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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1868)
0tosUa SV&wrtiscr Nebraska CUiuctliocv f j. L. COLHAPP. T. C. BACKER. 0 4 1 1 I I ' cnrncn, coLHArp & co., PUBLISHERS, pjjert oa'0 Clock. 2d Floor, Hall Entrance, ...vear. in advance, - $ 08 - K0rrtion oust invaiiably, be pall In Advance . vTTorfc and PUin and Fancy Job Work done ffwi on short notice. VOL. XII. DIRECTORY. OBESSIOTiAIi DEIEQATION v-.-rtW it ft. Snnfctor. Brownvllli. TY, . lir i " - 9 mi at v Omaha. jonK Tafte Representative, Dakota City. 8TATR DIEECTOBY. Turin BrTLER, Governor. Pawnee City. iHOs p. Kenxard, Secretary, Omaha. jjhs Gillespie. Auditor, Omaha. Arcrs-rrs Kocktz Treasurer. S. Knox, Librarian, O mull a. JTJDICIABY. 0 p Mason. Judge of let Judicial District, Vm. II- noovta, District Clerk XorXemaha Co. IiEQISLATUBE. vi T J- Majors, Senator. Pern, Nemaha Co. Geo Crow, Kept esentatlve, Falrvlew do J0ris WAI.DTER. At Brownvllle, do thaS Havwood, do Grant, do VM Daily, do Peru, do ,ttitti R?ilTi:3 DI11ECTOEY. n M AtkikON, Keslcter. U.S. !.,aud Office, JOHS I" CARSOW, jieceiver. dwwuhiio. 8 P TrTTLE, U S. As. Assessor, Brownvllle. ' p' Marsh, Post Master. Brownvllle. 6 H i.KH, lieplster In Bankruptcy. ootttcTV DIRECTORY. Jame M. Hacker, Clerk and Register of Deeds. g W. I:eatton. treasurer. A. w. Morgak Probate Judge. )AVIt60X PLASTERS, Sheriff. P. weight, Surveyor. r o boimes. ) rniLLiP starr, County Commissioner!, J. L M'WIK. ) EEE5ARD OTTNS, CoTODef. CITY DIRECTORY, Jarvis S. CurRCH. Mayor. vm. H. McCreerv, Clerk. X. y. Bovd. Marshall. jcsas Hacker. Collector. VM. ii. uoovxa, Treasurer. T. R. Fisher Engineer, j. jr. Reynolds, Attoniey. C. F. Stewart, m r nirim. o. w. wHtius, VAldennea. A. W. JtOROAN, A. P. CO &6 WELL. , CXitircHes. r'-ct Bartist. Services cn Second Sunday end .'nir Saturday of each month at 2 o'clock P. M. Jure MetlcxlUt church in Brownvllle. Rev. M. F. iflLLIAVS. rf'or. Methodist EpiscopRl. Services every Sunday, tt lb l-i AM., and 6 1-2 P. M. Prayer Meeting every CarwliT evening; Sunday School every Sabbath at 1-3 M Her. W. S. KLACKBCRX, Pastor. Episcopal - Sorvice la McPherson's nail every -ttMSunlsv at 10 1-2 A.M., and every Sunday at 11-! P X Sunday School at 2 1-4 P. M. every Suti V Rt Re . R. DAViS, Mitslonsry. ' First Presbyter-aa Services every Sunday t K 1 1 A. H . anl 6 -1 P.M.; Sunday School at 2 1.4 P M ; Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 F. M. k,T. lollS T. BA1HD. Patr. Arrival and lleparlure of Ulalls. Listern lXcil arrive! dai ly, except Sunday, at 1, p.m. d.ipru " 1 1-2 ITortliem Hail arrives " " atl.p.m departs " " at 11-2" Western Mail arrive every trednefdav at 4, p. m. departs every Monday at 8. a.m. GrEtt Mail arrives every Tucday at 6, p. m. departs every Wednesday at 8, a.m. Eockpcrt Hail arrives every Saturday at I, i. m. . ' departs " " I 1-2, p.m. P:n.n will oblige bygettlnn their mall In lully ha'.l n hour befure the departure of mails. UJice cpea Suad ays I rom S to 9, a. m., and trom 4 to A. D. MAUSn, P. M. LODGE DIRECTORY". KtMAnA Valley Lodge No. 4, A F & A M meets rtvtlarlj In tie Masonic IlaM on the 1st and 3 J Satur I.V. of f-ach month. T W. BEDFORD, W. M. J. II. KonaisoK, Secretary. Ebowxville Loioe. I () of O F. meets regularly rverr TutrsCay evening la the Mafjnic IIa.Il. U. C LETT, N. O. G w Fairbrother, Sec. Bbowstilik Lodoe, I Oof QT, meets regularly every Friiaj eeniug in the Mi.onic nail. jarvis scucacn, W. C. T. tr. D. Elackbcrv, W. S. 0 A E Pot No. 1, Nemaha County, meets every s.tercste Tiurnlay, in Brownvllle, ver Dorsey & Bro'i Ciothlr.g Store, at 7, P. M. Capt. O. B. IISWKTT, P. C W l.BLACkBCR!, P. A. BARMuSIA Meou every Wednesday evening In tlcl.;i es-t of TeiegrpU f!!ce Mcpherson's Block. LOUIS WALDTKR, Pre. Cheis Eavdoldt, Sec. Eeowsville Literauv Ass ocx ati ok -Meets fverj TLurwJay evening at 7. P. M. J. U. BROADT. Pre. 3.1, Patch, Eec. VtSTIRS I'NIOH TELXQRAPn COMPAJTT Offlce In kcPLera-ju's Block. J. K. BEAR. Operator. DRUGTORES HOLLADAY & CO., Vholebale and Retail Deaier In DErGS, MEDICINE, PAINT, OIL, &c, P. O Bulldlnz, Main St., " Wr IlTIcCREERY, Vhoieeale and Retail Dealer In Dugs, Books, Wa!l-r3per and Stationery, Corner Main and let Sts., MERCHANDISE. GEORGE MARION, Dealer In Dry Goods, Groceries & Notions. Foot ot Main Street near Levee, 165Q. Established 1S56 WM. T. DEN, 'BTnoleeale and Retail dealer In GENERAL MERt HANDISE. Corn Planters. Plows. Stoves. Furnitnre. COXXISSIOy AXD FORWARDIXQ MERCHANT Main atreet bet T.eveA and lot. Cicjest market price paid for Hides, Pelt; Fur$ and G. M. HENDERSON, - fiealnr tn BUY GOODS AND GROCERIES Mala let. 1st and 2d Sts., chart r; Timrnrr. BEER HALL, LUNCH ROOM AND LI GUT GROCERY STORK, nam bet. lot and 2d Sts.. J. L. McGEE & CO., Dealtrt in GENERAL MERCHANDISE. WcPhernon's Block. Main Ftreet, ATTORNEY S. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. overDor?ey Bro's Clothing Store Main St, v -a r -".irtoa O.B.Hewett J.S.Church Won, hewett & church, XTT ntVT?vo ,v rr T . t tit KcPherson s Block, Mala st. botween 2d & d. rm77 "UMAB. J, H. BROADT. THfJATAQ Rr npnanv Attorney at Law Soliciter in Cnancery . ace over Dorsey's Clothing Store, WM. McLENNAN, . frSBBASKA CITT, NKBRASEji. a., CHESTER F. NYE, "TTORXEY AT LAW. Awn WM CLAIM AGENT, PiWVES CITT, KZBBAEEA, Vi r BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1868. HOTELS. J. rTaVZNBOM. p. o. CROSS. STAR HOTEL, 8TEVE?:SON & CROSS, Proprietors, On Lvee St. . between Main i. Atlantic. Ttls House ii ronvi;u; u the Steam Boat Landing, and the tctmess rart vt the Citv. The best accommo dations In the City. No pains will be spared in mak ing-gnetts comfortable. Uood Stable and Corral con vement to the Hoaae PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE. IIICnAEI,riN2r,Proprietor. eonthiide Main between lut an.i 2nd treeta. Aleals at all H onrfi. or for IkCf-nlar Hrtaritem. at A . o- z ' mo usual rates. 12-Il-ly AMERICAN HOUSE, Ii. D. EOBISON, Proprietor. A good Feodaad Livery Stable In connection w..hthe House. Front street, between Main and Waterr PHYSICIANS. J. W. BLACKBURN, M.D. PENSION EXAMINING SURGEON, Tenders his professional service to the eiticena of BrownTii'o and Tiein.tj. OFFICE AT CITY DRVG STORE. Night calls at bis Residence soutn tide of Atlas tio between 1st and 2nd etreets. H. L. MATHEWS. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE CITV DRUG STORE, A. S. HOLLADAY. M D. (Graduated in 1S61 ; Located in Brovnville in 1S5 ) Physician, Surgeon and Obstetrician, Dr. IT. htm on band complete gets of Amputat ing, Trephining and Obstetrical instruments. Office: nollaaayfc Co's Drug Store. P. O. P. S. Sneoialattention snven to Obstetrics and the diseases of women and children. x-44-ly C. F. STEWART, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE: Jnntn T.nst corner of Main and First Streets fficb Horta 7 to 9 a. M.and 1 to 2 ando to 7 V p. v BLACKSMITHS. J. H. BESON, Will do BLACKSMITHING of all kinds. Make$ Horte Shoeing, Ironing of WagonM and SUight ana Macmne tvom a opeciaiiy. Shopon Main St., weft of McPherson'e Block, J. W. & J. C. GIBSON, B L. A C K S M I T II S SHOP on 1st between Main and 2d, All Work done to order Sat itf action Guarrantied. JOHN FLORA, R T. A O K S M I T H Shop on Water Street South of American House t57"Cu8tom Work ot all kinds solcited. 12-12 NEWS DEPOTS. A. D. MARSH, NEWS DEPOT NO I- SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, &c, Poht Office, Main St., T. 0. HACKKB. 3, S. CHURCH. J. ! cotaAir HACKER. CHURCH & CO., Book-Sellers, Stationers and News Agents, Sonth side Main Street, STOVE & TIN STORES. OIIN 6. DEUSER , Dealer in STOVES, TINWARE, PmiPS,&c. Opposite MtPherson's B'ock, SHELLEBERGER BRO'S nrtmiLfirturerM and Dealen in TINWARE, STOVES. HARDWARE. CARPEN- prnvrctin'fi Arc Merhereon' Block Brcwnvl'.le. Neb BOOTS & SHOES. r H A R f.F?S HELLM Eli. TCOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Main Street 2 doors below the southeast corner of 2nd. u - h.nJ a i.twrii.r stock of Boots and baoes u.e vu " ""i"" . nd the best material and ability for doing 1ST" Curtom Wort done vtih nea!nes$ ana ai$pan. A ROBINSON. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Mftln Between m a a oircc- -.f n f firm TfT the rublio that iSKe VD1B liiumuu vi o r , he has on band a splendid assortnent of Gent s and Ladie'e Misees' and Chlldreus'a TnoTS &. SHOES. CJ-Custen work done with neatness and dUpatchCS Repairing aono on paort nuuoo. ,v CONFECTIONARIERS. CONFECTIONERY AND TOY STORE I ..a 3 Fresh Bread, Cakes, Ojster , run, o., cn nana. Soathside Main between 1st and Zd arreen, " J. P. DEUSER, Dealer In Ccnfectionaries, Toys, Notions, &c, Main bet. 1st and 21 Sts., WM. ALLEN. Proprietor of the CITY DA.KERY. Fancy Wed- InConfectlonarles. Fruits and beat Family Flonr. Main Street let. iit and 23, SADDLERY. J. H. BAUER. Dealer In HARNESS, BRIDLES Sc COLLARS Mending done to order israci ion pwrwu. Shop on Mainbet. 1st and Id sts.. JOHN W.MIDDLETON Munrfurturer and Dealer la HARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Whips and Lashes of every description, Flasterln xiair. iuu iui xa.vw. Corner Main and 2d Sts., W D MAHIN, nrnv facturer and Dealer in all kinds of Raddles. Harness, Whips, Collars, &c. I Smith's Patent Trace Buckles, Nixon's Fated I race uuciues. forth Side Main Stroet, MRS j. M. GRAHAM, TEACHER OF JI U o 1 u . T.TSSOXB GIVES OS THE PIANO, ORGAN, unnnrnK nrtTAS AND VOCALIZATION, Having had rtnht years experience as Teacher of Music tn New i or kit confident of giving satisfaction. Rooms Maio, bet. 4th c 5th sts. lo-ly JtROWNYILLE, NEBRASKA. ifwt tor LIBERTY AND UNION, J. C. McNAUGHTON, Notary Public and Conveyancer, Agent for " National Life" and "Hartford Live Stock Inturance" Companies. umce in J. j.. (jargon's uana, R. F. BARRETT. GENERAL LAND AGENT, AND LAND WARRANT BROKER, fnil attend to paying Takes for Non-residents. Per sonal attention Ktven to making Locations. Lands, imprcved and unimproved, for sale on reasonable terms. vl2-n2o-ly UNITED STATES EXPSESS COMPANY. j. t-. oarson, agent, Office Carson's Bake, Brown yule, Nebraska Carries Freight, Money and Small Packages to all parts of the United states. E. H. BUR CHE $, LANDSCAPE GARDNER Will the coming Spring plant crops In Gardens and nltlvate same by contract. -.Will also have on hand weet Potato, Cabbage, Tomat6 & Perper plants for sale WORTHING & "WIIJCOX, STORAGE, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, And dealers in all kinds of Grain for which they pay ffle Highest Market Price in tasn. GEO. T. DORSET. LUTHER HOADLJSY. CHAS.G.DOBSEV DORSEY HOADLEY & CO.. REAL ESTATE AGENTS, AND DEALERS IN LAND WARRANTS AND AG RICULTURAL COLLEGE SCRIP. Offlce In Land Office Building, Buy and sell Improved and unimproved Lands. Buy, sell and locate Land Warrants and Agricultural Col lege Scrip. Make careful selections of Government Lands for Location, IlomeFteads, and Pre-emptions. Attend to contested Homesteads and Pre-emption cases in the Land Offlce. Letters of inquiry promptly and carefully answered. Correspondence solicited. 2otf FRANZ HELMER, WAGON MAKER OPPOSITE DEUSER'S TIN-SHOP, WAOONS. BTJGQIE3. PLOWS. CTJITI- VITOK8, tc. , Repali ed on short notice, at low rates and warranted to give satisfaction. x-13-fn nn JONAS HACKER, Tax Collector for the City of Brownville, Will attend to the payment of Taxes for non-resident land owners tn a emana county. Torres pondence Solicited. Offlce on Main bet. 1st and 2d, SMITH P. TUTTLE. U. S. Assistant Assesnrand Claim Agent. Will at tend to the Prosecution of Claims before the Depart ment fir Ad Bounty Back Pay and Pensions Also, to tht Collection of Semi-Aunual dues on Pensions, Office over Carsons Bank Main street, A. STAFFORD, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST Persons wishing Pictures executed in the latest style of the Art will please ecu at my Art uaucry. Main street bet. let and 2d street, J. W. SMITH. BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER Main St., 5th door roin S W cor 2nd St. GATES & BOUSEFIELD, BRICKLAYERS & PLASTERES Will take contracts for Bricklaying, Plastering, buildintr Cisterns, and do anything in their line in the most satisfactory and workmanlike manner. Aug.30,1866. x-4i-iy KEISWETTER & EARSMAN, Butcherb, CITY MEAT MARKET, Main bet. 1st and 2nd Sts., J. V. D.PATCH. Manufacturer and Dealer In CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, Silver and Sllver-PIated Ware Constantly on hand all varieties of Spectacles. Repairing done In the neatest style, and at short notice. Charges moderate. Work warranted. City Ding Store, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. W. H. KIM.BERLIN, OCULIST AND AUKIST. Will Treat all Diseases of the Eye and Ear. Rooms at the Star Hotel, Tenders bis services to the citizens of this city and vicinity. May he consulted at tha above place from the 1st to the 10th of eacb month. Ana at me baiem uouse, Salem, Richardson county. Nebraska, from the 10th to the last of each month. 