Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1876, Page 4

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M. % L, WADSWORTII, Becratary: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1870, F.and A, M, —~ - Groenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed ot 903, The watchfal astronomers at the Washing- ton National Observatory wero straining their eyes through the big telescope yosterday to discover the transit of Vulean, but without success; thay could find nothing of that erratic orb. Recent devolopments in the Indiana can. vass clearly donote that the Independent. Greonback movement in that State is being enginacred by the Democrats, who expect to bo able at the last moment to reclaim from the Greenback organization the Democrats who have been lent as a nucleus, calculating that several thousands of Republicans of in- fation tendoncies will bo fooled into voting lor Worcorr, thereby diverting from Hagni- 30N tho votes thot would otherwiso elect him. Itis & well-known fact that in several instances tho expenses of Indepondent domonstrations have beon paid out of the regular Democratic campaign fund, and that Democratic torch-bearers have been loaned to swell Greonback processions. ' Latterly the eyos of the soft-money Republicans have boen opened to this deep-laid scheme, nnd thero is an oxcellent prospect that the greater proportion of them will vote with their own party and insure the clection of Bex Hag- LISON. The railway trains from-all the principal cities to-dny will be freighted with a motley crowd of repeaters, plug-uglies, and blood- tubs en routs to Indinnapolis, ostonsibly to attend the Couvention of Democratic soldiors aud sailors in that city, but in reality to be fquartered nt various points in Indiana until aftor tho election of Tuesdny next, Balti- more has contributed a large quantity of her choicest voting material, including a fino phalanx of repenters, deserters, and bounty- jumpers, who have beon furnished trons- portation to Indianapolis, with instructions to voto ns onrly and often ss circumatances will permit. In Chiengo provision has been mndo for ull who want a freo ride and plenty to eat aud drink, and the contribution from thin city of bummors and ballot-box stuffers is cortain to bo large. Thero will be a groat turn.out of ¢ veterans,” and to the oxtent that theso importations are permitted to ro- main and vote the causo of Tirpeny nnd Re- form will bo benefited. The Ropublicans, however, are on tho lookout, and will oxer- ciso all possible vigilanco to prevent tho ‘wholesalo golonization fraud that is to bo attempted. In tho midst of the endless flight of pro- dictions and spoculations of relinble corre. spondents, it is plonsing to know for a cor- tainty that the Ozar of Al the Russias has ‘written aformal letter to hisbeloved brother, Fuaxois Josern, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, in which the former has expressed his views upon the Turkish situa- tion, nud at the same time declared his do- cided preferonce for peace, the latter dec- Jaration being accowpaniod, s is ususl on such occaslons, with the diplomatio reserva- tions concerning national houor and so forth, The impression, fust gaining ground at the Courts of the sovoral European Powers, is that the Ozar, having commenced an epistolary campaign, will extend his correspondence, and will soon inform the other European potentatos ns to the details of his particular plan for curbing the Afos- lem and protecting the Christian inhabitanta of tho provinces of European Turkey, The opinion is daily becoming more general in Europe that this Russian proposltion will be backed, if necessary, by arguments which will convince the other Powers that the Ozar has dotermined to attempt, at least, the solu- tion of tho question which has 8o often, and undor s0 many guises, presented itsclf to the soveroigns of Eunrope, e r———— The Chicago produce markets were active yesterday in grain, quiet in provisions, and genorally firmer, Mess pork closed @100 per brl higher, at $10.65 for October and $16.12)@15.15 sellor the year. Lard closod 2}@60 per 100 1bs higher, at $10.80 for Octo- ber and 89.45@9.50 seller the year. Meats were steady, &t To for summor shoulders, boxed, 9o for do sbort ribs, and 9o for do short clears, Lako freights wero quict and stronger, at 83@8}o for corn to Buffalo. High- ‘wines were firm, at $1.08) pér gallon. Flour waa in good request and 10@12§c higher. ‘Wheat closed 20 higher, at $1.09F for Octo- ber and $1.10} for Novembor, Corn closed 1@3o higher, at 456}o for October and 4ijo for November, Osats cloged jo higher, ot 83§@3330 for October and 8330 for Novem- ber. Rye was firmer, at 62}o. DBarley closed easier, at B2}@83¢ for October and 8% for Novomber. Hogs were activoe and firm, at $5.76@0.25 for common to choica. Cattlo wors in moderate demand and un. changod. Bheep wore active and firm, Last Satarday evening there wns in stora in this city 1,185,419 bu wheat, 1,745,142 bu corn, 866,402 bu onts, 120,347 bu rye, and 470,538 bu barley, Ono hundred dollarsin gold would ‘buy $110.00 in greonbncks at tha close. ALL HAIL! COLORADO. The Intest information received up to 2 o'clock this morning from the Colorado elec. tion yestordny indicates almost boyond ques- tion that the youngest sister in tho family of States has eignalized hor ndmission into the Union by the election of tho entire Republi- can ticket, Two yonrs ago Parrenson, Dem- ocrat, was elected to Congress by a majority of 2,168, and the roturns alrendy at hand from tan counties show gains more than suf- ficlont to overcomo this mnjority. In Arapahoe County, the most populous in tho State, and which in 1874 gave a Demo- cratic majority of 848, the entire Republican ticket was elected yestorday by a mnjority of 800, being n Republican gain of Gi8. In Boulder, Bent, Clear Creek, E! Paso, Gilpin, Jefferson, Las Animns, Park, and Pucblo Counties Republican gains in the samo pro- portion are given, and there can bo little doubt that the counties yot to bo heard from will show n corresponding gain. Somo fears hiad been entertained of lLeavy Demo- cratic majorities in the districts chiofly in- hobited by Moxicaus under the domi- natfon of the Catholic priesthood, but wo bolievo it