The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1868, Page 4

4 “THE CAMPAIGN. The Situation in Georgia and Tennessee. The Colored Democracy of the South in the Field. SPEBCHES OF PROMINENT POLITICIANS, GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS. POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA. Effects of Mr. Toombs’? Recent Speech—The Political Situation in Georgia and the South— Good Feeling Between Negroes and Whites— Anxiety for the Maine Election. ATLANTA, August 7, 1868, Despite the efforts of the democratic papers here to conceal the effect of Mr. Robert Toombs’ recent speech at the mass meeting in this city, it is quite evident that the great majority of the conservatives are mortified at the expressions used in some portions of it, Still it surprised nobody who is at all con- versant with the past history of the very eloquent and able, though erratic, orator. Mr. Toombs never understood, and seldom practised, the virtue ot moderation. His entire political life has been one of warfare on his own aa well asthe opposing party, which singularity of conduct was never more plainly examplified than in his efforts first to dissolve the Union, and subsequently his row with the Confe- derate authorities, So far as kis anxiety for another fight is concerned nobody notices what he says on the subject, He certaimy was not guilty of a very remarkabic share of figiting in the recent rebel- lion, nor is it at all likely that he would shoulder a musket should another civil war break out, It isto be regretted that Mr. Tooms snould be 80 determined upon learning nothing from the events of the past eight years,as he isa most estimable gentleman personally and aman of fine ability. It Must be apparent to him, however, as it happily is to nine-tenils of the white citizens of Georgia, that the day of his influence is over. Robert Toombs is as pens dead as is Joseph E. Brown, With regard te the spec®h of Geucral Howell Cobb Ithink that his sentiments have been much mis- construed in the North, He did, it is true, denounce ferce and bitterness the carpet-bag State nt and carpet-bag Congressmen that have bd from some of the Georgia districts and from every part of the South, But a caretul reading of what he said will show that his remarks were not applied to all Northern men who have ceme here Bince the war closed. I have good reason for be- Lieving that Mr. Cobb would heartily welcome a large infinx of population from the Northern States, no matter what the poHtical opinions of the new comers are. But is it not natural that he should suggest the impropriety—to use no stronger term—of men running for omce who have not resided in the State three rounths? No unprejudiced man who visits this sec- tion of the country and witnesses the utter mocke! of republican government in every part of the Sout! can fail to feel indignant and disgusted with the entire horde of carpet-baggers who now fill every omce by the votes of iguorant negroes. Against these miserable leeches upon the people General Cobb huried his denunciations, but bot against any others, I mention this mérely as an act of justice to the General, who has honestly accepted the result of the war, and means to abide by that result. The political situation in this State ts very interest- ing. and the indications are that if Georgia is per- mitted to take part in the Presidential election she will be cat i by an overwhelming majority for the democratic candidates. The most marked features in the campaign so far are the immense activity and enthusiasm of the conservatives and the utter apathy and apparent hopelessness of the radicals. Numerous incetings are being held in diiferent parts of the State every day, which are largely attended, not only by whites, but aiso by immense numbers of hegroes. The organization of “colored conservative clubs” has become a perfect rage, tue namber of negro democrats im one county thus organ- wed reaching nearly twelve hundred, ‘Free barbecues,” under te management of the State Ex- ecutive Connnittee, are being held at the rate of five or six every week, they being attended by large con- courses of negroes, varying from five to fifteen thousand strong. At these gatherings any quantity of edibles are consumed, the negroes meantime hur- rabing for seymour aud Biair and groaning for the radical ticket and party. ‘This is very ludicrous to think of, but it is a fact. Competent judges and men well acquainted with the sentiments of the negroes estimate that of their ninty-six thousand votes at least forty thousand will be cast for the democratic ticket, and if to these figures be added the seventy- five or eighty thousand waite votes which will as- suredly be cast the same way it will be seen, that Georgia is almost certain to be carried by the con- servatives by perhaps not less thau forty thousand majority. Some few radicals here uy to convince themselves that the resuit will be diferent, but the more honest among them frankly admit that the only question is as lo how large the majority against them will be. What has been written of this State.can be applied to every Southern Stite. Even in South Carolina the democrats boast they will carry the State by ten thousand if the Legisiature does not take the elec- tion from the people. This has already been done in Alabama and Fiorida, and I should not be surprised if the Leg slatures of atl of the Southern States ex- cept this enact laws looking to the same end. There is nothing in the political lige so plainly evident as the utter panic of the radical leaders at the exten- Bive desertions of their negro allies. If we take the county of Caatiam, in this State, as an example this defection wili become ali the more apparent, There. at the election for Governor. no negro could vote tue democratic ticket unless escorted to the polls by white men, a)! armed and ready to protect the con- servative darkey at the risk of their own lives. o- day there are several colored democratic ciubs in Savannah which meet openly without fear, transact business, admit new members and express their political sentiments unreservedly and plainly, At every meeting their numbers are increas and now three out of every four negroes who appiy for work produce their badges and certificates as proof tive that they inteng to “vote wid dar White It ts this entente cordiale, this good feeling, this isposition to support each other, now exhib: by the two races that bas caused the radical panic, an it ts this also, I believe, that has produced the recent leiter of Governor Warmouth, of Louisiana. 1 state here, on my own respopsibility, that 1 have reason to believe it is a partof the ical plan of campaign g pogo lee stories eo eee fot the purpose indaming jorthern mi against the people of the . Certain circum. stances have transpired which influence this opinion, and I predict, in advance, that before six ‘weeks have passed there will be reports from every Southern State of outrages on “original Union NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 1868,—TRIPLE SHEET. Jeatoustes, perpetual alienate ‘particular classes of our Citizens from other classes, renew dis- enkindle the flames of civil war. ‘The niemorialists desired peace, general good will, @ magnanimous oblivion of all in the past that would serye to renovate feclings of hostility; the hearty union of our people, and of our whole people in all that was ofa nature to promote the common happiness and advance the general welfare. racy desired to see all present misunderstandings hea! all conflicting interests reconciled, all unkind. nesses forgotten—in short, they di! we should be in future one people in interest, in rights, in sent!