Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1880, Page 2

‘ 2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUN gag * A eS ee SA'TURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. V! the population of the United States. Tho | tles of any and every portion of our Inuit, naltodl ferent. Atte to sev ir Fant siting Aiittes were one-sixth of the whole popula- | ‘The rulnons course of affairs tn tho South isactually at stake now; who ard whi tion of the country, the blacks one-ninth, | comes home to every eltizen, of this areat ontending forecs are; how much tho result | The Democratic majority in all these twelve | State, whose interests and whose grandeur " x any mean and whieh way prudence anil | States represent about 4, M people, or 15 | are so denr to me. he welfare and Interest yisdoin point. per cent of our whole people. If to this | of the South, and of the West, and of every ME pos number be added all the people of these | portlon of the country is tho interest of ‘Tile MRA TTH ONT (OF, GEN. UUEANT. States, of whatever color, then they repr: ey ork, whose enpltal helped You have Iistencd to 9 letter from one to | gent, not more than 7 percent of the {neis- to buttd Western and Southern railways, whom at least ag much asto any other man | triai, commercial, tax-paying property Inter- | who holds the bonds and obilations of Southern communes, When petitions are presented to Congress praylng for song fhetion to stay reptdlation in Louisiana and other Southern States, who sign these meio. ralsas holders of the dishonored | bons? Who sells on credit to the South ? Who bugs ler cotton and tobacco? Who would gain by her Increase of production and wealth? Who Jjoses hy her Jnertness nnd distractions? Do | ests of tho country, and other States of the Union representing & per cent, RENELS CONTROLLING THE NATION, Telus see how much Nattonal control is now nthe hands of the South. Seant as it {stn numbers aud Interest, upward of thirty members sit in the House of Representatives tad dn the Electoral Colleges by. reason of counting the whole cotored the Nation owes tts preservation, prosperity, and prhnacy, This fetter, instinct with come mon sense, hits the nail onthe head, [Ap plause.) Its writer generally docs hit nails, rebellions, and pretenders onthe head. He Bays: ‘This meating should awaken tlic people tothe importance of keeplag contro! of the Goveri= pomitlation a5 | son whet to injure or destroy thelr own In- mont in. the hands of the Republican party wot! Mena vilte full political rhzhite, equal tn ait | wen wie to injure or dest In- Foca havatwo National partics,evory nicmber | {ileus wilt Cull pallial ries, equal iy | vestments? Whoever Sv answer these of which can enst his ballot as Judscment dies tates, without fenr of molestation or catmichto, and have it honestly connted.—parties not dlf- fering in opinion as to whett 1 Hatton Dut a8 to the policy to aveuro tho greatest oud questions: will know that New York and her people, fram love of self and love of pula, saying nothing of other reasons, earn- estly long tint the South may be peaceful wrong and double robbery. to just the extent towhtel: the freedinen ore hindered or de. franded of their vole and their voter, ‘To what extent this is truce the 1 q y pay her share of Pathe greatest number of fis citizens, “Sinecres oh returns ton clearly shows, Chis | Mul prosperous and ably ty pmiy her stare of Jy belleving that the Democratic | ortega ntation, based on stitted, ruhts, 1s | fons, [Loud applause) — Kron the wheat- eee eit ae the, General Foveene | 8 bial violation | at as Constitution fletils af Minnesota to the pastures of ‘Texas wl n iM one Urit= " wy » at s xas ment. T believe it to the heat Interest of all rece aide eaninalt honesty; but there ft By and | thore is not anaere whose fertility does not tions, South as well an North, that Mean party should succeed in November, very truly, CINANT. Lord Chestertleld said: that “a letlor shows the man its written to ns well ns the ian tt 13 written by.” ‘This letter bears Lord Chesterfieltt ont. Itis written to Gen, Arthor, ana It reveals the confidence and esteom In whieh the writer holds him, Ine formed by many years of Intlinate acquaint. ance, Gen, Grant knew and fell, as we know and feel, that he was writing not only ton friend, but to one of the most genuine, patri- otle, and honorable of men, [Loud ap- plause.] ‘The letter furnishes 9 text for many sermons, “Tit DEMUCRATIC PAUTY AS Now CONSTI- TUTED AND CONTROLIGD. ens In the Natlon'sconneils, ‘Tho aixteen lately xeeeding Stites Gneludine Deluware, Maryland, Rentucky, anid Mls- sourl, whieh did not seeede) have thirty-two Senators. ‘Thirty-nine is a majority of tho Senate, so that the Sonth needs only sever: Senators froin the other States to muke 9 wnjority of nil, She will never fall to get then if seven Northern Democrats are there. ‘There ure twelve there now. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Shere are 2etimembers. A majority ts 147, The South has 100 members, tacking only 41 of nimajority of ah The Electoral College consists’ of 36, A majority is 18. The South has 158, Jacking only 47 of a jnajority. Consider the sway these mmimbers have, ft the Senate there are twenty-eight commit. tees, and committees not only prepare, but virtually control tegisiation in both Lotuses, mul this must beso qnore and mare ng tho benefit: New York, nor could she profit.by the mtsfortunes or poverty of a linmlet in all our borders, . If 13 NOT NEKDED TO THE ARQUMENT, at this moment, ever to relate the causes of the mildew and sterility of the South, sunny, fertile, and blessed by Nature as she Is, Were t speaking to Southern inen, with nv hope thatthey would listen, ft would be well, indeed, to beg them to reflect upon these eases, When the War was over, lind there been hearty, airaniy aceepianee of the most gener: ons, aguanfinons terms the world ever si aevorded by victors In any ease,—not In uy Hke' enre, deentse there Is none like ft tw history; had polities and thirst for power played less part, wasted less time, and done less pe find fauduse try, enterprises thrift, and hunimanity ruled the hour; had there been more mending, and ow fs It constituted: how controled? dluns Tut bieliiess i Janeen OF these Acai tay aunt planting, cd wowtng j hud there v wen rs SUT Sol ib crn less ostracism and hate to re} aol le ane Hs aha number Ok boleh, patriots Chatrmnanship of se een and the control | ern capital aud keep back and drive back men In t,o ynst number of ny 0's of all. ‘The Southern Chatsmanships are | Northorn ment had a fale day's wages been all and did all they should have given and | of tinportant Conmittees, Delaware, with | pald for a fair day's work; had there been no done to uphold their Coverument nad ier Ue na Peo nle--alout us frany na thi Clty ue persecution or exodus of labor; flag in the supreme and dire hour of trial—o clan, Oss 01 alngle county Wl vty REPEDIATION KEN LOATUED AND Ae ye ‘ 1 New York—hag the Chairmanstilps of the | 742 u A. ere i . Yast number who tmpertted thelr ives 68 | Committees of Privileges. nud Elections all sIUNSED other Democrats Inid down thelr lives for thelr country, Many Northern Democrats who cnst all their welght and sympathy on and not embraced, how high in the firmament of the Union would giltter tha constella ton of the South) But, as already sald, 0 deal of Finanee, both vel iinportant comiuittees, The great State of New York, with 5,000,000 people and her enormous interests and tax- y ° paying, has for her Democratic Senator tho | ab this point with | consequences the Nation's side, after the War was over | Me nehipof the Comuitice an Tatents, | and