is safe to conclude that tho general revulsion of political senti- ment among tho intelligent votors of the State has moro than overcome the Domo- cratio strength in tho regions where igno- ranco nnd superstition prevail. At the cloction yestorday the full State ticket, mem- bers of the Legislature, and a member of Congress were voted for, and the success of the Republican nominees throughout insures the election of two United Btates Sonators and three Ropublican Presidential Electors to be chosen by the Legislature. The Re- publican State Central Committee claim o victory by 2,000 majority, and & majority of forty on joint ballot in the Xegislature. Putting this with the Iarge Republican gain in Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut, who can doubt that the great mass of the American people aro not yet prepared to swrondor theo 'Gov- ernmont to the controel of its former enemies? Tho change of oyer 4,000 votes in Colorndo furnishes the latest and best assurance of the genoral result in November. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, The Confederates gouerally, and Gov. Twpex in partioular, have regarded Mr. Cumanixs Fnanow Apaus 03 a tower of strength among the ** Liberal Republicans,” indopendent voters, and that class of citizens who, though not willing to identify thom. selves with tho Confederate party, may possibly beinduced to vote for Mr, Tmpex under the fond delusion that he is & *“Re- form” candidate. It was on this nccount that the fia¢ went forth to nominate Mr. Apaus as the Domocratic candidate for Gov- ornor of Massachusotts, this being the means adopted to fasten him to the TiLpen cause. It will bo remembered that Mr, Apaus four years ago intimated a willingness to act with tho Liberal Republicans, but that he subse- quently accopted an appointment from the Ropublican Administration, Having as. JBured Mr, Apaxs for TILDEN by his nomina- tion, the next stop wasto spread abroad some of his letters making a formal declaration of his adheronce to the TrLoex cnuse, and the Associated Pross was used as a means of con- veying them alike to Republican and Demo- cratic readers. It looks now as though this will prove to bo an error, so for ns Mr, Apaus' ability to influence Republican votes ia concerned, for his free-and-easy referonces to the Republican party aud some of its prominent men have prompted Mr, BLave to produce a page of Alr, Apams' record which is timely, and the samo ageney of the Associnted Press hos dissominated it, That page, we ara confident, will do more to do- stroy Mr. Apaws’ influenco among all men who ever voted the Republican tickot than 1o can over hopo to rogain by writing lotters sneering at Gov. Haves and in support of the Btate-Bovereignty candidate, TiLoex, Thae olection of LiNcoLy was the triumph of tho Ropublican principle of exclusion of slavery from the Territorics and its further extension. Bolween his olection and his in. suguration thore intervened s scesion of the Thirty-sixth Congress, of which Mr, Ominres Francis Apass was o member from Massa- chusetts, In this Congresscame the discus- slon of tho right of secession and the treat- mont of the States that proposed to with. draw from the Union. A Special Committee of Thirty-threo was appointed on the State of the Union, of which Mr, Apans was member. That Committeo reported a com- promise, in which it was ngreed to abandon the prohibition of slavery in the Territories and to amend the Constitutlon so that no future amendmont could bo suggested for the abolition of alavery except it should come from the slavoholding States, ‘Tho only utteranco mado by Mr. Apans in that session of Congress was a speach deliv- ered by him Jan. 81, 1801, in support of the wreport, and in which he abandoned the principles whereby the Re- publican party had achleved its recent vic. tory, gave & virtual adhorence to the dootrine of Blate Bovereignty, sud favorod, if worst came to the worst, lotting the Becesslonista dismember the Union withont any effort by force to prevent it. After a complete abandonment of the Re- publican principle that slavery should nover be extonded in the nation, and coming to the proposed amendment of tho Coustitution prolibiting any amendment in tho future abolishing slavery without the assent of tho slavo Btates, Mr, Apaua sald: 1 confess, Mr, Bpeaker, that Iahould be very Jealous, na s citizen of Masiachusotts, of any at- tempt on the part of Virglala, for exampie, topro- poko ansmendment to the Conatitution designed to rescind or sbolish the bill of rights profixed to our own [L ¢, M: husetts) form of Governe ment. Yot Icannot see why sucha proposition would be more unjustifiable than any counter proposition to abolish slavery in Virgluia as com- ing from Massachusetts, That is to say, Mr. Apius, ¢t the very ontbreak of tho War, thought that the prop- ouition to obolish elavery was as infamous a8 o proposition to enforce slavery upon froo Btates, and o forever guard egainst it he supported a constitutional amendment por- petually prohibiting the abolition of slavery except when brought forward by the slave THE CHICAGO TRIBUN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1876. Staten, added ¢ ‘Tho Committeo have reported a proposition to meot this case. It 1s & form of amendment -of the Constitution which, in aubstance, takes awny no rights whatever which the froe States ever should attempt to uso, whilst it vests exclusively in he slave Statos the right to use them or not ns thoy think proper; the wholo treatment of the subjeet to which they relato being conceded to bo a matter of common intereat to them, exclusively within thelr Jurisatction and subject to the!r control, Now, the Northern States having sinco dono what Mr., Apams then declared they had no right to do, ho acts politically with the men who belleved aa he did, and who 8till beliove that they have beou plundered by what Mr, Tuoex called **trespassors.” Is Mr, Apays, then, sny more likoly te op- pose the Confedernte claims for tho payment of thoir loases in the War than Mr. TiLpEN himaeelf? o is further barred from oppos- ing such claims now becauso he was then opposed ta coorcion in case the proposed coucessions to the South were not nccepted and the Btates should insist upon withdraw- ing from the * Lengue.” As to this ho said: Some of the friends with whom I act have not hesitated to express themsclves In favor of coer- clon; and they havo drawn very gloomy pictures To strongthen his position, he of tho fatal consequences to the prosperity and se-" curlty of the whole Unlon that must ensue [ e, from a division]. For my own sake I am glad T do not partake 80 largely of these fears. 