The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1874, Page 4

4 sn aaa natal) | and crimes committed in their name which sock | humanity, These things, they say, they can and 7 tre tH, oe wil. correct, uf th rin will t and giv Crystallization of Race Antagunisms fina” ‘me®satneutone wid eh’ fhs | a eir cal ny % ny erie, Throughout the South. one oe, ares mowsecsee ana tel meer caiuasteeais ception when they went into secession, It is an effort to get up a military company, had a very moral and sociai as well as politicairuin, To them | bad effect upon the negroes, As the blacks in | | and to all who study tueir condition itis @ surprise Miss@eippi are too numerous to be oy | that they hi not broken down tn the frenzy of any suc device, and especially the blacks ving despair. Mistakes have been made, they admit, | within twenty miles of the headquarters of the Department of the Gull, the only effect of such unauthorized organizations must be to enrage them. And the repubican papei im such an emergency Will contribute much to enhance the bitierness of ieeiing. The following paragraph from the republican organ here may serve as & specimen :— ‘That military company ts slow in no use of it so long as Holly Springs | ir i was not for the terribie picture of | the “color line’ in the background. There would | be no “color line’? and no Trenton massacres | Af there were no offices, but the class of whom I fitting ap. We see is 80 near. Bi And here j TERRORISM OF THE COLOR LINE, write sre notomcescciers, they are'tie planters «,Ad,here ls the leading editorial announcement | aud ancien: respectability of the South, WIDE 1M | dora a, ia @ Lew epoch and surrounded by terriple ele- | STORES SORES When the negroes read things like these, or hear | ments of disorder. They compiain, and compiain them read, and know, bitterly, Of the unjustice and wrongs that have + ° : 3 they cannot Jail to know, H nd Idiosyncraci been done them aud they say they never cou'd that they are true, itis no wonder they should be- abits a y es of bave endured what they have suifeied if their come arrogant and ever malicious toward the | ride had vot lifted them above their misfortunes, be evil officers of State, Cue Ignorant legislators, as @ usurpation— whites Nor can there be any taik among the dem- Ocratic politicians about the “color line’ or “watte leagues” without their knowing all about my | the impure judges they regan the Typical Southerner. emer 0 unreality in everylaing except their acts which it. See how deftly the Ricochel puts the point :— are so terribly red» It isa queer lecling and One We want no white or black leagues in north Missis- | HARACTERISTIC CRIME OF THE NEGROES [2st is Bot reads understood, bUt its eXplanation sipp. We cannot afford to have any “color line” issues C IOt hs 18 lu Che iact tuat (ue races Dave changed places {n thiscounty. We need no military organizacion in | and the ignorant nave pressed with a stern and nd it ie high time gossipping gosling: were _ | all their advantages over tue generous, The Jeel- om manulacturing and giving wing W idle, -breeding rumors. The evii effect of these “idle, mischie!-breeding rumors” upoD the vegro mind 18 incaicuiabie, es- pecially when we congider that the negro belie! in | the potency of iederai bayonets 6 a religion. The | | latter point cannot be better illustrated tian by a | | joke apon Colonel Lamar. One of tie negro jug does vot exist ip Virginia, in Tennessee or in Alabsma a8 it eXists bere, ior there las been no Steady negro majority, and yet the last two States, by their massucres and “color line’? poli- | les, Only add to the eviis which these people are suffering. Cry of the People Against Plunder- ing Gilicials and Evil Judges. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET. |THE FATE OF THE NEGRO. |The State Canvass and Til-| States, and for those countries whic® may recon- struct their political fabrics upon the American model, democracy bas fulftiled its mission. Yet perhaps this great and just principle has hot yet accomplished more than & modi- fication of the social evils int nurtured and brought to maturity in thi Old World by its opposites, monarchy and artstoc- racy. The English form of government Was the best until our own was formed. But it lad-no ele- ment o/ democracy in it, Yet under the influence of American democratic institutions the demo- cratic methods are beginning to grow upoR. tne Britush system. The frequent statements that the British constitution, a8 a mixed system, com- | prised this element of democracy 18 a mistake, AIMS OF EARLY RULERS, In framing every government hitherto tnsti- CHARLES O’CONOR. Interesting Interview with the Great Lawyer. His Views on the’ Proposed Ni tional Convention. tuted among men, one of the ans was : to enable the rdlers—by which it menat the office-holders—to gratify thelr — ambl- tion or their avarice, or both, at the expense of the ruied—that 18 to the mass of the people. , The former, ag military or potitical leaders, have always laid the foundations and have anticipated at ieast the employment in superintending the | structure, Purity of mative may be admitted in many cases s0 tar a8 individual consciousvess 18 | concarned, but self-iove 1s both inherent and blind, — The iounder, while conscious of no object but the Pubiic good, bas always had an eye to his own grat- Ifcations and his work has invariabiy been insome | Tespects accomimodated to that end. The den’s Campaign. POUNDERS OP THB AMERICAN UNION invested it with most of the powers by whtch the few vad oppressed the many in all previous times. ‘The State governments were framed in the same THE RING SUITS. THB CHARACTERISTIC CRIME OF THE NEGRO. 1 said beiore that tne great evil wuicu these people suuer ts not in being plundered by the tax coliector, Their greatest iear is in being wronged by the most terrible outrage a man can comnut against a woman, This is the characteristic crime Ol the negro, and yet such is the reticence of the white people that great exertions are made to keep repoits of offences of this Kina out o! the newspapers. Not long ago an attempt was made by a negro (0 Violate the wife of one of the most eminent divines im the South, indeed of the whoe country, and the crime never found its way into print. “When stories of this kind are printed at ail they are told lu such a Way as to leave the offence waiters at the hotels iniorms me that that disun- | es: gentleman vehaves much betier now wan efure he went to Washington—*Does not put on So many airs, sah, as he used to.” And the reason assigned tor this iancied change in the demeanor Of the Congressman ts that he saw Grant und came home with @ fea in his ear, There is not much activity here, however, in the pursuit of this mis- chievous and mistaken policy, and, when com- pared with Western Tennessee and Northern Ala- | bama, where the whites are uppermost, there 1s none, Whatever there is of evil here Is steadily | repressed by the better class of -ue community, and this mode! Mississippi town is @ model of 10 BROTHERHOOD. | STORY OF THE M OxrorD, Miss., Sept. 8, 1874, Southern opinion of the relations of the races is 80 many-sided that it is impossible