Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1879, Page 6

TUE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1879, * “NEGRO-SUFFRAGE. htt e e Disfranchised ? d They Ever Have Been En- ol franchised 2 ¢ Dlaine Opens the Disoussion, e and Is Followed by {aman, Slephens, Hamplon, Garlleld, Dlalr, Fhiitips, and Neadricks. After Which tho Senator from NMaine Closes tho Oase. The Views of Represontative Mon on a Mattor of Vital Iinport, . he North American Teview for March, ad- ‘oceshects of whieh Tis TRIDUNE has ro- containa n **symposium ' ahout negro- quffrge. The two forms of the question offer- guorwnndmx[un are: Ought the Negro to BeDisfranchized] Qugit He to Have Been En- ceinedy franchlsed ? The participants ore Senntors plsinesnd Lamar, Gov, flampton, Representa- yires Garfield_and Bteptens, Wendoll Philiips, ootgomery Dlatr, and Tuomas A, llendricks, Ar, Bisino,00ena amd closes the debate. We Urnulw:u from all the contributions. Ji G. BLAINE. Thess questions have lately been asked by many who bave been distinguished as the spe- cial champlons of the negro's rizhts; by muny who bave devoted thelr Hves to redreasing tho segro’d wrongs, The questions awo their orfgin ot ta any cooling of philanthropie interests, 1ot to any novel or radical views about universal suflrago, but to the fact that, In the Judgment of maoy of those hitherto accounted wisest, agrosuilrage has falled to attain the cuds Boped for when the franchise was conferred, Thoso who have reached this conclusion nrgue ‘bat suflrage fo the hands of the negrois a challenge to the white race for n contest In whichLe s sure to bo overmatched; und that the withurawal of the franchise would remove sl confllct, restore kindly retations between the place tho whites on their proper and hou- resble responsibility, and assure to cach rave the fareest prosperity attainable under a Gov- erment whera botl are compelled to live. Quite another clnss—~mostly resident in the Fouth, but with numeroua sympathlzers in the North—would be glad to have thg megro dis- frnchised on totatlv diftercnt grounds. Bora nd reared with the betiet that the negro s In- fetdor to the white man in everything, it is hard for the class who were masters at the South to eadureany phase or form of equality on the part of the nogro,+ Instinet governs reasun, and with tbe mass of Southern veople the nverslon to chmmyh fostinetive and focradicable. The geoers! concluslon with this elass would bo to deprive the negro of voting If it could bo done wihout fmpatring the representation of thelr States, but not to make any move in that diree tion 0 lonz ns diminisiicd power {n Con- mress fs the constitutional nnd logical re. st of 8 denlal or asbridgment of suf- fuge, In the meanwhite, scoln) no mode of legally or equitably depriviug the ne- groof bis suffraze except With unwelcome pen- altrtothemselves, the Southern States as a whole~differing in dezrec but the same in ef- fect—have striven to uchlove by fudirect and valawful means what they canuot achleve di- reelly and lawlully, They have so far us possi- dle made nezro suflrage of none effect. They base done tnis against” aw and agalnst justive, Hasing stated the position of both clusser on tbu question. I venture now to give my own fiews fo a aeries of atatements fn which I snall :lnflum 1o embody both argument und conclu- lon; 3 First~The two classcs 1 have named, con- rplatiog the possltilo ‘or desirablo - dise nchisement of the pegro from eutjroly differ- tot standpoints and with entirely difforcnt dan aro both and equally fn the wrong, The fiest Ia radically in orror in supposing that a Iistraachisement of he negro would put him wthe way of noy developmenit or progress thut ¥ouldintime fit Win for the sufffage. lle ¥ould instead grow mora_and more unilt for it ¢rery day from tho tiine tho first backward step #hoild be taken, and ho would relapse, il not Ioto actual chattel sfavery, yet Into such ade- peadent and defenseless “condition as would re- saltio only another fort of servitude. e second class ia wronrg In anticipating even the remotest possibllity o seeuring tho legal disfranchisement of the mezro withoub o ro- daction of representation. Second~Logiclans nttach welght to argu- meots drawn ab inconven'enti. Arzuments st ba stlll more cozent, and. conclusions still more dectslve, whon drawn ab imposslbill, The Degro s secure against. disfranchlsemont by two constitutional amendments, and he cannot be femanded to the non-voilng class until both ese amendmunts are annulled. Aud thess smendments caunot be nmoulled unl two- i of the Senate and two-thirds of tho hnuxn of Represcutatives of thy United States shall propuse, und o tnajority fn the Legls- ;mm or conventions of twenty-nine Stulcs shull by aflirmative vote aparove, the annulment. .]u luioau right on this continent is ‘mors. com- Felnlyzumntecd than the right agaist dis- ranciosement on aecount of ruce, color, or li;:vlvm condition of servitude, ns embodied fu o Fifteenth Amendmont to the Constitutlon of the United Statcs, o ind~In enforesment and elucldation of my b ud point, {6 .8 of Interest to observe the 7id advancy und development of lmpulnr sei- exmtnl In regard o tho rights of the nearo s Coumml 10 the last threo nmendments Lo the gm‘uuon of the United States. In 1805 fTess subinitted the Thirtecntn Amend- oh which norely gave the negro Efldom. Without suffrage, clvll ri l‘l’l" Sitlzenship, 1o 1806 the Foure teeath Amcadmient was subnltted, de claring % B0 Lo be o cillzen, but not forbidaing it nu;l to withhiola suffrage from him,~yet in- o mll thew to erant it by the provision thut 1] catatlon I Coneress shiould by reduced in “p‘"llfln ta the exclusfon of male cltizens 21 {M'nfil_ 126 from the right to yote, except for Wep ‘Pfl OF ather crling. I 1560 (he declsivo il 8 taken of declaring that * the right of mndm&:( the Unlted Stutos to vote shall ot be on sk by the United Btates or by any Siate et of race, calor, or previous condiviou g .m‘! et A most important provision in uumm“'_“‘“l‘fl‘t. fs the inhibitlon upon the forit 2 Btatca ™ a well aa upon -+ ny State ™ ; P “Mnuld oL be amoug the Impossible re- prejudy 2 Rreat volltieal vevolutlon, resting on nce Cpg 4 SFREDING for” power, that, bn'the Blileg o i 8 OxDreas negation, the Uulted pive ypu SBL assume or usurp the rizht to de- would i tiezro 0t sullruge, itd then o States Roregenn J¢ Subjected o the forfeitare of :nu'r‘n“""“ vrovided i1 the Fourteanth rmm"" 83 the result of the denlal or Tictient of suffraze by State sutbority, ey A Uely progression “of organte onucts ) lm“-‘;’m of a great peopls {8 embodied, Iluu.“f"”““ Wwould by one of thoso reyolu- nger 0 Would couvulsn social order and uu- bichs Authurity of luw, ‘Thero will by 1o ey tonron under (he proviston which ougre hfi:fi’““ smedoae bl;zruu tho puwer o e, 'm{“fu“’ will ‘bea l)ulicd. from time to Hrelpig WY Perlians und yot certaluly, tho re- Yogiyy, edict of naiional-au- “approprinto legis- correcting hayve nlrendg hluted, thers will Iranchiige o odn the Boutlern Btates to Blick moyly i hegro by any of thoso niethods Buate, " still be within”the puwer of the dare yegpt® 1880 Southiern Stato that would teaaygg |y :f on an educatlona} guattfication, et o lust census thero wero moro thun m.m"ml’gl_nhlm persons over 16 years of e ates lately slaveholding, ywincould iy o O wid @t lurger wumber who ,m“"“"rl € thelr numes, Thore was, of e aireq s COLCE DUILbE Of uegroes of the Who could not read or w.:}h“ but, in 't lhIPrn\': hubwvcm. al;wu Lhe i tre has been amueh grent- by '?ll\}.