12-llly JOHN L. CARSON, r a Ia il a Browxivillo, 2NJo"fc. TTtoi n(n Kinno-M and Bolil nn fl.ll the nrinpipftl Mjm B-- T . Cities. Also, doaler in Gold and Silver Com, Gold Dust and GOVERNMENT BONDS. Deposits received, payable at sight. Interest void on time Deposits by especial 1 . m , r I J - agreement 1 axes paia jor non-re&iuenis. All kinds f U S.BON DS WANTED JOHN L. CARSON. R. F. BARRETT, Proorietor of the HEW STEAM FERRT BOAT, SrK SET, and owner of the entire Ferry PranchU at nUOWXVILLG, 1VECR4SHA, Would respectful lyrepreseat to he Traveling Public that they can be ferried over the Missouri River, at Brownville, promptly and without delay, at all hours In the day time The capacity of the boat will accommodate Fllteen Loaded Wagons and Teams OR 100 READ OF BEEF CATTLE, AT ORE Tltlir. n20-tf VH9. ZCMCK LEACH. M1S8 MABT A. 81XFSON LEACH & SIMPSON, Milliners & Dress-Makers Ww, t infnr the ladies of Brownville and vicinity that they has just cimmenced a first class MILLINERY & DRESS-MAKING S3 355E Where work Will be done with great enra and neat --.I aftar tKa taAst Rustern gtvl?. Bleaching and Repairing done in the very latest etlo and on short notice. t . t i.i;.1..,! t-hV! rt b Rata and itonnets constantly kept on hand, J- latest pat- twnsTjf Ladies uresses, woaujavy. -.v-i. v.. thing cut on short notice " Second Stieet. between Main & Water BR 0 1VNVILLE, NEBRASKA. F resh Tomatoes, ia two and three P? J a I A ONE AND INSEPARABLE, NOW AND FOREVER." EDUCATIONAL. M'KEKSIB, EDITO Teaching. Teaching ia a trade, a real corns fide profession ; and needs to be Iearn.d as much as does law or medicine, if the person would be successful as a teacher. The great cano of so many failures in onr common school .icachecs, is because so many make it only a stepping stone to aid iu some other profession. A lawyer or a doctor, while persuing his course of study, finds it very convenient to spend a few weeks each year in some district school room, swaying the "birchen rod," and "teaching the young idea how to shoot," in order to replen ish his depleted purse, not because he likes the" business; oh, no I far from it; tut jt is a conven ient way to obtain a little money. And how often do we hear him praised as a highly accomplished teacher, because he can read a little latin or green, or solve a problem in algebra, or demonstrate a proposition in quantity, when in reality he is infe- ior in ability to some young lady who could not reoeive half the compensation for her services. Now, we all admit the great advantages of a thorough and systematic drill in the recitation and lecture room, to fit men to pursue the practice of law or medicine. Is the instruction of our youth less important than are these? Can we afford to leave our children waste their precious spring time of life under the tuition of those who will only blunt the sensibilities and leaden tha intellect ? The times demand educated teachers. Already are many of the States holdiag out inducements to young men and women t become professional teachers, and this conrse is richly repaying the State in the great improvecent of common schools and the consequent intelligence of the people. One of the first requisites then we would say is to fully adopt the profession of teaching as your business. Make it, if not four life work, at least your employment for a number of years. Now that you are fally pledged to this course, ask yourself how you can best advance the cause, and set about your work with a determination to be second to none. Teach thought, not words; let the .child have a clear understanding of every word he uses, flere Is the great "reck" on which so many teachers split. Scholars are made to commit long columns of words, which, to them have no meaning what ever. This is wrong. Every word should bring up some definite image to the mind, and unloss this is done the word becomes but useless rubbish in the mind. Teachers, is this your aim ? Are you doing this in your schools ? cr are you using words every day that brings no thought to your own mind ? Now who are our Nebraska teachers ? Who will come forward and enroll his name as one who ex pects to work in the school room for the next few years? The following students are now attending the Normal School who have enrolled themselves aa prospective teachers, and some of them will try thbir skill the next bummer : Mr. John Dundas, MUs Maggio Tinkham, Mis Alia Myers, Mirfs Melisa S.Huntley, Miss Almed Bagley, Miss Annio Swan, Mis Jennie Richardson, Miss Lottie Giie?, Mifs Illinois Tate, Mr. Curtis C. Mender, Mr. Peter Warner, Mr. E. B. Tinkham, Mr. Vm. Win tors, Mr. Wilson E. Majors, Mr. F. M. Williams, Mr. James Williams, Mr. Henry Roberts, Mi--s Emma San. Districts desiring to eagago a teacher will do well to enquire at the State Normal School. Minding the Stops. We take the following from lWthend's Teach er's Assistant : "A country school master, who found it rather difficult to make his pupils observe the difference in reading between a oomma and a full point, ad opted a plan of his own which, be flattered himself, would make them proficient in the art af punctua tion. Thus, in reading, when they camo to a com ma they were to say tich, and read on to a semico lon and say ticl,tich; to a colon and say tich, tich, tick ; and when a full point, tc, tich, tick, tick. Now, it so happened that our worthy school master received notice that the parish minister was to pay a visit of examination to his school ; and as he was desirous that his pupils should show to the best advantage, he gave them an extra drill the day be fore examination. 