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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1900. £LOBE-TROTT ING BULL TO BE AT STATE FAIR| 4 D R . @* o000 b-000bebed . Special Dispatch to The Call ¢S ACRAMENTO, Au - X ted ir. PRINCE DAVID, THE YEARLING JERSEY BULL. B e S = = =} DALTON DECIDES NOT TO RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT Hopes of the Democrats to Elect a Congressman Have Vanished. Sy Details of the Vote That Was Oast at the Primaries Throughout the County on Last Saturday. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 12. Henry P. Dalton will not be an inde- pendent candidate for Congress. This is probably the most important development of the post-election period. “My statement issued last night and B e o ] fe b eieieiei ebedeieQ animal was shipped from ancisco to Sacramen- of the highest bred i of the most cor- | rm as the best convention commi toward defraving re- the of ? convention eld there. exhibited in dows in Kansas City and afte ward sold at on with other hig! Herefords. She was_purchased Sparks of Reno, Nev. for $2500—the largest sum ever pald at auction for a Hereford. Mr. Sparks will send her, to- gether with other famous ani: s owned by him, to Sacramento. SIS PEOPLE OF BERKELEY ARE MOSTLY TOPERS Communication Sent to the = Anti-Saloon League and Read in Meeting. The Rev. Dr. Ludder Denounces the Assertion as One Utterly False and Without Foundation. R ce 1 in- verb- al- t % per iven as a uor sales i n e of th , spoke be- n alse; DISCOURSES BY PASTORS OF OAKLAND CHURCHES AKLAND James E. E. Ds to-day at Wel Ber s preached to- RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT IMPROVES REALTY OUTLOOK LAND, Aug. 12—There have been ns in real estate during the more than ordinary mo- kers report a steady inquiry property and a good renting rable attention is being given the ts with relation to the Hen- 4 electric system from ¥ ¢ Berkeley. The syndi- «d that it will shortly ap- ck through Berkeley and move, coupled with nta Fe Railroad has ¥ of the Califorma impetus to a men that there yvement in real le of the bay. two-story brick of 110 feet on of depth, at the of Sixth street, Whittel_owns price is $33,000. street floor and Th TWO NEW INSTRUCTORS ARRIVE IN BERKELEY Leroy Anderson, airy husbandry at d George Bulke- * new instructor Berkeley to g of col- istory Cinein- f Brown Univer- tor's degree from n FIGHT HUNDR FRESHMEN WILL NTER COLLEGE | Remarkable Number of Stu- dents at the University | This Year. e — | | Influx Has Been Unprecedented and Real Estate Men Find Difficulty in Supplying Demands for Houses. | ! BERKELEY, Aug. 12.—The s:‘ademlc’ the University of California opens that time entrance e: e colle at Berkeley, gs College of Law' and, the medical department wiil diamence. Recorder James Sutton expecis nearly 800 fresh: m this y or abow¥® 200 mcre than entered the college a year ago. This will be a remarkably large class and in the tendency toward throughout the State. & in returning and new studen mand for boarding places has ‘hat late comers wiil find it to secure accommoda- tions All hou Tor nt in desirable locations have been taken, and this in spite of the is hardly a block in the f town that has not ha £ up on it during th unive fraternity was ecure a house and was compelle flat, an un- kb rd_of thi in Che inc schools throughout the State Is due to this unusual influx of its ce examinations will commence T w and close Wednes Oon Inesday and Thursday professors and instructors wil! keep office s 1o con- sult with students. Instruction will be for the upper classes on Thursday, ust 16, t 1 o'cloc On Monday, August 20, at 11:15 o'clock the freshman class will’ meet the president and the faculty In the gymnasium. At the same dets in uniform will assem} staff, where Captain Henry the new instructor in mili- will be presented to them. freshman instruction will t tary sclence On this d begin. | | Cruelly Beat a Horse. | The same sulky brute which dumped Officers Potter and Crackborn into a ditch the Six-Mile House when the sporty pair were bent on their vacation came In for a thorough beating yesterday at the hands of John Buckley, a young Califor- nian aged 23 years. Buckley had hired the sulky brute from Sam Gilmore, at Twelfth and Mission streets, on last Fri- for the purpose of going camping at | it Pedro. On the return home the refused to move, and Buckley used | 1o which a good-sized buckle as attached. 