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Mme witn Cofript Motives In Congress recollect the consequences, and beware!” Here is the sword of Damocles hanging in terrorem over the Honorable John Jones, while he, in turn, has something equally sharp and suggestive suspended above the character of the Honor- able John Smith. He gives Smith to under- stand that he knows more about him than all the world and his mother and grandmother know besides. ‘I have the facts, Smith— facts that if I thought fit to publish would drive you from decent society and make you a bissing and a byword throughout the land.” Now, it should be understood that Jones has adopted just as keen a detective surveillance over the dark ways of Smith as the latter has over Jones, and that a mighty fine line should be drawn between both to discover which has an iota of moral advan- tage over the other. ‘Yes, sir; I can prove—and you are a married man—your deception of a certain gay and fascinating widow. I can go further. I can show how the product of that illegal connection was spirited, the Lord only knows where, and before the world you stand convicted of being a ——” And when Smith and Jones come to close quarters the country is thunderstruck to find what an amazing history of corruption each one has of the other. In the méle yesterday this was partly illustrated; but there were debates in the past where the very thing we have instanced almost literally occurred, A Season of Italian Opera at the Academy. We have been spared the humiliation of hav- ing an entire season pass by at the Academy of Music without Italian opera. Signor Albites steps in at the eleventh hour and announces a few nights of the longed-for en- tertainment with a select company, mostly from Havana, and two sterling favorites—Miss Kellogg and Madame States. The season begins on that memorable day of all days in the year to housekeepers, the first of May, and it will last about three weeks. Signor Albites, indeed, deserves the thanks of the musical public for this timely relief; for a feeling of despair had taken possession of all that Italian opera was a luxury unattainable this season, and we took up our London exchanges with a sigh of envy that perfidious Albion should have all the music and we none. There are good materials in the com- pany. Of Miss Kellogg and Madame States it is unnecessary to speak, as they are well and favorably known to the metro- politan public. The tenor, Villani, brings with him a very high reputation, and the contralto, Laura Himela, made her rk long ago in Milan. There are besides Signora Frederici (not Mme. Himmer, of the German Opera), Caroselli, Orlandini, Albert Lawrence, Reyna and Susini. The initial opera will be ‘‘Poliuto,” and will be followed by “The Sicilian Vespers,” “Martha,” “Faust,” “Un Ballo en Maschera,” “Rigoletto,” ‘Don Giovanni,” “Robert,” ‘‘Crispino” and ‘Er- nani.” It will be seen from the above list that the bill will be changed every night, as the season is limited to ten performances. So much for what we have actually before us, Noy a few words on what we can haye per- manently, if the directors of the Academy will only listen to reason. It appears that if we are to have the rare treat of hearing Nilsson in opera at the legitimate opera house of New York the stockholders must make up their minds to descend to the level of true business men and relinquish some of their lofty pretensions. It is by no means creditable toa number of gentlemen occupy- ing the foremost places in metropolitan society to lend themselves to a system of management by which they occupy the unen- viable position of ‘‘deadheads,” rent out to various parties the privilege of selling librettos, flowers, cigars and bibulous stimulants, and throw every obstacle in the path of an impre- sario instead of assisting him. Why, the stockholders of the Drury Lane theatre in London, when Mapleson applied to them after the burning of Her Majesty's, were really princely in their offers of assistance, and made all reasonable concessions. The same may be said of other theatres in the same city. Our stockholders should be content with realizing fair interest on their outlay of capital; nay, to help opera along, even if the finances of the manager should not be adequate to the ex- penses. The rapid and constant increase in the value of the Academy, in a real estate point of view, should be sufficient com- pensation to them for the present, They owe it as a duty to the public, to art and to themselves to make Italian opera an institution in the