The Stark County Democrat, 1868-10-14

in a a he. Go a a ; get the the and line I you have any the I the left front. be my right. is man, a of my heart I nor for the the the choose "get know at right am as a other cause. claimed to of what is to stand United over overthrown - thrown overthrown call been and from In a to together - gether together old be believe - lieve believe was as (Cheers.) James Madison was as pure a patriat as Ben. Butler. (Renewed cheering.) And I believe that Ben. Franklin was aa honest and as patriotic as Jim Ash Ashley. - ley. Ashley. (Laughter and prolonged ap applause.) - plause.) applause.) I cling to the old instrument. I may have old fogy notions. They may not suit the. progressive spirit of the times, but they are mine. My father lived and died under the old. instru instrument. - ment. instrument. I have lived thus far under it, and I trust that there may be but few changes made in it while I live. I do not want any more Congresses that are Radical, and have to suggest sixty-nine different amendments to the Constitution of the United States in one session. Laughter. 1 She may have her faults and defects, but, in God's name, let ua stand by her, for she is the Constitution, and that is everything to us now. Beneath our country's Constitution, in the eye ol God and man, is the temple of patri patriot's - ot's patriot's love and honor. And yet tho leader of the Radical party, ".Thaddeus Stevens, the man over whoBe memory convention after convention has been called, for the purpose of making it holy, declared that the legislation of Congress was outside of the Constitution of the country. And tvery man who has studied it kcows it and feels it, that they have gone beyound any prece precedent - dent precedent established by the action of the fathers. Now, we call upon the men of the country to rtand by the Consti Constitution; - tution; Constitution; to forget their prejudices and their passions, ther party affiliations, and to act according to the necessities of the times and the requirements of duty. If men say thay are to be simply partisans, nothing more, are to disre disregard - gard disregard tne action of this Congress, there is no use in talking to them, whatev whatever. - er. whatever. Bui if men wish to act according to duty, to right with proper regard for their own interests and those who are to come after them, there is but one course for us to pursue, - and that i3 to change the American Congress and give to us an eulirely different (lass of men. It seems to have be become - come become a question at. the present time of one of two things; a man, to be loyal, must be either a bondholder or ihe advocute of the negro. i want to talk to you a little about the bondholding question. I am no financier. 1 have never had much finances of my own, and the little have had I have not been .able manage very well. But still I have few simple notions upon the question. I know that it is said "the love money is the root of all evil." know that when God Almighty is issued - sued issued his commandments to Moses up upon - on upon the Mount he said, "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife," put the property in advance of wife. I know a great many of neighbors whose houses I would thundering sight rather have than their wives. At my age, you know, men are more inclined to look after property than women. When devil tempted Christ the last thing offerred him, the greatest induce induce-ment,was - ment,was induce-ment,was the possessions of the earth. It was God that answered. If it had been a bondholder.Christ would have dropped on his knees so quick that the devil would have thought that ligntning had struck him. These are the men you have to con contend - tend contend with. Read the advertisement that Jay Cooke & Co. put out, and whether that talks as mach about risk risking - ing risking to save the country as it does about the profitable investment that is to made, and how well it will pay. Suppose the country had gone down under the throes of that terrible revo revo-lutlon.what - lutlon.what revo-lutlon.what would any property have been worth, of any sort ? Nothing all. Then these men could risk money by investments in bonds, the bonds would be redeemed anything were redeemed. If bonds were worthless, everything else would be valueless. They ted because it was a good operation. They talk about your washwomen, and your laborers, and your mechan mechanics - ics mechanics all going Into this work so earn earnestly, - estly, earnestly, and putting in their $50 $100. The way to teat this matter to find out what is in the cocoa by bursting the shell. Where is laborer In this town that has a bond Where is the washwoman that has bond ? No; I tell you that our bonds are held by the moniad men of country, the rich men; your