'With this for a whip he telabored the animal in such a manner as to peel the skin off its legs at_every | stroke. " Officer J. A. Hayes of the Seven- | teenth-street station saw the abuse and placed Buckley under arrest on the charge of cruelty to animals. ———— Bernal Park Improvement. | Buperintendent John McLaren has given | assurance to the members of the Precita Valley Improvement Club that the work of improving Bernal Park will be finished during next month. This park, that has given so much concern to the residents of { the valley, is a small strip of oval land lying in the fork of the two arms of Pre- cita avenue, and when put in condition will be a pleasure spot to be much en- joyed by the families residing in that | neighborhood. For this and other im- provements in this section President J. H. Vizzand and Past President John Graham are to be given credit, as they have la- bored most assiduously in obtafning them. —_—— The Higher Ground. The regular Sunday evening lecture un- der the auspices of the Boclalist Dem- ocratic party was delivered at the Turk street Temple last night by 8. Good. enough. The lecturer took for his sub- ject ““The Higher Ground,” which, he said, consisted in knowing one’s self. He held ' that seif-knowledge is the essence of' all practical knowledge, which puts us on a higher plane and qualifies men to be soctalists. By knowing ourselves we are | able to solve all economic and social prob- Jems, and also come to a full realization of salvation as worked out for us by God | himself, the speaker sald. & | ———— Veteran Firemen’s Excursion. The Veteran Firemen's Association has arranged for an invitation outing on the bay on the steamer Resolute next Sunday. After the excursionists have had the bene- fit of a view of marine and bay shore scenery they will be landed at McNear's, where an old fashioned clam chowder will be served up. The excursion is to be man- : practical ip- in the « 0 Agriculture in arts. He v visit California cheese factories € problems of dairy husba St andry in tigate th s b aged by the committee composed of Ric! Cox, J. B. . Charles Bell, T. R. Carew, W. G. Cue, Bamuel Baker, James H. Kelly, Willlam H. Willlams, W. that issued before the election mean just what they say,’ said Henry P. Dalton to-day. “The primaries are cver, and the people have expressed their wishes, and I | shail abide by that expression.'” Whatever inclination Henry P. Dalton may have had to run as an independent candidate has been overcome by his friend Dr. George C. Pardee. Mr. Dalton re- fused to make a statement last night until very late, and this delay was believed to | mean that he would become an indepen- dent candidate, and when the statement finally did come it was believed to be the | result of the efforts of Dr. Pardee to keep | him in the party harness. Dr. Pardee has ambitions toward the Governorship iwo years from now, and the defeat of his friend the County Asses- sor will have a decided effect upon future as weli as upon that of the County Assessor. To have had Mr. Daiton run as an independent candidate would have been fatal to all ambitions upon that side. The Democrats of Alameda County were building great hopes upon the split that was to be created in the Republican party. 1hey were nguning that Coun 1 Who has never hesitated to run sendentscandidate wnen it serv- . would kick out of the harress indep en were defeated, and that he would make an independent run, If that were the case they figured that a good Demo- crat would have had a possible chance for ction and they had aiready selected I, Tarpey of Alameda, National Com- mitteeman of the Democratic party from this State Tiis was one of the reasons why so many Democrats were supporting Dalton in his candidacy a, t Metcalf. In Ala- meda Thomas Stoddard, who is one of the henchmen of Tarpey, Wwas out making Dalton’s fight, and ' all over Alameda County Democrats were urging Dalton on in the hope of splitting the Republican party. But Dalton has decided that he will not be a candidate, and so the plans of the Democrats have gone astray. One of the cries made a was that he was not down in the First job was ar- ranged, but not ried through. It was proposed to challenge Dalton’s right to nst Dalton ublican, and vote upon the ground that he was not a Republ and make him sign one of the afhid required as a test which pledge & man to support not only McKinley and Roosevelt, l\u_ the Republican nominee of the rd Congressional District. By | forcing Dalton to sign this it was thought that it would pre 1t his as an independent. t Dal against Mr. and against the County or himself. The vote of th Saturds y precincts is as follow o FORTY-! MBLY DISTRICT, “Dalton. e Hollow' vermore ... Totals Metcalf's majority, MBLY DISTRICT. | Metcalf. | Dalton. 