\‘l‘llllllh“ educatlon of the negroes (hun il to gy on““ of the poor whites of the South Uite profan, Lo cducational qualitication It Is ¢in lmmu xlzlnn, While the proportton would ol gy 'dm-l ¢ whites, tiia absolute exelusign b nearf, €8 1 suime of the Btutes wuu“d :ll‘;“ v nr"uonflm' a3 'Ilm‘l Iot the i & propur est operato o gRreater wivautag to this wulios, - The entiray 458 had o largo class of verr 5 0u.v uneducated waltes, und any s bropurty that would serfcusly large m""r&m vyote would also cut oif a 0 hl:lm of whitea sroln (e surage. thn ¥e directed ‘my nrgumeat to the b iy .‘ncmunan‘uued: “Oughy the negro "Ounhv."“" -'the secbod futerroga- he to b entranchisedd’ is mot ¥ oty he Colored Men to Be Now be anawered with confidenen in”tho aMrmative, the mioral tenuro of his sufrage 15 wenkencd, aml, a8 4 consequence, his fegal rieht to enfoy I 18 dmafred. For myaolf, T unswer 1he seeonid questlon {n the aflirmative with as littte lesita- tion as [ answered the first in the negusive. T Q. Co LAMAR, In all my experlence of Sontlern opinlon 1 know no Southern man of Inflitence or consider- aton who belfeves that the distranchisement of the neero ot aceount of race, color, or former condition of servitude 18 a political possiblifty, I concurin the wroposition that the bl It hns been in the hands of ths nerro hoth a defense snd an education; and [ A glad to find this fmportans {ruth recognzed 80 fully by Mr, Blalne. Wa might possibly it fer na to the extent to which the defense was needed, o to the progress which has been tnmle In the education. But enough would remaln for .| Bubstantinl agreement. What I do not think Mr, Tiaine fully reallzes, or makea dute altuwance for, .8 that this sudden transformation, social and polltical, would necensarily produce some far In its practical operation, and that its successful working could be effected only by experlenced and conselen- tious men acting on both sides with good scnes and good temper, Conquest on clther side only comulicated the problem. Its only solution was a sngacious and kindly en-operation of all the roclal forces, Tho vote fn the hands of the negro should luve been genulnoly o “defensc,” 1ot n weapon of attack, The proper use of this defensive power nnd its growth into o meaos of wholesume and positive Influence upon the character and futcrests of 1he country could only be attained by the edu- cation of the negro. And Isgreo fully with Mr. Blaine thut bis practieal use of the ballot was on important part of that educatfon, I am willing to accept the present condition of the Bouth s the result of that practienl education. Will he? Isay that the negro has been using ibis defense for ten years; that fn this time hun dreds of thousands of negrocs, born free, have grown to manhood under the experlence of a +politleal lifeas open tothemas to the old, white governing race; and Mr. Dlalne himself asserts that educatlon has been more gencrally diffused amonir the youth of the colored raco thau among the poorer classes of thie whites,— whother truly or erroncously we will not hore dlscuss,—and the result s, that throughout the Bouth the races vote together; that they have learned ywhere thele mutual fnterest lies; and that, whom God has fofied, all the politiclana lhave failed to keep asunder, 5 When you put the ballot in the hands of an lenorant” nepro majority aa a means of educa- tlon and progress, you niust be patient while they Jearn their lesson. We of the South have borue all this, because wo knew that the resc- tion must come. It hos come. ‘I'he resuits Which you sce to bo 80 bad the negro hos acen also, He has come back to us with the same bifagd fmpulse with which a few vears ago he fled from us. He may be as iznorant 2 Democrat as ho was an fgnorant Republican, bub years must {ct pnss before the ballot will have educated him fully into sclf-roliant, temperate citizen. ahlo; and whas we of the South have borne our fricnds of tne Narth must bear with ws, until the negro has beeoms what we both want to make bim. This Is part of his educution® Forco aud fraud have been freely charged. Buppose it granted. Cowd ‘any ono expect, did any ong expect, that such a tremendous polltical und social change— the suddeu ctothing of four million slaves with su![rn}i"u and_with overruling political power— coukl bo mndo without vivlent disturbance and disorder! Iad any such chaneo ever been made In auy freo Stato without couvulsion! Was {tto ba expocted that, when thecapital and character of a Btate swere placed ot the merey of o fiumer- leal mojority of fenorant and voverty-stricken v:l’.eu'. it would prescnt o model of peaco and order Hut all this while tho ballob hos been cdu- gnunu the nezro. flo hias learned that ho was o ower between Republican nnd Demnocrat. Ho {3 now learning rapidly that at the South he fs a power between Democrot uud Demacrat, and in the late clection he mado that power felt in the result. 1u bis perplexity over the sudden change in the vote of the negro, Mr, Blaine liad forgotten Lhat, at this stage of {ts progreas, the negrovote canuot ln(ellluuml{,dlrcut itself, -1t must and will tollow somo leader. Now, up to 1875 the Republican ’:';tl’" armed with all the authorlty ol ‘the Federal Government, supplicd those londors, They wero stranzors in the Stales they governed, The moment that the compact vote upon which thelr power rested wns divided, they abandoned (helr places, nnd i almost ever, case left tho State in which they had ruled, ‘Tha great mags of colored vaters was left with- out guides, In many of the larmest countics, whers theic majority was absolute, they wero not onlv not orgnnized, but thero wae not Inter- est enougn to print a Republlean ticket, The weapon of defense which had been iven to the negro was thrown away by his leaders fn thelr fitzht, and Mr, Blelue can scarcely complain if it was pleked up by the Democrats, I am of opinion that to make the negro a free cltizon It was nocesanry fivst to take him from his master, ‘Ilicn it beenme neccessary to take him from the party which claimed his yoto as abgolutoly as his mnster had clafined his labor, The ext step will be take him ns n class from either party und allow bim to differ and divide Just us white men do. The difliculty so fur has been that the Republican party desires to retaln the negro, mot as_u voter, but 28 o Republican voter, Purl{ politics hava been direeted to keep him at the South fn antazoniyn to the white race, with whom all his material terests are fdentificd. Whenever— and the thne [s not distant—whenover potitival Issues arise which divide the white men of tho South, the noero will divide too. The time will then huve come when ho cannot act against the white race a8 o body or with the Wwhite ruce as a body. Ilo will have to choose for himself; ind :lm]wlxxllzu ruco, divided politically, wilt want bim 0 diyide, Inall history never has u heavy duty been dlschareged maoro fuithfully, more csuscléntious- 1§, mors successfully, thun by the slaveholders of the South, But, if L know myselt und thos whom I represent, wa have accopted the chango in the snma soirit. No citlzen of this Republic mote than the Boutherner ean or dous desire to clevated, clvillzed, lement in our polit- None more than they deplors und conddmn all violenco or other menns tending to hinder the enjoyment of his clectivo franchlse, The South touk him, as ho was sent to her, o wild and odless barburian, and made him such that the Nortlbas been able to eive him citizon- ship without the destruction of vur institutions, Fhe progress which ho made with us ns o sluve will not be arrested now that ho is a freemwnn— unless party pusslon and personal ambition in- slst upun uam‘; him as i instrument for selflsh