The Kentucky Gazette, 1866-10-10

negro suffrage any more then for socialism or women's rights or any oilier "ism" af which the Tribune is a thampiou Now Tennessee end the loyal States furnished two-thinls of th ne negro - gro negro troops end none of titein give negroes euf euf-Irago - - Irago - euf-Irago - except pert of New England where tin re are no negroes end New York where it is half iren grudgiugly The Radicate era dominant n moat of hum States and tlie negroes era for nftire intelligentin them than iiijihe excluded Slates - why is not the panacea fur negro woes earned by negro valor administered where they have the power? Why are we appealed to by them to force negro suffrage on tha excluded 8tates by usurped authority while then refuse it where tliey can lawfully confer it? If the ballot be needed by the negro to obtain or secure rights of person end property anywhere it is needed iu thou Statu where lie mute tlie harsh competition of while labor more titan in thou where hi labor the solo fountain of all tit wealth andindua andindua-triea - triea andindua-triea of the community Thou hypocrite - first cost the beam out of thine own eye and titan thou shall see more clearly to tike the beam out of thy brother's eye! Applause No gentlemen! The security of the negro in the excluded Statu in hi present condition not in the ballot - it It in the unbounded demand for hia labor in the cotton rice end su sugar - gar sugar fields of th South It is that which liu given hint this year in thou States as large compensation u the white field hand hu got in the North pnd hu established betweea him end hie employer relations generally as kind as exist between employer and employed anywhere on earth The present hopeful condition of toe Freedman in thou Statu is beyond the reach of danger - unlcas it come from the agitations of Northern politicians who want to uu him to con control - trol control or destroy tlie political power of tits South aud of Northern Jellybya who insist on giving him e ballot he doeanl want can't read end i notoriously uqfit to use The danger to white loyalist! from tha vio violence - lence violence of the rabble ere urged hi reason against mupt re-union How will prolonged disunion elp them? In the mountain districts of thou States and in We tern Texas there are many such patriots who are numerous enough to pro protect - tect protect themselves Outside of thou districts I venture to aey there are not in the whole ten States one thouauud men so devoted to tin Union during the war os to hare incurred the violent hatred of -the rabble Adopt all the laws and constitutional amendments wa mav cover tha South with standitig armies enfranchiu tha ne negroes - groes negroes diefranchiu the late rebel - apply any or all of these prescribed rrrardiss - and we will not thereby give additiglial security to thou few scattered loyalists but only envfion them with Hew perils Their only possible security is in th prompt restoration of law and civil order not in anarchy or negro or military rule Their real hardship is want of local political favor and Dower rather than want or ufety Gladly would I see them rewarded for their heroic eac eac-rificei - rificei eac-rificei with every office in the gift of the Gener General - al General Government - and I hope sod believe they will be remembered and rewarded by it But could not afford to turn traitor to the Constitu Constitution - tion Constitution of our country to reword them lor their de devotion - votion devotion to iti Applause But we are told if there be no amendment of the Constitution reducing the representation of the South her Ineraou through emancipation will be such diet by an alliance with die North Northern - ern Northern Democracy she can repudiate the national debt or asume tlie rebel debt or otherwise ruin the country This argument is founded on the apprehension that a majority of the people in tha Northern Statu will want to destroy the national credit or double the national debt or elu that the Democracy after getting power again will forthwith commit suicide by an attempt to de destroy - stroy destroy Ute country Nonaeiue! But if such danger did exist the proposed amendment will not prevent it If it werq part of the Conatiln Conatiln-tion - tion Conatiln-tion to-der tlie South would (till retain tlie vote to which it is now entitled in the electoral col college - lege college until 1673 end io Congress until 1673 If the alleged apprehended mischief be don et all they will be accomplished before the amendment hu taffen effect on Southern representation For not only will the National credit grow stronger and the disposition to disturb it weaker each year but the relative power of tlie South iu Congress and th electoral college will be less notwithstanding emancipation under the census of 1670 than it now is - for it is leu populous to today - day today than it was in 1660 while tlie North hu in increased - creased increased since then in a ratio equal to the lut in- during the lut decade This amendment therefore is no needed national safeguard It is all right if voluntarily adopted by the SouthL and ell wrong if ite rejection ie to be th pretext for protracted disunion And finally we are told that if the Uhion be now unconditionally restored traitors can not be adequately punished It is idle to denv that in the now excluded 8tatee practically afl the whte population voluntarily took part in the rebellion Never were a people more uni ted - end never did the people more firmly believe they were right The theory that they owed al allegiance - legiance allegiance first to their States end therefore must stand by them in rebellion wu a logical sequence of that nullification doctrine which wu agi agitated - tated agitated but not clearly rejected in framing tlie Constitution - was maintained by Jefferson and Madison and indorsed by resolutions of the Legislature of all the Southern States under the Administration of the eider Adams - anil which the Southern people through three generations were taught to believe It hu been often avow avow-od - od avow-od by tlie Democratic party in the North and I am sorry to say was adopted by the Republican party in those States which enacted "personal liberty bills" and in thou which (rented the fu fugitive - gitive fugitive slave law u nullified by 8tate decisions It is not just therefore to treat the rebellion wholly a revolt agaiust reoognixed aeknowl edged authority It wu the oo inbind result of that false theory of Government and of devotion to slavery which their fathers end onr fathera planted among us The Southern Statu have now by their Constitution abolished slavery and renounced the doctrine of secession - the two causes of the mu - and have repudiated tbe debt created in waging tlie war Slavery beittf abolished by the Constitution of the Unite! 