Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1877, Page 2

POLITICAL. Wisconsin Returns Increase the Republican Major~ ity to 8,000. Opinions of Prominent Men on the Reswnp- tion Act. Views of Messrs, McCulloch, Kelloy, Wells, Ewing, and Secre- tary Sherman, : A Specch by Senator Mor- ton that Was Never Delivered. 1t Discusses tho Southern Ques- tion, and Indorses Pres- ilent. Hayes® Action. The Sumner Question--Wen- dell Phillips ‘Replies to Ex-Secretary Fish, Surieks of Eastern Shylocks Oyer iho Silver Victory in the House. Comments of Massachusetts Pa- pers on the '‘Hayes Vice . tory" in That State, ‘WISCONSIN, SUMMING UP, Svecial Dispatch 1o The CAicaga Tribune. Mavwsoy, Wis, Nov. 10,—~Recturns come in sathier slowly, but continug to increase tho Re- publiean column, which will foot 8,000. The 8cnate will stand 21 Republlcans to 13 Demo- crats, possibly 23to 11. In the Asscunbly Re- publfcan districts in largze numbers Liave been lost, nud reports since yesterday indicate that the Republican force will not be wore than 48 of the 100 members, Tt will vrobably stand obout 48 Republicans, 40 Democrats, 8 Groen- Lickers, 3 Tndependeats, and 1 Boclulist. Of the Grecubackers more than -half ~of - them luve ulways been Republicans, and are 8o still . exccpt on finauelal fques- tlons. The Tepublican losses from Inst year haye been two in Racine, one in Konosba, L t Lock, one In Lm’arvnuc, two In Grant, one {n JelTerson, three in Miliwaukee, one fn Colum- Lwo in Junean, one in Moutoe, one in Por- ote In Foud du Lac, one I Winnebato, u_ Waupaes, one iu Manitowoc, onein 1 Luke, und ono in Brown, making 33. The gaius bave been one fn I ong in Eau Clulre, oue In La Croese, one In 1iculand, one (n 1. Crolx, making a total Republican loss of 17, Further ofticlal retuma received pt tho Sccre- tary of State's oflec are: Columbla glves Swlth 2,018; Mallory, 1,573 Allls, 103, Jackson gives Smith 8025 Mallory, 3013 and und 3 Alis, 531, Al‘f‘c"gf'm rives Smith 933; Mallory, 907 is, 5L, l;:‘rl'uu County efves Smiith 733: Matiory, 840; 3, 880, Rublee, Chalrmun of the Republican B Committee, publishes a card to-nlzht in which hie refutes the cbarge of ‘tho Democrats, thut large amounts of wouty bave beon used 1o tho campalgn, aud offers to shuw every dollar that s been speut, the umount onty reaching £2,000, nud that was ueed for legitunato ex- peases, such as the printing, expenses of mcet- Hy nlso bastaws Just prawe on thu chol, of Kansas, tur his valuable services In stumping the State, WALWORTI! COUNTT, Sperial Divpateh, (0 The Guraito Trbune, GENEVA LAKE, Wis,, Not Tho_follow- Ing officers were elected in this county, both befng Republicans: Levt E. Allen, of Sharon, Clreult Cleric: Fred Isbam, of Suwzmar Creek, Buperintemdent of Schools; the lndependent cavlidato elected was A, 8. Bpoouer, vl Dete- van, Districe Attoeney, ‘The Tollowing Itepublican Assemblymen wers elected fu this county: First Distrlet, -, M, AWrleh, of Spring Prafrio; John Pemberton, of Richmond; . Coe, of Whitewater, editor of_the segiater, I tho Senatorinl District, compased of Wal- worth and Kenosha Countics, Dr.B, O, ieynolds was clected by 1,600 mafority. ‘Tne Doctor 1s o praminent politiclnn, slite-long Republlean, and sleading cltizen of this State for thirty years, Hefs avativo of New York, aod is 52 yeéars of and in the primeof e, Durlug four T the War he was Surgeon of the 'Third nsin Cavaley, and hua been Muyor of Geneva for four terns. Dr. Reynolds wasa mewber of the Assembly In 1875-'0, and took o very prominent paet o the legislation of that sesslun, Ho 18 kuown [ig and wide us tbe wutlor of the various LIl for the lpm«ucuon. vrescrvatfon, and propagation of food talies, cod It was through his clloris that the Btate Latching-houses wero established ut Madison ond Milwaukee, THE RESUMPTION ACT. EX-SECHETARY -M'CULLOCM, JUDGH KELLEY, DAVID A, WELLS, UN. EWING, AND JOSHPI[ & KOPES EXPRESS TIRIE VIEW3—AUMMING-UL IY SECIETALY sHEHMAN. ‘The current number of the Aorth American Review gives the vpinfons of anuinber of gentle- men well kuown for their views on tinancial topics, uud representing the specle-resumption ond the iutlition sclivul, on the restunption of specis payments, Sceretary Sherman reviews them ali o the condudlug paper. Tlie followe 1uc extracts presout the salient poluts of cach vaper: OFINION OF HUGL ¥'CULLOCH. Shall the Redemption et of 1975 he repealed, and the restoration of the gold stundurd de- layed, uutdl, without the reduction of the volume of papcr money, it §s brought about by the vatural juercase of wealth and population? Certainly nat. The Resumption nee without supporting leyisiation was unwise, but the ro- peal of it would be more discreditable than the faflure: literally to comnply with It. Although there can be no reliable resumption until the gold coin of tho couatry spproxtmates imuch wore closely “than It now does to the paper fn cireulation, the Indieations are dcctded that be- fore the 1st of January, 1879, the wold preminm will besoreduced that 3 postponement of actual reautuption will pot prejudics the national credit. The act ought notto be repealed, but messares should st otice be sidopted for funding the legal- tender potes: Under existing law. these wotes ¢an be retired—not, bowever, below: 300,000, -y sales of bonds for puld and saleeof gold for notes, This Is not only a roundabout pro- vess, but'lt clotues the Secretary with . vower of disturblug the inarket which uight befimn- properly uscd. Fhe legal-tender notc—a de- ception frow the beguning—bave been o moct prulule sorree of mischief, aud there will be no icliable soundness In our fuanclal system, no cesaation of polttical strife over the curpency queation, until weans are provided for thelr ab- eolute withdrawal, This can be done, and witbout prejudice to trade b any ‘of its Liances, by uslmple re-enactment of the provia- 1ug fur the conversion of the nules futo bunds, without which, us 1 bave already remarked, the Legul-Tender uctsa could uot been passed Bonds beuring 4 or 43¢ per cent Interest would graduslly retire these notes, and, as retired, their placks would be flled with gold. None but wen of o bighly sanguine temperament wn expect that specde vayments cau Le resumed und wnantatued with §000,000,000 of paper woney fu urculstion. Tu supplement the amount of guld ju the couutry, 1 should favor sy jucressed fasuo of gold uotes. Fitty mill- lons of these notes. Lroperly distributed; wight bo safely held by the bauks oa past of their teserve, very few of which would ever be re- Surued for payment. Iu additiou to such s sle weasures as these, a time shoutd be fxed b aw, say the st of Jauuary, 1350, after wiicl United Btates notes should cease to be a lj seuder. QPINION OF WILLIAX D. KBLLEY. “The parslysts of the iodustries aud trado of the cowmeraal rations of the world, except France und {taly,—tho former of whiclh uses as _municipal und privato debts which now burden THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1877, resumption. nntll Congreas will pass money rold, #lver, and Irredecnab) per, and ich Into the support -of tha Rebellfon and rushed Atvl edand prrposeless at a timo when ftshoutd” tlon. ‘Crealt 18 a sensitive thing, an cdged-tool | nectasary for the mation to pavits del The lattem, whosn forcizn commeree, a8 we wero | an acti T Congress: would paas such an, [ headiong futo a dreadful war which drenched | have been united and unyielding. niok €0 bo handled nnadsisedly or trided with, | matutaio fta credit! Tho Jwant, rachte and »recently {nformed ny M. Lavaleve, it increasing | act it would qrm:l ald aod expedite | the land with blood. v “ Credo —* I belleya ' lells its whola story. o v Times, Tri more ‘raplaly than that of any other nation, uscs inconvertible paper money exclusively,—is dne to tha disrogant by Germany and the United THE SOUTAERN SITUATION TNB RESULT OF resnmption, and ) coridlally join with these gen- 1 RYENTS, we find the South to- tlemen in the hope that such a bill will pass, nnd advise them, If they think they ean .pro- uns, World, and Sun iscuss the 8 Aelr readers ind tovar vofure man ok Ul u8 it What roputation 1a to a man or a \woman erodit jure " thie subject fn thelr Jives, and - wer J4ing on SUMNER. 