Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-04-19


Ths 1spablican Pazty n the South.
The Freedmen, in every ms eting they have
held since the Military bill became q Law.
have shown that they know what citizenship
means, and that in accepting its privileges
they ae ready to discharge its duties. LA
taking the ballot they have proved that they
understand how 10 use it Til. power thew
have suddenly gained they show no disposi.
ton to abuse, and there Is not solitary in
stance in which colored speakers have appeal
ed 20 their people to revenge at The polts lie
wrongs Of the slave-mart tie whipping-rost
or the brandiug-iron They 10 not speak of
the laws that deprived item Of education, of
marriage, Of property nor of the Fugitive
Slave Law, nor Of the New Orleans massacre
Their theme is the freedom they lave, not tia
Slavery from which they have been redeemed
Blu: while they are ready to forgive, they have
not forgotten; while they are willing and anx-
ious to join with their old masters in rebuild
ing the prosperity Of the South, they are re-
solved not 10 become in liberty what they we're
in bondage-the unresisting instruments Of
southern land-holders. With the power 10
vote, they exercise the right to think, and
those who do not already see the beginning Of q
| political era in the South are blind TO the NOR
al Of the great meetings :, Raleigh, Savannah
Montgomery, Macon, and the many county
meetings held in almost every Southern State.
OF equal importance il the readiness of the
loyal white men to unite with III e colored men
on terms Of absolute equality. At Raleigh
this was especially evident. In other States
the meeting. have declared Republican prin-
ciples, but the State convention of North Caro-
lima embodied them. White and black dele
gates had equal share in its deliberations anu
Offices. 1t may be held certain that in every
Southern State the platform Of the North Caro-
lima Conv vention will be adopted, and that the
Republican party in tie South will know NJ
distinction Of race or color at the polls Ia
civil Offices The freedmen wonld not take
less; the loyal white men We hope would scorn
to ofFer less. In the North the Republican
party is pledged to this creed-imrartial suf-
| ferage in every State in the Union. hat is
good 70, North Carolina must be good for New
/, York; the mistake Of Connecticut will not he
repeated. AT Releigh the Convention organs
iaed the Republican party in the State; at sa-
vannah, Montgomery, Macon, Jacksonville,
and Charleston they adopted resolutions
equally decisive, but left formal organization
to future state Conventions. Ii is in the lri-
umph Of this party. which knows NO d;ffere, &c
between man and man, that the South will be
| redeemed.
Whatever party seeks to perpetuate distiuc,
tions Of race or color in the South, aims the
perpetuation Of jealously, and strife, AMI pow
erty. The negro is read, to do his duty. asd
whatever doubt may have existed of the read
mess Of the white man to accept absolute ro,
litical and civil equality is lessoned by the
example of such men as Gen. Dockery in
North Carolina, and Gov Patton in Alaban.
n. Y. Tribune.
The wife Of tie postmaster at New Phila-
delphia, McDencugh county. H., the other day
presented her husband with three babies at
one birth, and all are doing well.
Brownlow has found one eolored man so de-
graded by scrvtude as TO accept cartcncy
in his Tennessee militia; but Colonels CO.'S
! mission, which he offered 10 a Nashville bar
ber, was returned with contumely.--eoptr
Strawberries, grown IN the open a ir were
selling in San Francisco Oh the l4tli Of last,
month, at IS cents quart
Theve is rumor tlat Queen Victoria, on
hearing Of the cession to the United States Of
the Russia American possessions, sent for Lord
Derby Good day my lord, said she. ent4i.es
arrival Of the pren,ite, don't you think they
are rather rushin matters over there II -Lo 4
DERBY reply has not yet arrived.
There Will be all sorts of restaurants At the
great exhibition; the French restaurants will
hava 400 tables, 1000 chairs inside, 100 tables
400 chairs outside; there will be d&ose at
81 40 per poll each restaurant will have a bar
like the buffet Of railway. There are to be ali
sorts Of musical festivals during the exhibi-
tion.
Kirby Smith has been nominated as con>
sui 10 Panama.
The internal revenue receipts are again ap.
proaimating 81 ,O00,00 per day
An imprisoned debtor in Maine has 'ttktn'
to studying law tn Jail. = -
The newest object in the shops Of Paris is
. compass to guide visitors in the great
exhibition.
Ladies in Paris are suffering greatly from
skin diseases which some physicians believe
are given them by their false hair.
The police Of wark \. J., report 500
places where liquor is sold in that city. We
think it would be = blessing to that city if all
such estalishments would burn down, pnd
the inmates get badly smyed
There is fierce controversy as to whether
Helltown, O., shall be oalled Cnmminsville.
A ash weighing 1000 pounds vas caught
in the harhor Of Portsmouth, N. II. lately
Twelve gallons Of oil was taken from its liver.
An Eneiishman, At late masked ball at
the Chatalet, Paris, amused himself by throw
ing Napoleons among the crowd and seeiHy