The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1868, Page 3

/ SEYMOUR. Governor Seymour’s Speech at Pittsburg. a ‘PrrrssuRG, Oct. 23, 1863. arrived in this city at noon at the Union depot by a large welcomed to the city Beception, This even- ap address to an im- of) in . ‘place Uf speaking by 2 torch- of the various demo- ci By and vicinity, Great route of the proces- sion, Many buildings along the route were brilliantly M@uminated. The St. Charles Hotel and Daily Post buildings were handsomely decorated Chinese es sag an moto sco presided over by ex-Senator ‘Cowan ae NOL fart eae ore Pittebure an oR on tion of the perky in power ang ym that taxation Seeing. from maladministration by our rulers made the rence to the laborer of between and ten hours of labor. there was no such as taxation, direct or indirect, six hours of toll would give to ® man as good sapport as he now obtains from ten hours’ Remember thet before you give your family their food, and before you give them their cl » you are heavily taxed in the price which you pay for these articles, not fo this in considering the effect your government gix hours you could throw wn your sledge, your mmer, your saw and say, hi . OF if we wish to prolong our toll we will lay ee lay.” accumulation of what we earn for a future But when you are ready aman comes up and lays hand on your shoulder and says, ‘Stop! You are bound to supports your government.’ That is true. You ought to go back then and work, I think one hour, to pay your share of taxation. You then propose to leave workshop again, but you are called back and told that you ought to opay your es of aan public debt. nee is true. ought on back and work for _two beyond the time it is m to work to su} yourselves for these objects. ‘You then say, white for eight hor “1 will go uowe to my family; I will time as my terest or my pleasure dictates.” it the official returns again and says, “No; you must work two hours a day more,” because under this government there are sixty-thousand officials to he Super eets because those men who control the affairs at Wash- ington had seen fit to give the South, not their ancient government, but a government of armies which you must support. But I tell you itis unwise, unjust and unreasonable taxation which 1a the result of the pony of our rulers that i -yinour leaves in the forty minutes past six A. M, train to-morrow for the East. ‘ig MASS HEETING OF DEMOCRATS IV BROOKLYN. ‘The Academy of Music FilledTorchlight ProcessionGreat Enthusiasm—Specches by Frank Blair, Senator Buckalew, John T. Hoffman, Montgomery Blair and Others. The democracy of Brooklyn turned out in immense force last evening to record their expressions of opinion on the Presidential issues, The Academy of ‘Music was filled torepletion. The parquet, galleries, aisles and stage swarmed all over with the boid and brave democracy: The decorations were few and simple. Flags of various nationalities mingled with the immortal Stars and Stripes in gay and graceful festoons around the boxes and galleries. This and nothing more constituted the extra attraction in the ornamentation of the academy. A rippling sea of Jaces extended from the parquet to the dim and re- mote recesses of the upper gallery. The enthusiasm ‘Was spirited and hearty. The appearance of Frank Blair as he walked down the slope of the stage crea- ted a wild burst of democratic fecling that cansed ‘the chandeliers to shake ana the drooping flags to utter. The meeting was then called to order by Mr. James B. Craig, the chairman of the Democratic General Committee, who stated that the object for which they had met was to ratify the national and State tickets. They proposed, among other speakers, to give them their candi- @ate for Vice President, General Frank Blair, Senator Buckalew and other well known gentlemen. Mr. ALEXANDER McCvE was then called to the chair, thanked them for the honor, and said that the ranks Of the democracy showed no wavering. Seymour and Blair would surely be elected. Mr. GkoRGE HerMAN then read a long list of vice premdents and the following resolutions, which ‘Were unanimously adopted:— Resolved, That we ratify the action of the demooratic ay fn the severa! conventions and pledge our earnest and und vided endeavors in support thereof. Resolved, That wo hereby reatirm the time honored prin- of the democratic party and invite the co-operation of sons who desire to aldin the suppresaion of corruption and extravagance in the administration of the government and in securing to all citizens of the United States the full en- Cameatot the pes and liberties to which they are entitied \der the constitution, Resolved, the honor afd dignity of the United States roment demand the exercise of all tis power in protect- ig the rights of mative and adopted citisens, wherever they tn tine of pence is contrary to the ‘pirt of our’ instiutions m0 0 is a ur instivutions to Smepeeteive of the liberties of the people. ‘enormous revenues contributed by a people should be faithfully applied to the preserva- of the national faith in all its Patil, and the extin- guistment of the national debt, ‘of being absorbed b; horde of corrupt officials, who are fattening upon the life ‘or the people. General Biark was then introdnced. and was re- ceived with greatapplause. He thanked the assem. a for the kind Sag sna they had given hit and said he should make but a fow remarks, and they ‘would be confined to the discussion of one or two positions. There was one part about which There could be no di ent among the ple of this country, an ‘was @ popular Born of government like under which ‘we lived; that the wil of ople, the consent of Re obtainea before any of policy Epon any question of government was fixed upon thi lc. There could be no doubt about that. ¢ plause.) He desired to test the reconstruction ac ‘which made A entire policy of the dominant y, if they had received the assent of the people. je would prove that they had never received the assent of the people of this country, from the fact that the election of Mr. Lincoln was opposed by the extreme radicals. He took the ground that the people of the South had aright to be received and renew their allegiance to the government, and he declared fit openly in a proclamation. The extreme men in his party differed with hira, and in the Thirty-eighth Congress | 73 the bill of Henry Winter Davis. ‘This bill Mr. Lincoln put in his pocket and refused to give his signature to ite He pocketed the bill, ~=refused to sign it, and they then charged him with usurpation, They atiempted to put up another candidate, and in fact selected Fremont; but the people condemned the movement and resented the reconstrnetion policy of Congress by re-electing him. He denied to Congress the right to control that subject, Mr. Joinson, who was elected upon the same ticket with Mr. Lincoin, did nothing but adopt his policy, and his first act was the issuing of @ proclamation carrying out the ideas of Mr. Lincoin upon the question, and this proclamation was drafted by Mr. Edwin M. Stanton. The policy of Johnson was Lincoin’s policy, and the election of 1366, so far from being an endorsement of the present radical licy, was a condemnation of it. They had fastened ‘his reconstruction policy