1 Statu if the Nation needs any further Constiw tional guarantees from the excluded 8MM (and I think it dou not) tlioie are all It needs Through their delentu to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia they unanimously declared ofeacred obligation tha National debt and tha National faith pledged to the soldier and sailors of the Union and declared also the freedmen entitled to equal civil rights with themselves This it sums to the is sufficient evidence that they seek reunion in n spirit of el legiance snd concord Their substance hu been consumed by rebellion Half their cities and towns end railroads end farms lie waste and dee olate Their once rich aristocracy now strip stripped - ped stripped of wealth end honors are forced to eke out in humble toil the long stem penalty of their political crime All (tie people of the State who wilfully participated in the rebellion are forever excluded by national law from Feder Federal - al Federal office Tha wont uf their leaden ara yet unpardoned and may be tried snd punished for treason Tlie wou and desolations of war the humiliation of defeat the hard uses of unex unexpected - pected unexpected poverty nnd the punishments which may vet be legally inflicted are enough to vindicate tlie offended majesty of a great and magnanimous Government Applause This would bo enough to satisfy e wise tyrant I do not envy the hurt of e man who wishes further punishment inflicted for revenge To af afflict - flict afflict thorn now with protracted anarchy would be rebellion not only against onr Constitution but also against every precept of stateamanahip and Christianity Five millions of people - u breve snd high spirited u we are - cannot be held in long vassalage end ths attempt to subjugate them is persisted in will shake ourgreat Republic from turret to foundation stone In the civil wsr of Rome between FOmpey end tlie greatest statesman and soldier of tho Republic when Pom per' army was put to flight on ths plaint of Ptiarsalia Cottar rods between his victorious legion and the fleeing enemy end cried oat "Spare the citizens!" ' And on return returning - ing returning to Italy notwithstanding the clamors of hie -parti tana for blood and confiscations he proclaim proclaimed - ed proclaimed foil pardon and rights of citizenship to ell who had opposed him "That act" save Marcus Aurelius "placed Cottar among the gods!" If his unhappy alienation shell continue may w not yet look to onr own great general to rebuke the clamors end the greed of faction end restore harmony to the rcpoblio by statesmanship like that of his great ncotoype? Great applause and cheers for Grant From those reckless inventions of politicians - from tho plan of of indefinite postponement of reufiton by impracticable conditions precedent end from that of reconstruction with negro rule eed whit ditfiranchisement - w sanst turn to the

Office on Mill Strut opposite the Poet-Oke LEXINGTON KENTUCKY "U' Beligieus and Eiluealional Notices solicited and no charge made for their insertion GREAT OP UATOB GENERAL THOMAS EWING OF KANSAS BellTired before tha Soldiers' and Ballon' Con Convention - vention Convention at Cleveland Bept 17 1866 SPEECH Fxllow-citiisns Assocutxb in Aims im oun Couirrar's Sxavicx - Welisve assembled to oou oou-suit - suit oou-suit as to our duty and action in the impending political struggle which threatens tlie Union we longht to maintain and perpetuate Wo owe allegiance to no political party great applause but to our country and its laws Cheer Bo Bo-fore - fore Bo-fore the wnr many of us were Republicans and vote 1 with that party against the extension of slavery - now thank God and tha Union armies swept from our land to distract it no more for forever - ever forever Many were Democrat! holding tho right of the people of the Territories to establish or prohibit slavery and the eximdieney of remit remitting - ting remitting the qneetiun ur them 8omo wore Demo Democrats - crats Democrats holding that neither Congress nor Territo Territorial - rial Territorial Governments could prohibit slavery in the Territories Those issues are now dead - they lie in the tomb with slavery Applause They were submitted to the arbitrament of the Amer American - ican American people in 1(6(1 end on their decision being rendered the party dominant in eleven States de elated tire withdrawal of their States from tire Union and armed in rebellion against it The American people were called on by the Preehlmt to euppreie rebellion The rc-ponee came prompt and enthusiastic from all parties outside the insurrectionary States Republicans Douglas Democrats Ball and Everett men Breckinridge Democrats filled tho ranks of our armies anu fought side by lido till the rebel rebellion - lion rebellion wee everywhere suppressed and the author authority - ity authority of the nation acknowledged Aoplause What broke tbe ties which bound us to polit political - ical political parties aud moulded euch diverts lemem in one mass moved by one sentiment and pur purpose! - pose! purpose! Hatred of slavery? No wo differed greatly as to its moral and social effect Love of war 7 No we were more engrossed in the pursuits of peace and thought less of arms than almost any nation on the earth Hatred of tho Southern people? No they were of our blood