.S7S [ 670 S75 io. 3 ^opy 1 6i5Jij ) ) SPIRIT OF THE CAMPAIGN. I^uMBER Three. -« — -^ — •- COMPAEE THE DOCTEINES OF THE TWO PARTIES. Ueniocratic^. The Metropolitan Eccord says : Is it not about time for them to pet it into their brain that it is a cardinal principle with ilie Demociacy Ibat this is a WuiTK Max's Oovkknmknt, ami that, Iberpfore, the nifjger "governments" wliicli Uatlicalism has set up in these Afri- canlte.l Suaies have all got to be upset, and that tlie upset- tuii; will tiet'lri jiisl as soon as we can get our Democratic l'rrsi:iirate lican in form,' and with this aijproval North Carolina has Ijeen restored to her former position and privileges in the Union."' GOVERNOR POWEI-L OF ARKANSAS. The inaugural address of Gov. Powell of Ar- kansas is a brief document. In it Gov. Powell congratulates the peoj^le of the State on " the restoration of the bonds of relationsliip between the State and the Federal Government, which were so violently torn asunder seven years ago;" and to the State officers he says : "Into your hands and mine is confided the dut.v of rais- ing up the superstructure. If we would have this work well done we must labor together with harmony and unity — v.ith energy and circumspecMon — paying ilue regard to the value of the time and the exigencies of the ijublic service; and yet avoiding that sui)erficial haste which might require otherg'to jiull down and rebuild that which we have erected at so much expense." He concludes as follows: "In conclusion, permit me to express the hope that ont of the dark and gloomy past a brighter and better era is dawning upon our State and common country — one that will excite the admiration of the future historian, as he hands down to all succeeding ages the glorious record of a people who, through nuich sufl'ering and great sacrifice, made ev- ery institution conform strictly to the great principles of lib- erty and justice — an era that shall be marked with a degree of intelligence, refinement and prosperity not equalled by any preceding age. Tliat it may please Him wlio holds the destinies of nations in His hands to permit these expecta- tions to be realized, is my humble sujijilication. Ll>G.7o' SPIRIT OF THE CAMPAIGN. Democratic. We are paying $40,000,000 a year in solid gold, as the cost of Democratic threats of repu- diation. Ovir interest on the public debt is over 8120,000,000 in gold, M'hcn it need not exceed .f;80,000,000. If our credit were undoubted, for- eign capitalists would be glad to lend us money at four per cent., and thereby enable us to reduce our annual expenditure for interest by at least one-third. Is not this paying rather dearly for a Democratic luxury? Thr Mobile Tribune has no doubts about the real issue of the impending contest. The prin- ciples of the late Rebellion are again to be fought for, first at the ballot-box, and if defeated there the discussion will be removed to the battle-field. Ballots first, to keep up appearances, and then bullets. The Tribune puts the case plainly : " Friepds — fellow-citizens of Mobile — comrades of the Queen City of tlie Gulf! let us make onemore effort in be- half of our rights and our liberties. If ice ore succe^ifvl in the approachhig context we nhall regain all that v« lost in the 'Lost Cause.^ We shall be freemen once more. AVe shall have a country. We shall be able to reverse the iron rule which has been imposed upon us, and turning that iron into brands of fire, bur! them baclf on the heads of the flagitious wretches who have inflicted so many foul and fla- grant wrongs on our bleeding country. Once more to the breach then — yet once more! and when the cloud shall have cleared away from the tiauiing field, our flag — the grand old Democratic flag — will be seen in all its glory, streaming like the thunder-cloud ao-ainst the wind. Let us then rally once more around The Dear Old Flag, which we have followed so often to glory and to victory. Let us plant our standard in the midst of (he field, and let us once more raise the wsir-cry — ' he who doubts is damned ; he who dallies is a dastard.' " " Secession is not dead. Secession is more alive than ever." — Gov. Wise, of Va. At the ratification of Blair and Seymour, in Louisville, " portraits of Jeff. Davis, Lee, and Stonewall Jackson were suspended over the plat- form, and afterwards carried in a torchliglit pro- cession, and the stars and stripes were nowhere to be seen." Raphael Scmme?, the pirate, said in Mobile: " I drew my sword against the old flap — the old flag which no longer represented these principles ; it was not the flag of 1776 against which I drew my sword, but the flag which had become ' a flaunting lie,' so-called by prominent politicians of the North. Eut now, in spite of the efforts