127 Precinct 8.. Precinct 4 FOF GHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. | | Metcalf. | Daiton. Precinct 1. S 2 inct 2 100 | Total Metcalf's majority, 324 ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. | Metealt. | Dalton. 428 212 218 160 167 91 B Street 131 70 Emeryville 363 49 Golden Gate . 15 [ West Berkeley 23 2 Precinct 9 131 i1 Precinct 10. | 13 2t . Precinet 11 2 o "Metcalf's majorit FIFTIETH ASSEMBL Y DISTRICT. Metealf. | “Dalton. Precinct 1 200 190 Precinct 2 222 167 Precinct 3 121 57 Precinct 4 245 184 Precinct 5. 172 100 Totals ...ovee - 970 708 Metcalf's mafority, %2. T FIFTY-FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Metcalf. | Dalton, Twenty-third avenu 163 152 Thirteenth avenue. 260 213 £ixth avenue .. 185 74 Fourteenth and Wester s 105 41 Pjedmont power-house. 52 a3 Pledmont, Precinct §. 45 13 Cemetery, Precinct 7 35 1 Claremont, Precinct 8. 2 i Temescal (2), Precinct 182 [ Temescal (1), Precinct 1 13 108 Peralta, Precinct 11. ki 5 Berkeley, Ashby aven [} 4 Berkeley, Telegraph a ] 57 Berkeley, Dwight way. 65 0 | Berkeley station. 105 52 North Berkeley Ed 7 Rushing Work on the Wyoming. Every man who can find standing room on or about the United States monitor Wyoming, which is being built at the Union Iron Works, is at work driving rivets and fitting plates on the hull of the vessel. The extra rush is not in con- sequence of the pending scrap with the “moon-eyed” empire, but rather that the vessel mn‘/‘ be in shape to make her initial dip into the muddy waters of the bay in time to join in the semi-centennial cele- mxlon of the Native Sons on Septem- e ————— British-Americans Organize. The British-American Unlon, a society the object of which is the closer political, soctal and commercial union of the British empire and the United States, has been organized, with headquarters at the Acad- emy of Sciences building. The officers of the club are: William Greer Harrison, resident; Dr, F. W. d'Evelyn, J. J. New- gin and Lucius Howard Foote, vice R(n“den 3 hur H, Vivian, lecreu.r{ eetings of the organization will be duly announced. § STRRTEO SILMONTHS | | | L e | OAKLAND, Aug. 12—Fifty members | of Stockton lLodge of Elks came to Oakland to have revenge for the drubbing that the Oakland EIK's baseball team administered to the Stock- ton Elks three weeks ago on their own | grounds. At the same time the Oakland | Lodge of Elks wanted to give thelr antler- ed brethren from the Gas City a taste of what an Oakland 0od time' might be. The visitors arrived last night and the baseball game was played this afternoon at Golden Gate. Six hundred Oaklanders % [ e o S i o o o TS S THE FESTIVITIES AT HIGHEST POINT. STOCKTON ELKS GIVEN RECEPTION AT OAKLAND & oy To KEEPF The R Rovun STOKTON By ‘,‘mfi iy | | | went out to encourage thelr home team, but the encouragement was not sufficient to pull them through, for the score stood 16 to 9 in favor of Stockton. The Stock- ton boys tried to make it 16 to 1, but the Oaklanders said that they were all Re- publicans and wouldn’t stand for anything of the This evening the Oakland Lodge held Jinks in their hall for the visiting members of the order, and tendered them a roval banquet The § ockton boys agree that the Oak- want to and that they did. GERALD LAWLER WINS MEDAL FOR THE BEST ESSAY Successful Competitor in the League of ‘the Cross Contest. First Grand Rally of Fifth District Cadets Attracts Large Crowd to St. Francis de i Sales Hall. | | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, August 12, The first grand rally and essay contest | of the fifth district of the League of the | | Cross Cadets, which includes all the com- not | panies outside of San Francisco, was held | | this afternoon in St. Francis de Sales | Hall. { and their friends. For the best essay on *‘The Moral and Physical Effects of Cigar- | ette Smoking on the Youth of America,” Gerald Lawler, a private of Company N of St. Franeis de Sales parish was dec- {orated with a silver medal. Richard rd of St. Joseph’'s parish in Berkeley Lawler's only competitor. | the audience by Lieutenant J. H. Long |of Company N, who presided. Their | papers as they were read showed careful preparation and a clear idea