and tongue aud land bom to one inheritance will: us of liberty and power and glory Ap Applause - plause Applause It was the sentiment of nationality - renewed cheers - determination that the Union of States should bo perpetual - and that the Con Constitution - stitution Constitution which made the Union and iaits bond should be preserved and acknowledged through throughout - out throughout every Slate end through all Onto inviolate Loud applause- That was the only purpose of the war known to or recognised by the army and navy of tho United States All else was to that auxiliary Every soldier and sailor recognized dint purpose none svowed another That sentiment raised all onr armies it was the soul of all It glowed in every camp fire and thundered from every gun ft was our cloud by day our pilar of fire by night It was under God Tin rows of the war - and bore aloft onr flag after every defeat and won ps all our victories Cries of "Good " and cheer Not only did the army and navy know no other purpose of the war but the American people and our rulers recognized and avowed no other The joint resolutions of the patriot snd stntemsn Crittenden was pissed in 1661 with but one loyal vote against it in the Senate and two in tho House It declared that the wnr was "waged in no spirit of oppression but solely to preserve the Union with nil the dignity equality and rights of tha several 8tatea unimpaired'' Cheers Throughout tho war President Lin coin never swerved from the policy of that reso resolution - lution resolution which was and still is the law of tlie land ilia I u-in pi -I p i it lmatinii nf emanctnatinn de declares - clares declares that It wu issued only "as a fit and nec necessary - essary necessary war measure for tho suppression of the rebellion'' And in his letter to Horace Greely he says: "If then be those who would not save the Uuion unloss they eould destroy slavery I do not agree with them What I do about sla slavery - very slavery and the colored twee I do because 1 believe it helps to Mrs the Union My object is to Save it and not either to lava or to destroy slavery'' Loud cheer The war would have been unjustifiable and probably a failure if waged for any other object beyond the restoration of the National authority It was oulr justifiable because the Southern peo people - ple people had formed with us a perpetual Union and owed allegiance by compart to it If the extir extirpation - pation extirpation of slavery the elevation of tlie blacks the degradation of tha whites the reduction of the representation of tha States or their exclu exclusion - sion exclusion from tha Union had been avowed and ought by our rulers a a direct object of the wsr these rulers would have been overthrown by the people or tha war itself abandoned Cheers' But on the platform that the war was waged solely to suppress the rebellion and restore the Constitutional authority of the General Govern Government - ment Government with all tha right of tha several States unimpaired the President and Congress stood im impregnable - pregnable impregnable against all assaults of faction and of treason On that broad platform all patriots could stand and strengthen and sustain them On that broad platform patriots of all parties did unite - and by their union and by it alone tlie country passed triumphant through the ter ter-rifio - rifio ter-rifio and decisive strugglea of the first three years of the rebellion Cheers But when the triumph of our arms was assured - tha valley of the Mississippi wonutd tha Confederacy was seen to (tagger in obstinate and hopeless conflict the councils of our rulers be came divided Tlie radical Isadora in Congress anticipating the end of the war and the esrlr dissolution of tlie war party begsn to consult how to wind up the struggle so as to secure the dominion of their theories and their sectional and personal interests But they found in Pres dent Lincoln an inflexible opponent who would not turn from tlie direct path of immediate res restoration - toration restoration aiA who repudiated their theory of State suicide then newly Invented for their party purpose On the Htk ot December 1663 Presi President - dent President Lincoln issued his proclamation of amnesty and plan of restoration All the Government of the insurrectionary States were then in tlie hands of rebels sworn to the Confederacy Did lie treat tit States a being therefore without valid Constitutions or laws? No Ila treated them as being merely without die maeUniry of the law - the officer! of Government Did he assume to confer suffrage on whom ha pleased? No He laid suffrage was fixed by State Con Constitutions - stitutions Constitutions and laws in force then as when the rebellion began and recognised it a purely of State concern and control He called on all tho voters qualified by State Constitutions and law - on nil who had been loyal and all who having been rebels should taka the oath of amnesty and allegiance to join in expunging from their State Constitutions and laws all provision! in conflict with the Constitution and laws of ilia United States and in electing State officer and members of Congress - thus restoring the suspended rela relations - tions relations of Ilia Suteu to tha General Government H imposed no new condition precedent and assumed no power as existing in any departnent of Government to impose any He merely rec recommended - ommended recommended a method for the people of each State - recognizing in them tlie sole power to elect officers and modify laws so as to lace the State in allegiance to the United States and pledged himself as Execntire of the Nation to recognise and sustain each of such recognized State govern governments - ments governments He recommended the people to insert in tlioir Constitutions a clause declaring the then accomplished fact of tha abolition of slavery But in doing this he departed not from the prin principle - ciple principle that reunion was the sola object of the war It was no demand of a new or extraordinary oun dition but only the recognition of an accom accomplished - plished accomplished effect of the war as plainly irreversible as tbe path of the sun in the heavens and to the maintenance of which the Government had been compelled Ay the wsr itedf to pledge it irrevo cable foith Within n week after that proclamation wu is issued - sued issued the Radical leader brought forward their plan of reconstruction in th bill of Henry Win Winter - ter Winter Davis It proposed as conditions precedent to restoration amendments to State Constitutions prohibiting shivery repudiating the rebel debt (both which amendment all tha excluded State have since made by the advice of President John Johnson) - son) Johnson) and ditfranehiaing about one-fourth u many of tbs Isadora u tha amendment now insisted by Congress proposes to disfranchise and snthorixed