- ment, bound together by indissoluple tes of good respectfully and earn: the precious civic franchises of which they had been deprived. They did not demand this restoration with arms in their hands or in the spirit of revoiu- tionary violence, or in lan; of menace and un- kindness, They asked this in the poanine spirit of peace, as men — inheriting y, a eroic ancestry and regard! it as the most precieus heritage which they had derived from this venerated source. They asked it as men overcome in deplorable civil war, but in which they were not conscious of having done anything to to merit perpetual enslavement. They asked this restoration, not from some foreign potentate, not from some semi-barbarous conqueror, but from their own /ellow-citizena; {rom natives of the same beloved country; from ciwlized and Chrtstian man, from men born to the same liberties with themselves, and bound alike to appreciate their lon and enjoy- ment and peatounal to sympathize with those who had been, by the rude chances of war, deprived of that possession and enjoyment. Give us k our franchises and we will guarantee the quiet of our people; their orderly submission to the laws; the suppression of all violence; the reign of content- ment and universal brotherhood and prosper- ity. Oh! let us, I pray you, have let us have social kindness; let us have no more organiza- tions, secret or open, banded together for purpose of injustice, of violence and of bloodshed. We ask of you, our fellow citizens, only what all wise and mag- nanimous conquerors have granted alike in ancient and modern times, only what a wise and magnani- mous statesmanship would itself voluntary bestow, what, it seems to us, no enlightened friend of civil freedom, such as our countrymen have heretofore ve boasted of possessing, could reasonably deny. know that there 1s no possibility of the work of enfranchisement being imimediately consummat but we ask you to lose no time in taking the iuiti tory step. The distinguished gentleman who pre- sents our memorial is the very Supreme Court judge who some time ago delivered the identical decision Sarma the validity of the Franchise law, the repeal of which he now nobly unites with us in demanding. Our memorial is subscribed by many of the most zealous repubii- cans in the State. Oh, gentlemen, | earnestly beseech you, asa friend to peace, as an upholder of justice, as a iover of my country’s repose and happiness, to seize at once the glorious opportunity of securing the happiness of your native land and your own im- morta! fame, Mr. Hamilron—One word, Governor; you have said in your memorial what you want us to do. I noW Want you to say whether we are not to have peace until your disfranchisement is removed ? Governor Foore—Certainly; we are for peace now, peace hereafter, peace all the time. We are at pres- ent in @ crippled and feeble state. We have no legal power in our hands. We have no armies at our command. But all that our forlorn and deplorable condition will allow us to do to maintain the peace and save the law from violation, we promise in the presence of God and man, our country and the world, the passing generation and of all posterity to do. Mr. HAMILTON—You have not answered my ques- tion, whether we are to have peace before or after the franchise is extended ? Governor Foore—Now! Now! (Great applause.) I cannot regard the troublous condition of the coun- try as by any means, or at least in any considerabdic degree, attributable to party feeling or the result of party concert. The ple, it is true, are distressed and disquieted at their present sutferings, but the disorderly and violent movements complained of are, 1am sure, nearly all of them to be ascribed to other causes, The Situntion in the State. [from the Chattanooga Union, August 8, democratic.) The Lexzisiature has now beeu in session nearly two weeks, and neither House has taken any de- cisive action relating to the purposes for which they were called together. The question of enfranchise- ment looms up before the members, and, notwith- standing their bittér partisanship forces itself upon their minds as the only solution to the grave problem whether it Possible to put the finances on a firm basis so as to re- store confidence in and outside of the State and at the same time call out the militia to suppress the disorders which they claim exist. To organize a force of militia necessitates the creation of a band of thieves in the shape of quartermasters, who will defraud the Treasury to a greater extent than ever the actual expenses of the militia would amount to, aud not only this, but the passage of such a bill would create distrust among the State creditors; for it 1s. well known that never in the history of the gov- ernment has the presence of partisan bands of sol- diery among oppressed Y pone] resulted in aught else but rapine, violence and murder. The Legislature cannot, then, accomplish these two measures, Meanwhile the credit of the State is lowering fast and the State itself approach bank- ruptcy. It would seem that if it were possible to re- cover the State credit and at the same time restore peace in ail her borders, that honest legislators would willingly vote for such a measure. This can be done by an ordinance looking towards the enfranchise- a of the whites by a vote at the polls in Novem- er. We have no doubt but that in some parts of the State a few men are acting violently; but is this the fact in West Tennessee, and does not the same state of things eXist in East Tennessee, except that there it is the rebels who are persecuted? ‘The great mass of the people of both political parties are quiet and well disposed. Is the Legislature afraid of demo- cratic supremacy in the State? Then should they know that it must come in afew years at the farthest. It is as certain as existence. No legislation can be so severe as to prevent it. Will it not be better for the republican Legislature of Tennessee, by their own free will, to restore peace to the State, than to go on blindly and infatuated, in the face of an inexorabie fact. No earthly power can prevent democratic fe kyoort in this State within eighteen months, aud the republicas party have more to gain by conciliatory legislalion than by vindicative laws, such as the Milida bill, The republican party of the country is on trial for high crimes—can the Teanes- see Legisiature afford to load the party down with an obuoxious law certain to drive tens of thousands of Northern voters lato the ranks of the democracy? THE SOUTHERN BLACK DEMOCRACY. The part that the negro Is to take in the next Presi- dential election seems at last to be thoroughly ap- preciated by Southern politiclans. Colored demo- cratic clubs are being formed in all portions of the country, addresses from leading colored democrats are scattered abroad, and an attempt is being made to instél into the mind of the negro that his best friend is the white man with whom he has been brought ap, and with whose interests ke must in the future be identified. Alabama. Last Thursday night a meeting of colored people was held in Moblie for the purpose of