The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1872, Page 5

VOORHEES AT HOME, The Indiana Congressman Giving an Account of His Stewardship. AGENUINE DEMOCRATIC SPEECH “Dan’s” Review of the Politi- cal Situation. Explanation of His Attitude Toward the Cincinnati Movement. WHAT HE KNOWS OF GREELEY Why the Democracy Cannot Support a Protectionist Leader. An Exhortation Directed to Baltimore. “he Antagonism to Greeley in the South—His egro Equality Distasteful—The Condition of South Carolina Consequent Upon His Advocacy—A Comparison Between the Military Leader and the Westchester Farmer. TERRE Haute, Ind., May 25, 1872, Scarcely had the worthy Congressman who re- Presents this district at the capital arrived among his constituents from the seat of government, than ‘an account of his stewardship during the present session was sought by his supporters. His attitude towards Utah and the Cincinnati Convention was, perhaps, the chiefreason for the demand. Accord- ingly, Mr. Voorhees last night addressed an im- mense gathering in the Court House square in this city, and delivered the foliowing lengthy and ex- haustive discourse upon the great political and so- cial questions of the day :— Mr, Voorhees saia:—I thank a kind Providence that 1 am once more in the midst of my neighbors, and that face to face with them Iam permitted to Speak for myself. 1 thank you, too, for the warm affection with which you have welcomed me home now, as heretofore. At last there is one spot of clear sky, and the quiet stars of good omen are shining over our heads. One of the highest duties of a representative is to render an account of his official conduct to those whose agent and servant he is, This obligation I have always met in tne im and I am here agen to meet to-night, I be- eve in the will and the power of the people, and if Ihave betrayed or deceived them, let them condemn without hesitation and without mercy. If, on the other hand, I have been faithful to the principles on which you have elected me five times to Congress, I know that I will not appeal to you in vain to stand by my side and uphold the cause which is yours as well as mine. I do not as a candidate again for your suffrages, elther now or hereafter, but rather as one who cherishes your pe ipo and confidence as above all price, and who will defend his rights to them under all circumstances and to the Utmost extremity. For nearly ten years I have represented a noble, brave, intelligent constituency. I have been sus- tained by you in sunshine and storm, be- Oxuse distinctly advocated and firm adhered to certain principles of governmen' which I thought to be right, and opposed others which I thought to be wrong. The democracy of is district ‘eed with me on these quastions, or ey would not have voted forme. A man in pub- llc fife is tried by the principles he advocates and to which he has devoted his life. If my constituents have become personally attached to me, it is be- Cause of the consistent record I have made in ac- cordance with their own solemn and conscientious convictions of right and duty. This is the only true and firm basis of concord and sympathy between Qn intelligent and honest people and their repre- sentative. You and I have been united in doctrine, and hence we have been united in heart and action. DEMOCRATS OF VIGO COUNTY, Democrats of the Sixth district, with whom I have so often struggled inst heavy odds and through weary toil to hard won victories, have I since we last met, by word or act, been false to the high trusts you have placed in my hands? That is the question Iam here to answer, and in making that answer [have neither epithet nor abuse to hurl S m, pide rote ae advantage ae them in the truth of my jon, and consequently my temper is better than theirs, They, who con- selous 0 being in the wrong, always get angry first, and, destitute of argument they at once resort to denunciations and slander. As to the imputa- tions that have been cast upon my motives in regard to my recent speech in Congress against the nomination of Mr. Greeley by the democratic party, they will receive no reply from me; they need none here, and if the whole tenor of my life will not silence such aspersions no word will here. I have long since adopted asa maxim that a public man cannot be killed pxcept by his own fault. If he is in reality free from blame he will be vindicated. Calumnies, may for the time being, be heaped upon him, but he wiil survive them if his conscience is re. The shameless falsehoods, therefore, that we been hurled at me in this connection will soon rot and be forgotten. THE BALTIMORE AND CINCINNATI MOVEMENTS, in, however, I ask the democracy and conser- vatives of this district who have heretofore iy rted me upon principle whether I have just! feited their confidence in the course I have taken in regard to a presidéntial nomination at Baltimore? Let us look at the facts and survey the political fleld in a candid spirit—candid with our own breasts and candid with each other. When a considerable number of republicans, dissatistied with the present administration, inaugurated an independent movement and called the Cincinnati Convention, it was most natural that the demo- cratic party should watch with deep interest a pro- ceeding 80 likely to divide and overthrow the party in power. Many even hoped, as I did most sincerely, that this Convention might have wisdom enough to present as its candidate some one whose devotion to the liberty of citizens, whose knowledge of the powers of the government, State and federal; whose attachment to revenue reform and equal taxation, whose oppo- sition to the absolute political and social equality of the white and black races, whose support of the interest of the laboring classes and whose consis- tent magnanimity towards the South, shown in his disapproval of the present outrageous legislation which is ruining her, would enable us also to nom- inate him in a national democratic convention, warey combining all the elements of opposition to the worst administrations ever known hsitory. This might have been done if the Cincinnati Convention differently composed—if, instead of vain conceit, there had been more sonnd sense; if, instead of regarding the democratic masses as a disorganized mob ready to fall in with and follow any little squad that came marching by, they had Jooked upon them as they are, the truest, bravest, purest, most conscientious voting population on earth, tried in fires seven times heated in the past, facing persecution and death—not for office, place or favor, but for the faith that was within them. ‘Was there any such conception of the character of @emocrats shown at Cincinnati by the men who now demand your votes? On the contrary the bare resence of a democrat in the city at that time was Pogardea by managers of the Convention as an in- sult, and he was warned away with hoots and cries, as a spotted leper would have been of old from an assembly of purified Jews. Every sugges- tion, however remotely or respectfully made by @emocrais who hoped for a union for the overthrow of the Grant dynasty, was recoiled from with aver- Sion and disgust, as if it contained the contagion of smallpox. 