upon the reme of the South and upon the Aged of the North, is pei ‘was condemned in 1867 by the Empire State of New York, bat the Senators did not listen to the in- structions of their constituents. They treated the prone of New York with contempt, and adhered that that whoie vhis pringiple of reconstruction and ro suffrage in defiance of their will If thie question of negro suffrage could be presented to the people of this country as a distinct question it would goon be voted down. When it was presented in Onto the vote was 49,000 against it. The question ‘was brought up in the State of Michigan and there the amounted to nothing, there were so few; but they were better qualified for the su e, and t a majority of 23,000 was given against it. The Kare of Kansas gave a majority of 16,000 against it, ‘and the result was the same in Connecticut, He re- marked that he did not wish to trespass upon their tlie as there were others present who were desirous of speaking. (A Voice—“Go on, give them a litue " moro.") ‘. , Hoffman at this moment made his ap- ron tae st and was received with cheers, Benerat Biair said there was one fact to which ne ‘Wished to allude before he concluded, and that was Governor, Mr. Hotfman— that their candidate LA consult the will of the (cheers)—if elected we Applause.) He was the People who elected git cis ween be wee same man now the tory, and he to see Timm tend teem’ on to victory over the radicals, ase eet iy ape Li L) le a! e Rider tne question of thelr fuances an know what answer had been made by the party the 101 h had been frequen asked asto What had become of the moi 1 Wi ached they done with one hundred and seven m! juired had Li in it ii them where it had gone. It had eee war was upon the people nd they were Fates Eroops them siands Good night. (Applause.) ; MOOTOCURRE. er next inffoduised, and followed, wen the Meering adjourned. Pe ing. ra itand imi italde the Acad: . e 8 mn outaide 3 Rigo Cc. aaecn PI vcs ee ea eae very effectively on the iasues, though com- Pelled to trench upon & stereot; sentence of democratic addresses, His owever, Tang one bell, and drew around him many a @ While and spoke to the ©. Jacobs also spoke for int. At another stand a few hundred saree lower sided, Thos. K. Pearsall lown Demas Barnes was amuse and inatruct th " pereee his vicinity. Schuhhaker came on e scene afterwards and made the wel<in ring with denunciation of the corrupt of radicalism. stand No. 8, facing the Cit resided. Frank BI made his a) ense enthusiasm, and spoke for a short time on substantially the same subjects he has already treated. When his presence was announced a ter- riflo rush was made up the stairway of the stand to See the gallant candidate for the Vice Presidency. Had the Pena succumbed to the weight imposed pon it it would have been little matter of surprise. At stand No. 4, which seemed to be sadly eo during the early stage of the proceedings, er resided, Le Exronuesa vecione speak hose theme was the ever eloquent one o! radical vity, The si to and froof the masses of ple, the incursions of clubs with trans- paren hes and bands of music, the blazing of Bei fires and the repeated explosions of pur- ple rockets, made a lively and varying picture. Altogether this demonstration of the Brooklyn de- mocracy was a gay success, Excellent good humor characterized the attendance, and no lack of vigor- ous eloquence could be noticed. John A. Griswold in Williamsburg. John A. Griswold, republican candidate for Gover- nor, last evening addressed a mass meeting of the German citizens of Williamsburg at Union Hall, cor- ner of Meserole and Ewen streets. Mr. Griswold ‘was enthusiastically received by his German friends, and although they found it diticult to understand his classic gia they listened to him patiently. He made @ decided impression upon his auditors by his distingue appearance. IMPORTANT TO IRISHNEN. Appeal of the Disfranchised Irish of the South to Their Irish Fellow Citizens of the North. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN oF tHE NorTH—To you, who were born on the same soil; to you, who, hke ourselves, are natives of oppressed, down-trodden and sorrow-stricken Ireland—tellow Irishmen, to you we appeal in this our day of distress and trial, of oppression and misrule. Like you of the North, ‘we were once citizens of the United States; we had 4 share in the election of the men who administered the government and of those who made the laws. ‘We were recognized as an integral part of the body gure and the most honored and respect- ed of our fellow countrymen were elected to positions of trust, honor and distinction. Now all this is changed. We are no longer citi- gens, We have been deprived of our right to vote, and in many places have been driven from the poils. The radical registrars have refused to enter our names on their registration lists. Thousands and tens of thousands of our fellow countrymen in the Southern States have thus been disfranchised, while every negro who presents himself is admitted to the rights of cit We are to-day regarded by the radical party as the inferiors of the negroes, and we have no rights, political or otherwise , that they are bound to Hundreds, ze, thousands of Irishmen have been deprived of the oficial positions to which they were elected or appointed in ditferent cities throughout the South. We need only refer to the cases of Mobile and New Orleans, where Irish- men have been ¢] from offices, which were after- Wards conferred on negroes. Fellow Irishmen of tae North, all this has been done by the radical party, which now asks your sup- port, on the ground tlint it is tne friend of the ado citizen! ‘Trust it not! Radicalism is Know Nothingism in another form. If that party gets into Feb another tour years they will disfranchise you, rishmen of the Northern States, as they have dis- ances 3 ed oe ee States. To you we OW ty > anxiously, eageriy look- —. political redemption. Save us, by ‘YOUr votes, from negro supremacy! Save _us, ry your votes, from the rule of the bayonct! Bear in ‘mind that every Irishman who votes with the radical party votes for our enemies. We entreat you by all you hold most dear not. to be misled by so-called Irish. men in your midst—traitors who have sold out to our political enemies and yours, renegades who have accepted the ever ready brive for the ad- vocacy of a policy that has made us aliens in the Jand of our adoption aud subjected us in this coun- try <o all the injustice and outrages in‘icted upon us inthe land of our birth, down-trodden and op- pressed Ireland. Restore to us, through your horest, manly, honorable, unbought suffrages, the rights of citizenship—those rights of which we have been de- prived, that we might be degraded by the radical party below the level of the negro! Fellow Irishmen, we appeal to you by the wrongs and sufferings we now endure, by the love you bear to your wives and little ones, to save us from the blighting, withering curse of negro rule and negro domination. member that every vote you give to the radical candidates is a vote given to keep us in political bondage and to subject our families to all the horrors of negro equality, Remember that it was here in the South that Know Nothingism re- ceived its death blow