organizing a democratic club, The Register says:— The meeting was called to order by Colonel C. A. R. Dimon, who, ta a brief and patriotic address, ex- jained the object of the assembiage, and expressed men," nine-tenths of whom, by the way, are the bitterest opponents of the radical policy. Of course 1 can offer no opinion as to the truth or falsity of Governor Warmouth’s letter; but it is ¢ertain that rominent democrats in Northern Louisiana chal- ‘oge him to mention Afteen murders committed in that pa t of the State during the past month, instead of the one hundred and fifty he refers to. The Kentucky election has not caused a ripple in the political waters, That the State would go demo- cratic was pcertain, and an unusually heavy mi ity was anticipated. ‘The great aoxiety is for the Maine election, which takes place next month, No one here expects the democrats to carry the State, bat all are hoping that they wiileither reduce the repub- licau majority of last year or hold their own. 1EVNESSEE. Legislative Remarks of Ex-Governor Foote. ‘The troubles in Tennessee having called forth a memorial to the Legislature from ex-Confederate generals denying that they sought the overthrow of the government of the State by revolutionary or any other lawless means, and the memorial having been presented to that body, ex-Governor Foote spoke upon the subject as followe:— GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATURE OF TENNESSER— You are now dealing with the most vital concerns of a brave, @ high-minded, a virtuous and intelligent people. Upon your action depend their liberties, their rights of property, their present peace and ‘their fature security. They are patient, law-abiding, orderly, just, magnanimous, grateful for kindness, ateful even for justice shown them, oblivious of injuries when once fairly atoned for, aiways pre- OT ge per benefits with superior benefits, _" treat them as they deserve to be treated. I will not ve that it is more than merely ee for you to treat them otherwise. I caunot believe that you ‘will coldly refuse their earnest prayer for freedom; that you will organize a military force for their oppression, when nothing of the sort is needed, and thn) to trust to their present solemn ions of fulness and obedience to the » May vad oe you aang Tg = age — becom! and honorably in this most rough and =! juncture. Thove who subscribed the were sincere in the deciarations made by Ph AJ honest men and patriots. They themselves to be in favor of equa, ea geen de a ta ans of Ly rendition of jus- tees all mes to violence and la soever them his views in regard to their social and po- litical status. An interchange of sentiment led to the conclusion that the colored people have at last found out who their true friends are. ‘There was held recently at Demopolis, Ala, a Sey- mour and Biair ratification meeting attended almost exclusively by negroes and addressed by four white men and the following black speakers:—Jim West- brook, Jack Lee, Reuben Ryan, Sandy Cameron, Wiiiam Roberts and Jule Armstrong. The New Era furnishes the following report of the black men’s speeches:— But when Jim Westbrook (colored), from Jeffer- son, arose to break the spell aud sunder the chain in which the carpet-baggers and scala- wv to manacie his race by secret oaths and miduight gatherings in secret piaces, the en- | thusiasm the crowd could no longer be re- | strained, and Jim had to proceed with frequent | interruptions from the cheering multitude. But | he planted hi intelligently and forcibly upon | the national platform and exhorted his friends to do likewise, Jack Lee (golored), of Dale county, ad- | dressed his colored friends in a brief but telling apeech, followed by Reuben Ryan, of Jefferson. These Speeches challenged the atteation and close consider- jon of the crowd of colored listeners present. But old uncle Sandy Camervn, from Hale gave the finish- ing touch to the carpei-bag fraternity, He told them that he was born in the South, that he was a South- ern man and that the Southern men were his friends. He had yet to learn of any guod to the black man that could come from these Yi ers, secret politics, The Southern men have never lied to him or deceived him when he was @ siave, nor since he was free. That God had and the Southern man here upon put hin the sane soil, and they must either stand or fall together. The old man ve them @ Li rebuke for being biindly hitched in by @ set of travel ling adventurers, who had only It themselves Nopeiart 0 ss kind CA aes Sin iy eagle ged chinb into office; and wou say! * ad rather be lathered with ate fortis and shaved with @ handsaw, or live on pills hewed out with » broad axe than to be left in the hands of such a set of scalawags.” Uncle Sandy evidenced an unusual intelligence and acumen for a man of his color, with- out previous cevanwees nd we would not be afraid to pit him against the best rt of the batch, Long may his gray hairs and long finger ‘Wave to point his people to the trutband their best interest. Joseph E. Williams, ® Tennessee colored orator is stumping Alabama for the democracy. Georgia. At & large demooratic meeting at Harlan, Ga., on the 6th, which was addressed by several noted South- ern speakers, @ large number of colored democrats were present, proudly displaying on their apparel Seymour and Blair badges, ‘The following letter is from a colored man of Wil- kingon county, Georgia:— To THE COLORED VOSERS OF WILKINSON AND Twiaas :— My Dkak FRIENDS—Foeling that it is my sacred duty to nd my race as far as Iam able, in any manner whatever, | have concluded to write you & letter, kindly advising and ing with you in it upon the great subject now and disturb- Sa sarc 1 ex ni ce all earnestly to understand that I intend to ut only what my heart tells me is the trutl what are my honest sentiments and conv: ns. I want you also to understand that 1 have not come upon these con- victions and facts in a moment or a Pope they are the fruits of actual experience for pee three years, and also of tl nd observation in the course of that time; and rest assured that my eyes have been widely and pen to the inter. ests of my race and my peop! Then, my friends, know now thatI am a colored man, born and raised in Georgia, and have spent the greater part of my life in Twiggs county; and believe me, when I tell you that I have some education—that 4 and sen! ments of this letter. T have this, then, to say to you:—That I have come out openly and boldly upon the conservative or dem- ocratic platform, with our true Southern whi'e men, whom we might have and ought to have known long before this were and are our only friends. And I now say to you, my friends, that it is not only our duty to come out and go with them and vote with them, the conservative vote, but beg them and ask them to forgive us for voting with a set of heartless liars and thieves and scalawags, against asany principle of honor and trath—yes, against my and your good and the Southern gentleman's interest, andefor what? Ask yourselves, will you, for what? Have you got your mule? I ain't got mine yet; and they told us right here in Irwinton they was going to give us one. Have you got your forty acres of land? Have you got your $1,000 in greenbacks? Echo answers whar's your mule in- stead of here’s your mule, Well, now, what do these radicals do with your vote when they get it? I'll tell you, my countrymen. They