1sec noob- stacle to the regular continuance of the Govern- ment In not luss than twenty States, and pethapa more, the Inhabitants of which have not in & mo- ment been deprived of that peculiar practical wia- dom in the management of -thelr atlaira which is the secret of thelr past enccess, Soveral mew States wlll, before long, be ready to take their places with us, and make good In part the loss of tho old ones, Having thus admitted the possibility of the Southern Btates not accepting the conces- sions ho proposed to make thom, and having dismiased tho idea of cocrcing them back to their alleginnce, ho contomplnted serencly tho formation of a distinct Governmont. “The now Confederacy,” he said, ‘‘can searcoly bo other than a secondary Power; it can never bo a maritime State,” ote. Itis just as well that these utterancos of CoanLes Fnaxcis Apausin the hour of the nation’s peril shonld be recalled, and they certainly throw considorable light on his present will- ingness to associate himself politically with State-Soveroignty Tiupex and the conquored but irreconcilablo Confodorates of the South, In Toe TrnUNE yesterday wo published n portion of 3r, TrLpex's letter to Judge Kexr, dated Oct. 25, 1860, in which he labored to prove that the Ropublican party was an or- gonization for unconstitutional purposes; that its succoss and attompt to treat the Government ns that of n nation possessing notional powers would necessarily violato aud destroy the Constitution, and would lead to tho withdrawal, or, as ho put it, wonld ‘*drive” the Southern States out of the con- federation. Ho founded his argument upon tho old and familiar doctrine that the United States are not a nation; that the Government of the United Biates is not n National Gov- ernment ; that the United States are but a confoderacy of equal, independent, and sov- oroign States, who have appointed a Fedoral Agent at Washington, not represonting the poople of the United States, but act. ipg as the agent for thess movor- eign Stotes, united as a confederncy for certain purposes, and which have never surrondered their independence. Mr, Tir- DEY, in view of the threatoning condition of affairs in October, 1860, sppoaled to the Re- publican party to abandon the theory of nationality, and of governing the United States 08 a nation, and to retrace their steps to the doctrino that the United States wero a mere partnoership of distinct sovereignties, a confedoration of States, “vesting only tho powers apportaining to our foreign rolations and to certain specifled common objects of n domestionature inn Federative Agency.” He argued that the SBouthern States woré keonly alive to the true principle on which tho Gov- ernment was founded, and thoy would nover submit to any other; and Mr, LiNcoLy, as the Exccutive head of the Fedoral Govern. ment, *“would be in substance the Govern- munt of one people by another people”; in foct, would be to the Bouthern States a #foreign Government,” - Ho thus defined tha relative powors of the Btates, ignoring from beginning to end the existonco of a National . Governmont : Each scetlon 18 organized into States with com. plete governments, holding the power and wielding the sword. They are held together onty by a com- pact of confederation. + + Theaingle, elen der, conventlonal tic which tolds the State in con- federatlon has no strength compared with the com- pacted Intertwining fbres which bind tho atonm of human society into one formation of nstural growth! . . . The masters in political science who conatrncted our eyutom prescrved the State GQovernmenta a3 bulwarks of the freedom of fadle vidualé and localltics agalnst oppression from cen- tralized power. T'hey recognlzed no night of con. stitutional sccesslon; BUT TUEY LEPT NEVOLUTION ONUANIZED WUENEVER IT AIIOULD B¥ DENAXDED BY THE PULLIO OPINION OF A STATE,—LEPT IT, WiTH TUR POWER TO SNAP THE TIE OF CONFEDENATIOX A8 A NATION MIGHT BAZAK A THEATY, AND TO NEFEL COERCION A8 A NATION MIGHT REPEL INVABION, Tley caused us to depend in great measure upon the public opinion of the States, In order to main. tain a confederated unfon, The right of revolution being left to tho Btates by the Constitution, he ndds: No contract governing complicated transactions or relutlons between men, and applying permanent- 1y througli the changes inovitable In human nfTatrs, can bu effectual [f vither party intendod to construe or exccuto its provisions In a spieit of hostility to the substantinl objects of thowe provisions,—es- peclully ia this true of a compuct of confederation betieen the States, where there can be no common arbller inseated with authorlties and powers equal- Iy capable with thoss whick courts possess belween indlviduals for determining and enforcing a juat construction and executiop of the instrument, Having denied tho power of the * Federa. tive Agent " (tho Governmont at Washington) to continue anything, or to enforce anything, and asserted the power of the Btates to “snap * the ** slondor convontional tie which holds tho Btates in confederation,” nud to “repel coerclon” s nn invasion, he held socession as o finality, a complete disruption of the confederation, the evila of which might possibly be mitigated by subsequent troaties of pmity betwen the separated con- federacios, All this is in porfect keoping with his subsequent atatoment to Judge ‘UNDERWOOD, that every soldier whoinvaded & Southern Btate was a trespasser, lable in damages to tho owners of tho soil, This Mr, Tiroex, who holds this to be the theory of our Government, aspires to be Prosident~not President of the United Btates, but, ea he declared Mr, Lmcory would be, the * Executive Liead of tho Fed. oral Government.” Jery Davis was the # Executivehead " of tlio Oonfederated Statos of tho South, Mr, Trroex asks to bo elooted the ** Executive head of the Confedoration of States.” 