The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1869, Page 12

MASSACHUSETTS. REPUBLICAN STATE CONV TION. Senator Sumner on tho Political Issues of the Day. His ¥e,ws on Negro Suffrage, the Present Con- Gition of the Soath and the Cuban and Mabama Claims Questions. The Entire State Ticket Renominated with the Exception of Auditor. > Worcester, Sept, 22, 1869. The Republican Convention of this State was held to-day at Mechanics’ Hatl, in this city, Three hun- dred and ‘nine counties and cities were represented by 1,000 delegaics, A e assemblage, including a number of ladies, occnvied the galleries, Little or no excitement prevailed. The Convention was ealled to order at a quarter past eleven o'clock by Mr. A. J. Wright, of Boston, Mr. A. D. Briggs, oF Springfield, was appointed temporary chairman, and the Divine blessing having been invoked by the ev. Mr, Hall, of Worcester, the Chairman then gelivered a brief address, Committees on organt- zation and credentiais were then appointed, and it Was agreed that all resolutions suvmticd to the Convention be referred. @n motion of Mr. J. N. Roserrs, of Boston, the Chair was mstructed to appoint a committee on or- ganization, consisting of one delegate from each county. 4 i A similar committee on credentials was appointed on motion of Mr. E. H. Kiarp, after which a eommittee on resolutions was appointed. It was Agreed that all resolutions submitted to the Con- Vention be referred to tae Committee on Resolutions Without debate. Mr. James A. Fox, of Boston, rose to move a reso- Jution, saying that ne wished to preiace it by draw- ing attention to the fact that there was a system of Jeqislation recently adopted which was repugnant to large majority of tne republican party tm Massachusetts, He referred to the Prohibi- tory law. (Cheers.) That the republican party might not stand in a false light, and that its position might be clearly deflned, he would staie that the repab'icans of Massachusetts were un- alterably opposed to the unrestricted sale of intoxi- eating Nquors, ana tuat they were equally opposed to the present prohibitory law and the method of Ms Saforcement, be ieving that itis not conducive to the moral or political welfare of the Common- Wealth, Referred to the Commitice on Resolutions, Tne report of the Committee on Organization was then presented, including, among others, Charles Bumuer for president, with a long list of vice prest- dents and secretaries, Senator SumNER was thea introduced amid en- Whusiastic cheers, and proceeded to deliver his address. He said:— FeuLow Citizens OF MASSacnusFrTs—While Shevking you for the honor conierred upon me, 1 make nasi@ to say that, in my judgment, Massachu- setiz has one duty at the comlug election to witch aillocal interests and questions tnust be postponed, as on its just performance ali ese depends; and vhis commanding duty is io keep the Commonwealth Now, as aforetime, an example to our country aud & bulwark of bumaa rights. Such was Massachusetts an those earlicr days when, oa the continent of Burope, the name of *sostonians” was given to the American people in arms agaist the mother couu- try, making this designation embrace all, and when, in the Brit.sh Parhamcut, ine great orator, Edmund Burge, exciaimed, ‘Pe cause of Boston ts wie cause of ail America; every part oi America 1s united in support of Boston; Boston is ine Lora Mayor of Aine- Tica” I quote these words trom the lartiament- ‘ary debates of the time. But Boston was at that time Massachusetts, and it was her stand for iiberty that made her nawe the synonym forall. And per- Tait me to add, that in choosing a presiding onicer, entirely removed from jvcal issues, { find assurance of your readiness to unite with me in that nationai cause which concerns not Massachusetts only, but every part of America, aud concerns also our place and name as a sation. ‘The enemy here in Massachusetts would be glad to Givert attention irom the unsssaiiable principles of the republican party; ticy wouid be giad lo make ou forget that support owe to tne aimuiuisira- dion ant to the measures of reconstruction, and, above ali, our deep iuierest in sb esseAliai Sale Phere yet completely established for the national jreedman and the nitioral creditor. ‘These they would hand over to obilvion, hoping on some local fesne tO Gisorganize our forces, or, perhaps, obtula Dower to be Wieled agains: tue matioaal case. Baseachusetts cauuot adurd ts occupy any unver- tain position. iherefore, 1 begin vy asxiuy you to | think oi your country aud of national atiairs at bome and abroad. SECURITY FOR THE FUTURE. Ttis now four years since i lad tne fonor of pre- siding at our anuual Couventiva, and | do Lot forget how ai that Mme | endeavored to remind you Of tus wame nations! cuuse, tocn in fearia: peri. The war ‘Of armies Was ended; no Joager Were {e.low citizens Birayed against ieow citi. on each side tie trumpet was silent, the banuer furied. But the deiection of Andrew Johuson nad then begun, and ‘UE of (iat defection the revellon assuiued new lie, with new purposes and new boves. if it did not spring forta once more fully armed, i id spring forth fied with hate and 0} ‘ Joved the Union, whe white or ‘were exceptions | Know; but ihey were not vw change the result, "Aud straighiway Spparition, acting in conjunction with ihe Nortiern democracy, aboriginal aliies of the rebeliion, planned the capture of the wational government. its repre- sentatives came upto Washingion. ‘hen was the time tor@ few decisive words. Shey siouid have been admonished f to return home, there to plait, sow, © buy, seil aud be prosperous, but not to expect aby piace im the aarti there was coi- pletest Fock they were Bent back, ploiting low to opwin ascendency at home a3 Uv stepping sio.e to ascesdeucy in the Batton, Such wus the couction of ting? ta the autumn Of 1865, wheu, souudiug the aarul irom tins very platiorin, J insisted upon irreversivie guarau- ‘tees against tue rebellion, aud especially Ic $o the national ireedivan aud tue national creditor. At was for security that 1 tuen ip , beleving ‘that, thongh the war of arinics was ended, this waa @ just object of na‘ional care, uil this bog coutamed tm We famous posimute, security ior the future, without which pcace is no better shan arnustice. ‘Yo that security oue thing 1s Deeded, this: ell men must be saie In Weir rig’is, Bo thal altairs, whether of governinent or ). siness, suali have a free @ud natural course. Wut tere are two special Clasoes tilt in Jeopardy, as in the autumn of 186)— the national ireediman aud the nutiouai creditor; end behind these the faitufui unionists in tue ex- rebel Staics, now sufferlug terriviy itum the grow- Any reachion. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, For the protection of the natioual freedman a constitutional ameudment has Leen presented for tulcation, placing their right to vove under the petual Safeguard of the Union; out i am obiiged Fepund you tat this ameudment has not yet obtained We requisite numver of st gay surely whet ft will, (Che demo Fayed against it, and the reel inte with wo democracy. hey are old cronies. e let ue way frankly iat have never ceased to regrct—l co now most pro- foundly regret—tiut Con,ress m ita plenary powers uuder tha covatitution, especiaily in its great unquestionable power to giaraytse a republican oversment in the States, did not cummmarily settie 13 Whole question, #0 thud it seouid no longer dis turb the conutry. Tt was for Vonw to give a defi. Pition of a republican Sate 3} Mor need go dJustuer than-our own aration of Independence, wire is a denition from walbh tee p,eal There it is, as 16 eae trom fehers, in lofty gel€evident truch, and Conzress slowd have ore i Or7lt might have goue vw the &eech of Abrahain Lincoin at Gott: sburg, Where Awiin ia the same great delinition. ‘There waa also & Gecisiyve precedent. As Congress mace a Civil Jights ww, t shovid it have made a Political Kiguts law. in each tse the power is rientical, If tvcan be done ip tie Obs 4; ceu be doue ig the other. ‘To My mind nothing Isojearer, Thus far Congress has path olberwike, | micre remus, thet, tue slow es Of GORSULULIOLO a ine fonniry must be valiled, weudment, to while! PUBLIC OVINION AND A_6YoparsieTIG ADMINISTRA- TION But this ts not enough. No mu le Hon oF jaw Is sudicent Behind 5 Pagel @ prevailing public opinion and a Sympathetic ad- Ministration. Huw are needed, Tht aipeiration Must reintorce puviic opinion and 5 sy unites Naturally they go togetuer, Mast reinforce he mamiaidiration, Be RS att experience. Without inese the strongest and most cunning in lis reyureweouca ig only a pita, ¥ dt may be Of verror, 48 Was Vie cuse with the Poses Biave bill, but not’ a living letier. itas not prade cally obeyed. Somotiwes it 0 evaded; sometimes ib is openly web at naueht, Aud now it is my daty to warn you tas the nations freedingn still needs jour protection, His dacivnl master is already in the fieid conspiring uzanst him, That iional expcr.ence, thé iivivite audacity, thas Ingewmbulty to Lumen rghte which go long upheld avery are aroused ancw, No longer abie to hold Dlin 68 ® Blave, he BLTGUL Udy Bieans 19 hold eee al nim. tn his service, age for thee «feat, thas substitutiog a new bond- ° Uahapplly he iinds at the North a variy which the rebefiion has not weaned ity -@&C unnatural Southern breast where tt drew . primitive notriment; and this political ty now faternizes in the dismal work by which peace ia ostponed; ior until the national treedman 1s in his rights there can be no peace, You may call it peace; but I tell you It 1s not peace, It is peaco only m name. Who does not feel that he treads still on smothered fires? Who does not feel hia feet burn ws he moves over the treacherous ashes? If I wished any Rew motive for opposition to the democ- racy I shontd Gna tt In this hostile alliance. Because Tau for peace, so that this whole people may be at work; because I desire tranquiility, 8o that ail may be Lappy: because [ geek reconciliation, so that there shall be completest harmony, therefore I op- pose the democracs, and now denounce it as a dis- turber of the national peace. ‘The Information from tne ex-rebel States is most painful. Old rebels are crawih from hiding places to resume their former rule, and what a rue! Such a3 might be expected from the representatives of siavery. Itis the rale of misraie, where the Ka Klux Kian takes the place of missionary and school- master. Murder is unioosed, ‘The national freed- man .s the victim and go is the Unionist. Not one ‘of these States where intimidation with death in its train does not play its part. Take the whole Southern uer from Georgia to Texas, and add to i feunessee, and, I fear, North Carolina ana Virginta also—for the crime 18 contagions—and there 18 syrall justice for those to whom you owe so much. That these things should occur uncer Andrew Jobnson was nacor that reconstruction should encounter diMleultl after his defection was natural, The great Engl moralist—anotaer Jounson—aid not wonder that & dog la chains danced no better, but that It daneod ; nnd I do not wonder that reconstruction with the chains upon it succeeded no better, but that it succeeded at all. Andrew Johnson ts now out of the way, and in his place 18 a patriot President. Public Opinion must come to his support in ths necessary work, There is butone thing these disturbers feel; it is power, und Uns they must be made to feel. 1 mean tie power ol an aWakened peonte, directed by @ repubilean adainistraton, vigorousiy, constantly, surely, #0 taal there snail be no rest for tie wicked. REPUDIATION, If I could forget the course of the democracy on these things, as 1 cannot, there is sui) another chap- ter for expobure, and the more it is seen the worse Mappeais. itis that standing menace of repudia- m, by which fue National credit at home and dsuifers 80 mNch, and Our taxes are so largely increased, it will aot do to say that no national conyeution has yet announced this dishonesty. 1 © arge it upon the party. A party which repadiates te iandamentat privciples of the Declaration of Independence—wiich repudiates equality before the law—Which repudiates the se.f-evident truth that government is founded Oaly on the consent of the governed—wnic. repudiates what 18 most precious and good in our bistory—aud uose chiefs are now engaged In @ cunning assavit upon the national ercaiior— 8 @ pariy Of repudiation. ‘(hs is us just de:ignation A democrat ts a repudtator. The repu- dintion gospel, according to Mr, Pendleton, is Low preaching in Outo; aud nothing is more certain than that the trump ui of the democracy in our country woul ve a blow Dot only at the national treed:nan, but algo at tue national creditor, There would ve repudiation for each. ‘the word “repudiation,” in tts present sense, 18 not old, Lviirst appears in Mississippi—a democratic State, If the thing were known before, never velore cud it assume the same hardihood of name. It was im 1841 tuat the Mississippi Governor, in a message to we Legisiature, used this word with regard to certain Staie bouds, and tilus began that policy by Which Mississippi was first disbonored and then kept poor; for capital was naturally shy of such a Stace. Constantly, irom that tune, Mississippi had the "bad emmence”’ of this transaction; nor is the State more known as the jiome of Jeflerson Davis than as the home of repudiation. Unhappily the nation suifered aiso; and even now, as { undersiand, Lt is argued in Kurope, to our discredit, that, because Mississippi repuaiated, the nation may repudiate alsa, If Lrefer to tnis example, it 13 because I wouid Lilustrate the mischief oi the Sauicerao Binere and summon Mis- sissipp! to tardy Justice. A regenerated State can- not atiord to bear te burden of repudiation; nor cau the nation and the sisterhood of states forget MISconduct 80 injurious to ull. 4 have the pleasure at this point In referring to an early eifore in the North Aingrican Review by an ab.e lawyer, for a Ue an ornament of the Supieme Court of the United States, sir, B. R. Curtis, who argues most persuasively that where a State repu- diates ita obligations to ‘the detriment of foreigners there is a remedy through the natioual government. Bat the are conluas a warning-applicavie to te present boar, witca I quote;— The conduct of a few States has not only destroyed thetr own credit and left their sister Statea very little to boast of, but has #o materially atfected the creaft of the whole What it was found isiposalble to negotiate in Europe uny part of the loan authorized vy Conyress 10 18(2. It was offered ou terms most advantageous to the creditor; terms whlch in former times would have be ry accepted, and after going a begging throvgh all the Exchanges of Europe the ‘Sgent gave up the atiempt to obiain tho iwoney in despair.