resulis ons they are, not retumed to thelr former party asset | Wore Virginia has the Chairmanship of the | wilh ‘causes, Deploring ns we. do tion, Many others never did so. return. | Committea on Appropriations, which holds | aud as we should, whatever of inisfurtane: cl uC iS u The ren ute ol ennsylvanin 31 + bo “constituted and controfled ” as it ls, Be of Laws,—a committee whose business 8 and ground of the elatin and tuto the motives, method, fitness, situation, and standing of the clitinant. Light is thrown (pon these Ine qaulries by thefaets already presented; but mute Hight muy be gained trom other facts of kindred Import. ‘ One thing for which wo fought was tho freedom of the Mississippi River. As some one expressed it, we were “determined the Father of Waters should go wnyexed to the sea”? ‘The building of jetties at the delta of this great stream, to deepen a channel in which seagolme ships ni was finlshed years age, Virginian has the Chairmanship of the Committeeon Pensions; QGeorgin of Connnerce;. ‘Texns of, Post-Of- fiees and Post-Ronds; Missourl of Claims; North Carotina of Ratiroads; and goon, 1 have sald the South has contro! of the work- Ing committees, THIB 18 TRUE in this way: On every Comimittee there is a majority of Democrats, und of these sin jority in alt cases consists of Southern Sena- tors, ‘The same conditions prevall In. the cause such menand thelr views and Inter- ests will not and cannot control in tho event of Democratic success much grave peril arises, Asthe Democratic party ts constl- tuted, not the men of the North, not the men who were for tho Union and tho Constitu- thon, but the men of: the South who were against the Utifor:and the Constitution, men- whose policy and purposes are stil hurtful to the country, are bount and predestined House, ‘Chere are forty-two Comuilttees he reach New tocontrol a Democratic Administration and | ye Chairmen of twenty-two are from Orleans ites Weg geleneton ee aitenthay, > a Democratic Congress. (Applause.) In the } the South, All the Committees are so con- | Hust bu i vast outed. to the markets of tho Sonate and fn the Nouse stituted that the inajority Is Democratic, , : world and 2 port of entry of commanding im- and of the majority more than halt is THE BOUTIE HAS AN OVERWHELMING MA- aad , portanee. ‘The river conmerce of the South = sOWTY Southern, “Duriug Lie two senry sehlelt tile tra Mississippi Is regarded ny n great ie of of the Vemocratic members, and most of Jorted the existenee of the veto power und Interest, a great safeguard rid nssurance then! are men who led in the Rebellion, Every party measure In Congress {3 settled “Jn party cautens by a party majority; thus the Southern members hold absolute sway, In possession of the. Jaw-naking power, of lave run aginst Buch obstiniat the purse, and, of, We, nqwer to ‘confirm | opposition as to seétire present postpon or reject treathes aint nppolntmenta, tho Jinent or some jnodiiteations, But when- South fs valsd’*-to7fornish all the | ever ithe ete meaikes: ne th yele . " ath HOWE! is 1 Democ: CWS — pH Here votes to elect tho Democratic enndidate by Southern votes,—whatever the sullit save only the forty-seven votes whieli | canons decrees will. be wveitten the entieus h against purposes-nucluual or fulinical, and a large foundation for the claims set up for Southern INFLUENCE IN NATIONAL, AVFAIIG, ‘The canvass in some portions of the country iuready blossoms-with IHerature In this bo- half. Chis theory, ag far ag It over was true, belongs to the past. ‘The trend of man tn atl ages hus been on lines of latitude, not on Ines of longitude, Rivers and mountains of this continent run north mid south, Mei bridge and tunnel them, wand move exst wid thenpproach of the Presidential canvass Bugegested urgent reasons for “ going slow. Many expeeted bills have not been Introduced; many Uiat have been introduced linve not. been “pressed”’} some that have been “pressed?” have " must be raffled, or counted, or certified, or | will be controlled by thoye who represent | west ‘This is the ordinance of a power produced from the Northern States, particn- less hat Ce er nt of tho people of tho mtn her: that a Sot Pte pena ° if plow = [Appliase, ker, = ‘Tha enterprise whieh in 3 fee ute exeanting - Oreeot Binh fis i have sutd catso Unt they represent not | youth = and — belplesness — tonted the election bo close, K more than one-fourteenth of the produelng, | way the water” ran” has changed its the two Democratic Houses may find ground on which to throw outa part or all of any State's Electors, With inuch wiemployed Telsure on thelr hands, with the danger whieh"-the Electoral Comission of 1877 njone oyerpassed for that thie sturing the country in the face, these Democratle commercial, Indlustelel, tax-pi erty Interests of the country, = CUSTOMS, t Let me prove this by the oflelal figures of the Bureau of Statistics for 187; Custos dutles, $17,250,018; collected at Southern ports, $2,145,505, ‘This is 1}4 per cent, or ofe- sixtieth part, oO + : aying, and prop- | course; trade has.veered from one. point of * the compins to mother, and pertianently ale tered ita relations, ‘The construction of rall- ways ling revolutionized trafic and trans: portation, Four trtink Hues of steel: ronds, of which the sea ends are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Buitimare, now carry, efeh one of them, Houses hinve adopted no imeasure to Ine |. .. INTRNNAUAEVENUE, + . | MORE FRELGITY THAN EVER SOVED ON THE sure order 7 nid, SJgMD Shi, ascertaliing | . In 1870: the internal Teventy was $110,815,- } Misi PPE ARVER 6! the result of the © Presidentinl elec- Fi bald by file Bouthetn State ae erent campal uy sunicl cotupatitor to ty 3 hls is, 17 per cent, ar one-#ls ritnscontinental snovement fs the Inkes ane ee tine eT eT team tke Since: the War Ohle alone has paid mor the Erle Canal. . Besides handling. a yast fo election be thrown Into Ror, | ternal revenue than’ all the Inte. Confed- | traiic, thts water-route. acts as a check on the vote bolng taken by States, the South erate “States tnited; so has Winols, New | railway frelghts, keeping — them down Would cast nearly all the Democratic yotes, | York alone has patd nearly twice as much. | by foree of veompotition. To this vast nnd in the Bunate the vote for Vice-Prestaent would come from the saine source. Inevery event of Demoeratic success, tho Southern Jf customs dutles were added tho compari- son would be more striking sul. DOMESTIC COMMERCE comprehensive moder current ot business, tributary streaing float in by: rail and: river from the North, South, and West, ‘The Pe ext .. ) tonnage acruss the Mississippi on tho bridues endl of the Denrocratto party must Wate the ajoht: aauncalic commerce ree aativins | above St, Louis ty twelvetald the tonnuze to Tove (0 per cont of It, that city by river, and twenty-five years ago tender, as the horse fs tu the cart. ‘This is as In 187) 421,003 frelght-cars carried tis | the commerce of St. Louls was all by river. plain as any truth In gravitation or arith- | traille, Of these cars the Inte Confederate | Mast jens ne. aliown “hy the. teat a6 Ae lin * States empla: ‘$1,218, ‘This Is 724 per cent, Merehants’ Exchunge, the raitway tonnage netic, or one-fourteenth path, 2] Was 8,043,704, andl die river tannuge was only SWELLING THE SOUTHERN VOTE, Perhaps this point will seem ‘to you to challenge some Attention. For thi: povula- tlon of tho Southern Stafes ave Taunt go back 1 gH, 115, fhe single bridge at St.Louis has vaprelly for tenfold the trate thatever floated onthe Mississippl River, The aetual commerce crossing this one brid is MARINE COMMENCK. In 1579 the tonnage of vessels engaged in Internal trate. wos 2,078,007 tons, “The Inte four thugs 18 Confederate Stutes employed 42548 tons, | great as iy beneath. ‘Trafic so the census: of 1870.