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--'-'( - "' '-'''" -' ' J-'-1" ' if-- pointed by the Governor, when they went there to demand possession How different did the old Republican ' Board act. Though lawfully then, and : in possession, when relieved by these Democratic usurpers of authority then, like law-abiding citizens, - gave posses jgionwhen they had every reason to i believe they were wrongfully cast out. ; This little instance shows the spirit of 1 the two parties. One abides the law, and submits even without Judicial de cision. The other defies the law, and refuses obedience even when the Su j preme Court says they are wrong. ! . ; PENITENTIARY CRUELTY. It was shown by the report of a com mittee to inquire into the management of the Penitentiary, that gross irregu larities had - been committed by Mr. Bledsoe's -Board. Although it was shown by sworn testimony that the Directors had shamefully -neglected their duty. Had allowed thousands of dollars of the people's money to be ex nended or wasted bv allowing the con tractors to build insecure foundations for the Penitentiary buildin Although the sworn testimony of Dr. Hill, the Democratic physician at the Penitentiary t showed that over six tv mnvirtA have suffered during the past year with that dreadful disease called scurvy, when a few barrels of po tatoes or onions, which have could have been bought any day during the ' year within a half mile ot the Peniten tiary, would have prevented the dis case It'was also shown by the sworn tes timony, and Democratic testimony at . that, that the convicts had actually eat- en cats, rats, ana a nog mat naa uieu of djseasetoji iMiifi' hn --- 1 ; BAlthous& Bay; my'friends, all this vmcial neglect and crimin'al action had been shown by a committee appointed to investigate it, composed of a major j ity of Democrats, yet this Democratic .Legislature refused to have this dama ging report printed, for fear it would injure their party, and continued this : same Board in charge to perpetrate fur ther outrages on helpless inmates who, though ever so much steeped in crime, are entitled to humane treatment and wholesome food. The heart of every good man sickens at the picture. Yet for a long time to come, these poor con victs must be subjected to the treat ment of Bledsoe and his Board, be " cause perchance Mr. Bledsoe U a mem ber of the Executive Committee of the Democratic party, and there was not enough patriotism and humanity in the majority of the Legislature to do a simple act of justiceand humanity at the expense of party." PARTISAN BIAS. It Is much to be regretted fhat the - late Democratic Legislature could not soar above mere partisan considerations in anything. The subject of Constitu tional reform is one that they should have discussed as statesmen, not ns par- tizans. It Is one in which the whole people are interested. There was not a single member, either Republican or Democrat, In either branch of the Leg islature that did not favor some amend ments to the Constitution. The lie publicans favored a few amendments and the Democrats many. Under I lie circumstances some compromise ought to have been agreed upon byswhich all " parties could have United in the sup port of such amendments, as all admit ted some to be of vital importance. But whatvas done? The Democrat., true to their same old instincts rule or ruin"-r-hurried up their bill, which they knew was obnoxious to all Re- niblicana, and that it took the party ash to drive many of their own side to support, and passed it in the Senate be- fnrft th hnlirl:ivs. TTio T?nrkiilIfanis though" opposed to many of its provi- 'ons, showed a disposition to support it with some modifications, and Mr, .Lehman introduced a bill that was a fair compromise of all difficulties. But few Democrats favored It, for it was a party advantage they sought, and not the amendments the people desired. CONSTITUTIONAL, AMENDMENTS. ;. Their pet scheme of a Convention having failed, whereby they were to fill all the offices, they cared but little of the fate of any other mode, and went ' deliberately to work " as partizans to make the bill odious, thereby forcing Republicans to vote for. or reject the whole thing. They refused to allow the people to vote separately on the different amendments proposed, but put the whole thing together, farcing you to take both the bitter and the sweet, or none at all. Had they sup ported the compromise bill of Mr. Leh man, this whole matter of Con stitutional reform would have been ht ken out of party politics and the Con stitution would have been speedily amended in important particulars by common consent. Their little game will not avail them. The people will understand their par tizan motives, and rebuke them in August next, for trifling with their .best interests, by thrusting their parti san malignity and personahends into a matter far above the conception of such political tricksters. The Republican party is not oj-" posed- to such 1 amendments as the people want, and Intends, if successful, as It doubtless will be in August, to at once, as soon as tne .Liegisiaturc con venes, ratify or- re-enact such of the proposed amendments as the people desire.- Th6 Democratic party attempted to drive "us Into a false position before the people on this question, but we will be i understood and endorsed by the people In August next. It is their old game of political trickery and has been so often practiced on the people that they, fully understand tt, and my word lor-it, they will rebuke them at the Iallot-box in August. I might detain you, my friends, a great while in exhibiting to you the deformities, and rehearsing to you tho wrongs and outrages perpetrated upon tho people by the Democratic party. Its record fr the past dozen years is doubly sufficient to .eal its doom be fore the American people. Not con tent with Attempting to destroy the government, not content with attempt ing to destroy this Uifion ; hot content Artth sacrificing"much of the best blood and nearly all the treasure of he South; not content with entailing on this peo ple a burdensome debt, created by that Democratic party in an. attempt to t!o stroy the government ; riot content with the many and varied attempts to decci vo the people, they still come before you and never or scarcely ever attempt by answering argument to gain your votes, but like the cuttle fish, who nluddies the water to hide himself, they attempt by. ridicule and appeals to your passions aqd prejudices and to arouse them against thd Republican or "negro par ty, and by telling of the frauds and stealings of Littlefield to gain your votes. They do not appeal to your rea son ana show why .Democracy snouid : bo supported, but - by every species of they hope to crash thi great Republi-' ! can party; and from the humblest in its ranks, the poor colored men to Gen eral Grant himself, all sorts of epithets are applied. . I NATIONAL POLITICS GEN. OBANTi I have told you of only a few of the short-comings of the Democratic party in the State, and will now take a onei review of National politics and the pet ty means adopted to defeat and destroy the great 'Republican party and it3 great chieftain, Gen. Grant. f . The war of insinuation and vile ca lumny against the present administra tion of Gen. Grant, even alledging per sonal corruption of the President him self must, in" the end re-act upon those who wage it simply because it is en tirely destitute of any basis of justice. It has become a common thi ng for Cross-Road Democratic Editors and politicians and self-styled reformers to declare that this is the worst period that the civil service ever saw, that it has steadily gouo on from bad to worse for the past three years and th.it em bezzlements and. defalcations are more frequent than ever before. They never stop to enquire into the facts, but nun their charcres without regard to thereal truth pimply because public sentiment ana dudiic virtue crusneu uiluj iu New York so effectually for stealing that tnev none to arouse tne same 10 destroy us. But not so. The erood sense of the teoDle is almost always right ax;d will distinguish between the innocent and the guilty, though he cry stop thief at every jump. NATIONAL REFORM. Thetrufh is, that tor'theify fant'd . administration, reform inas been practicably, positively and per sistently pushed in every .department of the ereneral government. I assert, and I have the evidence at hand to prove it, that there has not been a period for many years when all the departments were more thoroughly united in pushing the work of reform and of bringing corrupt 'officials and violators of the law to justice. Every department of the government from the day of the Inauguration of Gen. Grant to the present, has been earnestly at work to reform the abuses; in rooting out corrupt and incompe tent officials ; and inlnfusing a greater degree of efficiency, and economy in tho modes of transacting the public business. If it has not been able to correct all the abuses that exist, It is simply because the ' system of public affairs, bequeathed to this administra tion, by its predecessors, has covered so much that needs reform, that it! has beeu morally and physically impossi ble to grapple with every existing ievil in ler-s than threoyears. j ' 1 propose to contrast tho degree of official integrity shown by the affairs of this administration with those of past administrations especially that of Mr. Andrew "Johnson and if needs be to make that omtrast . with facts) and figures which can neither be successful ly, obscured or contradicted by J the etui 1 i tio: of personal ha t red or c-a 1 u in ay . An administration is judged' not alone byits- success in carrying out measures of public policy, but by the degree of official integrity in its subor dinates, and it is abundantly capable of proof, to any one who will enquire dispassionately ; that in this regard the standard has bet:, gnnvtly improved within the last th:ve years. j The public mind is shocked more than formerly by the reports of defalca tions and embezzlements, and this fact has spread the belief that the whole service is rotten. But a review of this subject for several years past effectually disposes of such a belief and clearly snows mat aeiaicauons ami cmuczzie- ments are less frequent than they have x because or tne better enforce ment of checks and safeguard.-?. The exposures of frauds of the pi pent day are not only not the result of pi de cline of official integrity. But they are tho direct result of the fact that the government is holding its subordinates to a more rigia accountability than cwr before. I assert, and the assertion cannot be successfully controverted that the de falcations which have come to light within the past three years, are in the main tho result of a greater vigilance in guarding the public interests, sind a greater "vigor- in prosecuting public offenders. - The records of the Treasury depart ment nnd of the department of justice prove this beyond question. The num ber of suits begun the number of in dictments rendered, the number of convictions .obtained which are aHmat- rs of records conclusively establish this fact. j It has been a rule in every depart ment whenever a fraud or embezzle ment occurred, to prove it to the bot tom and this too, as a matter of con scientious duty, ""without ostentation and therefore without the knowledge of the press or the public. It is a fact for which no Executive officer claims, and none" should expect credit, that when any irregularity is discovered, instead of turning away from it, there is a resolute and unspair ing investigation of it. In a word, it is a ruio ui uciiou yvuii iiiis iiuuu lus tration to expose fraud. It was the rule of action with the last to conceal it. And if there be any place ivhere evils exist, that have not beenj dealt with, (and that there are many no body will deny) it is only because, as I have already said, it has not been within the bounds of possibility for the uovernment, fettered as it has been by the customs and practices pertaining to the civil-service through nearly a century, to achieve its purification within so brief a period. i My purpose is to show to all unj biased minds, that will pay attention that the facts, not mere statements; show that the civil service hasj been growing better, that crime and corrup tion in public officials of the nation have been lessoned, and not increased.1 That offenders have been more surely and swiftly punished,, that the stand ard of official integrity has been raised j and that the administration i3 entitled to receive credit, for earnest effort, and successful achievements, in this direc tion, instead of being maliciously as sailed. , Let mo now produce some facts in support of these declarations. I have in my hand the record of everV defal cation anu embezzlement known to any department of this government, which has been caused through a lack of official Integrity on tho part of its subordinates, and which have been dis closed since the 4th of March, 1SG9, the day on which Gen. Grant was (inaug urated. v v. J ; " xIn these matters I deal .."with tho shortcomings of those for whose official integrity the President, as the appoint ing power is uiorally responsible. For this is .th 9 point upon which the ad ministration ha3 been assailed. I .1UL- iuiiuHjui; is n jisc ui nil uiu losses pmbozzlcment known to the rvcords : . t - - Internai'ltevenue 203,185 50 Custom (including defalcation of deputies.) - 34,000 00 Treasurer's Office, . 55,037 00 Pension -Bureau, i,ouu.yu Land Office. 15,597 95 Money "Order (Post office De- partment,) 133,94220 Disbursing Account (Post-office Department,) : 30,000 00 Pay-master General's Office (War Department,) . 463,200 48 Freedmen's Bureau OVar De-. e partment.) 5,500 00 Totai,; 11,097,963 64 This includes every casein which the law officers of the Government have declared that the evidence is of such a character as to warrant a prosecution for the crime of embezzlement or de falcation, and includes all the well- Tcnowi) gases which have attracted pub lic- attention during the past tnree years, jf r , AN INTERESTING COMPARISON ' Now as compared with this, the Government lost, in two single defalca tions, in New Orleans, under Johnson's administration, an amount nearly equal to the above, to-wit : The Suti-treasurv, Treasury, and National Depositary defalcation of Whitaker and May, in 1867, less amount supposed to be re rovrl. cross amount. Sl.150.- 000.) I ' . $850,000 00 Stcddinin Internal Revenue de falcation, First Louisiana Dis trict, discovered on his removal. April 12, 18G9, 212,336 93 Total, $1,002,336 93 This comparison niightbejextended mmmsip shows that the Government has lost Jess taking the nrouabihties of recovery into con sideration in all its Departments in nearly three years, than it lost in two single instances under Andrew John son. ? . ; TIIE TREASURY DEPARTMENT INTER- ii - NAIt REVENUE. - Let Us now go into the Treasury De- partment, where, if common rumor and the statements of some of its as sailants are to be believed, at least one dollar in every four is being squander ed or stolen. We will take the work ings of i the Internal Revenue Bureau in that respect which relates most close ly to the point under consideration tne accountability to which its officials are held. On tho 1st of March, 18G9, of the entire number of Collectors of In ternal Be venue, who had, at any time, been in! office durinsr the existence of the Bureau, there were but sixty whose accounts were finally closed. This sin gle fact fitly illustrates the condition of the bun au at that time, and if any of the critics want to know why no pro crress could be made in thfX direction between the yea re 18G5 and 1SG9. let them summon Ex-Commissioner Ed ward A. Rolins, who will a tale unfold. Since the 1st of March; 1869, the ac counts of four hundred Collectors have been closed, and out of 250 Collectors who have been superseded in office since March 4, 18G9, the accounts of 145 have-been adjusted and closed on the books of the office, and those of sixty- live more are in a favorable condition for that result. In forty cases of Col lectors'; suspended since March 4, 1869, the Bureau has ordered suit to be brought on their official bonds for the recovery oi Balances lounu to oe tiue. These suits include not only tne cases whercfcmbezzlcinent or deialcation is charged, in which criminal prosecution has begun, but the cases where from neglect, Want of due diligence, official incapacity, or other cause, a settlement has not yet been obtained. In most of these cases the crime of defalcation can? not be charged, though so long as the Treasury' books show an unsettled bal ance against them, they are technically held to be such. The following com parison shows to whom belongs the moral responsibility of appointing these delinquents, and the amount of both money ahil taxes for which suit has been' brought on their bonds. It must be bornej in mind that the investiga tion of jhejr affairs, and their removal from office, has in every case been ac complish! by Grant's Administration: t tr ' . Amount of 1 ': Uncollected and Ji .To. of 1 Cbllectors.: Appointedt "by Liu coln.f 7 Appointed bv John son, ; 23 Appointed by (Jen. . , Grant, 10 Am't of Money. Unabated Taxes. $03,810 91 203,223 99 797,06355 2,90S,3G1 02 175,995 65 342,613 40 The 1 lesson enforced ty these forty cases in litigation, thus condensed and classified, is, that three fourths of the cases, rour-mtns oi tne money, and nine-tenths of the uncollected taxes, are the inheritance of previous Adminis trations, mainly of Mr. Johnson's. i TREASURY DEPARTMENT UNITED stJLtes treasurer's OFFICE. Next we will take the office of. the United States Treasurer not in the nature ' of a comparison with other years, for it has been under one head for eleven years past but in the nature of a contract of its almost, incompre hensible amount or business, with tne percentage of losses from the crimes of embezzlement, or deialcation on the part of tho Treasurer's employes. I do this because Gen. Spinner is a tried and -faithful officer, a steadfast Repub lican, ana because his administration shows Results in this respect believed to be without a parallel in the history of financial transactions. The follow ing tablQ, shows the aggregate yearly cash transactions of his office for a pe riod of,eteven years, six months and nine days from the 30th of June, 1860, to the 9th day of January, 1872. This i3 simply the amount of cash and draf te'ort in other words, actual money exposed to the cupidity and dishon esty of several hundred employes and in no wise includes the large amount of bonds aniLsecurities deposited in the Treasury as trust funds. .Theseamounts are the, .' clearings " of the Treasury office lor the periods designated : 1SG1, $231,458,546 07 1802, 2,294,674,642 09 1S63, 4,945,434,239 56 1864, "7,332,385,024 16 1865. 9.117.855,012 58 1SG7, $o,930,4G7,94 1 DO 18G3, 5,522,301460 05 1869, 1870, 1871, 1S72 3,034,012,044 lo 4,199,844,091 65 4,343,630,809 82 1,748,898,820 09 1S60, 6,403,203,990 72 Aggregate, 55,104,232,282 84 defalcation and- Total net'loss by embezxlemen t in Treasnrer's Office to Jan. 9, 187; t55,037 45 , Six-nionths and nine days. ' fThe three Clerks - who embezzled this amount, Edwins, Marden and Johnson, were appointed under former administra tions, and continued thereafter. . Hero are transactions involving an amount of money almost beyond human comprehension, fifty-five thousand mtt- lions, covering over eleven years or time, and passing through tne nanas of three or four thousand different peo nle durincr that period, with losses sus tained through a lack of official integ- j ILiy Jll 111XS Jal 1 a m. viw km . vjl o ax- nointees of 'less than one dollar on a "almost defy calculation, and infinitely j less tHaA the loss from the abrasion of the gold coin paid Into and out of the Treasury during the same time. It is nrmly believed that no parallel for such success can be found in nistory. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT RECAPITU - - ; . . LATION. . I Thus,1 in three years, the defalcations exDOsed and orosecuted by thePost -office Department reach the sum of $192,638 6tf, of whicn at least sixty per cent, has been ort will be recovered. The responsibility of less than $40,000 of this is leeritimately chargeable to the want of official integrity on the part of the appointees of the present adminis tration. The receipts and expendi tures of the Department for three fiscal years last past are as follows:; Aerffrejrate receipts for three - " years, $58,153,776 79 Aggregate expenditures for, three years, . .72,0S7,073 21 Money -order Office transac- tions for three years, 99,811,783 96 Total; $230,052,633 96 jnow, conceao tnat every cent in vol ved in th e s ui ts against postmasters and in the de falcations of money-order accounts is in jeopardy, and the account is .);-, . 284,377 21 or about one-ninth of one per cent, cn the Adoicar: ,Ana this - money . tempts the cupidity and want of official integrity of over 30,000 persons. Is there a better record in any ) civil service iu the world? A CONTRAST OF LOSSES AliD TEMPTA- - TIONS. I no nrxxr jitunijmnt i. - la iwni e&S Of ine Uovernment, lor three nscai years: with the losses sustained through the want of official integrity on the part of its subordinates. The net revenue re ceipts and the expenditures- for that time areas follows: Accresate receipts for three years, 1,165,523,169 73 Aggregate expenditures for three years, 924,697,026 80 Aggregate, - 2,090,220,196 53 Isow the actual net a"ertain ed losses caused by the dis honesty of Goven. in ent of ficials during yame time, including war and navy defalcations, amount to which is barely equal to ' 1,262,963 64 one-sixteenth of one per cent, on the dollar. And if we add to this amount of loss by defal cation every cent in jeopardy, for which the Government has brought suit r most of .which will be recovered the total would be $2,301,621 82, or about one-ninth of one per cent, on the dollar. Is there any private business in the world that can compare with this ? jnow, my inenas, it these compari sons were pushed into all the other branches of the service, namely : the War and Navy to Interior Depart ments, tho ratio of official integrity in this administration will hold good and even increase in some respects; espe cially those concerning the prosecution of public officials, and be more striking to every candid and honest mind. I could take every prominent case that has come to the notice Qf the govern ment for the past three years, and show that four-fifths of them were the appointees of t Andrew Johnson, the great Democratic Apostle. THE CIViri-SERVICE. I deem it sufficient, However, to have shown by actual statistics, not from mere assertion, that the standard of the men in civil seryice is being improved. When men denounce tho civil service as the worst-"the world ever saw, it only shows that' they have read The Sentinel don't know what they, are talking about: that they are chatter ing slander, and misrepresentations, without investigation or any resrard for truth. That it still; needs improvement, I am willing to admit, uut who is so anxious tor its improvement as Jresi dent Grant. He is doing all he can to make it as near neriect as noor. frail human nature will permit. It must be remembered that here in the Southern States it is sometimes hard to find in localities competent persons to fill po sitions, because of the general feelinsr against the government and its em ployees. But I hope the passions and prejudices of the past are passing away ljet an wno love law ana oraer, and are in favor of an honest enforcement, come under tne great itepublican ban- ner ana marcn witn us to victory in August and November next. REPUBLICAN BOL.TERS. But thev sav all this won't save us: there will be a spilt in the party and the Democrats will win. The great hope and only hope or the Democratic party to carry the next Presidential election, is, that the Republican party will split at the 1'hiladelphia Conven tion, and that a bolt will bo made, headed by the three distinguished Sen ators, Messrs. Sumner, Schurz and Trumbull, now acting with our party, and who are daily endeavoring to show some mal-administration of President Grant, and to render him unpopular with the American people. They are all masters of speech, and for replete- f 1 -1 1 iiess oi. logic ana eloquence oi tongue, especially in denunciation of the Pres ident, are 'scarcely excelled by any in this country. Claiming to be Republicans, holding high offices by the suffrages of Repub lican fatates, and owing to that party manifold and distinguished , honors, they intimate that if General Grant is nominated they will not support him. There is a law of honor iu .politics as jn everything else, and by this law they are open to the suspicion of being dishonest men. They say, virtually, to the Republican party : "We remain with you to destroy you: we sit in your caucusses that we may moreeffi ciently aid your enemies the Democ racy : we make Republican speeches as Democratic campaign documents, be cause in that way tuey are more em c,ient. . Were we to go over to the De mocracy, boots and breeches, and wear their uniform, we would become as powerless as Frank Blair or Doolittle, or poor" old Andrew Johnson, out in the political desolation of Tennessee. Hence, my Itepublican friends, they are wolves in sheeps clothing, pretend ing to be for us, when really they are against us. Bearing in their hearts an intense personal hatred to Gen.' Grant, desiring by any and all means to defeat his renomination, they are waring against ,his . administration, , with all it ' l.l t X - .1 I XI . ineir powers oi jmciieci uuu inuuencA? of position. . ' ' . . . ' It is simply surprising to me that they should Willi nglytxxjupy a position that no honorable member or a party can noia. They-have committed a rave offence, in a political point of view, tat 'we must remember that the con sciences of politicians are easy and yielding, influences, and that the-Kac- cepted ethics of party organizations are not always marked by an exalted sense of propriety. . - " i ' ,'' A COMPARISON. ; - It will be remembered by the people that neitlier Messrs. Sumner, Schurz or Trumbull ivero made a part of the President's cabinet: and here, fellow- citizens, is where the shoe pinches. Here is found the mainspring of their disaffection towards his administration. These distinguished gentlemen would do well to remember the sad fate of one in years gone by I refer to Aaron Burr, whose name is the most infa mous in American politics. He at one time stood fair and prominent. His services in the Revolution, his skill in politics, his extraordinary genius and acquirements, his confessed superiority as a statesman and a jurist, did not save him from a fate so terrible, that it is mournful even in its just severity. Aaron Burr was certainly the intellec tual peer of any of this great trio, and at one time stood as high in the estima tion of the American people. He criticised Gen. Washington du ring his administration as these gentle men criticise Gent GranWas a dull, stuDid soldier and the centre of a mil- tarv rinar as errasDiner and dishonest as any that have surrounded this admin istration. ' -- " -' The unpardonable offence of Burr was mat ne eniereu into mingue whh the French Government to menace the National diemity. Is there not reason to believe that these gentlemen have committed the same great error. In their moments of frenzied passion against Gen. Grant, they admit taking counsel of the Marquis .DetJhambrun, an attache of the French Legation. Why did they seek his counsel? It was to nrove that our Government had violated its. neutral obligations by sell- ing arms to F rance and to embroil us .in a.dinlnmatmdiSMiifcjr mifl-fthat threat over, and to nremdice our own case with the tribunal , at Geneva -by showing that we sinned as gravely against uermany as .England sinned against this Government in the late in surrection. Mr. Schurz, in his celebrated speech in the United States Senate, admitted counseling with this Frach diarnitary. It is in violation of every principle of tiouor as a unitea estates senator, ana it is in violation of an express statute passed as lar bacK as the oth Congress, during the "presidency of the elder Adams, and made punishable by both fine and imprisonment. ' - - . I should regret to know that they had violated; it. I should be grieved to know that either of them had allowed tneir hatred to the President to carry them so far, but the fact that a suspicion has been aroused against them shows to what desperate straits impatient and angry demagogues may be driven by disappointed ambition. it is plain to the minds oi all men that this last intrigue against the Pres ident is a most unworthy proceeding, Is there no real ground of opposition to General Grant that Senators must dis honor themselves as members of a par ty and run' the risk of indictment for violation of law in order to arraign him and his administration? Have these gentlemen lost all sense of that delicate and chivalrous loyalty to the Republic - . . . . . . . y ... - 1 and its chief, that should lead us, no matter how frail and weak the admin istration may have been (when dealing with a foreign power) to imitate the patriarchial example and work back ward to hide the shame? ' j What interest have they to show that our Government had violated its neu tral policy with Germany by selling arms to France? It is that they love Germany more than America.' JNo, my mends, the answer comes in the bosom of all before me. It was because they desired to complicate the diplomatic re lations of this country with Germany and render the administration of Gen Grant odious to the nation and prevent his re-nomination, because while he rules they know and feel that they can not reign. That's the answer to the whole ot this matter. 1 1 am the last man to curb ln xiny one independence of thought, and all honor, I say, to those manly Senators who camly tread the path of duty and ex pose fraud and corruption -whatever winds of destruction sweep oVer it. I But it is not independence or honesty to make a cowardly attack upon the President as the head of a military ring because he gave offense by failing to appreciate the valuable party ser vices of Messrs. Sumner and Trumbull and this irritable and exacting younsr refugee from Germany,-Carl Schurz. DEMOCRATIC COMFORT. In all this and such as this the De mocratic party taice nope. II it gives them comfort, mv Kenuhliran friends. fet them have it. Our party is greater T than any combination of disappointed office-seekers, and will stand the attacks Or desertions from its ranks of ten times the number of bolters, aided and joined by all the. democrats in the country. These bolters will soon have to show their hands, and driven as they will be over to the .Democratic party, they will cease to harm us, for then the modest garb of the sheep will be taken away and the wolfish garb of Democracy will entice but few followers from the great Republican party of the nation, des tined, under God's providence, to rule and govern this American Union for years to come. I think it is a cause of great congrat- uiaiiou 10 us 10 Know, mat our politi A 1 At V 1 A cal antagonists find no hope in their own strength, but trust only in our own dissentions for their success. Scarcely a leading organ of the Democratic par ty but is daily cheering on its follow ers with this, chance of success : that Trumbull, Schurz and Sumner are go- t A 1 11 A XT. i.! 1 T t - 5 . I ins to Doit the -National Republican . Convention in j une at f niiaaeipnia. and set up' a candidate of their oim. and that the Democracy of the whole country will support the bel tins: Re publicans; and gain a victory by elect ing a bolting Itepublican oyer tne reg ular nominee of our party. What a sad specUclOi to see this par- iv iJieieiiuiug lu ije -wiuiueu uv piiu- i .vviui lis uuvvychijij ltiv-uity, nra UU . ; i a. 'tis c. u. i ti.A-r vnAni i. : ' cipie, yet willing to-take Sumner the great abolitionist, and: Trumbull the srreat free eoiler, or Carl Schurz the Germanxrefhgee for a leader, when they know that all of them hold prin cipie entirely at variance with every tnncinle of-JJemncracv. '- : . . The grand old party of Vass. Polk, Douglas and Breckenridge, without a man of national reputation as a states man, and in the : pitable attitude of begging their enemies to lend them a leader. " : : ' ; . Constantly crying,out, we must have a bolter ifrom the Republican party as a Presidential candidate; Admitting, that ' no' man 1. who wears the garb of true- Democracy, can gain - the confi dence of theAraeriran people. : - DEMOCRATIC DEGRADATION. " H6w has Democracy fallen ! When Thomas Jefferson gave his " great tal ents to the Democracy, in erecting a sys tem of political policy upon which the party was to rest ; in after years, when Madison, Monroe, and Jackson, were exemplars of these principles, then that party held high rank for its mainten ance ot human liberty, and devotion to fixed principles." But J fear my friend3 that with the death of old Hickory Jackson, the purity and integrity of his party departed New dogmas have tasen tne place oi time nonorea prin ciples, the love and thirst for office : , 11 f J 1! .3 overnaes ail oiner consiuuruiiuus, tuiu the only question with that party to day is, not whether this or that prin- cipie in political economy - la ngui, uut how shall we manage to get the con trol of the Government, its patronage and the loaves and fishes. " - Why my friends since the rise of the Republican party there have been sev eral periods .when croakers within its own -ranks have foretold -peril ; and when its enemies grew; confident that its overthrow was; approaching. In 1862, when disaster seemed to culmin ate against the national armies; in 1864, when peace at any price was the cry ; in 1866, when the treachery of an accidental President threw the national administration against it ; in 1870, when chronic office seekers raised their loud est howl, and uttered their strongest maledictions, we were assured of its certain defeat and destruction, and we were defeated here in North Carolina by the scourging and whipping of many of our friends, and the hanging of some. . But, fellow-citizens, the second, sober thought of the American people may be relied on, when reflection takes the place of impulse. At each of these periods the unening sagacity of the Republican leaders, and the unswerving loyalty of the Repub lican masses, brought ultimate victory to our standard and signal defeat to our enemies. ; . v Again, we have . reached . a period when doubtful friends, and hopeful eneirdeaareeaerly-,scnningJJIiaii ture. , --Ambitiousriilen, who d0 "not think themselves fully, appreciated; disap pointed men, who are willing to serve their country for a consideration : but whose merits are overlooked; restless men who deem change a necessity, and who eagerly fasten on to new opinions and new leaders, are uneasy and fe verish. t , - They deal in oracular sayings, and evil prophecies; hint at wonderful combinations against .the party, and say it must be beaten next time. But, my friends, the great mass Of the Republican jarty take but little in terest in small intrigues, and desperate ventures, and remain sternly .true to principle and to duty. They are con vinced that this great organization rep resents the loyalty, the intelligence, and the sound morality of the people. They clearly understand that its con : tinued supremacy is a necessity, and that patriotism and duty, alike forbid any yielding of the vantage ground ii has obtained. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. It is not too much to say, that the administration of Gen. Grant com mands to-day the confidence of the American people. Its foreign policy has been conciliatory and firm, and its management of our varied internal af- fair been by sftnct fidelltJ' I o n 1 iho cm i n H ncr him rrm on r and the soundest judgment. In all the departments of the govern ment economy has taken the place of wastefulness, honesty of fraud, and sound principles of paltry expedients. The public debt has been so sustained that our bonds are firmly established in the monied markets of the world. Its indian policy attracts the approv ing commendation of - all who value and appreciate the principles of National justice. Its steady and un wavoring adherence to the duty .of protecting and g'uardjng from injury and fram wrong, this poor and helpless race we have enfranchised) gives to the administration that : strength and true dignity which naturally springs from power, controlled by the claims of jus tice and humanity. . This, is the judgment of a vast major ity of the American people. Just criti cism from our political enemies is at all times proper. But let those who clamor for reform, come with clean hands to the work before them. We do not point to this or any other administration as faultless. To say that there are needed reforms is simply to announce a proposition "that will be true of all governments and all admin istrations for all times to come. Till" poor frail human nature is changed some unprincipled men will always prove false to some responsible trust; all that can be done to bring such to swift and certain punishment is the object of the present administra tion. Faithful - to its trusts, imbued with a spirit of patriotism and govern ed by ndeiity and honesty, it com mends itself -to all throughout tho length and breadth of the whole county who are not partizans by nature. And, I repeat that neither the efforts of vain and ambitious Senators, nor he ap peals of vindictive editors, nor the vi rulence of disappointed placemen, can Shake the confidence of the people in that heroic leader. Gen. Grant, who stands in his fitting place at the head Of the Republic. , - .bet not those who desire the destruc tion of this great ' party imagine that J.1 1 mi" i - J? .XI luu nour is near ine graves oi lorguneii prophets have oeen passed by it from its first victorious march to the present hour. .4 . . As it has in the past swept from place and powerthose who were faithless to its claimsso it will in the future crush with pitiless strength, all yho make personal aims and personal enmities. superior to the great duties which de volve upon every memoer oi the lie- publican party Tt - 1 i I 1 Let us then look to'the continual as cendency of the Republican party, in the Stats and Nation. We mustkeep our eye steady n tnese great princi ples ot loyalty and freedom which were originally, and are now, the basis of the Repubucan organization. . . : AVith Gen., lirant as our chieftain. our brave and intrepid leader, satisfied sspunv" icwxw, uu nia great aDiiity, the nation will turn to hni now as it has In critical periods before, with th ceruuuty uiui uueriy ana numan rights re inscribed on hLs shield - and t.hnt. victory lies in the prestige of his name. Judge Merrimon and his" friends, in 1868, stumped the State against our pres ent Constitution Gov. Caldwell stump- ea tne btate ' lor tne Uonstitntion . if Judge Merrimon had succeeded in de feating the; adoption of the Constitu tion,; where would ; your homesteads be? Who proved himself your friend poor , men or isortn . uaroiina, ; Gov. caidweu or juage .aternmon 'i au xouo, u uuge iJiernmon antrJiis rir - - T n m r frieids attenipted to defeat oar Stale Constitution by asset ting that the white and colored men would be forced to muster in theWme militia companies. Gov. Caldweu and his friends denied this. The Cdjistitution was adopted Have whitef and colored men been forced to muster z together ? - Who told you the truth and who did not ? - f T CAMFAIO-N ETtA. Low Eates for Weekly and Tri7cekly . Editions. " j ; k The Presidential campaign wil 0111 in., . earnest in a few weeks. It will be tin most exciting in its chant ' tin it Will 1k tho most important tin its results, that 1rh x-' curred 'since 1840. The DemW-ratic parly has temporarily struck it colors, and seckx, under fafse pretensea and a loader false to his life's teachings and precepts, to get con trol of the government' for tho- purpose, of undoing the wo rk of the war, and re-inau- gurating1 sectional strife. It 1iomm to find in Mr. Greeley a second. Buchanan. . The Republican party--is arrayed against tho unholy alliance of tho Cincinnati Conven tion. It will nominate a candidate at Phil adelphia Gen. Grant, as we hope -wIioms election' will deeply concern every man in terested in the financial, commercial or po litical welfaro of the Union, and whose tri umph will secure for us peace at home and respect abroad. . ' ; ! ' The Press is recognized as a " lower of strength" in politics. The newspaper i$ tho cheap and faithful missionary of tho Re public. ' We. intend that Xmk Carolina Era shall bring "to the support of the lt - publican' party-in Uo ontsi-.fnllmeasTirp- ur eaiiiestness and zeal, and we appeal to the friends of the cause for that assistance in the distribution and circulation of our paper, without which tho bst work of tho journalist cannot be made oflective. . I We will forward The Tri-Wkkkly ICra from June 1, to November 1, for $l.0T, twenty cents per month, or three dollars per year. . , ; . We will forward The Wkkkly Kra Trum ' June 1, to November 1, for forty cents, cl one dollar per year. , ' v ; j Thesa rates places Thr Era within the reach of every voter in tho State.) We hope our friends will aid us in gelling up a lirge list at these rates. : j Send in your orders.- j Remittances may be made cither by draft, express, Post-office order or registered let- I k ter at our risk. Address I - The Era, Raleigh, N. V. Official Organ of the United States. Office, In the "Standard" building,! East aid el Fayetteville Street. THURSDAY, MAY 30th, 1872. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. ' i I i ELECTORS AT LARGE : j THOMAS SETTLE, of Rockingham. MARCUS ERWIN,. of Bunc6m!e. For Governor j j "J TOD R. . CALDWELL, : . - Of Burke. j For JAeutenant Governor : CURTIS H. BROGDEN, Of Wayne. , For Treasurer: J DAVID A. JENKIJS'S, ' Of Gaston, - j For Attorney General. TAZEWELL L. HARGUOVK, Of Granville. ! j For Secretary of State : j WILLIAM II. IIOWEIITON, Of Rowan, . For Auditor: joiin reilly; Of Cumberland. : For Superintendent of rub. instruction. JAMES REID, 1. Of Franklin. For Superintendent of Public Works: SILAS HURNS, . , Of Chatham. . . Foil Congress 2d District: CHARLES R. THOMAS, of Crnvcii.. For Elector: W. P. LOFTIN, of -Lenoir. 1 For Congress 3rd District: NEIL McKAY, of Harnett. For Elector: ' W. A. GUTHRIE, of Cumberland. . For Congress-4th District : WILLIAM A. SMITH, of Johnston. For Elector: THOMAS M. ARGO, of Orange. For Congress 5th Distrkt: THOMAS SETTLE, of Rockingham. . ' For Elector: S.SA. DOUGLAS, of Rockingham. . For Congress 8tii District: W. G.; CANDLER, of Buncombe. For Elector: JAMES M. JUSTICE, of Rutherford. The Era, until further notice, will be under my control. J. C. Logan Hakkis. " Increase the circulation of The Era. and you deal Democracy a terrible' blow. Democrats can't stand the truth. On Saturday last the Republ.cans ot Chatham county held their nominating Convention at Pittsboro' and noni inn ted Mr. James H. Headen for the Senate, and Messrs. B. I. Howze and Jonn McDonald for the House of RepreseiK tatives. Our correspondent did not furnish us the names of the other nomA inees. This is a strong ticket. The Republicans aro nominating their best and strongest men. The Uiainara nominations will command the united A. support of the : party in that couniy. Our friends expect to carry the bounty by five hundred majority. Who crave the poor man of North Carolina the benefit of the Homestead ? Gov: Caldwell and his. friends. ,
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