The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1875, Page 4

4 TH O10 CAMPUSES RrReE the sur, jer Ol any principle, support the tickes given you some reasons for this THE CURRENCY QUESTION, S80 far as legisiation Cun aifeos 1, rests with Oon- gress. The officers to be ciected im Oo this year wil: Dave, 1 pave already said, no juriaitcnoa over Lt 1t i8 @ national, an. Dots mere Stale con. cero; and although every State nas @ periect Tight Co eXpreas 118 Opinion upou tt, and may very properly do so, yet tts suluiion is devoived upon the representatives Of all tue States in the Cou- gress assembled, And tae drait.ug of 4 Bi party piatform upon it, to be submitted to che Peopie, is the odice Oo! a Rational convea/ion rep: Senuing the party im all the Such @ con veution of our party will meet ear, and its de.lverance, we may fairly presume, wil reflect the opinion aud maniies: the will « entire meowhat au.us- ra, be tuey worte —_-++——-- Senator Thurman and General Hayes on the Issues of the Day. HARD MONEY VS, PAPER CURRENCY The Same Subject Regarded from Different Points of View. Lor, crivicisms that are day seen in the bewspape: Upon the suLyt I am considering. One ciase of | these papers denounces witu great severity tae Bard money democrats oi Onio because tuey 40 not unite with the repubucans to deleat our ticket, for. geiting tuat even Horace Greeiey, taen cuiel Whig | eultor Of the Un.ted States, exerted ail his power and influence to eect General scott bo tue Presi How the Ohio Advocates of Re- sumption Can Support the Democratic Ticket. dency, and, ac tue game time, to use his siromg, but Gertainiy BOL courteous languawe, “spar upon ee —? sue platform.’ Anotaer ciass of editors denounce do not serreuder our convictious | and support paper money utd inflativa as weil a8 tne ticket, ‘I y are nus content that we shall help to elect ie tickes; they require taat we shiil also abandon our faith, forgetting that nob three years guve elapsed siuce they were tueu- | | selves among the most ardent anu eMicieut sup- | porcers ot Horace Greeicy jor tue Presidenc, upon the most promouuced and unamoiguou | burd movey aod Specie resumption plaviorm (hab | could bs writen, | but let Us pass to more important conside | tious. I hava no desire to 8euk of the tucun | | Arraignment of the Repub- lican Party. | | us because | kde oubjicans Desire to Leave Resumption to the Natural Course of Events. Seueies OL politicians. Iam coatent Ut cab twin tala my OWN Cuusisiency and a tue same Litas Go what { dDelleve to be night iu ls time to re.er more particularly to some of | THE POINTS OF DIFFERENCE 7 MINISCENCES OF THE LATE WAR. | the Causes 01 Complaint bat justly exXias againss | radical administration, Aug Orst, let us driedy consider Loos! seli-governmenot and ibs uppusite, ceniralizaden, Caustic Criticism on the Democratic Adminis- tration of State Affairs. | es uotaiog in Couwmon tion O. secession. Lt SO Olten talseiy assert. 16 with tue doctrines of Runs. Tren meee | oy xia A in pert Saye of she Kepuvlic GA ; mn ras _ | exist, as tauy and compieely to the Union as it | ‘ECH «6 OF':~=Ss SENATOR) «=©6 THURMAN. | conid nave dune hud every State been, te ali in | leu:a, # weparate sovereizoty, L cal seif-novern- aud sdmiuister its oWn laws upon every swuject | MANSFIRLD, Ob1o, July 51, 1875. thas couceros tt alone. Lo illustrate :—The dov- | The fetlowing ts tne speech of Hon. Allen G. | trime oi local rirtaur a be that ine | . ‘ | laws that govern tue purely domestic concerns of | Toorman, Whick was delivered here to-night:— | nig snail be made and administered by O10 | Mn. PRESLDENT AND FELLOW UITIZENS—We aro oue. ibe Goch ine vl centralizavion, on the cou- at the commencement of a political campaign oo Rte Bg bred 1a abe 1 ates: | oi ° . . | of more than usual importance. Two years | jeveq vy the federal. juuiclery und executive. You ago tae democracy carried Unio by a smal see at once how widely and rauically diderent are | majority. That victory preserved the organiza- these two systems, and how mvmeutuus must be the consequences of malutaiping tue one or the tion of the party and made other democratic vic- | oiner. But belore speaking of that let tortes possivie. It was the forerunner of the | me call your Laban 2. a; iach of | 4 hat how jar tue principe of local self-goverument | mere extended trinamphs that Ravesince bee has always, prevailed im Omio. Under our achieved, © * * You, my fellow democrats of Richland, are what are called hard money men, and iam ard money man—that is to say, we do not believe in an irredeemabie paper carrency; we believe that such acurrency must necessarily fluctuate in value, lead to speculation and ex- Yravagance, and venefit no one bat money shav- atsand speculators. We belteve that our car- rency should consist of gold and silver, and, for convenience, paper convertible at partato gold and sliver at the will of the bolder. Intms we | concur with the uniform teachings of the demo- | 5'2'0 Crees or eenatigin SRALTRaeh pode Seek | cratic party, witm the opinion of every really | of these subdivisions tae power is conierred of eminent political economist the world over, witn | Tegulating, in a greater or less degree, its own coustituuon ef 1802, or that 2 1851, the Geoeral assemuly might have legisiared for every sud- division of tae State, however smail, and in reier- ence to every sudject, however peculiar to that suodivision, Such @ 8)stem, to @ great extent, | nas aiWays existed in France, where nota road | cag be made, bridge built, or even a mill | erected, wituout @ permit irom tbe central ad- | miniscratiop, Such was the system tat pre- vated ip that country for many centuries, and wuicn has not, I believe, been mach modified even | | at tos day, How widely digerent from such cen- tralization of power 18 Lhe system tn Ohiv, adopted by Our latuers and perpetuated © emcee! ihe A | trived by ture: some Of Lue | between us and our adversaries, aud to some of | ment is simply the rignt ol @ Community to make | wo, by reason of this reiusal, that struck a& the very exist- | the results of thac erection, But now what oc- curred ? Lm the frst place a so-called Returning Board, whose duty it was to compile the eection | retu. o# aad osrtily the election f tmemoers. cou 80 many demvc atic memoers, seats to the defeatet republican ©: Instead of u cemocratic majority of tweary. awe thew Qu Out the Votes of Mumerous pre- cincts, and sometimes of wnole counties, to reject that, ne in | the House, the repudlicans clatwed @ majority of affairs wheo | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1875.