of the sub- | Bl ed. Each loudly applauded membe of the rival com- g for their favorites. unanimously agreed by e houtin, was the judges, Brother Agnin of St. Mary's Col- | | lege, Professor Martin Centner of the Uni- versity of California, and Lieutenant R. J. | Dowdall of San Francisco, that Lawler was entitled to the medal. The winner of the medal is entitled to enter the general essay contest to be held September 19 in Metropolitan Temple, San ancisco. Lawler has signified his inten- | tion of doing so. After pinning the medal on the bre: of the victor, F Father Philip O'Ry ot San Francisco, spiritual director of n League of the s Cadets, addressed the assemblage on the “Future of the league.” The speaker dwelt at length on the good work already done and outlined numerous plans for the future. He sald that next year instead of writing essays the young men will compete in debates on | appropriate subjects 'IN THE SWiM ACROSS THE BAY e OAKLAND, Aug. 12.—Miss Ethel Mid- dleton was the hostess at an informal luncheon last Thursday in honor of Mrs. Frank Short of Fresno. The guests were: t n e Mrs. Frank Short, Mrs. Muller, Mrs. Rousseau, Mrs. Rising, Mrs. Griffith, Mrs. Bornmore, Mrs. Moultrie, Mrs. Hays, Mrs. Akerly, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs.Thomas, Mrs. Grant. #iiw An informal luncheon at which Rev. Mr. and Mrs, Mynard were the guests of hon- or was given this afterncon at the Pledmont clubhouse by Mrs. and Miss Blshop. The decorations were pink roses and maldenhair ferns. Mr. Mynard was formerly rector of St. John's ~Episcopal Church, and is here on a visit. S The wedding of Miss Nellle Pearl Me- Cabe of Berkeley and George F. Martin, a prominent young business man of Wat- sonville, took place last Wednesday at the Church of St. Francis de Sales. ''he Rev. Father McSweeney performed the cere- mony. A wedding supper was serve® at The home of the bride s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. McCabe. The young couple left for a short bridal trip to Southern California. 2 T A A pleasant surprise party was tendered John H. Nissen last Thursday evening. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles llett, Miss Sadie Hallett, Mr. Berg- figln, Mr. Lynn, Miss Lynn, Mr. and Mrgs. Hahn, Hahn, Mr. abe, Miss Rose O'Brien, Miss Teresa O'Brien, Mrs. Bas- gett, Miss M. Bassett, Miss Ada Western, Mr." Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Halden, Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer. viiw . The young ladles of Plymouth Guild gave a surprise party last Thursday evening to Miss Amy McCall at the resi- dence of Mrs. J. A. Hill, on Telegraph avenue. A fad fiuessms contest was won by Miss Anita Miner and a game of pro- pressive anagrams by Miss Grace Duns- moor and H. J. Waters. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Mrs. McCall, Mrs, Whitman, Miss Amy McCall, Miss Reba Ingols, Miss Grace Dunsmoor, Miss Baith Miner, Miss Anita Miner, Miss Maud Collier, Miss Blanch Collier, Miss Ollie Bennetts, Miss Mabel Doub. Miss Emily Swain, Miss Daisy Alexander, Miss Frances Alexander; Messrs. Russel Whit- man, Charles McCall, Carlos White, S8am Bennetts, Dr. James Gilbertson, H. Wa- ters, A, Waters, Herbert McFarlin, A. L. Hannaford, Stephen R. Wood, Archibald Jones, James Greaves, Al Hare. P The Human Interest Club will hold its next meeting at the residence of Mr. and Ring, 534 Thirty- ust 20. g‘r. Ring, Mr. Ulrich and Fowler have been named as a committee to arrange a programme for the meeting. . s . The Starr King Fraternity contemplates glving a harvest festival during the early part of Baptamb.er. = . The Rollio Club, a new soclal organiza- tion. met last Saturday evening ‘:tnnu The hall was filled with the cadets | The young essayists were introduced to | {;0th sireet, on Aug- [ residence of Joseph Montz, on Sixth street. The music during the evening was furnished by an orchestra composed of members of the club. At midnight a sup- | vas served. Among those present Mr. and Mrs. O. Olson. Mr. and Wetherwood, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8 Mr. and Mrs. Ax, the Misses Stack, G. and E. Stack, F. Fitzgerald, Miss M. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Luckey, Mr. Mclntyre, the Misses 'Ad, Mr. Giilen, Mr. Mitchell,'Miss Marshall, Mr. Peterson, Miss S. Fitzgerald, Mr. Busch, Mr. Car- roll and wife, Miss Sharkey, Mr. Lemon, Miss Cool, Mr, Richmond, Miss Shepherd, Miss Fisher, Mr. Ligoni,” Mr. Ross, Miss | Elliot, Mr. and Mrs. C. 