The Portland daily press., 1869-07-30
PaIiiical Nate. .


Its generally understood that at the cabinet
meeting to-day it will be decided whether the
members elect OF the Virginia Legislature
shall be compelled to take the test oath
The Boston Post pertinently inquiries. sThe
Charleston Mercury is dead, but what will its
ghost say to Radical print about to be started
in that city? t{ese a8
Democratic papcrs In Illinois are Insisting
that in the framing ofthe new State Constitu-
tion, special attention should be paid to The
temperance aud Sunday questions. In :his
respect, they say, the present Constitution
should ba altered inthe sense of more liberal
reforms, and to this end in all those counties
where the Germans have influence they should
use that influence to secure the nomination and
election Of candidates who possess liberal ideas,
and who are advocates Of modern progress
The World warmly praises the Administra-
tons Cuban policy as jast, beneicent, saga
cious, and the best which could have been de-
vised. M f#f.8 8s3
The 'conseryatiye' rural name applied 10
General Rosecrans during the war was Blue
bellied butcher
The Cincinnati Chronicle concludes an arti-
Gle discussing the political situation in the
State Of Ohio as follows: "The leading DEM
ocratic papers of this State come out squarely
for repndiation. Other papers Of tie same
politics claim that honesty requires that if we
pay our debt we should also pay that OF the
confederacy, amounting to the modest sum of
five billions, and member OF the Legislature
of Kentucky, bright and shining light in the
household Of Democracy, offers resolution
looking to the payment of all the slaves eman-
cipatediby the governmental small addition of
four thousand millions more. Upon all the
above we propose to meet the Democracy, con-
fident in the justice Of our canse. We ask an
earnest and united effort Of all good citizens
to defeat the Vaccinations of the enemy. Let
no outside Issues distract US, and victory will
be ours" l's s4@sft
A correspondent Of the Toledo Blade who
was at the recent Ohio Democratic State Con-
yention and mixed with its leading members
and manipulators as a quietly inquisitive
stranger, writes that he is astonished to find
every one with whom he talked a champion Of
reputation Said one: "Congreis should
the Southern Confederate debt and 4
then repudiate the whole" Said another:
"The nigger question is not SO much the point
no,C as thebonds and the government debt. The \
niggers have got to have their vote all over
the country, it can't be helped but the bond.
holders who made money out of the South all
through the war and now make us pay their
taxes, can be broken up, and this is what the
Democratic party mnst set itself to do. We,
never can pay the debt, nevs. No nation ever
paid its war debt, and it is absurd to think of
it" And so ON. The writer seems to have be- .
come convinced that in Ohio, at least, the in
spring and almost unanimous desire of the /
Democratic party is to obtain power with al
view to branding the nation with the infamy
of the most stupendous theft in history, by the
reputation of its debt Nor can any one
doubt that this is, to day, the controlling de-
sire of the Democratic party throughout the
country, to which all opposition in its ranks
would have to succumb II once the party gain
ed power in the national legislature and adj
to execute its will. That power
it never will attain while its elements remain
what they are; but the mischief which it can
do, and does do, as party of reputation, 10
in keeping the national credit borne down, so
that the funding of the public debt at low
rate of interest is rendered impossible. From
fifty to seventy five millions of dollars per year
is moderate estimate of what the Democratic
party, in this manner alone, costs the coun-
try.
The Evansville Courier nominates Thomas
A. Hendricks as the Democratic candidate for
President in 1872
The New York Sun remarks that Dent, is by
accident, brother-in-law of the President, and
would like to avail himself of the opportunity
to shape his political fortunes But the acci-
dent cannot use the Mississippi grindstope for
the purpose.
The Nashville Press, prints an estimate of
the forthcoming vote for Governor, in which
fifty-three counties are put down for Senter
by "A 800 majority, and fifteen for Stokes by
$500.
The following is in the New York Tribune
of Wednesday: "We read in the newspapers a
most dreadful telegram from Tennessee-not
a telegram of murder, or of railway shock, or
of boiler bursting, or of fire or food but tel
egram ayowing that Audy johnson is sure to
be elected United States Senator, over Ether
idge and Peyton and everybody else. Such
calamity we are powerless to prevent; but
should Mr.. johnson make his appearance as
one Of the most potent, grave and reverend
we heartily recommend the majority of the
Senate to pass at least two resolutions-the
hrst providing for the purchase of one hun
dred thousand copies of Murray's English
Grammar, for Senator Johnson's sole and
separate use, and the other establishing a one
minute rule, OF some equally efficient check
upon Johnsonian loquacity." The Knoxville
Wing assures the Tribune that there will be
no need of the orammars