‘ That count of the | Mis Is 9 per cent, or one-eluventh part. Brath of the Ola. Tey rand of tte suivot people was made by enumerators notselected EXPonTs, 4 but tributary now to the eastenn by Southern Senators and members of the | In to dune Po 180, our exports wera hae rend 2 fhe Bt. bunts staelians Ss House as “non-partisans ”? nud professional | & He the South exported E Jeli separ nat ven 1 Las ete ore raid ; 2,050, + a i Marshals und thelr deputies, and the com. | Qi tHe st ner Gaul was cotton, and tha New | 7. by river, 692,620 tons; moved to and from the South by rall, 1,053,008, Commerce takes the rail even with the river by Its side, Now Orlenusis Smiles further from Liver- ol han St. Louls itselt is, Multhmore ts $20 niles newrer than St. Louly to Liver. York Cotton hange reports that very little of It was moved by Southern eapital, All thatenmoe North was handled by North- ern eapltal, ‘That exported directly wus meved by Northern and foreign capital. : IMPONTS, pensation wes so adjusted as to Induce thorough visitation, and at the snine thine to cuard agalust exaggeration of numbers, No iinputation of fraud was ever cast upon the work. Such a thing ns plot to fabricate ool, muking a dliference In favar of Balll- spina In 187, to June 80, 1850, our Imports wero | ! - c, ¢ in anbngteoua Inerensh ae towntation suit 4. athe South’ tiuporteit ten tint LAN ee ea ceaeaT reine. ans Ne 2 ge ‘ A HOL, Thisls 234 per cent, or one forty-third 7 " carrvine ho course of nattire dil the logic of evenis | y The exports, mid Imports together Motlitne oF tha sal I vantAne OC Satya fianother,—a plot to change tho baliuice of | 1,503,58,007, "The share of the South | yisks of tha Gulf of Mexico, Philadelphia power nnd population In order to nggrandizo | Was Son ih 108, This 1s 13.6 por cont, of } New York, and Boston are still nearer that one section by establishing a fal bass of | OMEMEVEUEN. Hultiinore Lo Liverpoo!,— representation and apportianment, thus rob- Tn 187) (Oct. 2), tha bank Jonns were 8878,- TRANES, CONVINCING ARGUMENT, bing other seetlons of their share in govern | 503,097. {ects Me Southern banks, ‘SiW0,. But this ia not all, ‘The commercial forces ing the country, In levying taxes, and nppro- | O07. ‘Chis is 5 vor cent, or one-ninetconth, of seven wt cities have grasped this vast. printing money,—had not at that time oe curred to the cotiservatlye foes of radlenlisin, That partteular spoke in the’ wheel of deviltry had not trrned up to the shifty pa- Srlot of that day, Nowsuch schemes seem to wax apne, We read of producing false hetrs to thrones and estates, but to multinly: falso heirs without any one to personate them on agente so grand as seems now In process would stupefy tho ingenuity of a French navellat or anybody else except a Shorogh-golng, non-partisan, conservative. disciple of the Democratie persuasion, want- mg nothing for hhuself, but ready to do and suffer for a white man's government, with eurrying trade, and hold, propel, and direct it. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore at the Bust, and St. Louis, Chie engo, and Clichinati at the West, command the machinery and the outlets aid inlets throngh which the surplus products of the United States reach the marketsof the work, and through which the merchantliso of Bus rope Js brought-hero and distributed, Geo- rraphieal ant nitural advantages are favoras ble, but alone they would not be decisive, ‘Tho vital fret Is the genius, cnerey, enters prive, and capital of merchants, farmers, tannufaeturers, mid railway managers, alded by wholesome adjustments of tarit and other laws dn the Interest of Aimerlean tibor. Could selenee deepen the mouths of Ui Mis: slssippl dll the Great Enstern could long at DANK CHICULATIOS, Jn 1878 (Oct, 2) Sinte and National bank elrenlation was $14,103,223, Southern banks, breed ‘This 1s 734 per cent, or ono thire acuth,. WANK DEPOSITS, In 1878 (six months ending: Ma returis) the deposits In saylugs Banks were SHELINITS In Southern banks, $2,627,423, ‘This Is four-tenths af 1 Der cent, or one two- Iundred-and-fifteenth part. , COST OF NAILNOADS, : In 1878 the cost of rallrands. In the United States was $4,160, 810015 cost nt Benda railroads, So, This ty 13}¢ per cent, or one-soventh. MAILS TRANEPORTED, 51, latest “reform” and “a change.” [Applause te, Wwelkht. of malls carsled att Talleeaiya tin se PAN erat MeHg a cei The suggestion now Iv thal the census-takers | Was 551,570,158 bounty, on Southern roads, | movement of commerce wid population east polis, ‘This is 374g per cent, or part, MANUFACTURES, of 1870 undereounted thelr neighbors, and west: than ft would control the tides of VAID BY THE HEAD AND bY! THE MULE, af the senor change tho courses of the stirs, South DOU, one-sixth NOT WY THR: DAY, In 1670 ret feet Re SOUT Is simply tarcly unl de il “thew coliten 5 n Our munyfuctures were $4,253, 05,- » Northern. commerce is complex, it fs now alleged they robbed themselves, | 443. thy. Southern ‘paruon was Siri n037, Bely petive, dghly organized, ang tne They neither travwled nor counted, nor | Ths fg O4 per cent, or one-sixteenth park, pendent, Northern methods and progress charged for doing It, There were “earpot- ¥ sion have constantly Hnereased Uheir fruits, MINING, buggers,” too many of them, in the South, | — In 1670 the production of our intnes was | LAbpttuse.) | the reverse Ia trie of Thelr States were Republleang they hid $162,008.00; of Southern mines, $4,000,052, on eae nee ey atts thelr ambitons and motives for Incrensed | ‘Thly ty 3/7 per cent, or one-thirtyetrat park, ; J year they were only $10,810, ‘they were politleal numbers and power, ‘There was not IMMIGRATION, ‘hi ess lnst Sear than dnny year from tsod to tho remotest danger of nny direct tax, and From June 80, 1570, to duno 80, 1880, the | ISTH. dn MW exports: Nain New Orleans. yet with nothing to gain and everything to | mitber ot tinmigrants who enme to the | were 8107, List year they were only 1 i : reid tL taw Ly United States wis 2,819,177, Of these 3,603 | $00,249), Jens than iy 1870 nnd 18T4. The tone lose they wronged and windledt them: | eame to Southern Adutle parts, and 47239 | iuge ne Lviries (ils statement apparent selves for the sake of being | to ports of the Gult of Maxieo, making for | ly, but only apparently, beeause steam yes- dishonest. ‘This all may be, it | the whole South 49,901, ‘This is 1.77 per cent, sels have been pore ested of lute, and steam is tho only way of recounting for the awk- | OF one-sixth, ward wonders of the censtts now progress- ing. Ibeannot be eatled Inaentons, because itis plainly the only possible explanation, yessels count nore tapldly in tonaaze tian In cargoes. Like. vetrogratde and stugnation Uppear atothar Southern ports. Baltimore + isnot trented naa Southern port, becwuse it EDUCATION, port of the Commissioner of es the total Income for the he tntest re} Ednentlon ata! Se cal Gy af public schools of the country at $s6,0i8,t01, | Is the ocenn terminusof v grenteast and west tiny at gn Re ectut Eaiimaeen cate | Ate South wail for pubite schools seit. | Hine of trae, elations, but men will stil wonder. how 43 | hs 1s 9.19 per cent, or one-tenth part, ‘This NOW-TURN TO,NONTHERN PORTS, ercent was mtded to the papulation af a item fa presented hers because It belongs to thy \ Beats fn ten years, during which she recelyed tho Induntrhd interest. Roston, imports. Jouking jnto the inirror of the country’s Dbushiess, we seo partially and exactly re flected the reapective proportions and Tents exuctly 187 foreign