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Population and Voters of Missis.
stppi.

The total population of Mississippi, according
to the last census, is 746 285 and So 426 voters
of the latter 80,068 are colored and 1883
white, making colored majority in the State
OF 1910. This is exclusive of 2842 persons
over twenty-one years Of age who are disquali-
fed for various reasons from voting Only
1850 OF them are rendered ineligible to Federal
Offices by the fourteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution. And they are all voters and eligible to
every State Office. We stated in an article last
week that there were not more than 5, 900 men in
each rebel State, Oh an average. whose disabili.
ties have not been removed, and that therefore
some other motive than the refusal of Congress
to grant these rebels universal amnesty must
be fonnd for the Ku-Klux organization mum.
bering from 80, 900 to 10000 in each State.
1t will be seen by the above official state
ment of the number in Mississippi, which is
probably about the average in the eleven rebel
States, that our estimate was far above the
mark. There are less than seven teen hundred
in each of the States which voted itself out
of the Union-not 10000 in all the South
who are deprived of the privilege of holding
Federal Offices. And yet there are more than
that humber of enemies of the Government
banded together in each one of the Southern
States for the sole purpose of driving Northern
people from their midst and preventing colored
men from voting the Republican ticket, by
murder, whipping, and every other conceivable
outrage and indiguity. In the face of these
facts, even, Northern Republican papers attrib-
ute their Infamous crimes to the injustice of
Congress in Withholding amnesty from these
few unpardoned rebels, and many are base
enough to justify them on the same ground.
A mild punishment of 10000 traitors is con
sidered palation for the continued disloyalty,
wholesale murder, and other violations of law,
Of two millions of amnestied rebels
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John Browns Widow.

With great regret we find it necessary to
direct attention to the fact that she who was
made a widow by the martyrdom of glorious
old John Brown is in need Of pecuniary aid.
Our duty is plain. The duty of every man,
woman, and child benefited by the great initial
blow struck at Harper's Ferry, and from which
slavery never recovered needs no pointing out.
Let us respond generously and promptly. Let
US put the old hero's widow beyond the posi-
bility of future want. 'Tis our duty-nothing
more, nothing less.
JAMES REDPArH, Of Boston, we'll known to
all antislavery fighters, has designated ROB.
W. c. MITCHELL, Of this city, to receive sub
scriptions for this part of the country.
Such sums as the friends of the martyr de
sire to contribute to his widow may be sent to
or left at the Freedman's Bank, Seventh street,
or will be received by Mr.. MITCHELL, at the
Treasury Department, or at this office
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skillful foe Of all disunionists in the field. Is
it inscrutable to any fair man that he should
continue to do everything lawfully in his power
to thwart such wicked enemies of American
liberty, when in the chair Of states
When he announced his solemn purpose, con-
secrated by his oath of Office, to do all that his
duty enjoined to proclaim and maintain ma
tional peace; to preserve the Union OF the
nation intact to lessen the burdens OF the
public debt to remove the taxes Of the people !;
TO secure to every qualified elector OF the Re-
public, however humble and however poor, the
blessings of free vote to protect the lives
and property of all citizens, without regard to
color, race, or previous condition OF servitude;
O. provide for wounded soldiers and sailors Of
the Union aud their dep endent families; to
open up the path of civilization and citizen
ship to the few remaining descendants Of the
people who once possessed all this continent !;
to shield, by a judicous tariff, the honest in
dustry of America from the ruinous effects Of
foreign pauper competition to guard our in
ternal aud ocean coasts against all injurious
influences from abroad; 70 express the sympa,
thy of the people of America for every nation
struggling for equal rights when we say,
President GRANT proclaimed,
Before all Israel, and before the sun"
his firm and high resolve to do everything within
the scope of his presidency to secure all these
good results for our country and mankind,
was there anything at all inscrutable in it :?
Where is the man, worthy of the name, who
will not at once admit the benefits resulting
from this peaceful plan of action laid out by
President GRANT? Everything is plain. Every
thing is manifest to all his fellow citizens. He
expressly declares, at the outset of his ad
ministratoR that be has no policy of his own
to force on the legislation of the country. Is
this inscrutabe
He has personally suggested the measures
that, within little less than twenty.six months,
have paid tlco hundred and tes, millions of
the public debt-more than one-twelfth part
of the whole Is there anything inscrutable'
10 this
He has thus saved, in the decrease Of the
annual public interest, ta0el0e millions tive
hundred thousand dollars. Is this also, g in,
scrutable ?"
