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VOL. 4.
PLATT&MOUm, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1SG8.
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AT rOKNEY AT LAW,
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fLixivell flisiiuunn, j
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Solicitors in Ch ir.ccry.
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CLARKE, & ERWIN,
ATlOSiNEYS AT LAW,
And Solicitors in Chancery,
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IRISH, CALHOUN &CK0XT0N.
I'na hov iiwrned ceotMmen litve ia.-s.-n.. ted
,;; -c.vr in 1.0S.I.I.S, t.. the pa .. i -ro-e. lit
m .1 s- ..le lli.: .il. clinH rt-i.:n-t lh- i.eiii-r.il
., j. .-. u.u-ul, ... a , .;( -iov tin..- ..f lndialK, and
.4 e ,,. . pre-l to . ro-ecut- such claims, llll.rt I el
i.-o..r..-s, t a . oi I hi i.-i tu:e .toot noverntiieut
..r .rtificl-'ourlot ca.ius,
Ia Iki-h u: le.i.i' t i le ionil at'ert.on to
l e 'il-llK'- 11 iVa-laallaiU.il.
. J" Be at aoida City.touier tf Main and
t.u streets.
i ilioual Claim Agency.
W ASH INGTCN D- C
f. M DORRINGTON,
SCO-AGENT.
rsuouni, - - Nebraska,
.ire. I l. preneot and j.ro-ecnle claim before
uri of Claims auiilue lep . illlelits. fa
'. .i-i. 'il-. H-i'iol e-, rtu.l Liounty Lands
. ,"C'i;irrfc uio'ler.tt-.aca in pr.i(..irti.'i to
il . Hal o! tUe C141LU. v. M. aJOitltlNlJ IOV.
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J. N. WISE,
i r.n Lif', Accident, I'irt, Inland and
Trans U
T3UHANCE AGENT
- : i tit n-k n r-a-'natile rat" in the ino-t rMiabl
... si.;. -m :a the I ' r i i C e t yjiAt.
1.3 il.ee the book elore.ria sir onth, Nebraa-
Tlillinery A: I)remiakiiiS.
BT MISS a. M. DHsPAI.1 i M H. R- P. Ken.vkdt
Opposite the Ci'y Ilukery.
T g w .uld n pectf 'il;y announce t. the La.liea
T .f fiattvmnuth and vicinity , that we havej nst
r-c ivi-.l aiareaad well se!eeie..1 stock of Winter
( . i N. c ins!s'.in(r of Flowere, Kil.huns, velvt, dress
t":nrnm(f, Ac., 4c We will sell the chea pest g.xxls
eve.- sold in ttiisciry. We can accommodate all our
.- 1 r i .timers and as many new ones as will 'avor ns
vi h cat.. All kinds of work in our line done to
orusr. PerlajitsattfasCiicn giri or no ebarjrt.
I)UT:LI.I.( at all price.
Any persons wishing to purchase Kami-property, or
Resiliences ia town will tinO them for sale at l
prires. ljy
DORR1SOTON,
mrT. Real KstAth Aobbt.
Q K. McCALLUM,
Manuf cturerof and dealer in
nlille ami IIuuicms,
Of every description, wholesale ami retail. No 13iiJ$
M.in street, between 5lh anil 6th streets, Nebraska
City. Jel
NOTICE.
JAMES O'NKII. is my authorised Ageul tor the
coll' nion t.f all accounts d'- tin- undersigned for
inrilirai servile; his receipt will be va'id for the
n.iviiieut of anv monies on said Nrc iunli
AiiK'istH. ls'67. K. K. LIVINfJSTOS.M.D.
REED. BEARDSLEY & CO,
Real Estate Agents ,
WEET'IXG WA TER, SKRR.KSKA.
I.i li. U ht.UKht, mauayed nd old. Valuable Tim
ber l.miJ foi s.ile. Tax. 9 paiil for Non -residenta
t'ollv I ions I roinpU attended to.
march 26 1M.
