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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-20
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
No Surrender in Ohio.

Ga Friday last, the Democratic State
Central Committee of Ohio met at Co
lumbus. Messrs. Pendleton, Morgan
McCooh, and other leading Democrats,
were present. The Committee discussed
the general political situation. 1t was
determined not TO name The date OF
place OF holding the next State Conven.
ton, and another meeting of the Com,
mittoe will be held on the 22d OF Feb
ruary, TO decide these points. Ga ac.
count Of other Engagements, Hon. A.
G.. Thurman felt himself compelled to
resign the Chalrmanship Of the Com.
mittoe. The Committee report that the
Democracy OF the State are not con.
quered, panic stricken, or demoralized,
but are willing, in 1872, to make another
effort, State and National, to secure the
triumph Of Democratic principles.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

IT has transpired what became Of a
portion, at least, of the mOney for
which an action is commenced against
William NJ, Tweed. Judge Noah Davis,
United States District Attorney, states
that he has received Information entire
ly satisfactory to his mind that "the
New York charter was voted for by the
Republicans pursuant to caucus reso-
luton of both branches of the Legisla-
ture, but that The entire body Of RepubH,
cans were corrupted By immense sums Of
money brought by Tweed from New
York, for which identical money an
action had been commenced against
him!'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
Senatorial Seats TO be Conte sted,

Mr.. PBFFER, the Democratic candi.
date, will contest the seat of WEAKLY,
Republican, declared elected to the
State Senate from the Cumberland and
Franklin district. We infer that Mr..
PETER does not expect to obtain the
seat himself, but by making proof that
WEAKLY was elected by bribery and
fraud, have new election ordered.
The Philadelphia Press announces that
PARRISH, of Luzerne, will contest the
election of COLLINS, who had about
1000 majority. Having failed to bribe
sufficient number Of votes to elect him,
the rascal now expects to succeed by
bribing Senators The Press also threat
ems that another attempt will be made
to steal the seat of Col. DECHERT, al.
though he had 1900 majority at the elec
tion. The fact that Democrat has q
majority at an election is no indication
that he will be permitted TO serve in q
Legislative position if the Radicals want
it badly. The history Of the last ten
years, both in Congress and the State
Legislature, proves that maj critics are
of no account in Radical eyes, that oath;
of office have no binding force, and that
they will admit their own candidates
when necessary to their interests, with.
out any regard whatever to the votes oi
the people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

The" New Departure" resolution did
more injury to the Democratic party in
the recent election than all the frauds
committed by the rascals who have
placed our party in disrepute in the city
of New York. The dovetailing of that
disastrous plank into the Democratic
platform was the cause of our discomfit-
ure and defeat. Republicans that are
disgusted with Radical rule and who
voted for us last year and year before,
looked upon the "New Departure" as
the material that closed up the breach
between the two contending parties on
the negro question, aud they considered
that no real reason existed why their
aid should be given to us this year. We
attribute our defeats to this outrageous
piece of policy which was perpetrated
on the party against its consent and in
the most clandestlne manner. Nation
al Defender.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
Proposed Surrender.