1n [n 8 pecinlary sense to a nation. It (s 6 thing Tho situation in which POILUIPS REPLINS TO FIST—GEN. GRANT ASD d were “depriv of air, mada anid unmada by a breathbut St is s | of the po e, anid were deprived States of two primal lawss Grst, that it Is labor | mote it, to get into Cangrees a8 #von as posl- | dny lina been prepared by o corse of eventa go- BX-SECRETANY FISIl ARTAIONED, TN o Fitat atre TTow imach iito will be tetb to | Pretue Jforer ot retiestlon. Conaldering the that supports soclety and provides revenne for | ble to hielp. 1 have tried the experiment with | Ing back to 1569, One State after another wag Duspateh to Nee York Times, our national credit Af this atariling projact of | passed the House by the rénmrkmllu Atready Fovernimentss and, second, that market-valnes | mach Iabor anil no success, What, then, fa the | wrested from the Republican partyby force, atl | PRILADELFIIA, Pa., Nov, 8.—Wendell Phitlips | e House hardeus Into L thougit the com- | F3TE and seoma kely 1 at e A ot nl e world aver adjust themselves to the volume | nse of distracting attention by new plans of re- | while the work of exterminating the Republivan | Jecturcd at the Acndemy of Musie to-nfeht on ty of the Senato and the acquicscencaof the | cording to nearcful catimate, Uy n vore f 'S of money (n use by the commerclal natfons at | sumption] 3 recelve on an averaga nhout ono q | party was steadily pursuerd from year to year, | Charley Bumner. In the conrsc of his remarks ceutivel - 27, would 1t ot be moro devent, mn'fut!:“r 210 any iven time. week, some of which are wild_and gome of | and Trom Stato o State, the most systematie | 1o hei occaslon to reply to cx-Presivent Grant *'MISCHIETOUS INFLATION MEASURE.! if onr sunrise contemporaries would emml"fi Tie Resumption act was the result of party | which contaln very good kdcas, I could furnish | efforts were constantly made_to dlsguiso the ply A N York Heratd. ould approd catcusand_ parliamentary tacties. 1ad debate been vermitted in citner Houre, the laws re- ferred to would have been brouglit to the atten- tion of the country, and the immense number of citizens who were already suffering from the withdrasal of the many forma of certificates of and the Mon. Hamilton Fish, in thelr recent statements as to why Mr. Bumner was removed from the Chalemanship of tho Scnate Commit- teo on Forelgn Relations. Ilc says.that to-day In Bostonthere cxlsts acontempt for the memory from the fles of the Finance Committee ns many plaus of resumption as thero are cities In the United States. Hut it Is manifest Lo prac- tical men toot no legisiation can be obtained fron Congreas cxeept rome simple ineasure that will afd the execution of the prescnt law, fucts from the peoply of the North. Tife mur- dernus outrages, e peraccutions and the ban- ishmenta, were boldly denled, and affidavita of thousands of witneases were denonnced as per- Jury; and brazen and audaclous cfforts were the conslileration of it asif it iniyl Have bio sides, and aa It |u‘mxvmm’~c‘,“;;;1:;’l\\§{ necessarily clther ldlats or thievest Fortunately, the sophist, niacs is so very transparent t| The mischievous Inflation measurc known ns the Bland Silver LI, which passed the House of Revrcsentatives yesterday by more than a ma- Jarlty of thd entfro number of members, tias, of these aurimg. we are_happy to eay, no chance of beeomlong o ntevery Teader witl Q12p0sc of 16 n8 ho ooy siane FoTt Torintally nade to throw tho responsibility Jaw. The Senate 15 ot at alltikely to pass 1ty | Zeniier WL Alenose of The, ] O T o ar sondn: and | (he dauzet being rsthes thas the opponents of | for all * disorders ~ upon tha . ftepnb. | of Sumner, ami whou his character was aseatied | and the Prosiont mas be rellei on to "Lrl::i."n:l for. anything n the :3:?9»’!5.:".,".“‘.’..:"{‘7%11}“.., held b{ The bauks as part of their rescrve, | resumption witl bo strong enough to arrest the [ licans of the Sonth, ~ Such was _the | by Grant snd Fish eyery editor fn Boston rush- n{rnny D ever, T b nol:““m an alfset to | thoush threc-fourths of the people of the whrid yroulfnse made themselvea heand, d would, | movements ready mae n st Mroetbons | lfectof thess dartuzidoniae, and of e syaety | ed o say domething vl the memory of | {hy deydorable spectacle of & malortty of tho | Git 'ay theiiinalsck theyaxos st e ity clicve, have defeated the measure, othe silverquestion, entirely withiu or endo g th ed, Lhi 0 only a8 merclin Lo 'OPINION OF DAVID A, WRILLS. of Conzress, rflny o n oSt chsential ald tore- | larze portion of the Republicans ot tho North i deceased Scnator. Theso editors never I:"S‘“‘" branch of Congress "m‘gfiofllfl"'wmw y chandisc; they assumne that our Goy. I from any cause the Government shall be unable to meet ita negotiable and adjusted abligations an fhe 18t of Junuary, 187, the obligation to pay intercst from the date esaw onythiog (o' Bumner to forgive him for being a candidate against Winthrop, and other things, They only sadfalred him for his decds, crniment Is lezally nnl moratly boun, bonds In gi'om alone, nunrmygh uu;l ::rmfn‘;: under which the bonds were hought -mlylmm guaranteed thelr ultimato redemption I coln’ ) " 3 sumption if contined either in the amount or moda of fssue or In its legal-tender quality, 1f fsmiedl without Hmit upon the demand of a de- positor of sllver bullon, it is the substitution ow at the Natlonal credit for sake of a little demsgogery. They stand. recorded In favor of the montimental dishonesty that such a breach of faith with the nation's ereditors beennio fneredulous, folded their hands, and many accepted tne views so Industriously put forth hy the perpetrators of the erimes, The political campnign, fn Missiasippl in 1875, by in Lis culogy on Sumner Mr, Ifoar gz th In Dase vol implies. Th rold or silver,” of the dollar then cus of failure would be in fall force and [ of asingle sllver standacd instead of the gold | which a Republican majority of 3,000 was over. s u o b | L pazing tuem. Jn, Tase’ bl mplles. The | pyo New York morning trent, cffect (the same as in a privato contract), Staidamn.” Whatevor dedsion Congrens may ar- | come, Isn Talo of nnmfr alimost too dreadful for | 8/d: ‘*1liatory wid uncover e which { geatfomen who Teglslate for tha "z'“’"','m of | Ludiatlon for the Tatton It’:‘;"{; |fl‘lu?¢!;u,:t, s re- and the valldity of this nbligation, according o | rive at on this question, the Resumptlon law helief. The Senate Committee sent into that | mars the whiteness of his fame." To-day Gem le!r 'ims(““w““ d?, not, wl?l !‘L"fll""c ‘"“;fl“ cise accordance with the law as it atood n’: ‘l"" {he Federal Constitution, cannot be questioned. | muat stand to prevent our paper nioney from | Stato, and visitig different partsof ft, tok the | Grant has mado a dlscovery which ho thinks their bralns with tho ramifications.of such a i Clearly, therefore, therels no alternative for Ialliug below the specte stamdard fixed by Con- gress. At present paper money is worth more than sllver, & eause the market valie of sliver bullion is greatly depreciated. The expectation of the redemption of our paper moncy in gold, with our_denionstrated abllity to o o, has brought it nearly to the standaru of gold, 11 silver alone should be alopted as tho stamlanl, tho paper will tall cven below that standard, time the delits wero contracted, aud as utderstod Ly both partica, The llllferi'}lm is thint then silver was worth a_Jittle tho most, dollar for dollar, and the bondhalders were wiiy ing to be paid in that; now, gold Is worth a little the most, and they Inaist on belug vaid In that, An a'matter of fact, however, it Wil inake nop the feast difference in tho world which mnga| they reccives for {C the silver dollar Is testoreq - most voluminous testimony, completely cstab- lishing the existenco of thoseterrible otrocitics; but this volune of evidenve, becanuse of its very size, was scarcely ever read, and was almost a sealed book. ‘The report made by the’ Commit- tee, giving A brict summury of that terrible history, was n‘s onve denounced ‘go the Demovratie papcts, loth North and South, a8 a tissue of falschools, What was_done fn thing as natlonal credit. A forelgn bondholder 18 a capltal Joke to them, and the thousands and thousands of savings-hank defiouwr whomn the bill would also rob, ars a pack of fools who do not know that robbery {s good for them, although they have. had so much of it lutely from thieves of another kind, It Is cnongh for ‘the dollar-of-our-dadilyltes. if soma potiticsl «quack has told