—TRIPLE longs to the speakers who are vot llow me, and that {am unwilling to do, | allude to THE CORSUPTION that Bas prevailed in goverament duri | fourteen years, and walon is without the history of the Repuolic, In he outses, ho! jar (rom assert. ing (hat any party that nas ver hela power iu toe country was waolly (ree (rom corruption, or that, on the coutrary, aay such party was wholly aod eutirely dis it. To e the first assertion r | ever, L wisa to say toac 1 um were one or two. This was the position tae General Assemoiy met HA tne 4th day of Janu- would be tu coatradict plainest tacis of uis- ary last, and the democrat in organiz- | tory; to make the latter would not only contra- img the House. Then Was bened w Bad never | Gict Bistory, bul uld be @O assauit upou popular belore hap,ened nis laad—soldiers of the | Kovernment. For it needs no deep insight wate federal army, comm( } goueral, { INVADING TH HALLS OF A STATE LEGISMATURE, ational | assuming to decide who were its memvers, and | Marchine eut, beeween fixed Oayonets, fve duy | elecrea und qualitied representatives. Wnen the | tact @! this ourage, Of tals Magrant violation 0! | tue constituuonal rights of a Stale, of this ab | tempted overtar wot 18 lawful Legisiavure, be came known, the wooie country, from one end of | toto toe ocher, (elt aSnock taat soon lousd ex- a won in public the pubite press | ext let us tura (o Arkansas, In October, 1874, | the people of that Stace, by the overwe ste Of 78,697 tor, to 24,307 agaiast it, adop natitutioad. State officers ana a Legis! meetings, State | were | were inauzurated and entered | of their lunctions. The cons | ment thus coesen were emi Ay | the Stute began to eBjoy & peace ani Q! which tc bad long been deprived ander BADIVAL AND CARPRI-BAG RULE, eyes to the radical majority in Congress radical Presidewt to retrieve their br ical fortunes. House of Kepresentatives to be sent Lo investi gate Arkansas affairs, and the committee visited partes, own ob-ervations, saw with their own eyes the condition of tue people and heard wi: wisues, ‘Thus fully miorwed they returned to Waauington to craw up and present their report. lt soon leaked out that alunough @ majority o! the commitiee were republicans their report would | be favorable to tne new coustiurion | and the exisung goveroment. in tuls | position of affairs the Jactionisis had re- | Course, in tneir desperation, to tue President, and Congress was soon amazed by the receipt of & | Presiden lal message tat, in effect, recommended the overtnrow, by federal power of the constitu- | tion and che government of tae State and the restoration to Its chiel mag fa man who, | Duta iew months besore, tn adeu by @ brevet brigadier sure cled at the same TmMe, and in due couras oun tae discharge Ut DB and govern opular, and prosperity But, of cvurse, the faction, comparatively small in numoors, but desperate in purpose, WhO bad ruled and almost rucved the State, were dissatis- fed witaa turn of events that deprived them of power and piunver, aud oaturasly directed ei They procured @ cominittee of the the State, took much testimony, tully heard all | ie their own ears their sentiments and | racy Oo! President kimself eibmer history or philosopay to conviuce us tI | the grcat mass of any people are thorougdly cor- | rupt they are unit to be depositaries of political power, fhe truta is that great body of the people, of whatever party, shonesty, and although the exigencies uf parties Loo frequentiy make them overlvv« it im tueir rulers, they yet to ther hearts conaemn and ae: 1. But it is not enough, my friends, to condema and atest vice 1b Our hearts; we must do more if we would ex- Urpate or lessen it, We must make our ds ation feit, in Oraer that the offenuera may be brouche to well-deserved pun. shmeat, and that a salutary ex- ample may be set Lo Wark others against tne Com. mission vl like crimes, And here, ve it observed, that the criminal laws of the land are not suil- cient to eradicate the evil, (hough whea rigor- ously enforced they may do muck to diuitnisa it, For there is $0 Much vitci@l misconduct, of wach we may be morally convinced, but of waica the strict add fuil proois requi.ed Lo & court of justice jd there are so many loop. absolute mecessity. regu ts found im the power o/ the people (0 chadge their rulers through the agency Of thy ballot box, And whenever a party uas vrougat @isgrace upon the couniry, or @utalles Upon IL serivus losses DY the misconduct Of ite oMcials, 16 18 the duty o: tae people to mani. lest their Sense Of the Injury, aud Lo set a salutary example by turning that party out o: power. Un. der such Circumstances tt e0e8 not avull to say that the mass Of tue party isinnoceut, That is uudouviedly true, ad no candid man disvutes it, But there 8 @ great and overshadowing puv- lo necessivy, imperious demand of publio virtue, @ WI ad circumspect regara fur te juture, that require the people to exercise tae only effeciave power tp their nds by maxing & nge iu their rulers. Unuerstand me; | do pot y that & party should lose power because few instances, here aud there, oficial dengue have been found in it, for taose are accidents that no party can always guurd against, The most that it can do is to punish the offenders. But when the delioquencies are not Jew and casual, when they extend over @ long period ol time, when they are found in almost every department oi! goverdment, and, instead of being repressed, are seen to increase Im maguitude and number, | bad reimsed io acknowledge as Governor, and | thea tne people are to tueir interest, iaise to i been displaced | their virtue, false to g government, false to tue from power. Upoa this most extraordinary and petuity Oo! free imstitutions, if they fall to apply alarming messag' ence of the otate, that in effect DENIKD ITS RESERVED SOVEREIGNTY and claimed abseiute power over it for the fed- | eral government, that treated with contempt the Tigo Of (be people to make thelr own constitu- e of the tion and eect their Own oflicers, the Se instead United States (00k Bo actiun Waateve of condemning it in Stera ianguage, a8 tt snould waged it by im pro- lence, broken only,oy the watlings of one Bepators of the discvmited fac- a on eir everlasting credit be it spokea, @ decisive ma- | jority of the House (their committee having made | @ report such as I bave indicated), sustained the report and saved the country from @ more fa- ussiole, more unconstitutional act of federal violeuce thau bas yet disgraced tue an- have veen condemned, tacy foun of alarm ube toa, the sirong word: jee ct the demucratic aide of the Cuamber. grant apd, if nals oi the nauvo, Delieved in THE DANGER OP CENTRALIZATION, and infuential of tue radical leade: to review f | peculiar concerns. ive smallest suodivision is tne lessons of experience found wi the history Of | Tie ee soy) district, With its board of trustees, every commercial Bation, and with the views of | gutnorized to erect scavolnouses, employ teac almost the entire body of the business men of ers, supervise the achovis, anu ior these purpeses to sevy, WIL the assent Of ine peopie, taxes Lo a America. Now, it bas been roundiy asserted, limitea amount. Risimg im the seu! @ come to and witha violence of speech that might be con- | tne to hip. with its board of trustecs, em- sidered intemperate, that | powered to lay out or vacate certain roads, in | THE PLATFORM | some instances to & puole buiidings, vo pro- ig 9: | Vide for the temporary supyort of tae poor, and of our late Convention means just the opposite of tv perform otuer funcuons that concern te iown- | our opinions, that it means an irredeemable paper ogy sin a also clo\hed wita a limited power " o! % eurresey pow and forever, and consequently lages, witn their quasi legisierures, the com- that gold or sliver, or paper