very house built ex- pressly for it. By their obstinacy they kill lyric art effectually in this city, for no one is willing to build another opera house or give Italian opera at one of the dra- matio establishments while the Academy is in existence. As we have repeatedly remarked, the matter rests with the stock- holders. Let them give up their seats, or, if they will retain them, let them pay for them. Then the emall Chatham street business of renting out such privileges as we have men- tioned should be abandoned. It appears that the most difficult point with these gentlemen is the right to occupy their two hundred and fifty seats. They will not, they say, surren- der this right under any consideration. Well, then, why not pay for it? The manager can have no objection to this right, so long as he reccives full compensation for the boxes occupied by those gentlemen. The question is a plain one, and it rests with the stock- holders to settle it. We are sure that they will not refuse the public next season a chance to hear one of the greatest lyric artistes of the present age. * Senator Sumner, St. Domingo and the Massachusetts Legislatare. The Massachusetts Legislature seems to have been placed in an awkward dilemma by the introduction of a resolution commending the course of Senator Sumner on the St. Domingo question, It had a divided duty to perform ; first to its ‘honored Senator,” and vext to the administration, and evidently was embarrassed as to how it could solve the diffi- culty. The resolation, which was referred to the Joint Legislative Committee on Federal Relations, heartily approved the conduct of Mr. Sumner in opposing the annexation of St, Domingo, 98 involving injury and misfor- tune to a weak neighboring republic ; possi- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. bility of war and bloodshed; the join- ing to us of an undesirable, ignorant and debauched population; an addition to our great national debt, and increased burdens of taxation, denouncing at the same time the attacke made on Senator Sumner for fearléssly doing his duty. The committee being desirous to save the administration and its friends from the odium and other consequences of the im- plied censure in this resolution report back another tenderly worded white-washing one. This speaks favorably of annexation as a general policy, and of the course pursued by the administration with regard to St. Domingo, without saying in plain terms that the Legisla- ture wishes St. Domingo to be annexed. Nor is there a word of blame in it of Senator Sum- ner’s course in denouncing the St. Domingo annexation scheme. The radical Legislature of Massachusetts could not afford to condemn either its “honored Senator” or its own party government at Washington. We give these New England politicians credit for wriggling out of the dilemma so adroitly, A United Service Ciub. It is a matter of surprise that long ere this no military and naval social rendezvous has existed in this city, In all of the metropoli- tan cities of Europe not only one but many clubs are well sustained, whose membership is composed of officers and ex-officers of the various arms of the service, while here in New York, with its million of population and thou- sands of gentlemen who, during the past decade, have been actively connected with one er other branch of our service, no club accommodations have been provided. It is true that officers are admitted into our clubs upon liberal terms, but even this courtesy does not fill the blank occasioned by there being no place which can distinctly be called their own. It is with satisfaction, therefore, that we chronicle the fact that an active move- ment is on foot for the establishment of a United Service Club, and now that the initia- tive has been taken it is believed that a suc- cess will be the result. The club is to be composed of officers from all branches of the service, the only requisite to candidature being that the applicant is or has been in the service of the government either as an officer of one or other of the arms of the regular service, as a volunteer or as a National Guard officer from this or some other State. It is designed that the United Service Ciub shall be a most desirable social institu- tion, both as regards its moderate per capita expense and the accommodations and privi- leges found within its walls. Its objects are to bring into daily intercourse those whose friendships were first begun on the tented field and to afford to the many regular officers sta- tioned in and about this city, as well