He has taken off from the voluntary taxes
of the people esghtythree millions in two years
and one month. What is there g inscrutable"
here ?
No gentlemen Of the opposition You must
try your practiced hands at some other game.
This nice little one you are now attempting to
palm off on the intelligent voters of our coun-
try, and which we have thus briefly and sum-
marily exposed, will never answer. The peo-
pie understand President GRANT: and that is
enough. To your prejudiced, and bigoted, and
jaundced minds he may be now, and probably
always will be--"Phe Mscrutable"
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HEsPERTA" is an elegantly bound volume Of
poetry, by Cora L. V. Tappan-an categorical
gem, in the brilliant coruscations of which it
is not difficult to read the rise, progress, des.
perats struggle with wrong, partial success, and
triumph of America. In the introduction we
see
:" On high rock, erhang ing the sad sea,
Round which the wild waves dash increasingly,
Tossing their tempest arms tumultuousy,'
e. wondrous woman fearless stand,
Turning her weary face from the drear strand,
Stretching toward the sea her snowy hand -
and hear the sad lament that sighs-
"Closed are yon gates of porphyry and gold
For me the Orient no charms can hold,
The clouds of amethyst no more enfold''
% The young worlds Eden -
and so eagerly note the inspiration that illumines
the sad face whose earnest gaze is sweeping the
horizon in its perplexity, that we are ready to
predict ere the echoes Of
"Let cross and crescent bar the doors of pearl,
Let EN- raid waters all their wild waves huri,
Hope doth her banner brightly now unfurl' -
have died away, her refuge in Fraternia Amer
ica.)
The youthful student in history dozen
years hence will wish for no better companio on
than Book |. The scenes there portrayed re-
call others in our day 50 fresh and painfully
vivid that we care not now to linger with
them. Turning, in Book III, to the story of
Shenandoah, pausing to drop tear for the
martyred Ouina, we pass the Interlude to Laus
Natura. Here the fair author sings as only o
gentle, loving, tender, plying heart can sing
"Of race that is passing away"
We renew our faith with history, and reli ght
our taper at the shrine of Cooper as Powha-
tan's proud, stern Z" No." and gentle Pocahon.
tas Il give my life instead" fall again on our
credulous ears.
Once more Massasoit bends the war-cloud
to peace" and King Philip pleads his wrongs
while Canonicus strives his race to save with
Miantanomo." Softly down the corridors oil
Time family steal the dying echoes of eloqueu,
Garangula, and full in sight avenging Tecum
sch grasps the futile Ratchet to save the
Hunting grounds and graves
Sacred TO sires and braves"
We blush again as the dying Osceola rebukes
the gazing strangers in the everglades of Flori
ds, and not even the Hymn to the Mississippi
can drown the Lament of Logan" The "Bene
diction'' is happily conceived and ftly expressed
and we heartily welcome " Hesperia" to the
centre table and the library.
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Mr.. FREDERICK DOUGLASS delivered lecture
on the annexation Of Santo Domingo in the
Bethel church, Saratoga street, Baltimore, last
Monday night The religious services of the
occasion were conducted by Rev. c. W. DEM
son. The Bishop of the diocese, Rev. Mr..
WAYNAN, Rev. DR.. REvELs, and other clergy
men were present, with many of the most in
huential citizens of Maryland.
Mr.. DOUGLASS presented his usual strong and
unanswerable arguments in favor of annexa-
ton, in an intellectual effort worthy of his best
days, occupying two hours. Full reports were
made in that excellent paper, the Baltimore
American, conducted by Mr.. c. c. Fulton, a
gentleman who accompanied the commission,
and who therefore speaks from personal knowl-
edge The american warmly commends the
statements of Mr.. DOUGLASS to the attention of
all our countrymen. CIV. D.
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..ob aeouiescence as stroke oil pohcy'
,horgb its course will continue to be denounced
49,, the rank and file may not be misled by Its
80 This double game will be played until
-. election shall render it no longer necessary.
That the Southern branch Of the Democratic
rartv will dictate its platform in S12, and its
nolicy should it ever again regain control OF
the Government, seventy years experience
leave no room for doubt. There was never but
q single convention of the Democratic party
that of Charleston in l659-that the Southern
Democracy did not control. Every plank in
that of 1863 was made by WADE HAMPTON and
other rebel officers. Indeed, their predomi-
nencs 10 the party, and the absolute control
they have ever exercised. Is admitted by the
World And it rejoices at the Democratic de-
feat in Connecticut, because it might have LED
the Southern dictators into still more extreme
measures than they now demand. What could
more strongly exhibit the formidable power OF
the Ku-Klux or Southern element of the Demo
cratic party than its ability to dictate the policy
of the party! " hat that policy il We have seen
by the declarations above.