'This theory of a confederatiod a3 opposed to a nation, and *“a Foderative Agenoy " as opposed to a National Govern. ment, and o confederation of Slatea held togother by “‘& slendor convontional tie” which any State may *“snap” at pleasure, and no power anywhere to compel submission to national suthority, is procisely the form of Governmont now demanded by the ¢Bolid Bouth,” No wonder that tho horoos of tho lost causo aro n unit for'Mr, TinoEN. Mr. TiroEN offers to re-eatablish the theory of a ‘'Confodernte Governmont”; if elected, he will take into the office all lis provious judgmenta and the sontimonts of those he ropresents. In spenking of Mr, LincoLy'a clection, he thus defined how & President must bo governed: What will Mr, LincoLy do? Can ho bo expected, a8 Presldent, to underatand the state of things in any other sense than that of his own partisan poll- cy? Can he avold the attempls to malniain the noirer of his party Ly the same means which will hace acquired UF Can ke emancipale himaelf from the dominton of the ldeas, assoctatlons, and influ- ences which will have accompanted hlm in Als rire to powerf Can ho be expected to act In any nosw direction with sufiiclent breadth of view and firm- ness of purpose? BMr. Tiuoes thus tells in advance that if olected he cannot emancipate himself from the dominion of the idens, and nssocintions, and influences to which ho will owe his eloc. tion, Having been elected while avowing that the War in its incoption and prosecution was in direct violation of the Constitution; nan usurpation of power 08 infamous in prac- tico ns it was violativo of tho compnct; mere trinmph of forco over Iaw and vested right; and owing lis election almost exclu- sively to thoso who agree with him in this theory, who are scar-worn voterans of the Robellion to maintain this dootrine of Mr. T1orx, ho admits that he must, if elected, maintain the policy of those to whom he owes his rise to power, and cannot emanoi- pnte himsolf even if so disposed. Right on the threshold of his Administration he will bo confronted by a majority of the Demo- cratic party in both Houses of Congress ask- ing compensation for the damages and losses sustained by their constituents in the * inva- sion" by armed troops to compel tho citizens of indopondent States to submit to the usurpations of Federal Agency, falsoly and illegally colling itsclf the Governmont of the so.called United States, The ropresentatives of theso States will show that thoir Innds were occupied; theirlive stock taken, the property of the States soized and destroyed ; the men who sought to defend their proporty shot down, or captured, or wounded ; their slaves induced to run away, leaving lands unoulti- vated and crops ungathered; their ports blockaded, aind their intercourse with other nations cut off ; and four years' subjection to tho desolation of civil war. They ask that tho *Federal Agency ” shall make compen- sotion, and they ask Mr. TioeN, ns the * Exccutive head of the Confoderation,” that Lo giva his official signature to the appropri- ations. They Isy before him his letter to Judge KenT, in which their whole case is fully argued, and ask, Can Mr. TupeX eman- cipato himself from tho ideas to which he owes his rise to power, or the policy of the party to which he owes his cleotion? For instance, they lny before him a bill making appropristions to enable the State of Mis- souri to pay $8,000,000, and tho Btate of Al- obama $80,000,000, to the citizens of thoso States who, while engaged in * repelling in- vasion " of armed troops from the North, sustained losses {o thess amounts, Will he approve such an appropriation? How * can he avoid ” doing so? How can ho * eman. cipato himself from the dominion of the » . influencos which have accompanied him in his rise to power"? Will he approve 4 bill (now pending in Congress) which roads s follows : Delt enacted by the Senale and ITouse of Repre- sentatives of the Uniled States of Ameriea in Con- gressassembled, That the Becretary of War be,and hois hereby, anthorized to allow ressonable com- ‘pensation to all citizens of the United Statos forthe uso and occupation of thelr property by the United Stateaarmy, or any part thercof, duringthe late Clvil War, in the samo manncr and under the sawne regulations as compenuntion {a now allowed for Quarternaster storea used by sald srmy: Provided, howerer, That the sfdavitof the clalmant, sup- poried by the competent testimony of any roputa- ble citizen, shall be sufiicicnt proof to establial the fact of the neo and occupation of such property by saldarmy. Butit lsnot the Intentlon of this act to limit the partles to the amount of proof hereln specified; but other and additional testimony may be takon to catablish the fact of the use and occa- p;xtlllnn, and the rental value of tho property occu- pled, That bill, though it call for an appro- printion of a thousand millions of dollars to men engaged in the war against.the Govern. ment of the United Btates, is founded *‘on the idens, associations, and influonces which will have accompanied Mr., Tizoen in his rige to power,” and ‘“‘how can he,” as he has himsclf asked, ‘‘emancipate himself" from the obligation he is under to those who elect him ? Mr, Trpen's secession and * confedera- tion " idens may rally to him as President the “Bolid Bouth,” but at what a cost to the nntion! The payment of the whole loss of tho War is a nocessary aud logical result of his views of the character of tho Government and the illegality of the War. His election will bo not only a formal lsying down of Amorican nationnlity, but the roparation of the losses sustained by the Bouth will involve the wholo country in overwhelming financial ruin, THE SOUTH CAROLINA OAMPAIGN. If any reader of Tne Tamuss has any doubta about the intentions of the ex-Rebels of the South to carry the clection in Novem. ber by forcibly overriding the Republican wsjority, we commend to him the statoment of Gon, WorrnioroN, the Collector of tho Port of Charleston, 8. 