'Now,' said he, addressing his pupils, 'when you read before the minister to-mor- row, you may leave out the ticks, though you must think them as you go along, for the sake of elocu tion.' So far, so good. Next day came, and with it the minieter ushered into the school room by the school master, who, with smiles and bows, hoped that the training of the scholars would meet his approval. Now, it so happened that the first boy called up by the minister bad been absent the pre vious day, and in the hurry the master had forgot ten to give him his instructions how to act. The minister asked the boy to read a chapter in the Old Testament, which he pointed out. The boy complied, and in his best accent began to read : 'And the Lord said unto Moses saying, tick, speak unto the children of Israel saying ; ftei, tick, and thus ehalt thou pay unto them. Tich, tick, tick, tick.'" .This unfortunate sally, in bis own style, acted like a shower-bath on the poor school roaster, while the minister and his friends almost died of laugh tor. 1 Composition Reat at the weekly txereine of the formal School Ftb. list, by Henry Roberts: When we pause amid the ceaseless rush of events that follow each other so swiftly in the history of nations, we involuntarily k ourselves.- What. is to be the fate of the American Republic in the strug gle for opulance and powerl Shall this the young est and nearly the strongest nation that history has as yet mentioned follow the universal course cf republics, and after rising steadily and swiftly to unexampled prosperity, finally reach the senith of her power and sink into oblivion, leaving only a glimmering spark shining down the stream of time to warn others of the breakers in which she stranded T It may be hard for us who have learned to regard our govern mcnt as one of the stable things of earh, to think this of our nation, yet we know the future only by the past, and history is directing pur eyes toward the wrecks of other nations, once the pride of the world, and repeating in our ears the fearful warning "the stars that glitter on yonder bnnners (freedom's chosen on sign), shall go down, and the light that now il lumes the pathway of freedom and progress shall be obscured by the gloom of ignorance and despot ic, unless you avoid iho rock on which the hope of past ages have been wrecked." Thon let us, the atandard bearers of liberty iu the conflict of free dom and despotism, found our structure on the broad principle of equal rights to all, and the uni versal diffusion of knowledge, anl then if fall we must, we will have the satisfaction of knowiii that we have tried io do our duty to ourselves and our fellow-men, I 4 SPEECH ON RECONSTRUCTION, Delivered by Hon. T. W. Tipton in the United States Senate February 19th, 1868: Mr. TIPTON. Mr. President, in the year 1854 a bill passod the Congress of the United States to at m . - i. i i organize ine lemiorj 01 ieorasaa. oeiuro mo passage of that organic act, if neoessity had re quired, a military or prov isional government might have been instituted unti 1 such time as Congress should permanently organ iae civil govertment. The limitation of such a temporary government was fittingly described by Secretary Seward to Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi,' July 24, 1834 : "The government of the State win be provisional only until the civil authorities shall be restored with the approval of Congress." In that organio act for the organ! ration of Ne braska it was provided that the right of suffrage should only be exercised by citizens of the Unit ed States and such as had declared their intentions to b.oomo citizens, and who were white males over twenty-one years of age. Subsequently Congress passed an act to enable the Territory to adopj m constitution and apply for admission as a State. That application foi a State was made at the last session of the thirty-ninth Congress. But before adopting the constitution of Nebraska, as slavery had been abolished and society was no longer di vided between citizens and slaves, an act had be come a law affirming that in the Territory of Ne braska there should be no distinction on account of color in the exercise of the electivo franchise. It was claimed that the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, declaring all persons born in the country citizens, made it proper to open up to equal rights all the Government domain. Ti is was re garded as unavoidably necessary, inasmuch as it is made the duty of Congress to guaranty to every State in the Union a republican form of govern ment ; and a State could not be republican in which any class of the citizens were excluded from the ballot-box. But inasmuch as the organio act lim ited suffrage, having passed before all persons born in the oountry were declared citizens, and Congress having supreme power over the Territories, when Nebraska presonted a restricted constitution Con gress claimed the right to make its adoption de pend upon the fundamental condition that there should be no distinction on account of color in ex ercising the elective franchise. But, supposing that INebraska bad cent up two conflicting constitutions. Then she would have been met at the very threshhold with the decision of the United States Ccurt in the case of Luther vs. Dcrden, 7th Howard, as follows; "Under this fourth section, fourth article, of the United States it rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For, as the U&ited State, guaranties to earh State a republi can government, Congress must necessarily decide what government Is established in the State before it can determine whether it Is republican or not. And Its decision is binding upon every other department of the Government, and could not be questioned In a ju dicial tribunal." But, as no such conflict arose, Congress had only to decide upon the republicanism of the constitu tor, and hence Nebraska is to-day a State in the American Union, in which all citizens of the U. S. arc