to judge of the real condition of the South except upon a consideration of every aspect in which the case is presented. Tue negro appears both as the quiet, inodensive citizen and the dangeroas jy+is much doubt as Henry Ward Beecher leit tbe Peace and quiet, as of everything else, even if it | barbarian, The whites are as diverse as their charge against Mm in bis iawous letter o1 con- | Has its exernniieahons ef Wie, Woon witch bases interests, There is the conservative republican ‘ition. AS an instance of the manner in which most communities in the Sout! i crimes Of this kid are related by the local press | quote the following from the current number of the Ricochet Ned Lancto peomans panes rrp Hotes oe fs nesday, and tried of a charge of feloniously breakin i # Into tho house of Mr. P. J. Siete, on the uight of the aa | 2¢# Spread Through the heaped Secenn ee: inst., and SH REIE & Lem oceupied a ticut—Dr. Noah Cressey’s Opinion as to | Slate's tamily, with intent of comuni some crime | nknown. ‘The testimony of two of Mr. Slate's tamiy | ts Origin and Character, wan poeta ices colored bea ies on toe Newrown, Conn., Sept, 12, 1874. f whom Were Ned's relatives, strongly cor- z | Foborated the sane. Ned was bound over tthe Circuit | SiMce the report printed in the HERALD recently of the prevalence of splenic Jever and spinal | meningitis in this locality, by which many | valuable cattle were prostrated and many | died, the Secretary of the State Board of | Agricuiture, Mr. T. 8S. Goid, and otner scientific and the conservative democrat, each alike anxious and sincere jor the preservation of peace and good feeling between the races, Then there are the demagocues on both sides—the radical who reminds the negioes ot their iormer bondage and their present power and counsels them to resent every petty insult that is offered, and the demo- crat who ranges himself on the color line and glories in tie fanciful epocn when the negro is to be divested of bis citizenship. I would not have believed in the terrorism of the “color line’ democracy 1: 1 had not seen the evidences of it with my own eyes, I sat at dinner at Tuscumbia THE CATTLE DISEASE. | | rt in a sum of $200), which he tailed to give, and Went to jail. If Ned does not get a cell for at least ten years in the Penitentiary we shail be deceived. He richly deserves it. It will be observed how curiously the negro’s offence 1s stated—“entering into a room occupied by @ portion of Mr, Slate's family with intent of “ : ” with a number oi gentlemen, all of whom were COmMmuttINg some crime, unknown.” The truth im Sennenee have been Ton coe to pear | Acquainted witu each other. They were eagerly occupied by two young ladies, ceaf mutes both of OUt the peculiarities and origin of the disease, To ing litical tua bi them, and the cunning hegro took advantage of ad them in the work they called upon Dr. Noah | canvassing the political situation, but not : | fr tt ta i fon tl their want of the powers of articulation to accom- Cressey, formerly Veterinary Surgeon of shis State, ee ea ee One plist his purpose. Tuey succeeded, however, iN | nut now professor at Amherst. The Doctor has of them said he thought he shouid attracting tre attention of the rest of the family, | Pp ig made a very careiul investigation, and states his | belie! that at least he has discovered THE ORIGIN OF THE DISEASE. He pronounces it splenic fever—the old Texan fever, with some new peculiarities, He says, upon examining the dead bodies, the only lesion | he could observe was an enormous enlarge- | and the negro Was caught before bis design was consummated. Crimes of this kind, 60 flendish in conception and so terrible in thea consequences | if they are Of frequent occurreuce, cannot fail to rouse the anger and excite the iears of any com- munity. Yet such a modei town is Oxford that Sims has not deen lynched, and Mr. Slate, out of motives 01 delicacy, Wanted the negro tried tor larceny instead of the crime he intended to com- Vote for Sloss, the independent democratic candi- ate for Cong’ess lor that district. The eyes of one of the company flashed fire at this intimation and he exclaimed in @ tone ul extreme bitterness, “If you do Vl spot you, and i’ spot you on the black side.’ 1t was a repetition in another form Of the old secession cry, “You wlo are not with mit. | —! 0S are agaiusc us and we’li spot you on the Yankee WHITE FORBEARANCE TOWARD THE NEGRO. | ment of ; eas pee ‘an ca ren side.” Alter wy arrival here 1 heard some genue- | My attention was called to this case ae one Should weigh but from one and a@ showing in @ remarkable degree the inherent bar- to two pounds, but frequentiy in these men discussing the political course of a young lawyer at Aberdeen. “He is very ultra on the color line,” said his friend, “a regular snorter.’’ But the conciuston of the company was that if he wished to succeed in his prolession he had better barism of the negro and the marked forbearance of the whites. It is a crime which deserved death, and almost any community would have set aside the law tn enforcing the penalty, But Ned Sim3 went to jail im delauit of bail in only $2,0v0, the amount fixed by a democratic Mayor, Anotuer cases he found it weighing irom five to ten | pounds, The rest of the body he jound apparently heaitoy, This spleen was filed with & substance as black a8 tar. Taoagh the disease is at present contined to tius town aod viciuity, tt 18 gradually | let such extreme olitics alone, especiall, case—one Oi assault and battery with intent to spreading ali over the State. vr. Cressey ex- tn avState where ice is a negro mai nih nd kiil—was brought to my notice as showing the presses the belief thats filty' “head NOrrey even-handed justice which the chief magistrate of of cattle are now lying dead ‘in Uon- | thirty thousand. That majority and the good sense Of the people generally serve as a check upon ultra opinions in Mississippi, and in conse- quence (his state is one Ol tae most liberally con- Servative in the souta, It is ot this dignified con- Servatism that I wish to treat in this letter, and [ find mysel! in one o1 the representative com- Munities of the Scute for dealing with the question trou this standpomt, A MODEL TOWN IN MISSISSIPPI. Oxford is a model town, not only in the opinion of the stranzer who visits it, but in itsown, It is on the line oi the Mississippi Central Railroad, about tweuty miles south of Holly Springs, and the surrounding plavtations are as fertile, well wat- ered aud weil umbered as any in vhe State. “Search Mississippi over,” says the Ricochet, a pew republican paper just started here, ‘‘and you will not finda uore moral, law-abiding, thrifty nd industrious class of farmers than those of the rural districts around Ox.ord.” The town is sufl- ciently rural jor that matter. In the South a vil- lage calis itseli a city on very slight provocation. Still it would be hard to deny to Ox/ord its genue boast, and so every fair-minded maa will accord tae claim of the Ricochet when it says, “Ours 13 truly a favored spot; we are, indeed, an enter- prising and progressive people, and it is no ego- tism to biow our own horn,” Of course not, and ‘this is the way the Ricochet does