Daily Arkansas Gazette from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 1

NUMBER 225. LITTLE ROCK, ARK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1868. BY WOODRUFF BLOCKER, PRINTERS. -tVT $10 PER l.JLllNUM.IN FORTY-NINTH YEAR. instead of selecting ten white radical politicians i to reward them for partisan work.

Miscellaneous. usihess Directory. Drugs and Medicines: B. b. US 111 CSS1 tion, representing1 the party toi whicn the men who framed the oath whioh I am considering belong, refused JL declare it as an rticle in their creed, that the tasc men of the.

northern states should be fat en a eivil and political equality the white men of those states. No, ignoring (heir boasted dogma of the equality of all men, they cunningly declared that "he quuivm oftuffrogt all Iht LOYAL etalu properly belong to Ike people of Ihote itaiet." What people? The whit people of course, who are the only people in those states who have a voice in the regulation of suffrage. There they abandoned the poor black man to his fate, because they were not willing to hazard the issue of (his race for publio spoils upon a question that had been fcadly beaten in those states. actments. That tree can neither Tote, serre upon jury, nor hold an office.

rNorcanI-Under an act, copied from the tat ate book'of Iowa, and recently introduced here, by ft body of men styling themselves the representatives of the people of Arkansas, but who are in fact strangers to them, that tree is taxed, and so is your speaker, most oppressively. In the wisdom of Providence, who fashioned all things in grades and classes, the tree is denied (he liberty of speech and ef but is compensated for these deprivations by being fed without labor. I can walk and talk with some prudence and caution as to when and where I travel and, what I say, but I must toil for bread and share the larger portion of. my earnings with those adventuring gentlemen who have kindly come among us from other states and taken TaMir-0t-at- Its! -It A -r a if Hi UDIMENT3 OF GRAPE CULTURE. BEING SIMPLE FOR TUB USE OF THOSE WHO HAVE NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT," By JOHir R.

EAK1M. I Tho author of this valuable little book is a resident of Arkansas, and teaches the proper mode of cultivating the Grape properly in southern soil. At this time it is the very best Book a southern farmer ean buy. The author says, "an experience (ia Arkansas) of eight years with the Catawba and Isabella, has proved that the crop never an entire failure from rot or "The Isabella ripens mere thoroughly bore, and has a fla vor nnknown to it in Tennessee. There is also manifest improvement la the size and taste cf the Catawba." About the native grapes he says; "This is the best region of wild grapes in America." "The region between the Mississippi rfver and the plain, and the Missouri and the swamp laads ot the Qulf produces mom and taaaia, and bkttkr wild geafss than auy other portion' of the known world." "We wish to call the iUcn-lion of onr people la this particular thing the development of our native Arkansas Qrapea." I- mo pamp.

Price per mail or otherwise, A liberal discount to the trade1 JKO. REARDON, Book-seller and agent for Publisher. fJIHE PIONEER PLANING MILLS, AND SASH, DOOR BLIND FACTORY i A.U(iKR. t. lours vtt ten- 1 a II .4 JER.

Proprietor. Are prepared to furnish to order all kinds oi Sash, Doers, Blinds, Flooring, Weather-board-1 ins, Inside Finish, Moldings, te. Of the very best materials nd lowest mic es Plained Lumber worked to order at the shortest notice. I Particular attention paid to SOROIX and ORVA-MKNTAL SAWING, such as brackets. fancy pickets, etc Turning of every description.

Country orders promptly attended to. MaacrACTORT On Elizabeth Street, between Centre and Spring Streets, Terms Cash. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Iaprl6-dtf 22 I a 'JO 'te oi a 5 CD i- fi. a a i3 S3 co te CO I 2 fc3 i.

CO A.m. KI AN. CBAS. a. CTtrVTHOHAlt.

UKMMiUIH A. H. RYAN At the old A damson UilL Keep always on hand a large and well assorted stock of Seasoned and Green Lumber which ticy offer at the lowest market price. Dressed Lumber furnished to -irder at the usual rates. Also sawed laths, bolted and unbolted.

'meal of the new crop. Bills filled with accuracy and ispatca. oc31dtf Bepublican copy. j. RET CLEARING OUT SALE AT- "The Sfore TTnl-r thn Sun av a vs osaa' 'isv a a 1 JOSEPH MEYER, i Is determined to Sdll out the balance of his well assorted slock or Staple and Fancy Pry Clothing, Boots, Shoes; 1 4 ii .1 1 AT OS -K preparatory 5 to oing sast for aa entira sew stock of fall and winter foods.

vk ts i THIS IS NO HUM BUO 1 GOODS FOSITIV fi.i! -v '3' 1 1, ayE very body call and see for themselves. 1 I i 1 But when tbe people of the etiie shall be no. longer deprived or their just political rights by force and fraud, and shall come to abolish, or reform the present constitution, whether they will continue to the colored men all the civil and political rights and privileges granted to them by the present constitution, depends very much npon their conduct in the meantime. If they permit themselves to bo marched la the polls by designing men, in companies, like flocks of sheep, and to be used as mere voting machines if they allow themselves to be made to do the dishonest work of voting repeatedly at the same election as they have heretofore recently done, they will prove themselves unfit and unworthy te be trusted with the elective franchise, and (or one, shall be ia favor of depriving them of it. But if in, the coming presidential election they go to the polls separately like the white men do, and vote some one Way and some another, thereby showing that they are capable of making a choice between candidates, and like honest men vote but once, they may furnish some evidence of their fitness to be intrusted with the elective franchise.