dminkgrants, a fret estab- shed without the ald of any consug, Such un Increase of population auywhera would Kosten, exports,... New York, huport Now York, expor ena ia B5 heat + 7 “ Philidelphin, 1 crop out in mmnuuibered direc. | Ured of the twa sections, | By analyaly and | piimdelptiue x ions, Productlon, consumption, —bulld- | WVeTHRG We sea tik, production, fidustry hutinude iiporte, Bs Ings, tilled “nereage, — rullway traffic, | centuerce, capital, und revenue are fouid | Haltimore, exports. BBO GOS WUE postal returus, immigration, would tell the atory of such growth, Whether these tull- ta ests, Which cannot be sinethered, suse one-fourteenth In one seetion of the country: and thirteen-fourteenths in the other section. INDUSTRY AND CAPITAL DISFRANCHISED, * ‘The imports of these four ortain 1600 were $2370,401,075; thelr Su fi exports een },0a7; total, 4 U1. In Tes0 their tmports | wero in or demolish the proposed count tn the ‘These are hard, stubborn facts. ‘They are | Soss, Mod; thelr exports 574,218,315; total, Bouthern States will incidentally appear | not recited with pleasure; far froin it, | $1,310,490,040, In ted tho forelan commerce Jurther on if your paticuce ahall endure, ‘They are rected with deep regret. Yet | of Now Orleans was 34 por cent of that of + Twas speaking of the population of eleven | thelr reeltal ow denonnesd ps ] the four ports Just named. fa 1850 it was Sirs ct dy Hh | tS ahha AE | Laan at OO now constitute the ehlef power uf the Demo fs Suath wus taunted wi Novertnealie! He ee Te suld the South was taunted with herpoverty, All this will be unjustly sald, Asan Amer- ivan, profoundly do J ‘deplore the Janiuo the misfortunes, and the wasted opportun: ératic aurty, In laid ft was; whit ee Tera } » Agtal ite, 7,087,~ ack, 4,179,223; total, 11,245,433, "The was 20 per cent, or three-teaths of » The foreign tonnage of Charleston in 1850 WS 120,7615 In 1800, 126,311; 1850, 1162 ‘The torelen tonnage of Savannah ty 189 Was 60,524; fn 2000, 02,018; In 1850, 183,005, ‘Tho forelzn tonnage of Mobile 11850 was FA 0003 {nr 1860, 160,000; Lin 1880, O14T1. ie lhe. orelien SonnNeN, of Boston in 1860 was TIRSS7 3 Ta 1890, 1H d5F. 2 ‘The foreign fonna it New York tn 1800 Was 1,003,812; In 1880, 7,451,282, The foreign tonnage of Paitadelphin in 1880 Wns 185,103 [1 1880, 1,301,312, ‘The foreign tonnage of Baltimore In 1860 was WO,S175 [1 f880, 102,71, Tn 1800 (year ending June 30) the founnia of vessels entered nt seaports south of tho Potomne was one-third as large ns tho tonnage of all Northern ports, both Atlantic and Paeltic. Thisyear (ending dine 30, 1680) it Is only about one-soventh. Democratic orators bid ts 100K AT THE EXVORTS OF COTTON, J have looked at them, and find theso facts touching colton and breadstuits: 180, 1870, 1880. eed nat gone) 9,810,180 on expe gn q Vintec see RIUL-800055 $227,004 §211/8I5005 sold, | 8 UA 8 7,2 50,033 $288,000,835 hore were fowo! ¢ bates than twonty yenrs ago. Cotton lins stood: stil) while sur atuits have multiplied twelvefo plus bread id. Look nating look at the value of all exports as they have risen nnd fallen on one part of tho country and in others, The value of ntl ox- ports from ports south of the Potomac wis: 180, $199,000, 775 102,880, (120 + 7,140,073 Here Js seen nstendy dectine. ‘The value ot all exports from Northorn ports wns: 100, PTT,400 Mh, 102 423 penees <3 GU, 1KOTS Here you seen stently Inerense of nearly four- fold. ‘The value of imports of all kinds toall ports south of the Potomac was Here again is a stendy decline. ‘The value of imports at Northern ports wus! $3591,076,021 PH0,0%1,014 TROUT llere {3 an enormous constant incrense. ‘The vitlue of fimports at the ports of South Carolina was: + 681,609,570 CON Ilvre Is sad deeny, ‘Che yatue at tho ports of South Caroliiia was: FLL IG WALK Fi 0,70 1880, soebooees Here is stugnation for twenty years. THE NORTH'S PAIAMOUNT INTEREST. These unerring proofs map and Jocate the bulk and substance of the Natlon’s weatth nod business, But some man may say, What has all this to do with the election, Garfield and Arthur, and a Republican Con- 2) 1 answer tt has everything todo it. Agutn, some man may say, All these vast enterprises and transactions are managed by Individuals and corporations as private business, und what are they to pall- tles or pollics to them? LE nnswor thut the gool of every one of them de pends on Just ‘and — friendly = Inws and wholesome —_ndininistration ot tho Government, in tho I sny this, Spenteln great commercial metropolis of-the Western Hemlsphere, and speaking to men whose wise dom, integrity, and enterprise have made this one of the greatest, and in my bellet the most generous, benevolent city on the xlobe. Laliri that the broad Issue wt this election is whether our colossal fabric of vomtmercial, industrial, and flaancial titer- ests shall be under the innnagement and pro- tectlon of those who chiefly created and own experlence, antecedents, theorles, and prac- TANIFE, TAX LAWS, FINANCES, well as State Inws, these are the things upon which eeprewety thy tax-paylig portions of on the ‘Treasury, A Congressman whose quid its enncus; but if he belongs to the to sland together aginst roids on the ‘Treas- If you place the pdying. power hitho bands of ona Hind and sawed off the Hmb between to turn the scalo in deciding whether now constituted and controlled,” In tho terests fs, unfortunntely, not the only cone polltical polley of these who dominate the forees of the National Government. ess affairs, is too patent and flagrant to bo wrong In mongtrous proportions, In thing, Lhe Republican vote was very large, nine other Southern Stutes, In the seme four i. Most of these stitied votes it or alinll be hawled over to the sway of those whose share in itis small, and wins {ees do not fit them or entitle them to ussuine Its control eurrency, banks, courts, appropriations, the maintenance and enforcement of National ay which prosperity depends, and these are the things ut stake in this election, The party the country Is the party whose representa- tives can best be trusted to yote upon drafts constituents “foot tho bills’? mney not stand lone, or with «few others, ngainst his ¥ tyallof whose Congressmen represent X-paylng constituencies thoy muy be trusted ury whieh they’ know nll their dlstricts wouli.condemp.: (Tt fs sti] more certain that thoseavho do bit little of tho taxpaylug, your situation ta ike that of the man who gat hhnself and the tree. ‘The consideration of dsparlty of interest, (fit stood alone, ought to put the ~ Government Into the hands of the Democratic party, “as hingunage of Gen, Grant. [Applause But inferiority of Interest or antagonlsm of Ine sideration, Banded seetional resentment ant sterile hates disfigure and prevent the South, foreboding tmeasuaable perll and evil should they come to wield the whole INTOLERANCE OF FREE ACTION, and of equal reghts in polltteal or even busi- dented or donbted, One glanes at Southern elvetions proves ostracism, tyrnuny, and 1803 _elght Southern States gave majorities for Grant. In 1873 seven States did the samo Only four years afterward 260,000 of these votes disnppeared from the count. In the years, 300,000 Republican votes disappeared froth the returns also, maklig on absence of 4 the votes of men who had been slaves, reedmen only . Just crowned * with the crownof Amerlean eltzenship, and proud and Cagurniory proud and ; camer than the lost ol us--to - exercise = the right ‘to vote. -[Applnuse,} Does any gine person doubt thut thoy Wau tiavg ure voted If they could, or that those who and could dd vote, and that thelr votes wero not honestly counted? If any man does doubt it, let him look: nt the spectacle pre- sented in individual States, “FUAUD, CRUELTY, AND DEVILTHY." 