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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
clearly stated.

The New York Herald thus clearly
stated the dilemma of Radical recon-
struction-:
"Southern States were required to
ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as a
condition of restoration to the Union.
As they could not be trusted to come
in and then ratify it they ratified first
and then came in. They were, there
fore, not in the Union when they act
ed on the constitution, or else they
were never out of the Union. Either,
then, all the reconstruction laws Of
Congress are invalid, or these South
ern ratifications OF the Fifteenth
Amendment are invalid. IF the States
were in the Union there was no need
to admit them, and if they were not
in the Union they could not partici-
pate in making law for States that are
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

a MAN GROUND TO DEATn.-A
young man, while intoxicated, fell in
to the machinery at the rolling mill at
Scranton, Pa. The engineer heard
the grinding Of the bones, and sup
posing the cogs were mashed, stopped
the engine Immediately. AS he did
so the blood, like fine rain, came driz-
zling down with little pieces of flesh
The men saw something flying through
the air, which they thought was d
cloth from the engine, but which was
the unknown being, thrown some for
ty feet from the wheel, landing on tho
top of q furnace, where it was found
broilipg, burning and disfgHred,~
The name of the unfortunate young
man was james Y. Yessey.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
y T,e Ecumsnical Council.

New YoRK, Feb. 14.-Special cor
respondence from Rome gives the
present tone of opinion among the
pfelates and laymen attending upon
the sessions of the great council.
It is certain that much confusion
prevails among the members of
the Council. and the two factions,
the Ultamontanes, led by Manning of
Westminster, and the autonomists, by
.Dupanloup, of Orleans, carry on an
excited warfare in the private sessions
at the Quirinal. 1t is asserted that
not all of the American bishops are
ultramontane. The Bishop of Savan-
nah has argued in Council against the
opportuneness of the Syllabus, and
sundry other American fathers have
refusedto sign the papal infallibilty
petition to the Pope.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
aaount Union College.

The next Spring Term begins March
1st,. and ends May llth. Summer
Term begins May 18th, and ends July
2Sth, with c Commencement. Fall Term
begins Aug. 23d, and ends Nov. 10th.
Winter Term begins Nov. 22d, and
ends Feb. 17th, 1871. This arrange
tment of terms enables students to
teach the winter season, and still get
three regular College Terms, without
falling behind their regular classes
The College possesses first class facili-
ties in each of its departments, Mod
ern and Ancient Classical, Scientific,
Normal, Musical, Fine Art and COM
mercial. The College possesses an es-
timated net property of S248, 8,648,OO,
with an income of this year of S14,-
10000, and facilities to accommodate
500 to 800 students, unfettered by
caste, or by political, or seetarian opin-
ion. The instruction is as thorough
as is found to be the case in any Col
lege of this or other countries. I'M
proyements worth about $50, 90
have lately been added to the appara-
tus, and to the facilities for good cheap
boarding. Over 5000 or 6506 stu
dents have taught public schools
The aggregate expenses of students
are but little oyer half that of many
Institutions. Valuable specimens and
apparatus were recently brought from
Europe by the President. Tuition in
the Scientific and Classical Courses
$500 to $1,000 per term. Board in
families with furnished rooms, $500
to $500 per week. Rooms for self or
club-boarding, 80 to 40 cents per week
Board and rooms in the College Board.
ing Hall, on the cooperative plan, no.
ted for its economy and convenience
Students can enter any time in the
term. and pursue any branches they
are qualified to study. This College
is beautifully located in the moral aud
healthy village of Mt. Union, two
miles from Alliance, the junction Of
the Cleveland and Wheeling, and tAe
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad. f....5.,i4 .f
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
The Beauty of mixed Government.