them that silver ia a salve for mars the whiteness of tho great Senstor's fame, waa Amid his rounds of entertainment end pleasure In Europe Gen, Grant seizes the oo- wortunity Lo state that the foremost Senator in lnh dav was on habltunl liar. A Massachusctts man begs pardon of the Commonwealth even when lia condescends to notice the lie. Grant's charge was that Sumner had promlsed to volo the (overnment, on the 1st of Jaunary, 1879, but to_cither redeem its notes or payan ae- ceptable rate of interest upon them, or go into tmukruptey and unconstitutional repudintion, I from ady cause the Treasury is auable to re- ddeetn legal-tenders at the destirnated time, it s certainly competent for Congress, and alzo 1's dulybtu orler the notes presented for redemp- for the 8an Dominga treaty, when ho did not. 4 2 to the channcls of trade {t will e e ettt stia 0T | Whiea restmapllon 1n sivar 1 provided for by | Sinolnipp In ‘1926 was repeatea . Louistans | fien Berloy Pooro says Surafer did ot promiso | CYCryUing from soft bulls to hard thnes, Ttls | goid'in amonth, Wiy docs 0% sorse P interest from tho day of demand, This Is the | law, and Sonth Carollna o 187, and almost with | or expeet Jt c'vlmuun or l‘:)mun lha [l zrmr,nmmm ‘“'-";‘, paper discuss this question on fts morits,—| K3 e ol o sman oot s | Fiero I only one ot polnt us to tho Ho- | ke sowuits. o une can rok tho volumes of | *"ffaling Fhas tnteoduced n subject, e, | Ly can i sl maniel, S aOebatns | o tirac aioation gs o phonomenon, it artng we propose to walkin the path of repudiation. | sumption act that it {s necessary to mentlon, | testimony taken by tho Committeos In thoso two | Phillips contiuucd as followa: I will be gen- bulllon. “"0‘ Taud bill i stupldity and dishon- | 4ygq; . & g "Fhe issie before Congreas and tha nation is, | and that fs the abllity under it socura re. | States during this Jast winteraud for amoment | crous to both, and o buck and sco which sideis | ¢4 combdned. : o W {liem, as follows: Kedemption under the pres: | sumption, This, { submit, has been demon- | doubt that the Republican party, baving large | Jikely to he true. Sumnerand the nconls of TR no\v_.(v:fiu; og; ;’r‘ll:‘::rmns. MABSACHUSETTS ent. nct, payment of tuterest from date of de- | strated. The nccumulation of colu and the | majoritics In each, was overcoine by violence | Massachusetts had always been [riendly to the The balauce ‘of the world's jndgment Just | PnEss-COMMENTS ON TIR 4 fault, of repudiation to tho extent of the inter- | gradual retirement of United States notes will | and the perpetration of the most hidcouscrimes, | piack Governments in the West Inidies uso | now inciines to the single standard, and most | © & s UAYRS VICTORY" cst refused and repudiation cannot be bronght | unquestionsbly, if continued, produce speclo | But these volumes of testimony are ton numer- | they regarded them as sn experiment, and | nuthorlties on the subject think it tmuossinle £ fbout withiout positive measures an the part of | payments befors the timo flxed by law, Tna | ous and too large ever to be read by thio masses | waiched every whito man who attempted to A few extracts from Mossachusctts papery for any country to retain both gold and sfiver in circulation at the satne time, because there will_always bo fluctuations in their relative values, and the cheaper currency will {nvariably driye out the dearer une. A proposition to tev rapld changes that have already been made in the value of United States notes by the policy mlo‘lml for tho last aix months have heen nirked and deelslve, ond this has been accom- nanled and followed by a great Improvement In of the peuple, and the fucts contalned in them are, agaln, persistently denled. The enormous majoritics obtained by the Democratie candi- dates in November Inst in Alabama, Georgla, Arkansas, and Texas, are chicfly the result o UuuFrrsn, which are sure to be ahke condemned by the veto of the Exceutive and the judgment of Ihe country, OIINION OF THOMAS BWING, The rurpune of the Resumption law ia to de- i louk that way. Oue of the five polnts of their creed wus not to believe oo American. Weare asked to_believe, that Sumncr was asked by Qrant, whom he did mot belleve, to support something bo_kuew nothing about, It will show the Jizht [n. which they view the re cent ** Hayes victory .in thnt State: Mnssachusetts is Republican in spit olleior. and Gov, Ricis meriia te an Byt all the | {30 experiment of the double standard woulid | have proved superior to the disco etroy the greenbuck currency. It was hid by Its | all branches of {ndustry, ail has Leen favored, | the same causes and tho samecrimes committed | soldlers Grant took with him to Virginia were o trazement of mllhyo:'l;m'l;erl l.‘llm m,,ld n.:lmccm.;v‘-l-l,l,ul the | no dm'\ht. t:y‘ ll’]ru‘\"hm:‘te' in n.: K‘Il“ of ? !nrr'fl'l in Iarlxlncx'l Eca?‘“n\v‘llthlmrh '?'ffi nému !‘;Iurluh'f g? stand '2\ line and nl:{eu lr.u ""I no !:'I,‘.::'.‘i’u'fr'i'fifi';.u'ifi. l;\“ l‘:l;[:,‘ :ll.l;! ‘1“(“}:‘“::'::‘101"‘5 :g;{ :}:fiu‘i‘;m"“ platform.—Koston Traveller (Mal. Jaw will effect the early and complete destruc- | crop, for which there is a ready demand, 'The | enco has the truo condition of the So heen | Massachuset man _woul 8to] ong o % 3 Hom of the legal-tondcrn ta obviots. Trivhtcat Hnfog of the dark cloud depicted by | denied throughout the Admlafstration of Uen. " Would the sitver men aerecto this plan By cnough to laugh st it. Sumncr was a cautious man, and you are to suppose that he volun- tecred on this occasfon to throw away tho cau- tlon of a Jifctime and promiee to support some- thing ho knew nothing about, It 15 the most Massachusetts takes the lead, and 1) Btates will follow, From this mnn(ur:en;:l‘,hifx; policy of the President will grow stronger month by month, 1lls enemics and detractors The fall of values cousequent on this law has already nearly doubled all priyate debts, of which the aggregate fs about $7,000,000, or three and o half times our national debt. The no means, They hava constantly scouted it, ond have_replied to_all arguinent in its. favor with fouder clamor for the Hdollnr of "the fath- ers.’ It Isa mistake to call then: bl-metallists, some of the writers of fiese papers Is to o secit in the rteady pursult of this policy of rcsum‘y tion. Il the friends of resumption will only be content with the plan of resumption that is Grant that he wus unsupported, in his offoris to filvu protection to. the’ Repub- licans of the South, white und ULlack, by a considerable portion of the Republican party , will subside one after another, accepting th :l‘cmior-‘cllmn ll’lli'i"t:ll. bsn{lfl the clmld l;vurkeru‘ol mfi’l t\:;mnllihu l:lla‘llum-};ook ;cr;lrhu: m‘ll'l such :l’:r;:lu;‘!mwll‘::ulllg N‘n;-,m, and g‘gh: lfinian all‘ l; lr; prcpuutom‘ns claiin n}'% made. (\lvxm 'lll tllle ,5!‘:&;:; 'c'l'w'}.‘;',‘o,‘{‘(fm',"ffi ?g: GX:‘J] ?Hz'fr::‘-l ‘c"‘,‘::‘nlf(l;’::"rgl‘lg “"ll;l‘t‘! 1:;‘;‘:;‘1.0( 'Lll\fi muhlr:'; \vlll? he land, ‘[his luw ro! hem of thelr proper additional legisiation In sld of resumption as acl of Congress. lews irhicl accuracy.of memory of the great General who i and the masses closes thelr mercantile atd manufacturing - cas, In its wisdom, inay nce proper to | expressedl fn regard to the condition of tho A £ & backs were not now worth inore thun silver, of tells thls. In the samo conversatlon he sald Mr, Motlay had so offended_litm that ho got very angry, *and I wanted Me. Fish to dismiss him on the epot.’ But the cautious Secretary sald: *No, not yet. There Is Sumner watch- fugz the Sun Domingo Lusioess’ *Then write llm o severo letter and ccusure him,' sald Grant. Unfortunately for the great Generaly that letter 18 ou file nt the State Department.” Mr. P'billlps then read to the audicnco o letter from Bccrnulrr Fish to Mr. Motley, dated June ich! the people will risc and make themselves lieand, Hayea may. well fecl lappy to-day, He nag 5ulnc|l a great, o declsive victory, — Worcester Jazetls (Ytraight Lep.). ‘The signal triumph {s most timely, becanse (4 cotnes at a crisis in the history of the Repubtican P:“’ when o positive and emphatic declaration nceded toscatter doubt aud despondency, ang bld the great nationnl party take hixher ground, It Is the volce of the great Republican parly in the most. {ntelligent and_assured Rupul)l[!'nn thoy would want ho metal ot all, Thelr real aim [s to nake it lawful to discharge a aollar of debt with U2 cents worth of siiver coln. #OPEN NRFUDIATION AND ROBDERY." New York Times, The Bland bill 1s o measure sanctioning open repudiation nad robbery In o manner as flagrant as the scheme of -the "Greenbackers, and with the samo temdency to inflation. tow Repub- licans who affect o rezard for honesty whon the greenhack {8 iu disbute can reconelle to their tablishments, and scts adrift with them iillions of laborers to sink fnto pauperism, vice, and Qespatr. This law enacts n robbery of debtora, taxpayers, and laborers more gigantic than ever was perpetrated by u conquering on a con- quered people. It vnglit uot o be, and canuot be, exceuted. OIINION OP JOSEPH 9. ROPR3, 1t remaing only to fiudicato that we have In our hands o simple, casy, aud mwst rellable method by which the conditions of the whole prollein grant, there need be no fear of the result. TIE SOUTIHERN QUESTION. MITHERTO UNPUBLISHED BPEKCH DY SENATOI MOUTON, FILEPAIRD FOR DELIVERY IN ORE- (0N, DUT NEVER PRONOUNCED—AN INDORSE- MENT OF PRESIDRNT MAYES' AUTION, The suppresslon of the Rebellion and the re- construction of the States that had been engaged South, and the history and (uturo purposcs of the Democratie party, In 2 Tctter recently pub- lished, I fully reiterate. T have had no cause to change my mind in any respect, The attempt made In the Southicrn States to eleut o Demo- cratie Presldent by their crimes had its counter- part in the North, Your own Stato was the theatre in which was enacted a dramn disgrace- ful to Awmcrican politivs and to eclvilization. Here ap attempt was made to defent tho ex- pressed will of a mnjority of the peoplo of Ore- ¢ in It, upon tho grand principles of liberty, equal 7 23, 1870, which] waa aald to be i ceusure, but { consclences the support accorded to a silver |'State fu the Union to the President, to go for- can ho reduced to mathematical certalnty. The * gon, and to give to Mr. ‘Miiden an Electoral | which was expressiy flattering to Mr. Mottey, | dollar which to-dn [¥\worth five cents lces than e t G e usontia) Tequlsito of seattmmtion 1a fo re. | HiEhite and protection t all, wasn grand epocty | Votd, which would lave changed the result | and O O T bty Draanes 1ot | o oLl fge han | ward and carry out the pledices which Tie has not only In American history, but in the history of the world. We are now upon tho threshold of what wo have grave cause to avprehend will be an epoch of retrogression, Already a long step backward has been taken, and it is a mat- ter of duty to all, and of the deepest concern to every lover of Lils country, to arrest this buck- wurd progress. [t were not wise to deceive our- selves upon this groat question,—to attempt to conceal from oursclves thio exact situation in which we are placed, and the great- davgers to which we are exposed. It those dangers can be averted, it will be by confrontiug them bravely, looking them squarcly fy tho face, pointing them out to the most {ndifferent or incredulons, and thus arousfug the patriotsm of the uation tongrand eflort to prescrve tho frults of tue War, and to malotaiir t full force and with unimpalired vitality thoso great principles of human Nberty and equality which have boen es- tablished in the Constitution. Of these great principles the Republican party is tho represent- ativeand cxponent. Upon themand through them |t suppressed tho Hebelllon. It planted the greenback dollar, as’compared with pgold, is a Yumu we alinll not attempt to cxplaln, Itis folly to pretend that the mcnrgthw ch threat~ cunto bo irresistibl in the [Tunse will submit to tho restraining rmcen which we aro told the Treasury will insist upon as a condition of its acquiescence {n tha remonetization scheme, ‘The Prestdent and the Secrotary must make up tleir minds cither to reaist the scheme ot fhe only point where resistance can he logally or effect- ively offercd, or to allow theovil to run its course, They cannot voncedo the principle which underlies the silver movement and theu prescribe conditions to harmonize 1t with thelr sense of duty. The pularity of the move- ment f8 the result of its sweeping character, aud It can only e met by an euuul{ broad declaration of the purpose Lo keep Inyiolat the country’s fuith with its creditors, and to vre- veul the success of a measure that would legul- lzo dishouesty between inan and man, UCRAZB FOR CHEAL MONEY." Nea York Keening I o, 1f the Sliver Repudiation bill should be adopt- ed by both brauches of Comgress, President Iayes, by interposinz his vuln‘l may sccure a degres of popular favor of which the rood feel- Inyg which already goes out toward lilm is a very inusloquato neasure. The vountry honors him duee the volume of paper enrreney to a point at. whieh it will stand on par with specle, and to do thiis in 0 way 8o quiet and gradual as to produce 1o disturbaiices in the exchavges wiud financial transactions of ‘the community. This can by done at once by authorizing the salc of 4 per cent bouds at rnr for greenbacks, This would be a partfal tulfllment of the orizinal promise madoat the trst -ssue of legal-tender notes, and the violation of which is a standing disgrace to our Governnient, ‘Ihere wonld bo no danger of the process roing on toorapidly, for it money becama scarce the Liolders ol greentacks would tind more profitable emplovment for them than fundingat 4 per cent. But fn truth mone; cagnot become permanently searce it this course fs pursued, for sl men will understand that the reign of intlation is over, and will tuke care to gradunte thelr enterprises by thelr legit- imate resources, It would bo eusy, moreover, to limit the amount su funded i every month. OVINION OF SRCRETARY SHIRMAN, The cditor of the North American Review lnya before me soveral papers. prepared by gentie- men of distluction, upon the weneral subject of restunption, presenting oppysite views, and asks e brielly to comment upon themn. This I could hardly 4o in a short statement, yor i3 it neces- sary, perhaps; asthe mistakes and cxagizerationg and made hirm President, not by bloodshed and violence, ns In the South, but by the comniis- ston of an enormons fraud. 1°will not now review tho history of the Cronin case; you aro alrcady fawiltar with ft, and the disgrice- ful story Is well known' to every man, and even to every child, iu tho United States. Bo it sald to the lonor of the Electoral Comtnlssion, that there was no meniber of that vribunal pro- tended, for one moment, that Croninwas clected. ‘There was no member of it willlug to jodorse, or oven extenuate, the fraud, and, by a w - nious vote, it was declared that Crouin was not clected, and thus the criminal effort was unanl- mously. repudiated, Respectable men of all arties at Washington tnencd. away from the oathsome corpse of the Cronin abortion, and it was left to rot and du;;mt the nostril witbony even o burlal in potter's field. The Democratic ty, carrying all the Southern Btates In 1874 ut thiree or four, by force and fraud, and tak- Ing advantago of the hard thnes that provailed at the North and the financinl distress under which the country was laboriug, the causcs of which wero Iudustriously ascribed to the Repub- lican party, in thut year clected o m-]uru.x of the membera of the House of Representatives. ‘They thus bad the voutrol of one-hall of tho legislative department of made to the country, aud to complete the great wotk which ho has begun.