— North Amersean Keview jor January, YH, Vol. 63, p. 160. As the fallen drunkard tilustrates the evila of invemperance, so does Mississippi filustrate the evils of ropudiation. Look ather. Buc tucre are men who Would degrade our republic to this wretch- ed condition, Forgetting what 1s due to our good Name as a vation wt home and abroad—forgetring that tie public interests are bound iy with tne public favh, involving au economies, national aud indi- vidual--forgetiing- that our transcendent position has correspouding obligations, aad that, as novility once obliged to great duty—novlesse obliyeso docs Tepudiicauism now, There are men who, forget‘ing all these things, would carry our repudile into this terrivie gulf £0 Tull of shame and sacrilice. They be- es; but already the mutterings of a are heard. Idenonnce them all, whetuer device or mutteriag, and I ounce that poliucal party which lends }t8elf to the X18 CONFISCATION, Repudiation means coafscation, and in the present case coullscation of the property of loyal citizens. Wiih unparalled generosity the nation has refused to confiseste rebes property, and now it 18 proposed to contiscate loyal propert, When I expose repu- diation as coniicatton | mean to be pree Be- tween two enactments, one requiring the surrender of property Wituout compensation and the otuer de- DuLion Budi uot ANd Wil Nob pay an equal amount due according to solemn promise, there cau be uo just distinction. The two are alk: The former might alarm a greater number, cause OD its Jace snore demonsirauve, But analy: the two and you will see that in cach private prop. erty is taken by We nation withou!, compensation and approvria.e) to its own use. Tnerefore do 1 say repaulavion 13 contiscation, PAYMENT IN GREENBACKS, A favorite dovice uf repudiation is io pay the na- tional debi Im greenbacks—in other ‘ds to pay bonds bearing taterest with mere promises not bear- fug interest, Violvting, in tue first 1 a ruie ot honesty which loroids such a trick, and, in the which ge piace, @ rue of law refuses to recogulze an interior obligation ment of @ suyericr. ere in pi is repndiation of the interest and mdefinite postpone. ment of the prin i, ‘nia proposidonu, waea first broached, contempiated nothing less than an infinite issu? O' pree bieks, flooding the country, as France Was Looded by assignits, wud utterly destroy ing yaiues Of aii Kinds. Althoaga in tis present more moc.ate forint ls Limisea to paymest by existing rechbicks, yet It has tie same radical tnjusuce, ucerest-bearing bonds are to be paid with non- tate: est bearing bls of paper. The statement of the Case 13 enough. Its proposer Would never do tits thing in his own aifairs, bat how can be ask his coun- ty 60 do what honesty dorbids tm private ile? TAXATION OF BONDS. Another device is to tax the bonds when the money Was ient on the positive condition that the bonds should not be taxed. Tins, o1 course, 18 to break the =" in another way. It is repudiation in another re. To argie these questions 1s happily unnecessary, and I allude to them ony because Piast to exvibit the loss to the country from such attempts, cau be made main a8 @ church-dvor, Mu task atentiva to detatis. this And here 1 BATA LAThRuS! CAUSED BY BCHEMES OF REPU- DIATION, The votal debt of our country on the ist Septem- ber, aside from the sixty miluona of bonds issued to the Pacitiic Pat was $: 962,501; and here I mention, with great patisfac thai since the Ist March lost the debt has been reduced $49,500,000, ‘The surplus revenae now accratag is not ler than $10°,906,000 @ year, aod will be, prooaoly, not less 1,00, 000 a year, of Which laize anim not ieas 100,000 must be attribuied to the better en- it of the laws aid the economy now pra- vi im ail departinenta, And here comes the practical point, Large a8 is our surpius revenue, it Sionld have been more, and would nave been more but for the repudiation menaced by te democ- racy. Tlie can be shown easily, i) we look at our bonded debt, we find it is now $2,107,06,000, upon which we pay not less than $14,000,009 in annnal foterest, we larger part at six per cent, the sinailer at five per cent gold, The ditevence between this mterest and that paid by other powers Is the measure of our anvnal loss. Eogiish three per cents and Freucn fours a firm im the market; but Enginad and France have not the same immea- surabke resources that aro ours; nor is eiher so kecure ia its government, It i easy to see that our dvb: could have been funded without paying more thaa four per ceat but for the douvt cast upon our credit by the dishonest schemes of repudiators, “Pa, tin #reenbecks” and “taxation of bonds” are costly crice. Without these there would have Veen $0,005,000 10 swell our surplus revenue, Bat wis sus, if invested in a sinking fund at four per cont imtercst, woud pay the waole bonded debt ia Jeeg than tirty years. Such 1 our anaual logs, the sum total of this Joss directly chargeable npon the repudiatcrs 13 more than $100,000,009, already paid iu taxes; and mucn | fear, feliow cit: 3, that beiore the natioa can recover froin the discredit in- Mieted upon it another §$109,000,000 wl be paid ta the same way. It is hard to see this tmimense trea- sure wrung by taxation frem Une toil of the people to pe these scleues of a dishoaest democracy, Do not forget that the coat of this experiment 13 confined to no culur class. Wherever the tax-gatherer goes there it is paid, Every worktun pays itin his food and clothing; every meckanic and artisan in its Loos; every hougewrle in her cooking stove and flatiron; every merchant in the stamp apon his note; every man of salary 10 the income tax; aye, even every laborer in his wood, his o his potatoes and hia gait, Many of chess taxes iinposed under duress Qf war will be removed soon, | truss, but still the rmous sum of forty milion annually must be hee bited by the lavor of the couviry unui the we a convinced that, in spite of democratic sry republic Wil maintain 1ta piighted faith Rg. hy 0 roduce taxation, I tell you how, honest, toe BE, doubt rest upon the pubile faith, Tpen wilh ot burdensome Vaxation grow “gmail by degreos and beantifully less.’” Tt 1 the dount which coer, Jt ss with our country as with an Individual, the doubt obliges the payment of extra interest, To stop that extra interest we must keep faith, ABSURDITY AND AGGRAVATION, As we look at the origin of the mback we shall find a new motive for fidelity. 1 donot speak of that patriotic character which commends the national debt; but of the financtal principle on which the greenback was first issued. It came from the over- Tuling exigencies of self-defeuce. The national existence depended upon money, which could be had only through a forced loan. ‘The greenback wi the agency by which {t was collected. The disioval party resiatel tne passage of the original act. pro- phesying danger and difMfcnity, But the safety of the nation reguired the risk and the republican party assumed it. And now this same disloyal party, once against the greenback, insist upon con- tnuing in peace what was justified oniy in war— insist upon a forced loan, when the overruling ¢x- igencies of self-defence have all ceased, and the piers ig saved. To such absurdity is this party now riven. The case 18 aggravated when we consider the boundless resources of the country, through which in a short time even this great debt will be lightened, if the praters of repudiation are silenced. Peace, financially as wel) a8 politically, is needed, Let us have peace. Nowhere will it be felt more than at the South, which is awakening to a consciousness of resources unknown while slavery ruled, With these considerabie additions to the national capital, five Years cannot pass without @ sensible diminution of our burdeas. A rate of taxation per capita equal to only one-half pthat of 1866 will pay even our present interest, all present expenses, and the entre principal in less than twenty years. But to this end we must keep faica. REPUDIATION IMPOSSIBLE, The attempt is aggravated still further, when it 1s considered that repudiation is impossible. Try as you may, you cannot succeed, You may canse in- calculable distress and postpone the great day of peace, but you cannot do this thing. The national debt never can be repudiated. It will be paid, dollar for dollar, in com, with interest to the end, How little do these repudiators know the mighty resistiug power which they encounter—how fttie the mighty crash which they invite! As well uniter. take to move Mount Washington from tts everiasting base, or shut out the