from Henry A. Wise, in Vir- ga, Alexander H.Stephens, in Georgia, and Andrew johnson, of Tennessee. If you would free us from litical bondage and negro supremacy vote against be party that has deprived us of our citizenship. ‘Vote t the party that has made ns the political inferior of the negro. Vote against the party that is now making of the South another oppressed and downtrodden Ireland. We are now looking to the success of democratic candidates to free us from political bondage and the curse of mongrel rule. a NEW JERSEY POLITICS. Seymorr and Blair Meeting at Knglowood. A meeting of the democrats of Bergen county took place jast night at Englewood. The headquarters of the Seymour and Blair ciub of that place were filled on the occasion. Colonel A. OU. Davis, of New York, was the principal speaker, Mr, James B. Mil- ler acting as chairman. The speaker reminded his hearers of the advice of Washington, in his fareweil address to his countrymen, to guard jealously their rights and liberties against ali tyranny, especially military despotism. This is applicable to the present tine, when the radicals, In crushiag the South under their heel, are only biding their time to treat the rest of the nation in lke tanner, He then defended General Blair's celebrated Brodhead letter, which he sald was in consonance with the decision of the Supreme Court and the will of the people in pro- nouncing against the Reconstruction acts. He con- jed by denouncing those acts, showing their re- n the carnival of outrage, murder and rapme now prevailing in the South and in the load of taxa- tion with which we are oppressed. A Warning to New Jersey Democrats. The Trenton American (democrat), of the 28th Instant, utters the following motes of warning to all concerned :— We are advised that the radical es in this State, rendered a ood by the hopelessness of their cause, contemplate re-enacting, wherever they have a chance, the villany by which so many thou- nands of citizens were recently robbed of the élective franchise in a neighboring State. We warn the plot- tera that it will not be s to attempt to put this scheme tnto effect. Joun I. Biair cannot be made Governor of New Jersey, nor can F. T. Frelinghuysen hold on to his seat in the Senate for six years longer yy means which defeat the wili of the people. At the same time we give timely warning to democrats and conservatives everywhere, tha’ they may be on their ee, and be prepared to vent themselves from being cheated and defrauded of their rights, LETTER FROM JOHN MINOR BOTTS. ‘The following letter from John Minor Botta, in re- sponse to an invitation to address the citizens of Petersburg, will be read with interest:— AUBURN, Oct, 20, 1868. Rusn Burgess, Petersburg:— Dean Sik—-Your favor of the oth inst., inviting Me to be present and participate in the pr. ings Bold in yout oly, is avenit, is at Meas too late, under any} Sn toe eto clrcumstan: enable me comply bad the vay ne a aaeend The sans 'y consequent upon epost con: Unues to such an extent thas any attempt at public ig on eg prove an rtive fatiare. read aloud in tho domestic Circle diveste me of all my strength. I more any one else can do that T shall nity of giving to my ave formed of the great re- udiator on the one hand and of the extreme revolu- jonist and despiser of the law on the other, and at the same time of offering such vindication of the principles of the republican party as it seems to me they are eminently entitled to, however erroneously NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. or unwisely & portion of that have acted... i Rees and the merits of ‘The contrast between the claims the candidates of the two were go great that I should never at time have deemed it necessary to enter upon @ review of their past serves Ddefore an — in it audience, “ That tion now, however, is virtual! tled, and as the iar fir st gad ese slack Sty repul wer, and which will if ‘nnd yestotation gf auiiy Gat’ Detter tite feeling than ears, it Is greatly to be hoped that tn thease “ye G ter vt Ouge upon e Beane of peace, barmony 8 couollie We are the victorious part} prs nates are good tah let it Cais aah page they damana ny bir mc ee ; Olin M. BoTTS. | Tam, very reapect —_— « QTY: POLITICS, Another Endorsement of Gannitig 8. Bedford, = “Try for the Ofiice Of City Judge. At luncheod givén on Wednesday last at the hobse of a» distinguished democratic politician of the Twelfth ward the name of Gunning 8, Bedford, Jr., our future City Judge, called forth loud ap- plause, and Lis health was drank with a degree of enthusiasm demonstrated the hold he has| taken on the of the people, and Mr, A. M, Knapp, of W: mn Heights, being called ipon as to respond, did so in the following words:— GBNTLEMRN—It ig peculiarly pleasant for me rere to the health of my dear friend, Gunhing ford, ‘self have been in- timate friends since childhood. I have known hi boy and man, for upwards of twenty years, and have ever found in astanch friend, an honest man and a true gentieman. In the latter quality I may well say he rivals Chesterfield, and when b; our votes he is elevated to the befch, the bar, fear, will sadly miss her young Erskine. Mr. Bedford's legal acquirements, of course, {t is unneces- ary ie me to say anything. You have all watched with interest his course as Assistant District Attor- ney, and to have watcned his course ig to endorse it. He {s a sound lawyer and a good democrat. Speak- ing of democrats, gentlemen, I hope &ll here are of the true faith. I hope I do not see before me any of those renegades who, while hoelng traitors to their own party, are ashamed to assume the name the real p. of to which they belong. There never Was an the history of our Saunier. which call loudly for patriots to come fo 80 rward and do their daty at the polls. It behooves all of us, gentlemen, to go to the Spt on Tuesday next and vote the democratic ticket straight, without the scratch of a single name. I cannot thank you enough, gentle- men, for the honor you have done me in allowing me to respond to this toast; for nothing could be more igratetal wo my feelings than to have had this oppor- unity of paying, my humble acknowledgments to Mr. Bedford’s great merits, Congressional Nomiuations Last Night. ‘The Mozart Hall Convention of the Fifth district nominated Hon. John Morrissey for re-election, The Mozart Hall Convention of t@e Sixth district nominated 8. 