it:— Oxford has nodram shops. We are free from deatn- dealing miaswatic vapors. Water 1s pure, cool aud tis village deals out to black and white. A negro necticut from this cause, and that many more named Kenneday strack a White man named Kuok | bave Léen exposed. Taursday night he superin- | wiih a club belore Kook Was aware Of the negro’s tended the kuling Of a stevr in the town oj Wilton, presence, The injury was severe, but not danger- and another th Kedding yesterday. woth would ous, On the trial it appeared that Kook detected | have died natural deatas tu a jew hours, ‘The Kenneday’s sister stealing bis fruit and whipped latter was a Cherokee steer und was periectiy | her out of the orchard with unnecessary violence. healthy, except that its spleen weighed | ‘rhe Court took this provocation ito the account turee pounds and tive ounces. The cattle and fined the negro only $5. It is in such things which first succumoed in Newtown were Chero- as these the people of UOxiord claim that their real Kees, and since that time anotaer drove of them relations toward the negro are exemplified. There | has been received and scattered Over the State. is no doubt that the betier part of the community | A report reached here this morning that ten catile do everything in their power to make the negroes had died of the disease in Walcvttville. Tue real prosperous. Mr, Lamar selis them land oneasy ‘TeXan steer never succumbs tu 1, but communi- vers, tus helping tuem to homes of tueir own. cates it to others. These Cherokee and Western Mr. slate, part of whose family were the intended cattle are covered with what are called Texan Victims of @ very [oul wrong, Mires them cotton | tick, showing tab they have been im bad com- | fields on terms more likely to eurich them than | pany. i him; and Mr. Slate is a fair example of the white | THE WESTERN CATTLE | people of whom | have been speaking. The com- | die almost as soon as tney arrive, and not long plaints of such Men mean something. Their cry | alter tueir arrival native cattle sicken and die. against plundering officials and evil and ignorant The disease, as now developed, diders from tne Judges, and tueir fears of outrages worse than previous understanding o! it, aud the result of the death, are Worthy of the respect and attention of study of State boards. ‘hese peculiariues are the North. The trouble has been that they have being made apn especial study by Dr. Cres- failed to make themselves understood, and their sey, Who has obtained leave of absence complaints Nave been construed tnto mere dissat- | from the chair at Amberst that be may isfaction with the existing order of things. Ail give the subject attention. Yesterday he tele- the jegitimate results of the war they accept with- | graphed to Professor Stockbridge, of Massaciu- out murmuring, aud they ail deciare that they setts, 1o meet ex-Governur Hyde, Decretary Gold neither seek nor desire to divest the negro of iis and himself at Windsor, in this State, where there newly acquired rights o! citizenship. What they 1s trouble from the disease. in view of the prob- wont is freedom irom official pluadering, a wise able source oO! the disease an effort will ve made and just administration of the law, security in to lessen the shipments of Western aad ludian | their homes and families and a voice in the affairs cattle. of the State. To gain this @ novel proposition 13 | suggested, which, i! accepted, might heal all the | Woes of the South. SI. JOHN'S GUILD. A NEGRO CHAMBER. This proposition 18 nothing more than the appli: | Contribution of the Cotton Exchange to cation o/ the leading idea of the British constitu. | tion to the Southern States. The two houscsof | She Floating Hospital Fand — Other | lentiful. Our society, 2 3 End ‘soclabie. We bosct sor ioe winteuaiyated, retined Parliament represent distinct Classes in the com- | Contributions. churches, male and temale colleges, first clags academics | Munity, while here the two brancues of the Legis- The foliowing correspondence will explain itself, And several lower grades o: schools. We know of uo | lature are formed from the sume source. They and show how widely read and warmly sppreci- ated are the HERALD’s appeais in vehaif ofa noble charity which isin the hands of voiunteers, who make no charge upon the pubilc for the support of their officers and members :— New York Cotton Excnanar, HANoveR >Quank, Sept. 12, 1874, Rey. Avvan Wiswatt, Master of St. John’s Guild :— Deak Sin—Messrs. Henry Hentz and M. B fielding passed a subscription paper among the members o! our Xchange yesterday atternoon and collected five hun- dred and sixty dollars ($56), for which 1 enciose my check, Lencluse a list of the donors. Tits is tor the purpose of giving excursions to destitute children. \ ours very truly, BE. KR. POWERS, Superintendent. THE REPLY FROM THE better place tor those in search of homes It you destre to grow up your tauilies surrounded hy ali the advan tages ot Iie come co our gem of a little city. And this is the way they grow up families at Ox- ford:— Five boy babies inside of twenty-six hours will do Pretty well tor one community! A baby in the house is said to be a weil-spring of pleasure. Prehaps. Oxford has many amusing features, ana, strange to say, one of its newest “institutions” is a news stand. Uniortunately for the Ricochet and despite she fecundity of tne population, there is ANOTHER SIDE TO THE PICTURE. His own paper reve: the fact that, however pious the people in the rural districts around Ux- contend that in consequence of this there is a com- Diete absence of checks and balances, especially in the South, where there are two distinct races of people, one of which must be in the majority in | Doth cranches of the Legislature, the same voters electing the Senators who choose the Represen- tatives. One race, they think, cannot and ought | Dot legisiate exclusively for the other. Inevitably this is the result—either the whites or the | blacks aoing* all the legislation, There 18 a | loss of that equilibrium which is necessary to @& good understanding between tne Traces, and this they think more likely to porns @ Trace conflict than any other cause. in order to restore this equilibrium and make both sides equal in lawmaking power, some of the good people 01 Oxtord suggest a new basis for the | State Legislature—that body to be composed of | Sr. Jouy’s Gurzp, Orrick 52 Vanicx 5: TREET. City, Sept. id, 186 ford may be, they are not so thriity as he would | two chamers as now, but the one to be Diack, the Lea en . Superintendent, &c., New York have us believe, There has out been a sweet Other white. The negro chamber would be com- | 1 iUnhyCycur communication of this date, enclos- Potato brought into the town this season. Tne | POsed 0! members elected exclusively by negro | ing wi Wonors w the fund of the Floating Hospital votes and the white chamber to be chosen only by the whites. Such body, they claim, wouid be eminently representative In the States where the population is pretty evenly divided, and it would give neither race the advantage over the other, the one branch being @ check upon the other. grocery merchants of Oxford are now receiving Vegetables, butter and eggs from abroad, and the editor asks, “Ladies of the Grange, how is ali this?” There was only one young man in the donation in the suim ot $500, has been handed to ne. In behalf of the littie ones and their destituwe mothers, and aiso im belalt of the volunteers ot St. Joun’s Guild, L Wish to thank Messrs, Henry uenz and M. B. Fielding and every member of tue New York Cotion Exchange, T think it will be gratifying to w ‘This proposition, to gay the least ol it, i8 @ novel the money contributed will pay the entire expenses of Lita bint ern trade, and he quit the day nq striking one, and | am not prepared to say - two ipsions. ‘urnishing an abundance of lood and & before 1 got here. “All that this town needs,” tnat the Suggestion 1s not born in the spirit of together with all necessary medi dance, to 2,00) mothers and sung the little chorus at the village hotel which true statesmanship. The experiment of two dis- | children. 