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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
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