Union ~


Was it for this you gave your
support To the rec0nstruction acts
and insisted on their acceptance by
the Southg


Ara you prepared To make the
entire elective system q farce and
a byword


DO YOU, 81 do you not mean that
an election shall represent the viii
of the peopls9


1s its Oh is il not your intention
To wipe out the principles 81 gepub- |
ioan government ana sRbsltuta
mob power Wherever you cannot
Year: 1868

CoCRTsHIr AND LovE.-In the new nl.v
Under tie Gaslight." the heroine ives
utcrance TO the following:


Couriship is the text from which the whole
solemn sermon OF married life takes it theme,
As lovers are discontcnted and unhappy so
will they be as wives and husbands. So As
YOU would be happy all the years of your
life, listen TO the voice advising you Let
the woman you look upon be- wise or vain.
beautiful or homely, rich or poor, she ha.
bu, one thing which she can really give or
reiuse-her heart Her beauty. her wit.
her accomplishments she may sell to YOU
but her love ia the treasure without money.
without price, She only asks in return
that when you look upon her your eyes
shall speak mute devotion. that when You
address her your voice shall be gentle. Low.
ing and kind. That ou shall not dcspi.e
her because she cannot understand all at
once your various thoughts aud ambitious
desIgus--tOr when misfortune and evil have
defeated your greatest purposes. her love
remains to console you, You look to the
trees for strength and grandeur-do not
desPise the flowers becarsc their fragi ance
Is all they have 10 give. Remember. love
is all woman has to give--but it is the
only earthly thing that God permits us 10
carry beyond The grave.
Year: 1868

The man who stands upon his
own soil, who feels that by tho law
of the land in which he livcs-by
tho laws of civilized nations-he is
the rightinl and exclusive owner of
the land he tills, is, BY the consti-
tuition Of our nature, under whole
some influence not easily imbibcd
from any other source. lie feels,
other things being equal, more
strongly than another the character
of II man as the lord of an mani
mate world. or this great and
wonderful sphere which, fashioned
by the hand Of God, and upheld by
His power, is rolling through the
heavens, part is his-his from the
centre to the SKY. It, is the space
on which the generation before him
moved in its round Of duties, and
he feels himself conncctcdby by link
with those who follow, and to whom
he is to transmit II home.


Perhaps his farm has come down
to him from bis fathers. They have
gone to their last home; but he can
trace their footsteps over the scenes
of his daily labors. The roof which
shelters him was reared by those to
whom he owes his being, Some in
tcresting domestic tradition is con-
nected with every inclosurc. The
favorte fruit was planted by his
fathers hand. He sported in boy
hood beside the brook which still
winds through the meadow. There
lies the path to the village of earlier
days. lie still hears from the win
dow the voice Of the Sabbath bell
which called his father to the house
of God; and near ut hand is the
spot where his parents laid down to
rest, and where, when his time has
come he shal! bo laid by his children.
These are the feelings Of the owner
of the soil. Words cannot paint
them; they flow out cf the deepest
fountains of the heart; they are the
life-spring of fresh, healthy and
generous national character.
Year: 1868

Don't DE a LOBSTER Your lob
stcr, when left high and dry among
the rocks has not sense and energy
enough To work his way back to the
sea, but waits for the sea TO come TO
him. II it does net come. he re-
mains where he is and dies, although
the slightest exercise would enable
him to reach the waves, which are,
perhaps, tossing and tumbling with
in ward of him. There is a tide
in human affairs that casts men in
to tight places" and leaves them
there, like stranded Holsters. If
they choose TO lie where the break
ers have flung them, expecting some
grand billow to take them on its
big shoulders and carry them 10
smooth water. the chances are that
their hopes will never be realized.
Nor is It right they shonld be The
social element ought not to be ex-
pcctcd to help him who makes no
effort 10 help himself
Year: 1868

The following incident of travel
is narrated by correspondent of
the Daily Saratogian, 1t took place
on the Rensselaer, Saratoga Rail-
road, on one of the Northern trains,
between Saratoga and Whitehall:


When the train halted ut Sarato-
ga, among the passengers from the
West came n man of about thirty
years of age clbowing his way
through the crowd and bearing in
his arms child. lie was poor
man; his clothes were poor; he
looked poor. Around his hat was
tied piece of soilcd worn Grape
1t was evidently all the mourning
his scanty means would permit
The mother of the child was dead.