as those visiting us, a place of rendezvqus, where they can find the best of bodily comforts at a mini- mum cost and theemost congenial associates without the necessity of hunting the town to discover their whereabouts. The initiation fee is fixed at fifty dollars, and the annual dues at thirty dollars, these latter to be remitted when an officer is ordered to a distant station. A suitble club house is being secured, and a number of sleeping rooms will be fitted up for the use of visiting members or others who may desire to make use of them. We have no doubt that the United Service Club will, in due time, become a most popular institution with those for whom it is intended. TURKEY. The Sultan’s Armament Black Sea. in the Imperial Vindication of the Work of the Lon- don Conference—The Naval Rights Under the Treaty of Paris of 1856. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpow, April 20, 1871. The London Post, good newspaper authority on all matters relating to Eastern affairs, has received @ special telegram from Constantinople whicn con- veys the very important intelligence that the Porte government, acting with the full approbation of the Sultan, intends to despatch a large iron-clad flect to the Black Sea, the vesseis being cemmissioned to cruise in the waters until furtner orders. ‘This statement, taken asa fact, is commented on extensively in the clubs and even in the higher Par- liamentary circles. It 1s said by some that the Sultan is just now anxious, for grave diplomatic reasons, to assert his naval right under the Treaty of Paris of 1866 as it was enlarged and extended by the London Confer. ence of the present year, with respect to the navi- gation of the Black Sea by armed vessels of war. With regard to the amount of naval forces which Russia and Turkey may respectively keep in the Black Sea it was agreed In @ separate convention be- tween those two Powers in 1856, as follows: — ARTICLE 1, The he contracting parties mutually ens not to have in the Black any other ves- sels of war than those of which the number, the force and the dimenstons are hereinafter stipulated. Aut. 2, The high contracting parties reserve to themselves each to maintain in that sea six steam vessels of fifty metres in length at the time of flota- tion, of a tonnage of 800 tons at the maximum, and four light steam or sali vessels of a tonnage which shall not exceed 200 tons each. It is also alleged here to-day that Russia witl not approve by any means of the movement of Turkey, but that the Czar cannot object to it, in accordance with the spirit of Prince Gortchakof’s circular to the Austrian government, dated at Tsarskoe-Sclo in November of 1870, even independent of the bind- ing action of the London Conference. Prince Gortchakom, in this remarkable note, sald:— The Europe of to-day ts no longer the Europe ti signed the Treaty of 1856. ‘Tne political conditions under which this transaction was concluded are radically altered. Surely it 1s not Russia who can be accused of striking at the respect which is due to right, For forty years she has been the stanchest supporter of it in — even tothe detriment of her own interests. If this principle has been weak- ened by the course of events the responsibility for it cannot fall upon her. But when the most solemn treaties have been annihilated before her eyes, when the value of Reropeas guarantees is nullified by the very Cabinets which have tendered them, when to preserve some eMcacy they must be renewed act ling to the circumstances of the time being, then it 1s impossible that Russia alone should be bound absolutely to respect @ principle which has ceased to oka in political transactions, and, shove all, t es oe should make ber inacerial isatety md upon 8 regards icular infringe- manta to which the Treaty of 1456 has been ris jected, Count Beust will allow me not to take into ‘account the objection to the effect that princt- Pa hed Moldavia and Wallachia were not signa- to that transaction. These provinces, bound to the Porte as vassals, could not be contracting arties to transactions concluded between great wers. They remained strangers to them and could not be rendered rane for violations tor ‘which they were a pretext, while accomplishing in- ternal revolutions in accordance with their local ear ‘The tn! ent precisely lies in the that the great Powers, assembled in conference, after having usel ven judgment in serore: woe of accom, leo Rs. —™ they at last ted and recogn! , were opposed to the spirit a8 well as to the letter of the oats. and though the Russian Plenipotentiary calied attention to the fact that this toleration placed him tn positive on to the stipalations of that treaty, This of iat, but it toned by Tes sonsequencs vo tod of it, bul at wodur tae avustign of te Dama ofthe Black Sep, THE ROUGE REVOLT. Herald Special Reports from Paris. Another Severe Battle of the City. West Successes Claimed by the Insur- gent Leaders. THE ARC DE TRIQMPHE DESTROYED. More Barricades Erected in Rue Rivoli. A COMMUNAL MANIFESTO. Compromise With the Versailles Govern- ment Impossible. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Wednesday Evening, ) April 19, 1871. § The taking of Asnitres by the Versailles forces was accomplished by a stratagem and not by a direct assault. The troops of the line simulating friendship for and fraterniza- tion with the insurgents were permitted to advance unopposed. They were thus enabled to pass the outposts of the Commun- ists without difficulty, and once within the rebel line the result was no longer doubtful. The fighting in Asniéres, however, was sharp. Nearly all the buildings in the town were de- stroyed. MORE BARRIOADES, The Communists are busy erecting barri- eades in the Rue Rivoli andin many other streets. AN ENGAGEMENT. At half-past two o'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon an engagement began along the whole line, General Dombrowski reports that the agents of the Versailles government as- sassinated many of the National Guards and that the police agents stripped the dead Communists on the battle field. He also re- ports that the attempted surprise of the insur- gents at the Asnitres outposts by a trick on the part of the Versailles troops was dis- covered and that the enraged National Guards drove back the Versaillists, ANOTHER POSITION OOCUPIED, General Dombrowski reports that the Com- munists are masters of Ile Grande, where they are erecting batteries for the purpose of pre- venting the Versailles forces commanding the The. COMMUNISTS SUCCESSFUL, The Communists have retaken the positions lost by them on Monday and captured sixty- nine tons of provisions. The fighting com tinues at the present writing, and it is bloody in the extreme, The rizht wing of the insur- gent army is executing a strategic movement with a view to enveloping the Versailles troops, who have advanced too far. A STRANGE SPEOTAOLE. Levallois has been gutted and sacked. The streets of Asnitres are full of dresses, chig- nons, furniture and other articles, and, alio- gether, present o strange spectacle. The National Guards are sheltered behind the houses, supported by the iron-clad cars and fixed batteries. DESTRUCTION OF THE ARO DE TRIOMPHE. At twenty-five minutes past five o'clock this evening Fort Mont Valérien and the govern- ment batteries at Courbevoie were shelling Paris at a frightful rate. I lefi the scene at the moment the famous Arc de Triomphe fell. The Arc was blown up at a little after five o'clock. It had already been badly damaged by the fire from Fort Val¢rien. The the ruins is a most melancholy one. scene of A SHOWER OF SHELLS. As I write a shower of shells is falling into Avenue des Ternes. About forty civilians have already been killed in the avenue. THE INSURGENTS DISGUSTED. Notwithstanding General Dombrowski re- peats his reports of victory gained by the in- surgents, the National Guards are returning to Paris dispirited and disgusted. The slaughter among them has been awful. Gene- ral Dombrowski complains of the inefficiency of their officers. The Chief of Staff, Nobart, has been arrested by order of General Cluse- ret. OPERATIONS TO BE RESUMED. The American mitrailleuses, which thus far done the insurgents good service, have moved to the front. General Dombrow- ski states that he is waiting for the co-opera- tion of the gunboats to resume active opera- tions, but it is not believed that these will be ready within four days. A FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. The Communists are running from the houses in Asnitres, many of which are now held by the Versailles troops. To-day a frightfal explosion took place near the church at Asnitres, completely destroying the sacred edifice. No lives were lost, as the church con- tained neither party. A Communal Mantfcato—Compromise Impon- alble—Iesurgent Success—A Successful De- fonce=Tho Commune to Retire—Fighting on Wednesday. have Panis, April 20, 1871. The Commune bave just issued » manifesto, saying :— “Paris, once mor¢ laboring and suderiog for the regeneration of France, 6emands local autonomy and the encouragement of pro- ducers. She