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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

Ono has furnished Liberia, as well
as the United States, with President.
The Liberian House of Represents
tives recently finished an examination
of the returns of the election held last
May, and declared the Hon. Edward
James Royesto be chosen, President
of that Republic. Mr., Roye, who is
of pure African blood, was born at
Newark, Ohio, February 8, 1916. He
was educated at Athens University
and Oberlin College, taught school at
.Chillicothe, in 1886, and from 1888, to
lS44 was in Terre Haute, Indiana
He emigrated to Liberia in 1916, and
became q merchant at Monrovia. He
was successful, financially, accumulate
ing a fortune of 100000, while his
talents gave him political eminence.-
Rep: Paper.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
GLORIOUS Dxn1ocRArIo VICTORY

GLORIOUS OEn4OCRATIC VICTORY.
The Election for Governor. State
officers and members of the Legisla-
ture, took place in Connecticut on
Monday. James E. English was the
Democratic, and MarshalI Jewell the
Republican, candidate for Goveror.
Full returns have not been received,
but the Radicals concede the electionof
English by majority of probably one
thousand. Jewelps majority last year
was AL The probability is that the
Democrats have also elected their en-
tire state ticket by a small majority.
How the Legislature viii stand is not
known, but the Democrats have made
gains in both branches, and it is
thought they have carried the Senate.
Well done Connecticut When viii
the Radicals commence the recon-
strution of that State?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
rToMEsrEAD AND PRE-EMPT1oN.

HOMESTEAD AND PRE-EMPTIoN.
statement plainly printed, for the information
of persons Intending to take up Homestead or
Prescription, in this portion of the West, en-
er Sections. 1t explains how to secure i6O acres
OF rich Farming Land for nothing, six months
before you leave your home, in this most healthy
tion as is needed by those intending to make a
home and fortune in the richlands of the West.
SON sending % me IS Cents The Information Ii & alone one
which it gives is worth s. to anybody, Men who
came here two and three years ago, and took a
farm, are to-day independent.
ai3aa To YOUNG MEN
This country y being crossed with numerous
railroads reaching from every direction to Sioux
this city within one year. One IS already in
operation connecting us with Chicago and the
U. P. Railroad, and two more will be completed
3 elI Sn ysaf rec US
viii be completed within year, connecting us
direct with st. Paul, Mimi, Yankton, Da, and
Columbus, Neb., on the U. P. +. r. The Mis-
souri, River gives us the mountain trade. Thus
it will be seen that no section of country offers
speculation and making fortune. For the
country is being populated, and towns and cit
les are being built almost beyond belief Every
railroad market at his own door. And any en-
terprising young man, with small capital, can
establish himself in permanent and paying
business, If he selects the right location andthe
right branch of trade. Eighteen years residence
in the western country, and a large portion of
ne se aD ,,, as agent IN this
es of business and the best locations of this
country. For 81 remitted to me, will give
truthful and definite answers to all questions on
this subject desired by such persons. Tell them
the best place to locate and what business is
overeTowded. and what branch p IiS is neglected
Box 1sel S. G. Com; of Emigration
Feb. "a, 10. 7s-ly Sioux City, Iowa..
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

e E, CA1oAeo, April 1.-The westward
bound passenger train which left
Quincy Saturday night, on the Han
nibal and st. Joseph Railroad, met
with serious accident about twenty
four miles from dQuincy.. Two pas
senger and one sleeping car were
thrown from the track down steep
embankment: and completely demol-
ished. Twenty-Five persons were
more OF less injured, two of them ia
tally. ~ 9El ~ "ia
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
WE notioe,tbat MANY Radical sneal p,

WE noticesthat many Radical speak
ers are denouncing the Woman Suf-
frage movement on the grounds that
it will degrade them. How isit with
their colored pets and brothers? Will
it not have the same effect on them
They should have thought of this be-
fore. Why degrade the poor down
trodden cuss from Africa. s@
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
nc Politica1 status.