—~Zoston Jourmal (Hteform Jeep.). What does the resull of the voting in Massa. chusctts teach! Ctearly, that, had it not been for the impetns derivid from the Republicn comuftal to Civil-Service reform, and the fo- ducement thus afforded to the young men to take an active part In the caavass, the samo results would have followed in Massachusettsas in New York, Pennsylvania, and some other Btates. Massachuseits helleves in the two cardinal idens of Presideut Hayes' Adwinistra. tlon, and her verdict of approval thereof will have the effoct, ns her voters tntendod it should, of pushing him to more herole schicvements (n the dircetion of Clvil-Bervice reform,—~foton Transeript (d4form Rep)s But sven GOov. Rico's clection linsa hrizht sido. The Republican speakers, and papers, sud the indencndent press from the start urged upon'the people the necessity of votlng for Hica 8 the speelal friend and representative of the Presldent und his policy, clatining that lu no uther way could the voice of Massachuseits be heard muost cffectively abroad. From this standpoint, addiog to the Huyes votes given to Rice those cast for Gaston, all of whose fricnds are nation. hls ?mwnmummr tho Ameriean alde of the case to the English. *If a maun remembers thut much of n severe lotter, how are you to tuke Grant's testhnony of u man who reincmbers so looscly as thut? I guess not. ‘Thic speaker referred to the reason which was generally sup- posed to be the oun which caused Mr, Sumner's remaoval from the Chinirmanship of. the Forelgn Relations Committee, and sald: * Let us take the facts betweon Grant, Fish, and Sum- ner, Grant had a pgreat Interest In this treaty, His friends saw wmoncy lo this, Tho money uever rcached them. [Hlsses and applause.] Mo was kind to is friends. The accond fact Is, Grant weut to Swmner and asked him to support the treaty: the third, they refralned from removing Motley because they were atrald of stirring up Sumnier on the sreaty matier; fourth, Mr. Motley’s course was ratsed whilo tho treaty was In “debato; fifth, umner smashed the treaty; the sixth fact was, that the day alter the treity was smashed Mot- ley. was removed: sovently next Bumner was rcinoved. Grant says tho. reason Suwner wus removed waa that ho was o “dawdle-cat” and negligent. Ben Perloy Poore, who was Secre- tary of tbo Committee, says ho never saw o man take so much pafus aod intcrest in his p the Government, | work, Schi s he always attended for his efforta to regtore peace to it and to cor- | 4)ine; cotar] sary, perliaps; asthe mistakes and examyerations | theth b SRERCIEE L O ubversion of | fnd had db M thelr powor £ prevont | hork: Ae Fen aovor sssitua. thi iras romsons | Fect tho abuses of fls Civil Service; Tt he will A A e R T and ausweredIn u“}o%xmglwv]uwl of the writers | the Hepublivan party. fu the Southera 8States, | Jegislation for tho protection of tha peo- lur{lh actionss therefore is words are of no | ain still greater honor when he sets his face | Btate 1o declare for peace and. concord with tha of theso articles. Ferbapatno editor will be sat- | chictly by brute force, pieans the subverslon of | ple of the Nouth, anl to prevent appro- | welght, He does nat indorso Poore's state- | aud his oflicial sienature against o breach of fatled, in his commendable search after truth through diacusslon, with a brief reply to some of the gencral positions taken by Lbu two op- posing slides on this rsmman. Judge Kelley and Uen. Ewing mav falrly bo sald to represent the inllation or extremna piper- mouey viow, The substanee of thelr papers is su ecloquent but overdrawn plcturé of the financial «istress through whicl we have recont+ 1y passed; but the preat error fnto which they tiave fallen, and Into which It 18 strange that men g0 neute of fntellect as they areshould fall, those principles. Tha States that wero eugaged in the Kebelllon have not renewed it In its orig- inal form, and aro 1ot now. Intent. on secesstou from thie Unlon, but bave entured npon a. uew pollcy, which 1a even more threatening aud dan- gerous to tho personal liberty, rights, and honor of the North,than was the Rebellion; and not to the poople ef tho North along, but also taa part, aud wo elleve a majority, of thelr own people. This collcy bus for ts initlat step -the cxtirpation” of the Republfcan party In those States; nud this could only bs ae- priations for tho support of the army, or for the department of justice, und this last winter bold- 1y withheld all appropriations for the support and existenvo of the rmy, except upon the un- constitutioual condition’ that the army should ot bo used fn tho Soutlicrn States, In Bouth Carolinn and Loulsiana the Denoeratic party tad organized milltary force, supplied with the best of arms, welllrille, und oflicered by men who had large miltary experlence, with the avawed purpuse to reslst the suthority of the Kepublican State Goyernments, which liad been fuith, In whatever shape it inay be presented. This craze. for cheap money I8 a passing ol ness. Sucretary Shermau is reported to deacribe the proposed faw us tho worst and most ridicu- lons one that ever was thought of, Tt 1s ridicu- lous fudeed ; but, if 1t should take effuct, ite consequences would soon transcend its tles, reat ns these are, I Secretary Sherman 1s correctly reported, tho publie will accept wiiat he says as committing the Adminiscration to the miost energgetic oppositions to this schiemo of re- Bouth, and of shiowini cunclusively that theold Bay Hiato las at Inat been redeemed from a sectional proyincialisin to which for more than halt s wencration sho nas been wedded.—Boston Lost (Lem.). Bomehow or other it always bappens that [n every great emereency Massachusotis comes to the front. 1t hus Geen demonstrated by yester- duy's election that her peoyle, with the raukes odorol Abolitionupon thele garments, have con- fidenve In the President’s Southern policys that nieut. Sumner oiways sald that whilo tho flag floated over the Benate ke belouged to Masaa- chuscttss and yet Grant would have Meve that ho was a * dawdle-cat,” this new discovery como fromi aWh ou be~ Where did on Bumner was romoved- the Administration was on its mettle {or nn excuse, Howe hlm.ilnd and picked Haws in Sumner’s work; Conkling pirouetted and became eatirical ud\nuy. Ouly ong rea~ son was mven—Sumner desired It. The_soctal relations hiad ceased, but. Sumner sald oflicially, E - eleoms X : " | pudintion.” The President caunot act too they approve of his ¢fforts in the promotion of 1s o attribate this uancial distress to tho Re- | complished by violence. ‘Thoso engaged In it | declared duly clected and organized, - Nor were ,;"‘E‘::,“; opa thog. S m‘gg':;n;‘g“;wgom‘%l}n_ Dty or destdedly o eorrect. tho ipjurious NS setotm: and, more” than sl Higt lumptln,n acty hhulcu‘n‘lluf tlu Ilu‘rmfl and only wlm;-! :‘h?dlge : ‘:)l tml::&gfl&&—% galr‘!":ar :hcl§ E'I.Hu{y ;n;nl:uulmll‘cm fuu'fluad]m thv:n terest of tho Administration. It wos s fearful cl(‘ell:v.o the muvuluent upon our credit at boma :::Imnhn'nm “,‘:.:",‘1’3;‘5";‘. hl:, n:mllu'id?:nrzwtl“xl;“if' cause, the unparalleled intlation of puper moncy | slaveholders—tho Hre - | two 0, but they ex n fact, in nearly L and jn foretgn lands, a cd by it e ol had sineto the” War. 54 | kated tuo War of th Kebetlion, ‘They aro the | all of tie Southiern States. 'And not ouly will extibition. Supposs Urant had told Coukilng | andin foreigs tet J “r:u:lcmu:‘ur;rnsnu." Phitadetphia Tines. Thero are people whoso one alm In 1ifo 1s to find some trick Ly which they can pay o dotlar {n sometbing that {8 not worth a dotlar, Th miust have *cheap toney’! of some kind, an when they could not ket vheap greenbacks, they hit upun silyer 8s even acheaper thing, aod votes in the lower branch of Congress o sottled and doterinfucd purpose to eheat the creditors of the nation by "thic tender of a dehased cur- rency in paymeut of honest debts, Theso are the {ssues upon which the campaicn has been earried, and it should be the [\{lldu apd elory of Masnachusetts that ber people hava reaisted tho reactionary movements that were calculated to that Schure was a ** dawdle-cat ' and did not atiend to his business? Would not he have mounted his chair and attacked Schurzi 1f it had been annouuced would ft not have been noticed! When was tho announcement, Mr, Fishit" fuquired tho speak- er, “The change of Chairmen was made fn March, 1871, and the discovery wns made on losaes by the Chlcago tire of 187, the still preat. er trouble that culininated In the panie of 183, all the Josses, fallurcs, dlstress, and embarrass: ment, the reckless and foolish sccumulation of municipal debts, credits, devices, and frauds, the natural ctlect, of inflated and depreciuted paper monev,—all theso they absurdly churge to an act of Congresa that was not passed until owners of wost of the lands, the posscssora of most of the wealth of the country, and have a lurze iflitary expericnce acquired in the effort to destroy the Unfon, and are sulmated by sn Intenee hatred to tho freedom and political nqunlll{ o their late slaves. This policy Is to bind nll the Stateaof the South, so-called, ifteen In_number, Juto one sheaf, to be wielded us a the next House of Ropreacutatives be organlzed withi & Democratic majority, prepared to o all Jenggths In support of the blovdy usurpations in tho Southern States, but oven the Scnate, by a small majority, rofused to recoguiza Packard os tho Uovernor of Loulslana, at jta scsalon in March. * Y TOH FOLICT OF PRESIDENT NAYRS, W the dollur of the futhers ' I8 Lo bo put through | weaken her influence in the natfonal councils.