of those poli- ticians, who endeavored to strangle the old Democratic par- ty, by erecting in its stead anew Cons-ervative part.v — a sort of conglomerated party — whicli was to comprise politicians of every shade of t pinion, the grand old Democratic party has risen from the long slumber in which it has indulged and now gives signs of new life and vitality ; and I hav ' come here to-night from the country to ratify and rejoic^ ■with you in the nomination of Seymour and blair." Republican. Who Supports Grant? — Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Meade, Farragut, and eight out of ten other loyal officers and men who fought under the Stars and Stripes during the Rebellion. WHio supports Sej-mour ? — Beauregard, Forrest, Hamp- ton, Semmes, Toombs, and nine-tenths of the Rebels who fought under the Stars and Bars. This fact needs no comment. Now, boys, three cheers for Grant and C!olfax -hip ! Hurrah ! Ilurrah ! the Boys in Blue Are coming in their might, In soldier columns, firm and true, To battle for the right : Brave boys are they, and well they know The country's chiefest want, The air resounds, where e'r they go. With cheers for General Grant. Hurrah I Hurrah I Mislead the boys you can't, Forever true, they wore the Blue, And followed General Grant. Hurrah ! Hurrah ! Deceive them now you can't ; The Boys in Blue, forever true, Will follow General Grant. Hun-ah ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! Sensible views of ex-Gov. Orr (Democrat) of South Carolina. He predicts that colored suf- frage can never be reversed, and goes for impar- tial suffrage with a property qualification. He says: "With their plan of restoration carried into effect as it has been, the Republican party are now williug to leave the q\iestion of suffrage to the States themselves, their policy having placed the part.v in power, and it is vain to expect any restriction while they remain in power. It is equally idle to anticipate relief from the Democratic partJ^ The Republicans will have the undisputed control of the Govern- ment until the 4th of March, lS(i9. Even though the Demo- crats succeed in the Fall elections, and secure their Presi- dent, and the House of Representatives, there will stiil be a Republican majority of more than two-thirds in the Senate, and that majority must continue if the present party divisions are maintained, until the 4th of March, 1871. As- suming, therefore, that all the intermediate elections shall be favorable to the Democratic party, not until the 4th of March, 1S71, can they obtiiin control of the Legislative and F.xecutive Departments of the Government; and not until then, whatever may be their disposition, will they possess the strength necessary to limit this right of suffrage. When in power, however how are they to proceed in removing th< evil — what remedy can they apply? Will they repeal the Reconstruction Acts of IfeC"? The Convention in New York has avowed the doctrine that the right of regulating suffrage belongs exclusively to the States. Upon that issue mainly, within the last six months, the party have achieved their successes over the Reiiublicans in the North and West. In 1871 the Southern State Governments will have been in ope- ration under these acts for three years, and, to a certain ex- tent, society will have adapted itself to their laws and requirements. Should the Democrats under these circum- stances, rejieal the Reconstruction Acts, or should the Su- preme Court pronounce them unconstitutional, and declare the Stiite organizations then existing void, we shall be left in a condition of anarchy. If, on the other hand, they de- clare them to be simply provisional, what authority will then determine the question of suffrage? The theory of the SPIRIT OF THE CAMPAIGN. Pemoeratie. { RepaiS^lican. The South, not the North, animated the Tam- many Convention. The South, not the North, dictated the one essential feature of the platform. - The author of its chief plank was none other than Wade Hampton. He says: " When the resolution offered by the senator from Mary- land, which declared that the rights of suffrage belonged to the political powers of a State, were being considered, I begged to add a few simple words. They agreed ; and I took the resolutions, which you will find embodied in the platform, and added to them, ' And we declare that the re- canstruction acts of Congress are unconstitutional, revolu- tionary, and void.' [Cheers.] That was my pl'7ik in thepkltfoi-m. I wanted nothing else ; for when the great Democratic party had pledged themselves to that, when they had declared that these acts were 'unconstitutional, re- volutionary, and void,' I was willing to wait in patience un- til that party would be triumphant, and