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Year: 1868

From the Cincinnati Commercially


We have heretofore exhibited facts and
figures 70 show that the present tariff on
imported goods Is something over forty
three per cent. Gd VdioSeBl, upon the av-
erage, payable in gold that this enor-
nous and unprecedented duty is levied
chiefly upon articles Of general use and
necessity for consumption; that upon
most fabrics that enter into the clothing
Of our people, whereof the larger portion
always comes from abroad), the amount
of this tax is from sixty to one hundred
per cent. that upon iron manufactures,
which enter largely into use in all the
mechanic arts, the tax is so heavy al
ready as very nearly to dOubly the cost OF
the article to consumers; and that the
experience OF all nations proves that as q
question OF revenue, q moderate duty
pays invariably more into the treasury
than an extortionate one. That the pre-
sent rates OF duty are extortionate. it
needs not comparison with those inn
posed by other nations to prove. We
need but to compare them with the high.
est duties ever levied in the history of our
own protective tariffs, in order to see
that the rates imposed during the war,
and still remaining unrepealed, are from
twenty to forty per cent. higher than
were ever before tolerated in the United
States.


The Commercial insists that these in
ordinate taxes not only produce less rev.
enue for the Government, but impose
monstrous and unequal burdens on the
poor and the agricultural classes.
Jacobinism must conciliate the manu-
facturers; and New England has twelve
Senators, and is almost unanimous in
wishing that the principal Of the five-
twenties shall be paid In gold. The
groans of the Northwest, staggering un-
der the enormous weight Of q plundering
tariff, are sweetest music to the ears Of
the South. Let the Northwest continue
to play the camel to New England, and
kneel to receive it's burden.
Year: 1868

No. 2s.-walt VS.. German National Bank


Motion to dismiss appeal, and to strike
from the docket, on the ground that the
transcript was not filed within the time
prescribed by law.


Held: That the statute makes 1t the
duty OF the clerk OF the inferior court to
transmit the transcript In appeal cases.
aud the transcript having been filed
here, but not in the time directed, this
Court will not dismiss or strike from the
docket on that ground.
Year: 1868

Did not the Radical Congress in.
crease your taxes?


Did not the Radical Congress ex-
empt the rich mans bonds


Did not the Radical Congress in
crease the wages of its members


Did not the Radical Congress dis
solve the Union for which our brave
soldiers fought?


Did not this Congress establish a
military despotism over the South?


Did it not disfranchise the white
men of the South and enfranchise the
negroes?


Did it not establish bureau for the
benefit of the blacks?


Do you not have to pay high taxes
for radical politics


Are these not reasons why you
should spurn the radical ticket and
vote the Democratic ticket?
Year: 1868

When Radical asks you to vote
for Grant and Colfax, make him tell
you how much benefit you or the
country will derive from such course.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU why i
it that in times of peace, the party
which he asks you to support, has a
standing army that costs the taXpay-
ers of the country one hundred and
fifty millions of dollars per year?


MAKE HIM TELL YOU what
has tecome of millions upon millions
of dollars that has been paid into the
public treasury since the introduction
of his party into pOwer-that there is
no account of now.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU why it
is that with all the taxes and tariffs
that are wrung from the people an
nually, the public debt is still increas-
ing at the rate of ten millions of dollars
per month.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU why his
party makes negro voters in all the
States of the South, and then denies
being in favor of negro suffrage, here
| in the North.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU what
justice there is in the Radical doctrine
of taXation-which eXempts the rich
from all taxes and places them upon
the shoulders of the poor.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU HOW
~ /. fbaf tbraa y aors n fta, tho xro, I,
ceased, that the Union for which We
were told it was Saged, is farther from
heing restored tqan it was at the be
ing restored than it was at the begin
ming.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU why tht
bloated bOndhoiders who robbed thu
government and invested the money
he stole i'll tax exempted bonds should
receive gold for his interest, Will,
you are compelled to take green6ack
tor your work.


MAKE HIM TELL YOU why tn


labOring men at the North shoulC


toll and sweat, day after day, to feeC
lot of lazy negroes and fatten a ia
natical carpet bag pack of Burean off
cials who yearly take from the publ
treasury millions Of dollars.
MAKE HIM TELL YOU wha
good will arise from voting for Grant
how much it will lessen your taxes
: lower the prices of the necessaries {
life, and how soon it will restore tn
Union, and make our Government


government of white men-establist
? Iished by white men for the benefit {
5 white men.
Year: 1868

Democrats, the news is cheering!