But to return to the oath under discussion. To take this oatb, is but in effect, to take an oath to support the existing constitution, and no approbation of the policy or frame-work of the constitution is implied; nor does the oath operate as a prohibition npon the person who assumes it to test the validity of the constitution before the proper tribunals; nor is the oath of perpetual obligation, so as to prevent the exercise of the right of or resorting to, any of the usual modes of abrogat ing or retorming ino constitution. These are well established elementary principles of Amer ican constitutional to every lawyer. buppese you can take the oatb, but refuse, You deprive yourself of the 'franchise secured to the elector by tho constitution, and yet you 1 are under the sane obligation to submit to the I constitution, and abide by its provisions as the man who takes the oath, congress his declared it a valid constitution, and we can not dc otherwise than rtgard it as a de facto constitu-tion at least; and all the officers of the state, from the highest to the. lowest, have so treated it; and yielded up their offices to the men who have been elected or appointed under it to fill their places.

The radicals, and most of the colored ocn, will take the oath. If the conscr. vative neonle rcfasa to take it. lK nresidintial election in this stat will iro bT dffanli fnr i Grant and Colfax electors, and they will be counted by tbe present house of representatives. All tbe Vacancies which have occurred in the legislature, wUcbia to re-assemble in November, will be filled by and yonr grand and petit jurors wll bo composed exclusively -of negroes and a-s well as all of the pub lic oliices.

11 ia the duty of every good man, therefore, who ctn take the oathto take it: a i matter ot atkl protection to the people of the etatei Though opposed to the secession of the state, in obedience to an srdinance of the convention of 1861, 1 took an oath to support the constitution framed by it. I regarded that constitution as revolutionary, but treated it theo, and yet hold it tp have been, a de facto constitution. But it has fallen with the failure of the revolution, and the oath which I took to support it is no longer binding upon me. So I was required in 1865 to take an oath, as an attorney, to support the Murphy constitution, framed by a body of men who assembled without aoy legal authority, but afterwards made a valid constitution by tho general acquiescence of the people. That constitution hasbeen ovei turned by congressional enactments and military force, and I can no longer keep the oath which I took to support it, and am under no obligation to do so.

So if you take an oath to support the present constitution, or any oath prescribed by it, the oath will fall with the constitution, be that sooner or la- er. "I I have said that a man cannot direct himself of an inalienable right by an oath, nor can he legally bind bind himself to do a wrong. Herod, the Roman governor of Judea, (forced upon that I people by the sword of the conqueror, as Clay 1 ton has been forced on us by military despot- ism and fraud,) fascinated by the dancing of' his beautiful step-daughter, promised her, by a rash oath, anything that she might ask of him. Prompted: by her vindictive mother, she de- manded the head of John the Baptist; and he was sacrificed in the keeping of an oatb, which all moralists have agreed should have been broken. These fair who are compli- menting me by marked attentioa; are familiar i with this example.

So an oath forced upon a man by compulsion or duress, and taken to preserve -life, is- said not to be binding on the conscience. A familiar example of this is, where the highwayman robs the traveler of hid purse, but spares his life on condition of his taking an oath not to disclose tbe crime. Casuists have concurred in the opioionthat the traveler may well report the crime to the officers of the law, and cause the arrest and punishment of the robber, re gardless of the oath. How far oaths lorceu upon our people by ad venturers from abroad, who haro usurped the state government for taken to preserve rights as dear to freemen as are binding upon the conscience, I leave others to decide. The oath under discussion may be ta ken in good faith, according to its proper and legal interpretation, and kept so far and so long I as it is binding under estabtistiea principles or constitutional law.

The framers of the oath knew it would be ob noxious to our people, and it was devised for the party purpose of driving them from the polls, and excluding them from the jury-boxes and publio offices. They designed it to be an instrument to enable them to monopolise all the places of profit and honor in tbe state to perpetuate their power by using the too easily deceived ana aeiuaea Aiacx. men as ins electors. andto put the white men into the -condition of serfs and tax-payers, to fill toe pockets or tueir imported task-masters, ine oain is a scare crow, and its cunning inventors' thought they had added much to its frightfulness, bythreat- ening indictment and imprisonment in tbe penitentiary for perjury, for its violation as inter preted by them. -Are our people indeed crows and cravens to be thus rngatened Let them remember that an outraged and indignant people may drive eorrupt partisan judges from the bench, and demolish prisons, as did the people or rance the uastue 1 we are a law-abiding people, but tne meanest reptile win sting when trampled upon Our people though upon their own soil, are like ancient Israel in Egypt unsympathising task-masters are ever pa, and we are oppressed with toil and bortheaed with unexampled taxation, to fill the pockets of rulers whom we have had so voice In chosing.