0 will deny a word of this? Even one of the most distinguished gentlemen who was Limself before that Convention as a candidate, put Bin writing that “it was not essential to nominate ‘with reference to the democratic vote, as it was fecure, because it was helpless.” Have three millions of honest men sunk 80 low a8 tamely submit to this treatment, to en scom and studied insult, to the ws and cuff’ which @ spaniel re- ctlves? For my own ww I will not. From m; mother’s breast I drew in no such spirit of de; rad. ing humility; but if the tone and temper of that Convention were hostile to the democratic party, how shall I characterize the nomination itself? {i ‘wis in my seat at my desk in the House when it ‘wis announced that Horace Grecley -had been maninated for the Hy mdb It no more occurred to me that he, or the men who had nominated him, would have the brazen audacity to expect demo- mts to support him, than it did that the disciples of the Christian religion would turn away ‘from their faitn in an hour and worship Mahommed as the prophet of God. TI congratulated myself and my fiends about me that the unexpected folly of the Convention at Cincinnati had opened to usa sure and to the restoration of ged 44 rnment. I knew General Grant would nominated at Brae ier and then the repub- lean party would be torn in twain, each uader a powerful radical leader—one the founder ofthe party whose pernicious ideas called it into existence and has filled the statute books with all the t and unconstitutional legislation now to Desound there ; the thes @ Droduction of war, igno- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET.. rant of the principles of government, and in the hands of the most reckless and 'UNSCRUPULOUS MANAGING POLITICAL CABAL known to history since the reign of Charles the Sec- ond of England. Ihad heard that a house divided inst itself could not stand, I saw the house of my political adversary divided against itself, and I knew from the rules of the wisest ancient philoso- phy that it could not stand. I did not see that my own house was divided against itsel’, and I saw no reason Why {it should be. I knew we had votes enough to beat the republican party thus disunited. I believe we could beat Grant witha pare and i. fled statesman, even if he was alone in the fi old. le is not strong before the people if he was confronted by a candidate who had not advised and endorsed his entire Rolley, as Mr. Greeley has. I was not, therefore, bowed down when I heard from Cincin- nati, My face was rather lifted up and brightened with hope, and I talked and wrote and telegraphed in the tone in which I am talking to you now, taking for granted that Israel would go to her tents and display her honored fiag. I recalled the fact that Mr, Lincoln was elected because two demo- crats were running, and 1 was convinced, as I still am, that we hada better opportunity for success than we had -known since Pierce was elected, twenty years ago, The path of auty and of policy was the same; our P ind principles and our party poe conjoined. They were identical. You can ardly imagine, therefore, the feeling with which I saw certain uncertain newspapers hauling down democratic names at their mastheads and placing in their stead the name of one who has more falrly earned and more fully enjoys the hostility and aver- sion of the democratic persy than any Other man in the United States, and that I know is a strong state- Ment while Grant and Morton and their coadjutors are in existence. Impartial history, however, will sustain me in it, GREELEY’S ABUSE OF THE DEMOCRACY, For thirty years, commencing far back, when these gray heads before me were black and young, and continuing until within the last three Weeks, there has been no form of coarse, brutal and infa- mous assault which Horace Greeley has not made on the democratic rer in the aggrenate and in detail, en masse and individually, is malevolence has been unceasing, unsparing and universal. He has raged everywhere for objects of his hatred and vindictive abuse. He has not hesitated to call our foremost men, like Horatio Seymour, liars and vil- lains and traitors. He has also singled out the peo- ple in private life and denounced them as ignorant, sordid and vicious for selecting democratic omicials, One of his special callings for years has been to assail the constituents of gentlemen who voted against his heresies in Congress. Our own exten- sive and magnificent district has often received his maledictions, because I 7 eaentod it and al- ways denounced his favorite theories. In his esti- mation a majority of this noble population of 250,000, extending nearly two hundred miles up and down one of the oldest and wealthiest and most cultivated valleys west of the Alleghen; Mountains, is sunk in ignorance ani wallowing in mire, because they do not look at public questions as he does and elect a man to Congress to record his edicts. If I should labor to make such @ man the democratic candidate for the Presidency I would feel that I had indeed be- trayed you. But let us make a still CLOSER EXAMINATION OF MR. GREELEY a3 a proposed candidate. I do not object to him asa. republican candidate. He is the bestembodiment of the principles of radicalism now living. Republicans can vote for him consistently, and ought to. He is an older and far abler republican than Grant. He was a violent republican when Grant was a@ Buchanan democrat in St. Louis. I commend Greeley, therefore, to his own party; but how can mine support him. Sometimes a man is supported fora small office on purely personal grounds, simply because he is an amiable and worthy man with good qualifications for the posi- tion. Such motives alone, however, never governed the choice of a President, who, to a vast extent shapes the whole policy of the government for weal of woe. There isnothing, however, in Mr. Greeley’s rsonal traits and peculiarities to commend im for the high position to which ne aspires. On the contrary a man roy more unfit to fill the office of Chief Ma- gistrate of this mighty government was never mentioned in connection with it; but when dis- tinguished gentlemen are poker of in connection with that lofty station thelr principles determine the suifrages of an enlightened people more than anything else. Tried by this standard, Horace Greeley irresistably repels every democrat in the United States. at is he for and what is he against at this time? One of the living issues that have been before Congress during the whole of the Meet session ts Mr. Sumuner’s Civil Rights bill. it establishes by law and enforces with heavy pen- ties of fine, damages and imprisonment the absolute and ungualified equality of the blacks with the whites in every school house, seminary, college, church, tavern, boarding house, railroad car, steamboat, theatre, circus, stage coach, in the United States. After a Jong contest and much debate this most odious measure, injurious to both races, passed the Senate on two diiferent occasions, Senators Morton and Pratt both voting for it on the yeasand nays. I thought of making an isane Inst these two Sen- ators before the people of Indiana during the com- ing canvass on account of these votes, in which they so grossly misrepresented the sentiments and wishes of the people of the State; but Mr. Grvriay, warmly endorses this mea- sure, and, if I supported him, how could Ls censure the Indiana Senators, "A bill substan- tially the same as that which passed the Senate has been