The sharp-eyed seers of the political
world have many strange visions of
the future, and are vigilant with their
speculative projects. The gold panic,
the sale of cadetships, the 18th amend
ment, and the cunning craft of party
manipulations to perpetuate party
power are the great central objects OF
attraction. Wipe out the studied
schemes for party success and the Rad
ical leaders will be left without mo-
tive. Erase all the congressional en-
actments for the past five years having
this for its ultimate object, and you
make the legislation for that period
almost blank. And why is it? A
party representing the interests of the
people, as the Jacobins claim to do,
brim full of professions of unalloyed
patriotism and the most faithful adj
herence to a whole-souled love of
country; overfowing with the purest
piety and the hottest morality; free
from the stains of vice, why need they
fear the votes of the intelligent citizens
of the American Republic? Such a
party, Influenced by such motives,
would be properly appreciated by the
people, and, like the Democratic party
up to 1860, could only be defeated by
their own suicidal hands.
The Radicals are shrewd and know
themselves best, and, like quack,
they endeayor to keep up by preten-
sions and outward show. What a
glorious ten years. record they have
made for our Republic! In its youth.
and yigor they have stunted its growth
and blighted its prosperity. Ten years
ago and 81 900, 600 people justly boast
ed over all other nations of their in
dependence, freedom and prosperity.
The United States was bright starin
the armament of nations. By a
strange mishap sectional party, vast
ly in the minority obtained the reins
ofgovernment. That party was called
the BLACK Republican party It
was organized at Philadelphia, In 1856
under a flag of sisteea stars while
there were then thirty-one states in
the Union. Its leaders were outlaws
and rash radical men who entertained
no respectfor the Union, but openly
despised it; men who cherished no
love for the Constitution, but boldly
denounced it. Marvellous, wonderful
straugei I'm 1661-2-3 these Black Re-
publicans professed to be ardent lovers
of the Union, bold, brave defend ers
of the Constitution and patriotic wor-
shippers of the National flag ! In 1866
resistance to the laws had ceased, and
with it their anxietyfo for Union. They
claimed they had restored the Union
while it is yet unrestored. They pre-
tended to have maintained the Com
stitution while they were openly vio-
lating and setting it at defiance, and
stripping it of those features which
were regarded by its frame1s as most
essential to a republican government.
II is d fact that Radical success has
never existed with national unity.
Both cannot exist together, and the
struggle is to determine qohich shall
die. Let the Union be restored and it
is death to the Republican party.
And, kind readers, that is just the rea-
son why it is not restored.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

The remains of General Thomas,
under escort of Colonel willard, a
commissioned officer, and thirteen
men, were forwarded East from San
Francisco, on Thursday morning.
Minute guns were fred from AL
catarase on departure of the body for
Oakland. % a. '6sst.g
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
q . . ADELBERT AMFss


s2s g Brevet Maj Gen. u. S. Army,
Provisional Gov'nor of Mississippi"
There, is not that rich, sublime
e oBrevet major General Adelbert
Ames, United States Army, Provi-
sionaf GoEernor1of the State of Mis-
sissippi,p certifies that "Adelbert
Ames," minus the military-tail, @was
elected United States Senator by a
Legislature, the election of which he
controlled by the military under his
command. And without being a citi-
zen of the State claims a seat in the
Senate under that certificate.
~ Verify, there seems to be no: limit
to carpet-bag impudence and rascal
ityJ---E5c. - ..-.lt
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

GEORGE PEABoDY's tomb was en-
tered by burglars, on Wednesday
night, of last week, and the coffin
robbed of its silver plate and handles.
The thieves were arrested, and the
plunder secured, however.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

OF the National Debt of Greet Brit
ain aniablef English writer says: at
enhances to every man and woman
the price of ordinary articles of COM
fort, and aggrayates the task of INDUS
Try by an addition to the hours OF Ia
'hor." The same, is true here. The
debt adds two hours to the laborer's
working day; and makes him pay
Two prices for we'll nigh every thing
he buys. Il. .b
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
DIED.

sEVERANCE-on Thursday, March nth, at his
residence in Shalersyille of Erysipelas, Ma
than Severance, en- his eighty first birthday.
sCRIPTURE-on the 4th inst, at the residence
of her father, E. G. Russell, in this village
Mrs. Sarah R., wife of Edward Scripture
aged rs years.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
T,xECUToR.s SALE OF REAL Es-

ENXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ES-
IL TATE.-In pursuance to an order OF the
Probate Court of Portage County, Ohio, made
on the sth day of january, A. ID. 1s70, shall OIL
ses on Saturday, the 9th day of April, A ID.
1870, between the hours of 10 O'Clock, "A. NJ. and
longing to the estate of John o,Neill, deceased,
to- witt.
I Being part of lot No 90, in the township of
Rootstown, county of Portage, and State of Ohio,
land bounded on the north by land of s. Swagz
ger and NJ Sapp, on the east by Mussy Pond and
land OF j. Sapp, on the south by lot line and
land of j. w. Seymour, and on the west by land
of said Seymour and Swagger and lot line, con-
tanning one hundred and nine acres of land to
be sold unincumbercd
Terms of Sale-One-third cash in hand, one
third in one year, and -thiId in two years,
Appraised at $545000.
OTIS REED,
Executor of last will of John O'Neill, dec.
By HART 81 REED Att'ys.
Rootstown, March 8, 1910, sow,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
II. ~ ! ,. - : = ; : =
A Political Curiosity.


The following certificate presented
by Gen. Ames, of his election to the
United Senate, from the State of Mis-
sissippi, is. certainly the richest curl
osity Of the kind ever given to the
public, and should by all means be
handed down to future generations as
a model Carpet Bag document:
b Il eiHExEcUETyE DEPARTMENT,
sa5 Estate OF MISSISSIPPI,
- JACKSON, Mss Jan. s25, 1870.
#le" ], zAdelbert Ames, Brevet Major
General United States Army, Provi-
sionaI Governor of the State of Mis-
sissippi, do hereby certify that Adel-
bert Ames was elected United States
Senator by the Legislature of this
State, on the 18th day January, 1870,
for theI unexpifed term which COM
gmenced on the 4th day of March, 1869,
and which will end on the 4th day of
March, 1875. - -
Fi5" In testimony whereof, I.have here
r@e, unto set my hand andIcans-
= ed thee great seal off the
State Of Mississippi to- be
affixed, this 25th day. of
january. 1870: sst--.s.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
MARRIED-

CHURCH-PEW.-At Sufield, April 3d. 1870, by
VIM, Paulus, Esq, Mr.. Return o. Church, Of
Akron. to Miss Carrie J. Pew, of Sufield.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

MOI q Single Judge from the SOUTH
ern half Of the Union.
An Indianapolis clergyman has
preached a sermon on frizzled hair
Radical Paper.9 .taa .
Quite number of elergymen all
over the country have been preaching
on that same subject for nearly quar-
ter of a century; and that's what's the
matter. ~ a
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
The sectionalized supreme Court.

The confirmation of Judge Bradley
gives us a full United States Supreme
Court. The following is list of the
Judges, with their ages and the dates
of their appointments
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

p, WHITE AND NEGRO PRINTERS TO BE
LEvELED DOWN BY CONGRESSIONAL
sEElsNAcTMENT.-A dispatch from Wash
iington says. s"The Columbia Typo
graphical Society of this city, having
refused for nearly a year to admit to
membership the colored printers em-
ployed in the Government printing
office, amember Q of the House intends
to offer a resolution prohibiting the,
Government Printer from employing
any members of said society, unless
they admit to full, membership the
colored printers who work in the pub
lie Office ,....s5G
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
PrzzI;n,, orsss;o,,s..i