1 beg ieave to enclose tickets. bot in Inglish Was 80 instructive to me, “1s to stop talking and Ht rece scree ona tiic Dai abececuioae: | sma Gerinan, ‘to the first of these excursions to take . ’ ye q piace on Tuesday next, and would be pleased to have go to work.” 1 had @tolk on this subject with Mississippi and other Southern States are tar from t nuers of the Exchan, accompany os Very truly Colone! Lamar, wuo so distinguished himself for | 8atisiactory. Where the one element is above the yours, ALVAH WisWALL, Master. other there wiil be a conflict between the races bis Moderation in Congress |; “| . The following is the list referred to, as enclosed or I Gress last winter, “Unless jn spite of ail vhe eflorts of good men to preserve | py the Superiutendent of the Cotton EXcbange:— our people go to work,” he said, “1 cannot see | peace and order and good feeling. Even Oxiord, & Henry Hentz $10 00 Fachiri Bro $10 0 what is to become of them. They are very poor Model as it is to the reat of the South, and quielly Wiliams, Bi 10 00° C. A, Kaston. 10 00 disposed as is its representative population, nas its mutterings of discuntent, its unwise move- Willams, Black & Weninait Wiiham Boyce & Co. lu 00 and are getting poorer every day, One of two al- | J. Dounell, ternatives is belore them. They will either deterie | ments from the unruly spirits which exist every- | Freuch & Iravers..... 10 0) Kalli Bros orate into something like the lazzaront of Italy | Where, aud ite outrages inficted by one race upon | Nerion, (Tide aR ep og ag the other. As the negroes are not ail of the class 2 SN G, and Spain or they will throw off their sloth and be- to wnich Ned Stms velongs, 80 not all the whites poo a ¥ HY gS a ue ipeken have the wisdom and virtue and forbearance of Mr. Slave. Inthe very same paper from which [ extracted the foregoing account of Ned sims’ crime I found the following advertisement of a come the active and enterprising community they are capable oi being.” If there is peace, and espe- cially 1 tuere is good government in Mississippi, 4 1) 0) 10 00 1) 0» 10 00 Waiter & Krohn Inman, Swann & Arthur B Graves. B. P. Baker & Co think this issue would not long be doubtful, and | TpRWARD OF $c% fg even the young watchmaker of Oxford might be v colored school house at Lafayette Springsand | 4’ Patarachi. Ms ail the furniture were burned on the night of July al. | Ar poy induced to go back to his trade. It is in the evils | The act was the work of incendiaries, and areward-ot | A; y Wells: Of the public administration, however, that ail the $251" gold will be paid for the arrest and proof of the | Leman Bros. ested & Uo. erson OF persons cominitting the deed. Pee dangers lie—the dangers to peace, prosperity and os WILLS ROSGERS and othe: B Watts ¢ GE cc g v nhs society. | This schoothouse was burned simply because it Woodward & Stillman ® e THE OLD SOUTH IN THE NEW. | was a negro schoolhouse, just as Julia Hayden was Mt » 100) gukins, wight | murdered in Tennessee because she was a negro | 4: Pee cooetane, Tt 1s living 19 such @ community as this, sur- | teycner. The outrage was Undoubtedly provoked | fapman & Sette Gecree fore rounded by so much that is good and so much that | by the talk about the Civil Rights bill, thougn the {7H Ware... ss. 1000 Louis De is bad, so much that ts hopeful and so much that | Obly effect of such crimes must be to make the Ernest Bayer & Co... z negroes more anxious for tue passage of that Fatman & S10 00 is appalling, that 1 jound many representatives of the old South. It is impossible not to be attracted by these people, even now alter ail their misfor- tunes, They call themselves mercurial, but they measure. The servant Who Waits Upon me at my | hotel here telis me that the blacks do not care much avout the privilege of stopping at the same public house or aining at the same table witn the whites, but that many of them want the advan- an embossed binding. But in their hospitality they are almost as pressing as the Spaniards, and more sincere, Their culture is generous and their religion fervent and simple, Neither Frothing- haw’s Qawe nor his transcendental philosophy has reached the people of Mississippi. Everybody is ette Springs. SOME OF THE MISTAKES OF THE WHITES. The burning of neyro schoo! houses 18 one of the | most grievous mistakes which the whites can | commit; but even in Oxford tiere are men who are guilty of acts almost a4 evil im themselves, strike me rather as being austere. They are tages o! the white schoois, because the white | ° teachers are generaily better Instructors than the certainly less like the French thao tg | colored ones. ‘There is shrewd Yankee sense In people of New York, and more like the | this, however distasteiul it may be to the white | Grand total Engiish—a new and revised edition, with | people, and it will ve insisted upon all the more | 778)" OMe ha linialaneiskal ; | sternly by the blacks for every schoolhouse that 18 gilt edges, put without the heaviness of | burned by white marauders as was that at Lafay- | DR, HAYES! JOURNALISM, {From the South Side (L. I.) Observer.) The New YoRK HERALD, with characteristic en- counts of Iceland and {ts millennial t y that paper's orthodox, and it was mentioned to me as an evi- | and even more oupeacon tothe negroes. There spectal commissioner, Dr. Hayes, the renowned dence o! the regard jor order among the whites | is here a benevolent society of the colored pe: Arctic expiorer, The descripuons ot places and that eighty conversions have just taken place in | suasion calied the “Pole Bearers.” Wuether it “ P a people on that lonely Arcric isle are so wierd and this town. I believe every word of what Tange that in some respects they almost seem to has any political object I cannot say; but, tuough me Of the love of peace and quiet between black very absurd even if it 18 intended for pouticat | and white among these people. But they have @ | ends, it is not more ridiculous than were the accounts {romn anotuer World than twat Which grievance which hurts them mightily, They al- | ‘“Lamplighters” and “Wide Awakes” in the great e inhabit; but when We are told Luat tuey have ways argue back wards—not before, but to the War. | campaigns in the North. The Kwochet informs