This man was rough in exterior,
yet his face was an honest one. He
handled the baby awkwardly, yet
there was II Tenderness in his sad
look that showed the purity of Il
fathers love. The little fellow lay
asleep on his coarscly clad knee;
Il stray sunbeam glanced across its
tired face. They were both tired,
the father and the child, for they
had come from the far West; and
as he placed his hard, toil-worn
hand to shield it from the golden
rays, there was in his looks IL mix
turc of sadness and care, as if his
pent-up feelings had been so crowd
ed back into the inner cells of his
heart that even tears could have
been relief to the hidden anguish
that was making his life a misery.


The poor child cried; it might be
the little thing was tired; it might
be it missed its mother; perhaps it
was sick and so it criel. The tears
rolled down its baby checks; the
father wiped away the dew drops
as they fell, and then tried to feed it.
He was 80 awkward with the bottle
his had been life of toll and
hardship-and he knew not how TO
give his darling its nourishment.
AS he made effort after effort to
stifle the cries and check the tears
of his mothcrless babe, how he must
have missed hor who, in his life of
labor and privation, had been his
solace and comfort! An unbiddcn
tear started to his eye, but he brush
ed it quickly away. All who saw
him pitied him, At length woman
richly appareled, with an infant
resting on the lap of his nurse be-
side her-shc had been watching
the man-said in gentle tone,
"Give me the child" The poor
fellow looked up at her with look
of gratitude, for there was moth
er's tenderness in her voice. With
humble resignation, as though it
were pain to part with him, even
fora moment, nc gave her his boy.
The iadiy took it; its soilcd dress
rested on her silk; its tiny head
was soon beneath her shawl, and in
a moment all was still. Like the
Grccian daughter, who through the
iron bars fed her starving father, so
did this high born lady from her
breast feed the hungry child, and
when, on her gentle bosom, tholittle
one lay in calm and unvexed sleep,
she put aside the shawl.


The fathers heart swel!ed with
gratitude. lie said, as tear swelled
in his eye, and his voice was thick
with emotion, "Thank you. I'll
take him now" Then the woman's
nature spoke forth, as she gently
answered, "Not yet; yOu will wake
him-and for mile after mile that
noble hearted woman neld that poor
mans child, and it was not until
her own babe required such nour-
ishment as only a mother can give,
she gently rose and placed the stran-
ger boy wit his father.
Year: 1868

An exchange says We were
compelled TO refuse an offer Of job
printing the other day by man
from away back, who innocently
called to get some postage stamps
printed. lie was quite Disappointed
because we could not do the woiki
he awanted 'em real bad TO put on a
letter he writ to a cal, and II ctst
too much TO buy EN- Of The post
nrirc fcllerS
Year: 1868

THENew York La Crosse Democrat,
Brick " PoMERoY's organ, is said to
be the only journal in the country
hat has the capacity to put more lies
han lines in its editorial columns.
The Tribune has figured up. and re-
ports that the Democrat can do it.
La Crosse being too contracted field
for the Democrat to operate in, it is
to be removed to New York City,
where, it is predicted, it will supplant
the New York Herald in the estima-
ton of the residents in Water Street
and Mackerelville.
Year: 1868

THE English press generally rejoice
over the election of General GRANT.
they express the greatest faith in his
patriotism and ability, and predict
that his administration will be pc
riod of prosperityE and growth in
strength at home and abroad. The
London Star says:


As regards Grants foreign policy it
IS we'll known that he is animated by
= most friendly feeling towards this
country, and if on his accession to
power any questions remain unsettled
betv cen the two nations, it will be
'~his anxious desire to preserve the
peace, and to cement a real alliance
between England and the United
States.
Year: 1868

IT IS said that poor German
mechanic in New York has just
invented a sounding board which
solves the long-sought problem of the
prolongation of sound in the piano.
This German mechanic will not be
poor long if his invention is found to
work well.
Year: 1868

The people of Mobile are just now excl
ted over o most stupendous project, which
is nothing less than to dig new bed for
the Mississippi through Bayou Manchac,
so as to render Mobile instead of New Or
leans the main port at the outlet of the
Fathers of Waters. It is urged on behalf
of the scheme that it will virtually do away
with the levee system and so relieve the
pressure of the great river that the fears OF
a crevasse need no longer exist.