'Smith and’ Louis | Kennedy. | | CR Chief Justice and Mrs. Beatty were en- tertained at dinner last Sunday by Pro- fessor and Mrs. Paget. Other guests were Judge and Mrs. Slack, President and Mrs, Benjamin Ide Wheeler and Dr. and Mrs. George C. Pardee. . The delegates appointed by the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society to attend the Thir- | teenth Annual Grand Council, which is to | be held at Santa Cruz, August 28, are Mrs. | Jennie Jordan, Mrs. James McAlllster, | Mrs. Hamilton Coleman and Mrs. Gilbert. . Ceie Ho Yow, the Chinese Consul General at San Francisco, has been invited to deliver | &n address Monday evening before the Twentieth Century Club. «e . The round-table dinner given at the | Pledmont clubhouse last Saturday by Mrs. P. N. Lilienthal was in honor of the eighteenth birthday of her daughter, Miss Elsie Lilienthal, Sixteen young friends of Lilienthal were the guests. The e was prettily decorated with pink | roses and ribbons and maidenhair ferns. | Amaryllis formed the center piece. A | uniqua feature of the dinner was a cake with eighteen tiny pink and white candles burning hr!gmlr about it. After dinner | the young people enjoyed a dance. PR R Mrs. Frank Burteau with Master Aubert and Clarisse, have gone to the Santa | Cruz Mountains for a month. | Asylum to Open. | BERKEL: Aug. 12.—The State Insti- | tution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind will open on the 22d inst. The buildings have been thoroughly cleaned and repaired | during vacation. | e e Strassman Is Insane. | Leopold Strassman, the ex-conviet and | “dope flend” who shot his old, almost blind father, Dr. Max Strassman, Larkin street, last Friday morning, was booked at the City Prison yesterday on charges of assault to commit murder and insanity. He is a physical and mental wreck, and was taken from the prison to | f o pabas ooit fo the Receiving Hospital. | Dr. Strassman continues to improve. | —_——— Death of Stockbroker Doud. ‘William A. Doud, the stockbroker whose office was at 304 Montgomery street, died at St. Luke's Hospital on Saturday night from injuries received by falling down the stairway on August 7. It is thought the fall which proved fatal was accidental, as the deceased, when seen entering his office earlier in the evening of the acci- dent, was perfectly sober. ————— STORY OF A VIRGINIA MAID. a Nurse Won a Husband. Mary Ball, who afterward became the mother of Washington, was born early in the eighteenth century, her parents hav- ing emigrated to this country from Eng- 1t 1d only a few years previously. Her girlhood was not materially different from that of the average pioneer child in the wilderness, and spinning and the other arts which she learned were such as were acquired also by her playmates. The mar- ton attracted not a little attention in the country-side for two reasons—the age of was a widower. In those days marriages were usually contracted when ,the girls were mere children and a bride’ of 24 was naturally looked upon as an exception to custom. The engagement of Mary and spring wedding which followed was one of the events of the year in Virginfa so- cial life. There was no bridal tour, but instead the youn estate of the bricegroom, which enjoyed the distinction of being the largest planta- tion in Westmoreland County. 1. is only fair, of course, to presume that the bride was beautiful, but we have also the authority for it of 'an old letter, the writer of which designates her as the “comeliest maiden” she knows, and grows very enthusiastic in expressions of admir- atlon for her flaxen hair, blue eyes and cheeks “like May blossoms.” Nor was the love story of the Virginia maiden devoid of the always-desired tinge of romance, for tradition has it that the dashing Augustine gained a realization of her charms as she nursed him back to health after he had been seriously injured by the upsetting of his carriage before the home of his future bride. he friendship in- augurated on that interesting occasion Speedily ripened into mutual love. Be- reaved of her husband when George was 11 years of age, and with four younger children to be cared for, she discharged the responsibilities thus sadly devolved upon her with scrupulous fidelity and firmness.