— 2 % July 1, 1873, It was an afterthought of Mr. J 18 1 taton 1ls nct— | unit in the Electoral College and In the Congress Whatever nay bo thought of tho taethods | Fyef. ' % 5 with a, shout If the country is not already | Hoston Herald (Und, Lem.). T ::y-'uu-'u"iuz(:"-flv'fl;"u"."fi,va;n:'o';‘ e et | BF tho United States, and with this united-forco, | whlcl we adopted by the Prosident iu his treat Fleh, 'Me s fond of thom. Flah sald Sumuc tred 6t this perniclous nonsense, it will be be- oppoaed the treaty becauso Ashloy, of Ohio, was uot given 8 place'on the Commlssion to San Dominigo. [lealterwardsfound there wasuo Com- mission, and eald it was for a Governorsbip, Fiah would bo a great wan if effects did not have to follow causes, Fish came to Sumner in and the divistonut thie Northern States between tho parties, sud cven with the ald of but two ve three of the Nurtliern States, to locume pos- sessed of the Governnent of the United States, to control ita actions for thelr henelit, and to subjugate the North by Government in- curreucy—Llad besn partially put fn force pre- vious to March Just, No other fmportant step under the luw had then been taken, and since then, 1o is pructical resulls, it has buen uno of the chief causes of our present lin- proved aud imoroving tinsnctal conditlon. It is Massachusetts has Landsomely responded to tno appeal wade to lier botter judgment and to the falth of tho Republicans who adopted at Worcester the declaration of doctrino upon which the contest whs made. First of all the Btates to recognlze unequivocally the new da) ment of the questions {n Loulsiana and South Caroling, it Is undoubtedly true that If he had attempted to sustaln Republivan Governments in thoso States by milltary rule, ho would have been opposed to the bitter end by tho new Ifouse of Representatives, whao have it In their power fore lonw, It I8 hardly possiblo that the United Btatcs will now take up the cast-ofl idvas of thy worid and_establish the siiver standacd ; but, if this should bo dung, tu the unsettling of all values and tho renowed disturbanco of our s vhole flnancial system, another Congress would , ' June, 18iU, and stayed untll 12 o'clock, mid- | ¥ t of politics with Its nuw dutics, sha is ready ai trango that o the writings und speeches of | strumcntalitica. When that time comes | to destroy tho urmy utterly; and, fu view of o] r M not meet before Lhedemand foran honeat dollar 4 y st gontiomen thoy overiokoi the fact that | the Goverument of tho United Hiates | the vast, had no T eRon o sybnose’ ho would ba | Bt askfng bim o give up s opposition. | WL be hemil louder sud decper than way | S3RCE for tho future. u tha enrly davs of wi Bumner refused to sco the blacks macrifleed, be wleded du tho - Intcrest Flsh then sald, * Why not go to. Engiand, take Ie of 1 wild and visi il Aus ysnke OF 15T, et all tho Wil an yilonory of those who but o few years sinco sought its seiemes that proceded it, together with all the thie Republican party, she comtnits bersell and sustatned by the SBonate, all her fofluenco to the courae and the hopes of . That the President campalin cry for **the dollar of the fathers,” tho constitutional power to sustaln those “ WILD AND SVECULATIVE BCHEME." the missfon, and we will do it fu your absence.’ progress in Lhelr fullest signiffcance, aud {s cons traln of evunts that led to every fallure that ha~ | destruction. It will then relmburse their lossea | Governments by military forco Is unquestiona | From that' thuy they never spoke, Thera oston Journal, Vet to stand slopeiis. lhuiurclruul ot battle. it oceurred aned, had been fully consutnmated bo- | inenrred by thelr Rubellion, 1t will pay them | ble, but It was not his daty to attempt todo a | i tiey poue, ‘Whea we eet clvar of vurconfused ldeas about i 4 3 B Theaumntion Act waa passeds and that | fur thiolr praperty consumed or. destroyed by | thiig which ho could not aly totemptiodod | was o quarrcl—pih admits 1t s | mouuy, ua wo shall st somo fime, aud go back [ Aced be To tho Paceiden and ls supperteld Sunner _explains the reason for it._‘The offer of Fisk, Bumner told his fricnds in Boston, was the frst bribe offercd 60 hiu, and tlen ho related thoreasons why they parted. E.h vfll ml'h ‘:l_?’ubl be fayored withan alter- uught on The speaker closed us follows: # Al T ask is the Resumption sct wus the rewedy provided by Congress (o check and caro thiess avils. aud I8 now in full thluof successful exceution. Thetr eluquence i8 wasted, oxcept to show that depro- clated and lnflatea paper mmoncy has produced in ouy countey, 84 1t lias produced In other coun- tries, tho same result of stagoution, distres elthicr aroy, Yuu wust remeiuber that thelr thcory of tho Rebelllon {s thut 1L was forced upon them by the oppressions ot the North; that they took up arins azulust a tyrunoy too grievous to be borne; and that the North s wiorally respousible for all the cunsequences of the Ruhullluni both 10 the loss of 1te and prop- fuall parts ol the country this victory will te fimnensely cheerlug. 16 will be. th rallying puint for a now formation under his leadersbip, Othier States may have hesitated or revulted temporarlly, but Massachusctis etanus - lirm, ’l'(ln:.l ’> ction 1y ntuyed biere, and upon the 1o o M would lave et with o dissstrousdefeat, Deeply as [ deplore Lo eveuts which have taken place; much as wourn over the condition of the South and tho sad fate of Southera Repub- llcans, stilt I bellevo that ony atteinpt upon his Eurt to bavo maiutalned “thy Fackard sud Slmmberlan Governwents would have led to to 1he bard-money ideag of o statesmen of carlier thnes, we shall regard the action of Con- gresa in practicully decrecing that 93 cents worth of sllver shall be legally merlcd as wurth 100 cents, lu the same light os If that body should puss a bill declaring that a picco of cloth thirty-threo tuches in length shsll’ be received ucceasful defense the party throughout that Fish's story will cover facts, 'Lhicro was th i I 'ho | the vation oy reorjzanize Lo regain what Lot baukruptey,und raln; that war, which makes | crty, and ought to be nade to pay for that 1038 | dissensions in his own party lu the Northy snd | gonething in Bamner which kept corruption at by the .purchaser for thirty-six luches, 'Tho | yolo ' \oo irdon duvertiser Ueeorsn el necossary udepreciated and fnilated papermoney, | #0 fur us woncy can bo a recompense, Theso | fo fnovitable failure, The Prestdent aid pot b friends of o soun carrency now look to the 13 the prilllll cadse ot theao troubles; that b | assumptions on thelr part, excopt usto themere | n an humeasuratle distance, He s too pure Lo bs Bonate for the defeat of this wild and specula- tive scheme of the Llousc, or at least for such a modification uf the measure 38 will Hmit its colnage aud §ta legul-tender power, The coun- try may, at Jeast, reasonahly expect that so Inportant a question will be discussed bya body whera the ga of the previous question canuot be applied by bonsnza legislators and cheop- moucy champlons. “anoss nisHONESTY." = Prifadeinhia_Ledger, A bill {s reporied sa huviug passca the Honso of Hepresentutives yesterday to compel a cere taly amonnt of sliver tohe taken as legul tender for a dullar whetler there 18 a dollar’s worth of silver init or mot. {f there fsanything ina transiction of this kind to distinguish it from 1t is to bo Loped that the Congresslunal little boys will return to schiool Jess dispused to bits thumbe at tho Presldent. [t must oceur to them at this thoo that it is possible to du some thinge a3 well as others, and that Mr, Harves s getting along qulte na well beforo the country 84 the malcoutents and discuters from bl Pnllcy. As for the President, it ought to .give him 2 backboue llke old Ulysses' Low, which nobody could boud but tha true owier. The Tlomerfe nyth s not without its plgniicance Mr. layes' backbone Is his own. Ho has gob Civil-Servieo roforw {u Lis own hands now, ~No- body can weaken and dilute the ssue but hln- self. Lethiin hold up the refori to the full measure of the necds of the country, the proi- ises of his letter, and of the pledies of bls ¢ the