before the House for months past, and the democratic members, under the lead on that sub- ject ofthat very able, reliable and upright states- man, Charles A. Bidridge of Wisconsin, have re- sorted to every method known to parliamentary law to prevent ite passage. Mr. Greoley Is 50 much in favor of the ring iples which it contains ve within ten days after his nomination, he went A NEGRO CHURCH AT POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, and there declared them as his own, with especial emphasis in behalf of mixed schools, What harmony there will be between the entire democratic side of the House in Congress and their candidate if Mr. Greeley should be nominated at Baltimore on the point of equality in the schools! Let me call the especial attention of the poor and laboring classes to Its workings. You must rely on the common schools. You are not able to take your children out of the You cannot send them away a8 a ricl man can __ his. This Kind of legislation, therefore, mainly affects you. You must school your children with the negroes or not at all. I would provide schools for both races, but apart from each other. I would deprive no human being of the oppor- tunities for learning; but, if history has recorded any one lesson for our warning in more striking colors than any other, it is the evil which follows the close contact and social mixture of different and distinct races. Such a policy elevates neither and finally degrades both. HE TARIPP QUESTION. Mr. Voorhees then took up the question of the tariff? and asked whether it was a live issue or not at this time in the American mind. For weeks past Congress has been engaged upon ft, and the labor- ing people of the conntry have been hoping fora reduction of the high protective tariff taxation on all the neceasarles of life. The democratic members and Senators in Congess have been earnestly strug- gling to obtain this reduction. Mr. Greeley, on the other hand, has “labored,” in season and out of season, for more than @ quarter of a cen- tury to fasten all the robberies of high rotection on the industry of the land. ie public opinion which has culminated in such legislation ts more the offspring of his lifetime work than of any other man in America. The far- mers, the mechanics and the laboring clasees gene- rally are now paying over four hundred millions a year to the manufacturing monopolies of the country, not one dollar of which goes into the pub- lic treasury, all of which is the clear gain of capital, from the toil and sweat of labor. This appallin fact has been again and again demonstrated year after year in Congress, and out of it, and cannot be successfully dis- puted. We, as democrats, have denounced THIS VAST SYSTEM OF PLUNDER from the birth of our party to the present hour. We arraigned the old whi party on it, and we have fought the republican party inch by inch upon it. We have shown that every five years the oppressed and outraged labor of this eos y land pays enough in the increased cost of living, owing to a high pro- tective tariff, to liquidate the national debt, not a dollar of which is ever applied to that or to any other public purpose; yet we are now asked to sup- port for the Presidency the man who has always said and now says that this monstrous system of licensed pillage is right. He is known as far as the keels of commerce extend, and wherever the plow turns a furrow as its boldest and most avowed champion in the world. It is claimed, how- ever, in some quarters, that he haa changed his po- sition on the great question; that he has agreed to leave it to the people. My anewer to this is brief, Aman of mature age changing the deliberate and intense convictions of his wnole life for the sake of an office, whether high or low, is @ miserable spec- tacle. If Mr. Greeley has done 80 it proves him to be dishonest and unworthy of confidence. If he is pos ga of doing violence to his conscience for the sake of the esidency, he will betray the people if he is elected, if he should be again tempted as he is now. But, in fact, there ts no change announced. He does not say that he has for assisting to rob them. He graciously conde- scends to say that if elected he will allow the people to make their own laws on this subject. I was under the Katine that this had always deen their right. I believe that no administration has ever triea to take it away from them; but we all know the yast power which the favorite views of a President has over every other department of the government. His messages to Congress teem with them. They make themselves felt in his private utterances. Those who seek his tronage commend themselves by echoing them. Mr. Greeley will fill his Cabinet with those who think as he thinks. His Secretary of the Treasury wili believe religiously in high protection and a high tari? tax on woollens, linens, salt, coal, iron, steel and all other prime necessities of the people. To suppose otherwise is to admit that Mr. Greele; would sell his dearest principles for place ani oo. No. We should have a high protective ariff administration, and the democratic party would be in eo sition to it on that point, as well as all others of importance, in less than ninety days after it commenced. FEDERAL INTERFERENCE AT THE POLLS. Mr. Greeley's tdeas in regard to the distribution of power between the federal government and the States was next discussed. We have a law of Oon- | the Providing that the local elections of the in been wrong, and ask pardon of the laboring masses | these offictals deem it necessary, subject also to the control of United States troops. No worse law than this ever menaced the liberties of the people. It is the direct offspring of the lawless and unholy spirit of despotism. Itis the boldest step ever yet taken in the destruction of local self-gov- ernment. It was ostensibly aimed at the people and the States of the South, but it assails the very foundations of American liberty in every section, T regarded its enactment with horror and dread, as did the entire democratic party and press of the country. What more sinister legislation ever dis- graced the worst days of Rome or the most revolu- tonaro times of France? THE BAYONET AT THE BALLOT ROX, the cannon at the voting place—all this is author- ized now by law, and Mr. Greeley was one of its loudest and sternest advocates, He urged its enactment upon Cor 88 With ail the power of his influential journal, Has he recanted + Has he asked for its repeal? Nothing of the kind, Has the democratic party abated its hostility to it? [ think not, But Mr. Greeley went even farther than this in his notions that the federal government may totally destroy local self-government. Two years 880, when the republican party suffered a deféat in the State of New York, he clamored for a law of Congress similar to the one I have just men- tioned, to be applied to the voting precincts of the Empire State without reference to the number of population. These facts are s0 well known that I only allude to them here and now for the pu of asking whether @ man with such ideas of the powers of the federal government can be consistently and honorably the candidate of the demacrats? Would such monstrous doctrines be in their prope: place at the head of the govern- ment? Isa man to be trusted by the people who entertains them? Should Horace Greeley, with such views, be made Commander-in-Chief of the army?’ Is such statesmanship what the country needs and what the people demand? lt is the worst that was ever proclaimed; the most dangerous ever promulgated in American history. Iappeal to the honest heart and candid judgment of the country to bear witness to the truth of what I say, What would the great men of other days say to such doctrines ¢ here would Jackson and Benton, and Silas Wright and Clay, and Webster stand in regard to making the man President who entertains the notion that the fede- Tal government can authorize the United States army to conduct and govern ail the elections of the poopie ’ It isa mockery to ask. May their immor- al spirits come to the hearts of the people and Lat them in the ways of honor, truth and patrio- THE SAGE AND THE SOUTH. But it is said that Mr. Greeley’s election will bring relief to the South. On what is this claim based? Has it any rational foundation? Can good come out of evil? Can a wise and beneficial ad- ministration spring from dangerous and unconsti- tutional principles honestly entertained 80, why should a man ever be chosen to office with reference to his principles? Can the South trust the man who preached the right of secession and then desired the slaughter of those whom he had helped to mislead into its practice? Aside from the question of his integrity, is the judgment of such a man safe? What guarantee has the South or any other portion of the country against similar capricious freaks hereafter * But how does he stand on the issues that virtually affect the South at this time? He urged the enactment of the Ku Klux law, by which the habeas corpus has been suspended and the people of the South, on any negro’s word, be laid In prison or driven into exile, le has just written a letter of acceptance, in which he takes pains to define his position. Does he say that this horrible law ought to be repeal¢d? Does he say he will oP pose such legislation in the future? - thing of this is found in his letter. If the South to-day is oppressed and cursed in all her interests, who is more responsible for it than Mr. Greeley ? He advocated all the worst phases of military reconstruction, and when Andrew Johnson attempted to shield the people of the South from farther disaster Mr. Greeley demanded his im- peachment with a ferocity disgraceful to human nature, and when Mr. Johnson was acquitted he eaees) charged every one of the republican enators who voted for acquittal with corrupt and dishonest motives, and some of them with having received bribes in money. Cun the South trust such @ nature as this? Can the American people be in- duced to make such a man President’ Can the democratic party nominate and vote for him and still command the respect of the world? But it is urged that Mr. Greeley is in favor of universal amnesty, and therefore the South should support him. Is it not possible to select for our cans te & far better man in every other respect than Mr, Greeley who is also for amnesty? It 1s well known that many distinguished leading democrats have always been opposed to all political disabilities growing out of the war; but there is not much left of that question now. Time and Congress has amnestie nearly everybody, and it is a question over which the President has no control. The relief must be given by Congress. But Mr. Greeley has never even been for uncondi- tional amnesty; he has always coupled it with an odious and injurious condition— THE ABSOLUTE EQUALITY OF THE NEGRO. With the white man in the South, negro snifrage, reps Legislatures, negro members of Congress and Senators, negro Judges and negro Governors, and the consequent ruin and degradation of many of the Southern States, has been the price demanded from the Southern people by. Mr. Greeley for their own liberation and enfranchise- meut, South Carolina is to-day bankrupted by her negro Legislature, assisted by still worse white men. Her Insane Asylum cannot be sup- ported, and helpleas maniacs are wandering in her woods and along her highways. The responsibility and intelligence of South Carolina had to surrender the State to such a control as that before this new candidate for the Presidency would advocate their own right to vote and hold office. This, indeed, is a small margin on which to claim the support of the Southern people in behalf of the man who, more than all others in the history of the gov- ernment, brought calamity, ruin, woe and death upon them. It was wisely sald on ® memorable occasion in reference to spurious messages:—“‘Ye all know them by their fruits. Judge by this ruje.”” I see nothing in the public life and conduct of Mr. Greeley to win the favor of any class of the American people, except the manu- facturers, bondholders and monopolists of the East. But the cry comes up that we must have success; that we cannot endure four years more of the resent ruinous administration of public affairs; hat our domestic policies are destructive to the harmony and prosperity of the country, and that our foreign policy has brought’ us into deep disgrace abroad. All this is true and more. In the last three years I have arraigned, exposed and denounced the present ad- ministration with far more earnestness and honest zeal than all who are now denouncing me put to- ether. When I was allowed twenty minutes a few days ago on the floor of the House in which to point out why I was not in favor of Mr. Greeley I id not pa it Was necessary to consume the time in defining my position toward Grant. I had done that often before, and I reiterate here every- thing I have heretofore sald in regard to his ad- ministration. Those who have charged that I was about to support him only judged me by themselves, and supposed I conld abandon my principles as easily as they have theirs, BUT IS SUCCESS POSSIBLE WITH GREELEY if his election depends on the votes of the demo- cratic party? Can any one who knows the Leklt of this grand party seriously think so? I think understand the heart of the laboring people who compose the great majority of the democratic party, and I hazard nothing in saying that even if Mr. Greeley should be nominated at Baltimore, and every democrat of distinction, whether in public or private life, from one ocean to the other, should support him, he would not receive an average of more than fifty per cent of the democratic votes of the United States. This Tas firmly believe as I do that the sun will rise to-morrow. And if the | Madness and folly of the hour should consummate his nomination I am_ willin my judgment may be tested hereafter by the record 1 make here to-night. But again, would the success of Mr. Greeley be a success to the best interests of the country ’ I have pointed out why I think not. It is claimed that his administration would improve upon Grant's. It might, and still compel the united opposition of all friends of reform and good govern- ment. But on what point of public poticy is there any iasue between Grant and Greeley? Will some one point it out? On the contrary, on all questions of national import Greeley has warmly endorsed the present administration, and has never revoked that endorsement. A few months since he thus spoke of tt:— It promptly reduced the enormous forces thus required to a pence footing. It has reduced the debt over $200,000,000 in the lust three years, Tt has simultane duced public taxation over $25,000,000. It has prée- served peace on the frontier. It has won a friendly ad- justment of threatening troubles with G ritain. For its conspicuous share in this beneficent — record we endorse the national republican administration, We reaffirm the platform of principles laid down by the jast National Republican Convention, and on these prin- ciples and this record, with the ticket this day chosen, we appeal to ail friends of honest government, of whatever previous party aasovlation, for ald in the triumphant vie- ry we unitedly pledge odrselves to win. The antagonism of Greeley to Grant's administra- tion is purely personal, aa far as the public has been advised. One Thomas Murphy and the Cus- tom House at New York have been the causes of contention as far as I can discern. I leave those who are inclined to endorse Mr. Greeley to con- sider whether they are not also endorsing the ad- ministration of Grant in all its acts and principles of the siightest degree of national consequence, For my part, fellow citizens, I crave and pray for a success that is real, and not a delusion and a snare, I have taken my present course with a view to that end. If others had been silent and WAITED FOR THE ACTION AT BALTIMORE I would have been content. If, however, other Members of the democratic party connected with the press, and otherwise in communication with the public, have the right to speak out, as they did Jong ago, in favor of the nomination of Mr. Greeley, I know of no canon of the party which condemns me for announcing my opposition to him. If they have the — to advise the abandonment of democratic principles, I surely have the right to declare in favor of them. I shall certainly continue to do so, without let or hindrance from any quarter, Is it any more dicta- tion for me to speak than for others? Perhaps you will ask me, In conclusion, what we ought to do to be saved and to save our country from further mis- rule and plunder. I am not here without an answer to a question 80 national. Much the largest number of voters in the United States are as yet without a candidate to snit them, and they will re- main ao even after Grant is nominated at Phila- tates in precincts numbering a population of | deiphia, and with Greeley and Grant confronting 20,000 and over shall be subject to the control and | each other. There are elements in existence 0) Anapection of United States oficcra aud. J nosed to both and more Querous than tha follow. ers of either, who may be enumerated in ‘our classes -— FOUR OPPOSING ELEMENTS. First—Genuine and sincere revenue reformers, heretofore acting with the republican party. This class embraces mauy distinguished and able men who are sincerely attached to a revenue tariff, equal taxation and other useful financial reforma- tions, They do not see that the election of either Grant or Greeley will bring about these salutary changes, and in this opinion they are largely sup- Bore by those with whom they have heretofore acted A very large majority of the German Population. Grant is distasteful to them on many accounts, and Greeley, if possible, is more obnox- ious. The German press is more than ten to one against him. The meddlesome advocate of sumptu- ary laws Will naturally receive but littie support from a people whose mode of life he has always de- nounced, With Mr. Greeley's ideas of the powers of the federal government over the local affairs of the people he might, with consistency, seek to regu- late thelr domestic habits by proclamation in the event of his election. A people who have crossed the ocean to find a land of freedom desire no such executive ruler. They also desire freedom for trade and commerce as well as for themselves. Third—There is a very large and respectable arty in this country known as labor reformers. ‘hey are more numerous than a superficial obser- ver would suppose, and devoted to the relief of labor against the constant oppression to which it is subject. This party is the avowed champion of those who are so much neglected and who are yet so powerful at the polls—the workingmen of the nation. Their mission is a noble one, and has power in it. Fourth—In the masses of the democratic party, 000,000 strong, there is not one ina handred for ir. Greeley, and none for Grant. ray want an honest, upright man, whom they can substantially support as acandidate. Then they will move as an organized army, deserving success, and securing it. Between the four classes that I have specified but Uttle discrepancy of opinion prevails on pub- lc questions. A union of action onght not to dimeult, and with such union victory is certain. I speak in the interest of no man as a candidate. 1 have no favorjte now to urge. I will most cheerfully support any one of the distinguished gentlemen heretofore named, and if another not so prominent, yet true and capable, should be nominated, tt would be well with me and with the democracy. I shall work from now to the month of July to bring about a result so auspicious, I have high hopes of the wisdom and integrity of the Convention then to assemble. 1 do not believe such @ disaster can befall us as the nomination of Greeley. 1 believe honor and principle will prevail. If, however, it should happen otherwise, and I should be laid away in my political grave, alongside of the dear old Perey for whom I have fought a hun- dred battles and never one against her, all l ask of ‘ou, my constituents, whom I have known and loved 60 long, is to write on my tombstone— He fought the fight and kept the faith. DOMINION OF CANADA.. Mr. Ashbury’s Cup Presented for Competition to the Quebec Yacht Club—The Commodore's ° Gift a Strange Memento—The Labor Movement—The Queen’s Birthday Not Celebrated as of Yore. QueEBRC, May 25, 1872, Commodore Ashbury has presented the Quebec Yacht Club with a magnificent silver cup to be competed for in annual races of the club. The conimittee are rather in a puzzled condition over the present, for whuie the letter accompanying the gift says that it is possessed of historical value, the inscription 1s of such a curious character that they have determined to write to Mr. Ashbury about it. It reads :—‘This cup was presented to Sir William Temple, Consul General of Great Britain to the United States of America, on the occasion of his marriage to the daughter of the Governor of Massa- chusetts”—then a blank, and “Presented to the (blank) by Commodore Ashbury, owner of yachts Jona and Livonia.” A mistake seems to have been made somewhere. The cup is at present in possession of Vice Commo- dore R. R. Dobel, and the matter is the subject of much comment in upper@ircies, The nine hour labor movement is gaining head- way in Quebec and throughout the country. The workmen here have reorganized and will demand the recognition of nine hours as a day’s work. The Queen’s birthday was not celebrated to any extent here yesterday as it was formerly. The public offices” were, closed, but general business Went on as usual, ART MATTERS, BBE ES. Ward's Statue of Shakspeare. It is always a trying matter for an artist, even when he has already achieved some fame, to at- tempt to grapple with a great subject. And there are subjects so great that anything short of the highest human power must of necessity fail to do justice