Dom Piatt, the Washington CORES
pondent Of the Cincinnati CONNER.
ctal, draws the following picture OF
the municipal Government of Wash
ington City :9i5iaai 2flaanlo @sT-2}
"Congress has power to give Wash
ington city decent government, by
wiping out the mongrel concern that
has grown up under the auspices OF
crazy theorists and one-idea philan-
chropists. The District of Columbia
was the first bit of slave territory that
received the blessed act of emancipa-
ton. The result was, that, lying be-
tween Maryland and Virginia, it be-
came arefuge for escaping slaves
And now we have here population
of blacks in excess of the white peo-
pie, and very ignorant, creduIous
mass, owned and controlled by the
lowest ordea of cunning, greedy, un-
principled demagogues. Hence, we
have taxes in excess of improvement.
While streets remain heaped-up mud
holes, contractors are fat in their ac-
cumulated spoils. And this is the
great Capital of the nation.o - a'5
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

If the negroes of this country ever
fully comprehend their own situation,
says the Crisis, what must be their
sense of servitude and degradation
when they intelligently reflect upon
the action of their professed friends,
who deal in the infirmities of the race
as they do in gambling stocks? Will
the intelligent negro regard himself
as the equal of the plantation hand !?
Not much. Will Mr.. Sumner or any
of the bondholding or shoddy aristoc-
racy of the country admit him upon
terms of equality.to his family? No
intelligent negro believes it. Will
the ablest of them be admitted to the
positions in the Cabinet or upon loyal
tickets? Not any. Can they live in
New England? No. viii they be
admitted to the social circles of those
who have been loudest in their howl
ings for negro equality? Not if a
Yankee snob or New England phi
lanthropist can help it. Can they
master the difficulties that have envi-
/ roned other races for centuries, and
compete with the skilled labor and
natural advantages of the Caucassians,
attained through the long mist of
ages? Their race has never succeeded
at the attempt. Can they maintain
their own freedom, which they yaunt ?
No, for the experience of the past
shows that their emancipation from
servitude only involved others in
common with themselves in still
worse slavery and more baleful and
overshadowing despotism, in which
all suffer and none are free For
what purpose, then, are they pushed
prematurely in unnatural positions
by whited sepulchres and spurious
philanthropists, under the pretense OF
elevation For the purpose of making
suffrage a nuliity and freedom sham,
that the rich and the powerful may
aggrandize themselves and the poor
and the weak be compelled to rush to
them for suecor, so that when the lat
ter faint from want, the former may
appear in the shape of a monarchial
and despotic government to rule and
rob the common vassals. 1t is the
old Federal upas poison to reduce the
complex but complete government OF
the people, to an anarchy ruled by
conspirators and sustained by an aris.
tocracy which lives from the sweat
and blood of the mob. And the
black race must be as ever the sub
stratum and the subjects of the mob.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

FREE LovEIsM.-A New York des-
patch of Feb. 18th, says: Another
free love tragedy has occurred in
Brooklyn. John Goulding, a we'll
known politician, was discovered in
intimate relations with the wife of
Joseph Sinnett, seaman residing at
No. 81, Wyckoff street. He fed from
the wrath of Sinnett, and the erring
wife at once cut her throat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
TWO Acts Of the Leeis,aiure, : J.