obedience our free Government will be destroyed The Committee on Reconstruction say: "Tliey will not argue the question whether the late Con Confederate - federate Confederate Bute are still States of the Union" as they say that is a "profitless abstraction" If tiiii be so then tlie question whether Congress is bound to obey tits Couatilutiuu of ths Unitsd State Is also a profitless abstraction - for it en entities - tities entities off States in the Union to bo represented in tlie Senate and the Hunee If they sre out of th Union it is because their acts of secession were valid snd effectual under ths Constitution nnd w violated tho Constitution in making war on them for seceding If they are in it then Congress violates the Constitution in refusing them representation through men personally nualified and duly elected to represent them The Reconstruction Committee and Congress ad admit - mit admit they are in tit Union and have governments in allegiance by submitting the proposed amend meats to tlwm for ratification and offering them representation as s reward for ratifying them for if they were not in tiia Union and bad nottnch governments their action on the amendments would be void Tlie proposition that those States are in th Uuion is so incuntrorortibls that tha Reconstruction Committee ware compelled to de defend - fend defend tlie action of Congress in refusing them representation by alleging that tliey hail com committed - mitted committed a erirtts I think ths Bar or tits United btatot has yet to loam that a Slats cm commit crime known to the law Who is to try or con convict - vict convict or sentence's State Thi bat a km and impotent excuse for the assumption of th Cou Cou-tlitutional - tlitutional Cou-tlitutional power to exclude States from repre representation - sentation representation it the will of Congress If they have that power tha Conrtitntion secures no rights to man or State which Cnngrew at its pleasure may nut take sway - tit rights guaranteed by the Con Constitution - stitution Constitution to b tales are as sacred at least at those guaranteed to person If tliey may be lawfully impaired or destroyed by Congress then it it omnipotent Ws live under a Congress not under a Constitution if this be so our Consti Constitution - tution Constitution is rottenness snd our proud republic built on a stubbie Loud applause-l 1 therefore assert that tit obstruction policy of Congress is not merely in violation of th prin principles - ciples principles and objects avowed and recognized by the arenas and navies the peoplo snd the President of the United States from the beginning to tlie end of tits war but also that it is iu direct violation of tlie Constitution This ought to be th end of the argument But unfortunately tlie fact that that policy is generally conceded to be unconsti unconstitutional - tutional unconstitutional is not enough to condemn it with manv if not a majority of our people I heard (lie venerable Jacob Collamsr say in 1663 that Senator nf tit United Sism had laughed when Ye had objected to legislation they deemed expe expe-' - ' expe-' dieut on the ground only of its uiiconatitutional uiiconatitutional-itv - itv uiiconatitutional-itv "That laugh" said be "rings in my eats like tlie knell of lit republic" But laying aside them ulij actions to tits policy of Congress let us tee what res sous are given in its support Most of the Radicals admit that protracted disunion is an eviL But they say it will not do to restore the Union unconditionally lest it be again imperilled by the South and ' that tlie adoption by those States of lha Constitution nl amendment will prevent ths alleged appre apprehended - hended apprehended evils snd secure prompt snd safe resto restoration - ration restoration Now tit article proposed is an amnibut of six amendments Tlie Senate refuted to ac accept - cept accept Mr Doolittle's amendment allowing these several amendments to be ratified severally The proscribed estates must therefore take all or none They have already either by their Con Constitutions - stitutions Constitutions or lane or br the action of their dele Sites at the Philadelphia Conrentidn declared icir free assent to four out of tlie six - to-wit: Equal civil rights to all repudiation of tha rebel debt and maintenance of tlie national faith in inviolate - violate inviolate to national creditor and to soldiers and sailors of the Union jtnd their families These with the abolition of slavery already secured would have satisfied the American people if they had been foreign State annexed by conquest instead of Sta'et already in the Union An- pla use But by compling three guarantees with reduction of representation and sweeping pro proscription - scription proscription as one indivisible article the amend amendment - ment amendment became impracticable While I believe the great body of the South Southern - ern Southern people are anxious to resume their relations to the Uuion in harmony and good faith - ree ree-- - - ree-- ogniiing the principle which triumphed in the war and all its logical results - I feel sura tliey can never be coaxed or forced to brand as politi political - cal political outcasts one or two hundred thousand of their best ablest and most influential men or to surrender one-fourth of