Glorious tidings come in from every
quarter.


The tide runs in our favor, and if
we WORK we will WIN


Put your shoulders to the wheel d
help along. GO TO WORK IN
EARNEST. See that all who vote
the Democratic ticket are canvassed.
See that the wavering are furnished
with proper reading, and that every
man is ready for the first contest!


TO WORK DEMOCRATS
Year: 1868

AN answer to the following conun-
drum is respectfully solicited:


If Radical administration spends
millions of dollars month more than
it can realize by the present enormous
taxation, how long will it take a Rad
ieal administration to pay a public
debt amounting to billions.
Year: 1868

CARPET-BAG GOVERNOR CLAYTON, of Ar
kansas, has issued instructions to his regis


trars for the election of Grant and Colfax.


lie commands them to reject any one whom
THEY think not entitled to register, even
though the applicant has already taken the
oath. No man who cannot 'FproYe by evi


dence satisfactory to the Register" that he
did not sYAlPATHIzE with the Confederacy,
shall have his name entered upon the regis
try list. His oath, on this point, is of no
consequence. The applicant for registration
must swear that he accepts the civil and
political equality of all men and
agrees not to attempt to make any changes.
Clayton deserves well of his party. He is
the most trooly loil man in all the West and
if he does not 2succeed in carrying Ar
kansas for Grant and Colfax, it will not be
his fault, nor because of any hesitancy on
his part to practice those nice little election
tricks for which his party is so noted. II
the State goes for Seymour and Blair, we
should advise him to buy new carpet. bag
and make tracks at once. We think it wo'd
be healthier for him in some other locality.
Year: 1868

Total payment by Gov.$414, 3,604,19


In view of this statement from the
books at Washington what becomes
of Republican economy? What bless
ings have they given to the country
in return for this prodigious extrava-
gance? Have they given us peace? :?
Have they given US prosperity? Have
they restored the Constitution ? Have
they reduced the Public Debt ? Let
them answer.


If there be a man in the country
who does not love liberty, or who does
not believe the radic.:ls will take his
liberty from him, yet there certainly
are but few who do not love money,
and il there be no higher motive to
4ctuate such men than the love of
money, jag ihuIn then understand thu I
| before th.7 uoustrCus system Of radi-
| galiam their money is not their own.
Let every voter remember that the
radical leaders cost the people the last
fiscal year the enormous sum of neal
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
To this sum should be added seven
ty millions as premium on the gold
item and this amoun to S4S5, ,000, ,0G0
Year: 1868

Among the olive branches which have
been promptly held out upon the reas'
sembling Of Congress, in response to the
maxim Of General Grant, Let rs have
peace" is the bill introduced by Senator
Rice upon the first day Of the session,
requiring the Secretary Of War to de-
liver to the Governors of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Louisiana and Arkansas, at the
seat Of Government, OF each Of said
States, for the use Of the militia thereof,
as many serviceable Springfield rifed
muskets of calibre 6fty.e eight, With accou-
trements, and serviceable feld-pieces
with equipments, as the Governor OF
each State, respectively, shall require,
not exceeding two thousand rihed mus
kets and two feld-pieces for each con-
gressional district in those States. 1t is
also required that the arms are to be de-
livered only on certificates of the Gov
ernors showing to the satisfaction of the
Secretary Of War that the regiments and
companies for which they are required
are organized Of loyal citizens.


1t will be remembered that the States
for which this extraordinary military
provision is asked for the preservation OF
order are all reconstructed States. This
is the working of q dangerous process of
restoring the Union. This, moreover, is
the peace which was to be assured to the
country by the election of General Grant,
but which we hardly think is OF the sort
meant by him when he coined his famous
expression.


tits only in the hands of loyal citi-
zeps that it is proposed arms shall be
placed 1t is well enough known what
is meant by that designation. By loyal
citizens is meant the black aBd white
Radicals of the South, all others being
considered rebels, now and forever. The
proposition, therefore, is simply to arm
one party in the reconstructed States
against another, and to hold down the
mass of the Southern white population
by the bayonets of their former slaves.