Certain vagabond politicians, with
the BLAIRs at their head, have the ef
frontery to ask the Democratic party to
disband, to make no nomi nation for
President, to nominate a Radical, &c.
We believe that in no prominent case
has any recognized Democrat made
either of these epropositions-but it comes
from those who have come over to us
since the war-from such as the BIAIRs,
CHASE, ANDY JOHNSON, CARL SHURs
the New York World, and others who
can scarcely swear to their own political
identity. Gentlemen, go where you
will, but you shall neither corrupt or
cover the Democracy. Do what you
will, a Democratic candidate will be in
the field for President, and no power on
earth can prevent it. Conventions and
politicians may be bought up but the
people cannot be.
What difference to the Democracy
which Republican leader shall be Pres
ident? Whether it be GRANT, or SUM
NER, or BUTLER, or CHASE, or GREE
LY, is of no consequence whatever, and
If a selection is to be made from amongst
these, few Democrats will care straw
which shall be successful. Tho Demo.
cratic opposition is to Republican be-
ing President-not more to General
GRANT occupying that position than to
any other Republican occupying it. 1t
is to the politics and practices Of Re.
publicans that the Democrats object
their principles are destructive to the
best interests of the country, and this
is why Gen. GRANT is objected to.
The wiseacres we refer to emphatically
calculate without their host. The Dem
ocrdtic party cannot be transferred to the
support Of Republican. If such at.
tempt were made by the National Con-
vention, immense numbers would refuse
to ratify the action, and very large mum
bers, to express their horror of the action
and prevent it in future, would vote
directly for GRANT. No man but a
Democrat can beat Gen. GRANT, and
the sooner the trading politicians come
to this conclusion the better it will be
for all concerned. But they say ''suc-
cess" must tbeobtained-no matter what
is trampled under foot, success is above
all things! Well, gentlemen, if that is
all it Is easy to be obtaIned-nonnate
Grant, Then there will be no opposi-
tlon and Heaven itself will not prevent
"success!' In fact you will be success.
ful unanimously
But, towards! to your tents-to your
beds President making is the business
OF men-men who can not only face de,
feat but brave any danger. Brave
men will never yield their principles.
There is but one conclusion, and that is
irreversible, viz: Democrats will not
vote for any man who does not repre-.
sent their principles, and therefore the
Democratic candidate for President
must be Democrat If success is dcsira.
BILE. Otherwise it il not possiblc-oxcept
GRANT be nominated!
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

In concluding an article on the uncer.
tainty of President Grants renomina.
tion, the Age says:
Military renown is q fine thing, but
reason should limit the sacrifice made
to 1t. The first Bonaparts brought
France to ruin, and himself to Saint
Helena, though he was great soldier.
His name was the stock in trade on
which his nephew went into business,
aud his military government eat the
very heart out Of France, aad left her
feeble and impovei isled, an easy prey
TO her enemies. The American people
may profit by the example. They give
General Grant the Presidency, and a
great many other gifts. They have
given him enough. We need not make
him a present of the liberties of our
country. His military claim to the
Presidency in now played out, with all
intelligent men. The unhired intellect
of the country is heartily sick of him.
He has been paid in full. He can now
retire with full pocket, and live lux
urious in one of his many houses. The
Mexican war made General Taylor
president with hurrah. But four years
after, a man of more conspicuous SER
vices, General Scott, was utterly routed
on the same military platform. That
history will repeat itself now, If the
whole OF tho democratic and halft the
republican parties unite in support of
candidate whose character affords a
guarantee of honest administration of
the free constitutional government,
which is the greatest and dearest right
of every American citizen worthy of
the name. How to bring together the
elements of opposition to the corrupt,
greedy, selfish clique of plunderers who
have General Grant in their keeping.
is now the only problem. Shall Mahom.
ct come to the mountain, or the noun
tain come to Mahomet? Either will
answer, as Mahomet said when he sen.
sibly solved that question. To solve it
now, 1t is only needed to merge selfish
pretentions in the general good. The
union of the opposition to Grant assures
his defeat, that Is certain, certain ''as
fate" certain as arithmetic. To that
great good all minor considerations
ought to be subhOrdinated, and we do
not think so i'll of the intelligence of
the American people, as to believe that
this great good cannot be attained. The
year that will elapse before the presi.
Dental election, affords ample time for
combination of the honest, patriotic
and Intelligent elements of both pollti.
tai parties, against the plunderers who
want to keep themselves in power by
fraud and military violence.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

The Boston Post says of the present
Radical campaign in South Carolina {:
"This trick has become too stale to
work any longer. Everybody knows
that it is what is professional styled a
put'up job. Here is an entire population
put to flight by Federal troops, that
was living yesterday in as quiet and
contented fellowship AS characterizes
any other community. War has been
practically declared against them by
the Federal government. Not on &C.
count of any crime on their part do
they flee but because they are Invaded
by the troops of government that has
nothing to do with them. All this takes
place under the Infamous Ku- Klux law,
which was denounced at the time Of its
passage, with such vigor, by Senators
SCHURz and TBUMBULL statute
claiming its origin in the Fourteenth
Amendment, which is thus interpreted
to mean the overthrow instead Of the
extention of Republican liberty"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
Deaths by Railroad.

