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STATE, COUHTY & CITY SECURITIES
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A.H AVlOS Caahier.
J.C.JIcNAl oHTuX. Asat-Cashler.
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JUilUS FSSIXAG.
Carriage, Housed Sign Painting,
Graining, Gilding.
Braazlac. Taper Haarisc asi CaWalain-.
2-Ctwap aad nr-i rla- Fr refcreace, appry to
K(vettiMi A CTom tshop over Abbott A EaWj-"a
BlackMntth iwp.
BKOWXHIiK. NEBRASKA.
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Brownville, Neb.
Shaving, Siiardpoalag,
Hair-
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STATEMKNTS.
LETTEir A- BILLHEAD
ENVELOPES
a
C i rcuUm . Dodder . ITograawatss , j
SIlow Cards, f
BLAh W0KK Or 1U. K1SDS. !
With neatsesfe ad dispatch 1
Cheap or Isferior Work
2TOT SOLICITED. f
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Carson Block,
flROW.WH.LE, NEB.
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TI ELMI.
Having parebased tbe
ELEPHAXT'
UYEBT MD HID ST4BLL
1 1 ish to &aaoanre that I am prepared to
a ja first eiaaslIrerybnAiaeis.
Joah Itoffevs.
iyjU-UDUis
Keat Market.
BOD"Z & BBQ
HUTCHT1JIS.
BROWXVIL.L.E, NEBRASKA.
Good, Street, Fresk Meat;
Always on had. and. satisfaction gHflr
aaUodto all ecetomers.
m
l Includlr.c Shooting Outfit
6 Everv Cur. Warrsntod.
fZ:iuz.ll3eee-'EiKzis&. Ztzzs. j
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l'LPA itTMi-
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put km
ESTABLISHED 1S56. 1
Oldest Pa-aor In tiie State. J
"Wl " ' fcM" im.n.mnr TT.I ! IWM . f . .
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VEGETISE
Will Cure Rheumatism.
Vr AIEET CRfX"KER tfe well-Kmmtfrg-
s4nw cw uw trocMeii wltn KiwEB&ttea to
wy YararriKZ.
E ead liis Statement.
brt&rvate. Sie Oct. IS, JSi.
wmm7vb t ani taken
efc with ibcunutBDi, w nnible to move nnui
itoe ct April. yrai tbt time until three yers
: April.
fttJl I
io tBk fttll I svAerad ert-rrtbisc w.Ui rbesma-
tkn. SoomHIoms t&ere woold be weeks at . tim
tbst I ouak not atov on Hep . tb-e attacks wce
)on ofVen. I MBteree er-erytc wat a
eoahL Ur tbn Tn MiO EmC SPTMBC I
moeed tkioc VEtiSTtSK. a.nA followed it up
nnU I taA nkn m bottfen : hnxe h& bo
rheaaMtfam sine- tluu tlm. I always ulrt-e
erervonc that f troob!d with rseamausm to try
V1GETINX. aad oot safiBer far Trs & I tar
done. TMh minmnl b yratliwi an Ux as Xr.
S.ci la cattrairt. Yar. eic
ALBHtT CHOCKKK.
Fteat af A. Cracker rf 0..SrBRBs ApocfeeearfeE
YEGETINE
tiPC S-ntjrOiy PiirPri MO
)IUU wiiuiuu wuiww i:jvj.
J
Beet on. October. 1S70.
Mr. H. K. STEN-KXS.-
mr Sir X7 ahr after ha via a srre
attaak afKltuopiu: Caurh. was left in a fcfetoie
atate of health Being advteed by & fritxl sh
trt4 X VBjETIOE. ad after nstar & Sew bottles
vw restored to health.
I fc&v te a zrat ecaVrer froBi RbOBWlfei.
i aar taeo seven bott'es of th VEGETEs-E tor
thfe comprint, and am bappv tosav it bAs ntirely
eorfme. i have recommended the VKfiETLXE
tn others with ih une food remits, it is a Kreai
cl-aaer aodpnriiter of the blooi. it to plea Hint to
taae aaa i. cam enwrm;ij rraaoreuu u.
JAMB) 3CGBSE, 36 Atheo Street.
Rlieutuatism Is a'DIsease of
the Blood.
The bJoort in thin dtetwte K fbaad to costabt an
ei! af flbrta. VKJKTIB acts by eenvwHw; i
the Mood froai a dfcasert cotHKtioc to a n -aiiny
circutatioo. VEfJETiE reflates the boweis
which h ry toponaa hi thte coiwilatat. ue
botUe ot Vejtetine will sre reUtf- bat. to eflWrt a
p-rmaaeot cure. It moat b" tAken resrarariy, anu
bmv take icvetai bottler, fpeclallv in ca?es or '
lone ataaojaB. UErri.. l "oi m i x- i
- Tr iuhI mnr irordwT will he the SaSMf As .
jbmesadg before yoa. who say. I aTr ftwid so .
which h eoeapoMd exctettveiy of BAitKS. Boors
VEGETIKE,
SavsaBoatonphysk-iaa. i,as Boetpml as ab!oe4
pohfitr. Heanas of tf many wraderfol enres a
erallotlMrraiiieshadlaied. I rfaatad ttoeiao
MaMry. aad eoaviaeed mylf of tfe etMine iaer
It. It te prepaid rrom bark, roots bad herb, each
f which Kbbraly etfectrve.aad they arec aaoon
ddia&achaaaaBBeraeto pr3neo atoabJbtBg re-
YEGETIKE
ETOTHIMG EQTJA
rrtfy 717 ,
j SnrrirSALijc Mju6..Xov. lt.lgT.