ever-present ocean from our coasts, Itts neediess to say that the crash would be in proportion to the mass affected, being nothing loss than the whole business of the country. Now, it appeara from investigations making at this moment by Commissioner Wells, whoae labors shed such hight on our financial questions, that our annual product reaches the sum of seven thousand millions of dollars, But this enormons amount depends for its value upon exchange, which in turn depends upon credit, Destroy exchange, and even these untold resources would be an infinite chaos, without form ana void. Employment would cease, capital would waste, mills would stop, the rich would become poor, the poor I fear would starve, Savings banks, trust companies, insurance compa- nies would disappear. Such would be the mighty crash; but here you see also the mighty resisting power. Therefore again do 1 say repudiation is impossibie. Mr. Boutwell is criticised by the democracy be- cause he buys up bonds, paying the current market rates when he shonid ee the face in greenbacks, Very well. Suppose the Secretary, yielding to these wise suggestions, should announce bis purpose to take up the first ten millions of five-twenties, pay- ing the face in greenbacks. Whatthen? “Aiter us the delnge,” said the French king; and so, alter such notice from our Secretary, would our deluge come, At once the enitre bonded debt would be re- duced to greenvacks. The greenback would not he raised; the bond would be drawn down. On the purchase of ten millions the nation wonld seem to save two millions; but the bondholders would lose the difference between present rates and par, being twenty per cent on sixteen hundred millions, which would be three hundred and twenty millions. All this at once, But who can measure the conce- quences? Bonds would be thrown upon the market, From all points of the compass, at home and abroad, they would come. Business would be disorganized, The fountains of the great deep would be broken up and the deluge would be upon us, NATIONAL BANKS. Among the practical agencies to which the conntry owes much already are the national banks. They caunot fail to be taken Into account tn all Nnanctal discussions. AS they have done good where tiey are now established, I would giadly see them ex- tended, espectally at the Soutn and West, where they are much needed and where abundant crops already supply the capital, But this can be done only by removing the currency limitation in the existing Bauk act. Vere Il should like me condition that for every new bank note issued a greenback should be canceled, thus substituting the bank note for the greenback, In this way our greenbacks would be reduced in volume, while the demand for currency would be suppifed by the banks, This would be an important stage toward specie pay- ments, wich I am towilling to see postponed, while the national banks tn the South and West, founded on the bonds of the United States, would be a new security for the nattonal credit. PUBLIC FAITH, Thus, fellow citizens, at every turn are we brought back to one single point, the pubtic faith, which cannot be dishonored without infinite calamity, "rhe chita 18 told not to tell a lie; but this injunction is the saine for the full-grown man, and for the na- tion also. We cannot tell a lio to the national freed- man or to the national creditor; we cannot tell a lie toanybedy. That word of same cannot be ours, But falsehood to the national freedman and tife na- tlonal creditor is @ national lie. Breaking promise with either you are dishouor and liar must pe stamped upon the national forehead. Beyond the ignominy Which ail of us must bear will be the in- fluence of such a transgression in discrediting re- publican goverment, and the very idea of a re- public, For weal or woe we are an example. Man- kind 1s now looking to us, and just in proportion to the eminence we nave reacted is the eminence of our example, Already we have shown how @re- pubjic can conquer in arms, offering millions of citizens and untold treasure at call. It remains tor us to slow howa republic can conquer in a field more glorious than battle, where all these millions of citizens and all this untold treasure uphold the pubhie faith, Such an example will elevate republi- can government, and make the idea of a republic more than ever great ana splendid. He'ping here, you help not only your own country, but you help humanity also; you he}p liberal institutions in all jands; you help the downtrodden everywhere, and all who struggle agaist the wrong and tyranny of earth. ‘the brifilant Frenchman Montesqnien, in that rewarkabie work which occupied so mach attention during the lest century, “The Spirit of Laws,” pro- nounces honor the animating sentiment of rovalty; but virtue ihe animadag Beatiment of a republic. it is for us to show that he was right; nor can we depart from this rae of virtue withont disturbing the order of the untverse, Faith is nothing less than a part of that sublime harmony by walch tie planets wheel surely in thea appointed orbits, and nations are summoned to justice. Nothing too lofty for its power; nothing too lowly ior its protection. It is an essential prin cipie in that divine Cosmos, wilhous which all ia confusiow, Ali depends upon faith, Who do you bulid? Lecause you have faith in those laws by Whica you a cared in person and proverty. Why do you plant? iy do yousow? Because you hare faih In tue returpiag seasous, faith in the generous: skies, and foriain the sun, But faith io teis repud- lic must be fixed asin the sun, which illuminates: all, Le tent with iess, Kali well I see thatevery Gepariuce irom this great law is only to our ruin, and from height we have reached, the fall Will be like tuat of the ancient God irom the battie- menis of Heaven:-— ———From morn day, wit with the wer vt from the Zenith, like a falling star. It only remains that we shouid do all that we can to preserve the public faith, For myself, 1 see noth. Ing more practical at this moment than, first, at ad porns to oppose the cemocracy, aut, secondly. to nusist that yet a while longer ex-rebels shall be excw from copartuership in government. I will hot be outdune by anybody in clemency; nor at the Droper time will I be benind aay one in opening all doors of office and trust, But this time has not yet come, There must be security for the future, Unquestionavie and atuple, before Lam ready; and tuis | Would require, Bot only for the sake of the national freedinau and ihe national creditor, bat for the sake of the ex-rebel Immsell, whose hignest interest is in that peace where a)l controveray be extingnished forever. ‘Ihe ancient historian declares that the ancestors of Rome, the most reil- gious of men, look nothing from the vanquished but the license to do wrong—majores nostri, reiigios sini mortales, nihil” victis eriepedant prirsier tnjuice Veentiam. These are the words of Seliust, Permit me to say that 1 know no better exampie sor our present guidance. Who can complain if men recontiy arrayed against thelr country are told to stand aside uutil aii are secured in their righia? even in the uncertataty of the future it Is casy te see that the national freedinan and the national cre- ditor have @ common fortune. In the terribe fur- nace of war they were Joined together, nor can they be separated so long as the rights of the two are in question, Therefore, could my volce reach them I would say, “Freedman, stand by the creditor; credl- tor, sland by the freedman.’