convertible into gold | mon councils, auvborizea to make laws cailed and siiver, shall never form a part of onr cireulat- | Ordinances, and their various Aart bd oMecers, . a if charged wita their execution or with the preser- tag medium. But certainly bo such idea ts eX- | vation of the peace; and here again « umited pressed in the platform, nor do | believe that itis | power of taxation ts conferred upon the local leg- entertamed by a majority of these who approve Wlution oO tue municipally. Rising yet higher it, I know that there are men who advocate the | wicn its Board of County Commissioners, ciotued soandonment ef gold and silver as mouey; who | with numerous aud very important powe acout deemabilit: yy; SMOME WRICU 1s & PoOWer 1 LaXstiou, and Its Prova: snngiraasesgob apie at isa apy athiadr ts age Judge, Soerit, Corener, Aaditur, Treasarer and who assert that whatever the government calis | Prosecuting Attorney, ail caosen by the bavets of money is money, and who regard irredeemavie | ita yee quahfica be ee AU i} roger t ine f | Buddivisions, we reach the Stite itself, with its grey oper etase eareey ee eee | General Assemoly, auinorized to make all laws not | saw. Botl donot think tuat these menconstl- | jormidaen vy the jederal or Stuie constituuon, | tured @ majority of the late Convention or of its | and ils imposing executive and judicial depart- © . 1 . | ments, cuargea with the interpretation or ine en- | naarieerp etry ateopaeRa rae Sus sey jeer | forcement of the laws. Tnus you sve. my feviow | case their views Would have been expressed with- | citizens, how wisely local seii-geverument is pro- | out ambiguity. Bat you look im vain to the piat- | vided ior in Onio; how one school district is not | form for & direct expression in favor of trredeem- | #ilowed to intervere wita amotner, nor ome town- | ability, or @ direct assertion that gold and silver ip oF county to interfere with anewer; Dut buat, | snould be demonesized. It advocates the substi. on the contrary, the law says to each and all of | them, ‘‘Mind your vwa business, and ovbers | tation of greenbacks lor national bank Botes, bas it nowhere says that the greeabacks snoald be ir- And sothe framers of the federal constitution | redeemable. On the comtrary, it contemplat intended that each State should regulate . PEOULIAR, DOMESTIC CONCENS | that they shall be brought to par with gold, ana Fictions waatever, save inuse im- | although we may not be quite able te see how that can be dome in the mode preposed, its desira- posed by that constitution for the common wel- | all the sSiates, And they intended thi | biencss is most ¢istinctly and fully recognized. Ang then, ss to inflation, tue platform does not $hi8 suOUid De @ Tigut &hu NOt @ Mere priviie, | expressly demand more currency. It deneunces that It should not be suvjeci to control or iumit tium by any superior power, a8 are tue privileg contraction, put does uot say in piain words, Give us inflation, What it does say is, ‘that the vol- | 0; COMDLes Ud MuUDcipanlies sadject tv tae con- trol of State Legisiatures On the contrary, they ~ecognized it as @ sovereign right O! tue stace, and tue Scate itself as sovereign in everything | over which jurisdiction Was not conferred upon ume of currency be made and kept equal to the | tue federal gove.tment. And hence, after the | wants of trade: and this ts all. Now, I suppose | ®40ption of tae constitution, to “make assurance | that there fs not, and never bas been, aman im any civilized country WhO would not say that tue volame of currency should bs equal to the wants To say so isto uttera mere truism, a abstraction. The practical question Is, auubiy sure,’ and leave no room jor misconcep- | jon, MmMenGments Were adopted declaring tliat | 6 euumeration in the covstitution of cer. | tain rights sual not ve construed to weny or dis. | parage others retained oy tne peopie;” and | azaiu, (vas “(be powers not delegated to tne United States by the coustitu'ion, nor promibite by it Lo the States, ure reserved tu tue States re- spectively, or to the peopie.’’ New, refiect ora moment Wuat would be the resuit of the doctrine of cevtralization should it ever Orm!y prevail in the Repubiic. Theu we snoutd have a Kepuolic in ame, put not in iact; a des,otism im realty, by Whatever Lame it might ve called, Thea your | loca! laws, in which no one Bas an fhterest out yourselves, would be made, mot vy representa- tives chosen by and respunsinle to tae peovie of elected by and mere flave we that vommme Dow? and upon tals ques- tiom the platform is suent. Toblim who believes sthe present volume is sufficient it means no lofation, fur in bis mind it is already quite “equal to the wants ef trade.” To another man, who thinks that more currency ts needed, 1t does mean eXpansion; ana 80, whecber it means the one thiag or the other aepemcs upon the preconceived tons of every one who readeit, Suppose, for | tance, that an Olio member of Cougress, hay- | s@¥enth part ef tue whole Senate—what couid ag to yote upon an inflation bill, should look to | taey do to prevent local legislation nusuited or he get? Waaiis in it to tell nim whetmer members—what could they do to protect you he should vote for an increase of currency of tem | Were Comgress to make your local laws? but raillious, @ Bunared millions, five Bundred mill- | $0" Tilee; surety Wo one. waimks ot aver. fons oF mo increase at all? ronments of the § * New, the gentiomen whe framed this platform are able and boid men, masters of tne Eagiieh sougue, capable of gaying what they mean, and by no meaas afraid to say it. When, therefore, they plainly denounce contraction, but fail to expressly advocate inflation, is mot the presumption fair taat they do not inflation’? Understand me, lam not defending the piatform, for in some particulars Ido mot like it, and I ieave to those who approve it the task of its advecacy. Nor am I criticising it, for I Rave no disposition to ce eritical, aud T that réle to our common ad- versarics. Bus I think it but justice to say that y hi throwing the g wi las y Siate governmens has been oversirown by Lon- ud Ocher governments instituted im the 0 as Congress saw Ot to dictate; and atime ol war, bUb IM & me OF pro. Not to muitiply ine | this, Dot found and universal peace. Biances, look at tre case Of Georgia, in Woich me rs of ner General Assemoly were ousted | from Uneir seats and otners seated in ther stead, | mot by u wion Of any functionaries creaved by the Cons\utucion Of thas simle, Dut by the arl- trary and unconstitutional mandate oi tue feverat Congress, Congress auving set tnis example @1 the OVERIMMOW OF A STATE GOVERNMENT, & time of peace, it is n0+ wonderiul that it was m imitated ana followed by oswer fegeral of- ficers and departments. And ence the Big! Nanded afd atrocious proce tae platform has beea construed te mean more | curred in Louisiana. in 1+’ shan is expressed In 11, and more than Was meant, | Stace cleoted tuelr Stace ofllonrs, “ ‘ | Senate ama tr eof thew House 0: Repre- | as I believe, by those who jramed it Im@aying | gontativos, ‘ne election Led in the uboice of | this I do mot lose sight of tue interpretation | tic oF conser for the | piaced upon it by some of its iriemds, { know | i ane he (mtg Pha Fecndhewmednd | ns : | 16,000, eo1ded Conservative | saat Some Of Its Warm advocates regard itas | majority of the House of Represeatauves, Aud A DECLARATION AGAINST GOLD yet not one of the State officers ius chosen nas ana silver, and for an irredeemabie greenback | beem permitted to execute his office, aud vnc con- currency Dow and forever, coupled with great and permanent iofation; but jorreasens that I | nave partly stated, and others that I have no time | turned inte & repuplican majority by the expulsion ef comservatives au: the seating in their stead of repubi en dvieated ac tb! oll elected and who nad Wil of thus to state, L believe that these men are compara- : ly oxprosued, was set at tively f-w in number. The truth is that there is v awiuliy elected ; a wide diversity of opinion among the people of completely oversarown apd & revolutionary, ft nment 1D ali parties upon rbis subject. There are aemo. PAarpine oo eer oe moveen mene (eae. eratic bard money men @cd democratic paper ‘cue usurpation was effected by means of a void order @ mere distri judge of money men, republican hard money men and re- publican paper money mes, democratic resump. sionistse and democratic infationtets “ana republican resumptionists and republican tm. | fationists, The question is mot strictly & | senato party question. Honest mem of all parties | lature ni a eee orcad may be found on tts opposite sides, and soit nas | 4 » y ever Dees after every great panic by which the | <ey os ee kee fs i. country has been aMicted. Important as tris cur. | iit a democratic House, tad the rency question is, there are otner questions teat, bers been seated, would have vee in my judgment, are still more important, and the United states, wishous th gm t jurisdic- tiea in wwe premises, eniorced by the bayouets of eceral army aud matotemed by the arbitrary of tue Ubiet Magistrate o/ the erection tor ana Representa in the State Legis- din Louisiana, whe result of watch was ty-mine im the i tied in th cheek upon the omtrageous fey jor yours disgraced the radical wssembites, biat these I pt se, in the course of the canvass, to had brought tbe State to am simost hopeless con- aiscuss. it | mave be: 4 | dition oF bankruptcy, amd that lea impov- misrepresented, and the bard mot om cr: | erisned and neary rained its peopie. And of Unio, wita whom | act, b: fedand | upon joint bauot the democrats Would pave ridiculed; and seit G t owe to | had a larwe majority bee to elect @ them aemanded that! saoud se Gr rly, what they and { belie: vi without incwasiate! soould set forth w. honor, we ca@ support cur Miiation or loss of ve. We come to teat great subdivigion, the county, | servative majority im tue House of Kepresenta- | sider tue question, “Is there not daoger?” cerns the life, everything that is the subject of law, | rank 0 repuvicau teacuers, | every statesm in and jurist im tue land, of what. to ail these other only in and respect tuac sovereign waved = powers, delegated to itin tne Cousutaton, and this was the docirive O/ all pares und suades Of parties in | the cogatry [rom the jurmauon of tae cunstitu- Bus im practice tne very op- | tion duwa to L861, posite Of ths true doctrine no the radis 4d Cume LO Prevail, Abd pow ii there ls amy one here who has dis- who has regarded what bas been said about it as the mere clap-trap 01 u demagouue, the dream of @ Visionary, or an exercise of a rhetorician, | pray him, in view of the facts I have stated, and of many more of ike import thal might be stated, and Of the utrerances, at first cautions and fatat, but now bold and outspoken, of the most eminent bis upiniou, and seriously and consci seemed con hy, | wnat is the interpretation placed upoa the con- | stitution, and especially upon the Fourteenth | amendment, by the leaders of the republican | party? reed trom ali verbiage and amoigaity, | it amounts simply to the assertion of @ supreme power in Uongress over every sabdject that cou- erly or property ofany person | wituion the United States; in other words, over Tuis mon- Blrous proposition, which, If carried into execu- | ton, would leave no reserved rights or sover- Next come tae cities ana vil- | ever politicui purty, Caugot tae doctrine that the | federal goVerumeut possesses Ro powers but sucu aS «re eXpressiy, or by necessary impiteation, | eonlerred upon it by the constitution; baat it is deie- #OY- ereignty W.atsvever remaios wita tae dtaces. She cuuseqdence of imi doctrine Was taal Longress could exercise BO power Unless it could be ivund majoriy in Congress has tur years ‘ne proper remedy, A CHANGE OF RULERS. Now, my fellow citizens, 1 constrained to Say taat, in my oytniou, such judym. nc and action of tne peop! Mmuke this declaratiun wita s full sense Of respons sibility, anu, li | know my own heart, wita pain instead of pleasure, ior I cannot take delight tn the contemplation 0. vice nos can J flud enjoy- ment in that wich brings [iee, popuiac goveru- ment 10t0 disgrace. Neitner bave I any Bympatny Wita @ practice ti has too oitem prevailed, that of making vague, wild caarges Of corruption with- out any prool to support tiem, nor with that otaer oad Lractice of conieunding tae gulity and the innocent ima common denunciation. All our Pubiic men gre nol disnonest, all whe public men of any party are not aisnonest. To assert toatthey are (8a 1bei upon them and upon the system of government under wnica they were chosen. 1 Ot Stand nere to denounce wavie classes of me: as Villains because they hoid offices, wuetier led- eral or State, but | Go stand more to say that, in the light of indispuiad.e prools, corruption has exisied and does exist to @ degree tnat requires tn corrective hand of the pewpie in the model Rave indicaied, And here I cannot refrain from an observation that seems to me mest pertinent and weil timed. we bard money M:n bave sdmonisued again and again tuat uf the democratic ticket small be elected this year in Unto tt Will be taken as an’ indorse- ment of the currency planks in tne platform, and the disease of inflation gud irredeemable paper money will become epidemic and menace the y with ruin and disgrace. For myself, 1 do notshare in this exaggerated terror; for if th hard money democrats do their duty, as I am gure they will, 11 they stand faitnfully and firmy by their priuciples and advocate taem with maaly imdepeudence waenever necessary, No sach evil resuits Will Joilow irum the ciection of eur ticket. SPEECH OF GEN. R. B. HAYES. Manton, Ohio, July 31, 1875, The followimg is the speech ef General RK. .B. Hayes, delivered here this evening :— FRLLOW CiTi7ENS OF LAWRENCE CouNTY—It ts a gtatification tor which i wisn to make my ac- kKnowieugments tu the republican committee of thls county te Mave the pilvilege ef beginning in behalf of the repubitcans of Onto the oral discus- sions of this importans political canvass before the people of Lawrence county. Altnuuga my residence is separated irom yours by the whule breadtn of the State we wre not strangers. We have met boiure on Similar occasions, and sume of you were my comrades in the Union acmy @uring &® cunsiderabie part of the greet civil conflies which ended ten years ago. Tuose Wao nad the honor and the huppiness to serve together during tazt memorable stiuggie are upon tueory that Vongress cam exer- | not likey to forget each otner. 