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Repubicanism triumphed here at the cleo
ton of the Goth instant. The Republicans have
elected member of Congress ard fifteen out
of twenty-five members of the House of Dele
gates in the Legislature. The majority over
the rebel Democracy was large and overwhelm
ing. General n. =. CHIPMAN, the Republican
candidate for Congress, carried the District of
Columbia by more than 1000 majority. The
vote on delegates shows that nearly two-thirds
of the voters of this District are in sympathy
with the great Republican party. The result
of the election shows that there is no apathy
here let the country take heed
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District Matters.
Reply 10 MIR. Finney.

Mr.. Editor: Mr.. Finuey, in your issue of
the 18th instant attempts to struggle out of
his quagrnire on the temperance question in a
very awkwa ard manner:
/. He denies having misquoted me, and then,
to support his denial offers one of my Chron-
acle articles, which only proves the charge If
he is satisfied with the showing, / am sure
am.
2. He enters his solemn protest against the
idea that - Christs first miracle was performed
to change pure water into Intoxicating wine,
not for medicinal uses, but for beverage on a
wedding occasion - and the rest of his article
is employed in attempting vainly to support
this protest.
His distinction about the wine being intoxi-
eating or not Is the merest assumption. He
has no right TO sag from nything in the text
or context, that the wine which Christ made
on that occasion would not, if drank in suf-
fcient quantity intoxicate. He knows this
as well as / do. 1t is disingenuous in him to
seek to escape now from the dilemma in which
ne has placed himself by referring either to
the precept or the example Of our divine Lord
He drew this point into the discussion with
a very triumphant air, and now he must take
the consequences. He knows, if he is at all
acquainted with the original Greek of the New
Testament, that the same word is used to de-
scribe the wine which Christ made that is used
to denote intoxicating liquor in other places.
There is no difference. l might go on to show,
from the very language employed On this wed.
ding occasion at Cana, that g the good wine"
meant the stronger wine, and the bad wine
the weaker or less Intoxicating wine but
forbear.
3. Mr.. Finney makes great noise about the
effect of such position on the temperance
cause. That is his lookout, not mine. l did
not invent the story of the miracle at Cana.
l did not perform the miracle. Let him
arraign the parties who did it, not me and
before be gets through he will become little
more reasonable and less jncendiary than he
now is. B. SUNDERLAND.
Washington, April 20, 1871.
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specimen OF rebel outrage of which I and
my two children, aged respectively three and
seven years, CHANGED TO be the victims but be
errs IN saying 1.-The conductor said no had a
car Tor me and my friend" | had no friend
on toe train. or the result might have been diff
'ereht. was lone woman with two chill
dfen had purchased my tickets on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, Washington, almost under the
shadows of the Capitol had been assured bv
the agent, in reply to my interrogations. that
should have the best of treatment; but our
Georgia conductor saws the people up there
have nothing 10 DO with our business down
here-we attend 10 our own business - and so
they made the thing practical by pOoketing my
money and throwing me OF the car after had
ridden from Augusta 90 MILAN or nv last
coupon, and it had been clipped by another con.
ductor There was one white man on tho car
who told me near the close of the ARRAY 10
stand up Tor my rights, bur he. knowing that
there were twenty human blood hounds clam
oring to have me thrown out told me in
whisper. | think the gentleman knew how
far the power of the United States Government
extended into this State.
The words alluded to as used bv the con
ductor were " a special car for YOU and YOUR
KIND y dirty old box that would not have
made decent Yankee hen-coop but il is the
special irst-class for me and nv kind. Per
haps you would like to know what kind am.
| am one of the same kind" and one of those
who had brothers. cousins, fathers Sc, enlist
IN the 54th and 55th Massachusetts, infantry
1nder dear Gev. Andrew-God rest his soul
30 tight these same rebels. And while their
bones lie bleaching all around this Southern
country, must the wives, sisters, and mothers
ot those who gave their best blood for their
country suffer these indignities at the hands
oi traitors, when there are plenty more of the
same " kind ready at moments warning 70
reconstruct, il necessary, the whole South
r. T.
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If the Democratic policy of free trade should
be adopted, it would compel the suspension of
every iron furnace and rolling mill in the
country, and throw out of employment more
than one hundred thousand laboring men,
But it would for time enable the English iron
maker to sell iron cheaper and our railroad
companies to buy it cheaper than now. These
two rich classes would be benefited by the
policy, but 100000 working men would be
ruined by it. Which is most important-that
these 100000 aborers and their families should
live, or that wealthy English iron manufac-
turers and American railroad kings should be
made richer at their expense?
