The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-05

seems TO be the payment Of the five
twenty bonds in gold and the taking
care of the interests of the money bags
and bond holders of the East, forget
ting the interests Of the agricultural
masses Of fthe West, the Northwest and
Southwest, who till the soil and lay the
foundations of the nations prosperity.
In this IL agrees with the vampire Of
Radicalism that gorges its Unsuitable
and greedy nav with the blood Of La
bor
Mr.. Pendleton's letter to the New
York Congention surprised not only
the World and Mr.. Seymour, but the
whole coterie OF Eastern politicians in
Gotham, who were ready to sacrifice
every Democrat and even go over to
Mr. Chase for the purpose of perpetual
ting the iron rule Of the bond holder,
sooner than see representative man
of the people get the nomination. 1t
was the moneyed East against the ogri-
cultural West, both in Chicago and in
New York, that held the keys Of the
National Banks, and controlled the
nominations. The Chicago Conven-
ton with oil the puerilities of the
Quirindk ceremonies Of Ancient Rome
with its painted pigeons and bespan-
gled eagles, lifted up for its sign a pop.
ular pigmy, at automaton that would
nod and walk at the beck and call Of
the aristocrats Of New England and the
East-a Western man, blank in ideas,
and unable to comprehend single po-
litical principle, well knowing that his
popularity could alone bring success,
and that he was as plastic in their
hands as clay in the hands of the pot
ter, to be moulded into any desired
shape.
In New York the same class Of poli-
ticians, in the face of platform of lib
eral ideas, wrought disaster to the De-
mocracy, by giving il the lie, and pre-
venting the nomination of a man who
could honestly stand upon it. But this
is past now, and the Western Democ-
racy at least, intend to profit by the
rugged lessons Of experience. With
them there is TO be no more temporiz-
ing to suit any set of politicians. They
will never again throw away their am
munition and meet the enemy with
empty guns. They will stand on prin-
ciple, and on principle they will tri-
umph or upon principle they will meet
defeat like men. Never again will they
sully their banners with trucking pol
icy, and wed disgrace with disaster.-
Their platform will be as broad as the
continent, and as strong as the shoul-
ders of Atlas, from which none will be
excluded, but upon which all must
stand, if they do battle for the cause.
The census of 1870 will open the eyes
of the East. The tide of population
has spread over the West until its cen
ter is nearly or quito trans-Mississippi.
twill show that the Mississippi Valley
and the far West hold with their own
grasp the destinies Of the country, and
that they are no longer tributary to
the grasping and remorseless East
The food Of nations will yet be grown
upon their fruitful soil The Missis-
sippi and its tributaries alone drain an
area of l,7S5,267 square miles, more
than half the territory of the United
States, and every square mile is being
peopled with the noblest freemen of
the land-men whose hands are hard
with toll, and whose hearts are not
tainted with the conceptions Of the
money centres-men who have the
will to dare, and tho strength to do
In less than year the figures will
show whore the strength of the nation
lies, and then let the greedy oristocrats
of the East stand from under.
When thereorganization ofthe Elec,
toral College demonstrates to the West
its giant strength, it will no longer be
tampered with, II will no longer sur
frender its prestige and its power TO the
pigmy East, great only in greed and
gold. 1t will beg no more favors in
National Conventions, but dictate q
dignified national policy. Then If the
East persists in its usurpations, it can
be prepared to measure its dwarfsh
strength, with the thews and iron sin,
ews of a giant. Pittsburgh Post Oct 20.
"
DOOMED Under the form Of sla-
very that existed IN the Southern
States, tho negroes wero the most
prolific race in tho world. As ILL
ustrating the effect upon them in
this particular of their changed con-
dition, the Norfolk Journal says
"a gentleman informed us, some
weeks since, that on his farm there
are nine now married negro
couples, but not one child among
them | Another friend, from the
South side of James River, told us,
the other day, that there are, withN
IN n quarter of a mile of his house,
eight negro families, among whom
there has been born but one child
since the war. We have heard ma
ny such accounts from various oths
or sources, all pointing to the fact
that the increase of the colored
people is now much less than their
decrease by death. In addition to
the facts we have stated, we read in