Unless the accident is one that de,
stroys several lives or occurs near town,
deaths upon railroads are rarely report
ed to the public, and especially is this
the case when employees on freight
trains are killed.
Tho Now York HeraH suggests as
the best remedy to prevent railway ac.
cident5, that the persons injured, or
relatives ofthose killed by them, should
always promptly sue for damages. If
this were done, there would be greater
regard for human life on the part of the
corporations interested, because juries
almost invariably award verdicts in
favor of the plaintiffs. But very often
people who are hurt in such accidents
do not think of the legal redress at their
command, while the friends of the de-
ceased are frequently without the m cans
or the courage to begin suit against
the companies. AS for the killed, we
have the authority of Artemus Ward
that "dead men don't sue they aint on
it,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
"Patent 0utsldcs."

We regret to see 50 respectable ana
able paper as the Northumberland
Cb,mty Democrat adopting the patent
outside" plan-that Is, obtaining sheets
of paper with the first and fourth pages
already printed, from publishing estab'
lishments in the cities which supply
perhaps thousand other papers with
the same matter. AS this matter must
necessarily be of a character that will
not give offence to any locality, party,
sect, opinion or prejudice, 1t is of course
insipid, meaningless, worthless. with
out principle or information-lla fiat stale
and often vulgar and abounding in
fslsehood and pernicious follies. The
conscientious and honest editor feels all
the responsibility and anxiety for max
ing every page of his paper interesting
and worthy of patronage as he does any
one of them, and Is tempted to procure
the outside only because he hopes
against reason) that the articles will be
passably good, but mainly because he
can buy the paper thus printed cheaper
than hecan buy the blank sheets. We
know that many are imposed upon and
are compelled to pay more, but others
buy for less than the value Of the blank
paper, because the producer Of the
| "pHtent outside" reserves the right to
| put in several columns of advertise.
ments for which he receives the pay.
The editor is in every respect as re-
sponsible for the extracts his paper con-
tains as he is for what he writes. Most
readers read the selections with as much
interest as the editorial, if made with
care and Judgment. 1t is blunder for
any editor to suppose that the popular
ity of his paper depends upon his own
writing alone--the intelligent reader
takes the entire contents into consider
alton. Suppose a paper were issued
here in Bloomsburg the whole of which
was known to be printed and edited in
New York, by persons who were entire
strangers to this community, how much
interest could our people feel in it, or
how much respect would it command?
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
Threatened Resistance TO Law in Georgia

Threatened Resistance 70 Law in Georgia.
MIR. Conley, the Acting Governor of
Georgia, means mischief. He has in
timated that he will retain his power in
spite of the election law lately passed
by the Legislature. The paperes of the
State are apprehensiv, from Conley's
assertions, that the Radical party of
Georgia do not intend to give up power
at the bidding of anybody, and that
they expect to be upheld in this usurpa-
ton by the President of the United
States, with the army and navy at his
back.
The Savannah Republican, comment
ing on this state of affairs, says;
We shall see whether General Grant
has progressed far enough in the road
to arbitrary power to support any such
revolutionary measure in a State
Whatever may be the Acting Cover.
nor's opinion of the election act as re.
CARDS its constitutionality, the Legisla.
ture has passed 1t into law, and it is
his sworn duty to obey it himself, and
see that 1t Is respected by others until a
competent tribunal shall have declared
it unconstitutional. He is not that
authority. There are many laws on the
statute-book that were passed over the
constitutional scruples of the Executive
for the time being, but no Ex ecutive
ever presumed to disregard them on
that account.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
Constitutional Amendment.