to them. In the case ofsthe sculptor this 1s peculiarly and especially true. His work is to cast no mere shadow or reflection of his thought, but THE THOUGHT ITSELF crystalized into enduring form. Nothing can be effected by trick or contrivance; either the work speaks to us directly or itis dumb. Hence the num- ber of failures that we see among men with some of the skill, but little of the thought, depth of insight or quick sensibility to all that is grand or beautiful or base that must distinguish THE TRUE SCULPTOR, ® It is no trifling undertaking to attempt to ex- press a life that has been worthy to be commemo- rated in a plece of bronze—to endow the lifeless metal and make it reflect the noble thoughts and acts of a busy and eventful life from one poor pose, or expression, which shall be changeless, yet suggestive of infinite change. It is evident that aman who undertakes this requires to be pardoned much if he fails to realize his subject as we realize it in imagination or even as the artist sees it himself. All this and much more would be true of a very commonplace hero, but when the sculptor has for his subject a genius like Shakspeare, how gigantic becomes the task he undertakes. It is true that the difMfculties, by @ strange paradox, bring aid; for though the artist should fall ever so far below his own and our conception of THE MEMORY WE CALI. SITAKSPRARE, if he has felt any true sympathy with his subject he must, even in failure, be far removed from common- lace, Now, the question naturally occurs, has Mr. Vard discovered sympathy with his subject? And we unhesitatingly say that he has. We do not mean that he has fully seized our notion of the great poet, but he has produced the best and most, worthy statue to the Bard of Avon of which we have any knowledge. It is a noble and dignified composition, marked by originality and BOLDNESS OF CONCEPTION. Much of the conventional Shakspeare has been reserved, but new moulded so as to express new hought. "The statue is poised easily on the left foot, the left hand placed on the We In the right hand the poet holds a closed book. It would appear to be the intention of the artist to express ar- rested motion, and if this be so he has well suc- ceeded. The whole expression of the figure breathes deep reflection, and is both striking and impressive, without being in any sense theatrical. Adhering within certain limits to the traditional likeness of the poet, Mr. Ward has departed from them all in some respects, giving us a composite likeness, which better represents the man as he appears to us through his works than any we have nl erto seen. Indend it is evident he has based his likeness on THE FAMOUS MASK which is said to have been taken after the death of the poet. We are glad he has done so, asall the other likenesses are weak and unsatisfactory. The effect of the face in proflie is better than when viewed in front, but the impression of the whole statue is most pleasing in the front view, Owing to the massive character of the head and the breadth of shoulders the statue appears just a shade too short. It appears to us that it would have GAINED IN MAJESTY had greater length been given to the lower limbs, ‘This effect may possibly be true to the position of the statue above the heads of the spectators, Other wise we have little to say except in praise of the work. It is well and carefully modelled, and the bronze has been finished in a most creditable man- ner. Such work entitles Mr. Ward to the generous support of the public, and ought to put an end to the jobbing {n art which threatens to flood us with statues that would disgrace the South Sea Islands. EUROPEAN MARKETS. Lowpor Morey Marget.—Loxpon, May 25—2 P. M.—Con- sols and American securities closed unchanged. Consols pened at 9334 for money, and 9344 tor the acc {ean ‘securities firiner; United 1962's, 90% ; 1860's, old, 307", 98 Faaxxrout Bours: States five-twenty bon: 1862, Panis Bourse.—Panis, May 25—A. M.—Rentes opened at mRPOOL Corton Manker.—Livenroot, May 25-2 P, —The market closed unchanged. The market opened firm and remains so, ‘The sales of the day are sti esti: y mated at 12,000 bales, including 3,000 for export and specu- fition. “Middiing uplands, gd.’ middiing Orleans, Tiga: LIVERPOOL BRRADSTUFYS MAnKRT—LivERPOOL, Ma; 2P.M.—The breadstuffs market is firm. Corn, per rr Liverroot Pronvcr Market.—Liverroo., May 25—Eve- ning.—Common rosin, 88. 6d. a 88. 9d. per owt. pirite tur- Pen ine, 56a, her owt. AvERPOOL PRovisions Manket—Livenroo., May 25—2 2a P. M.—Pork, 49. 6d. per bbl. for prit Ryawake iy for prime mens. THE GREELEY PICNIC. The Philosopher Feasted by His Friends on the Farm at Chappaqua. A Lady Audience at the Wood- Chopping. (on Pieniec in the Evergreen Copse. SOUVENIRS AND SOUVENIR SEEKERS, The Rustic Curiosity Still Unsatisfied. AN UNEXPECTED OVATION. Mr. Greeley yesterday morning started with a pleasant party of ladies and gentlemen from Mr, Stewart's residence at Tarrytown, across country in carriages, to his weekly wood-chopping enjoy- ment at Chappaqua. The first carriage, an open rockaway, contained Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Linson, Mr. Greeley and Miss Lamson, an old lady who takes especial pride in Mr. Greeley becanse he was & SORT OF PROTEGH ofhers when he was fourteen, She was honored with aseatat hisright hand on Friday evening while he was receiving. In the second carriage were Miss Partridge, Pro- fessor Jackson, Mrs. Stevens and Dr. Linson. In the third were Mr. Stevens, Mr. Woodman and Mrs. Stewart and a pyramidal pile of baskets, containing all the essential good things of a picnic luncheon. THE REGION OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. The procession, in somewhat straggling order, drove gaily over that noble country where Brom Bones used to frighten the old Dutch curmudgeons with his daring deviltry, and where the headless horse chased Ichabod Crane, The scenery was too familiar to all parties to call for any unusual ex- presstons regarding it; but the refreshing breeze, the cool, hazy weather, and even the slight furry of rain that laid the dust, all served to enliven the occasion. No banners were flaunted and no music accompanied THE ANTE-PRESIDENTIAL PROCESSION, but the wit of keen tongues and the jollity of happy temperaments gave it the air of something more enjoyable than the pageantry of a proud parade could have given it. The party arrived in fine style, without accident, at the Chappaqua farm, about ten o'clock, stabled the horses, put the provisions under guard and started at once for THE WOODED KNOLL which the philosophical wood-chopper is especially engaged In thinning out and trimming up, Some of the ladies gave out half way up the hill and stopped to rest on the steps of the new unfinished | house, The rest managed to follow the footeps of the lusty Sage as far up the hill as the house in the woods, where, as usual, he cordially invited all hands to take a drink, The depth of the steps to the spring in the glen deterred the remaining ladies of the party, however, from venturing any farther, and they wearily rested in the sitting room of the house until the gentlemen returned from the spring with a pail of the mild but SPARKLING FLUID. These gentlemen brought away with them all the drinking vessels, so that, when an hour after- wards, the reporter offered to show two ladies the wonders of this “peerless” spring, he was com- pelled to offer them a drink out of a broken flower pot. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS. bottle, dréw the cork, and, passing the beverage to the expectant gentlemen, said, quietly, “Help yourself, La) you had better put it on our sprouts. It’s vinegar. me Meoal thoroughly discussed, the party sat about the table, carrying on @ general conversa- tion, It included all topies, contraband and other- wise, and might have continued until the train was due, 80 deen immersed in it was the party, had not one gentleman, tn lighting a cigar—the jo- sopher having first et, declined the offered pleasure of a weed—inadvertently thrown his match among the dry leaves under the fat captaln’s chair. A FIRE IN THE REAR. While an animated conversation on the thrilling subject of drainage 18 in progress the doughty captain became restless, and even while every- body was hanging with breathless interest on the Philosopher's explanation of the theory of sub-soil ploughing he amazed the party by throwing himself violently out of chair, Which had partly imbedded its legs in the soft earth, and exposing to the startled gaze of all the thickening smoke of burning grass. Conster- nation ensued; but the captain, with an activity beyond his weight, danced over the grass and in @ minute had extinguished the fames. The unex- pected fire in the rear, however, served to bi the picnic dinner TO A CLOSR. The gentlemen, shouldering their chairs, retired to the House in the woods, while the Philosopher Wardered of with his agent to inspect » new wall. SOUVENIRS. ‘The ladies cleared away the débris, and seized upon the tmplemenis with which the great nominee had engineered his meal as souvenirs, one securing the knife, another the fork, another the plate, one fair one even slipping the saucer which he had into her dress pocket, as @ remembrance of happy occasion. RETURN HOME, The party from Tarrytown took to their carriages at about four o'clock, and Mr, Greeley, accompanied by Messrs. Johnson aud Scovel and Miss Partriage, returned by the twenty minutes to five o'clock train to New York. On the route Mr. Greeley occupied himself in opening his letters and reading the papers, In one of the letters was enclosed a new and handsome photo- graph, representing him en profile, which es igh cee genta Miss Partridge, sitti ide pe hat young lady, however, determined to have HIS AUTOGRAPH with it, and, borrowing a lead pencil, quietly laid picture and pencil before him at the next stopping pl L a better walt until the cars are going,” said the great man, ‘and then probably the shaking and Jolting of the cars will shape the writing Into some- thing you can read.” That would not do, however, and the gallant calmly pencilled the irregular lines that spell name below the picture. THE YOUNG SOUVENIR SEEKER thereupon passed the signature around for inspece tion, and, with an apologetic glance, pocketed the lead pencil as an additional souvenir, THE TRULY RURAL RUSTIC. It was of interest to see the country people in the cars Watch the movements of the sage during this operation. When he opened his mouth to speak the rustics in front and rear reached around thelr seats to see how he did and to hear what he said, and wh ee commenced to write they stood up in their seats and crowded over one another to get a glance at that famous fist actually wielding a pen, GREELEY V8. A BRASS BAND. At Pleasantville there had been a land sale during: the day, and an imperfect brass band and bass drum were discoursing inharmonious noises to the assembled ruralists. When the white hat appeared at the window of the car, however, the brass band was deserted, and its audtenve assem- bled, open-inouthed, in front, to gaze in awe-struok rapture on the great head underneath its broad brim. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, ‘That one snail nead could carry all he knew. As the cars moved oif th inaged to raise a shout for “Old Horace” and the hite hat,” and one small boy gushingly cried, “6 by, Uncle.” As usual, at all the stations sho were raised at his appearance, and on his entra’ into a Fourth ave- nue car at the depot the first occupant became as open-mouthed and ruck as the rustica. AN UNEXPECTED OVATION. At Twenty-seventh street he left the car, and as he stepped off the platform two half-drunken men, seni along the’ crosswalk came squarely up tohim, At once they stopped and threw up their hands, and then with simultaneous impulse each grasped a hand of the great temperance advo- and shook it vehemently. When the Fourth aven' ar had carried the reporter of the H#RaLD two blocks away and the passing vehicles were about shatting in the view the Philosopher in his white hat and dress coat, could still be seen stand- ing on the crosswalks serenely undergoing this im- promptu ovation. : THE PRINTERS FOR GREELEY. The Boston Printers Organizing to Aid in the Election of “Honest Horace” for President—An Appeal to the Craft in the Country. At the house the party was joined by Mr. Alvin J, Johnson and Mr. James M. Scovel, a member of the Liberal Republican State Committee of New Jersey; Captain Ferguson, a heavy weight, and two artists, intent on securing Mr. Greeley in some new position hitherto untilled. SKIRMISHING. ‘As he has been photographed by this time oftener than any other man in the universe, it was dimeult to find such 4 position, and the artists tested their artistic skill and powers of endurange to a remarkable extent, skirmishing among the abattis and dodging the axes of irre- sponsible choppers before they could “catch” him. ‘inally they took him up a tree, standing on one limb and hacking at another, one leg gracefully twined about the trunk and one woollen-gloved hand clutching desperately at a tender offshoot, while the heavy-weighted Captain, with nearly two hundred pounds of avotrdupois upon his person, held the unused ladder solidly to its place with a grasp like the grip of death. THE DANGERS OF CHAPPAQUA, The long-handled hatchet in the Philosopher's hands sometimes rebounded from a sturdy limb and 00 near his benevolent face for comfort; and sometimes glanced and made a demonstration in the region of his venerable calves, and sometimes again missed the limb and swinging low down playfully described circles about the placid and unsuspecting Captain's head. until some of the ladies, who had finally climbed the brow of the knoll and had seated themselves on stumps and stones to view the performance, became NERVOUS, in fot of some accident to their reve- renced friend or his complacent assistant, and were compelled to withdraw across the knoll, where they contemplated his white hat and dress coat, thrown across astump, in fearless meditation. WOOD-CHOPPING BECOMING FASHIONABLE. The number of sightseers, or rather friends, who come to Chappaqua to see the Presidential expect- ant trim his forest trees was so increased by the advent of this plenicking party, that more axes than usual were in demand, and the woods re- sounded with the strokes of the amateur choppers. At one slender hemlock the venerable but still orous Doctor Jackso! vig- —made the chips Mr. Woodman, ‘y ‘oodman, spare that tree,” attacked a bow chestnut, and at every available tree some ambitious amateur took a lesson