BY-
Mrs. M. Nieman.
In the ronr of City IJakerv.
V it cy ati',-;.- u.i-lo-1 n.l d .ne up iu the neatest
tvl Vatmfitc: i. li i;i-ar'itee.
C ,t -i ... uh, N.-t-raska. J'lue -;jin niiii.
Sheridan House,
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IIntUtllOUlll. A'cl.
i i .i... .i.v ,ri-..k Ci.H't:-;. meliorate.
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points
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liOOKtiELLERS.
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Binders & Paperdcalers.
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SEWING MASHlhE AG'T
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PSciUsniouth siiis.
C IH'.IS EI-. Pioprielur.
Main Sr.,
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;,ni r. ; ! t ' t. c . ti n;. i!nte the pnl lir wtt
iorses, Carriages and Buggies,
Alro. a nue Ilt-arse,
On hcrt in ittre mid rennoii.il ' terms. A Hack wilf
im t. stear....:.t Ibi.i.Imt. feud to all paits of the
citv when dciri .J.
mr j.i J. W. r'HANNOS.
FURNITU R E!
THOMAS W- SnRYOCK,
A XI I'KALKR IS ALL KIXDS OF
Furniture and Chairs.
THIRD STREET, (X'-ar Main,)
PL. 1TTSM0 UTI I, A'EBR.lSK.l.
P.ep.irinK and Varni-hine n.-atly done,
53" Fun.. r:s attended at the hortet notice.
nil.
Will. Stadeliiianu A: Co,
One dour weal of Donelans Drug-stort.
Dealers in
Ready-made Clothing,
GKNTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
If ATS, CATS. SHOTS. SHOES.
TR USA'S, VA L1SS,
anJ a peneral atock of
OUTFITTING GOODS
For the ruius; also, a lare lot of
A UBB K R CL 0 T1ILVG. REVO LI
ERS Jl.VD X0T10XS.
We I.c.ukM low and wit! sell cheap for cash. Cat.
and eanuueonr stock nef.ne y ou buy any where elsel
jyj Go Wm. STAliELMANX at CO.
W. D. GAGE.
W. R. DAVIS.
CEKTJiAL STORE.
Dry-Goods,
Groceries,
Provisions,
BOOTS and MIOi :,
Main Street, two doors abort Fourth,
M'her the public may find
THE BEST OF GOODS,
and prices as low as can be found in the city.
We return flianks for the liberal patronage we
bare received, and hope to meruit continuance.
Oct. 3t,'ei . GAOZ at PAYIS.
JAWKS It. l'UHTER,
From the Jamestown S. T ) Jonrnal.
Spleudid Democratic t'titiiou
Dakota ,'itt, Aug. iSG8.
Mr Editor: It was my good for
tuce eterday to attend a De-mocraiic
rtifetiug in this place, and for the first
tune to listen to a cnuine Western
Deniocraiic Campaign Speech, made
by the present democratic nominee for
Governor There wat ro much frank
nes, bo much cordial geniality and fra
grant good humor distilled into the
speech, that I regard it my sacred duty
tu report i'.. or portions of it. verbatim,
as far as my memory serves, and the
substance generally, for the benfit of
the patrons of your widely circulated
jnurral. As the Spiriiualsta would -ay,
in order fir?t to put yourself in rapport
with the speaker, let me introduce him.