'e shall lurever cise way JUrsdicuon, pass amy regard those jour years a8 the moat imteresting stitution Goes Rut expressiy forbid It to exerc! Period of . ur lives. Wien the republican party, or tu pass Under tais hew interpretation it as | Wits Abrabeam Lincoln President, received t: enaciea law aiter law lor waick uo delegated power can be Joun@ iM the constitution and has \uUs assumed bo be THE ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGN ia NN things over (he States and tne peopie. And ere to suppose that becagse the iramewok of State ,overnments may remain, the rigate of States ana tue people wiil ulso be prese: republican forms of Jasted or haa been e: Pomee was a sbi the Executive aod Dad been usurped es. Tne greatest ques- Congress of tue United ‘Stat tion, then, that ougat to engage the stteation of the Ameri aa peopie, the quesiton that iar tran- scends in imporiauce and oversnadows is, How can We p eserve our iree repul lem and constitution—low perpetuate that com- plex yet wonderfully wise scueme oi rule by wiica the puwersol government are divided betwe batioual guverament on thi CAL certutu delegated powe: wooe Kepublic, and State gove umen' hud, cvntrulling all purely iocai and domestic concerus? Upon tue maiacenance of this system Gepead the perpetuity ol the Union, the eharacter auu deneficence of tue laws, aud the peice, pros- me earnestiy warn you, my iriends, not toe the The the Koman Commoawealta after every spark vl lioerty ed and tne s0.@ depositary of ng And so the forms of t@ government might remain witu us after | everything uf sabstauce and reality nad passed away and every important power of government e ovher tee party, ents ago, Was destroy; A hostit perpeiaai slavery bad bee; tablished souim of the Povomac, and claimed jurisdiction over one- tira of tue peeple and territory of tue Republic. ‘These States were “dissevered, discordaat, bel- ligerenv—our land was rent with civil feud and re to be arenched in iraternal pivod. Now, benvid the change! The Union 1s re-estaolisned on firmer foundations than ever beiore. Brave men in the Svuti against us, now stand pice by side with Un soldiers with no saadow of discord vetween toem, sia’ which was then an impassaoie gulf between © ostile sectio and A & ood men of tee poath unite witn good m vrta 1n taanking Of the past. Then there was no irecaem of speeca orof tne press—uo iriendly mingling togetoer Of the people Ol the two sections of the country. Now the peuple of the South receive and greet as ® iellow citizen ana @ friend tne Vice President— & citizen of Massacousetts and an anti-slavery man from his yousa, aad Maryland, Virginia and outa Carolina sead their alstingnisned sous to celeoraie with New England the Veatennial an- niversaries of the early batties of the Revointtoa, ‘Tue mea of tue North ‘and the men of tae Souce are now everywhere coming together in @ spiri Of parmony and iriend>nip which this generativi has not witnessea beore, and which nas not ex- perity and uiberty of the peopie. 10 repeat what | isted until now since Jefferson was startied by ihave #.1a on @ former Occasion, Witaout ear the night,” the Missouri System 01 Stutes the iede.ai govern would n Hwy years ago. In er have existed; witn them it could aever | tuls era of good feeing and reconcilia- bave exteuued irum 6c te ocean; without | oa @ few men of morbid tem ent, tuem & happy, coutented, fr and prosperous | bind to wnat is passing before them, st of yl@ would never have been our boast. And ueuever tuey suail cease to eXist, or shall bi come Dut @ name, tae fvuudatious of the Repup- lic will pave crumvied away oy eiruciure they supported wil uasten to its int.mately connected with tne subject I ha been considering 1s tue questioa, “How saall we best promote fraternai feeling among the various gecuons 0: the Union?’ That such a i¢eling ia binky important to the material prosperit; every section is quite apparent, and tuat still more important constitution and the pr equally true. ihe most ovvior ufse to pursue is that of perfect justice and im- 'y. as iaca@s they are attainaole, ii the eo tae maintenance of tae must necessariy eXist, aud respect and affection for (he goverumenf aoa love oi the Union must ceasurily be Weakened, This important truth too Muce disregarded by 0@ the close of tue civil cir errors Life bas, iu my Opinion, ! our and ay sclare joone: re ne i¢ be jor the weifare of tue people of id B, and eraelt, Be 3 prejads ce aod to fill us with gratitude that the Was divided againss itsel! is divided no longe' and that ail Of its inhabitants now have bart and an equal chance in the race of life, THE DEMOCRATIO INFLATION SCHEME. Let US Now proceed to tne considerati some of the questions wich engage the attentiol of the people oi Onio, Toe war which tne demo- cratic party and ite doctrines brought epen the leit@ large debt, neavy taxation, a de- cl a unhealiny condition ess, WOCR two years ago in & jelal pi pression from whica the ntry is now slowly recovering. Wivh this cond of tain, he a party, in its recent inderteock to a which is pro- arture on the subject of mouey irom the teachings of all of th iathers, fais Ohio democratic doctrine inculcates tl standard better wil bandunMent Ot gold and silver as ad she perpetuity of the Repubic, ar . Hereaiter geid and silver are to be used s of feder.l taxation, botn cus. | as moucy valy “where respect lor the ebligation ms and imvernal revenue laws, vear un. | Of coutracts reqaires payment in coin.” The only pon different sections o th cy fur the people japer mo! 1d also Upon different taiuiy, 1 mau espects, been Wanting In & loeral and wise statesmansoip aud been oalod- lated ratber to ke p Open and irrivating toe wounds of civil war tuan to close ana neal them | forever. Tae disregard 01 deuling With Southern Giates when not a hostile the constitution im arm Was raised agaiast the government nas nec- sued directly by the yoiume to be mad of trade,” and with Gold ang silver, when used as money, are redeemable exsarily proveked a comparison between the mede | in any property there is for sale in the nation, will pay | Or tueir treatment and that of their sister and coe | taxes for any debt puoile oF private. Unis alone gives equal states, itis-twe, my fellow ppl bayeen Foavenps Be gene duokangs tote tot tee | these unjust and uowise discrimi vatio or w Wo are one people, from the Atuantic marise, of Hie, they, woale be Jone, Oas cone alte ; lad to exchange them for green ny ". Citic, from « o the Gulf, and common # nat you could use to purchase Wha hires fia | and patrtot, lik dictate that tue comm absolute paper money, stamped wellare of ali saould be (ne firm ana unvarying made egal teuder ior all puri purpose of Our fnteresis are so closely inter- are Se perreet 8456 Woven that one section or One Class cannot is va more oF less, every calling and jud there bat elsewnere, our interest ana duty to give no jast caus complaint to any time 16 is Our ini 86 ANd duty to give no 10M aod ignorant ana unerut ulated to prejudice tne people o| 06 section against those of another, amd men