charged with equal duties and are admitted to equal privileges and blessings. On that bnsis 1 am proud to be one of her Representatives, and wi 11 of every other State entering tho Union demand the same provision. What, then, was the condition of the ten seceded States when General Grant received the sword of General Lee? Or, for example, what was the con dition of South Carolina? In 1SSI the had with drawn from the Government of the United States her Senators and Representatives ; had levied war upon the Government and waged it for four years. Hho had been represented in a confederacy of States unknown to and antagonistic to tho Government of the United States. Th;it confederacy bad been blotted from tho fua of the earth : its armies sur rendered and s 11 its officers, civil and military, va cated. No confederate officer had been bound to the Government of the United States by an oath cf cmce ; but his allegiance ha 1 been pledged against it. The true condition of all her poople, without scarcely an exception, was that assigned them in the most expressive and truthful language of the 1 resident of the Lnitea States : " I say the traitor has ceased to be a citizen, and In joining the rebellion has become a public enemy." And so she was a conquered public enemy, with no more show of loyal, legal State government than the adventurers on the frontier before the or ganio act passed for Nebraska. IIow,thtn, could she be restored again to her place in the Union? She might bo held under military rule or restrained by a provisional govern ment, which should in all respects crnt'orm to the will of tho conquering power till such times as Con gress shall pass an act to enable the people to form a State government, or till such foim of govern meut as miht bo improvised for .the occasion should be received, examined, ond adopted by Congress. If Congress v olunteered a form of ter ritorial government the whole question of who should participate in elections and in holding offi ces would be for their decision. And when the State thus reconstructed from tho fragments of a rebel organization should present a constitution for the adoption of Congress, I would proceed upon the assumption that all persons born iu the United States are citizens of the same, and are entitled to equal rights, regardless of race or color ; and if 1 found aforoignor who had never boeu naturalized, but who had already fought under the flag of the Union, I would consider him a citizen, anl feel honored in legisla ing him into tha full posses ion of every American privilege And if I found a race of men from whoso sweat and blood tho lordly estates of Carolina had been amased,and on whose brows had never fallen the light of freedom a class who were true and loyal when the spray was over them and treason the certain path to favor and influence I would enfranchise them without precedent, amend constitutions, and enact laws in their faver. In a word. I would prefer loyalty over treason, and not allow any rebel element to enter into that elementary organiaation. To the loyal people 1 would accord just tho same constitution my own constituents have so lately re ceived from Congress; and from the disloyal with hold only that which I would withhold from a reb el of Nebraska who might have levied war against his State and government. Instead of defying in tellcgcnce I would decide that the most ignorant man in all the land who was loyal and true was dearer to the heart of the nation than the polished and erudite who doubted, was neutral, or a foe. If the question of investing the sol iier with the elective franchise could have been settled on the field of battle just after one of those celebrated charges in which color made no distinction and all bloods mingled, then the intelligence and property qualification would have gone down, down as did the rebel lines before the combined power of loyal men of high and low degree. If the fang3 of slavery had not originally pierced tha Constitution, then, in the first days of the Union, when citizens were sent out to claim do minion ever the unpeopled Territories of the na tion, it would have been to establish and support government through the ballot-box irrespective of color. And then those governmentsonce admitted as States, it would have been to organize their militia and bear arms, irrespective of color ; in paying taxes and errecting churches and school house, in buiidiDg bridges and roads, in reclaim ing the wilderness and crowding the rivers with commerce, it would have been on the ba.ia of man hood, the powerof muscle, and dominion of will. Mr. President, in the opening of this dh oussion the Senator from Wisconsin declared : It is a very different thin? to taie away from a free man a privilege long eierciscd by him and by his an ceors from what It Is Vi confer one never before en joyed upon innorant, half civilized Arrlcans, jul re leased from slavery." Sir, I aver thu we did not rob these white rebels of the South of any privilege ; we captured them as publio enemies after they had abandoned every Erivilege under our Constitution. Tba Senator imseif admits, and I quote lis own language : "For their criminal acts we would have the legal right to try and convict and sentence to Imprisonment and to death." But, instead of punishment and death, we com mence to remit them back again to their original standing, and at ocoe reclothe them with all for feited rigbtm, exoepting, in a few instances, that cf voting ; while in this instance the prohibition is not final but temporary. Ag,ain, the Senator charges that it issa atrocious libel upon ourselves, upon our ancestors, and upo n the results of Christian civilization, to allow the African the elective franchise at once, while the foreigner "Most appear In open court, and. after five years residence, 'prove by the testmonyof two citizens a good moral chiracter and that he is well disposed to wards the Gove rnment and Institutions of the United States." Sir, these colored voters are all native-born Am erican citizens; some of them are of pure African parentage, but many of the most enterprising are descended in part