Corneive to yourself a large, compact
nmn, 45 year rid ; well built ; good
v king ; clvar. grey eyes ; hair, steel
:iiX"d ; square jiw; In ad shoulder
ed, clean stiaved eenus hi mo, weighing
ISUpmn'! aid yt u have it. He is
iiiir;)Ju ei! to the pobhc by the chairman
of the meeti. . tie v a Iks out into the
n: ddle of the ll i r. p aces hi large,
rctawny lmud on l.i-l.i8 tlives the
tiudienre a l.'i.l.l :l2' fm a f-w eco.d
t:i n sl-p-i h s hat d into hi trousers
(uit kt iintl draws f m tli iherefr m a
trrey pi-s hook tliat Iroin :ts ge had
the- r j-pearaiice ol le'iig tnk' ii from
the ruu.s of Ilt-rcu'niir-um For a mo
ment or two he - xaitillies us P"ge-.
moves hi li like a C'hme-i- jnujiier
reinin g the t-ahai'stic cl aratter on hi
cord th-n he raises his eyes, and an
an t-arne.-t. stifioruus voice, bf gins l.i-exor-.lium
thu?ly :
Jy Friend-.: My liieids. I say
I am a bald ivoikm; in.ui. I am ;i
j ia it: in." n. I love the hi nt laborer.
nr,d to 1: nit I am aoinj to talU. Lik
some I am nut iroing to boast that I
was 1 1 rn a dfii o ist mid ".Hiked the
mi'k of Demon ac v .rum my m.itlir'.
paps ; neve rthls? I iul i; I miii
asliamed to appear bef-re you in this
t'ujai'i'y, soliciting your votes it louk
like little business Uj. the habits o
tin- ivur.try. the retjuirement? of in v
juriy. and the conduct of the opposition,
maue it my duiy to exh;t it myself. (A
thi p ini he shove? up his com let-ves
and with clenched fi-tti ex .iin.. earn
et!y :) Citizenn, I arn goinsr to say
iiere with your permis-io:i that I have
ra.sed mules. Yes. I have si.j mule-;
I know th habusof 'he cntier. They
muke me think of a democrat 1 mean
a renegade democrat. In cold weath
er when il.ey can't pick their living,
they come around you with downrig; t
contrition, lop thir long ears look as
meek as n siinl, and bray in a w inning
way for corn and hay. You feed it to
them, and they are kind and docile dur
ing the winter , but when the mild
breath of etherial f-pi ing causes nutri
tiou? vegetation to spring forth spon
laneously, then the cussed mule shows
his real nature by expressing his grat
itude in ahnking out of your sight and
refusing to be caught in all summer
That is the gratitude expres-ed by p.
litical renegades when in the pursuit
of carpet bag fodder I am not a poor
man; 1 have got plenty of the world's
ifood.s to make my passport through
this world easy. What care I f. r the
6in;tll sal iry of ! 000. per year? I
don't want to talk to any body but hard
laboring met! ; and if there is anybody
here that dun't work for a living he
need not listen 1 don't want to talk to
bondholders or to n-ro worshippers,
but to the hard listed )ejmat.ry. 1
w.tni my ray- I don'i w ar a diamond
p. n wor h felO GUO, in r want 'he vot.-s
of then, ,ut wear hem. Agein I -ay I'm
ahaid woikinr ii.it n Gentlemen, take
a Re nul liian alter he ha- neen ded
three day- and p t a galvanic- butt ry
to his muscle, and the first thing he will
say -you ire a traitor. You are a trai
tor !' I sy let a m.iu c.iil me a traitor
that nieat.s t ilsinens ! I'ut six Yan
kees in a room and let them get drunk
an! they will all be h fighting in les
than half an hour. But I wi-h t un
press on your minds itiat it is different
with democrats; they inanitest ton
much love for one another. The reg
ultr qualification: of a pure bhtoded
democrat : 1st. my hearers, he must be
a sound a drinker, a sound conscience,
and no wool on his head. My hear
ers, I say again lei a man cail me a
traitor that means business ! I see a
moito on the walls of this sch nl room
that says Lovt or e another ' No Re
publican ever put that up, for love tor
each o.her they have not ; that is Dem
ocratic sentiment mly I want you n'l
to understand one thins: that I helpe.l
during the war to get up part of com
pany of volunteers in my district, went
to the Governor of this State for a
commission 'There was something
that he saw about me that he decided
to let me go back and the men, and he
took a squad from Iowa in our place.
I was not trought up to fight; I'm no
fighter- I do not desire to fight. 1 ut
let a man call me a tr-iitor that means
business ! I want you to understand
that I am no politician I am no states
man, and if elected do not expect to do
much good. Dor am I capable of doing
any barm. I am no prostitute I shall
prostitute no one, or what I mean is I
shall not use the public State .property
to benefit individuals or incorporated
companies for building railroads or lot
other purposes I come not here, I say,
to make a spread eagle speech, nor
iball I attempt to. But a German loves
his lager beer and is fond ef amuse
ments, and don't generally understand
good English very well uuti! he learns
it. Show me the man that says he
should not vote before a nigger. No
nigger ever worked a day for me in
his life. Take the nigger away from
he Republican party and they would
bust up in tne business. Don't want
anything that is wooly for me God
intended them to be a servile race ;
they are our inferiors. (At this point
he directs his attentiou to the ladies and
asks) Ladies, would you hke to sleep
wr.h niggers, would you like to nurse
niggers, would you like to marry nig
gers ? They are a poor unfortunate
race. I feel sorry for them. I went
to arguing with a Republican the other
day. In a moment be says, 'Why you
are m ire intelligent than some of you
democrats. Then you really luow that
Jackson is dead!' I'll give you to un
derstand again that a man calls me a
ranor mean business.
My friends it has took hard work the
hardest kirnl of labor Tor me to earn
what propperty I have got, I have work
ed harder than any nitrger ever wrked.
1 know how to mate money and how to
ave it If you don't believe it some of
you doubtful ones come and deal with
me and try it on. I will convince you
that to call me a traitor means business!
No l idv can love a Republican. Lincoln
was a oeotionair resident. a minority Pre
ident. Grant's education is limited ;
he is no statesman. lie can't mtiAo a
speech. Horatio Seymiuris mv man.
I go on hiru that is right. Now you Re
publiciins have made a httve made a
nmres net long enoujh in charging us
democrats with being hard drivers
What of tlint 'i we do:it belong to anv
secret nocietieii such as the Loval Learti
ami the Grnml arrav of the Republic
Now, citiz.-ns, vou nre gratified; you have
eyeJ me over, now if ynu wnnt t vote
Tor me vote: if you don't, why don't.
In conclusion let me further impress your
minds with the solemn fact, that to call
mo traitor mean business
With th"? inalion to aiijourn and the
b'irin of a Newfoundland dog the meet
intr c! ised.
Now you miy tbinfc thi is gammon
and no speech as set forth ; but I could
get a dozen leading men in the county to
certify it is a very corrct description of
the speech and ne irly word for word,
oolv not so roujrhly express d.. "Son of
a brict," 'Jc.ass' od stioii phrases,
were interlarded in his peeoh, which
I have left out. Yaurs truly.
J. ancocl.
m m m
The iS'un has the following report of
a carious and important conversation:
A well-known gentleman of this city
wvas conversing with Gen. F. P. Ulair,
ji.. not long since, upon the power of
t-oi.gre-s to reconstruct the South. Lien
Blair warmly maintained that the Re
construction laws were unconstitutional,
and that there was no authority in the
National Government to endow negroes
with the elective franchise in the con
quered Sta'.es. 'You are mistaken "
said Ins triend : "the Supreme Court
has fully decided the question in favor
of the p iwer exercised by Congress.
IIovv so ?' asked the General. "I
never heard of any such deci-ion."
"I will give you the poicts," was the
answer.
"I. The Supreme Court has decided
ihat the .National Government has the
same rights and powers as regards the
States lately in Rebellion, as it would
have toward States or Territories con
quered in war with a foreign power.
"II. The Supreme Court decided
years ago that in New Mexico, which
we had just then conquered in the war
wr.h Mexico, the orders cf Gen Kear
ney, the Military Governor of that Ter
ritory, had all the force of law and
most be obeyed as such.
"III. .Among these orders of Gen.
Kearney, in New Mexico, was a code
of laws which he promulgated some
time about 1S47, by which the right of
suffrage was conferred upon all males
of lawful age, without distinction of
color negroes included
"IV. This code, which was thus im
posed on New Mexico by the military
power the Supreme Court decided to
be the righiful law of the Territory,
until it should be set aside by express
act of Congress.
"V. The apparent author of this ne
gro suffrage code was Francis P. lihur
jr.. whose name was attached to it as
Attorney General of the Territory "
"That's true, "responded Gen. lilair,
but I didn't suppose any d d black
Republican knew it."
A writer in a late magazine tells a
stoi y which he had from the late Major
Noah, to the effect that when James
Gordon Bennett first applied for work
at the office of the old Courier and En
quirer. he was in such distress that the
kind hearted Nab first gave him a
quarter ot a dollar to get a dinner with
before beginning to talk about his fu
ture occupation. After Mr. Bennett
had satisfied his hunger, he made a
bargain with Major Noah, and went to
work. His duties included sweeping
out the office iu the morning, in addi
lion to nis more literary avocation.
There are few men in history who.
from such small beginnings, have ri-er
to such wealth and power as Mr Ben
nett
If a man is givn to liquor, let not
liqasr be given to him.
LEU tK I'llOM UEXEItALDIX
Genera' Dix, American Minister to
France, has sent the following letter tj
a triend in New xork.
The letter was not intended for pub
lication, but the gentleman to whom it
was addressed, has consented to give
it the pu jlic.
Paris, Sept. 4.
Mr Dear Sir ;
It was my hope that my absence
from home would have saved me from
all participation in political excitement
there, but I nonce in one of the news
papers that I am heart and band with
Mr. Seymour I am not aware of any
thing in the present or past, which
could rightfully subject me to such an
imputation
I have been acquainted with Mr Sey
mour for more than half a century.
He is an amiable gentleman of unexcep
tionable private charaiter.and res-?pta-ble
talents, but you know as well as I do,
bat he has r.ot a single qualification
for the succebsful administration of the
high official trust to which he is noun
naied, and he is especially deficient in
the fitmne.-s of purpose which in cnti
cal e i ergei.cies is the only sateguard
against public disorder and calamity.
He has been twice at different times
Governor of New York and he has in
neither case had talent or tact, to keep
the Democratic party of the State to
gether more than two years I should
regard his election at this juncture,
when steadiness of purpose, decision
and self control are so much needed, as
one of the greate-l calamities that could
befall the country Moreover, he ha;
been put in nomination by a convention,
which has openly declared the purpose
of these it rei-resents. to pa the great
er part of the public debt oq racted to
preserve the union, in depreciated pa
per. Such a measure would, in my
judgment, be a palpabie violation ot
public faith pledgeu under circum
stances, which should have beed bind
ing on all honorable men.
Seymour has made public speeches
to show it is our duty to pay the debt in
specie In accepting thisnomi .ation t j
the Presidency he adopts the declara
tion mat it ought to be paid in paper.
I know nothing so humiliating in the
history of American po'ttics as this ter
giversation It was. perhaps not thought
that Mr. Seymour after the presiding
in lbOl. over the Chicago convention,
which declared the war a failure, shou 'd
preside over the convention cf lSGH.m
.vhich a proposition to discredit the debt
contracted to carry on the war, was re
ceived w nh tremenduous cheering and
that he should be the chosen instrument
to execute this act of National turpitude
1 do not believe that the wishes or
opinions of the great body of the Dem
otrauc party are fairly represented in
these proceedings.
They have nothing in common with
the Statesman like views of policy and
he hiph sense of national honor, which
guided the party when Martin Van
Buren, Win. L. Yancy, Sylas Wright,
Lewis Cass and Stephen A. Douglass
were among its most conspicuous mem
bers. I see but one source of safety for the
country, under existing circumstances,
and that is the election of Gen. Grant
on his decision of character.good sense,
moderation and disinterested patriot
ism. I believe the South will have a far
better hope of regaining the position in
the Union to which it is entitled than
under a man, whose political career has
been in nothing more conspicuously
marked than in all utter infirmity of
purpose. Independently of all these
considerations 1 should be greatly sur
prised if the people of the U. S. were
to elect to their chief magistracy a man,
who wa making at the Academy of
Music on the 4ih day of July, 1S63, a
speech deficient in all the characteris
tics of an elevated love of country, at
the very hour when Gen. Grant was
carrying the victorious amies of the
Union into Vicksburg, and when thous
ands of our fallen countrymen were
pouring out their blood on the plains of
Gettysburg in defence of their homes
and the government, which, Mr. Sey
mour was doing nil in his power to em
barrass, and di-credit.
I am quite willing you should shew
this letter to any friends who may rake
in interest in my opinion in regard to
the coming election, and I am particu
larly desirous to remove the impression
if it exists, that I am in favor of Mr
Seymour or tlie repudiation of any por
tton of the public debt I am sir. very
truly yours. Jto A. Dix.
THE SOUTIIKIIX VOTE
The opposition "gives signs of woe,
that all is lust." The Montgomery
(Ala ) Advertiser says : "It is better
that the Democracy of the North should
realize the truth as to the Southern
Presidential vote, in order that they
may proceed at once to reflect upon the
facts and resolve upon such action as
may be suitable to the case. It may
be relied upon as a fact that in the sev
en so called reconstructed States. Grant
Electors will be chosen without any
exception whatever.'"
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
W notice that Gen S. F. Carey and C
L. Vallandighara are advertised to speak
from the same platform at a Uopperhsaa
pow.wow in Ohio
For the Herald.
To Ralioual, Considerate Dem
ocrats.
Sept. 15th, 186S.
The Democratic party advocated and
maintained the institution of slavery as
long as it could be successfully defend
ed with ballo.s or bullets. Since the
overthrow or abolition of slavery the
leaders of the demoemtic party have
done all they could to re establish it, by
contending for State rights and rebel
sutirage, and by oi posing negro suf
frage and all the reconstruction acts of
Congress. Do not be deceived. Their
object is evidently to re-establish slav
ery or serfdom in some form. They
know that if the rebels vote and the
negroes do not, that loyal men will be
in such a hopeless minority as to enable
the rebels to make laws to their own
liking, and to oppress, murder and ex
pel union men from the South. With
this power, and State rights, they can
establish slavery or inaugurate inter
nal war, either of which would suit
them better than the re-establishment
of political and civil liberty, which they
tried to overthrow and by so doing
have forfeited their reputation and dis
graced themselves forever uuless they
can re-establish slavery. Are you will
ing lo follow men whose welfare and
honor depends on the ruin of their coun
try ? They have lost all tbey had to
lose if you have anything to lose, do
not follow them. They are desperate
men. They would destroy all law.and
all national and State governments for
the sake of elevating themselves above
the slimy vortex of infamy into which
their treason and murder has plunged
them. See what they say in their plat
form : "We regard the reconstruction
acts of Congress as usurpations, and
unconstitutional, revolutionary and void.'
This, of itself, is nullification, or a
threat by the Democratic party to usurp
the authority of nullifying the State
governments of the south whenever
they may come into power. Can this
be done w ithout war ? Do you want it
done ? If you do you are a modern
democrat. That convention said to the
Arkansas rebels: if you kill
Union men or i egroes, or steal horses
from Nebraska, there is no constitution
al law in Arkansas to punish you
Negro slavery was the primary ob
ject of the Democratic parly before the
war. It was for the extension and per
petuation of Negro Slavery that they
tried to overthrow this government ;
and it is now for the restoration of Ne
gro Slavery that they demand a "white
man's government," or the right lo dis
franchise negroes, so that they may
aga;n enslave them. Still they endeav
or to scare people by talking about
Republican negro equality. What is
Democratic negro equality? lama
Southern man. and have felt the effects of
Democratic Xegro equality. They com
polled us seven million of non-slave-holding
white laborers to be equal
with negro slaves by forcing us into a
laboring equality with them. They
made our happines? or misery to depend
on the price of negroes. For if staves
were cheap, slave labor was cheap ; if
slave labor was cheap, a poor white
mans labor was cheap also. And if
slaves were so plentiful that their mas
ters could get but 25 cents per day for
their labor, we had to work for the
same or starve. Mr. Democrat, this
is what I call Democratic negro equal
ity. I did not like it ! D you ? So I
left the old negro-equalizing party.
Had not you belter leave it, too ? It
was for the extension of this ngro
equalization that Douglass contended
when he said there was no use in leg
islating against slavery, for where
slavery would pay there slavery would
go. Wrhich meant that whenever a
free while man got more for his labor in
a free State lhan a slaveholder could get
for the labor of his negro in a slave
State, that slavery would go into the
free State, so as to equalize the white
mans labor with the negroes. Demo
cratic negro equality sinks all laboring
white men to an equality with negro
slave?. Republican negro equality does
nothing more than place the negro in
position where he can help to defend
his liberties and the liberties of labor
ing white men. Are you willing to
trust the welfare of your country and
the hanpiness of your children to the
car of such a party, controled by such
bad men? SOUTH BEND.
THE DEFEAT IV MAINE.
The State election in Maine has been
held, 'he smoke has lifted the Repub
licans have over twenty thousand ma
jority. e are deteated mere, ana a.
not like it. We met the enemy in
Maine and are theirs. They whipped
us there worse than we supposed they
would or could, and it hurts. Duty to
oui readers a desire to speak iruth.
makes us admit a defeat there a
stronger Republican vote lhan we look
ed for. LaCross Democrat.
Shotio Seymour and Blair be elected
thev will have to choose a part of their
Cabinet from the South, and of course
thy wo-ild give Cabinet positions to some
sueb staunch Dem crats as Gen. Lee.
Howell Cobb, and Wade Hampton.
Now, just imagine General Grant going
into the War Office, hat in band, and re
porting to General Lee the rebel whom
he whipped before Richmond Or imag
ine Cohh seleeted to watch the Treasury
and stiffen the Government credit.
THE VOTE OF OHIO.
Wre desire our friends in other States
to understand that Ohio Grant's na
tive State is not, and has net been at
any time since the Chicago nominations
were made, at all doubtful. Nor is it
true, as has been asserted, that the Re
publicans of Ohio are apathetic. They
are at work in earnest, and never with
better hopes than to day. We bava
felt sure, from the outset, of at least
25,000 majority for Grant in this State.
The present indications are that it will
exceed 40,000.
On the other side, the nomination of
Seymour and Blair had n dishearten
ing effect which has not been recover
ed from. The Democrats are without
zeal or enthusiasm. Whatever may
be said by such men as Vallandigharn
who expected to be Governor in
1863 until he woke un one mnrmnir in
M
October, and found himself beaten by
100,000 majority no sagacious Dem
ocrat dreams ef carrvinr? Ohin rhia
year, any more than Maine or Ver
mont. We speak advisedly Cincin
nati Chronicle.
DEAN AND THE MISSOURI RE-
ru UL.lfj.ft.il.
As this chamnion of lown. T)fmr,t.rv
has been speaking in Nebraska, wa have
thoucht it mierht not coma amia tn m.
roduce what the St. Louis Republican
said of this Ku Kin chieftain recently
as a rartin? kick when it drown him ni."
the stump and out of the State of Mis-
T . - -
souri. ii ere u is :
"We know this Dean, lis is a disor
ganize, a fanatic, an extremeist. Ha
does not argue, he merely denounces,
anathematizes, rails and scolds. He I til
has noth'me but curses for patriotic Union
soldiers. A true confederate shudders
at the frightful epithets this peace-sneak
emnlovs to describe the man whs wnnt
out to fight for their country against the
secessionists. Decent men stand aghast
at thefrightfal manner in which hersfers
to the maimed and crirnled veterans rn.
turned from tho war In South Caroli
na. Gor?ia. Misaisamni nn.l Taxna tlia
creature who would talk as Dean does,
would be hooted or egged from the stand
and hissed at by every decent man and
woman. We want no such dpmnfj-fttin
electioneering in this State no such
doctrines as Dean proclaims to his bear
ers as sound principle orgenuinc policy.'
In a sjieech at Patterson. N. J . A. W.
Fenney Esq., thus cogently sums up the
issues of the campaign. The campaign
ia a Gght between the Boys in Blue and
Boys in Gray The Democratic Conven
tion elected Grant. Is Grant ignorant?
Forty IhouonuJ 1 omoul ulB III ItCW I OTK.
sign with a cross Does he drink whig
kv ? He was reared a Democrat. Is ho
silent ? He onco telegraphed he had ta
ken Vicksburg and L'O.OOq Rebels. Im
mense applamo 1 The nesro is black
outside the Rrbel inside.
Give the ballot to the negro, but not
to nampion. Victory for Seymour re
store!) Rebe! leaders and the Lost Caase.
Tho old man who gave his money to the
war is as really a benefactor ns he who
gave his sons. As well refuse pensions
as gold for bonds. Wilkes Booth cried
The game is up; Seymour is trying to
stop the Republican draft "
Gen. Henry C. Deming told the Re
publicans of Hartford a day or two ago,
that he ''would as soon trust a sheep to
the tender mercies of wolves, and a dove
to the talons of a hawk, or his family ta
the guidance of a ftlon, as turn the gov
ernment over to men who fought for years
to destroy it."
The Boston Post has a new dodge. It
tells the Main lumbermen that "Semmes
made business for the ship builders by
every vessel he burned."
Therefore, tho Post; wants the ship
builders to vote the Sermnes ticket, and
show their disapproval of tho conduct of
those who stopped Sernmes' operations
The Cret of a series of "national
games" was played in Vermont on Tues
day, between the ' first Dines" of the
Grant and Colfax and Seymour and Blair
clubs. Throughout the game the Sey
mours "muffined" badly. owing to too stiff
a breeze from the North.
The next game was played in Maine.
N. Y. Tribune.
The Cariinville(Ill.) Democrat says that
at a late Democratic rally in that neigh
borhood, just 300 banners were oarried,
each one of which bore the inscription :
"Do yon want to marry a nigger.' Tho
procession was twelve hours passing a
given point, said point being a grocery.
Judge A W. Ua-ter, for many yars a
proniicentDemocratic polititian inCincin
nati, has abandoned that organization,
and signiied bis intention to take part in
the present campaign for Grant and Col
fax. The Portland Press says that when
Seymour received the stunning news of
his rout in Maine, ha telegraphed to
Pil'sbury the defeated Copperhead can
didate for Governor :
"This is Tkrribi.b !
Where are the victories you promised
us !"
"Carpet Baocers " Senator Abbott,
of North Carolina, has collected the facts
with regard to foreign cipital in that
State He finds that over $10,000,000 of
Northern money have- been invested there,
since the war.
There are more Methodists in Ohio
than any other State, more Bartists in
Georgia, more Presbyterians in Pennsyl
vania, mora Congregationalits in New
York, and ten times more Unitarians in
Massachusetts than in any other State.
The motto of Maine is Dirigo, I direct.
Its election of Monday is tha index finder
of the campaign, pointing oot tho direc
tion of the papular vote of tho country.
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