situation; it had been purnred by o lung course o Lloody avents, and he dll but reconize it Hu was far less responsible for the wetual conditios of the Bouth than thuse men who bad, fu former years, when we had o majority in both Houscs of Conhgress, restated the cuactment of proper laws for the protection of the lives aud property and ot tho politicsl vights of tho Rupublicans of the Svuth. — Iu taking the course which the President did, he had tho assurance of leadiug Democratic poll- ticlans of the South protection and equal riglits should be guarauteed In thuse States to Hepublicans, black and white that the criues, cocrdon, and persecution of wilch wua complained should be dis- continued, and that peace und proteetion shoutd brought into the wire uud sloush without an el!uur‘l‘w save him," Mr. PLitlips’ remarka were particularly freo from vituperation. which the audlenve scemed prepared for, He was ap- pluuded well at times; bt from the conduct of the assewblage it was notiveshiv that Lrant had nearly o8 many friendd present as Sunner, - SHYLOCK-SIIRIEKS, 1OWLS OF TUK EASTEAN MONOMETALISTS OVER TIE PASSAGE OF THE BILVEW ULILL OF TUM uoUSE, New Vork Journal of Commerce, The House is perfectly controlled by repudi- stors aod fuflationiats, and not to that brauch was soafter the War ofthe Heyolution, after thy great wars In Europe, aud would have been oven worse b our own country but for fts wounderful vitality and resources, If, at the closs of the Wur, we had promptly taken stepe toward specie - payments, much of the evil would lave been avolded, amd the matter of payuient, have been coutinually in- doreed by the Demoeratie party of the North; aud when the tiuie colues, upo the part of the South, to demaud payment, the Democracy of the North will be catopped by thelr own unin. terrupted declarations for many years, from denring. ths juatics “and: toralcy of the dewand, v Is o past, and the clef purt, of this olicy Lo stamp out those principlesof oqual politival rights aud protection 1o all which have een yophanted fu thie Constitution of the Unit- e Btates and (o the Constitutiona of all the re- constructed States. Whilo there may not be auy attempl to ro-cstablish the institutivo of slavory, Ita object and_intloxiblo purpase (s to reduce the negro from his position of political our puople srauld never have been contrited, The postponemunt of resumption was a great error, it was partly exvused by the deatruction of values cauged by tho Wiir and by thy exage gerated fears (u the popularmind of contractiug the currency to a peace standurd, 3 Ay ouly reply to thuse geutletien would bo that” the distresses they complain of wery the i tic creditors look for protect ssor kinds of disliouest; t the me - direct, certwin, und unavoidable result of the | equalivy before the luw to an inferior position | b given to all. [ will nut say Lhat the wen who must the public creditors look for protection, or | grosser kinds houesty, except tho mero ty, old and new, and §t will be duly sanct e atian whith hey fovar, s | padway betwcen freodomy and siaverys 1o du- | made ibese promises okl Luatibug to B0 | pusiness mucn for futclligont legfslation’ in | dereo of grossncss, the dilferonce it 80 Viguo T T papulsr viateatlo. ~Apraieid e that it would be just 3s idle now to keco upthis | prive bim of tho right of sulfrage and of ull 1 trust that they did. HBut thoy had vo power to exceate thoni, ‘The body of the Nemoernvy of the S8outh refused to e bound by thelr prom- declured that there was no consulernbon for such promises; thut they alroady had tho vower fnther batkds, und their stceess could not b reststed. 1 Loped that to this oplulon 1 migbt be mistaken, cent events f Louls- fanit snd South Caroliua are proving, from day 10 duy, that 1 wos right in my optufon. ‘Lhe r cent prosecution of the members of the Returu- ine Hoard in Louisianu is o tlagrant breach of floanciyl matters, Onr trust end hopu have been from the beginnlug of the struggle snd are with the Benate and the President. The leading Benators of hoth partles and a majority of their assoclates are belleyed, on gll the ob- talnable cvilence, to be flrmly opposed to the remonetization of sllver,-or any other nssault upon the nstlonal credit.’ [n coutending agalnsb +such neresies, the Senato will resume its pruper ‘function of & conservative check upon the popu- Hean (fudeperclent Growler)s Dxxrrwain, Nov. 7.—7o the Editor of B¢ Springficld Kepublican: T croakérs, the soro: heads, tho Hesslan soldiers, the Custom-llouse Ring, the Bwiss merconaries, tho vazabond swells of cxpedicncy, are most triumplintly answered, Afwe ever felt proud of Mas:a chusetts, {t is to-day. Wo havo not alwsss taken atock in the seitinental gush concerubiy our natlve Blato, But the ition of Massd cliusetts Is now 50 clean, so logical, so deceot, as to be ul uverable by peuJ,Ic who bave re for their oblizutious. And this comes, too, rom the mon who but a few years sluce reslst- ed the legal-tender character Of the greenback currency by every furai of oppoaltion that could Lo brought to bear awainst it. ‘fruly times do chauge aud tnauners change with them, and how bad somo of the manners do getd | WFINANCIAL DISGRACE." Dadsimore fheils. ‘The lmmeunsity of the majority ln the llouse indicates that thic silver vote in tle gcunm will suate juthe Goverument or lu thio admintstru- tlon of Justlee, aud to mwuke himarerl of tho most degruded charncter, 1t any of you have thes notion that the bodyof the Democratic party of thd Bouth are recouctled tu the palliical equality. of the ueo, and are prepared to mevept @D goud . fwith and gencrosity the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Aineudments to the Constitution of ths United States, 1 oid you at ouce to bo undecoived. A careful exnmination of the condition of the Boutlern intlation with the hope of prosperity ws it would be to wivise a drunkard to keop on drivkisg in the bope of refurau, The Resumption act was jutended by Con- greqs us u remedy for the evils under which we were then sutfering, It was Qmwd seventeen manths after the panle of 1878, and whan we were fu the midst of ail the evils of flation. The experiiment of further inflation to cury tu- Uation " was fairly, thougn (Degally, tried by throwing mto the maelstrom $:34, E. e ‘and oven | that we throw our hat through u triple circalty United Btates notes that bod been retifed und | States—of the springs und sources of public | falth which should male the facs of eyer el el o T M _ Pl Aud canceled, Every devies for reliel, uswell for | ophiou—of the declsrations of thelr public | Southern nan crimson; and tbe course every | lur delustons aud sectioual prejudices which tao | raises o probubility that [t will pass that body | and asy, "Gl tless fassaclinsetts ] casily g defenders in the louse. While the Senato is expected to Jo fis duty, untioved by the vulgar clsmor wolch sways the other brauch, 1t is not for a tmoment doubted that President 1 {\« will veto the Blaud Sitver bill, aud ail such foolish and disboucruble measures that oy come before him. His repeated pledics and the honor sud manifest interests of hils Ad- winfstration would leave him no otber course, and he willnot hesitate to take it-if ho Is not, as :w ussures the people, a vandidato for @ second crm. resumption us Tor expansion, bad been frult- lessly discussed In Congress without agrecinent. The subject 10 every phass hiud been consijered by the people duriup all that time. In the full of 3574 public actt had crystallized in fayor of some step toward the resumption of the specte standard, This led @ the passage of the Reswmption act. This act was slmply o declarution that we would rustore the value of ouy paper dollag to thr specic standard by the 1st of January, 1879, The wods and means by which thus was 1o be doue were Dot poluted out o4 they ousht to nave been, but the details were lcfs to the Secretary of [ Treasury, and the powers conferred were ample. and detinite. I repeat what 1 have said elsewhere, that re- sumption can be,jought to be, and will be, se- also, 1f that be 60, tho veto of Mr. Ilayes slono stands between the country sud partlal repudi- ation and financial dlsgruce. Y RBI'UDIATION AND MISOHIEP," Atpany Keening Joural. Every thouglittul mnan will scoat onco that this s o mcasure of sepudiation and wischief, 1t permits tho repudlation of nearly 10 per cent of all indebtedness. It practivally declares that @ cents shall bo s dollar, and clat eyery creditor must accept $3 cents ftor every. dollar of what fs duo him If hls debi- ors choose to avail themselves of the dishonest privilege, It further permitd the payment of customs in silver, aud’ thus deprives the Gov- vrouent of 1hv ouly sourcs from which it draws the goli to pay the fulerest on the publis debt furthermore, God Liess the Presilent who had the eallllmgu u:iml ulxnnhuod t[p lmmugunu a uew- era policy und a cleaucer politics, +4 POCUMTUCK, Anti-Juchine Vilers ——— MINNLESOTA, TUE RESCLT. 