3. Cox. ‘The Mozart Hall Convention of the Seventh district nominated Harvey C. Calkins, The Mozart Halil Convention of the Ninth district nominatea Fernando Wood, Roswell ©. Hatch de- clining to run. The Niuth district Democratic Union Convention nominated Fernando Wood. The Democraric Unton Convention of the Seventh district nominated Harvey C. Caikins, County Conventions. The committee appointed by the Democratic Union County Convention to notify its candidates of their nomination performea the duty assigned to them last evening, and the nominations were formally ac- accepted by the numinees. An adjourned meeting of the Constitutional Union County Convention was held last evening to nomi- nate a candidate for Register, and Mr. Jobn S. Giles was nominated for that ovice, but the vote was after- wards reconsidered, and 2 motion to make no nomi- nation at that time was carried, after which the Convention adjourned, subject to the call of the cuawr. Assembly Nominations. . The Radical Republican Convention of the Seven- teenth district last evening nominated George P. Bradford for Assembly, Messrs. Simonson and Camp- bell having withdrawa THE REGISTRATION LAW. wn Interesting Correspoudence Between the Dine trict Attorncy and Henry E. Davies, Exe Judge of the Court of Appenis. City aND CountTy.oF NEW York, DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Oct. 24, 1865, My Dran Sia:—My oflicial opinion nas been asked upon the following question (as it is repeated in tne opinion it 1s here oniitted). I prefer, as | hi an active partisan during the canvass, to be guided by the professional opinion of one who, like yourseif, ik aloof from polities, and Whose calm judzinent ought not to be questioned: Please furnish me with it, With great eer yoar obedient servant, A. OAKBY HALL, UENRY E. Davirs. OPINION OF JUDGE DAV! 149 BROADWAY, NEW York, A. OAKEY Hatt:— DEAR BIR—-Your note of yesverday requests my opinion upon the following question, viz: Ifa naturalized eltizen who claims before aboard of reg- fatty the rights of an clector under chapters i4v of laws of 1865 and 812 of laws of 1866 produces before sald bourd « cer- tificate of naturalization from a court of competent juriadic- tion, and makes proof to the satisfaction of the board that he ia the identical person named in said certificate, what, In such case, will be the legal effect upon anid board of sald certifi- cate, and what lecal rights do such production and proof! con- fer upon sald elector respecting hia right to bave his name inscribed upon the re; amumning also that all other legal at Before to the consideration of the question, It is needful to refer to the existing pro- visions of the acts rererred to. Section 1 of the Act of 1865 declares that the Board, after its organization, ‘‘shall then proceed to make @ list of ail persons qualified and entitled to vote at the ensuing election in the election district of which they are Inspectors." Section 4 of the same act also declares that “any person not born in the United States, on apply: ing to bave his name Fugees on the registry, shall prove that he 18 a citizen of the United States by producing @ certificate of naturalization from court of competent jurisdiction; nor shall any proof of his being a citizen be received unless he shall first show to the satisfaction of the Board of Registry that he is unable to produce such certificate.” ‘The act of 1866 is amendatory and supplementary to that of 1866, Section 2 of this act declares ‘that no person shall be placed on such register if he shail be objected to = one of the inspectors or by & qualided voter of the ity within which the election district is gituated, unless he shall be known or proved to the satis{ac- tion of such ctoTa to be at the time a qualified ‘voter of such election district; nor shall the name of @my person be placed or retained on such register without the concurrence of three of the four inspec- tors not except in case of compilance with section 7 hereof.” No person born out of the United States shall be placed on such register, unless he shall, to tue per- sonal knowledge of three of the Inspectors, have been duly naturalized, or shall prove his naturaiization, as provided in the act hereby amended. (Such pro- visions are found in section four of the act of 1865, as follow: any person not born in the United States, on applying to have his name placed on the registry, shall prove that he ts a citizen of the United States by producing a certificate of naturalization from a court of coinpetent jurisdiction. Nor shall any otuer proof of his being a citizen be received, unless he shall drst show, to (he satisfaction of tae Boardfof Registry, that be is unable to produce such certificate.) When the question ts raised upén the naturaliza- tion of a person proof sli made to the satisfac tion of the inspectors, by his own oath or otherw that the person claiming to be placed on the regi is the identical person named in the certificate he produces. Section seven of the act of 1869 declares that “in the cities of New York and Brooklyn the name of no person shall be piaced upon said register uniess he shall appear in person before the said inspectors and prove to their gatisfaction his right to voto st the next election in the election district in which he claims the right to vote.” OPINION. Pirst.—1t three Inspectors have personal know- ledge that the applicaut has been duiy naturalized, it is their clear and 1 rative duty to register his = if he possesses the other requisite qualifica- tions. Second.—If they have not such knowledge, then the right of the applicant to be registered is to be es- tablished in the following manner:—1, By the pro- duction of @ ceriificate of naturalization issued to the applicant by @ court of competant jurisdiction, and all courts of record are such courts, 2 If he is unable to produce such certificate, then the Board are to be satisfied by other proof (and the oath of the applicant should be taken as ima facie, suticient evidence) that the applicant been duly uatural- ized by @ court of competent jurisdiction. Third, The production of the record of the court, being an exemplification thereof under the seal of certificate of TES. Oct, 28, 1868, recee dn the cou nerally known as Baturalize is conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated, and also conclusive evidence that all the liminaries required by establish @ to naturalization have been complied with. was adjudged 7, the Court of Ap) in this State in the case of McCautry va. Mi , 1 Selden, 263; and in Stark vs. Chesapeake Insurance Compa- ny, 7 Cranch, 420; Ritchie vs. Putnam, 13 Wend., 624; Spratt va, Spratt, 4 Peters, 393. Fourth.—It follows’ that where the applicant pro, duces the record of the court establish ened t law to are, 1. Is th duced the actual record issued to the court competent of jnrisdiction, and 2 eant the rea) person described in the tifleate, and upon whose right to citizenship the Court has adjudicated? If these facts are established to the satisfaction of the inspectors they bave no jegal right to refuse to Tegister the name of the applican' uming the other requisite qualifeations. ee — ‘Three inspectors are nt and ni decide all questions. HENRY E. DAV! Important to Voters in this State. Tn all cities the boards meet on Friday and Satur- ny aig) 80 and 31, and remain in session from eight A. M. to nine P.M. In all incorporated villages Porated village, ihe boards meet ou Friday, October 30, e on ‘ Ena remain ia session from bine A.M. to seven P.M. entirely outaido of ities or incorperated. Villages jutaide o or rperat electors not registered can vote on sMdavit, auian, excuse for not being registered. In no ct & or country) can any name be added to the regis. at the second meeting without Suplicetion, in ‘The general eiection will be held on the lay succeeding the drst Monday in November (November 3). ETHAN ALLEN. The Republican Issace—Reconstraction and Finance. The third of the course of political lectures before the National Club, on Union square, was delivered on Friday evening, by Mr. Ethan Allen, before an audience