get into oftice, tax us and our white friends on everything we make, call it government money for free schools for us and buy mules and land, and to keep up the army, to keep honest Southern men from putting us back into slavery, and all such lies; and I thank Goa that I have opened my eyes to our true condition. Hvery white man in the State of Georgia was repre- sented in Milledgeville in 1865, and there took a solemn oath that siavery never should exist again in the State; so that settles going back into slavery with me. This | know, my friends, and am satisfied fully upon the subject. It is my object to do all I can from this time to the November election to wake people Pe, and beg them to think about the matter. Think who is your friend, Now, I ask you, who is your friend? ‘Che man who proves it every day bees? live, or the man who has promised to be your friend for the last three years, and lied, and proved that he lied to you, every time, Wake up, my friends, wake up. How can you go to your old master, or your employer, with anything but a sneaking look on your face and’ask him, please to do this or that favor for you, when you have just been and voted against him, for somebody that never has, nor neyer will, do you @ favor? [ii tell you how I felt, Just as mean as if my employer had caught me stealing one of his sheep, And there was many one that felt so, but was ashamed and afraid to own it. Now look upon these matters, All that I have said {s true. I am for the conservative party, and assisted in organizing @ colored conservative Se this county, and shall go on with the good work. Louisiana. Louisiana papers state that the colored democracy is alive and at work throughout the State. Tho Thibodaux Sentinel appeals to them as follows:— Colored cheer of Lafourche! Wake up, orga- nize your clubs, and with the aid of our good citi- zens go to work and secure the exercise of your rights, so that in November next you may contribute in restoring peace, order and prosperity ta our land of promise. ‘The Alexandria (Rapides) Democrat says: It is no use any longer disguising the fact patent to all that the colored democracy of papaee now @ fixed institution, alive, wide awake, real dead earnest, and with a local habitation and a name. Not th the Lamothe barbecue they got up a ing batl—on last Savurday night. They gratiiied and honored by the aeeped of the Ice House placing at their disposal the fine and large ballroom in his hotel. We must candid); that this element of the democratic party of Rapides is far ahead of any new organization we ever wit- neased before in our parish. Their ball was really well got up and a handsome affair. The Iberviile (La.) South says:— A colored democratic club for this precinct wili be organized at the office of D. N. Barrow this evening. This movement should be encouraged and aided by our best citizens, and let the colored men who may attend be assured that they will be protected in the full exercise of all their rights as citizens and voters. A meeting of the democratic colored men of Al- giers was held on the 6th inst. Thomas P. Sher- burne, chairman of the committee on freedmen clubs, called the meeting to order. He stated the object of the meeting was to organize a democratic colored club, and he was happy to see #0 many of the colored citizens present. It proved that if the colored man was allowed to act in accordance with the dictates of his mind he would do what was right. The willingness of the colored man to join the democratic party proved that democratic doc- trines were more generous than those of the radical pilunderersa. After a few brief remarks Mr. Sherburne took his seat amid cheers from the colored men, The meeting organized by appointing the following colored men as their oficers:—Riley Allen, President; William Sherburne, First Vice President; Joe Griffin, Second Vice President, Tne New Orleans Crescent says:— The officers chosen are the leading colored men of the place, and will in a short time bring a host of their friends to the suj rt of Seymour and Blair. = club bids fair to one of the largest in the tate. Previous to adjournment William Sherburne, the First Vice President, was lustily called for by the club for a speech. He alluded to the dead issues the radicals were constantly harping about, but the triumph of the democrats always improved the coloord people's condition, while radicals robbed the country and destroyed their happiness. Carpet- baggers had nothing at stake or nothing to lose, Pick upapicayune when they get a rise on and keep it when they get it, and have sense to get out of the way with their carpet-bags, but the colored men don’t intend to let them fill their carpet-sacks if they can help it. With a cheer for Seymour and Blair and the speaker the meeting adjourned. Minsiasippi. Atademocratic meeting held at Yazoo City last week, among other resolutions adopted were the fol- lowing :— 1, As citizens of Mississippi we declare that it is our purpose to becom php suffrage on all men, irrespective of color, to place all men on terms property inay be equaily dasured to alle’ nt jay be equally assui 2. That our thanks ace due to our coiored friends, who, actuated by a sense of justice and patriotic duty, co-operated with us in the late election in de- feating the oppressive and iniquitous constitution, fi by sti and common enemies to them and ourselves. deserve well of the CT their services will ever be gratefully ap! by all men who have a due regard for equal rights and constitutional goveramens rs 3. That as an evidence and testimonial of our 6% teem and will for them and the value of their nobie aid in a just cause and patriotic principles, and as a further token of frindship and union in support of democratic principles, we tender to them @ pubiic barbecue at place on the fourth Sat of August, 1863. 4. Tuat such of our colored ple who voted the radical ticket, or stood neutral, and have since re- nounced and joined the democratic party, or now wish to renounce and join, and all who entertain a frien ily feeling for us and our cause, are respectfully tavi to meet and participate with ua in said bar- ue. 6. That it's our duty and should be the duty and Pleasure of all persons, in the bestowal of employ- Inent, places and patronage to the. colored people, frankly to prefer and give the same to those who are our personal aud political friends, and to cheer and animate them to lives of usefulness, tity and prosperity, and in no wise to give and com- fort to our radical enemies, who seek to prostrate us and liberty and give dominion to our political adver- “6. tb q well dis. 1 good meaning and to join the conservative and jemocratic party, d assure them, as well ae all who have joined, that all their legal rights shall, to the extent of our ability, ever be respected, sustained and protected, and that they can safely trust us to do them every justice and right in eve:y emergency. Misalssippi journals state that the colored Missis- ipplans since the late election, are going over en masse to the democrats. In a single county, one thousand of them have produced certificates of mem- bership in democratic clubs, and far freer and prouder than they ever did as the slaves of scalawag “poor white trash.” A millennium of good feeling between the races in Mississippt is dawning as the result of this state of things. North Carolina. ‘The Democratic Club of