The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-02-22

time OF war we may concede this, but i'll a time OF
peace there is no legal moral foundation Tor sucn
claim, unless the notes maintained at par ana
redeemed at par: Is not the United States aoie 10
pay the interest of its notes?
THERE HAS BEEN CONTRACTION OF THE CURRENCY.
Judge Thurman says there has been contraction OF
the currency. No one disputes there has been con,
States notes retired since the passage of the resump
ton act is as he states it, But there Was
of circulating notes It is true that national bank
notes have been retired but this has been DONE not
action of the banks They are free to issue or retire
their notes. and they have done
Ii the special privilege about which he has dis
cussed much was so valuable to them they would
have increased their issues of bank notes but In
lege. and the want of profitable use of money have
induced the banks to reduce their circulation to
that the effect has been large decrease OF the
rency OF the country but this has not been caused
by the RESUMPTION act.
Now these the objections stated to the national
panAs M aIs oy Sudge nhurman and my answer to them
United States currency redeemable in coin? Will
We to save interest, bear in the future all the evils
banks infinitely better than any before enjoyed
in this country compel these banks now to call in
their loans and close up their accounts and add to
the distress of the times by dangerous and almost
revolutionary proceedings against corporations OF
and which contribute to the general good by paying
large taxes, and by acting as convenient localized
agencies of loans and exchanged?
OREGON, FLORIDA, AND LOUISIANA.
And here might leave Judge Thurmans speech,
put there are two or three points which regret l
have to answer. He says:
In times past has been and in all times should be an
emblem of purity and honor-is occupied by man
accomplished by the grosest frauds and boldest
usurpations that ever disgraced the history OF a
This declaration is gross injustice, and believe
Judge Thurman will live to regret that he ever
mission which passed upon the returns of the votes
OF Electors for President. He knows that every
was received by him without dispute, without any
pretenon OF fraud or error except the votes of Ore
gon, Florida, and Louisiana. -,
GOV. TnDENs AGENTS IN OREGON
In Oregon there was attempt by acknowledged
agents of Gov Tden to cheat-I use the word in its
worst meaning-the Republicans out of that vote
and 10 bribe an Elector and 1t failed. In Florida
there had been great Irregularities and frauds
mltted py the Democrats era which &c were met to some
but the evidence before the returning officers well
S o h IN Hn Tne m eboyRs that
majority of the votes in Florida were fairly cast f
the Hayes Electors.
DEMOCRATIC CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN LOUISIANA.
As to Louisiana, had better means of informa-
ton than Judge Thurman, and say to you that the
criminal conspiracy by the Democratic party of that
State to control the election of 1876 as to cast the
vote of that State for Gov Tilden has never been
fully told. 1t extended to more than ten parishes
or counties and held in absolute terror five Repub-
lican parishes that had always since the war given
about 1000 Republican majority. 1t led to and in
GUIDED in Its plan and scope scores OF murders OF
| black leaders of their race. It wounded whipped,
at night, and spread Universal terror among this
| ignorant and superstit1ous people, who had the
aan g fga abes baods eTe v 5S vG
Gently red with the blood shed in war against the
6n1on ine - fhoseh e1,s sgen @ OF nn1S were
night in disguise, distributing anonymous threats,
and occasionally executing them, and leaving no.
tces TO leave the parish with the more intelligent,
accompanied with threats and devices to excite fear
| and terror.
Such were the means used by the Democratic party
! to carry Louisiana, They may here and there in
duce disappointed office seeker, like Anderson and
Weber, to falsfy their former oaths, and pre-
vail upon poor negroes like Amy Mitchell and Mrs.
Pinkston to withdraw their former depositions but
| the scores of dead men killed by the rifle clubs
| speak from their graves. and the men who killed
/ them and rode their nightly rides OF terror know
now in their hearts that all that has been said of
| them is true. The statements and affdaTits made
by these people submitted to the local return
| posed of two white men and two colored men, all
natives of the South, and these men, who knew the
Strict Strict compianee with the law Of that State that
under this law these parishes and polling places
Hayes got the vote of Louisiana as lawfully and
fully as that of Ohio. All this cry OF fraud and
usurpation, ought. in the minds of just men, to
with fearful effect against the Democratic party,
for it was their organized crime and violence that
| created the doubt which the Returning Board and
Electoral Commission decided in our favor.
| MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA.
| And it must be remembered in this connection
that there is strong conviction at least among the
sissppi and Alabama were successfully secured for
| Gov. Tilden by the same unlawful means, hut the
| laws of those States provided no remedy and they
were counted for Tlden.
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS IN LOUISIANA AND NEW YORK
| CITY.
| Judge Thurman should remember also that the
| history of the Democratic party has been marked
in the past by great crimes against the elective fran
and in New York City, in 1874 will be remembered
by every Wing in the land. Wholesale frauds COM
vote s Of that State " was cast for Seymour instead
| of for Grant were disclosed by Con-
gressionaal a committee , ana are now tos al, 10,
the Democratic party in its attempt to organize the
State of Kansas into slave State were investigated
by me a member of Congressional Committee,
end though disputed at the time. much more stoutly
than the Louisiana frauds, are now Acknowledged as
facts The chief frauds in this country in elections
have been organized by the Democratic party One
Democratie party comes in power will be the bold
and reckless use of election machinery to commit
frauds and to organize violence ballot box stuing
and kindred crimes, part of our American sys-
tenn of politics.
The Republican party, in the heat of party zeal has
done something in this way. have no apology to
make for such crimes no sympathy with them, and
would denouuce aud expose such wrongs by what
ever party committed but 1t is pretty haro 1or us
Republicans be lecured about election frauds by
members of the Democratic party.
| DEMOCRACY RELIES ON SECTIONAL FEELING.
| Again he says:
"Fellow citizens nothing in politics seems more
certain to me than that the Republican leaders rest
their hopes OF pTOlOuSdtlOu Ol tueE poMeT upon
the success that may attend studied aud energetic
effort their part to excite and perpetuae sectional
| feeling"
| 1t is a strange thing that the Republican party.
distinguished for its national feeling, should be
charged by the Democratic party with desire 10 ex-
cite and perpetuate sectional feeling The strength
of the Democratic party to-day, as before the war,
lies in a united South held, not only by sectional
feeling but by sectional feeling antagonistic TO the
| Union intensified by its early advocacy of State
rights its attempts at secession and by four years OF
| bloody and unsuccessful against the Uniou.
This sectional feeling rampant that it ostracises
native white men who become Republicans, holds
in terror the entire black population and by ntimi
dation and ostracm prevents the free expression of
opinion and the OF Republicans elections
in the South The South is determined to be Sec
onal and as section dominates the counsels OF the
Democratic party.
No intelligent man doubt that If in the cotton
States there open, fair opportunity to estab
lsh newspapers, to carry on g. canvass, and to ap-
peal to the natural instincts and interests Of the
voters of those States but what majority OF every