is churches and ubivers.ties, and that they dan ‘They have suffered much in their fortunes, intheir | tmis mystic brotherhood has iong, painted | waltzes, polkas and cotilions, we begin to see jamilies and in their cherished opinions in conse- | poles, with brass or tin On the ends Of tiem, some- | KOMe Tesemblance to rest of the world, Ice- quence of this misrule. They believe they have thing like those used by the old Spanish gentieman land Contains 70,000 Iniavitants, and belongs to been patient and long suffering, and many of | calied Don Quixote, and that the colored brethren the kingdom of Deumark, whose King, Christian | them think tbe North rejoiwes in thelr | occasionaily get together and turust them | IX., was present at tie celebration, the first time woes, The State treasury is plundered, and about hither and bither, alter the fash- | he or #ny other of tier ruers had er visited the they are powerless to prevent it. he men | ion of modern knights at @ tournament. | isiand. He met with a tmost iriendly reception, who rule have too olten exemplified their vices This absurd nonsense, which should have | for ve not only was to honor them with his pres- | ence, but he also brought them a new constitution, With more liberal laws, which, it is belleved, will contribute to their material prosvertty, So the occasion Was both a celebration of the past, and one Of rejoicing over a new era of Itie to be more in unity. itis hoped, with the civilized Worlds in their oMcial acts. Many of the judges are not | only ignorant and imcapable but corrupt. These | things, ‘ently are to have no end; they, at | least, see no solution to the problem they are trying to work out. It is a calamity which has | overtaken them of which they could form uo con. | attracted no attention whatever, gave great. offence to some of the whites, and the “Pole Bearers” were informed that if they did not stop oking their poles around in Oxiord they wouid pe fred upon. This intimation, coupied with the lact that there Waa at the time here as elsewhere | Of the policy of the government in regard to the | for the Sick Children of the Poor and a check for their | ur doard to know that | | or, in other words, lay upon 1t8 own freedom any | natural — | adverse to the peo) le in those who conduct the Jurnished it abundantly. The technical view of ; pubhte business. Bat vy artifice and irregular | The Case on whica the decision waa based must re- | methods the ‘atter may ome @ class, may grasp | Solve itself in the popular mind into @ simple | terprise, recently contained highly interesting ac- | way. The powers of government in common use, Origimally designed by the ofice-holding aris- tocracy to create or uphold their own int. rests ust the governed mags, were all sanctioned, The great democratic principles originated in the Alerican constitution are all sound and right; but their ceveiopment in the detatis of metiod, offices and operations, being nearly all borrowed ‘rom the forms of English law and the old mouarchical systems, bear out tuis view. It is in those latter Tegards that the reforms and th? | growth of our American system must be more pericctly developed. 1¢13 not (hrouga parties con- tending for control of tue government that the BENEFITS OF DEMOCRACY can be realized, Turough the ordinary revolu- tions Of the poitical lottery contestants divide be- tween themselves and alternately enjoy ali that through the 1orms of law cau be wruag from the multitude.’? Mr, O’Conor favored DIRECT TAXATION instead of customs uuties, kc., for the support of the government, “Unless the numerous govern- ments intertwined in the American system can be checked in their career of taxation,” he re- marked, “the system itself must, ere long. perish. There should be no governmental authority over the coinage, over any currency of commerce, or to issue paper for circulation as money. The federal goverument was designed as an organ of UNITED POWERS, yet it has exhibited ample capacity to crush or moduv at wii not only State institutions but the States themselves. Conflicting laws and a jarring jurisprudence among the States should be pre- Vented if prevention ve pracicable. COURT OF ULTIMATE APPBAL, a3 well from the State as irom Jederal tribunals, composed of judges selected by the State and neither subject Lo official interference nor posses- ging coercive machinery of its own, mignt pre- serve this desiraoie unity of juris, rudence through- out the whole country. ‘The want o/ such au insti- tution has been keenly felt vy the confederate | cantons of switzerland, A precedent may be found in that modern tribunal at Lubeck which reviewed the judicial action ot tour perfectly inde- pendent republics, Probably the Ampnictyonic . Council of ancient Greece had its origin in suniiar objects. Such # court might defend the political | autonomy of the Siates against encroachments, and the federal government could neituer forvid appeals hor force a judicial sametion of its own Seated in his library at his beautiful residence on Washington Heights and surrounded by the cherished companions of his earlier and maturer years, serried volumes of legal and scholarly lore and a choice collection o! other works, & HERALD representative found the great lawyer and advo- cate, Charles O’Conor, His views upon the present crisis in our political affairs and his opinions in regard to a solution of the political and social dif ficulties that are menacing and already have acon- trolling influence among us, particularly in the South, were considered of so much importance that, after some general conversation, the inter- viewer took the liberty of soliciting them irom the learned gentleman, THE PROPOSED NATIONAL CONVENTION. INTERViEWER—May | Inquire, Mr. O’Conor, if you have read the articles in the H&RaLp on the sub- jectof anational confention for the purpose of securing peace and a more perfect system of re- construction in the Sout? Mr. O’Conor—I read the HERALD regularly, and have noticed tne articles you reier to. But 1 am not much in favor of conventions as a geueral thing. They are too oiten coinposed 01 apd con- trolied by persons who have selfish and eorrupt Motives and ambitious aims, In my letter to the | Lonisville Convention, which did me the honor to tender me a nomination for the Presidency, | ex- pressed my views pretty !reeiy upon the subject South; and in an article in Johnson's Cyclopedia (a work as yet unpublished), under the title of “Democracy,” have endeavored to express my ideas upon our democratic fori of government and collateral subjects. In this article und in my Louisville letter I have foreshadowed, as it were, an amendment to our political system, watch, in & measure, approximates to the HERALD’S ‘iauthorized acts by increasing tae number of | suggestion of @ national convention. I judges or otherwise. Indeed, the existing Su- | do not pretend to have given that preme Court, whica is enteebied vy its lability to | subject all the consideration tt de- ; Such coercive measures, might then be dispensed serves. It {8 very comprehensive, The neces- IN REGARD TO THE SOUTH. INTERVIRWER—May I ask, Mr. O’vonor, what do you think about tue difiicuities in the