ends. Aud [ huve Joined fu this discassion bo- causo [ regard it an honest offors’ to remove this question from the leatod. atmosphore of politieat dobato, und to ask thae consclentious uttention ot thinking mon to o pronlem the wise und peaceful solution of which will be one of tlic noblest achivements of democratle civiliza- tlon, Mr. Blatne gssumes that the Southern Btates a8 0 whole—diTering fu degreo but the somo In elfect—have through fores und fraud so sup- ressed the megro vote as to mako negro suf- ragu 88 for as possiblo of nune offuct. ‘Tho statistics of vicction witl shiow thut the negro vote tirouzhout 1he South hus not been sup- pressed, ‘Thut there have boen instancos of raud und force [ admit und doplore, but thoey huve besn exceptional. ‘Take thew all i the ro- cont plection nid average them umone a popu- Iutfon of 12,000,000 of people, und to what do they amountd ‘The President, in roviewlus the wholo u\m‘)ect after these elections, did alfege, and could only allege, that in all 1heso Btates but seven Congresstonnl distriets cxhibited ro- sults which wero ultered by cither fraud or foree, e 19y huve to sotpe uxtent, for the sake ol argmnent, cooceded the ussumption that the negro vote has boen sublected to the forcible contral of the white ruce, but that [ deny, Rel- erence has been miade to the great change which the olection returns show fn tho newro vote throughout the South. The phenomenon s caally explatued, Lot any fntelligont Northeen nn” roview the history of the State Govern- ments of the South for the last ten vears under Reputlican rule, und thou say if such a state of things tna Northern or Westurn State would not have been a sure and natural precursor of o Republican defeat, 80 obsolute und complete thut the very namo of the party would hava bo- cume fu the State a namsof scorn and reproach, ‘Then why atould oot thut result have oceurred in the Southt Are we to assums that the black raco_have uelther instines nor reasont To rea- gun thus is simply to sav that the nozro fs unfic for uut!mr.nh.uul to surrendor the argumunt to \ thog who hold tit he ought to be disiran- chised. WADE ITAMPTON, Whatever may be tho motives of those who deslre the dlatranchisemont of the nogro, the accomplisbment of such a result has been ren. dored (mpossivle by the actlon of the National and Btate Governmenta, ‘Fhe question, there- foro, does not belong ‘to practieal politics, und s & mere speoulative one. quulderlng it o the fatter sapect; 1 do not hesltute to answer in the practical but speenlative; nud yet, untos it ean negatlve, Whatever moy have been the polley of conferring the right of votidfe npon the negro, Ignorant and incompetent ns he was to comprehend the high responsibility thrust upon him, and whalever may have been the reasans which dictated this dangernus experiment, the deed hasbeen dane und ft fs rrovocable. Tt is now the part of teite atatesmanship to give it os far as possible that direction which will bo most benefleial or least hurtful to the body politic. the black. « o . 8ince the War, it {s probable that mora emlgrants from ghe North and from En- rope hnve: ettied in Texas than In all the other Gull Btates combined, And this Is heeanse the traditions i sentlinents of the Taxan people have been regarded ns more favorable to free- dom of peesonal opinfon uid ‘mmlml actlon tlr-qu:hme of the people of nelghboring South- n § £N If the polley of ropresslon and excluslon, rishis of citizens, however humble, however How i3 thia to be nccomplished { My unswer would be, by educating the negro unttl he comprehends the dutles and responsl- billties of citizenship, - By cducating them T mean that thelr moral nature should ba cultiva. ted, paripasss, with telr Intelleet, This maral education I3 of 1ar greater importance than an Intetlcctua¥one, A man s not neceasarily o better eltizen beeauso be can read and write, nor does the possession ot these nequirements tmake him, as a matter of course, morc compo- tent to understand and discharge the duties of -cltizenshilp, Idoubt whother the citizens of . that Btate which makes Its bosst that more of its peovla can road and wrlta than in ang other Government are equal in art, in culture, and in atatesmanship, to the Athenfans in thelr palm- feat daya, who were without these nccomplish- ments the most Intolligent and - critical of polit- feal constituences, It would ba almost Imposatble to disfranchi the negro, nnd, if possible, it would not ba cdf- ried into effoct. The South does not desire to sco this done, und wilhout her ald it can never by nccomplished, The negro contributes, not anlr o tha wealth of the South, but to her political power, aud she i indlspused to deprive herself of any of her advantagos, As the neern becomes mora intelligent ho na(umllf ailles himsell with the more conserva- tive of the whites, for his observation and ex- cericnco both shiow him that his {ntereats are dentified with those of the white race hore, ‘This I8 thg ovitable tendency of thinga ns they now sthud at the Soutly, miud no exteancous pressure can change a result which 13 sa sure anil fixed as any otier natural law, As the geerols now acquiring education and prunurt{. e Is hecomliug more conservative, and naturally deslrés {o assist In the estublishment and waliitenance of good government und home rule. I have eundeavored—and I think not with. out suecess—to teach him here how to use the votg for hils own good, nud the beneflt of the 'wl leal society fo whieh lie llves and with which il future proaperity s identified. The result has been shown In the st Lo general cicetlons in this State, whero thousands of negroes voted with their whito fricnda, ‘The accond questfon to which my attention has been invited (s' “Qught 1he hiegro to have been cofranchised!' 1t sy scem luconslstent with tho views I bhave expressed 1o the liest part of this article tosay thut Tdo not think he should liave boen enfranchised at the time nnd In the manner {n which It wos done, My first wublection, s that the mode that was pursued, If not dircetly uncanstitutional, was certainty extra-constitutional, nnd I am uucrlry oppused to auy violation, direct or indircet, of that {n- strument, My next objection to conferring suffrage on the negro, fmmedliately uson his emancipation, was that he was totally incompetent to excrclse or cvon to understand the righits conferred upon him. The Injection of sieh n mnss of Ignorant und untrained votora into. the body politic was the most perilous strafn to which our fustitu~ tions have over heen subjected, und the danzer arising trom this experiment has not yot passed, 1t was a crime against the whites of the South to disfranchise them in large part while en- frauchising the nero, and thus practieally plac- ings all the rights of the former at the nlurcr of uewly-emancipated slaves. All thesedifticultics might bave beew avolded had partfal suffrage heen adupted in the first instance, und the rela- tlons betweon the two races heen allowed to adjust themselves by the unimpeded action of natural laws, i J. A. GARFIELD, Thoso who deutounco the enfrauchisement of the negro as unowlse and daugerous ure bound to shiow a better adjustment of his stutus. Lyen tho defenders of the old system wili hardly de- ny that the'continued existence of chattel slav- ery was fmpossible, 1t was the sum of all in- justico to the negro himself and n standing declaration of war nizainst the pablic peace, Tts destruction did not arlse from mere meddle- somencss on the part of the North; the feeling ogalust slavery was world-¥ide, and we wero mmong the last of modern natious to realizo its infamy