In the language of the orator 01 war iiui, woo snau deliver na from this body or corruption and death Capt. HowASOi.the gallant onion soldier, but, friend of the oppressed, has told yon. Look at tkn names painted npon that canvass one of them is hot Grant, the persecutor or the Jews! thv are the names of SEYMOUR and BLAIR, the Moses and Joshua, chosen by the direetioa of Providence to deliver oar down-trodden people from bondage I I sea the pillar of eloud by day and fire by sight to eondnet as safely over the opposing flood, and through tho radio! -wllder-sees of sin- Upon the banner of UR are the symbols of the wisdom of.ihe mv-aad the stroma of the ttwts 'npon. the borne by BLAIR, are the symbols af ths swiftness of ths lofty-soaring eagle, and the patience and endurance of the Already are oa the mountain that overlooks promised land of constitutional liberty, oar' the shoots of the millions of the northern democracy are congratnlating ns on the prospects of our deliverance! SEYMOUR and BLAIR, the champions of the unrepresented, tho taxed and ths oppressed, Uve FOREVER. i 3 isrif Go, my frieads, and and fighting the Devil wither, vote numerously and O.o, 000TT.

e.iswBoiu f. r. asat ISCOTT, LOT SO if roawABoiNO aNSt OBMsaAa COMMISSION MERCHANTS COfTOM FACTORM AND Xrm UTTii loci, ai COKblttNMKNTScrfOotloa. Produce, otov ted, and all orders promptly Blind. Bagging, Iron Tiea and np.liw fiiroili.

.1 loweat market ratrs. -artafcaaal aifersucoeienfc mats oa C.1ki..uuI I- And Dealer In llA HEit, HXDIXOS, Ac. iitlu c(M-il inxr. t.mi. Hork.

Ark Urawicr A Co. H. ni-HrtKV A 8t. I -w (i r'ort hmith. Ark.

JO. IricMH, a 4' VV'huleaalc aad retail at GENERAL MERCHANDISE 1 nil mwelua.U, MarkHt h' Mt stcanitxiat -mIiiik, l.lttle JDAMS. COCK II I no votto.x fmit coii)iisio. Jjfo tO CoM.n sue, XKWom.KAX. NA JOHN D.

AD mfj of th( Hrni. Im un He Hock. Kramer Mill, I. Slwly e. a.

vanes. H. o. wsst. SILIV TAYI.OJR, WJEST Ac Rac.tvu.g, Forwarding and OoiiimlsaiMlon ILlTTLla Rora, AsSAH.a,, We have mmlo in-f.

ia invited to tki. February 2 S. I Wholesale Iealrs in Etc. Eic C. O.

Scott', -old Stand.M., 'IN III xtll rl. LITTLE. HOCK j-2JViiti IJEO- A. HTJOHES; vnvGutsr, Main Stbt, Orromia TutiJkTu j. raiaf, Oil mf cruaW inl 11 ih fiu aug2 d'f.

W. BEIDELMAN i i street. Jy21 "TLB HOCK, ARK. lltK, Having pbrchaw.1 tbe a. KlKS toll a ecu js A the cornet if Main ai ri.

werr it AVr 'ifc SM'iKlNIG AMI rm-u. -j 11111 and- SHiiffin of It BYES 'YA A.rK'vi mihIW low jo, e. sciiader, lial-r in U6C FAMILY AND Markbam Jr.l. LITTLE Ii a uing, If' ARKANSAS. a a Iff.

F. I1IM1 CA 'tXTl-Us AXJi.nitinifm di ii. fl Kwirivea tiihooaa and I branrbea or 1 .1 lllr jtw.rv ofj. rimmermaa JriMt W.WARD, -ill I CS Rrt TER.U VI DER CONTRA QTO It, f. 1 LITTLE 1 Is prepireJ 10 -very variety ef wood work aitli rjcaiOfKs and dfspaleh.

Orders left e'b -rr-. or i the si iro will rot. M-flmnl of Kramer. Mtilrr" 4. Sold by the trade generally.

A Ueral discount 1 Dealers. j- rarnubad ih J. a. Army. Vavr IMt rv.t and Pocket Revu'vors Keooalingand Vent ptMskat ftstols and Pitla t'TnU volviug As mJlidJ.nwi, 4 Tl'orcester's dry hop yeast at iODcn JAMILY DTE COLORS, I1III1U in e7snd 7 IA 1 r-r 1 1 I I i OUR ADVERTISERS.

A DAMS. JXO. D. Superintendent HenipUi and Arkansas river Packet block, Markham street. Kramer Miuer A BKANSAS FIRE, MARINE tJEN'L Mb.

t. C. G. Bcott, President, W.H. Fulton, Secretary, Bank building, corner Main and Markham streets.