The Ohio House of Representatives
last week consummated its outrageous
lawlessness and sanctified its infamous
ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
ment fraud, by the admission of
Messrs Glover and Blakeslee to seats
upon the floor to.which they are clear
ly not entitled. In the case of Glover
whose seat was contested upon the
ground of his ineligibility, the ruling
majority in theHouse refused to listen
to any argument in behalf of Mr.,
Newman, the contestant; and in def
ance of all precedent and in violation
of all customary rules governing such
cases, Glover was voted into his seat.
Glover holds his seat under distinct
violation of the very precise provision
of the State Constitution, which in
explicit terms declares that any per-
son holding lucrative Office at the
time of his candidature and election,
is ineligible to seat in the General
Assembly. The violation of this pro-
vision was so clear and manifest, that
we learn that many Republicans re-
volted at the act, but were ignomini-
ously whipped into the party harness
by the caucus. In the case of Blakes-
lee, the action of the House was, if
possible, still more infamous. Blakes-
lee has no legal right to seat for the
simple reason that the county of
Williams is not entitled to separate
representation under the legal ap-
portionment made by the competent
authorities. The evidence upon this
point was so positive and manifest
that q negro jury could not have been
deceived into q wrong conclusion
about it, and we do not suppose that
a single member of the House was
deceived; but every Republican voted
for the fraud simply to reward Blakes-
lee for his impudence and his dirty
services in helping to pass the Fif-
teenth Amendment swindle. The
common opinion about Legislature
capable of crowding these two acts
into weeks proceedings, need not
be reported here. The people can fix
the status of the body from the facts
and that status is not one that mem
bers can be very proud ofuntil unscru-
pulous partisanism is at premium
and perjury becomes pastime.-Cri-
SIS, February 9th.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
RAvENNA MARKET.
MARKETS.

CLEVELAND, Feb. IS. 1850.
Flour-Market firm but unchanged We quote
as follows: City made SI00S7.25 for xxx
white; s., ,009559 for 1X spring.
Wheat-Eo. Red Winter at 81, II.
Corn-New at 7Sc.
Oats-Held at 4Sc.
Pork-sieady; Heavy Mess held at $s7oo;
Clear 5000.
Lard-Quiet; City rendered held at 16Sc in
tierces; country do 151<@16c.
Dressed Hegs-Held at I0@105Sc.
Butter-He1d at 2S930c for choice; 2o928c for
common to medium.
Cheese-Held at 1691sc for Factory and D Dairy.
Eggs-Held at &c.
POtatoes-Dun at 1890
NEW YORK, Feb. Is, 1870.
Flour-Quiet and firm.
heat-Adyanced and in fair demand nomi-
nally 1@2c higher
Corn-Steady and nominal at 81 03 in store.
Oats-Dull and nominal at 54967c.
Pork-Quiet and firm at $26 1283475.
Lard-Quiet and firm at i5Kc.
Cattle-Market steady and demand fair at
12@I6hc.
Live Hogs Market steady and demand fair
at 9H910xc.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

4F i g. q .
ANOTHER. OUTRAGE.--A New York
despatch of Feb. 18th, says: A New
York. Havana correspondent gives
news for the first time of the brutal
murder of another American citizen,
Vincent Danney, of Florida. He
went over to HaYanns from Key West
on the same steamer that conveyed
the remains of Castanon, editor of the
Pos de Cuba, and for relating a
somewhat modified account of the as
sassination was set upon in San Jose
street, in the evening, by band OF
armed volunteers and put to DEATH
No arrests were made. After the
Castanon obsequies, nine Cubans were
massacreed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

BETWEEN six and seven o'clock on
last Monday evening. P. ". Poole, a
lawyerof Crestline, Ohio, in attempt
ing to shoot Abraham Moorhead, Esq,
proprietor of the Franklin House,
wounded two by-standers-one Geo.
May, a young man, severely in the
hip, and an unknown man slightly in
the hand. The difficulty originated in
some law matter. Poole has not since
been seen.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

The @learned Senator Pomeroy =
took the position ON Tuesday, in ..a
short speech" before the Woman's
Suffrage Convention in Washington,
that inasmuch as woman was amena-
able to the law, therefore she was en-
titled to vote. This is about as SEN
sible an idea as any of the old gran
mics get off on such an occasion. Rea.
soning by the same parity, all minors
(who are amenable to the Iaws) are
also entitled to a vote. One just as
much as the other. Pomeroy is from
Kansas--h is also a Radical-that ac-
counts for it.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