and remove It from our syatem. Botween slavery and :u 1 citizenship there was no safe middle ground. T'o strike the shackles from the negro’s limbs, to declaro by law that he should not bo bought or sold, scourged or Lranded at the will of his mastor, and then to Jeave him with no means of defending his rights ULefore the courts uud jurles of the country,—to arm him with no legal or pohitieal weapous of defense,—would have been au Injustica hardly lese cruel to bim, and a policy even moure dongerous to the public peaco, than slavery itsell, Indeed, this experiment was attempted soon after the closo of the War. Whilo the seceding Btatea were under military -control, the white people ot the South wete Invited to atd in solv- ing the difflcultiss of the negro problem by clect- fng their own Leglalatures and establishing pro- visional governmonts. The result was that, in 1605, 1860, und a portion of 1807, thelr Lewisla- tures, notably those of Mississippl and Loulsl- nua, restricted the personal liberty of the negro, prohibiting him from owning real estale, and cnacted vagrant and peonage ldws, whereby negroes wero sold at auction for the payment of tuxes or fluca, und_were virtually reduced to n wlvcry o8 real as that which existed before the nr. ‘I'lie ballot was given to thenesgro not 8o much to unublu him to govern others aa to provent others from misgoverning bim, Suffrazo Is the sword and shleld ot our law, the best armament that liberty offera to the citizen, It woulkl e strange indecd If the negro shionld always use this weapon with wisdom and bonesty, That ho would svmetimes bo fn- fluenced by corrupt leaders was Inevitable; but thut, fu spite of ull drawhacks, the suffraze hos dong aml fs ol much for hls protection nnd elevatlon, 18 evident from the nuxlety ehown b :‘:l} mlzlulm! paitics to prove themselyes h rlend, 1t tho nogrocs had lost. the pasalon for acquir- ing proporty, if they had shown thiemselves un- willing to " work, nelther liberty nor suffrazo could "have saved thew.' ‘They woutd finally dlsappear, 28 the Indlahs are disappeariug, wul for the snine reasous. But the evidences aro incrensing ou every hand that they are success- {ully solving the vroblem of thelr own luture, by a commendable degres of industry, .and by very carnest efforts toeducato their children, In these cfforts they are outstripplng tho closs known {n_thu days of sluvery ny *the poor whites.,” Whilo they and thelr"politieal fricads lind the control of leglsldtion In the Southern Btates, vlzorous measures were adopted to e« tabllsh and mafntaln publlc schools; nnd, lhulufix these efforts have boen greatly dlscour- agea by recent Btate legislaton, thelr thirst for kuowlédeo ns nob been quenched, ‘Fhere is every indication that {n the noxt eencration they Wil ahow a arked advauce In intehiigencs, ‘They aro nequiring property far more rapidly han their white nelghbors expected, In tho Freedmun's Saving Bank alone, the faflure of which was so valumltous, they had deposited surplus carnings to tho amount of threo mill- fons of dollars, They are mradually bSecoming uwteraof real estatu nnd of contfortuble homes, In ono fouuty of Bouth Curolina they are now poying $300,000 of tuxes per annums wid thia s nelther an dxolated nor un exugerated example. In short, they ars gradudlly gaining those two clements of power, *intelligence and wealth," which Senator Thurinan says will in the long run control the politics of a community, Doubtless tho mere property rights of tha Southern meuroes aro overy year being moro and more fully recognired h)' thiclr white nelgh- bors; but iu ‘many “parts of the Bouth it fa the nerest mockery to pretend that the suifrage has been free. “Tho spirlt of dowination which eluvery ongenderod bas led o largo portion of the white' population to cousider the offert of 1ho Yegro to .cast his batlot i lils own way i on_act of intolorabls Impertl- nenco, Upen violuncs, concealed fraud, und throutoned joss of smployment, in nany ports of thae Bouth, have virtually dmrudud tlio sut- frage and deprived the nogro ot all the benefits which it was foteuded to confer, Hitherlo, these outrages have boen justified or excused on the ground that they wera pros voked by the Interierence of the national aue thoritles with local self-gzovernment fu the Bouth, Buat during the past two ycars thero has beon no round even for this poor excusa, And now wo avo 8 new ground of Justitication, A leading politivian of Loulslaua, testiiylug before thu Teller Commlttoe a fow days ago, teclared that tho murdors und other acts of violenco which attended 1ho Jala cloction In thut Btuto were provoked by * Incendiary spocchies "' of Repub~ [lcan leaders Untll thero Is one acknowledged law of Mib- er:( for whito und black mon_ alike, it 18 idle to clalm that the ameudmonts of the Constftution ars obeyed elther o splrit or lotier, or that co- franchisemeny bas had a fair trial, ‘I'he plea of *lncendlary epeectica' will not be accupted by a liberty-toving uatiog ss a justi- flcatlou of wurder, violence, or any invaslon of which tunhapplly prevails in moat. of the late slavcholding States, shall be icintained, cach new censis will disclose such a relative loes of nopulation nud wealth as will prove every way disustrous to their polftieal influence sl come merelal prosperity, But parties will pot atwavs divido on the eolor Mre. ave no doubt that enlightened ecif-interest will e long lend the peopte of the South to seek prospenty by making the euffenge In fact, ns It n!rcmlylo 1 law, free and aafe to ull on whom the Constita- ton hins conforred it Ao 1L BTEPITE The matter, accordlng to Mr. Blalne's own assutnption, lias heen sottled beyond the power ‘of even constitutional remedy. No arcuments drawn abh inconvenienti are nllowable; they are preciuded by conclusions drasn ab baposibili, ‘This {s the aunouncement. Then why auitate ordisturb 1t7 Should v not rather bo the ob. fect of all good citizens,<of all partics, and all fricnds of humanity, whothen originaily savor- ing-that polley or not, to wive it & falr trial, with an earnéat and hopetul cffort ¢ [is success, Jeaving the future In this r: atter as In other like problems, to take care vi socli? [Mr. Blaine’s first] charge in substance fs, that the Southern States ns a whole, with cammon desizn, havo striven to deprive the colored man of his right to vote by indircet and unlawful eans, Whereln have “the Southern Statea as a whole,” or a slugle ono of them, done, or attemoted to do, any such thing? States act by thelr Leglstutures, courte, nnd exccutlves. Has it been by lezislative acts, or exceutivencts, or judiclnl deefsfonst If o, the production of theae high-hunded usurpations is invoked. That the Southern States, in whole or In part, in nny way In which States can act, have ever ur- rayed themselves against their own Constitutions aud laws, to say nothing of Federal obinzations, in nn elfort to deprive the colored man of the right to vote, Is utterly denmed, 1f there havo boun” violations of the rizht of suffrage on the part of individuals by Intimidu- tton, loree, violenee, or bribere (which s by no a!eunn dv.