RKAN8A8 GAZETTE, Daily and weekl. also Book and Job Office. Gazette bloca jisrssam w. CKLliMAN, Dealer in Whifkies. Hour, to-L bacoo and clears, 91 Markham st.

f. "WABTbETT, UBERTV, Attorney at La wj! Ditter Building. Markham st. J. l'ruggists, 26, Main street.

19U1L.EU, CADY A U1BB, manufacturers ana HpaIp in sash, doors, blinds, N. W. cor ner state bonse. ARSES, L. Insurance agent.Kjamer 4MUIer building.

Markham street. I 15 JHMK Ssaioun-, Ashley itow, Mark haul street. Demist, corner Cherry and bcott streets. OlibN, Waidiea, clocks, jewelry Markham street. nlBntLL.

J. 1'uymcmu and Surgeon, ovet M-W McAlmont A bUJlwdfs urn? store. iLLOtf O. S. 4 CO dealer in bran- dies, wines, whiskies, etc LV U.

bcottn old stand. Markham street. FE1LD A DOLLY Dealers ia staple and fancy dry goods, clothing, Ditter street. 1 13 UUGE A Wholesale and retail Markham street. 71AULJSII, GAN'iT A ENGLISH, Attorneys at JjJ law, Kramer A Milier building, Markbam st.

LEXCUtJi A HUXZE, Groceries, and General Merchandise, Main street, Theatre bnilding. I A Tin, sheet iron and copper ware, Hardware, Main- street. AUsT, J. Attorney at law, and real estate dealer, Adams bnilding, Markbam street. ijpl K1FF1TU, VVihoiesaJe and re ail Dry Goods, JT Tucker block, corner east Main and Markbam streets.

jTi ALLAGHJSli A MiVVlOiN, Attorneys at law, Markham street. 1BB3, GEO. Books, stationery, wall paer, etc. Markbam street. MTfe-MPSTEAD, FAY, Attorney at Law, Ditter tmrnit.Ai', rii, a Building, Markham st.

WW AG Lit, Bash, dor and blind factory, JkJL betn street, bet wee a Ueutreancl ppnnp. HODGES A WEtKS, Wholesale and retiil boots, shoes, leather, Tebbett'a block, Markham treet. HEZEKIAH. A.3KOD1E, Tin and ahcet iron work, era, hardware, cutlery, Markham street. OOFKU, Da.

P. Physician and Sorgeoa, cor ner Markbam and l-cott streets. II UGH ES, GEO. Droggiat, east Main street. II USSEY, C.

Insurance Agent, No. 2 IVbbctts block. ONES, MuDOWELL A Wholesale and re tail dealers in general merchandise, receiving, forwarding, etc, Markham stieet, near Levee. ING, Dr. B.

Physician and Surgeon, W. E. corner Scott and Markham streets. KHASlKli, MILLER A CO. Grocers and commission merchants, Markbam street, near Landing.

AFt EiiTi A RALEIGH, Wholesale and retail wLJk obbers. dry goods and Markbam t. No. 40 east Main street. ORTIMEtt, Bakery and family grocery.

No. 0 Main stieet. cGaNN; M. U. A XteaJtra in Clothing, Markbam street, Acama tmiuiiuR.

MAltcilALL, a. Uealer in btaple and tancy try Goods, Badgett Block, Main street. 0NTGOMEBY WARWICK, Attorney a and Counselors atLawTebbett Block. VTCHKLa A KIKnVWOOD, taiaiiy Uruuera corner east aw street and new atket. lC ALMOST A' fcTILLWELL, Drnggista and xTJL Chemists, paints, oils, pcilanitry, M.

corner east Maia and Markham MEYEit, JOSEPH, Dry gooua.elc, Ao. taUKtu block, east Main street. cs stone stable. Mbuletale aud letuil feriea and plantation supplies. ef Main fct.

7STaV4A, W.holeaaia and retail china, giaas aua JLI crockeryware, dry goods and nations, Kruiuer A Miller building, Markham street. blAOKXlPilv UliuWJN, inurauce agttrtts W. cornet Markbam and Scott strceta. OPE A WOOUAbD, Attorneys at law, cojuet Markbam and Bcott stjr. IOIXocSTLEG, btaple and fancy dry goodsJNo.

a Main street. f-y fetttCE, 6., Wholesale and retail groceries and linaors, Ditter block, Markham street. iiOBST a Wboteaaie dealers liquors and wines, 21 east Main afreet. AL.K., J. W.

Roberlaon, super- Intend ent, H. V. Parker Agent, Kramer 'Aw Miller block. IT i EAKDoN.JNO. jtiookseher and Undur, su- tioner, etc.

Gazette block, Markham street. KiGLEtt, Boot and shoe maker, ia am opposite neatre. oBAfUJH.H. Kaiiroad, utage and "Steamboat agent, Antnony rioasev "BY AN. A.