south? Mr. U’CONOR (alter along pause and a repetition of the question)—The fact 18 ] have thought too | mach on the subject, and am at a loss where to | meet and answer your question. INTBRVIEWER—ID regard to the conflict of races? Mr. O°CONOR—Ah, there’s the point, and there. we all meet on common ground. Here I meet those with whom I wave beer so long iu antago- nism—the Seymours, the Tildens, the Dixes and all the compromisers and abolitiouists. J lave looked forward for many years, foreseeing this juncture. The conflict of races was sure to come. The shortsighted pohticians passéd through avolition- isi, 'é war, reconstruction, negro suffrage. civil | rights, &c.. only W reach this end, Which Was ob- vious to we from the first. INrERVIEWER—Is there any practical remedy for the present condition oj the races in the south? Mr. U’Conok—I see none in the civil riguts and universal suffrage theories, Tie more tie ne- hae had these privileges and a.tributes extended | | them and recognized in the law the worse it had proved for all. Excepting the sensuous faculties which the negro had mani- fested, the best of which were his music and his love of rapime, he developed no talent adequate to even the ordinary levei of accepted civilization, This ts, 80 far as 1 can recall, the un- disputed fact o1 record. He saw no remedy, but he could point to the obvious resuit at present, which was EXTIRPATION OF THE RACR. There might be a possibility of Pressing them like the Indians on some plan of reservations, but rea ee exile appebred to be an impending eh fhe eters i ro vy their | ear! al ir ablest gospel the treauise known | a Re ay Aeon ‘ing Orisis.”” The latest expo- sitions of Helper (and here Mr. O’Conor producea from the tabie a copy of the latest work of that author, called “‘Nojoke”) indicated and proclaimed sity for a strong independent convention may be deduced from the rdeas I have expressed in the manner and upon the occasion I have mentioned. Here Mr. O’Conor proceeded to give his views at length upon our system of government, which may be briefy summarized as follows :— O'CONOR’S VIEWS ON DEMOCRACY AND THE AMERICAN SYSTEM, “A pure or simple democracy,” said Mr. O’Conor, “may conveniently regulate a prescribed portion of the civil authority wivhin @ subordinate dis- trict; and perhaps it ts competent to the exercise of supreme power in an independent State of slight extent; opinions concur in denouncing it as impracticable in a large one. Deciding questions of policy by direct vote is a practice of this nature, but when performed by ballot it is subject to serious objections. If the entire, elective body could meet at the same time and place, and in such & Way as to admit of deiberate conference and consultation, the judgment of a majority might be esteemed valid. This, however, is not possivie; nor can tts piace be supplied to discussion in impartial assemblies, much less by the essays Of @ various press, each addvesaing its own narrow circle, and mainly unread beyond. THE REPRESENATIVE FORM may, therefore, be regarded as,the only practica- ble method of administering government on the democratic principle. Gonsistentiv with it, poilt- ical power may be denied to some members of the | State, who are nevertheless entitled to protection ; 4nd such privileges @s are suitanie to their condi- | jrankly wuat the whole abouton policy meant. , | tion, Age, Sex, or ascertained unfitness may form | Mr. Helper declares that the avolition of mare, | grounds ofexclusion; so in respect to a distinct | Was advocated Ses neath: CPS AtonG ae ma rac@ very inferior in number as, for instance, the | 1n reulity favoring the exportation of the negro to whites in Hayti, The right to exclude criminals | Alrica—Wwhich, observed Mr. O’Conor, ts a vury fer- | aiter thelr guilt has been ascertained ia indis- Hie, ConniTy ane vine eee ieatione the pensable to the preservation of soctai order—and, BVILS OF THE NORTH practically, it may be aimed against a ciass, asin oe te angi eateoetrea Seca ately eae | enor Ki . - the known instance of certain Ciated currency gud corruption ol government, POLYGAMISTS; | For these soe neay, may be ptmenen gy Mr. | but it shoula never operate otherwise than on the | 0’ onor observed that he now found himself more in harmony with his democratic advocates in the olfending individual as a consequence of his per- treatment of the condition of the North than | sonal delinquency. Even in this case pernicious tormeriy, and he at this ume ones (ol Rs princtpies cannot properly be held to impair the tive oo-Operayion with Seymour, Kernan, Tilden citizen's right, though foreigners known to enter- Se ete eaeae EGkon, Se yeariitemte repens tain them may be denied naturalization or hospl- | IN REGARD TO MR, TILDEN, taiity In any form. With this qualification it may | bebe eM a Pe a Baba hes are et he be broadly assersed that democracy, a8 @ princl- | jyation as the democratic candidate lor Governor. | ple, entities each citizen in common with every it (mr. O’Conor) had been actively engaged with 2 . Mr. Tilden in prosecuung the reform measure: | other to an equal right in the State. Agovern- | 27% ne could vouoh for his unequalled eLergy an | Ment based upon it can acknowledge no conflict- | ineenuity in that direction, He.had been in op- | ing interests among the people to be favured or | opposed. All its legitimate ends are accomplished | when public safety and individual liberty are maintained. Restraining the turbulent and disor- | derly by @ just administration of general laws position to Mr. Tilden and to those Who were called “War democrats” on questions of federal politics, ever since the (ree soil movement orig- mated, They had, however, acted together in the formation of the constitution of 1846, especially in maturing the provisions regulating monopolies, such as rallwa. manulacturing corporations, and providing food, raiment and asylum forthe panks, &c. The. people of oiler sections were impotent, it snould leave all otners in quiet en- striving ‘| al attain Tey sume _deneficent ch soc constitutional principles ass were —_indt- | joyment of such social conditions as they may have cated in the auti-tuonopely| movement tn created for themselves or derived from the ordl- | tie Western States, He regre:ted with Mr. Tilden nary incidents of life, In the main it that envy te been such ita as not togo | in fel e more radically into the prohibition of those evils, should be unfelt and unseen, or at least iewas opposed wo the Legisisture granting an unperceived; the citizen should have no gpeciai charters, nut alone irrevocable but repeal: more vivid consciousness of the power which able. ae had acted with Mr, Tilden in the prose- cution 0 | guards bis civil rights than of the agenctes whence | | now his physical health or content of mind, Where | the voice of the people is actually sovereign tnis must ever be the fact, for itis an irresistible ae- duction of reason that the supreme will never can intentionally enact a law which is not required; THE RING SUITS, in which his (Mr. 