does notaim at dictatorship. Sho desires the decentralized unity of the country.” The document pronounces compromise with the Versailles government impossible, and closea with an appeal to France to disarm troops now threatening the capital. INSURGENT SUCCESS. General Dombrowski reports to the Com- mune that his troops have retaken certain positions, capturing a considerable quantity of provisions and some prisoners. He adds that the battle continues and asks for reia- forcements. A SUCOESSFUL DEFENOK. General Okolowitz maintains his position at Asnitres against all the efforts of the govern- ment forces. THE COMMUNE TO RETIRE. The Commune retires from office and oew elections are to be held at once. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The Mot d'Ordre condemns the Commune for its suppression of various journals, FIGHTING ON WEDNESDAY. There was a cannonade, mingled with the fie of mitrailleuses and musketry, all day yesterday at Courbevoie, Porte Maillot, Preteaux, Asniéres and Levallois. The iron- clad railroad vans are operating actively. A DENIAL, The Reveil (newspaper) denies that the Versailles forces are masters of the bridge crossing the Seine from Asnitres to Clichy. The concentration of troops for the Army of |. the Assembly continues. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS. Herald Special Reports from ' Versailles. The Imperial Guard Reinfore- ing MacMahon. THE INSURGENT FIRE SLACKENING. Marshal Canrobert at Versailles—His Corps En Route. Provision Made for the War Indemnity. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VrrsaitLes, Wednesday Evening, ) April 19, 1871. f Twenty thousand soldiers of the old Im- perial Guard, under the command of General Ducrot, are expected to move to the scene of operations to-morrow. The troops are in ex- cellent spirits. HEAVY FIRING. Firing. at the front is going on heavily still. The Insurgent Fire—Announcement of Vic- tory—Canrobert in Command—Guns Cap- tured—The War Indemnity—A Denial. VersalLies, April 20, 1871. The firo of the insurgents is gradually slackening. ANNOUNCEMENT OF VICTORY, A circular issued by President Thiers an- nouncing the capture of Asni¢res asserts that it is the key to Courbevoie, M. Thiers also says that the insurgent losses in the fight at Asniéres were very heavy, and adds that the end of criminal resistance to the government is approaching. OANROBERT IN COMMAND. Marshal Canrobert is here, and the men of the Imperial army who served under his com- mand up to the time of their surrender as. prisoners of war are on the way to Versailles, GUNS CAPTURED, Two guns were captured by the Versailles troops in the batile at Asniéres on the 17th, THE WAR INDEMNITY. It is rumored that arrangements have now been made by which the government i3 ena- bled to pay to Germany at once the five hun- dred million francs indemnity due under the preliminary treaty of peace on the 1st instant, NO INTERVENTION, The story that England has asked Prussia to intervene between the French government and the Paris insurgents is untrue. MEXICO. Disorders in Aguas lentes—Election Riot at Pachuca—Tebuantepec Agni Pasion in Congress Ag: CITy OF Mexico, April 13, Via Havana, April 20, 1871. H Complaints are frequent of the great insecurity of life and property in tue neighborhood of Aguas Calientes, Tn tne recent election riot at Pachuca six persons were killed. Bandits have kilied the tax collector of San Pedro, in the Jachitau district. The people of Tehuantepec are again in anns against the government, This revolt is a more serious one than that recently suppressed, ‘The effort at fusion in Congress of the partics op- posed to the Juarez administration has been se. feated. The issue was made on the question of sus- taining ex-Governor Catalan against General Arce, the present Governor of Guerrero, which was lost. ‘This action of Congress is believed to have put an end to the proposed coalition. VIEWS Of THE PAST, APRIL 21, 1865-—-An anti-liquor law rlot oceurred in Chicago: at Was suppressed by the military a/ter several persons were killed, 1860—The boiler of the steamboat Anthony Wayne, on Lake Ontario, exploded, and killed forty rsons, 1890—Battie of San Jacinto, Texas; Mexicans de feaved by the Texan forces of Sam Houston. 