bankers, your operators and capitalists, they have done well by their invest investment. - ment. investment. Their bonds are good things. What do you men here in Sandus Sandusky - ky Sandusky pay as tax here every year much on the hundred dollars. voice, "$3.40." Now suppose one you men lent a hundred dollars somebody, according to the lawful of the State of Ohio, he gets per cent That wuuld be six Now subtract your $3.40 from and you get $2.60 for your money. How much does the fellow who the bonds get? He gets ten dollars least for it and less than ten per Now why ought nst you to make much money as he makes? What sauce for the goose ought to be for the gander. Laughter. General Geiger then entered a discussion of the practical workings of the -National bank system. a man "went to one of banks to get "accommodation," he said, was by a very sharp knife down him and letting out his entrails. banks generally had a shaving- close at hand where they sent men get money on their paper, and they would buy the paper at five per cent, on which they had paid six per cent. What is the difference between National Bank note ana your I have put out my note sometimes demand, and I found it came ing home deyilish quick. You interest on your note and pay interest on their notes. He said you could not National bank stock in Columbus for less 30 per cent, which shows that It a profitable investment. He

af of of ta If of d and m Bo Bo-cntl - cntl Bo-cntl Liver vtU ear Tha aa taa are rseeat- A apfUcar rp Deal, say, a One of the most scholarly and beau, tiful addresses it h is eyer been our fortune to read on the eubject of agri agricultural - cultural agricultural development, wa9 delivered recently by Horatio Seymour we append a couple of extracts, also some remarks from the Xulionul Intelligen Intelligencer. - cer. Intelligencer. Governor Seymour said : 'The man who allows -himself to live in ignorance looks up into the heavens and sees a waste studded with glittering stars at night, or ligh lighted - ted lighted up by the mid day sun. He notes the changes of the weather aud sees with but little concern objects that have lost their novelty. The man of education, looking in the Bamo direc tion, sees numberless worlds swinging through vast realms of space; he finds in the contemplation of the heavenly bodies, their huge dimen sions, their enormous aisiances, suo- jects of thought which fill his mind with awe, enlarge his faculties, and lift him up into the scaleof existence. It cannot then be said that the edu cated and ignorant man looks upon the same heavens. The ground be neath our feet is to one an unmeaning mass of earth and rock ; there is no significance to his mind in its broken surface, it mountain ranges or its deep valleys, except as they may help or hinder him in the dull routine of life, while he plods vacantly on over their surface. But the same earth is to an educated man a great record of the past, .wherein he finds traced out the evidences of vast ehaiiges and won--derful existences. The hills and Mountains are not to him unmeaning elevations, for he knows the law which heaved them up ; he has learn learned - ed learned tho order i. which their rocky ba bases - ses bases were formed ; he knows the 6 1 rat ratification!! - ification!! ratification!! beneath hi feet ; he is fa miliar with the fossil remains of ani animal - mal animal existence, more strange and hideous than were ever dreamed of by the most diseased imagination ; he feel Is that he stands at all times upon a marvellous record which quickens his imagination and gives him endless food for thought. The beauties of nature, its fresh and green foliage, its varied forms are dimly seen by all ; but It Is only those who have cultiva cultivated - ted cultivated their tastes and those who have studied the laws of vegetable life who see and feel the full beauty of their structure and the endless variety of their forms, thf ir modes of growth.or the methods by which they perpetu perpetuate - ate perpetuate their existences. The animal life that nwarms In the air, moves upon the surface of the ground, or lives in streams and floods is not less wonder ful, and offers to us a subject ot pleas ant and healthful studies. I might follow out this comparison between the condition of the educated and the ignorant, and to show how different are the worlds in which they live. The splendors and the wonders around us can easily be seen by all, ahd he who has unlocked the door, and has entered this marvelous muse um of nature need not have wealth nor unusual ability to live In a home full furnished with all that is cumu lated to please our taste, to give full exercise to our minda, to improve our hearts; and to fit us for lives of yirtue and usefulness here and of happiness hereafter." He then continues: "The Almighty