11. A bteaor saw mul, lumber, laths, old A damson-mill. re IaGO. DANLbL, Attorney at law, Ditter build ing, Marknam street- CHADErTJOS. Dealer in General Merchan-J se, Markbam near Steamboat Forwarding and otu-O mission merchants, and steamboat agents, ateam- boat landing.

HALL, D. FT, land and claim agent, Ashley or- nce, Harkoam street. jgTiiMONri A holesale and retail lurxuture 1 dealers, Markham street. tt," LACK. KiiiK, Cigar and tobacco emporiam, fa.

E. corner east Main and Markham streets. (fcXiLLVV LLL, a MOOtt, Attorneys at kT Law. Anhlev row. Markham street.

tiUTTON A EDGEiiTON, 1 in and sheet iron work? era, hardware, etc. Badgctt block, east Main st. rj TAYLOR, Da. Pfcystciaa and surgeon nr Markham and Bcott streets. A commission mercbants.

Levee. npKEZEVANT, J. A BUO Anauraace J3L atetrm, Adams bnilding, Markham street. -kUMlLEit A UaBBS, deaieta' ia M. tmna.y istols.etc.

Mam JkUioei v. ILL, ProptKtor Palace baioou over Laflerty A Raleigh's. Markbam street. WATKlNa PR. CLA1BOURNE PhyskUm and Bargeon.

Ofic-with Dr. Pevtoo. i i ATKINS A ROSE, Attorney at law, Mark bam street. i WARD, J- Carpenter, builder and contractor. Orders left with Kramer, Miller A Co.

i ILHOJk it EXT Eli, Family supply store, ham street. 4 Hark i agentsiGa- cetts block. 8PEECH OP HON. E. JJ.

ENQLISII, DXIJTXUP AX TDK DSMOCEATIO RATtriCATIOM Mxnnxa Emw 1 Towwsbit, Putassu Abxaxsas, Accest Cth, 19C8, os T5 TBSX UAXB ETC. i Wlifljt Ini obliged, fellow subjects and CapL Benton, for kindly nd poliUly introducing me, I think the IntrodocUoo was hardly necessary. For nearly nf a century I have knows some of mothers of otfaars of ywo, who have no lived tw see their sons become Us mere tax-pnying inhabitants, nf a T' province, instead of thr eitisens of a state, ao- aordinr tn i radical- political sohemes and theories. 1 When iwenty-fenr years ago I stood under toe shade 01 yen ag4 eax, oy toe titig i laka. and aonversed with my old.

bat new de parted friend Ringstat, I Utile dreamed that I Should Hve to see thv day when I should be is Aomnletelv stript of the franchiaes of an Amer- lean citizen as the tree that sheltered and has survived mm atrip 01 wee too, sot by ths judgment of my peers, bat by txjxnt jacWf sad grosny uuoonsuiuuoaM vf-syiaESZ -ecr- i J. McALMOA'T. R8T1LLWELL. lrnvm -CAJjJllfJWT ft STILL WE IX, VSOlMllI MO BIT Alb JDSALSaS I a Ml EMM I. J9 Bye tafts, PiiilvjHIs, Fsrafikei, Bruises.

TaUnt ledicinex, Colonet, Perromeriei, Soaps, Finey and Toilet IrHclei, iSlkUCAL l.STRU1ETX, WINDOW AXD Looking Glass, t'ulty. Stc. Sr. Accurately and promptly prepared at all houra, i and night. Store, Xo.

I8i northeant cor. Main tun I Af art ham Old Stand ofj. J. Mc Almont. LITTLE HOCK, ARKANSAS.

Jj ly ty. a. L. DODO. J.

L1XC0L. DODGE 4 CO. WHOLESALE RETAIL DRUGGISTS, No. 173 Markbam Street, AVE a well selected slock of Drugs. Fancy Goods, and Toilet articles of evrry descrir ption.

Also Paints, Oils and Window Glass for sale at lowest market rates. They ibave also a full stock or all the popular patent medieineef the day sale at old prices. Country inerahaols will be furnished with 'all articles in our line at Memphis prices. jtn9 Ab a Preventive Acaiust Malaria, Fever and Aue, and all dioeaxeK arislni; from atnipfd t-tate of the IfVer, there is medicine so highly reuomniended as lloluck's omfech CKO. A.

HUGHKS, ApXt. ian9 I'mgRiU, Little li.x k. Nobody Can afiord Vi without such valnUc luedK-inex Roback's Blood Pills, Stomach Bitters and HUkxI Purifier GIO. Ajrent, Diujiibt, Little HiK.k. Jan 9 Dyspepsia.

rjbaU' uo uue dUcaau ailh which mai-smicted which the source of so many ail-Dyspepsia, and there is no more certain cure Koback Stomach Bitters. GEO.A.HU.'HKS, Agent, DroRgift, Little Kock. Good Health I-t parsmoeat to wealth, if tbe syKtum is in bad rlei tinrira out the vile humora and diotein. erx wUt K- back's Blood Ml Is, and (ret the iiittrtiat oryiiiit- r-I (onaiug; their and nee ni order keep them so by the daily ue cf Uoba' k's Stomal li Bilters. GbO.

