smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

tacle of the agel Are they deaf. dumb and
blind Are their hearts made of stone and
their heads of ice 2 Will they continue to
support the majority in Congress- who are
the legitimate authors, the putative fathers
OF this marvellous wickedness Will they
allow their standing army TO be used in
support OF such a monstrous tyranny How
long are we to be subjected to this dupli-
cate despOtism of the civil and military
powers Are we to be relieved of this un-
natural and barbarous punishment, only to
be enslaved and crushed out of civil and
political existence by the Inauguration of
negro despotism for the next twenty-seven
years, under the Radical constitution now
proposed and about to be fraudulently en-
forced upon us by a criminal conspiracy
What has become of the National Democ-
racyf Have they too disappeared before the
political Goths and vandals of the day
Have they lost their power over the heart
of the country2 Can they no longer rally
the people when the life of the nation is in
danger9 viii not the old Democratic lion
arouse from his lair 3 VIII he not assert
his ancient title to the dominion of the coun-
try-wlh he not enter the great arena of
battle aud drive into the depths of the
wilderness the swarming armies of wolves
and hyenas who now cover and dispoil the
land 7 That this will be done in the APP
preaching Presidential contest with all the
sublime power of an outraged and indignant
pc pie is now plainly written in the distOr-
ted eyes and melancholy visages of Ben
Butler n Co. That the impeachers will be
impeached before the august tribunal of the
American people and exiled forever from the
control of the government. is now foretold
IN every local expression of the public voice
and is daily gathering the volume and pow.
er of a tempest that will sweep the Radical
party with the besom of destruction.


CONCLUSION


The Democracy of Mississippi now see and
feel the exciting influence of this popular
power and have resolved to fight their share
of the great battle. Then


Saddle White Surry for the field to NOR


row."


Our riders are up-our men in the ranks,
and eager for the fray. Let us on to the
enemy at once. Let us storm and capture
the strongholds of the Loyal Leagues in ev-
erv county in the SJate-let us release and
restore to the freedom of the elective fran
chise their armies of oath-bound prisoners
drive the Convention conspirators and their
candidates to the obscure dens of the North
whence they come-vote down their Bill of
denominations and assert the supremacy of
the State of Mississippi under our own Con-
stitution and laws.
Year: 1868

From tho New York Herald 4,


Whenever any Radical frebraud, Loyal
Lacquer, or negro is killed or hurt IN the
South, the Radical press and orators of
the North make terrible noise about It.
They ring the changes and howl day after
day about rebel outrages, rebel hatred,
and rebel murders, but we never hear
anything from them concerning the muir
dered Southern whites and black out
RACES. The Radical papers are full OF
sensation accounts and denunciations
of the murder OF Ashburn, in Georgia,
but they say nothing about the
white one armed ex-Confederate soldier
who was shot dead on his horse recently
near Selma, Alabama, or Of the
other four white men who have been
murdered in the same vicinity since
the war and no one arrested for
these murders. No, we hear nothing
from these Radicals Of the numerous
other murders Of the conquered South
ern whites and outrages on them in other
localities Of the South, because there is
every reason to believe this is the work
Of the black loyal leaguers. At a public
procession and meeting Of negroes at
Macon, Georgia, on March 30, the loyal
blacks carried a banner on which the
figure of negro, cut in pasteboard,
hung dangling from gallows, and to
which was attached, on piece of white
paper, the following inscription: Every
man that don't vote a Radical ticket
this is the way we want to do him
hang him by the neck" These
Radical loyal league negroes boldly pro-
claimed, too, that the negroes who
failed to register should receive thirty
nine lashes; if he failed to vote at the
election, two hundred lashes, and, if he
voted the Democratic ticket, he should be
hanged. Need we be surprised, then,
that white Southerners are murdered in
every part of the South and that the mur.
derers are not arrested7 The Northern
friends Of the black barbarians pretend
not to know anything about their MUIR
derous doings. 1t is clear that the South
under radical rule is fast tending to an
archy and to worse condition than St.
Domingo was ever in.
Year: 1868