—Home Companio: Her Definition. A Hltl;.lMelgphlll rl, wl{:‘? ‘!.l constant- er elders w! er sage Harke ‘was. invited out to luncheon one was helped to a croquette. “What is this you Enva me?' she quer- led, with the frank inquisitiveness of chilahood. She was told that it was a croquette. “Well, what is it made of?” she in- ed. ““Of chicken,” her amused hostess re- plied. “Oh, I suppose that is the reason it is called a cryop:-queue.” she naively re- marked.—Pittsburg Dispatch. ——— e, mA Chmk:e nm'u alv!.ei"hl.vm m :’, e, entiary for ears, to tribe, but forgotten their be, he had DR e S S e e land Elks can give a good time when they | riage of Miss Ball to Augustine Washing- | day and while she was at the table she POLITICS OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES. s s XVIL ‘The new Republican party entered upon ts first administration under conditions, as President Lincoin said, more difficult than those which had confronted Wash- ington himazelf. While warlike prepara- tions had for months been going vigor- ously forward in the South, the North had looked calmly on, as if expecting the ex- | | | | | | | its letha citement to die away once more as in| former days. Probably neither party real- ly expected to come to blows, but the South was fully determined to settle with the North the status of slavery. Her leaders were doubtless ready to dissolve the Union if driven to extremes, but there was among the people strong opposition to secession, which was yet to be over- come by the progress of events. President Buchanan, while maintaining the unconstituticnality of secession, was unable to discever any constitutional authority for coercing a sovereign State, | and weakly held his peace while the power of the Federal Government crumbled away before his eyes. The| whole military and civil service was di organized. Federal munitions of war and all national possessions within the bound- aries of the retiring States were quietly appropriated by them. Only Fortress Monroe, the forts at Pensacola and Key West and Fort Sumter at Charleston were | [ e e o e e e o b e o e L S e e o S ok FROM LINCOLN'S DRAFT OF THE [ e o o o o e ok o still held by the loyal forces. The new administration bad a new government to create almost from the very foundation. Party Readjustment. The first shot fired at the flag floating from the ramparts of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, roused the North from rgy and united the people in a sion of resentment and patriotic devo- | a Fon as years of argument could er have done. For the moment party lines were effaced. The clamor for putting down armed rebellion by force of arms | was loudest of all from the Democrats. Led by Douglas, whose carnest, wnole- | hvnrleé loyalty to his country in inis hour of her need did much to atone for past errors, the war Democrats, as they were | termed, were practically absorbed the Republican part ong with what | remained of the Americans and Freesoil- | 1418 | | | | the bride and the fact that the groom | Augustine was of short duration and the couple journeyed to the | ers. There was a tendency to ignore par ty names and unite all loyal forces in the one great Union party President Lincoln in assuming the Lead of the Government had avowed his single purpose to be to preserve the Union and the constitution intact. No “minor mat ter” was to be considered until the safe of the nation was assured. To this he held with inflexible purpose, conciliatory temper, in spite of pressure from every quarter. The tional Demo- cratic PETty R ety fragment of its former self,” quickly gathered itself to- gether, and ‘as peace Democrats assumed the critical functions of the party in op- position to the administration. They per- sistently opposed the prosecution of the war, professing to adhere to the strict construction _views of the constitution | which prevailed in the Soath, and deny- ing to the Federal Government any legal power to coerce a State. Doubtless the party served a useful purpose as a re- straining influence, annoying and embar- rassing as that influence often was to the Government. There were many who looked with genuine concern upon the Mary Ball, Washington’s Mother, as | conduct of a war by the party of loose construction principles. Even In the case of previous wars, when the Democrats had been in power, consti- tutional authority Fad been repeatedly | subjected to severe strain, and there seemed real danger lest the party of| bread constitutional interpretation should | wreck the foundation of the Governmer But there is no more strongly conserv: tive force than a keen sense of responsi- bility. Such a sense profound and solemn ever controlled the