A. ilUGHKo, AKeat, jans Druggist, LuUle Itock. A Remarkable Fact That not a single instance has come to the knowledge of the proprietorx, of the failure of Kobatk's Mediciura to giv entire aati-faction in the hundreds of thouaasds of caae in wbich thry have been osed: this is worthy of remark and undeniable evidence of their Intrlsato menU-J (JEO. A. HUGHES, Agent, )an Druggist, Little Rock.

Loud Is tbe praiae in the mouths ot everybody lb ravor of Ro back's Stomach, Bitterap Blood 1'Uls and Blood Purifier. GEO. A. HUGHES, Agent. jaa9 iDruggist, Little Hock.

Is It Right That you should bid defiance to all natural law a the science of medical men, aod suffer with 1 fymicprfa, or Indigestloa when- Konack r-tomach Hltt ea he procured at any drug atorr, I ant DrugM. They Will Cure You Of Scrofula, vuk ot Nervou-i II ad.i Bilioonneas, Liver Complaint, Pispejishi 1 pi Judie tion, Consurapt on, Palo in the Batk i 1.,, -Kt, Ptearisy, Leueotrhaea or K'iti t.i. aal 1 dueaaes from a dhrd. rvi ttitt the atom vti, Hobaekw Blood Pill, HUmtach UuU-r and Bl Purifier. GEO.

A Agent, ian9 Uiugairtt, Little Gratifying Vit'. To kao that a reliable rnedTa wilhin the n-ach of everybody for tb radical cure of Djrwpeta ur Sach a remedy ia. Hobat a Sujnuicti by an druggist. ,1 i ji- GLO. A.flUtiHBn, Agent, 1 -i -s 3 Evervbodv Should koep ronatauily witttm their reach, those lnvalnahle remedies to auccessluly- omlt due.

Rotack'a Biood Panfier, tbey are infallible in the aanca for wblcti tbey are reocjmmenocd. a. HUUHIft, fanf A--Dtuggt, UtUo fioch li -j -Renovate. Darinr tbe aprta moata, it on of tb retriilr booM-tiold datiea to renovate, and, fan tne multiplicity nifT duties one's own self w. in a great nieat(ir, vrtxiixjaiv tltnnasnds of valnabl.

Uvea might be (rw longed, and nany doubtless saved trom -fireniatnre graves by thoroughly renovating the aratein with Dr. Kolxtck'a Blood l'Uis, UhimaoU Bitter sad Htood -p GEO. A. BUGHrM.Aceiit Uat ru 1-' LUUKck. Temperance.

There la. perhaps, no su Uihig that bas done so much to promo ta th canae of temuerauco as that gentle stimulating tome, Roback's Mmach Bitters, they sxreoqueu anl lovicurate without producing the ili eflccu of alcohoUe stiaHilsnta, vu i But (arni.rjL to the south, where they hope to delude the black an and use him as an instrument to secure to themselves power, place and spoil, they hypocritically declare that "the guaranty by congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men in the south was demanded by every consideration of publio safety, of gratitude and of justice, and muat'be maintained." I repeat, therefore, that the framers of the clause of he oath under discussion did not intend to require the elector to swear, as a condition of registering and. voting, that he accepts it as a fact that all. men, everywhere, are on a civil and political equality; for the oath in that sense would be false, and they themselves could not take it. Nor did they intend the elector to swear that all men, everywhere, should be upon such equally; for what business has an Arkansas convention to require men here to take an oath expressing an opinion, as to what should be the political and civil relations of men ia other states and countries? What then is the true legal interpretation of this clause of the oath? It is this: "that I accept it as a fact, that all men that is the uhile man and the black man are, by the existing constitution and laws of placed upon a civil and political equality.

Well, I accept that as an existing fact, and, am willing to swear to it as suoh; but in that oath I make no expression of opinion as to whether the constitution and laws which establish this fact should be permanent or temporary in their duration; or whether the fact is founded in expediency or inexpediency, wisdom or folly. The elector may take the oath affirming his ac ceptance of the existing fact, whether be ap- proves or disapproves of the policy of the fact The naturalist, of cultivation and taste, ob serving the order of Providence.properly places the buzzard in the lower, and the eagle in the higher class. And no man could truthfully swear that these birds are peers; but here in Arkansas a man might well swear, if such a folly were required of him as a conditioa of voting, that he accepts the civil and political equality of the two birds, because neither of them has any civil or political status, though the swift-winged and lofty-soaring eagle is made the proud symbol of our nationality. Perhaps the radicals may substitute the buzzard! In Tennessee, however, a man could not truthfully swear to the civil equality of the two birds, for a statute prohibits the killing of the buzzard, andleaves the eagle at the mercy of the sportsman. Tou are' willing to swear that you accept thi as a hot day, because it is such, and you may at the same lime desire a continuation of the heat, or wish for the cooling breeze, and coming shadows of evening.