? And to the peopie I Would say, “Stand by boi,’ VORBIGN APFAIRS. From affairs at home [ turn to affairs abroad, and here I wish to speak cautiously. In speaking at all J break a vow wilh myself not to open iny lin’ on these questions, except in the senate, 1 yield to friendly pressure. And yet i know no reason why I should not speak, It was Talieyrand who to some- body apologizing for what might ve an indiscreot question, replied that an answer night be mdiscreet, a ® question. My soswer suall at least be In our foreign relations there are with me two cardinal principles wiich I have no nesitauon to avow at ail Umes—iirst, peace with all the world, and secondly, sympathy with ail struggtipg for human rights, Jn neither of these would f sail, for each 13 nual, Peace is for ns @ universal con- queror, Through peace the whole world will be ours. Filled with the inighs of peace, the sympathy we extend will be next to au allluace, Following these plain principles, we siculd be open and allow foreign nations lo know our senliments, so that even when there is & difference there suail be no just cause for offence, RELATIONS WITH SPAIN. In this apirit { would now approach Spain, cau forget inat great hiatoric monar empire encircied tis globe end whose kings were lords of mankind? Vatron of that renowned nayvi+ gator, through whom she became the discoverer of this hemisphere, her original sway within it ear. wat of any other power, At last her extended possessions on the mainiand, won by Cortez and Pizarro, loosed themselves trom ber Who whose grasp. Cubs and Porto Rico, islands remalned. And now Cuban insurgents demal independence a3 @ nation. For months they have engaged in deadly confict with the Le? power, Rav provinces and bloodshed are the wituesses. ‘The beautiful island, where sleeps Christopher Columbus, with the epitaph that he gave to Castile and Leon @ new world, {8 fast becoming a desert, while the nation to which he gave the new world 8 contending for its last possession there. On this simple statement two questions occur—firat, ag to the quty of Spain, and , a8 to the duty of the United States. Unwelcome as it may be to that famous Castilian ride which has played so lofty a part in modern mirope Apain must not refuse to see the case in its the hbendy true light; nor can she her eyes to the lesson of history. She must recall how the thirteen Amert- can colonies achieved independence against all the power of England—how all ner own colonies on the American main achieved independence t her own most strenuous efforts—how at this moment England is preparing to release her northern colonies from their condition of dependence, and recalling these examples, {¢ will be proper for her to consider if they do not illustrate a tendency of atl colonies, which was remarked by an illustrious Frenchman, even before the independence of the United States. Never was anything more prophetic in politics than when Taree 1150, Baid:-"'Colontes are like frnits, which hold to‘the tree only until maturify—when sufficient te them- selves, doing what Carthage did, what some day America will do.” Has not Cuba reached this con- dition of maturity? Is 1s not suMcient for itself? At all events is victory over a colony contending for independence worth the blood and treasure it wiil cost? These are serious questions, which ean be answered properly oniy by putting aside ail passion aud prejudice of empire, aud calmly aung the actual condition of things, Nor must the caso of Cuba be confounded for a moment with our wicked rebellion, having for its object the dismem- berment of a republic to found & new Power, wiih slavery as ita declared corner stone. For myself, | cannot doubt that, in the interest of both parties, Cuba and Spain, and in toe interest of hu- manity also, contest should be closed. Nor can the enhghtened mind fail gee that the Spanish power on this isiand isan ana- chronism. ‘the day of European colonies bas passed—at least in this hemispnere, where the rights of man were first proclaimed and self-government was first organized. A governor from Europe, nomi. nated by acrowa, is a constant witness agatnst these fundamental principles, As the true course for Spain is clear, so to my mind 1s the true course of the United States equally ciear. St is to avoid in- volving ourselves in any way. Enough of war have we had without heediessly assuming another; enough has our commerce been driven from the ocean without heedlessly: arousing another enemy, Two policies were open to us at the beginuing of the insurrection. One was to unite our fortunes openly with the insurgents, assuming the responsibilities of such an allance, with the hazard of letters of marque issued by Spainandopen war. The other olicy was to make Spain feel that we wish fer nothing but good, and that, especially since the expulsion of her royal dynasty, wo cherish for her @ cordial and kindiy sympal ig said that republics are ungrateful, I would not forget that, at the beginulng of our revo- Intionary strugaie, our fathers were aided by her money, a8 afterwards by her arms, and that one of her great statesmen, Florinda Bianca, bent his ener- gies to the organization of that armed neutrality in Northern Europe which turned the scule against England. Isay nothing of the motives by which Spain was then governed. Itis something thas in our day of need she leat us a helping hand. Itis evident that, adopting the lirst policy, we should be powerless, except as an enemy. Tne sec- ond policy may enable us to exercise an Important induence, The more 1 reflect npon the actual con- dition of Spain, the more i am satiatied that the true rule for us ia non-intervention, except iu the way of ood offices. This ancient kingdom 1s now engaged in comedy and tragedy. You have heard of *{unt- ing the Sitpper.’”? ‘The Spanish comedy is ‘‘Hunung aKing.? ‘The Spanish tragedy 18 sending armies against Cuba, Ido not wish to take part in the comedy or the tragedy. If Spain is wise she will ive up both, Meanwhile we havea duty which is Getermined by international law, To that venerable ‘What tnat prescribes | follow, authority 1 repair. RECOGNITION OF BELLIGERENOR. By that law, as I understand it, nations are not left to any mere caprice. ‘Taere 18 @ rule of conduct which they must follow, subject always to just ac- countability where they depart irom it, On ordinary occasions there is no question, for it i3 with nations | ag with individuals, 1t is omy ata critical moment where the rule is obscure or precedents are uncer- tain what doubt arises, as now, on the question of recognizing we belligerence of the Cupan insur- geuts. Here 1 wish to be explicit, Belligerence is. u& “fact,” attested by evidence, If the “fact” does not exist tiere 18 nothing to recognize. The fact cannot be invented or imagined. 1s uiust be proved, No matter what our sympatay, what tie extent of our desires, We Must look at the fact. There may be insurrection without reaching this conditiou, which is at least tne half-way house to 1adepen- dence. The Hungarians, when tiey rose against Austria, did not reach it, although they had large armies in the fleld and Koasuti was thelr gov- - ernor; whe Poles, in repeated insurrections against Russia, never reached it, although the conflict made Euroye vibrate; the Sepoys and Rajans Of india failed also, altnougi for a time they held in check the whole Engiisn power; nor, 11 my opinion, did our rebels ever reach it so far ax to justily their recognition on the ocean. Jf the Cuban iusurgents have yet reached this point I have never seen the evidence. Taey are in arms, 1 Kuow, But wuere are their cities, towns, provinces? Whore 13 their government? Whee are their ports? Where ero their tribunals for justice? and where are their prize courte? To put these questions 1s to answer them, How, then, is the ‘fact’ of belligerence? Toere ig another question in their case which 1s witn me final. Even if they come within the pre- requisites of international law I am unwilling to make any recognitiun of tuem 60 long a8 they con- tince to hold human beings as slaves. A decree im in