has . been too kind to demand of any one for heir hap happiness - piness happiness that which is beyond their reach. But he does require them, they would enjoy the beauties of His world, that they should open their eyes and look. He does demand, they would have habits of thought and mental pleasures, that they sho'd cultivate their powers of observation and learn the lessons which He tries to teach them in every busn flower, in every stone and stream, and in all animated nature that surrounds them. It needs no more knowledge than every man can gain who will look and think to make rural life of enjoyments. He who will not this wrongs and cheats himself. the order of nature, a love of country is a natural enjoyment in declining yerrs. All men should bear in mind that their tastes outlive their intellectual powers. They should therefore cultivate those tastes which can be easily grati fied, that are not inconsistent with weakness or age, which make heavy demands upon our powers, which we hold by n uncertain Objects of art or wealth are quently stripped from men when their powers begin to fall, but he loves Qod's works is happy in scenes of nature, has pleasures certain and lasting than fortune give. It is a good investment- to tivate the tastes, 1 care not how hum ble they may be. The man is untrue to himself amid the labor of the when following the plow or busy any other work, who does not himself to love what is beautiful, does not exercise and strengthen mind by observing all these Is him. He lives in the midst ot great museum of wonders, and cannot say that he has no chance learn ; he cannot say he was taught, for all the world about him teaching, if he will buT learn, that will make him content with lot, that will strengthen his purify his Taste, and lift him up his whole nature." There are but points from one the most accomplished, eloquent, graceful addresses ever delivered such an occasion. The whole effort one that shows the man of wide varied study and of deep thought the man who is not only a statesman in politick, but a philosopher in works of nature, and one familiar at home in her deep recesses ; the who draws glories from the clod our feet no less than

full in and do be to We learned yesterday the particu lars of the horrible outrage perpetra ted near Tyner's Station by five ne grocs. Our informant, Stantifer, is a gentleman well-known to the citizens of Chattauooga, and his statements are true in every particular. He is farmer residing in the neighborhood of the scene he relates. It appear that the vicinity oi Houses' comp ground, about oDe and a half miles from Tyner's Station, in the eastern part of Hamilton county, has some weeks past been infested by number of negroes, who -have been terror to the citizens By their numer numerous - ous numerous thefts and their outrages upon the women of the farmers' households. Oa Saturday evening last a family named Gardner from North Alabama arrived at the camp ground, as the village is known, intending to make a permanent settlement. The family consisted of Hiram Gardner, an old mn of about CO years, and three daughters, all attained to woman- hrod. They had traveled from their old home in a wagon containing their few personal and household effects Arriving in the outskirts of the vil lage, they determined to stay there until the following morning. After their frugal meal they laid down their wagon and went to sleep. About midnight they were awak ened by loud noises, and, starting in affright, found that a number negroes were in and around the wag on. JVir. uardner, a feeble old man, spoke to them. The negroes replied With oaths, and seizing Mr. Gardner, beat him severely. The women screamed, and afraid of assistance riving, the negroes hastily seized them, took them from the warron, and tying the two eldest, took youngest of the women, who twenty-five years old, and their er, bound their arms, and hastily mounting their horses, disappeared the woods. The two women, bound to trees, screamed madly, but no person came to their assistance. After a fear- ful night of suffering and suspense, daylight dawned. Soon after day daylight - light daylight a farmer drove by the helpless couple, and at once went to their UnblndingThem, they told him their sad story. The farmer took them in his wagon and hastened back to the village, The news spread, and in half an hour a dozen strong men, armed to the teeth start started - ed started out to find the negroes and victims. Taking the course pointed out them, by the two women, who companied them, they rode for about three miles through the woods, when they came upon the father and daughter lying on the ground within twenty feet of each other, and both, all appearances, dead. Mr. Gardner was covered with blood, and a bullet bullet-hole - hole bullet-hole found in his