1909—Battle of Landshnt, Bavaria; Napoleon de- feared the Austrians, ‘END OF A RURDER TRIAL, Povcukesrste, N. Y., April 20, 1971. ‘rhe trialof John Trumpbour for the murder of Lijah Jones at Cold Spring was concluded at Car- mel to-day. He was found guilty of murder in the -" degree aud renteared tq Slug Sipg Prison for RADICALISM ARRAIGNED. Address of Democratic Congressmen to the Feople of the United States. Attempt of the Radicals to Establish a Centvalized Military Government. Dictatorial Powers Conferred ou the President. Reforms in the Tariff and Taxa- tion Persistently Postponed. Personal Fealty to Grant the Test of Officeholding. Tho Democracy Do Not Sympa- thize with Violence. All Rights of Citizens to Be Protected and Perpetuated. 7 et al a me eee been honestly expended. Hundreds of millions of 16 have been wantonly squaadered, The expenditures of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, were only $62,000,000, while for precisely the same purposes—civil List, and Indians— $104,000,000 were e Hscal year ending Sune 30, 1570. i NO SYMPATHY WITH VIOLENCE. No indignation can be too stern and no scorn too Severe for the assertions by unscrupulous radical leaders that the great democratic and conservative party of the Unicn has or ean have sympathy witt ocr iees ool om any part of the country, or in the deprivation of any man ot iis ety Be aooee y man of his rights under RIGHIS TO BE PROTECTED AND PERPRTCATED. It 1s to protect and perpetuate the righta whiele every freeman cherishes, to revive in ali hearts the feeling ef friendship, affection and harmony, whict. are the best guarantees of iaw and order, and throw around the humbiest citizen, wherever he may be, er, protecting wgis 07 these safeguards of per- sonal liberty which the (andamental laws o! the Land assure, that we invoke the aid of all good men tm the work of peace and reconciliation; we invite their generous co-operation, irrespe former diferences of opinion, #0 that the harsh voice of discord may be relieved; that a new and danger~ ous sectional agitation may be chee! that the burdens of uaxation, direct or indirect, may be re- duced to the lowest point consistent with good fatumr to every just national obligation and with @ strictly economical aduunistrauon of the government, and that the States may be restored in thetr integrity and true relations to our federal Union, SENATORS. Eugene Casserly, of California; Garrett Davis, of Kentucky; Jonn W, Jolnston, of Virginia; 1. F. Bayard, of Delaware; John P. Stockton, of New Jersey; Frank P. Blair, of Missouri; Eli Sauls- bury, of Delaware; A. G. Thurman, of Ohio; George Vickers, of Maryland; J. W. Stoneman, of Kentucky: Janes R. Kelly, of Oregon; Wil- diam T, Hamilton, of Maryland; H. G. Davis, of West Virginia; Henry Cooper, of Tennessee. army, Davy, pensions e led during the MEMBERS. Fernando Wood, of New York; 8. 8. Cox, of New ‘ A. &. Wadale, North Carolina; J, Ml. ‘h, of North Carolin i, A, Hibbard, of New Hampshire; F, 5, Shover, of North Carolinas H, W. Slocum, of New York; Thomas Kinsella, New York; Dwigut Townsend, of New York; . Bel}, of New Hampshire; H.W. Parker, o& Appeal to the Conservative Men of All Parties. WASHINGTON, April 20, 1871, The democrats 1n Congress nave just issued the following address:— To THE PRKOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES :— Our presence and oficial duties at Washington have enabled us to become fully acquamted with the actions and designs of those who control the radical party, and we feel caliéd upon to utter a few words of warning against the alarming strides they have made towards the centralization of power in the hands of Congress and the Executive. The time and attention of the | radical leaders have been almost wholly directed to devising such legislation as will, tn their view, best preserve their ascendancy, and no regard tor the wise restraints imposed by the constitution has checked their reckless and desperate career. DICTATORIAL POWERS CONE EREED ON THR PRESI- DENT. The President of the United States has been for- maily announced as a candidate for re-election. The declarations of his selfish supporters have been echoed by asubsidized press, and the discipline of party has already made adhesion to his personal fortunes the supreme test of political fealty. The Parusan legislation to which we refer was de- creed and shaped in secret caucus, where the extremest counsels always dominated, and was adopted by @ subservient majority, If not with the intent, certainly with the effect, to place in the hands of the President power to command his own renomination and to employ the army, navy and militia, at his sole discretion, a8 & means of sub- serving his personal ambition. When the sad expe- rience of the last two years, 80 disappointing to the hopes aud generous confidence of the country, ts