May last, purporting to bo signed py Cespedes, abolished siavery; but Mam not sure of this decree, especially in view of another in July, purporting to coine from whe sume autnority, maintaining slavery. Unttl this is seviled we must wait. On the recognition of belit-erence there is much Jatiiude of opinion—some asserting that a nation may take this step Whenever it pleases; but this pre- tension excludes the idea that belligercnce is always & question of fact eu the evidence. Unuoub.ediy an independent nauion may do anything in 103 power whenever it pleases; but subject aiways to just accountability if another suifers from what i dues, This may be Mliustrated ta the three disfexent cases ot war, independence and belhyerence., Jn caca case the dcclaration is an exercige of Ligh preroga- tive, inherent im every uation and Kindred to that oc eminent domaia; but a nation deciaring war witout @ just Cause becomes a wrong docr; a nation recognizing lndepeadcuce waere It does nob exist 19 fact, becomes & Wrong-doer; Bnd so a nation recog: nizing belligerence where itdves pot exist in faci, becomes ® Wrong-doer also, Un ihe laiter point there is a want of precedeats suillcleatiy clear and authoritative; bul with me there is oue rule in such case, Which I cannot disobey. in tie absence of any precise injunction Ido not hesilate to adopt that interpretation of international law whicn Places war and ali that make for war under the Birongeat restrictions—delieving (nat im this way I hall best promote civilizalion aud ovtuin new secu rity for international peace, RSLATIONS WITH ENGLAND. From the case oi Spain 1 pass to tue case of Eng- land, ‘There for the present I content lmaysels with & brief explanation, On this subject 1 have never broken suevce except with pata, aud I hope not to say anytuing now Which shail augment didculues, aichough, when I consider how british anger was aroused by an effort in another place, judyed by all who heard it most pacific in Character, i do not know that even these few Words way not be taisin- terpreted. ‘Phere can be no doubt that we received from Eng- land incaiculabie wrong—greater, | have ofen said, than was ever before received by one civiilzed Power trom another short of unjust war. I ao not say this in bitterness, but in sadness. There can be no doubt that trough Lnglish complicity our carrying trade was trapierred to English botioma; our foreign commerce sacrificed, while England gained what we lost; our blockade rendered more expeu- stve, and. generally, that our war, with ali 1s fearful cost of blood and treasure, was proionged indednitely, This terrible Compliotty began with & wrongful recognition of revel beillgerence, under the shelter of which pirate suips were built and supplies were sent forta. All this waa ot the very motueut of our mortal agony, 1n tie midst of a straggie for national life, and It was done in support of rebels whose gingle deciared object of separate existence a8 @ nauon Was slavery, being in this re spect iclearly distinguishable from @ rower whee slavery is tolerated Without belag made the corner stone. Such is the case. Who shall 1x tie measure of tnie great accountability? For the present it is enough to expose it, I make no demand—not @ doliar of money—not @ Word of apology. 1 show simply What Hogland has done to us. 16 will be for her to determine what reparation to oiler. Lt will be for the American Fog 4 to deterwige what repa- ration to require. On this head I content myseif with the aspiration that out of it may come some efhuuring safeguard for the future, gone jandmark of humanity, But I have littie hope of any adequate setulement until our case, m its full extent, has veen heard. In ail coniroversies the Orat siage of justice is to underatand tie case; and, sooner or later, Eag- Jand must ugderstand ourd ‘The English argument, so far as argament can he fouud in the recent heats, have not im any respect impaired the justice of our complaint. ioudly ii is said that there can be no sentimental damages or damages for wounded feeling, and then our case dismissed as having nothing but this foundation, Now, without undertaking to say that there iano remedy in the case supposed, I wish It understood that onr complaint is for damages traced directly to England. if the amount is unprecedented, so also 1s the wrong. ‘ihe scale of damages is naturally in proportton to the scale of operations. Who among us doubts that these damages were received? Je records show liow our commerce suffered, and wit- nesses without number testily how the war was longed, Ask any of our great generals—ask Sher. man, Sheridan, Thomas, Meade—ask Grant. In view oi this great wrong it is @ disparagement of inter- national law to say that there is mo remedy. An ewi- nent English judge ouce pronounced from the bench that “the law is aatute to ind a remedy; but no astuteness is required in this case-notiing but sim- pie justice, Then, it 18 aid, why not consider our good friends in England, and especiaily those nobie working- mep, Who stood by us ao bravely? We do consider thom always, and give them gratitude for their gen- @rous alliance. But they are not Kugiand. We trace no damages to them, nor to any class, high or low, bat to Epgland—corporate England—through whose government we sattered, are by two different col ‘The mn of ras damnum a@sque t question will be always & ions of two Powers, when there Good men on both sides should desire its settlement in such way as most to pro- wul, and to make the best precedent for civilization. But there can be no gt will without justice, nor can any *% ment” make friends or establish any rule for the future, there are whispers of territorial compensation, and Canada is named ag the consideration. knows England littie and also little of that great English liberty from Magna Charta to the Somerset case, Who supposes that tule naiton could undertake apy such transfer. And he knows little also of our country and that t liberty which ig ours, supposes that we could receive such a transfer. each side there is impossibility. Territory may be conveyed, but nota people. I allude to this nae tion only because it bas been made in the public ress and been answered from England. But the Inited States can never be indiiferent to Canada, nor to the other British provinces, near neighbors and kindred. It is well known historically that even before the Declaration of Independende our fathers hoped that Canada would take part with them, Washington was strong in this hope, sO was Franklin. The Continental Congress, by solemn resolution, Invited Canada, and they appointed a commission, with Benjamin aklin at its head, “to form a union between the colonles aud the people of Canady.” In the careful instructions, which were signed in behalf of Congress by John Hancock, President, the Com- missioners are, among ocher things, epjomed to re mind the Canadians that ‘it is our earnest desire to adopt them into the Union as a sister colony and to secure the same genoral system of mild and equable laws for them and ourselves, with only such local differences as may be agreeable to each colony re- spectively;’’ and further, that in the opinion of the jontinental Congress, “their Interest and onrs are inseparably united,” (American Archives, vol. V., D, 412, fourth series.) Long ago the Continental Con- gress passed away. Long ago the great Commis- sioner rested from his labors. But the invitation survives, not only in the archives of our history, but in al’ American hearts, coustant aud conunu- ing as when first issued, believing, a8 we do, that such A union, in the fuilness of time, with the good will of the mother country and the accord of both parties, must be the harbinger of infinite good. Nor do I doubt that this Will be accomplished. Such # union