IXU.U.R. STKPH FJN
Dear sir. I have bevn tr tibld with Serofola.
Canker and L..-er C mpjiint inr three yeam.
I Nothioi; eier did me any jrood anti I cotaateaced
dkibs tne Vesetsae. I an. a-w xettia aloon: r
rae.and5tUi lMinr the Vwine I consider there
! at Dothiwr qa . to it for sucn complaints. Can
heaJtiy reeoaoBMaa it i; evryooay.
Virs truly.
XBS. LIZZIE M. PACKARD.
No. IS Laeraore Street. Soath Salem. Xaas.
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PSEFARED BV
H.B. STEVEHS.BOSTOH, MASS,
Tegetine is SW br all Drassists.
J". H. BA.TJE
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ELonliots. Srnsicfi, "Fly Nets, &c.
3- Tteoa.!r1ns don oc tart nctVe. The eele-1
i brated Vactrarc Oil BCkine. fjr preervtg Uar- j
Boots, fchoed.icc. a. raysoc hand.
64 3Iain St., Brotvnvilie, Xeb.
SSTABLISHSD IN IS56.
O X- 2) E S T
EEAL
ESTATE
AGENCY
US' jyiSBISA.S'HrA.
i Wiiliaisi H. Hoover.
Does a sen era 1 P.ea! Estate Bos toes. JeUs
Lands on CoHjmissioo, examines Titles,
mfe6 Deeoe, Mortsgs, and all Instru
ments pertaining to tne transfer of Reel Es
tate. Has a
Complete AbEtract of Titles
to all Real Bsta'e in Nemaha Cocnty.
NEW RESTAURANT i
i Attention Is called to tbe rwar, neat and
. nobby Restaurant,jast opened a few doors
' cast of the pos: office. If yen want a dish of
Raw, or cooked la most excellent slyle, at
cosy rooms is tne place. Xf a nice teach Is
preferable io oysters, -with hot eoSee It is
served on the shortest notice. GenUemen
and Indies of the city and country are invit
ed to call and be made happy in quiet, neat
ana Isolated rooms. 15tf
Sook-ieepcrs, Iteportew,
Operators, School Teachers
At GrBat3Iercantile College, Keoknlc, lora-
3i Mgabfc, WiMtahBtewty canMj
! Kffi?
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ARHIE M'EEEJTE.
Her Strange and ETentfal Career A
I Guerrilla in 1S(KJ a Sister of
i jlercy in 1S7S.
?h St. LaeiiPaat.
The jfollowingobituary notice ap
peared in one of tue New Orleans
papers duringjebe month of Septem
ber:
Sistek CEI.STE. In this city, at
the convent of tue Sisters of Mercy,
5iter Celeste, on Wednesday, Sept.
IS, IS7S.
Solemn High Masa of Eequiem at
the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, nest .Friday at 9 o'clock a. m.
One September day, in the fall of
1S62, there rode up to the old bjit com
fortable looking farm houseof Andrew
Harris, near Independence, ilo., a
band of seventy men, armed to the
teeth with shot-guns and revolvers.
; They were all strong and young, and
had e
had an unconcerned air of determin
ed bravery. They all sat well on their
horses, wereyoungand hardy looking.
