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She Slcbrasfea JHcrnM. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1868 lOKKi:$PODMC. We 'i J ji;roi I jf rejeiviof c rrep nder.-e ffom U part of the State, relative to the mate'lal inter ests of tin ciu'itrr, toother with such, other m it ter as contributor my deem of interest. Republican Ticket. F-r rreaiJent, UEiYSSES S. GRANT. Far Vic President, SCHUYLER COLFAX. EEPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Presidential Elertora T. M. MAUQUHTT, of Cass. LOLl5ALI.(JEWAHR. of K'chardson. J. F. WAKSbR, of Iok Member of Congress J0H3 TAFVE, of D3a?!u. Governor DAVID BCTLER, of Pawner. Secretary of State THOMAS P. KENAHD, of Washington. Treasurer J A MB J SWKET, of Otoe. Auditor of Pta?e JOHN GILLESriE, of Xemaha. District Attorneys ti Histrict . B- HRWETT, of Nemaha, 21 1, C. C WIN, of Douglas. 8,1 " E. K CRAY, of Dodge. REPUBLICAN MEETINGS GEN. JOHN M. THAYER, U. S Senator for N." braska, will address the people at the follow log times and places : Ashland. Friday, Sept. 15th, In tl evening. Plattsmoutb, Saturday. Sept. 19th. 1pm Grand Inland, TU'-mUy, Sept 22J. In the evering. Columbtw, Wednesday. ie.t. 23d in the evening. Norn Bend, Thursday, Sept. 24tli, 1 p. m. Fremont, Thursday, bpt 24th' in the evening. Sailing Grove, Satuiday, Sept. 2Gth, afternoon and evening. Gov. Butler, and perhaps other speakers, will be with Gen. Thayer ut most of the above appointments Local committee will please giv the proper notices and make all necessary arrangement. Other appointments will be announced in due time By order, Rep. Stats Cbhtb al Comxittrb. II. D. HATHAWAY, Ch'n. Senator TIPTON will address the people on the political Issues of the day at the following times and m r if mArrpT - I . r Presidential Elector, will join hi in at Lincoln -and contiune with bim to the close of tha appointments : Pwan City, Friday, bept 13th, In evening. Big gandy, Siturday, September, 19th, e ening. Bine Springs, Monday, Sept 21st, at 2 p. m. Pawnee City. Tuesday, &-pt. 2id, in eveoing. Humbolt, Wednesday, Nept. 2:td , at 2 p. tn. llle. Tiuol.iv. stent. 21;U Furthe- appointments will be announced before the close of the above. Loeal Committees will nleae make all necessary arrangements, and see that the meetings are properly dverlifce'l. By older of the Republican State Central Com. H. D. UATII AWAY, Ch'n. GREAT-MASS MEETING 1 Republicans Rally I SATURDAY SEPT. 19th! AT PLATTSMOUTH ! There will be a Grand Republican Mass-Meeting in this city on the 19ib inlt. Make your preparation to be on .band, and bring all your ntnguuurs. I ' The Speakers for the occasion will 'be announced hereafter.. . t VERMONT - " Ti the first gun for 1868, and she 'giis forth no uncertain sound. The 'democracy claimed, np to the day of election, large gains ; but when the vctes were counted it was found she hadjjiveQ the largest Republican ma' io-iiy ever given in the State. Cop ptibead papers have been endeavoring -'to .Hake believe that the present vote js no gaio over' liiar: ofSu4r:a'f" the record shows it to be a gain of severa thousands over the vote on the State ticket in 1861, and November will show a heavy gain on the vote for President in 18G4. FALSEHOOD Appears to be the stock in trade with the democratic party and with every democratic stump orator in the north In the south it is different There they sometimes tell the truth in regard to the interest of the party. Wade Hamp ton says the delegates to the New York convention pledged him to give the south all she asked, but said, in terms, that they must act a lie at the north until after the election, and that then, if they were successful, they cou'd throw off the mask and come out in all the hide ous garb of revolution and (reason. They started out with a falsehood for a platform, and placed upon it a man with a falsehood in his mouth, and from that day to this not a man who has tak en the stump for this platform of false hoods but has continued to repeat them and enlarge them to suit his own taste. Mr. Poppleton repeats the dose from every stump in Nebraska, and when they are proved upon him b undisput ed authority he only reiterates them in louder tones. lie asserts that our na tional debt is larger now than at the close of the war, notwithstanding every reading man in Nebraska knows his assertion to be a base falsehood. He has falsified his opponent, Mr. TafFe, and continues to do so, notwithstanding he has been proven by the records as a falsifier. Will honest men sanction such things, even in politics? We pre tend to say that the man who is rascally in politics for the purpose of gaining a political success is not a safe man to trust in any capaity, . especially one where he holds the interest of the peo ple ia his keeping. He would ''sell them out' for his own advantage, and then lie himself out of it. iV.ame Has Spoken ! THE SFXOXD GU.. The Republicaa Chicken troweih I 2G.OOO Majority! Gain or 13,000 since 1Sg7 Republican Governor and Six Repub lican Congressmen!! RAH for GEAETT "LET US HAVE PEACE." The dispatches bring the cheering news to every lover of his country that Maine has fired the Second Gun.'aod that her solid shot has gone straight to the heart of the enemy. She gives 23,000 majority for the Republican candidate for Governor, and elects all of the six Congressmen by overwhelm ing majorities, and ihree-fourtLs of the Legislature. Last year our majority was only 11.614; now it is 23,000 more than double that cf last year. In 186-1, before the Presidential election. our majority in Maine was only 15.91S- What will it be in November? Cau the Blair revolutionists draw any com fort from this exhibit ? We think it will be hirder work than it was for Poppleton to bore for water" with the story of his "poor lorn widJ.T. 7"COaE AGAIN, FOP. "" During his recent speech at Rock Bluffs, the Hon. (?) Andrew Jackson Poppleton, Democratic candidate for Member of Congress, made the asser tion that the public debt hod not been reduced one cent siuce theclose of the war, but on the contrary had been in creased. After he had closed his tpeech, he was accosted by a life long democrat who asked him if that state rnent was true. Mr. Poppleton assured III in ilt it was, Bud iliai-lUe public debt was greater to-day than at the close of the war. Mr. Democrat turned away without another word, and has ince stated boldly that he will vote for no man who will deliberately tell such a lie as that. ' He has read the record and happened to be a little better post ed than Mr. Poppleton supposed any democrat had a right to be, . The pres ent campaign U b-iiog carried on by the democracy by barefaced falsehoods like the above, and many democrats who take the trouble to read foi tnemselve are -beginning v ,iu uuui ; again. Pop. you are making voles for the Republican ticket every lime you open your mouth. THE DIFFERENCE Between modern democracy, and the genuine article is as great as between darkness and light. In fact, we have heard it remarked that the genuine ar tide was worth $10.00 a pound within the "confederate lines," owing to the great scarcity of the article there and the desire of its possessors to keep with in the Union lines. In many localities there are three no minal party organi zations the Republicans, the Demo crats and the Rebels the Republicans and Democrats supporting Grant and Colfax, and the Rebel organizations supporting Seymour and Blair aod the revolutionary platform adopted at the New York convention. In sucn.local ities the democrats view the situation in the same light with Judge Pearson, of North Carolina and many other able and cool headed men. They take ihe New York platform, Fiank Blair, Wade Hampton, N. B. Forest, Gov Vance, and other leaders of the so called democratic party, at their word; and by so doing but one conclusion can be arrived at, and that is that it ey in tend to use force to overthrow statute laws of the United States. No genu ine Democrat can endorse such meas ures, because it is not democratic, but is the argument of tyrants and aristo crats. Judge Pearson says be does not claim to be a Republ:can, but that the question has assumed a shape which will not permit any man to support the so called democratic platform aud can didates except he is in favor of aaoiher civil war. Who among the people of Nebraska are in favor of another civil war, to be brought on by an attempt to carry out tha programme laid down in the New York platform, Frank Blair's etter nnd the speeches of the leaders of the party ? Let thinking, reasona- iie isipft to; au'l consider thi matter. an'! !ee uh?iher they are ready to in augurate such a state of affair? as must result from an attempt to forcibly over turn the S:ate governments of the South and "trample into iha dust" the statute laws of the Ui itea Sia e Do you wish to make a Mexic o of these United Slates? If you do you will naturally -upport th policy which acknowledges 'he ripht to disobey any and all laws which do not meet your beany approv al There is a difference between Democrats and rebels and that differ ence is ju;t as great, in reality," as be tween loyalty and treason. No man is a dernoornt who favors or countenance open violation to law, because such acts are in direct contradict ion to the signif icance of the term. There are thous and; of democrats who realize this fact nnd are supporting Giant and Colfax as the only maans of expressing their democratic views as against violators of law ; and there are yet other thousands who fully understand the fact but lack the moral courage to come out openly and oppose the men wno have stole the name if "democrat" to carry out their purposes of treason and rebellion. They fear the epithet cf "abolitionist." Look at the long list of honest men who have forsaken and denounced the platform and candidates who would in- auguarte another war, and then say whether you prefer to have your name stand side by side with theirs, or with such men as Hampton, Forest and Semmes men who are to day shaping tne course of the party that has stolen the once honored . name of democracy. The time will come when you must take sides, should these rebellious charac ters gain sufficient power to dare at tempt their law defying schemes. Which side would you be on then? Wo'd you go with Blair and his supporters in their endeavor to overturn by force of arms the laws which do not ?uit them. or would you be found on the side of true democracy, which says the will of the majority is the law of the land, and murt be obeyed ? Is it not far better .HjsaieT Xo start nsbOhl.iV.jj l'll'f compelled to : either support a cause which your democracy and your judg ment condemns.or abandon it after the crash comes? Consider these things and act honestly. , . T HAVE VOL' DOUBTS T As we have repeatedly said, we be lie ve 'the great majority of the voters are honest in their expressions at the ballot-box. Did we believe otherwise pur faith in a Rebublican form of gov eminent would be shaken. But under the system adopted throughout the country for bringing out candidates. those persens chosen to run for effice are not always the ones whom the mass oi the people would select. We have also asserted, and-have endeavored to prove by the records, that the men who are to day' shaping the course of the Democratic party, are unsafe men to trust the future of this government with. We cannot see how honest men, who have roe spark of love-for their country, or care one iota for theperpe Cuiiy.OTy Asrjru! cast their votes for a man for Vic President who declares boldly in favor of open and forcible violation of law and whose principal supporters declare as the murderer of surrendered pris oners, N. B. Forrest, does that the house of every radical in the State of Tennessee is picketed, and that not one shall e?cape alive ; and who advise, as Wade Hampton does, thatybrce be used to compel the poor of the South to vote the democratic ticket that the aherxa tive be given them to starve as out brave boys did at Andersonville, or vote for the men and the party who offers them this alternative. As we said be fore, we believe a large majority of the voters are honest meu, and would not purposely vote to place powet iu the hands of this class of men. Have you doubts in your mind that the men who are shaping the course of the demo crattc party to-day are of this stamp ? If you have we ask you to candidly. carefully and honestly read the record i.s it is being written and has already been written. Yo canaot deny that the principal acd as we ihiuk, the only straightforward plank in the Dem. ocratic platform is the one which paves the way for Another civil war in carry ing out the declarations of Frank Blair that it is the duty of the President elec (provided he be a democrat) to use the army of the United States to forcibly overturn the SouihernStaiegovernments and compel the Senate to admit the act as lawful. Do you believe this could be doue peaceably ? Do you believe it should be doje at all in the manner advocates by Frank B'air and his hot headed retiel supponers ? You cannot deny that the leading spirits of the Democratic I arty in lh- South are ad vocating the policy of jorcing freemen to vole their ticket or take the bread from their children mouths, neither can you deny that this programme is being carried cut. Ay, worse than. this; you know, if you iiave leatl t.ie doings of ihe pist two years, thai hun dreds of men have bern murdered, and thru numbers are f-eing murdered al most daily, for nc othr reason than because they are Republicans. No longer ago than last week the Southern democratic papers glcrieJ in the fact that a prominent steamboat captain on the Mississippi discharged every man from his employ who refused to vote th democratic ticket, and the .-am-thing is being done in almost every lo cality in the South' where the situation will permit it. Do you call this "dem orratic," and can you call the men who will doTuch things, or advise them, "democrats?"' What ij democracy .aud what crimes may not be perpetrated in her tame ? No wonder the honest and true men are coming out from suin a party. Again, we say, if you have doubts in your mind, read for yourself aud see whether these things are so, and then say whether ihey are ''demo cratic," and whether you are willing to trust ihe future of this republic in the keeping of such men or such a party. HATIIEIl POINTED. A correspondent of the Common wealth asks Mr. Brevet Brigadier Gen eral Victor Vifquain, Esq., Democrat ic candidate for Secretary of State.the following rather pointed questions, which remain unanswered by that wor thy : Did you or did you not, state, in July last, that you thanked God for Ku Klux Klan organization. That it was the only thing that kept the d d black abolitionists from overriding the South, &c? Did you or did you not state, when talk ing some time since about the prospects of another rebellion that you was ready at a moments warning to unsheath your sword in favor of the south, and against ihe Republican party and the North? Did you or did you not go to the Registrar's office in your precinct on ihe 7th inst., armed with a blafksnake whip and a revolver end took there with you other persons armed to the teeth. with the avowed purpo.-eof horse whipping one Mr. F. Baily, if he sho'd challenge your or your Brother in laws right to regtrrii:- Did you or did you not make the statement, you had paid a certain indi vidual all you owed him except a d d good thrashing which you should give him, and when said individual dunned you for the thrashing, you denied say ing any such thing that it was a d d lie, &c ? Please come out like a man and answer these questions. These things are currently reported against you and the public would like U know as to their truth. ,.',"' And be might f--kr asxed Mr. Vifquain whether or not he said, when he left his home in Nebraska to enter the service, that he intended to join which ever side offered him the best inducements, which is also current ly reported. FOURTH LETTER TO FItlNIi P. BLAIlt. The Rest and Most Pungent of the Series. "Give me audience for word or two." Hon. F. P. Blair. Jr., T ' is tmg2lsu!UUfi race , wnisa Ls overnor cseymour anu yourself are makiug that the impor tance which should be assigned lo the superior is civen to the subaltern. Ev ery zealot in the cause of the New York convention declares the candidates should be transposed that you should bare been the candidate for President and Seymour for Vice President. In ibis I am not Mattering you. Such is the feelinfr, more especially among Western and Southern men. Is thi ieelin; a mere ebuiuion ot passion, or can it be accounted for on rational and philosophical principles It occurs to me. General, there is but one way to translate such a political phenomenon. Your character suits the men and times better than Seymour's. All concede to him the most ability, the most caution and the mot shrewdness ; but the dash of your spirit (I hope ibe expression is allowable) captivated tbe convention They seemed to desire an exhibition of reckless character, ai d you furnished it. No one could doubt tbe - intention with which you were ready to enter upon your uew work. Seymour com bines the qualities of the statesman and politcian, the politician predominating. You combined the qualities of ihe revo lutionist with the plausibility of the demagogue, both qualities prominent and active. You have arrived at your ne plus ultra. You are ready to wade through blood to a throne. Your social qualities are good, at least in the esti mation of the society in which you move Moral and relisious men are not your companions You do not, like Cromwell, proclaim you want power to reform the moral abases of the nation, but to restore rebels to what you and your co workers claim are their consti tutional rights ! These rights you assert to be as follows, and you enter the can vas to maintain them as th great car dinal dotirines on which you sand: r irst. The exclusive power to control ihe Southern States Second, To overthrow Cngreion al legislation (the old nullification doe trine), with the word. Your leper ; . Mr Broncbeaa menu this ami say- this, and cannot be misunderstood Third, To expt 1 ull or'hern r-. Has "carpet-b.igger? ." Irom the Stai. Fourth, Ob'iieration of pa-t r,ffen- without regard to the degree of ei!t. and thsj restoration cf all robei to i equal rights, privileges and benefits, political, lii ancial aud judicial, under the constitution I am sure in stating the case as I have, I have not done violet.ee either to your words or their spirit, much less tu the disclosures made siuceihe adjourn ment to the ulterior objects of the con vention. If your put pose is carried out, can you tell me what the differ ence will be between prtriots and trait ors ? Can you tell me what inducement the well disposed citizen would have to defend hereafter his ccuntry ? If, af ter a rebellion is suppressed, the reb els who inaugurated and sustained it are to be placed on a political equality in the government with ihe loyal citi zens who look up arms to defend it, what incentive will loyal meu have to sustain the Union hereafter? What, indeed, is a country worth if the guilty assail ant of its life is to be placed side by side in office withthi brave soldier who defended it? That is just what you propose ta do. Yes, lo honor the rebel equally with the patriot No, not this. A large number of mm calling themselves Democrit with whom you are now acting, make service in the Feden 1 army and faithfulness to the Federal cause a badge of disgrace. If this is so ng,w, it will not be long, if such men get into power, before service in the Confederate cause wiil be the only passport to public favor. Disguise it General,a-i you will, I tell you that un less the signs of the limes are speak ing with lying tongues to the people, we are not this day far removed from rebel ascendency. Out on such a coun try as that. It will not be worth de fending it will not be worth the name of a country. And all this is being done in the sacred name of Democra cy ! Great God ! to what base u?e is that ancient and honorable party to be perverted. It must it will, yet rise and vindicate its ancient faith and re specled nunn. Only th'iik, General, that you are now one of its great leaders! You 11 Yet you are not a Democrat, I will not be so uncharitable as to accuse you of being, for you have set up no claim to be one. It was not Democracy thai lured you from the beaten political path of your life. Far from it. That par ty you always bated. You have no re gard for it now, nor have the rebels, further than they can use it. Ycu are striking for a Southern name and a Southern influence. You intend, here after.to identify your fortunes with that section and to be exclusive in your nt t'achnntVfn 'if!''r'Aa "faxJas VJu can vou will lay the Democracy of the i "NorTh at its feet. Thus far and no farther are you a Democrat. If, according to your doctrine, and the doctrine of the conveutiob which' nominated you, no one is to be held to accountability for the late rebellion if no one is to be excluded from place on account of it if ihe rule observed by all nations that the leaders are to be punished in cases of civil wars, and amnesty granted to th balance is to be ieoored. then the rebels gained a wior- at viwt oh far mnrAJo lhm than a military one ; and that moral victory will open the door to their independence and close it forever on ine union, or else if not this, ihe South will control the North as completely as ever it did under the rule of slavery. Not only Hampton, but various other lending rebel", have declared in their speeches since they arrived at home from the New York convention, that ihat body expressed a willingness to grant them everything ihey wanted, but asked as a favor that they should not require too much of them before the e'ectiou.as it might endanger their joint success. No men in tbe nation ever feH more iubilant than they, and why aboukLiJy .aair -Frtgi.gu!hy culprit siat ding at tbe judgment bar or a gov ernment ihey attempted to assassinate they are in invited to its high places No parallel instance to this can be found in the history of the world, and poster iiv will read the chronicles of these times with mortification and wonder I once said, and repeat here that this government has more men in it ready lo destroy it than any oiher government on earth more who are indinerent to its welfare more who have no regard for its moral and political status And it ibis fact you and your fellow-rev- olu iomsts are taking advantage of. The English constitution owes its perpetuity to the certainty with which offenders against the government are punished. In our country, great polit ical offenses seem to be a passport to places of trust and honer.' A glance at the political calendar in the North will disclose that the rebel aiders and abettors, the Vallandighams and the Pendletous are the favored men. In what way can a government be so soon aud so effectually demoralized, as to let its enemies go unpunished ? If such a course results in sympathy, that sympa thy arises from a false philanthrophy , if from considerations of political ad vantage, it is a crime. Our government has drifted with alarming rapidity into moral and political dangers. We do not seem to be startled at the fact that those who tried to destroy it are already climbing its decks and asking for its logbook its chart and its rudder. Whether you joined them in their ne firious object from notions of public distinction or private profit the Repub lic is tbe sufferer, and with you the guilt is the same. Your whole com plaint is that Southern rebels are de prived of their rights ! You do not complain that ihey well nigh destroyed your government. Remember, sir,' that ycu have con fessed yourself that the secessionists were not sufficiently punished by their ubjugation. On the 1 1th day of July, I860, just previous to your corps being mustered out of service, you issued an lddress lo them ii. which, after compli- n eiitins; their bravery, you said: "I he order for your disbandment (as you are well aware) has already been received, and nothing remains to br done to restore you to homes acd families except the formal discharge ii uin set vice. Your service demands n better recognition at thchands ot the coumiy you hate aided to preserve than mere words of applause. Ihe Romans made their conquering soldiers fret-holders in the lands they had con quereu ; ana as upon your return to your homes you will find most of the occupations and employments filled by adepts from civil life, and as the gov- eminent has vast tracts of vacant lauds which will be increased by the war.the interests of the country and your own will concur in th8 apportionment of these lands lo your use and occupancy, establishing a citizen soldiery to main lain internal peace aud set foreign foes at defiance." In the subsepuent part of your ad dress you add ; "If thai object," (that is if our troops shall not be wanted to punish France for sending Maximilian to Mexico in violation of the Monroe doctrine), "can be obtained t y peace able means, then soldiery is at an end, and your sole business hereafter will be to develope, enrich and improve our great country. To that end our so diers should be provided with home steads, and in no part of the country would they fare better, or would they be more useful, than in the South, which they have redeemed." The Romans, in itieir wars, ordy car ried out the doctrine laid down by all instructional writers, that in case of a public war ihe conquerers acquired con trol over the persons and property ot the conquered and had a right to make such disposition of the acquired territo ry as they might uhoose.even to the ex pulsion of the original inhabitants and the colonizing of it by themselves. It is plain from your "address" that you regarded the principles which govern nations in public wars as applicable to ihe rebel States, and you clearly recom mended their application. I will not pause to discuss in this letter the dif ferences between public and civil wars. You are concluded by your record, aud I take you as I find you. You informed your soldiers that the government bad "vast tracts ef vacant lands ;" that the quantity would be "increased bv the war that they had "redtemed" the Southern country ; that they should be provided by the goyernment with "homesteads;" that "in no part of the country would they fare belter cr be more useful than in the South," and their bus iness hereafter would be to "develope, enrich aud improve the country. You twld them more. Rou told ihem ; "The Romans made their conquering soldiers, frtfh aiders in. the lands thehad conquered," The conclusion they were" to draw was, America thould do the same. , - "In view of the fact that, the South had just been "conquered' ia part by the "soldiers" under 'your command, what did you mean by all you said, but that the lands of the South thould be taken and distributed among the Union soldiers? The public domain could not be increased as you said ii would be by the war, except ty confiscation of the conquered territory, aud thai you J flp r ly .jaxoraman.rlrt o nfL b-ft try 11 mignt De converted 'into nomeeieajs foe the federal soldiers. You said they were. entitled to a "better recognition" than mere lhacks.and you pointed ycur finger 10 the "lauds' ihey had "con quered'' as their future homes by right This was your doctrine in 1S65. wheo you felt pactrioiic. Iu 1868, only ihree years afterwards, you are not only in favor of letting the rebels retain iheir "lands," but eay the government should be turned over in part at least to their control. Consistency thou art a jew el." Men of America, when will you see your danger ? 1 do not regard you, General.as very deeply read in 'he law, aud you are 4M4uly. &r,vtuy poor-. iogiu&n.- Such men as you succeed best when there i a feverish delusion on the public nv.nd, as at present. You ought, however, to be able to discriminate between a State being out of the Union and an individual or body of men in a State committing an offense against a general government. An individual may subject himself and bis property to the operation of public and private laws, and not thereby carry his State out of the Federal compact. A national crime confers no political rights but may destroy existing ones. Hence wiihiut doing more than alluding to the question, it follows that if the Southern Slates are still in the Union, as they are, that creates no obligation on the United States to receive back into its councils the guilty and atrocious insti gators and leaders of the rebellion; aud let me tell you, General, when they do it, they seal their own death, war rant. They will have warmed a viper into life that will, sting them to death. The introduction of rebel influence into tbe polrtics of the North, will demoral ize tbe whole country and close its ca reer as a Republic. I. N MORRIS. Quincy, August 31, 1RC8. WORK. ! WORK. ! ! Republican?, look at Vermont and Maine, and see what work will do. Let every man take into consideration tbe importance of ihe work to be done. Remember that it is easier and better to work noio by appealing to tbe reason of men and showing them the true po sition of our national affairs, than it will be to put down another rebellion, such as is contemplated by the leaders of the democratic party. There is suf ficient honesty and patriotism to sustain this Republic, but it is necetsary that men should be informed of the dacger acd convinced of the best method to avert it. Work will accomplish the de sired result, and we hope no Republi can will have it to say after election day that he might have djne this or thai. Remember next Saturday. t i L . i k J ...., i, E POUT. Mr Editor : The following is ilj report of the Grand Jry on ccxdiiiwi of Cciiniy j nl : To His Honor, George B Lake, Judge of the District Court, of ihe 21 Judical District of Nebraska, in and for the county of Cass The Grar.d Junr. impnnrieled and sworn at ihe September term A. I). 1868 of said court, in compliance wih the laws of snid Slate, respectfully r. -port that we have visi td the jil 0f said county and find that it has ien kept in as clean and heclthy condition as the construction of the builhng would permit. The pri.-oi.er ei,t in number expressed themselves well pleased with the treat rent they have received at the hands of the Sher.ir, and further, ihat we find said jail but poorly venti'ated, and upon thorough examination of said building, we deem it an inserure building for the safe keeping of prisoners, and respectfully, ask the county Commissioners to lake immediate steps towaid the erection of a suitable jail building All of which is respectfully submitted. Signed, ELI AS SAGE, Foreman and eleven others. Wm. L. W ells. Clerk, of District Cjurt. THE NATION A 1. IIEPFIIUCAN PLATFORM. Int. Wc inrratnlatethe rouatry upon tbe as sured success of theit'cunrtructiun policy of CuiiKrrp, as evidinod by the adoption in tbe majority of Urn Statf Intel In nhrllioii, of coupti tutlnns st-curlng qiial civil anil political r'gbls to ill, and regard It as Ihe duly of Ihe guveriimmit to sustain those conKtitutiun and (irrvetit the people of snrb Hiali-s from being remitted to a Stale of anarchy or military rule. The giiarantr by Congress of 'equal sulTi-ane to all loyal men in the boii'li was drmand-! by rvcrr conhideraliou of politic nnfoty of pratilude of just ice and niUft be maintained, whils the question of uffimc in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States. 8d we denounce all forms of repudiation as a na tional crime, and the rational honor rtqulres Ibe payment of the public Indobtedneys In tbe ntino.-l lt"od fiiitb to our creditor at home and abroad Not only according to , he letter, but the xpiut of the laws under which II was contiac'eil. 4th. It is due to Ihe labor of tbe nation that tbe taxation of Ihe nation sliruld be equalise and re duced as rapldl) as the oatioual fai'b will permit. fdli. The national delt, oniric ed as it has been, for tbe preservation of the Uniou, 'or all time lo coiue, should he extended over a fair period for re demption; and It is the duty of Cot.tres to reduce the luterett thereon w henever It tau hooe.lly be done. Hh. That the best pol ey to diminish our burden of debt Is to so improve our credit that capltallsis will seek to loan ns money at lower rates of Interest than w now pay. and mum couti'iue to pay au Iouk as repudiation, partial or t jta", op. n or corirt is lliredtgiiej or iP' cted, . 71 h Th (Tovernmert nf tjij United Slates should b aftmirrtftrrrrt will Ui .?' t economy! ard the corruptions which have I" T 10 shamefully nurred and fostered by Andiew J 4fioncall loudly for rad ical reform. f esth. We profonntlly d 'oe tha untimely and tvafric rteaih of Abraham Llsroln, and regret tha Iceession of Andrew J ihnrni mi the i'lei.deiiry. alio has acted treacherously l. lln people who ein ird bim and the enure be wa p.-f uturprd bigh legislative anil t has refused to tX.fcut" ih lj ofliee to induco other olbunsj I .lK-d to stippoit; has piillclal fu ctions and ; has nseil his high Ignore and vio ate executive powers to peace, linens and the laws; has employed brM render Ii secure the ptoertl lif. oftheclt ten; has al'U ivl'i tbs pardoning power; ha denounced the na.'ioii sl itsirialature as uncon stitutional; has oeristeo If nd rorruplly reMMed, by evtry means in h'.s po-or,:erery ptoper attempt at the reconstruction of tl e lites lately In rebellion; has perverted tbe public fatftnape l oo an eoxinn of wholesale corruption; uatfi has been Justly iiu p mfiny mH vtft,eJi is jstirt . Jul d t: p u a r 1 o r s , and 83 6enaior- f lh. The doctrine of ijrfil Britain ann ,iner Eurooean Dowers, that Ik 't.iuje a roan is 0111 e a sub ject be ts always so. mux lil.ci . rlMml st eveiy hI- arc! liy tna uuuea ruaies renr 01 me k-uohi miier, not authorised by t lie law & 'nation-, anil at war with our national bon"r s jili.dependrure. Nntnr aliaed clti us are entitled ill be protected In all their rijthla of citla-nsqip, sst though f ey were ta tive born; and no cltiZeo of Hie United Mate,, native or naturalized, must be liable to arrest an I Impris onment by any foreign power, for act done or words poken Id this country; aiidi if so arretted and Im prUoned, It Is the duly o' tX government I j iiil'r fere In JjIs behs'f ' 10th. OI all who were tl hful In the trials of tbe late war, the. were none aiaitied to more especial honor than the brave eolJfcrr- ani seanieu who m dured tbe hardships of einsKlsn and erulie, and imperilled their lives in the rvlce of the country. The bounties and pensions provided by law for then" brave defenders of the na.uo are obligations never to be forgouon. The Wiiloas and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards ft the people a sscrcd legacy bequeathed to the oa ion's protecting cure 11th, Foreign emigration. .which In the past has added so m icli to tha wen!i, d-velop p eut of re-rnrrre.-wt Inssasse ai t u'J'.r to this nation the aasylam of the opes.ed of all nations shnnld be foetered and encouraged l.y a liberal andjut policy 12th. ' bis convention declares its sympathy with all the oppressed peoples which are struggling for their rights. 13th, Thai we recognize (lie great principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence as tbe true foundation of democratic goveriitn nt, and we hsil with gladnes every effort toward making those principles a living reality on every foot of American soil. , 14th, That we highly commend Ibe spirir 'if mag naaimity and forgiveness with which men who have served in the rebellion have row frankly aud lion, estly co-o:.erp'rd with us In r storing the peace of the country, and are reconsti iicted. They are re ceived back into ibe Union ol tbe loyal pcop'e. We favor the removal of the restrictions Imposed upon the late rebels as soon as tbe spirit of rebellion has died oat. NEW MET MARKET!! GEO. FICKLER &. CO, CORNER 2d 4- MAIN STREETS, PLATTSMOUTU, NEBRASKA.. Keep constantly on hand the best of All Kinds or XI eat , which they can furnish their customers at tha BEST OF RATES FOR CASH I July 2d. 1SS9 3m. Empire Bakery ! Id ST., tPTO!sITE"XEW YORK STORK." PLATTSMOUTH, - - NEB. Confectioneries, BREAD, PIES, CAKES, CHEESE, and 8WEES CRACKERS. REFREEIJIEIVTS kept on hand al all times. 11. HUBERT .nl5tf.