in the new political science of “axing.” At two o'clock THE “HORN TOOTED for lunch, Everybody was tired and hungry but the Sage. He regretted the could not have @ few hours more at this or that tree. THE LUNCH was set on a rustic taple in the Evergreen copse, and was an ennobling example of what the art of cookery may do toward soothing the anxieties and agitations ofa political canvass. Each gentleman carried a chair or two down from the house, and the party were thus enabled to seat themselves comfortably. Mr. Greeley took the seat of honor at the head, and Dr. Jackson the second seat, at the foot. The Philosopher at once called for a glass of water, and everybody else for a glass of milk. The whole force was hungry, and masticated the lobster salad, cold chicken, sprouts, wheaten biscuit, brown bread, pickled oysters and custard pie with an ardor and a persistence paralleled only by the zeal of photographers seeking Greeley's portrait. THE CONVERSATION turned upon all subjects—family, political, agri- cultural, journalistic and personal. The Sage, as usual, spoke with terse freedom of political men and things, until a shrewd lawyer at his elbow whispered in his ear that such complicating sentiments might be made the subject of the report in the papers, whereupon the Philo- sopher remarked that it was understood that polt- tical matters discussed in this way were not to be reported, he hoped, The representative of the HERALD bowed his ete acquiescence in this em- bargo, and the philosophic mind was eased, THE PHILOSOPHER'S DIET. “What ‘ll-you have, Philosopher +” said Scovel, seeing the eyes of the Sage wandering about in search of something. “Some more lobster salad, Mr. Greeley? said Miss Partridge, near him. ase slice of cold chicken, sir?’ said the wyer. “[ want some more water,’ responded the Sage. “‘Here’s some Boston brown bread, Mr. Greeley,’ said Mrs. Stewart. “Yes, I'll take some brown bread," said Mr. Gree- ley; 's my old love.” HARD WORK. “7 still feel quite hungry,’ said Scovel, after the meal was half over, “You didn’t do any hard work, either,” replied e . “He worked hard at the Cincinnati Convention,”” said Johnson, “Pass him the cold chicken,” said the Sage face- tiously. a THE FLOWING BOWEL. A black bottle stood in the centre of the table. It was an object of wonder and admiration to the gentlemen. As the meal progressed, however, It Btood tdie. One gentleman nudged another, and the other nudged back. “Let's get lum to opén the ‘i they. No sooner said than done. vow cpa he ‘bottle for us, Mr. Greeley 1 said they. looked a little nonplussed, but a laa: ane ee jooke ile ‘4 Boston, May 25, 1872, The journeymen printers of this city and vicinity have inaugurated a movement looking towards the support and election of Greeley and Brown, which they will labor to make general among the members of the craft throughout the country. Pt is thus far confined to the newspaper work- men; but the idea is to embrace all branches of the profession who desire to see one of their number placed at the head of the nation, At the preliminary meeting held this afternoon all the ofices in the city were represented, the largest number present from any single establishment being from the ofice of a@ recently established and radical Grant organ. The meeting was supposed to be strictly private, but it has been learned that forty or more people comprised ita number, and that the proceedings were characterized by entire unanimity. Brief addresses were made by several rominent members of the fraternity, among them cing Messra, Wilson and Wise, who, by the way, have never heretofore been identified with any political movement, either of the labor reformers or otherwi: and at their conclusion a Greeley and Brown campaign club was organized with the fol- 18 i— George Wise; Vice President, George ary, ©, E. Innis; Treasurer, W. H. ¢ Committee, J. B. Beyer, D. A. Curtis; Sergeant-at-Arms, D. J. Andrews; Exe McMullen, J. W Courtney. ‘The club will be Known as the ‘Printers’ Greeley and Brown Campaign Cinb of Boston,” and tt is ex- pected that it will initiate the formation of similar associations throughout the untry. After the adoption of the subjoined address to the printers of the United States, the meeting adjourned for one week :— {SneRMAn Hovse, Boston, May 25, 1872, To re Prixtens 0 NITED StaTKS -— a, the underst ling that our craft has beon py the selection of our brother printer, Axncandidate for President of, the Unt: respéotfully ask you to jon da in the formation of campaixn clubs, that we may the more effectually give our aid to secure his honorable and triumphant election. alee The Proceedings of the Secret Tribunal. Miss Driscolls Statement Mainly Core roborated by Her Sister. BALTIMORE, May 25, 1872. The little parsonage “around the gorner” on Biddle street from the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church South, in which at one time resided the Rey. L. D, Huston, was this morning the scene of another phase in the trial of that gentleman for al- leged improper conduct with the lady members of his congregation while pastor of that church, The Ecclestastical Committee met at nine o'clock, and there was the nsual gathering in the parlors of those interested in the trial, After the usual preliminary exercises of organi- zation, the prosecution stated that witnesses whom it had expected to be present in the case of alleged seduction of the young school girl, Mary Driscoll, were not present, and would not’ be to-day, and asked that the committee take the deposition of some witnesses who were restrained by illness from appearing before the committee at the par- sonage, The committee took favorable action upon the request of the prosecution, and proceeded to the residence of Mrs. Driscoll and took the evidence ofasister of the accuser. She corroborated her sister's statement in some minor particulars, but the entire day's proceedings were of very little im- Portance or interest. HOW TO SAVE THE OROTON WATER, To THE Eprror oF THe HERALD:— The continuance of an abundant supply of water to all parts of the city is a matter of the first im- portance to the citizens, and I am glad to see the interest taken by your influential paper in regard toit, Itis well known that the plumbers’ hydrant use in this city is one that can be left Mianing, and that in tenement houses, stables and other places it is the universal practice to permit them to waste water from morning until night. This may be StpppeG, Again, I notice that the late Board of Park Commissioners authorized the erec- tion in nearly all the Pc of the city of an un- sightly and cumbrously devised drinking fountain, from which the water fs constantly running. This waste should be prevented, Now, I would suggest that the Commissioner of Public Works refer this subject to a board of engineers, with directions to invite all hydrant builders, faucet manufacturet water closet dealera, &c., to Fae their seve! articles for examination, and on the report of the engineers Jet the Commiasioner recommend to the Common Council the passage of an ordinance pro- hibiting the use of any article in the city except the most approved form of water-saving hydrant, faucet, water closet, &c. This course will effectu- Ps! Pee aad er eeet enormous waste and result ‘8 much-needed reform, GROTON, May 20. 1873,