0., which was printed in our laat issuo, setting forth the political gituation in that city, It should bo remom. bored that at an honest election, where every man is allowed to cast his voto unmolested, the Ropublicans have a majority of nearly throo to one, and that in Oharleston alons the have a clear majority of 8,000 .votes. South Carolina is a8 certainly o Republican in fact as Illinois, Iowa, or Kansas, and yet the ex-Rebols aro confident of carrying it in November, Of course, with such a heavy majority ageinst them, they ocannot do it honestly or lemtimately, Gen. Won- THINGTON'S statoment of the condition of things in Olarleston sufllciently explains how they propose to carry that city, and the wholo State as well, for Trpey, Charleston is an ormed camp, Its streets are filled with soldiery. Cannonare planted in conspiouous localities. Negroes aro so terrorized that thoy fear to express any opinion at all or to hold meotings. Whito Republicans are con. stantly subjected to taunts, jeers,and insults, with tho hope tlat they will resent them and thus give tho Confoderates an excuse for violence. Gen, WorTHINGTON himself says: ¢ Whenever my duties cali me awsy from the Oustom-House, I am coustantly insulted by jeers and oursos from the so-called best young men of Charleston, No eplthet is too obsecone or Jow for them to apply to me.” It will be observed that these men who are sosking to provoke white and black . Republicans into open quar. rel are not bummers, roughs, and rowdies, not the lower classes who hate negroes, but the chivalry of Charleston,young men of the oldest families, who boast of family trees, have bluo blood in thelr veins, and look down upon the Northern mudsills as beneath thelr contempt. Thoy are men who are nob actunted by nny sudden impnlse, who are not worked np with frenzy by politicnl ora- tors, who are not led nbout like sheop by demngogues. ‘They have coolly dotermined that the Itepublicans of that city shall bo disfranchised, aud that thoy will accomplish it by force. This frightful condition of an- archy is not confined to Oharleston. All over tho Btata the Ku.-Klux Kians ero mus- tering in strength, and BuTLen, the hero of the IInmpton massacre, s at the head of o strongly.armed force in Aiken County, which lias already commonced its work of murder, In other counties theso Klans make nightly visitations to plan. tations, shooting aud whipping colored men, and compolling them to join Demooratic clubs, The Ropublican lendors are ostrn. cisod. Their homos nre broken up, Their business is rained, The rank and filo of the party are kept down by the shot-gun, ro- volver, and bowle-knife, ‘What is the significanco of all thin? Why ia the City of Olarleston in tho handsof o military mob? Thore is no danger that tho Confodorates will be disfranglised, No ono hins over intorfored with their right to vote, No ono Lis ever Uireatened to do so. Thero is nothing to hinder tho polling of every Democratic voto in South Carolina, provided it is cnat honestly, As there is no necessity to protect their own votes, tha only object of this military preparation must be to pre- vent Ropublicans from voting, and thus overcome the Republican majority by in- timidation of votors, and, whers mtimidation will not succeed, by open violenco and fores of arms, The men who took up arms ngninst the Govornment have now taken up arms ngainst the Republicans of the South, What they cannot accomplish with the ballot they now propose to accomplish with the bullet. And these ore the men who are continually prating of roconciliation and depreeate waving the bloody shirt! These are Judge TruapuLy's “ new mon " who want to clasp hands across the bloody chasm, The North will answer them in the words of Geon. Har. R180N, Republican candidate for Governor in Indinna, answoring tho taunt of tho bloody shirt : 8o long a8 the Demacratic party prefers to honor those whose only claim fa thelr record of hostility to the Unlon, and so Jong ns they contlnuo to taunt us for fdelity to thoe country, just so long we will march under the ** bloody ahirt.” When thoy ‘purge their party of tho leprosy of scccsalon, and prescnt candidates whose records are falr during the times when the country needed men to main- tain its honor, then we will bury the *‘bloody elirt " In the grave withthe lonored corpse who woro it, and not before, THE RUSSIAN PROPOSITION. The Turco-Servian imbroglio has taken o now and interesting shape growing out of tho action of Russin. Tho Ozar hias sont a letter to the Emperor of Austrin sotting forth that, 08 the Porte counot bo relied upon to carry ont the reforms contained in tho poace prop- ositions, Russin and Austria shall jointly oc- cupy Turkey and soo that thoy are enforced, In n conference between the Russian diplo- matists and Count ANpRassy, which preceded tho Czar's lotter, no doubt wna loft as to the Ozar’s determinution with reference to the future of the Sclavic provinces, Bosnin and Herzegovinn, like Servia and Roumania, are to have their own Christian Govern. ment, and be entirely independent of Tur- koy, oxcopt in the mattor of tribute. Itis not likely that the Porte would ever carry out such a sweeping reform s this, and the proposition of Ruassin is therefore o very rational one. Austrin has sont an answer to the Russian letter, but the naturo of the re- ply has not yet beon made public, oxcept in the intimation thatthe Russian proposi- tion will bo brought before tho other Powers for discussion. Itis altogether likely that England, when tha proposition comes up, will bitterly oppose it, not becausa of the semi-indepondonce demanded for Bosnia and Herzogovina,—indeed, Mr, Grapsrtoxe has been indorsed in this identical domand by the English people,—but bocauss of her foars of the design of Rusala upon Constantinople and her suspicions that, once in active ocon- pation of Turkey, Russia might improve the advantage to mooure hersolf in the posses- sion of an ontlet to the Moditerranesn, and thon procipitate tho Eastern question upon England again, The London Z%mes has already sounded the alarm by insist- ing that neither Austrian nor Russian fleots shall watch tho . Bosphorus, and that if tho Govornment of the Czar insists upon oconpying the Bclavie provinces *‘ every country in Europe will sny that itsnrdent championship of tho Christian subjects of the Porte isn cover for designa of conquest, ond dreams of Pan-Selavism will sproad gonoral alarm.” Tho only answer to this amusing instance of English suspicion and joalousy is that