their representation in Con greet and the Klee (oral College as a pen penalty - alty penalty for withholding suffrage from negrore who ara wholly unfit to exercise it Tho conditions precedent proposed by Congress being improcti cable ara therefore merely a plan of indefluil postponement of re-union Thi was well understood by the more nitre leaders af the party They mily intended to bridgo the fall elections They will demand far more titan those conditions at -their price for permitting the Union to b restored) They in intend - tend intend to reconstruct those States on tlie basis of negro suffrage And in ease ute South does not quietly acquiesce in that - sa it will not - then on the basis of negro rule and white disfranchise disfranchisement - ment disfranchisement A plan more full of mischief snd Ns tiunsl wore never was devised by man The white people of tlie United State are of that family which has led in tlie government and civ ilixstion of the Die world thmugliout the four thousand years of its authentic history while the Freedman themselves but a generation (him naked tihibsrism are of s race which has never ones in the history of man given proof of ca capacity - pacity capacity 'for self-government A proud high high-spirited - spirited high-spirited white people can never be forced to sub submit - mit submit to disfranchisement and negro rule and if that plan be persisted in it will result iu a wsrof races the hotrors of which will sicken and appall the world The New Orleans Convention wes the first step in thi programme of reconstruction and the brutal massacre which followed its tint eignil! cant result That extinct Convention we re revived - vived revived at the dictation of radical leaders iu Con groe to disfranchise the white people of Louisi ana end place them under a government of ne negroes - groes negroes with their handful Jf white leaders-' Tlie ultras in Congress stood ready to recognise the negro government aud tlie white people of Lou iaiana anew it II nice that nnsthorixed Con vention which would under oilier cireum-ttanret have excited only contempt filled with dread the -good citizens of the State and aroused the fiercest passions of the bad and led to the revolting and barbaroui massacre of many of tlie instrument in Ute atrocious plot But th solemn lesson of that conspiracy gainst the liberties and peace of the State ani I or that brutal massacre csitso no hesitation in the execution of the Jacobin programme On the contrary it is cited as showing th wisdom snd necessity of miking subject of the whites snd rulers of the negroes The Convention is to re-ssnemble elections were held on the 6th inst to 611 vacancies end polls guarded by negro militia When it shall have assembled anil dbus it work Congrass will rao-rgnixs tha negro government of the State unleis indeed tlie warning of tho fall elections or tlie intervention of the Presi President - dent President prevent the consummation of tlie conspire If consummated in Louisiana the lame

"Afearnd To be the same in their own antand valor As they ware in desire " Gra'a Brown Fremont Wade Daria Coch Cochrane - rane Cochrane Pomeroy Wemloil Phillips Mims Fred Douglass and a few hundred leaders of leu note "stood the hazard of the die" - (A voice - "And Anna Dickenson V) No ! AnnaDick AnnaDick-enwtn - enwtn AnnaDick-enwtn dd not respond to the call of tlie Conven Convention - tion Convention but Mrs E Ci-ly Stanton did saying she took it for granted the caller of tlie Convention nf the "Radical men of tlie Nation" noed the word men in its largest sense" anil therefore she responded ! Laughter Tito Convention nom-innlc-l Fremont and Cochrane - denounced die President's restoration policy - claimed that all power over the subject lieiomrs to Congresi and insisted on the disfrechisemmit of all rebels repentant and unreooutnnt ami the confiscation of nil tlielr laiti'i for our soldier Its platform was oral ty radical - blit fell a how-hnt short of the Radical programme of to-dir - omitting as it did negro suffrage Then followed 'the Convention nf tha wsr part at Baltimore which unanimously indorsed President Lincoln's policy - reuominnled him by acclamation admitted to scats and votes in the Convention the Delegate chosen from Arkansas Tennessee and Louisiana which had been reor reorganized - ganized reorganized under his proclamation: and declared in a platform reported by Henry J Raymond that ihd only conditions of peace and re-union "shall be ike uneoiuliluimitl tnrrtnihr a f hoetility Ay (Ae rehele and their return (a their allegiance to the CenntUHtien and Anas at the United Slalet" To make its repudiation of tlie theories of tits Rad Radical - ical Radical faction more marked the Convention nom nominated - inated nominated Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for Vice President against the protest of th-it faction led by Thud Stevens who declared that patriot State was but s conquered Province and her lovai son "an alien enemy" The war party hailed the triumph of the President and hi res restoration - toration restoration police over the Radicals and Indorsed them overwhelmingly The loaders of that fae tlon baffled snd overthrown dung to the skirts or tha administration and were carried with it Sgaiir into power The Radical ship (touched at Claveland was abandoned almost before it touched water and after drifting - a month or two - sunk unnoticed and I regret to add with out its crew Applause But nothing daunted bv the defeat of their reconstruction policy snd the triumph nf that of Mr Lincoln they renewed the issue with him forthwith denouncing his policy with unabated rancor end arrogance and the last public act of his illustrious life was a speech oh tits 11th of April 1665 in vindication of his policy snd in favor of tha immediate snd unconditional admission of the Senators snd Representatives from tits reorganized States Applause- Now I ask in tha light of this recital is it President Johnson or Congrass who is false to tha principles of (he war party ? Th fundamen fundamental - tal fundamental