of ladies and gentlemen comprising some of our most eminent mercantile and professional citizens, Genera! Anthon presided and introduced the orator of the evening, who spoke substantially a8 follows:— MR. PRESIDENT AND LADIRS AND GENTLEMEN—‘T shall take no step backward,” said Grant to Sher- an, when the latter gave it as his opinion that the tna should return to Memphis as a new base of operations for an advance on Vike ire We are told that Ulysses S$. Grant is no orator. Why this 18 the most eloquent discourse of the nineteenth cen- tury. Napoleon safd in Egypt, ‘Soldiers, from the summits of yonder pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.” This sentence 18 the crowning victory, the Ansterlitz of Bona- part’s oratorical reputation. “I take no step backward” meant the fail of Vicks- bog, the surrender of thirty thousand rebels, the first setting of the tide of treason towards the = of despair, the first bright ee in every loyal jeart of the coming morning and the final day of un- conditional victory, (Applause.) The expression indicates the character of the mau. His course 1s forward no matter what befalls, In the contest now waging for political supremacy in the government the republican party in emulation of its heroic leader ere “to take no step backward.”’ Its destiny les forward. Its mission in the cause of free gov- ernment demands that it should succeed. To be de- feated is a step backward, a step towards national dishonor, a step towards a compromise with the enemies of the republic, if not resuiting in actual capitulation and surrender, (Applause.) THE ISSUES. ‘The two great parties of the country, each with its platform, its promises, its history and tts nominee, are in arrayed against each other for the prize of political power. ‘They have been so arrayed for many years. The main diiference between 1864 and 1868 18 that then they both used gunpowder to fire bullets and now they both use gunpowder to fire rockets. Then the democratic party suot towards the North and the republican party shot towards the South, and now both shoot towards the skies, as ifto demand the verdict of heaven on their cause. (Great applause.) ‘The aniinus of the two parties 1s the same now as then. They have only changed the means, not the end, The republican pariy sUil, a4 always, is strug- gling for equal rights to all and a tirmer and more enduring nationality, and the democrar tending still for special rights for # special class, which of itself strikes at the very corner stone of our Nationai existence. What will be the verdict of the people is the great and paramount question. WHEREIN THE DEMOCRACY ERRED IN THEIR NOMI- NATION, The grand mistake of the “democratic party on the 4th of July Jast was, that in underrating the iuteliigence and morality of the citizen it under- rated his loyalty to his country, it heard mur- murings against certain acis of the republican Jeaders, and it understood tis to mean a willing- ness on the part of the people to stand a decoc- tion of Benedict Arnoid and Jefferson Davis a little diluted in the person of Horatio Seymour, That the republican party has committed errors no one will deny; to exact perfection is to suppose the millen- nium to be at hand. It is easy to tind fault, and 1 is easy for a party as for an individual (for it is made up of indtvidun!s) to mistake their course sometimes; but of all the errors of the republican party hostility to its country’s flag is not one of its mistakes, Had the democratic party pianted itself firmly on uncom- promising fidelity wo ¢ tt named for its leader a nominee whose im support of the Union during the war was at Jeast unquestionable, even though not positively t, the result migit have been different. Changes are common with our and they like them, that they do i# an evidence of their wisdom. It minority in this land that holds the inajority In check, and every idea, sooner or later, has tts day of triumpi, ¢xcept- ing the one aci of infidelity to our national which is the one unpardonable poll § will not be tolerated. If is by that identica! sin that the democratic party are now sinking, we trust, to rise no more. ‘The iasue in Wits Canvass was made by our oppo- nents when they invited unrepsntant rebels to par- ticipate in their deliberations, and the issue, as they have presented it, actually makes a vote far Ulysses s. Grant the true test of loyal citizenship. He who has been with the republican party since Abraham Lincoin first ied it to victory ust of necessity re- Tain With it now or prociaim hunaself heretofore to have been bot a knave and afool. A vote for Ho- ratio Seymonr is a vote in sympathy and tn unity with Hampton, Forrest, Semmes, Beanregard and the other followers of Jefferson Davis. who to-day, by the daily breath they draw, attesi the magnanimity and merey of the goyerninent, (Applanse.) To vote these men throng: Horatio Reymour inte political favor and power now 1s todo what it were more honest and wise to have done while the battle was raging and before so mauy had dicd that they should not rulc. (Cries of “Hear, hear.) It is true that some members of the democratic party are profuse im their promises of peace and pros- perity, i they shall be sustained by the people but the ple know the party, is now struggling for a prize which it faled to gain by toree of arme, and they fear that vows niade in the storm will be forgotten tn the sunshine, It is moreover true that some of those rebellious spirits which now form the Southern wing of the democratic parity are zealous in thelr profes- sions of devotion w the constitution, which they so much fear the republican party will violate; but the people remember, that ™Mmany of these same men once swore by the Goad in heaven to sustain and protect that same constitu- tion, and yet went forth armed for its destruction; and knowing that a “wild never laid a tame egg,’ they prefer that the probationary term of these people should be extended before they are pro- nounced suflictently domesticatea for political wer, The democratic party brings such fellows into the contest that the upright citizen who wishes only the national good, aa the case 1s presented for his decision, dares not vote to change our party now im power for fear of changing our institutions. (Ap- piause.”’ GENERAL BLAIR. Here Jet me, in justice to a gallant soldier, say @ word in regard to Genera! Frank Blair, the demo- cractic nominee for the Vice Presidency. I cannot agree with imany of my political associates in their de- nunciations of tis gentieman. The nand which heid the sword of one wing of Sherman’s army in that grand march to the sea, the sword which hewed its Way to victory acrosa the Continent and flashed like a meteor through the Southern sky; the hand which held that sword belongs to no disioyal man. (Great appianse,) That sword was wielde! by General Blair. Fourgesrs of heroic service to ive country in the field, and always at the front, ever being found where the bulets few thickest and ueath rained fastest, entitled General Blair to the lasting gratitude of patriots izena and will secure for tim a bril- lant page in history, (Renewed applause for the re- lemocratic of an illustrious soldier, Hut, fortunate publican party, aad unfortunately f party, the contest is not between General Biair, but between Gener of a very diferent history and oh RECONSTRUCTIO To reconstruct the rebellious States was the next Great duty. hath her victories no less re- nowned than war,” says the poet, and it seems as if our history is to attest the truth of the sentiment, ‘To secure peace on an honorable and # lasting foun- dation, “with mative toward none, but with charity for all,” to #0 guard the future that the nation “shall take no step backward,” has been tie labor of the republican party since it came a conquerer from tae eid, It is now on trial before the peopie and their verdict will be an’ expression of theit contidence tn the republican professions. Their piatform gives the issues now presented in the briefest and best language, as follows:—“Reconstraction on the basia of equal rights for all men shall be consummated and carried out, and the national faith towards its creditors shall be preserved.” Let us brietly discuss the two propositions con- tained in this, The gravest question upon which an appeal has been taken to the judgment of the people is that which concerns the acts and policy ofa re- publican Congress, in the various measures it has adopted in this matter of reconstruction, ‘ihe facts ia the case are undisputed and familiar to ali. ing he question of jurisdiction, tie speaker proceeded at connection to discuss THE POLITICAL STUTUS OF A SECRDED STATR. There can be no question that, as matters stood before the rebellion, the federal government could not nghtfully have interfered as it has with the local ernment of certain States. Whatever authority it has must therefore haye sprnag from some radical change in the relation of Wi occasioned by the fact and incidents of ion. The point to be determined then is the effect of an act of seces- sion, or rather the political status of a late rebel State at the close of the war. ‘The territorial divisions over which the federal jn- Tisdiction extends are known as organized Territories and territory unorganized. ‘The only forms of local government that have been ized are those of States, Terntories and provisional forms of government in wi territory, aa in the case of Cailfornia and-New Mexica prior to their re- spective admission a mn. Authorized government can exist in either case only by and control. As the issue of the war disposes of any retext that the rebel governments became forel Ristes the ro-establinninent of the federal ‘authority must have it them within one or another of the forego ries. They Suid not bave been States, however, because | @ State in the Union 1s 8 political ion conforms with certain constitutions! tequcemence ae a nk fi cm ay pound to maintain ‘© governnien! every ofieta of which must act under an oath of ice to the federal conmsitason. | ue prohibit *] fram exer. Pre tobedietce t0 ‘all tha Union. Bet under the acts of secession the former governments which had fulfilled these conditions were utteriy gibverted and others formed, which violated them in every partic- ular. These new demamied - tion for themselves as the lawful ronments of independent communities, altho ing within the territorial and constitutional j ction of the Union, and were authoritatively it The: airaraptod to accomplish the result by rlolence It must be evident from this that as tle existence of a State in the Union is attested by the existence of certain conditions of local governnent, which were terminated in each of rebel in defl- ance of the federal authority and by tlolence, fhe existence of the State rome! in each with the act of secessiog, and could Not be restored without a fresh ion, which oe the federal authority ts competent jo give. is view of the case, ne by cessa@rily follows from the concurrent action of all brauches of the vernment in the admiasion and ion of West asa State, The constitution provides oid cle four, section three) as follows:—New Slates. be admitted be ee: Col into the Union, but no new Sovran taraac rng ies nes of any other nor ai te be form the junction of two or more States or of States without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of Congress, Under no theory of the legal existence of the State of Virginia could that action taken during the war, and ever since acquiesced in, have been deemed comr stitutional. The matter rey therefore be regarded as settled by the highest authority. The rebei governments could not, on the other hand, be classed as territories, because such organi- zations can only exist by an enabling act of Cougress and they must be held therefore as remitted by their own acts and the fortune of the war to the condition of unorganized territory, possessing forms of civil government which were valid only so far as they mae, proximally recognized by the federal au- jority. THE DUTY OF CONGRESS TO PROTECT THR BLACK AS WELL AS WHITE IN THEIR CIWL RIGHTS, But the enfranchised class 1m these cases were en- titled to some such guarantee as a matier of right. It became the duty of Congress the moment civil overnment ceased to exist in each of said States by its secession to organize a loyal republican govern- ment therein. The rebellious inhabitants being ipso Jacto Aisfranchised the only material for such a gov- ernment consisted of the loyal whites and the black population, who must be presumed to have been willing to carry on a legitimate government. It waa the duty of Con; to transfer the lapsed political wer Of the State to those who had'never swerved m their allegiance; but, as in every instance the white portion of the loyal inhabitants would have formed a comparatively smal minorit thereof, a government formed on that basi would not have been republican in form. The blacks, consequently, became, entitled to their share of all such civil rights as Congress un- der the constitution Was bound to assure to the loyal inhabitants, as the legitimate representatives of the deceased State. This estate, once vested in them, could not lawfully be divested while their porno: towards the government remains unchanged. Con- gress, though compelled by the pressure of cireum- stances to defer the installation of the ever faithful citizens in their inheritance, could not fall to reco; e their right at the first opportunity and is bouhd to protect them init, Any ir on the part ofa portion of the electors of a State to deprive anoiher portion thereof of the elective franchise would be anti-repub- ican and necessitate the prompt interve ition of the federal ‘authority under the guarantee clause. That wi Congress can constitutionally overrule when accomplished, it must certainly have a rigut to pre- vent by anticipation, and the means taken are ordi- nary and lawful, as has been shown. ‘TH SUBJECT OF FINANCES, Oh the second great question now before the peo- ple, that of the finances, It is not required that any- thing sbould be said by me. In all the discussions on this subject, however, it has occurred tome that the debate as to the propriety of repudiation, or quasi repudiation, by the issue of greenbacks for nited Sites bonds was a somewhat a rd and useleas debate, because the thing prop was an impossibility todo. Itis ugeless to debate what is impossible. To issue the enbacks for the bonds even the democracy must