from the most intelligent and ar istocratic families of the sunny South ; and it was only the other day that a colored orator immortal ized his parents by describing how quietly repose in a Virginia grave yard his once proud white father and humble slave mother. These emancipated sons of toil need no indorse rs of their good characters and dispositions toward the Governmentof their country. Twenty-fire million people stand sponsors for them to-day. now nobly they carried themselves during the bloody years of war 1 Their masters had proclaimed from every stump in the South in case the Republicans eleoted Lincoln their slaves would all receive emancipa tion. And every one of them had heard the flying story, and all their simple, trusting faith in God an ticipated the coming of the kingdom and the year of jubilee. They bounded to meet the advancing columns of the Union on our first approach to the lines of rebellion ; but they were driven back to their hovels and chains, or dragged from the very shadow cf the stars and stripes by rebel master to the auction-block and slave-pen. What then was the evidence of their "good character and disposi tion toward the Government of their country?" Quiet submission. And the n they were told by the more intelligent that the Pre silent would restore the Union without slavery if possible, but with slavery if unavoidable. S ti 11 they swallowed their tears, stifled their sighs, and only in muffled ac cents uttered, 'How long t 0 Lord, how long 1" Finally they volunteered as soldiers, knowing their death warrants were signed in advance if cap tured ; and, even after the massacre of Fort Pillow rushed into the depleted ranks and carried aloft the tattle-torn banners red with the blood of their comrades. Never, no never while publio virtue lives and our hearts respond to the high behests of justice will this newly enfranchised race be com pelled to appear in any court this side of heaven's high chancery to prove their loyalty and good in tions toward their native land. I was much astonished at heari ux the Senator charge disloyalty on the people o f oolor. He ex claims: "Let us examine this bold assertion. Is It true? Were the negroes loyal during the rebellion? Recall the facts. "Who does not remember that at least three fourths ef ail th negroes In those States during the whole war did all in their powor to sustain the rebel cause? They fed their armies; they dog their trench es ; they built their fortifications ; they fed their wo man and children. There were no insurrections, no uprisings, no effort of any kind anywhere ouUlde the liues of our armies on the part of the negroes to aid the Union cause. Iu whole districts, in whole States even, where all the able-bo lieJ white men were conscripted iito the rebel army, the great uida ot negroes, of whose loyalty you boast, under the control of woman, decrepit ld men and tx ys, did all they were capable of doing to aid the rebellion." Does ha not know when tho dag trenches and built t'ortifi ations it was under military supervision and that whe n they refused to rebel and mussaore their old, decrepit men anl woa.en and helpless children they were making loyalty honor them for their fidelity ? No, sir, it is not true that they did all in their power to surtain the rebel cause. Tbey might have enlisted with the rebels, but they would not trust them. Even when the lastcdd man that could carry a musket and the last boy that Could stop a Fede ral bullet were crowded into the ranks they saw their causo perish lor Want of soldiers, while the African held the balance cf power in the r'ederal army. They might have piloted the boys in blue into ambus'a and battery; they might have carried news of our advances and maneuvers ; they might have been spies as our servant-i and refugees ; but they toiled by day and traveled by night to warn us of danger, and were so universally true that an enemy should scorn to uso the exception, lean understand how the Senator from Wisconsin might arrive at an astoundingconclusion from false prem ises, but I am lost in astonishment at this charge so confidently asserted and so clearly defined. The Senator says : "I ask. with all the earnestness of which the soul is capable, can any human being conceive of a measure so well calculated to make the whole white people of the South, men, women and children, hate and loathe our Government, to bate it with a perfect hatred, to gather around the family altar upon their bended knees to curse It. and in the agony of prayer to call upon God to curse It, as this radical reconstruction which seeks to disfranchise the heart and brain of the South, and to subject at the point of the bayonet tbe wblte race to the dominion of their late half clivilized African slaves ?" If there is a crime about to be perpetrated which would call for such a world of curses, if would stand to reason that the fact would be easy of detection : it would stand out boldly everywhere. He admits that in the beginning of the rebellion a majority of ibe white people of the South were opposed to secession. Now, I claim that this majority were forced in to submission, and be admits the fact. The men of "heart and brains" crowded upon them the fatal consequences of the "State rignts" doctrine. These nion led them through sea of blood, caused women to give up h unban Js, fathers, ions, and brothers, to the bloody Moloch of war, ch Idren to becomo orphans, an I the whole framework of so ciety to be rent and torn asunder. Why, then, should the whole white people of the South join in this terrible cursing against the country that seeks to rcstoro the olden flag that they were compelled to betray because of rebel powar and rule ? Why should not the poor white men, always at the me.-cy vt the slave poor and always professing a desire to see Government io tho hands of the people, be ready to see a dem ocracy established in which his superior intelli gence to ihe mass of the voters would in due time place him where tbe imperiou lordling lately stood and waved his badge of power? Why should he not rejoice that there was virtue enough to hold tbe ship of state steadily on the track of safety, while he, in pirati al madness, sought a traitor's distinction and traitor's doom ? Mr. President, Thomas Jefferson, tha great apos tle of freedom and prophet of the political future, wa ned this nation of the day in which an humble prayer of the lowly would be answered "When tbe measure of their tears should be full, wben their groans should have involved heaven itef In darkness, doubtless a God of justice would awaken to their distress." But no such nision of bloody rebels in prayer ever burst upon him as that which has so startled the Senator from Wisconsin. When the theory cf tbe Senator on the subject of ''negro supremacy forced upon the South" has been biought to the tet-t of facu and figures it has completely exploded. Will he orgnizo his cursing prayer-meeting in Virginia, where 115,000 whites and 101,0'JO colored voters were registered and tho vote for convention was carried by a majority of 45.455, showing that white men voting for coa ven tion gave the majority, the col red began in a minority of 12,000 ? Will he organiza it in North Carolina, where 103,080 whites wire registered, while tbe colored were 71,r57, and yet tbe con vention was carried by a lnijority of over 60,000? Will he organize it in Georgia, where 05,214 whites were regit ttred. while the colored were 93,403 and jtt the convention was carried by over maj .rity ? Ii the negroes had been in the majority on the register whiie they were in a minority in all the rtbil States, and then carried every constitution by registered votes, we might have been called on to explain how this state of aTtirs came about. But whea the constitutions were carried where they were ia the minority, it became proof posi tive that free white men allowed it willingly, for the power was all in their own hands. But ex Guv rnor Brown, of Georgia, has given the reasons for this result in States where the negroes regis tered a majority. He says : "The people North have been told lately that the acts of C'cusief establish negro supremacy and white sob ordination in tbe South. The charge is false. It is the pre verse cbctinacy of tbe white race refusing to take control that gave the negroes power in the con vention. There ia fifteen thousand white majority in Georgia. W uh this majority and the boasted superior ity of the race in intellect, education, experience and wealth, it is a libel otr the wni'.e men ti say that ne groes can rule intellect and capital and control num bers everywhere." Th9 Govsrnor further doclare3 that Gen. Pope ADTEIXTlSl.G RATES. One square (10 Unescr less) tat Insest'ion $t ca Kach subsequent insertion, 1 oo BusineCi.rua,ooeyear,nveUnesorieJs 5 oo Bach addition! Hu 1 00 One Column, on year, ,30 oo One Column, iu month. 60 03 One Column, three months, 80 oo Half Column, oae year, t ) oo Half Column, tlx mouths, sa co . Half Column, three mouths, Si CO Fourth Column, one year, to CO Fourth Column, tlx months, 21 CO Fourth Column, three months, 15 OO Eighth Column, one year, 21 oo Eighth Column, tlx mouths, 15 OO Eighth Column, three mouths, 10 00 Announcing Candidates for cfllew 6 OO Stray Xotlces (each hea) SCO Local Notices Chargea as Ti ancient Advertisements. no; 22. adopted the districts aa left by tho Johnson con. ventions, without alteration. Then, certainly, these cursed prayer-meetings cannot become a success where the whites were in the nnjority,anl themselves voted frr conventions to form new con stitutions, And, beyond all doubt, the Senator cannot organize them in State whera the whites stayed away from the polls, and "thus through spit allowed the colored men t have a m.ijority ; and this after the rebel press urged them to stay away, and abused and defamed those who vo'ed. Sir, ha may ask again "with all the earnestnes of wh'roh the soul is capable," what is the magnitude of the prime involved In disfranchising "tha h.irt and brain of the South ? That brain worked out the problem of secession ; that heart cursed the Union hallowed by the labors of Washington ; that brain made the demand, and that'heart sanctioned.' the terrible e rime of perjury. No ! no I Such Demo crat io rebel prayers oaa never be an'wersd while God remembers the tears and Iblood, the sorrow and death that followed the demoniac perfidy of this "h eart and brai n." In this debate it has been charged repeatedly that the Republican party has not been, stall tims, as they are to-day, in favor of nero suffrage, and hence that the party has not been consistent. To this charge th Senator from Indiana, Mr. Mor ton has given the true and sufficient answer. That negroe suffrage was not looked to as a reme dy for the national malady nntil Congress came to tbe conclusi on that we could not execute the zuar- anteos of the Constitution without raising up a, new class of loyal voters : 'hat "we did not prose cute the war to destroy slavery, but destroyed slav ery to prosecute the war. But let it be remembered that the Administra tion of Mr. Lincoln had no settle! policy in de tail, anl coull have none. There were no prece dents to follow. The Union wsj to be sarel, and that was the object; but how? That was to de pend on the course of the rebels. Tirao indicated each succeeding sten. and wisdom annliel the rem- edy. Mr. President, it is charged that the Ilapub'ieaa party demanded a new Union and a new Constitu tion, which, as literally charged, is not true. But had it not been for the anti-slavery wisdom of tho framers of the Constitution the results of this war would hav9 necessitated such radical changes ia that instrument as to have justified that change ia part. As it is, the word slave having never ap peared in the instrument, and slavery having beea abolishod.the Constitution in its spirit,h iviog,beea expurgated, the life-blood of freedom now pervades all its parts as though human bondage had never existed. And as a Constitution tacitly acknowl edging slavery is just as different from one inspir ed by universal freedom as light from d.irknes3 or vice from virtue to that extent we have a new Constitution and a new Union. The men who all life long held with Jefferson that in a contest for