-uledr, tho remedy under the Constitu- on {8 n plain one: and 1 believa that the remedy through the vourts would beas strongly enforced {n the South ns fn the North, In elections to Contress ench [Touse Is the sole Judge of the clection and returns of its own members. If a State were to pass a law making a dis- crimination, the State courts as well as the Fed- eral coutrts would of course hiold suchi a law to be unconstitutional, ‘This prohibition agalst dis- crimination by any Btate in the matter of suf- ruze is analogous to the prohibitions agalnst any State passing ex post facto Inwa or laws im- paring the oblizatlon of ‘contracts, cte. - WENDELL PHILLIDS, Negro-suffrage has not been u fallure. Only 1he merest surface judgment would so conslder it 'Though lis voting hus been cripnled and curiafled throughout o large part of the South during ol the time he bas been entftled to vote, the negro has glven (he best evidence sl his fitness for suffrage by valutng It ag lts mll worth, Every investigation of Southern fmud hos shown him less purchasable than the vhite man, 1le has wiclded his vote with as ‘much honor and. honesty~—to claim the very lenst— u8 any class of Southern whites,—even of those intellectually bis superlors, For nlue fearful years ho has clung to the Republicsn party (whjch promised at least to protcet him) as no white clnss, North or South, would have done. Want and starvation be has manfully deflcd, nndd neserted Wis rights Uil shot down in (heir very exercise. Where to-day i3 the Northern white ¢luss that would have clung to a party or a prinelple in such perll or at such sacrtfice? 1f any man knows of sueh, Jet bim testify. I bave known Northern politles reasonably well for forty years, und iny experienco has shown mo no such Northern politiclans, In law-making the negro hus nothing to' fear when compnred with the whites. Taking away the laws which white cunping and hate have folsted into the statutu-book, the legislation of the South stuce the rebellion mny challenge compurison with that of any previous perlod, This I8 all due to the negro. The educated white Boutherner ekulked his responsibitity, Either the negro himself devised those lnws, or he was wise enouch to scek and take the good advice of his friends, When some oue tokl Sully that Ellzabeth was not atle, but only chose able advisers, ‘18 not that proof of the greatest wisdom " satd the sagscious minister of Henry IV, They say nesro Leglsla- latures doubled the toxes. Well, there wero doublo the number of chirdren to be edueated, and.double the number of men (one-half of them previously things) to be goversed snd cared for. ‘I'ie Bouth owes to negro labor nnd to logls- lation under negreo rule all the prospority she now enjuys,—proaperity sccured fn snite of white ignorancennd hate. ‘The negrois to-day 139 Ignorant, suncrsiitious, und helpless thun the same class of Southern white men: yes, than a class of whites suppused to be jmmens- urably his supcriors, 11 negro-suffrage has been in any partleular or resbect a fatlure, It hias not been the negro's tauit, nor in conseyuence of any want or lack iu him, I 1t has failed to sccure all the good it might have produced, this has been because of cowardice, selilshness, wwd want of statesman- slip on the part of the Government of the United Btates. While squabbling aver the loayes and flshes of otllee, wo have allowed our only [rionds and wllies to face the feariul dan- gera of their situstion—inta which we called them in order to save the Unlon—without the proteetion of pubtle oplnlon or of tha arm of the Government itsell. We have belleved every 1le atzalnst them ; fraternlzed with unrepentam rebelss and on ihe Scnate floor clasped hands drippuug with the negro's bloml,—blood shied beeause, withont svinpathy or suphort from ug, she negro wiclded his voto so bravely.und intel- Igently us to make the enemies ot the Unlon trembde. Does any man imagine that Senator Hambur Butler 8hoots negro yoters hecause ho fears they will not rule South Carolina jutel- Nguntiyt 'Ancf- tha negro has uged his vote as honestly and Intelligently as the averaze Northernor, and mare bravely, shall we withiraw it beeause the cgsto projudice thut botes him und dreads fo lives “unharmontously ™ In its aightl And surely 1t wonll be absurd und a 1oul disgrace to tako (t from hilin for the singlo_reason that this prosent Adimlnistration of our Government can- not _protect him_ in hts oserelsel Wounld yon break up u guod locawrotlve mercly hecauss one raw und blindering englocer proved hlinself fn- capablo of runaing [t There 18 no need even now ol bating one jot of hope. The United Stutes Government Is nmply sblo to protect it own citlzons, Put o man fmn the Iixecutive chale nud there will be peacs ut. the Soutl,—not, us now, the despot'a poace, when “order relgns in (\nuw." but quict homes, streets [ree from bloodshed, nnd cach man aafe ul unmotested white ha oxer- claes ull & clulzon's right s MONTGOM#Y BLAIR, 1t 18 certainly proper for the people to recon- slder o measure {thd-lleconstruction act] adopt- ed 8o precipitately for the purpose of enabling one section of the country to hold the other Ju subjoctiun, o violation of the Constitution and of the funda- mental prlnciplo of Jocal sell-governmont, and which has never hud the sauctiun even of the Northern people fu any form (for the power to accomplish It was oblaiued from thewm dewylog that soy such action was contemplated), Hiaving been. accomplished according to the forms of law, it s the Coustitutlon, uud can only bu rovoked by observing the samo forms; bus if negro-suflrage s pernicious to the public welfare, degrades suifrage, fustera cor- ruptlon, dofeats respousibllity, strengthens the money power, uud ondangers the Hoerty of the raco which establlshed representative govern- ment, and so far alono has shown capacity to maintain it, thut capacity itsclt glves absofute assurance that It will be revoked, Is there any suflclent roasou for accopting the now rovetatlon, decluring It to be ** folly and de- lusion® to say that Nuiwre bas.drawn such in. dellble lnes of distinctlon ‘botween the black aud whito races thut they cannot 1ive as equals i tho saime Uovernment, i that (Igwrnmml o be a fres Queernment? 1t wad inspired by the Tust of sectioual power, und rellus for sutcess upon the triumph of mllitary over civll fnsitu- tiona. It was estabilshed by the sword, In vigla. +lop of the Constitutlon. Maoy bonos’ und trug men have beeu ver- suaded that it was nocessary to give the ballot the fndependetico and the acll-relfance. It was for want of these aunlitics that he was for cen- turles an Immm“l bondman 1n America, and il not himeell strike the blow which made him free. Indeed, all the acts passed to make him voeates, recognize hls want of everv essentinl quality of a voter by treating him ae not fit to (iovernmen « o The tesquicu observes, despotism has prevailed in all ages. flIx nature, of which this form of Govermment Is the outgrowth, s not changed hy lrum‘llnnllllri more than that of the orange ot the banana, Jtenco to Incorporate him in our eystemn {s to subvert it. His nominal enfran- cinsement fs but n mode of disfranchising the white tnan, und makes them equals Indecd, but only as the subjucts of frresponsiblo power, TIOMAS A. HENDRICKS. 1t s not yet ton years since the right to vote was conferred upon the negro by constitutfonal provislon. That period {8 toa short to allow such test of the wisdom of the measure as wotld fuatify ts abrogatlon. The constitutional amendment fs supposed to have been the de- liberate and wellcopsidered act of the people. It must not be regarded ns an ordinary legis- Jative measure, to be repealed or modified * for light and translent causes.” To make such a change of the Constitution beeause an election In ouc section of the country has not resulted s some might have deslred or expected, fa to treat the most eolemn uet of the peoplo with coutempt, gnd to weaken the force and impalr the authority of the Constitution itself, Oppo- #tlon to negro enfranchiscment ten yearsago does not now require an effort to strike the Fif- teenth Amendment from the Constitution.’ Any wrovision of the Constitution should be re- marded ns fixed and permanent, and not to be disturbed, except apon the test of skch ex- purience as would Justify a change of Govern- ment ftacll, becaues of great and permanent evils’ 1t was not reasonshla to suppbee that the Lo races would at once and without dis. cord adjust themsclves to the new relations prescribed and fixed Ly the constitutional amnendments. In the establishment of cvil and political changes so rsdical und extended, strife and discord for a time were fnevitable, T am not ablo 14 sce why the. Aubject of negro- suflrage should de discussod. 1t muat be known to all that the lte amendinents wili not be, car not be, repealal. There {8 but the duty pAn ull to mak ¢ politleal power now hold br the enfranchlaes race the causs of the least evll, and of theareateat possible good, to ths couns try, 'Theacero is now free, uuil s theequal of the whis inan In respect to his cfyi® and po- Mtlcal rRhts, He must now make ks own con- test fo' Jmlr.lnn und power. By 38 own con- duct stid succoes he will by fndred, It will he unfirtunate for him 1f ho shall woly upon po- Jitial symoathy for position, rather tuan_uson areles welt and Inteltigontly discharged. Every. wncre the white ruce should help bim, but hls ptiutice must majnly be upon himself, MR. BLAINE CLOSES, Ot the reolles made by the gentlemen {denti- fled with the Democratle party, (L is noteworthy that, with the exception of Mr. Blafr, they agree that the negro ought not to be disfranchised. As all of these gentlemen were bostllo to the en- franchisement of the race, their prescnt position must be taken as a great step forward, and as an attestation of the wisdom and courage of the Republican party at the timo they were violently oppusing ftsmeasures. This zeneral exprossion leaves My, Blair to be treated as an exceptlon, and for many of his avermenta the best answer 14 to be found In the suzgestions and concessions of his Demovraticnssovintes. Inced not makenn clavorate replyto Mr, Blair, when heisanswercd with auch significanco und such polnt by those of his owa polltical houschold, It Is one of the curious developments of political Iistory that a mun who sat iu the Cabinetof Abrahum Lincoln, uud was prescut when Emancipation was decreed, should Itve Lo write a paper agoinst the enfran- chisement of thie negro, when the Vice-President of the Rebel Confederacy and two of 1ts most distinguished ofllcers are taking the othier sido! Gov. Hompton’s paper it is fair to say thnt it seems o huve been written to cover a caso, its theory nnd anplication being adapted to the Intitudo of Bouth Carolina and to his own po- 1itieal course. Mr, Huinpton fa n man of strong arts, pussessing courare and cxecutive foree, [:ul.hu has been in the thick of the fight, and has had personal smbitions to gratify which may not placo him in history as au Impartial witbess, Ills personality pruirudes at eyery polut, and his conceptfon of what should bo done and wlat should be undone at the Bouth is reclcly wht is tncluded in his own carcer. Viien Mirabeau was describlng oll the great qualities that shou!d distinguish a popular leader, the keenest of French wits sald ho *,had forrotten to add that he ashould be pouk- marked." Mr, Lamar offera a contrast to Gov, Ilumoton, He_gencializes and phtlusophizes with great abllity, wnd presents the atrange combination of & “refised speculatist ' und a trustiul optimist, ~—cmbudying some of (he characteristics of Mr. Calhoun, whom he devoutly followed, and of Mr. Beward, whom ho alwava opposed. Mr, Luaar [8 the only man fn public life who can b vratsed fn - Now England for u warm oulogy of Charles Sumuer, und immedintely afterward clected to the Sehate os the represcatative of the white-line Democrata of Misslssipol. And yot, inconsistent na these positious are, It {8 (he dream-of Mr. Lumar's life to reconeile them. ‘Theso Democratic Jeaders unite in upholding the suffrage of the negro under esisting clr- cumstances, but with nn obyious “fecl- Ing umt sume contradietion fs to be recounclled, some record to Do amended, some consistency to be vindieated. ‘Thiey all unite, however, on the common ground of denvuncing the men who controtled the negro voto at the vutset in tlie interest of jhe Repub- Llean party; and the underlylng conclusion, not expressed but finpiled, {8 that € the milftary furee liad been absont, and the persuaslon of 1hie Freedmen’s Burcau bad not been applied, the negroes would have flocked, as doves to thelr windows, to tho outstretched und protecting urins of the Democrutic party, Thls soema to e to be shoer recklcsaness of assumption: the very bravado of argument. Why shoulil the negzro have been dlslxuscd tu yote with the Dem- oeratie party? Mr. Hendricks says b was made to feel that “he owed servitndo to o porty through the agency of United Btates ofllelals und hm Freodmen's Bureau,” But con Mr, Hendrlcks give any possible reason why the newro should bave “yoted with the Damocratts party at that timed Doces not the record of Mr, Hendricks linselt s the leader of the Demo- cratie party in the Sonate show tho most con- clunlve reasons wh( the negra shvuld have voted with the Reaublicans? Mr. Hondricks argued und voted in tho Senatn ngainst cmanctpatiog the negro from helpless sluverys whon mado freo, Mr. Hendricks urruod und voied suafnst making hin a citizeng eitizen- ship conferred, Mr. Hendricks argued and voted againgt bestowlng sullrage; und hg argued and voted against cunferring upon the negro tha mast ordinary civil rigits, even fnvelgilng in the Bonato against giving to colored men who were cligible to sests in” Congress the simplo privilezu of a scat fu the horse-cars of Washing- ton in common with white men. Conceding to s negro the ordlusry instinets sud projudlees of human uature, 18" must have required the comblucd aud enerzetic actionof the United Stutes ariny, the Federal offlcers, snd the Freed- men's Bureau, to hold Wim back trom his lm- iu.g08 nud Irresistiblo desire to vote with Mr. lendricks und the Dumocratie party 1 do not use this argumentum ad hominem in uny personal or offensive scuso towsrd Mr, Hendricks, Ilis position waas not different from lis ussockates und bis folluwers fu the Demo- cratfe party ov alt questions where 1 have rofer- red to bis yotes und his speechod, Mr, Lawmar ovcupled the samo groun ractically, uud so did Mr, Btephens uud Gov, Hampton, Iudeed, the eutlre cmm‘:nllc’mru oppused Jegistation for the nmelforation of the uegro's condition at overy step, sud opposod it not with the tmere reigtsiry of nocative votes, but with an ener- gotle hoatility that too oftea sasumcd the phaso of suger and nr.-nmo:x‘v. It 13 & matter of slncera congratulation thut, alter the coutests of the past thirieen yuars, four eminent leaders of the Democratic party should unite in soproving segro suflrage, It will not, § trust, be coustdered cyniesl, certululy " uct offonslve, 11 | vouturs to suzvest that this Democratic unrmuufi on the Ropubilican side of aloug contest hus been dovotoped just at the time when uuny causcs have conspired to render newro-suflrage In tho Bouth powerless agalnst the Deutocruile party, Even in districts whero the negro vols s tour to ong, compured with the whites, the Democrats readlly otect the Rep- resentative to Coogress. | do'nut recall any warm upproval of uegro-suffrawe by a Lemo- cratie Jeader so long aa the newro wus sble to eluct one of hils own race or a white Hepublican, HBut wheu bls numbers have been overborne by violence, wheu bis white frionds have been driven tnto oxile, wheu murder has boen just froquent enough to futimldate the votlug ma- Jority, tho whon uegro-suffrage as ‘s politicaf power bus bocn deatroyed, we find leading to the negro to accure him his froedom. They | minds o the assumed thit he ennlil aequire the knowledee and character which qualificd him to use it, Knowleze sufllcient he mfzht acquire, but not a voter, from the Neconstruction to the Fn- forccment act, and all the speeches of theie ad- P d E. F. By for the people, and O, 8. o uncan for the’ city, The idree and J. ‘."J?e.i' verdlct this evening, S1d) : K fur c-,:;','ggfi’mm s core Monday morning, : o — NEW PATENTS: "' .. Special Dirpatch to The Tridune. LsuixnaToN, D. C., ¥ob, 18.