When the cold storm of winter pelts upon you, you may well swear that you accept the storm, because it is -upon you, but you may at the same time wish the storm to abate and the sun to re-appear. If you like the sublimity of the storm, and the cold does not render you uncomfortable, you may desire it to continue. But if you swear that you accept the storm as an existing fact, a radical would hardly have you indicted for perjury for expressing a desire, after taking the oatb, lor a change of weather. We accept disease when it is not to be avoid-ed. The sick man accepts and swallaws, as an existing necessity, an offensive dose of physic, be would greatly prefer something more palatable.

The dying man accepts death as au inevitable event, but einks into the gloom of the grave with the pleasing hope that ere long the i II II l' 1 ni but: us, ILU uuc luvv in V- oa te land and the other on the sea, shall pro- claim the end of the dominion of death, and that the loud trump of the resurrection morn shalt awake him to a new and a better life. So we accept the existing constitution, of Arkansas, with all its oppressive provisions and objectionable oaths, as an existing evil, but we sink into the political grave which radicalism has dug for us, with tbe cheering and confident hope that, on tbe fourth of March next, Iloratio Seymour, standing at the capitol of the nation, as its honored chief, and extending one arm to tbe north, and the other to the south, as if to embrace the whole country, shall proclaim in a voice, swelled into tones of thunder by the chorus of millions of applauding voices, that the dominion of radicalism has terminated, and the reign of constitutional liberty has re- rived. Second clause. "And agree not to attempt Id deprive any person or persons, on account of race, color or previous condition, of any politi cal or civil right, privilege or immunity enjoyed by any other class of men-Well, I agree to that in the sense in which it must be interpreted, and in the only 'sense in which the framers of the oath had power to prescribe it, eoneeding for the purposes of the argument, that they were legally assembled as a convention. That sense ia this the constitution by which this oath is prescribed, throughout all of its provisions, places the black man upon a civil and political equality with the white man; and ths oath must be construed to bind the person who takes it, not to attempt by any illegal mean so lontc as this constitution remains in force, to deprive the black man of this civil and political equality, because of his color, race or previous condition that is because he is black, of the Afrioas race, and of bis having been a slave.

Cot the oath will not bind a man, nor had the convention power to prescribe any oath that Would bind any man, not to exercise ino inalienable right to test the validity of this constitu tion, with all or lis provisions, or 01 resorting to tbe established modes Of abrogating or reforming it. The first section of the very constitution whioh prescribes the oath, declares that; "All political power is inherent the people; government instituted lor the protection, security and benefit of the people, and they have th right to alter or 'reform tie same whenever the publio may require, ir;" And the Declaration or independence oesiares it to be an inalienable right of the people to alter or abolish their goverment, and institute, when ever the public good may require it a new form of government. So that if all the people of the state were to be guilty or ins roily of swear ing that they would never abolish or reform the preaent oonstitntion, the oath would not be binding on them. For men ean neither grant away, nor swear away their laalienable rights and the framers of the oath were not sock consummate fools as to intend It to have that ef fect. 1 Whether I take this oath or not, I will not attempt, by any illegal means, to deprive the black man of any eivil or political right or privilege secured to him by the present constitution, so long as it remains in force, nor will any law- abiding waea a goes to ue polls to vote, so man will drag Uun away by force, iv hen as is cauea to mo jury box to serve as a jaror.

no man will drive nun irora it by violence. If five of ths oolored men who are now standing at my back, listening quietly and politely to what I am saying, had bean placed npon the annreme bench of the state, to fill their pockets out of ths publio treasury, I should have gone he fore them, as I have appeared before the judges who now occupy that bench, and respectfully addressed them as, VYoor Honors. Perhaps Governor Clayton, ia selecting tea circuit judges for ths state, might have given mere neral satisfaction in ths appointments, if he had chosen then from iht colored population pon themselves the making of a new constitution, laws, and the holding or disposition, of all the publio offices without our consent. The new springing from congressional usurpation, and foreed upon us by military despotism and fraud, attempts to dis franchise a large portion of the white men of the state, for participation in the late rebellion, without the intervention of judicial trials and condemnation men, too, who have been pardoned by Mr. Lincoln and Mr.

Johnson, in the exercise of power vested in the president, by the constitution -of the United States, and of which he cannot be legally deprived. Oh! shades of the Barons who forced from King John Magna Ckarla Oh 1 spirits of the departed statesmen, who incorporated the provisions of that great charter into the American Bill of Rights, pfotect and defend us If the legal effects of these pardons, and the validity of the reconstruction cts, and the constitutions spawned from them were submitted to the im partial judgment of the judges of the EnglishJ Queen's Bench, we should have no apprehension of the result. But from partisan judges, who consult the political creeds and adhere to the schemes of radical leaders, rather than follow the impartial adjudications of the great English and American jurists, we have but little to hope. One thing is sure, the new constitution made for the people of Arkansas is now in force, and the government organised under it is a government de facto, and will continue to exercise its authority until after the presidential election. What then may be its fate remains to be seen.