'The voters of Georgla wore registered before the clection In 1868, ‘The white voters num bered 18,803; the colored, 5453, In 187 the whole Republican yote — counted wns 50,40, Only two; years | jater tho Whole Republican yote counted was 7 Pretenses huve been made that the recdten of Georgia do not curg to yote, and often vote the Democratic tleket. Only. read the savage laws of Georgia under the fletion of yagrancy and prigon management, and hen earn of thelr slekonlug, beastly ad- tolnistration, and human nature will tell you that the frecdimen of Georgian do not suppore the Democratic party, but would cast [tout if they could, Tn 1876 the Republican vote of Loulsiany was 77,174. Two years afterward the Repub ean vote disuppenred from the election re- turns, Yet tu 1807, in this sane Stute, tho registery of voters showed 45,190 white voters find 84,431 colored voters, and 1y"18i6 te Tegtanratlyn showed a Republican majori- y OF S14, nen 1n North Caroling; in 1876, the Republican voto enst was 108417, At the next Congress sonal election Republican votes searcely ape peared in the counts, > In Alabama, In 1873, the Republicans east bu273 votes, They elected five of the seven Lepresentatives to Congress and the Legisha- ture by aurge majority, Ln 1876, 68,50 Re- publican votes were counted, ‘Te years ater, When i Governor and members of Cons gress Were elected, not one Republican yoto Was counted, $ : in South Carolina the registration showed that the colored voters outnumbered tho whites nt BAT. tn 1873 Grant received. 73,870, —49,587 majority, Every Congresslonnl district elected a Republleans ‘The Leghila- ture wis Ropubliean by OF ainjority, dn tsTs the Republican vote ‘east was 01,870, . Only two years afterward, when a Governor and Congressmen Were slocteds all the Revub- Hean yotes vounted In the State were 213, Thiswasavery .' . CARNIVAL, OF ag eat cruelty, and deviltry.” Voting-pinces in Re- pablivan reglons had been extublished twens Sellve mites apart, “Lhe Republicans of by bouth Caroling de not rile by night ur by day; they: gu on foot; But they “knew what emuanelpation meant; they know .what the ballot-bux means; they Know ‘which slde they prayed and fought for dn war; they know which side they would vote for In peace. Farce and dastte ballots took care of the election of 1978 nn South Carona, It was testitied before 9. Conmittes of the Senate that one man put about’ 700 yotes into the ballorbox. This makes politics one of the exact sclences,” niuch more certaln thay the ilice or lota with which offices and nominations were railed olf nere the other day.” [Appluuse.] halt, In Mississtppt mora than half the pennle: tion is colored, Every year until 874 the Republicans had a majority in all elections, Th 1870 the Republican vote returned was 53- #05: the next ritwas but 1,268; and the Year after 2,0 In all the States the Repub- ean vote, and even the Republlean eomtnlt- tees and newspapers, have been utterly sup. all Iargo purposes when State-soverel gat and Stute-rights -amendmennts to tho Constl. tutfon, and cotton taxes, and the Iike are at atike. ne pill passed to Rh second Feading, and wag''re rel to & cominittes, whose Chairmaii'' few days atterward came into the House att igtonced the Court, ard sald a majority ‘Sronle present: Judees wero presse. “hopelesly lust "iy as for” For tho Alabama lite just held anelection, The | present. “it wontd?? he prematury Qreenback candidate for President went { and bangliny to pags such | ‘A there nnd realized the enibarrassmont | bil; a veto might spoil it, ind it might spoll of the bull who butted ngninst a | thy result In some close Northern state. But Tocomotive, The whole procueding, was | let the Democrats elect thelr’ President, or n shameful wrong, and Mr, Weaver says | rather, thelr party (for tho party ierrunntag)} hat the enforcement of the Nattonal | and who will say that this bil will<not fine Election laws is the only hing which will make a falr election possible, aArkansns has t voted, Arkansas, where until reee! Republicans always elected members of Congress and the Legis ] where nt tho Inst) Prestdentint ion 88,660 Republican votes were cast, and where now in ho part of the State does the Republi vole appenr, repudiation and Demoeracy y nil mightily, repeat here, as 1 sald in the Senate when the qnent was taken by the throat and threatene with —strangiiation unless the | Election laws were stricken down, that. the Deno- ernie party would live to-day no inajority tn either House of Congress except for electtlons dominated and decided by vlolence and fraud, its way to the statute-book ?* You enn allsay WITAT SORT OF JUDUES Jaw fs needed: Nature's law and the statue tory limit of age at which Judges nny retire will suri the next four years, vacate at least four sents on the Supreme Bench. These four appolntinents will deeide the political complexion of the Court. With what judges would the Due moerncy fill them 2? ‘The Cirettlt and Distriet Courts are obnostous also, ‘They are still inore easy to deal with. Like the Judues of the Supreme Court, these Jiulzes hold thelr plaees du xoot betinvior; But legiatation, as has often been seen in States and in the Nation, has ways (o plow around this stump, abolishing a clremt or district, or adding to MUA-MOTTEN TOWER BADLY UBED. . it another, takes the seat oltt from What uso is madeot alt this ill-gotten | under a dgo and gets tld of power. One of its chief uses has been the | him drally nok legislated out, repudiation of houert debts, Every Southern | Thus the Ie judicial establishment whol Ile is at the disposal of the lw. Suute hut Texas bas Intely rey Tinations. ‘This aggregate uitintion of aking puwe With courts revolutionized State and muntetpal sient amounts to about {to conform to reactlonary uations and dog- g 000, In Isr the debts of Southern | was, prejudices and interests, what may be States were $242,500,000, Now t States | the fate of questions affecting commerce recognize and pny Interest on onty 854,028,045, mmong the several States, revenue, bank A large part even of thisty unpaid ‘and | and legul-tender currency, the taxation of funded interest. On $20,000,000 interest tins heen sealed down to 3. per cent. Whethor the residue of debts are also to be foresworn, isnow tnoven issue, Js there excuse or palttation for this? Weare told so. What sit? Ibis that earpet-bag governinent con- tracted these obligations, One difficulty this exense, and not the only ane, {s not tri ‘he ante-War, ‘del hefore tho carperbigeer ever vist ny South, elther with knapsack or without it, was $90,000,000, No part of thedebt har been patd s adaree part has been repudiated, ‘The eure pet-bar governments”? paid the interest on tregularly, TI INCREASE OF TIE DENT sinee the War was largely for public im- provements. But the most damaging fact for this exeuse fg that all the alleged Wegal Issue of bonds charged upon the exrpet-biue cove ernments put together does not equal the stun repudlated by Georgia alone, Wht are we to think of men and communit Government bonds, the citrreney in wiileh thesn bonds are payable, civil thts ucts, election juws, eluting growling out of the War, claims for refunding thy War tax on catton, the late amendments, and many other Brave matters, no man can predict HOURVON HATRED OF THE AID(Y, ‘Thy army, too, Is envied. Ity ‘offense fs rank.” Less than four dines of the Revised Statules nro’ all that denies commissions fn the army to men who, educated at the coun. (ry’s enat, nnd presented with thelr country’s sword, drew that sword against their cout try's life, A bill to repent those