We regret to see some OF our Demo
cratic cotemporaries opposing the pro-
posed amendment TO the Constitution
to limit the sessions of the Legislature
TO one In two years. We take 1t for
granted that the Convention will put
an eternal stop to all private and spec
ial legislation. Then no other VIII De
needed except for making provision Tor
the support OF government and amend
Ing present general laws-perhaps an
occasional new one Once in two years
would be often enough for this purpose,
and would not only save the expense Of
one election and one session, but would
break up all combinations and, rings.
OF course the Governor would still be
authorised, as at present,- to convene
the Legislature at any time for extra
ordinary emergencies,
The Luzerne Union brings forward a
decidedly radical proposition made
long ago by our old friend s. p. COL
LINGs, well known in this county as a
prominent politician in days gone by.
We would like to see it adopted, to wit .
IAN AMENDMENT OF THE CoNsTIrU-
TIoN ABoLIsuING LEGISLATIVE AS
sEMBLIEs IN THIS CoMMUNwEALTH,
AND ESTABLISHING AN. EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL WHICH, TOGETHER WITH
THE GOVERNOR, SHALL FRAME ALL
LAWS TO DE SUBMITTED FOR THE
ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF THE
PEOPLE" This plan also proposed
that such laws should be submitted to
the people for adoption or rejection at a
general election once in five years. Mr..
CoLLINGs also proposed, in connection
Herewith to make it penal offence for
any man to accept an Office he was not
qualified to fill, making the offence in
dictable, the culprit to be tried by Court
and Jury in the usual way, and if found
guilty to be forever debarred from hold
Ing office and to be subject to imprison.
ment to the extent of natural life! We
have no doubt that such amendment
would have a salutary effect upon office
hunters and would turn many chaps
ambition from office hunting to a more
reputable mode Of making an honest
living
Many papers of all parties are advo-
eating the election of the very ablest
men in every county or district as dele.
gates to the Constitutional Convention.
This idea will commend itself to the
common sense Of every man. a consti-
tutional convention is no place for
blockheads or demagogues.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
The Presidency.

AS General Hancock becomes more
popular he becomes more obnoxious
to the powers that be, and is removed
further from the presence. Like the
star of empire, he westward takes his
way, to irradiate the prairies around
Omaha. AS he still grows in popular
favor he will be boosted still lurth er
toward the Pacific, across the alkali
desert, to fret away his life and loose
his popularity among the Businesses
of the Rocky Mountains. Grant will
brook no rival near the throne of pop
ular faver, and in endangering Cen
eral Hancock's scalp, exhibits more of
his foresight and sound sense than he
has done in any other instance. In
stlnctively he feels his danger and
perhaps his fate, to rest with this gal
liant soldier who, un3educed by favor
undeterred by clamOr, has dared to
stand fast to the Old battered redoubt
of clvel law, though torn aud rent to
ruin by the treachery of its garrison.
1t is right to send him beyond the
limits of civilization; he has ho bust.
ness within its pale at present. A
change must come over affairs, and
the house be newly set in order, be-
fore such man as General Hancock
can take his honor seal at the banquet
These are the days of the Cm'ars those
of Brutuses have not yet arrived. New
Orleans Zines.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

GENERAL GRANTS Washington OF.
gan after alluding TO the late elections
in the Southern States, which resulted
adversely TO lis party says: at will re.
quire not less than ten thousand regular
troops, judicously distributed through
out the Southern States, to insure a free
and fair election in thOs, States, in
1872. / may be necessary that Congress
should increase the army" Such an
announcement as thi, would stir the
people of France, at this time, to a
perfect frenzy. The use of troops to
insure a fair, free election, in time Oi
profound peace! What clTact will ii
have in the United States?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
Tho Oppuiup of Congress.