E If, as the extremist Jacobins in Con-
gress claim, Congress has a right to
reduce States to q territorial condition,
to destroy all-loeal governments in
them by reconstruction acts, enforced
by the military, and afterwards de-
mand of them, as q precedent to res
toration to representation in that
body, the adoption or-osrtain amend
ments to the constitution, did ft-nat
possess also, and just as clearly, the
right to deprive each of them of two
Senators, as fixed by the constitution
and ofwhich it was declared, that no
State should ever be deprived with
out her own consent? If States
which had been over and over again
declared by Congress and the other
departments of the United States
Government to be indestruetable, can
be treated as all the Southern States
have been, and made under military
force to consent TO changes in the orig
inal compact, what hindered. Con-
gress from saving time and trouble
by at once enaeting that such changes
should be made and afterward carried
out without their consent? Congress.
knows that none of the socalled recon
structed States, have ever ratified the
thirteenth, forteenth and fifteenth
amendments in the manner contem-
plated by the trainers of the original
constitution, or except under over
whelming military interference, yet
it enacts before the civilized world
the shameless sham and falseheod of
proclaiming that they have been rat1
ratified, in due form. But there. is
the new Jacobin discovery in censti-,
tutional law, that what may be- re.
publican in New England States is
not so in Southern, or Western
States; and New England Congress.
men and Senators, who have voted to
deprive ten States of their Senator'S
not only without their consent, but by
armed usurpation, on the very first
intimation that their enormous and,
disproportionate representation in the
Senate of the United States ought to-
be reduced, promptly invoke this
constitutional provision, and say that
none of their Senators can be taken
away by Congress.-Ee.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07

Fea WHAT's THE MATTER Now ?-The
Ohio State Journal, the columns, of
which have been crowded to over
flowing for the last twelve months
with etlogies upon the lovliness of the
equality that was to flow from the
adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment
closes lugubrious article upon the
relative condition of the negro in Ii
IBERIA and in this country in the fol-
lowing disparaging strain:
-. g Still it is true, and ever will be
true, that the social equality of the
cofored man cannot be attained in this
country, but it is. at once insured in
| Liberia" r. &5i. zs
& Pray what's the use of the Amend
ment.! Can't wehave another ?-Cftsis.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-04-07
CoNFECTIoNERIEs,
GLASSWARE,
For the Spring Trad

All of the above named goods were bought for
CASH with GOLD OF 112, and propose to sell
at prices that defy competition.
New-York tribune., 1870-10-20
INFORMATION WANTED.

Az the Controller besitates to make full
confession of the financial affairs OF the city,
perhaps he may be induced to speak to par
ticular points In that case, we desire 70
know what the opening Of Laurens-5t. Is TO
cost the taxpayers and into whose pockets
the profits of that job are to gof Where ls
the authority for opening Sullivan-st. through
Washington Parade Ground, and who is pay
ing the Democratic cohorts engaged IN that
operation Z How much does the city owe IN
poultice-pavement bonds, and are not those
outrageous swindles yet issuingf What price
is now paid for material in the Croton De-
partment, and has not that branch of tho pub
lie service trebled in expense since it got into
Mr.. Tweed's clutches What is the gross
amount exacted from unfortunate holders OF
real estate during this year and last as assess
ments for street improvements How many
gas-lamps have been placed and are kept burn
ing at the public cost in front of saloons and
places of vile resort owned by tools OF Tam
manyf What amount is expended in salaries
to persons who make no pretense of doing any
of the work they are paid for9 What did the
Farragut funeral cost the city, especially for
the champagne that converted that mOurnful
u @"~A
City Hall was cOncernedp
These are only a few of many points upon
which the public desire enlightenment. Does
the Controller find it consistent with the in
terests of the Ring to answerf Ii he still
keeps silent, it must be assumed that the Ring
cannot afford to have him speak, and we shall
not expect him to deny that the City Govern
ment cost,us over S33,00O0OO last year, or that
it will this year cost US several millions more;
that it now costs twenty-eight dollars per head
to govern this City, against two dollars per
head for the General Government or that the
dsproportion may soon become far worse; (;
that the debt of the City has been enormously
swollen by secret issues of bonds, or that any
honest statement of the present debt has been
made or can be extOrted from the men who
are fattening on it's clandestine expansion.
New-York tribune., 1870-10-20
OUR STATE CANVASS.