President's action and | sobered the temper of the whole party. | Extra constitutional measures were ven- | tured upon, as the President and his ad- visers believed, only in obedience to the sternest necessity. The constitution was violated that the constitution might not be utterly destroyed. As the war went [ on the opposition of certain elements of | the peace Democracy became more vir: lent, and overt acts of resistance to Fed eral’ authority were inspired if not actu-| ally instigated by them. Serious riots in deflance to the military conscription which became needful occurred in New York city in 1863. In numerous instances the internal revenue law was deliberately and ersistently violated, and in a few cases | Tnited States officers engaged in the en forcement of the law were murdered. | Republicang gave various opprobrious names to the Northern opponents of the prosecution of the war. That which found widest_and longest favor was ‘‘copper- heads,” which likened the closest foes of the republic to the “‘snake in the grass,” the venomous reptile in her very bosom | striking slyly and treacherously at the tion's life. Divided Counsels in the Union Party. But the Republican or Union party was not itself a unit. There were those among | its ardent anti-slavery members who be- lieved from the outbreak of the war that | the stars In their courses had fought for their cause and that Providence has itself | in a tragic and spectacular way called upon the nation to strike the death blow oF%he evil institution. These urged the administration continually to aggressive measures of emmciflauon‘ and the Presi- dent's steadfast adherence to his great central purpose, regardless of factional | clamor, won him enemies among them. | Time' has fully vindicated Lincoin's calm strength, his wise moderation and good sense. To the judgment of the more | radical leaders of opinion his attitude was one of timidity and irresolution. He moved slowly when they would have driven him swiftly toward the desired end. Lincoln's Txlet reserve of strength, his patient waiting In the face of misunder- standing and the alienation of truste friends until he was assured that th right moment for golng forward had come, were due in no small degree to his intimate knowledge of the common, “plain | people” of the country. He knew that he must _have thelr sympathy and support in order to nccomg ish any enduring suc. cess, and heknew that these were not to be won in a day. He thoroughly understood their simple manner of life, the slow I movement of their thought and its nar- row range, and the slusy. faithful ten- ty of their adh to a p fGihed: once as few public m“?:v‘: ever | the slaves of that | articles of the platform known them. When he saw that this slowiy awakenfng but irresistible force in the national life was stirred at last then he, too, was ready. The policy of the administration was at first one of exceeding caution in respect to slavery. Those slaves who escaped to the Union lines were surrendered to their masters if the claim could be proved. After a time fugitives were admitted to service in the army. When General Fre- mont, commanding the Department of Missouri, proclaimed the freedom of State his_order was overruled by the President. But in Vir- ginia General Butler's more prudent ac- tion of accepting the slaveholder’s view of the negroes as “property,” and there- fore liable to confiscation as “contraband of war,” indorsed and a constant stream "of ‘“‘contrabands” set in toward the Union lines. By the end of 1862, a year of sad and serious reverses to the Union arms, the times were ripe for the blow which should encourage the downcast friends of the Union and dishearten their enemies and put them in the wrong be- fore the nations of the. civilized world. January 1, 1863, President Lincoin issued his emancipation proclamation, by which all slaves within that portion of the coun- try then in rebellion were declared - free. This had been preceded three months be- fore by a proclamation addressed to the eded States warning them of the Pres- nt's purpose, in case they refused to rn to their allegiance, to proclaim the jom of their slaves. The emancipa- ct was hailed with rejoicing by the Northern abolitionists and received gen- e e @ was EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. srereseisresereseQ eral support throughout the free States, but there were some within the Repub- lican party who questioned its constitu- tionality, and there