Both Houses of Congress convened in
annual session on Monday last. The
Senate met at noon with nearly full
attendance of Senators and well filled
galleries. In the Hoase two hundred
and one members answered to their
names. The third annual message of
President GRANT was sent in and read
in both Houses The message reaches
us just as we are going to press and too
late for us even to make synopsis OF
1t. The absence of the editor from
town is our excuse for having no editor.
ial remarks on this important docu.
ment
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

| TIE COMING CONGRESS According
to General Butler, President making is
to be the main business of the coming
session of Congress. Unless the gov.
ernment has become practically an oil
garchy, the making of Presidents ought
TO be left to the people. That is no
part in the function of Congress, or, if
it is, the people have no more to do
with the selection of their chief ruler
than the subjects of European monarch
| les. All they have to do, at the utmost,
is to ratify selection by an election.
| This was not the design of the founders
| of the government, nor consistent with
the republican theory. Such an assump-
tion by Congress, besides opening the
door for corrupt appointments and
bribery, involves the neglect of all prac-
tical business. The reduction of taxes
and the tightening of other public bur-
thens are objects anXiously desired by
the country, and in which Congress
might find a legitimate and ample field
for its energies. Another fact of evil
omen is mentioned by correspondents
when they inform us that the birds of
prey are already flocked to the capital.
II is predicted that every old scheme
that has failed any time these last ten
years will probably be renewed, and
new ones be engendered hourly. The
corruptionists gathered in Washington
do not seem to have taken to heart the
lesson taught by the fate of the New
York ring. They seemed to be lulled in
the same profound sense of security
that the ring exhibited in New York
just before the reform earthquake shook
the ground under them. 1t may be
some time before the national sentiment
against corruption takes tho Washing
ton rings in hand, and, being stronger
and worse than any other, they are
likely to die harder. But their day is
coming, for the people arc more power
ful than President makers and lobby
lists, as the national Tweeds may yet
discover when 1t is too late to escape
the public indignation they have arous.
ed.-BaU. San.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08
A Propositions.

Hon. DANIEL w. VOORHEES,, of In-
diana has published a letter proposing
that the National Executive Committee
shall call q National Convention, to
meet on day not later than the 221 OF
February next; that this Convention
shall be composed of delegates chosen
by State and District Conventions, and
that it shall agree upon definite de-
claration of principles upon all matters
affecting our political institutions. The
declaration made, the Convention
should adjourn TO a day fixed for the
nomination of u Presidential candidate.
In the mean time the people can discuss
and approve or disapprove Of what has
been done. Mr.. VOORHEES, concludes
by saying that it would be the duty of
all Democrats to submit to the decision
of the majority. He argues that if the
Democratic vote can be consolidated
inspired with enthusiasm and brought
to the polls, GRANT cannot be re.elect.
ed remaIking that it was the stay.at
home Democratic voters who defeated
their party, the Republican vote hay
Ing sh own no increase.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-12-08

1T would be interesting TO know who
are the dissatisfied Republicans upon
whom The Democracy is building its
hopes IN the next Presidential cam.
paign. The existence of this element.
which many would have the oppositlon
disband their organization or chance
their colors to win over, ia mythicsI
We see no evidence of them or their
votes In the elections of the wear. The
party in every State of the Union was
intact and undivided. .-Phila. Press.
IF the gamblers who want to sell out
the Democratic party, and who proba-
bly, crawled into it for that purpose,
believe their own assertions let them
inform the public who will como TO
their aid If they succeed in their pur.
poses. What element it? What
would be its purposes? Who are its
leaders? You are daily deGed to men.
ton them, why don't you answer ?
The fact is, the men who propose this
suicidal and Infamous course are leaders
without followers, patriots without
principle, Generals without a cause or
an army, charlatans who want to prev
upon the public, wise men without
sense, busy bodies with desperate DO.
litical fortunes, whose wisdom and pa.
triotism are dictated by their wants.