There is no portion of the immense
public works of Paris, which have now
been going on for so many years, so ad-
mirable and so useful as that which is
least seen. / mean the system of sub
terrsnesn sewerage, now fast approach
ing completion. From being perhaps
one of the worst, Paris is now by far the
best drained Of any European capital.
An excursion through the sewers was,
IS you are no doubt aware, one of the
favorite smussments Of visitors to the
Exhibition last year; and the pleasant
ness Of this underground trip, and the
total absence of all that was offensive,
was q subject Of admiration and wonder
to all who had courage to undertake it..
The finishing stroke to the system is
now about to be put BY the sinking of
two enormous metallic tubes, of more
than a yard each in diameter, across the
Seine, just above the Pont de rAlma.


These will connect the drainage of the
left bank Of the river with that Of the
right, and the whole will then be carried
bT the immense main sewer Of seven


miles in length, running between Paris
and Asnieres down 10 the point where
the Seine leaves the latter place, without
any where flowing into the stream within
the precincts Of the city. As to what
takes place below Asnieres, and how the
country and inhabitants beyond will be
affected by the polluted stream-depO-
nsnt saith nothing. / have heard, in
deed, that the fishes beyond that point
die, ssd Tia: the villagers are poisoned.
Year: 1868

The Hagan Furnace is ssid to provide
the most successful process for extract
ing gold from sulphurets that has ever
yet been tried, and if all the statements
concerning the remarkable results. OBJ
tanned by means of il are true, it may
yet completely revolutionizo the gold
mining interest by rendering valuable
an immense number of mines previously
considered of but little worth on ac-
count of the combination in which The
precious metal is found.


In Montana. fortunately. we have
dealings principally with free gold in
our quartz lodges, but still there are
some mines whose ores have high as
say value, but which have failed to be
profitably worked on account of the
presence of sulphurets. If the Hagan
furnace is all that il is claimed 80 be,
these mines will yet become source of
princely revenue to their owners The
process named has been and is now be-
ing tested in the mill of the Enterprise
Gold and Silver Mining Company, in
California. Although the ore worked
upon by this company was of the most
refractory character, and had served as
the basis for many an unsuccessful
chemical experiment, the Hagan Fur
mace process is said to have reduced it in
a highly acceptable manner and rem
dered it capable of amalgamation, Civ
ing returns four times as large as those
obtained by any other method of work
ing. and rendering valuable an ore
which would not pay for reduction by
any other process. We shall look with
interest for the result of future experi-
ments. for these new processes" have
so frequently deceived the people that
we are not inclined 70 be over credulous
concerning them
Year: 1868

Below we publish the proceedings OF
the Grand Lodge, which took place al
Virginia City, in connection with the
b presentation of fine jewel to the for.
mer Grand Master, L. w. Frary. They
will be interesting to our Masonic read
ers, and we regret that an unusual sup
ply of other matter prevented the pub
lication of the same with our Masonic
article of Saturday.


The following presentation speech by
Brother II. L. Hosmer, is one which re-
fleets great credit upon that erudIte gen
tleman, of whom the Fraternity may
well be proud and the response of
Brother Frary is such a gem as could
only emanate from a sterling member
of the Craft:


NJ. w. BROTHER L. w. FRAnY In be-
half nf the Masonic Brotherhood, and the
Grand Lodge of Montana, present you with
this testimonial of their favor and esteem.
They hope you will receive and wear it a
memento of their respect for your character
as man and your fidelity and devotion as a
Mason. They feel that under your safe and
careful guidance during the year now closed,
the cause of Masonry has progressed in this
TerritoryWnd that in you it had a truthful
expounder, whase life and conduct have not
brought 1t into reproach. It Is therefore a
real pleasure TO them to thus testify their
confidence In you as a man and n Mason.