apply the remedy in their own good time.'' " What the Confederacy fought for would be won by the election of Seymour and Blair." — Gov. Vance, of North Carolina. Benj. H. Hill, of Atlanta, proposed a public burning of the reconstruction acts, indulging himself in the following strain : "When liberty shall return, when the law shall be again respected, and good men shall be again our rulers, we must gather all the journals, and constitutions, and enactments of eyery character, of the conventions and assemblies thus forced upon us by force, and fraud, and usurpation, and, catching a fire from heaven, burn them up forever ! And right here, my countrymen, I want you to understand that I am a candidate but for one office on earth. [Several voices: 'Name it, and you shall have it.'] When the glo- rious day shall come, and the free women, and the free men, and the proud youth of Georgia shall gather together to fire the miserable, hideous record of infamy, let the office be mine to kindle the flames. [Tremendous cheers, lasting several minutes.]" * Howell Cobb says : " The Reconstruction acts are null and void, and shall not stand. * * The grinning skeletons which have been set up in our midst as legislators shall he ousted by Fkank Blair, whom our pat ty has expressly appointed for that purpose." * * Of Southern Republicans he says : " Upon them there should heno mercy. They have dis- honored themselves, and sought to dishonor you. Anatlie- matizetltem.. Drive tkern from, the pale of social and polittcal society.^'' John Forsyth, in the Mobile Register, says of Uie present Southern State governments : ".4«cJ here we may as well say that the jieople of the South do not intend to subriit to that piermanent rule, ref-Ult as the /'residential election may. And they hire only submitted to its indignities and insults so far be- cause they have been waiting for the good sense and justice of the American people to relieve them from it^ and restore Ihcm to their civil rights in the November elections." * Tiomocratic Secretary of the Treasury, who stole all the Government funds on the breaking out of the war. Democratic party will be that the States themselves must do so. wm the party in direct opposition to that theory, when they pass new Reconstruction Acts, ignore the Southern Constitutions of 1868, and by their act declare against the suffrage of the colored man, either universal or qualified? Will not such action upon their part be directly in antagon- ism to their professed principles, and Uielr le<;islation be fol- lowing directly in the fcol.stfps-of the RepuLlicanf whom they censure so gravely for regulating suffrage lu the States ? Should the Supreme Court declare the acts unconstitutional, and the State governments void, what government will be in e.\isten<;e? Can anarchy then be avoided witi;out the inter- vention of Congress, and an invasion of the right o the State to regulate this question? Will the Constitutions of 1860, or 18C5, be declared in force; and will the officers in office, when tljose Constitutions were superseded in 1868, be reinstated? If so, which set of officers? The terms of all of them will have expired. How will elections be ordered to fill vacancies? Upon neither of the foregoing theories can the right of suffrage in the States be regulated otherwise than by Congress. Does any reflecting man believe, for a moment, that Congress, in 1871, will remit these States to a territorial and chaotic condition, and require us to go through a new process of restoration ? The Southern people need not delude themselves with false e.xpectations. When the time arrives, if the Democratic party are in power, and the regulation of suffrage in the States is the recognized principle, depend upon it, the statu quo then existing will not be disturbed by Congress. What, then, are we to rely upon to relieve the body politic from the serious injury which is to result from the continuance of universal suf- frage, with so much ignorance prevailing among the voters. In my judgment, the remedy is exclusively wiih ourselves. It win prove illusory to rely upon help emanating from any other source. Intelligence and wealth have heretofore, in all sections of the Union, sooner or later, controlled the votes of the ign Drant and the dependent, and in time the same result will follow here. That the colored vote should have sustained the Republican party in the recent elections is not surprising, especially when it is remembered that the party was solidified by the organization of another party, whose principle?, as avowed, looked to the repudiation, or at least to the abridgment of llie elective franchise which Con- gress has granted to the colored man. When he was called upon to cajl bl> tjallot, and