'ilden’s) se:vices were invalu- able. In regard to the decision of the Court of Appeals in the suit against (weed, Connolly and the other ring delinquents (<dverse to the claim of the State acting on the part of the city tor | $6,000,000) Mr. O’Conor expressed his satisfaction at the decision. He did not regret the result. The assertion that the fatiure of tha suit was chargeable upon himseli and (iden merely amused lim. Lt was | quite original to have Tliden irraigned as the thief iustead’ of Tweed. He accepted cheerfully that mysterious provision of the divine law which per- mitted evil that good might :0me. This decision was (ar more important tian those who made and procured it had any conception. Tne recovery of the six millions might so lar have heiped Green (the Comptrolier), but tar greater and more valu- able Consequences Will come from the total iogs of the money. Tnat loss ne vow tnpught was certain, the bali Délng dissolved and tle suit transferred to a channel which promised npthing but failure from the first. But the record dnd discussion which must arise williead to momentous resuits, Already the judges, the Court «f Appeals and the cases beicre them have becomethe CURRENT STOCK of the political market, fhe fagging temper of tne pablic had needed some stimulus, and this decision restraint, Hence the axiom that in a democracy every positive regulation not actually indispensable to the public and general wellare which restrains, or even lodirectly tends to re- strain, individual liberty in any degree, however slight, so lar violates tue spirit of the constituuon, It is an infraction 01 popwur rights, and may justly | be denounced as the ofspring of uniaw!ui force or of fraud. These agencies cannot ve whol ly ex. pelied from any sphere; but itis the office of de- imocracy to restrain their influence in official ac- tlon within the narrowest limits, A contrast with 1t8 rival (mMouarchical) systems Wil! aNord the best means Of Uiustrating its teudency and useluiness, Democracy, veiig vasea upon ABSOLUTE EQUALITY, admits of no governing Ciass nor of any interest statement of the facts. Twred and company were sues et $6,000,000 of this stolen mouey, They oftered, powers incompatible with the nature of the gov- eynment and may involve their country tn al. the evils incident to hereditary rule. Persecution for moral no-contormity, so grateful to Ube ii-re laced tind, may be irom time to ume praci until resisiu ig provoked aod @ color afforded for war, [6 ‘this condition the wrandiy patriouc spirit engendered by ‘ree {nstituvions gives great force and breadth; the entire peopie at once rush IN A WRITING IN MY POSSESSION, to restore $3,000,000 on caditions which public justice would not admit, il view of the flagrant Character of the crime, a8 vell as the conceded ud adjudicated record of tie facts, there can be NO TOLERTION toarms, aud public Gebt is incurred at @ pace | ror this dectsion 0: the Court of Appeals. It is twenty-:0ld more rapid than would be tolerased | notorious that these promedings have already | under the cautiously regulated | Controlied nominations tr ever the highest i} CORRUPTION OF MONARCHTRS. ‘ ofices in the jand, and it appears from the | | These are abuses and are deviations irom the dem- stand taken vy some of tne = judges | ocratie principle every good citizen. UNMIXED DEMOCRACY is the principle 61 government recognized tn Switzerland and in various portions of the Ameri- can Coatinent. In tne United States of America it normally exists, gnd upon the grandest scale, ‘they, therefore, present the vest practical illustra- ion oO What it is im its present stage ol develop. | ment, Any shortcomings in practice there dis- | cernible may serve to indicate te advisabie iine of progress in pastas to perfect its ma- | chinery, and what many other pations seem in- | clined to imitate ought to ve treed, if possible, | from existing defects, Americans regard tmon- | archy and aristocracy as utterly and irrevocably nent barrister for some tiree hours tn the inter- BANISHED FROM THIS COUNTRY, view above partially desrived, the interviewer and consequently suppose that in the United | at this point thanked lis \ast and withdrew, Their prevention is te duly of that they see similar oppmrtunities presented by their course. But the Presidency, the Senator- | Suip or the Governorship nay be promised them and yet they will find th peopie siow to make good delivery on sach ontracts, Mr. O’Conor Saw in the discussion now initiated about this nomination of ‘Iiiden the direct result of the de- cision in the Tweed suit, aid a HOTTER sTRIFE will yet follow. There wil, he said, be an up- rising Of pubic sentimen which would vindicate Mr. Tilden by his eiecton as’ Governor, and | thereby more Ormly secure the results of good government, Aiter having enjoyed ti company of the emt. | | This Was in itself | power oi the press and | The meetings drew out amazing crowds, more like j of Mr. Perry's ‘‘ciaims’’ it is believed that he will } Vored by Providence than the Anglo-Americans, | to the attacks of a mob. Soctalistic views were DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION, How Will the Kings County Delegates Vote at Syracuse!—The “Boss” Says the Delegates’ Hands Are Free. Now that the nine Assembly District Conventions of Kings county have been held and twenty-seven Of the most experienced democratic politicians have been chosen to attend the State Convention to be held at Syracuse, on Wednesday next, the question “Who will be their nominee for Gov- ernor ?” arises upon all sides and forms the chiel topic of conversation, The ex-Register Hugh McLaughiin, for many years known as the “Boss,’? leans the delegation, being chairman of the First district delegates, Tnis will be the frst time Since 1861 that he has attended a convention as delegate, though he has never been far away from any important convention when he deemed it his duty to assist “the boys” by nis advice in their deliberations. Mr. McLaughlin de- clares that the Kings county delegation will go to Syracuse pledged to no man; that their hands are untied, and they will be guided in their choice by their best judgment and the exigencies of the party. While that may be very true and nighly proper, he ts understood to Jean strongly toward | Chief Justice Church as the right man for the democratic nomination for Governor. This sentt- ment pervades @ majority of the delegates from Kings county: Dat If ts safe to say that their re- gard for Church will not be suficiently strong to Prevent their voting as a unit for Sam Tilden should they find the pulse of the Convention throb- bing at the mention of his name on the morning of the 16th inst. A prominent and veteran political worker said to the writer yesterday:—{ don't realy believe that either Tiiden or Church will be Dominated. I am Of the opinion that Homer A. Nelson wiil be the choice of the Con- vention after all. Mr. Tilden ts an honest man it ig trae, but then he ts such @ slow-going coach that it ig next to impossible to galvanize him into life, do what you may. With regard to Mr. Church i fear that he will be dodging venind the pillars when time ts called, and that at the last moment he will refuse to come to the front. He 1s tricky, and don’t amount to much one way or the other. Another objection, and on party grounds it is a solid and ail-sufficient one, 1s that by putting Mr. Church in nomination jor Governor we leave a@ vacancy on the Bench. Such policy ts like taking $10 out of one pocket and putting it tn the other pocket, expecting thereby to make $1, , The deiegates will take their departure from Brooklyn or Syracuse to-morrow evening, and the campaign ior 1874 may be said to have opened with @ solid iront presenied by the democratic party of Kings county. NEW JERSEY DEMOCRACY. The Nomination of Judge Bedie for Governor Virtually Settled — Mayor Perry’s Own Home Solid for Bedle—The Other Counties Heard from Also Favor Him. The New Jersey Democratic Convention to nom!