A few were but boys, while others
had beards and long hair. They were
; dreed in divers styles some in red,
J
' blue, or checkered flannel shirts, oth-
ers wore COatS. All had boots coming
up over the pautaloons, above the
knee, and most with big spurs ac the
heels. Their hordes were magnificent
and well decked off with showy bri
dles. At the head of the company
I amal! mn with n tihIo fifp
' roe a small man wun a paie iace,
. ,,hr Bi,nr ,ir hhifi pvm. cliffht
l:ght, short hair, blue eye:
mustache. It wasQuantre'I and his
rnen
"""
Who needs be told who they
were or what they Were. Zsot such
robbers or frightful looking people as
some wouiu imagine, uuioau enuugu
indeed. They opened the gate of the
barnyard and went in and dismount
ed, having left a guard for the hill
half a mile back. They pulled down
the hay, opened the corn-crib, and ,
made themselves at home without
saying a word to Andrew Harris, the
good old farmer they had com? todes
poil. But be was not disturbed
he was ready to give them all he
had, for he was oneef that numerous
cress woo uvea in tnai fceciiuu iuhi
wa. but too ready to succor anybody
whoe mission was to fight the Kan
sas Jayhawbers. The guerrillas then
found Mr. Harris a friend, warm and
ready to aid them even at tne rik of
his life. Quantrell was invited to
take dinner at the house with the fam
ily, and the officers were invited to
come with him. One who went was
John MlSetJiie, in courage or stature
the peer of any man in the command
and oae of the great guerrilla chief
tain's most trusted counselors. He
had become famous for daring deeds
as well asa handsome appearance. He
had eome from Cass County, and in
the breaking out of the war his fatti
er aud two brothers had been killed
by Jennisou's men from Kansas. Mc
Keene took an oath that no gras
j should grow under his feet in pursuit
of the murderers of his father aud
brothers, and he kept his oath with a
frightful vengeance. He, like most
of li i companions in arm, became a
desperado with revenge as the impell-
ing motive. He had killedmen both old j
and young. He had learned to shoot
them down with as much deliberate-
uess as if he were engaged in a aim- J
pie practice of markmanship. But be
was handsome for all that. Hestep-
ped like an athlete, and had a rude
manner that was graceful in its way. j
He wore a wide-brimmed light-color-j
ed hat, ou which was pinned a black
feather, a wide belt of red morocco
with gold embroidery, and the caval-
ry boots of a Federal Colonel
TV hlJl
J-u "'-
belt there always swung a pair of iron-
; handled navy revolvers. These were
all the arms that he used and all that
he carried. With these he t as a mas
ter, ready always, quick as a panther
and deadly in his aim. Sitting on his
horse, or standing on foot, he might
be the envy of the noblest-formed and
most ambitious knight that ever be
longed to the Round Table.
There was then, instead of fear, en
thusiasm at the houseof Andrew Har
ris on the September day that Quan
trell came in to forage on him. Nev
er were corn, hay, and oats, as well as
food for the men, given away with a,
betterfgood will. But Andrew Harris
was not alone in his hospitality. His
wife had a son with Price and anoth
er buried on the field of Wilson's
Creek. She was rininrr n InKnr nf Invo
g
And there was another the only'
child left at home a girl seventeen j
years old, who, like many of her sex '
in that time and country, had wished
a hundred times that she was a man,
that she might go into the war.
She was rather pretty. Her eyes
were blacker than an Indian maiden's
and as piereing, and her hair was as
long and straight a type of women
well known to those who lived in
Western Missouri in those trouble
some days. She had made flags, large
j and small, which she gave to those of
her neighborhood who went out to
i fight. She had mede herself a dress
of red and white. Any sort of a reb-'
el soldier was a demi-god. The wild
lusauuy ui tue times lounu in ner a
splendid representative. Her name, j
young as she was, had been spoken I
hroug hou
t half a hundred counties. '
She was km
nown at everv Federal not '
: .1 rt i ... .. .. . . .
a
tu tue otate, ana tne authorities had
u.lcu tureatenea io Danisn or impris- ;
! on her. t
n tA v a a. . a . t
As i woman she was as notorious as
John McKeene was a man Thev
had heard of each oth manv a fimf
and had longed to see each other. He
- . .
had said she was the bravest woman
in Missouri ; she had said he was the
bravest man of all the rou-h riders of
k
BBOWNYILLE, KEBEASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, ISIS.
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the border. Consequently when they
met at her father's table it was a cor
dial meeting, and each were more
than pleased.
As the snn went down Qaantrell
and his men rode away, and as they
passed along in frent of the house,
Annie stood at the gate and received
a salute from each one. Then it was
that she wished more fervently than
ever that she was a man, that she
might go along.
On the following morning before I
the sun had come up, the advance
guard of the pursuing Federals came
up to the house of Andrew Harris, in
hot pursuit. They had been told by
a dozen friendly citizens of the hos
pitality extended to Quantrell and his
men by the old farmer, and this was
offense enough. They called him out
and, after a few unimportant ques-
j tions, shot him down,' then burned
the house. Iti less than an hour they
had made a scene of black desolation,
and the girl and motbtr had sought
refuge with a kind-hearted neighbor.
It was the way of the times a char
acteristic of guerrilla warfare, and
something that needs no apology
now, since time has dried the tears,
buried the dead, and put out the Gres
The pursuit of Quantrell continued
until he was overtaken, There was
a close, sharp fight, which resulted
in the defeat and disbandment of the
guerrillas. John McKeene returned
to the ruins of the Harris homestead
and learned tho whole story. Ee met
Annie Harris, aud. the two pledged
their vow- of eternal vengeance.
There was more than that. She said
she would go with him and deal the
blows of death as he did.
They went to a humble preacher's
house, and, without alighting, had
him make them man and wife. She
threw off her woman's dress and don-'
ned male attire. She put on belt, be-
side, and two revolvers, and her long
hair she tucked up under her hat.
She look as much like a soldier as
many a young boy that went out with
Quantrell.
The whole land was full of Federal
soldiers, and JobnJMcKeeue and his j
guerrilla wife had to share the dan
gers and privations of all their kind.
