The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-10-07

THE TENNESSEE LEGIsLATURE.-The
Legislature. convened ,en-Monday last.
A Nashville special 70 the Cincinnati
CommdrciaERadical, says, that,F'ear-
ly in the succeeding week it viii elect
a United States Senator.
AT this Iearlys.day the following
events can be predicted with a reason
able certainty of their fulfiliment =
Andrew johnson will be elected Sem
ator. The Fifteenth Amendment will
not be lratifed. J A. constitutional
convention will be called at an
'earlys=Jfays@whieh body will effect
the enfranchisement of every disfran-
chised person in the State at the earli-
est practicable moment, but will not
interfere. with the civil and political
rights of the negro. In. any event the
bonds of the State will. not be repudi-
ated, although. the earnest advocates
of,such a measure will not be. wanting
The, partisan legislation of the last few
years will be generally repealed.
These are the main questions to come
before the Legislature and the con-
vention growing out oft. The fight
over the, Senatorship will be fierce,
but the result can be- told in advance"
ilAEE WooLLEN BLANKETS A LUxU-
RY ?-+-sA writer In the New. York EUe-
ming Post says, that we :. did not raise
one doliari of reFenue from Woollen
bianketsGfor the last three years, as
there is aeheavy duty on this article
nevertheless, fthe''duty compelled the
people to'pay the manufacturers forty
CENTS ;ih currency on the pound, for
what 'cau be bought in England for
twenty-four cents in currency" In
this case our tariff, pretended to be
for revenue, SIS prohibitive, and pos
tive harm to the people and the gov
efafnent.ri Gs.g -. f,a. -ssi:.~ s.-
IF it was disloyal in the outbreak OF
the rebellion for Mr., Pendleton and
his friends to manifest desire to
maintain the, Union without a resort
to war, was it loyal for the New York
Tribune, the Cincinnati Commercial,
the Cincinnati Gazette, the Ohio State
.Joap'naL and other Radical organs of
that ilk. to advocate the peaceable dis
solution of the Union? Such is the
logic Of the loi1s. ''.i''.' '..'' '' - "a
IRA, T. STEWART INTERvIEwED.-On
Friday; last "A. T. Stewart the great
dryrgoods man, whom Grant origi-
nally selected for Secretary of the
Treasury in, his Cabinet, was inter
viewed by reporter of the World
He denounced Secretary Boutwell,
with great severity, as the cause of all
the financial troubles, and said that
| his policy would not restore specie
.pE'fEyy1rae Payment, in thousand years:
I9E1T is about time forthe Radical pa
pers toiset afioatstheir bugaboo stories
about Ku-Klux. outrages; how the
tbarb berous whites of the South are
EGommitting Wholesale murders of the
poor /" Intelligent and reliable contra
bands" 1t is hardly possible that the
sc.1mpaigri, can come to an end without
alresort to this claptrapiby the Radi,
eals.i / .sgI41 y.t 55---t-4.. Il y ~
T. Col. WALKUP, an influential Repub.
Eiiean lawyer Of oo1f' ,Wapakoneta, and
Chairman Of the Republican Central
Committee of ofAuglafze county for the
past year, made.a neat little speech al
! a Democratic meeting in that place OF
Saturday last, ,renouncing his allegi.
ence to the Radical party and pledging
himself to Che unqualified support O
the Democratic; ticket.
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