Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-02

IMPENDING CRIsIs'' Helper
writes to the Republican Of this
city 70 deny that he is q Con-
sentative candidate for Congress-
ia North Carolina. Helper says
he has never held but one office,
that Of American Consul at
Buenos Ayres, with a salary that
paid but little more than One.half
of his actual, necessary, unavoida'
Die expenses and further, that the
office was far more difficult to get
rid of than to get. Unfortunate
Helper. Helper has no disposi-
ton to help himself to any more
Offices, though he says he has had
three offices of different grades
rendered him since his return from
South America. Fortunate Helper.
Helper thus defines his political
faith.
"IfI we're a candidate for any
Office within the gift Of the people
/ could not conscientiOusly an
nounce myself As a Conservative,
nor as a Democrat, nor as q Radi-
cal, but only as q plain, simple
Republican, Republican stand
ing, or aiming to stand upon the
just and true principles which were
so ably defended by such enlight-
ened.statesmen as jefferson, John
Adams, Daniel Webster, Henry
Clay, Horace Mann and Abraham
Lincoln (sic). / certainly should
not esteem it IN honor to be sent
TO Congress or elsewhere by
such voters as have delight
ed to elect and re.elect t.
office individuals like White.
more and Deweese." Mr.. Helper
then states that his brother, Mr..
Hardie Hogan Helper, is au indie
pendent or reform Republican
candidate for Congress in the
Sixth Congressional District oil
North Carolina. impending
crisis Helper thinks there is greal
need Of reform in North Carolina.
which has been brought to the
brink Of utter ruin, first by the
rebels, and since by the incompe
tent and corrupt party now con.
trolling the State" In this he is.
no doubt, correct.
The House, on Saturday, by q
yea and nay vote 30 To 7G) re.
fused to restore to the pension
rolls the name of Margaret L.
Bybee, Of Tennessee, whose hus.
band was killed In the war Of 1872,
Mrs. Bybee, who is now seventy.
five years old, was a pensioner al
the time of the breaking out of tue
rebellion, and her name, with all
others in the rebel States, was
stricken from the rolls by the act
Of February, T., 1862. Not able
conscientiously to swear that her
sympathies were not with the re.
bcllion, she asked n special act OF
Congress to restore her name to
the rolls, and the House decided
not to do so by the above vote.
The Republican says OF this
case:
"While there are members now
in the House who actively partici-
pated in the rebellion, and for the
removal Of whose political disabil.
tiles special acts OF Congress were
passed, this treatment of the
daughter of 4 revolutionary hero,
and the widow Of an officer in the
war OF 1872, simply becsuse, when
instincts, at an age when
q careful weighing of the merits
Of a grave and intricate political
was out of the question,
her sympa!hies went with her
friends and neighbors.
peculiarly harsh and un.
grateful.
While this old lady is refused
her pension, because her sympa-
thies were with her kindred, the
can appoint to a seat in
The Cabinet a man who voluntari.
y served in the Confederate army
and fought against "the best
Government the world ever saw"
is no meaner act on the in.
famous record of this infamous
Congress than the &C.
ion Of the House on Saturday in
his case.