was clearly foreseen by the late Richard Cobden, who, li @ let ter to myself, bearing date London, 7th of Novem- ber, 1849, wrote:—"I agree with you that nature has decided that Canada and the United States must become one for ail purposes of intercommuuication, Whether they also auall be united in the same fede- ral sovernmient must depend upon the two parties tothe union, I can assure you that there will be no Tepetition of the policy of 1776 on our part to pre- vent our North American colonies irom pursuing thelr interests in their own way. If the people of Canada are tolerably unanimous ta wishing to sever the very slight thread which now binds them to this country, I see no reason why, if good faith and ordi- nary temper be observed, it should not be done amicably.” Nearly twenty years have pamet since these prophetic words, and enough has already taken piace to give assurance Of tie rest. city, which ia go often desired on both sides, will be transiigured in union, while our plural unit is strengthened and extended. The end is certam; nor shall we walt long for its mighty fulfillment, Its beginning 1s the establish. ment of peace at home, through which the national unity shall become manifest. This is the first step, ‘The rest will folow. In the procession of events it is now at band, aud he {3 olind wao docs not diacern it. From the frozen sea to the tepid waters of the Mexican Gulf, from the Atlantic to the Paciiic, the whole vast Continent—smiing with oustretched prairies where the coal flelds below vie with the infl- nite corfi flelds above—teoming with iron, copper, silver ana gold—tiliing fast with a free people to whom the telegraph and steam are constant ser- vante—breathing already with schools, colieres and librartes—studded witn inland seas where fleets are sailiug—the whole interlaced by rivers wuich are highways, and ‘poured round all old Ocean's flood”—all this will be the great repubiic, one and indivisible, with a common constituilon, @ common liberty and a common glory, The address was listened to with the greatest attention and elicited at intervals tremendous cheering. The entire State ticket was then renominated by acclamation, with the exception of State Auditor, the name of Charles Endicott, of Canton, beiug sub- stituted for that of the present incumbent. Tue ticket as nominated Is as follows:— For Governor—William Clanin. Lieutenant Governor—Joseph Tucker, Secretary of State—Oiver Warner. Treasurer—Jacob Hand. Auditor—Charles Endicott. Tne following is a summary of the resolotions adopted PA Convention:— Furst—Reatirming their devotion to the principles and policy of the republican party. Second—Declaring that the democratic party, by alllance with the slave power, by sympathy with the p iblic enemies during the late war, by its endeavors to perpetuate disorder tn the rebel States, and by Its enunciation of the doctrines of practical repudiation, has forfeited forever all claims to tne confidence ot toe people and cannot without great peril to their Moerties be entrusted with the government of the nation or of the commonweaith, Third—asserting tat tue reconstructed States are not beyond tue watchtul care of the national govern- ment. Welcoming repentant rebels back to the privileges of citizenship, while insisting upon the compiete protection of ail loyal whites and blacks. Fourth—Expreasing the utmost confidence in the administration of President Grant. Fifih—Acknowiledging the obligations due to the soldiers of the repubiic, and asserting that the com- memoration of their deeds by fitting rites and memo- rials, the care of their disabled survivors and of the bereaved fainilies, will remain a perpetual duty. Sixtth—Regarding a3a political aim of high im- portance the encouragement of the moral education and industrial interests of the State; a just distribu- tion of the burdens or taxation, ao that they should fall where they can be most easily borne; a rigid economy in public expenditures; less special legis- lation for private and corporate interests; 4 mate- rial abridgment of tie sessions of the Legislature, and the requirement of Ligh persoual character in all public affairs. Seventh—Recognizing the rights of labor and asserting that the clartered rigiits and privileges ex- tended to organized capital by legisiation should also be extended to labor. Bighth—Asserting that the republican party is a national party, and that so far as legislation on the subject of temperance is concerned, the woole mat- ter should be left with the Legislature, Nivth—Expressing confidence in Governor Clafiin and recommending him to the suftrages oi the citi- wens of tbe commonwediih, ‘The entire proceedings of therConvention wero marked with the highest degree of harmony, and apparent good feeling prevatied during the pro cecdiny ‘The Convention adjourned sine die after passing me resolutions. FOR INE AVONDALE SUFFERERS, Subscriptions Received nt the Herald Office Yesterday. The following contributions in ald of the families of the unfortunate Avondale miners were received at the HERALD oflice yesterday:— ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, New Youk, Sept. 22, 1809. To THe Epitor oF Tim HERALD: — Enclosed please tind our check for $100 for the Avondale relief fund, KUHN, LORB & CO, FIFTY-S1X DOVLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. Forest Crry Scaar Rerinery, PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 21, 1869. To Tax Eprror ov THe HeRALD:— Enclosed please find check for $56 50, subscribed by the employéa of tha Forest City Su; Retinery, Portland, Me., for the benefis of the widews and orphans left destitute atthe late Avondale disaster, J. MEYER, Superintendent, FIFTY DOLLARS. To Tre KpiToR OF THE HBRALD:— Piease devote the enclosed fifty dollars to the fund for the Avondale sufferers, Yours, FW. M. TWENTY DOLLARS. BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Sept, 21, 1869. To tm Epiror or Tar HeRaLy:— Enclosed please find twenty doliers, subscribed pe bb the relief of the suiferers by the Avondale aster, FIVE DOLLARS. BROOK. To The Epiror ov The HERAL Mozart Union and Literary Association, composed of Hebrew youths, through the couriesy of Mr. M. Gruschenske havo Kindy forwarded five dollars for+ the Avondale mine sniferers, ONF. DOLLAR. Please receive the enclosed dollar as & poor man’s ofiering in behalf of the wives and fatiiles of the Avondale sufferers, J. M., Sixth avenue, ONE DOLLAR, To THE EpiTon oF THE HERALD:— Enciosed you will (ind the sum of one dollar, the mite offering of a totler ior daily bread. MELOY. The following additional snbseriptions were received at the Henivp ofice yesterday :— New York Lodge, No. 430, F. and A, M. $25 Mrs. L. L. W.. Coal consumer. Subscriptions Elsewhere in This €ity. The subscriptions for the Avondale sufferers, received at the Mayor's Ofice, foot up $14,504 31. Tho collections made among the employs of the different railroad nes, reported yesterday, amounted to $753 54. Tho members of the Tenth pollee oinet have contributed aixty-atx dollars from thelr earulngs for the above charitable object. The Gaudaloupe river, Texas, is full of water and has been for months, At soine seasons of the year thero i# not water enough iu the aueam to water a 'N, Sept. 20, 1869, Theo, again, it is said Why not exbibit ap accopat | Joke of apeors, Recipros | AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIO—FRENCH OPERs.