Washington, N. ©., re cently adopted the following resolutions, which 4 paper of that ety pronounces “excellent’:— Whereas, the elective franchise is now exercised fn North Carolina by all classes, without distinction of race or color; and whereas, it is mi ex pedient and cond ucive to the success of the do mocratic party in said State, to increasqits numbers by prered nos from ali class of clactora; therefore Be it resolved:—1. That this elu will use every Nonorable means to influence colored electors of New Hanover county to become meinbers of the great national democratic 4 and will, by facta and arguments, show them that it is to their interest to vote with the party that will sustain a constitu- Mopttuat to aid In accompilshing this ob lo ject a com- e clul or mec! to enter into and sign an agreement in the following words, to wit;— “We, the undersigned, do mutu: agree ia the employment of mechanics ae aoe ‘rill in all cases, give preference to werences 9 tae demo- cratic or Gonkervative, party, who pre eir pos- th session, and present to us, evidence of such mem- bership; and t! when we haveonce eeapiozed them under the assurance that they are members of a.demo- cratic or conservative jon, if afterwards they should desert their party, and vote with the radi- eal party, then, in that event, we pledge ourselves Hunk we Wil give.anich aa.so Cosett snd pane maise So their assurances, no employment wha‘ » under any circumstances, except in cases of m ut necessity. We furthermore agree that shall be binding from and after the expiration of the several terms of employment of mechanics and laborers now entered into by us.” Burton McNeel, a highly respectable colored man of Salisbury, N.C., ts out in a card severing his:con- nection with the radical party, declaring for Seymour and Blair, and advising his friends to ‘do likewise,” ‘The negroes of Hopewell, Mecklenburg county, N. C., have formed a democratic club. A large number have joined it, and they have officers of their own. The Tarboro (N. C.) Southerner states that Sandy Long, of Halifax, and Eaton Robinson, both colored men, and recently appointed magistrates in their respective counties by theman “who writes himself Governor,” have threwn the appointment back in his face with disgust. Aradical having lectured a Wilmington negro on account of his having allied himself to the democra- tic party, the African returned answer:— Under your teaching we have alienated from us the mass of the white people North as well as South; mw have got the offices and emoluments while we have done the work and stand out in the cold. For one, I am done with you. South Carolina. The negro democratic element has not been so much aroused in this as in some of the other Southern States, but the leaven is working. Very few democratic colored clubs have been formed, but democratic negro speakers attend the barbecues throughout the State and address the freedmen from the same stands occupied by Wade Hampton and the chivalry. Virginian. A Virginia freedman has issued the following ad- dress to his colored brethren:— ‘The writer of this,a colored man, made free by the late war, desires to commune with yeu on mat- ters which concern your peace and prosperity, as ‘Well as the happiness of the community in which we live. We therefore desire .to reason with you, like sensible men and hope that you may be benefitted by what we shall moo Can the colored race prosper in a state of strife and antagonism to the whites? I answer unequivocally, no. The whites are the majority; they own the soil and the property of the country. They have more resources; they are more enterprising and determined; the laws protect them in the peaceful enjoyment of what belongs to them, Violence on our part will nov be tolerated. We must submit to the laws. Then we cannot cope with the whites. They represent the power and influence of the government North and South. why should there be antagonism between the races? Lanswer there is no sufficient reason for such a state of thi The whites have declared no war against us. Our mechanics and tradesmen, inters, barbers, — shoemakers, brick- layers, porters, gardeners, factory hands and dining room servants have been generously patron- ized and liberally paid, while white men, equally Saye and equally worthy, have failed to get work. Look at it calmly and tell me if we have met the good deeds of the whites in the proper spirit? What return have we made for all these acts of kindnes s? I answer, while living on the bounty of our white benefactors, and while pretending to their faces the greatest devotion and gratitude, we have invited among us nameless adventurers from the North, and scabby outcasts of white society at home, and secretly and decettfully formed ourselves into oath- bound Leagues, in antagonism to the interest and honor of the very men whose kindness shelters, clothes and feeds _ 4 6 a done i once could do to degrade them by placing over them igno- rant and corrupt men. We have aspired to rule and govern the very men who own the soil we cultivate, the houses we cocuy, who waniey us in the busi- ness of life, who ald us in building our churches, and who shelter and feed our families, What folly has aepee our course; what infatua- ton has us! We have misiaken the generous thy of our white neighbors, their kindness an id and their friendship, for tame submission to the demands of a few fanatical upstarts who have thrown firebrands into our once weeny society; under the lead of there wicked disorganizers we are drawing the lines be- tween the races. We have kindied the res of hate. O how shall they be extinguished ? t claims have the radicals to our favor? What have they done to us? They tell you they restored you to freedom. The radicais have sprung up since the war. They have come into existence 4s ty an since the war and since you were emancipat iat ity has no 8 On us; they are our of course they did not free The radical natural enemies, hey, are the descendanis of the men who sold our fathers into slavery and they are now oppressiug us by their unjust taxation; Ber are robhing us of the means of earning‘an honest living without benefitting the government. The adven- turers who head the Le: and the perishing white vultures from the sinks of sin and infamy who flock into the windows of the ie rooms at midnight— they are the whining skunks who use the League as stepping stones to office, and you as tools to set power and moncy for themselves. They are the vile creatures for whom the Loyal Leagacs were created. ‘They will never do you any good. Beggars hardly ever contribute muck to those from whom they live by peaging. My friends, I have spoken to you kindly, but lainly. 