The New Orleans papers are violently
opposed to the enterprise. The proposed
river route, they say is exclusively within
the boundaries Of Louisiana, and the peo-
pie of that State will never consent that
any such dangerous experiment shall be
tried with her territory and her streams. -
Besides, it is stated that it could only be
accomplished by the sacrifice of all the low
lands in Louisiana below Baton Rouge, in
cluding larger body of valuable land than
can be found in the whole State Of Alaba-
ma.


st. Louis is expected to furnish most of
the capital to carry out the plan. Nothing
daunted by the vigorous protest of their
New Orleans neighbors, the Mobilians are
actively moving in the matter, and seem to
be thoroughly in earnest.
Year: 1868

Our people are once more called upon tC
realize the bitter fact that they are con,
quered. We have had so much experience
of this character already, that we had al
most begun to believe there was nothing
further In store for US. But we were mis-
taken. Yet another turn to the screw =
There remains, however, nothing for US to
do IN the premises except to submit quiet
y, and patiently bide the time when the
yoke shall be removed from our necks


Complaints are useless. and exhibitions of
impotent rage ere puerile. We, therefore,
earnestly hope that our fellow citizens will
bear this burden also, as they have borne
so many before, as becomes brave men
and above all things avoid anything, by
word Or deed, that might lead to disturb
ance. Our enemies would like nothing
better than to be able to say that the az
pointment, by military authority, of negro
aldermen, had produced riot in Charles
ton. We have ever been peaceable peo-
pie, and We must endeavor to keep up the
reputation of our city in this respect, and
avoid furnishing material to the Radical
revolutionists in the coming political cam
palgn. We want no New Orleans and
Memphis riots in Charleston-no "bleed-
ing Kansas for electioneering howling.-
Let this revolutionary regime play out.


Charleston MercurY.
Year: 1868

After the first few years of infancy, it is
q curious fact that children-like animals-
never laugh. If they are elated it is always
with expectation, which is naturally mixed
with underlined apprehension or it is with
possession of a coveted prize that is too
absorbing to permit mirth. Children do
not appreciate jests, nor humor, nor wit


They listen, and then inquire and question (;
they are pursuing knowledge; it is only
when they are grown up that they can find
time to be gay. The age Of adolescence Is
the age of seriousness. The contrary is
generally believed, but the belief is un.
founded. 1t is the age of the pursuit of
the knowledge of human nature. That is
the reason why children hate books and
book knowledge. The idleness of children
is when they are bard at wC1k at the school
of Nature, and hate to he bothered about
artificial things. When we begin to love
reading, We btg gin to be SO foolish as to
laugh, and to love the causes of laughter.
Year: 1868

The Ramie plant, which was introduced
into this country from Java, to the soil of
which it is Indigenous, is attracting much
attention in the South. At an agricultural
fair recently held in Alabama it was one o f
the special features of the exhibition. 1t is
claimed that, If properly cultivated an
worked, it will eventually take the place o
cotton, and supply any deficiency in tha t
great staple production. Its tibres are said
to be much finer and stronger than the
best fax that they are as fine as Sea
Island cotton and that, after cleaning,
they become very soft and white, aud take
colors as readily as the finest wool or silk.
Several articles of clothing made from this
fabric were eqhibited at the fair referred
to, and were particularly noted for the
strength and beauty of the material The
cultivation of the Ramie plant has been
successful on a number of plantations in
Alabama,
Year: 1868

1t is but simple justice to acknowledge
and we could wish to see the acknowledge
ment made in some more suitable way
that the failure of the impeachment is
mainly due to the tirmness, uprightness,
and independence of Chief Justice Chase.
1t is true enough that he has done nothing
but his duty but he did it with such
steadiness, moral interpldity, and exact
observance of decorum, as to strengthen
and encourage those Senators who found
that they would be compelled to sacrifice
party favor if they followed their sense of
justice. II he had truckled to the insolence
Of faction, or bent before the storm of
party passion, President johnson could not
have been acquitted. Mr.. Chases great
Office, irreproacbachable character, and
eminent abilities, confirmed the confidence
of the acquitting Senators in the soundness
of their own judgment, and the safety of
following it, in spite OF injurious asper-
sions.-New York World.
Year: 1868