breast. Miss GartU ner was lying entirely naked, bore evident marks oi outrage. Whis Whisky - ky Whisky was applied to both victims, in a short time they were enabled be moved. They were carried to the village, and by evening Gardner recovered sufficiently to the cruelties to which they been subjected at the hands of merciless negroes. be of just offi official - cial official year mil and to oa Mr. Gardnerstated that the negroes, nve in number, bad taicen them to the spot where they found, and after dismounting had them to a tree and two of the negroes had Beized hi3 daughter, while anoth er proceeded to outrage her person Maddeued by the scene, feeble as was, and as numerous as were his sailants he attempted to break bonds and go to his daughter's rescue. His attempts were vain, and he out In anguish for some help. One the negroes with an oath .told that he would stop his mouth, immediately fired at him. He hit and lost all consciousness of hellish deeds of the negroes. the appearance of Miss Gardner, plain that all of the negroes have violated her person. The fortunate girl had not recovered ciently when Mr. Stantifer left to her story. It is doubtful if she recover at all. The citizens are afraid to allow women out of their houses. A reign of terror exists. All c&n get awsy have gone or are going,

if if or full do In ihe our no or fre who the can cul farm at teach and his about God's he to never is truths his mind, in of and on is and ; the and man un underneath - derneath underneath loves Remarks of General Joseph Geiger. of Columbus, Ohio, at Sandusky, that State, State, September 7th,IS6S: My Fellow-citizens I do not feel quite as much at nome among Democratic audience as my friend Judge Thurman. He has always been with tho party ; wintered and summered with it. When I get into a large Democratic audience I feel good deal like a man in Western Pennsylvanio, who inquired of a boy whether he knew where Jake Klein Klein-felter - felter Klein-felter lived. The boy said he did, Says hi, "Can you tell . me." "Yes sir," savs tho boy. "Do you see our barn down there?" "Yes," says "Go to that. About three hundred yards beyond the barn you will find alne. Take that lane and follow along for about a mile and a half. Then you will come to a branch. up the branch about a quarter of mile and then you will come to slippery-elm low. You be mighty keerful, stranger, about going on that log ; you may get into the branch and then you go on up until you to the brow of a hill, and there roads prevaricate, and you take left hand road and keep that until you get into a big plump thicket, when 3'ou get there, why then then then" "What then." "Then, stranger, I'll be damned if you ain't lost." fLoud laughter.! So I scarcely know how to navigate when I get into a Democratic audi ence, because I was raised an old Whig, and I have stuck to the party faithfully, I believe, ever since, and don't profess, even in talking to to-night, to be a Democrat, I never asked anything from the party and I never expect to solicit thing from the party. I stand by Democratic party this time, simply because I believe It is right, cheers, and whenever I believe it is wrong, will turn from it just as rapid'y as Irishman wheeled, and he wheeled so fast, Judge Thurman, that he the seat of his breeches in 1 Laughter. I am not ashamed to called a "turncoat." I will turn coat every day.if I believe it is All I want to do, at every election, to feel like a man, to speak liffe a to think like a man, to vote like man, to be a, man in the presence my fellows and my God,- and let fellows and my God.and let my tell me I have done my duty, and do not ask your Democratic party your Republican cabals to speak nie. (Applause. I want no body of men to draw blind-bridle over my eyes and put breeching over my back, hitch traces to whatever load they to put on the wagon, and halloo, up," and make me pull. But I and feel that the Democratic party, the present time, is drawing the kind of a load, and, therefore, I willing to co in the lead, or act wheel-horse, or perform any duty for the success of the Loud cheer3. Now I know that a man is to be disloyal because he belongs thes party, but I am not afraid terms. They can just call me they please. What I want to do do my duty.if it is disloyalty to by the Constitution of the States, when it is now to be by this Radical party, me disloyal. (Cheers,) I have taught to resyect the old instrument. I have read that Washington Madison and Jefferson and Franklin and the old men that came up the battle fields of the Revolutlon.and welded the country together companionship of suffering, met as friends, and made that instrument, I am fool enough to that George Washington good a man as Ben. Wade. I am silly enough to think that

