Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25
From our Washington Correspondent.

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From our Washington Correspondent.
WAsHINGToN. June 21s', 1870.
| Every days Congressional experience shows
the sad lack of unity in the Republican ranks.
On the subject of the central principle of Re-
publicanism, to-wt, the equality of all men
before the law, the party is indeed a unit But
in the development of that idea there is as
many minds as there are men, and on all other
questions there is the Widest party liberty, if
not license. Gen Butler brings in "a reconstruc-
ton Bill having the approval ofthe Rconstruc-
ton Committee, and forthwith Schenck and
Bingham and Davis and others fall upon the
Bill tooth and nail and pick it TO pieces. Gen.
Garfield brings in Currency and Banking
Bill, and iudcOus in ITSELF and having the
approval ofthe Banking Committee, and forth
with all his rivals unite in emasculatng it to
death Gen Schcnck from the Committee on
Ways and Means reports Tariff Bill; it is
discussed for sixty days, and then filled by re-
fcrrng II to The next Congress. There is not
the slightest harmony among the leaders OF the
party, nor is there any one strong man among
them, rs there was in Thad Stevens day. who
could rally the party around him and present
Republican unity that should be victorious
over Democratic unity. Mr.. DAVIS is the
only member who has success with his bills
but Mr.. DAVIS brings in Appropriation Bills,
and appropriations must be made, if national
expenses are to be met. The future ofthc par
ty is all unknown. The triumphant passage OF
the 18th amendment crowns the party with
successful laurels But new issues must arise
in the future and no man can predict what
they will do 1t cannot be the old Tari1 cry
though the New York Tribune tries to crack
the party whip on that issue. But there is as
good Republicans on one side of that line as
the other. IL Horace Greeley is high tariff
Republican, William Lloyd Garrison is free
trade Republican; and the Republicanism o
the one is just as high, and pure and noble as
the other Most of the Democrats are freetra-
ders but every Pennsylvania Democrat votes
for high tariff.
JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW ENGLAND.
just now the attention ofpoliticans is turned
to the unexpected employment of large body
of Cinnamon in Massachusetts. Mr.. c. L. Samp
son, of North Adams, a boot and shoe manu-
facturcr being told by his men, that if he en-
ployed operatives not members of the order OF
Knights of st. Crispin they would all leave
him and would allow no other workmen TO
take their places, quietly sent out to San Fran
cisco, engaged a quantity of the brightest Chi
namen he could secure and frcightcd them ac
ross the continent to his workshop in NORTH
Adams Massachusetts, where they arc to day
f steadily and and quietly at work unless, in
deed II riot has broken out since morning
, The Knights of st. Crispin Is the largest body
of workmen ever associated in the world, ant
they unfortunately band together to determine
whom their employers shall select for work
men and whom they shall not This they
have no right to do; and the attempt has re
coiled by bringing into Massachusetts labo
costing seventy-tiye cents II day, that whel
i, taught lis duties, will successfully compel,
, with labor worth two and three dollars IL day
If Mr.. Sampson is successlul-and it require
but little phropheuc power to predict its com
plcte successive shall soon have the wave O
f Chinese inundalion washing all over our New
England hills.
POsTAGE AND OTHER MATTERS.
am sorry to say that Congressional selfish
{ ness has killed the bill for the abolition of tn
Franking Privilege The days of Privilege t
II special class have mostly passed away; bu
Congress clings with great pcrtinacily to il
. right to receive and send letters free 1t insist
that 0O90,O $40 of the people shall pay thrc
c cents u letter that the other three hundred ma
Il get their postage free. England, that has a
: ways led us in postal Improvement abolishe,
y the frank thirty years ago. Even the Queer
Is diminishcs her property two cents every tim
=, she posts letter. But in this country and i
this ago that proud boasts its dcmDcra ii
q equality, one of the most odious privileges
r kept up because those who are benefited b
u it, refuse to rclinqush its advantages
had intended In this letter TO have give
an abstract of n speech of Mr.. Hoar, of Mass
= chusetts, on National Education but my spat
- il somewhat brief Mr.. IIoar lays down Il
proposition that education is a necessary ell
" ment in the foundation of Republic that
ensure that necessity, the nation must deere
=, an education to every child within its border,
=, that the Constitution of the United States in
u pll'S VNNlg ildI NuuUl SnuIU III inc SONcTl
:, ment Of the nation and that no man can i,
, fl all the duties aud meet all the responsible
- ties devolvng upon him, uAess he has recci
!, ed the benefit of some education, wherefore
- proposes TO nationalist education; to render
,r the right of every child to receive such IN ed
!, cation and the duties of every state to grant
. and where the State fldlls its duty, the nato
I, al government stands aside without interfe
a cnce, But when the State refuses education
. any child 0iany color, then the nation shou
= give the education and charge Its expenses
,r the State Ii is glorious idea.
WORCESTER.
THE RESOLUTION in relation to the compc
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