issue between them is precisely tlie seme as that between Congresi and President Lincoln - both Executives holding the States as existing with their Constitutions and laws as before the rebellion snd as entitled to resume their rela relations - tions relations to tits General Government by the action nr their voters professing present loyalty quali fled under their own lews and both Congresses holding that th States lost their Constitutions ami laws snd rights by rebellion snd can hare them again only at the pleasure of Congress and on anch terms a it may see fit to prescribe The only difference between the issue then and now is of detail not of principle - President Lincoln having been more libaral in proposals of pardon than his successor and Congress less exacting Congress nnd proscriptive in its conditions of restoration then than now I assert therefore that Con Congress - gress Congress and not President Johnson has proved false to tit principles or the party which placed them in power Prolonged applause- They betray tlie principles of the glorious war party who prevent tlie accomplishment of the great end of the war - who seek to- make it an enemy and an obstruction to re-nniun - who with distended cheeks blow tlie dying embers of tho rebellion to light again it lurid and destructive fires - who will have no re-union unless with guarantees of Darty snd sectional dominion dominion-I - I dominion-I sm well aware that tha Radicals have now won s majority of tits Union party to ths sup support - port support or their disunion policy I recognize th fact and mourn tlie separation which must fol follow - low follow of men united in service snd renown through out tha struggle for the preservation of our Gov Government - ernment Government I'll ultra leader renewal on Presi President - dent President Johnson the issue they made on President1 Lincoln under changed circumstances mo ti favorable to their success Tlie wsr has ended but tho hatreds it bred ware freehand strong and there was no longer a rebellion 8outh compell compelling - ing compelling united councils North and ha who was most violent in denunciation of rebels proposed the' harshest penalties snd predicted the most terri terrible - ble terrible results from their restoration to citisenship was applauded snd became a leader Hence in Congress as In ths country generally violence and paesion and vain alarms supplanted states statesmanship - manship statesmanship snd the extrema men led and carried tits party lash while abler snd better men follow followed - ed followed and obeyed it As Toombs snd Keitt atyl Wigfall furred Southern statesmen and patriots into tits measures which led to tha rebellion by the dread cry of "abolitionist"-) 8tevens and Sumner end Wade forced better Union men titan they into their disuuion policy by the still more dread cry of "traitor" Whatever terrors that cry may have for other it should have nono for us Wa fought for tha Union and know its value Now that it Is again in peril we can afford to fare storms of abuse for it as we hare faced more dreadful storms for it before Applause 1 But gentlemen w cannot afford to itand idly by and see it lost or endangered through fear of reproach or lore of tha grand old party now put to such base uses or hate of former enemies of the Union now willing to help us rescue it from destruction by its whilom friends W are bound as lovai sons of the Union to struggle again to save it by whatsoever means are at command In doing this we be become - come become no man's men and no party's men (ap (applause - plause (applause we are supporters of the President only because and while he attains the Constitution and w oo-operats with tits Democracy only be because - cause because snd while it is endangered and they sus sustain - tain sustain it ( Applause Whoever are defender of ths Constitution when imperilled they are our party whoever assail it they are our political foes ApplsuieJ The lets ultra Radical tell us that as soon as the Constitutional amendments lately proposed are adopted snd each excluded State shall have ratified them the Union shall be restored But they forget or Ignore the fact that we are bo find by s Constitution obedience to which is tha highest duty of citizeus snd without which

Wilkes Booth Asaih - We find in tho Columbia South Carolinian' the following' statement credited to "the & F Examiner R Chicago correspondent" The story whether ' authentic or not ie at least e remarkable one: Many persons ere of the opinion that Wilke Booth still litres Let me give onr read ara a place of information that recently came into my I Kisses Ion and which has never boon printed On tbs evening of Presideot Lincoinh assassins assassins-tion - tion assassins-tion a young lady in Washington who was play playing - ing playing at Ford's Theater was on her wdf from her home to tho theater As aha was walking along tho street at a quarter past seven o'clock she met Wilkes Booth on the sidewalk They had been well acquainted Far several years and ware on intimate term Thev Mood awhile and chatted Tit girt told Booth that she had re received - ceived received an anonymous letter that day that 5a quite amusing Booth asked her to let him bike it and he would hand it to her at another time 8he gave him the letter end hurried on to the theater That night the wes horrified to learn that Wilke Booth hod assassinated President Lincoln in ths vary theater where she was play playing - ing playing Th poor girl was frightened out of her wile lor several days fearing that soma one had seen her give Wilkes Booth tho paper so short a lima before the assassination So time passed on and the actress went to her home in Philadel Philadelphia - phia Philadelphia About five week since that young woman received back again through tho post-office tha vary letter aha put into tha hands of Wilkes Booth on the night of tha assassination - There is a private mark on it too that makes her poai live Wilkes Bjuth soot it These are facts and the actress ia now plaving at ona'of tlie Chicago theater - The