1 would warn you of the dangers just fore you. 1 warn you against the men who would receive office at your hands aud would desert you in the hour of sorest need. Turn away from such crea- tures and come back to the friends to whom your minds are always directed in time of sorrow—the friends who can do most for you. Life and death are set before you. We can all live happy and proper (whites and blacks), in friendship and reciprocal acts of kindness; but death and de- struction loom up on the fleld of strife and conten- tion. Texas. A number of democratic negro clubs have been formed in Eastern Texas, and colored orators, it is stated, are doing efficient work among the freedmen. At a barbecue at Independence, Washington county, the Brenham Banner says there were at least three hundred negroes present, who listened with great interest to the speeches, and many of them, before leaving the ground, ‘declared their determination to * adhere to their white Southern friends and vote the democratic ticket.” The Banner is convinced that with very little effort nine-tenths of all the negroes in the State can be converted to the democratic faith. The Rio Grande Courier says:— We must counteract the teachings of the'carpet- baggers and the renegades who are misieading the colored le and seducing them into dangero aths, must show them we are their tru lends, and aid them in any | ble manner in the discharge of the important duties they have been called upon to form, We know them ter than the carpet- ra, and that knowledge will enable ‘us to control them more readily should we go about the matter ina proper way. We must treat them with lenience. We must win them by justice and kindness. We must teach them to do their duty a8 good citizens, members of society and neighbors. Acolored democratic club has been formed at Houston, which holds regular weekly mectings. ‘The speakers are unanimously in favor of Seymour and Blair, and state generally that they are proud of the opportunity to anite with the only party that had any claims upon the biacks, and could and would benefit their race. SPEECHES OF PROMINENT POLITICIANS, Clement L. Vallandigham. At a democratic meeting held at Fort Wayne, Ind., on the 8th inst., Mr. ©. L. Vallandigham spoke as follows:— * * * He would not follow the republican party into the discussion of dead issues. The names “traitor” and “copperhead,” with which that party honored the democracy, had become respectabie names. He would say nothing of Grantasa en officer, but in accepting the candidacy for the Presi- dency he had jost all the triumph that would have been his, by thus becoming the representative of hegro supremacy, taxation, military despotism, &c. He spoke of Horatio Seymour as belng the represen- tative of the old republic which our forefathers made; of the constitution, of the Union of 1789, and the fundamental antes of the democratic Darty—-Bconomy, Ww, equal taxes, supremacy of white ko. He apoke | endeavored to provethat the expenditures of the mil- Hary department for the past three years had been far mere ae teen et 3 Buchanan's entire administration; yet, of extravagance, the rept had ited to turn him out of office. He argued hat 18 was no wonder the radicais attempted to d.vert the attention of the peope from these living questions—the payment of the Hebe according to tts terms in paper money currency, the financial princi. ples, £0, S08 in their place tered like the frogs of pt over the land, andas an example showing that ene-ha'f of their proceeds expenntnlueiadoouy fu, 0a.00, which aus p ~whicl ‘ns ‘been stehling. He then to show that the democratic party in power, make & these WAgances, and protect the aprons of the — labor! men and mechanics of the country. He advocat the duty of freely forgiving the rebels, who had al- ready been sufficiently punished by loss of Le yA &c., and who are entitled to be Tecelv inl tauowahip. and m with ourselves, After again ray king the pecple Of Indiana ie the very receptinn given OB deafening cheers and firing of artillery. In the eve the large court house square was filled with people, many of whom could not ave their daily avocations to attend the meeting in the day time and were now bent on hearing Mr. Vatian- digham. After repeated calls and cheering for him he was induced to come for and make a few remarks. He was greeted with loud cheers and spoke for half an hour on the topics of the . He gave it as his opinion that Grant was in a wrong position in stating that we want peace when we are having it and have been for more than three years. ‘These words were put into his mouth by a party that still wish to maintain @ standing in some sections of the country where no voice has been raised against the United States authorities since the failure of the rebellion, and this party that Grant represents are clamorous for arms, to be distributed over the country at a cost of $4,000,000. He thought that a curlous way to have peace. The 8) r here aliuded to the military renown gained in the civil wars of Europe as going to show that it was not lasting and that the who pxpesed to secure greatness in history by fos- tering in time of peace that hatred engendered in time of war was in error. But it became a great na- tion, whose people are of the same race and parent- age, to forget in times of peace the triumphs of one over the other in their sped of madness. He spoke in glowing terms of Ls peer asa statesman and of Biair as a_ soldier. and coniidently predicted their election iu November by a large majority. Daniel W. Voorheos. At Terre Haute, Ind., on last Saturday evening, the Mr. D. W. Voorhees spoke as follows: Almost the entire speech was devoted to financial matters and censure of the radical administration, ‘The best test of the capacity of a party, and to oring prosperity to the country, he said, is in their use of the public money. ‘The radical party having had the entire control of it for seven years past must stand or fall by the record they have made, He dwelt at length on the enormity of the public debt, which, he said, is equal to one-sixth of the entire worth of the country. Other nations had tithed their people yy taking one-tenth of their property; but we are double tithed, and yet Congress gives no signs of an intention to litt the burdens from the people. The debt of England at the close of the war with Napoleon, represented but one-fourteenth of the wealth of the nation, and yet it was fonnd neces- sary to reduce the rate of interest to two and one- half or three per cent. Could it be that a crowned head—that the King George whom our fathers fought to release themselves from tyranny—could have more regard for the interests of the taxpayer than the government of our own country? In addi- tition to this, the State, county and local debts ofthe people will amount to as much more—making, in the aggregate, double what he named. In view of this serious condition of the country, he appeared before them, not as a partisan, but speaking for the people, It is said that this debt had been created by the war. Admitting all this, he wished the people to appreciate what we owe, and what sources we have with which to pay it, and they can experience the enor mous crimes of the radical Congress for the three years, with a Rpt 8 upon the propery of every man, and even upon the days of labor, for this debt, one-half of which had been made by fraud. The pe ment since the surrender of Lee, of the expenses of the army ina time of peace, and the navy, which, folio ‘Was as useless a8 er ship upon a painted sea. He then instituted a comparison of the expenses of late and those of years previous to the war, when the democrats were in power. He quoted the articles of the C! platform demanding the strictest economy in the administration of public affairs, and then went into @ lengthy denunciation of the expenses of reconstruction. The Freed- men’s Bureau came in tor a liberal share of criticism, as being kept up eget the negroes in idleness. Tne African, he crm the ablest and most robust laborer in the world, but the policy of Col 4s to support him in