You will accent this gift in the spirit in
which 1t is made and though il may not be
necessary for the purpose, yet it is the hope of
the Brethren that wherever your lot may be
east, or how wide soever the distance which
separates US, you may by this be reminded of
the year of service you rendered Grand
Master of Montana, and of the Brethren with
whom you were then and there associated.
You have their best wishes for your future
welfare and prosperity.


Brother Frary replied as follows:


BRETHREN: / accept, with grateful sensI-
bility, this beautiful token of your favor and
regard. 1t needed not this, to assure me of
your kindness, for of that, L had so many
marked demonstrations during the past year,
that must have been void of all gratitude,
not to have felt and appreciated tie heavy
obligations under which you have laid me.
But accept this jewel because it conveys TO
me In pleasing form, the strength of that
sentiment, which should ever exist between
Masous and their officers. 1t tells me In un-
mistakable language, that you believe 1 have
tried to do my duly, and the consciousness
that you indulge such a sentiment, is dearer
to me than any other public testimonial. 1
VIII strive 20 deserve tnat goou OplnlOns anu
TO see to it, that our honorable and noble IN
stitution shall never be dishonored in my life
and conduct Brethren, L thank you for your
kindness, and by presenting me with this tes-
tImonial, for putting it In my power at all
times to exhibit the evidence of your esteem
and favor.


In our future course through life, we may
become separated by distance, but wherever
my lot may be cast, shall ever cherish with
fondest recollections, the time we passed to-
gether in the bonds of Masonic affection and
in the mutual discharge OF Masonic duties,
In this new and promising Territory.
Year: 1868

Novelties never seem to run ont at JOHN
STouT's. During the last week the excitement
in that quarter has been new arrival of dress
goods. Ladies who have bought hastily at other
places were sorry enough they hadn't waited to
SEQ the new goods at Stout's. The ladies ought
to know by this time that Stout has new sur.
prise, for, them about every week Of that sort.
Year: 1868

AN innocent Ohio delegate inquired,
Thursday night, how it was, if Seymour S
nomination was entirely unexpected, that
a finely executed portrait of the unwilling
candidate was ready for the banner
paraded in the streets within an hour after
the nomination. The Buckeye intellect,
bewildered by the astonishing tactics of
New York politicians, was not adequate
to the explanation of this curious phenom-
enon, and we are unable to give it any
assistance in this case. Sometimes small
and apparently immaterial circumstance
will fasten on criminal conclusive evi-
dence of his guilt. In like manner this
insignificant banner, bearing the unmis-
taxable likeness of the oft declining Sey-
mour, and carried through the streets i'm
mediately after his nomination, will fur
nish irrefragible proof that when. Mr..
Seymour's friends declared him out Of the
field, they knew that they were perpe-
trating a fraud.-N Y Post.
Year: 1868

By wM. GLAND BOURNE.
- LET us have peace - is the cry Of the millions
Who fought for the starry -gemmed flag Of the


free


Tis the prayer of the hero, the song of civilians,
That rolls from the mountains far down to the


sea.
The nation that rocked in the tempest and gloom,
And drifted in doubt to be wrecked on the
The storm has outlived, and the thunders that
Are voices that prophesy tempest no more.
''Let us have peace p is the sigh of the lowly,
That walk in the vale where the cypress is seen,
Who mourn their departed with tenderness holy,
And kneel where the graves are perennially
And where the " Unknown, y in their silence are


sleeping,


The feet of the angels are pressing the sod,
And vespers of harmony round them are keeping,
While martyrs Of freedom have gone to their


God.
& Let us have Peace p the evangel of Labor,
Where toilers implorngly lift up their hands,
Col wipe off the stains from the death dealing