the issue presented was to sus- tain ibc party wblcti hail first proclaimed his freedom, en- acted the Fre«JmaD"8 liureau and Civil Rights bill, which had extended to tilm the right of universal suffrage, and was then struggling to maintan its existence against the party which, in Congress and elsewhere, had opposed all these privileges — when to vote in opposition to Republican ideas was to voluntarily renounce the elective franchise, so much esteemed as a public boon — it was not at all surpris- ing that the ballot of the colored man was cast, nearly as a unit, against the advice and influence of the great majority of the white population of the Southern States. When this question of suffrage is settled, he will learn that his best friends and safest advisers are those with whom he has been associateil in the various relations of life. Many of the colored people will soon begin to acquire proji- erty, and they will at once appreciate the identity of po- litical and personal interest between themselves and the white race. This interest, combined with a disappearance of that prejudice and distrust which now exists, will, if kindly treated, induce them heartily to co-operate with the whites, in imposing such restrictions upon the right of suf- frage as will secure society against tumult, disorder, and vicious legislation. To the white, and to the intelligent col- ored man alone, therefore, do I look for a limitation of the right of suffrage, and its establishment upon the basis of aa educational or projierty qualification. Should they fail, however, they will control and direct the vote of the ignor- ant, and thus exert a conservative influence upon the wel- fare of the State. WHY THE BONDS CANNOT BE TAXED? By three successive decisions of the United I States Supreme Court, it has been decided that j for a State, city, or other local authority to tax National bonds is inconsistent with those clauses 1 of the Constitution whicli make the National Government, within the scope of its delegated SPIRIT OF THE CAMPAIGN. Democratic. Tho Meridian (Miss.) 3fercury says: I' We must make the negro understand we are the men we were when we held him in abject bondage, and make him feel that when forbearance ceases to be a virtue he has aroused a power that will control him or devtroi/ him.'' The Vicksburg Tim(s adds: " Objection is made down this way to the indorsement of the Blair letter, by a few timid people on the score of pru- dence, and yet it was this identical letter of Frank ISlair to his friend Colonel Jirodliead that secured the Missouri hero the nomination for Vice-President. We leant ju.tt such ant- mimitioii as Fkank Blair uses." General Freeman (rebel), one of the Mississippi delegates, has been describing the scenes at the Tammany Convention. We quote one sentence from his speecli : "President Seymour, like Palinurus, the pilot of the ves- sel of iEneas, attempted in vain to resist the rolling tide of the public voice of the toiling millions of America that bore ids banner aloft despite of himself He was carried away by the tempest of universal enthusiasm, and finally yielded to his destiny with all the dignity of a conquered hero, like that of our own loved General Lee to the victorious banners of /the Union army. Pike appeals to the young men of the South in this wise through the Memphis Ajypeal : " Young men, it is for you to bring back these golden days. The South is our land; the North is a foreign and hostile realm. Stand nt the altar of your country. Hiretir eter- ni'l hatred of its oppressors. Swear that' the -lay sLall come, if these oppressors shall conilQue, when the .Susijik- hannah anil Ohio shall be like rivers (^t flr«, is u,ri v» art rivers of lilood, between yout native lao) an.l itia< v iik' Northern Hans, which no ma.i s.iall aiiemi.i •/ cri>«». »£<• live. * * * We do not love, an) will ooi prpienJ u lov. that Union, though we have agree-l to obey lie aws tl l^» ocnqueror. If the ol(i Union cannot be restored, we win hope to see the Soutli independent before we die , and If Ja- cobinism is to become supreme in the North, we wish there could be an impossible wall or gulf of fire between it and our Southern States. The day will come when the South uill be i7idepe?iUent." The Memphis Avalanche (rebel), speaking of the BLAra letter, says : " Ilad it appeared in these columns, ' they would have been stigmatized as revolutionists.' But, strange to say, it teas the publicition of the letter, from which we take the above extracts, that secured Mr. Blair his nomiwtion for the Vice-Presidency. Thus it will be seen that the Northis far ahead of t/ie South. They ai-e rife for revolution.'