The Chicago Convention having resolved
that the public debt must be paid accord
ing to the letter and spirit Of the contract,
that itmeant payment in gold, Mr.. Carey
offered the following to settle the question


SC Resolved That neither the letter nor the
spirit Of the law under which the five-twenties
were issued requires the payment of the principal
in coin, and it will be in the utmost good faith il
which has been paid to the soldiers who fought
the battles Of the war; and with which the Gov
ernment settles the claims of the widows and or
phans of our fallen heroes-the same as laborere
are required to receive as wages, and that which
is legal tender for all pubic and private debts,
except customs duties, and interest on the public
debt


But the hypocrites refused to vote upon
it, and referred it to a committee
Year: 1868

The State of Oregon on next Monday
holds an election for the purpose of elect
ing Congressman and me- mber of tho Le-
gislature. Six years ago the Republican
majority was over six thousand. Al the
last Presidential election that majority was
reduced to some fourteen hundred. The
elections in Oregon occnr biennially. Two
years since the Republican candidate for
Governor was elected by two hundred ma
iority and the present member of Congress
by a majority somewhat larger. So the
first gun after the Chicago nominations and
the Impeachment blunder will be heard
from Oregon.
Year: 1868

One of the Democratic Congressman
from an assured Democratic State of the
East has just returned from short visit to
his constituency. He says that SO great is
the longing of the Democratic and Conser-
vative masses for the overthrow of the
Congressional Jacobins, that very many
express willingness to support Chief JUS
tice Chase for the Presidency, if the use of
his name will best assure the result. Oh
course, the suggestion is subject to the
event that Conservative Republicans shall
bring him into the field with proper
promptness and efficiency. Time flies,
and i'll the camp of the common enemy is
heard the


''Sound of hammers closing rivets up


Nc.tinnnL
Year: 1868

New ORLEANS, May 26.-The grand jury
waited upon General Buchanan in a body
yesterday, accompanied by the attorney
general and district attorney, and made
complaint that the chief of police avowed
himself in possession of knowledge of the
Whereabouts, within the State, of a noted
burglar named Watson, who he agreed to
arrest if compensated, refusing to give the
necessary information to the sheriff to en-
able him to make the arrest. Watson has
forfeited his bond. The charge is suppor-
ted by affidavits of the sheriff and his de-
puties The grand jury state the offence
is not covered by any law of the State, and
ask the action of the commanding general,
who replied he would investigate and take
the necessary steps in the matter.
Year: 1868

The Cleveland Plaipdealer says of Col
fax that he is &C politician by trade, and
is notorious in Indiana as a chronic Office
beggar - that he twas elected to Congress
in 1854 by the Know Nothing party, and
he was one OF the most bitter, loud
mouthed defamers of our foreign born fell
low citizens in that memorable campaign ;"
and that &" he is best known as Il mere par
tizan intriguer, as full of Radical bitter
ness as Old Thad himself, and possessed of
neither strength or compreheusiveness of
mind, nor generosity of disposition"
Year: 1868

General Forrest has recently written a
letter to the Memphis Avalanche in regard
to a movement to exclude Confederate sol
diers from active participation in the
Democratic organizations of Tennessee on
the ground of expediency. He concludes
forcibly as follows:


The only hope of a restoration of good
government in this country is in the sue
cess of the National Democracy in the next
Presidential campaign. I trust my late
comrades will not, from expediency or
other motives, absent themselves from a
participation in the political exercises
which are to result in the choice of stand
ard-bearers, made with view to so pat
riotic and desirable an end. So far as l
am personally concerned, have 10 desire
to take any part in politics, nor to occupy
any political position whatever but do
not wish to see my State represented by
men whose only claim to public favor is
the dexterity with which they took either
side of the question in the late war, as in
terest dictated, and who bank upon it as
their only capital for popular support.


n B. FORREST.
Year: 1868

Yesterday afternoon, in view of the action
of the court of impeachment in sustaining
President johnson, the Secretary of War,
Mr. Stanton, sent in his resignation, and
left the office in the temporary possession
of General Townsend.