Their home was thesaddie, their shel
ter the wood. They were together in
more than one ambush attack, and
together saw more than one of the ha- j diction. It is but just and fair to all
ted enemy bite the dust, When the j parties, however, that an impartial
winter came and the leaves left the j investigation of the facts shall be
trees, they rode away to the South, f-made h.a committee of the Senate,
ana wailed tUcic uuiii tne leaves were rproocco.r5 uunr tbtrautuorrty ormv,
again as big as the ears of tbesquirrels, I and representing the power of the na
when they returned to their constant tion. Hence my resoiutiou.
battle-ground. On a June morning
1S64, as they with half a dozen others,
were riding along over the prairie,
near where now stands the little town
of Lee's Summit, they were met by a . sentatlves in Congress were recently
detachment of the Seventh Missouri . chosen in the states formerly slave
Militia. There was a desperate en- j hoHing, and that the democrats eleet-
eouuter, in which John McKeene was
shot dead and Annie McKeene wae
shot through the shoulder. The oth
ers of the guerrillas escaped. When
the Federals came up to where Mc
Keene aud his wife were living, one of
the soldiers leveled his revolver at the
head of the
woman in disguise, but
before the trigger was polled she j
threw off her hat, snatched her long
hair down, and sat np before him with
the face of a woman. The revolver
was put up. and the mystery solved.
She told them all she had lived for
vas gone, but that she was not ready
to die herself. She begged them to
give her companion the best burial
they could, and said she wanted to go
to Kansas City. There was a tone of
.,.;.. n nn c r, f ? -, f I ..
v uiuc- ouu a sijic ui cmumucsa huuuL i
. . ......
-? l ft r, k. fA ul a L v t a m J a T . T - a. I
iiai sucsBiu tuut tuuvucu tue nearcs
of the rough soldiers, and they buried
John McKeene out on the broad prai
rie ; but there was not a stone nor a
piece of wood within a half-dozen
miles of the place, and nothing was
left to mark the place of the
grave. But it was such a burial as
many a poor man did not have in
those days.
Annie McKeene was taken to Kan
sas City, where sherecovered under
' the blessed care of some Sisters of
Mercy
Qs went to Memphis, Tenn., and
there joined the Catholic Church, aud
resolved to rivnlP hr lira tn thn t
...... ... .... .v, hju V.UIO
of the sick and distressed. She be
came a Sister of Mercy, went to the
front of tbe army, and, during the re-
mainder of the War. wns nnromittinii
-, ........,
in her work of ieve and mercv Af-
mercv.
ter the comiug of peaee she went to
Xew Orleans and became attached to
the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy.
In devotion of her mission there was
not one who surpassed her in earnest
ness. She was always ready to bear
the heaviest burden, and manifested
the fortitude in a good work that she
had in the reekless guerrilla warfare
as the wife of John McKeene.
She bore the secret of her life well.
It was a memory that had grown sa
cred by her expiation, and around it
was the sweet incense of a thousand
prayers that had gone up out of a soul
of tears.
When the late epidemic came on '
he wae among the foremost to go to
tae bedslde of the stricken and dying,
She Wfltcfaed by day and by night as
ta,tafuI a nurse as ever saw the spark
of I,fe out- ot onlv with her '
. i - a .
nnnn i in cha mI fl. -..n. -
""" " " esuuenng, ouLin." - i ,u u" ,1 1
i itiiri n in r a- a a -.. i t m t
' "" uluau: saye sirengin io
many poor heart. Thus she fulfilled
i,heitsacred ,vo of her life until the
ratuer OI ercy claimed the Sister
!of iIerc-vas His OVfu- Annie Mo-1
article.
B,rttfatwiMtala,B0fj.
- - :c7. nu - a. r nn i.t;i Fiia. K..& ka j w
Szrl ate2 aCTEic& tip ttat ctmM . iQfci.
.ceueai iaod, was the Sister Celeste ! -towa uuu Wisconsin, wita seventeen "su "- ;'jo "". uoiio. . careu iitue, anu aneetea to care less, . A. aeott-shoafd die, (and his beaith
whose death is announced in the no-1 representatives. -They have a white i mockery ; it holds to his ear the ' for the rights or the wrongs of the ne- we understand, is very poor ) WMtgir
1 j d. -. r- -v ran . -. - t -. 1 tt- tt ... w r n r e- w cii'F wn rrc - - - w 1 a . ..a ia.aB . " m . -a
BLAISE OX BULLDOZING.
ills Fearless Arraignment of
Southern Democracy.
the
Shall One Southern TThlte 3Ian Con
tinue to Have Twice the Power of
Two Xorthern lYhite .Jlcn ?
That's The Question.