Opinions of Eminent Statesmen,
The memorial against negro suffrage
presented by Mr.. Salisbury in the
United States Senate last week, quotes
the following interesting opinion of
eminent statesmen of all parties,
Abraham Lincoln included, on the
question of negro equality.
John Adams said:
never read reasoning more absurd,
sophistry more gross than the subtitle
laborers of Helvetius and Rosseau to
demonstrate the natural equality of
mankind.
Thomas Jefferson said:
Nothing is more certainly written
in the book of fate than that these
people (the negroes) are to be free,
nor is it less certain that the two races
equally free cannot live under the
same government.
Daniel Webster said
IT any gentleman from the South
shall propose a scheme, to be carried
on by this government upon a large
scale for the transportation of the col
ored people to any colony or any
place in the world, should be quite
disposed to incur almost any degree
of expense to accomplish that object.
Henry Clay said:
OF the utility of total separation
of the two incongruous races of our
population, supposing it to be practic-
al, none have ever doubted the mode
of accomplishing that desirable object
has alone divided public opinion.
Stephen A. Douglass said:
believe this government was made
by white men for the benefit of white
men and their posterity forever; and
am in favor of confining citizenship
to white men of European birth and
descent, instead of comforting it upon
negroes, Indians and other inferior
races.
Abraham Lincoln said:
am not, and never have been, in
favor of making voters or jurors of
negroes, nor of qualifying them to
hold Office, nor to intermarry with
whites; and I will say further, in ad-
dition to this, that there Is physical
difference between the white and
black races, which / believe will for
ever forbid the two races living on
terms of social and political equality.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

On Tuesday morning, as Mr.. Adam
Mong was engaged at work with q
planning machine at his shop, in Mas
sillon, his coat sleeve caught in the
gearing, and in trice his arm was
rolled in between the cog wheels, in
fleeing injuries of painful nature
Certain braces upon the machine pre-
vented the bone of the arm from be-
ing drawn in, but the flesh was torn
in terrible manner.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

HARvEF SELL, . young man living
in Perry township, Carol county, was
thrown out of a sleigh on last Tues
day, and instantly killed. His father
who was with him, was also thrown
out, and received such injuries that it
is feared he will not recover.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

On Wednesday of last week, two
young men named Moore and Brown,
while walling well in Butler county,
Pa, met with terrible death by the
caving in of the well. 1t was twelve
hours before the bodies were taken
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

JUDGE SIFFoRD, of the Chillicothe
District, tried an important criminal
case last week, holding Court on Sun
day, to the intense indignation of the
clergy, who roundly denounced him.
The Judge was compelled to defend
himself from the bench, and gave rea-
sons in justification of his course
which proved satisfactory to the law
yers, who generally endorsed him.
The case was that of James Davidson,
Oh trial for murder, and he was ac-
quitted.-Cgisis.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

LATEST advices from Mexico indicate
that the Juarez government is totter-
ing. The liberals, conservatives and
ifnpei'ialists make common cause
against it. f.iaaIa ai.f a0ag .aisr
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
The Kansas Senate on the sth inst,

The Kansas Senate on the Sth inst,
passed the House concurrent resolu-
ton asking for the removal of the In
dians from the State. The Legisla-
ture of that State is Radical, but, it
would seem, don't belieyein the equal
ity of the races. Why not enfran-
chise the Indians? They are as well
qualified to vote as nine-tenths of the
negroes.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

LoGANspoRT, Ind, had a fire on
Thursday night which destroyed
property valued at $4,000. Partial
ly insured. aolissT97 b fs1
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

LADIES will be sorry to learn that
diamond engagement rings are no
longer fashionable; gentlemen, on
the contrary, quite the reverse.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

ANNA DIcKENsoN saws her highest
ambition is to become an NJ. C.. The
Ohio Patriot thinks M. G. means
Mother of Children. d3ga III
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
JONES ESTATE.