^ The Charleston (Va.) Chronicle says: "General Blair was an abolitionist and a war man ; but those are dead issues, and, if he was sincere in Us recent letter, he will answer our purpose." General Thomas Ewing, Jr., declared at the "Washington ratification: " On the 8d of November next the American people will endeavor to restore those States to their constitutional rights. Should *his by a possibility fail, the white popula- tion of those States may succeed in placing themselves in possession of their governments ; othencise. as nure as the .Anglo-Saxon bloiil runs in- the veins of Soufhern men, tfiere uill be an upheaval of civil mt7', and then, should Congress sustain the blacks,, asbes will cover the ruins of the whole republic." Republican. powers. This is a sufficient reason why the bonds cannot be taxed by any State or local autliority. In considering wiiether Congress has power to tax these bonds, it is proper to observe the effect. If the Government could sell an untaxed six per cent, bond at par, it can only sell such a bond after it has been made subject to one per cent. tax for one-sixth less than par, or at 83 1-3. If the interest untaxed would be six per cent., the interest taxed would be seven. On a square transaction, therefore, where Government and the lender both know in advance that the bond is to be taxed, the Government gains nothing and the lender loses nothing by the tax, but the former pays just enough additional interest to make it even. The quickest and surest way to lighten the burdens of taxation is to fund the bonds — i. e,, borrow the money, at a lower rate of interest. Every exemption from taxation aids this result by reducing the rate of interest, and of course every taxpayer shares the benefit of exemption in exact proportion to his taxable liability. Could it be shared any more evenlj^ ? Of course not ! What- ever argument avails to justify taxing the bonds one per cent, justifies taxing them, wholly out of existence. The taxation of bonds by Congress would, moreover, be a direct tax on property. Wiiether the tax is levied on principal or interest, this holds true. The National debt is not an industry or a business like banking and other taxable branches of business. It is property merely. The interest is nothing till it is due, and then it is property like the principal Congress is forbid- den by the Constitution to lay any direct tax what- ever, except in proportion to numbers, and in a manner which would not be practicable, and has not been proposed, in relation to the National debt. The so-called carpet-baggers are the legitimate successors to the " knapsackers" of the National armies who followed Grant and Sherman into the Southern States and redeemed them from rebellion and slavery to freedom and the Union. Gen. Scott, of South Carolina, is a gentleman, a scholar, who entered South Carolina as a general in the Union armies, was detained there after the war by his official duties as a Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau, because popular among Union men and the freedmen (who form two-thirds of the people of South Carolina) by his uprightness and offi- cial integrity, and has finally made the State his home. Gov. ilolden, of North Carolina, is the life-long friend of the Unicm cause and editor of the Raleigh Standard. He stood at his post and defied Jeff. Davis in the height of his power. He is a Southern man. Gov. Warmouth, of Louisiana, en- tered the South as colonel of a Missouri regiment, served with distinction, became a brigadier-general, settled in the State at the close of the war. Senator Harris and Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, are Northern men of great talents and unimpeachable character. It is this very class of enter- prising men, immigrating from the North, and bringing brains and capital with them, and many of whom, like Sen- ator Harris, of Louisiana, have expended in the South con- siderable fortunes without any returns whatever, who must redeem the Southern States, if they are evtr to be saved from poverty and ruin. While the fire-eating rebels de- nounce them as " carpet-baggers," just as they denounced our armies as vandals and mercenaries, the sensible and conservative portion of the Southern people welcome them as the very hope and salvation of the South. SPIRIT OF THE CAMPAIGN. democratic. General Thomas F. Bowie, a leading^ Demorrat of Maryland, said in liis Baltimore speech: " Tf tliere be any class of men I would sooner tax it would be tbose men wlio furnished the means to cany on the most unholy, wicked, and cruel war in history. I would not tax them as property, but I tcoukl because 1 can read upon the face of these bonds a conti-ibution to an unholy and wicked purpose." The Charleston Mercury, speaking- of the South- ern Ptate governments, says: " Being unconstitutional, all who attempt to enforce it, or to exercise power by its authority, are simply trespassers. A trespasser can be sued in an action for damages. A tres- passer may be justifi>ibl)/ kJlleif. AVith the President of the United States supporting tlie white population in treat- ing the reconstruction laws as unconstitutional and void, what can their agents or instruments be practically but tres- passers ? If they use violence, what are they but traitors ? " Captain, a brother of Thomas Marshall, said at a recent Kentucliy Democratic ratitication, that — " Ho was enthusiastic in support of Seymour, and gave his reasons therefor. Seymour was nominated as a War Democrat, for the reason tliat no other could win. He was called a War Democrat, but he had nerer given any aid or mipport to the Oovernment in prosecutiwi of the war when it could be avoided. In 1S68, when the rebel troops were in Pennsylvania, and the Government called on Sey- mour, who was then Governor of New York, to furnish troops to expel them, lie answered in the same mnnner, if not the same language, as the Governor of Kentucky, in 1861, viz. : that he would not send them. He did send them, however, for the reason that he was unable to do otherwise" Meptibllcau. Now boys, mark tiino ! From old Atlantic's rocky shore To .=oft Pacific's coast, Comes up the chorus o'er and o'er From Grant's unccnquered host, Beneath the flag that waved so long In victory, where he led, Again goes forth the gallant throng While Grant goes at their head. Firm firm ! steady 1 Where our chieftain towers ; Let Seymour bear the ' Stars and Bars," The " Stars and Stripes " are ours. The same old fight we fought of yore, When Grant our victories won ; We fight at North and South once more. Till Freedom's work is done. For Seymour's "friends,"' whom once he taught In eighteen sixty three. Once more unto the ballot brought. To break down liberty. Firm ! firm ! steady, &c. While Grant and Colfax lead our line, Let Blair and Seymour shout. Though rebels North and South combine, Their for<'es we will rout. " I cannot be your candidate," Said Se.vmour— what he meant Was— what he did not stop to state: I can't be President '. The platform demands the restoration of civil government t*the American people. How can civil government be restored, if a Democratic President is to use the army to overturn the Southern State governments, and annul the laws of Congress, ais promised by Blair (dem.), Wise (reb.), Vance (reb.), Seymour (dem.), Cobb (reb.), Toombs (reb.), Semmes (reb.), Pike (reb.), Hill (reb.). Gen. Forrest (reb.), Gen. Preston (reb.). Gen. Buckner (reb.) and the Democratic Con- vention I The platform demands the regulation of the elective franchise in the States by their citizens. If this meant what it says, it would mean that all the citizens in each State shall have a voice in deciding who shall or shall not vote. But this is universal suffrage. What the Democratic patty meant was that only the white citizens of a State should decide who should vote. Why did they not have the honesty to say so ? The white citi- zens of the South voted their States out of the Union, and would do so again if they could en- foi'ce their vote. Therefore white suflVage only in the Southern States is a failure. Universal suf- frage in the rebel States votes those States into the Union. It is a success. WHAT THE LOYAL GOVERNORS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES SAY. Frmn the Message of Gov. Robert K. Scott, of South Carolina. For the first time in the liistory of South Carolina, her General Assembly has convened ucder a Constitution that recognizes the rights of man. The monf poly of class, by which the few governed the many, has gone down before the sovereignty of the people, and her institutions have been founded on the broad basis that " all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." Our constitution, recently ratified by the vast majority of the voters of South Carolina, guarantees to the citizen every privilege eon.^istent with the safety of the State, and invests the State with every prerogative not inconsistent with the rights of the citizen. Sound policy and correct ijrinciple thus unite in our political system ; and it will be your duty, as it will doubtless be your chief aim, so to legislate that the public laws and administration of the State shall not discredit the constitution under which you have assembled. Theoljjectof all legislation should be the greatest good to the greatest number. Equal and exact justice to all is therftftre required at your hands ; and I have no doubt that each and every class and locality in the State will receive ♦'^eir due share of public favor from your honorable Tbodles. Wa