idleness. Every vote for the radical is one to uphold this policy, and a vote to make the white men of the Nortu do work for their support. He should like to see the white laborer undertake to explain such a voie to his wife and children. Shall the white woman be thus made the slave to the black man and the black woman? He went into the details of the expenses of the Bureau, the item of transportation beiny, he said, for hauling the negroes about. The supremacy of the negro hat been established by Congress, the Bureau supports him in idleness, while the Loyal ie ue ears a a Meet 74 ey Ce aid citizen, le spoke ie prop ion arm the as one to secure dominion to the negro and make the South an African bar! where no white man or woman could dwell iu safety. He spoke of the cor- Tuptions of Congress as being utterly beyond that of former times, and declared that their devotion to plunder and robbery called upon the people for a change. Some of the radicals have proposed to pay the interest on the public debt and wait fora betver day to pay a ge but this payment of inter- estis # serious tax. If a man owns a farm he pays, as his share, every year interest on one-sixth of its value. Every dollar of tax has to come in the end from the laboring man. He declared himself in favor of one currency for the bondholders and the peonic. Let all of the bonds—the five-twenties, the ve-thirties and the ten-forties—be paid in ihe same currency as fast as they come due, This was his latform, and upon it he would stand, He declared, at all kinds of Property must pay an equal taxation. U this pol int he grew enthusiastic. He read the fourth plank of the New York platform. ‘That ts the clarion call to the laboring millions, telling them that the day ts breaking. It is tne magna charta to the taxpayer and the palladium to the working maeses. Coming back to the negro he said the policy of Congress had surrendered to him a ion of country more rich and valuable than any other on the face of the globe. The radical negroes were not content with ne; equality but must have supre- macy. Into the hands of a few negroes, less in number than the natives of Indiana, is given the control of the entire South, which is given over to the barbarism of Afrieanism, The blacks and their vagabond white allies hold the balance of power, the white man who does not endorse this policy is excluded from citizenship. Referring to Seymour cheers were elicited from the crowd. With him on the ticket is the brave and chivairic Frank Blair. His letter had been censured, and the judgment of public opinion had been invoked upon it. He, too, would invoke that Lon gece Tn closing he said he once more threw himself into the arms of his friends, content to be borne or sink as they should decide. He acknowledged that he had doubtless committed errors in the past, but he trusted they would not treasure them UD. In the fear of God he would as- sert before them, his neighbors and friends, hia de- votion to his couatry bota now and in the future. George W. Julian. Ata republican meeting at Shelbyville, In- diana, on the 8th inst., the Hon. George W. Julian, member of Congress from the district, began his re- marks with the general observation that our party platforms are very instructive memorials of the past. ‘This is their chief vafue. They mark the shifting and ever varying phases of American politics and often bear witness to the waywardness or itive intl. delity of our public men. This he thought was forci- bly tikast in the national democratic platform recently ep in the city of New York, He took it for that the essential truth in the bullders of the platform und stance and the shadow of democrac} bodied. Every democrat in the United States now subscribed to this latest and most authoritative con- feasion of national political faith, And yet, if we tried this document by the ancient tests of demo- cratic orthodoxy, we should find it a new and @ week invention which the fathers de- mocracy would disown, This would be found and is never to be renewed or reagitated; an unconstitutional war could destroy the constitu. tional rights of the States to secede and sweep into oblivion the everlasting gospel of the resolution of 1798, the assembled wisdom at New York failed to explain, The divine institution of waver which had been sacredly guarded, also, by the con- Stitution, is likewise abandoned forever. The war which, four years oo was branded as 4 failure, has settied it sino for all time to come aud handed it down to s common grave with ite twin relic, “the right of secession;” but he submitted that if both the war and the proclamation of eman- cipation were w tituttonal the stern logic of pure and unt led democracy should have de- manded compensation for the slaves thus wantoniy set fee. Free trade was ‘nother time-honored prin- ciple of democracy. It was not, however, even men- tioned In the democratic piatform, nor was the policy Hard money was another it principle. Ev remembered fre marsnaling of ‘the Pimocratic: hose under Jack. son and Benton in their grand battle for gold and Siver, and in opposition to irredeemable paper is- sues.’ No one could have doubted that the men need greenbacks as unconstitutional darn ee wer would stand by the old hard money ni ther the war had ended. But there again the war was not @ failure. Of all earthly biess- ee ° Tbs Ftd nes elt ee pcigah OF Op fos Gom vision an ore ee eee dred observation applied to the ancient democratio dogma of @ “white man’s government.” No one could have supposed it po: the inferiority of the negro, and the dogma of ‘al and social equality with ‘him. But the New i lc piatinrwe hi no word - negroes now actually vote a1 Ex Dols a in all the Bato avely In rebellion. Lt ee 8} and -handed degeneracy te savil lemocratic ideas and tradition surpri the whole country and could only be accounted for by the war or the voluntary action of the Southerm States in constitutional convention assembled. If we were to turn from the negative to the positive side of the New York Platform, we should ane ante a8 rm Pa for our democraue 5 ey demand t) estora- SaaS tats wtea a SE yu us wi demand and why the democrats in both tie 7 had unitedly voted _ penometesnelr shits, re very, which have confessed! perished war. They’ demand amnesty ors past aon le for a democrat to or stands ing punished for any such offenses. They demand the abatement of the Freea. men’s Bureau, which will expire by law on the 1a¢ of next January, and which law was opposed by democrats of both Houses. They condemn the doc- trine of immutable allegiance, as to which no man or pany, in this count ea any issue with them. ‘hey assert the right of the States to regulate the juestion of su! which is admitted by the repub- lican party, while the demand for a reform of abuses in the administration, and the expulsion of cor- rupt men from office will be heartily seconded by every republican in the Union, and if carried out would at once relieve the nation from the infer- nal brood of democratic thieves and villians who are preying upon its life, from Andrew Johnson, inclu- sive, down to the meanest political scullion and pros- Utute that have found favor in his sight, The speaker ed from these sable, for the purpose of notie- ing @ still more remarkable and novel feature of this very remarkable and novel platform. It ia as fol- Jows:—*That the public lands should be distributed as