To this government we must patiently and peacefully submit until it can be abolished or reformed by lawful means. use a trite say- ing of radical orators, we must accept the logic of political events, but we should, nevertheless, labor with all the strength that is left us to shape the events of the future into abetter logic. You have painted, in large letters, on the canvass before use, the names of SEYMOUR and BLAIR, and you desire them eleoted president and vice-president of the United States in November. Home of us are debarred by the existing constitution, from voting far them, but if every conservative man, who is not disfranchised by the provisions of this constitution, will but do bis whole duly, Arransas may have hve voices in the electoral college to swell the triumphant majority of these standard bearers of constitutional, liberty Oh! but I hear a roice saying, we cannot take that horrid test oath! Yes, but you can take it, and should take it; and to the discussion of this scare-crow oath, I propose to devote the remain Jer of the time al-lotedme. The distinct provisions of the oath, which the elector is required to take before he can register and vote, arc about as numerous as the ten commandments, and it is perhaps unfortunate that two of these commandments were not incorporated in it, namely: Thou shall not steal: Thou shalt not eovet thy neighbor's house, for if some of the political adventurers into this state, who have obtained the public offices without merit and private property without just compensation, had imposed such an oath upon themselves, it might possibly have been some protection to the public Ireasuiy, and some restraint upon their efforts to obtain the homes of our people, for nominal by fraudulent -confiscation and tax sales! The only clause of the oath wlacu seems to be particularly obnoxious 2 follows "Thai I acceil the ciril und ltrliticai cqaaUlg of allvten; anl vjitt tut aLltmpl to deprive any person or persons on accautU of race, color, or- previous condition, of any political or eivtl right, privilege or immunity enjoyed by any other class of men.

1 Political test oaths were unknown before the late civil war. They are the devices of radical politicians, and have been invented, as this was, for party purposes. On the restoration of Charles the Second, the British parliament passed a religious test act, whjeh was designed to deprive theeatholic people from holding public offices, and was the work of religious prejudice and intolerance prevailing in that age. It was condemned by enlightened statesmen, and under the influence of an advanced civilization and more liberal and enlarged spirit of eharity ia matters of faith and conscience, it was blotted from the English statute book and now the catholic, the protest-ant, dissenter as well as churchman, and even the long wronged and persecuted sons of Israel, sit side by Bide in the house of But the tories and the wbigs of struggling for political ascendency, and alternating in their triumphs, would, on either side, have scorned the meanness of enacting a political test oath as a device for retaining political power. So with the whigs and democrats of America whilst these parties were contending for power.

It remained for the professed admirers of the black race, whilst exercising short-lived and ill-gotten power, to preseribe for a people, whom they desire to rule, and tax, and fatten upon, a political test oath, designed to drive them from the ballot box, and perpetuate their own power through the suffrages of a deceived and deluded race. Shall they succeed by means of this device? The provisions of the oath before read, has two distinct clauses or features, which I will take up separately, and endeavor to ascertain what they mean.and what a man swears when he takes the oath First clause "That 1 actevt the cicilhud po litical equality of all This does not mean that it Js to be accexted as truth that all men are physically, mentally, morally or sooially equal, for such a proposition is false by the common consent and judg ment 01 mankind. Besides, the lauruaee in its terms relates to the civil and political equality of men. 1 Nor could the framers of this clause have intended to make a mas swear that he aecepla as aei that aU men, everywhere, are on nciv-tl and political equality; for such is not the fact, as every one, not grossly ignorant, knows. Men in the natural state, without government, are upon a common footing; and the stronger men, or more numerous combinations of men, subdue and plunder the weaker men, -or- less numerous, or inferior combinations.

Hut men form governments! their civil and political equality, or inequality depends eatirefy npon the plan and framework of the government 1 or eismpie: in ins absolute monarchies, such as Russia, Austria, Turkey, China, Japan, and even now in France (once republican) one man, ths emperor, Is by inheritance, the centre and source of all civil and political power, and he distributes it to his subordinates and subjects aeoordine to his will. 80 in limited monar- as Hog! a ad, one man or women is born a king or Queen, other men are noblemen by birth, and some men ems bold office and vote, and others canaoU In America, where the re publican form af government has been- adopted. all aam do not possess canal eivil and beliticel rights, either under the federal or state constitutions. A foreign bora man cannot ba president of ths United States; no man can be a senator until ho Is thirty, nor a representative until he is twenty-five years of acal la nearlv all the northern states, men oft ths Hack race are not permitted to vote, servo oa juries or hoU an oSoe ofjsny grade. Yet the Chicago ooavea- 5 1 1 1- 3 ltyh --I fr-it- ir i try-t JOSEPH MEYER, No.

6 SadgeU -34: A. JO II EH, Agent, 1 Droe'gt, Uttl Ho I 1 ii.