—Fotlowlng la as Dem —; taudl i i e ocratie purty applauding and "My conciustons on the Lopic under discidsion| el "irst—Slavery having been constitntionsily! abolished vy the adoption of the Thirtemthi Amendment, the question of anffrage was un-. |, ;{eul;:gll.l l!xuhlt]mny l:,rx;nlrl‘lp; nl’vlrme:; :lll rl!m pitblieans had no original desig nerfars . i With the control which the States had iways | of patents Issued ta the lovantors of Jil exerclsed on that qoestion. 4 Wisconaine Mictilgan, Minnesots, lows, Secowd—The loval men who had cofticted [ jinna, snd Nebraska for the week ending th. be the master, but vnly to be the wara of the . negro Is not a eclf-governing nature. Helsof the troplcs, where, ns Mon- the War toa victorfous cnid were notMiliing that those who bad rebelted against ti- Union should come back with Pfllltk‘nl W vastly increased beyond thnt which they lnieldor’ -In the days of proslavery domimon; a hence they proposed the Fourteen: Amont- ment, practicalls basing representaf! 10 702 for themaelves the terms on wht resume relations with the Ui -Tll&mi they forthwith procecded to nullify 5“1 P kef" Amendment by adopting o sc; °f bIAc Ao Which remanded the nogro to f0T8C SeEVItHAn than that from which h had /% SHaCBR T Fouurth—When the Goyemt sdaintstered by loyal hands, found f¢ _jpestble to secure the necessary guarantces fq1ture fafe 'l’lw o r;fl:;u:" Sr Rebel ¢ ematded and enforced whitch logalty should gase Jts richts. Hence » negi ) e ks ';%Eflf;:m&'figf alded by loval yotes fn sceuring the great ‘prantees of mhln Funcr& teenth Awendment, t}. Republicans llcc;nr B that he should not aftfard be deprived of suf- frage on account of & ©F color. Hence the Fif : l.;fi?;,"_hgfi'fl,i"dfleé negro voto was eflective in the South in deating the Democracy, the Ieaders of that parrdenounced and opposed it, ‘They withdraw the, OPposition jnst at the mo- ment when, by And, Intimidation, violence, and murder, fropuffrage on the part of the neiero fn Lo Sord 18 fatally fmpalred; by which I 'mean that t+. fiegro Is ‘not aliowed “to vote freely wherd ¢/¥ote can defeat and clect. As a m(non?~ vo't In Democratic districts he fanot mféz::m:_“ answer 8o often made, that, con- d with 4¢ whole number of Congressional Bhlrluls ir¢he South, only n amal) numher arc Is not apposite, and dues not convey «he truth. For i fs only In the duiricts where the negroes make a stroursd united effort that violence {s nceded, and siere it is generally found, Thus it is sald thatonly in & compmratively few parishes of L‘,.;-{un. was therc any disturbance at the late ebetion, But the Democrats contrived to have «disturbance at the points where it was necea- Rary to overcome & large Republican vote, and of course had pone wherc there was no_resist- auce. It will gonorally ba found that the vio- lence oceurs in the districts where the Republic- ans hinve a rightful majority. E.ghth—As the matter stands, all violence 1n the South fnures to the benefit of one politteal purtfu And that party fs counting upon fts ac- cesslon to power and its rule over the country for 8 serfes of years by rcason of the great number of Electoral votes which it wrongfully gains. Financlal cred- ity cammercial enterprines, manu- fucturing fudustries, may all pussibly pass under the contral of the Democratic purty by reason ol 1ts uulawful selzure of political puwer in the Boutli, Qur fnstitutions have been tried by the Lery test of war, und have survived. It remalns tobe acen whather the attempt to govern the country by the power of a * Solld Sonth," un- lawtuily consolidated, can be suctesstul. AMUSEMENTS. ‘THE GERMAN DRAMA, The briljant performanze by Mr. Hocchster's Gorman company at Hooles's o week ago was supplemented with another cqually sucecasiul onc lart eveorag, The suceess o week ago was achieved In a ferce-comedy; last cvening it was one of Victorien Sardou's French soclety plays. * Nog Intimes " (Our Intimate Fricuds) Is the title of the drama. [t1s one of Hordou's first and best productiond, and requires talent to do it justice, otherwlee it would fall flat it verformed by an (uferior company. Not only was the play almost faultlessly per- formed, but {he scenery, appointments, group- ines, ete., wore excallent, and showed the mus- terhand of Mr. Iloechster’s able stage-manmrer, Mr, Leon Bteerer, Al Mr. Hoechster necda to do to make bls yenturo a suceess in to continue to glve such performances as big has given dur- ing the Iast two weeks. In spite of the bad weather the house was nearly full last evening, and amonx the audience was the ellte of our German soclety, Frobably the finest perform- ance wus that of Mr. Hans Ravene na Dr. ZTho'osan. ‘This voung nnd promisung nctor Tins greatly improved during the past six twonths, and. Is continually growing In the favor of iue |l|cnlre-%:olu;: Qermans, The Lowls Caunade ot Mr. Carl Mover was ulso o very imeritorious and well-balanced plece of acting. Mlzs Helene Kulin a8,Mry, Caussade again sppeared to geod ndvan- tage. She bad a Leying vole, and proved hersclf cnual to the tnsk, élciting frequent bursts of applanse in the more pathetic sceher, Mr, Koch and Mrs, Horn as Afr. and Mrs. Vigneuz gave n bit of character acting that could hardly’ be fmoroved upon. Mr, "Eugel deservea speelal reconstruction {n disturbe comment for his rood pertormance _ of the difficult part ,of Marcat. This part was to have been played by Mr. Schober, but this gentleman bebs pro- vented by a gevere cold, Mr. Engel, who hus heretofore not had such difilvult rules, was as- sizned todt. And fv ts but fair to say that he surprised cverybody by his flno and alinost fauitless readition of the part. Mr. A, Roden- berg, the new juvenils man, made bis debut with this company, ¢ nssumed the part of Maur.ce Duval, nid made n very favorable fm- pression. Credit Is also due for zood acting to allss Claussen nnd Measrs, Puls und Schmitz, MUSICAL NOT#ES. The concert of the Arlon Bociety in Milwau- keo last Friday ovening was an even greater success than the ona lbere oni Thursday night. Nearly all the actlve meombers of the Apollo Club returned the visie of the Arlon Soclety, al were handsomely entortained at the New- hall House. The concert un Thursday evenlug scrved as a rchearsal, aml the performance throughout tho ovenlng was extrenicly smoaoth and enjoyable. The aliging of the Apollo Club was especlally appreclated by the Mil- waukeeaus, and (L was regarded us ratner finer aid smoother than auything they had heard thero before, 'The Wisconsin of Saturday sava: It s diMcult to apeak of tho cuncert givon lant evoning by the Arion Ulub (assisted by the Apollos of Chirazo) in the way of comparison, becanss Milwaukee has nover had anvthing of the kind so distincuively vocal and masculine, ‘Therefure, (o say (hat it war altogether the beat of s kind nienns nothing, To that it wae better than any other concars wounld be deciitedly unralr to the many ex- cellent inetrumental prozeammes which “hive boen