admit will cheapen paper money and raise the value of gold, and thereby greatly damage if not destroy the channels of trade by tearing up aad continuolly changing the moneyed foundations over which these channels flow. And if you are to redeem the greenback in the end and way gold for it 1 can’t see any gain, but, on the con- rary, much loss in turning from a bond promise to pay to @ greenback promise to pay. But is it proposed by the democracy never ‘to pay the reenback ti gold or to cancel it without payment by statute? Then L answer, that is jast the thing it is impossible w do, That is just the ting the peopie of this country dare not do; the people, if united in this resolve, could not do it and have the nation live. If the nation by neither toll nor struggle was uble to redvein its promise the charity of the world might then pernilt and excuse repudiation on the round of utter inability, just as private charity par- dons the individual bankrupt who would be faithful but who cannot be 60. But in our case the question of ability don’t admit of discussion, for the census informs us that in the aggregate of property we are worth the debt about twenty-five times over. Let no one then lay the unc- tion to his soul that he can escaj payment in gold of a single dollar of the public debt, unless he ives up the government which incurred the debt as he penalty of the breach of payment. I defy you to find in all history a slngie iustance where @ nation which was able to do so refused to pay its debt and afterwards existed. The French le, at the close of the last century, repudiated thelr obligations to ays but the government that made the promise and refused ceased to exist, and a new dynasty was erected on ita ruins, At the close of our American revolation against Great Britain a large amount of Continental money was never re- deemed, but it was because of tho utter inability of the nation, just coming into existence, to do so; and as the continental debt was entirely held among our own people, they never lost their confidence in the nation because they lost their debt. (Applanse.) Of all forms of government a republic, dependent as itis upon public cenfidence which follows repute, is the least able to break its plighted faith. ‘To-day our nation is one of the most powerful on the earth, because she has never yet before the world dis- honored her reputation. It is true the State of Missis- sippi has been guilty of repudiation, and had she been an independent sovereignty she must have pa the penalty of ber offences with the forfeiture of her existences; but the parent republic spread its hon- ored shield over the dishon , and the world forgave her for the sake of her family. “Hear, hear.) Jt is because of Tesulte — nation dare not Tefuse to pay its debt in . It is because of ‘these results that the demo- cratic party-—the party of our national disruption in peace as well as in war—have insuited the honor of vhe republic by bringing suspicion upon its credit; and it is because of these results that the republican party—the pay of our national unity, in peace as ‘Well aa in war—have repelled this insuit to the honor of the people by ringmg it out in tones of thunder from ita platform at U “that the national faijh towards its creditors shail be preserved.” (Tre- mendous applause.) THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND GENERAL GRANT WILL BE LENIENT TO THE SOUTH. It is because the republican party proposes in pace to defend the honor of the nation, as in war it defended its unity and advanced it to a higher morality by declaring all men free, that we say re- ublicanism is Atill progressive. Because it serves ruth and jusiice Providence is with it, as from the beginning. If Providence interferes in the affairs of men, then the first defeat of Bull Kan which aroused the government to the necessity of greater power--the protraction of the war till the emanci- pation proc!amation made us @ republic in realit, the lessening of the summer's heat aud the win cold as was manifest to any obaorver during every year of the War—the total deliverance from disease and epidemic in Southern climes where our | soldiers of Northern homes were necessarily placed on guard—the earth pouring forth its foun- tains of on at the very moment when the ne- cessities of our commerce had witharawn every harpoon from the sea, the question of German and Italian unity which served to keep hostlie monarchs engrossed with affairs at home while we contmued the struggle with rebellion even at the foot ot every throne, States revealing their inexhaustible trea- sures, pouring thelr yellow tide in Lundreds of mil- lous through the commercial channels of the repub- lic to appease ihe demand which the war tad made for goid, al! these manifestations musi unite to con- Vinee us that from the beginning to the end Provi- dence coutrolicd and guided all. (Loud appiauses THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL TAKE NO STRIP BACK- WARD. We close as we began with the resolve “‘to take no step backward.’ From the morning of its birth to the present time the republican party has ever pro- gressed, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidiy, but Stil it has advanced constantly. it embodied in tts creed the cardinal tae upon which the nation was built, and it therefore attracted to itself and to its support the enthusiasm of the people. Principles extend through ail time and unite us with those heroes of the past who inaugurated the work which we ilave ——, as if bute day had intervened. In the languag Guizot, the piilosopher, “the movements of Provi- dence are not Sigg ab Ne a BE PM anxious to deduce to- @ ¢ol a ‘omises it Inia down yesterday. [t way defor this for ages, till the fuiness of time shall come. Its logic will not be less conclusive for reasoning slowly. Providence moves through time, us the gods of Homer through space—it makes a step, and ages have away.” (Great applause.) BFFECT OF OUR REPUBLICAN EXAMPLH ON MON- ARCHES. ir count its example hetps that th to gor. Ah! ow well do the old dynasties of Europe, ae pare, S°trens ema toll af there subjects ‘7 rc subject but who have felt their thrones tremble and their power gradually decline, know this truth. Come, oh, ye republican patriow of Germany an of Itaiy, who have broken the sceptre of a thousand years; who, givi religious and political liberty to all, have retained of monarchy pothing but 1 name, who have on the north pene- trated to the shores of the and on the south swept like Aiaric to the gates Rome, and tell us that our example haa been to you like armies of men. Come, oh, repul John Bright, born in obscurity, cradied in a monarchy and strip) of titles, yet stronger than the throne—dn spite of crowa andcoro- 3 nets he the heart of England in hand, vei to the power of our exaniple. Come from your easy victo1 Against the last of the Bourbons; come, oh, Marshal Serrano, from the head of your forces, ent in triumph beneath the Cas- tellan towers of , and teil us whether it wae ot the force of our example that revealed their power to the people of Spain and that has taught the tying soverel that the day has come when even “the right divine of kings and queens” 1a no shield Against the indignation of outraged