England is also noting upon her own selfish policy rather than for tho good of tho OChristinns. Whatever the position of England with regard to the Rus. sian proposition may be, thare is no doubt that it is dovised in tho bost interests of tho Bolaves, and is the only gunrantee of their immunity from Tuarkish persecution and tyranny. The nations which have no intereat in the Eqstorn quostion will undoubtedly be glad to see Russia ocoupy theso provinces and enforce tho reforms, oven if England should objeot to it. A struggle upon this question must come sooncr or later upon some protext, and perhaps the protection of the Christian is ns good a pretext as any other, MR, TILDEN'S INCOME TAX, There is one point in tho controversy over Mr, Truoex's income tax upon which both his enemies and apologists agree, viz,: That Mr, Tuoey made no roturn of hia income for eight yoars, but merely paid upon the asacsgmont the Government officers mada sgainst him, with the penalty thereon. His apologists claim that he cannot be blamed for dolng this, beoause (1) a great many other peopls did the same thing, and (2), to quote the language of his own defonso, ** the statute gave hun tho option to tako that course,” There {g o curious confession of & lack of all moral gense in this defense, As to the first renson, it means that a crime or vice which has bocome common loses {ts criminal or viclous character on that nocount; as to the second, it means that Mr, Truoen had a moral right to escape a tax due the Government, or a part of it, it hecould. Whatever standing this may give My, Tioxx in a court of law, if suit be ‘brought against him for the recovery of that portion of tho tax he withhotd, no code of morals we have ever heard of will justify him in the position ho has pssumed. The faot atill romains that he failod during cight years to pay a tax on his full income,—of which the Government was gorely in need,— and that he evaded it by refasing to comply with the law requiring him to return his full income, But tho fact is that the statuto did not give Mr. TruoeN the option of returning or not roturning his income as ho saw fit. It was mandatory. The following is the language of tho statute applying to the returns: BEOTIOR 118, Andbs 1§ Surther enacled, That ' 1t ehail be the duty of all persons of lawfal mako and render a iist or return, {n such form and manner an may ho preseribed by the Commissioner of Intarnal Revenue, to the Asulstant-Asacssor of tho district in which thoy reside, of the amount of thelr income, gaine, and profits, as aforeantd; and all guardians and trustoes . . o o sball make and rendera llst, as aforesald . + o+ of the amonnt of fncome, galns, and profits, of any minor ot person for whom they sct as trustoes; and the Asststant-Auscssor shall require evory llat or re- turn to bo verified by the oath or afirmation of the party renderingit, « . . And Incase any per- 20n, guardinn, or tenateo sAall negleel or rafuse to make and render auch list or veturn, or shall ren- der a false or fraudulent st or return, 1t shall bo the duty of tho Assessor or Assistant-Aszsessor to make stich 11t according to tha best information he can obtaln . « .+ . and toadd 25 per centum {afterward increancd to h0] as @ penally, W tho amount of the duty duo on such lsts, inall cases of wiliful neglect or rofusal to make and render a 1int or roturn, and n all cases of a fraudulentlist or tefurnhavingboen rendered, fo add 100 per centum, as a penalty, to the smount of duty nscortained to be due, theduty and the additions thereto 0s pen. ity to be nssessed and collected In the mannor provided fur in other canca of willful neglect or re- fusal to rondera llst or return, or of renderinga falec or traudulent return. So far'from thore being any option on the part of tho citizen, it becomes obligatory upon him to make tho return, which isshown Ly tho fact that the law attnched a spe- cinl ponalty wherever this duty.was neg- lccted. Mr, LrupEn might, with equal jus- tico, claim that it was optional with him to make his sworn return either trio or false, sinco tho law likewise provided o similar pen- alty whon a fraudulont list was roturned. But it has already been docidod by the United States Circuit Court in Rhode Island that tho pnyment of an Income tax as nssessed with the ponalty thereon, which was procise- Iy Mr, Hazanp's ease and is TrwpEn's also, does not relense tho citizen from liability for the tax on nu actunl ncome in cxcess of the nmount nssessed. Thus logally na well as mornlly, Mr, Tizpzy is still a dobtor to the Goverument for tho tax on his income for oight years in excess of the nverage $15,000 on which ho was assessed, The sum rocofered from Mr, Haz- anp wns' $17,451; probably $100,000 may be recoverod from Mr, Tizpew.- 'This decision of the United States Girouit Court is strongthoned by tho faot that it follows a prinelplo laid down by the United States So- prome Court in 1873, afirming the rigl{i of the Governmont to suo for o tax nobwith. standing it may have nssessed o ponalty ns provided by tho statute. The cnso against Mr. Trupey, then, even on the facts as admitted by his apologists, is that ho is legally a debtor to the Government for a tax on Lis income during cight years in oxcess of that actually assessed ngainst hl‘m, and that, morally, he is guilty of swindling the Govornment by choosing to violata the law and not return his income, for the pur- poso of escaping a portion of the tax. Is thot tho sort of man for ‘*‘Reformers” to oloot Prosident of tho United States? ————— TIDEPENDERT JOURNALIEM. When the Associated Press trunsmitted Cuanses Fancis Apans' letter to the Mans- field, O, partisan mecting, putliug and lauding TiLDEN, and upholding the Confederate party, attacking the Republicaus and belitiling Gov. Haves, the very * independent? Chileago Times had no words of reproof of the Press Agent for sending it. The lotter pleased the * old man’y he rolled it like agweet morsel under histongue. But a day or two lator this exclusively ** inde- pendent ™ journalist flew fnto o furious passivn at the same Press Agent because he had not prohibited the transmission of & roport of Sen- ator Jaxes G, BLAINE'S criticism of Avassand s letter. If he was afraid to let his readers sco what Senator BLaing sald in his Cincinnatd speech, why did he not suppress the dispateh? 