What use these so-called loyal men
will make of their authority is not diff
cult to divine from the experiences of
Tennessee and Arkansas. Populations
which would cheerfully submit to the SOL
ders of the United States, will only be
goaded into revolt and resistance by the
arming of party among themselves,
and that party composed of the most
ignorant and reckless part of the popula-
ton, to stand sentry over them


"Let us have peace" The derange-
ment of business and labor which must
follow protracted disorder and strife in
the South cannot fail to affect iDjuriously
the interests of the whole nation. If
ultra partisans care not for the peace or
welfare of the Southern States, let them
at least care for the prosperity of other
sections, and take heed lest the steel
they plunge through the South reach the
vitals of the country.-Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1868

Speaking 10 o friend the other day
about the recent decease Of Hon. w. l.
Harris, at Memphis, he told us circum-
stance in the professional history OF that
distinguished gentleman, which will do
10 repeat. After retiring from the Su-
preme Court Of Mississippi, Judge Har-
ris settled at Columbus, and engaged IN
the practice Of his profession. One day
while employed in the trial Of cause
before one of the courts in that place,
Judge Harris and another attorney got
into an excited dispute about some
point of law or evidence, in the course
Of which the Judge for a moment
forgot himself (as the coolest-headed
lawyers viii sometimes do) and
made an indiscreet remark to the attor-
ney on the Aher side. This the presid-
ing judge took occasion TO condemn as
in contempt Of court, and ordered the
clerk o enter a fine of $40 against Judge
Harris. In day or two afterward,
while argument was being made in the
same court on another cause in which
Judge Harris was not Interested, the
Judge of the court was required to vacate
his seat temporarily, in order to attend
political meeting in another part of the
courthouse, and politely requested
Judge Harris to preside during his
absence. Always disposed to oblige,
the distinguished attorney readily
consented, and occupied the vacated
chair. As soon as the regular judge
had withdrawn from the courtroom,
the newly installed dignitary asked the
lawyer who was speaking at the time to
suspend his remarks for moment, and !,
turning to the clerk, asked that officer If
he had entered fine of ten dollars
against W. L. Harris for contempt of
court. The clerk answered in the affirm
ative. =" Well, then" said Judge Harris,
"let the fine be remitted and the record
be erased" To the lawyer who had been
interrupted, he said, proceed with the
Argument, sir" But itwas some minutes
before the lawyer was able to "reunite
the unrsveled thread of his discourse"
for the bar, jury, and spectators gave
audible vent to the amusement furnished
BY this pleasant little affair at the ex.
pense of the digni6ed old Judge who had
unsuspectingly placed the lawyer be had
fined in a position to make himself clear
of the books. .-Nashpils Union and
american.
Year: 1868

tive born, our soldiers Of foreign
birth laid down their lives.


II was fitting, too, that the rep,
resentatives OF party, which has
proved so true TO national duty In
time Of war, should speak SO clear.
ly in time Of peace for the mainte-
nance untarDished Of the national
honor, the national credit, and
good faith as regards it's debt, the
cost of our national existence.


/ do not intend TO extend this
reply by further comment on a
platform which has elected such
hearty approval throughout the
land. The debt Of gratitude IL &C. I.
knowlcdges to the brave men wbd
saved the Union from destI uctiOn !
the frank approval of amnesty /
based on repentance and loyaltyf
tho demand for the most rigid c.
economy and honesty in the Cow
ernment; the sympathy of the par
ty of liberty with all throughout
tho world who long for the liberty
we here enjoy, and the recognition
of the sublime principles of tho
Declaration of Independence. are
worthy of the organization on
whose banner they are to be writ.
ten in the coming contest.


Its past record cannot be blotted
out or forgotten. lftherc had been
no Republican party slavery would
to-day cast It's baneful influence
over the Republic. If there had
been no Republican party FREQ
press and free sreech would be as
unknown from the Potomac 10 the
Rio Grande as it was ten years
ago.


II the Republican party could
have been stricken from existence
when the banner of rebellion was
unfurled in the South, and when
the response of no coercion was
heard from the North, We would
have no nation today.


But for the Republican party
daring to risk the odium OF tax and
draft laws, our flag could not have
been flying in the field until the
long hoped for victory came.


