Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-06-11
POLITICAL.

Decoration day was observed every.
where throughout this State.
The Washington (Fayette) Herald
warmly favors the denomination Of
both Hayes and Lee.
The Republicans carried the city Of
Memphis, Tenn, at the recent election
for Judicial officers, by 179 majority.
The World says "the Democratic
party is not party Of negatives" p"
True. Did yo6 ever, for instance,
know a Democrat, when asked to
drink, to say no?
A conservative newspaper says the
Radicals run everything into the
ground. They have certainly run the
Democratic party into the ground be-
yond all reach of resurrection.
Andy johnson, in one of his loqua-
c1oUs speeches down South, says it is
. hard to teach an old dog new tricks. -
Experience viii certainly ratify john
sons assertion. His case is a living
example of the difficulty of teaching
an old dog anything whatever.-Chica-
go Post.
The Democracy have selected the 9TH
of July as the day on which to hold
their State Convention. Why not the
7th of August2 and display the re-
markable phenomenon of two total
eclipses in one day.
Gov. Ashley says the population Of
Montana has increased from ten to
seventy thousand in five years. Never
theless, the people of chat territory,
more particularly the Republican pol
iticians, think there are now too many
people in Montaha-by one.
The New York Sun says that Mrs.
SpragUe has transferred her headquar-
ters from New York and Washington
to Atlanta, Georgia, and is steadily
working TO secure Southern votes for
her father, Chief Justice Chase, in the
next Presidential Election.
! En about five weeks the State Con-
vention of the Ohio Democracy will
take place. The Columbus Crisis,
mII4egnItioning n Zen this grave fact, says
campaign upon substantially the same
general principles that have controlled
It's action throughout its history"
That makes it perfectly clear.
Senator Sumner COMPLAINS that his
speech on bae Alabama claims has not
been repUblished in England, except
in pamphlet form by one firm, as a
matter of private speculation. This
course on the part of the press is con-
teEnptible, but eminently John Bullish.
"If,' said General Butler, the other
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anything of the Secretary-and I've
had an intimate knowledge of the
man for thirty. Years-I can say safely |
that if the Wall street people think |
they can change him in any policy he /
has taken and about which he has
thoroughly informed himself and /
made up deliberate judgment, they |
are very much mistaken, or 1 am"
As a measure of the terror that exists |
in Georgia, we have only to revert to |
the recent manoeuvres of Mr.. Edwin |
Belcher. He wrote a letter to Senator |
Sumner on the situation in Georgia.
The Senator published 1t, and when 1t (
reached Georgia in that shape, Mr.. I
Belcher recanted for fear that the
Geogia Ku-KIux would take him Off
Macon (GG.) Union.
Judge Chase has not generally been
considerable use the phrase of the
Express a fool, and it is difficult
to realize that anybody but a fool or a
madman could have given the opinion
recently delivered by the Chief Justice
at Richmond. But ambition drives
men mad sometimes, especially when
it is at once unfed and Unsuitable The
dazzling vision of the White House
seems to 9IVe added the brains of the
disappointed Chief Justice.-NeaD York
StJIe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson thinks that if
woman is to votes sire must have a de-
cent place to deposit her vote. ' The
State" he says, must build houses /
instead of dirty rooms and corner
shops; the State must build palaces /
and halls in which women can deposit
their votes in the presence of their
sons, and brothers, and fathers. The
effect of that reform upon the general /
voting of the State all can feel"
The Columbus Journal says: There /
has been more clamor against General |
Lee for his activity in the matter Of
on the geological survey
than on all other subjects Of principle |
or policy. Yet his action in this mat
ter is comprised in one brief letter in /
favor of one of the Notwithstanding /
more. It is proper to say, in this con-
nection, that there is scarce a doubt Of /
General Lees denomination, by aCcla- /
nation.
The New York Post very pertinently /
inquiries Why should not Decoration /
Day." as it is already called, become a |
yearly holiday2 Why should we not /
add it to the small number of days in 1
which the whole nation rests and is /
thankful? Why should it not be set /
apart as q day of thanks for our great /
and of grateful remem-
branee of those brave soldiers who 4
gave their lives to The cause of the /
Union and free government