—Last every ing Halevy’s superb opera “La Jutve,” was pros duced at the Academy of Musio by Messieurs Dryane & Cle.’s “historical and romantic” Opera Troupe. Notwithstanding the ext Gigagreeable state of the weather the house waa crowded to ita utmost capacity by as fashionable and critical an audience as has been gathered withizy the walls of the Academy ior many seasons past thus, at the very start, putting the croakers who had prophesied a “beggarly account of pc benches,” even on the opening night, rather out Joint, During the first act there were indications | are to artists HS pear for the Brat “ame ore 8 strange house, graduaily wore off during the other acts, aa became more acquainted, us it were, wil @ good thetic, clear voice, wi to have complete control over, ough in the registers it several times gave evidence of overatrained. Still it ts of good power, and has certain os melody ge it thas cannot fall lease. The basso, Tasson, who i has alo 8 good, full, reso nal, voice. ‘The leading soprano, Mme. Fave Fausoh who was very vermis, received, has a remarkably voice, but of not very great power. The air in first act, where the Cardinal prays God to give Eleazer and Rachel, which commences “8t aguon et la vengeanoe” was exceed! delivered by M. Tabardt and Mue. Fausehet duet, “Oh ! ma fille cherie,” and *O’est en Jespere,”? which occurs just as the ‘appears in the streets, was @ixo one of the beat rene’ dered parts of the wen the athema scene, in the M. ‘was particularly good, and M. Tasson, in the —_— malediction scene in the sathe act, surpassed self. M. Girrebeuck a8 Leopeld and Mme. G. faite Jers as Eudoxie did as well as could be expected them. Although the artists are not by any mean@ ‘what can be cailed extraordinary, they are not nary. It may be their misforiuae that they altogether too much heralded before thetr arriv: here as singers, the like of which had not been Bee! for many a day, 80 they are not to biame if they 4! not come fully up to general expectation. troupe were very enthustastically received, an were bid a warm Welcome from thé first to the act, which should be suulcient to prove that tl are not without plenty of friends who wish th well. Those who prodicted that the historical French opera would prove a dead failure may ‘es out that they have been rather premature in judgment. Musical and Theatrical Notes. Dablin is afflicted with {talian opera. Dominick Murray's “Peril” ts in active preparae tion at Wood’s Museum. Niblo’s is getting ready for another centipedal sene sation of the “Black Crook” order, ‘The Theatre Comique reopens as a varietics thene tre on Monday evening, under the management of Mr, R. W. Butler. The concerts at the Central Park Garden come to end with the termination of the present week. wn itinerant comp: rites cork ayed inanyicuas styling themselves e well known Christy’ Ban are Cer d the dons of Rio Janeiro ith thelr eccentricities. wir, Joseph Jefferson, whose en ment hag roven so successful ut the Academy of aes rhe riton th rooklyn, has arranged to give ap additional formance of “Rip Van Winkle’ op to-morrow day) night. The Gerformances of the eet magician, Hel Taann, Were suspended last n! pat in consequence the French Opera Company belng at the Academy ol Music; but he will perforin again to-night, with newed eee and fresh feats of legerdemain, 1g probable there wiil be but three or four more hia representations, as other envagements may ou g Mr, Herrmann away from New York, Those who not see this greatest master of the magioal art now may never see him aga'n, for he 1s about to retlse from hig professional career. AUISUELT ANEOUS. 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OR SALE-THE TOOTS OF THE FOUNDRY, BOle ler, blackemic and machina sbopa, and alvo 20. and Buildings in Cherry, belween Corleats and Last atreete Catatogue at the works. z EW YORK, SEPTEMBER 22, 1869. To mie Wrrok oF THe —:— BtR—The Sun of yexteriay, inthe course of an assault spon ingurance compantes in geavtal, made a particular charge acalnst the Royal Instirance Company in she foliowing lane ange :— fre not without reason that the pnblie are disrnantful of both fire and life ins: ranco companies. Too many of thens act as it thelr only vusiness wae to receive pres minms, while the payment oat loess was if entirely out: of their ling. For example, fs now pending {a tho Supreme Court In’ this cig aiat tho Royal Live Landrange Company for the of the amount of a poltey ar Ul man’a widow. The company P that the present widow Is at the time the polloy was ‘ise ment shonld have been mado when she was married. Yet ther went om regnl after year, taking the premiums, thous it now appeatts thelr story, the money was irra meray.” Whatever the iegal result of the ait It fg diacrace’ul to the companys and ought (0 fadtnce overyboily to let it severely alone.” Wher this actile appesred it waa chariiably assumed to be the result of gros# theuch unexcusahic {grorance, and theres fore a letter was at onco writen to the editor of the pointing owt tho erzor and stailng the real facta in the e: Which, in Justice, should have appeared in thi fasue; instead of Which nnotunr asKault 18 ma company fn the Sun of this morniug, wh cannot be attributed to }. norance, must be am Yolenoe, At the same time it iad the editor ca dn thu asaatlingthi9 conmpany-a company that courts the sevenast scrutiny into ‘us (nancial affairs, neral management, nn’ purcionlariy 1a its condnot fispatrons, ‘Thewe articles ¥ perm’tad to pase wnnol fare ifkely to do the company great tajury, and, foasmuch: the Sun refuses, when ailvideu! of to recall ite Mbel, we are compelled to vay of your columns the purpore of a recitation, witch aan beat be made by @ simple ninternent of tho fn favor of the polley of insurance to i jeorge Thomas Dalton, ¢ OM), 0 She afterwards died in'the lifetime of her husbs geqututly married Siivie D. Dalton. Tn. Apri T, Dalton died and mate a will, appointiag i Silvie D, Dalton, exeentrix. Tho premiuna dueupon the were paid by Mr. Dalton down to tho time of his The polley vecamie pavadte about the Int of Angust amount due upon it was claimed by Charice A, administrator of the estate of Hannah Seoor Dal wke, anid also by Silvie D. Dalton, tie 1 trix of her hus»and’a will, Tory nice and diticalt question of tn, the grounds of Wi it fs not material to state, Jt is suTiciont tO any that the ine surance company advisod she respective claimants thas was ready an xivid 10 pay the money, would most ehesetally dy eo ag oon as the ttle to fund could be seitied, so that payment could be made, and offered to 10 everything Reem tof speedy mettiorsent of that quéativu. Tyerafore & aul brought by Mr. Secor, wiclaiatzator of eatute of the wife, This sult was commenced op the 2d of Au On the 4h of Augnit, .wo days aftorworts, Mr. MeDont mado'nn affidavit, sottiny forth the above facts, for the mann‘ fompany that the policy ny not only admitted Bante to divest eel? do KO witiny to pay ita Recond time Bore ‘of 8 motion 19 permit the company to he money into to wibacltyre thie xan D, Dalton, as a defendant, io. jSace of the company, rigut to the fund. ottoed for tho frwt Monday fp Septem! Pthorotore ‘he conres so. ke. yurened was the sup) consultation and © x r and for the Fev submitted to the Court on Moo‘ley last, x consent to the sunmeurder wee signed by ail the pirtivs on Tumeday, One Jutge and comet and th was Trust Mule’ jatiernoon, of atlemptin ow at a aoility upon the polley bus mad y way that it ‘of bein Tespective ciaimants might .twgzale between themselves and therefore thi a i" ‘The terms hat eon substantially sever! pum tis for of an order wee the order was slxuod by the the clerk thle afternoon, ‘The became payable, the com- the ri could oblige amely, by di fumin conrl, where the title to it was in outro by | adverse claimanis. ‘pia in the history of the case down to the time of writin ‘The courae of w psi Journal hat from heatance oF oth i 4 catise thus reckloxsiy aesalie private ‘ad Interests, an whon advised of i error recuscw to make Fotraction, cannot be too soveroiy sonsared US & BARLOW, Jnanvaiies Compa ypaomas DUGAN, 2 Ban F SCGe ih atrooty Uoton agnare