Without u Republican party,
the Civil Rights bill-the guaran.
tee of equality under the law to
tho humble and the dctenceless, as
well as to the strong-would not
be today upon our national statute
books. .r .f..-r


With such inspiration from the
past, and following the example Of
the founders of the Republic who
called the victorious General OF
the Revolution to preside over the
land his triumph had saved from
its enemies, cannot doubt that
our labors will be crowned with
success, and it. will be success
that shall bring restored hope,
confidence, prosperity andprogress
South as well as North, West as
well as East. and above all, the
blessings under Providence of Ma.
tional concord and peace. Very
truly yours.


SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Year: 1868

WAFFLEs.-Make batter Of d
pound and q half of -four, quarter
OF pound Of melted butter, and
two large spoonsful of yeast; put in
three eggs, The whites and yolks
beaten separately; mix it with a
quart of milk, and put in the but
ter just before you bake; allow it
four hours TO rise; grease the waffle
irous, fill them with the batter
bake them on bed OF GOALS
When they have been on the fire
two or three minutes, turn the
waffle.irons over-when brown on
both sides, they are sufficiently
baked. The waffie.irons should
be well creased with lard, and
very hot before each one is put in!
The waffles should be buttered as
cooked. Serve them up with pow.
dcred white sugar aud cinnamon
Year: 1868

Chew a small piece Of bread
about the size OF hazlenut, and
then take pinch Of cayenne pep
per; mix, roll up in the form ofa
pill, which the patient must swal-
low. In about three hours he will
be relieved from all pain. In
a severe case q second dose may
be requisite, which has never been
known 20 fail. .--... ID .
Year: 1868

FATTENIEG CALvEs.-A sensible
practical farmer told us tho other
day that he had often noticed that
calves would thrive better on milk
that was not rich in butter, than
on what was commonly called very
rich milk. That is fact in ac-
cordance with what We recently
stated, that the nutritive clements
Of milk reside chiefly in the case
inc. If you have a COW that
gives particularly rich milk and
one that gives a quality poorer in
butter, it is better in every way to
feed the calf on the milk of tho
latter. The calf will thrive better
and you'll get more butter from
the milk Of the first cow.-MGss.
ROughm0n. ..-, .........f. -gs. ....
Year: 1868

and the recollection is at this moment
burning on my brain-that if we could
get Herbert drunk it wonld be fine fun.
Fiends could not have set themselves
more i0geniousi;. 70 work to compass
the object than we did. was foremost
in the attempt i will not excuse N.Y.
self or in aught palliate my conduct
knew he had = manuscript poem at
home. that had been pronounced remark
able by competent critics. knew he
could improvise almost without mental
effort, and expected that under the stim-
illus of the fiery serpent whose sting I
dread more than / do death Ibis brain
would be qnickened, and we should be
charmed, perhaps amazed at the exhibi.
ton of his rare gift At last we pre-
vailed, but instead Of quickening, the
wine stupeffed his faculties. A few
glasses reduced him to state of utter
inebriety. pas 3


The party broke up. We were wild
with drink and excitement; he alone was
immovable There was no arousing
him from the state of deathly sleep into
which he had fallen. dared not take
him home that night, fearing that our
frolic might be found out in consequence
of the trouble we might have in getting
him to his room. So we left him there
living as comfortably as we could place
him, his handsome face flushed and al
NEST purple. his active brain, for once,
completely stnpefied. ~.sss.s,


In the morning l was awakened by the
sounds of sobs. A white scared face
stood over me; trembling and weak
voice cried out @ e Is


'Oh Phillip, your poor brother ~


sprang from the bed. My friends,
/ knew the truth soon enough. Herbert
had recovered consciousness in the night
sufficient to mislead him. He had fallen
from the window, a hight Of twenty feet
He was stiilliving. In vain my prayers,
tears, and anguish" Here his voice
faltered 80