of one calung agaiast tie Union of tue States were an evil essing, And the oO. vanization of Bo: Maker. (nere is anotuer suoject to which I fee! tice tt Out vriefy to-day, for Lo discuss serves to be discussed Would occupy tim as ve pressed without A&A reaction that, im tee tending to unsetie business 1a the Kast afects, istry not only itis, thereiore, maniieatly for tion OF classy, aud at the same on tO imaginary complaints tua: nave no real r by far too much intemper: ellow men ot otner call- ciety @curse to mankind anda repreaca to our it my duty to call your avteation, though | cam no as 16 0e~ scheme Which ple of Onlato wu crane party ka the pr end, aisu Injures tie oppressor. The injurions | the eisccien in Octover. The reptfbiica: coept eects of @ policy tending to impoverish tue West | the issue. Whetner considered as » permane! or Souta Would 8000 be jell inevery city ana bam- | policy or jens to mitigate let of the Rust; and, oa the other mund, a policy to It. It is without eee PO RSECTIONS TO INFLATION. Obs 5 inflated ana irredeemabie many that | do net attempt 80 f f liarly its own, in Paper currency promotes speculation and extrava- eau and at tne same time discourages legiti- liate business, honest labor and economy. It Orica op tue trae sources of individual aud public prosperity. Over trading and fast living always 1t stimulates the desire to incur tee of interest; ts Increases iL 1 SHEET. u ations from abroad; {t hax no fixed valu is ind great ductuation: Prec. aad expectations. Lis ths parent of panica, Every bettod of inflation is toliowed by a los col nn Sadriakago of values, dep cssion of bast. panics, ia-k o: employment, and widespi dis ster ane cis Pitue heaviest part of tne 6 ubie to bear it, The mao and Lhe retailer of the tickle prices, Bat alt ena the laborer are ployment and waat aud suffer- to iollow, government im ing irredeem- xed limit to i always endeavor to cover ther stundard 0; vulue by raising their a the men oF gi ty it on the exciteuten ol maehity.19r cvuntri o corrupt govera eXpeaditures are Lae su result. Under §! ame Of pudiic improvemeuts + enterprises, contriv: jor privat e undertaken. indefuite expansion bi comes tne rule, and, in the end, Tun and repaviation, Carrera ie THE CENTRALIZATION OF POWER, During sue last few years @ great deal has been Said about the centralizing tendeucy of recent events itu our Ristory, Tne incre power of the goverumen: at Washington has been a favorite theme ior democratic deciamation. But whe since the foundation of the Proposiiion been seriousiy would conier such monstrous and dangerous po inflation lor currency. sviemn pleaze in tne following words of the act of June 0, 1ls4:— Nor shall the total amoant of United States notes ts- sued or to be issued ever exceec four bundred millions, Bat they accompanied tt with a wud such addisdo sal suum, nov exceedin.; ity million s, may be temporarily required (or redeiupuon of tempo- rary low Bat tne Onio inflationists, im a time of peace, on gcounda of Mere expediency, propo.e ania- convertinle paper carcency, with its volume l.m- ited Oniy by the discretion or caprice Oo: 168 1s suers, OF their jadgment us to the wants of trade. Tae Most distinguished gentleman whose Lame ts associated wiih tne suvject onc» said “the proce: must be conducted with skilland caution, * by men Wuose position wil enable them to guard egainst any evi,” aud using @ favorite tiust.a- tho: said ne Secretary of the Treasury Ougat tobe able to judge. Hts wig 48 upon the paisa Of vue country. He can « i. $be throb- ings Of the bloud the arteries, Me can tell wanon the blood whew tho expansivn Us face to face wilh the fundament dangerous rox. The treuole is the p Patient will not so oiten decide the question as Lhe interest of the ductor. No maa, no govern- ment, mo Congress is wise es0ugh and pure enough to be trusted with tis tremendous power ne business and property and labor or the country. That whic Concerns so intimately all business shuuid be decided, ii possiule, on ousl~ out ples, and not be left tu depend om tae e cles @1 politica, the tucerests o! party, or the ambiuion ef pubuc men. It will not do for Property, for business er for labor, to be at the merey political leaders at Wasnington, eivner im or out of Congress. Tne besi way to prevent is 18 to apply to paper Money the Old Lest Sanctionea by the experience of all natious—let it be convertibie inte coin. 1: tt cau respond to this test it will be, as nearly as pussivle, sound, sa: and stale, THE SOUND POLICY. The republicans of Ouloare im favor of no sud- dem or harsh measures. jurce resumption by @ contraction Of toe cur- rency. Tuey see that the ship is neaded in the rigot direction, ana taey ao not wish to love what has already been gamed. Jney are satisfied to leave to Lhe influences of time aud tue inuerens euergy and resources of the country the work that yes remains to be done to piace our currency at par, We believe ti what our country Row neeus to revive busiue: nd to give employ nent to labor is ® restoration of confluence. W. contidence in the stability and soundness of the financial pokey of the government. ‘iat confi- dence has jor many months past been slowly but steadily increasing. Tae Columbus democratic platiorm comes in a® a disturbing eiemen;, and ee @ Severe shock to reviving contidence. ow great the suock which Wis given to returning confidence by tae demuvcratic ac- tion at Columbus abundautiy appears oy the manner in which the platform 18 received by the Liberal and tue English and the German demo- cratic press throughout the United States. ‘iho liberal press and the German press tar as I have observed, in the strongest terms condemn the platiorm. Tney speak of it as disturbing con- faence, snaking credit and threatening repudia- tion, A large part of tae democratic press of ocher States is hardly leas empnatic, Lt would be strange indeed if tnis were otherwise, In Unio, lese than two years ago, the Convention whica nominated Goveraor Allen resolved, speaking of the democratic party, Wat ‘lt recognizes the evils of an irredeemable paper carreucy, but iu- ais that tm tue recurn to Specie payment oare ould be taken nut to seriousiy disturb the ousl- of tae country, Or Gojustly injure tae devtor ‘There was no inflation tacn. Now come ‘aders of the democratic party, people that the promises should only ve redeemed by to persaa ang try of United Star oti crease tuem. THE NATION'S CREDIT. The credit of tae nation depends on its ability and disposition to keep Its promises. If it jails to keep \hem, and suffers them to depreciate, its credit is tented, and it must pay migh rates of inverest on ali of 1s loans, For many ye: we must D0 @ borrower im the marketa of tie world. Tue mterest bearing debt is over $1,700,000,000. If wo could borrow Money &% the same rate with of the great Batons of Europe we could perhaps two T cent per sunum ti Toirty or forty millions a year w ing On account of tainted credit. ‘The me: ies (0 pay au individual issues withou. reaeem- ing tuem the worse cecomes his credit. Lt is the same with nations, The legal tonver note fer $5 is the promise of the United States to pay that sam in the money otf tae world, in ovin. No time 1s fixed for its payment. !t is therelore payable On presentation, on demand. it is not paid, it is past due, and it 18 depreciated to the Ive per cent. The country recog: lites @f the situation and waits, r7 fait WNL the productive busi- country enables tne goverament to But tae Columbus financiers are not sfied. They demand the issue of more prum- This is inflation. No man can doubt the Tesult, Tm ul tion whi imevitariy suffer, There will be further depreciation. A de- preciation of ten per cent a:minishes tne value of the present pape: curreacy irom flity to one hun- dred miiuons of dollars, its effect on business would be disastrous in tne extreme. The preseut legal tenders pave @ certain steadiness because there is a simit fixed to their amount. Public opin- fon confides in that limit. let that limit be broken cown and ail is uncertainty, The authors scnem® beiieve in good thing. When this subject was under discussion a few years ago the vincinnatl Jngquirer said ue ‘Of $2,000,000,000 of currency Would only putit io the power ofeacn voter to secure $: for bim- scit and family to spend in the course of a ij ume, Is there any any voter who tnin too much, more taan ke will want?” This What the platform means. it means inflation Without limit, and inflation is the downward path to Tepudiation. 1% mesos rula to the nation’s credit and to all i.dividual credit, All tae Fear of ar ness of tn ie 6, the Most promising and flourishing South, uses coin. fam pe and thi lo sam ast prosperous part ef the This nited = Sta scheme cannot be adupted, The opinion of the civilized world is against it. The vast majority of the ablest news- papers of the country are against it The best miods of the democratic party are ae it. 'e8- ‘The lass three demecratic candidates for tu ideney were ag: the United States, so distinguisned for fer toriit ana for so" ness of judgment practical money affairs, a: Unit againas it, Fepublican party 1s against it. The peopie of Ont wil, i confident, devide im October to hi nothing to do with it. STATE APY. Into for ‘the ecutive of the State, were also intrustca ‘With the aflairs of the leading cities and # major- jars, elected the Ex. They . Woalthiest and most populous counties ate. 1b would be profitable ve imquire how vout and what Tesuite, Ja the en it pose to show in hd ponies w Ms Lod nt of ir manace! It will appear om ipv eresta of the State ta t! inst: ty pel in sacrified to spo jem, aNd especially the chief city of the iste, has saffered by tue corruption of iterulers; how ote expenditures have been increased, until ne aggregate o! taxation in Onie, im this time of Bose depression, is vastly larger than ever be- ‘e: Dow the number of salaried officers was in- creased; how the members of the Legisiature ‘were corrupted by brinery, noterious ana vol and Bow the dominant party atte deul wita this corruption as d tt ded. Pall taxes aud as tothe it 18 enough now to say that the ton m Onio im 1874 was over THR SKCTARIAN WAR ON SCHOOLS. Altogetier the most intcresting question tn our Btate affairs are those whiow ie to the pass by the lant Leuisiatare o! the bit aod the 01 ote to the Canvass om this subject. motto must be universal liverty @ juarage, secured by universal eanc O1 eal 8 att ther this subject Was iatrouuced into pol State explicitly that we attack oO sect and no Vatnetio or uave- wan, oiner Frotesvany or de ‘rhey do nos propese to | promises, and that it is souad policy tu in- | consclentions convic- igion, Who began tae t Why is ts agiateat hold of ‘mi their wate Convention m: Hever, on account of bi tons in regard to Bgitation of tuis subje: All ries hi 1 democrato party it the topic ot t Platform they ga sudject except the cur: ¢ratic county conventi ft. The Republican state Couvention 1d FeBO- lutions on the question. it is stated that it was considered im about forty republican county con- ventions, The State Teachers’ Association at their lust meeting passed unanimeusly tne following resolution. Mr. an, irom the Committee om Resolutions, reported the ioilowing:— Resolved. That we are in favor of a free, impartial and unsectarian education to every onlid in'the tae, aad that any division of the school’ fund or appropriation of any part thereof to any religious or private school would be rious Ww educaliou and the Beat inverests of the Church. An able addr by the Rev. Dr. Jeffers, of Cleveland, showing the rus which threaten our uollc schovls,’’ Was emphatically appiaaded by that intelligent body of citizems., The assemoues ofthe different religious aenominations the tate, Wich have recently been held, h Srauy, and | thiak without exception, passed - ilar resolutions. If oiame is to attaca to all whe consider and discuss this question vefore the pub- lic we nave Nada very lure body of offenders. But il have not named all who are engaged in it. T nave not nimed those Who began it—those whe for years hive kept tt up—tnose Wao in the press, on the platform, in tue oulpit, in leisiative bodies, in city councils and in scaool boards, mow Unceas ingly agitate the question. Everybody knows wao they are. Everypody knows that the sec tarian wing of the democratic party began t aud that it 1s bent on tne destruction of pe tcans acting ou the di the subject ana expr the opi democratic party can’t salely be trusted, they are denounced in unmeasured terms. General Uarey calls thom ‘political knaves’’ and “foois” and “oigots.” But ib is very significant that no democratic speaker denounces tiuse Wie began tue agitation, All tactrepisnets are ieveled at (ne men Who are On the right side of the ques ton, Agitation on the wrong side—agitation against the scnovis muy goon, Ir meets oo con. mnation Irom leading democratic candisutes and speakers. The reiwon is plain. Those who Mean to destroy the sohool system, constitute & ALLatiol AwCUSS th tormidable part of the democratic party, without Whose support, that part, teid last spring, cannot nor the State. the Legislature was ry the county, the city 190 agitation against th The 8 was begun many years ugo. Dur- Ww years it bi a \d raoidiy peen encouraged by various inulcauions of pos: tae Stales where sonools at t have veen lone established, coum its triumphs are mainly in che large towns and cities. lt nas already divided whe schools, and to a considerable degree impaired and limited tueir usesaineas, Tne glory of THE AMEWICAN SYSTEM of education has ocen thal tt was so cheap that th mn Dl cinzea ceuld affurd to g bie children its advantuges, and so good that the mam of wealth could nowhere provide jor ois Collurea anytning better, This gave the system its most coaspichous merit. it made ita republican sys tem. Tue young of ali conditions of life brought together and educated on terms of per- fect equality. Tne ten@ency of this is to assimt- late anu to fuse together te various ements of our population, te promote uniy, harmony aoa general good will in our American suciecy. Bus the enemies of the American system have begun tne work of destroying it. They mave jorced away trom the public schoois in many tuwos aaa cities one-tpird or one-tourth of their papils and sent them to schools whivn it 18 Sale Lo say are RO whit superior to those they have left. Tn -se youths