1f he concluded to publish it, why docs he sbuse the Presa Agent for furnishing fttohim? Hc fa enraged at Scnator BLaiNe for his timely exposure of Apaxs' treachierous and cowardly amendment to the Constitution offered in Congress In 1861 declaring, in effect, that no amendment to the Constitution Inter- ing with slavery should cver be proposed In Congress unless by one of the slave States, and should never be adopted unless with the con- scnt of cvery slave Statel And tho cditor of the Z¥mes visits his wrath on the head of the Press Agent for not having concealed and sup- pressed it. Iow wonderfully Independent! It i8 dungerous to let its Republican readers sce the truth, % The Evening Post thus rcbukes the dastardly and partisan assault of the Zimes on the Press Agent: 9 Truths which cannot bemet ara to besuppressed; this 18 tho 7mes’ Idea of o nnwn-gnlhurhu# nesocios tlon. Thisanswerls amusing coming from tho Times, which londs its columnu chiolly with scabby criminal slush made up of rapes, adulteries, Ine cesty, and other crimes Illufll!{ called **namo- Jeas, " procured by **wpeclal " dispatches, bocauso A regard for public morals will not pennit thelr transmission through a repuiable press agency, and excuses itself for this gross crima ngainst soclety by pleadiny that [t {s 8. nowspaper's business ** to printull the nows''1 1t becomus squesmish dow und critical, beeaude o report is mudo of & creat political meeting in a largo city, in tho course of which one of ita’ ** roform " candidates Is proved 10 hisve publicly diegraced one of the noblest names in Amerlcan annals. 1t I8 mora than lembln that Mr. Surri will survive tho abnse of tho Zimes; it 1 ot at all probable that Apaxus wiil escape the damning argument of BLAINE, The followlog are some of the mottoes used in Democratic processions In Beptomber, 1861, in New York City, under the ausplces of the New York State Central Committee, of which 8. J. TILDEX was President: 4 despot has hie paradiso {meaning LiNcorn] and liberty hos her aoengers,™ ++ American soll scourgod by an unconditional degpot In Apitaitax LINCOLN, +'No more victima for slaughter-pens—mnot a man—not a dollar," +*1f Srwanp * tonches his bell* again, the peo- ple will stretch his nock." * *+T'ho Constitution we will obey, but arbitrary arreats we will realst unto death.® *+ Tha peoplo are ready to take vengeance on the advocates of civil war,* *+LaxcorN has murdered three whito men to free ono negro, " 4 ¥ree ballots oe fresbullels, Crush the tyrant LiNcoLx befora he crush 2 4 Iteslatanco to tyrauts {s obedience to dod, " *+Down with Bastilon." The Confederato papers are frantlcally calling for & combinatlon of tho *8olid SBouth" to de- feat Gov, Hayrsand put down the Republican party. The samo spirit anlnates them that fllled the gontle sccesslon bosom of Bam J, T~ DEN when he marshaled tho great peacc-sur- rendor meeting fn New York Clty who paraded under tho aforesald mottoes and bauners, —_——— ‘The Bt. Louls Qlob¢ is moved to comment on the fute of CaurriaLD beforo the bummers' #reform " conveution, and his subsequont withe drawal from the fleld, although nominated by the other factions Wegather from Mr. OAULTIELD's refnsal that ha la dimly conacious of his inabllicy to ropresent s great clity.” During a siugle session of Congress ho has shown himsclt a8 pretentious as ignarant; his onl; saplration has been to excoed the uarrownoss aal bitterness of his uygeegato party oy awolling tho liut of the individusl Lill-slingers, who have puzsled the public and appalled the intellect by the num- ber and foolishness of thu bills they have hurled upon the table. Overcome by remerso at tho wemory of so fruftless snd baneful a career, dr. CauLrizL rotives from the dolighits and dsngers of {nbllc life to glve the citizens of Chlcsgo an vppors unity of electing & "lll: entative who may have some qualifications for the work ho undertakes, e A correspondent, writing from Bycamore, who states that he formerly lved in Indlana, and moved Into Niinols in February, 1876, and ssks 1t he can lawfully vote in this State in Novem- ber, is informed that the Jaw of Illinols re- quires a person’s residenco in the State of one yearto entitlo any citizen to vote at any cloc- tion in Nlliuols, ——— Tho cable yesterdsy morning brought the nows of the death of Gezonos ALVHED Law- RENOR, au English litterateur of considerable celebrity. He was born fn Northamptonshire in 1827, was educated st Rugby aud Oxford, and in 1853 wus admitted to tho Bar, Maving in- herlted a fortune, ho wastnde, oy fesslon, and, eatablishing Mn?ne:l'f!::llz’ e devoted hinsell to lterature, a; “’ndon‘h, years ago he electrified all Buglang b first work, * Guy Livingstone, whidh H"h Y with great popularity In this country, 1y % lishors then besleged him for b, " I wrote " Bword and Gown," & l!cu-x-cn!'ul ke fl:gl? dozm; s;:.llzerflu, :mt they wers nnlvfiu:i ons of rat ang Sy d added nothing 1o Iy “ Admintatration h The Repabiy niliions of daliars sinte o Warly :"r‘edmw';:: tho dobt and tazation." I ftba nogt finy nction of we wonld l1ka ta sk, Whore I tt oroPerinesy milllons?—-St, Zouls’ Republican | Congeq)"*it05d Two-thirds of the money s 1 |, the creditors of the natlon, and the fiove holds thelr vouchers theretor 1n g, |lr"me“ eanceled bonds; tho reslduo Is tn the i, d taxpayers,—the motiay not having leen ‘I'“ for, by reason of reductlons thay wurenl:h] taxation, Hadely ands of ——— It biegina to look asif Hoasat wij) but who will refund the money :;:?flw; purchnsing tho bummers and lgaf, sy Lim in nomination? 