Young men. he is living yet, but an
incurable idiot. Now will you ask me
to take the accursed stuff? Yes, the
curse Of the living God rests upon it.
1t has ruined as noble an intellect as
ever was ready tn DO battle with the
faults and follies of the world. Do YOU
still laugh and jeer at me because will
not be jevial tell you if it was liv-
ing thing l would strangle it; and there
is nothing on earth hate with such
deadly hatred - ~
Year: 1868

the daily or weekly newspaper. 1t would be


an interesting question as to how many readers
! of q paper thers are for which ono man sub
/ scribes and pays. All who can afford it, take
] il and pay for il; and those who can not afford


it. cand they are very few. indeed get the read-
1 ing of it in some way. If I were sure that the


person who flches my paper from my door


some mornings was too poor to buy one. could


easily forgive him in view of his pursuit OF


knowledge under s'plexing moral difficulty"
asa 90 4 F. szzs + f1@ a3


"There Is no establishment ic our land where


there is individual or corporate proprietorship,
which il SO much the establishment and prop
serty Of the people IS the newspaper. 1t be.


longs to the people. It speaks not only to the


people. but for the people. The church itself is


not so much of the people, and for the people.
as is the press. We grieve to say it, but the
church is not As open . door to the people As it
might be, ss it was designed to be. IL costs


more to go to Heaven through the church door
than some people can pay. And if all are shu:


oat from Heaven who are too poor to pay for
the privilege Of going there by the church door.


there will be vast multitude shut out. Men
and classes, ia all our communities, are not
| as welcome to our churches and pews, as it
! would seem should be the case from the proc-
lamation: "Go ye into all the world and preach
| the gospel to every creature" As Christian


churches, we are quite too far from carrying out
| the injunction of our blessed God: 60 ye into


the highways and hedges. and compel them to
come in, that my house may b. full"


Let our churches have open doors, and let


our ministers communicate with the people


through the daily press. as they have opportu-


nifty, and, sinking the idea of churchly and con-
ventionsl responsibility out of sight forever,
think by what human means, under the bles>
sing of God, can we most surely and probably
reach the people. The daily newspaper is an
instrumentality. which. in Gods providence, is
already made to their hand, and the editor will


be found q ready CO. worker in every good word


and work. And then, whatever the pulpit and


the press unite in saying shall be done for the


welfare of the people, for their delivera nee from
prevalent vices and corrupting influences, and
for their elevation to moral dignity, to christ
ian character, and to hopy prosperity, shall
under the blessing Of God. be accomplished.


Nv nat q glorious community we Snau Dc,
when the church and the newspaper. the pulpit
and the press the minister and the editor, the
divine instrumentality and the human agency,
shall blend like an incarnation, and go forth to
speak to the people with inspiration and with
power; to point to deliverence from the bond
age of corruption, and blessed with the bap-


tism of the cross, lead the people the way to
everlasting life and riug the bells of spiritual


liberty and of the new creation, whose pealing
and sweet chimes shall greet and bless the ma
tons" -Eg& .@
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Chase by implication
claims in his communication the right TO sit as
part of the court and TO govern It from the fol-
lowing paragraph. The Federalist Is regarded as
the highest cotemporary authority on the con-
struction Of the Constitution and in the Gath num-
ber the functions Of the Senate 'setting in ther
Judicial capacity as q court for the trial of i'm
peachmentsn are examined. In paragraph ex-
planning the reasons Tor not uniting the Supreme
Court with the Senate in the formation of the
court of impeachment 1t is observed: 80 q GER
tain extent the benefits Of that union will be OBJ
tanned, Of making the chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court the president OF the court Of i'm
peachments'' as is proposed in the plan of the
Convention while the convenience Of an entire in
corporation Of the former into the latter will be
substantially avoided.


Chase concludes all good citizens viii fervently
pray that no occasion may ever arise when the
grave proceedings now in progress will be cited
as precedent. but il is not impossible that such
an occasion may come, inasmuch. therefore as the
Constitution has charged the chief justice with an
important function IN the trial Of an impeachment
of the president, IL has seemed TO me fitting and
obligatory when he Is unable to concur ia the
views Of The Senate concerning matters essential
TO the trial that his respectful dissent should sp-
Dear.
Year: 1868

Throughout the North metallic badges. bearing
A Likeness of Washington and the word white
are being very generally worn.. This Is one OF
the indications showing the deep Current Of pOpu.
lar feeling.
Year: 1868

excuse and opportunity TO home revola.
tionists, and uniil this debt is extinguished
and the powers that be sustained by the
moral, if not physical, assistance of the
United States, it is in vain to hope for the
permanent establishment of free govern
ment in Mexico. A strong centralized
government is an imperative necessity to
the restoration of order -