8pectal Dizoatch 1o Tue Chicago Tribum. 81, Paut, Minn., Nov, 10.—Fuller reterns g crease tho estimates of the liepuhllmummjufl‘ tles. Gov. Plllsbury, lcaling tho ticket 1,00 10 2,000, will have over 17,000 majority. The Re- ublican majority in tho Legislature L3 Senates 9: House, 2. The most nutable Repuollan galos “are Jn_Democratic countics whils the men and the teachiugs of thelr uewspapers, proves conclusively Lhat there b no acceplaucy of those ameudments—no accoptance bl the situation, but uu juexorable detcrioliation to drive the negro from s present position and reducy i, 88 neariy a8 possible, to thy sitna- tion he oceupled before the Rebellwn, Do uot understaud (ue a8 lu{lm{ 1hat ull the people of the Bouth who ure kuown as Duwocrats are fnspired with this puxt:‘mu and are auxlous for these sesults, ‘Chere 1 8 larws budy, ol peopls in the Boulh, actiug with the Democratic party, who (u their hearts sre opposed to this move- ment, and whoss otelluzcuce tostructs thew that Jt i fraught with dunger sud dlvaster, uob ouly to themselyes, -but 1o the nutiop. - But this conservauve class are nub fu' the pursued by the Democratle Legistature of South Carolius, and uf the budy ot thy Demoes racy of that Btate, shows an utter dlsregnra forall promlses, oblicativns, and proprictics. Tuo Preaident, for the best of purposes, sought to make Lis concessions npnear to be yoluntary, and thus to placs the politiclans and the peoplo of the Bouth upon thelr good bebavior, and to favolve the excreise, upon their part, of good faith. He bas tendered the olive-bragen; he Lias offered wblivion to the past; and all that be bus asked was that, in the future, there should Le peace, protectiot, equal rzhits to all, and the falthlul observauceof constitutional obligations, Should he In this be disappointed, us | believe hie will, it can pever herealter be charzed that a Hepublican Adminlstration bas treated the peo- ‘AN ACT OP DISHONOR." Neip York World, Perhaps thers inay be suwmc reason or pallla- tlon or vxcuss for such an act of dishouor, eitber jo the coudition of thu debtur cluss of tha | accondiug to fis pledge. The mischicyous and | party bas at least held Its own 1s Rtepublicsa cured If this law {8 not repeated by Cougress. wajority . in _the Memocratle party, und | ple of the Soutls barshly, ur with su unforglviug | country or of our prostrated fudustrics; Lub | dange charac coutties. L oo b Hapars ‘sl | are cowplotely dominated by the fre- | bpirit. Tle bas gono o the cxtremo of magua- [ certainly wo havo uot been ublo fo discover it ujpiebus ehakdciot ol thia Wl le-(latiarad i the statcinent that, I carried out, it would - volve aloss of twenty millions to the savinge- bauks depositors ju this State. Fortunately there 1s hittle prospect that this bill will becowe alaw. Itcanuot go tbrough the Bcuate, as it went Lbrough the Housejand if it did, the Yresltent would undoubtedly intespose his vew, mitted by Mr, McCulloch and Mr. Ropes, all very well stated, ull very woll written] sud with muny of their ldeas T hearuly agree, Bub what is Lbo use of tatkine about other plans of re sumption? The fdea sugzeited by these eentie- meu was advocated fu Congress for yewrs, eating aud spgressive clement, and dare make 1o vpposition, but tollow, submissively, morder to procurg protection for thelr awn liyes sua property, They kuow full well what would be the penalty of tue slizhtest resistance upon thelr part, sud while fu thelr Learts thoy ulmity. e has apparently abandoned those by whosu courage sud patriotic devotion he was made President of the United Statea but, I belivre, ot inteutionally so. Keeoly percelving the actual situation, sud aoxivus to make the most of it, for thu&:xco and security u Perhiaps i way be wise for usasa uation to bulld 'up another Chinese wall botween our- selves and the grest cominercial nutlons, like that which wlready stands (u the shape ot our Tarkif aud Nuvigutlon laws; but cortaloly we do not so thiuk and reason. Perbaps it may b ————— Decrease in the Postal Dalclency: Hoston Journal, The catimates Of tho Post-Office Departinent for tho next flscal year amount to ahizniTh of which sum tho ruyonucs of the service ll:;uhng ad b urder of the | of the Republicans of th b, ho boldiy | of ad It South d West e Tepbeer figfi%‘i Abl stnple funding uct was proposed by “the Com vocaty sich outruges s the wurder of the | of the Repul D8 O 1] th, y | of advantage to our Soutbern snd Western UNE COMMON-BENSN N rtant scriive Lo the country g E mll.?er.‘ oa Fiuauce i l&h?. n‘n’us:“{s gn.'nud ear | Clisolns uml hnadreds of others that could | adopted s ‘course which bas exposed him to rhnwn. whosu prosperity depends s0 a<cou oyw 'or'a ‘“lm“:‘oux EALER: s:nmumum swaller than hepetofore, “.)'na}‘zlo inand yearout. Iu the opgiual drafy of the | be named, they remaln silent, and dare uot it | much miscoustruction and cewsure, Had he | largely on our commwerce, to bave auothee Lias uot the sfiver-dollar question reached such | erlng the extent of the conatrs, aud tukwe 4 Funding wet now alaw, United States notes wera | their volees fo coudeinnation of It Iifs pro- | takpn the other course, and bolda recogaized | currency uory upatable than now wre | adegres of lmportancs @t last that thy Now | cousideration the fact that laige portious a8 canvertiole ot the will'of ths bolder 1uta 4 per | cluuly the condition of thiugs that existed at | the Packard sud Chswberlaln Goveruments, fi;gubacku under which commission merchants, | York wornfug pdoers can afford to treat it serl- | spardely sciiled, aud are yet affu ed 8 "‘m cent bouds precisely such aw we are now selling | the begiuning of the Hebelliou. Itis well- | and thus committed bimself to thelr support by kers, uud brokers can “ shave ¥ thom still ouslyi Whea they condescend to allude to tua | seryice both frequent and " regclur. Om:LW,'l.nu ot par in coiu. Wikl this feature tho bill pasecy kuown that there was o large part of the best | miltary power, ducs any iutelligent maa be- | raore skiltully awd morg closely than ever; but | proposition to restore the silver dollar, llm& wystem Ia ouo of the best fu the m{rl Ve the Beuate, but the House refused to pass it. | pevple of the Soutn who were opposed to it, | lieva that the condltion of thiugs today inthe | weauspect they will Hlud reason for doutting | speak of it us if thelr readers were fools, “Thel Bgurcs showling its growth nr:‘wmnrlfl!fivflimm No sition has been more & uently urged | cabracing fn some of tle dtates o wsjority, Sogth would be better thaa it lal Forooe, I | thisindue time. Perbaps the uctlou ol tue | complacency would Us exasperating i 1t were | the seven years between 1988 and 1873 aud acted upon adversely by Congiess thau that | aud cmnbraciug & very lange partof the property | dobot, Ay regrets are chiclly (n the past, that not swusiuz, They trest remonciization osa was gt Lucréuso of 01 per cent hu the buslivss a}. tho Departuient. Tho aggregaty miles of © ™ road trunspartation increased trom 34,5417 1503 0 TouBLYL0 In 1815, ot 113 per céte now cdvoested by,Messrs. McCulioeh sud Roves, hat s the use of wusting aunnunition e aud wost of sbe intethgeoce of those Stated, ou this? What {8 tho wss of deluying aud yet, carnest Wi House xuz\dy euliauca our vational reputation for Eublh:ln vrivate bonor and for scise wmong usiness wen iu England, Gerwauy, and Franes, | Lt the procedeats 85 agelust such uu expocta- those thingd were not done that ought to have been dope in forwer days, wheu we bad the puver to uxecute them, aud that our party wed sehiemy of joflatiod spd repudiation, aud then deal beuvy blows at thelr straw wan, aod sol- cmuly assury thelr readyr that it Ls absolutely galust their best judgment and the e 0f their heasts, thoy were driven