was a temporary fall- ing off in the party majorities. Sther measures irto which the admints- tration believed itself to be forced by the intensity of the struggle had a like effect, g only a hesitating approval from ipporters and calling forth un- 1 denunciation from the peace Such were the draft acts, the on of the habeas corpus writ and the act creating a legal tender paper cur- rency. Lincoln vs. Congress on Reconstruc- tion. R R o S g The President early adopted a settled and_logical theory respecting the status of the seceded States. Refusing to admit the possibility of the withdrawal of any State from the Federal Union, he main- tained that the State governments had by overturned by the act of secession. He therefore feit himself bound to recog- nize the equal rights in the Union of all States or parts of States which returned to their allegiance and to see to it that egular legal governments were set up in Them s soon as conditions permitted. As early as December, 1563, a proclamation of amnesty was made, offering most liberal terms to those who would take the oath support the constitution of the United ates, with the exception of certain pe- culiarly guilty classes, and it was pro- vid:d that whenever in any of the dis- loyal States one-tenth of the voters by the census of 1560, having taken the oath, should set up a State government in_ac- cordance with the constitution, such gov- ernment should be recognized by the President, leaving Congress to pass upon the admission of its representatives to ouse. lhéo::gl"le!s was, on the other hand, dis- posed to take the view that the States which had attempted secession had by that act divested themselves of the rights and privileges of States in the Union, and, having been defeated in their efforts to withdraw, were not States, as before, but were rather in the condition of Territories dependent upon the will of Congress for re- admission to Statehood. New governments in Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee had already received recognition from the executive before the death of Tincoln led to a disastrous change in the course of atfairs. Election in 1864 and End of the War. The Republican Naticnal Conyvention me: June 17, 1964, at a dark hour ’or the national cause. The people were m, restive_under the long continuance of th war. War taxes were burdensome, and the great suffering and loss of life al- ready experienced seemed after all of un- certain result. The more radical Union- ists had previously met and nominated General Fremont for the Presidency. The Baltimore convention comprised not Re- publicans only. but the various groups and factions devoted to the preservation of the Union. Every State represented. Missouri excepted, cast its ballot for Lin- coln. For reasons of policy the second place on the ticket was given to Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, a Union Democrat of strict construction princtples. Peace Democrats controlled the Nation- al Democratic Convention, which met in August and nominated General George B. McClellan. Their platform declared the four years of war a fallure, charged the Republicans with repeated violations of the constitution and demanded that hos- tilitles should cease. The more nflmflz ere repudiats bv the candidate in his letter of accept- ance, but the result of the campaign was a foregone conclusion. The radical fac- tion withdrew its ticket and joined in the support of Lincoln, who was overwheim- ingly the choice of the States whose votes were counted. Eleven States chose no legal electors. %he election marked the turn of the tide. The war was quickly brought to an end. In the midst of the rejoicings over the conclusion of terms of peace, on the I5th of April, 1865, the wise and strong hand of President L!ncnlbn "v;s wl:h:;nvn&: t e act of an the helm of State by Smsiet iy sin. - Iowa College. LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. OCEAN STEAMERS. NEW YORK—Arrived Aug 12-Stmr Astorta, 31asgow. hg{!é‘r:;x.srowu—.\rmu Aug 12-stmr Tver- rom Boston. for Liverpool, a: B Te Tutania. from Liverpool: for New Y NDON-Sailed Aug 13—Stmr Minnehaha, for New York. MOVILLE-Arrived Aug 13—Stmr Tunistan, from Montre for Livernool. et The invasion has its serious side. Tt wil] | be almast Impossible to secure a to America in the autumn. Al near- Iy every berth is booked on the Hn- ers. Doubtless many of the rs will find themselves forced to remain their allotted time, as they were in lee vear