universal freedom the Almighty had no attributo by which to ally Himself with the oppress, r eas-.Iy and naturally adapt themselves to the new and blessed ordor of events. Opposed to this old Constitution, with apariflI spirit, would likely bo found all who fail t com prehend the logic of events, all who have tnffi -ke 1 in the souls and bodies of men, and occasion illy given the market an upward tendency by placing on the block their own off-pnnz, an 1 alwh'aro destitute of proper apireoiation of ChrUti.tn ciri lizatiqtj. But that a iran of the frco North, who has known effort and toil and boasted of sjlt reli ance and of the spirit of pro gre s, should leal his voice to swell the dismal chorus of thoso who wep around Ihe tomb of slavery, cannot be accounted) for on any principle governing sanity and Chris tian morals. When they havn attempted to release the States from rtponoib'.li ty and endeavored to lose sight of the crime on account of tho many in dividuals participating, they hava boon in 't tri umphantly m;t by th-J dWi-in. of the United States court in the ce of the Brilliants : "Hence. In organiil ig thi rebellion they have acted, as Siate, claiming to be sovereign overall peron anl property wiThla thtlr ii-t-pective I mcs. a 1 1 . serting their rights tn sbsol vo tht i- ci; iz 'iis i ruin their alleziance to ihe Federal Government Several of these'State have coiuinel to f irm a new o.irei'era cy, claiming to be acknowledged by the worid a soveroign State." And thus the rebels have bad to stand dumh ia the presence of that broken, rejected Confuta tion, the protection of which they waul i claim, while they deny its existence and spurn its author ity. When they have attemptel to justify the Pres ident in his plan of reconstructing States, anl scouted the right of Congress to inrern,e, they have hal to meet their owi; votes in l?i 1 sustain ing a resolution which denied to insurrectionary States "The right to vote for President, e'ectors, or Vice) President'of tbe United States, or of elect ng Senat.n or Representatives in Congress until said irnarrrcti a in said States is tuppresed or abandoned, iijj ai I La habitants have returned to their obedience t the Gov ernment of tbe Unued States, Dor un' il s-i' h return to obedience shall be declared by ptoclaicatii.n of the President, issued by virtue of an act of Congress here after t'j be passed, authorizing tha sama . T'ms have they actod upon th9 a -si motion that Congress possessed the power, anl t.U President could not declare their return to o'o;dU?TM until Congress granted the powur by .law. When ta j have made the specific charge that State cannot secede, and hence their original governments weathered the storm and survived the ennhqua.o shock of battle, the admonitory W)rli of P' si lent Johnson's proolamat on appointing a provisional governor for North Carolina has smote upon their ears : "And wher?a the rebellion which has beea wsgnl by a portion or the people of the United at itei a'iav tne properly constituted authorities of the Govern ment thereof, in the most violeut and revo tin form, but whose organized and revolting f.irce-t hive now been almost entirely overcome, bsi in it revolu'iou ary progress deprive! the people of the State of "jrli Carolina of a l civil government." Not suspend tbe relation of States with the Gen eral Government, but "depriving tlie people cf North Carolina of ail civil g ver;jtnnnt." When these gentlemen have attt uit?-J to dis tinguish between individual traitors anl pj'li5 en emies, between the suppression of a rebellion anl waging war with a belligerent Power, tliey have been routed from their fortification of straw by tho following language of the buprema Court : "When the party Ir. rebellion ocenpy and hold in a hostile manner a certain porn ri of torrlt. ry ; Lave de clared their independence ; have ca.t o.T their alli ance; have organized armies; have commented tus tiiities against their former vere.gn, tue world ao knowledges them as belcgerenu I call attention to this : "The world acknowledges them as beilirrents and tha contest a war." 2 Black, pages 666-637. Again, the court says: "All persona residing within this territory whose property may be used to increase ihe revenues rf the hostile power are, ia this contest, liable t te treated as enemies, thouxh not foreigner. Thy have ct ..rf their allegiance anl made war on their Government, and are none tbe Ies enemies because they are trait ors." Ibid., page 67. When our mode of reconstruction las been de nounced as revolutionary becau.-e it goes beyonl mere alteration and amendment it b.t only been necessary to invoke tbe precedent ef tbe President' proclamV.i on to refute tbe fallacious a-sutLption : "Jfow, the refcre. In fcrdier.re to tb high and sol emn doiie- Impoted npn me ty the Constitution of tbeUDited State, arid tor the purpo -e of enaUuag the loyal people cf said State to orjaLize a State govern ment," fcc. Not to m end trexclarge, bet remedy trat want cf "all ci vil goverLment," ly oratiziog a Stato government. When an effort has been mide to parry the forja cf a judieixl decision ty den uneinr. it as a "dic tum' cf one judge, the fact that a berch of niaa concurred in the cpi.ien has not hud the infljenco of pcducicg a recantation. WLen the Cpcotiti. n have trie"! to shield rebel St a te trg8tizatn cs ly investir g t'ucm with an in de finable sacctity on uccoutt tt the fact tha; th Pre?ident of the United Sta ti oidtrvd th. m ioto existcne e, tbe very pleasant illusion t be u Im pelled by tbe 'echiEdtion f Chit f Justice Tax.ey ia the celebrated Rhode Island case : "TTBCicet.tiorabIy a military goverarr.ent es'aV.isbed as tbe permanent gterome ct of tie b ate would not be a republican government, and it Would be the duty of Congress to overthrow it." Whea the charge of unnecessary di-'mchi.-e-menthas been mada agsin.-t tha p lif-y ' f Cn - it has boon answered by rtfe"n:e to th- la t lhi the President's plan of organiz:i ju originally franchised fourteen classes cf persons, p.rba;.s lu , eluding frcm two hundred ana fty tg thxsa tan- a I 1 e:, r. j .i ii a U1 4. t . c! hM ar j I I i c 1
