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TUE SENTINEL. KATE OF ADVERTISING. TFKWS OF SlBSl:UIITIO. Jo Ih elreulatfoa of ta SaanatL makes lions of the moat ideairable mediums of advertising ia tha But."" Tli WrusiT HaKTiss is putiiiilied every Monday jnoruing. , : .. " - .' ' ' HaiWsi. on iSatur'dsyi and Wednesdays: 1 Termt : Weekly, one yr, in advance, : $1 00 Semi-weekly, on year, in advance, 6 0S tieiui weekly, six months in advance, J 60 Daly, one year, 1 00 HaiJy, fix mould., . f i 00 la ly. throe myatlie' ' V V .H 00 llaily oueraontli, 100 Advertisements, occupying tb spae f It line f minloa type or less, which w sail a iqaara, w charj as follows for Insertion ia the weakly : weekly: !J- For on Insertloa, ' ' - - ' For two iaaortiona, . For on month, Fortwo months, ' .., Fur six months, - For on yaar. $1 09 I to .. I0 f toe lit ae no . 4 "I WOULD BATHER BK KICIIT THAN BB aE81DBNT..Heary Clay. VOL. 1. RALEIGH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2471800. NO. 36. JOB WORK laoutod wit aaatntii at tb Sssti. Hsit'Orrici. THE SENTINEL, WM. E. rELL, State Printer. THE RADICAL PROGRAMME. Speech of Thaddeui Stevens, Delivered at Bedford, Pa., Sept 4, 1866. R..Vi.iti-d for tlie S . Y. Tribune After alluding briefly to the distracted con dition of trie, "country "at W"terttittiatio-fr"t)f hostilities, and recapitulating gome of the dif ficulties which surrounded Congress in its leg islation at tlie last session, principal among which were "the unexpected apostacy",of the President ami the 'imbecility, impudence aud vacillations shown by Cabinet ministers," Mr. Stevciis said; "When the war ended, the work of recon struction would have been easy had ail the De partments of Government confined themselves to Jheir legitimate "spheres. The rebels, were submissive, and asked only to be allowed their Torfcjted lives,.. (JIaving lost alt by trcason,antJ the fortunes of. war; having, destrojied' their State Governments under the Constitution, and voluntarily severed their connection with the United States, and thereby lost all claims to protection under the ,CJsiE.t 1 1 u t i on ; having de clared -themselves alien euemies, and in that character having waged a war of savage feroci- ty.agmasttueljithvrng8lauglvtere(1 nearly Ull a minion in mil cniAeiia, iuiu miuctuti a cost of more than live billions of dollars; tlicy tlicy were willing to surrender the government of their conquered territories to their conquerors to be governed by such luws as they chose to impose; to surrender their estates to reimburse the expenses and damaged of the war; to suffer such turtller fines and imprisonments as their greAyymcs deserved. The harmonious action of the Government would have secured all these,- so far as policy and justice required, and by this time the several-States would have been in the Union, with Constitutions perfectly free. A portion of the property of the great criminals would have been applied to pay our national debt, to pension our soldiers and pay the dam ages snllered by loyal men." Some of them would no doubt have lieen in the penitentiary for a term of years. A few, and but a lew, would have suffered the extreme penalty of the law, lor our law is a mild one and mildly ..ad ministered. The blood of half a million of our citizen's would hardly have been avenged, but peace and returning good will would be now spread ever the whole land. But the ambition and folly of a 'few weak and dishonest men have reversed this whole picture. All the powers of. our Government are lodged in three department, whoso duties are wholly distinct from each other ;' neither can encroach upon the other without disturbing the harmony ot their workings and endangering the liberty of the country. The Constitution says : "Aj,i legislative powers herein granted shall- be ves ted in a Congress of the United Suites, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Repre sentatives." The President is tbc executive, but has no legislative or judieial powers. The judiciary must adjudge all controverted legal questions which nriaer'that i their whole duty. By the Constitution the power to create and admit new States and to ' guarantee republican forms --of- government lielongsioCongrees alone. Neither the President nor the gupremo Court can do either, or any part thereof. So are the decisions. No well. informed man doubts it; no honest man defies it. . ' Hence it ' follows that to Congrosslflone be longs, not only the right, but the aluty to re build the States ; to give them Republican gov ernments, and to admit them into, the Union, It tlicy SllOUkI lie juugcu Uk, iu resume iue pnvi ileges which they renounced and sought to des troy.. The Presidont as Commander in-Chief of the army, bad a right,' after thVconquest; to appoint military Governors and hold them in military subjection until the law-making power had an opportunity to act. Instead of calling Cono-rcss toscther or awaiting their regular ses sion, he usurped all the duties of tlie law-making power and proceeded to give constitutional and I civil governments iodine cuwiusreu dibits, ui recting in the most arbitrary manner the terms of their organic lws, and controlling the ac tions of their bogus conventions. Notwith standing the change in the number of tree citi zens, produccd.by the. war and the-acta of Con gress, ho confined the right of citizenship tathe" Rebels, excluding all the new made loyal citi zens. He distinctly informed the Rebels that they had lost all the rights of citizens of the United States; but when they had adopted in convention his governments, he declared thera admitted into the Union,, anil directed Congress to admit their represent art ves, expressly declar ing that Congress bad nothing to do, but that each House separately was simply to judged the regularity of the elections-ami qualifications of the members who presentifetliemselves He said that he hd admitted tfte States. He had declared their relations to the Union lestored. He had guaranteed republican forroeof govern-- menttotbeousorganizeu bums, viiueirsuHus, of their right to representation, Congress had nothing to say. When it is remembered that all these. acts are merely legislative ; that the constitution places all legislation in Congress ; that the President forms no part of the ftgisla-, tive power, it must be admitted that these acts were the most high handed usurpations that lawless ambition could exercise. If submitted . to by Congress this government would no longer do a republic subject to the will of the people, but a despotism in which one tyrant would rule over a nation of slaves. A Congress elected by the people to resist ariied traitors were not dis posed to cower before the usurped sceptre of a ' single apostatii I say a tinylt apostate ; for the scurvy, mercenary, apostate. Republicans who have since joined him are so few and despicable' that they need not be included in any enumera tion of political forces. Congress met and calmly proceeded to recon s'riict the Government. It proposed amend ments to the Constitution, not only abolishing slavery", but placing ail men on a perfect equal ity before the law. Every human being is de clared to have equal civil rights, and Congress is invested with power to enforce . a remedy. This does not touch social or political rights, They are left to the mature action ot the people of this States, and ultimately of Congress j the, proposed amendment now pending, changes the basis of representation in Congress, so that the Vote of a white man in the North will be equal to a rote of a white man in'lbe South now a white man's vote in the Rebel States counts nearly as much as two white men's Votes in the free States. This amendment meets with the violent opposition of the President. Congress passed a Civil Rights bill to guard the rights of all the President vetoed it; Con gress passed the Freedmen's Bureau bill the President vetoed it. .U preferred .to. let the. freedmen ami refugees starve, and remain ex posed to mobbing and murder. Congress passed a law to admit Colorado he .vetoed it because it would give t wo more Senators opposed to his "policy," Congress passed an act to admit Tennessee he disapproved ot it and sent a message with his objection's,. but kept the bill and signid it (an unconstitutional act) because it admitted his son-in-law aB Senator. Congress passed a law lilieraUy increasing the pensions of the wounded soldiers ; the increase was not all I desired. 1 tried to make the last pension $ 1.2 instead of $8 per month. The committee thought they had done all they could afford; but I doubt not it will prevail at the next session, No disabled mnii-ean support his family on f 8 a month. .(.Congress passed a law to equalize bounties. "Not such a law as I ap proved of, because it was partial'. But it was a beginning and so far good. It would have .been better I rod it -not been for the administra tion'. Early in the session a bill Was reported giving equality in bounties..' The Secretary of the Treasury wrote a letter to the Senatcsay- InTTE WimranEaTTf ITonl ino .Treasury $ 3007- 000.00 000,000 or $300,000,000. The Provost-Mur- shal-Qencral Fry Wrote a still more frightful letter-saying that it would cost $080,000,000 The Commissioner of Internal Revenue declared it would destroy the public credit. Hence Congress was deterred from making what I considered" a just arrangement of the bounty question ; still some justice waa-done, and com pletc justice will be done to our gallant sol diers when this-Administration shall be remov ed, which now sits like an incubus on the breast of the. nation. As a further enumeration of some of the nets of Congress, I would refer you to a speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax lately made to bis constituents. No sounder patriot than Mr. Colfax exists. And I will take this occasion to say that as speaker 1 believe no abler officer ever presided over a deliberative body. In criticising Congress I will try to be impar tial. I will not ask you to bestow unmingted praise.- I feel that we omitted some important things which we ought to have done, and for which omission we deserve the censure of the people. While it was impossible, obstructed, as we were, by the President and the Copper heads, to make this a Republic of "liberty and equality," we might have approached it more nearly than-we did.-JW"e might have treated the Rebel States as -what they are, in fact, con quered provinces, and, through enabling acts, we could have fixed the qualifications of voters so "that every loyal man could participate in. the formation of their organic laws. .We should thus, with entire certainty, have secured the Government to loyal Union men, have formed in every one of those States constitutions giving equal privileges to all, and which would have curbed the rising spirit of reliellion which is now rampant in every one of those States. For I assure you, from irrefutable evidence, that traltors'arernow triumphant in every Confeder ate State. No Republican doubts the power of Congress to do what 1 have stated. No sound constitutional lawyer believes any one of the organizations now existing in those States to.be legitimate governments. Formed by the de crees of a military conqueror, without consult ing the people, they can be tolerated only as tem porary arrangements, until the law-making pow er provides them permanent laws and forms ot government. They are ' so considered by the Rebels themselves. Chiet Justice Ruflin, of North Carolina, one"of the ablest and fairest of Secessionists, has lately given the following opinion. The Chief Justice says: "I consider that this is no Constitution, because your Convention was nofc-a legitimate Convention, and dad no. power to make a Constitution for as, or to al ter that which we bad and have : and that it cannot be made a Constitution, even by popular sanction. If those positions bo correct, it ought to be rejected by the people as the easiest, simplest and most efti nw.ih.xl nf Xittinf the rxriuts at rest, and avoid ing many perplexing and dangerous questions before "the judiciary. I object to the organisation 0 your. oodv as a uonvennoii, iiecauw i,iri the'rvmsrirrt of the people of North -Carolina -by the President of the United States, or nnder his orders an act of clear and despotic usurpation, which could not give the body any authority to bind the State or its inhabitants. If it be said the President or his ss. trap bin Governor of a Provinces-did nirt call or rath er constitute the Convention, bnt the delegate were elected by the people, and thereby the .body was duly constituted, I deny it. directly and positively. Mr. Johnson required a Convention to perform certain epecnte act7 armitHfte ordinance of Heeeseion and tender a return to the Union, or clim itH, continued existent ttuder the Constitution of the United Mates : to emancipate slaves and ordain, that Maver-y sliall rewer hereafter exist in this State," and to repudiate the State war 'debt. AH these, wercalutte, the two tirst promptly and in satisfactory terms, and the third at the lMt moment, under sulijiVction alid in conformity to orders after having nce refused to adaptsthe lryss. ure. All was done, I sav, that was required, andMr. Johnson proclaimed that he had got. all he wanted; that w were back as a State and. might choose our u,,r,.antl.ivK in (Ioiictuss in conformitv to our f rights as a State, kdd to our law regulating elections." J. Waa there anything more for tfwrt ( onvention to do f Wore they chosen for anv other purpose, even by those who were allowed to vote for members? How dare tliev, then, go on to frame a Constitation, a law for all time, which is to bejbmding on those who elect ed them for the ends, and also on that large portion of the patriots and heroes "unpardoned Betels ' who wore not allowed to vote at all t The pretension is without parallel or precedent, .until the present acini of Radicalassuniption of power in a dominant militarv or numerical majority, without respect for rights r the Constitnticsi. As far as they safely can, and whenever they can, the people ought to resist that pretenswm. This they can peacefully do, when called on and allowed to vote ; and I trust they will do ko on this oocasi'Si without commotion, m supiort of tlie great principle of bnman lilierty-that a people have the right to make their own Constitution, and not be made subject to one imposed on them, by force or frand, by an extraneous power, or bf" a'traetiun of their fellow citizen." The Chief Justioe Is right Not a Rebel State has this day a lawful government They . are mw4y territories conquered, by our arms from the "Confederate States of America, OrVby thai did not Congress give .them either .territorial-governments or enubllDp; trovcrnmcnt or enabling acts so that they could form State governments, and come into the Union with constitutions securing equal and impartial "rights Weve'ry human being within their lim its I Early In the session I introduced a bill to give them enabling acta on the true, principles of jrepubbcaa government It met with bat little countenance. The repulilican mind had not examined, and was not ready to accept so radical a proposition. And so the session was spent in inaction. You may find my proposi tion together with the reasons for it in the last number of The Globe ; I wish it might be cop ied into younexcellent paper so that you may judge ot" it I trust you will examine it well, so that you can inform us of its propriety. I sliall renew it next session. In my opinion, Congress was derelict ... in another particular. I have always held that while but few of the lelligereDts should suffer the extreme penalty of the law, yet that n suf ficient fund should lw levied out of-- their prop ert.y to pay the expenses and damages of the war. Congress in July, 1863, declared all their property forfeited, and directed the President to seize it for the benefit of the United States ; more than ton billions of property thus became vested in : the United States. Proceedings against more than two billiwnsof property, in cluding the abandoned estates, had been insti tuted unci were in progress. The President has restored to the traitors nearly the whole otits-J Thus has ho illegally gives away half enough to pay the National debt Ho has enrichsd traitors at the expense of loyal men.. And yet Gongress, Itohlss-it was, had not tlie courage i to reverse these proceedings " and compel the Executive to do his dutyr I trust that our ontit ueit s jvjll j;i ve at the bexf scsuoh we mayeoiupcl tlie Presi dent to do his duty and execute the laws.- TlMiseaie omissions which I frankly confess and sincerely deplore. But our crowning sin was the omission to give homesteads and the right j of sulfrago in the Rebel States to the freedmen who had fought our battles. We havo left them the victims' of the Reiiels who. everyday shoot them diuj'.n in cold blood. At Memphis, 48 were murdered under the direction of the municlipal authorities, and not a. man prosecut ed. Tlehold the awful slaughter of white men and black -of a Convention 'jjf highly respecta ble men, peacubly assembled in Convention at NeW Orleans, wliich Gen. Sheridan pronounces more horrible than the massscreof Fort Pillow. Even the clergyman who opened tho proceed ings with prayer wss cruelly murdered. All this was done under the s'anction of Johnson and bis ofliee-hoMiers. It is the legitimate consequence of his "poliey." I admit Congress became demagogical in the last hot days, when all manhood was melted out of evervhody. They did some things to seduce the Fenians into our ranks. The mea sures were right, and so I voted for them. I will speak plainly on this subject. Tho most effective argument (it argument it it can be called) which will be issued by our opponents is the effort made by the Re publicans to give equal rights to every , human . being, even to the African. We shall bear re peated, b;ii thousand times, the cry, 'Negro Equality!" The Itadicals would thrust the negro into your parlors, your bedrooms, and the bosoms of your wives and daughters. They would even make your reluctant daughters marry black men. And then they will send up th&grand chorus from every foul throat, "nig ger," "nigger," "nigger!" "Down with the nigger party, we are torthe white man's .party."1 These unanswerable arguments will ring in every low bar-Tonmr and btt printed in -every blackguard sheet throughout a land whose fun damental maxim is "All mbh Ann created Eiuoi" The chief promoters of this slang consist of two or three different classes, ,The unprincipled brawling demagogue,, possessed of some cunning but no conscience. Among those who have an unequal mixture of rogue and dupe, are the low, ignorant, illiterate natives, as well as foreigners, who dwell about the pur lieus of otfr towns and cities, and live by pil fering and "odd jobs." . The Protestant will listen to a devout sermon from tlie text "Of one blood made he alt: the nations of the earth," and go forth to the next political meeting to shsut "down with the ne gro !" The Catholic will listen annually to the reading from the. altar of the Pope's Bull de nouncing slavery, and go forth to support the slavery party, and shout "Down with the ney ro." What a shame tliat the countrymen of the Declarationr-of Independence ; what a shame that the countrymen of the immortal O'Connell should ever cast a vote on the side of human bondage ! ' ' Here follows a disgusting tirade nf invective and abuse of the President. The President and bis squad (it does not de seive the name of party) contend that the war made no changes in the condition of our insti tutions, under the Constitution. That "the rights and liabilities of all our former citizens. Rebel as welt as loyal, remain nnchangeef. This exhibits a most deplorable ignorance or culpable 'treachery. -No great war between acknowl edged belligerents ever left the condition and rights of the parties after the same as before, unless it were so stipulated .by the treaty of peaesi TIm war leaves them without compacts, without rights except the rights of war. . When it is ended new treaties are to be made ; or if one party submits the conqueror prescribes the future relative condition of the parties without regard to .their relative condition before the war. ' The vanquished have no rights except what the conqueror grants. "This is much more so, when one of the belligerents was composed ot Rebels. Yon- are aware that a convention of traitors was lately held in Philadelphia. Host of them had actually borne arms against the United States, and helped murder half a mil lion of our citizens. A. few sympathizers from the North, who ought to have been South, met with them. Tbey extinguished the Democratic party and blotted its name from the vocabulary of parties. No Democratic party can hencelorth exist...-..;, . 1 , "' They laid down an elaborate party creed or platform of principles for this conglomerate in ass. Being trai tors, they of course adopted the President's views". - " Here is their fundamental article to which all the others conform. ; Mr. Raymond's address sa-yST" ' - "The Constitution of the United State is to-day precisely what it was before the war, the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any Ptale to tlie contrary notwithstanding. And to day also as before the war all powers ant conferred by the f'ooMtitntiiMi on the General Government nor pro hibited by it to the Mate are reserved to the- sevetsi- Etatei or tlie peopi tuereoi. . "The United States acquired no new power : no right either territorial or of civil authority which it did not possess before the war broke out." This strange, wild and wicked doctrine was unanimously adopted by the conclave. What I Six millions of Rebels who had renounced the Constitution, who had murdered five hundred thousand ot our citizens, who had loaded the nation with debt and drenched it with blood, when conquered, had forfeited no right; bad lost no jurisdiction or civil authority ; tod these conquerors, had acquired none, because there was a Constitution which," while they obeyed, protected them, but which they had discarded and torn to pieces by war 1 Was there ever be fore a human brain frenzied enough to engen der such folly ; or a human front brazen enough' to utter it t No principle in national law is clearer than that when belligerents inaugurate a war which is acknowledged to be a public war, all the former obligations, treaties and compaot between the parties become null aud void ; and after tho war are to be renewed or repudiated as the parties agree,tr as the conqueror decrees. If either party is utterly subdued his life, liber ty and property are at tinrdtsposal of tha.vic. tor." Why does not the Emperor of Austria say to the King of Prussia, "I lay down my arms, and, all things will remain as before the war." -The Prussian would answer, "you are as big a fool as the President of America or the traitor's league." No, Bir. The worhas changed every thing old treaties and leagues have ceased. Venetia Is no longer yours; Hanover aiui, the t-. Li . i 11 ' .1. ' "iVTg Wffljy W """II iP" ii.iiM.iinyi.inT rht.li ...Mi., na. in ha. ,1. ........... k ..-. 1. expenses ot wie wai, o,ouu,uuu.. who denies that this is the law of nations except the advo cates of treason, who deny our right to. make them pay the expenses of the wart They cry out agaiust confiscation for crime, as if it were inhuman. God willing, I sliall try. it again, and see if tlicy do not pay part of the cost and dam ages of the -war before they help to niako our laws. The constitution unchanged 1 Then slave ry exists ; then all the provisions with regard to the rendition of fugitives from labor remain . then every traitor lias a right to sit dowh"1ti' Congress, as the representative of throe -fifths of all the slaves beside the whites. We can easily forgive the amiable and facile author of the declaration as he is no lawyer; is totally igno rant of the law of nations or the laws of war ; but what shall we say ot those able jurists who sat by and acquiesced ; unless we put it upon the same ground that one of the ablest and best of them did when ho advised to take a false oath to get a vote and then to break it. But, fellow citizens, l am occupying too much ground. As I said before, the great issue to be met at this election is the question of negro rights. I shall not deny, but admit, that a fundamental principle of the Republican creed is that every being possessing an immortal soul is equal be fore the law. They inre not and cannot be equal in strength, height, beauty, .intellectual and moral culture, or social acquirements ; these are accidents which must govern their condition according to circumstances. But in this Re public, the same laws must and shall apply to every mortal, American, Irishman, African, German or Turk. - It is written by the finger of the Almiohtt law-giver, "Ye shall have one manner of laws, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country ; for I am, the Lord your God." . Mr, Beecher and the Freedmen. .., . Jn his last or second letter on reconstruction Henry Ward Beecher says : . "Either the advantages of Union are fallacious or the continuous exclusion of the South from it will breed disorder, make the future reunion more difficult, and especially subject the freed man to the very worst conditions of society which csn woll exist - No army, no Govern ment and -no earthly power can compel the South to treat four million men Justly, if thejn habitants (whether rightly or wrongly) regard these men as the cause, or even the occasion, of their unhappiness and disfranchisement . But no army, or Government or power will be re quired when Southern society is restored, occu pied snd prospering in - the renewed Union. Then the negro will be felt to be necessary to Southern industry, and interest will join with conscience and kindness in securing for him favorable treatment from his fellow-citizens. We that live at a distance may thin It -that the social reconstruction Involved in the emancipa tion of 4;000,0o0 slaves is as simple and easy as it is to discourse about it, But such a change is itself one of the most tremendous tests to which industry and society can be subjected ; and to its favorable issue is required every ad vantage possible. The longer, therefore, the South is left la turmoil, the worse it will be for the negro. If there were no other reason j if the white population were not our fellow-citizens ; it we bad lost air kindness and regard for them, and all pride for the Union as in part represented by the Southern States, and confin ed our attention exclusively to the negro, the case would be strong, ueyorjd my power t ex pression, ftr an early resumption ot Federal re- f lations with all toe States. If this is to disre gard the negro, then all social and natural laws nave been studied in vein." . The man who does hot recognize the shove utterances as the timple truth has read history, and used his eyes and his ears, and studied his own inner nature, to little purpose. It is very agreeable to the arbitrary instincts to truth through difficulties, and to carry every thing by the ttrong hand. But there are problems that defy all the energies of force to control them, and which can be successfully solved only by a wholly different .agency. To tvmmand Urn is beyond the utmost power, of the mightiest "ty rant , and without love it is idle to expect the offices of love. Beecher speaks truly when he says t "No army, no government, no earthly power, can compel the South" to treat the ne groes with favor, if the . course of the govern ment shall establish hostib'ies between the races. . .''-' - The policy of coercion on which the Radicals are bent cannot fail to -produce an me evu ,er prints out, . We may not .expect st from their course for any lissd- ill work- to- the whites. Wt sre wbicb Beecher them to desist vantage ltwill sorry to be constrained to believe, that such result-would be to them an unqualified recommen dation, and an Inducement to persevere. But Mr. Beecher tells theta, what every sensible man unswayed by passion cannot fail to perceive, that looking only to the negro, the argument against their proceeding is "strong beyond the power, of expression." -CicA. Snguirer. Public Meeting. One of the largest meetings we have ever seen assembled in this town, met at the Court House on Tuesday, at noon, and organized by .calling A. Little, Esq., to the' Chair, and appointing Col, Jos. White, Secretary. After a statement from the Chair of the ob ject of the meeting, on motion; Hon.T. S. Ashe, one ot the delegates frtfin the Third District to the recent National Union Convention held in Philadelphia, who" was present, was requested to give to the meeting an account of his trip to Philadelphia, history of the Convention, and his views on matters in general. , Mr. Ashe took the stand, and for aliout an hour fixed tho attention of tho audience with nn interesting speech. .We have not room or the opportunity to follow him in his remarks, but will give only the principal poiuts touched upon by him. - ' After adverting to his appointment by the District Convention as a delegate, he staled that he accepted, the officer ' with somei reluctance, anticipating that if he attended the Convention his intercourse with Northern citizens might be anything but pleasant But be was hajipy to say, that as soon as ho came in contact with cit izens from all parts of tho country the North j and Nortljwest especially he had been most agreeably disappointed. Not one unpleasant word or expression did he hear the whole time' . , ... , ; . '. ..... ii n ipins m iniiii I 111 r wiriwyrwTtT 1T f ,,cs, and although the Convention Hull, Inside and out, was literally crowded, he never saw a more orderly crowd in his life. Hu had met at tho Convention men from the North and North west who were more denunciatory of the Radi c.ils and their policy than the most extreme Southerner. With these preliminary remarks he took up the Declaration of Principles and reviewed them seriatim, Befoiu doing so', he stated that the resolutions had been adopted altogether by the Conventioniiy acclamation, and were not voted upon separately as,many' seemed to sup pose. During his review and clear exposition of thein the audience evinced their appreciation of thenHiy applauding. In commenting upon the expression "loyal" In the fourth resolution of the Declaration he claimed every man as loyal, notwithstanding what his antecedents may have been, who bad taken the oath of al legiance and who supported the Constitution of the 'United States in good faith. As to the ninth resolution, to which some exception has been taken in the South, he said bo could not see how, under the circumstances, the Conven tion could have done otherwise than have adopted something of the kind," It was sim ply a declaration ot the duty of the government to its soldioryvthe duty wliich every govern ment owes to its"eoldiery. After reviewing the' resolutions, he took np the proposed Howard amendment to the Federal C Constitution, and commented severely upon.it " He warned his fellow-citizens against giving it any counte nance or support, and to jealously guard against every attempt to adopt it by the Leg islature, by sending otily such men to the As sembly whose views arc well known on that subject. '"" " Mr. Asho-WasJistoned to with almost breath less attention by the large audience present, arid was often interrupted by applause. At the conclusion of his remarks,' Mr. J. R. HargjRve offered the following resolutions, wliicli, iipon huiiig'seeouded, were unanimously adopted j : , . ItetoheJ, That we approve of the 'proceed ings of the late Natfonai Union and Constitu tional Convention, at Philadelphia, because we find therein a full and clear recognition of the Constitutional rights of the Southern States ia their relations to the Federal Union. Jtemlveil, That we approve, and endorse the policy now being pursuod by Andrew Johnson, President of the United Staies, and will sustain the same. . t ' Jteiohed, That we will discountenance any schemes that rosy be designed or may tend to thwart the present plans of the Federal admin istration in its efforts to restore the Union as it was before the late attempt to secede. Before adjourning the proceedings were au thorized to be published. We have taken the official copy and eliminated as above. - . J- As a ratification meeting, we look upon this as one of the largest and most successful " that has ever been held in this county. But little time was allowed to give notice,' the thing being sprung after the Court began its morning session, and yet as soon as proclamation was made the Court House filled to overflowing. Wodetltore' Argut. . , ' . . The President's Tour Ingrate in Office, The most Interesting, as well as the most gen eral topic of conversation in official circles here is the tear of . the President The demonstra tions of applatlse - which! have greeted him in most pi ace delighrnd errcnurage-Ws friends; while his enemies ca fldently predict, from the manifestations ot hostility and disrespect shown him at a few points, a rejection of his policy by the people, and that he will bo impeached and ifnominiouslv dismissed from .office by the next Congress." It is e-iamcntable fact that among the latter class may be included the head ot at least one department, and tho head of several bureaus, three-fourths of whose clerks and em ployes would, if there wete'to be a Presidential contest to-morrow between Mr. Johnson and Thad Stevens, work and vote for the latter. In one department , the spectacle js almost daily presented alter business nours, ana sometimes during.busines hoursof bevy ot clerks wit nessing with delight one of their number repeat and burlesque the speeches delivered by him on his tour, in reply to addresses of welcome ; and these parties I know are actuated by the spirit and sentiments of their immediate, patrons, one ot whom has beheld their disgraceful conduct nn more than one occasion, and. instead of rebu king it, encouraged them with aTiearty roar ot tosJTJlf .? (nie of these ingrates probably be included among those the Prcs- idwtt haaprwrnWied w cut off. Wwht Cor. Jfr y.MeraUk At a din'm party given to the President and his associates in St. Louis, Mr. Seward .offered the following well turned toast,' "The Mayor of St. Louisa-May he everbe conservative In his administration of city allairs, and radical in i' hospitality to hU friends.'' " " . The Mains Election. - . The New York World, one of the most relia ble and sftgactous journalsjn the country, sees no cause for discouragement in the result ol the In MulTnnUnfl Tt ikui ' - - "We entertain no apprehension thatfie great ' I.Jt nf n,jl,lla fll.ts. mill tollnw lliamUlf Maine and Vermont. The chief reason why lint red to the South is so easily Btirred up in those States is found in the fact that they are so remote from the Southern people( that they re gnrd them with the same kind of irrational hos tilitv that nations used to foel towards each other' licforo the modern facilities of communication ard intercourse existed. In Maine and Vermont ' not one man in ten thousand eyer sees a Kouth crner in the whole course of hit life. Away o the Canada frontier, where what is done in tho -South hat less effect on their prosperity than on any other part of it country, it might be sup posed that the ioplo of Muine and Vermont would be more ready to concede the right of self-government to those on the Gulf and the. Rio Grande, than the people of New York or Illinois, who by their large commerce and in- " tercourse are directly affected by all that touches thoprqspcrity of the South. But distance doc not oH.-fute in that manner. It tend to con-. : vert Into natural enemies those who' know noth ' ; intr of each otiier. It is the same illiberal feel- r m; vr-wnw -martini JT WWII U unworn bllg 1 :. - m. Li: X . i.-llLl, ll. A land and France when "a narrow frith inter posed made enemies of nations;" but which has - happily given way before the benign influences of lucreused commercial and social intercourse. . The same reasons explain why New York, and esiecially that part of Its citizens who are con- ' versant with the South and have the greatest - stake in its weiiare, desire te treat that section with kindness aud magnanimity, while Mivina and Vermont are to easily excited to look as- 3 kance on the Southern people, and think they" do God service by trybig to deprive them of' self-governmeut." ." Srownlow In Boston. , lloeToM, Sept. 13. The "Southern Loyalists" from the Philadelphia Convention had a recep tion this evening. . ITorace Maynard advocated tho perpetual ex clusion from political power of all who volun- tarily participated in the rebellion. Governor Brownlow spoke ot a Convention of rebels aud copperheads that is to meet at , Nashville to overthrow the State Government lie bail notified Seward of thit Convention, bi t lie had replied in a sneering and 'oontemptiiora. letter, wuieii uic pieaaor wuuiu anorbiy ?wiimbh to the world.- However, he would call an extra aiuwion of his Legislature, aud would meet that Convention, in their efforts to overthrow his.' government, iuuy nrraou. lie nau niroiwiy ap plied to a Govornor of a Northern" State for ton , thousand arms, and backed by thirty thousand boys in blue, ho bad no fear of the result, unless the Federal Government sent down its troops, led by a copperhead Genefal, if such could be found. He concluded by declaring that the hope of tile South wa iu the election of the North, and he conjured the citizens that if two radicals were liefore theiu a candidates, ta vote for the one that was most radical, Disturbance at New Orlean. Death of John Henderson, Jt. Nbw Ohi.bans, Sept 14. A- slight distur lirrtce t'nak plane lost eving in this' City, caused -by the arrest of two colored women. An at tempt was made to rescue them by some color-, ed soldiers. The police were soon reinforced, and were met by tlie negroes with a volloy of brickbats and an invitation to "come on." The , police, assisted by several Federal officers, suc ceeded in restoring quiet , Jobi Henderson, Jr., a member oi tho Con vention of 1804, hat died from the wound' re ceived at 80th. of July riot S Nw Orleans, Sept 14 The military offl cers are punishing severely the negro soldiers' who participated in the riot on Wednesday last. Four are now banging by their thumbs. , . Among tbrintlperarrtswho are gadding about tn the North a represeiittrtlvei of Southern Un ionists are H. JUhpolph,. colored, of Hew OrleanVand J. J. BtkwRT, negro, of Baltimore. Both of these lesser lights shone forth on Wed nesday evening, in Tremont Temple, Boston. They made their several speeches to tho great to do them honor. StewabT repeated, for the benefit of bis auditors, that very stale and face tious remark that the South is entitled to no" rights but fuheial ritcsi.ahd hit co laborer, who i .1 : n t 1 r,llnwi,rl li( m imnmH tha rnmn. ny l y offering for tale for fifty cents what pur- forted to lie an overdu,e promissory note of resident Joiinsom's. ) , The Radicals of Mr. Beecher' congregation, In order to neutralize the influence of hit late letters, gave the Southern Radicals a . reception in Be;cher's church. The "travelling menager ie," as the papers call them, marched , in, and -were greeted with- wild applause. They were welcomed to the church "wnere the principles of abolitionism and the doctrine of Sharpe's Rifle were first sent forth into the city," so the orator said. Mavnard was the first to reply ; after which the big organ burst out into "John Biown," ! at which the audience grew frantic with, excitement, and shouted' in a vociferous -manner the chorus, not forgetting the line, "we'll hang Jeff. Davis on a sour apple tree." Such scenes would . be incredible, save that Sutan has been loosed in this country. Tim Philululnhia Premt sava. with exultation. that not one-Unth of the indignities which have been offered to President Johnson in his tour to the Northwest have been made known to the public. It is but little to the credit of the Re publicans that this should be so, and a beauti ful commentary on free speech. At Indianapo lis, where the violence was greatest," and where life wa taken, tho President had not opened hla lin an that h eontd not be ehartred with provoking it ' : -; . ' nenry C. ly, Missionary- Bishop of Arkan sas, has recovered the communion service stolen : from the church at Van Buren during the war. It was discovered in possession of a discharged soldier in western New York, and he gave it up lor the price of old til vcr 1108.
The Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.)
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