etory Is a strange one to say tit least of it Religions 6 te tie ties During the pest three months the following accession of minis tars from other donominstioiis has been made to tho Episcopal Church iu the United States: Methodist ami Weslevun 33 Congregational and Presbyterian 13 Uuitarian 1 4 Univenelist Baptist 4 Lutheran! a German Lutheran I Reformed 3 Roman Catholic 1 Total ' 63 M E C 8 ConrnKNcss - The Tennessee) Conference wu opened at Huntsville Ale Tuasa dsv by Bishop McTyrrir The same dignitary will preside over tha Hoisfcn Conference et Ash Ash-villa - villa Ash-villa N C next Wednesday Tha Kentucky Conference assembled at Win Winchester - chester Winchester Tuesday under tha auspices of Bishop Doggatt Ha will open tha Louisville Confer Conference - ence Conference at Elizabethtown next week The Little Rock Conference assembles et Arkadelphia next Wednesday Bishop Pierce pre presiding - siding presiding The East Texas Conference will convene at Marshall on tlie same day uifder direction of Bishop Marvin - Leu Democrat Webster's Phophkct - If tlie internal fa fanatics - natics fanatics end Abolitionists ever get power in their hands they will override the Constitution set tho Supreme Court et defiance mike lews to suit themselves ley violent hands on those who differ Vith them intlieir opinions or dare question thoir infallibility and finally bankrupt tlie country and deluge it in blood - Daniel Webeter Debt Boukdimq - Sidney E Morse of New York hoe just patented a curious philosophies! instrument which ia called e bathometer Yiu throw it overboard with its appendages in the ocean where water ie mile deep It gore down like a shot end ee soon as it touches the bottom it turns end comes beck to th surface Yon pick it up end the true depth of tlie water where it struck ilia bottom ia seen on tho scale of Ilia barometer just yon sea the degree of host on tiia scale of a thermometer 1 Aew-iN-ain - Frank Blair iataa Mqj or-General of U8 Volunteers now tho right-hand man of the President ami of th Copperheads iu Mis Missouri - souri Missouri made a speech at Memphis on tlie Slat instant in Odd Fellows' Hell which he eutered erm-in arm with rebel Myjor-General Forrest Forrest-Dayton - Dayton Forrest-Dayton Journal gsjy Tlie Catholic Church at this place has secured splendid Organ manufactured en entirely - tirely entirely in Louisville The Democrat of y outer outer-day - day outer-day says: "This instrument for richness of tone equala if not excels any we have evor heard" - Shelby Sentinel Hear This - Noah Buohenon of this county lately told to Abraham Renniek of Clark' yearling Durham heifer et $660 Mr Sol Tevc Tevc-bauglt - bauglt Tevc-bauglt of this county sola e fat yearling steer weighing near llKKI lbafor $6fi 10 - Pario Ken- Indian John Cornwall a citizen of Bulli't county was robbed end murdered two milr-i from hie residence on last Sunday moniiut He was nearly sixty years of age end wsk high highly - ly highly respected by nil who knew him- - £ Sentinel ' Lavendxs a Poors ctkw roe Books - It !J stated that lavender will prevent mould on b--oks ink leather and similar articles end that a lew drop of it pieced in n book case will protect ell the contents A Western editor hu on exhibition in his office the bladder of a muaquito which lie seys contains the souls of twenty Govern Government - ment Government swindlers and the fortunes of a dozen or tnore editors accumulated in publishing country newspapers At e regular meeting of Central Lodge No 8 1 O O F last Monday night P G 8 8 Fry end P G J R Mem ware elected Repre Representative - sentative Representative to th Grand Lodge of Kentucky which will meet in Louisville on tha 4th Tuesday of October - Danvlia Adoacate B It is so hilly in com parts of New Hampshire that ths people look up the chim chimneys - neys chimneys to see when the cows com hone

BRUSH UP PAIMTSt OILS Si VARNISHES 1 ADDITION TO OUR PRESENT LARGE stock we are now raoeiring from New York the following: SO oxm SS-lbu each pare French Zinc In oil 100 nunc 4 to 10 lbs in varnish -SO mils American Zinc in nil SS cans American Slone in oil eolor S3 eon American brown: 1 bbi extra light Coach varnish 1 lilil extra light Furmturo Varnish 1 bbi brown Japan Varnish 1 bbi axtra Dnmar Varnish 1 bbi White Shellao Spirit S bbis North Carolina spirit! Turpentine: S euki Hoohelle Ochre 8 auk Stone and brown Metallic Paints for roofs SOU lbs burnt Umber ICO lbs Raw Umber - 800 lbs Fiusst Chrome Green dry and in oil SI0 lbs Finest Chrome Green dry and in oil C lbs Patent Dryer SOU lbs Yellow Paint in oil 3U0 lbs Venetian Hod Suu bs black Paint in oil Ws also keep always a largo stock of Waters A Fox'i and Fahnestock' White Load We guarantee our paints pure and to sire satis satisfaction - faction satisfaction UUNTKK k bISSICKS Chcx pride Lexington Ky June 93 WM-tf EXAM ROBERT 1 BKBLTOM PHIL JUDGE Uto of Lexington Kjr LOUISVILLE HOTEL UAIN STREET LOUISVILLE KT rpms SPACIOUS HOTEL HAS BEEN RE RE-X - X RE-X eently rcAtted and refurnished in the most snmptnous manner and will now compare favorably with the most elegant Hotels in the West We are determined that it shall deserve and maintain a high eharaator while under our control and no expense or attention shall bo wanting on our part to render it an agreeable and alegant home for the tourist and the in an of hnsinese Gnr table is supplied with every delicacy of tbs season which the market afford and the inn is under the control of experienced Books whose skill is unsurpassed The bar and biilard room attaohed to this Ilotol offer everything which guests can dasirt in this re respect - spect respect and none but the purest liquors are applied The apartments of the Louisville Hotel are spacious and well ventilated and its vicinity to the river brings it in range nf the pleasant broesue which are constantly coming up from the water Everything indeed which the molt fastidious taste eould suggest has boon supplied to render this one of the moat elegant sumptuuus and pleasant lintels in Ilia country and wo plodga ouraoives by llie