four lines {3 now pending in tho Sunnte, already passer ton third reading by the solld Democratic vote. On the th of February Inst, Mr. Neiskill, of Maryland, was relleved from the operation of this exclusion, and a Senator from “Arkansas * moved as an amend- ment tte total repenl. The yeas and nays were demanded, and thirty-six tracted les who go Sonatora, every Democrat who was. present, into wholesale repudiation ag gayly ng the | voted “Fen?” Ohio, New Jersey, Penusyl- troubadour touched his guitar? [Ap- | vanin, and New York contriuuted thelr Dem- plause.) When Mr. Weaver brought forward oeratic yotes to this Southern proposition of iv the House of Representatives a bul to is- sue * fiat money,’? and male it alegibtender for all debts, pubdtie and pilates man ofter untn from the South openly deelured that if the word “ private” were strleken out he would vote for the bill, They had no objec. tion to paying off public debts with chaff, but private debts they thought sould be pald tn tmhoney. State debts are suered above Na- “reform.” Subsequently the mover and all coneluded to reconsider and trop the amend- ment, Sagacious conclusion in a’ Presi dential year! {Applause}. Mr, ‘Tucker, of Virgtila, inoved in the House the repen} of this’ safeguard to the army 2s a rider to an appropriation bills but it was huddled out of stght ona point. of order} a Judiclous point ina“ Presidential year? [Applause] ‘The tionn! obligations in Southern ethics. A | Democratic majority put In the Army bill “govereizn Siete” is of higher essence | a provision that officera now in_ the than . the Nation, and — this was | army might recelye advaticed pity ant rank the standing defense in tho Rebellion | if they would retire; a benevolent, thought- for “ going with their States.” Moreover, Stato and muntelpal obligations aro for home purposes, Lf thelr own Stato faith and eredit is Hot inviolate with the Southern leaders, what in thelr Hands would be tho fate of obligations which were the means, tho cause, the memorials of thelr defeat? But we are told Gen, Hancock would wateh them. An ANGEL MNT WATCH A TIGER; achitd might attempt to divide a becfstenk with a bloodnound; a lamb night He ‘down with a Hon, but the Inmb would Ho Inside. [Applause.] ‘Tho perl! of Democratic: as- cendency In all the branehes of the Govern- ment is decper rooted than any qmensure within the scope of existing public ques-. tions. Statesmen abroad talk of “the balanco of power” and of “changing the map of Entrope.’ ‘These sayings mean nob ohh pre than tight ensily cecur here, ‘Tho ution admitting ‘Texas to the Union in ful position certainly, fApplanse} But ie a body of army oflicers could thus be coaxed ont of the service, there wonld be so man vacaneles tobe filled, and filled by the Presl- dent by and with the adyice and consent of a Democratic Senate! When this free-will offering was Piesauted f ery arose about “gift-benring Greoks,”’ and other ungracious symptoms were manifested on the Republic in side, and so brevet rank and brevet pay stand over at least ull the senson of Santa- Claus, [Applause.| Meanwhile the ariny lias been reduced ton skeleton, and whenover & genre, a pretense, a speck of war on the Mex- ican border or elsowhero enn be discovered or Invented, the army must be Increased, and filled up. Fitted up? by whom? “‘Thnt de- pends on the approaching election, If Gar- fleld and Arthur are chosen, by Untou men— men always for the Union to the core, If Hancock and English and the Democratia resoll party get in, by nen who “went with thelr Id} provided for erecting out of ‘Lexus four | Sites.” Confederate soldiers would flock to the standard of military as well as of Civil- Service reform, and flock ina fervor of mignanimity and ‘devation, ready to let bygones be bygones, and to: forgive tho ““naurpations of Lincoln”? and the wneonstl- additional States, The area and population are both suflelent. ‘Cha aren ly 874,000 square sniles, the population 1,500,000, Such a pro- ceading would nda eight to. the number of Southern Senators, and add to the Sonthern power In. tho Electoral College. . thuonial saerclon of soverelan Status, [ee t ‘ axle . hould they 2. Who woul bo whi Naw Alexico en other coreltatles Warniiled tt, aagert. that a Confaderate sol- traditions, and Pl svended. from, sliveholding -intluences. sev- eral new States may also be made, Scliemes exist, not in embryo, but far advanced, to obtain “aslico of Mexico.” Cattle-stenllog ,on the Rio Grande border has been, and Is, a fruitful ocension for incursions Into Mexico. Speelal cavalry reghuents of unusual, sizo Have been raised and statloned on the ‘Toxan frontier, tis an open seeret that not long azo much exertion and alertness were need- ed to keep us out: of another Mexican war Without violating tho Constitution or transeending the usnyes of the Republic at least seven new Stites could be brought in, and In the case of sone of thein & very plausible caso could be made. The project would become a high party measure, ts success would assure complete Dento- cratle ascendency In the Nation for «ge ation atleast. It would put the Government dier’ was. false oc immodest bn professing patriotle" Intentlinis” While seeking rank In tha army of the Ropublic? ‘No man aught to assertit, and yet all tuir men would agree that, -other things belong equal, proferments: in tho a ee be given to those who fought in that army rather than those who assilled i¢ in the dread extremity of the Na tion's life, THE PRESENT TARMIFE AND REVENUE LAWS nre deemed very bad by the dominant ele ment of tie Democracy. They want to change thom. ‘They will change them ral- fenlly whenever the way {fs clear. ‘There Is a whisky rebellion now in. several States, nud the officers of tha law sre powerless to sup- press it. In Alabani the Inw fs resisted, and tho process of tho courts destroyed and du- fled. Recently a warrant wis tsgued for tho nrrest of one Penton: charged with such not merely inthe hands of the Democratic | an offense, A Deputy Marshal went Vurty: but of the Southorn Nemoerathe party, | with D posse is exeento — the Why shouldnat this bo done? Who and | warrant |. In his report to | tha whatis to prevent Itifthe Democratic party 1s | Marshal he seys Penton avsembled from elected? Tho Northorn wing could never resist | twenty-five to itty armed ten, and sot.him the Southern wing In Congress were these | and the Inw atdeliance, When cautioned to new States brought forward for admission. | desist, Penton replied: © When dancock Is x nevercould, never will, and never can withstand tho prussure of the far stronger Southarn wing, Gravitation and arithmette make such reststance Inpussible, justaga pound cannot outwelgh o ton; Just ns one man enmmot outnumber a regient. ‘The past is pliful in its warnings In this be- Despite pledges and Northorn Indig- nation, Northern Democrts in Congress united in voting down the Wilmot proviso in order to winks Californin’a slave Stato; , Bi ‘The Northern w ne cleo Thal d=d_ foolishness will stop.” ‘The thing to stop, thus plously predicted, fs the collection of the tax, on whisky, that mild beverage ao sacred to the Democratic heart, so grateful the Democratic stomach, atv so nourishing to Democratic principles. Tho Jaw fs defied In Arkansas, and ofiicers apply to the Governor for the uso of tho ..arms of the United States loaned to Arkansas, and the Governor replies that he dare nat permit the arms to be used, united tn yoting for the Fugitive | because, If any one should be killed, he Slave laws united in the | mighty | would have to feayo the State. Washington perfidy’ which overthrew the Missourt | raised an army when he was President and compromise