and insulted Subjects, (Enthusiastic Sheeting.) Republicanism in its miasion has selected General Ulysses 8. Grant as one of the agents for ita work. He comes not as 4 military conqueror, one like & second Cincinnatus, he comes rather as the “ of Galena,” whose simple life and acquaintance With labor bring him more tn sympathy with the Sons of toil, He has been tried in a furnace of She eae nea ine inte Hs ened ered tn none, “He who been faithful over a few things, shall be mafe # ruler Pi on of God, and republicaniama Seroggnors the broad earth will rejoice aud take new pe for to-morrow, for it knows and feels that rights “he w: no step backward.” (Continued anpiatse,) MASSACHUSETTS, The Candidates for State OMcers and Meme bers of Congress, The following is a list of candidates to be voted for in Massachusetts on the 3d proximo for State officers and Members of Cofgress. The asterisk (*) indicates those who have been renominated:— FOR STATE OFFICERS. can. .Chas. Brimblecom®, ‘Harvey Arnold, REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGR: Dist, Republican, Democratic. 1—James Bufinton. Philander Cobb. 2—*Oakes Ames. +Edward Avery. +E. C, Bailey. a pel Peter Harvey. 5—Richard H, Dana, Jr...Otis P. Lord. *Benjamin F, Butler 6—*N. P, Banks... I—*George 8. Bout 8—George F. Hoar. §9—*Willlam B. Wasi 10—*Heury L. Dawes. POLITICAL NOTES. The Chicago Repudlican, October 24, makes the following mysterious announcement:—‘Mr. Horatio Seymour will lecture in this city to-night for the benefit of a New York Colored Orphan Asylum.” ‘This is supposed to be a Western joke. The Syracuse Journal (radical) has the following bit of logic:—“‘Hoffman was defeated for Governor in 1864, There are thousands who then voted for him who will now vote against him, What chance has he, then, for success 1? 4 The Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer, 24th instant, says:—“The democratic rooster crowed 100 soon yess terday morning. He isthe worst whipped chicken ever seen hereabouts.”? A radical journal has coined tho word ‘Belmont ism.” It has a familar and peculiar rin The Detroit Free Press (democratic) referring to the late radical demonstration in that ciiy, at which Colfax replied to Seymour and Old Ben Wade talked horse logic, says:—“‘Money was thrown around like dirt.” There has been a good deal of dirt throwing during the campaign on both sides-——and some have stooped so low and behaved so mean as to eat it. Knowing ones in this city are bettlng ten toone against Seymour, The Chicago Tribune (radical) says the great West will vote as follows:— Elec. Frederick 0, Prince. Leverett Saltonstall. wear Hi, Stevens, Levi Hayward. -Abijah W. Chapin. Kansas. Nebras! Totals... . ‘212,000 These calculations, the Tribune modestly observes, are all moderate and based on the hypothesis that the copperhearts will recover from their depression of spirits and put forth their whole effort. Edmund Quincy, an abolitiontst of the old died-in- the-wool Mussachusetts stripe, has pronounced against General Butler. He objects to himon the repudiation dodge, ‘The radical majority on Congress in Pennsylvania on the 13th was 7,418, or 2,000 less than that for Hartranft, radical candidate for State Auditor. The Richmond Z£nquirer says that some of the radical leaders still contemplate the calling together of the late Virginia Convention this winter, and it calls upon Ceneral Stoneman “to spoil thtg pro- gramme, and spare us further mortification as'well as the means necessary to pay the current expenses of the State government.” Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is out agatost General Butler. Pennsylvania polled 653,000 votes. Compared with the next largest vote ever given—that of is6¢—it re- veals thesé results:— Vote. Per cent, Democratic Increase. 10 7-10 Republican icrease. 7 7-10 TELEGRAPHIC POLITICAL NEWS. The Result in West Virginia. WHEBLING, Oct. 23, 1863, The republican majority in West Virginia will probably be about 6,000. Senator Fowler, of Tennnessee, Takes tho Stamp for Grant aad Colfax. NASHVILLE, Oct. 28, 1868. Senator Fowler, this evening, addressed the people at the Capito! in favor of Grant and Colfax, Mr. Colfax’s Know Nothing Record, LOUISVILLE, Oct. 23, 1968, Hon. Schuyler Colfax, having in his speech to day, positively denied the statement of the Louisvilie Courier that during Scott’s campaign he had written letters from South Bend, Ind., but which purported to be written at the South; which were designed to Satisfy the Southern people of the soundness of Scott on compromise measures, the editor of the Courier publishes in fall the tetter, dated New Orleans, April 9, 1862, which appeared in the Courier, April 23, 1862, which he distinctiy and positively states was written by Mr. Colfax at South Bend, mated by him at that and pubiished at his solicitation as written at New Orieans in order that the letters might accomplish the object for which they were designed. The dis- closure bas created quite @ sensation here and much comment. The Mobile Register on the Situation. MOBILE, Oct. 28, 1868. The Register this morning contains a letter from the editor, John Forsythe, to the New York World emphatically denouncing the Tinvws for misquoting and garbling his words. He proves the Register never said “the democratic party is beaten,” and quotes the context omitted by tue Times, The letter concludes as follows:—"The Mobile Register has not given up for an instant in this momentous tor constitutional rights, It has never writte: e are beaten.’ And it claims Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana as certain for the democrats. Republican Demonstration Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27, 1868, ‘The repubiicans turned out to-night In full force in a torchlight procession. It was the largest proces. sion ever witnessed in this city. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 were in line. Delegates were present from Sacramento, San José and other interior towns. Great entiusiasm was manifested by the people along the route. Many residences and places of business were illuminated and decorated with fags. The procession was four mics long, and ba hd hour and fifteen minutes passing a given Trouble Among the Tennessee Radicals. NASHVILLE, Oct. 27, 1868, The canvass between the two radical candidates for Congress, . C. Mercer and W. F. Prosser, waxes warm in this city. The friends of Prosser raised s pote on the public square last evening and run up @ “carpet bag” in place of the national colors, The following was published to-day as a private circular issued by Prosser:— RADICAL Canrrat Commrrrer:— The uonal election is close at hand; the radicals must awake to action; tie enemy are bi the friends of W. F. Prosser must be wacclful; it no time to be idle, The frauchise law as it now stands should remain on our statute books, What right have disiranchised rebels in this State to sak the dominant party to restore the ballot to them? 8. ©. Mercer Is in favor of giving equal rights to all men—that is, wf the franchise law, f holds that disfranchisement Is hurtful to both white and colored races: that there should be 20 taxation without representation, and that universal CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE