The New-York Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1866, Page 4

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NEWS OF THE DAY. — FOREIGN NEWS. to that Cortinas has i;A'uwl =y : 2 g self Gove roing the merchants of Matamoros Dot to y undar tho authority of Cax If they do Lo subject to e i y of Now- stualities y ? thera is & rumor that Tawpico bis boen captured the Krench. DOMESTIC NEWS. ic Base Ball ads, Paterson 5. At New-Ko and Aumbidextor Clubs have con macy; the former were the victors. Union State Convention of Kansad have unani- mously recommonded that the Legislature submit to the poople the qu n that the word white be stricken out | from the State Constitution THE PENDING CANVASS. 3, North Carolina, on the 20th of September, suvantion of ** unmistakable loyaliats™ is to be ions for Governor will be made, Messrs ory aro among those nawmed for gubernato, Cluds p The O tedwood g | b gained tho day by four ra prise ial honors. 1’ John €. Clnrelill of Oswego has been nominated for { tho XX114 Congrossional Congressional District of this Lato. John Davidson has beon nominated as the Radical can- | diflats for the 111 Now-Jeroy Congressional District. = | NEW YORK CITY. y Mo Clasiber of Commerce mot yostarlay aft ' Low, tho President, occi:pied the eha report' was received from the Boston Board Hf rocommending the subsidising of the United atic Ocean Steam Companios. A Committee | was appoicted to make arrangements for a celobration of the laying of the Atlantic Cable. After Several commu- nications had been road, tho Chamber adjourncd. Wo have cheering nows of the lost cable. A dispatch o the Great Eastorn, dated yesterday, ioforms us that all %as going well ; and that vessel is expected to reach | Hoart's Contant to 10 Fall trado sales of booka were commenced yester- | day morning at the salesrooms of Messrs, Leavitt, Stre- | beigh & Co., No. 498 Broadway. Thero was a large at tendanes of dealors from all the States aud Britisn Prov- 1nces. At a meetingof the Mozart Genoral Committec lnst eveniug, it was decidod, on motion of tho Hon. Fernando | Wood, that 1t would be inexpedient to kend delegates to | tho State Convention to be held in Albany on the 1ith. | Mayor Hoffman received a lotter ycstenday from Mr. Thomas Savage, Consul-tiencral at’ Havana, informiug Lim that the quarantiue laws at Havaua Lave been wodi- | fied A. A . 1% On the inside puges of to-day's issue will be found a continuation of Mr. Bayard Taylor's Trip to Colorado ; Dramatic Criticism ; Health of the City ; Police I'rials; Commercial Matters; Market Reports; Field Sports, and many other items of importance. Whea Mr. Johnson asked the people to #ustain him he did such an emphatic answer from Mr. Jolnson, in every speech, deposits the Con- stitution and the Union in the hands of the people; this is well, for they are certainly unsafe iu his own. We greatly regret to hear of the probable destruction of the Union Lengue House of Philadelphia, by fire. It was one of the finest buildings in that city, a mag- pificent monument of the loyalty of the citizens. Yesterday the corner-stone of the monument to Stepuen A, Douglas was laid, with appropriate cere- monies, of which we present a full report, including the oration of Gen. Dix. The address of the Union State Convention forcibly presents the great questions which are before the people of this tate. It is an argument which admits and will be & suggestive text during | of no just repl the campaign. A ma named Rogers, one of Mr. Jobnson's Post- masters, threw this week's issne of The Meriden Recorder out of the West Meriden (Conu.) Post- Oftice, and then sent word to the editor that *‘he was instructed not to circulate any papers which did | not support the Administration of President Johuson.” | ‘What, then, are the people to read 7 If Mr. Johnson wants to test this postal reform, be should issue siw- ilar instructions to the Postmaster of New-York. The Supreme Court, yesterday, in full bench, de- clared the Excise Law constitutional, and decided that the Excise Board cannot bo enjoived. Liquor- dealers must now take out licenses or pay the penalty. The action of the Court will have the effect of shutting up scores of low groggeries, and raising the price of bad whisky. We now hope to have the laws enforced without further interfcrence from Judges in the inter- est of the distillers. —_— OUR STATE CONVENTION. The facts that cvery County and each Assembly District of our State were represented in the Union- Republican State Convention at Syracuse on Wednes- day, and that Gov. FENTON was renominated thereby with absolute and enthusiastic unanimity, are already gonerally known. It may not have becn so fully noted that, whereas a full Convention of three dele- | gates from each Assembly District consists of 384 members, there were 351 members who responded to their names by voting on each of the two ballots for Lieutenant-Governor. And, apart from necessary ab- gences on various committees, the attendance was uni- formly full; while no words can do justice to the stern | resolve, the undoubting confidence, the irrepressible | | enthusiasm, manifested throughout and by all. * We | ghall do better in our County than we did last year,” was the all but unanimous report of each delegation; some Of the 384 delegates, not one expressed or harbored a doubt of overwhelm- ing victory. There is no County in the State where i the * Bread-and-Butter brigade” can bring votes | to the Copperhead ticket equal in number to t Federal offices in that County; while each case of apostasy will cause ten more votes to be polled for our candidates than they would otherwise have received. Our State Ticket, as nominated and unanimously ratified, is as follows: For Governor—Hov. REUBEN E. FENTON, Chautanqua; For Lieut.-Gov'r—Gen. STEWART L. WOODFORD, Kings; For Canaf Com'r—Hon. STEPHEN T. HAYT, Steuben; For State Prison Inspector—Gen, JOEN HAMMOND, Esiex. Of Gov, FExTON, we need not speak., The unan- imity and enfbusiasm wherewith he was renominated show the appreciation wherein he is held by the peo- ple of our State after twelve years of eminent service in Congress and in the Executive chair. Gen. WoODFORD is perhaps the youngest man yet nominated for the second office in onr State; yet be | is mature in patriotic zeal and hovorable service, An ardent and eJoguent Republican, be is old enough to bave done yeomau service in the canvass for Freedom and Fremont ten years ago, as well as for Lincoln and Hamlin six years ago. Few young or old men in our State were more industrious or efficient canvase- ers in 1860 then he wae. Appointed U. 8. Assistant ' Distriet-Attorsey, in 1861, a sente of patrioti im- pelled him to relinguish the delights of and the - prospect of* rising rapidly in his’ pro- fewsion for the barsber fortunes of the tented field. He raised one of the first companies for the War, and served irit usefally and-ereditsbly to the end; baving [ risen td the rank of Colone), 4nd been honored for meritorious service with the brevet of Brigadier- Gegeral. And be will prove bineelf as capable avd aseful in the councils of the Btate as he has already proved effective in the advocacy of Republican prin- ciples and intrepid in the maintenance by arms of the rightful authority of the Uniod. Mr. Hayr has served. his district in the State Senate, is an cxperienced man of business, and thoroughly conversant witu our Canals and their | gesds. Presented among a number of most worthy competitord, snd commended solely on the ground of | o | personal fitness, fié was nominated on the first ballot. | 4t L Gen Haumuono raised by his versonal iwflacuce | and offo: regiment of cavalry carly in the War, bought for them the best horscs to be had in bis sec- tion, and advanced the pay for a part of them until the Government was ready to refund it. Ho served with credit through the War, and is 8 most capable and successful man of business, Ho suceceeds a very worthy man as Inspector, and will fill Lis place with honor to himself and advantage to the State. Such is the ticket, representing the western, east- ern, southern and northern sections of our State, | which has been selected to bear the Republican-Union baoner through the contest before us. Let no friend elsewhere doubt, as none here doubts, that it will be chosen by a decisive majorit THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION. The address and resolutions adopted by the Southern Convention yesterday, declare that Mr. Johuson's policy is responsible for our present troubles, and testily that the encourage- ment given the Rebels has placed the lives and fortunes of Southern Union men in the hands of men who have fearfully abused their power. Congress is earneatly sustained and asked to give furtber protec- tion to the loyalists in the Rebel States. We com- mend both the address and resolutions to the people, for they deserve no ordinary attention. They do not, however, fully express the views of the Union- ists who come from the Seaboard States. There was inthe Convention a decided majority of delegates from the Border States, and they controlled it. Thus the necessity of Impartial Suffrage is not assertedl by the Convention, 8 fact which must be understood to mean that Maryland, West Virginia, and portions of the Tennessee and Mis- souri delegations considered such assertion impolitic. The debate was very earnest between Gov. Hamilton and the oppoments of a suffrage plank, but fortunately the matter was finally adjusted by the moderation and good sense of the Convention. The delegates from the unreconstructed States will to-day offer another address, in which their unaltera- ble conviction of the nacessity of Impartial Suffrage will be affirmed, and it is understood that this is to be acknowledged as the voice of the Union men of the extreme South—Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, Great questions were considered by the Convention yesterday, but as we approve of the wise refusal of the Northern to attempt to influence the Con- vention, so we consider it best to await its adjournment before entering into the debate. This is a Convention of Southern men. They know what we of the North desire, and how deep is our sympathy with their hopes and aims. It is but just, then, that the North should, as far as possible, silent- Iy await the result of their deliberations. —— delegates RAILROAD SLAUGHTER. Night before last, the oxpress train over the Central Railroad, whick left Albany at 1 p. m. with the morn- ing passengers from this City, was thrown off the track a few miles this side of Rochester, through the crimi- nal neglect of a switeh-tender, who bad turned his #witch to head off a gravel-train on to a side-track, and had forgotten to replace When the express train reached this point at full speed, it was of course led off by the misplaced switeh, driven into a gravel- Vank, its engine, tender, and three or four cars piled up in a heap, seven or eight persons killed or mortally wounded, and thirty to fifty others more or less seri- ously ipjured. Both tracks were so thoroughly de- molished that no train had been enabled to pass eight | or ten hours afterward. The company's loss can hardly fall below a quarter of a million dollars, not to speak of the agony and irreparable loss of the buman victims, their kindred and friends, Years have passed since we first urged upon rail road managers the duty of guarding sgainst such disnsters by the simple expedient of so adjusting every switch that it can lead a train off the main track only while the switchman holds it against that track by a bar—springing away whenever the switch- man ceases to exert a positive force on his bar. Very possibly, there is some patented or other improved de- vice having this end in view; but, if there is not, any good mechanic should ba able to change every switch on a railroad into accordance with this idea at a cost of $10 each—which, for the Central, would net be one-third the loss by this single accident. We are weary of urging such obrious and pressing considerations. If grand juries would but do their duty, and indict a few boards of directors for such manslaughters as that we have in view, we might rationaliy hope for & reform. But, so long asthe | public will allow the lives of hundreds to be left atthe merey of each iguorant, careless, sometimes drunken switeh-tender, we shall have, each week or 80, to chronicle a fresh disaster like this on the Cen- tral. OUR FINANCES. The liquidated National Debt, less the amount of cash in the Treasury, one year ago, Was over $2,757,000,000; it is now but §2,505,683,165. On the 1st of January last, it was $2,749,491,745: so that its reduction during the last eight months has considerably exceeded One Hundred and Fifty Millions of Dollars. There is no parallel to this rapidity of extinction in the history of any Government. At this rate, we should pay off the last dollar within less than fifteen years. Aud, though the present Congress has made very large reductions in the rates of Internal Taxation, it does not appear that the aceruing revenue has thereby been sensibly diminished. Such being the case, it is deplorable that, beeause of our deranged, inflated Currency, our Debt should be rapidly going abroad for sale at an average “shave " of twenty-five per cent. While a French or British five per cent., having some years to run, would sell to-day for par or over, our six per cents., principal and interest payable in gold, are rapidly passing out of American into European hands at an average price of about seventy-five cents ou the dollar. It is a burning disgrace as well as a National loss that this should go on, Aud we, in a time of peace and prosperity, are taking our pay mainly in goods that we consume and our children must pay for, This “is all very wrong. . 3 ‘We think the Secretary of the Treasury should en- deavor toarrest it. Ho has over Seventy-six-Millions of Coin in bis vaults, beside Fifty-six Millions of Cur- rency—that is, of bis own notes. He might certsinly spare Forty if not Fifty Millions of his epecie where- with to buy up, as cheaply as possible, so much of the Public Debt as it would pay for. And this, we sre confident, would o put up the price that Yio more would go abroad, or else those foreigners who insisted on having it would be obliged to give nearly or quite par for it. Can it be that Mr. McCulloch is indifferent to this steady effiux of our National obligations at a_price so seandalously below their true value! We trust not. Yet he seems to be deing nothing to arrest it, President Johnson in his stamp speeches makes & parade of his chavity, and himself the apee- tle of coiiciliation. - He epeaks glibly of the duty of forgiveness; dilates unetuonsly on the ** balm of Gil- -end,” and declares that, conld he behold the work of Jeconstruction cons; according to “my poli- ey, s grateial foelin uld find (heir most fit- ting expression in the language of pious old Simeon, who after he had seen *“the salvation of the Lord” desired to ““depart in peace” to the better world. But the President’s charity is altogether one-sided. He has pity and clemency for misguided men seeking the destruction of their country, but none for those | whose only sin is that they oppose bis policy of re- | construction. To the former, repentant or wnrepeit- be givea the band of brotherly ki Lhe beads of the latter, Lie heaps male arrands upon whic EW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1866. not quarrel with his charity. tian virtue. But at the same time we must be allowed to question the genuineness of that charity which lacks the quality of catholicity. The spirit of forgiveness is a generous spirit, without any taint of bitterness, and allembracing in its compassionate regards. Is this the spirit that breathes in the President's recent speeches ! —— CITY REORGANIZATION. The Republican-Unionists of this City are at length to kave a local organization based upon Republican votes cast in 1364, instead of the absurd and corrupt- ing rotten-borough system hitherto in vogue, whereby 500 Republican voters residing in certain Wards were accorded equal power with 2,500 residing in other Wards. The new formation of Assembly Distriots having rendered reorganization inevitable, the State Convention wisely resolved that it should be thor- ough. Our General and Nominating Committees for all but Municipal officers will benceforth be chosen by our twenty-one new Assembly Distriots, whereof each is entitled to one delegate, one more for each 300 voters polled for Lincoln in 1364, and one for each fraction over 100, Thus, instead of five delegates from each Ward, each Union General or Nominating Committee will be composed substantially as follows: [We compute by Wards, because we have not the vote by the new Assembly Distriets: ] Delegates. W‘l;d". Mr. W. O. Stoddard, Private Secretary of Mr. Lincoln, bas sent us a eard, elsewhere printed, in answer to our criticism. He has written a second letter which we are glad to accept as additional evi- dence that Tmpartial Suffrage might have been peaceably obtained. We quote: “T oanpot now recall any distinct verbal declaration by Mr Lincoln concerning negro suffrage; but I was, and still am, firmly convivced that when, in the Fall of 1554, I began the fon of the snbject in the Siato of Arkansas, T was acting v, if Dot Bis instructions. y bl to all blick men of the asual age who bad proved themselves good citizens by beariag arms for their coustry, by paying taxes, or by acquiring s decent common-schoe weation, These were the clusen fully emancipated from Rebel control, and fitted to exercise the right “"At first T met with bitter opposition, constant calumny, 1t wus a 8hock to the minds of many of our best ,and still is, not ooly South but North, By de- or. w macked changs was visibla. The obnoxious 'y and favorably. Men beoame acoustomed (0 regard it as one of the very probaile resuits i the futare, In the r of 185 T was detained in the Ounchita conutry, in the south of the State, by illness, for sev- eral months, Ou return 1 wol prozress made. wmeat at the presis almost undoubty a0 was to give the bals threats, & Tnion grece, howe doctrine was discussed op wesaton of C. Iy to our speedy recoznition ot the coming full of Ligh hopos for the fature. A msjority other leading men expressed them- or of the proposed ehange in the selves to owective fra then taken us by tie hand and put our Federal support, the position and future of ¢ hare been aetormined for evod.” That the South will not now listen to the proposi- tion to extend the franchise, is not so much by far the fault of Congross as it is of the President. Mr. John- son has given the Rebel States assurances that thoy need no longer give the least regard to the wishes of the North, and that they shall, by the exercise of his anthority, be fully restored to power. This haskilled every liberal movement in the South. The respousi- bility must rest with Mr, Johnzon. R DISGUSTED EARLY. The Boston Herald, the only Democratie newspaper in Massachusetts of much influence, seems by no means sure either of the prosperity or virtue of the new and nameless party. The Philadelphia Conven- Sta.e would tion was well enough, theoretically; but there is a | bristling in the way of a | practical march to victory and victuals. A great | perfect palisade of ** ifs deal remains to be seen,” says The Herald, sagely. Then it goes on thus: “If mmall, tricky, dirty, party demagognes get the control of the movement, And thrust their disgusting, revoiting car- cases In the font, the people will not touch i, aad it ‘fh be come & miserable fulure.” ~This is sharp, at least, if not savory. But what would The Herald have? Appetite knows no moral distinctions. A man may be bungry without possess- ing all the cardinal virtues. Here is a political specu- lation set on foot, and who should go into it but the “small, tricky, dirty, party demagogues?” Let usbe fair. It is their party; it is of their conception aud creation; and why should n't they ‘‘control the movement” of this organization, i e, if it ever at- tains any movement to control, which we think ex- tremely doubtful? Those who cast their nets in the muddy waters of intrigne and faction must 't wonder if odd fish are sometimes brought up to the shore. The managers of this new concern are in no condition to pick and choose their customers. They must add to their ** godliness brotherly kinduess, and to brotherly kinduess charit, They must turn up their noses at nobody. They must accept disreputa- ble bob-tail as well as respectable rag and tag. Do the gentlemen who preside over ** the little joker” at | | horse-races and militin-musters require bold adven- turers to exhibit certificates ot church membership be- fore they can be allowed to try their luck? Such nicety would be thought unfair; and it is equally so for the promoters of an anti-Conscience party to | make good character a qualification for membership. The Herald adds, with touching simplicity : “On the other hand, if sound men are put forward—men in ‘whom the peopls have confidence—it will succeed.” This is & very safe remark to make. No man of ordinary fairness will deny that if the miscellaneous party can just contrive to get votes enough, it will swecp every State in the Union, and secure for its managers handsome and satisfying rations. All it needs is popular confidence. But this is a vegetable of slow growth, and, although Mr. Johnson may plant, and Mr. Seward may water, aud other gentle- men may brandy-and-water, with unflagging as- siduity, the * increase” may prove insignificantly sorall. Thus far, the eards are played with anything but foxy sagacity. The trip to Chicago turns out, a8 we supposed it would, to be the most lsughable political blunder committed by any body of politicians in our time, and that is saying o great deal. Another 500 miles of repasts and rhetoric would prove a fin- isher. However, they are hardly needed, -_ The N. Y. Times says of Ward Beecher's Johnson letter: throb of pafriotism. Tt is Moses agnin smit- the waters of trath may guss forth and flow ~It used to be thought impolite to speak of ropes, hemp or halters, in the presence of one whose father was hung; and good breeding must condemn sny mention of Moses in counestion with Johngon or any of his ex-Republican disciples. Be civil ! . Democr irie PRiMarizs.—The advertising columne of mundry Democratic sbeets having contained an official cal) for Primary meetings last evening, for the election of Delegaten to Albeny, our reporters were detailed to secure the names of the elected parties. The success which these reporters met with tends to prove Demo- eratic calls a delusion and a snare. Thus, the Eighth Dis- rriet meeting was called at No. 20 Pitt-st., which is pri- vato dwelling, of which the residents bad not the re- motest ides of any mecting which might, could, would or sbould be held there, The Xth District meeting was ad- vertised at the Sinclair House, Broadway and Eighth-st. This has been converted into private apartments, and the dweliers therein had no inkling of the gathering of the Democratic These are but samples of the bootless our reporters ia soarch of Domocracy aged last eveniog, iy THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP. | THE CEREMONIES AT CHICAGO, Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Monument to Stephen A, Douglas. ORATION BY GENERAL DIX. Speeches by the President and Mr, Seward. P — Special Dispateh to Tue N. Y. Tribana. CHIcA00, Tharsday, Sept. 6, 1566, The Douglas memorial ceremonies were somewhat interrupted by the raln, but a vast assemblage of peoplo wit- nessed the laying of the corner stone; and Gen. Dix, in allud, ing to the numbor, said that the sun of Hoaven would never again shine upon so many assembled together. This was rather an exaggerated view of the matter, but the Genersl was indulging in rhetoric, THE PEOCFSSION. The procession, which was composed principally of masous: reached Cottage Grove about noon, It was the intention to perform the ceremony of laying the cornor stone at high noon, but the long route traversed delayed it. The President and suite recsived a very flattering ovation along the route, althoagh thers was occasionally s display of bittor feeling such as a flag fiyiug Union down. The Springfield Lodge No. 4 of Springfiold, Mlinols, of | which Douglas was a member, appeared in the procession. A number of eivil socleties beside the masons were in the lino and the Eilsworth Zouaves scted as a guard of honor to the President. DOUGLAS'S GRAVE. Tho grave of Douglas was strewn with flowers and canopied with Amerioan flags; and many ao old friend, called bither by the ceremony, paid the grave of the deparied etatcoman the tribute of a sad and eilent visit. * THE NUMBIR PRESENT. It is said that no occasion has ever before cal'ed so many peoplo to Chicago frow the different sections of the State. COTTAGE GROVE. ‘When the procession reached the beautiful grove on the borders of Lake Michigan, the Presidential party alighted and enterod on foot, marching by the grave, and &0 on around the monument, which is being erected some distance from it. The Kuights Templars were draws up ia live and saluted the President as be passed. The President and Secrotary Seward walked together, and Gen. Grant and Sefior Romero, the Mevican Munister, fol- lowed sido by side, suggesting the fulfillment of Douglas's favorite prophecy— that the Republic of the United States will one day be coextensive with the Amerioan Cootinent. The first section of the monument has been already raised- and o platform was erectod on top of it, to which the Presl- dential party and the orator of the day were conducted. LAYING OF TDE CORNER BTONZ. The corner stone, which is really the curaoe stose of the shaft, and not of the mooument, was then laid with all the masonic coromonies, conducted Ly the Master of the Grand Lodgo of Tliinols. As the stone desconded into its plice, the bacd ployed o beautiful dirge, while o revenuo cutter, au- chored out in the Lake, fired minute guna. o ceremony was very impressive, and was watched with « great deal of ingorest by the people, Gen. Dix thea deliv- ered his oration, which was listened to with great alteation considering tiat rain fell at intervals. ORATION OF GEN. DIX. FruLow Croizexs: The scene, in which we are actors to- day, with a.l its surrosnding circamstances and accompanying rocollections, has no parallel in this or any other age. Weo are assembled within the confines of a city numbering over 200,000 inhabitants, distant 1,000 miles from the ocean, where | thirty-four years ago vothing was seen but an uubroken ex- | panse of prairie ou tte oue side, cnd the outspread waters of Lake Miohigan on the other—bota extending far beyond the compass of the sight; nothing heard but the voice of the great inland sea from the sands on which its waves were breakiug, or the more unwelcome yoices of the savage tribes who roamed over these mejostic plains. Where. within half the span of an ordinary life there was one vast solitude, sl is full of activity and progresss and the treasures of a polished civilization, In- dustry and the arts display their stores with a bounteousness which mieht well be mistaken for the accumulated surpluses of centuries; science is teaching the truths which have been developed by the researchos of the past, and evlarging the boundaries of baman knowledgs by new discoveries; education is universally diffused, and, above a¥), the temples which re- ligion bas resred to the servica of God, from every | precinet und almost every strect of the city point their | spires to Heaven, as it were in acknowledgment of the wercifal protection under which 1t Las triumphed over all the obstacles o 1ts growth aud become strouz and seif-reliant and yrosperous. Fellow.citizens, in no otber country of the presest. in no age of the past, could such & miracle of civiliza tion bave been wrought. And now this great city aod the great West, of which it s by comparison but an inconsider- | able part, Lave poured out the tens of thousauds, who stand aroond me. fu o 1mass 80 extended that no human voice conld reach your outer ranks. You havo come here to render the | homage of your respect to the memory of one who rose among you (6 the bighest cmnenes for talent and for successful lobor | 10 vour service. And the Chiof Magistrate of the Union, who, | {0 the counil chambers of the nation, stood side by wde with him in tho dazkest hoor of its peril, nud espoused with equal zeal and eloguence the cause of their common country, when other men with bearts less stout and faitn less comstant quailed before the impending storm, bas come to join with you in this act of posthumons Fonor to an botest, conragaons, and patriotic state: ent off in the falless of his strength, his usefal Where or when has such & concutruuee of ciroums isted to inapire one with great thonghts, and yet to n. | by their very greatoess, despair of giving them eppropriste | e S U—— u whom [ had t to call for assistance 2&&' %@vfifinun, l‘ml:yd Mr. Donglas v: not bavy been 0ongraeas, and (b might have besn far less od byt for the axd stroggles of bis youth—but for bis eevors » cultivating the intelloctusl poword with which na'erd hud ondowed bim. We do mot coosider, when ortane, that it i ‘W8 very procoss by whigh mea made sucoessfnl and gre>t Spare, thea, -rw those who, fa thetr youry ar® @ontendin: with difficalties, Dostow it on Lhoso who, with without th stimalant of want, ard du dauger of el ioaction and medioority, It is Provi’iQuoe whioh in throws obstacles (a Lha path of bim wim it ominenes, that he may gain etre tion in overcoming them, 1 T H EH i { - £ : £ : E‘é J Siise HE most experis comiag out of the intelleotnal combats in bt} §s gagod with inorsasing repatation. Offices bim ia rapid .um"i'u:,u. 1835, 14 -’.’.‘.’.‘.‘ pe: at Winchiestor, be was chosen by the Legi of the State Attoraey for the first judicial Distriet; in was elected a Member of the Legialature; aod in 1357 appointed Registar of the Land Offics under the Feder ernment; and in 1241 be was chosen & Judge of the Suprome Court of the State. It isnot possiblo witbin the limits of am address to say more than shis: that in every position to whioh be was called ho maintained the same high standing for integ- rity, talent and courage, and that with overy advance in the m- portance of the offices bis flled be deve & corres) power and capacity for the discbarge of their duties. In I he was elected a tepresantative in Congress, a this period his reputation ocased to be lical, and became identified with the hll'orLol tho country. His tirst effort as & speakor in the Faderal Legislature, was as effoctive as bis first appear- auce at Winohoster. A bill wes before the Honse of Repes- sentatives remitting the five imposed on Giea. Jackson by the i ?5355-5 Judge of the New Orleans Distiict after the receipt of the in- telligence cace batween the Unlted States and Great Brit- sin, 1n Pebruary, 1815, During the siege the do- claied martiallaw, and resistod the exeoution of a writ of habeas corpus issued by the Judge. As soon as was prociaimed e resoiaded the order declaring martial law, sur- ored bimsell to the court, and was fioed 81,000 Ths bill bofure Cougiess provided for refunding the fine. It had bees tietly tho score of rvices o that he Theve pos to attract aad command goner attention; forth he was ranked with the ablest dedaters in beriug wiaoog its mombers some of the woet dist in the count; It wos naiural chat Mr." Donelas, tr. - his miad had been from his earliost years to habits of sell-re- Lancr, shonld, in dealing with constitutional questions, el rike out frow the bosten track of interpretation 1ato new pathe. Il 1stance | have cited 1s not the only one. Lo a speoch im the Houae of Representatives on the snuexation of Texas Le took the ground cbat the right to acquire territory, one ol the most vexcd questions of constitutional autbority, was inolnded withia the power to admit new States into the Usion S0, at 8 subsequent period, as Coairmea the Commitse on Territories in the Seunte, ho contended tbat the right to estatlish territorial governments waa also in- cluded in the powor to admit new States. In uearly all pre. ceding discussions it had been assamed that the b o e stitute governmects for the territories was lncl in the power ' to diapose of and make all neodtul ruies and tions respecting the territory ot other property belon, the United States.” The propositions thus 4 Douglas were d delonded with and force, and they may be couaidered a4 conatituting an es- sential part of the great body of commentary by which the ex- ercise of tho powers referred to is sari which divisions will continne to exist, mok practica. interpretation they bave received in the lgislation ot the country. In 15, threo years after his eieotion to the House of Reprosentatives, he wes choscn & mem- ber to the Senate of United States, aod ke was coutinued in that body by successive reédoctions until his death in Jano, 1361, As & member of both budies he 100k part. in the diseassisu of Doarly every great quostion which aress during §h0se I8 years of wempled agitation and excitemout. His speochios on the sunexation of Texas, the war with Mex- ieo. our foreign poliey, the aegressions of Eurupean Statos in ‘America, the exicnsion of ou; own territorial Limits, the com- promise acts of 160, the Oregon, Cahifornis, Knnsas, Ne- braska and Lecompion coutroversies, futernal imj and incidentally the question of Slavery, the source nearly ol the agitativns of the last quirter of & century, and of the ctvil war, whioh bas dreached the country in rateraat blood, are alt marked by tho clearnoss, vizor and boldness whiel: were the chief charactoriscics of bis orstory, It was perhi in the patriotio but vain attempt to calio the pre- Vailing excitement and olose up forever the source of the dis- sentiovs which bad so loug distracted the country, by the preparation and defense of the compromise measures ol 1850, that the great ability of Mr. Dongles was more signally displayed than in any another poiitical labor of bis life. In Jauuary, 1850, Mr. Clay jotrodaced into the Senate a series of | resolutios, hoping that they might be made a basis of legista- iactory to the contending parties, While these resoiations were under consideration, Mr. “5 1us, a5 Chairman of the Commitsee on Territories, introd 1wo bills, one for the sdmission of Culifornia into the Union as 4 State, und tae other for ti s organization of the Territorics of Utuh and New-Mexico, aud the adjustwent of ibe boundary tes of 13, with Mr. Clay at its bead, was d ull propositions concerning the Slavery ques- tion were referred to it. Ou the 8th of Mey Mr. Clay from the Comumittee Mr. Doagiis's two bilis combined in one, with 4 sogle awendiwent. When introduced by the ter they provided that the powerof the Territorial Legislatare woould embrace all subjects of logisiation consistent with the Constitution. As reported by Mr. Clay, the Slavery question was expressly excepted froa the power of legislation. Tais exceptios was subsequently rescinded, and the bill was pussed as originalle reported by Mr. compro- wise measures, 80 far ws they related to tl ion of tho territories, were his work, and they were founded on the privetple that the people of the torritories, througn their Legu- atuses, shoul | determine the Slavery qiestion for themssives, ““and bave the sae power over it ‘as over all other matiers affectiog their internal polity ” These mensures, as you eif tion, which would be sal | know, though taey wers, at the Prasidentisl Election of 1898, approved by both the great political parties, wern far calwing the popular excitement. Aud when Mr. D\bflfluuh 1853, «8 Chairman of tie Committee on Territories, lu the Kapsas-N L it led to & flerce and pro- tracted discussio. ohject, a8 the teo doclsred in a_ speeisl report accompanying it, was **to organize all Territories in the future upou the principles of the compromise measures of 135);" aad ** that the » messures were intended to have a much broader and endoring offect than wmerely 0 . djust tne disputed question growing out of the se- qnisition of Mexican territory, by prescribing certain fon imontal princivles, whioh, while they adjvsted the existiog dif- fieutties, would prescribe rules of action in all fotare when new Territories were to be organized or new Scates to be admitted into the Union: That the priveipls opon which the Torritories of 1830 were organized was that the Siavery tion should be baoi: from the Halls of and political arens, aud refirred to the Te: and States which wero lmmediately interested in the n:vmun. and o tosponsible for its existence” a i 2 ded by saying that * tbe bill reported the ‘ommittee proposed to carry into effect these wll:fi( in 1450." the precise langunee of the comjromise measures The reveal of the Missouri Compromise was incorporated inte usterance ! No one need look out of bis own breast for the iw- pulse which hus gathered so vast a multitude toget her—a mal- titude, which no other sun shall ever see reassembled. 