The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-10-31
VOLUME XIV.
POLITICAL ITEMS.

| 1t has been each year for the last
three years, and apply S50,0Oo, 900 or
$75, ,000, 600 toward the reduction OF
the national debt. It win gradually
call in the green-baek notes, more
equally distribute the. banking capi-
tai Of the country, and start at once
on the road to resumption Of specie
payment. 1t will reduce the debt and
reduce the taxes, reduce the price OF
sugar, flour, m9lasses, tea, salt, cloth
ing, boots and shoes, and, in three
years, make greenbacks as good as
gold. 1t will also secure equal and
Just taxation Of all property, and the
payment of every bond and every
note issued by the Government to
the last dollar.
Radicalism has been blown higher
than d kitein Alabama. The State
Sentinel, the capital organ, has gone
by the board. The Republican Ban
ner, at Tuscaloosa, has deserted
Grant and gone over to Seymour.
w. P. Jones and J x. Chisholm,
Grant electors, declare. for. Seymour.
DR.. Dykes, President or the Radical
Convention, James s. Clark, Radical
Judge, Austin, Mates, Williams and
Masterson, Radical Representatives,
DR.. John r.. Henry, of Selma, II. &.
Parish, and many other Radicals,
have declared for Seymour. Fifteen
prominent Radicals In Coosa desert
ed in one day. Eight morein Coffee
issued an address, withdrawing from
the League, and are earnestly advis-
ing the people to vote for Seymour.
SAYS the Nashville Banner: "Col-
ored men out of employment are now
quite numerous. Gentlemen from
the country assure us they are press
ed with applications. Before the mu-
nicipal election, on the contrary,
these same country gentlemen could
not find hands. Negroes with whom
they were acquainted, and on whom
they.were dependent, when notified
that their services were wanted to
pull fodder, to break wheat ground,
etc, invariably excused themselves
by saying they were employed 'on
the corporation They stated the
facts correctly, poor, ignorant things!
The corporation has been finished,
and Sambo is out Of job. The Ger
tifieatesl ofloyalty, given by the ring,
are not worth the paper on which
they are printed.P
Legislative fun and drollery are ex.
pensive Injuries at all times; but
more especially to the poor people of
the South. The GeoTgians have been
paving each member of their Legis-
lature So a day for listening to such
propositions as this, recently intro
dueed and debated: Whereas, the
weather for the last twenty-four
hours has undergone a change, max
ing Ice unnecessary to the comfort OF
this body: Be it therefore, resolved,
that the m essenger of this House be
instructed to furnish each member
with sufiieiency of Cabinet or Pop
lar Log whisky to keep him warm
it being the best substitute for fire.
facilities for which are totally want.
ing in the hall. This is Legisla.
tiOn' with Vengeance. t
The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Banner
! (Radicall takes water on the negro,
suffrage question, the pet theory o.
its party. 1t says; "Weshall here
latter advocate the repeal Of that por,
ton Of the Constitution which gives
this class (negroes) the right to vote
and urge its adoption at the mex
meeting of the Legislature, TIE
question of suffrage belongs exelus
ively to the States, md should be 81
regulated as to give the white mel
of the country the control Of the elec
tions, If the Republican party can
not succeed upon its Union princi
pies, without the aid of negro votes
we for one prefer defeat rather thar
to gain victory by the means ofper
sons wholly incapacitated from exer
cising the elective franchise"
Democrats, insure the election 0
Seymour and Blair, which lies with
in your grasp. You can restore th,
Union. You can rescue the Consti
tuition from the hands Of It's destroy
ers. You can annihilate negro donli
nation and military despotism in tn
South by the peaeeable agency Of tn
ltDdllOrDOA. w van = ~ va CIV
lasting peace to the enatlon. n
Laboring men are the very one
who pay higher ratio Of taxation
than anyOthers. They are taxed al
most to death, because upon them
i'm the enhanced price of every artiel
they eat, wear, or use, falls the agree
able weightof all attendant taxation
placed on industry by that crude in
vention of Radicalism Known as tn
internal revenue. We shall give al
illustration. A laborer purchases.
pair of cowhide boots-something h
must have--and on those boots h
pays at least five aggregate taxes
; The farmer pays tax for raising IN
animal; the butcher pays tax for Kill
ing her and selling the hide; the tan
ner paws tax for turning the hide int
, leather; the leather-dealer pays ia,
: for selling to the bo0tmaker; tn
, bootmaker pays tax on his vocation
the poor labOrer pays them all owe
, in a lump by the advanced costs {
his boots. So it is relative to tn
rent of the apartments he lives IN
the price of his tea, sugar, and Gomez
the coat on his back; the hat on hi
head-eyerything, To make the M
4 gro free, has not the white man beer
BY Radicahsm, made slaVef
The Democratic party was in pow
I er during the most prosperous yeal
the country has ever known. Th
honor and credit Of the Goyernmer
were maintained and upheld at HON
\ and abroad. By its broad liber'
" policy, emigrants were encourage
to make this country their hom
and become its citizens. State attt
:. State was added to the republi'
Prosperity and freedom went han
Ii hand under the shield Of eonstitl
y tiohal liberty. Ametica was pre-en
4 iment among the Oldest and create
nations ofthe world. No FEEDER
& tax-gather was seen among the pc
y ple. No bastile darkened the face
the land. No military satraps we
set up superior 70 the civil p0we
The Union was preserved by 70
bearance, Kindness, and cQHpromis
NJ The general Government was fl
T. only in the blessings 1t eonferr
., mon the people. And yet We
s,r t6ld that the Democratic Yarty Is t
y enemy Of the country and should n
N be trusted with the administrator