in order to fasten slavery on Kansas and other States; and united fi dee feathng the Llomestend Jaw; all at the behest of the Southern minjority, Mr. Van Buren nt last, ike Macbeth, would “go no further In this bloody business,” and political de struction was his reward, Mr. Donalas al last made n brave stand against sectional aggression, and he was hunted to his grave. Caucus fs King, and the avenging angel ts hardly. mora inexorable in decree or moro unerring In retribution, [Applause] ATTACKING THF JUDICIAIY, One of thomain bulwarks of thu Republicis ho Judiclary, ‘Tho Courts of Justles are onservitor, citndels, Tho Supreme Court fg tho Nnal arbiter of many momentous controversies. ‘This great tribunal is very obnoxious to Southern teaders in Congress andout, [tisin thelr way. It does not: al: ways decide as they think. ‘Che halls of marched at its head to put down such law- Jesness: and he kept the army in DPennsyl- vania threo months after it wns put down to sco it ld not get up again. Now, there are thirty-two soldiers of the ‘United States in Alabuna, and fifty-seven tn Arkunsas, and If 100 moro should beordered to elther State the country would not bo big enough to hold the nolse. " Hancovk’s order No, 40 would leap from the Democratic senbbard and wo should hear’ how “the military must be always subordinate to tho clvil power,” and bow “the Courts are open,” ‘These obnoxious Jaws are for “reform” and “a change,” jyuenerer the Democratle hand can reach hem, TUE RECENT AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTI- TUTION and the Jaws made in pursuance of them are objects of unabated Demoeratle wrath, a wrath going to such excess as to compel the Congress rang last year with assertions, ut- | bellef that free fraud in elections is tered with passionite yehemence, that the | deemed the only adequat means to laws for protucting elections ire wnconstitus | party success. These & amendments tional, Soon afterward a case on tho | ot freedom, cspecially — th Thirteenth docket of the Supreme Court, Involving the | and Fourteenth were ‘established in the yallility of these Inws, w four Heelies fae va tater | anicruptey not long ago overritted tho Chlef-Justicw on the construction of a stat. ute, and so It often hapbens that the Court is notable or recondiie enough to get at tie “trio Inwardness” and profound depths of the Inwas understaud on the hustings, where the moonsiiner thrives und the tire-eater 8 reached, and the Constitution against the most desperate lid. A. Register tn opposition the Demyeracy could inake. Ag they gain power In States whieh lind already rated them, in impotent passion the farce was enneted of formally rescinding and withdrawing the Irrevocable assent which had been Milally given, ‘his was done in Indians and New Jersey, and Mr, Tweed did ttn New York. From tirst to last the reigns, Afutterings deep and oud brenthins organs of Demovratia doctrine have deelgred of diva: longings to “go for” — the | these amendments HHegully varied; {le Court have for years been — gathers | because Democratic Stat pat were outight- ang tn volume. dn tho Mouse Representatives for two or three yeurs this feeling bins now and again found harsh yoleo In unseemly sluister words, Not only Kens fucks, through the Chairman of the Judie ary Committee, Ing were not In to vote. suid or admitted that the mmentinents were legally ndopted, thoy did vay In National Convention in 173 thal they opposed reopens log the questions sevttled by the amendments, 'Thoy wever yet have ry Mr, Knott, but Missouri, | and thoy did say in 1870 that they would ac. North Carolina, and‘other States, assisted, L |] cept them, but that they were legally valld regret to say, by pn Representative from thls they never sald, elty, have uttered Innzuage gross aud calms | | Thess mucndments aro constantly and nlousof the Court, aspershig its integrity | faxrantly defled in more than’ halt und {ts decisions, “Moro drivel; “plans: paaied partyin nnd de- i necked tribunal 73" decisions the Detiocratic States, and ave been for years. ‘The laws unacted under thom lave been denotuced tn-overy form, and pronounce ns null and vold ever since the Supreme Court has golly decided other: wise. Itwas to got tid of these laws thal tho revolutionary plot was lald last year to stop the wheels ‘of xovernment, to close the courts and post-oflives, aud put out the bea- dle suphisty, morallzed "5 Ht to be observed; “pro Leniporo * only; ‘dirty work of its masters”; “inude a por Htleal decision to order”; “flery indignation of an intlamed people,—those ‘are some of the buttethigs: bs found in the Congress atonal dteentd, delivered gomethnes from carefully written speeches, and sometimes | con-lights on tho sea and on the lakes, unless Freelved, the Iecord cat with “loud ap- | a repeal was yielded. With a thoroughbred plauge.? To what does all this pave the way? | Denmocratle President whatever may happen The Congresslunat Record wilinform you. | in form to the amendments, they will become On the 20th or January, 1880, 3fr, Manning, | more a dead letter thana quickening spit! Rts and the laws made to enforce them will of Misuissippl,—a State’ well known to be ‘aunts swept like leaves before a gale. Should these Jealausly sunsttive to the pure adminisiration of justice aml tho rigorous puntshmentut | laws bo swept aw y and sugaild the spirit eriine, especially hideous, cowardly murder | witch assalls then continae to rage, mildew and mussacre,—lntroduced a bill to appuint | will follow In the wake, . his proclamation of twelve te’, sdutsfonal Judes wt the Su yevhen Jéneoliy tenes sila proelawiatlen of ch. W! asy. elfectu: Emancipation man and w: Withal plaustt aposition tls would i were Prente ‘by being made ‘to belicve witha! plausible, disposition this would make a i " ¢ busin that the slaves, set free, would swaym to the of the Increased business would be such an Innocent excuse the Court could alt by sevens | North, crowd out whity labor, and cut flown its wages, ‘The draft riots were largely In- iis t lor some purposes, and mect tn bauquot for the twelve new ones would be, Butno new: elted by this wicked, Insane prete Troughout the Nurth this was the pent to Ke Inboringman, and many members of Congress who had supported Lincoln were defeated at the ensuing eloction. | Valuly wa pleaded for reas We said, "No, men do not fly from lberty; they fy from slavery and wrong." Events hive vindicated tha logic of freedom. Oneo more 1 repeat the argument and the warntng—the black man wants to remutn by the graves of lis fathers, hut det persectitions go on and the story of Pharaoh and of Egypt will be repented, “An exoilus, not of a few despalring souls, but a realexodus [apelausol, will be; ater ng Southern flelds of the hands that should an would Uf them, and bringing to the North nud, the West a population not tnured to Northern climes nid not adapted to uso. fulness and advantage here, whieh, falrly treated, would come from them In the South, Applay rH TIONAL-HANKING SYSTEM is another eysore to the opposition. ‘Thelr National Conventions have dented all power of Congress to authorize banks. By votes and'sprcehes In Congress, by deelarattons at econvertions md leaders, by studled amend. ments affered to the hills under whiten ths National det, has been refunded, the Na. tonul-banKing’ system has buen strick wherever a Blow, tould be put In. This tab ric of banking Is-ndw-lnwrought not ont with the business of the country, but with the maintenance of specie payments. ip stants alton in tho path of. fiat money (ap. plnnse}, fitlation, aud all-the long train of nancial herestes which possess the Demo cratic mind, expecially In the South, [Ap