1t is ono of the strongest foelings of our nature to desire to perpe- tuate the memory of those who, from ties of blood, fumiliar as- ble services bave become dear to ue, and, , have been soparated from us forever. re thousands within the reach of my voice who have fully conscious of this instinct by the bersavements which the unbappy domestie conflict ended has visited upon them. When the burden of grief lies heavy on the heart, it is the first impulas of our nature to prolong the remembrance, to grave into the soiid stone which shall endure when we bave perished, some appropriate thought, or it way Le the simple names, of those we have loved atdlost. Kiudred to these 1ributes of affection is the debt of gratitude, which s whole community, represented Lero in counticss numbers, bus as- sembled to discharve by the erection of a monument, suited fo its proportions to the great qualities of him whou 1t is 10 com- memorate—to lay tbe foundation of ike structure, which is to | be piled up, stone upon stove, from the earth beneath our feet into the sky above us, and thus to symbolize the eminence to whioh he rose by his genius aud his tragscendant pablic ser vices, ubove the plane of ele the great wass of his cotemporaries stood snd rogyled in the hard bat- tie orlife. Thirky three years ago, the year after Chicago was founded, 8 crowd of peopls were assembled at Winckester, in Scott County, in this State, to sttend s wale of valoable property. When it wos about to commence, & clerk was wanted to keep aud no ove could be found wio was willing to undertake the service. At tils moment, vouts, slender in person, and feeble in health, who bad come on foot from a peighboring town. joined the assembied crowd, e was at once sinzled ont by the salesman as one competent 1o the service, and at his urgent solicitation, and tewpted no doubt by the offer of §2 the yonthtul stranger accepted it. The salo occupied three days, and, before it was ended, he had won all bearts by bis Intellgence, bis prompiitude, bis frankness, and his usban- ity. It was the general jndllnunl that & youns man of §0 much promise should not be permittad to leave the neighborhood. A sehool was provided far him; and thus as a clerk and »_ teach- or, n strenger, without friends and witbont means, nut 21 years of sge, relying on the taleuts God bad given him, on au lndus- try which ncver wearied, and a courage which never wavered, Stephen Aruold Douglas entered upon the great field of his sccounts, i labor in the t. It cannot be doul thet smong s people ba with the harships of & uEW country the impression which rst A de wos confirmed a knowlelge of bad overcomo in preparing himself for setive 1o romance in hia of bard work, aud of & cultivate the in his boyhood. Hq April, 1513, On the lat of July evsuing, dely while holding his infant son in bis toen years of his life was passed o action as the district sel rious branches He is next secn as a olerk in a lawyer's office in Cleveland, Ohio; then traveling In the West in the pursuit of employwent, stopping st Cincinnati, Loulsvilie, St, and Jacksonville, .l’ at last makiog his appearance at Winchester, and com- flnoln‘. in the manver already described, his grest carser of nsefalness and distivotion. ‘I'here is nothing more touehiug than his brief address to the peopie of Winolester, when he visited that place in 1:38, after baving be- come distinguished ~ in the conneils «f the mnatlon, “Twenty-five years sgo,” be * 1 entered this own on foot, with my coet poa my arm. withouy an scqaintance withio a thousand mitles and witbout know ing whe got money y o week's hoard. Herg 1 mado the firss six dollar : earned In my life and oblaised tha s regular | tbe bilt at & suoseqnent period as an amendment, and in this form it pussed both Honses of Congress and became & law in 1854, Whatever ditferen es «f opinion may exist or may bere- toiore have existed in regard to tisse measures, bo one at this day will cell in question the patriotic motive by which Dourlus was actuated, bis deep anxiety to preserve the har- mony of the Union, his sincerity, and the great iateilectast power with which ho maintained every position he took. Ne opposttion in or vat of the Senate, no popular elamor, no fear of personal conscquences disturbed his equanimity or bis cour- age. Ho threw b satled. and deferded frankness whioh al thoss who diffored which often won the At no period of bis life, perbaps, did Mr. Dooglas appear e remarkable as on an oceasion which you wil remember—whea he returned tarthis city in 1854, where he Lad ofton beea ceived with triumphant demoastrations of respeet, sad ep- Imnud a weeting in front of the North Market Hall to speak n defonse of the Kansas-Nebriska bill. Ie was a moment of . Kansas was ? ¢ throughout the count parties; associations bad and armed, Norch and Sonth, the lattar to torce Slavery inte that Territory, and the former to_exclude it by foroe. 'Sush was the mllu indignation, that it was determined Mr. Douglas should not be beard.” For moro thau four bours, be foced a0 sagry aud excited muliitude, calm, ws- loss of personal danger, sttem) rent by contendin and ubconquerabie, could have confrouted such & F?IL Af be had an a consciousnoss otber; and it may ‘who was then. i i not felt that ot Y safel ] i Hil 5 i Senate at the time and for the Presi wardstraversed the Seate, ther to_ Witness tanon which no t ¢ attuined. Tue relasion in w ©2ad tha wlols Ceuutry 50 soou al toat, zava it a0 i tual power bas 8l0ud 9 9ay! ~pisorats the trisly of ¢ n vrmrl»:,' qfi::s ou_thelr weary v-y"om& B. n