widely as possible among the people, and should be disposed of either under the pre-emption or home- stead laws, or sold in reasonable quantities, and to none but actual occupants, at the minimum pricg established by the favernnent When grants public lands may be deemed necessary for the encourazement of important public ‘improve- ments the proceeds of the sale of such iands, and not the lauds themselves, should be so ap: plied.””, The speaker pronounced this a most excelent repubiican doctrine, From his earliest connection with politics he had earnestly contended for the policy of reserving the public lands for actual settlement and tillage, and now with the republican stood ready to advocate the doctrine whica he em- braced over twenty years ago. He reviewed at engin the republican policy regarding the domain, the homestead laws, and our swamp land legislation. Te said the democrats had always been on the side of monopolizing corporations, against the interests of those who settle on land and contribute to the de- velopement of the resources of the country. Accord- ing to official tables furnished by the General Land Otfice there are now inthe pine-land States of the South more than fifty-two millions of acres of unim- roved land held by monopolists, while more than two- hirds of their people are landless; and if towns and cities of those States were excluded more than nine- tenths of their population are without houses of their own. These were the facts, if they were the faults of democratic policy. Democratic tactics cum- ningly employed by Southern members carried our swamp lands through a democratic Co! while the frightful mal-administraton of these lands which followed was concocted and consummated by the democratic States. He commented severely on the language of this famous resolution, and the empty and impudent strut with which it was ful- minated in the Democrat.c State Convention, and showed it to be what it really is—merely the exposl- tion of the longs nalne land policy of the repub- lican party, plagiarized by the democratic dema- gogues, and with the other resolutions inserted ta their Platform for the purpose of making the people think they were honestly clamoring for the speedy reform of all kinds of political abuses. —_— POLITICAL NOTES. uni Mr. Cornell, the republican candidate for Lieuten- ant Governor of this State, has accepted the nomina- tion, The only point in his letter is the following:— Not only has the State been robbed, but her mag: nificent public works have been greatly injured; in. deed, their usefulness almost destroyed, and it is Rosstbie to estimate the damage which has been icted upon the interior commercial interests of State by our rutnous and inefficient canal pol The most vigorous measures are required to reform this disgraceful state of affairs, and although I fully appreciate the great importance of the tical questions involved in the coming election, I greatly regret that the undivided attention of the Senn be devoted to the improvement o1 these de- mestic Avery unusual result in politics is the fact that the recent election of two United States Senators from Georgia appears to have given satisfaction to both parties in that State. Republicans claim them as belonging to their side and the democrats insiss that they are their property. Whatever they may be the defeat of ex-Governor Brown seems to be re- garded as glory enough for one day. The jubilation of the Georgia press over the defeat of this man ts something remarkable. If Benedict Arnoid had been taken prisoner in the revolutionary war there could not have been more joy in the American army than there is in Georgia over the failure of ex-Gov- ernor Brown to capture a place in the United States Senate. General Albert Pike continues his peaceful advice to the people of Tennessee through the columns of his paper in Memphis. In one issue last week he attacked the law against carrying concealed weapons a8 unconstitutional and void, and advised the people to disregard it. To complete his day’s lesson he calls upon the democrats to “arm! organize! if you would not be massacred like helpless children 1" Mr. George M. Weston, of Bangor, who was twe years ago democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth district of Maine, announces that, though op- posed to the reconstruction policy of Congress, not ready to follow the revolutionary lead of Frank Blair, and that, therefore, he repudiates the demo- cratic nominations. A correspondent from Florida writes to the Phila- detpnia Age in these words:—I think the Northern taxpayers, who make their living by hard labor, should know that fortwo mogths the government has been distributing free rations to the negroes in this State. In Leon county, where the negroes regis- terod about 2,700 voters (2,606) some 36,000 rations were issued last month alone. ‘The radical organ in Colfax’s own county, in Indl- ana, complains “that the republicans are in a state of untversal lethargy, and have not waked up to the work that lies before them.” The Mobile Trivune says:—‘‘We must break up the Loyal Leagues, and to do this itis only necessary that the negroes should be properly instructed. Point out to the negroes the way they shonid go. Tell them that the carpet baggers in, the Legislature are the veriest scum thrown up by the boiling cauldroa of thedate revolutionary war, and they are a gang of political vagabonds on the prow! for plunder, an@ they will surely aid you in driving the unprincipled wretches from the State.” ‘The constitution of Florida limits regular sessions of the Legislature to sixty days and special sessions to twenty days. The present Legislature held a six months’ session, embracing several recesses, and then voted themselves pay for the whole year. THE PRIZE RING. SEeFe The McCoole-Coburn Claim for the Cham- . plonship. The controversy so long maintained between the two aspirants for the American championship ap- pears to be approaching a settlement. From the tone of Coburn’s last letter it ts apparent that if the aye? meet their little diMculty is as likely to be adjusted outside as inside the telegraphed to the stakeholder on lows:— St. Lovts, Angust 10, 186%, Dean Srn—On the Ath inet. you forwarded we ty that mysel! or my representative should appear at your offoe mm the 13th inst. Tam anzious to meet Mr. Coburn Hy and seitle arrangements for a meeting ine ring, and ae my business will not admit my leaving In time to appear Feeable to yur appointment, you will please to state to Me. Covurn that wil ‘meet him’ at the Monongahela Pittedui , ob Thursday, August 13, If Mr. Coburn to thie telegr bh me August ith inet. Very feengetCaley ionday as fol- The following letter from Joe Coburn in reply nar- rows the issue, and hints at possibie revelations con- cerning the recent fizzle that will no doubt be inte- resting to We sporting fraternity:— MeCoole, in wh hela House, Pittsburg, Pa., on the 18th Inet. on the See that was appointed by the stakeholder tn this clty, will not consent to ith tebarey rr He Beco can come went to to New York just as well as to S23 fo. Pittsburg. at 13th inet Mot Ca) vo him te the, al yard otra en the pregance of Bad told him to 7 anda jo, prove that I da. sire to do jum as to take three or friends and let bi ae week's notice, Sees wre 4 lensed and not @ him entil be wae obliged to — fot Gare to couse le revelations may be made iets