Upon the assembling of Congress,
about the first business done was the
introduction, by Senator Blaine, of a
resolution for a committee to investi
gate the general and apparently au
thentic rumors of election frauds in
several of the States. On the 11th
inst. that resolution being called up,
Mr. Blaine said:
alii. Presedent: The pending res
olution was offered by me with a
0VO-FOI.D PURPOSE
in view: (1), To place on record, in a
definite and authentic form, the
frauds and outrages by which some re
cent elections were carried by the
democratic party in the southern
states. (2), To find if there be any
metbod by which a repetition of these
crimes against a free ballot may be
prevented. The newspaper is the
channel through which the people of
the United States are informed of cur
rent events, and the accounts given
in the press represent the eleetions in
some of the southern states to have
been accompanied by violence; in not
a few cases reaching the ".destruction
of life ; to have been controlled by
threats that awed -and intimidated a
large class of voters ; to have been ma
nipulated by fraud of the most shame
less and shameful description. In
deed, in South Carolina there seems
to have been
o election at all
in any propersenseoftheterm. There
was instead a series of skirmishes over
the state in which the polling places
were regarded as forts to be captured
by one party and held against the oth
er, and where this could not be done
with convenience, frauds in the count
and tissue-ballot devices were resort
ed to in order to effectually destrov
the voice of the majority. These, in
brief, are the aceounte given in the
non-partisan press, of the disgraceful
outrages that attended the recent elec
tions, and so far as I have seen, these
statements are without serious contra-
INEQUAITY OF REPRESENTATION.
But we do not need investigation to
establish certain facts already of offi
cial record. We know that 106 repre-
ed 101 or possibly 102, and the repub-
liean? four or possibly five. We know
that thirty-five of these representa
tives were assigned to the southern
states by reason of the colored popula
tion, and that the entire political pow
er thus founded on the numbers of the
colored people, has been seized and
appropriated to the aggrandizement
of its own strength by the democratic
party of the south.
THE ISSUE THUS RAISED
before the country, Mr. President, is
not one of mere sentiment for the
rights of the negro though far d
tant be the day when the rights of
any American citizen however black,
or however poor, shall form the mere
dustjof the balance in any controver-
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nor is the issue one that involves
the waving of the "bloody shirt," to
quote the elegant vernacular of demo-
cratic vituperation ; nor, still further, I
is the issue as now presented, only a j
question of the equality of the black .
vntpr of thp smith with fhn rohitovn
oier oi me souin witn tne wnite vo-i
ter of the south ; the issue, Mr. Presi
dent, has .taken a far wider range, one
of porteutious magnitude; and thatis
whether the white voter of the north
shall be equal to the white voter of
the south in shaping the policy and
fixing the destiny of this country ; or
whether, to put it still more beldiy,
the white man who fought in the
iaua Ui lu" uuwu army auan uave
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. . . .
as weigntv an
u innuentiai a vote in ,
ihe government of the republic as the I
white mau who fousht in the ranks
i of the rebel army. The one fought to
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on of the states, and to-day he who I
fought to destroy is a far more import-
ant factor in the government of the
nation than he who fought to uphold
it. Let me-illustrate my meaning by
COMPARING GROUPS OF STATES
of the same representative strength
north and south. Take the states of
South Carolina, Mississippi, and Lou
isiana
They send 17 representatives I
to congress. Their aggregate popula-
tiiou is composed of 1,35,0) whites
and 1,234,000 colored; the colored be-j
ing nearly 20O.OC0 in exeess of the '
whites. Of the 17 representatives,
then, it is evident that nine were ap-
portioned to to these states by reason
of their-eolbred population, and only i .
eight by reason of
tion J and et in ti
'their white popula-
the choice of the en-
" I
txreseventt
teen representatives tbecoM
cred voters had no more voiee or pow-
of Mmti r ticii fimAtn fin f rW ni thft
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I Coast. The 1,035,000 white people had
b i ii r - i iu n arm m Fiin rr- r ti w rw u a -r i
the sole and absolute choice of the en-
re seventeen representauves. in
contrast take two states in the north,
PuPulrtlluu ii.uto consiuerauiy ;
more man aouoie the entire wtiite
s v w .r . s ai a w . a. l . aa t
niuuitiuu ui iji5iurewSouaetc.3Uti.sE
I have named. In Iowa and Wiscon-1 increasing the political strength of, iff, vast inveaiaeals in oaaafaeteres
sin, therefore, it takes 182,000 white , that party from which be received in raiiwsTs, and la me$. ae asder
population to send a representative to ' ever-tightening fetters when he was ' the eoalrel of a dematic coagxess.
congress, but in South Carolina, Mis-, slave and contemptuous refusal of civ-1 whose majority was btaiaed by de
sissippi and Louisiana, every 60,000 , H rights since he was made free. He ! prlviag the negra of his rigts under
white people send a representative. resembles indeed those unhappy eap- a earn zoos aoaatifcaUoB ad soramoo
In other words, 60,000 white people in' tives in the east who, deprived of laws. Men wbo bave expressed dis
thuse southern states have precisely ' their birthright, are compelled to gost with the waving of bloody shirts
the same political power in the gov-' yield their strength to the upbuilding aad have been s3&nded with talk
ernment of the country that 132,000 ( of the monarch from whose tyrannies about aegro equality are begin a lag t&
white people have in Iowa and Wis- j they have most to fear, and to fight ' preeeftve that the pesdiag question
consin. I against the power from whleh alone J of to-day relates more pressingJy
take another group ! deliverance might be expected. The; to the eoualitv of white men ndfV
of seventeen representatives from the'
south and from the north. Georgia
and Alabama have & white popula -
tion of 1,15S,000, and a colored popula-
tion of 1,020,000. They snd seven-j those from whom he has nothing to
teeu representatives to congress, of hope and every thing to dread,
whom nine were apportioned on ae- tj6UXPA.tiox of power.