To the RepabHc0nS Of the State of Ne,O KOyk:
A visit to Missouri and Colorado, required
by engagements long ago made, and which |
was not at liberty to postpone, has been
widely commented On as Indicating dssatis-
faction on my part at the nomination of Gen.
WOodford or lack of interest in his election.
Neither inference accords with the truth.
Whatever the nominations at Saratoga last
month, must have made this visit at the pre-
else time l did, while do greatly desire and
shall heartily struggle for Gen. WOOdford's
election.
If there be any who deem Gen. WoodfOrd's
nomination a mistake, they should blame me
for it rather than him. He offered, weeks be-
fore the Convention, to decline absolutely in
my favor, if | would but indicate a wish that
he should do so. / had no such wish, and of
course indicated none. On the contrary, while
very willing to accept the nomination if the
Convention should deliberately conclude that /
could help the cause by so doing, was most
unwilling to become q candidate through the
fOIbearance or generosity of any one, or because
it was supposed that | desired or deserved the
post TO Gen. WoOdford, or to whoms0ever
approached me on the subject, stated that |
Judged that more votes could be polled for me
than for any other Republican, and could
give no assurance that such was the case. The
Convention must act on its own Judgment, not
mine.
Gen. WOodfOrd was nominated without un-
due or unworthy etiOrt on his part. He bought
no votes, and begged none. He concealed from
no man the truth that he would gladly accept
if nominated, and, whatever the event of the
canvass. would be gratifed by such selection
rs ! at his age would probably have been.
But he did and said nothing to achieve it calcu-
lated to render me less proud of his friend
ship since than before the meeting of that nom
mating Convention. And he will do nothing
If elected that should make you regret that
you gave him hearty, trustful support. |
say this On the strength of many years. asso-
cation with him in political and in private life.
In the gallant though not Immediately sue
ceSsfui struggle Of 1855 for Free Soil and Fre-
mont, the brunt of the canvass, 80 far as Or
eahzins and speech-making were concerned.
was oorhe by swarm of young volunteers,
iieSh irom seminary or apprenticeship, whose
unSeiiiSi enthusiasm electrified and swaved
the youthlui energy Of the Free States. Amonu
these volunteers, / knew no one who uos
more willing to do his full share of GOOD ,,orI
without seeking any Consideration 10, {, ,Lor
Stewart j.. WOodford. There were fev 90 a''-
young men who made more speecbes ona
know none among them who made be,tnr
more effective. Aud he was "a zealous. aa IN.
New-York tribune., 1870-10-20

lect that inst after the breaking out of Civil
War had virtually embargOed our merchant
vessels by paralyzing our commerce, there was
po nrice at all for such vessels, except
when the Government wanted to buy them
I sold n good City house that Summer for less
than half its value few months later; those
who had TO sell vessels were glad to take
whatever they could get
Mr.. Woodford on hearing that objections
were made to this appraisement, promptly IN
sisted on another, wherein his father-in-law
sbould have no voice. BY this second appraise-
ment. the value of the vessel and cargo was
raised from $4,000 to $4,000; and that appralse-
ment was allowed to stand.
Il have said more than purposed or can
have been required to dispel this miserable
calumny. which no one acquainted with the
facts can credit, and which but one such ever
affected to believe. There ia not one OF those
now busy in circulating it who would not
Judge any person fool who should put any
faith in it.
Fellow Citizens during my forty years ac-
ouaintance with the politics of our State, you
have had greater as well as smaller men than
Stewart L. Woodford presented to you as can
didates for Governor but truer, more up
right man, you have not had. / entreat you
TO give him an active, efficient support.
Yours. HORACE GREELEY.
New-York tribune., 1870-10-20

SO the Pennsylvanis delegation in the
next Congress, according TO present
returns, assuming the election Of Cessna, will
stand 10 straight Republicans, Independent
Republican, and 10 Democrats, while the pres
ent delegation is composed Of IS Republicans
and 8 Democrats. II is intimated that Messrs.
Cessna, Morrell, and Armstrong may contest
the election, but on what grounds we are not
advised.
In Ohio tho Congress delegation stands rela-
lively tho same as at present, ID Republicans
and 8 Democrats; we have lost two districts,
the Hid and IVth, and have gained two, The
Ist and IXth.
In Indiana we have lost one member, Con.
Lew. Wallace being beaten in the With Dis
trict by MahlOn ID. Manson, Dem. So the del
egation will stand Republicans to Demo-
Gratis, instead of TO as at present.
Iowa reflects her entire Republican dele
CATION of six, according to our latest returns !;
and Mr.. John Taffee is reelected by hand
some majority in Nebraska. 80 the Democracy
seem to have six, or possibly seven, more
members from tho five States which held
elections on the 9Th inst. than they have in
the present Congress