- nate @ candidate for Governor in opposition to George A. Halsey, the republican nominee, will be held in Trenton to-morrow. Since the dis cussion of the political situation in the State began, more especially since the opin- fon became universal throughout the State that the only two names seriously con- sidered in the race were those of Judge Bedle and Mayor Perry, the general understaning has been that the primary battle ground—using that term properly in its double sense—would be in Essex and Hudson counties, the former the home of Mr. Perry and the latter of Judge Bedie. In the po- litical ethics of New Jersey no prophet is considered entitled to much honor outside of his own county unless highly honored in his own. In other words, a@candidate has never any strength in a nomi- nating convention unless he comes strongly endorsed by his near neighbors—by his home or county delegation. Hence it was conceded on all sides in New Jersey that tf Mr. Perry or Judge Bedle did not carry clear majorities of the dele gates intheir respective homes they would be practically ruled out of the Convention. And now has come the tug of war. Now, indced, has the contest been virtually decidea, and, if the ethical rule above descrived ve considered binding, OVERWHELMINGLY AGAINST MR. PERRY in his own county and home, and in that of Juage Bedle’s also. As regards his own county Mayor Perry, exactly like Mayor Poineer, a republican many years ago, aroused stromg antagonism in and out of his own party by his course on the sumptuary Sunday laws. Besides this the Mayor had and stil! has many bitter enemies In his own party, not strong enough themselves to hurt, but? strong enough to make a heap of trouble in ahand> to-hand conilict. Over three months ago an effort was made to unite Essex county on one man—Mr. Perry. On behalf of the Mayor a large conference meeting of the democrats was called, the object being to feel the bopniae pulse with re- ard 10 him, ‘the pulse was felt and found to be ating violently against Mr. Perry. The only out- spoken friend he seemed to have was Captain “Bill? Kelly, one oi nis most trusted ‘working’? campaigners oj long standing. It was found that out of the hundred persons present not over a dozen were favorable to Mr. Perry’s nomination. A GREAT BLOW TO THE MAYOR, but he could not be made to Jeel it, He was deter- iiued to go before the primaries. In this he was helped by a jew zealous friends, and by the united politicians of the adminis- tration party. The latter, knowing his vulnerabie points, and the unvulnerabie ones of Judge Bedle, brought all their powers to bear to try and have Mr. Perry swap his own county and so receive the nomination. in this, asin many other matters, “the best laid schemes 0’ mice aod men” went “agley,” aa the sequel shows, THE BSSEX COUNTY PRIMARIES to select delegates to the Democratic Convention have been held, and with @ result killing to the chances of Mr. Perry. Ont of the 112 delegates elected only twenty or so are Known to be Perry tuen. The others are solid for Bedle, unless the Convention shouid see fit to select some other can- didate, sometuing it is not remotely likely to do, &@ general election than ordinary primaries. The First ward GAT ee of Newark led oi with a delegation soli tor Bedle, in the event of his carrying a majorit, of the county, Tie ciairman is Mr. Andrew A. Smalley, who was at one time prominently named as & candidate, but who has thrown lis Jull strength into the canvass for Judge Bedle. ‘The townships outside of Newark went solid for Bedle, but the sorest cut to Mayor Perry must have been the carrying of his own ward, th Ninth, by a Bedie delegation. After tins SEDAN LIKE SRITLEMENT make no further atiempt to swim up stream against the popular tide, but will retire gracetuily, ge to Trenton, perhaps and good naturedly be the first to “hurrah for Judge Bedle and victory!’ The primaries in Hudson having chosen a large majority delegation for the Judge, and the ac- counts received showing that Sussex county rolie down a solid Bedie delegation of thirty odd, that Warren and Morris and Monmouth have done the same, and that even Mercer, where Perry was supposed to be strongest, has sent a Bedle deley tion, renders {t certain that, as the H&RALD pre- dicted three months ago, tue democratic elements are crystallizing around the Judge so that his nomination now by acclamation is considered a foregone conclusion, The townsntp of Summit, in Union Kade has delegated J. Daggett Hunt to represent it, Mr. Hunt, ike Mr. Smalley, was also named promt- nently in conuection with tne gubernatorial nomination. He it was who, in the jast demo- cratic Convention, Virtuaiy nominated Governor Parker tn aspeech which struck the popular chord, He 1s widely known, too, as the sole champion in the State, outside of the HgRALD and other jour nals, of the general railroad law reluctantly passed by the last Legisiature, a law which suunded the death Knell to monopoly and railroad lobbying. FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES, During the sesston of tne British Assocation at Belisst, on the 26thof August Mr. George Ward Norman read (in the Economie Science Section) a paper “On the Future of the United States.” He said there probably never was @ nation more fa- He traced tneir settiement on the American Con- tinent and their history, and gave a brief account of the rise and progress of the United States, He doubted the possibility of estabushing tn an old country sor ehing. at all like the gavernment of the great Republic, On the whole there waa no coun- try in which the national will, when once ascer- tained and expressed, would more surety attain the objects at which tt aimed than in the United Staies, When the majority pronounced opposition ceased, The centralization of the government had No prejudicial effect on the development and exer- cise Of the Dational power. During the late civil war, when the Unionists were temporarily divided, the armies brought into the fleid numuered nearly 1,500,000, and ‘that out of a population of perhaps 26,000,000. What would he say as to the future of the United States? He couid see no danger as long as land remained available for cultivation and population. There was no imperial Legisia- ture sitting in @ Vast capita: and open at any time hot, of course, confined to macee. bat in the United States, where tt was easy to obtain suv- sistence, there was nothing like tne food for dis- content which was to ve found in Germany, France or Kuwiand,