The Republican journal., 1870-06-23

lnG kcpuDllCan JOURNAL OI lulo Guy ducCls W DC
tremendously indignant at the defeat of Mr.. Lynchs
bill. 1t calls on the men Of Maine, on the ship
owners, shipbuldeGs, artZans and sailors to be dis
guested, and to initiate its ridiculous buster all be-
cause Congress has not been able to see its way
clear, to aid the shipping interest in the manner
proposed by Mr.. Lynchs bill.
Says this intensely disguised advocate Of the Ship
ping interest:
'Let negro be whipped for robbng bacon house in
the South wench be refused the best seat in the best
railroad and that august body would explode in full
limitations of wrath and demands for vengeance. But
when the great interest of the country and the
by which the of Maine has been enriched,
ask for relief from the unjust measures which have
dragged it down to DEATH told that the matter Is I'M
worthy the serious attention of Congress"'
Who led off in opposition to Mr.. Lynch's bill:
Were they the advocates of negro superiority? The
most effective speech against the bill was made by
Fernando Wood of New York, and he was second
great centre of the shipping interest of the country.
The fact that nearly every prominent democratic
member of the House-men who curse niggers,
went against the bin shows how much sense there
is in the Journals aspersions. Prog. Age.
The Age is curious sheet. At times it
gloriies the strength and power Of the radi-
cal party, tells of its numbers in the Union,
its overwhelming majority in Congress, and
the hopelessness of resistance to its measures
by the Democracy. 1t claims that the party
originates and carries ont all the great meas
ures for the welfare of the country, over
which welfare its watch is constant. In this
spreadeagle style it blows its radical gas,
until its attention is called to some measure
defeated, the justice and need of which it
dare not dispute, and then all at once the in
significant democratic minority is called up
to answer for the wrong doing, which it could
neither aid nor prevent
Out of 229 members of the House of Re-
representatives., there are but IS Democrats.
The Republicans can pass any measure they
please, and have more than seventy votes to
spare. They have the management and d-
rection Of public affairs and are to be held
responsible for the condition of the country,
and every interest in it that languishes Or
perishes through public injustice. 1t cannot
shrk or evade this responsibility. 1t must
and will be held to the record and the facts.
1t is nothing to the purpose that Wood, or
Brooks, or Cox opposed the Lynch bill. They
did so because it was palliative only and did
not 90 to the root of the trouble-holding
that high tariffs, enormous taxes and all
forms of government eXactions are the great
enemy of commerce. 1t makes comparative
y small difference to New York how her i'm
portations are Observation-Disclosures in Amcri-
can or foreign ships-but 10 the shipbulders
and sailors of Maine it is everything But
Congress is not willing to afford even the
temporary and partial relief asked for. And
we can assure the Age that our voice shall
never be raised in favor of the continued OPP
preston of the leading interest of our sec
ton, however our political associates may
90.
While the shipping interest of Maine has
been slowly bleeding to DEATH under the de-
pletion of the malignant measures of Con-
gress-while our shipowners and scamen
have seen their fortunes melt away, and their
employments cease-and while few earnest
men have striven to awaken Congress to a
sense of its duty,--what has been the voice
of this same Prog. Age on this matter2 Here
it is
"WERE WE TO BUILD NO sEA-GoING SHIPS,
NOR ENGAGE IN THE FOREIGN CARRYING TRADE,
WE SHOULD PERCEIVE THE DIFFERENCE But LIT
TIE
1t i'll becomes the author of such senti-
ments to talk of what any one says or does,
in Congress or out of it, on this question. He
must be either knavc or fool, on 4 compound
of both, who can thus deliberately strive to
tear down the interest of the people among
whom he lives, and furnish aid and comfort to
those who are destroying them. Such a man
is a public enemy, and should be regarded as
one.
That the above extract is not an error, 4
slip OF the pen, to be seen at once and cor
rected, is evident from the article in the Age
head Of this article is made. The same pur-
pose to aid the enemies of the shipping inter
est crops out again. as follows
An attempt was made to show that it was the
most important interest of the cOuntry in national
point of view, but it could not be shown. The
matter of fact was that it was confined almost
wholly to the borders of Il few coast States
That is the Age and its western friends
have discovered that ships don't sail on the
Alleghanies and Rocky Mountains or praries
Of the west, and therefore it is not national
interest And it is confined to the borders
OF the coast States! That is, ships 60 only
where there is water! Wonderful discovery
Truly the republican shipbuilders and owners
have much reason to be proud of their organ
in this locality.
RISE IN BREADsTUrF. The drouth in Eng
land and France, and the anticipated failure
of the grain crop, has induced speculative
movements in grain in this country, and
flour has already gone up two or three
dollars barrel. Ships bound into the Pa
citic are also being chartered to load wheat
Tor European ports. If the anticipated rise
takes place, the potato crop will bring better
prices The low price of breadstuffs the
past six or eight months has kept potatoes
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