The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-09-17
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Il Il no aore dishonorabls for the natio
to sepudis,s It's debt thaa it was 70
the South to Be compelled to repudiat
its own.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertise
needs reeonstructing. It proclaim
that the great issue Of State rights is IA
from being dead; and it maps out tn
battle yet to be fought, which is Il
force an acknowledgment from tb'
North that tho legislation of the las
four years has been illegal and IN
principled.
The Louisville Express has put on
sackclo,h and ashes. 1t says: Fol-
whatever part of the disastrous results
Of the civil war the Democratic party
may have been responsible, that party
has atoned with tears and blood. 1t
has been purged of its sins by fire.
Pennsylvania Democrats are disap-
pointed TO find that Mr.. Packard's
wealth is overestimated by eight mil
lions, and that he does not bleed so
freely as WAS hoped.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is still joined
to its idols. 1t ssgely remarks: g The
negro bold upon suffrage will be very
slight and precarious, and he will soon
lose it, if, by Il system of rascality, be
should temporarily obtain it."
The Iowa Safe election will take
place in October, and the candidates
and leaders of both parties are begin
ming TO canvass the State. Political
meetings are being called, and 10 .
short time the contest will be vigorous
ly waRed. As the Republicans have a
majority of near 40, 900 in the State,
the result is not at all doubtful.
The Augusta (Georgia) Constitution
alist believes that the Southern heart
bids defiance to malignant fortune.
That paper says: ssThe South has
been defeated in battle; but she will
once more emerge as contestant in
the arena OF reason and on the fields Of
industry We have 10 thank our North
ern bre, bern for ruins and ashes. But
in the ruins no bats or owls gbber to
the moon grooming over a solitude that
has no hope, and beneath :he ashes our
ancient ires are still alive and lmmor-
tally aglow."
The Memphis Avalanche, with
clear comprehension of the true inter-
ests of the State, says: The fiery
rage and mad fury which the war pro-
vok-d will never burn out so long as
Democrats present issues as stale and
imprac,icable as they are obnoxious to
tho people. Much as we may dislike
the decision, the result of the last Pres
idential election settled the reconstruc-
,ion and negro suffrage controversy.
The Democratic party has no national
party; and instead of forming itself
upon such new issues as the exigencies
of the times require, We hear little
men CHIPPING like frogs in the meadow,
nothing but Democrat, Democrat
A member of the South Carolina
State constabulary reports many out
RACES upon the colored people in Lex.
iugton county, and writes as follows to
the Charleston Republican ~" believe
a regular systematic attempt will be
made to defraud the freedmen in Lex
ington this year, of their share of the
crops. Many neglected to have written
contracts and are driven off the plan
tations and refused any remuneration
for their labor. In one case, q band of
fifteen men, disguised With white
aprons, and their horses covered with
Is bite sheets, went to the house Of Mr..
in Lexington county, about
nineteen miles from Columbia, seized
one of the colored men, forced him
outside, put a rope around bis neck,
aud threatened to kill him. He was
taken a short distance from the house,
L.