considered, in connection witb the violent utterances: and harsh purposes of those who control the Presi- Aent’s policy, it 18 not surprising that the gravest apprehenstons for the future peace of the nation should be enterti the PAKTISANSHIP THR TEST. At a time when labor 13 depressed and every material interest is palsicd by oppressive taxation, the public offices have been muitiplied beyoud all pre-edent Lo serve as instramenis in the perpetua- tion of power, partisanship is the only test applied to the distribution of this vast patronage. Honesty, fituess and moral wortn are openly discarded in favor of truckling submission and dishonorable compliance; hence enormous defalcations and wide- spread corruption have followed as the natural consequences of this pernicious system. By the oiticial report of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury 1 appears that aiter the deduction of all proper cred- iS many willons of dollars remain due from ex- collectors of the internal revenue, and that no pro- per diligence has ever been used to collect them, REFORMS PERSISTENTLY POSTPONED. Reforms in the revenue agd fiscal systems, which all experiences demonstrate to be necessary to a frugal admuustration of the government, as well as @ measure of relief to an overburdened peo- ple, have been persistently postponed or wil- Tully negiecved. Congress now adjourns with- out even having attempted two reduce taxation or to repeal the glaring Imposttions by whicn industry is Crushed and tmpoverished. The Treasury 15 overflowing, and an excess of eignty muiliton dollars of revenue 18 admitied; and yet, in- | stead of some measure of present reli ‘barren and delusive resolution 1s passed by U1 enate to consider the tariffand excise systems hereafter, as if the history of broken pledges and pretended remeales furnished any better assurance fer tuture legislation than expertence has done 1n the past. OPPRESSIVE TARIFF AND TAXATION, Shipbuilding and the carrying trade, once sources of national pride and prosperity, now languish under a crushing load of taxation, and nearly every other bnsiness interest Is suggllug wituout profit to maintain Itseif. Our agriculturalists, while paying heavy taxes on all tuey consume, either to the government or to mo- nopolists, find the prices fer their own products so reduced that honest labor is denied ts just reward, and tndustry 13 prostrated by invidious discrimina- ton. THE PUBLIC LANDS GIVEN TO MONOPOLIES. Nearly two hundred millions of acres of public lands which should have been reservea for the benefit of the people have been voted away to giant corporations—negiecting our soldiers and enriciing a handtal of greedy speculators and lobbyists, who are thereby enabled to exercise a most dangerous and corruptng influence over State and federai iegis- lation, THE REPUBLIC IN DANGER—DANGERS FROM THE KU KLUX BILL. Ir the career of these conspirators be not checked the downfall of free government is tmevitable, and with it the elevation of a military dictator on the ruins of the republic, Under pretence of passing laws to enforce the tourteenth amendment, and for other purposes, Congress has conferred the most despotic powers upon the Executive, aud provided an official machinery by which the liberties of the people are menaced and the sacred right of local self-government in the States 1s ignored, if not tyrannically overthrown. Modell up to the sedition laws, so odious tn history, they are at variance with all the sanvitfled theories of our instt- tutions. And the construction given by these radical Interpreters to the fourceenth amendment 1s, to use the language Of an eminent Senator, Mr. Trum- bull, of Liltnois, au “aunihiiator of States.” Under the last enforcement bill “the Executive may, in his discretion, thrust aside the government of any State, suspend the writ of habeas corpus,” arrest ts Governor, imprison or disperse the Legislature, silence its judges and trample down its people under the armed heel of his troops, Nothing 1s left to ine citizen or the State which can any longer be called a right; all is changed into mere sufferance. THE PEOPLE APPEALED TO. Our hopes for redress are in the calm gi the “sober second thought’’ of the Americ We call upon them to be trae to themsel their past, and, disregarding party names and minor differences, to insist upon a decent equalization of wer, the rescriction of federal authority within tts fase and preper limits, leaving to the States that con- trol over domestic atuirs which ts essential to their happiness and