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We hear much, in certain quarters. of the
inscrutability of President GEAET He lie
reticsnt therefore, according to some of the
wiseacres of our day, be is 4" inscrutsble" Such
persons cannot understand him or, at least,
they pretend that they cannot Hence they
stand back from his calm, clear, piercing glance,
and call him g The Inscrutabe" They can.
not comprehend him consequently be is not
TO be comprehended by others. Hence all they
can do is TO driyel out " Inscrutable In
scrutsble"
We, in common with all the true friends Of
our country and its constitutional President
are glad, indeed, to know that placed at the
head of our national affairs is a man of de-
cided character--a man of fixed purposes-a
man Of pronounced opinions-a man whose
faithful administration Of the Government OF
America is intended by him to be as true 10
the right as the needle is TO the pole. We are,
therefore, only too happy to hear such q man
sneeringly announced as 1.-The Inscrutable"
by the traitors and copperheads Of the-land.
"Tfs their vocation, Hal
What else could be expected of them You
cannot gather grapes from thorns, nor figs
from thstles. Neither can you make silk
purse out of pigs ear. Let these vipers
rail on. 1t is comfort to hear their puny
little teeth grating against file.
But, as matter of fact and OF history. in
what single particular is President GRANT in
scrutable?
We will not apply our answers to this ques.
ton to the personal, social, business, or mill.
tary career Of the President. In these respects
every person in the country, not disqualified
from judging, will, Of course, understand him.
The wayfsring man. though a"--so.called
pemocrat-"need not err therein" We take
up THIS question as practically applied 10 the
governmental affairs of our nation and
again we ask-Wherein, as President Of the
ni'eu STATES administering the national Office
oil great and free Republic i p...;a...
"hANf inscratables Was there .nv,h;n, =,
''fu'aoie IN his hrst annual MESSAGE ma
mol the doctrine and spirit of that -
tive document tally with the know "a
pressed will of large majority Of the A mari.a.
people, Could it have been expected in raa.
son, that be would give satisfaction To tn
fraitorous men and women who had lust been
foiied In their deadly aim at the heart of on,
nation? he was the patriotic, and brave, and
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L Wise Proposition.

Ia our opinion the provision in Mr.. SnELLA-
sARGERs ku.Klux bill, holding counties in
which they occur responsible for all damages
committed by ku-Klux outlaws, was one of its
very best and wisest provisions. We are salts
fed that it would have done more to pat an end
to lawless violence, school-house and church
burning and all other outrages. 1t may at
first sight seem hard that loyal men, and Others
who disapprove the Ku-kluz operations, should
be taxed to pay damages done by them But
It is one of those instances in which private
interests should yield to the public good The
principle that the whole people should be held
responsible for the peace and protection of
society IS one that underlies all good govern.
ment In many Of the Northern States laws
exist making the people of city or county
responsible for the damage done by mobs in
such county. The principle of the law is that
the people are bound to protect the rights and
property of each citizen againt mob violence
If man breaks his leg by defective side.
walk or bridge within the corporation of Wash
ington the city must pay the damage, though
the injury was due solely to the negligence of
some municipal officer, of which the taxpayers
were absolutely Ignorant. If all the people of
the Southern States had been made liable for
all the damages done by bands of lawless men
among them, they would have found means to
dispense them and preserve the peace. 1t
would have been to the interest Of rebel sym
pathizers as we'll as Republicans to see that
murder and ineendiarism cease, and that the
laws be enforced In striking out that feature
the best things in it was destroyed. But it
still has much virtue.
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THE Territory of Columbia starts on her
career of selfgOvernment under hattering
auspices, electing a stanch Republican Gen
eral Chipman) as her Delegate in Congress by
over 1000 majority, and a Territorial House
of Delegates composed of hftee Republicans
and seven Democrats. Democratic journals and
politicians are doubtless as much surprised as
Chagrined at the result. Counting upon the
large ma ority of white voters in the District,
on the inveterate hatred Of the niger by
the wealthy old aristocratic families, they ex-
pected triumph. The personal popularity of
General Chapman doubtless contributed largely
to our success but that the new Territory is
overwhelmingly Republican is demonstrated In
the vote for members of the House OF Dele
gates, where we not only elect over two-thirds
of the members, but have the handsome aggre
gate majority Of 3,77g on the popular VOTE
" J.. Tribune
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