Notice is hereby given that tho undersigned
has been duly appointed and guslinea AdnStntss
Paris to%nsiiip, Portage county, Ohio, deceased.
Persons having claims against said estate, are
requested to present them promptly for adjust
ment. - w. b. THOMAS, Adpf.
JaS. pT. lsTu. 44s3w.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

A COUPLE were married over in
Knox county,. who when, spliced made
nearly fourteen feet of matrimony.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

GAME LAWS NOW IN FoRcE.-A part
of section l, of the game law passed
April 8, 1867, reads as follows: -.
And it shall be unlawful in any
place to catch, kill, or injure, or pur-
sue with such intent, any Quail, or
Virginia Partridge, Rufied Grouse, or
Pheasant, or any Wild Turkey, be-
tween the lst day of February and
the 18th day of October inclusive. go
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

The steamer Maggie Hayer, from
New Orleans for Pittsburgh, blew up
at chnte Sc, near Helena at two O'Clock
p. m. on Thursday last, killing Capt.
Martin, the second mate, and eight
deck hands, and badly but uot fatally
scalding Second Clerk Pease., None
of the passengers were injured.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

A CORRESPONDENT of the Summit
Beacon asks: ssWhen can we ever
pay off our National debt if the wo-
men are to squander over hundred
million Of dollars year for French
gew-gaws p e ai ~ &
The question may be difficult of So
luton, but perhaps the ready reckon
ers oftthe Radical party will have no
difficulty in telling how we are to pay
even the interest on our National debt
if the women do not squander more
than q hundred million dollars on for
eign luxuries. All those articles of
necessity which come in competition
with the manufactures of New Eng
land and a few favored interests are
excluded from importation by the inn
position of high duties, while the gov
ernment is required to obtain over
$120000O00 annually in coin to pay
the interest on the public debt almost
exclusively from those articles ctassed
as luxHries. 1t don't look well to be
upholding the radical tariff policy, and
then denouncing the ladies for con-
suming those articles Ito which the
government looks to obtain the mean
opay the interest, to say nothi ng of
the principal of the public debt.
G. M. WIcKLIFrE, Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts of the State of Louisiana,
has preferred charges in the House of
Representatives of that State, against
Governor Yarmouth, charging him
with bribery, fraud, official corrup-
ton, and seduction, and asking the
appointment of a committee to in
vestigate the same. Any one of the
charges, if substantiated, would be
sufficient to impeach him. The inn
parchment Of Radical officials by the
party which eleceed them to power,
seems to be all the rage among the re-
Gently reconstructed. Certainly it
would be blessing to the oppressed
people of that section if they could
thus get rid of the corrupt scoundrels
who have been foisted upon them by
the Congressional tyrants.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

The people of Mansfield have re-
Gently held meeting, and adopted a
resolution, asking the State Board of
Agriculture to locate the next State
Fair at that place, and, ON the part of
the people, agreeing to comply with
the stipulations of the circular of the
Board, of the 10th of January, 1870.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17
Wagon for Sale.

A COOP Secondhand Two-Horse Wagon
BEECHER s SEYMOUR.
Ravenna, Dec. %, 1S89-tf.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

A RADICAL exchange says: 1T is
sort of poetic justice which sends q
colored man to the United States SEN
ate, as the successor of JEFF. Davis
We can't exactly yisee the poetry in it,
but acknowledge it is little scenti-
mental. - s, $1,000 q. "a. n
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

A EYTHING you want done in the line Of A;u
IA Heads, Cards, Posters, PAInphleAs, &e., b
sure and come % NE FyNse QMc& on ChsstrW
StSet, north sAAA Or llavtfe BlasSs
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

In fact. We have everything u<uatfy found in
Furnishing Store. %einrite the people of Por-
tage County to call and examine our Goods be-
fore purchasing, rs cur Goods ere houeht low
and will be sold aS cheap as any live man dare
sell. sFLATH & POE,
Poa's nuflding. Main Street.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

A entire stock of
"A NEW SHOES
Openings at II. L. DAYS.
:a
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

A Full Stock of
IN DOMESTIC GOODS,
To arrive this week. II. L. DAY.
Feb. 1, 1910.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-02-17

RARGAISs in Flannels. 5as