tranquillity and good government, Everything that malicious ingeouity could su at has been done to irritate the people of the die and Southern States; gross and exaggerated charges of aisorder and violence owe their origin to the mischievous minds of political Managers im the Senate and House of Representatives, to which the Executive lias, we regret to say, lent his aid, and thus helped to inflame the popular feeling. In all this course of hostile legislation and harsh re- sentment no word of conciliation, of kind en- couragement, of fraternal fellowship has ever been spoken by the President or by Congress to the people of the Southern States. They have been ad- dressed only in the language of proscription, VIOLENCE DEPRECATED. We earnestly entreat our fellow citizens tm all parts of tue Union to spare no effort tu maintain peace and order, to carefully protect the rights of every citizen, to preserve kindly relations among all men and to discountenance and discourage any viola- tions of the rights of any portion of the people se- cured under the constitution or of its amendments. Let us, in conclusion, earnestly beg of you not to aid = the resent attempts of radical partisans to stir up strife in the land, to review the issues ot the war or to obstruct the retarn of peace and prosperity to the Southern States, because it is thus that they seek to divert the attention of the country from the corruption and extravagance of their administration of puolic affairs, and the dangerous and profiigate attempts they are making towards the creation of centralized i vernments. ba criti RADIOAL BXTRAVAGANCE. In the five ears of —- following the war the Tadical administrations wooxpendou’ $1,200, 000,000 for ordinary purpoees alone, betng within $20,000,000 of the aggregate amount spent for the same pur. pose in werand in peace du the seventy-one years begoasing, JuRe 80, 1861, not ae na either case, sum paid Bpon, prinot] or Iter muetngeee, of ths | people ar wit was tala Yast um bes sae AS Seah Se hn EEE tl al te a saa lS SE tlt ea estan Re 69 0h ae SAR es tae t ence of icuders ve wrsteal Neca Toa SS EE ee a New Hampshire; James 1, . Ol Kentucky; Lewis D, Campbell, of Onto; William A, Hand- ley, of Alabama; J, C, Harper, of North Caro~ lina; R. M. 1. Duke, of Virginia; John T, Harris, Of Virginia; Peter M. Dox, of Alabama; Robert B, Roosevelt, of New York; Willlam R. Roverts, ot New York; Smith Ely, Jr, of New Yerk; Joseph HH, Lewis, of Kentucky; John Ty Bird, of New Jerse Samuel C. Forker, ew — Jersey ; rastus Wells, A. 'T. 'Meintyre, Georgia endail, of Nevadi . Tuthil, York; Clarkson N. er, of New York; Elt Perry, of New York; Jonn Rogers, of New. York; John B, Storm, o: Pennsylvania; Samuet J. Randall, ¢ P. Van Trump, of Ohio; James R, McCormick, of Missouri; George W. Morgan, of Ohio; Andrew King, of Missouri; John MM. Bright, of Tennessee; John Critcher, of Virginia; W. C. Whittenorne, of Tennessee; Het D. McHenry, of Kentucky; K, P. Caldwell, of nnessee; John M. Carroll, of New York; William Wullams, of New York; ©. N. Lanison, of Onlo; Edward’ J. Golladay, of ‘Tennessee; A, E. Garrett, of Tennessee; W. W. Vaughan, of Tennessee; 8. 3. Marsnail, of Ili- nois; Rice, of Illinois; James H. Slater, of Oregon F. McKinney, of Ohio; J. C, Rovine son, of Llmots; T, W. McNeely, of [linoiw; of John Crebs, of Iilinois; Henry D. Foster, of Pennsylvani Kichard J. Hal- deman, of Eaward Crossland, of Kentucky; 5. Henry Sherwood, of Pennsylvania; land, of Pennsylvania; Stevenson Archer, Maryland; Thos. Swann, of Maryland: B. Meyers, of nsylvania; E. L, Acker, of Penn- sylvania; Chas. A, Eidriage, of Wisconsin; Alex, Mitchell, of Wisconsin; J. Lawrence Geta, of Pennsylvanta; R. Milton Speer, of Pe: aalyeaias ‘ania; icClel- of T. William H, Barnum, of Connecticut; Manson, of Indiana; W. S. Holman, of Indiana; J. G. Sutherland, of Michigan; M. C. Kerr, of Indiana; James M. ks, Hani of Arkansas; William B, Read, of Kentucky; George M, Adams, of Kentucky; W. BE. Arthur, ot Kentucky; Samuel A, Merritt, of Idaho; Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky; A. Comings, of Missourt; D. W. Voorhees, uf Indiana; W. EK. Nivlack, of Indiana; Wilham Terry, of Virginta; D. M. DuBose, of Georgia; Eliott M. Braxton, of Virginia; John M. Rice, of Kentucky; William M. Merrick, of Missouri; Frank Hereford, of West Virginia; James Brooks, of New York; Benjamin T. Biggs, of Delaware; John Ritchie, of Missow be Rag of Georgia; W. P. Price, ot gia; Moses K. armstrong, of De ‘kota. 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