To show who has robbed the Treas- ' ury of millions, we will introduce a few Radical witnesses'. The first is John P. Hale, late United States Sen-' ator from New Hampshire." In a speech delivered by him in tha Uni- ted States Senate, in April, 1802 Mr J Hale said : "I tell you, sir, I believe, and I de declare - clare declare it upon my responsibility as a Senator of the United States Mat the liberties of the country are in greater danger to-day from the CORRUP CORRUP-TIOKS - TIOKS CORRUP-TIOKS and from the PROFLIGACY practiced in the various Departments of Government than they are from the open enemy la the field " ' f The next witness is Henry L, Dawes one of the Massachusetts representa representatives - tives representatives in Congress, who thus expressed himself in a speech to the House, in the same year :. . "The gentleman must remember,' " that in the first year of a Republican administration, which came into power upon professions -of retrench retrenchment - ment retrenchment and reform, there is undubita-""' ble evidence (evidence that cannot be -doubted) abroad in the land, that somebody has PLUNDERED THE PUBLIC TREASURY well nigh in that hingle year as much as the entire current yearly expenses of the Gov Government - ernment Government during the ail ministration which the people liurle ) front power because of its corruption." The next piece- of testimony we quote from Don Piatt, a leading Re publican of this State, In his Maek-a-Cheek Press of June 1, 1S67, said : "From the hour of his (Lincoln') first inauguration ud to that of his death, the thieves were all iu office. It was impossible almost to lay hand3 on an official and not touch a man made rich by his position. This was especially the case with the moneyed offices. Honest men stood aghast at the impunity with which stealing went on. All cries of shame at the outrage seemed unavailing.. All op opposition - position opposition was thrown away. Thieves were turned out. to be succeeded by thieves, and colossal fortunes were made in an hour. The amiable old i-resictentci-acneu jokes over the ras rascality, - cality, rascality, and said that in his appoint appointments - ments appointments he had to run his hand into a sack of fifty snakes to HuJ aiuooij Here, certainly, is sufficient food for contemplation, at one time ; and per per-haps - haps per-haps from this may be Inferred the real motive of laising the cry "dis "disloyal," - loyal," "disloyal," "copperhead," etc., by the Radicals in office against Democrats. lass lass-is - is lass-is of th .ics ' St s of Ddt fr. ery tsd i a a f- i a

the stars above our beads ; who sees in every hill and vale, in the highest peaks of earth and the lowest cavern ol the great deep, a reason for all that Is, and In that reason, and the order which it ordains, recognizes the sys tematic mysteries of that "stupendous whole" which Heauen has enriched with knowledge in comparison with which men with all their policies are mere atoms ; who has the largeness of nature and honorable sense of the fit fitness - ness fitness of things to leave the petty, the personal, and the partizan far behind. In reading this address we thought, as others undoubtedly will, with pride of our countryman. We also remem bered that he is the candidate of & great party the party of Conserva tism and the Constitution for the Presidency. We could not.moreover, help contrasting him, with his broad and thonghtful nature, his high and varied attainments, his well stored & accomplished understanding, his great superiority as a mag, a states man, and a Christian, and his exalted reputation as a thinker, a writer, and a speaker we say wecould not help contrasting him with another gentle man who is also a candidate for the same high office Ueneral Grant. And what a contrast it is ! Grant with a poor, contracted, and empty mind with little native intellect and little acquired knowledge, and with no tastes for knowledge and no sympa sympathies - thies sympathies with the intellectual, and who could not in his most lucid and clear clearheaded - headed clearheaded moments make a speech'of six lines, or, in doing so, put an idea in it beyond saying good-night to some somebody. - body. somebody. Grant's warmest friends, we think, must own at what great disad disadvantage - vantage disadvantage he stands in comparison with Governor Seymour.and how dwarfted and insignificant he is. It is with one of the two men that the people must soon electo fill teo Presidential chair. What would we be forced to think of that public judgment that would prefer Grant to Seymour. We rejoice, however, to believe that such a selection is impossible, otherwise manhood is nothing, statesmanship is nothing, cultivation Is nothing strength, scope, aud grant of under understanding - standing understanding is nothing, and narrowness, ignorance, and presumption everything.