78 that puy PERSONAL. Tho streats of Now ¥ Westorncrs, ork are awarming yy, John Dillon 18 traveling in K, Perkyn Allddlectck tn Our Toya,n Minnesota papers now take son, calllug Missonrl **the Robbor' P Qen. Sherman says the troops winter quarters until they havnpbe;!ll:rlxlnl::llnltlal:m Me. Duyerd Toylor notlces thit Wiy o Bcward fa the first New-Yorker to be hon, o astatuo In New York, red wiiy ‘Walt Whitman ia to read s poom of the unvelling of a bust of l"rhom: l“finfimnn dependenco Ifall, Philadolphia. i, The Boston Advertiser guardedly sa, othy Titcomb's new book duscr\'zl n’: \:-::1‘ Em' read as Dr, iolland's earlier ventures, W Prof, Iusley's narrative docs sturdy faith of tho Now York Zimes, e ! induces that admirable journal to v[m\lm:“ 4 Juwish cosmogony as superlor to ol others, Y Mliss Ella Drow, & young lady of B rocently presented with o gold cross Ap::l.f;,",‘u;}' marked, in recoguition of lior Lravery s child from deawning at Downor Lunding, Ang. Two variety performers were marrled un’ m‘ slage In Cincinnatl last Sunday night, A 1,,' company witnessed the ceremony, nnd were x;‘ galed at its close with & comic song by the br'; and an Irish jig by the bridegroom, ¢ Tho Boston Journal thinka It was an || the Hopkins University in n-|unmnlz‘h.‘:|m (Twli: opened with an address from Prof. Husley, jag without & word of prayer or any recognition \7" b Crentor, although several clergymen wero present. The Rev, Willlatm Alvin Batlett was weleoned - a8 pastor of tho Bocond Presbyterlan Church In o, dianapolls last Bunday by an overflowing congre. g:uolr‘.l. !’}"- morning text was, ** God forbld thut | should “Blory, savo in the cross of o gl ur Lond Jerny ‘The English Duke of Sutherland has transformed 2,000 acres of moorland Into arable land, at 1 expense of £30 per acre, or $500, 000 for the whote, If the English noblilty alwaya obsorbed Jacd [y this way, thero- would be little complalnt of thel conduct. 2 Mr. Conway says that tho art of Gladstone's on. tory les i showing overy man that tho thingbe felt, but thought might bo foollsh, Is the magnitcens vlew, tho profoundest inslght, —which amounute ¥aylng that whatever & man thinks foollsh 18 likely to be wika, AMr, Wiillam M. Evarts lately sent to Mz, Ban. croft at Newport a present of pork and the cele. brated Centonninl oration, and expressed the o that the historian would enjoy both prolucts of his pen. The joke Is 50 laborod thnt itis fairts suspect some ono of having latn awake o'nighy {o construct it. Cella Logan writea to the Washington Chronlce animadverting sevorely upon the claracterof @t Iate Charlotte Cushinan. Mlss Logan claimsts know from porsonal cbservation that Miss Caibe man was parsimonious, envicns, and sclfin Whatever moy be thoucht of the justiceof thi estlnate, the fll-taste of it cannot Lo disputed. In hia annual address bofore tho Diocesan Coxr ventlon, Biskop Polter ralscd hix volce agalmt e bullding of cxpensive churchvs, except here ad there o grund and {mposing church for the people, 1lke Westmtnster Abbey, and eald he would birt the menans of parlshes applled to practical schents of benevolonco. He alyo advocated the establiih: ment of frea reading-rooms by the churchessss means of keoping young men from baunts of diste pation and vice. ¢ 3ir. Tupper, the Proverblal Phllosopher, Intends to remaln In the United States about six months, THls route is not as yet dofined, but 1t will Inclade tho principal Amorican citios. ¥a New York (iy hie will be the gaost of the Rev, T. De Witt Til- mage, and will probably make his firat public sp- pearanco In the pulpit of that emlinent divioe, H1s former visit to the Unlted States occurred fn 1851, when lie speat three montha [n the country. Emilo Erckmaun, of the celcbrated Fresch Wterary firm, 18 unmarrled, and rother Germsa than Fronch {n his appearance, Ile smokes aud drinks heer immoderately, and ls a ton of 8 md. Chatrian, his partner, haaa wlfe, three childres, and fivadoge, He constructs the framework of their varlous novi nd plays, while Erckms fOlls in tho datails. This system, which lsfo variably the one pursued, accounts for the uoity of atyle found in all their writings. Dr, Alpheus B, Crosby, In an address recentls deliverad to tho young doctors of licllevus Hoip tal, sald: ** An important matter 1o tho frequent appeal of & patlent approaching dlssolution fot roliglous consolation, In thosy cases I wosld nover, whatever my own religlous convictiot might be, tell & patient that tho gray substance s the braln fs the only God. Hold out some hiope 13 such cases,” Roverent students of medlclne st nnturally mach shockod at this mplied avowsled Atholam, A Parls dlspatch says: o'*A young Quiket named Nissol has baen sentenced at Marscilles 1 two montha' imptisonment for refusing to Jola bt Reservists, 1o declared it opposed to hisrelt: fous principles to bear arms, and on the Prestdest of thio Court-Nartia] trylng to pose bin ae o ¥bs Nowould do1f ho saw his father belng murdere ) ho replied that ho whould lot tho will of God best complished rather than violato hls religion :; using arms, His counsel stated that lel-na» Quakers, though not numorous, guve 5'm‘m francs for tho liberation of the tersitory sft last war, M 1t fo wel known that Twood was recogalzed "{ tho Sponish authoritics through one of Nasts »:ab toons, representing tho ex-Boss In tho sct of 7 ing o child, But It remained for the WYW' Times to suggest that this cartoon not only o nivhed the mesns of identifying Tweed "‘"", decelved the Bpaniah autharities s to lhu‘flfl“p tor of his ofense, so that bis extradltion wss P¢ mittod, The child waa & fgurativo porsonstioafy Justice, ut tho Spaulards gupposed 1has It W real, and that Tweed waa k!dnnppur-fl‘}d e though thenistake was afterwards dlscovere ey word of the Government allowing tho exiralicl to proceed could not bowithdrawn. 1018 TR, accurate statement of ;hg facl it £ all good Amerlcans to Nast vl old, JoTRL All}ulllux!;‘l;n 4 seutaer o 1., Cloveland, Willim cls, Hock Island; H. A, Whitlng, J.' Goms, Painesville, Mich.: ) Nashvillo; Charlos Adams, Now Yurki 8- ' 'p, Conkling, Omatai g, Tyemont Houas—A. 11 10 o ayoord, Apple Ve ubvillo; W, 4oV "“h'\ku"\vnmn.' ;fv'f“"'n)i 5 v Dlaying e eatiefact), aradine,n Increased ten-. va, J. C. Milwaukee; H. ¥, Qreen, Madlson; g a580) Towa; 3 . 'Jomes Castonoiiiy Grani Paeifle—Edward Perklos, Parlr, £ Dr. V. I, Coftman, Omsha; Gen. o 20, it Dos Molnes; Thomas Whitalaw, 3otd rles di William Whyte, Kiliyth, Bcotlty Cleveland; L. 'D. mlw’nfur Lugaiot 3 Dr. S e Denman, New York; 8. P ‘; v o ka; Luther Perkins, B e ksl 4, Convess, . Jobn_ Mitohill, Jr., Engl J. Vienns, Austria; T, K Littleteld, Toxss; G, M. i B, ootk G, MSibhqua; Vasenh £ Saéereit, London; W, 1. Bocase acaturs J. i ect 5 .J‘:.I‘x:n' W ek serantan, P ohuson, Auburn, L 4 we % , Rockford: Wis.; W. A. Biekgrun, Hocklort Baltlmore; C, 8. Gates, Lodl Wis