furnislivd. But oay thut It wa a magnifcent effort, a wost ere fect succens, is (o suy, brlofly, the truth, The a grand chorus, united with the Frithjof," & gonulne master-wark, was Iteritmortz and Mrea, Eimwa Thurston took the aofos, What more nesd bo eaid to conyoy tho fdea that the enteriainment was oie which aroused great enthusiasm and improssed (uelt deaply upon the miuds of all who were fortunate enough 1p b able to secure acata? ‘Thin interchangs of courtesles by the Arions and Apallos opons up a new and desirablo featnrs in tho wmalc world of the two cilles, onu that we trust will be cnltivated amd encouraged to the mutual bonetll not only of the sucletics, but of the clties themael: Some of the mewmbers of thu Central Club, many of whoin are conuected with Prol. Bwing's North Bide Mlsslon, have been preparing the operetta of “Ponelope,’ und will give thelr llrl!rmfiumnllan of it {n thelr hall, corner of North und Clybourn avenues, ‘Thursday evening, Fab, 37, 'I'hey propose to 'slug it fur two or three bencfits, one of which will be given in the West-End Opera-Houso saon, The Mapleson troupe will llnci “Puritani" ln Philadelpitia this evening, and “'The Magic Flute” to-norruw evenivg. During the re- mainder of tho week thoy will be fu Haltimore, Next week they begin thetr second Now Vork season, which Justs until Feb. 37, whon they go to Brouklvn for 8 week.——Remenyl V'fl\" this weok in Brooklyn, and Withelm| ™ in Now Or leans,——The Emuin Abbott troupe s in Oal- veston,——>Mra. Outes’ troups will bo in 8¢, Louls this wek, ————— .THE CANAL, Spectal’ Dispateh to Tha Tribuns. OrrAwa, Fob, 10,~Full preparation {a being mado here for the Canal Convention ou Thurs- day next, Feb. 20, A petitlon was started at Lockport ur.Chicagoa few days slnce, and passed to Jollet, Morris, Ottawiy and so on to Peorly, which 18 recelvinr the names ot all prominont citizens fu the towus through which It “passcs,’ calllog this Convention, The basls of repre- sontation will be onae delogate for each town- b county. Business-men snd farmers :nlap :.':’f'.i’fimy Inlzrmcd. und the xeal which marked the lirst meetivg docs tot secin to ubate ity least. Nearly the entiro week has been occupled by thie Circuit Court tn the case of the Cana) Com- wlsslonors ve. 'The City of LaSalle, for damages to the cacsl by rveason of deposiis from the city's sowers. The casc was cooducted by H. f the Bouth, they | ments, 1, 1870 ILLINOIS, Barnhart & Hazelton, Chicago, I\BYBMD,‘-QND-»I 3 e erts a::luno. Ienthumlmmnl gages. 1Ca40, egR-CAfriers, Gilleland, umeiga. fillndaw-lnh bolts, Darlow, Quincy, scad-| > A lanters, §iorsiian Jhw foting ponulation,~ o ;'J Pridmare: Brockporl, knat-tyors forgrain- Third—Instead of nccepting thydnreofitl | blude lo:bar wagons. Anieniment, the fnsurrectionstyos sy ooty | o, ot il rock ok i, g fally rejected ity and claimed thmmcy wonld E. & A. G, Children, Dunleith, entting fencs. é??llnm. Molins, fancot-hole covern, . 1, Avers, lialeaburg, corn-planters, L M. J. Barron, Bopgamon County, check-tow ' plantera, WISCONSIN. . J. C, Dane, LaCrosse, millstone-drivers. J. W. Morgenier, Sheboyzau, hinges, - G. & A, Haymond, w-|{pun, mechanical move MICIIGAN, . 4.8, Fornerook. Letroit, choeac-safes. it M. Il Bmith, Uattle Creck, window-screons. G, Davis, Miltord, grain-vinder attachmonts, . W, Tavener, Weat Bay City. faucets, C. Uorton, Adrian, fecd-steamets, 8iC. MINNRAOTA. . F, Lane, St, Paul, vehicle sand-bands, ;. Hitcheock, 8t. Paul, vehicle sand-bands. 10WA. G, Schollian, Dubuque, comhined overalls and Jumper. . Cummings, Lyons, wolching-ncales. . Drory, Lincoln, trace-buckl J. C.Kuemple, Ciayton, wind-enuinea, Craver & Wishart, (irinnell. harvester-elevntors, Wilkes & Port, Monroe, car-axie boxee. INDIANA. ; S, W. Kershner, Indianapolis, clovator-bucksts. J. Riplinger, Lafayette, atove-liniugs. P, 1, Fellows, Kokouo, prunlug implements. NEBRASEA. J. 11, Barringer, Lincoln, pump-tabinz. 3 e g Catch a Tactar . and when caught scrub weli with Sozodont. Don’ spare {t. firish for dear lite, 1f yun deetroy it all the better for you and your teetli. It will ae-’ steoy the health of the mouth, {ts beauty, and yous: sweel breath. BUSINESS NOTICES. # WRIth mittened bands and cip denwo fow "' wa went In 8 store {o get some ol Caswell's Slippery Elm Luzengea for mother's cough. e e— Chow Jackaon's Jiest Sweot Nuvy Tobaceo, RADICAL CURE = For 4@ CATARRH SNEEZE! SNEEZE! SNEEZE| Until your head reems ready to fly off, until your nose und eves discharge oxcessive quantle tics of mucus, thin, acrld, and pofsonous, uotil, unfit for business or pleasure, you number your- sell among the most afllicted “of mortals,. des- tiaed to sulfer periodically the preatest distreas withous relief or consolation. Every draught, every breath, offair seems an enemy in'disizulae, This Is ACUTE CATARRH OR COLD IN. fHE HEAD, It orises from counstitutionally weak or discased nasal organs and enfeebled naction of the pores of the skin. 1In the perma- nuat curc of this distresaing tronble, Sanford’ Radical Cure Is a never-failing speaifie, Instan rellef follows the first dose. Its use destroys that morbld scsitiveness to atmospherio changes which predisposes people to this dls- ense, nnd I8 sure to prevent an sttack of CHRONIC OR ULCERATIVE CATAREH. UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION, Fron: n \Well-Known Druggint. Genllemen: 1am happy to loform you that BanroRD'S Rapical, Cure fs tho best remedy for Catarrh 1 have over sold. 1t gives wuiversal® saliafaction. I have not found a case that it did not re!lers al once, und in many cascs 8 _curs {8 nerformed by tlic use of ona bottle. It must soon lend all'others fn the market, Pleaso send mo another !llllnlllr. i . cancetfully vours, ANDREW LEE. MancnesTza, Mass. A Boston Physiclan says: * Since I receivod so much rellef from the ina of it inyself, niter a thorough trial of the usual. remedies, 1 havo privatoly ndviscd fts use, und _presume 1 have eent to yoirr store no less thea one hundred of my patlents forit.”* o Price, with Improved Inhaler, Treatlse, and tions, 81. 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Call for Covtine’ VouTato ELRCTAIO 'rasTsR, Bold by all Druegists, » “ller Hajesty’s Skip * Finafore,” .TIIB FIRESIDE COMP'ANION, No, 693 (with Bupples ment), ISSUED FEBRUARY 17, )k t, ]Il contaln—complete—the comic ol Sgloment ) cotprenmlussag e veryto d elltage all aver the countey, X 80 of THE r'ffiur.smtc COMPPANIIN will cone taln the oponing ehiapters of tha new story, called TUE BANKER'S DAUGHTER, founded upon the popular play of the sxine name n iz af i Uiton Squary Theatrer Nuw Yor will also vontaiy iz fistalimient Of James Payn's uew story, tn UNDEL ONE 1OOY, The wordsand inusic of some popular Sonx or Hallad tagiv sitlsovery nuntbor af by paser, Fitk I PAN I aranls by all newsdualers, The subseripiion price 18 83 8 year, Addrces i ? EORGE MUNIO, Publisher, v noxmar_ O7NOH VENIRL Sy, Speotal Notice to Prop- erty-Owners, ublly not uin piven that the Clty of Chi Sienior or ol Corcavae o1 saloa suaue 14 1870 {87 Glal Aascuanionts on real ‘Thuso assaae) rdered. The Cily has Do (nl :fiffiu}"&fl"&n‘mfim-mnsn:lun.md | forsala (o soy parl 0 parifes ur contracturs wio pé) n}'-"v?flu:’-h: tgu;‘ afo Sautiud icher 1D tho b Dhos Grien avall tiataclved of the furmer, reiniuin {8 25 por ceat for every slx monl rom dad e i tline for redompiivu expIres L, (WO yen Sioratroi whea hobier tsoniiiad ' &dca "Odtary oriurigaecewlil fnd It (o tholr advhutage to ca Poriiwi st this omco wad redcetn (hefe PrOperey, 44 partics arw alinoat dally taking tbess cartinosics (or ig. - vostai B Hatoviss oA nuw:x.x..wu::':vmflm