Saber,


And build the bright altar of hope for all
Lo! radiant from darkness the temple in glory
Throws wide to the world the broad aisles of the


fame:
And freemen shall toll, as they utter the story,
And children repeat to the ages again.
"I.et us have peace ~ is the chorus ascending
From hamlets that lie mid the pine-covered


hills,
And like glad anthem in unison blending,
Floats on till the plain with its melody thrills;
And rivers that roll TO the land of the West,
And prairies that wake to the hymn of the free,
With millions of freemen imploring for rest,
Swell psalms of rejoicing while bending the


knee.
''Let us have Peace p from the wars wild COM


motion,


The trumpet's alarms. and the crash of the field,
And let the new bliss, like the billows of ocean,
Roll over the land where the hero has kneeled;
The smoke of the battle has swept from the sky,
The thunders have ceased, and the bugle's wild


blast;
The chains have been rivenl and loud from on


high


The reveille calls to the love Of the Past!
6 LET US HAVE PEAcE!'' in holy thanksgiving,
The Hero-voice cries, in the name of the LORD
For the sake of the dead for the sake of the


ivingl


Turn spears into pruning -hooks-to plowshares


the sword
And out of the darkness shall come forth the


beaming


OF Glorys bright sun where the foemen have


trod,
And Freedom shall teach, with truth all-redeem-


ing,


That PEACE WITH OUR BROTHER IS PEACE WITH


OUR GOD


NEW YORK, June 27, 1868.
Year: 1868

Four years ago people were greatly
amused by finding the Democratic plat
form-Which declared the war failure,
and demanded an immediate cessation
of hostilities-printed in many of the
country papers on the same page with
reports of the capture of Atlanta by Sher-
man.


The year before that Mr. Seymour, OF
this State, distinguished himself by dol
orous Fourth of July oration in this city,
in which he warned his hearers that we
could not afford to carry on the war any
longer, that we could never beat the rebels.
But while he was speaking Vicksburg was
surrendered to Grant, and Lee was begin
ming to fly from Meade at Gettysburg; and
Seymour's speech was accompanied in the
next days papers with gloss most unwel-
come to him and those who thought with
him.


A number Of experiences Of this kind
ought to have warned the Democratic
leaders not to attempt prophecy. Their
strength does not lie in that direction
events appear to have spite against them.
1t would be difficult to imagine anything
more inappropriate than General Sher-
mans capture of Atlanta just after the
Democrat Convention had solemnly de-
clared the war a failure, and demanded
immediate cessation of hostilities. But
the circumstances under which the Demo
cratic platform appears this morning are
not more fortunate.


The platform denounces the Freedman's
Bureau and demands its abolition; but
Congress had already passed an act dis
continuing the Bureau, which became a
law yesterday; and General Howard gives
notice in the same papers in which the
Democratic platform is printed, that the
Bureau has ceased in South Carolina, and
that he is rapidly winding up its affairs in
the other States.


We read in the platform demand for
the immediate restoration of all the States
and turning from this passage to another
column of the papers, read that while all
are restored but four, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, MississippiandT Texas, South Carolina
has Just adopted the amendment, and will
doubtless be represented in Congress with
in the week. But we read also in the plat
form that the acts of reconstruction are
"void," which means that the Democrats,
if they succeed, will at once destroy all
that has been done, and put us back again
to 1865. This is a promise which will
hardly delight a people who have grown
tired of the long reconstruction squabble.
To reopen this question now settled in
all but three States, would be calamity
to the country-but that is what the plat
form threatens.-N T. Post.
Year: 1868

No democrat should fail to give his
personal attention and aid to the movement
called for by the committees,ss published In
this paper. 1t will not do to say, 80 some
body viii be there, and they'll get along
well enough without me-" This will not
give an impetus to the movement for saving
the country from the wicked and tyrannical
rule of radicalism. Every man has work
to perform, and he should attend these
meetings and, by his personal presence,
give encouragement 10 others. He should
also see that democratic clubs and commit
tees provide the people with suitable reading
matter. For this, no paper is so useful as
his county paper, because no other paper
can give the necessary attention to county
and local affairs. See that every club, and
every neighborhood is supplied, first with
your county paper, and then with such other
reading as may be useful. The radicals
are busy, crowding their papers into every
family. viii the democrats sit idly down
and make no effort TO match them We
are very frank to say that, pecuniarly, il
makes little difference to us, for the money
received for subscriptions is about all re-
qui1ed to pay for paper and help, leaving
little or nothing for us. But the democracy
can't afford TO lie down and be run over by
radical falsehoods and misrepresentation
They should awake in every township and
school district in the county and join togeth.'
er and do something towards helping carry
the state and nation. The committees have
issued the proper calls. Let us see how the
democracy will respond. Don't wait for
somebody else to move-but move yourself,
and help on the cause, and encourage your
neiphbor
Year: 1868