pause) In unnumbered ways, dlrect and nilireet, this vast Interest Is constantly ex. posed to the aetion of Congress, 'THé Clieine math Convention seems to have felt the need of n little catition on this joint when it nome noted Mr. English for Vice-President. He is President of a Natlonal bank. ‘They nomi nated a Union General as a blind to'the sol. ders and a bank officer as in bind to the bankers, ‘(ippiause.) Evidently it ts thought the Northern’ Demueratic team drives better with blinders, (Applause) But even blinders do not ways answer, In Ist, nfter solemnly asserting, Just when the Rebetlion wus gasping its Inst, that the War for the Union was a failure, the Democratie Convention, at instigation coming then from the sheltering refuge of the Canadian shore, —the gam ation which Grgmpted alike expedient now,—put ap a Union General, That General did not, issue order No, 40, In tho amidst of Iawiesness and butchery, which civil authority could not arrest. No; he Issued orders arresting the Legislature of Maryland, w State whieh’ lad not seceded, and he Issued orders prociatine hye mitrting law and suspendlng the hibeas eurpns nt clectlon tine, and placed suldiers ag sttpervisors o€ the polls, But even withsuch, # Union General the disguise was too thin, WAR CLAIMS UPON THE TREASURY have been wid wlll bu a subject fruitful of much agitation, Lam moved to refer to it by the wholly groundless assertion in regard to It now golng the rounds of party Journals, ‘The fastlon” of this assertion sees to have been sev y_ Mr. Randall, Spenker of the House of Representatives, Mr, Randall ts one of the ablest and most in- telligent, as he is one of the most cunrayeous, mneit of his party, and £ speak of him with mueh respect. In several speeches he has taken up tho inatter of Southern cliulms, al- ways to sny that they are barred by the Four teenth Amendment of the Constitutlon, It puzzles mc tu..see how so discerning aman can have fallen into such an error. ‘Tho proceedings over: which ho presides con- stantly refute tho assertion, In the Four tuenth Amendment stund these words: Nolthor the United States, nor any State, aball assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrcetton or rebellfon azainst the United States, or an: for the loss or emancipation of any slave: but nll such debts, Ubliguttons, and elalins shell bo hold MWegal and void. * olnim fe The claims which stand In ataggering to tals in bills already before Congress, and In other bills snid to be waltlng, are not touched by this sectlon of the Constitution, For ex- ninple, It is Insisted that the direct tax I posed by the Nation on nll States {fn 158L should, ns to the seceded States, be refunded, The anount claimed ts $3,402,110, again, itis said the War tax lafd on cole ton should be refunded. The argument is that cotton, like whent and corn, Isa product of the earth, and that wheat and corn wero not taxed, and, therefore, cotton should not have been taxed, There Is plausibility in this; but petroleuin fs a productof the earth, ulso, and that was heavily taxed, not only during the War, bub afterward, nnd yet Pennsylvania lias never etaimed that the money should be refunded. (Apphiuse, ‘The muount of cotton-tux claimed Is §170,- 180,220. ‘Again, Dbilldings were occupied, crops were trampled, fences and wood wero burned, provisions were consumed, ediiices were demolished, and regions were laid *waate by the armies of tho Union. ‘Tho total of such claims dizzles arithmetle, ‘These are not “debts or obligations Incurred in nid of insurrection or rebellions decidedly notin ald of revellion, hey are claims ber cuuse of acts dony to crush rebellion. Tho consitintianal amendnient docs not come within gunshot of them, The error of the distinguished speaker Is imore puzzling, be enuse, ag reported, he said In anuther part of his addresa recently, that the Republican tua jority In, Congress had paid $100,000,000 of such claims. This, 1 presume, fs true, if he menns that Republicans have voted to pay Union men whoss property was taken for public uso the yalue of the proparty so taken, {Applause} But whether correct in the amount or not, he is certainly correet in saying that a vast sun has been so pald. Does not this fact cloarly show that such elulins are.not extinguished: by the Constitu: tlon? If they were so extinguisned, surely tho law-making powor would not have been so stuphl or wicked as to” pay them year after year, and this without any imember of olther House ever suggesting that the Constitution stood in the way, [ae plause.) ‘These appropriations for Southern cluims- also throw Heht on the question whethor Republican action in Congress fins been hostile and cruel to the South. ‘The statutes on tho Kubject enacted by Republice ang made the loyalty of tho clalimants 1 sino quo non, and the Democrats have repentedly voted to repenl the loynity test, and bills tor this purpose are now pending. ‘There cao be no doubt that the way wide opeo to all. tho Southern clalms which inafority. ean be found to voto for and a President to sign. ‘There {s a3 little ques: ston that Jarge nud over increasing sums are PLUCKED FROM THE TREASURY {n the River and Hurhor bills to dredge small Southern streams and rans entirely focal and of no possible use as channels of National commerce, ‘The creeks, and bayous, and ponds thus Improved at the general axpense, sone of them cannot be found named on the map, and all of them are put into apn printion bills for the pecuniary or pollical advantage of Indivituats and corporations. Tho erection of public buildings for court Post-Ofiices, and tha like, at the Nation cost, Is anothor serious and Increasing drain on the Prewenh te From small places, whore no such exponditure is needed, come applica tons for publie buildings; muny of then lave recently passed the Senate. One place in North Carollna, where a public bul dita was voted, has nob more than 2500: Intabl- tints, Noone at all familiar with the feels enn doubt that, with full Democratic swing, the doors of tho ‘Treasury will oper, and co plows streams will run south and empty into tho pockets of no end of expectants, NOW PEMOCHATS UAVE NOT SAVED MONET. Whichever way we turn, rensons rise up before us for keeping. the stuf in the hands of thoso who have vastly most at stake ithe wholesome preservation of .the Government its revenuos, and its laws, Those with the least stake fought for one-half the Govern> thent, and now the question ts whether wo find better vote then both halves, | ‘The Democratle party has had possession of ona House of Congress for four years, and of both Honses” for two years,” Whit useful thing has -been dona or pro piased ¥ They -haye | stricken some. wlll ons of tax from whisky and tobacco ‘They have attempted by revolutionary means te put tha Executlye under duress and to cripple the Govertinent, in order t0 overthrow Justand thie-honored laws. Whal qioy I ita, not know, peta satel thal te wingeracy have reduced appropriatiol do not so understnnd: It, Ph clatin of eco omy is no better thin a juggle. Herg are tho exact figures, year by year, Nepub)ican an Of stung dnaually approprivte! ly approp! and Democratic, for current expenses, stated in currency golds 1874, Repubitcan. SIT, Detocratio 1878) Democratio. ‘1810, Democratlo, 41880, Domucratic, (1881, Demacratie. Ite wilt be seen that, under a Hepublicat Anujority, appropriations atcarlily deereasty “down to Deimovoratle accession ty tit. i the first year the Democrats continued t reduction, onltting, however, needed appr priations, In their second year, tho year pr ceding Congressional elections, they’ adly NEGLECTED TO PROVIDE : for many obylous and indispensable appro Ry)