must assiduous attention to the comfort and ae ae-enminodation - enminodation ae-enminodation of our guests to deserve a libaral shara of public patronage 11 KEAN A CO June JO 1800-tf W K HIGGINS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY ' CUEAPSIDE LEXINGTON KY SO bags Rio llari Baiba and Java Coffoa 5 hints Choice and Fair Sugar 40 bbis Kcflned Sugars Juness iaao-tf FINE LIQUORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION "RHfiSJffiSB- " Jir "wT ' Pine Madeira Sherry Port and Native Wine Blackberry Cordial - Holland Gin' Jamaica Kuin June 83 MW-lm COVE OYSTERS CHOW CnOW Piealilli and Canliflowar Pickles Fresh Peaenes and Pins Apple June 93 NEW MACKEREL 88 KITTS (mem) SHORE MACKEREL SO KITTS Nol SHORE MACKEREL 90 KITTS No! SHORE MACKEREL 10 KITTS No 3 SHORE MACKEREL 0 HALF BARRELS No1 8 QUARTER BARRELS No 1 10 KITTS EXTRA SALMON Just received bom boston HUNTER A BISSICKS TO AND CONVALESCENTS 4 Casks Edinburg Sooteb Ale I Casks London Porter Both vary ehoioe just reeelvod and for sale by HUNTER A BISSICKS June 93 1800-tf LIVERY AND SALE STABLE NO 30 SHORT ST LEXINGTON KENTUCKY COONS & DARNABY TTAVE EVERY CONVENIENCE FOR THE Al leMmnuidftlioB of fcho public with handtoma nav CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES Alsopiaaaaut RIDING HORSES for hire Thay will olio board horaaa by tha day woak or Booth ua pladsa UubhIym to hara arory aUu aUu-tira - tira aUu-tira paid than JonaM l£66-dia

dan of tbe Constitution end follow the path trod : or five years by the war party slid its President or tho Union snd our liberties may be forever lost Protracted disunion will bat multiply tlie strifes aud spread wider the anarchy urged sa its (xouse For these evil after-births of war there is no remedy but the prompt restoration of thelews and vindication or it andarlts own pre pre-Mtablishrd - Mtablishrd pre-Mtablishrd forms- Tito highest softly of tha Republic is In adherence to tie Constitution and laws by North end South by victor end van vanquished - quished vanquished If w depart from litem end grope af after - ter after untried end Illegal expedients we establish precedents which bad men will eso hereafter for more wantont snd if possible still greater abuses ' of power If ten States may now be shut out on 1 the pies that an insensate rabble hate and threat threaten - en threaten those who luvo been true to the Union pre pretexts - texts pretexts will not be wanting hereafter for the exclu exclusion - sion exclusion of other States to suit party or sectional pur- -poses The rights of tlie States iu the Union will bo given or withheld at the pleasure of the dominant tarty or section and when those rights become luecure the attachment of tho States to tho Union will be lost and the bond whi h binds them to it broken The war being ended bv the re return - turn return of each State and its people to allegiance and by the proclamation of the President war pow powers - ers powers can no longer be legally exercised Let us then hove Ilia lew end the fruits of peace Let tits now prostrate Stale arise take np their pert of the national harden end march on with us t th vast future which hoe one fete (hr North end South Let tlie Nation hove no paralysed limb to drag into future wan or to sap its growth in peace A few yean of reunion end tha rancors -of the rebellion will hero died Northern capital will here covered the South with manufactories ' her towns will be filled with Northern artisans 1 end merchants and the prase and tho scliool scliool-bouss - bouss scliool-bouss will break the last barriers which slavery built between us: m Whioh - like ths meteors?? e'ErauMeThtaven I II of one nature of one substance bred - lid lately mast in tha intaatinaaboek And forious eloaa ot civil butchery Shalt then in mutual irtll-humming ranks ' Uaxcn allokz war"

tha President to recognize such Stite govern governments - ments governments only after Congress had given its content This bill President Lincoln refused to sign Hand ing fast to fait own plan of unconditional restora restoration - tion restoration Ha wu forthwith assailed with a violence and rancor only paralleled by the asaiulM of the sains men on President Johnson Wade and Davis who led tlie assault denounced him by manifesto a guilty of " dictatorial Mturpathn'' and waniod him in very much the tone of die threats of impeachment no made against Presi President - dent President Johnaon that "the authority of Congress on tlie question of restoration itpmntmaunt mud Must Ae reepecletl1' A National Convention wu called meet in Cleveland to nominate Fremont or Chau for President denounce Mr Lincoln's policy of restoration and read him out of the partv The call of that Convention founds like a blast from th bugle of Greelv or Forney of o-laj 'Cheers and laughter "Hear it" "The imbecile and vacillating policy of the present administration its trudicry to justice and freedom in its plan of reconstruction whereby tha honor and dignity or tha nation have been sacrificed in conciliating the arrogant slave power and to further the ends of an unacru unacru-mloi'i - mloi'i unacru-mloi'i ambition call in thunder tones upon the oret of justice and their country to come to the reacne of the imperilled nationality and th cause of impartial justice and universal freedom tlirrateneh with betrayed and overthrow" It is bard to realise the fact that thi thunder thunderbolt - bolt thunderbolt wu aimed at President Lincoln two years ago instead of at President Johnson this year But tha thunderbolts of (o-day ara forged on the same anvil and hurled by the Mini hands as those which fell in noisy imposes at the feet of Abraham Lincoln Nearly all of tha 'present radical leaders of Congress were notoriously in full sympithies with this movemint - but only a few of them were bold or rash enough to commit themulve to it openly mid in adrance- They knew Mr Lincoln's ldgh piece in the hearts and confidence of the war party - and though they then as now had tlie organisation nf tha party in their hands tlicv halted and baulked when tlie iseuo came