count of the white population, and The political power thus appropria
eight on account of the colored popu- ted by the southern democrats by rea
lation. But the colored voters are not ' son of the negro population amounSs
able to choose a single representative,
the t white democrats choosing the
whole seventeen. The four northern
states, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebras
ka and California, have seventeen
representatives based on a white pop-.lnd ; or Ohio and Indiana united ;
ulation of two aud a quarter millions, j or the combined strength of Illinois,
or almost double the white population Minnesota, Kansas, California, Ne
of Georgia and Alabama, so that In vada, Nebraska, Colorado and Ore
these relative groups of statesjwe find gon. The seizure of this power is
the white man south exereises by his
vote doable the political power of the
. . ,
white man north. Let us carry the
comparison to a
more comprehensive GENERALIZA -
TION.
The eleven states that formed the
confederate government had by the
last census a population of nine and a
half millions, of which in round num
bers five and a half millions were! the popular branch of congress to-day ,
white and four millions colored. On j and will in less than ninety days (
this aggregate population seventy- have control of this body also, thusj
three representatives in congress were grasping the entire legislative depart- j
apportioned to those state forty-two ment cf the government through the
or forty-three of whieh were by reas- nnlawful capture of the southern
on of the white population, and thirty states. If the p-fisoribed vote of the .
iir. i r a. .i.j $nnth r.-(r(i onsf n; its Ifitvfiil nwncN
ux LU.r-uu ujy reason t..C ioicu
population. At the reeent election
the white democracy of the south Saiu . -, n it were uui uuuu
seized seventy of the seventv-three ted oa the other side: against the in-
j:. :- ...i tu , ..-. t,
cratic majority in the next house of
matins, auu luus awuieu B ucimi-
representatives. Thus it appears that
throughout the states that formed the
late confederate government 65,000
whites the very people that rebelled
against the Union are enabled to el
ect a representative in eoegress, whilej
in the ioval states it requires 132,000
of the white people that fought for
the nation to elect a representative.
! in ievyingevery iSn,- therefore, in
making every appropriation of mon
ey, in fixing every line of publie poli
ey. in decreeing what shall be the fate
and fortune of the republic, the eon
federate soldier south is enabled to
cast a vote that is twiee as powerful,
and twice ae infioatial ss the rote of
the Union soldier north.
DISREGARD OF JUSTICE.
But the white men of the south did
not acquire and do not hold this supe
rior power by reason of law or justice,
but in disregard and defiance of both.
The fourteenth amendment to the
constitution was expected lo be and
was designed to be a preventive and
corrective cf all such possible abuses.
The reading of the eiause applicable
to the case is instructive and suggest
ive. Here it :
Representatives shall be apportion
ed among the several states according
to their respective numbers, counting
the whole number of persons in each
is-Estate, excluding Indians not taxed
But when the right to vote at anv
election for the choice of electors for
president and vice-president of the
United States, representatives in con
gress , the executive and judicial offi
cers jof the state, or the members of
the egislature thereof, is denied to
anv of tbe male inhabitants of sueh
state, being twenty-one years of age.
and citizens of the United States, or
in any way abridged, except for parti-
cipation in rebellion, or other crime, j
the basis of representation therein'
, ,. . , . .
ha II be reduced in tbe nronortion ,
which the numberofsuch male citi-1
zen3 shall bear to the whole number
of male citizens twenty-one years of
age in such state.
The patent, undeniable intent of
this provision was that if any class of'
voters was denied
or in any wv
abridged in their right of suffrage.then '
the class so denied or abridged should I
not be counted in the basis of repre
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no state or states snoum gain a large'
increase of representation in congress
hv ro9SOn of nonntinw nv i.L f
, ,. . ..,, " . 1
populatiou not permitted to take part
I . - . . i
ia electing such representatives. But
thelconst ruction given to this pro vi-
" tuat berore &a7 forfeiture of
representation ean be enforced the
denial or abridgment of suffrage must
be the result of law specifically enact
ed by the state. Under this coastrue-
tion every negro voter m.y have WS
!,"5?r, T.ll'l " V" ?.
. r. !",;. Viai "r
. . .' .
lt&ua an "deceptions of the state ofS-
Jerf fm tbe S0Jernor down to
elecoa cfer andthen'un
I ., , . , ... .,
enor izes tbe denial or abridgment, the
state ecas all oenaltv or Lrf! of re-
TltTJl 1?L J Lilt i
"
ion may be upheld by the courts, ru-
i ling on the letter of the law. "whieh
killHi .' hrtt th smrltrnf;..-ta o,i
. . ' . . .. " - J A "
j -...- MK.V. CV..
OS1S COncloaion thaC ripla rwtt nnnrpi. !
rf a a tav a m w m tmz ju n ibavi t:-
ion to the innocent and shields the
- i r
jeuilty from
.,QrV,Q f,
e-
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is thus most unhappily situated; his
- w v,4OTD. lt aia.
w un , auu uB euus oniy in oe -
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i n rr rnTiiia r r u iti. ii- a a m u n rr a n :? 1 aa w n r r- a
VOL. 23 KQ.
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franchise intended for the shield and
defence of the negro has been turned
' against him and against his friends,
j aad has vastly increased the power of
to thirty-five representatives in con
gress. It is massed almostsolidly and
offsets the great state of New York:
er Pennsylvania and New Jersey to
gether : or the whole of New Ene-
. wan
ton usurpation ; it is flagrant oat-
r "
rage ; it is violent perversion of the
, ., run
whole theory of republ can govern -
ment. it inures solely to tne pre:
.l
' ent advantage and yet, I believe, to
the permanent dishonor of the demo -
cratic party. It is by reason of this .
irnmnlinc rlnirn of hnmsn r?hts
-.
this ruthless seizure of unlawful j T'fhtf w! clo3e th,e e o( "
power that the democratic party holds , le to thf " of correcting a
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desire, the democratic party could not
'stinct; snii thf interMf.s. against th .
-. - "
' principles and the prejudioes of
f its
tawiul owners,
irat'lti hp hfrl;i? Tt ? rnt enough.
then, for modern democratic .tactics
that it shall be counted on their side.
that all the representatives in con -
eress and all the presidential electors
I,,f;a k,- .,.. r ,k n .
vote shall be so east and so governed t
as to insure uemocratic sueeess re
gardless of jostioe, ia defiaaee of law.
NORTH AND SOUTH CONTRASTED.
Aad this injustice Is wholly uo pro-
voked. I doubt if it be in the power ofoomaioBS, Mr. Maauiay reminded
of the most searching investigation Daniel O'Connell, when he was nsov
to show tbat in any southern states iagfor repeal, that the English whlgs
during tbe period of republican eon-, bad endured calumny, abase, popular
trol aaylegal voter was ever debarred : fury, loss of position, exclusion from
from the freest exereise of his suffrage.
Even the revenges whieh would have; British suoieet; and Mr. Maaulsy
leaped iate life with many who des- warned him tbat they would sever
pise the negro were buried oet of eight, suffer him to be more. Let ate aow
with a magnanimity which the "su- j remind yoe that tbe government tin
perior raee," fail to allow and seem der whose protecting flag we sit to
reluctant to recognize. I know it isiy saeriftoed myriad of live ami
' said ia retort of such charges agaiact
a . ,
the southern eleetions
as I am now
reviewing that unfairness of equal
gravity prevails in northern eleetions.
I hear it in many quarters and read
it in the papers that in the lateexeite
ing election in Massachusetts intimi
dation and bulldozing, if not so rough
and rancorous as in the south, were
yet as widespread and effective.
EQUAL RIGHTS DEXANDED.
I have read and yet I refuse to be
lieve that the distinguished gentle
man, who made an energetic but un
successful canvass for the governor
ship of that state, has indorsed and
approved these charges, and I have
accordingly made my resolution
br(ad eaomgh to inciade their thor-
. . . t. x .
ooh investigation. T nm not ri-
ough investigation. I am not
niandlng fair
elections in
the
south without demanding fair
elections in the north also. But ven-i
taring to speak for the Xew England
, states, or whose laws and eustoms I
know something. I dare assert that in
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anyf r neightoring cornmon
I wesiius, it win oa imposFioie tonndfber adored oae's handwriting, aad
even one case wnere a voter was
driven from the noils, where a voter
, .
.. ...... ,
opportunity to cast tbe ballot of his
1 choice and have it honestly and faith-
... nolitiU, , .. nt' CmW.
ra!!e e thfe eo-tFnprtt x?s rat m.ta
-r w uukwu aA a. ilikUlUJ. i.1
uniTersal in Xew England, and ia the
adminwtration of their affairs ber
ope h&re foQnd no otheT &p x
neslirv than tba whJch J
, ed to their honesty of conviction aad
to their intelligent self-interest. Tf
there be anything differenlfdnotee
I r W 5. .box it to M we m.y
.amend oar ways.
But when a feeble protest ie made
agaiDst sceh injB5tjce j have de -
scribed in the south the resootne we
got comes tons in the form of a taunt,
What are you going to do about it?" moraihg be was waited oa by his Ali
. ..TT H .. iil J- .. ,
y" PTOPOBe to be,P er s JJer, aad peat!-efy ordered
J ves V This is the stereotyped , to settle or sofier.
! ansnra. nf llafiiindn .rt.tAt. : 4 ... ..1. ..I L
aurri w, ucliQIICC WHICH iUUVUl.'0
i wrong always gives to inquiring just-
io anil Ihasa urbci imaain : A K
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conclusive do sot know the temper of
the American people.
For let me as-
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i ciifa rn fhoretrainsf f fc. M Kt;H. & i .
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c I ..,-. ... u -:i.4. .
, uuiiosc uuwu me iitrn. oi renres6Mta -
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tion latplv triiimr,l.ont ;,, n, -- fv.
Uk t 1 :."".;
th wiU. b.e arfayed mafly Phases of
, puono opinion in tne north not often
, hitherto in harmony. Men who have
. 1U, suuubitjj imu snat xast moaesary
, ana commercial interests, great ques-
"" "t lercuua, auuavmeais ot iar -
w a n mm r m-w j. a - w. - a a l
OFFICIAL PAPER' OF THE C&IT5T 1
I
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this government, aad that however
careless they may be about th rights.
1 or the wrongs of the nagro they ar&
very jealoas aad tenacious about tho
rights of their own .race aad the dig-
tnity of taefreavn fi:eWes- aad their
town kindred.
PSACH, IF WE HAVE TO F2GK3? 2GB. IT.
I know sametaiag of pabile opin
ioa in the north. I know a great deal
about the views, wishes, and purposes
of the republican party of the nation.
With that entire great organization-
there is net one man, whose opinion
I is entitled to be qeoiec. that does, not
desire peace and harmony and
friendship and a patriotic and
fraternal union between the north
and the south. This wish is-
cnAnronoiits tn.cf-fta.ai'f tco ttrarco
i , , ' . .
t rnrruicrrtnur tha nAptham aialac and.
i b '
ryet, among men of character and
1 .. b . . , ,
ieuc, iucic a our ci) uu Jieeu it af
tempting to deceive ourselves as to.
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.it? niB:ir M I I I r.m lllMVlll.H ..?1r4
O 1 .3.- . -
t,.u. uukUU ...ULg,. -W dUVUJVL
the south make the fatal mistake of
concluding that injustice to the negro
is not also injustice to too white man ;
nor should it ever be forgotten that for
the wrongs of both a remedy wilt
assuredly be found. The war. with
ail its eoafchr saari floes, w.as fought in
, vaia , feb
, J a, jthe Ba
all olasseo-
tates of the
Union ; aad now, w words whieh are
those of friaadship, however differ-
Mrlkarmi.fcfl0iU) T t.ll tha
- -:- j " r "
r men of the south, here sn this floor
(and beyoad thia chamber, if they
! eoaM aUi the neSM ' hJa "'"
tloa1 rittte' tbe a ver V
'nent naiataln !
whlu meB ia tbfe ttoa ' oao
' never make a white raatt vote ia the
south doebly as powerful ia the ad
L miaistratioa. ef the goveMac as &
white rasa's vot in the sorch.
A REMINDER.
In a memorable debate ia the hoo&
, perltaBteat rather than the great agi
! utor himself sboaid be lees than a
L expended thousands
! expended thousands of millions or
, treasure tbat ear coeatrymea of the
south s boo Id reraaia eitiaess of the
United States, having aqoal rights
and equal political privUege3 with all
other citrzes. And I veatare, aow
and here, te warn the rnea of the
south, ia tbe exact words ofMaeaelay,
tbat we will never sutler tbam to be.
more
31isscarrled Xetes-
A young lady gave faeryooBg marr
a beautifully-worked pair of slippers,
and he acknowledged the present by
sending her his picture ineased In a
handsome frame.
He wrote a note to sesd with it, and
at the same time replied angrily to the-oft-repeated
dun for aa unpaid for suit
of cloth e3. He gave a bey lft eents to
deliver the paekage and notes, giving
exnlicitdireotlons as to tbe destination
of each. It was a boy with a freckled
face, and he discharged his erraad ia
a manner that should ei ve him a aichs-
yn me Iempie or fame.
- Tbe young lady received a note ia
ffow to her ranm tndovnrUci(Hi.tprtt&
She orBed th miivR vcUh
, '
i "
-I'm getting tired of of y oar ever-
lasting attentions. The sek. ie about
wora oat already. It never aeaoent
ed to much any way. Pleeae go to
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fc "-. -""-'"T
ZZZJZ?!
oastomer, with a note that said :
n.- .-.,.. ..
ntss ,H.tiw TZnyZ.'
v."h the al.a..,e y JLg m
call around tbat eveniagio receive the
happy aeknowledgraeat of bfe sweet
; heart, be was very ovteatatieeely
shoved off tbe steps sad over the fesce
tby the yongIadv'sfatber, ad is the
! , , m
Burliagtoa Hawttye : Then j a
poem ia tbe Xo vera ber AibmHe tbat
starts orTbvsaTin-. 'There MiMtkr
j -,,--g frtL heaven vf a --
-
believe it; we'll bet yea a thousand
t jh .w j-i. . .
, . . ....
wir: ne wi mora na bbi o BtlB
arMl e pulled theotbertwoMstof h&
boot.
t Xew York Ster;
Col. Thomas
s m. Vanderbflt and Jay Gotiid might
pool their issues, aad ran the Uaited
5tste as a rariroejl COfBOratioa,
k -m a..
If
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