are thus deprived of the associations and ine acation in practical republicanism aad Ameri- an sentiments wuich they peculiarly need. No-~ body questio! their constitutional and legak rizht (0 do this, aud to do it by aenouncing ihe uolte soaools, ‘sectarians have a lawiul rignt to chovis are “a reilc ol pagunism— Godless,”? and that “ti is @ social cancer.” taxation, dividing the scnovl fund ou wie destroying tue system, ic is time that its imeod should rise up in its deience, We all agree that neither tae government nor political parties ougus to interfere with religious sects, It is equally trae that religious sects out not to inter. Jere witn the goveramentor with politicat par- ues. We believe that the cause of gvod guvera- ment and the cause of religion both safer by alt such Interierence. But if sectartans make de- mands for legisiation of political parties, ai threuten @ party With epposition at ti elections tn case tue required enactments are not Pi and if the political party yields to such toreats, then those threats, those demands and that actiun of the politica: party become a legitl- ate subject of political discussion, and the seo- tarians who thus interfere with the legislation of the State are alone responsible for tne agitation which lollows, THE GEGHAN BILL. And now s few words as to tae action of the Jast Legisiature on this subject. Alteran exami- nation ef the Geghan bill we shall, peraaps, come to the conclusioa that in it 18 now of | greatimportance. I would not undervalue the clentious scruples on the subject’ of relisivm person in any Stace institutiun. provision of the constitution o! the State covers the whele ground. it needs bo awkwar framed statute of doubtful meaning, like vb Gegnan bill, to accomplish the object of tne or- ganlolaw. The old constitution of 1402 and the coustitution now tn iorce, ef 1861, are suDstan- tuaily duke. Both deciare (I quote sectien 7, ar tee 1, coustivution of 1851) :— All men have a natural and indeteasible right te wor- 3 of their to m ship Almighty God according to the dicta own consciences. Ne persou shill be compeiied tend, erect or support auy piace ef worship. ‘ain any form of worsnip agai Aven preference snalt be giveg by law to any religious soci- ety; mer shail any inters@tence with the right of coa- science be permitted. If the Geghan bill ts morely a re-enactment of this pars oO the Bill of Rights, itis a Work O@puper- erogation, ana itis uots.ramge that the Legisia- ture did not, when it was introduced, iavor ite passere, ‘The author of the bill wrote, eu ers Claim that such # Dil ts not needed.” Tae fame Opinion prevalls in New Jersey, where @ Similar bili 15 Suid to have been deieated br a yore of 3 tv 1, But the sectarians o! Onlo were re- solved on the passage of this bill. Mr. Gogtan, its author, wrote to Mr. Marpoy, of Cincinmati:— We have a prior claim upon the democratic party. The elements c imposing, the democratic party, in Unio up of ] Bal rman Catholics, and 's been loyal and faithful to too inter rty. Hence the party is under obligauons have a perfect right to demand of them as & party, inasmuco as they are in contro! of the state Legislature and state government, and were by botn our means and votes placed where they are to~uay, and twat toey should, asa party, redress our grievances. The organ ol the iriends of the bill puviished this letter, amd among otwver tolngs sald :— ‘The pelitical party witn which dine-tenths of the Catholic Voters afliliate ou account ot past services that they will never forget now contrels the State. With- draw the support waich Uatholics have given to it and it will tal! iu tis city, county and state as speedily ag it has risen to its long lost position power. That party snow on trial. Mr. Geghan’s will test ihe bincerity of its professibns. That tureat was effectual. The bill was passed, and the sectarian organ therefure said :— The unbroken solid vote of th tholic citizens of the Stave will be given to the democracy at the fall eection, In regard to those who voted against che bi it is said, “They have dug their pulitical grave; it Will pot be our faultit they do not flilit, When any of teem appear again in tae puiitical arena we will put apom them a brand that every Catuo- lic citizen will understand.” No deience oi this conduct of the la: tempted, Tne rst example ul open ioterierence with legisiatios if the peo- le wre wise they will give it such @ reouke in otover that, for many qoare. & least, it Will be the last, But itis clatmed that the scuools are in no danger, Now that pubdlic attention is aroused to the importance of the subject it is probaole that in OMio they are sale. at their 7 peads on tae rebuke which the people snail ve to the party wRich acto 1ast spring at Jolumous to the threats of their enemies, it ta said (O46 HO political party ‘aesires the deatruc- tion of the hools.’? I reply, Bo pelitica: party “aesired”’ passage of tne Geghan vili, but th er which hates the scaoois passed the Dill. id bul clariaa wing of the demucratic pariy rales commercial met party to-day im the gre: Os of the nation. It holds 1m maay of the large cities of the country. OUL its Votes the democratic party would lose every large city und county in Vato and every Nortnern State. In the Presidential 1864 it was claimed that General McClellan was as aye a Union mangas Aoraham Lincoll id bhae i¢ WAS as MUCK Opposed to the rebdellion, Am eminent citizen ol this State replied:—"t leara from my adversarics, Who do the enemies of the Union want elected’ The man they are for, L against.” So - a of the puolic schools, f universal education voue?” If tue enemies of the iree schoois give their “anbroken @oltd vote’’ to the democraua ticket, the friends Of che scnools will make no .nis- take fi they vote the repablicun ticket, The repub- licums enter upon this nporiant cany MANY ADVANTAGES. ‘Their adversaries are loaded down with the record of tue last Legisiature, Democratic Legis latures have not veeu furvunate in- Unio. Since the present division Of parties twenty years ago no cemoeratic Legisiature has ever ialied to oring defeat to its purty. Toe people of Ohio have never been willing .o venture on tue experiment of tw democratic Legisiatares in succession. Tue d platiurm offends German off the jibera! repablicans, accepted oy very few old-fashioned democra' trne intent and meaning. ihe republicans are ut of power in the cities and in the Siate and are rywnere taking the olfenst If democrats assail them on uccount of som ago, OF im a distans Sourhern Stat ington, repaviicane r by pointing te what democrats are now doing in their own cities or have just done in the jast Legisiature. Toe ma- teriais lor such retors buudent and ready at hand. Ths repudlican# ere emoarrassed by no en- aide alliance With the sectarian enemies ef they have yieided to no dictation in puolic affairs, We rejoice to see indications of an active canvass urge Vote Mt tne election, Such a canvass aca ® vore im Onlo mover yet resuited ins tio Vietory. UBr motto 1s, honest mone! ll aud iree schools ior all, There stow {ofation Which Will destroy the one anu no 6eo varian (nterferenee Which Will destroy the otuer. would say to the frien “How ao the enem!