A South Carolina delegate to the Ameri-
can Baptist Home Mission Society, now in
session at New York, told his brethren some
wholesome truths in the. course of debate
upon series of resolutions relating to ma
tional affairs. He said: t-stft-45#& 7


ave at the south do not recognize the
social quality of the negro. All the rights
which he has by law we hare no desire to
interfere with, but we cannot entrust to him
the management of the interest of our coun-
try for this simple reason - God and man
know he is not competent to control them.
We recognize slavery as dead, and we have
no desire nor idea of its restoration in any
form, but the political control of our coun-
try we cannot consent to transfer into their
hands. You may do il and we must sub
NIT; but of our own voluntary effort we will
not-we cannot. We have no disposition to
deny them the rights of freedmen, or of
baptists, or of the ministry. But upon the
question of suffrage we have no right to
commit this organization to republican or TO
democratic principles-to take the side oi
any political party. II Is proper, however.
that / shsnid add that we have the deepest
interest IN the elevation of the coiored peo-
PIE, anu tDeH euVancement IN morals, IN
education, and everything that goes to make
up the dignity of man. We are far more
deeply interested in them than in any other
people under heaven; because we have got
to dwell amongst them, or leave the graves
of our kindred and the homes of our youth.
If they are vicious, corrupt, ignorant de-
based, we suffer. II makes little difference
to you northerners, but all our interests, our
homes. our welfare, depend upon the society
which surrounds Us" ua d
Year: 1868

The National fntelligencer photographs
Colfax under a strong light. This is the
picture:


He is a small country politician, faliaof am
bition, selfish, cunning, unscrupnious, and a
servile instrument of party, ever prompt to push
On in the ruck of partisans like himself and
keen TO protect his own interests by every form
of submission. This constitutes, IN fact, his
whole stock in trade, if there be added to 1t
plodding industry in politics, constant self-seek
ing, smiling exterior, and facility that may
impose on q mixed crowd Of noisy serenaders.
He is wholly deficient in high culture, breadth
of view, knowledge, qualities that serve to
make up an enlightened or practical legislator
After fourteen years of service in congress- there
is ne record off any measure that he ever originat
ed, of any new idea that he ever announced, or
Of any speech that he ever made which is re-
membered with interest or is marked by ability.
Mr.. Colfax is nothing but an industrious politi-
oian of whose class and character there are thou
sands in all parts of the country-nen who
make stump speeches, attend conventions, look
after nominations, and never forget themselves. T"


Yet this man is expecting to reach the
second dignity in our national government
through popularity gained by cast-iron
smile and facility in hand shaking.
Year: 1868

AT the end of his first year the edit
or Of the Fort Atkinson Herald in an
article to his patrons says: in the future
as In the past. we shall endeavor to abide
by our best convictions of right and
justice to practice, as near as possible,
the golden rule to MAINTAIN an lndepen-
dence sufficient for selfrcspect; and
above all to live without groveling in the
dust for the patronage of those who are
DISPOSED to demand that we should beg
and cringe for their support. AS a
grovellest we are not success. We CON
consider that we give the full value
received in all our business transactions
and they who do not wish to deal with
US on equal ground are at perfect liberty
to bestow their tauors upon whomsoever
will eat dirt to their entire satisfaction. !"


just as well as we could have said it
ourselves. Some seem to think the news
paper business is sort of contribution
box, and when they pay anything for
its support they make donation of
just SO much to the publisher. They
forget that nothing tends to civilize the
people to so great an extent as good
newspaper and only by the most
a-duous and exhaustive labors can a
good newspaper be produced.